Malaya Tribune, 25 January 1951

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    49 1 MALAYA Tribune Fbythel I PEOPLE FOR THE ftAKIRSftIES" THAN ANY AFTERNOON PAPER IN SbMALAYAJ Tel: •Tribune' S pore. Published simultaneously at Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, I poh and Penang. Phone: 5811/3 nine linen. SIX PAGES. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY. JANUARY 25, 1951 PRICE TEN CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE THURSDAY, JAN. 25. 1951.
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    NEW 'REASSURING' NOTE FROM PEKING
    427 1 Arab-Asian Group Calls For 7-Nation Peace Parley Reuter and A.P. LAKE SUCCESS, Wednesday. THE Chinese People's Republic in a 600-word message transmitted to the Indian delegation was understood today to have sent further clarification of its attitude on two points of the United Nations plan
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    SABOTAGE FOILED, SAYS PEKING
    65 1 SAN FRANCISCO. Wed. The Chinese Communist?- P»y thry have foiled an "attempt by U.S. imperialist interests" to •sabotage" the rcgime„ move by taking over foreign support, ed universities in Red China. A Peiping broadcast today disclosed, however, that the alleged "sabotage" wa,, simply an attempt by
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    Riot Inquiry Early Next Month
    101 1 AP. v >ON, Wednesday. w Lionel Leach will be Chair- of i Commission of mL« into the Singapore riots l ye t court ruling tody of 13-year-old tofch to her Dutcn per and mother. announced today by Secretary James Grifwntten reply to i ContflaflM question.
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    Acheson Confident Of West Unity
    165 1 U.P. WASHINGTON. Wednesday. PE JRETARY of State Dean Acheson said today that he has high hopes the United Nations can some action at Lake Success concerning the iese Communists which will preserve the unity of the world organization. The Secretary at a press conference also
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    OREEK PRIMATE DEAD
    28 1 AP. LONDON. Wed. Archbishop Germanos, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Western Europe and Britain died last night at the age of 79. —AP.
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    Scorched Area Evacuated
    89 1 Reuter. PORT MORESBY. Wed. E New Guinea Administra:i tonight announced evacuation of Ihf .ied area within Ifi miles s from Mount Laminr;fa* number of peopie Illla not known at prert but the area includes se- ibber plantations and m will mean heavy *o he planters, oiggest problem
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    STUDENTS ROBBED
    35 1 Chinese stopped a g Girls' High School s morning at the juneI'rinsep Street and tad and robbed 11 cards from the stu- and teachers. Onp of the Chinese was wit h a revolver.
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    U.S. May Reject New Move
    212 1 A.P. LAKE SUCCESS, Wed THE United States delegate Warren R. Austin today accused the Chinese Communist of "blackmail" and bad faith in trying to gain their objectives in Korea and the Far East. He also said Red China and Russia have taken part in aggression
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    838 Arrested
    57 1 Reuter. AAP. TOKIO. Wed. Tokio police arrested 838 persons during 1950 who participated in or uere responsible for Commu-nist-instigated disturbances, according the Metropolitan Police Board. This figure was greater than the number arrested during the fonr years between Japans surrender and end of 1949 for similar offences. The
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    NEW AVALANCHES IN ALPS FEARED
    102 1 U.P. ZURICH, Wednesday. WARM winds swept I he snow-covered Alpine slop:\> of Austria and Italy today and officials warned i hat they might unleash new avalanches to add to the already record total of 329 dead and missing In four countries. Residents of tne northern
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    ANTI-IKE DEMONSTRATION SMASHED
    48 1 PARIS, Wed. The French police tonight arrested 1.61>j people in Paris and smashed a Communist anti Eisenhower demonstration before it could get started. No Communist got wilrrtn streets of the Hotel Astoriatemporary headquarters of General Uwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Atlantic Pact Organisation.
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    QUAKE
    24 1 AP. EL CENTRO. CALIFORNIA, Wed.—A sharp earthquake shook Imperial 'and Riverside counties last night, but no prone rty damage of conseqeence is reported.—AP.
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    U.S. To Attend Colombo Plan Talks
    206 1 U.P. WASHINGTON. Wed. SECR3TAP, f oi Slaie Dean Acheson said at a news conference t-jday that the United States has accepted an invitation to participate in a meeting oi British Commonwealth countries in Ceylon next month which will continue discussions of the "Colombo Plan"
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    U.N. Strike 30 Miles Of The 38th
    178 1 Reuter TOKIO. Wednesday. A UNITED Nations armoured task force today struck through the town of Hoengsong in the centre of Korea to within 30 miles of the 38th Parallel the furthest north the Allies have ventured since th fall of Seoul. Simultaneously .mother
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    West Urge Wider Big Four Talks
    194 1 A.P. LONDON, W?dn~sday. DRITAIN, the United States and France haye again asked Russia to agree on big-four talks on all principal East-West problems. In notes to Russia, published today, the Western big-three repeated their stand that a Soviet proposal for big-four talks on Germany
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    PENANG POWER FAILS
    60 1 AP. PENANG. Wed. -Penang Island was plunged tonight into complete darkness fr more than one hour cne of the longest blackouts in peacetime history hero-owing to Mechanical trouble at the main power station on the mainland. All activity was suspended, cinema houses and entertainment place? wer hlackedout.
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    BUTCHERS PROTEST
    28 1 LONDON. Wed. Five thousand London butchers today protested to the Prime Minister. C. R. Attlee. about the low level of the nation's meat stock have fallen.
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    ALLIES BATTLE FOR WONJU VILLAGE
    24 1 Smoke rises from outskirts oi a village in Wonju area as fight for the area continues.A.P. Photo. A.P. Photo
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    Peking Is Eager For Talks: Nehru
    340 1 NEW DELHI. Wednesday. INDIAN Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said today that diplomatic ad--1 vices from Peking had convinced him that Communist China is "eager with the United States and other powers to settle the Korean conflict. Stressing his conviction that there is overwhelming desire
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    Rita Among The Tribes
    63 1 AP. DAR ES SALAAM. Wed A 24-hour torchlight and tribal dances by thousands of Zanzibaris greeted Prince Aly Khan and his wife, film star Rita Hayworth. when they arrived in Zanzibar on a tour of East Africa. They were also received by the Sultan at his
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    Attlee Takes Over Foreign Affairs
    133 1 UP. LONDON. Wednesday. FOREIGN Secretary Ernest Bevm was stricken with pneumonia today nnd Prime Minister Clement Attlee personally took over th<- active direction of foreign f.flairs during crucial negotiations concerning Communist China. Attlee received American Ambassador Walter Gifford tonight, presumably to discuss the United States-British
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    123 DIE OF PNEUMONIA
    49 1 Reuter-AAP. TOKIO. Wed. Pneumonia epidemic has billed 123 people in Gumma Prefecture since the beginning of the year, according to the Prefectural Health Board today. Four-hundred and seventythree cases of the disease have been rojxirtcd to the health authorities since the turn of the year.—Reuter-AAP.
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    PRICES: AN EXAMPLE
    639 2 WE make no apologies for returning again to the question of price control. It is such a big ouestion. involving the welfare* of a million p?ople in Singapore end five million f*i the Federation. Ard every day the probl na looms larger and larger, as prices soar.
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    MORALE NEEDS BOOSTING
    864 2  -  The Rearming Of Europe BY WES GALLEGHER A.P. NEW YORK. REARMING Europe today is fundamentally a question of morale, not guns and planes. A large part of Europe hasn't the will now to defend itself. On a grand scale General Dwight D. Eisenhower is In the position
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    THE SOURCES OF THE NILE
    295 2 ELIZABETHVILL.E. BELGIAN CONGO—Naming the source of the River Nile, a problem which has puzzled scientists and cartographers on and off since the time of Herodotus, has finally been solved— after a fashion. In the December 9. 1950, issue of Essor dv Congo, an Elizabethville newspaper,
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    Through Chinese Eyes
    215 2 What the Chine*? Press is saying today. THE Nanyang Siang Pau compliments the Wei era power? on the clear-headed action taken with regard to America's action in branding the Peking regime as "aggressors". Events show, the daily continues, that a great majority of the countries look forward
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    FIREPOWER OF RUSSIA AND U.S.
    443 2 U.P. WASHINGTON. THE Army said recently that man for man United States and Russian ground forces have about equal fire power. Furthermore, it said, the quality of design and manufacture of Russian weapons is good aod compares favourably with U.S. weapqns. The Army issued a
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    FILM FARE HAYDEN RETURNS TO FILMLAND HUMBLED
    722 2 A.P. HOLLYWOOD. JUST 10 years ago movie magazines were giving jromlnent display to pictures of a blond, musculer giant named Sterling Hayden. Usually he was posed, naked to the waist, in the rigging of a sailing ship. Hayden was a press agent's dream
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    SCREEN TOUGH GUY IS GENTLE
    397 2 A.P. HOLLYWOOD. THE cost of making! war in the movies has j soared as much as the cost of waging war on the battlefield. I Take the machine gun. Twenty years ago then Uni- j versal tiilmed "All Quiet on the J Western Front." a
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    WAR PICTURES COSTS HIGHER
    402 2 A.P. HOLLYWOODBARTON MacLANE. who ha* murdered 200 or more men in the movies, was surprised b? one of his ranch hands a while back. The grizzled cowpoke looked into the living room, scratched his head, and chuckled. 'T just wanted to see the boss doing his
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    JUDGE ORDERS RETRIAL
    103 3 m t Chiel Justice. Sir j Murray-Aynsley, rdered a retrial in il by Tan Koh Teng decision of the i;ce Magistrate who •••••need him to two -mprisonment on a criminal breach of speet of $1.200. alleged that this had been enhim by one Peter V X nneth
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    Shops And New Year
    52 3 "OS of shdpkeepc-rs 1 nolied to the Layjr Department to optn riuring the Chinese holidays next month. Office spokesman <"-day that shops will d to ooen at h*> disc: "inn of the Labour md that shops would state what days they M in place of the
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    Cloth — In Rubber-Out
    36 3 Cloth In Rubber-Out Everette Un e freighter S Eetelguese, which call--c-ipore from Indian ■crt? 'rougnt about ff&i tons n textile?, yarn and When the ship \i will have about 900 -übber, which is mainly k: Yokohama.
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    NAT LETTERS FOR RED CHINA
    69 3 A.P. TAIPEH. Wed. REPORTS published here today ifi the Nationalists were ng to airdrop 1.000 000 on the mainland calling Chinese Communists to •gainst their masters and •he forces opposing C0m- nlrt leader Mao Tze-tung. Thĕ airdrops, the reports said, »:uld be carried out next
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    Send Me To China, Says 'Bad Hat'
    147 3 [DESCRIBED by the Police as a bad hat, *hen U pleading guilty to charges of loitertog intent to commit theft and possession of a screw iriver without lawful excuse. Lim Ah Kian, a middle-aged Chinese was sentenced to three months' imprisonment in the
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    Had Cloth In Trishaw
    46 3 UNO guilty in the nd Police Court yesto fraudulently havvards of cloth worth -year-old Leong Or was SISO bail until Jan. 31 sentence. was arrested in a a* the Cecil Street ■ng Hong Lim Street .on the night of J an. 23.
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    HE TRIED TO BRIBE P.C.
    68 3 JljEO Kirn Bock of Kampong Lian was given the I paying a fine of $50 g to jail for fourteen n the Fourth Police vrday for attempton be a police constable to induce him not to summons against him *nen was found carrying rtger on
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    MISSING DAKOTA
    15 3 -XE3MAN of the SingaStandard said yesterthere was no further 'he missing Dakota. I
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    2 Fought On Day Of Festival
    60 3 WHILE nundreds of people were celebrating the Thainusam festival at the Tank Road Temple, two Malays were fighting in the comP °Yesterday the men. Mohammed bin Majid, aged 24 and Abdul Hamid bin Abdul Rajak, aged 18 before Magistrate D. A. Fyie in the
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    The wedding of Mr. end Mrs. Leang Ziew Mun was salem-nised of 15-c Kim Chiang Street recently. The bride was formerly MIss Kwah Kwee Yong. third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kwah Hong Choong. About 200 guests attended the wedding dinner.
    41 3 The wedding of Mr. end Mrs. Leang Ziew Mun was salemnised of 15-c Kim Chiang Street recently. The bride was formerly MIss Kwah Kwee Yong. third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kwah Hong Choong. About 200 guests attended the wedding dinner.
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    A MAN, A BAR & A DETECTIVE
    142 3 A MAN, A BAR A DETECTIVE pIFTY-EIOHT-YEAR-OLD Chng Kirn Lye, a Municipal drain cleaner while walking alcng Upper Pickering Street, came across an iron bar near a building: site. Thinking that it would serve a useful ourpOse for cleaning rubbish in certain drains, Chng piek?d it up and marched oh.
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    The Old Fiddle Still Has A Tune
    141 3 LONDON. SIXTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD Mr. Alfred Allen, of Newbury. Berks, for years a street fiddler, started 1961 without a familiar New Year i. For long he planned to get expert opinion on the value of his violin, wh'cl- nt people thought was a Stradi.arius. In
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    HEDY RETIRES
    25 3 A.P. HOLLYWOOD. Wed. Hedy since the time she ran naked through the German-made film "Ecatasv", announced yesterday she is retiring from acting. —AP.
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    Ignored Two Chances
    114 3 A LI BIN ABDULLAH, a 17--year-old former Malay soldier who had been given two chances to register for an identity card, was sentenced In th? First 'District Court yesterday to two months' imprisonment for the tame offence. Mr. M. C. Boy.c, A.S.P., prosecuting told lot court that
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    GAMBLED – $10
    34 3 GAMBLED $10 PLEADING guilty to gambling at Chin Chew Street on Jan. 23. two Chinese youths. Teo Kay Chua, and Low Sen Lum were each fined $10 in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday.
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    Mellersh Leaves For U.K.
    198 3 THS RAF. in Malaya will today farewell to Vice-Marshal Sir Frank "Tog" Me!l*rsh, their Air Officer Commanding, Who is returning to England to become Air Officer in Charge of Administration, Bomber Command. Sir Frank is sailing, with Lady MeJlersh, aboard the "Corfu". A formal Guard of
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    Jail For Gls Who Stole
    123 3 Reuter —AAP. TOKIO, wed. SENTENCES Of dishonourable discharges and prison terms for corporals Richard Pierson of Indiana, and Boris Jluliani of New Jersey convicted of theft have been approved by Brigadier General Carter W. Clarke, Commanding General of Southwestern Command, General Mac Arthur's headquarters announced
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    3 GENERATIONS SEE AGED COUPLE WED
    57 3 LONDON. Three generations of their descendants, watched 78-year-old great-grandmother Mrs. Mary Marshall of Toulon-street, Cambcrwell. S.E-, marry 70--year-old grandfather Mr. Richard White of Pitmanstreet, Camberwell, at the Church of The Sacred Heart recently. Mrs. Marshall has two children, 11 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Mr.
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    Brand Peking, Says U.S. Senate
    155 3 U.P. WASHINGTON, Wed. THE Senate passed two resolutions today calling upon the United Nations to bar Communist China from membership and brand Peking an aggressor in Korea. A third resolution urging the United Nations to Impose sanctions was not pressed and was sent to the
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    JETS LEAVE FOR HONGKONG
    190 3 fRUISING six miles high over the South China Sea at a gentle 300 miles per hour, the first batch of Vampire jet fighters completed yesterday the first lap of a flight from Singapore to Hongkong On arrival, probably today, they will be used to replace Spitfires
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    OFFERED BRIBE, FINED $500
    68 3 FOUND guilty of offering a bribe of $100 to Mr. P. Smith of the N.A.A.F.I. Corporation. Wong Teck Ho. manager of the N.A.A.F.I. canteen. West Camp, Seletar. was sentenced to one year's imprisonment and a fine of $500 in the First District Court yesterday. Wong gave
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    GIRL (17) TRiED SUICIDE
    52 3 A seventeen-year-old Chinese girl, Yee Hio Kor, was bound over for six months in the sum of $100 in the Fourth Police Court yesterday for attempting suicide by taking a quantity of caustic soda at her house in Kampong Sereh on Jan. Yee pleaded guilty to
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    RAF Planes For Ceylon Air Day
    150 3 ROYAL Air Force planes from Malaya the Middle East and the United Kingdom Will take part in Ceylon's celebrations of the third anniversary of a.tainihg Dominion status, wh'ch start of February 3. An "a r day" display, similar to that held in Singapore on
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    Fogarty In Siam
    80 3 AIR Marshal Sir Francis Forgarty, Commander in Chief of Far East Air Force, arrived in Bangkok last night on a short staff visit to the C-in-C of the Royal Siamese Air Force. The Air Marshal flew from Changi, Singapore, in an R.A.F. 'plane, accompanied by Lady Fogarty.
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    WAR GOODS STILL GO TO RED CHINA
    164 3 U.P. HONGKONG, Wednesday. THE flow of strategic poods to Communist China 1 has dropped sharply since the Western world declared economic war on the Reds, but substantial amounts of steel, rubber and pharmaceuticals are still mTv.ng into China, authoritative sources said today. Hongkong
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    DEATH TOLL TOTALS 275
    59 3 U.P. ZURICH, Wed. NEW avalanches of snow and ice showered down from the Alpine heights today for the eighth day. raising the toll of dead and missing in four nations to 275. The worst part of the avalanches appeared to be over, but three new disasters
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    RED JETS LOSE IN STRAIGHT FIGHT
    58 3 Reuter-AAP. TOKIO, Wed. AMERICAN Thunderjets damaged three probably destroyed one of 16 to 20 Communist MIG-15 jet fighters which jumped tnem over north west Korea this morning. The flight of 32 Thunderjets sustained no damage. This is the fifth straight day Communist jets have
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    15 YEARS' JAIL FOR RED AGENT
    56 3 A.P. TAIPEI, Weu. A MAN named, Hsu Chingting, was sentenced here on Monday to J. 5 years' imprisonment on charges of naving falsely accused one Lin Chenghui of. being a Chinese Communist agent. The sentence, announced by the Defence Ministry, did not give any
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    TWO FOUGHT IN PUBLIC-CHARGE
    54 3 /PWO young Chinese, Licw Chat Heng and Sim Chwee Sian were charged in the Fourth Police Court yesterday with fighting in the Beauty World Park at Bukit Timah Road on Jan. 23. They have been released on Police bail until Jan. 31. when the case will
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    $200,000 For Bing's Sons
    58 3 A.P. LOS ANGELES. Wed. A court action disclosed h< each of Bung Crosby four-teen-age sohs If worth about US$2OO,OOO. This accounting was made in the Superior Court, where a contract was approved under which the four sons will receive a collective royalty of three cents (US)
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    ADM. GARDNER
    44 3 A.P. WASHINGTON, Wed. ADMIRAL Matthias B. Gardner, Commander of the U.S. Second Fleet in the Atlantic will succeed Admiral John J. Ballentine as Commander of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, with Admiral B-lllrntine becoming Commander of the Atlantic Fleet Air Force.—A.P.
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    Colony Traders Help Violate Ceylon Rules
    257 4 A.P. COLOMBO, Wednesday EXCHANGE control authorities in Ceylon suspect 0 merchants in Singapore with business accounts in Ceylon of helping Indian business men to evade currency restrictions in Ceylon, an official of the Currency Control Department said. The technique Is for the Indian businessman
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    London Stocks
    143 4 Reuter. LONDON. Wed. ALTHOUGH the Government warning of the possibility of a tuel rrisis in February dampened active interest in the London Slock Exchange today some industrial groups showed firmness. Newspaper shares improved on the belief that liie latest increase In the price of newsprint will mean dearer
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    ANOTHER WOOL RECORD
    37 4 A.P. THE South African wool record was broken for the fifth time in the past week when two bales of fine super combings sold at 210 J 2 pence a pound in East London.—A.P.
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    LAVA DEATH CLAIMS 3,034
    418 4 A.P. SYDNEY, Wednesday. ITH the dead so far listed at 3.034 after the eruption of 6,000-foot Mount Lamington, reports from New Guinea today indicated that the Mountain is now quiet and further major activity is very unlikely for up to a week—and perhaps not at all.
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    IN PORT
    68 4 In Port: Loksang (44), Larut (ESADE), Landbris (Sheers), Flying Cloud (42/3). Wakde (41), Rajah Brooke (40), Mariekerk (38/9), Tarn (36), Steel Vendor (33/4), Benrinnes (31/2), Steel Arcturus (17/18), S.H.B. Ciaft 1 (19/20), Star Betelguese (23/ 4), Orestes (25/6), Hoegh Merchant (27/8), Stanreahn (29/30), Bencruaehan (15/16), President Harding (13/14),
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    TAIPEI PLANS FOR FUTURE
    54 4 A.P. TAIPEI. Wednesday. THE planning committee set 1 up by the Nationalist Cabinet last week to prepare for future hopes for Nationalist rule on the Red China mainland is busily at work. Among items receiving top consideration are: land reform; military government in areas occupied and
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    Rubber Falls
    174 4 THE rubber commodity market eased considerably yesterday after a spell of firmness for several days. Hongkong's buying spurt ended yesterday and there was no major "outside orders to sustain the market. The market fell from 214 buyers at the close on Tuesday to 208 sellers at the close
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    Shares Firm
    224 4 SINGAPORE. Wed. With Rood support from London, tin shares were a much tirnier market and prices were marked up throughout the 1 at. Rubber shares came in for some buying. Industrials were quietiy steady. 8.8. Petrol 41/- 42,M. Colls 1.21k 1.30 S. Steamship 14.60 la.oo Ampat al4 441
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    Tin Soars Again
    69 4 UP. LONDON. Wednesday. rN prices soared at the unofficial afternoon session today with spot up £25 to £1.262*2 with a turnover of only five tons Three months was up £15 to £1,232 1 2 on a turnover of 55 tons. The closing prices were spot f1.260 buyers
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    RASC Too Good For S.H.B. XV
    210 5 S C XV were a shade too r Singapore Harbour when they met in a ted rugby match ground yesterday 19 points (two trios and a penalty jne try and one feated, the 14 Har--1 avers were not were game tri. oiW last minute
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    A.F.A. Win Five-Nil
    66 5 MANILA. Wed FANG BAKAR, Singapore s entre-forward, role in yesterday's TW- r the S A.F.A. in their M fame of their Manila nst National CollegiI A.A. played at the Rizal a! Staciium. ■kar netted four goals k Hoon Leong scored the i ■gapom led two-nil at in(loalkeeper
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    BOB BERRY USES NEW BOWLING STYLE EFFECTIVELY
    622 5  -  STATHAM, TATTERSALL'S FORM ATTRACT MUCH ATTENTION By REGINALD HAYTER Reuter-AAP. DENMARK, Wednesday. I15ING his new style cricket boiling. Bob Kerry» Lancashire** slow left-arm bnwler, took si\ South Australian country wickets today for .16 runs. He helped the MCC dismiss the country side for
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    WELSH XV AGAINST SCOTLAND NAMED
    132 5 A.P. LONDON. Today. THE Welsh Rugby Union team to play Scotland nt Murrayfield. Edinburgh, on Feb. 3 shows one change from the outfit that so decisively defeated England at Swansea last Saturday. Peter Evans, the Llanelly forward who came into the side «t the last
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    PADANG 'BATTLE' FOR RIGHT INTO HOCKEY FINAL
    224 5 Tv\Q evetily-maiched teuu 1 —S.C.RC. and S.C.C.— meet again on the Padahg for the third time m the Knockout hockey competition •second replayt to battle for the right into the final. The teams are. S.C.RC.: Urn Kent Wah Dr. Ong Swee Law. Chua
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    SCC "Seven" Rugby Fixtures
    193 5 HTIHE following are the fixtures (first round draw) cf the S.C.C. "Seven-a-s:de" rugby tournament: MONDAY, .JAN. 29 4.30 p.m. R.A.F. Changi vs. R.N.A.S. Sembawang 'B. 4.55 p.m. R.A.S.C. B' vs. R.A.F. Tengah 'B. 5.20 p.m. R.A.S.C. 'A' vs. S.C.C. B\ 5.45 p.m. R.A.F. Tengah 'A vs.
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    IRISH CUP RESULTS
    22 5 Reuter. LONDON. Wed. IRISH CliP first round replays resulted as follows: Ard« S; Gienavon 1. L.ntield :t: Ballyclare 3.-Reuter.
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    ENTRIES FOR K.L. RACES
    555 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. One hundred and forty nine class one and tlass three horses have been entered for the forthcoming SelanBOf Turf Club Meeting to be held on Feb. 3. 7 and 10. The entries are: HORSKS. CLASS 1 Ist in* Kiib Kun 54 Abt. 6
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    Favourites Oblige At Ipoh
    1188 5 Full Stop Pays Highest ($4l) For Place Win IPOH. Wednesday. TODAY'S second January meeting of the Perak Turf Club saw several favourites oblige with moderate dividends, the highest coming from a place by Full Stop in Race Four which fetched $41. Ex-jockey Tjoa gained his first
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    RECORD IN ADDED PRIZE MONEY AT ASCOT RACES
    101 5 Reuter. LONDON. Wdncsdny. A RECORD total of £93.000 strrling will be in ;'.dded pxlzc money at the Royal Ascot ;ind Ascot Heath race meetings next season. The King George Sixth and Queen Elizabeth Featival of Britain stakes set down for July 21
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    19-6 Victory For S.C.C.
    98 5 PLAYING their last rugby fixture this season, Singapore Cricket Club trounced GH QFARELF by 19 points (two goals, a penalty goal, a try and a drop goal) to five (a goal) yesterday. S.C.C. points came mainly from Penned who scored Uvo tries which he converted as
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    SRORTS BRIEFS C.S.C. BILLIARDS
    43 5 SRORTS BRIEFS C.S .C. BILLIARDS Kntries ate invited from nicm-h<-rs of the Chincs» Swiniminsr ciuh for the Billiards Noyi< es ChanoiOMhip whic i will be tae.d in Februar\. Those interested may contact Mr. Tan Kon? Cuan (Billiards Convenor) C/ 0 Chinese Swimming Club.
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    MCC TEAM TO VISIT CANADA
    32 5 Reuter. LONDON. Wed. AN MCC "earn of amateurs will visit Cauda next July for a shor rrtdcel tour. Most of the team will be leading club crtekatera.—Rat.ler.
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    U.K. RUGBY RESULTS
    35 5 Reuter. i,ont>on\ Wad. RESULTS of rut,'by matches played today are:- RIIOBT I MON: United Hospitals 10 Oxford University 11 (played a' Richmond). IU (.BY I.KAt.tK: W an 22 Belle Vue Rangers 4.—Reuter.
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    JOE LOUIS JR.
    41 5 A.P. MIAMI. FLORIDA. Wed. JOE LOUIS. Jr.. 6k years old. will be a rinpside spectator when his famous father flzhts Oinelio Arrraonte here on February 7. It will le his first ringside view of his dad in action.—A.P.
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    TENNIS "WASHOUT"
    66 5 A.P. SYDNEY. Wed. RAIN VI lifd out today's play for the Australian National Tennis titles v. the White City court* in Sydney. If there is no more rain, the men'= singles ouarter-flnils will be played tomorrow, the semi-tinals on Smurday and the final on MonAmerican Dirk Savitt will
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    ANGLO-AMERICAN RIFT WIDENS
    366 6 Hongkong Bans iVoice Of America U.P. LONDON, Wednesday. THE split between the United States and Britain over Communist China appeared to be widening today. From the opposite sides of the world came these developments: 1. The British* Crown Colony of Hongkong cancelled rebroadcasts over the government radio,
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    50c. More For A Haircut
    182 6 SINGAPORE Chinese barbers will increase their charges by fifty cents as from next Saturday, because of the rising coj»t of living. This decision was arrived at a recent meeting of the Singapore Chinese Barber's Employers' Association. The UHTSSM will atlect all the ihree classes of
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    600 Homeless In Floods
    131 6 MALACCA. Wed \BOLT Aye hundred and seventy people. mostly Chines" were rendered horn less by floods at Asahan. about thirty- one miles frcm Malacca. One life was losi and se-venty-five thousand doiiurs damage to property caused when wal-r from a swollen river nearby overwhelmed the village
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    Society For Accountancy Students
    83 6 STUDENTS who are now going for the London Association ol Certified and Co-operative Accountants examinations yesterday unanimously decided at a provisional meecu.g held at the Britisn Council Hall thai a Student's Society should !;e formed in Singapore on the same lines as thoie :n the United
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    Whipping Sentence Set Aside
    132 6 AN Indian Muslim. Shah Ali, under sentence of one year's imprisonment and 12 stroke* of the rotan for causing grievous hurt to Hajeeman Bee binte Ibrahim at Rowell Road on the night of August 23 last, had his sentence reduced to six months' imprisonment in the
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    New Regulations For Fishing: Boats
    480 6 ALL fishing vessels licensed in the Colony of A Singapore wishing to obtain a clearance rrom the waters of the Colony after January 26wlU have to aoply for the clearance at a Control Fotat tha. is being established in Godown No. 3. Telok A>tr Basin
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    U.S. Flans Further Cuts In Civilian Use Of Rubber
    263 6 U.P. WASHINGTON. Wednesday. THE government disclosed today that it is conSideling banning the UK Of rubber in "nonessential" products such as bathing caps and teething rings. At the same lime, officials forecast smaller overall supplies of rubber for civilian US3 with
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    WORLD BANK LOAN
    47 6 Reuter. THE World Bank has loaned 550.000.000 to South Africa for the development of electric power and transport facilities Mr. Eugene Black, the bank's president announced today. In addition Mr. Black said South Africa would receive 000 from nrivate American credits amounting to $30,000,--banks.—Reuter.
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    WHY THESE REWARDS FOR INFORMERS?'
    279 6 An attack on the practice of Magistrates making substantial I awards to inormants in chap- ji-ki cases, was made by Mr. W. I E. Demuth in the Singapore i High Court yesterday before I the Chief Justice, Sir Charles I Murray-A>nsley. I Mr. Demuth said.
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    NUNS HELD
    143 6 MOTHER Superior Mariain Soulakiotis (right) of the Greek Keratea Monastery, east of Athens, is seen as she app< .red on charges of unlawful export of olive oil to Cyprus and illicit import of automobile tyres. She was acquitted on these charges, but was returned to jail pending investigation
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    Judgment Reserved In Opium Appeal
    490 6 IS a statement made by an accused person to a 1 revenue officer admissible in evidence? This question was posed by Mr. W. E. Demuth in the Singapore High Court yesterday before the Chief Justic. Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley. when he argued an appeal by Man
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    Federation Wilt Have Government By Ministers
    304 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday THE Federation will soon have a Ministerial 1 of Government with nine ministers som whom will be unofficials. Proposals for a \p sterial Government were approved at the Fed Legislative Council yesterday after an hour a? a-half of sharp debate. ari(J
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    CLASSES FOR ADULTS
    50 6 The Chinese School Conference has decided to set up ten classes for Chinese adult education. A meeting will be neld this week-end to work out a detailed plan for the furtherance of this aim. Mr. Lee Kong Chian is one of the strong supporters 01 the move.
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    Benham To Lead C.O.L. Probe
    202 6 I) R F C BENHAM of Saiar V Scales fame may 0o head a countrywide 1» quiry into prices and y cost of living. The Feda Legislative Council which 4 bated yesterday propon'i, increase Government's Cor* Living Allowance was J that the Federation G ment
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    Damage Claim Dropped
    144 6 AN action for damage r i menced on Monday la>t a behalf of the widow of a CM ese contractor. Ong Koon Ha who met his death in Jala Besar on the evening of .'uo 5 last when his bicycle co into collision with a taxi, »1
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    CALL FOR
    27 6 A.P. A BRiTISH aircraft ■Jn the Chairman of trip krr Siddeley group of manufacturers urged trt* ernment to nrdcr "thou of warplanes without «1». AP.
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    WHAT'S ON TODAY GENERAL
    95 6 BRITISH RED H«1 PEOPLE S LI B. We»le> Fort Canning. 4 p n L] Pir i# CHINESE Y.M.C.A.: pg btd rH students music 4.30 p.• j." ton. p.m.. body bul I l ri r--p.m.. laandarm Bible I.W.C.A.: Raffle? W"»>advanced ciass, 6.IS l' 1 ftl" SINGAPORE sTA*r
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    CINEMA
    55 6 CATHAY: 'Tripoli 4.15, «.45 and 9 3«» P rtu i W PAVILION: H«r Aorde 2. 4.15. 6.30 and 9.30 P r M CAPITOL: My l w and Bubla B.Uiet Revue 4.00. 6.30 and 9.30 p.m. RK\: Baba Aris H. 6.30 9.30. p.m. pit SI N: "Bad Bay\\ > ROYAL:
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