The Straits Times, 3 September 1952

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 195?. PRICE. FIFTEEN CENT?
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    DUCHESS TO VISIT SERVICE HOMES IN MALAYA
    405 1 DUCHESS TO VISIT SERVICE HOMES IN MALAYA Busy tour with Duke starts September 30 pULL details of the 13-day visit to Malaya of the Duchess of Ken and the 16-year-old Duke were announced in Singapore last nigh They arrive in Singapore by air on Tuesday, Sept. 30. The Duchess and
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    Quiet on bandit front
    135 1 Quiet on bandit front KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. V~ESTORDAY was one of the 1 quietest days of the Emergency for many months. No battles were reported. There were no murders. Only incidents were in the Mentakab area of Pahan* where a gang fired at an armoured train as it stopped for
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    New CO in Tokyo on way to Korea
    67 1 TOKYO. Tues— The CommandiiiK Officer designate of the First British Commonwealth Division ln Korea. Major Gen. Michael M. Alston Roberts West, arrived here today by air from Britain. Major Gen. Alston Roberts West will leave for Korea ou Thursday to take over
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    Miss Truman defends guards
    68 1 NEW YORK. Tues—Margaret Truman defended her secret service guards against Swedish criticism when she arrived at New York today after a two-month trip abroad. She admitted that "it will be nice not to be followed" when her father is no longer President. "It was much ado
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    Death of a poet 4 RED SUSPECTS ARE ARRESTED
    151 1 Death of a poet 4 RED SUSPECTS ARE ARRESTED MOSCOW. Tues. Moscow newspapers today reported the death of poet-satirist Sergei Basov-Verkhoyantsev, 83. a revolutionary writer who was arrested, exiled and lmpr.soned frequently under the Tzarlst regime.— A.P. POUR Chinese two men and two women sus r pected of being connected
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    'Doubts' on Negroes
    88 1 WASHINGTON. Tues Mr. J j. Singh, president of the India League of America, said last night that the people of India ha<i "grave doubts'' about the treatment of minority groups in the United States. He said: "Everywhere I went, not only In India but in South-East Asian
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    Australia's next Gov.-General
    63 1 CANBERRA. Tues. The Prime Minister, Mr. Robert Menzies. told the Cabinet today that Field Marshal Sir William Slim has been appointed next Governor-Gen-eral of Australia, it was authoritatively learned here. Field Marshal Slim, who Is chief of the Imperial General Staff, will succeed Sir William McKeli and
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    New service
    26 1 PERTH. Tues. A Qantas Constellation on the lnaujrural flight of a new SydneyJohannesburg service left Gulldford airport here for the Cocos Islands today— Reuter
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    BOAT, CAUGHT IN TYPHOON, SINKS OFF LUZON: 16 FEARED DROWNED
    63 1 MANILA, Tuesday. THE motorboat Arkinan sank in Banuyan Channel, A north of Luzon, on San day, when she was caught in a typhoon, and 16 persons aboard were believed drowned. The 16 were all crew members. The Ark man was
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    365 mile walk
    53 1 LONDON. Tues. A 39- year -old engineer reached I St. Paul's Cathedral today after walking non-stop for 365 miles from Berwick-upon-Tweed on the Scots border. The walker George Dlxon. had taken 93 hours and 42 minute* He took one minute stands during the walk but did not
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    Naval visit
    28 1 BELGRADE. Tues.— Six of the American Navy's most modern warships will arrive at the Yugoslav port of Split on Sept. 11 for four-day official call Reuter
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    Star talks
    22 1 ROME, Tues.— Eight Russian astronomers arrived in Rome last night for the world astronomy conference, which begins on Thursday Reuter.
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    New success
    28 1 DOVER, lues. Twentyone year-old Philip Mickman swam the Channel overnight In 18 hours 44 minutes. Mickman. now ln the RAF, swam the Channel ln 1949— Reuter
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    Ceylon cuts travel rate
    58 1 COLOMBO. Tues.— Ceylon tightened her currency controls today as a temporary measures to tide over the present adverse balance of payments, said the acting Governor of the Ceylon Central Bank. Mr N. U Jayawardena The basic annual travel allowance to Malaya. India. Pakistan and Burma had
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    £50.000 missing: officer sought
    44 1 MADRID. Tues.—Continental ports and airports were watched today for Capt Julian Rodriguez Pastrana chief paymaster of the Spanish War Ministry, who Is sought in connection with the disappearance of one month's payroll for th<> staff —about 4.000.000 pesetas (£50.000).— A.P
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    To build quay
    35 1 COLOMBO. Tues— A team of 13 Japanese divers arrived here from Tokyo yesterday to work on the new Customs quay foundation which Is being built under the Colombo port development scheme. —Reuter.
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    U.S. envoy to India here
    74 1 The American Ambassador to Inaia. Mr. Chester Bowles arrived in Singapore yesterday from Manila on a threeday visit to the Colony. He has Just visited Burma. Siam. Indo-China. Hong Kong and the Philippines. He Is on hla way to New Delhi. Whtlo l n the
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    WHIRLWIND HITS WATERFRONT
    108 1 KUALA TRENGOANU. Tues. A WHIRLWIND ripped off roofs of more than 50 houses on the half-mile-long wRtiM-frnnt of KuaJn TrenK«anu, capital of Trengganu UUft 1 night, Tiles, zinc and attap came down, brick walls were shattered and a Malay was hit on the head by a falling
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    Social security as anti-Red weapon
    155 1 I U.S. JUDGE HAS A PLAN HONG KONG, Tuesday. I rSTICE William Douglas, of the United States Siipreme Cowrt, today suggested starting a coun-ter-revolutionary programme In Sooth-east Asia, baaed on social security, as the fc«t way to fight Communism. Mr. Douglas, who arrived here from
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    RED DUMP BLASTED
    135 1 RED DUMP BLASTED BEOUL. Tues. NIGHT invaders flew Into northeast Korea early to- I day ln a concentrated attack on a Communist supply centre and left the Red in- I .stallation a mass of flames and explosions. Twin-engine warplanes from two bomb wings blasted a Communist concentration at Slnchans. north
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    They ignored their motto
    55 1 NEW YORK, Tues.— The motto of the United States letter carriers Is: "Neither snow nor rain, nor heat nor gloom of the night stays these couriers from swift completion of their appointed rounds." The National Association of Letter Carriers yesterday cancelled its parade up. Fifth Avenue
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    MALAYA:'RACE AGAINST TIME, ILL-FORTUNE'
    278 1 MALAYA: 'RACE AGAINST TIME, ILL-FORTUNE LONDON, Tuesday. 'PHE Daily Telegraph today said it was not certain that Britain would be able to wipe out terrorism in Malaya within four years. The paper pointed out that In concrete results, the news from Malaya could hardly be better. "The most significant defail
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    Lorry hits tree, nine injured
    84 1 Lorry hits tree, nine injured rpWENTY-ONE civilian emX ployees of the War Department were thrown from a lorry when it landed on its ilde after hitting a tree at the junction of K.lliney Road and River Valley Road. Singapore, yesterday afternoon. Nine of them were slightly injured and taken to
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    Riot squads stand by
    59 1 HONG KONG, Tues. Police riot squads stood by here last night after workers demonstrated over the reported dismissal of 37 leftwing tramwaymen who were given one week's notice by Hongkong Tramways Limited. A crowd of Chinese employees had gathered outside the Tramway Workers Union headquarters last
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    British car in frontier chase
    54 1 VENTIMiGLIA, Italian French Frontier Tues. Italian Dollce cars today chased a high-powered British car which they alleged crashed through the frontier from France without stopping at. the control post. They caught the car after a seven mile chase down the winding coast road and forced
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    Spy charges
    20 1 KARUiRUHix Tues.— West German police have arrested an East German official, LudwiK Weis. on charges of spying. Reuter.
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    MALAN POLICY 'DENIAL OF MEN'S RIGHTS9
    212 2 MALAN POLICY 'DENIAL OF MEN'S RIGHTS 9 MARGATE, Tuesday. Jtfß. ALFRED ROBERTS, vice-chairman of the ITI British Trades Union Confrc-j -aid h*re last night that the resolution deplorine the "denial f human rights in South AfricV expected to come up at the congress today, had th support not only uf
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    French ban talks on Tunisia
    91 2 French ban talks on Tunisia GENEVA. Tues 'pHE World Federation of United Nations Associations struck the Tunisian question off the agenda of its seventh annual assembly yesterday after the French delegation had warned that they would walk out of any discussion on this issue. The assembly also decided without discussion
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    Ships 'not sinister'
    55 2 CANBERRA. Tues.— Pishing vessels operating Just outside Australian territorial waters north of Australia have been identified at Japanese, the Maw Minister Mr William MeMahon. void a Press conference today "We believe their operations are quite legitimate and have no sinister design." he said "The Japanese are operating
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    Smelter plan
    27 2 LA PAZ. BOLIVIA Tues Construction of Bolivia's first tin smeltei i> beui* biua.to by mimsurs. The nroject calls for Argentine, Uruguayan and European capital. AP.
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    'Leniency' of a Red boss
    59 2 BERLIN, Tues. Wilhelm I Pieck, Communist President lof East Germany, yesterday reduced for the first time a prison sentence Imposed for alleged economic sabotage. Object of this initial examI pie of Communist leniency [was a 70-year-old Hermann l Mueller, a gas engineer. His \l2 years'
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    Space ships
    29 2 STUTfGART, Tues.— Two I hundred scientists from 12 countries met in the Third International Aeronautical Congress yesterday to pool plans for sending space ships to other planets.
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      1892 2 PUBLIC APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCEMENT NOTICES BUSINESS AS USUAL MALAYAN RAILWAY We re gret to announce the death of the late proprietor of Tan KELLY 4 WALSH, LIMITED Hong Tek A Co., Mr. Tan Hong Tek, which occurred on 31st Incorporated ln Hong Kong VACANCY FOR ENGINEMEN August, 1952. SPECIAL On medical
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      814 2 NOTICES NOTICES SALE w the supreme court anuurr o aiu,* Qp rm FFDERATION OK In the Supreme Court of the MALATA Colony at Singapore. in THE HIGH COURT Salt No. MS of 1952 AT KUALA LUMPUR. Kx^ntlon V. 144 /U ORIGINATING PETITION Execution N«. 144/ M NO jQF lfM In
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    TRUMAN BLASTS OPPOSITION
    392 3 nims trying to hide behind a new face MILWAUKEE, Tuesday. PRESIDENT TRUMAN last night denounced the Republicans as "still the party of special interests" trying to pose as something different by hiding behind a new personality of General Dwight Eisenhower. The President, who was speaking In an
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    31 3 POWERED by two Sapphire jet engines, Britain's new Gloster Javelin screams through the air in a test flight. Makers say it is the most effective fighter in the world. A.P picture.
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    FAMILY GOT THE WRONG ROBERT
    149 3 FAMILY GOT THE WRONG ROBERT COLYTON, England. Tues. MR. and Mrs. William Woolagan entertained the wrong Robert for nine days before they discovered their error but they were ready to try again. They invited Robert Kelly, a 12-year-old son of their friends, to stay with them. They had never met
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    Drink warning
    26 3 TORONTO, Tues. An American expert on alcohol says more than half of today's alcoholics developed the craze through years of steady social drinking. AF
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    New envoy
    18 3 TAIPEI Tues -Or Plding Weng will leave tomorrow to be Chinese Nationalist Minister to Panama.— A.P.
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    The new jets are told: Slow down
    183 3 50 PLANES IN AIR DISPLAY FARNBOROUGH, Tuesday. DRITAIN'S new. jet planes impressed crowds at the v air display week opening here yesterday, despite a ban which held the jets down to a speed of less than sound. The Society of British Aircraft Manufacturers,
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    JAPANESE ARE TOLD: NO ROOM
    65 3 SYDNEY. Tue* GROUP of Japanese wool buyers had -their hotel bookings cancelled yesterday when a Brisbane hotel management discovered that they were Japanese nationals. Other hotels in Brisbane refused accommodation, saying they were booked up. Wool brokers then approached the Licensing Commission for the Japanese
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    UNIONS EXPECT CLASH ON ARMS
    228 3 UNIONS EXPECT CLASH ON ARMS MARGATE, Tues. BRITISH trade union leaders prepared tonight for a sharp clash with Left-winger members over rearmament at the Trades Union Congress here tomorrow. Rearmament is one of the major problems facing the 8.000,000 strong Congress, whose annual meeting opened yesterday with a strorg attack
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    ANZUS meeting;
    34 3 WASHINGTON. Tues.— The U.S. Defence Department yesterday said that military representatives of he ANZUS Council— Australia, New Zealand the United S-ates— will hold their first meeting at Pearl Harbour on Sept. 22.
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    Visited 'nice boy-killed
    60 3 Visited 'nice boy -killed BOULOGNE, Tues— Sybil Johnson, London nurse whose body was found on Wlmereoux beach near here 10 days ago. had told a friend she was crossing to France "to see a very nice boy." This was told to Scotland Yard by Mrs. Eva Frederick, a friend of
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    Ceylon gets 40,000 tons of U.S. rice
    137 3 COLOMBO. Tuesday. pEYLONS Food Commissioner, Mr. K. Alvapillat revealed today that Ceylon will get 40,000 tons of rice from the United States as a result of the recent mission headed by Sir Oliver Goonetileke. Ceylon will also get 12.003 tons frotn Italy. The
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    CONDOLENCES NOT REQUIRED
    78 3 MILWAUKEE. Tues. PRESIDENT Truman yesterday mistakenly issued a statement of condclence on the death of Mr. Cordell Hull, the former Secretary of State, who is ritically ill Mr. Truman first said: 'The people of the United States Join with me in mourning the passing of this country's
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    Relay swim abandoned
    79 3 FOLKESTONE, Tues. Six yong members of Folkestone Swimming Club who began a lelay attack on the Channel from France at midday yesterday, arrived back here by boat last night after abandoning the swim because of rough weather. They kept going for three hours, each boy doing a
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    UP UP gO the costs
    79 3 UP UP gO the costs NEW YORK, Tues. THL Korean war and the rearmament programme are casting Americans 22 percent more per head than the Second World War cost at its peak, the United States National Industrial Confer'n:* 1 Board reportc-J yesteriay. The Conference estimates hat the total of direct
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    Tunisians9 5-year plan
    52 3 Tunisians 9 5-year plan TUNIS, Tues.— The report of 40 leading Tunisians, asked by the Bey of Tunis to advise him on the attitude toadopt towards the French reform plan, was handed to the Bey yesterday. The plan provides for internal autonomy within the French Union during the next five
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    London talks
    31 3 LONDON. Tues. Representatives of the Western Powers yestirday began talks at the Foreign Office on a repCy to Russia s latest proposals for a four-power meeting on Germany.— U.P.
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    NEW DUTCH CABINET SWORN IN
    114 3 AMSTERDAM. Tues. A NEW four -party Dutch cabinet took office today, ending a 12-week Government crisis. Eleven members of the 16- l*nan bocU lereyntorn, IsA* fefflce by Quwn Jiflfana-. fubt 1 (Klrer ministers. lndadlnß the Prime Minister. Dr. Wlllem Drees, were members of the previous
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    LONDON STOCKS
    365 3 Turn for better LONDON, Tues. A PTER a slow •tart, during which a number of domestic i Usuet tended slightly lower, to- day's markets took a turn for the better and by the close most of i yesterday's losses had been eradlIcated. However the pace of deal- ing.
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      142 3 LONDON TIN PRICE LONDON Sept 2. Cash Buyers £961; Sellers t%'»; Forward Buyers £949; Sellers £950; Settlement; £960 (up £7). Turnover, a.m 75 tons: p.m. 35 tons U.K. RUBBER LONDON, Sept. 2— Spot 23 1 d.. Oct. 23>»d. Nov. M^d.. Dec. 23 >,d.. Oct -Dec. 23\d.. Jan.-Mar. 23 4 d..
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      100 3 this morning and buy the best evaporated milk on the market. it's rich and nourishing... and you can depend on the quality. Always keep some in your store cupboard. "ACORN" EVAPORATED MILK Singapore Cold Storage Co., Ltd. i SOMETHING NEW I AT iSEAVIEW HOTEL Seafood by the Sea I Every
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    Felix back after a show down in godown
    172 4 A "DESERTER" rejoined the freighter Deucalion shortly before she sailed from Singapore yesterday —and was Riven a big welcome by officers and crew. Known to fellow seamen as Midshipman Felix, the "deserter" had not been seen since he silently padded off the
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    Women fined
    70 4 IPOH, Tues. A house to house check by Home Guards in Bunthong and Yau Tet Shin Street on the night of Aug. 9 resulted in five Chinese women being summoned in the Magistrate's Court on charges under the Registration of Tenants Ordinance. They a! 1 pleaded gui'ty to
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    Two rioted allegation
    55 4 Tan Kioi Pher and Tan Tian Chan, alleged to have committed riot at Hokkien Street on Monday night, pleaded not guilty before the Singapore Second Police Magistrate. Mr. D. H. Chapman, yesterday, when they were charged with being members of an unlawful assembly. They were each allowed
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    'Two Gun' Stafford gets medal for routing the bandits
    335 4 'HIS BRAVE ACTION IS TYPICAL...' KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. TWO courageous policemen an assistant superintendent and a special constable, have been awarded Colonial Police Medals for gallantry, it was announced today. Mr. W. F. (Two-gun Bill) Stafford, who Is in charge of
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    27 4 A GIRL getting off an Auater after a ten -minute trip over Ipoh in the Perak Flying Club's first postwar "air day" on Sunday. Straits Time*; picture.
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    Fed. Regiment
    23 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues Another probationary officer, Mr. Chye Loy Fook, has been selected for the Federation Regiment, it was stated today.
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    Seeks additional rice for Colony
    69 4 Mr. I. R. M. Willis, deputy secretary of the Economic Affairs Department, Singapore, will leave by air for Bangkok on Saturday to attend talks with the Siamese Government on additional rice for the Colony for the rest of this year. Talks with the British Ambassaor
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    Vaccinations continue
    27 4 vaccinated in Singapore yesterday District figures are Joo Chlat. 1,231; Prlnsep Street, 2 377. Balestier Road, 1.019; Kreta Ayer, 2,360. Tiong Bahru. 1.016; others, 108.
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    HE ALSO WENT TOO FAR
    89 4 HE ALSO WENT TOO FAR KUALA LUMPUR Tues. RETURNING home after work one evening, an Indian labourer at Elmlna Estate, Selangor saw his wife talking to a special constable. He felt jealous and questioned her. There was an argument and the labourer struck her with a parang. Today the labourer,
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    Ipoh gets new magistrate
    37 4 IPOH. Tues.— lnche Abdullah bin Ghazati, of Kedah, has assumed duties today as a magistrate at Ipoh. He succeeds Inche -Arshad bin Ismail, who left for Britain recently on a three-year judicial scholarship.
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    2 HOURS. 97 CASES
    90 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. KUALA LUMPUR'S newest magistrate, Inche Ismail bin Mohamed Jamil, disposed of 97 cases in less than two hours in his first sitting today. Transferred from Johore, Inche Temai] ls taking the place of Mr. A. P. Jack, the Kuafa Lumpur First Court Magistrate,
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    HIS DANCING WAS OFF TIME
    144 4 A, DANCE that Mohammed bin Abdullah started Sunday nif ht ted him into the Singapore Third District Court yesterday. Mohammed, who Is also known as "Ahmad Cowboy," was charged under the Emergency Regulations with falling to comply with an order from the Colonial Secretary, forbidding
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    SHOES FITTED 'MISS CINDERELLA'
    69 4 SHOES FITTED 'MISS CINDERELLA' PENANG, Tues. A 39-YEAR-OLD woman, Che Wan binte Ariffin, a member of the Jclutong UMNO Women's League, won the title of "Miss Cinderella" last night at the New World Park when she successfully tried on a pair of lady's shoes at a fair in aid of
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    Gunman robs shop at Klang
    93 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. AN armed robbery took place at Telok Pulal Road, Klang. on Saturday night. Police say two Chinese walked into a Chineseowned shop. One of them 1 brandished what looked like a pistol. The man opened the till and took $400. The pair
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    $1,500 offer: 2 on trial
    84 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. Two Segamat laundry pro prietors, Fong Yam and Fong Kam, faced trial before Mr. Justice Buhagair in the iJohore High Court today on charges of corruptly offering I $1,500 to Inspector Oazalll to secure the release of two men who were arrested
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    Cyclist dies
    25 4 A 54-year-old cyclist, Tan See Fong, was fatally Injured yesterday when he was knocked down by a lorry in Kampong Bahru Road, Singapore.
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    TWO GUNS IN LOCKER BRING FOUR YEARS
    227 4 A MALAYAN Other Rank, Koh Beng Seah, 21, who pleaded guilty at Singapore Assizes yesterday to two charges of unlawful possession of two revolvers and 12 rounds of ammunition, told Mr. Justice Knight that he had them in his locker "for no particular
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    AIR LINK NOW REACHES MALACCA
    249 5 First Dakota lands with the mail MALACCA, Tuesday. THE ancient settlement of Malacca became commercially linked by air with the large towns of Malaya yesterday when the first Malayan Airways Dakota touched down at Malacca Airport Singapore la now Just an hour from Malacca by
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    I SUPER SALESMAN
    38 5 MR. CHCA KHIAM Id K. of Singapore, who last -week sold $12,060 worth of tickets for a concert next Wednesday at the Happy- World in aid of the Singapore AntiTuberculosis Association and the Chines? V.M.C.A.
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    Nine picked to represent Muslims
    175 5 Nine picked to represent Muslims SINGAPORE Muslim Ad»J visory Board has selected nine of its members as dis- crlct representatives in the Colony to assess Muslim opinion on various matters of public Interest, and place them before the Board for consideration. The Board's decision on such matters will be brought
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    Colony gets air link to Cocos Isles
    132 5 rvANTAS Empire Airways V£ has received many Inquiries about its new Fortnightly Skymaster service linking Singapore and the Cocos Islands. The service, which connects Singapore with the SydneyJohannesburg Constellation service at Cocos. was started yesterday when a Skymaster left Kallang at a.m. Capt.
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    Plea to Governor for cinema
    166 5 AN appeal is to be made to the Governor-in- Council, this week, for permission to build a $250,000 cinema in Tiong Bahru on two acres of land on Kirn Tian Road, off Kirn Pong Road. Plans for the cinema were rejected a fortnight ago by
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    F.A.O. sponsors study tour
    72 5 Singapore and Federation officials wiU be among more than 30 foresters who are to begin shortly a two-month "eucalyptus study tour" in Australia, sponsored by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation. The quick growth and high yields of eucalyptus, trees, their usefulness, particularly for pulpwood
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    Chief cashier transferred
    52 5 TAIPINO. Tues.— Mr. Loh Chong Hong, Chief Cashier of the Talping branch of the Chartered Bank of India. Australia and China, has been transferred to Ipoh as Chief Cashle r In place of Mr. Ong Thuan Beng. who has re-th-ed. Mr. Teoh Chooi Leong succeeds Mr. Loh
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    $210,000 grant
    80 5 MALACCA, Tues.— A grant 'of $210,000 to the St. John Ambulance Association of Malaya has been approved by the Finance Sub-Committee of the Malayan Chinese Association, it was announced today. The grant, to be pai<j in four instalments, will be used to form 25 ambulance teams to serve
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    Man stabbed
    23 5 A 27-year-old Chinese, Wan Yong, was stabbed last night by two Chinese In Malabar Street, Singapore. He was taken to hospital.
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    Driver charged
    36 5 SEGAMAT. Tues.— Ball of $300 was allowed a van driver. Chen Hoy. alias Chen San Choon. aged 29. charged at Segamat with obstructing a road and with offering a $2 bribe to a constable.
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    Labour Congress representatives
    69 5 IPOH, Tues. Mr. John Emanuel and Mr. C. H. Yin havr: been appointed representatives or the newly- formed Perak Labour Party to attend the Pan-Malayan Labour Party Congress at Kuala Lumpur on Sept. 21. The Congress will approve the policj of the .Labour Farry in Malaya and
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    Driver allowed $500 bail
    69 5 TAIPINO Tues Osman bin Ban. 21. was charged at Taiplng with causing the death of Mohamed Zamanan at the 45J mile Kuala Kang-sar-Talping road, by a negligent act not amounting to culpable homicide. He was alleged to have driven a military truck without due regard for
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    Indian Envoy to give talk
    115 5 PENANO. Tues Mr. N Raghavan. Indian Envoy to China, will address a public meeting under the auspices of the Penang branch of the Malay Indian Congress at the Penanji Hindu Sabha, Dato Kramat Road at 530 tomorrow evening Mr. Raghavan 'arrived in Penang yesterday to
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    Appeal Court
    40 5 IPOH. Tues— The Federation Court of Civil Appeal, presided over by Mr. Justice Mathew. Chief Justice of the Federation. Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley Chief Justice of Singapore, and Mr. Justice Pretheroe, began its session in the Supreme Court today.
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    RETRIAL OF LEE MENG ON MONDAY
    112 5 RETRIAL OF LEE MENG ON MONDAY IPOH. Tues. rE re-triai of 24-year-old Lee Tian Tal alias Lee Menr, who was arraigned last week on four capital charges under the Emergency Regulations has been fixed for next Monday, Sept. 8, in the Assize Court at Ipoh. Lee Meng, who was proceeded
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    Detainee dead
    22 5 A 36-year-old Indian Muslim Emergency detainee was found dead by a guard at nine last night on St. John's Island.
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    Taxi robbery
    29 5 A taxi driver was assaulted and robbed last night In Thomson Road. Singapore, by two Europeans believed to be soldiers. They took a pen $io in cash.
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    Waiting for the plane
    25 5 The waiting room of the Malacca Airport On the left background can be aveen the Malay an Airways and Customs offlcea.
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    Health inspector criticises Govt.
    206 5 PENANG, Tuesday. rpHE FEDERATION Government had failed miserA ably to fulfil its own obligations to health Inspectors, Mr. Ng Teik Swee, the in-ccming president of the Health and Sanitary Inspectors' Union, said last night at the union's annual dinner at the Springtide Hotel. Mr. Ng said
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    Illegal hawking problem
    103 5 BUTTERWORTH. Tues. rE Province Welleslej Rural Board has been asked to consider measures to deal with illegal hawking. The request was made by Tuan Hajl Ismail bin Che Chik (Malay Unofficial), who poinied out /it the adjournment of the Board that illegal hawking is still being oarritd
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    ARMY TECHNICAL STAFF CUT
    151 5 NOTICES of retrenchment and downgrading of civilian employees in Army establishments in Singapore have been served on a number, of technical workers. Mr. S. T V Llngatn president of the Army Civil Services Union, told the Straits Times yesterday. But the Unfon yesterday wrote to the
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      Singapore's Detainees
      943 6 Singapore's Detainees also been stated that the facts in the police dossier are never disclosed to a detainee or his lawyer, and no opportunity is given to test their veracity. No opportunity is given for a detainee to have the case against him investigated in a judicial manner or to
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      Air Link With South Africa
      194 6 Salute the airmen who. in the Kingsford Smith tradition, are now "blazing a trail" across the Indian Ocean. To the network of lines on the air-map linking Singapore with the outside world is added another in a southerly direction to the lonely little Cocos Island
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    94 6 MRS VALERIE ENGELMANN wls'ies to express her sincere thenks to all friends who have written and sent messages of sympathy to her in connection With her bereavement MRS. P. SELVADURAI and family of Sentul thank all relatives ■nd friends who attended the funeral, sent wreaths, messages of condolence and
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    IN MEMORIAM
    47 6 KONSTANTI K MICHAEL KNCELMANN. A memorial sen ice wll' be held in St. Andrew's Cathrc'ral nt 6 p.m. on Friday 1952. HITCHAM. In loving memory of Edward H»A. the tlcar beloved husband of Hannah Hltcham, died 6?pt. 3 1939 Someday we will tin' i »rstand.
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    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    40 6 LITTLE SHOP SALE Diess bargains less than price, every day for a fortnight. Blouses $10. Open during Lunch. WHITE Grecian Urn shaped Bret by Pottery Vases in all sizes have Just been received at Madeline Ltd.. 278 Orchard Road.
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    RED PROPAGANDA OFFENSIVE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
    443 6 One of the great oil-producing centres in the world is (n ferment. The Communists always ready to keep the pot boiling in the troubled areas, have stepped up their propaganda campaign. Today, j. L Hays writes of the IN CAIRO recently Oonoroi Noaiiih'c
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      The movie guide list was not complete
      187 6 qiHE CATHOLIC Church cheerfully accepts the L sarcasm of the Stole when It comes to defending decency against indecency. If he prefers to be on the side of the latter, that is his privilege. We're objecting here, not to his morals but his
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      Ready to see Dr. Purcell
      197 6 DR. V. PURCELL, Adviser to i the M.C.A.. has said that the outstanding mLssnderstanding between Malays and Chinese was due to faulty British policy. What does Dr Purcell want the Malay peninsula to be? Dr. Purcell will not deny that the Malay peninsula belongs to
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    THE SAME MISTAKE
    474 6 I CONFIRM that the case cited by the Chairman of the War Damage Commission would appear to be the on* quoted by me previously. in taking only a quick glance at the cheques concemed It would P.ppear that I myself have committed the very same error as
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    RAFFLES AT THE NATIONAL
    625 6 THE Stamford Raffles picture in the Nationa. Portrait Gallery is in a fine position. You can see the picture from some way off as it hangs in its gilt frame at the end of one of the lofty corridors. But the inscription below the portrait should
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    On the Margin
    414 6 I Authors note ANE of the greatest stories v waiting to be written is of the contribution the two major immigrant races, the Chinese and Indians, have made towards the development and advancement, not only of Malaya but of South-Ea.-t Asia. The two big industries in the
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    BLACKOUTS MAY END BY NOV. 15
    241 7 power station is ahead of schedule A CONSTRUCTION speed up on the new power plant at Pasir Panjang may end blackouts in Singapore by Nov. Is. This is the date by which City Councillors hope the station will roll into operation. They are basing
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    The priest gathers in his flock
    138 7 The priest gathers in his flock MEMBER 3 of the Singapore Nursing Division of St John Ambulance Brigade recently turned tout In large numbers, acting as nurse-atieiiriant-chaufleuses, and enabled nearly 60 old people and invalids to attend a I special Mass. The prlest-in-charge of Katong Catholic Church, I Father Ashness.
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    'GUILTY' PLEA REJECTED
    83 7 Mr. Justice Knight refused In Singapore Assizes yesterday to accept a plea of guilty to a charge of causing grievous hurt because "the accused, Lim Chin Shang, did not admit all th e Ingredients of the charge." lim admitted causing grievous hurt to a man in Ellenborough
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    New TAKING COURSE IH BRITAIN
    30 7 New TAKING COURSE IH BRITAIN Sister (Miss) S. Verghese, of the Singapore General Hospital, who leaves in the Corfu today for the "S.C.M." Diploma and Midwifery Course i i Britain.
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    A smoke cost him $250
    51 7 When Ng Moh Sing entered the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday smoking a cigarette, a constable told him throw it away but Ng pushed the constable aside Instead. The magistrate, Mr. H B. Livingstone. ordered his arrest and fined him $250 In default three months'
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    $70 fraud is alleged
    84 7 Abu Bakar bin Abdul Rahman; 21, a clerk In the Education Department, claimed trial to a cheating charge J" tn Singapore Second Police Court yesterday Abu Bakar was accused of having altered the figure $115 in his Post Office savings bank book to $185, to make
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    Girl Guides visit Johore
    76 7 JOHORE BAHRU,. Tues.— After spending a pleasant morning at the Naval Base. i Seletar. 11 Girl Guides from "Brunei went by launch to Johore Bahru. where they were met by Datin H. E. MacKenzie, State Commissioner for Girl Guides, Johore, who took them on a tour
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    What India reads today...
    77 7 A copy of the Indian newspaper The Statesman, enclosed in a blue and white wrapper bearing the words: "By Comet That's Quick," reached London the day after publication. A card with this Inscription was enclosed: "This newspaper was published In Calcutta on Wednesday. It Is sent
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    Driver fined
    31 7 JOHORE BAHRU, »Tues.— K. Allagan, of Singapore, was fined $30 at Johore Bahru fo r carrying furniture In his lorry from Singapore to Johore Bahru without a haulage permit.
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    But they found the wrong girl
    279 7 'FIND MY DAUGHTER 9 PLEA KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. SOCIAL Welfare officials of this town set out to trace a missing girl for an anxious mother and came upon a second mystery with the first one still unsolved. Wong Vat Sim told the Department that
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    Better arms for guards urged
    105 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tugs. A resolution urging the Government to supply kampong guards with antomatlc weapons will De tabled at the three-day UMNO conference which starts at Butterworth on Sept. 13. The rsolution, to be introduced by the Batu Pahat and Kluang division of UMNO, urges
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    Registrar back at work
    46 7 Mr. Tan Thoon Lld. Registrar. Singapore High Court, has returned from a holiday in Hong Kong and resumed duties yesterday. Mr. H. A. Forrer, Tnird, Criminal District Judge, who had been acting for Mr. Tan, has gone back to the District Court.
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    'END BOYCOTT OF PURCELL'
    136 7 KUALA LUMPUR. TIHSS. INCHE Abdullah Yassln. U.M.N.0.-M-C.A. member of the Kuala Lumpur Municipal Council, today urged U.M.N.O. leaders to call off their boycott of Dr Victor Purcell. who is now studying the conditions of Chinese in Malaya. He told the Straits Times: "The least the Malay
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    36 7 NINE civilian employees of the War Department were injured none seriously wh en the lorry in which they were travelling: home, overturned at the junction of Killiney Road and River" Valley Road yesterday even-ing-.—Strata Times picture.
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    GOVT. HAS PLANS TO BOOST FOOD OUTPUT
    150 7 'THE Singapore Government will soon create a food production department to grow more food and lower the Colony's cost of living. The new department will absorb the present Agricultural and Veterinary Departments, which are both connected with production of vegetables and poultry. The
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    Civil Lord for Singapore
    44 7 Mr. K. S. D. W. Digby. Civil Lord of the Admiralty Is visiting Singapore on Sept. 17. He will tour Her Majesty's Dockyard and visit Royal Naval establishments In the Colony. Mr. Dlgby will also visit Ceylon and Hong Kong.
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    Magistrates OK—so Satay Club stays
    154 7 Magistrates OK —so Satay Club stays SINGAPORE'S famed Satay Club, known to gourmets from Shanghai to Sues and Capetown to London is to stay. The "club's" fate was decided In the City Police court yesterday when the magistrate, Mr. K. J. L. Jamieson. held that the satay-men were not causing
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    Segamat to get more houses
    61 7 SEOAMAT, Tues. The Government will build two senior officers' quarters at Segamat at a cost of $124,400. Another (43,000 wilt be spent to rebuild a house that was bombed during the war. Five class seven, a block of two class nine and barracks for twelve
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    PETERSON TO COORDINATE PUBLICITY
    192 7 PETERSON TO COORDINATE PUBLICITY KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. T*HE Federation Government today announced x the appointment of Mr. A. T. C. P.ter on as Director-General of Information Services. The former school teacher arrived two montha ago to write a report on propaganaa and publicity services in the Federation Mr. Peterson, who
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    Sikh tells of shots at his dog
    81 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. A SIKH has complained to the police that a European auxiliary police officer shot twice at his dog which \va« hidin? under his charpoy The Sikh said he was sleeping on me rh rpcy when the shots were fired. Mr.
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    Extortion bid alleged
    69 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Chow Tai Yen, 27, was charged at Kuala Lumpur today with attempting to extort $5,000 from Wong Fook Seng by putting him in fear of injury. Wong alleged that when Chow asked him to introduce him (Chow) to a girl and he refused. Chow,
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    4 women gaoled
    59 7 Four Indonesian women were in Singapore yesterday gaoled for five months, for i exporting 447 watches to an I Indonesian port without a permit. Pohan Pjomin, Siregar Nuriamin, Slti Tonga, and Siti Amar Suregar, were arrested by Customs men on ooard the ship Baud in the Outer
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    Transferred
    26 7 KUALA KANGSAR..Tues. Mr. K. Muniandy, of Kuala Kangsar Post Office, has been transferred to Padang Rengas as Postmaster. His successor is Mr. Lee Yoke Kwan.
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    BODIES FOUND
    34 7 MUAR. Tues.— The bodies of the two youths. Gwee Kheh Pow and Soon Ah Yon?, who were drowned on Sunday while swimming In the Muar River were recovered by the Dolice yesterday.
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      131 7 ACKNOWLEDGMENT THE sons and daughters of th« lat* Mrs. A. Somasundram Pillai wish to thank all relatives and friends who attended her funeral, also those who sent wreaths and I messages of condolence THERE'S li 7i r v FOR YOU in LYSTAV LYSTAV. The VHI'L- f spun rayon that is
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    W.O. guilty ofassaulting policeman
    166 8 W.O. guilty ofassaulting policeman WARRANT-OFFICER Stephen Ralph Thomas, attached to the Pulau Bran: garrison, yesterday pleaded guilty In a Singapore Magistrate's Court to using crimi--1 nal force on a Harbour Board constable. He pushed away the policeman who asked to see his pass at a gate. Thomas was convicted and
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    Move to end bickering on fund for fire victims
    549 8 Move to end bickering on fund for fire victims RESOLUTION BT S JRO CHAIRMAN A MOVE to settle differences between officials of Singapore Joint Relief Organisation and the Kampong Bujfis Fire Victims relief committee over trusteeship of $118,000 public donations raised by the relief committee, has been initiated by Air.
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    FISHING RECORD IS BROKEN
    149 8 A RECORD catch of 400 piculs of fish was brought into Singapore yesterday by two trawlers, the Shing Suu No. 1 and No. 2, which had been out on a single trip using the pair trawling method. The haul was sold to wholesalers for $17,000. The
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    Smugglers fined
    34 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. For attempting to smuggle two cameras, valued at $427, Liau Ying Liau was fined 1 1.030 at Johore Bahru today. The duty payable was $171. Both cameras were confiscated.
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    New airline office opens
    31 8 Oaruda Indonesia Airways the national airline of Indonesia opened its first office outside Indonesia in Singapore yesterday. The Airways Is run by the Indonesian Government and X.L.M.
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    Mystery of Tan and her lover
    205 8 AT 18. Tan Poh ran away A with her lover. Then one morning flve years later, she was found hanging by the neck from a beam. Injuries on her body showed that six* had been violently assaults. it was stated at a Singapore inquest
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    Trust to take 606 acre site
    183 8 rE OWNERS of 606 acres of land which the Singapore Improvement Trust needs for it« multi-million dollar low-cost housing scheme will shortly be served with Government land acauLsition notices The property, bounded by Thomson Road Braddell Road. Ba las tier Road and the Kalians
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      131 8 r W You& L(J/?Jt S ALL n bwl f' tcti.C'»i/ I fewJj/'W SU96(STfb U£'m rWf\ *U» SME M4SPUTUS B€ bright, drink Milo. morning. I I noon and night. Milo gives f l valuable vitamins and nourish- II < S^*'"»«?*' ment to one and all. gyfsTT >sValT| MnBM MB B M
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      235 8 •s'POBE KOIAKY CLUB): Weekly Mffting and Lunch Capitol Blue Room. 1 p.m. Talk on "Facets About Community Service" by air. Jack sSStm VICTORIA MEMOUAL HALL: Pianoforte Recital lor ScnooU by Dr ThortoD Loflhouae i.tt p.m U.M.V. STI'DIO: Recorded Recital of Sum and Jan. 4th floor. MacDonald House. Orchard Road. 5
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      337 8 Th*> Straits Times Crossword 28 Joint ot wvaiv* aheu (s>. i nt? JiidJib i lines v,maawmu M Dectare rm reformed (9) 1 2 3 i 6 i. When there-s a plot about t xx S: tH 2. A painful meeUnf (9). -K. y 3. Maps for mounuJn* (5). r~~ !^S
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      Heading For The Rocks
      1028 9 The five chumi of tke Rover Patrol set out in a yacht far camping holiday on Llama Island, bat they are eaaght up In a Sumatra and almost wrecked. They losr their chart and compass in the storm and are completely lost when they slfht another
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      Strange Food For A Rabbit
      319 9 Dear Boys and Girls, Here are the six winners of our "Painting Contest Satya Dcvi, aged 10. 340 Hill Road, Kuala Kangsar, Richard Lee. aged 12, 50 jalan Jail, Kota Bahru, K Paramsoothy, aged 9, 24 Bukit Timbok, Seremban, Tan Kang Ping, aged 10. 129
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      WHAT MAKES SUNSHINE ?
      418 9 WHAT MAKES SUNSHINE \j of t.ie questions you end me a.icern the reatlon of our earth and sun. There are four this week from different parts of the country. They are as fotlows. Why doesn't the sun shine at n'.ght? Why does the earth always face the sun? What makes
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      TALKING ABOUT STAMP?
      282 9 TALKING ABOUT STAMP? rr\HE slam** ~j form M. a very a tractive picture gallery in minature. There are lovely views and pictures. One shows a girl tapping rubber, and another, tea being plucked. The stamp I want to bring to your attention this week however is the SO cent stamp
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      146 9 ■^■B Ban Bjaßr^ 1 and balances i'self. 7, Kind of —^I~~^I~~T^II cenunt pl»ced between bricks. 9, |bM__|__^J_^J_^J__J Cunning or crafty. 11, German H H own famous for a telegram. 12, WM 'Wm^ i I^l Hie Valiant Uttle Is one of fli^ "iitmm's fairy-tales. 14. Wet lN|HH(_j c|ft earth. 15. His
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    IN PRICE
    203 10 Small turnover By Our Market Correspondent mHERE was no change In x the price of rubber at close of business yesterday, compared with Saturday, and September first grade closed at 784 cents a lb. The market was quietly steady after the holiday, with a small turnover and no
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    SINGAPORE SHIPPING
    186 10 gHIPS. alongside the Singapore Harbour Board nodowni or expected there at 7 a.m. today, arc: Burat. 11. Hino Maru 4/5; Kao Hiiung. Coal Plant Benvannoch */l. Sanana 8: S'impitan 9. Selangor. 1!: Marudu 11; KieldreotM. 13/14; Aeneas. 15/K: Orestes 18: Merkur l»'20; Tunz Sunn NW 4: Mentakab 21:
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    Limited business on Share Market
    189 10 r[E Singapore Share Mai after the Hari Raya industrial sections, with 11 Rubbers continued to be ignored. Price changes announced by the Malayan Share Brokers' Association were: i\in vi kiu > Bayert Seller* rket opened quietly steady holiday in the tin smd Imited business passing.
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    TIN: $479 f A PICUI
    15 10 SINGAPORE, Tues Sept. 2. $479.75 a picul (up 62>,i cents).
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    Australian industrials move to higher levels
    257 10 From Our Oi KEY industrial shares higher price levels on tl under the stimulating infln< market in Sydney. p/n Correspondent MH.BOIRNK Tups. enjoyed stronger support at he Stock Exchange today, rnce of yesterday's Arm wool Most of 'he leaders strengthened, although giins were not
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    Produce Mart: Copra easier
    71 10 fOPRA was quiet and slightly eastrr In Singapore yesterday, wl h business done at $25', p'cul f.o.b. for September »nd $25"* for Bep'emb r-October. CocVnut oil was dull, wl'h no buyers reported and sellers quoted a 1 $41 p:r plcul f.o.b. Whl'e Muntok pepper and Sarawak
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    MINES OUTPUT
    25 10 Eurma-Malay Tin announced visterday that the Auxu-t cv pu of Katu Tin was 199 plruls of rri and of Renong Consolidated 321 ptculs.
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    August tin shipments
    75 10 MALAYAN tin shipments in tons In August were as follows:— Singapore to U.K. (options) 691; US.A. 1.190; Continent 1.205: Canada 100; Pacific 43; IndU 13%; South America 60; Australasia 25 H; Middle Bast 00; Total 3.378 H. Penan* to— U.K. 709 USA. 905; Continent 566; Canada 50;
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    I 7,568,569 acres of rubber tapped in July
    106 10 I 7,568,569 acres of rubber tapped in July /AFFICIAL Federation statistics Irsued yesleriay show that 92 1 per cent "f teppable rubber acreage was tapped dur'ng July, comaartfi »ith 91.7 pe' rent In June. Tn July. 1.568.569 ncrw wee t.^p-p-d »ut of a possible to'al of 70J.961 nrres Or(*ln»rv raab-r
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    MUBARAK READY FOR CLASS ONE TEST
    740 11 MUBARAK READY FOR CLASS ONE TEST Should qualify for Cup field By EPSOM JEEP MUBARAK, who ran in Class 3 at Singapore in July and in Class 2 at Penan? a fortnight later, is now ready to tackle the best Class 1 horses at the Singapore Gold Cup Meeting (Sept.
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    $13,058 WENT UNCLAIMED
    57 11 Racegoers did not claim $13,058 in winnings on the loUllsator and cash sweep at the Selangor Turf Club during the first half of the 1952 racing season at Kuala Lumpur, according to a Club report. Unclaimed winnings on tote tickets amounted to $9,527; nobody has come forward
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    Tougher races for Best Bet
    486 11 BEST BET. following his splendid double it Penang last month, is at Bukit Timah getting ready to have a crack at the valuable sprint prises. With Abdul Mawi. his regular race pilet astride, this honest to goodness four-year-old by Panorama worked in fine style when
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    U.K. RUGGER
    55 11 London. Tues. Yesterday's UK. Rugby results: Lancashire Cup first round second leg: Belle Vue Rangers 7, Rochdale 17 (Belle Vue Rangers eliminated): Working 29. Liverpool City 18 (Liverpool City eliminated). Ragby Leagwe: Hull 21. Featherstone Rovers 4; Leeds 37, Dewsbury 9. Rugby I'nion: Pensance and Newlyn 6, John
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    Segamat hockey
    37 11 SEOAMAT, Mon— ln an effort io make an early start this seaaoa, the annual general meeting of the Segamat District Hock«y Association win be held on Sept. 3 at 5.30 pjn. at the International Club
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    STURVETA LOOKS SATURDAY 'CERT*
    516 11 GTL'BVETA looks a "past-the-post" proposition at Buklt Timah on Saturday. A very attractive horse, this four-year-old by Dastur has yet to run a bad race In Malaya. At Buklt Timah in July, Sturveta was unlucky to lose In the last stride to Mubarak over 7f. Mubarak
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    Queen's horse may win the Derby
    202 11 IN CORONATION YEAR... LONDON, Tuesday. A STOUTLY bred racehorse, now learning his busi A ness in the Newmarket stables of Capt. Cecil Boyd-Rochfort, may round off Queen Elizabeth's 1953 Coronation week by win ling the Derby, the greatest of all classic races. The chestnut
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    New jockey for Spencer
    64 11 A new Jockey, Peter Knuckey, has arrived in Singapore to ride for Trainer Jack Spencer. Knuckey is a useful lightweight he can ride at 7.5 and has been riding with considerable success in West Australia and in Sydney. Knuckey exercised several of Jack Spencer's horses yesterday
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    Schools get w.o.
    18 11 BATU PAHAT. Mon— Ramblers gave a walkover to Combined Schools in today's league soccer fixture.
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    Wong gets hard first set fight
    201 11 MALACCA. Tues. ■TV>RMER Thomas Cup play•T er Llm Kee Pong ga\re a plucky display when he met Wong Peng Soon In th« Selangor-Jonore badminton (natch at the St. Francis Institution last night in aid of the Malacca Charity Week Fund. Johore won by live
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    U.K. SOCCER RESULTS
    135 11 LONDON. Tues. rpOTTENHAM HOTSPUR. b»low full strength because of injuries to star players, were hold to a 3-3 draw on their own ground yesterday by Manclic ter City. Aston Villa checked Sunderland with a 3-0 win, and Burnley went to the top of the First Division with
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    TRIPLE TRIUMPH FOR K.H. IP
    495 12 Chew Bee* sick, loses 2 finals PENANG, Tuesday. THE Hong Kong champion, K. H. Ip, set a record on the last day of the Malayan lawn tennis championships today by becoming the first player ever to win th tripl crown more than onee repeating his
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    RESULTS OF FINALS
    157 12 PULL RESULTS of the nnal* of 'he 1952 Malayan tennis championships which ended a* Penan* yesterday: MENS SINGLES: R. H 1,. bt One Chew Bet 6-2, 6 3. MENS DOUBLES: K. H. Ip and On| Cbew Bee bt 8. C. Beaty and Goon Kok Lem S-«. 7.5
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    MRS. DEW TAKES WOMEN'S SINGLES
    193 12 PENAVCi, Tuesday. KS HELEN DEW and Mrs. K H Ip took ccurt iTI No. 5 for the women's singles final at the same time that the men's doubles match was going on in court No. 1, and its quiet tenor throughout mada contrast with the
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    Bergmann & Leach due on Sept. 9
    261 12 Bergmann Leach due on Sept. 9 T*WO former world table tennis A champions. Richard Bergmann and Johnny Leach, who are now on tour of the Far East, are expected in Singapore by air from Bangkok on Sept. 9 Coming with them will be the Hong Kong stars, Sih Su-chu and
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    ROBLEDO ASKS FOX TRANSFER FROM N'CASTLE
    97 12 NEWCASTLE. Tues. /'HI I.KAN -BORN Ted Robledo. one of (he best hallbarks In British football, has askrd for a transfer from Newcastle United. Ted lost his place In the Newcastle team at the beginning of rhe nrw soeeer season after helping to win the
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    Women's doubles
    335 12 MRS Dew and Mrs S. Lindsay took the court for the day> last final the women's double.* against Mrs. Sewell and Mrs. Anderson ie splendid form Trailing 1-3. they took the next live games in a row to win firs' set at 6-3. They lea 4-: in the
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    ROVERS XI
    66 12 Rcvers team to play Tigers In a SAFA. Senior cup tie at Jilan Eesar stadium today wi'l b. chesen from: Eng Hoe. Murray. Suppiah. Tecw Keng, Abdul Rahman Jr, Moron. Francis Goh, McKean. Mat Noor, Guthrlc. Boon Khim, Mlsscn, Boor Leong, Avthar Singh, Mahesa. SINGAPORE TIDES TODAY: 1054
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    Fathul Karib win at half stretch
    275 12 I^ATHUL KARIB were not st full stretch when they beat the young and lively, though inexperienced. Am'xable Athletic Association by two goals to nothing In a ragged SAFA Division One game at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday Amicables were beaten to- the ball time and
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    S.H.A. MEETING
    27 12 The second committee rree'lng of th: Singapore Hockey Association will be held en Thursday. Sept. 11, a- the Singapore Recreaion Club at 5.30 p m
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    S.B.A. ties for weekend
    520 12 CINGAPORE B dminion As. o elation tournament fixtures for this week-end at the S.B.A. Hall are:— Saturday, starting at 2.30 p.m. Inter-School Court No. 3: Catholic H.S. v Raffles Inst. (White). Umpires: Joe Misson and 8 8. Hamid. Court No. 4: Raffles Inst. (Green) v. Chinese
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    Doubles 'decided on dazzling rally
    401 12 I'ENANU, Tuesday. 'PHE Hnal of the men's doubles in the Malayan 1 tennis championships today will be remembered best for another demonstration by Ip of his ability to rise to the occasion. We have seen of his best when fighting back, as in the mixed
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    Borneos win STTA title
    319 12 AS expected Borneo Motors S.C. fl won the Singapore Table Tennis Association's 1952 Business Houses League championship by beating Fruer Neave S C. s—o5 0 at the SB A Hall on Monday night Runners-up will be decided in a replay between Mansfield S.C. and City Benk
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    U.K. cricket results
    181 12 LONDON. Tues. (BOUNTY cricket resulU today were: Al N.ttln»hmßi Nott. kra t Warwick %j loar wlekata Warwick 36 i for 1 drcl and Ml for dec! {Doilerv 83. Spooner 67). Notu 356 (or 7 drcl and 357 for 6 (Stock* 9*l At Lateciter. Lciccitcr v SarrcT draws.
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    DRAW FOR BOYS CLUB SOCCER
    66 12 The draw for the Singapore Federation of Boys Club 1952 cup soccr compe'ftlon Is: Jalan Yunos v St. Josephs Trade School; Mount Brsklne, bye; Good Companions v Prince Edward Read. Pulau Bnni, bye; Pulau Tekong v Harbour Board; Salvation Army Boys Home, by: Queen Street
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    WALKOVERS
    32 12 There were three walkovers Riven In Singapore toccer matches yesterday B A FAI i.» Plre Br '«»de wo Jollilads if?'" 58 ,»5^ I: Ford wo Malayan Airway* (SBHFA League and Cup).
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    G.S.C. HOCKEY
    23 12 G.B.C. members are requested to turn up for hockey practices st the S.RC. every Tuesday and Thursday, commencing Thursday Sept. 4.
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    Banks match off
    27 12 The Singapore B.H.p.A. League Cup fixture between Hongkong Bank "A" and Chartered Bank, scheduled to be ptijred at the padang yerterday. was nailed off.
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    Thomas Cup 1955 may be overseas
    369 12 Thomas Cup 1955 may be overseas KUALA LUMPUR. Tups. MALATA will have to defend the Thomas Cup In 1955 on foreign soil If change In the rules proposed by the Executive Committee of the International Badminton Federration is adopted. According to the standing regulations, the holders of the trophy have
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      64 12 SOCCER. S.A.F.A. Senior Cup: Rovrr* v Tigers, Jalan Besar; l)iv. SB: 8.0.D.C.A "A" v SeleUr YUle, Geylang. 5.8.H.F.A.: Hong Kong Bank "A" v Chartered Bank, Polio ground: Hong Kong Bank "K" v Borneo Co., Farrer Park; Mercantile Bank v William Jacks. Clerical I nion ground; Sime Darby T OTX.C. C.YJM.A.
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