Sunday Tribune (Singapore), 12 December 1948

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    37 1 BY THT PFOPI F FOR TUT PEOPLE MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER The Sunday Tribune •^SIXTEEN PAGES Xou Printed Simultaneously m Singapore Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh Penang. Telegrams: Telephone: Tribune Singapore. 5811 (9 lines). GAPORE, DECEMBER' 12, 1948? PRICE~TEN CENTS?
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    Tell The People
    280 1 Tell The People f\\e following statement hr> heen lse_ed v >v tho Kual Lumpur Publ'" P^'ation: Office: •It is officially stated that the .^ol' i A ""cm ""c :o ruh »><.>• trees i* l th* Muir Bee* »yii*' >v i rene^fv v^nrpii ii CP/.MO- of th" »l P****! an no
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    THE KING'S 13th ANNIVERSARY
    40 1 LONDON, Sat. -King George VI entered the 13th year of his reign yesterday m poor health. A 41 gun salute was tired m Hyde Park, but the Royai fsmlly did not celebrate the occasion. A. P.
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    GRADUATION DAY
    33 1 "There la no end to knowledge," said the Principal of the Chinese National Language School at yesterday's graduation ceremony when the Chinese Vice-Consul, Mr. S. Cheng presented certificates to 21 stuOBHS.
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    HATTA SAYS—
    72 1 BATAVIA. Sat- The Indonesian News Agency today quoted this reply by Premier Mohammed Hatta to reported Dutch charges that the Indonesian Republic did not stand by concessions made m a recent aide memoirs r "It will be proved later which party backed out of what it conceded." The
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    MARTIAL LAW
    26 1 RANGOON, Sat. -Martial Law has been declared m five major districts m Burma because the Karens have revolted ugatnst the Rangoon Govern- ment. Reuter
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    A TRUE JAP
    28 1 TOKIO. Sat. A 30-year-oio Jap policeman who outdid oo others m Imitating the antic* of U.S. M.P/s. won a traffic direction contest statrpn Tokio. U.P.
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    DUTCH TO TAKE BIG GAMBLE
    205 1 NOW ITS WAR OR PEACE The Hague, Saturd ay The Dutch Cabinet, it is reported, has decided to form an interim government m Indonesia before January I. without the Indonesian Republic, although the Republican Government has warned that such action would result m a "great
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    ONE MILLION MEN IN KIANGSU FIGHTING
    217 1 SHANGHAI. Saturday.— The battle m North Kiangsu today roiled closer to its climax with both Government and Communist forces throwing m men m an operation which is the biggest m Chinese history. More than 1.000,000 soldiers are m the field m the area from
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    'It's Piracy' Say S'pore Merchants
    151 1 'It's Piracy Say S'pore Merchants Chinese barter traders m Singapore, who have roeen engaged m trade with Republican ports through Dutch controls, are protesting at the confiscation of parts of their cargoes by the Dutch. They allege it is "piracy". Periodically auction sales of confiscated cargoes are conducted through the
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    LINDBERG FOR CHINA?
    31 1 NEW YORK, Sat—Danton Wallcer reports m the Daily News that Charles Lindberg's conference with Gen. Mac Arthur concerned a consultant's nost with the harrassed Chinese Mr Force.— U.P.
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    SYMPATHY, BUT . . .
    28 1 SYMPATHY, BUT WASHINGTON, Saturday.— Madame Chiang's appeal for more aid to China got a sympa:hctlc hearlrg from President TYuman when they met for half m hour today.- Reuter
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    WINGING HOME
    25 1 ECAFE delegates to Lapstone are making their way home as the Conference Is over. Chinese and Indian delegates arrived here by air yesterday.
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    Princess Aly Khan Keeps Mum
    69 1 Princess Aly Khan Keeps Mum LONDON, Sat. Princess Aly Khan, attractive 40-year-old British daughter-in-law of the Aga Khan, told Reuter here today that she was rejoining her children m Switzerland, but refused to comment on American reports that she was "quietly" divorcing her .*B-year-old husband. The reports said that her
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    DIVORCE AT 55: HUSBAND A TEETOTALLER
    93 1 CLEVELAND. Sat.- A 55--year-old woman was granted a divorce oecause her husband is a teetotaller. Mrs. Elsie Douglas won a divorce from Robert Douglas, 61-year-old, after she had told the judge of a New Year's eve party which her husband deserted "to pray for
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    LAST NIGHT'S BANDIT NEWS
    167 1 SENAI. Johore police shot the leader of a bandit gang and captured four others m Seelong village. Two revolvers and some ammunition were recovered. A military party wounded and captured a bandit with a .303 rifle and ammunition. The bandit died on the way to the
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    Sheum Circus Brawl: Another Arrested
    54 1 A third Indian- a Tamil Muslim was arrested at his house m 13 V* m.s. Sembawang Road at 1.50 p.m. yesterday m connection with the murder of a Sheum Circus employee following a brawl between employees of the Circus and some Indians at Nee Soon
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    ... THEN THERE WAS ONE
    222 1 THEN THERE WAS ONE Thre little tiger cubs, Jenny. They were caught at KamHoney and Suzy, have recently pong Batu, 27 miles from Tarnbeen patients of Dr. Withering- pin, when their mother was ton, the Municipal Vet, atshot m a trap by police. Kampong Java. Jenny and Honey are dead,
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    The Standard Bearer
    32 1 Hundreds of Young Athletes gathered m the Jalan llesar Stadium, yesterday, to compet e at the ninth meeting of the Singapore Chinese Amateur Athletic Federation. MORE PICTURES BACK PAGE.
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    Murder Is Ritual In Africa
    82 1 Murder Is Ritual In Africa MASERU, BASUTOLAND, Sat. An African chief and six followers were sentenced to death here today for a ritual murder committed among old graves near the chief's village. The court was told that the chief, Molomo K/>ri, had held a meeting near the graves below his
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    He Took A Long 'Drag'
    54 1 J SOUTH REND, In- diana. Sat. George a Walsh, 59 years old, took 2 a long drag on a ciga- 5 S rette today and landed tn S the Memorial Hospital a where his condition was reported to be good. Z He swallowed the I
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    K.L.M. MEN FINED $50
    207 2 TWO officials of the K.L.M. Airlines were summoned to the First District Court yesterday in answer to a charge of failing to get the passport of an alien endorsed by the Registrar of Aliens before he left the Colony. Thoy were L. van Oudenallen, and L.
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    DRESSY THIEVES
    62 2 SIMLA. India, Sat. Thieves in the East Punjab Railway were operating on a new technique before they were found out and 14 of them anestod. Drcsso<l in military uniform, they used to offer poisoned food to military officers travelling along in higher classes and after the victims become
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    He Married Richest Girl
    360 2 Fined $200,000 And Gaoled iJUHi'iKio Cesar Rubirosa, 41 year old Don.'.nican Charge d'Affalres to Switzerland, and ex-husband of worUTs-richept-gir] Doris Duke was lined US$200,000 and given u six months gaol sentence in Athens, says U.P. Reason— an attempt to smuggle out of Greece more than US$100,000
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    RADIO MALAYA PAY 'TOO LOW'
    380 2 Brains Always Leave (Sunday Tribune Staff Reporter) Radio Malaya will have to continue to bring programme staff out from England indefinitely. The scale of pay t«»r local talent is not enough to attract suitable candidates for the jobs. Mr. John Dumfcresque, Director of Radio Malaya,
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    VERY LATE LETTER
    60 2 NORWICH, Ontario. SatA postcard posted in Japan more than 39 years has finally arrived here, too late to be delivered to Emma Nobba, who died several years ago. Postmarked in Tokio on March 3, 1909, the card is faded with age, but the handwriting: of Eliznbeth Binford.
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    C.Y.M.A. HOLD A TEA PARTY
    63 2 The Catholic Voting M«n's Assot i;»tion held a. tea party nt their clnMlBTIWf at Bias fla^ah RnHfi vosterday afternoon whrn prizes of the rocent Lntorparish sports tournament were disti il»iit*»«i. Mr. b> Peng Llanp, the president. £H\c h. resume of th<* ■porting activHirs of Ike
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    Relief From Traffic?
    63 2 Paya Lcbar village will be. relieved of traffic congestion at the junction of Upper Scrangoon and Yio Clm Kang Roads if the Singapore Municipal Commissioners sanction removal of the trolley bus overhead termnius. This hns been recommended by a Municipal Committee at an estimated coat of XJV
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    $6 A DAY For A Trishaw
    123 2 $6 A DAY For A Trishaw Singaporeans can now hire a trishaw ail day for only six dollars, according to the Gazette. The new Municipal (Trishaw) Ordinance has laid this down as the maximum payable to a ttishawman for one day's hire, no matter how long he waits, or how
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    HOLTTUM FLIES LILIES BACK
    103 2 HOLTTUM FLIES LILIES BACK BJIR. R. E. HOLTTUM. Direci" tor of the liotanic Gardens, flew back to Singapore from Siam a few days ago with some rare anthurium plants for the Gardens. The anthurium is a plant of the arum lily family. "There are probably more of these plants m
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    TREAT FOR POOR
    32 2 Five hundred children will be given a treat by the Catholic Young Men's Associatior (Church of Sis. Peter and Paul! on Christmas day from 10 a.m. till 12 noon.
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    "THE NEW DIRECTORY OF MALAYA, 1949"
    172 2 out now Price: 125.60 pet ooav. Best of .-ill bunineai dtrecti Over 700 with MP-UHhtf material t "iitenK: Caleadar <>f 1949, The Holiday ordinance List Of Names Of iodine Places [n Malaya. MALAYA AND ITS < No m\ Special Article INDi:X lo AD\ KRTIHKRs
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    The STARS Of EGYPT
    19 3 Are Tax Free (Above) Tahia arioca— an oiler from Hollywood. (Left) Mui.n:. ..kef royal appraisal.
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    December Assizes Re-Open Monday
    82 3 December Assizes Re-Open Monday THE December session of the Singapore Assizes opens m the Supreme Court tomorrow before Mr. Justice Jobling. The list contains altogether 82 cases of which 36 have been brought forward. Among the fresh additions to the list there are three cases of murder, one of attempted
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    Labour Swop Scheme
    132 3 Labour Swop Scheme (Suntlay Tribune Reporter j GOVERNMENT has instituted a scheme to combat thc shortage of labour m Johore. Under this scheme labourers are recruited from other states m the Federation where there is a surplus. This was revealed oy the Commissioner for Lal>o v t Johore, Mr. K.
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    FOUGHT IN CABARET
    47 3 Two Canadians. K» ith War wick and Stephen Kakura and a clerk. Lim Hock Choon. appeared m the Third Polic Court on a charge of fightin m a cabaret on December 10. All the three accused were fined $5 or five days' imprison ment.
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    King John Lives The Simple Life
    696 3 Early to Bed, Early to Rise (S»niamy Tribune Staff Reporter) fIINETEKN White men, with no social contact,; with women of their own kind, live cut of] from the rest, of tho wottd on two of a gtfoup of 20 islands m the Indian Ocean,
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    King Farouk Is One Of Her Admirers
    256 3 [JOLLYWOOD and Pinewood are not the only producers of million-dollar glamour girls They have a rival m Egypt's Misr Studios, whose leading actresses are luscious brunettes and inc_metax free. Malayan audience have already acclaimed some of these lovelies of the Egyptian screen. Rakia
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    ALLEGED THEFT OF "CARD"
    57 3 Charged with the theft ot I m identity card, 26 year-olu Thio Keng Peng claimed tria. m the Fourth Police Coui\ yesterday. Thio wajs alleged to hay stolen the identity card from a hotel room. Bail of $100 m one suretj vas offered. The case tea
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    AROUND TOWN
    2948 4  - AROUND TO W N Vera Aril more Who Is Sylvia Who Life With Grandmother By NEW ami shining gflldhead in Singapore Is ex- Wren Sylvia Whitehouse, wife of Eagle Lion's relief manager Tony Whitehouse. She and husband have been here only a fortnight, having come across from Batavia, as Tony
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    US, CANADA-THOMAS GUP DARK HORSES
    797 5 India avoided Malaya. Danes PANADA'S victory over India at Toronto last week in the first round of the Thomas Cup tournament must have shocked badminton followers in India considerably, although it did "unduly" impress the Malayan captain Mr. Lim Chuan Geok. India spent a lot
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    She's 73, but still the best
    129 5 ONE of Australia's outfltlwHni horsey/omen is NW ii* y-three years old an«l has been riding for H!» years. She If Mrs. Arthur Bennett, who Uvea at th«* country town of liosj-. m Tasmania, Australia's i:-land State. Despite hor age. Mrs. Benrirtt is a member
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    America's Number 1
    28 5 j DAVE FREEMAN tne > liiited Slates siiiglrs i ehaiiipioii, who ualt/.ed his nmj through the i finals recently Us retain his title I I 1
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    The "Tiger" In British Boxing
    365 5 The "Tiger" In British Boxing By WALTER PILKINGTON AFTER twelve years of battling m the ring, Freddie .Jills, with his black brows. Mitral* hair, menacing eyes and resolute chin, is still v tiger of boxing m Britain. He is past his best, (as would be expected of a boxer m
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    11 Men Teach Our Schoolboys Hockey
    474 5 PLEVEN Singapore hockey players, including some old iii.i tn have answered the call of the Singapore Hockey Associa* tion to coach the city's youngsters. The Association perturbed by the decline In hockey standard and with the object of sending a team to the 1952
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    Stores Sell More "Sticks"
    89 5 Stores Sell More "Sticks" SINGAPORE women aie taking an increasing amount of interest m hockey which is gainin popularity this season as shown by the market! increase m the sale of hockey sticks. Hockey pads and balls are aiso selling much better than the last season. A leading S ngapore
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    S'PORE "ALL BLUES" BEAT NEGRI 11-0
    344 6 Losers put up game fight Singapore "AH Blues" 11 pts. Negri 'All Blues" ft. SINGAPORE defeated Negri by 11 points (a ROal, two tries) to nil m the first matcn of the "All Blues" rugger competition, Southern se. tion, played on the padang yesterday.
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    S'pore To Meet Selangor
    147 6 Wa-IGHTLIFTING The first post-War inter-State contest be- 1 1 twecn Singapore and Selangor aiputeur weightlifters will he- staged at the New World arena at the beginning of next year. The contest has been ar rang- I Sd in five weights; fly, bantam. feather, light and middle.
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    Crack Chinese Basket – Ball Team Due
    57 6 Crack Chinese Basket Ball Team Due The Ta Kung-Pao, cracK basketball team fiom Shanghai is due here tomorrow to play a scries of matches against local teams. There are 13 playcm arriving with this team, which has recently fulfilled engagement m Java. The matches In Singapore will be held early
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    Just How Good Is Jim Newell?
    426 6 By X.0." lIMMY Newell, 24-year-old Naval rating from J H.iVI.S. Birmingham, is m the spotlight. About a fortnight ago. this sturdy miCdltwetght forsook the amateur ranks when he decided to take on P. S. Chong, a professional who had scalped Gunboat Smith up-country. Before
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    CHARLES STOPS BAKSI
    109 6 New York. Sit. tsxaard j Chark a scored a technical l knock out over Joe Baksi m a fifteen round eliminating KOrit*at here last night for the world heavyweight championship at present held by Joe Louis. The referee halted the bout m the 11th rounn Charles opened
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    Played in 2 feet of water 8 months ago —today a Champion
    350 6 Played in 2 feet of water 8 months ago today a Champion JHIKTEEN-YEAR-OLD Pat Van der Touw is one of the up and coming swimmers Ol U*€ Singapore Swimming Club and a strong hope m the next Singapore Amateur Swimming Association's Championships. Pat who recently won the Junior Girls' Championship
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    COMB. CIVILIANS BEAT SERVICES
    38 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. The Combined Civilians defeated the Combined Services by two tries, 2 penalties, to a goal on the padang today. The Combined Civilians lead by nine points to nil at half time.
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    MANSFIELD BEATEN
    22 6 The Singapore Municipal Sedvices' Union narrowly beat the Mansfield Sports Club by four games to three at tabletennis on Friday,
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    DALCROSS RETURNS $113 DIVIDEND
    1874 7 'winners and prices Moil Exiling liiiish (-DOUBLE TOTE* IPOH, Saturday. From ALLAN LEWIS |)ALCKOSS (Hag by up) created the biggest upset at toda>*s races the last day of the Perak Turf Club's December Meeting, when she won nice four to pay a startling dividend of .$ll3.
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    Big Sweep
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    Selangor Beat Malacca 1—0
    50 7 TI MALACCA, Sat. Selangoi Ibcat Malacca by one-nil m an inter-State hockey encounter )layed on Ihe Malacca Club tadang today. Selangor attacked rrbtn the tart but were unable to score. In the ir.th tnlnyte <»f the econd halt, Selangor obtained heir winning goal through lalvnder Singh.
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    Conn Rets a lesson From Joe
    299 8 Conn Rets a lesson From Joe CHICAGO. Sat.— Joe Louis world heavyweight champion. gave a boxing lesson to his oid rival. Billy Conn, last night m a six-round exhibition bout. Conn, who twice met Louis for the world title and was knocked out on each occasion, was cleat ly outclassed.
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    Johnson Hits 132 Not Out
    92 8 Melbourne. Sat.- -lan John ;on, the all-rounder. wh( oured England last summer scored 132 not out today fo? Victoria against Queensland ir l Sheffield Shield match. Vietoiia scored 436 m their irst innings, to which Queensand replied wUh 177 for five ticket* W: A. Brown,
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    Land For Malacca Indian Colony
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