Sunday Tribune (Singapore), 16 February 1947

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  • 37 1 B y THE PEOPLE FO/^ THE PEOPLE THE ONLY NATIONAL NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA The Sunday Tribune Now printed simultaneously m iw, SlII a P»r«\ Koala i-umpur. Ipoh ft TWELVE PAGI S SINGAPORE, FEBR< ARYI6, 15>47 II CENTS
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  • 536 1 Agreement lt< ;«< In <l On II Poim* Arliiirulif»ii ISo^irtl To 11^ Sel Up ,ULU Labourers Return To Work Tomorrow Mr. Lee Kong Chian's Successful Mediation (Sunday Tribune Staff Reporter) The 25-day -old AAumcipal labourers' sinke was called off at 4.30 p.m. yesterday. Seven thousand Labourers,
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  • 184 1 MANCHESTER. Feb. 15. The MX MUlWcr, Mr. Clement Aitlee. told a worker-' meeting l.civ todjy that "despite the v- prubi. nis we have to jvercom- We shall bring the economic and -ocial life of this I.)J itrv to a new level of prosperity. 1 Listing
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  • 45 1 "f^SXW" I 5 H ■j"S Wbeanen have atufjhe Egyptian :,h,p "Star Gulf »nH a 7 f)unf! m thr Persiftn banrfn, d i° reed thc crew to Jjjoon the vpsspl to save their accord^ t 0 radio mess- rerevefl ta London today Reuter
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  • 23 1 £1 ,250 MILLIO N TALKS END B *in rtfM" balances ln ftddl'l** t*gan on Feb. 3. (aCV^r An official «nent is expected Reuter
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  • 69 1 GOVT. TROOPS TAKE LINYI NANKING. Peb 15 A Nat onal Define" 4 Minir.try spokesman announced tha* the NaMnnMiists captured Linyi, the communist capital of Shantung Province at 10 a.m. today, thus achieving *l*e primary objective of tho offensive which begun on January 27. The spokesman said, thus munigtfl were retreating
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  • 45 1 LONDON Fcb IS Detectives are working on the theft of 8.000 clothing coupi n books of the 1047-48 issue from Bermondsey Printing vv-rks. They ar wort at least £***** at the blark market rate of two shillings each coupon when become valid
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  • 35 1 EX-MAYO R MURDERED ■^h U F eb. 15. Vor of T,» Shahln fvrwr Mathe door f was murdered at last nShthv hls home m Jaffa wS ann y an unkno^n Arab, announced today Reu ter
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  • 31 1 LAHORE. Frb 15— The Punic b Government has banned the Moslem League newspaper Dawn from the Punjab for a farther period of 15 days, it is reported today. Reuter
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  • 189 1 l v 'Sunday Tribune Correspondent) Elephants which killed a Chinese woman and her two children eight miles from Kuala Lumpur are believed <jy villagers to have tinmpled them to death as a delibi rule act ol revenge. Th *oman s husband, villagers state,
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  • 76 1 LONDON. Peb 15. -It was reported today that Scotland Yard i.^ now confident of the early solution to the Winds- >r jewel robb ry. und that Ircsh developments are expected to lead to the acre^t of at least three men It is believed that the
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  • 58 1 MOVE TO AVERT PERAK STRIKE Government hiu asked the Perak River Hydro-Electric i Power Company Employees' Union whether they would agree to the setting up of an arbitration board to consider their demands, our Ipoh reporter telepnoned last night. The em- ployees had threatened to go on strike tomorrow. Government
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  • 53 1 Jacksonville. (Florida), :F b. 15. -A north -oound "Orange Blossom Special" luxury express from Miami to New YorK I on the seaboard railway was de- railed tfecause of a broken rail, I 22 miles south of Jacksonville on Friday night. Fifty-five passengers, mostly vacationists I
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  • 83 1 HERFORD. Feb. 15 A depu- tation of railway workers from the Ruhr industrial district told the British Military Government officers at a special conference at Dusseldorf today that unless '•really energetic steps" were taken at once, the terrible con- dltions undir which they were living would induce
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  • 57 1 HAMBURG. Feb. 15.—Hamburg's medical authorities are fighting a sudden climb m the pneumonia death-rate as scores of hungry ill- dad Germans are carried daily Into the city's hospitals. People are daily tound dead In their unheated homes One mother found two of her five
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  • 24 1 MADRID, Feb. 15 Small bombs exploded m the Argen* tine embassy here yesterday. First reports said there were no casualties. U.P.
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  • 32 1 BRITISH QUIT 'ALEX ALEXANDRIA. Feb 15.-— The British evacuation of Alexandra, second largest town m Egypt, was completed today when the Egyptian flag was formally hoisted over Kom El Dkk fort.- Reuter
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  • 24 1 DENVER. Feb. 14. -Two fliers were killed rben a C-46 cargo niane crashed while landing at the municipal airfield today.— U.P.
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  • 46 1 HOUR'S FLIGHT TO SOUTH POLE ABOARD THE OLYMPUS, Feb. 15. Long-range photographic planes from Little American soared to within one hour's flight of the South Pole. Fragmentary initial reports told of flying over trie Leverett Glacier and Horlick mountains —only 250 miles from the pole. U.P.
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  • 32 1 NANKING. Feb. 15. The Minister of Finance Dr. O. X Yu reported to the Legislative Yuan today the Government will announce a concrete programme for stabilising China's economy tomorrow. Reuter
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  • 41 1 BATAVIA. F<b 15- Dr I R I Soekarno. President of the Indonesian Republic, has appointed 232 new members to the Repub- lican preliminary parliament I They will t>? sworn-in at Ma- lang. Java, on Feb. 26
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  • 43 1 MANILA. FVb. 15.-- Nine Fliis pino civilian employees of the U.S. Army vere killed and eight i were injured m two explosions i at thf« Bauan Ammunition Dump i m the Batangas Province, trie Morning Times reports today.— U.P.
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  • 59 1 STOP PRESS CREW ATTACKED The Admiralty received the lollowine message from the "British Dcotiny": "'The Star ot Mcx has been abandoned to sav< the lives ol the crew. It is impossible to hold on any longer. Natives try to kill the crew, and over 500 are on board with daggers
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  • 454 1 LONDON. Feb 15.— Miners, Kailw a y m c n and dockers airoughout Britain volunteered by thousands today to work full Sunday shifts to build up coal reserves at pow. r plants and gas works m the midst of the twentieth century's worst
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  • 145 1 Twenty-four hours after >n on back-pay, the Singapore Gu rnmem last night officially announced thai with the approval of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, 11 ha.s decided to ap a Joint Commission to review th pr em salaries m the Government
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  • 301 2 HALF-MILLION DOLLAR LOSS IN TWO MONTHS (Sunday Iribune Stad' Reporter) A Loss estimated at more than half a millivjn dollars been suffered by local Chinese importers of foodstuffs from China during Uie vast two months throu^'. ■.-•< on board aha 1 >• »ng In the
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  • 80 2 Smallpox Still Here Smallpox continues m Singapoce rind for the week ending F^b. 8 there were five eases and two death-, against 10 case* and fiv<* fatalities tile week previous. Tnerc were 64 victim- and 37 one of which proved fatal, and foi the first time one
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  • 180 2 (Sunday Tribune Staff Reporter) Ten Chinese vessels wci'c Intercepted and detained by the Dutch authorities m Jrva du/nv; the month of January. Sine, then about half the number ha,, been released, but the cargo of all these ships has been impounded pending legal
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  • 196 2 Mr. Ivor Thomas Meets S'pore Trade Unionists Representatives of Singapore's registered Trade Unions were the quests ot HE. the Governor at Govcri'wjL'nt House yesterday to meet Mr. Ivor Thomas. Undersecretary of State for the Colonies. In welomin" them His Excellency said that Government wer-: grateful to them for the responsibilities
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  • 140 2 Following strained relations between the Malay and Chinese m Upper Perak, leaders of both communities "boi rowed" the loudspeakers of the Public Relations mobile cinema van to appeal to the public to live m harmony. Since then no further breaches have been reported from the
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  • 144 2 (From Our Own Reporter) Ipoh, Feb. 15.— Mr T. V. A. Brodk Crown Counsel, Perak, has 1 been appointed Puisne Judge of the Ea*t Coa-t, Malaya. He will i be succeeded m Ipoh by M» M. Neal, District Judge Kuala Lumpur. 1 Mr. Brodie, who
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  • 147 2 STREET-GIRLS TAKE TO PADI CULTIVATION (Tribune correspondent) Tlie campaign launched by the J Penang Malay Association to fight the social evil m this Island, has met with success. Pamphlets pointing out the shamefulness of such practice, which is against the Mohamedan religion, have been distributed, while personal contacts with the
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  • 135 2 The ilrs t anniversary meeting of the Pan-Malayan Federation oi Trade Unions was held at the union* -Singapore headquarters m Short Street y *terday. on the occasion, Mr. Chens Lu. General Secretary of the PMFTU, said that the trade uii'.tn movement m Malaya was placed under
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  • 87 2 MALACCA. Th c GovernorGeneral and Mrs. Malcolm tfacDonald who arrived m Malacca on Wedn ."-diy evening rere thr guest of honour at a rllnner held at the Malacca Hlga School. Earlier m the evening Mr. and Mrs. Mac Donald were KUes'a at V^i at the r-sid
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  • 242 2 'Sunday Tribune Reporter) Thij various Food Parcel Agence« l^ul have >prung up m Singapore report a brisk and profitable tiade which i* enabling parcels containing such needy items cheese, dripping, tinned meat and *oup to be Bent to homes m U.K., Fiance, Holland, Germany and
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  • 128 2 Nuremberg, Feb. 14. Evidemv wa., concluded m the denazification trial of Franz von Papon today and the Pr.sident of the court. Camille Sachs, announced that the verdict would be pronounced next Friday. The court; meets on Tuesday for the final pleas. \n affidavit from Constantin von
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  • 376 2 Ipoh, Sat.-— Mining interests are dissatisfied with the representation of the industry on the legislative and 1: ecutive councils of the proposed Federation A looluUon to this effect was unanimously pa^ed at today's exiraoidinary general meeting of the F.M.S. Chamber of Mine, held m Ipoh
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  • 60 2 MALACCA.— Fire which started m the engine room of a motor tongkan^ m Malacca harbour I scon spread to th > whole -hip i am completely destroyed goods I valued at $20 000. The firo en- g.lnr 1 which arrived on th wharf- side could do little,
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  • 188 2 SHB Has $500,000 Building Scheme (Sunday Tribmu- Sta/1 Reporter) A hall-million-doilar building scheme to up for housing lost by bombing hay b<^n app by the. Singapore Harbour Board. Theschem 1 by His Excellency the Goyernar. .l»00 of 3.i>00 unhou be built at Blair Plain and Breez< the plots ated by
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    • 377 2 Malaya 1 ribune Ktu Telephone Numbers '^811 KUitorial Ih partment $812 Adve/tisin« Department sKi:'» Editor a) 814 Managing Editor 5815 Accounts and Circulation Departments. NOTICE. KBONG THI PALMIST W Sties to inform his old r».nd new clients that he will resume business on 19th. r A, at 194. Joo Chiat
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    • 275 2 OUR LADY OF LOl RDES A procession will be held at the Church of Our Lady of Lourde-, Ophii Road, at 5 this evening, m celebration ot the patronal lea-t ot the Parish. The procession will follow the Vesper- Service, and then there will be Benediction. TRISHAW SMASHED A trishaw
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    • 89 2 tiere's what you want tor r*-Chfafc STOMACH |§§5 UPSETS BJI A starz'ation diet won't help when scratch mcalu and «J nervous strain have upset *^s^ yovir digestion. But Dc Witt's Anud4 Powder is often all you need after meals to relieve upset stomach. It neutralises c* cess stomach acidity so
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  • 547 3 J.C.S.S. Minimum Proposals Unacceptable To Govt. Commercial Firms Consulted The final minimum pi the J on back-pay are unacceptable to Gover ,it *as stated m a letu-r sent to the President of the Association by the Col retary, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, following Goy«rn id< cision to ocuie th<
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  • 189 3 TROOPS WILL REMAIN IN MALAYA LO£T>GN. F b. 14. dome Bri tish lore b art,- to be retained l r the present' m India and Burma, d< dared n British Oov ernmi defence statement i sued todaj announcing that armed services expenditure will be cut by n arly hall m
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  • 154 3 GBS ON HOW TO SOLVE FUEL PROBLEM LONDON, Feb. 14— George Bernard Shaw took notice of Britain's fuel crisis today and m a letter to the 'I.mes offered a solution the harnessing of tides In the Kyle of Tongue at the northern tip of Scotland. Shaw said that he suggested
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  • 50 3 LONDON, Feb.. 15.—Preliminary drafts of the proposed Anglo-French treaty were exchanged between the British and French representatives at the Foreign Office yesterday when the French Ambassador, M. Rene Massigli, handed the French draft to the permanent Under-Socretary, Sir Orme Sergeant, and received the British draft m return. U.P.
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  • 221 3 TEACHERS REJECT OFFER: GIVE ULTIMATUM 'Sunday Tribune Reporter) The Singapore Teachers' Union has rejected the new rate for bn^k-pay r«rr ved at by the Government. "I here is nothing new and it is only a restatement, even m a. worse form, of an old offer," ga|d the Secretary of the
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  • 246 3 (Sunday Tri!>U!.» btaii importer) The mystery surrounding the nine Austin cars un the Empire Mayrover, which wa > intercepted by a Dutch warship off Chenbnn and detained at Tandjong Priok a month ago. has been lifted by a communication sent to the Chinese Consul General,
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  • 70 3 ..COLOMBO:— A group of 25 Ceylon students, all ex-cadets, have volunteered for service m Vie'nam against the French and I are leav'ng for Rangoon immediately to join the Indo-Bur-mese Student Volunteer Force which will be assembling there shortly. Secrecy shrouds the departure of this
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  • 257 3 NURSES SAY: WE'VE BEEN SOLD Gov/. Servants Meeting Off (Siiiiday Tribune StnfT Reporter) Charges that officials of the J.C.S.A.— or^an of Singapore's government seryan ts—hajd not "sufficient guts' were made by members of the Association who turned up yesterday afternoon for a mass protest meetincr only to find that the
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  • 85 3 Australia May Send Wool To Japan CANBERRA. Feb. 14. Mr. Chif ky. the Premier, said today tha^ the ix-umption of Australiar wool exports to Japan was still unde; di-cussion with General Mac Arthur. but no agreement had yet been reached. While Gen. MacAi \.hur con sid-.red it necessary to reduce
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  • 59 3 LONDON. Feb. 14.— After more tnan two years' sorvice with the British Pacific Fleet, the 5.450--ton cruiser HMS Eu r yalus will arrive at Spit head from the Fa r Esui tomorrow. m addition to her crew she has on board nearly 100 S< i vicr passengers,
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  • 197 3 Strike Imminent At Perak Hydro Power Co. (From Cur Ov.ii Reporter) IPOH, Feb. 15.— A lengthy i meeting hold yesterday between j --epivsenta lives of the Fctftjc River Hydro-Electric Power Company and the Perak Hydro Employees Dalon failed to reach a settlemerit m the present wage dispute i and the
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  • 35 3 Mr. Lee Siow Mong, S.S.C.S., has been appointed to the post of Registrar of Companies, Singapore. A Rafltes Collecre graduate, Mr. Lee becomes the first A-iatic holder of this appointment.
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  • 2414 4  -  VERA ARDMORE asdfAFA Here I ;i pit I Havr rk- m vai In md lii] ne J I 15 .r I 'i m m j Sunday Night Concert The Royal Lincolnshire Band uiil pla> tonight weather permitting m the Palm Court it Riffle- HoteL In
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    • 135 4 "TRADE WINDS" Machineless Waving ra (Malaya and Burma) Stamford Road, Singapore OS ii»iti\ FLOW 1 PETAL powder if/r /nc/.i^ four shades Dark //i (i<^ c g and Cream, Light t >". f and Cream, suitable iJtiJX''*^*' r :)S(> Tan :ins. Pink ChamTHE FULL RANGE 0/ HELENA RUBINSTEIN'S Worl6 "WWW C<'sy
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    • 17 4 •••i its fUH WITH jy^'JK \rtjtffffyi LL^T^^ sminG'A^'vv CAN OPENER PARAMOUNT TKAOI I 95, CROSS STREET, SINGAPORE
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  • 17 5 Our Young Malayans— 2o PatTicui tarn aged four yean, daughter of Mr. avd Mrs Fam Choo Beny.
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  • 354 5 People In The News Mr Claude M wii enfc naln H E. 6 r Franklin Itod i> Arat ii Clarice. Air Marshal Sir George and Lady Pir Rear Admiral and Mrs. J Eg rtf-n. Major General and L. H. Cox and Mrs Le Hard t ci aner at their re>idenpf
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  • 1707 5 Vera Ar dmore.... A I The Eger ton's Rear-Admiral and Mrs. Jack rton gave most enjoyable dancf at truir home m 51 Grange- Road on Friday evening Surprise guest waa Lady ArdenClarke. wife of Sir Cliarles Ard n-Clarke. Governor of Sarawak Lady Arden-Clarke Hew to Singapore on Thursday and bi
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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    • 163 5 MODERN SAFE PAX TABLETS PAX JELLY Now available at: All First Class Dispensaries Throughout Malaya PAX Fast Box 635, Singapore. HAIRDRESSERS Latest styles m setting: Permanent waving "MARJORIE ANN Manicure by Anna 242. Heeren Bldg., Orchard Rd Direct importers of all kinds of Chinese Hand-made Fancy Goods I 10, Battery
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    • 231 5 FU SIANG CO. 10, Battery Road, A Singapo New stock Of m arrived. Ladies Afternoon dn from $49--$7 O. Ladies Evening ri from $95~5119. X:. Cut. Pay us a vsit and bo con Tim d Corresponded Exchange Club. JOIN NOW the most Ideal club for collectors «fc Hobbyists. Loirn to
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  • 462 6 The Sunday Tribune FEBRUARY, 16, 1947. They Never Forget The legend that elephants, like women, never forget 'nay sain a considerable additjon from the Kuala Lumpur story of the elephant which not only didn't forget, but which brought two other elephants along with him to help him remember. Unfortunately it
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  • 227 6 Educationl Reforms In Japan Two major reforms will be introduced into the Japanese school system when the new term starts on April I— the adoption of three years additional compulsory education for every Japanese child, and reading and writing of the Japanese language m Roman characters. Under an additional three
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  • 1068 6  - MR. THOMAS AND THE CONSTITUTION Sagittarius -by In his broadcast to a conautution conscious Maiaya Mr. Ivor Thomas. Undersecretary of Stale for the Colonies, did noi exa*!ii\ flatter Malayan intelligence, and he was little- if any more flattering wh^n he me* ihe pi ess. Of course Mr Tnomas does not
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  • 935 6 THE ADVENTURES OF 0.8. H. It is my intention to expose the oerfldious methods of my friend Blenkinsoa so that you may know him for what he is When he was Block Fatigue officer he came to me one day and "I believe you're
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  • 764 6 Bomb er Harris Tells His Story History is still considering it. verdict on "Bomber" Harri, and the city-gutting strategy of which he was, though not the author, the enthusiastic agent The personal testimony of the most material witness may has ten the verdict. Indeed, the public might be more surpri-ed
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    • 4 6 TIGER CUB Gathering Strength
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  • 352 7 LONG-SERVICE SINGAPORE INTERPRETER TO RETIRE (Sund ly Tnbu porter) The oldest Indian interpreter is due to retire from the MPCfttt tfcurt after having spn.^d m the courts at tiahtfta. Pci re for 31 years. Ht feteHi COOTt i rimen' n 1916.
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  • 98 7 LONDON 'ncrea ed don Hokßi t four wei k I 1947, during which I n has reach* d £L3(UrOO m CGO.OOO or 'hi* boing yc^ountc f for by fur in*j jtv. I Laat nontl ue or artidesstolen fnm unattended c jiunpc'd to £10.000. T?.-
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  • 115 7 LONDON. F i A [iced goi: snot that hit i 36-: 'd woman head h i LO5 and c^urt cost Miis Eileen ORourke, of Lowtr Pitzwiliiam DubliD., had claimed E She ail g d -ph Taylor, a I Dublin, play.ng behind her n the Malahide course,
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  • 349 7 Engaged 25 Times, Now In Prison Cell ROME, Feb. 15. -Engaged 25 times, but never married— that is the record of a tall, handsome, dark-haired 11 *Uan, aged 30. who made love a business and is now In a prison cell alter a police hunt which has lasted almost two
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  • Article, Illustration
    75 7 Telephoto. SHANGHAI'S SIAMESE TWINS.— T he s c slx-momns-oia Siamese twin* were brought to a Shanghai hospital for medical treatment recently. Parents of thc two refused to identity themselves and permitted photos to be made only on the provision that the infants were not stripped. They are linked together at
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  • 472 7 Britain s2Mr. Mopps Say... Jmmm, J. 1*W LONDON. Feb. 15.— First hard fact learned by Britain's two Mr. Mopps, Don Vango and his brother-in-law, Cyril Hayes, who started a masculine charring service a fortnight ago, is that women waste an awful
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  • 106 7 LONDON. Feb. 18.— The last of the American Expeditionary Force. 14 military police— known to Londoners as "Snowdrops." because of their whit>? helmetsleft London on their way home. With the party wa s one extra man the "Snowdrops' last capture m Britain, a deserter picked up the
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  • 310 7 LONDON, Feb. 15. Miss Jose Fearon, whose soprano voice, broadcasting from London m "Music Hall,' exploded a glass tumbler on an Oxfordshire table 40 miles away, is searching through legal tomes to discover her responsibility (if any) for such damage. She had just read
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  • 546 7 GANGSTER KING AL CAPONE DIED A 'POORMAN' HE STILL OWED GOVT. MONEY MEW YORK, Feb. 15.-- Al Capone, once a multimillionaire racketeer, died, a ccording to his Lawyer, a 'poor man." What is the mystery of his vanished wealth? Cap&ne\s Lawyer, Abraham Tcitelbaum, said: "So far as I know Al
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  • 205 7 Grand Rapids, Michi- (jan, Feb. 15.— A boy tvho) was driven to crime be- > caM.se he "looked like an i ape" is ready to face life 1 S anew following a plastic surgery operation here. l He is 16-year-old David I Rvnc, who
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    • 118 8 Accuracy of English public, school scenes m "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" which comes to ihe Pavilion on Tuesday with Robert Donat m the starring role, was insured through the co-operation of H. G. Miphael Clarke, Headmaster of Repton School, famed English institution of learning, where many school
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    • 644 8 Britain Designs Latest Camera advanced cam< ra ver to be designed is now .ii m. disposal of the British film industry. It is x Vinten (4 Ever< made by Brit craftsmen In London. The first mode] is being used a1 >w Studios on the British film ••When You Conn Horn
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    • 607 8  -  DAVE DOUGLAS By When Alexander Granach arrived m Hollywood fiom European shores, his square-cut visage, moustachios, and broad-shouldered stocky build were immediately directed to the impersonation of the villainous members of Hitler's secret police. To this task, the actor, who had quit Central Europe
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    • 108 8 HOLLYWOOD. P« more thau v monJt Eddit Cantor ha- oeen studying dancing under the tutorship of Charlie O'Cunan. danc director, for "If You Knew Susie," which Candor will pioducc and >Lar m with Joan Davi- for RKO Radio. During more than 35 years In
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    • 80 8 Fla.^hinu teeth are not unknown m Hollywood, but when they ar^ of such brilliance that they spoil a scene, that's something else again. Virginia Huston had to have the lustre of her unusually white teeth toned down a bit for an outdoor seme m 'Build My
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    • 78 8 IN-OUT- IN Shirley Temple's song and dance sequence m the RKO Radio romantic comedy, "Honeymoon." once tagged lor deletion from the picture because it was over footiige. is now back m the i final cut. Tuneful sequence and another m which Shirley sings. but does not dance, were origin- ally
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    • Article, Illustration
      37 8 Cute 'N Cosy Marie Mac Donald is one of the new Hollywood crop. Possessing the perfect figure, she is known as "The Body". Marie appears m the RKOInternational picture "It's a Pleasure", due shortly at the Capitol.
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    • 166 8 A souvenir of the world's first atomic bomb blast caused Sonny Tufts some embarrassing minutes and resulted m the loss of much valuable film for Universal. it started when Tufts, working m Mark HeUinger's "Swell Guy* along- with Ann Blyth was pre>.nttd with a fused
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    • Article, Illustration
      176 8 Combining an amazing emottmal talent with her wellknown beauty and charm, L )rctta Youna proves an intensely fine dramatic star m "The Stranger," an International Picture, m which she shares stellar honours with Edward G. Rooaison and Orson Welles. The thrill-packed story of a lovir t g and
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    • 265 8 HOLLYWOOD. Bobby Driscoll and Luana Pattern, according to film prophets, are destined to become as famous around the world as Snow White And for pretty much the same reason, too— their appearance m a Walt Disney picture. But whereas Snow White is a drawing
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    • 154 8 HOLLYWOOD, "rving Alkn. producer and director at Monogram Studios, relat I thin story ol i harrowing experience m Switzerland dur.ng the tilming of background scene* ior the picture "High Conquest" on the Alpine height^ ol the Matt rhorn: A camera crew headed t>y Alien was
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    • 208 8 WHAT'S ON, AND WHERE i s CA THA V Now Showing: THE OVERLANDERS, with' Chips Rai- ferty and Daphne Campbell- Feb. 17-20: UNION PACIFIC, with Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea Feb. 21: IHE BLUE DALHIA, with Alan Ladd Veronica S Lake and William Bendix. ALHAMBRA SPELLBOUND, with Ingrid Bergman and
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  • 1740 9  - RECREATION between FIGHTS Joe Louis <My Life Story' by g Max Scnmeling, it looked like 1 would about a five or six months layoff before my been fightad keeping In for long periods the past couple <>i years .And I needed a vapiess lots of folks wonIghter does between fights.
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    • 195 9 Heat ohen makes you slack and irritable, and with littlr appetiic. Take. a* sparkling refreshing !Jjil*? s Eno's "Fruit S:«it*" cr y mornurg and ar> 4^Jrarst qucßcV? during *JWcf*y. lE4IO \viil r £rfUie y<*ur syikee'p;^|u energetic m spite of the heat, y^ Known and used throughout the world for over
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  • 636 10  - You ng Victorian' s Good Knock Against M. C.C. Norman Preston (From Melbourne, Feb. 15.— Thanks mainly to some audacious hitting by the tailenders, particularly, Godfrey Evans, the MCC made 355 m their first innings against Victoria on the second day of the four-day return match here today. The tourists
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  • 70 10 Paris. Fob. 14.— The French IVLnibtrv rj Overseas Territories today denied Vietnam Radio reDOrts alleging that French troops hud suffered heavy rever.-es m tin fUhtine: between French and Vietnam forces at Hanoi and Hamhonz m uorthern lndoChina. The French statement said that on the contrary, French forces
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  • 175 10 MCC Ist. INNINGS Washbrook b Tribe 22 Fishbrook c Hassett b Freer 51 Gibb c Johnson b Miller 17 Compton c and b Miller 93 Hardstaff c Tribe b Freer Ikin b Tribe 71 Yardley b Miller 13 Evans not out 41 Bedser c Harvey b Tribe 3
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  • 46 10 JERUSALEM, Feb. 15.— Helen Friedman yesterday talked with her brother, David Dov Gruner for 20 minutes. They talked about bygone years and neither mentioned Dov Gruner's present position. Mis. Friedman said that her cilorts will now be centred outside the prison. U.P.
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  • 525 10 Tlie total of business wi itten during the week exceeded that of any week this year ana was on a par with the best m 1946. In Indusr.'i;! shares turnover was satisfactory with price movements irregular and there was little if any tendency
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  • 193 10 (Sunday Tribune Market Correspondent). The mamet has been exceedingly dull and uninteresting throughout the week with prices remaining almost stagnant, and iniy moderate business has been transacted. Fortunately, a quantity of lower grade rubber. (which has been a drag on the markei has been taken up by
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  • 49 10 Tho S'.C.C.R.A's rubber prices at noon yesterday were: Buyers. Sellers, cts. per cts. per lb 1b N-). 1 R.S 8. Spot. loose 41 1 421 No 1 R.fcJS f.o.b. m bale. Murch 43 i 431 No. 2 42? 422 No. 3 4U 42 Tone of market: Steady
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 224 10 THE HALL FOR QUALITY BOUND PROJECTION. ■>i»^* til 11—2 1.15 C3i t.ll v WEJjLUmUUmJm/^ Movie Vuu li KememiK-r! What Secret Dread Clouded This Man's rLife Blighted His Love? IHEV CALLED HIM Ml kIDERER WAS HE? HE DlDtf'T KNOW HIMSELF! This is the Strangest Story thai ever held you. si»i;i jjioi
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  • 634 11  -  Linesman Sunda > Si«>«*«*or Parade By Navy Meet Police In First Match Tln» cv. tain rises on the Singapore football JLeagu on Tuesday when tii- Navy wiiJ meet the Police at Jilaii Besal* Stadium. The League is confined to the first divisioji ihiy year
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  • 100 11 TO-DAY'S SPORTS SCK.CER CnOfA vs. EFI transit Depot Hq.. m aid of Catholic Charities. I al Julan Besar. Singapore Jolliiad- w%. Malacca Indian-, at Malacca. Navai Ba-e Asian Sports Club vs. Johoiv Rangers, at sth mile. Jalan Scudai, Johon Cavendish Youngster- y. RLME. i| REME giound. CRICKET. ColoniaK vs. AlrMinistry,
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  • 100 11 NEW YORK. Feb 15.— Dan i Ferris, Secretary of the Amateur Athletic Uni-jn. -nid that speak- ing as a private individual he i.iVGured the inclusion of Germany an<| Japan m the 1948 j Olympic sanies m London. "I have talked with a numb, r
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  • 63 11 SYDNEY. Feb. 15. New Sout.i Wales c^lapsed on a rain darned vieket and was dismiss d for 145 by South Australia m th Sheflu-ld Sh.eld Match today i. juth Australia replied with 47 for three. Nineteen-year-old left-hande" Ron Kissell. making his Shield d.but. wa> New South Wales' highest
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  • 447 11 (Sunday Tribune Boxing Reporter) The Singapore Boxjigr Board of Control will do all it cjjii to encourage and assist further enterprise to take local teams overseas as has tirCady r:i.:n done, and this year the Board hopes to organise championship titles
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  • 76 11 At the general meeting of the bea-Horse Badminton Party held at th e residence of Mr. Chionh Kali Kiat, No. 209 Marine Parade, Singapore, the following were ,ucu>d office bearers for th e year 19-*9. Fre^idmt Mr.Chionh Kan Kiai. Vice -President: Mr. Simon Tuy. Hon. Secretary: Mr. Chia
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  • 398 11 The lineup of the League teams are: POLICE Webber, Sundram, Rajaretnam, Dollah. Siang Hoon, Kfruthu, Tahir, Sanderson, Karim, Ngon, Sheam Kirn Siang, Niaz, Constable A. Rahman, Haroon, Monteiro, Marphuz, Kasman, Haji Rahman, Mohammed and Simon. INDIAN ASSN. O. M. Angullia, Sithambaram, Chelliah, Kartar Singh, S. R.
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  • 242 11 Malays Win Stadium Football 3-2 m an evenly contested g^me of soccer, the Malays defeated Headquarters, S.E.A.L.F. by the odd goal m five when they met at Jalan Besar Stadium, yesterday. «The characteristic shortpassing movements of the Malays wer? well executed, but their finishing was poor The soldiers started off
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  • 71 11 South Hockey Team vs North The Following hay bee i selected to repri sent. South against N< rth In the annual hotkey classic at Kuala Lumpur on March 1: Aii bm Yatim (Ncgri): R. Barth (Spore, captain). Kumarasamy (Negri); R. William(C'puret. G Clarke tS'pore). Mydin (Malacca); Ross <S'porei. Sneikh Hussein
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  • 161 11 At the annual pen^rnl tipping of the Government Printing Dcpt. Sports Club, held on Wednesday last, it was decided to re-open the Club. Active Superintendent, Mr. V C Gatrell, Acting Deputy Su--1 per 'ntendent, Mr F R Vine and the Senior Staff of the Goi vernment
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  • 28 11 Tnc annual general meeting oi the Chinese Association will be li> Id on Saturday, Feb. 22, at 4.30 p.m. at the Clubhouse, 1230, Serangoon Road.
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  • 30 11 j A general meeting of the Anglo-Chintse School Old Boys' j Association will be held tomorrow at 5.15 p.m. at the school nail m coioman street.
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  • 594 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat.—Jockey Wahab, after being thrown eff by Prunella m the first race, rede two Winners later m the day at today* Selangor races Tin Pocket surprised m the third rac? to pay $51. Otherwise, dividends were generally peer, favourites
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    • 53 11 r*r This Week's S S League Soccer S Fixtures m the Singa- S pore Football League this t week are as follows: J Tuesday: Navy v. Police, > 5.15 p.m. i Thursday: R.A.F. v. 1 S.C.C. 5.15 p.m. i Saturday: Army v.j M.F.A., 5 p.m. S I All games at
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  • 145 12 A Captain's Eye-Fool LONDON. Feb. 15. i Mr. Wilfred Paling, Pen- sions Minister, whose de- partment has recently been appealed to for bet- ter consideration of ex- service pensioners' claims, has told the story of the startling use to which a young Army captain put an artificial eye issued to
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  • 24 12 LONDON Feb. 1! The Duke of Gl( ucester today received Mr. Asuf Ah Indian Ambissador-Dcsiun-'tr to the United States. Reuter
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  • 551 12 MALAY AN RICE SHIPMENTS FALL BEHIND SCHEDULE 12,000 Tons Only In First Six Weeks (Sunday Tribune Food Reporter) In the first six weeks of the year Ir.ss than 12,000 ions of rice have been shipped to Singapore and Malaya from Siym and Burma. About 200,000 tons of tile 22 >,000-ton
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  • 134 12 World Facing Crisis, Says Gen. Marshall WASHINGTON. Feb. 14.— Alter vli-cussing 'must ot the world's trouble spots." the United States -ecrecajj of Stale, Gen. George C. Marshall told reporters on leaving the closed se.-ion of the Seii.itt Foreign Relations Commlttee today that he had rel^.^t'U "the world to m a
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  • 112 12 LONDON Fob. 15.— The wa"tlme v>:ov ot 34 year-' old Odette Sansom. G.C.. one of Britain's best wartime secret service agents berSThe a reality today when she married at Kensington, London. Register Office. Captain Peter Churchill, hr commanding officer whose life -he saved trim the
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  • 95 12 Nazi Sentenced For Killing Airman Frankfurt Feb. 15.— The Da cha i war crimes officials today renounced that trip former Rrow] I C')lr,ncl Wllli R'e>.e v.-ns sentenced t r > hang tor mini *mertcan flier m>ar Kasscl m July. 1°44. Rteke testlfl d that ho shot J cncc Into the
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  • 39 12 TOKTO, Feb. 15 —Vietnamese here today staged a demonstration m protest against the French, after which they presented a resolution to the Unit--1 ed Nations "through the good offices and influence of Gen. Mac Arthur U.P.
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  • 31 12 JERUSALEM, Feb 15. Two armed and marked Jewish youths raided a cafe and kidnapped a 1 20-year-old Jew near Tel Aviv last night, it was announced today. Reuter
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  • 78 12 Marine Shot In Peiping Peiping, Feb. 15. It was officially announced thai a United fetatos Marine enlisted man was shot and k.ilcd last night m Piiping. According to lirst unimcial reports the assailant wa> a Chines* who lir d a revolver as the marine was leaving a movie. The victim
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  • 44 12 MALACCA. For having two pice nrcis anil < ir: i w ni rations for six non-existent persons, an Indian matidore m a.i estate m Jasin was an d $120 when pr:)duced before Wing Commander Fowle. at the District Office. •I r
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  • 160 12 U.K. Won't Support Jinnah LONDON, Feb 15 There were indications today that the British Government had reached a decision concerning the deadlock m India, cables Harold Guard, United Press Staff Correspondent Political observers were Impressed by the fact that Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin, fresh from the Cabinet discussions was the
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  • 90 12 HAMBURG. Feb 15— Hamburg's criminal police discovered the headquarters of one of the biggest black market rings <n thr British zone m a raid l^st night on a Hamburg ho f el, which was said to be "stuffed with drugs worth millions of marks, jewellery, diamonds,
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  • 39 12 BERLIN, Feb. 15. IQie* coldest winter to hit Berlin m half a century has taken at least 149 lives "and more people are dying from freezing every day," German Public Health authorities reported today. U.P.
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  • 258 12 Gromyko Still Wants World Atomic Treaty LAKE SUCCESS, Feb. 15.— M. Gromyko announced to-day that he v/ill again .submit a Russian plan for an Internationa] atomic treaty to the United Nations Security Council, when that body reconvenes to-day. Gromykcs .stand Is, expected to touch off a new duel be twee.
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  • 237 12 W Yr Ti: feW Yol Com miss Robinson, world v. his lici n report a bribe offer. After three witnesses, including Robinson, had testified for urn and a halt hour-.. Commission Chairman Eddie Eagan adjourned the meeting until Monday. Rubiii>on > a Negro, considered
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  • 129 12 NEW YORK, Feb. 15.— Young Charky Fusari, explosive blonde milkmen from Irvington, New Jersey, established himself as the leading contender for the world welterweight title held by Sugar" Ray Robinson, by scoring a technical knockout over Teran Tippy Lai kin m tht; ninth round jtiore a
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  • 259 12 1 1 caw a,! ions U »NJ •< >N I h the announc n .ned of bound pr hi ;!< m the history ol >n. At n on 30 ol Bchedu] (l for England and s\ land v Because ol I -hall League rull :oree has
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