Malaya Tribune, 6 January 1951

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    57 1 MALAYA TRIBUNE a THAN ANY I AFTERIOON PAPER IN J J Tel: 'Tribune" Spore. Published simultaneously at Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Penang. Phone: 5811/8 nine lines. EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1951 PRICE TEN CENTS THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE, E. Maurice Glover. Malaya Tribune Office, i\S, Fleet
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    FIERCE RED ASSAULT ON NEW U.N. LINE
    172 1 Reuter- AAP. TOKIO, Friday, in f E Communist forces launched a fierce offensive today to breach the centre of the United virions 150-mile defence line across Korea. About 200,000 Communists were attacking ovaeelv north of Wonju, key town in the penin- h iHy
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    RED BAN DECLARED ILLEGAL
    73 1 Reuter. CALCUTTA. Fri.—The Calcutta High Court today held as ultra vires under the Indian constitution provisions of the Indian Criminal Law <Amendment) Act under which the Communist Party of West Bengal was declared illegal. This means that the ban on the Communist Party which was imposed
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    TO STICK TO TRADITION
    49 1 TEL AVIV, Fri. The orchestra will not play on Friday nights. Even during its forthcoming three months whirlwind tour through the United States and Canada, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra will stick to its old Holy Land tradition, not to give any concerts on the Sabbath.
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    TODAY'S TEST
    320 1 SYDNEY, Friday. I ,-NDER conditions similar to 1 I that of vestertlay—bright I taivr and perfect wicket-a 1 ;,7of about 35,000 at the 1 their ftr*t inning their Third U against Australia here I rndnv. second day of the play, 1 ..Upper Freddie Broun I ud Trevor Bailey.
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    THE FRENCH CLAIM INITIAL SUCCESS
    112 1 A.P. SAIGON, Friday. UriKMy ■"SKST ouncing Thousands of French troops are advancing against the Communist led Vietminh army for the first time in four months. General Jean de Lattre de Tasslgny hurled four* battalions forward in the Tienyen-Hanoi area to break the back of the
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    INDIA WELCOMES AUSTRALIAN PREMIER
    77 1 Premier R. G. Menzies of Australia, accompanied by his wife and daughter, arrived by air in New Delhi recently. Premier Jawaharlal Nehru of India led the group of Government and diplomatic representatives which met the party at the Palam airport. Photo shows: Left to right: Premier
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    Nehru To Confer With Europe Envoys
    137 1 U.P. LONDON Frl. INDIAN Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had conversations with Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin prior to the third plenary session of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference today. A foreign Office spokesman would not elaborate on the meeting and would not say on whose
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    Brazil Orders Malayan Rubber
    163 1 UP. RIO DE JANEIRO. Friday. FWAS learned today that Brazilian manufacturers already made their first order for crude rubber from Singapore to make up part of the deficit between local production and consumption. The disclosure was made by Carlos Eduardo de Azevedo. Pre ?dent of the
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    Truman Blundered In Korea: Taft
    214 1 UP. WASHINGTON, Friday. REPUBLICAN Senator Robert Taft charged toda that President Truman flouted the Constitution by sending United Stites troops into Korea and is risking a disastrous war with Russia by pre paring to send more troops to Europe. M He told the Senate in
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    Stop Press
    98 1 Chinese 8 Miles South Of Seoul UP. ON THE WESTERN KOREAN FRONT, Today. LEADING elements of the Chinese Communist Army were reposed this morning one mile north of Anyangni about eight miles south of Seoul. The enemy in an estimated battalion strength was attacking in colugfn formation against
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    Americans Quitting Hongkong
    123 1 A.P. HONGKONG, Fri. 'THE American colony in Hongkong is playing a grim game with Chinese Communist timetable, which they can't quite make. As closed-door and cock-tail-table conversations alike echo the refrain of "war by April," this colony's less than 1.000 American community is slowly making its way
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    U.S. MAY CALL 18-YEAR-OLDS
    63 1 Reuter. WASHINGTON. Friday The American Defence Department plans to ask Congress for authority to conscript 18-year-olds and tighten deferments and exemptions for eligible men from 19 to 25, an official said today. Mr. Felix Larkln, the Department's general counsel, said a bill would be submitted to
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    18 MILLION BARRELS
    39 1 NEW YORK, Fri. The Arabian American Oil Company said it produced 18,602,--809 barrels of crude oil in Saudi Arabia during November. Crude processed at the company's Ras Tanura refinery amounted to 4,566.450 barrels during the month.—
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    MIKADO TO STAR IN FILM
    88 1 Reuter-AAP. TOKIO. Friday. This year for the first time in history a Japanese Emperor will become the subject for a motion picture, according to the leading Tokio amusement journal Kikkan fjupootsu today. The newspaper said a documentary film entitled "Emperor" scheduled to be completed late
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    Chinese rights: Govt attitude
    263 1 GOVERNMENT will sympathetically consider any v suggestions whereby the procedure of becoming British subjects can be made easier without altering the essential condition of loyalty to the Colony, nwithin the Commonwealth, said Mr. G. G. Thor- son, Public Relations I Secretary, yesterday. Mr. Thomson was referring
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    Bevin Urges Recognition Of Mao
    322 1 LONDON, Friday. niSCUSSIONS of the Commonwealth Prime Mini--0 sters on the second day of their ten-day conference centred round Far Eastern problems with the main question as the Commonwealth s attitude to China. The Commonwealth is now divided in the matter of recognising Mao T«-Ws
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    Soviets Puzzle U.S. Officials
    177 1 A.P. WASHINGTON, Friday. RUSSIA puzzled American officials today by having agreed after a lapse of more than two years to resume negotiations to settle the Soviet" s U5511,000,000,000 World War II lend-lease account with the United States Talks on terms cf a general settlement for the
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    Red Mission In Lhasa
    56 1 AP. CALCUTTA. Friday. An eight-man Communist-spon-sored delegation was reported today to have arrived in Lhasa for compromise talks with Kungo Khanpo, the Boy Dalai Lama's Lord Chamberlain, who stayed on in the capital after the Tibetan ruler left. Meanwhile, Communist troops were reported to be threatening
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    U.S. CASUALTIES
    32 1 U.P. WASHINGTON, Fri. The j Defence Department said to- day that 40,176 American 1 casualties had been officially identified in the Korean fighting through last Friday, k including 6,761 dead.—U.P.
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    3 COLONY WEDDINGS
    71 2 Mr. and Mrs. Chia Wah Soon who were married recently. The "bride was the former Miss Yee Gek Choo of Alor Star. Mr. and Mrs. N. Devades who were married in Singapore recently. The bride was the former Miss Kumari N. Sathyabahama. Mr. and Mrs. William Tan
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    CID Detain University Lecturer, 5 Undergrads
    246 2 SPECIAL Branch men of the Singapore Police arrested a lecturer, five undergraduates and two others of the Medical Faculty of the University of Malaya early yesterday morning for disseminating Malayan Communist Party propaganda. The lecturer and the five undergraduates are: Dr. J. K. M.
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    Volunteer SHB Unit
    88 2 IT has been decided to establish a Volunteer Unit ln the Harbour Board, members will be employees of the Singapore Harbour Board, including officers and skilled and unskilled labourers. They would be formed on the same lines as the Singapore Volunteer Corps, and on the outbreak of
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    Nehru Goes To Theatre
    91 2 UP. LONDON. Friday. PDIAN Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, took i time off from political discussions last night and went to the j theatre. The play he saw at West End I Theatre was "His Excellency, 1 a story of a working man rise to eminence
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    COUNCIL KEEPS FLAG FLYING
    132 2 THE Malayan Christian Council—the youngest National Christian Council in the world—is playing an active part both in Singapore and the Federation, said Dr. H. B. Amstutz, in his report to the Methodist Conference at the Wesley Church yesterday. He said that branches have also been established
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    170 Contest For 3 Prizes
    86 2 ONE hundred and seventy entries have been received for the second open photographic exhibitions sponsored by the Singapore Art Society, which will be held at the British Council Hall, Stamford Road, on Jan. 27. Some are from the United States while Canada, France. India, Belgium
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    Gamba For Varsity
    148 2 HERE to take up an appointment as lecturer in Economic History at the University of Malaya, Mr. Charles Oamba. M. A., arrived by the Maetsuycker from Perth, Western Australia, yesterday. Mr. Oamba has visited Singapore pre-war. He said he liked Singapore people and was looking forward to
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    NEW TAX BILL
    38 2 WASHINGTON, Fri. PRESIDENT Truman yesterday signed the new $3,- 300,000 tax bill, imposing a j77 per cent supenevy on corporation excess profits. The bill increases the coun- try's tax collections to the highest dollar figure
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    PI's ENVOY TO SPAIN
    38 2 U.P. MANILA, Friday. THE Philippine Republic may soon send an ambassador to Spain and there are strong indications that he will be Claro M. Recto, who was President of the Constituent Assem- j bly.—U.P.
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    TARZAN CALLS
    51 2 U.P. A worried mother of Jackson Villa, Florida, told police today that her nature-loving 14-year-old son. Roy Ringgold with his great dane. Duchess, has run away to become a jungle boy in a wild Florida swamp. The boy left a note saying he was going live in the
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    It Was So Dull For 262 Horses
    106 2 WITH 262 horses on board, the British Steamer, Querimba, berthed in Singapore yesterday after an uneventful fifteen-day voyage from Brisbane, Australia. Two hundred and ten horses, including two racers will be unloaded in Singapore. Except the race-horses, these are to be sent on
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    Squadron Leader On Graft Charge
    244 2 SQUADRON-LEADER George Charles Winton of the R.A.F. was charged in the First Police Court yesterday on two counts and two alternative counts under, the Prevention of Corruption Ordinance, He was charged, firstly, with corruptly accepting a gift of a $165 Raleigh bicycle at Rochore Canal
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    REDS BURN 5 TRUCKS
    60 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. THIRTY armed bandits who attacked and burned five lorries ln the Batu Pahat area of Johore yesterday made a quick getaway before the police could arrive on the scene. One bandit was wearing a Special Constable's beret and badge. On an estate in
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    DR. LAUBACK DUE IN APRIL
    54 2 DR. Paul Means yesterday told the Methodist Con- ference. at the Wesley Church I yesterday, that Dr. Frank Lauback and his literacy team are expected in Malaya in April. > Under Dr. Lauback's me- thod of teaching, an adult can learn to read In a
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    ECA TAX ADVISER
    39 2 A.P. WASHINGTON. Fr>.~Professor Aoy Jastram, assistant dean of the University of California school of business administration, left for Manila yesterday to serve as tax adviser for the U.S. Economic Co-operation Administration. He succeeds J. K. Hal!.—A.P.
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    ONE DAY TOO SOON -FINED
    80 3 rO soo Kiat, of Thompson Boa d was fined $50 in the Fourth Police Court yesterday !nr running an open air ctee„i without a licence in Snkit Timah Road. Raj Deo Singh, a police on Oct. 20, saw a r:.L crowd, of about 200 peonie
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    PLAN TO GET CHINESE VOTERS
    59 3 THE Straits Chinese British association is urging localborn Chinese to register as voters. A memorandum, prepared by Mr. K. C. Lee, con- j venor of a special sub-corn- mittee of the association, has recommended a house-to-house plan to accomplish this. Singapore will then be di-
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    Victim's Wife May Have To Return
    254 3 I CHINESE taxi driver, who was ordered by four Malays to remove a wounded European in the Singapore riots will have to attend an identification parade to pick out the four men. This was stated by the Singapore Coroner, Mr Choor Singh when an
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    WOMAN ROBBED
    39 3 X CHINESE woman was j n robbed of her identity card a-tf $13 in cash by three uunese youths opposite the wit Eng School at Tanjong &atong Road last night. One the robbers was armed a knife.
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    HURT CHARGE
    43 3 ChaJ Puay of Chin Nam Street was charged in the Second Police Court yester«y with causing hurt to Lek Jani a ith a hammer on Jan claimed trial and the ase wa s postponed to Feb. Bail of $150 was fixed.
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    LOVE CONQUERS ALL-SO DULCIE WILL WED MIKE
    330 3 THE abstract problems and complex calculations associated with the higher study of engineering would seem sufficient to occupy the thouehts of an earnest young University student bent on getting his degrees .w, tne shortest time possible. But such is love's loves however, that
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    GET TOGETHER FOR MUSICIANS
    41 3 TH2 annual party for members of the Junior Symphony Orchestra, Teachers' Choral So- j ciety. Combined School Choir and the Singapore Chiljren's i Orchestra will take place today at 4.30 p.m. at Monk s Hill j Scr/,0l
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    WOMAN MISSING
    23 3 A 24-year-old Malayalee woman, Meenakshi Phagirag£' u f F pper Serangoon Road has been missing from ncr home since Dec. 28.
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    TODDLERS ROLL UP
    62 3 ENROLMENT for the Dze v Ing Kindergarten which I opens on Jan. 18 began yesi terday at the Chinese YMCA at Selegie Road. Children of both sexes admitted will be divided into three groups. I The first for the Kindergar- I ten. the second for the Prim-
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    TOBACCO TROUBLE
    32 3 l/HOO Choo Lan, a 35-year- old Chinese woman was fined $850 in the Third Police Court yesterday for having 42.8 lbs. of dutiable cigarettes at Nankin Street on Dec. 28.
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    THE LONG QUEUE
    21 3 v/ t/ic to/i.fc* awaiting inspection. The goods piled high wne cucertd inth tarpaulin because of the threatening weather.
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    THESE 800 HAVE THEIR CHATTELS SEARCHED
    103 3 Tribune Staff Reporter. THE entrance of the Customs Preventive Station 1 on Keppel Road yesterday was a busy scene as a long queue of lorries heavily laden with household goods lined up for inspection. The goods belonged to the eight hundred passengers going back
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    POX: NO NEED FOR ALARM
    64 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday, i The Malacca public need not be alarmed over a reported j case of smallpox. The affected j person is an immigrant recently landed at Port Swettenham from Sarawak. The Health Officer, Malacca, however, has advised the public to get vaccinated as
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    SPORTMAN DIES
    43 3 I MALACCA. Fri. 1 rE death took place at the General Hospital this morning of Mr. Ambrose Fernanda, a clerk in the Malacca Rural Board office. Mr. Fernandis was a well-known badminton player of the St. Peter's Brigade badminton j team.
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    KNIFED MAN
    46 3 AN Indian. Govindan Ratnam aged 26 admitted in the Second Police Court yesterday to hurting Letchmanan Narappa Filial with a penknife at the junction of Killiney Road and Somerset Road on Jan. 3. Ratnam was allowed bail of $150 until Jan. 12 for sentence.
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    BACK TO WORK
    28 3 fUSTICE F. Gordon-Smith J has resumed his duties as Chairman of the Advisory. Committee appointed under the Emergency Regulations to hear objections against Detention Orders.
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    ONE-MAN CRIME WAVE
    35 3 A.P. JACK T. Payne, who set up a record with 155 burglaries in 47 nights and whose £1,997-loot cime from home*, shops and schools was yqpterday jailed for seven a London judge.—A.P.
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    $2,000 Bail For 3 Men
    98 3 TWO Chinese, ana an Indian who were remanded by the Second Police Court on Wednesday after a charge of robbery had been explained to them, were each allowed bail o: $2,000 in two sureties when their case was brought up for mention yesterday. The men.
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    SURPRISE CHECK IN PARK
    42 3 A SURPRISE security and identity card check was carried out by the police in the People's Park last night. Over 500 people including diners, stall-holders and pass-ers-by were screened. Five persons who had no identity cards, were detained.
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    BANDITS SLIT MAN'S THROAT
    64 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. A Malay labourer was yesterday seized by four uniformed and armed bandits who marched him into a rubber estate in the Raub area of Pahang. tied him to a tree and cut his throat. The bandits were joined soon after by 20 other
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    200 ATTEND PARTY
    45 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. INCHE ABDUL RAZAK bin Dato Hussein was entertained- to dinner at the Chinese Club yesterday in honour of the bestowal of the hereditary title of the Orang Kaya Indera Shahbandar. About 200 people, including the Mentri Besar, Pahang, attended.
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    NEW INSPECTOR
    18 3 THE Governor has appointed Mr. F. K. Erie. Special Constable No. 361. to Inspector, Special Constabulary.
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    TENANT KEEPS GROUND FLOOR
    111 3 AN action for possession of the ground floor of a A Club Street house brought by Chen Chi Mci against a Chinese woman, Lee Wing Kay, was dismissed in the Civil District Court. The ground floor had been rented to Lee Wing Kay for $37.50 monthly.
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    Late Work For Today's Big Show
    91 3 WORKING till very late last night, members of the Singapore Improvement Trust and the Public Relations Office, gave the final touches to today's big show—"A Study of Homes in Singapore". A hundred foot long board, fitted with specially constructed lights has been placed on
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    TRADE MARKS LAW
    56 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Friday. THE Trade Marks Ordinance, 1950, and the Trade Marks Rules made under the Ordinance cam 3 into force on January 1 All applications and enquiries regarding the registration of Trade Marks should be add- i rossed to the Registrar of Trade Marks, Federation of
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    2,000,000 POUNDS IN SIX MONTHS
    170 3 AN R.A.F. Dakota Squadron of Far East Air Force, based for the time being at Kuala Lumpur, has Just dropped its two millionth pound of supplies to the ground Security Forces operating against the bandits in the jungle. This weight has been drop--1 ped inside
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    Turks On Way Home
    79 3 THE first batch of 24 wounded Turks, flown by the R.A.F. from Japan to Singapore, left Changi yesterday en route for Habbaniya airfield, where they are to be taken over from the R.A.F. by the Turkish air force and flown by Dakotas to military hospitals ln
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    MURDER CHARGE
    44 3 VEO Kwl Fong. aged 35 was tentatively charged in the Third Police Court yesterday with the murder of Yeo Kirn Hoo on Sept. 1 at Kampong Heap Guan Sam, off Telok Blangah. Singapore. Yeo was remanded in police custody till Jan. 12.
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    PARTY FOR ACTRESS
    30 3 MALACCA, Fri. MISS Tsc Loh Lin, the film actress, was entertained to a tea-party yesterday by the Kwangtung Huay Kuan, Malacca, at their premises at Jonker Street.
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    MAN WITH 2 CARDS GETS JAIL
    77 3 A trishaw rider. Cho Em Teck, was yesterday jailed for four months by a Singapore Court for joining an unlawful society. Two membership cards and a triangular metal badge belonging to two unlawful so- cietles were found among Cho's belongings when police searched his
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    PAID HOLIDAY FOR ROYAL BAKERY MEN
    72 3 WORKERS of the Royal I Bakery will now get a weekly paid holiday and more overtime pay. These conditions of service were worked out at j negotiations between the Singapore Cold Storage and the Cold Storage and Royal Bakery Trade Union held at the
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    New School
    48 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Anew Government sponsored Chinese school is to be opened shortly in Kuala Terla—one of the new villages established under the Resettlement Programme in the Cameron Highlands. Kuala Terla. has a population of nearly 400 made up mainly of vegetable gardeners and tea pluckers.
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    THE KOREA MYSTERY
    542 4 ngNZRAL George Marshall, the United Stat-s 0 Defence Secretary, at a press conference this week, made a statement which is somewhat surDrisin 0 Referring to the righting in Korea, and the complete air superiority the Allies have there, h* paid a tribute to the Communist troops when
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    THE CASE FOR A SINGAPORE TUC
    1636 4 1 On Sept. 10. 1950, the leaders of 17 Trade Union organisations met at No. 331. North Bridge Road. Singapore, to discuss and set the nucleus for the establishment of a Trade Union Congress in the Colony of Singapore on the lines of the
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    Through Chinese Eyes
    199 4 What the Chinese Press are saying today THE independent Nanyang Biang Pau comment* on the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference with the hope that the outcome will bring everlasting peace. It Is with some comfort at least, the paper observes, that the reported agenda is along peaceful and
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    FILM FARE
    459 4 A RO USING THRILLER GOLDEN SALAMANDER which was nearly denied us by the Censor because of its arms running theme but which fortunately is to find the light of day at the Pavilicn next week, is a thorouzhly sound thriller. It might, however, have been better still if
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    A GRIM SUBJECT
    462 4 HALLMARK Productions who gave us "The Secrets of Life" again seek to educate us. this time in the evils of narcotics. The film Is called "The DEVIL S WEED." A girl who was herself arrested and imprisoned for usine narcotics, plays the leading role. Her name? Lila
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    EGYPTIAN LOVELIEST
    373 4 BABA ARIS" .'or Father is a Bridegroom" is not a film we would recommend to just anyone but it is cer tainly one which will give immense pleasure 10 fans who appreciate Egyptian movies. It is essentially a musical comedy, fashioned on the scale of a Hollywood 1
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    ITALY OFFERS TROOPS TO WEST, BUT FRANCE STILL STALLS
    351 5 UP. LONDON, Saturday. TA LY an enemy of the allies in World War 11, oTenia an estimated 45,000 I m en to a Western European army today whil3 France, a longtime ally of Britain and the United btates was split over
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    COURTS DECIDE WHOSE HORSE MANURE WAS WHOSE
    100 5 A.P. irJiNStJKUurs., oat. A COURT of appeals in the Austrian Tyrol recently had to rule on a case of whose horse manure was whose. A local farmer rented out his stable for use by a neighbour's horses, but he retained the guests' manure
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    MORE JOIN HUKS
    44 5 MANILA, Frl. HUK rebels have stepped up "mobilization," Intelligence I reports in Luzon said. The report said about 3.000 men are expected to rejoin Huk bands with the object of raising the number of dissidents operating In Centval Luzon to B.OCO.
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    URUGUAY STOPS FREE EXPORT TO STERLING AREA
    71 5 AP. MONltvlutu, rri. rE Uruguayan Government d down exchange ns on export-import t h the sterling area, the suppression of r-ieuavan meat shipments to n as the chief cause. Officials said the restricts arc now necessary in J? o{ the dwindling supplies rling
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    PEKING ALLEGES 328 U.S. AIR RAIDS ON CHINA
    50 5 Reuter and AAP. HONGKONG. Fri. PCLKG radio alleged last that American airhad made 328 raids over rrit ry from \ugust od of last year, radio said 1.406 a'reraft these bombing and raids in which it Chinese were killed -15 wounded.—Reuter and AAP.
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    MALAYS TO AID VICTIMS
    42 5 Tbody of the iy Union is meeting discuss measures lid "all those effected" in the recent riots. Che Sardon bin Haji Jublr this morning that a mber of the Social Welfare Department will attend the as an observer.
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    GIs SERVICE TERM TO BE EXTENDED
    134 5 A.P. WASHINGTON, Fri. THE U S. Defence Department is preparing to ask Congress to increase the period of service for U.S. draftees from 21 to 27 months, Chairman Carl Vinson, Georgia, Democrat of the House Armed Services Committee reported yesterday. He said military leaders
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    U.N. MEN MOVE
    26 5 TOKIO. Friday THE United Nations Commission for Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea has moved to Pusan. "on the advice of the military authorities."
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    Failed Cadet Flies To Death
    136 5 A.P. CALD WELLS, Texas, Fri. A FRENCH cadet who could not make the grade as a pilot stole a Randolph Air Force plane yesterday and laughing "many times" sailed away to die in a crash. The plane plunged into a thicket near Caldwell Just about
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    RUSSIAN ARMS FOR MAO'S MEN
    191 5 TAIPEH, Friday. ITNIFFICIAL reports published here today said U Soviet Russia would train and equip ten tank and ten motorised divisions for the Chinese Communists as part of Moscow's overall plans for World War 111, according to the China Union Press. The new plan had
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    TRAFFIC ACCIDENT IN THE JUNGLE
    69 5 A.P. KHARTOUM. Sudan, Fri.— The official Sudan Record made note of this jungle traffic accident: A cyclist rang his bell going around a bend on a 1 road in Equatoria province— but ran into an elephant coming in the opposite direction. The cyclist fell off
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    SULTAN SNUBS HIS PASHA
    60 5 Reuter. CASABLANCA. Friday. The Sultan of Morocco has barred the Pasha of Marrakesh, who refused to pay homage to him ln December, from entering the Royal Palace at Rabat. The 70-year-old Pasha, second ln power to the Sultan, strode up to the throne on Dec. 23
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    KOREA HANDOUTS SILLY: "MIRROR"
    168 5 A.P. LONDON, Friday. THE tabloid Daily Mirror rebelled against what it 1 called "fantastic" communiques by the U.S. I Airforce in Korea. Under the headline "Silly Headquarters Handouts on the Korea War," the Mirror ran a front page editorial asserting figures of Red troops killed by
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    VARSITY FUND
    29 5 THE University of Malaya during the week-ended Dec. 30 collected $11.901.56 for its Endowment Fund. Singapore gave $2,397.85. The biggest single contribution was from Kelantan with $7,400.79.
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    V.C. FOR MAJOR IN KOREA WAR
    326 5 MAJOR K. Muir of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders who was mortally wounded at the crossing of the Naktong river in Korea has been awarded the Victoria Cross. Major Muir showed exceptional courage and heroism during an operation when enemy fire made it dif
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    32 5 PERU. Friday. Death roll in the Northern Peru dynamlt explosion has risen to over 100 with a further 40 workers still unaccounted for, reports -from the area said today.
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    Far East Ring Smuggles Drugs
    104 5 AP. SYDNEY. Saturday. Australian customs officers claim that a huge ring with headquarters in the Far East is smuggling scarce drugs out of the country. They said the liner Changte sailed from Sydney to Japan recently with a £20,000 cargo oi illicit drugs. A U.S.
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    33 5 MISS C. Roxario was married to Mr. Peter Teddy during the last week at the Churcn i of Our Lady Lourdes in Ophlr Road. Mr. Felix Gomes gave away the bride.
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    SMALL LOSSES IN SHARES
    203 6 SINGAPORE, Fri. ALTHOUGH there was no pronounced selling pressure on the local share market both industrials and tin shares suffered small losses in the absence of any sustained buying interest. Rubber shares remained steady. The following were the day's price changes: INDUSTRIALS Bayer* Seller* Alex Bric'-s
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    New Rates Quoted For Chinese Yuan
    127 6 AP. HONGKONG. Friday. PEOPLES currency" isn't I peoples currency any more. The Communist Peoples Bank announced yesterday that, retroactive to the first of this year, "JMP" (je mm piao) will be replaced by the mere letter "V". The announcement offered no k explanation, but
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    CHASE BANK TO CLOSE H'KONG BRANCH
    74 6 A.P. NEW YORK. Friday. CHASE Bank, overseas affiliate of the Chase National Bank, said it will discontinue operations of its branch in Hongkong. Winthrop Aldrich. chairman of Chase National, said Chase Bank drastically curtailed its Hongkong operations after Communist China intervened in Korea in
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    SIAM SETTLES WAR CLAIMS
    73 6 Reuter. BANGKOK. Frl. THE Government of Thailand has announced final agreement to pay the Governments of the United Kingdom, Australia and India a lump sum of £5.224,000 Sterling in settlement of the Commonwealth war compensation claims against Thailand. It was officially announced that the lump sum
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    US To Control Food Prices
    188 6 UP. WASHINGTON, Friday. PRESIDENT Truman said today that compulsory r ceilings on wages and prices of the major cost of living items will be imposed as soon as the necessary government machinery is ready. He told a news conference that the Administration is working on
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    Tin Output, Consumption Rises
    95 6 A.P. rE HAGUE, Fri.—The production of tin-in-concent-rate increased to 13.600 longtons in October, compared to 13.200 tons in September, the Tin Study Group said today. This was due to the increase in Malayan and Indonesian production to 4.779 tons and 2,788 tons respectively. World tin consumption
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    SPOT PREMIUM DOWN IN TIN
    82 6 U.P. LONDON, Friday.—The tin market at this morning's session marked down spot tin by £5 per ton to £1,177 and marked up three months bf £5 to £1487%. This reduced the premium which spot tin has maintained, from £30 to £20. The noon closing prices
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    Along The Godowns
    54 6 In Port Steel Recorder (44), Landbria (Sheers), Kellakerk (42/3), Oreatewa (88/9), Maron (86), Mentor (38/4). Soestdijk (31/2). Benreoch (17/ 18), S.H.B. Craft (19/20), Demta (tl/2), Panama (23/4), Belleville (25/6), Falstria (87/ 8), Tachumba (29/80), Anking (15/16), Breconahire (18/14). Warora (11), Salatlga (8/9), Sunnyville (6/7), Klatna (CP.), Felix
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    WHOLESALE PRICES UP
    47 6 A.P. NEW YORK. Friday. THE Associated Press index of the wholesale prices of 35 U.S. commodities reached an all-time high record at 208.23 on Thursday. The index uses 1926 average prices as the base of 100. One year ago the index was 106.3. —AP.
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    FLOUR FOR FORMOSA
    26 6 A.P. WASHINGTON. Friday. rE U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the purchase of 122,760,000 lbs. of flour for export to Formosa, before Feb. S.—AP.
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    Rubber Firm
    179 6 THE rubber commodity market was very steady yesterday with good buying in evidence. t Hongkong and the Continent were reported to be in the market The price gained B*6 cents from the previous day to close at 187 buyers for January The close was just below the best
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    EXCHANGE
    27 6 U.P. HONG KONG, m.- me roilowing were today's closing prices on the Hong Kong Money Exchange: HK$6.O9Va per U.S. dollar. rK$326 per tael of gold.— U.P.
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    London Stocks
    169 6 Reuter. LONDON, Frl.—First grade industrial equities were prominent with Skarp advances on the London Stock Exchange today. An investment demand tended to ignore Far Eastern news as a market factor and revealed that dealers were again short of supplies at current levels. Irons, steels, textiles and tobacco moved
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    U.S. Seeks Tin From Bolivia
    91 6 A.P. WASHINGTON, Fri.—lnform- ed sources said the U.S. gov- j ernmenfs order to cut civilian use of tin 20 per cent after Feb. 1 1951. will not affect the amount of imports from Bolivia. Negotiations are under way for a new contract between the reconstruction
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    SUPERIOR S.C.R.C. TEAM WHIP B.O.D.
    674 7  -  WILL MEET SCC IN SEMI-FINAL By SCOOP S.C.R.C......4 223 B.O.D. "B" .........1 PLAYING their best g:ame thus tar this seaso.i S.C.R.C. whipped 2*3 B.O.O. "B" by four roab to one In a qii*r*r-ftnal Colony Knockout Tournamcnt hockey match on thi B O.D. sports ftfld a
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    "HEAVEN AND EARTH" AMONG FIVE NEW RACE HORSES HERE
    99 7 FIVE new race horses arrived in Singapore from England by the Blue Funnel ship "Mentor" yesterday. All are consigned to local trainers. Two were imported by Major A. M. Heddle. one of which is a three-year old chestnut gelding named "Heaven
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    HONOURS EVEN IN SHUTTLE ENCOUNTER
    120 7 HONOURS were even during last night's badminton match between Penang's Sin Haw and Bournemouth 8.P.. Each side won two tics. It was the visitor's second fixture in their Colony tour. Only four singles games were played. The fifth singles and the two doubles were abandoned
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    MONKS HILL B.P. 1951 OFFICIALS
    104 7 THE following are the new 1 officials of the Monks Hill Badminton Party for 1951: President: Mr. Yeo Meng Seah; Vice-Presidents: Messrs Tan Kirn Hoe and Chua Leng i Seah; Hon. Secretary/Treasurer: Mr. Chua Ah Bah; Hon. Auditor: Mr. Yeo Meng i Chan; Hon. Sports
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    103 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Frl. rNQKU Jalil, newly-crowned Johore singles champion, last night annexed another title when he defeated Wong Peng Kow 10—15, 15—7, 15—4 in the Onen Men Singles Final of the Johore Bahru District Badminton Championships. Other final results In the Championships are: WOMEN'S DOUBLES: Miss
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    BOXING STILL HAS A 'HEART'
    90 7 A.P. WASHINGTON. Frl. gOXING. Ion* known as tht swaggering tough guy of sports, has proved that St has a heart. Last nieht. it raised US$17,180.45 for the family of Sonny Bop West, the popular little Washington f fighter who died two weeks ago after a
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    Astounding Round Of Bowl Reverses
    595 7 AMERICAN FOOTBALL AP. NEW YORK, Tuesday. NOTRE DAME and Army moved over today to let the Oklahoma Sooners plop their weary frames down on old upset bench as the great football winning streak of 31 games, a modern college re- cord came to an end.
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    SPORTS BRIEFS BUSINESS HOUSES MEETING
    40 7 THERE will be a meeting of the X Singapore Business H °us e s Football Assoclat'on at the S.C.C. on Jan. 11 at 5.90 p.m. Entries for Business Houses League will close on Jan. 8.
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    S.S.C. JUNIOR SWIMMING GALA
    21 7 THE Singapore Swimming Cub will hold a Jun or Swimming Gala on January 20 at 3 p.m.
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    DRAWN SOCCER GAME
    76 7 COCCER teams drawn from tha 3 ra/s Belleville and m's Ealstna drew three-all in a keenly-contested game at Farrer Park yesterday Always beh nd, the Belleville* Just managed to square accounts before the final whistle. Score at interval was 2-1 in favour of the Falatrias who netted
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    NEGRI SEMBILAN CUP TEAM
    52 7 SEREMBAN Frl. ENTRIES for the annual InterCub tennis tournament for the Chang Seng Long Cup close on Jan. 30. All affiliated clubs of the N. S. Tennis Association are eligible for this competition. The Negri Semb'lan Chinese Recreation Club have been winners of tha competition since
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    HOCKEY WIN FOR POLICE
    63 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. POLICE Depot just managed to beat Selangor Club by two goal* to one in a fast and hotly-contest-ed hockey game on the Padang this The acort was one-all at the nterval. Vowles scored first for the Club and the Police enualieed through Abdullah.
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    JACK GARDNER GETS A CHANCE
    72 7 A.P. LONDON. Fri. JACK GARDNER. British and Empire Heavyweight Champion, haa been nominated by tha European Boxlna: Union as the official challewrer to Austria's Jo Weidin. European heavywe'ght titleholder. The Union said the championship fight muat be staged before March 2"*. c tw Gardner la
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    N.Y. YANKEE STAR RECOVERS
    54 7 A.P. NEW YORK. Fri. HANK BAUER, outfielder for the -world chamnlons New York Yankees, ia a holdout. Fully recovered from an operation on his r'ght snkle. Bauer visited the Yankee offices hut declined to Bit™ a contract reportedly calling for UStlO.OOO. an increase over the US$7,BOO
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    BROWN TIPPED TO WIN WORLD SNOOKER TITLE
    397 7  -  By ARCHIE QUICK LONDON, Today. ALTHOUGH there is yet the best part of a month to run ln the £1,000 'News of the World' snooker tournament at Leicester Square, London, it Is a certainty that the eventual winner will be Alec Brown, the
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    THOMAS CUP PACIFIC ZONE DRAW
    324 8  -  Malaya Tipped To Keep Prized Trophy Again By ROBERT C. DOWSON. U.P. London Sports Editor. UP. LONDON, Friday. AUSTRALIA drew the bye in the Pacific Zone A Thomas Cup badminton tournament and India plays Siam in the only first round tie. Only three nations entered
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    COAL-SHORT BRITAIN PLANS RAIL CUTS
    127 8 Reuter. LONDON. Frl BRITAIN'S State-run-rail-ways are planning cuts in 1 train services because of the nation's acute coal shortage. it was officially announced j here last night. No final decision has yet been taken on the extent of the cuts, but they will be spread
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    ECA Aid To Indo China
    62 8 A.P. WASHINGTON, Fri. THE Economic Co-operation Administration authorized Indo-China U*****,000 to purchase scientific instruments and aluminium from the United States and Japan. Indonesia was authorized US$6OO,OOO to purchase 60 motorised fishing boats from Japan. ECA said the boats will enable Indonesia to expand her fishing
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    GUN BATTLE WITH REDS IN BRAZIL
    66 8 Reuter. RIO DE JANEIRO, FTi. POISCE. in Recife, capital of the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, fought a Wminute gun battle with Communists in which several on both sides were wounded, according to reports received here today. The battle developed when the staff of a
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    BRIND TO RETURN
    41 8 A.P. ADMIRAL Sir Patrick Bnnd, British Naval Commander in the Far East, plans to return home soon after completing his tour of duty. He is to be succeeded as Far East Commander by Vice-Admiral Sir Guy Russell. —A.P.
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    63 8 A.P. TRIPOLI, Libya, Sat. NIGHT strollers in this Mediterranean city can now j walk down the streets with more abandon. For months they had to be careful about falling into open sewers Manhole covers disappeered as fast as authorities installed them. Police recently replaced them after arresting
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    Rise Of Sunderland, Fall Of Arsenal
    411 8  -  By ARCHIE QUICK) LONDON, Today. TOPIC of conversation wherever sporting folk forefather Is not the surprirtn, the critics by cricketers In Auatralla biit the of Sunderland and the tall of,* re witnessing the end of an era atJUghbory. |q Not one point or goal
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    FIRST WOMAN TENNIS UMPIRE
    50 8 FIRST girl in lawn tennis history to umpire a final at Forest Hi'.ls, American's Wimi bledon, is blonde, beautiful Aili Teslof—and she's only 19. I She was the voice in the chair when Mrs. Margaret Osborne Dv Pont won the national title I from Doris Hart.
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    Reds Use Prisoners For Propaganda
    104 8 A.P. TOKIO, Frl. A CHINESE Communist propaganda broadcast today carried the names of American and British prisoners, who Peking Radio said, signed a statement of appreciation for "courteous and kind treatment." It was the first such release by Peking Radio. North Korean Radio Pyongyang earlier
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    TAIPEH CUSTOMS
    37 8 A.P. TAIPEH. Friday. AN official statement said today customs duties in 1950 yielded over Formosan $222,000,000, or more than eight times the total amount the year before. This was roughly equivalent to over U5522.000,000. —AP.
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    WEEK-END DIARY
    765 8 GENERAL TODAY CHINESE V.M.C.A.: Selegie Road, body building. 4 p.m., basketball, 5 p.m.. students' badminton tournament, 5.30 p.m. V.M.0.A.: Film show at 8.00 p.m., Orchard Road. FRASER NEAVE: D'nner to Dealers and Agents. Great World 7.30 p.m. HENDERSON ESTATE COMMUNITY WELFARE CENTRE: inaugural meeting. badminton courts near the
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    Rescued Seamen On Way To S'pore
    212 8 A.P. MANILA, Fri. THIRTY-FIVE Greek crew--1 men, rescued from their ship which ran aground off Camlquln Island, are on their way to Singapore. j They were the crew of the Greek freighter Kostis Le- j mos. which ran aground and broke on the rocky
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    5 STARVED TO DEATH IN LOST BOAT
    77 8 Reuter-AAP. TOKIO, Friday. JAPANESE fishermen found five dead Koreans and three living when they boarded a four-ton Korean fishing boat found drifting in the Japan Sea on Jan. 3, reports Kyodo news agency today. The Korean ship was sighted in Wakasa Bay, 22
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    821 8 Compton Clean Bowled, Brown Hits Out Freeh I SYDNEY, Friday. UN GLAND scored 211 for the lus* of 5 Ji wickets 00 the opening day of the Tv. against Australia here today. fl On a perfect pitch which gave the M distance It
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    SCOREBOARD I
    93 8 Reuter-AAP. MCC 1st INNINGS. Hutton lbw b Miller M Washbrook c Miller b Ian 1 Johnston S Simpson e Loxton b 1 Miller Compton b Miller 1 Parkhouse c Morris b I Ian Johnson fl Brown not out. Bailey not out. 1 Extras fl Total (for 5 wkts.)
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    202 8  -  By BICHARD KASIMKE A.P. BULGRADIL. T M~ARSHA.L TITO t I paper tiu- "SarH? ed Yugoaluv «por!» be fair nd o"J r< t ,T I to CT.lUlatr R" 0 "Who JUIRk M 1 It appear tfeat •re the worroa v* IT Tbe CpnntiUD»** {'trtf *4
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