Sunday Tribune (Singapore), 4 January 1948

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    33 1 BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE MALAYA'S NATIONAL NtwSPAPER The Sunday Tribune Now Printed simultaneoua^in &ugapo&. Kuala Lumpur, t0h f%nan|^^ twttvi!: *^j'j^ SIAUAI'OKfc, JAWLIKV 4, 1948. 'Phone 5811 (Three Lines) PRICE TEN CENTS.
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    S'PORE TONGKANG PIRATED OFF PORT DICKSON
    281 1 Victims Forced To Transfer Rubber To Robbers' Ship MALACCA, Jan. 3. Another piracy in the Straits of Malacca, off Port Dickson, which resulted in the looting of $14,000 worth of rubber belonging to Chop Kay Gian of Robinson Road, Singapore, was reported in Malacca
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    Liquor Faking Racket Here
    165 1 iSundny Trihunr stuff Reporter) Yet another racket h;is been added to the rosier of Sp^-ipore racket* Adulteration un<l faking of popular brands of whisky, brandy and beer is a flourishing btr Ines I today. Unless a m;in is a liquor connoisseur he \a liable to be
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    China-HK Move To Check Smuggling
    85 1 China-HK Move To Check Smuggling NANKING. Jan. 3. Finance Mini?to r o. K. Yui announced today that a China-Hong Kong ant!--imu^linp agreement will be signed within the next two or three days and disclosed a heavy adverse balance of last year's domestic payment* and foreign trade Yui told the People's
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    Five Suspects Held
    88 1 SUNGEI PATANI. Jan. 3. -The Central Kedah Police have arrested five Malays believed to be responsible for the recent robbery at Yen. a village 22 miles North-west of Sungei Patani. According to the report the victim was a Konpsai Chinese and the robbery was perpetrated at midnight.
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    'BLUES' CROONER DUE TODAY
    204 1 (Sunday Tribune Staff Reporter) Miss Una Nunn, popular young crooner of Burma, is due to arrive in Singapore today. She is travelling here as a passenger aboard a BOAC plane from Rangoon to join Trevor Mac's band at the Mountbatten Club where she will feature "blues"
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    Party For Students
    66 1 J22P? 1 Jan 3— About 150 if m Hon P k on? and Malaya "^Utaed by the UnriorJt P^l o^ 81 16 for thp Co:oniPK in 'Or*, L wlUl n V> on January 2o CoJu, feren Room, at the Bot^ f Cw a r stud< ntefroni l2t,
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    U Saw Appeals
    51 1 RANGOON, Jan 3 U £3aw. Burme3e ex-Premier sentenced to death on Tuesday for complicity in the murder of U Aung San last July, filed an appeal in the Rangoon High Court today Four others fount 1 gu lty with IT Saw o' abetting the murder also appealed.-
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    S'pore Arab Assn.
    62 1 The Singapore Ara'> As o< iation is sponsoring a film and stairo show at the Queen's Theatre, Oeylang on Jan. 7 in aid of the Association's Fund under the patronage <>f Mi\ A. M. AlsapofT. J.P. The show for ladies and children on'y is >«t 2.30 p.m.
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    Batak Indonesian Youths In S'pore
    53 1 Bat ak Indonesian Youths In S'pore The Batak Indonesian youths in Singapore celobrated New Y^nr v Day with a concert badminton tournnmrnt and a bus trip to Chanpri Point. Mr. Edward Torcan who was the leader of the partv honert to form an association for the social betterment of his
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    Wedding At St. Joseph's
    176 1 The Church of St. Joseph, Victoria Street, was the scene of a pretty wedding 1 yesterday morning when Mr. Stanley Daniel Rozel was married to Miss Mavis Prances K!ajs. Th: bride w-jls given awav by her father, Mr. F .arris W. Klasa. She was., a pretty
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    Asian Veterinary Officers Protest
    287 1 (Sunday Tribune Staff Reporter Uei.lUtib Oi lac M**Uj<k^ Wieuiiao Association, liave ppe^i.a 10 me iHNUHMMU oi Singapore and llie Maia/an l uion lor the rigut to nave the*r d'plomas recognised on tne same level as that required toy the colonial veterinary Seivice the iu.R.cv.S. qualification inii,
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    French Legionnaires Land In Batavia
    45 1 Batavia. Jan. ft. Four French L"prionnaires two Dutchmen, one Austrian ana one Dane who deserted from the French troopship "Marechal Joffre" off the North Sumatran coast, arrived in Batavia today by the Dutch steamer "Eerens". savs an Anpta report. U.P.
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    Still Dreaming
    50 1 TOKIO. Jan. 3. Tokio's English language newspaper Nippon Tiuia? declared today that the majority of Japanese youths believed in the theory put forward by Gen. Hideki Tojo. wartime Premier, during his defence before the Allied War Crimes Tribunal during the week that war was forced upon Japan. Reuter
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    24 1 JERUSALEM. Jan. 2. Twelve persons were killed and 25 wounded in ambushes, explosions, robberies and sniping from one end of Palestine to the other.
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    Burma Enters New Era Today
    317 1 RANGOON, Jan. 4. Bao 3hwe Thaik, first President of the Burmese Republic, today greeted the world in this message given to Reuter immediately after he had assumed office here: "Bu:ma, entering a new era of freedom, greets the 'vorld. We rejoice in our new stat°hood
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    Overcrowding And Squalor In S'pore
    957 1 (Sunday Tribune St iff Reporter) Singapore's first Social Survey covering over 4.0U0 houses in the Municipal area is nearing comp'. 4 lon. The eighty-odd Raffles, Medical and St. Andrew' Mvirs Class Students who forfeited their X'mas holidays in order to act as voluntary enumerators have,
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    Woman Killed While Asleep
    149 1 Penang. Jan. 3— A ghastly murder occurred early yesterday morning at about half past five at a house in Westlands Road when a. W. Wells, a former inspector of postmen in Penang. was alleged to have killed M« wif t with a hammer by strik ing
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    Two Birthdays
    55 1 LONDON. Man. 3 —Mr. Clement Attlee. British Prime Minister, was celebrating his 65th birthday today with his family at Chequers, official country residence of Britain's premiers. Mr. Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council, was also celebrating his birthday today he is 60. He is on holiday with
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    SCHUMAN CLEARS FIRST HURDLE.
    64 1 Paris, Jan. 3— The French National Assembly by 321 to 246 votes, today passrri the first article, of the Schuman Government's crucial 125 milliard francs emergency anti-inflation bill. It provides for a special super tax on excess profits by business nun. shopkeepers, farmers and professional men,
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    21 1 CAIRO, Jan. 3. The British and Egyptian Commissions were continuing today in the greatest secrecy their talks on Egyptian sterling credits.
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    Mr. Fitzpatrick Helps Feed Singapore
    731 3 H£ C AME BaCK WITH A NEW IDEA-NOW (BntUtay frihvvc S-Inf! Reporter) ft you trrrr £p ask Mr W. F. Fitzpatrick nhrti ht skirted tc inttrcs* himself in 'he Food bu*il&BB, hf. wonid look Ol irm unit sa\i, didn't s'ur' I irr/v horn into it."
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    FITZPATRICK FOOD SUPPLLY STORE
    27 3 F I T Z PAT RI CK FOOD SUPPLLY STORE Fnotorjrapnj. An exterior shot of Fitzpatrick's Food Supply Store as it stands today in Orchard Road (Tribune
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    UNION BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OFFICIALS
    135 3 The first annual general meeting of the Union Benevolent Society the ?irst of its iiu\a n be started in a Singapore commercial arm— W4i> held yes: rdiy at the office of Messrs. Boustead and Co., Ltd. The society has 71 standing members. Up to August last
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    Malays in London to hold Annual Dinner
    90 3 London, j ci 11 3. The Malay Society at Britain is to hold their annual dinner on January 7th at a. lestaurant i') London's West End. The occasion should be wll ;it,!.eiidf:d for thr list ot membei* issued a short time ago shows
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    Locked Room, Took Poison
    127 3 When a Chinese priest heard "strnnge noises'' coming from a locked ,00m occupied by a youn^ Chinese, Cncorm Siak Leiiß on the night, of Nov. 29. in Dunearn Road. h f! r-'in out and summoned the boy's sitter who live next door. Smashing open the door
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    A WOMAN PEEPS AT SINGAPORE
    5401 4  -  VERA ARDMORE -bii- Sunday Morning A really delightful cocktail party was given last Sunday morning by Mr and Mrs J. B. Pickering at their house in Draycott Drivi-. I had to compliment the hostess on the original and pleasing decor of the various rooms, especially
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      JANUARY 4, 1948 Home!
      380 6 JANUARY 4, 1948 Home! A Home— secure, per- manent. At one time or another that is the dream j of almost every human, j for, as poets and philosophers have not omitted I to notice, Home exercises an irresistible appeal to- wards humankind. Yet in conditions of modern S civilisation
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    Government's "Amoks" Of Spending—Past And Present
    829 6  - Government's "Amoks" Of Spending— Past And Present R. B. Ooi J Nature's extravagance in Perak and the East Coast states, during t ther closing days of 1947, paralJ lelea that of 1926 when floods swept through the same area causi ing much havoc. J Those who 'can recall the 1926
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    Under the countes
    530 6  - Under the countes NOEL WHITCOMB BY' LONDON, (By Air Mail). BUD FLANAGAN is the funniest man I know. Seme of his impromptu material makes me laugh so much that I was quite surprised to find that he works out all his gags scientifically. Bud has scrapbooks containing thousands of gags—
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    Voyage On A "Chainway"
    1337 6  -  NEGLEY FARSON Moss From A Rolling Stone By Cooking: breakfast ouf. in the L cockpit of your own boat on a May morning: in Holland is. in my opinion, just about the most delightful way that anyone could invent of beginning a long travel- > adventure.
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    According to the Book
    465 6  -  Alison Mayhcw By I quite realise dial children are necessary in this woil! I'm even quite fon<l of my own daughter; but there IK times Jane, at three years old cm h<. enough to (hive a cat < azy. It usually starts when I sit Mown
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    They Drift Through Life In picturesque Junks...
    475 7  - They Drift Through Life In picturesque Junks BILL PATERSON (by Strange Ways Of S'pore's Water Gypsies Sunday Tribune Staff Reporter) Singapore's "water gypsies" are a colourful race. As pan of the Colony's floating population, they are to he found aboard the picturesque and vividly coloured lunks, sampans and houseboats that
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    ODD CRAFT
    12 7 An infinite variety of small craf' throng the Singapore Waterfront.
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    Film Show For Factory Workers
    140 7 At the request of a number of factory workers in Waterloo St. area the Public Relations Film Unit will arrange a special free nim show at the Queen Street Boys' Club on Friday. Jan. 9. The films to be shown on that evening will be
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    HOW A STAR IS BORN
    577 7 BE IN ON THIS TOMORROW-KNOW DID you ever wonder how Hollywood movie stars are born? How they get to Holly wood and what they do to get into the movies? And what makes a star a star? Beginning tomorrow, the Malaya Tribune is going to
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    Baby Croc In K.K. River
    106 7 KUALA KANGSAR, Jan. 2 A baby croc, measuring about 4 feet 6 inches in length, drew the attention of a big crowd on the bank of the Kangsar River (be hind the Grand Theatre Hall) here earlier last weeK. A number of boys who were
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    Killearn To Broadcast To Burma.
    41 7 A personal message to Burma from His Excellency the Special Commissioner in South East Asia, Lord Killearn, will b<? broadcast from all Stations of Radio Malaya in the 130 p.m. News Bulletin to-day, Burma Independence Day.
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    S'pore Used 2½ Million Gallons Petrol In Last Three Months
    519 7 (Sunday Tribune Staff Reporter) In spite of an intensive drive to minimise petrol consumption last year in order to save "dollars." so as to help Great Britain in her economic crisis. Singapore consumed more than 2% million gallons during the
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    Men stood by with tommy-guns as guests sang 'Holy Night'
    456 8 TESSIE CORNELIUS tells an amazing story of how a planting family in Johore celebrated X'mas 1947. Like thousands of other Christirn families throughout the world. Mr. and Mrs. X of a well-known rubber estate in Central Johore, celebrated Xmas with
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    Newcomer Sees Hope For Malayans
    185 8 (From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca. Jan. 3— ,"1 can tell you from what I have seen of this country that it is a land of hope. I have seen hope in the face of every individual in this 1 country. In India there was nothing
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    Move To Form Malayan Christian Council
    224 8 Move To Form Malayan Christian Council (Sunday Tribune Staff Reporter) Unity among the Christian ProUstant bodies in Malaya is expected to take concrete shap i this week with the inauguration of a Christian Council. The heads of the thiee main Protestant denominations the Anglican, the Methodist, and the Presbyterian Churches
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    Pawned Wife's Jewels,Gambled, Hanged Himself
    155 8 Both husband and wife had retired for the ni-ght but on the following morning, Dec. 17 at ;.bout six o'clock the wife awakened to nnd (bat her husband had hanged himself in i\ bathroom at their residence in Shaik Madasar Lane. This was told the
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    Medals For Ipoh Policemen
    106 8 IPOH, Ja.n. 3. Six members of the local Police personnel received Colonial Ixmg Service Medals at a special ceremonial parade held on the Police ground in front of tho Railway Station. There was a smart turn out and Mr. H. B. Langworthy, Commissioner of Police, Malayan
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    Service Marks Opening Of 1948 Assizes
    127 8 Service Marks Opening Of 1948 Assizes At the opening of the first Assizes for 1948 there will be a short serv'ce at the Cathedral at 10 a.m. which the Judges of the High Court, Law Officers of the Crown and members of the Singapore Bar will attend. Members of the
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    Funeral Of Mr. Bhagwan Singh
    200 8 K. Lumpur, Jan. 3.— The funeral took place here yesterday, according to Hi'idu rites, of Mr. Bhagwan Singh of Messrs. Gian Singh and Co. The Cremation took place in the Loke Yew Road cemetery. Over 530 people attended the funeral. Among thr nearly 150 wreaths
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    POWELL, KERR GET CRITICS' FILM AWARDS
    170 8 POWELL, KERR GET CRITICS' FILM AWARDS NEW YORK, Jan. g n lish actress Deborah Kerr and veteran Hollywood star William Powell were announced as winners of the New York film critics award for 1947. Mi is Kerr was chosen for the performance in the "The Adventuress" and "Black Narcissus". William
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    Leper Takes Own Life
    179 8 Whin a Chinese woman entered her bathroom on the morn, ing of Dec. 19 s h > found that a man had hanged himsel! She rushed down to Beach Road Market and informed her husband, Lim Ah Kee of her discovery. On returning to his house
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    NEW STAR
    30 9 YOU'LL be see:n£ iir this week at the Pavilion, MAI ZETTKRLINC; as Frieda In the Haling Studios production "FRIEDA". Produced by Michai) Halcon and directed by Basil Dearden.
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    AT THE SOUND 0' THE PIPES
    110 9 SCOTTISH actor James Justice, whose impressive red beard will be seen »n technicolour ln Michael Baleen's "Scott of the Antarctic," has been introducing; a real Scottish note into the icy regions of Norway. He discovered that the wife of the hotel proprietor at Finse,
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    MOVIEMAN'S DIARY
    81 9 CATHAY: "The Rvtor'* Edge" ivith Tyrone Power Gent Tierney, John Payne. Ann Ba.r't.-: powerful dm ma. CAPITOL: "The Perils Of Pauline" tofth Betty Hufton, John Lund and Billy Do Wolf*:: technicolour comedy adven'ure. REX: 'The Charge Of The Light Brigade" with Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland. Patrick Knowles:
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    WHY HOLLYWOOD POSTPONED THE OSCAR DERBY
    896 9 WHY HOLLYWOOD POSTPONED THE OSCAR DERBY j w i j 1 r^^^^t wff^^^^f^^Tt^^^^^m^l HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 13— An old Ho'ljwocd trad.tion was up..et last week and a new custom .started. With the d^ad ine fo- the annual Oscar Awards only I ightlv more than a month tway. the j dat-» was
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    CHAMP FILM FAN
    28 9 Champion movie-goer or Hollywood probably is Valli, feminine star of "The Miracle of the Bells". She sees movies as often as six nights a week.
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    SOUGHT NEW CONQUESTS WITH RHYTHM
    282 9 *x l B the tem P p stuous tempo of the "Flamenco" dance I" th M -5-M technlcolour tllm, "Fiesta." in which Cyd Char'sse and Ricardo Montalban perform their spine-twisting gyrations "are the bouncing Basques of rhythm, "Lee Bocheros In the tiny Basque village of
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    KATIE LACKS NO SLACKS
    254 9 r. do "o'.i'v.ving her predicament wlu. r.he was invited to the Hollywood Cinematographers' Imnquel recently. She had ti> borrow a grown from the studio. Her personal wardroi-e included only three street dresses. Every thin^ else wa»- slack suits MilKoi- of women who wear slacks today can
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    Judy Meets "Crying" Need With Music
    130 9 Realizing a "cryiig" nee:l for missory UtlMMi Jiulv Garlan j has tinnol KMIfC writer pnd is con»Dt'in' music to ffft the words of such f aim us babv rhymes ar )v the Met her fj'oos<* series. Judv decided to tackle the new field after
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    PENANG RACES END WITH MORE
    1385 10 Peter Con Pays $181 The Penang Turf Club X'mas/New Year meeting which opened with surprises ended yesterday, the fourth and last day, with more upsets. Peter Con ridden by Dawson. created th- biggest surprise when he beat Adorable in a thriving finish in the opening
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    INDIA FACED WITH COLOSSAL TASK
    299 10 AMARNATH'S GAMBLE FAILS Ph,n^ BOURNEI Jan 3 Bradm an with a brilliant chanceless century added yet another record to his amazing career when at the Melbourne cricket ground today he, for the first time, successfully completed a century in each innings of the Third Test
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    PRASAD RESIGNS
    86 10 NEW DELHI, Jan 8. Dr. Rajcadna Prasa<i has resi^ne! office as Minister of the Indian Dominion Cabinet consequent on his election as President of fho Indian National Congress, it was officially announced, says th Government of Indian Information Services. The Governor-General nas accepted the resignation and appointed Mr.
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    SCOREBOARD
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    BiC SWEEP
    39 10 Total Pool 5130.700 First Prize: *****4; Second Priz:: *****2; Third Priie *****5; Starters- 3 *****, 160*97 *****1, *****7, 21K<>2. *****2 *****6, 318.in9, 2825W. 22(01. Con.s'ilati' n Prizes.- 317G51 *****1. *****2. *****7, !7!77.V 293C51. 3WMIS, 3^lolB, 134C11, *****4
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    Message To Mahsud Tribe
    93 10 PESHAWAR, via New Delhi. Jan. 3.— Bearded Malik Syed Pic Badshah told a batch of hi* fight-loving Mahsud tribe followers today, to get themselves off to Kashmir and not to come home unless they hid cleaned cut all Hindus there "You won't be welcome homo until
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    HOCKEY POSTPONED
    37 10 The hcck^y matrh b:twcL'ii the SC.R.C and the Army •vhich was to have been played on the SRC. padang, yesterday, was postponf d becau.se the eround was waterlogged due to hravy rain during the day
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    Knocked Through The Ropes-But Mortell Won
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    176 11 Joe Diamond's wish to have a capital oi about $200 is being realised. As a result of Herman Rappa's article in these columns on Dec. 21, 1947, a sum of $45 has been sent in by Joe's admirers and the Tribune Staff has contributed $25
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    CHANCE FOR JR. GOLF PROS.
    116 11 LONDON, Jan. .'{.—A jiiior profcs-iona,! in crnatioxal golf match bevMn Great Bik'aii and v'r. v United S atos on the lines of he present Ryder Cup match has been proposed by ||r. K.A. Hudson, the Air.erican can rung maj^na c who Ipeworpd \sa<t year's Ryder
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    Decision To Hold 1948 Badminton Championships In K.L Hailed
    1019 11 The 1948 Malayan badminton championships wjll take place at Kuala Lumpur next Easter. This was decided at the lecent annual general council meeting of the Badminton Association of Malaya held in Singapore on December This piece of news undoubtedly h welcome
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    413 12 Meet Here For Annual Confab (Sunday Tribune Staff Reporter) Alihousli the Methodist Ctwrcil In Malaya sutterett prcat losses in building, mcmbci'ship and personnel unring iiic trying yean alter me liuirauon, t*x deck has now neen t«dArcq for irantal worm. ihc gains were many and tciu.iy the rhunh
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    179 12 Two Indonesians— Mr. Stuur* man Hoetabarat (Sumatra) and Mr. Lucius D. Mamora (Sarawak), will be among the ten members of tho Malaysia Annual Coherence and the Malaysia Chinese Annual Confennae of the Methodist Church who will be crdaincd by Bishop Edwin F. Lee. D.D.. S.T.D..
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    METHODIST LAY ASSOCIATION
    113 12 The lay delegates of the \ail- us Method. st chu:chcs in Malaya to the Malays a annual conference formed the Method-. t Lay Association yesterday djring a gene al meeting. The f 11 w ng were elected to nold ofT:c°: Prrs'dent: Mr- V. D. Kuppusamy, F. R
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    S'pore Heat North At Table-Tennis
    44 12 The Singapore Combined Table-Tennis team defeated the North Table Tennis Team by 4 games fcO 3 at the Great World last night. The North team had. hitherto beaten The Rest and the Tiger Sporting Association. (Championg o r Singapore).
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    Coal for N.Z.
    64 12 WELLINGTON. Jan. 12: Nrw Zealand railways have b*M*n allocated LM.OOO tons of British ■*eam coal for Januarv an-i February by the Coal Committee in Londrn. This is the h^mninc: <>f subs antial continuing orders, it wa< understoofl here, fulfilment of which depend only qq Britain'abilfly 4 o
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    No Play At Sydney
    47 12 SYDNEY. Jan 3 Rain washe out play on the third flay of the Sheffield Shield match between New South Wales and Queensland where today and with the Queensland score standing ■it 238 for five, the match will prnbubly cnii in a draw. Reuter
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    Bate – Lindberg Wedding
    113 12 Bate Lindberg Wedding The wedding took place ct St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday afternoon between Mr. James Bate and Miss Olga Lindberg. The Rev. Kinross Nicholson officiated at the ceremony. Sq/Ldr C. Everitt gave tne bride away while Mrs C. Bveritt acted as matron of honour. Mr. I. Geeks was bostman.
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    81 12 LONDON, Jan. 3.— Vim-e Hawkins, the British middleweight <hampion, has been matched with Bob Murphy. New Zealand title holder, for the vacant British Empire tit'e, at the Royal Albert Hall. London, on January 26. Hawkins' manager. John Simpson, agreed to terms offered by Jack Solomons
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    Lucas Leaves China
    69 12 NANKING. Jan. 3. Ma.). -Gen •T P. Lucas, chief of the Army Advisory group in China, bade his officers and men goodbye !n a farewell parade here this morning. Cien. Lucas, who Is returning to the United States on a routine change of duty, urcfed his listeners
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    BRADMAN'S ACHIEVEMENT
    195 12 LONDON, Jan. 3. By scoring; 132 not out against India in the third Tost, Don Bradnuw oceanic the third Austrlian to have the distinction of getting a century in each innings of a Test match, says Reuter. Warren Bardsley, famous lefthander, was the first, doing it against England
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    3 WORLD RECORDS RATIFIED
    118 12 LONDON, Jan. 3. Throe world records were today ratified by the International Amateur Athletic Federation. They are 1.500 metres 3 mins. 43 seconds by Lennart btrand of Sweden on July 16. 1947 This equals the record already held by another Swede Oundar Haego. Relay (four by
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    244 12 b.CC 8 Dts.. RAF. (Changi) 3 pUs. Playing on a muddy and waterlogged field the S.C.C. defeated th c RAF. (Changi) by eight points <a goal and a try) to three points (a penalty goal) In a rugger match played on ttie padang. yesterday Although it
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    152 12 (Sunday Trilnn\< Staff Reporter) The incoming committee loc 1948 of the Singapore Overseas Chinese Importers and Exporters Associntion ycsterd.-iy took truoath of office witnessed by the Chinese Consul General. Dr Wu Paak-shing. The Association also took the occasion to give a farewell Inn cheon
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    496 12 ATTLEE FLAYS RUSSIA London, Jan. 3. Prime Min isti r Attlee virtually arrayed the Labour Government behind capitalist United States in the "cold war" against Russia tonight with a warning that Soviet communism is threatening the rest of Europe with a new form of imperialism. His attack
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