Sunday Tribune (Singapore), 26 January 1947

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    24 1 The Sunday Tribune Now printed simultaneously In Singapore, Kuala Lumpur. Ipoh X IVnang. XUI I l PAIiLVi SINGAPORE, JANUARY 2 G, 1947. n cents
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    BUSMEN DEMAND APOLOGY FROM COMPANY OFFICIAL
    468 1 Afcw Spore transport strike threat Sequel To Remarks In Court Case Sunday Tribune Staff Reporter) Singap re Traction Company em ployees, who claimed they were slurred by a European official of' the Company in a public statement in a Singapore police court recently, are
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    PLANE WITH $15,000,000 GOLD LOST
    66 1 HONGKONG. Jan. 25.— The Royal Ait Forced reported tonigh* that a Philippines Airlines Dakota piano, understood to be carrying $15.000.000 (U.S.) in gold from Manila to Hong Kong. Is mining and Is believed to have crashed into th^ pirate- Infested water* outside Hong Kong. No
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    Mervyn Harvey To Replace Barnes
    52 1 LONDON, Jaa. 25— Norman Preston, Renter's Conopondent in a cable from Adelaide stau-* th.it Mervyn Harvey. Victoria'midget jylish right-hand batman, will replace Barnes in Australia 1 12 players from whom the fourth Test team will bv selected. Harvey ha- not yet appeared In T-st cijrk.
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    PLANE HITS HIGH TENSION WIRE
    34 1 FRANKFURT ran. 25.— An Am. rtcan Army nircrafi struck a ligh lonsjl cab rashed 6L- nil* of Hamburg today killing the I W'o*. th.- Am< Air Hradquarters louncrd today.
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    SHIP STRIKES MINE
    40 1 PENHAGKN, i n 25.- A smali r* nish d »8 I divi wa s mined tod*j off Rinrk b KI of Jutlai d Tor. r -w »f f IVI were Killed t nd ..-r two *"UMded.- Reuter
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    PRE-CUP-TIE DISASTER
    89 1 LONDON. Jan. 25 .--Two men were killed and two seriously wounded when a bus carrying Derby County supporters to London for the fourth round oup-tie be neen Derby and Chelsea collided with a lorry near Loughborough. Leicestershire Despite Intense cold, frost and now In various parts of the
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    Governor Goes To Party In Goods Van
    94 1 Governor Goes To Party In Goods Van <Our Gun Reporter) s IPOH, Sat.— The Gov- i ernor of the Malayan t Union, Sir Edward Gent, i and Lady Gent rushed S I to a party here in a lug- gage van after their car had a puncture some miles t
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    Dutch Seize S'pore Fish Ship
    74 1 Dutch Seize S' pore Fish Ship News has been received by the Singapore Overseas Chinese Im- j porters and Exporters Associa- tion that another Chinese vessel PC 1353 has V' ir > seized by a Dutch Patrol boat. The PC 1353 wa, returning to S n£upore with B cargo of
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    Tojo Defence Opens Today
    320 1 TOKYO. Jan. 26.— The following statements highlighted to-day's opening of the Japanese and American legal defence" of Hideko Toj o and his 25 co-defendants a1 the International Military Tribunal for the Far East: "Japan was lorced to fight the war in self defence." "All the evidence
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    City Of Smells After 6 Days' Labour Strike
    821 1 < Sunday Tribune Reporter). "Pf"^"*" Yesterday I toured Singapore street by street to see at first hand how the Municipal labourers' strike is affecting the city. I returned from my inspection convinced that if things are allowed to drift Singapore will not
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    AL CAPCNE IS GRAVELY ILL
    61 1 Miamli Beach, Jan. -25. The condition of Al Capon?, American gangster "'king" who is gravely ill at his home here was reported to be serious last night The doctor said after a midnight visit, that Capone. however, was "holding his own." CaDone had a relaps?
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    CHINESE TAKE OVER FROM SOVIETS
    34 1 SHANGHAI, Jan. 25— Government force* have take over garrison duties from the Soviets at Lakusiao where the dam of the hydroelectic plant supplying east Manchuria and Korea is located.
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    Commissioners Say: 'STRIKERS REJECTED INVITATION'
    232 1 Commissioners Say: 'STRIKERS REJECTED INVITATION' A long statement on the Municipal strike, issued yesterday by the Municipal Commissioners, again asserts that the present deadlock is due to the failure of the strikers' representatives to accept two invitations which have been sent to them to discuss the position. The statement adds
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    RAF Educationist To Visit Singapore
    43 1 LONDON, Jan. 22. -The Direc- toi of Educational Service?, in the i Royal Aii Force, Air Commodore A. H. Rods on, ha>- left London on a tour of RAF stations in India and the Far East. Including Singapore
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    RAINS RUIN MALAYA'S RICE CROPS
    298 1 RAINS RUIN MALA YA 'S RICE CROPS 'Tribune Correspondent I Heavy rain, in the past u ri la areas ot ricefields m Kuala Trengganu where i one thousand acres of crops have been In Kelantan, however, continurus wet weather la- lmpro\ed the appearance of f :rops Some areas were Hooded
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    BEVIN-STALIN NOTES
    24 1 Moscow. Jan. 25. All Russian mornin^ newspaper* to-day published the exchange of notes B©twe n Mr. Bevi.n nnri Opnprrjlis I simo Stalin.
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    ROSE WASN'T SWEET TO MR. STRACHEY
    111 1 ROSE WASN'T SWEET TO MR. STRACHEY LONDON. Jan. 25.--Food Minister John Strachet/ tudaif returned a soft an 'ohq with tiro ounces of bacon and one outlet of cooking fat, to a housewife. Strachey g >i the week's ration of back and fat from Mr a. ißose Wood of Warrington, icho
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    11 Burnt To Death
    37 1 LONDON, Jan. 25 —Eleven people w.Te bur t to death when a Dakota taking ofr from Croydon Airport crashed on to another which Wai parked on ttM airfield. Both machinci kmni into Qamos,
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    TO VISIT EUROPE
    33 1 BATAVIA, Jan. 25.— TJokorde Soekawnti, temporary I d<nt of th« New itata of Bml Indonesia, j reli-bfs Bali and Dutch Now Guinea left here for Europe by air «urly today.
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    Held Police, Jap Colonels Turned Out To Be Film Actors
    219 2 inday Jrloune staflP Rep6rtel>) n ac >. now "on lo i K>rc r to arrest and to jpolU li y ha hi Id dice The big misunderstanding I can nt the actors, d .n Japanese military accompanied by nty men
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    'Crow More Food' Essay Contest
    38 2 Th. „n :> RcUti Oflee: Armstr St. d, lan bum, ll ff..- Institution, igt la Tlnam Sndk, Oheon K b Thinm Whatt, < B h Behool; hor«> Malay C n Bn H ;.i t Nan
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    HOLE IN DOOR LEADS TO ARRESTS
    135 2 HOLE IN DOOR LEADS TO ARRESTS Swing hole in the» zinc doov ->l a godown in th<> harbour board, o pcliccmHii grew suspicious. He bkw his whistle and stood gun -d i al the door. He was Joined by a diitctivo and they entered the godnWn Where, on switching; On
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    Back-Pay: New Ray Of Hope For 240
    503 2 (Sunday Tribun rt Staff Reporter) Unknown to members of the Christmas Island court-martial trial which has now entered its fourth week, a submission made by the prosecutor, Major N. S. Bums, has brought a ray of hope to 240 ttiethbttts of NO. 1
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    Hongkong Had Its "Beast Of Belsen"
    104 2 Hongkong Had Its "Beast Of Belsen" HONGKONG, i Airmail i.—Di-:i|»--i polnttofent m finding himself .-»n I trial as a war criminal, instead of recetftnl i medal from Hie British < 'i"Vrriim»-i:t for hi- ti.atment of Brilisi, POW S in th<- Sham^hipo Camp, itofagkong, was eaprti— d by I Col. Totamaga,
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    THIS LABOUR GANG HADN'T HEARD OF STRIKE YET
    248 2 They're Still Working (Sunday Tribimc Staff Reporter) While there was no change i on the Singapore strike front yesterdnv afternoon, a gang of the Town Cleansing Department labourers was seen at work. When asked why they didnt ioin others on strike, one
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    SHORTHAND WRITERS ASSOCIATION
    93 2 The following have been elected office Carers of the Greg^ Shortlmnd Writers' Association Singapore:-- Mr. P. E. Perera, President re-elected > Mr. Yeo T ;mg Chwee, Vine-precident, 're-elected) Mr. E. Albuquet- que. Hon. Secretary re-elect ed»; Mr. Tan Teng Ban, Hon. Treasurer (re-elected); Messrs Lim Yew Hock.
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    20,000 Indians Repatriated From Malaya
    219 2 20,000 Indians Repatriated From Malaya When she sails on Wednesday with 1.150 Indian repatriates tin veiling as deck passengers, the Jalagopal will have made her lourth and iast trip as a repatriation ship specially chartered by the Indian Government to expediW repatriation from Malaya. 'this is her second call at
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    Equal Rights For All Labourers
    165 2 The Labour < Amendment Ordinance 1947 is shortly t<» be introduced into the Advisory Council to place all classes of labourers and not merely Chinese as previously existed in.der same conditions of service. Under the provision* Of tttfe Labour Ordinance the right given to a
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    LIN YU-TANG'S DAUGHTER DETAINED FOR TWO DAYS
    317 2 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25. Chiru^ Consul General T. K. Wang chaiged today that the United States Immigration Seivic< neld Lin Yu-hau, daughter ol writer-philospher Lin Yutang, and Mr^ Rose Kingman, 34, daughter of Dr. Frank W. Lee-adviser to the Chinese delegation to the
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    700 JOBS GOING IN S'PORE
    165 2 700 JOBS GOING IN S'PORE f Sunday Tribune Meporten There are vacancies for 700 enumerators who will bo required to take an i?land-wi<le census com iru' cing Aj>ril 1. A Municipal ?poke>man >aid yesterday that men and women of good character, with ability to speak English and either Chinese dialects,
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    Cathedral Weddings
    144 2 WESTON-DOUGLAS The District Commander, ,vlajoi General L. H. Cox gave away the bride, Miss Jane Douglas^ of ilv Q.A.I.M^.S./R., at her weddirg ji'.sierday to Major J. Weston, &.M., Ist Battn. the Devonshire Regt. The bride, wh o wore a lovely frock of white Swiss organdie, had a i^houlder
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    Nebyson-Gulick
    86 2 The wedding took place yesterday at St. Andrew's Cathedral, of Mi-,-Joyce GUlick who recently arrived in Singapore from America and Mi 6. E. N by.>on of the Standard Vacuum Oil Company. The brid" w1.., wai attended by A M; tr<>n <r Honour, Mrs. M. J., >•; \v;!« gi\>-n I
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    S'pore Stamp Club
    41 2 The next social meeting of the Singapore Stamp Club will be held in the Palm Court of the Capitol Restaurant On Tuesday. The mating on Feb. will do j a special one, devoted exclusively t" the of ♦mii{>
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    Holiday Resorts For All Communities
    54 2 'Our Own Reporter) IPOH, fi r >r tming )Wn igain. As funds allow th«> r*± tion of v.,: a pro> itiom 1 1 and Petiftftt Hill Thf Gk>Vehtior, r Gent told in.- that h« hoped wh.-n th»«' ichemei are completed. th< b. tmilAMe for th<
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    BROADCAST TALK
    30 2 R. H. Political Adviser to the Special Commit* *?r. will make a broadcaat from Radio Malaya at 945 p.nt on Jan. 28 on his recent visit to Japan.
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    TRADING MAINLY IN INDUSTRIALS
    773 3 TRADING MAINLY IN INDU STRI ALS Financial S<(lion <\ur I fi K W»£siaiTrad the vr m Ti blt SSA 1 d to tne H S I--«rS?e the I Mal a in M requir-m. U Union *»l u^ month of which t< •'■ay. £k, 17,000 toi Ov.. to ih portage 16
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    Huge Totalisator Turnover: £14,000,000 In 1946
    262 3 Huge Totalisator Turnover: £14,000,000 In 1946 LONDON. Jan. 25.— Totalizator taking- a English race tracks loi 1946 amounted to over ±14.000,000. announces the Race- course Betting Control Board. j Full details, of course, will not be known until later in January. I when the ytarV working i^ comj t >letc.a.
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    Americans Will Hear S'pore Way Of Life
    325 3 Sunday TrtbUatt! ettaif Reporter) Mr. William Winter, well-known American neWS c-ommentaior and war correspondent who arrived here With his Wife and Mr. Merrill de Witt, to conduct and record informal interviews with Singapore's men- in- the Street, has now gone to Batavia en
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    1st ACCUSED SAYS HE WAS THREATENED WITH DEATH
    455 3 Court Martial Defence Following the ruling o f the con r t martial that th» prosecution had made nut a prima facie case, th e first ai o make hb defejic 1 at the trial of seven Indian soldiers cji a charge
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    PEEPS AT SINGAPORE A MOMAN
    1997 4  - PEEPS AT SINGAPORE A MOMAN VERA ARDMORE WERWERWERWER Dutch I: uoa o email Celebration A large party \va> beta Uwt week to cekbraU ihe engagement of Lieut. Commandei Simon dc Boer, R.N.N. and MlSa Willy d, Wilde. Lieut- Com. de Boer is the son of Mr. and Mrs. de Boer
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    Our Young Malayans—18
    18 5 Our Young Malayans— 18 d 5 and Betina aged 4 daughters of Mr and Mrs Goti Chee Wee.
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    People In The News
    1265 5 People In The News Mr.^ E s of LI. Colonel L Hi be leaving Malaya s next Marine Adder s o n W.A.A.F will b land in .i 1,.-* cm been workln with th Vocational training centre R A.F i r I .m«- Mi- Lu young* daifhter Mrs. 8. C.
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    Another Musical Show On Monday
    768 5 i ShOW fOl rvices Ehtertainment which opened on Monday, producer Albert Arien has excelled popular "Stardust" revue he produced last. Year. Hi will Include un his program: ghly-flavoured mixtun- ot moods and mu^ic from Swing to Classics and from Jitterbug to Ballet in an effort
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    The Sunday Tribune JANUARY 26, 1947. It Isn't Cricket
    480 6 The Sunday Tribune JANUARY 26, 1947. It Isn't Cricket From ihc Church has come a powerful voice in deft nee of cricket umpir. s. It was inevitable that the controversy which has filled >>(> many columns of the Australian and British press should finally awaken an echo from the pulpit,
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    LABOUR FIGHT S ITS BATTLES
    1451 6  - LABOUR FIGHT S ITS BATTLES Sagittarius r by Whatever development there may be in the :--t.r.k<- <,\ Singapore Municipal workers, (he walk-out of 'city employees has posed once again the important question of conciuaU-.n machinery which can be set in motion before rather than aft r a union or federation
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    Trials And Tribulations
    892 6 T rials And Tribulations THE ADVENTURES OF 0.8.H. If I had r.nly known to what trials and tribulations and to what indignities I was to be subjected during internment I would have taken suitable steps to leav i the country the wek before capitulation! Everyone la the Camp used to
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    Sarawak Has Its War Scars
    677 6 By i Correspondent ii the measure ol war damage and devastation in the Colony of Sarawak could be measured by the extern to which the town or Kuchlng and the kampong* and villages in its Immediate vicinity have been affected, one would be tempted to
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    THE OUTLOOK FOR BRITAIN
    249 6 LONDON. A Leading banker has given u,n opimistic survey of Britain's present position and future protpects. He is Sir Clarence Sadd. vice-Chairman of th»: Midland Bank. Speaking to the Institute of Bankers, of which li« i is the new president. Sir Clarence said; "If the nation
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    ARMED POLICE ESCORTS TO PROTECT CASHIERS
    406 7 AR MED POLICE ESC OR TS TO PROTECT CASHIERS New Steps to fight bandits (Sunday Tribune Staff Reporter) A: in. i police escorts are now provided when reby the Singapore Special Constabulary to theapartmeni store cas hiers who wish to transfer urns ol cash to the bank. Tins is the
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    COUNCIL GIVES WOMAN A HORSE
    65 7 COUNCIL GIVES WOMAN A HORSE BOGNo: Jan M xuvivf y< lh classic li riTip Ml But I fri»J. r lin K roV< Wii' bcrv.' id for caMer* me She .:<•■• Huk.- ]ump ol PP though' So that Duk'' b ed to |i %M+. in at th< exp*aa«. Th<: 00V to
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    The Private Life Of Alfred Rosenberg
    393 7 Nuremberg. Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi Jew-baU^: No. 1. had a Jewish tnj r when Hitler came to power in 1933. tical police and Gestapo le.ui' who 1^ at pn tent under house at Nuremberg pending hU appearance as a witn«. si in subsequent trial-. Diel>
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    Democratism' In Britain's Army To Attract Recruits
    425 7 LONDON. Jan 25.— Proposal.^ for reforms in Britain"^ Armed Forces have o: a Passed to the Service ciueis by the Prime Minister after he had considered (iet ailed suggestions made by the Parliamentary Boc ial i s t Party. The proposals w re
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    THE ARMY'S IN HIM!
    134 7 LONDON. Jan. 25 It is a long time tince Private J; hn Connor ol the Manchester tent has h ard the phrase "Get" some service in For John, believe 1^ or not, has been In the Army since 1895. True, his service has not been continuous,
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    Malacca Indians To Demonstrate
    54 7 Malacca Indians To Demonstrate MALACCA. The afalacct Branch of tin Malayan Indian Congress hai decided to participate in the 'anti-Federation* demonstrations to take place next month. A protest procea ion i being organized and nui-> demonstration will be held <>n the Padong. Mr. Tan Cheng- Lock is expected to speak
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    Left Husband For Ship's Steward During Honeymoon
    242 7 Left Husband For Ship's Steward During Honeymoon SYDNEY, Jan. 25.— An English bride of an Australian ex-serviceman who fell in love with a ship's steward and left her husband two days after marriage, was ordered in the Sydney Divorce Court m return to her husband within twenty-one days. Petitioner is
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    'SHANGHAIED' INDONESIAN GIRLS WORK IN S'PORE
    535 7 THEY'RE AFRAID TO GO HOME i Sunday Tribune Staff Reporter) I have Just spoken to a group < y u«d girls who after being "shanghaied" by tl e Japs in I nave decided to remain in Singapore. They first came here from Java in
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    DIVORCE FRAME-UP
    128 7 DIVORCE FRAME-UP London, Jan. 25. When Mrs Millie Vincent, of Wel-lingborough-road, Northampton, arrived in New York to join her f trmer American Soldier /ins band she was greeted- "You're been divorced." After qua Honing, she discovered that another woman had impersonated her and given grounds for the divorce. Said Mrs.
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    Deadly Poison —But Only One 'Disaster'
    181 7 Deadly Poison —But Only One 'Disaster' Curare, tne deadly poison With which South American Indiana used to tip their arrows, has been used in Britain for 18 months, in about 5,000 operations, it was <tat<-d at a St. Pancra.-. inquest. The poison, it was stated, is Used with an anaesthetic,
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    New Far Eastern Film Distribution Scheme
    541 8 COLONEL OUTLINES SYSTEM London Films are introducing a new system of lilm I Lbution in this puit of tile world, according to CoJoA. A. Walter, 0.8.E., J. IV, Blr Alexander* Korda*s cial represeni I n the Far East. Sir Alexander, i Britain's movie- m
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    THE HUMAN TOUCH
    241 8 THE HUMAN TOUCH < miy recently was Is learned why Sister Kenny." RKO Radio's widely discussed bionraphial storj aboul Uie famed nurse adei against infantile paru- was not filmed until four alter Sister Elizabeth Kenny arrived in Hollywood ironi Australia and the idea first broached Several scripts were attemptut winning
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    SHE'S NEVER SEEN GARBO
    281 8 Hollywood -Although she as been part and parcej ci th< motion picture indos.tV (01 h e y i June Vin tt maintains that she knows less about Hollywood than the lowli'esi extra in the business. "I've only visit d two stud.i s i in all my
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    316 8  -  Frances Richardson (By To toll the role that research played in the making of "The Song of Bernadette", it is necessary to go back nearly nineteen years—long: before Franz Werfel ever put his storv on paper In 1924. a retired actor named George Ingleton, persuaded the old
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    FRANK ROSS & 'THE ROBE'
    202 8 FRANK ROSS 'THE ROBE' After almost four years, Frank /?os_ ivill shortly give the signal at the RKO Radio Pictures for the start on fits lavish, technicolour production of Lloyd C. Douglas* best-sell-ing book, "The Robe." Mervyn he Roy, one of Hollywood's top- flight victure-makers will direct. Casting has been
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    17 8 A recent picture of Col. A. A. W alter who is now in Singapore
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    As Good As Bombed
    359 8 How long dors it take to reduce a town to rubble 0 The question may seem ghastly in the face of what the atom bomb has achieved. A formation of heavy bombers, flying a few missions could, however level a small type town in a matter
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    BEAUTIFIERS COLLECT TWICE
    60 8 Beauty shop s in Macck-sftHd, England, reaped a bonanza as locai women prettied then to work as extra- in So Well Ri-nn-mbcr-cd," RKO-R.-.nk Alliance production. Lovely OOiffurei were ruined, howeVir, for the <-xtras worked In rain scenos. But tlu- hairdressers Cashed in af*ain for the .studio paid
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    726 8 VI'ItOXU A LAKI on Newspaper people seldom, n ev< -Did you hear wi..- 1 u-and-so SB the lio the other ev< Whatiiisname had about your hair 0 i m afraid that I'll get mad ai all the Joki i imagine it's a taboo subject with n
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      205 8 I THE WEEK'S I k— SHOWS i CATHAY I Noic Showing: reap THE WILD WIND with Ray MilI land, Pau-ette Goddard arid John Wayne. Next Change' < Jan. 28-Feb. 5) ANCHORS AWEIGH With Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson and Gene Kelly ALHAMBRA Note Showing TARZAN'S DESERT MYSTERY with Johny Weismuller, Nancy
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    WINNING the TITLE from BRADDOCK
    2091 9  -  Joe Louis The Brown Bomber today writes on the all-important fight which gave him his world title. His fight with then reigning champion, James Braddock (who won the title from Playboy Maxie Baer) is vividly described in this chapter of his life story. EXCLUSIVE in
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    STALIN TELLS BEVIN: WE SHARE SAME VIEW
    439 10 LONDON, Jan. 24. -The I British Foreign Office tok night released the text of the message exchanged by Mr. Bevin and Generalissimo Stalin. Mr. Bevin's message I Generalissimo Stalin, dated Jan. 18, said: I am g:a. fled at the friendly reception which was
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    Monty's Scheme Turned Down
    119 10 Moscow. Jan. 24. -Generalissimo Josef Stalin told FieldMarshal L(Tcl Montgomery, during their recent Moscow meeting, that the pP2Se.nl moment wa>. not quite appropriate lor the exchange of Soviet and British student officers, Tass news ag nry report°d to-day. Field Marshal Montgomery rai-ed the question Tass said,
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    STONE-THROWING IN BOMBAY
    44 10 STONE -THROWING IN BOMBAY BOMBAY, Jan. CS —Tho police fil<»,| tWO V'.m:(is Lo Hop *%Ar«~ throwing in. Outral Bombay today. iiiere were no ca-a.J A CX>v'■niment cemmun iq'.i" reported t#o tafabtngi ;jnd an acid throwing jncident in which thr.. pc p!e received burrs Reuter
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    Electric whips, dope, mustard pills—all to win a bet
    523 10 Electric whips, dope, mustard pills— all to win a bet Race Track Gangsters NEW YORK, Jan. 24. Georga P. Mahoney, millionaire chairman of the Maryland R g Commission, has uncovered new refinements in torture to horses while making a Turf clean-up. The barbaric cruelties he haexposed make the acid spray
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    She Leads Cat & Dog Life—And Likes It
    113 10 She Leads Cat Dog Life— And Likes It S SYDNEY.- Mrs. D. Lea- leigh. of C'nisholm Road, Auburn, Sydney, lives a rmt car -and- clog lite hut she Uk€& it y A f present she has bO dons ami 30 cats. Two dogs and (wo cats arc "boarders" she is
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    HAMMOND'S 188 IN BIG M.C.C. TOTAL
    672 11 Laagridge pla^s himself into fourth WHi ;im Best Score Of Tour ADELAIDE. Sat. En«l ind's skipper, Walter Hcimmond, displayini iconic return to form, scored lite fourth century in the M.C.C. tour to-day against South Auftralia lod by Don Hradman, Australia':; i'est captain Hnmmoncl scored
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    149 11 With his ISB yesterday. I Walter Hammond has now joined the ranks of Jack S Hobbs. Frank Woolley, < Patsy Hendren, Phil L, Mead, W. G. Grace and S r- Herbert Sutcliffe. all scorers of 50.000 runs in first -class cricket. Hammond's aggregate in 27 years of
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    Score Board
    109 11 MCC. Ist Innings. Hutton c Vau^hton b Gibson 88 Washbrook c Ridings b Dooland 21 j Fishlock c Dooland b Oswald 57 Hardstaff c Bradman b Dooland 13 Hammond b Craig 188 Ikin lbw b Dooland 35 Langridge c Dooland b Craig 100 Evans not out 11 j
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    Only Goal Decides Padang Hockey
    368 11 Only Goal Decides Padang Hockey Combined Services 1 Singapore Civilianb 0, In a fast and exciting game of hockey yesterday on the Padang. the Combined Services just managed to defeat the Singapore Civilians by the only goal netted ten minutes b?fore the final whittle. A feature of the game frefce
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    MORE NEW HORSES FROM AUSTRALIA
    50 11 The Itrtfest cimsiKnment of horses for Singapore *tnce the liberation is exacted here soon. Tli»- Ch;mda whi.h i« due from 1 Australia In mid -Fvbrunry t hns :i total of 75 h<»rst-s aboard as well rrs I v»ral th<tU c and tons of d> «:arg"
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    SELANGOR POINTS GIVE CIVILIANS 11-0 WIN
    814 11 Combined Civilians 11 pts.; Torhbireil Spr\i«*s 0. After taking fifteen nimaes to settle down, the allMalayan Civilian XV asserted their superiority and defeated the Combined Services team by eleven points (a goal and two tries) t o nil at «talan ticsar .stadium, yesterday. The
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    PRE-OLYMPIC SKI MEET
    97 11 ST. MOftTTZ, Switzerland. Jan. 25. The Alpines Ski Club announced that 199 skiers from 13 nations have lend the St. Moritz While Ribbon contests scheduled for Fob luary fi to 9. Tim White Ribbon, biggest pre-Olympic ski event, will be held on the famous slopes Which was
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    New German K0 King
    109 11 HAMBURG, Jan. 25.— Dietrich RUCkg, Germany's most sensational fighter since Max Schmeling, nakos bid for the German middleweight title tonight when he risks his perli'Ct record of seven knock-oUN m ieVe M fights against the middle and welterweight champion GUstav Eder, in Germany'* top postwar ring
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    112 11 Britain' s Best Quarter- Miler LONDON. Jan. 25.— Godfrey Brown, probably the best qunrtermiler Uritain has ever produced, will stage a come-back in the forthcoming twnpa. Brown, who finish- I ed second in the 400 metres at the Olympic Games at Berlin in 1936, if he succeeds in getting back
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    65 11 LONDON, Jan. 16.— Tke United S'atpv amateur icr hockey fceain, which lost five of th* 1 BilM gam*; series against England, kit lot Pans jretttrtfft] They will meet The Pam Rf-.cir-j? Club tonight. Following their Ramc in Paris, the Americans will tour Chechoslovakia whore
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    95 11 SYDNKY. rh( A D.-iv Cu I !> .ir Mul!>\ offVrfri t<> Rfeht i during i mutch with John Bromwtth Au-tif\!ia\ Id in tl .s<-m1 Qhal <>f th<- An traltan iawn b-tiri Ogti cnampi"n^ii:p today. Th< incident ocrurrcd before tfx* Mid i :f th'i \'.h. d .1 ipe lor
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    SHB TO AUCTION UNCLAIMED GOODS
    382 12 SHB TO AUCTION UNCLAIMED GOODS At Big Loss (Sunday Tribune Staff Reporter) Singapore Harbour Boord proposes to auction 90,003 packages of good's lying unclaimed in t heir godowns for several months past —at a dip loss, r o A drafi Bill authorising the sale h&s been submitted t') Gtovernmeni for
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    103 12 FRENCH START OFFENSIVE ON HANOI Paris. Jan. 25.— A French PreS; agency dispatch from Hanoi said that French forces had opened the first full-scale attack against that section of the city held by Vktnam since the uprising started on December 19. The objective was to free the railway running through
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    61 12 CANBERRA. Jan. 25. --The Common wealth Government hai; agreed to allow the Commonwealth Ban.v of Australia to grant p 4 credit amounting to £7,500.000 to the Dutch Government. Repayment is to be made In three years. One of the conditions of the agreement that the credit
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    40 12 LONDON. Jan. 25.— English is to j remain the working language of the Parliament of Eire because quote words of Prime Minister De Valera, there are not sufficient members in the dail with knowledge of Irish.
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    212 12 LITTLE AMERICA, Jan. 25.— The ships of Admiral Byrd's Antarctic task force fled to the open sea to-nigiit. stranding 75 men ashore, atttr a giant iceberg 200 meters long and 30 meters high scored a perfect bull'seye on the entrance to the fleet's tiny
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    Convict Confesses To Murder After Man Is Condemned
    223 12 LONDON, Jan. 25. Urgent telephone conversations between London and Mancn^ster were held to-day about an alleged confession to the murder of Olive Balchin on a bombed site in Manchester last October by a man who is the "double" of Walter Graham Rowland,
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    173 12 PINE EXPERT HERE TO AID INDUSTRY 'Our Oini Reporter* Ipoh. Sat. Tiie Malayan pineapple industry is to be given a iijiip. Tills has been made possible through in .securing of th? services of Mr. E. C. Courtenay, an expert already In the country who Will devote his energies to promoting
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    91 12 SYDNEY, Jan. 25.— The slow bowling of George Tribe, Australian Test plyer, and splendid wic ket keeping by G. Baker combined, dismissed New South Wales foi 329 in reply to Victoria's total of 356 when the Sheffield shield match continued today. Vlctoiia scored 33 for 0
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    69 12 Detroit, Jan. 25.-Tami Mauri .ilo, ranking heavyweight boxing contender from New York. >wi\ng pile-driving body blows t> score a technical knockout over John Thomas of Fart Lauderdale. Florida, in the second round of their scheduled ten-round light last night. After th- fight Mauriello, who has
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    71 12 WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Charging that the Russians were constructing a secret atomic bomb plant gomeWhere In Siberia, Senator Srian Momahoi) said that only the quick development of an international control system can head off atomic v/ar. The retiring chairman of the „r.int congressiorj »or.imittee on tomic energy told
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    421 12 NOTTS FOREST ELIMINATE MANCHESTERU. F.A. Cup Soccer London, Jan. 25.— The honours in the tourth round of the English Football' Association Cup went to n Second Division cluD. Nottingham Forest, who knocked out the second favourites, Manchester United, at Manchester. Forest, quoted at 300-1 to win the Cup t>y leading
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    405 12 IPOH, Sat. In brilliant sunshine an going, D. R. B. (Spencer) equalled the Mai I up pre-war by Eelgrass for six furlongs wh< yon the biu race to-day in 1 mmute 12 3 5 sec. Zar^un set I hot pace but D. R. B.
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    23 12 Total pool |297 f ll I it. *****5 j 2nd 208h03, 3rd. *****9. Starters:' *****2, *****9, *****0. 121»5?<» f ?133!t 1
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    48 12 SHANGHAI, 14 It was reported toda? :a Shu H.-iung puppet Minister of Int'iirinatiun aiu Becretarj Oeneral t<i the Shangha ettjf I '-.it luring the Japanese occupation, ha been »nt*need to life, imprisonment A veteran newspaperman, Chao als,, one <'f the besi known drama critics.- U.P.
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