Sunday Tribune (Singapore), 25 May 1947

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    24 1 The Sunday Tribune prints simultaneously m Singapore lumpur, Ipoh Penang. Editorial ssn Advertising 5312 Circulation Accounts 5815 ■IWKI.VK SINGAPORK, MAY 25. 1947. TEN (IMS
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    'TORIES' ARE BLAMED FOR GARRETT'S RESIGNATION
    274 1 'TORIES' ARE BLAMED FOR GARRETT'S RESIGNATION Govt. Policy 'Sunday Tribune Reporter) Ton dichards m Singapore were accused of forcing the resignation of Mr. S. I*. Garrett, former Trade l T nion Adviser, Singapore at a meeting last night of respresentatives of 44,000 workers, held to honour Air. (iarreti. The representative
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    GUEST-HOUSE BANS INDIAN
    95 1 SYDNEY, May 24— An Indian vaudeville dancer has been refused a room at an Adelaide guest house bora use of his nationality. The Indian, Shiva ram. had to sleep m the f<4yer of the Majestic Theatre. Shivaram, a ycUng man performs traditional Indian dances MM Louis* Lightfoot.
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    PEER PREDICTS BLOODSHED
    75 1 HAMPSHIRE. May I>4.— l.rrd Belbomt speakin» at Petersfield la^tnißht Mid: "Ii England cPears out of India and Burma you arc point; to set? temm of the most terrible slaughter and toniago with million* of men, WOOM n and chi'.drrn killed Iji civil war nnd dyin^ oi hunger,
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    TURKISH ARMY TO BE STREAMLINED
    49 1 ISTANBIL May 24— More and better ait holds and increased motor isation of the army are among the main points m the vtrenjjtheninK of Turkey's d'-Vnrr whioh i» to be carried out with I'nited Stated help, the Istanbul newspaper Son Post a &aid today.
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    Malayan Tin Mines: Shut-down' Warning
    140 1 iruti, > warning that large > numbers of mines may have to be shut dov;n because of the unreasonable (demands" of labourers was given to[day by Mr. W. M. Warren presiding at s »he first annual g< neral meeting of the i Malayan Mining Employers'
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    4 REASONS WHY S'PORE IS DIRTY
    78 1 4 REASONS WHY S'PORE IS DIRTY f Sunday Tribin: Reporter) Cfcfofl of Singapore's Tour CtaSESatef Department, Mr. B. J. Dohorty, last nl^ht sa«i dial members of the department's labour Core* vvn|Mng "only <J0 p<r v**nt >f their worklnf effort at present. Mr. Dnh<*rty was fcivin* to Chinese community leaders reasons
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    KING'S BROTHERIN-LAW DIES
    61 1 KING'S BROTHER-IN-LAW DIES LONDON. May 24 Th« Karl o/ Karewood, brother-in-law l <> the King oi England, di i l oday aged 04. d Harewood became the Kings brother-in-law through his marriage to the Princess Royal m W The Earl was regarded as Jgi of thr wealthiest men m tn-land.
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    HOSPITAL INQUIRY ORDERED
    517 1 HOSPITAL INQUIRY ORDERED (Sunday Tribune R* porter j The Singapore Coroner is ordering an investigation by the Chief Medical Officer, General Hosnital, into the circumstances surrounding the death of a Singapore girl, the causes of which had been described as "unexplainable" by two surgeons. The eirl. 14-year-old Gwendoline Isaacs, daughtor
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    MINERS WANT TAX ON TIN REVISED
    308 1 MINERS WANT TAX ON TIN REVISED IPOH. Saturday:— Presiding at the arnual general meeting of the F M.S. Chamber oi Mires helj today here. Mr W M Wan en. Vice-President, said that this year had been one of the most difficult which industry ever faced. After referring t 0 thr
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    Women Clippies For STC Buses Later
    103 1 (Sunday Tribune stall Reporter) Women 'clippies may be eiroloyed In the not-too-distant future by the Singapore Traction Company, I am U;!d on good authority The Company i£ keeping an open mind on thi.s .subject, although the plan will probably not materialise for j'Omc months
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    Malta Bans Nylon Swim-Suits
    68 1 MALTA. May 24. White. nylon bathing suits worr twinned today on Malta's b»ach<\s on the grounds that they were inp>cent. Last season a two-piece bath ing suit was a big issue her-. On on»- occasion a policeman told a woman bather that she rould not wear
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    INSURED HER SEX APPEAL FOR £5.000!
    70 1 MAUREEN HURLEY, a >ear-old actres,, h»Ukig trom Ireland. now p'ayinat the King's Theatre, London, has taken out an insurance policy guarantying her sex appeal for iI^.OOO. It was a bit of A Poser for the insurance tvP<rts, but after a confer«nc« they agreed to
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    Mrs. Yeo Gets A New Job
    218 1 Mrs. Yeo Gets A New Job WITH QUAR TERS 'Sunday T)ilni7ic Reporter/ Publication of the story of her plight m the Malaya Tribune I rast week has resulted m an influx < t letters to Mrs. Kathleen Yeo. widow ol a senior p,ii(i officer, offering her jobs. Otte^ included a
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    AWARD FOR MALAY GIRL
    31 1 Malacca. Sat- A Malay girl, Clip. Zallian binte Ibrahim, who rescued three children from a blazinu house here recently, has been presented with award by the authorities
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    190 GUERILLAS KILLED
    27 1 ATHENS. May 24 TJhe Greek CVneral .S'afT said tonight that IJKI guerl'las were killed, wounded, or captured m Greece during mopping up operations yesterday.
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    World's Fastest?
    67 1 BOSTON, May >3. The s<;\i«t Tnion has developed the fastest jH plane mi n th<wonu, jelin Piaster .fnr., executive editor of thr AJatHm Magazine said today. Foster told a New England Aviation Confereaee that u»< new phme "will top «(M) miles per hour and will be capable of
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    WORKED TOO HARD, CAUSED A STRIKE
    68 1 WORKED TOO HARD, CAUSED A STRIKE SYDNEY, May 24. Mould. a Victorian factory have km: •strike bccau.so th»*y claimed a nonunionist was working too hard. Mom than 90 employ* id c and ioo more arc faced witti unemployment unless the non-unJ agree! to work more slowly. The non-unioni m;mates make
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      136 1 New Comics In Morning Tribune rhe Morning Tribune tomorrow wil) TiK i fttth r:.-v- will be added Lri Abiu-r and I will by joined V by Belinda and the M "Sunshine Falls." while v sdav. Just Jak will make b«.w t i Morning Ti ibun<readers. w*j||/ Jake Useless Eustace who
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    Clarion Call To S'pore: "Let's Keep The City Clean"
    790 2  -  Harry Fang <I*v Sunday Tribune Staff Reporter) "Tidy-up-town Week" to be inaugurated The people of Si*;sapere are neglecting to direct at- .on to their surroundings, and this state of neglise;K;e is Increasing In proportion. People are getting a ciesi m how
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    2 BoRs on Rape charge
    148 2 2 BoRs on Rape charge Twn you B O F's. apn r t«\ before th" For? h 81 »re Magistrate T n *v Nightingale ye*l v r^or! i g, on a *a f :ve rharpo of rape. r 'V "v. to ch°i R (V C 110 h 0) C T
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    GIRL FACES ARMS CHARGE
    92 2 A youn? Chinese woman was yesterday at the Second Police Court bailed out m the sum of $1,000 cash personal bail and one surety m the same amount. The woman, 30 -year-old Koh Ah Tuan, a Hoki<ri is tentatively charged with unauthorised possession of a loaded
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    COLLEGIANS TOLD: "UNITE"
    165 2 (Sunday Tribune Reporter) Tjrgu^g them to unit e m raising the status of graduates ot the Rallies Col*3g;e, Mr. Lee Siow Mong, President of the Stamford Club said, "Ir, these t mes when mary chai ges of utmost importance are taking place, we must i\ot wait for
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    Outstanding Chinese Singer In S'pore
    319 2  - Outstan ding Chinese Singer In S'pore Harry Fang (By Tribune Staff Reporter) One of China's outstanding tenors, Mr. Hsu Sing Po, 2u years, is at pieseni m Singapore en route to Italy wnere he pians to spend aDout hve years for further stuuy on vocal expressions and pianoforte lessons. A
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    School Buys $120,000 Land
    339 2 (Sunday Tribune Staff Reporter) Chung Cheng Hign School, one of the largest Chinese co-eaucation institutions m Singapore expects to occupy new dormitory !buildings m Goodman Road early this July. The School has paid $120,000 for the site of about three acres, wi<th nine dilapidated bungalows and
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    More Pay For Police
    160 2 'Sunday Tribune Reporter) Police pay sheets aTe now being prepared to give ail Singapore policemen and inspectors their increase m basic salaries as recommended by the Police Pay Code Inquiry recently. "The new pay scheme which has been approved by Secretary o Stat*- for the Colonies
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    MALAY SCHOOL CONCERT
    53 2 Malacca Friday. A concert m aid of the Malacca Welfare Fund was staged by the Lembaga Kebajikan Alor Gajah m which school children from the Alor Ga.iah Malay School took part. Mr. Cyril Do Vries Assistant District Officer, Alor Gajah, stressed the need for more welfare work
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    Cinematographers To Meet Monthly
    79 2 The Council of the Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association of Singapore and the Malayan Union has decided to hold monthly lunch meetings at the Pavilion Restauraut which all exhibitors m the cir>ema trade throughout the country are invited to attend, m order the better to implement the first
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      273 2 MISCELLANEOUS INDIA OFFERS:— Scissors, KnlTes, f'ut lory. E. P. N S Waros and all kinds of Sports poor's. Inquiries direct to: The Work-.. Manager, THE WINNER TRADERS. SIALKOT CITY Mrs E L Rattrav retiring and wishei f .> -ell the GREEN COW, CAMERON HIGHLANDS fully furnished as a eoint: Concern.
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    Hold Bandit Suspect
    136 3 Hold Bandit Suspect A Chinese was arro-». d yester- day for alleged robbery, while ihr motor car of his aliv d accomplice who escaped was do 1 Ulned by Uu C.1.D.. following tl^^ir third visit t«> a house m Decker Road. The victim, a Chinos*' reveal t»d that the two
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    SPORES 750,000 TAKE A RIDE EVERY WEEK
    251 3 SPORES 750,000 TAKE A RIDE E VERY WEEK 1 Buses Carry 100,000 Daily (Sunday Tribune StaiT Reporter The entire population of Singapore takes a ride, nee week, m one of the Traction Company that is, assuming that the population is On an average, h< Traction C pany Lleys and 93
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    SIR E. GENT ADDRESSES MUAR PUPILS
    148 3 SIR E. GENT ADDRESSES MUAR PUPILS i the Br*tj"n Emj a at whatever cost tand law justice .i th. -..i eof n and vioi. i roi i o i., can compare with the cost m human life aid human m ever the rule Ol lence became < declared S:r 1-
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    NEW HONOUR FOR PRINCESS
    25 3 LONDON, May 24. i'um... I consented to nccept he freedom isor she wl 1 be hfl OVSt wo:. receive the honour.
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    Move To Stop S'pore Oil Leakage
    331 3 Move To Stop S'pore Oil Leakage (Sunday Tribune Stair Reporter) The strictest precautions are being taken bj the local authorities to prevent coconut oil being- smuggled trcrri Malaya to unauthorised countries especially to China ports. For some tim* past, coconui on unc i»i the eouiroiled commodies m Siu{iap< re v.vi
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    TALK ON DIETARY PREJUDICES
    59 3 TALK ON DIETARY PREJUDICES it« Oliveiro of the Nutrltt I iTch tn tilqte will be f he 1 speaker at the next meeting of the YWC.A. Business Profe<Bieaal Women s Club at the Rex Hotel on Thursday at n.;>o p.m. His address will b^ Di-tary prejudices, customs, and habits both
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    Rotan, Prison For Labour Union Chief
    106 3 KIUM—K. S. Na <fc darajan, President of the Indian Employees and Wort 1 1 >" Union Pahau Branch, was sentent ed to six v strokes of the rotan and <i months 1 hard labour by Tua:i i h Baral bah at the district Court
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    POLICE FIND 3 CORPSES
    95 3 (Our iM n Report* ri Malacca. Friday -Three oodles were recovered b\ the Police during v. week. Ou v..; an old Chinese farmer and it was recovered from the swamps m Ujong Pj m a highly decomposed state, 'lucre was a wound at the back ol
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    Old Rafflesians Assn. Meeting
    118 3 nnua] meeting of tne Old Rafflesian Association will lvld on Wednesday. May 28. a 5.15 p. m. I committee visualise the ishing of a room m Raffle Institution for the use of b-.. Facilities to be providi ill depend on suggestions a I recommendations made ai
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    Four-Filths Of Rural Singapore Already Counted
    440 3 Four- Filths Of Rural Singapore Already Counted Qensu inn* Progress (Sunday TribMnc Staff Ren(»rter) Taking the census m Rural Board areas m pore is makitig &ood progress. Four-fifths of Sin pore as well as her neighbouring islands are slowly bul surely being covered by 40 Rural census enumerate and it
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    S'pore War Memorial Details
    270 3 S'pore War Memorial Details X Sunday TrUum B»perter) Details ol 11 War Memorial for Singapore were announced yesterday b) the Officer /vdministoring th« Ooversuneiit, Mr. P. A. B McK«rron. The memorial will coi CD a tund raised by subscription, to afford isslsfcanc* to th< i direct dependants of war victims,
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    EMPIRE DAY
    49 3 lOur Own Rep;>. tor; Malacca, Pri( vernacular schools m I tlemenl Be ved Empire Day. In Malacc; town over i.OOO children attend < x d v variety concert, and m Jas In 800 children celebr&ted the at th< padang where Wing Commander F. R. C Fowl" addressed tin
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    A WOMAN PEEPS AT SINGAPORE
    2392 4  -  VERA ARDMORE bu— Gala Night At Seletar No. I. Sergeant's Mess was gay and jolly scene the other evening, large numbers of merry makers being present. I have already described a previous party and the marvellous scheme of decorations m the Jlood).1 grounds, and I
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      219 4 line of grace Tests of Experienced LADIES' DRESSMAKERS DEPT. Call to-day GiA^ SINGH CO. 30- 1, Raffles 3 lace. Singapore. or I JI h^ I V 1 Or iv jt/ y j ITTi r runn L I J I L t bnur RAFFLES HOTEL Just arrived jiom Pans Exquisite French
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      167 4 GREEN COW, CAMERON HIGHLANDS Come for an ideal Holiday Best Food m Malaya $12 Single, $22 Double, Inclusive i ittfj SHANGHAI MODERN LADH S TAILORING T O, Battery Road. Ptionc B*oBl. Mornirg, Afternoon and Evening Dresses, ready made or made to order, with and without sequins. Charges Moderate. Irspec ion
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    Blood Count In Bikini Bomb Test
    47 5 r, May 25 The l^^rmacic on all Naval >o n t l on active duty ir^ ne VDurt m the atomic g*S%ini last S um- v. radiation aff< I the <, e r ffll nd the bl -1 repeatedly, h SSfcftSfop U.P.
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    Argentina Buys Fast Planes
    39 5 t nrfrm May 23.- Ir.lormod h c world BDeed record ol "JXSne official sou c. would „|g5 .confirm n<>r deny the reChronicled dioloma JSSondem. Robert WaithSSdsSne tin* and -Mien™i\x> othpr olane and arm •'M!ow.-'- U.P.
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    GERMAN SPY TAKES LIFE
    128 5 Dublin. May 23.- Dr. Hermann Goertz who parachuted into ring the war as a German ,M committed suicide today by .n-4 a phial of poivon at aliens registration offloe m He was rep'Ji tfd to have been »eised on parole for one wi k i the
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    "Lavish Spender's" £200,000 Profit Dream Misfired
    428 5 Bankrupt Once Had £7,000 Income LONDON, May 24.— Brought under escort from Wormwood Scrubs, where he is serving a sentence of two years' imprisonment for false pretences, 4«-yiear-old Eric Vivian Earl H ikim said at London Bankruptcy Court that his liabilities were just over
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    Majority Of Jap Mentally Debased
    166 5 Majority Of Jap Mentally Debased Toklo, May 24.- The majority ol the Japanese people are mentally debased. According to a professor m the medical college of Tokio'q Imperial University. He say^ lack of food nud crowded transportation lacilitare making the people "step across that thin line between inity and insanity."
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    Vicar Is Sorry
    60 5 The vicar of Noedham Market, near Ipswich, the Rev. W. G. Ilargrave-Thomas has "unretervedly withdrawn" his suggestion that unmarried women should be allowed to have babies il they wished to. 4> l am sorry I said it. he de- clared. Mr. Clifford Huntsman, the Well-known pianist, will
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    All Suspects In Lynch Trial Freed
    110 5 All Suspects In Lynch Trial Freed GREENVILLE, (South Carolina) May 23— The nations biggest lynch trial m history ended on Wednesday ni<rht m a full acquittal for all the 28 defendants charged with lynching; of Willie Earle, a negro, on Feb. 16 last. It took the jury of 9 textile
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    WANTS TO "ESCAPE CIVILIZATION"
    63 5 SAN FRANCISCO, May 24 Fabian San Juan Filipino nee farmer who slew seven Japanese while he was a guerrila fighter Is returning to his farm today "to escape civilization." The five foot, three inch hero of the war against Japan, is one of the leading characters
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    SHE ENTERTAINED 10,000 RATINGS
    53 5 LONDON, May 23. Mrs Harriet Wilkeson who won recognition of the Board of the Admiralty for hospitality to 10,000 Royal Navy ratings when stationed at H.M.S. Anbury, New Jersey, during the war will arrive at the London Airport on May 29 to arrange a reunion with
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    ACCUSED CALLS WITNESS A "STOOL PIGEON"
    131 5 ACCUSED CALLS WITNESS A "STOOL PIGEON" HONG KONG. "May 23 Frank, Horry Johnston, accused of being a pro-Nazi broadcaster under the name of 'Pat Kelly" during the war, sharply attacked a chief prosecution witness as the "chief American stool pigeon", when Johnston's trial opened on Thursday. Johrston. who is a
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    Anonymous Letter Bared V-1 Secrets
    397 5 Two stories of the war of an anonymoUi leti m October, 1939, which revealed Germany's VI pi nd of a schoolmaster who 'trailed his coat" m a night bomber to uncover enemy radar seen -have been told. The letter was received by the British naval
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    MAY 25, 1947 The Elections The Sunday Tribune
    449 6 MAY 25, 1947 The Elections The Sunday Tribune London Agents:— Messrs. Colin Turner Ltd., Talbot House. 98. St. Martina Lane, W'.CZ The Whole of Malaya Will eagerly watch the development of electoral representation m Singapore, both for the reason that ultimately federal representation will probably be fashioned m the li^ht
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    MEN THE GIRLS FALL FOR
    1093 6 MEN THE GIRLS FALL FOR Do not ape screen star>, advises Sunday Tribune woman correspondent Jce Swee Lian, who today writes on Many a young girl with romantic or artistic inclinations has painted the ideal man of her dreams as the quintessence of masculine glamour, and raised him to almost
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    ADAPT YOURSELF to the NEW MALAYA
    717 6  - ADAPT YOURSELF to the NEW MALAYA W.A. Harpur :>ays 1 Many people with vvhon- I have talked particularly the it who suffered SI years' mental blackout are almost unanimous m expressing a desire "to get away fron- it all." To turn their backs on the tedium of highly civilised life,
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    Mystery Of The Missing Train
    453 6  -  R. B. Ooi The railway accideni at Bukit Tengah- the worst m the h!s»- tory of the Malayan Railway throws into relief the pre-war r» cord i i safety held by the then FM.S.R. That record was not only i Malayan record -it was a
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    Latest In Laundry
    78 6 LONDON. May H ~Um* i.es are goir.g to puU the out of clothes by electrical v brations. Sir E,|ward Appl e ton the radio srie-t^ told the Br tish Laur.derers' Association Londor They will use the same principles as Asdic, the ultra shortwave radio outfit used to
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    Office Boy Left £186,014
    89 6 LONDON. May 24.— Mr. Wl--1 am Turpin. of Swansea, started work GO years a^o as a 5s a- week office boy. His wil 1 d> closed that bo left 186.014 when he died last November Mr Turpin r ever forgot h Dar.'sh school. Ho formed a
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    This Week's Radio Highlights
    814 7 This Week's Radio Highlights (By Our Kaidio Reporter) Alaous Huxley is the cnoice for Radio Theatre tonight (0.45 pm > The play Ls "The Oioconcla bmite" and Aldocs Huxley is ai p.toent fltmming the p ,ssibility or a i,] m version with Hollywood producers anu a;:ecto.s. When Alcious liuxlty wrote
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    BRITAIN'S VICE 'BLACK SPOTS"— Manchester
    653 7 BRITAIN'S VICE 'BLACK SPOTS"— Manchester The vice racket m Britain has hit the headlines again. Today we begin a series of articles on the racket m British provinces, specidlly written by Joseph Stanley m the "Sunday Pictorial" In Manchester, Piccadilly, Market-street, the approach to London-road Station and the adjoining streets,
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    Gave 17 Reasons To Magistrate
    150 7 LONDON. May 24, Seventeen r i sons why a iious.-wife forgot to her driving v won- mven m a letter to a a Court as: "Vursinu invalids, sun ami daughter. "Cooking, cleaning, wastuni nr-ndin^ anc shopping. "Qu«u«lng and also grao"linK with ration books cir< rtren
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    She Wrote To A General, Saved Son's Romance
    177 7 LONDON. May 24 —H i s mother's letter to a General saved th«* romance ol Lance Corporal WiJliam Svmons 20. Coldstream Guards. He is now married to \x bride from tnc Balkans. Bill, serving with the British Military Mission m Sofia, Bulgaria,
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    80 7 LONDON. May 24 —Year-old Alar HowhAi of Patchway Commoi:. Bristol, was pluyirg on tho kitchen floor with a neighbour \s do£. The dog jumped over Alan, caught his paw m the flex of a boiling electric kettle ard pulled the kettle down or top of the
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    192 7 Woman starved to death in room with cupboard of food LONDON, May 24. -Shortly after her husband died a woman went to bed, saying >he was tired, refused to eat, ard starved to ceath ir a room with a cupboard full of food, it was stated at a Sheflield inquest.
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    263 8 Ma n-Ruli ng Spi nster Wants A Husband She Seeks A Man Of Her Own Age 51 LONDON, May 24.— A £20,000-a year spinster of fifty who is "an inter-nationally-known inventor used to ruling men." seeks a psychologically-planned marriage. "She is attractive and smartly dressed, and could easily marry if
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    171 8 Hoodoo Kills 3 Brothers DEATH has struck thrice at the bottom of the I.SOOft. ■halt of \V»*armouth Colliery, Sunderland. at brothers of the Leadbitter family. Joseph Leadbitter, 46, an on-setter, was raueht by an asc«'ml ns cage and his mutilated body crashed into the sump below. His brother, Jonathan was
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    192 8 MUST GET RID OF THEIR PETS, OR QUIT FLATS LONDON, May 24.—Possession orders against four London County Council tenants who keep dogs m th^ir flats despite th«ir agreements were were mack- at Ckrkenwell. Leave to appeal was granted, and two o the tenants said they would "figrht the case to
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    59 8 BAGAN SERAI. A quarrel between a Tamil labourer and his mistress at Gunong SemanL'Sol on the morning of May 17 had fatai results when the woman succumbed to injuries received from spear stabs. The man was produced belore Inche Bahaudin bin Yacob m the Magistrate's court
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    95 8 NUREMBERG. May 24 Os« v.ald Pohl, one-time S.S. general m charge of administering roncertraton camps, offered to "cut off my head and place it at the feet of this tribunal if I did wrong m doing my du- v as a soldier." Pohl, charged before a
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    19 8 Rat population m Er gland, estimated at more than 40,000,000. steals 120,000,000 worth of food every year.
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    185 8 JOHN MILBURN DAVIS, who admitted he was the "most hated man m Hiawatha," has enterred the tomb on which he has spent a sum estimated at £187,500. He d-«'d, aged 92, m the poorhcuse his entire fortune gone on the tomb. Davis wais a
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    228 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat.— The United Planting Association of Malaya is considering plans for combatting further deterioration m the price of rubber and it is maintaining close contact with the Rubber Grower's Association m London. Details of the plans were not disclosed but it is understood the U.P.A.M. aims
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    297 8 The no-walls no-bars, model prison at Tortworth Court. Gloucestershire, one ot the most escaped from prisons m Britain, has lost another priA former I.R.A. bomb terrorisi. m the eUhth year of a sentence < 1 14 years 1 penal servitude, %o*. away on March
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    1137 9 MISCHA AVER'S LIFE WAS NO BED OF ROSES vl IS( II A SIMONOWICH OUNSKOWSKI is a sc ion of what he calls Russia's "pett> nobility. His background is one of re\oiution and tragedy. His lather, a commander of a destroyer m the Imperial Russian fleet,
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    86 9 Since the first Tarzan picture was made m 191 S. stars who have portrayed V Jane have worn a onej piece garment which con- cealed more than it re- vealed. In Sol Lessrs's latest C 1 production, "Tarzan am 1 1 the Huntress," however, i Wrrnda Joyce
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    34 9 The Bock-chick brightening v.n fhis> pagfl If (an CaiiuJs who, apart from making the «rau« as and interior decoi craidiv^ the ca wood and landed .1 part m KKO Radio's U Know Susi<>."
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    602 10 Trade Union Leaders A ttack Empl oyers (Sunday 1 I Staff Reporter) A striking tribute to the valuable service and assistance rendered by Mr. s. P, Garrett, former Trade l niun Adviser, si m th^ organisation tiul rjiiiin£ oi trade vi m the Colony, was paid by various sectional representatives
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    252 10 (Sunday Tnbunc Reporter) While private students irom Malaya hue been able to sain entrance into CmbMgt and London Universities since the liberation, Queen's Scholars who have been held up m Singapore for seven years are still waiting to hear news of their admittance rhey
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    90 10 LONDON, Maj 24.— The |4 dadd3 < i .<.'! animals 91 was reported discovered x r oil Kaz ikhstan by Radio Moscow to<l a j i which sr». ill that th plcte skeleton oi an Indri- dKkterMini, iirsi <:f all anhnuls, li.is been found m i
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    32 10 NEW YORK, v i "WHO'S XEXT?" said Gt-n--tist Henry CejMllly, of N< .v York, "ntxt" w*rt I\m> handiis who ttwU [5i dollars and tht £o!d m hin d* stock. i
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    38 10 i BRUSSJSLS May U -T. ALbod reparations i a locatted 25 more German i nations today, bringing the total oi I German plants given nway s:n the agency itari d (unctl^ .'»0 plants.
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    211 10 No Foreign Bases In F ree India, Says Nehru NEW DELHI. May 24.— Pandit Jawahaiial Xehru, Vice-President of India's i interim government, described as '•fantastic and absurd" the demand of Moliam- I trod All |Innah, Moslem Leagne President, for a corridor through Hindustan t;» connect the two groups of the
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    487 12 Clarke Cup Match Begins: Kailasapathy Takes 5 For 49 After a shaky start they had lost four wickets for 49 runs the Europeans staged a fine recovery, thanks irainly to a fighting stand by Harding and Coiefrian. who put on GO runs for the eighth
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    72 12 The CSC team to play Combiner Changi on Monday at Changi at li a.m. is a.s follows: (transport wi 1 leave V.M.C.A. at sharp 9.45 a.m.). T. E. K. Rctnain, S. K. Sundram. S. Scenevart'tneo. V. N. Pillai. A. S. R. Phil ins. T. E. N. Ra^sip. K.
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    25 12 The Chinese Swimming Club will n&eel thr Scaforth H>ph buiciers p.t water polo thi* mnrnirpr at 11 o'clock at the C.B.C. pool
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    535 12 Indications are that entries for the women's junior and veterans' events m the Singapore badminton hampionships are going to break all records, and a comparably higher standard of pay is also promised. These events attracted the lea.^t number of entries befo.o the wu.v, so much so that
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    65 12 Thr Junior Clerical Servic Association beat St. Joseph's Institution 2 o m a lively soccer match at the Institution grounds yesterday. Scorers were Khoon Hont* and Madon Teams: J.C.S.A Siew Henu. Hendroff. Ross, Sabai. Nawawi. Chi-e Choon. Hook Boon. Paxlar, Madon. Ahmad. Khoon Hong. St. Joseph Institution:
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    343 12 Displaying excellent team work, the Combined B.C.F.A. tev-n snatched a 4 3 victory 1 over the Combined Padanjr Clubs (S.C.C and BJLC.) a 1 soccer match played at (he Jalan Hesar Stadium yesterday I m aid of the S.C.C. Rehabilitation Fund. Tiii- was the
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