Malaya Tribune, 3 September 1947

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    56 1 The Malaya Tribune y tH e PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER Now printed simultaneously in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh Penang. 'Phone 5811 (Three Lines) eight pages SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1947. PRICE TEN CENTS. The Malaya Tribune London Agents: Messrs. Cohn Turner Ltd., Talbot House. 98, St. Martin's
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    Dairen: Soviet Rejects U.S. Note
    111 1 j neton Sept 2 The Soviet ieil United States r t .On tin* opening of n port of Dairen to r ommerce in a note •V I'mted States i u Iffst Wednes- »k« Stat* D tiuent con"'rh note reiterated the Moscow i nronouncement of r*ehruary
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    U.S.Holiday death toll now 421
    60 1 Reuter. Wv. Sept. 2. At least 121 people were killed in accidents during the United States celebratkaf of Labour Day at the weekurf holiday week-end of Thiffic accidents accounted for 2tf tenths slightly ir.ore than the NYior.u! Safety Council's forecast ere 80 drownings and 75
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    China Reds Make Another Advance
    74 1 U.P. talking Bept, 2.—-Communist Be I L:u Po-chen's daring rs, cutting deep nto G< v(rcmenl territory, reached 'iBJgl 48 m'ie.s north of the r .1 Chlr.a mctrop'j'ttica.i Hankow, accord cj to rteal pro-Government r purrs anth irit'es at Har n rdered an l!-to-G rein the
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    Guided Missiles
    65 1 AST *INOION. Kept. 2:—Lav, V H S fj a,st ad, dirt-c or of ap Johns Hopkins r d bluntly today WM the perfection Of useful missile s win takp lon?t> Smtoo ore dUßc n] t thar. the 01 the atomic *ak if on 1 ,VOul d b* 1
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    More Pay Strike
    29 1 x £Um s pl 2: Civil cr t am Thursday in supcent w a for a 50 L't n rai pf» mcramsa, l odav n announced
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    Bride-To-Be Was Fire Victim
    78 1 U.P. PARIS. Sept. 2:—A coffin draper in a bridal voil was borne from the Cathedral of Rueil today a', the head of 78 other coffins containing the vie ims ot a fire at the" S'-lect theater Saturday. In the first coffin wa< the body of a
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    Yorkshire Coal Strike Worsens
    54 1 Reuter. Doncaster. Sept. 2.—Britain'; three weeks' old Yorkshire coal strike took a dramatic turn for the wcrse tonight when a dozen more pits stopped work in sympathy bringing the total of idle miners to 20,000— just short of the peak reached at the height of the
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    Quake Skakes Timor
    32 1 U.P. KOEPENG, Dutch Timor, Sept 2._ A light earthquake shook this town on the Dutch islar d of Timor yesterday. There were no casualties rad only slight material damage.—U.P.
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    STRIKING BUSMEN RETURN
    43 1 Reuter. BRISTOL. England, Sept. 2:— Three thousand Bri-tol busmon on strike since Friday, returned to work Today after receiving assurance that their employers, the Bristol Tramsways and Uamage Company, was prepared to negotiate on their grievance regarding and holidays.— Reu'er.
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    REVOLT ENDS
    34 1 QUITO, Sept. 2.—A dispatch from main <;eaport, said the army garrison Qua ya gui I, Ecuador's biggest city d there had suddenly ended the revolt against the dictatorship of Colonel Carlos Mancheno.
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    SOVIET TRADE ENVOY MYSTERY STILL UNSOLVED
    251 1 'Private matter between vs 9 say officials (Tribune Staff Reporter) M. Xicolao Plakhin. Soviet Trade Envoy who last month was reported to have booked his air passage away from Singapore after having be2n refused a renewal ol his visa, is still in Singapore. He
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    MALAYAN AUSTERITY TALKS BEGIN
    120 1 .Tribune Staff Reporter) The first post-war Joint Economic Advisory Board mot for a conference at the Governor-Gene-ral's office at Cathay building at nine o'clock this moaning. Thr> r»ie°*'ng wHicn is b*»'nc presided by Dr. Frederick Benham, Economic Adviser to ttie GovernorGeneral, is also being attended by
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    Refugee Plane Shot Down
    51 1 U.P. NEW DELHI. 2.—Press re- j ports said today a plan* carrying re- I fuprees from Pesrw.wnr. was fore d to land shortly after t.iking off when c.xI pert trii-al marksmen fired at it. It was not known whether there i 1 were casualties. —U.P. i
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    FRANCE HEADING FOR INFLATION
    48 1 U.P. I Paris. Sept. 2- Prime Minister Ramauier today warned that France is heading for a full tilt J toward allout inflation, and dei manded rigid austerity measures. I similar to those adopted by Great 1 A Britain to fight the economic crisis. -UP.
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    Britain must pay now: U.S. Loan dries up
    439 1 Lopdofi, Sept. 2. —The i "*****111 when Britain will have to start paying for dollar imports out of j her gold and dollar reserves is I rapidly approaching, an authoritative source said tonight. The last withdrawal of $150,000,--000 made last Friday from
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    Palestine Plan
    49 1 Reuter. I LAKE SUCCESS, Sept. 2:- United Nations circle< tonight considered that the plan for th-; partition of Palestine proposed by a majority of the Untied Nation* Committee a good I chance of obtaining the required majority in the General Assembly, but after a stiff fight.—Rev- tei\
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    VAN MOOK BACK IN HOLLAND
    52 1 Reuter. Amsterdam, Sept. 2.—Dr. Van Mook. Lt. Gov.-Gen. of the Netherlands East Indies, arrived at SclvpUol airport from Batavia today tor consultations with the Dutch Cabinet about the Indonesian situation. He told reporters that the United Nations Security Council's intervention had not facilitated matters in
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    REFUTED
    31 1 Reuter. BATAVIA, Sent. 2.—The Indonesian Republican Government has categorically refuted Dutch claims to authority over I parts of Java, Sumatra and Madura, a Republic news I quoted here today stated.—Reuter.
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    U.S. A-Bomb monopoly can't last long
    81 1 Reuter. MOSCOW, Sept. 2. The United States was building a reserve of atom bombs to back up "an international policy of threat, blackmail and frightening of weak people" but her monopoly could not last long, the Soviet commentator E. M. Rubinstein wrote today in
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    35 DEAD IN RAIL CRASH
    68 1 Reuter. TORONTO, Sept. 2: The dcnth roll in the head-on train collision at Dugald, near Winnipeg, ibis morning was believed tonight to bo about 35. as re--cuers continued to extricate burned and torn bodies from th« wreckage. A passenger train crashed head-on into a stationary
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    Indian Prestige In U.S. High
    101 1 Reuter. LONDON. Sept. 2:—'Th<, prestige of India, in spite of the division of the country. i< high in the United States of America." said Mr. Asaf Ali. the Indian Ambas-ador to (fa c United States when he met London journalists at an informal party at
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    BRITAIN TO EAT MORE WHALE
    49 1 Reuter. LONDON, Sept. 2. Whale meat, a recent introduction into the British diet which has proved more popular than originally anticipated, is to be imported in bigger quantities if possible to supplement the nation's meagre meat ration, Food Minister John Strachey announced here today—Reuter.
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    3346 VOTERS
    64 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Up to the end oi last month. 3.176 voters had registered their names at the various centres throughout the Island. A continued Increase in the number registering is now noted. The Central Office recorded a total of inn since then, and the 8.H.8. centre 70
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    SCOTLAND YARD ENROLS HELP FROM HOPBYISTS
    67 1 UP. London, Sept. 2. Detectives called in curios hobhyists known as "speliologists" today to help soive a mystery of two skeletons, found in potholes cavelike depressions gorged in the hills of Yorkshire If. the ice-age glacier 25.000 years ago. Twice within eight days, skeletons
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    ANTI TITO LEADER ABDUCTED
    42 1 TRIESTE, Sept. 2.—Allied military authorities reported today that Andrew Ursic,, prominent anti-Tito Slovene leader, disappeared from the AngloAmerican zone last night. H e was beiived to have been ai ducted across the Morgan Line, into Yugoslav controlled territory.
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    NAZI AIRMEN FOR FRANCO
    34 1 U.P. LONDON. Sept. 2.—Spanish Republican sources reported today that "Falangist agents in the American zone of Germany are recruiting aviation specialists for Franco's army, apparently from among former SS.'*— U.P.
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    $l7 MILLION DEAL
    25 1 Sofia, Sept. 2.—lt was officially announced that a one-year trade agreement involving an estimated $17,000,000 haa been signed between Bulgaria and Poland.
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    FILES SUIT
    32 1 U.P. ROME, Sept. 2.—The Cars Relife Organisation has filed a libel suit today, against the communist-financed newspaper La Republica, which asserted that relief food packages were going to the blacJtßiarket.—U.P.
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    'Save Gandhi' plea to Calcutta rioters
    353 1 NEW DELHI, Supt. 2.—A call to save the life of Mahatma Gandhi, fasting to stop rioting in Calcutta where the death roll stood tonight at 62, was made today by the city's Central Peace Committee. Moral responsibility for saving bir life rested entirely on
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    Ex-GI's Invade U.S. Banks
    86 1 Reuter. New York, Sept. 2.—Banks throughout the United States were "invaded" today as then sands of ex-servicemen of World War Two rushed to cash tbefr derr.ob'lisation deferred gratuity bonds. In Lcursville, Kentucky, the rush was so great that one ban called t-e police to restore orde.\
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    Triple Stabbing: One Arrest
    73 1 tTnbune Staff Reporter) Three Indians were injured in a stabbing affray which took ipiace at 12£ mil'?. Sembawang i Road, about 8 o'clock last night. They were rushed to the Paya I Lobar Police Station, and from I there to the General .Hospital. One of them
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    2 a.m. Robbery
    48 1 Three Chinese, two of whom were armed with revolvers, forced their way into a house occupied by a Chinese in Paya Lebar Road at 2 o'clock this morning. They got away with $68 and seme jewellery, the value of which has not yet been ascertained.
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    Lack Of Medicine: Indonesians Die
    72 1 U.P. SINGAPORE. Sep. 2:—Radio Jokjarta. monitored in Singapore by United Press, f oday reported tha 1 one out of every four Indonesian poldiers wounded In action r W .as ihe result of lack of medic in and transport facili i"< to get them to dressing
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    King Decorated
    46 1 Reuter. ATHENS. Sept 2.—M. Teufik Abul Hudah. farmer Premier of TransjorI dan, acting as ambassador extraordi- nary from the King or Transjordan. today conferred the Insignia of the i Order of Alnnhda upon King Paul of Greece at Ceremony in the Royal Palace. —Reuter.
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    Wartime Premier's Son "Drops In" At S'pore On Way To Australia
    212 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter). n QnHft]nh Churchill son of Britain's great war-tirhV pre An port yesterday afternoon lor a cup of tea andl a -friendly chat with Lord and Lady Kill* am and the Press. An hour later, Mr. Churcnm
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    "Russian Govt. In Exile" In Cuba
    73 2 U.P. HAVANA. CUBA. Sept. 2: A self-proclaimed "Russian Government in Exile" has been former her f with the announced aim of ousting "those usurpers hi Moscow" and establishing in Russia a "Democratic Nationalist Government of the American type." About 150 White Russian emigieps living
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    MYSTERY EXPLOSION
    34 2 U.P. DIJON. Via PARIS. Sept. 2:--Six persons were kill» a and 111 injured by an explosion ot unknown origin which rocked La Cht-ddife chemical plant at LaMarche sur Saone Dijon today.- U.P.
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    Serangoon Road Murder Re-Trial
    573 3 Accused Is Man I Saw That Night," Says Lena Navis Singapore Assises yesterday, Lena si k nographer, denied that she was Iding anybody responsible for the death ian, Maurice Fox. that it definitely was Irwin Jones, contractor, who shot Maurice Fox i tctober 31 last year.
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    Alleged Dutch Cruelties
    65 3 U.P. —OAPORE. Sept. 2. Acj antara moi jtyu the National X V.. lied a delay Malang, East r thai 20 IndoneHaa riSm f2ilen victim t0 Used I prac- troops" at Waglr. LT?* aaitnwest of Ma- on Aug 26. wople died of tortures. tTt] been hange.l ailed extreRhei
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    Opium Taken For Various Ills
    53 3 1 had to take f*oea and P s D strji >v !< V{j n. at the yesterday, p I |So were each two weeks' tor posJ ParaP m';.',^ 11 Kirn Teh -43.. PJ V,, 'T 5 Ong Poh r 4 0> ret 2 n X
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    9 3 untitled tmJkl Sept 15. V t,lU Pourt -tSnjale's ab-
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    Protest A gainst One-Sided Constitutional Proposals
    721 3 'We are impelled to protest with all the force at our command against the action of His Majesty's Government in accepting and thereby wilfully imposing upon the peoples of Malaya, the one-sided Revised Constitutional Proposals in the teeth of strong and determined opposition," says
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    Food Control Offences
    226 3 A Chinese woman, Lav Ghin Neo, weeping bitterly in the dock a t the Second District Court, was fined $200 by Mr. J. P. Merson, for selling a packet of cigarettes to a Food Control Inspector, on Sept. 1. at 10 cts. in excess of the controlled
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    NEW YMCA HOSTEL
    37 3 IPOH. Sept 2. —Plans for a new YMCA Hostel having: been approved by the Board of Directors have been submitted to the Town Planner for approval. Construction will 1 egin in the near future.
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    General Strike Threat
    664 4 Faced with the prospect of a general strike throughout the peninsula, the Government makes no move tow r ards averting the chaster beyond promising immediate consideration of the Joint Wages Commission report. The situation which confronts Government is indeed serious. Reasonable though the demand for for wage
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    MALAYANS to TALK ABOUT
    814 4 Cn the patseng r list ol the Scythia, is MAURICE BAKER, w'nner of th c ion Queen's Scholarship wbJch is enabling lum to take a three year Arts Course at an English University. Bern in Aior Star. Kcdah. MauriCe Baker began schooling in Kuantan. When he
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    Letters To The Editor The Peoples Postbag Suggestions To Mr. Heasman
    1142 4 E.A.C. Sir,— Having read through Mr. R. B. Heasman's "Income Tax— A Report to Their Excellencies the Governors*' up to but not including the Draft Bill, I have the following reflections and suggestions to make. If we consider '"Part
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    Strange as it Seems
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    Names Of Ships Refle History And Policy
    535 4 Steamship companies invariably keep to a type of name for their vessels so 'that they are readily identified as belonging to that company. These names often refieo; the policy or particular services of any line so that one can, on looking back over
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    MISSING ARMY VEHICLE
    79 5 u t the August 12 last Jeep No. *****4 was gfl Army v miles north of ,h: :i 711 dvi on the Ipoh road. X' 1 that s British Army W if welling to Ipoh and arranged to j r overy Section. s *Vi?Hnvone who can give
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    Ratings Will Serve Sentences At Home
    44 5 Stall Reporter*. to England where nue to serve pi ison s >vei al ratings who nfined to Outran bein sent h tne on H|js try wine la also for cmvict »n ratings .ri .Bi itish m s'aips in
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    Campaign Against Padi Pests
    396 5 V th* the aga ins 1 pests c ;n inu- 1 the r.i until. Ii Kclantan, 123 pgs were dcs- at ng aJ trapping. I of 132 pigs ware killed in at ani Ii the pig poisonaign in Perak Central 36S laid and 3 ca cases
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    Training School For Sub-Warders
    80 5 The Passing Out Parade took place on Friday in the Prison Compounds. Batu Gajah. when the first batch of fifty students completed their course at the Training School for Sub-Warders of he Malayan Prisons. I The Sub-Warders under the charge of Mr. R. H. Smith gave
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    UNION GOVT WARNS PUBLIC SERVICES MAY BE CUT
    384 5 Labour Crisis Deve lop men ts From Our Own Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 2.—As exploratory talKs wer* held to-day between representatives of the PanMaiayan Government Workers' Council and the Union Government, the public were warned in an official communique that some inconvenience
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    30 5 For selling cigarettes above the controlled price to Food officers, two boys were j.tsl.rday fined $30 and SlOO respectively at tlie Juvenile Court, by the Magistrate. Mr. B. L. Chua.
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    Ceylonese Flood Relief Fund
    350 5 (Tribune Stall K<poter) At a reoresenta «ve gathering of Ceylonese community in Singapore. Mr. X Aiwa Pdlai, Ceylon's representative to the SEA Liaison Officers' Corfer- j ence. iraugurated the All-Cey-lonese Flood Relief Fund las c nicht. Exp a nirg the devastation brrught about by the food,
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    Criminal Breach Of Trust Alleged
    132 5 I Low Ah Kow, ft 28-year-old Hokkien, claimed trial to a charge I of criminal breach of trust at 25. j Chulia Street, on Feb. 21 this year, I when he appeared before the Second Police Magisttate. Mr. L i C. Goh yesterday. I The
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    CHINESE ENSA IN SINGAPORE
    141 5 <Ti bune Staff Reporter). The China Music. Darce and Drama Society, which functioned along lines similar to ENSA and enter ained nearlyhalf the pcptration of China during the war years, was, in return, entertained by members of over 40 local Ch nese Associations evening a a
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    S'pore Vietnamese Celebrate Independence Anniversary
    156 5 The Vietnamese in S'ngapore celebrated the second anniversary of the Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam at the Malayan Democratic Union headquarters at North Bridge Read yesterday. There were about 100 persons present, indiuding representatives of various Unions and parties in Singapore. The celebrations
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    Glory Takes Queen's Colours Home
    174 5 At ii 45 a m. yesterday the cen- tuiy old colours of the Queen's Regiment now stationed in Singa- pore, were marched up the gangway of the light rieet carrier HM S. Glory for their journey back to England The colours were last carried in
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    Production Of Tin Ore Concentrates
    105 5 Figures submitted by the Office of the Chief Inspector of Mines, Malayan Union, of the production of tin-ore concentrates from the Malayan Union for July 1947. revealed that a total of 56,456 piculs of tin-ore concentrates, an equivelent of 3,361 long tons, was pioduced from
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    New Ordinance For Protection Of Mammals, Birds
    324 5 A new Mammals and Birds Protection Ordinance has been gazetted for Singapore, to be effective from August 29. It is based on recommendations from M. 1? Henderson, acting director of the Botanic Gardens, and C. A. Gibson-Hill, representing the Raffles Museum The new
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    VICTORY CERTIFICATES
    15 5 Sales of Victory Saving Certificates up to August 26. 1947. amounted to $591,351.
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    Safety First At Naval Air Station
    176 5 k,«iiety-Fir£t Week campaign aas l aunched by the Naval Air Station at Sambewang, Singapore on Sept. 1 and will continue until 7. Cant. J. s. C. Balter, DSO R.N. captain of the Station ts doing everything possible to make the campaign a success, among
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    In Fashion Trade
    55 5 Miss Lee Shin Chu, former woman column editor of Sin Chew Jit Pch, and incidentally the first Chinese woman journalist in Singapore when she joined the paper twelve years ago, has started fashion business with her sisters at 108, High Street, under the style of "Lee Sisters."
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    No Toleration Of Hooliganism
    93 6 Th Commissioner of Police wishos it to be understood .hat acts of Hooliganism and deliberate obstruction of traffic will not be tolerated in any future authorised processions. In a recent procession a permit wa, issued after certain conditions had been loid down. These conditions were disobeyed
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    Resentment Against Interference In Malay Matters
    660 6 UMNOGeneral Assembly Opens In Johore Bahru (Tribune Staff Reporter) Resentment against the interference by other communities in Malay matters and insistence that the rights and privileges of Malays should take precedence over that of other domiciled communities, was expressed by Da to Onn bin
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    Price Trends In MU
    217 6 The Price Controller in his notes for the week remarks that, where last week's leport showI ed prices of cigarettes higher than jthe maxima gazetted, at that time Icigarettes were in fact obtainable at the correct price throughout the Malayan Union, but. since Statistics are collected
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    EXTENSION OF EXHIBITION
    75 6 (Tribune Staff Repoter) The thrte-day exhibition oi international newspapers at the Great World, which staited on September 1 and was scheduled to tnd by September 3. will be further extended to September It will be opened on these days at th: usual hours from 6 p.m. to
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    Govt Workers Reject Official Wages Report
    533 6 From Our Own Renorter j KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 2.-Tho Pan-Malayan GoI vernment Workers' Council, which represents workers employed in the Malayan Railways, Hospitals Public Works, Town Boards and Electrical Services, in a press statement issued this afternoon, rejected the interim I wages recommendations made
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    AIR MARSHAL PIRIE BACK
    33 6 Air Marshal Sir George Pirie Air C-in-C. Far East, returned to Singapore yesterday afternoon by BOAC Lancastrian plane at Kallang from his London visit, wheru he attended staff talks.
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    Coroner holds court in hospital ward
    1277 6 Injured SHB Labourer Gives Evidence: Summing Up Today (Tribune Staff Reporter). At the General Hospital yesterday afternoon the Coroner's Court met in a small room adjacent to Ward No. 6 to listen to the testimony of Samy Kannu, an Indian labourer of the Harbour
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    Edrich Out Of Indies Tour
    150 7 Reuter. LONDON, Sept. 2. 1 Edrich. the Middlesex and England all-rounder, has informed the M.C.C that he was unable to tour the West Indies with the cricket learn next winter. His letter declining the invi-ting for Middlesex in th e chamtation. stated tnat h e
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    TO-DAY'S SPORTS
    10 7 ACS Old Boys vs RafTksians. S.R.C., 5 p.m.
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    Tommy Lawton 'Determined' To Quit Onelzea
    114 7 i LONDON, Sept. 2. Chelsea directors meet this afternoon. Tuesday, to discuss the requeslof England centreforward Tom Lawton for a transfer. A rumour that Lawton had do- cided to sjay at che'sea sirepl j Stamford Bridge terraces or. I Saturday, but this was killed
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    Pakistan Enter Olympics
    114 7 Reuter. London, feop;. 2. —Pakistan's sport envoy. Ehmed B. H JiilVr. who is flying to the TJn:; -d K ng dom to seek aWia! i of tne newly iormed Pakistan Olympic Association to tr. International Amateur. Athletic S-.ederation oan rest assured O'i ev° 7 and consideration m
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    Weekend Cricket
    136 7 The following will play cricket for the Indian Association against I I R.A.F. HQ. Base on St. George's Road ground at 2 p.m. on Satur '< day D. K. Samy (Captain), Kevin j Mallal. A. C. Sliesaran. M. U. I Patel. S. Ratnam, F. Teherali. G j K.
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    WIN FOR YOUNG'S
    93 7 The Young's tal le tennis team of Singapore beat the Cheng Kftl tabletennis team of Johore Bahru on Sunday, in a match played at Sam Mm Chu Vi Youth Corps' premises Johore Bahru. Results:—Young's Table Tennis Team won by (7 —o):—Leow Cher Young beat Kan Yee Ling,
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    CYMA JUNIORS AT SOCCER
    74 7 The following players will renre sent the C.V.M.A. Juniors uj a match against the Land Office Sports Club tomorrow at the C.Y. MA. ground (St. George's Road) at 5.12 p.m. voh Chin 800. Lek Gek Lee, Ltiu Heng Fook. John Loh, Cheng Su« f Heng (Capt.),
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    $226,500 Penang Bill Against Dutch Govt.
    392 7 From Our Oim Reportt PENANG. Sept. 2:-A commission comprising a Brit. si, member and a Dutch member has been appointed by the Governor of the Malayan Union io consider the amount of compen- sa ion to be paid in the $226,500 claim submitted in
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    New Books At Raffles Library
    212 7 The tmdernoted newly :.dded mm fiction a:?i fiction works are ready for issue at Raffles Library NON-FICTION. Benedict (Ruth) The Chrysanthemum and the Sword. Bolirho (Hector) The of Windsor Cast!o. Illus. (2 copies. Cuthberts«. n <D.C.) Autumn in Kyle and the charm o£ Cunninghanie. Illus.
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    U.S. Aid To China
    51 7 U.P. NEW YORK. Sept. 2:-Vic-or A. Ruk, Director of the United Service to China activities in the United States, said today that the Chinese a<sistance programs will not be affected yb any curtailment of United States Governmental activities in line with the recommendations of the Wedemeyer
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    STAMFORD CLUB
    48 7 The Stamford Club will h*>ld a luncheon meeting at Cecil Restaurant, Finlayson Green, on Saturday at 1.15 p.m. The speaker will be Mr. S. Raja Ratnam. and his subject. "Politics and Modern Youth." The original arrangement at liberty Restaurant has been cancelled, owing to unforeseen circumstances.
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    Ceylon Will Ask For More Rice
    164 7 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Ceylon mrv ask the South East Asia Liaison Officers' conference in Singapore today \o increase her rice allocation J or 1948. Mr. K. Alwr. Pilla". the Ceylon representative to the corference, told the Tribune last night ihat this request would be
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    Early Morning Chase In S'pore
    147 7 Tribune Staff Reporter). A coupLe of fully loaded .38 revolvers, frith ig .spare rounds of anunuQitl >n, were stated to have been recovered from a trishaw by a police radio patrol in Bras Basah R.uid at 4.30 a.m.. yesterday. A Chinese, it is learned, has
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    Award For Changi Red Cross Worker
    107 7 The Australian Red Cross worker. Mrs. Bovd Moriarty. known as "the mother erf the A I F." has been awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal, the highest International Red Cross award. in recognition ol her six years' duty in the Australian Red Cross. Mrs. Moriarty
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    Book Exhibition In Kuala Lumpur
    163 7 For the first time in her liis- i tory, Kuala Lumpur i:; to haw an Exhibition of British Be >ks. It is to be held in the Chinese j Assembly Hall, Kuala Lumpur, oh Sept. 4, 5 and 6 and will be open to the
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    COMPTON EQUALS HOBBS RECORD
    254 8 Reuter. LONDON. Sept. 2. Dennis Compton today equaLed Jack Hobos record of 16 centuries in a season when he knock? ud a brilliant 139 for Middlesex against Lancashire, although this feat did not save th 2 champion county from defeat. Lancashire won by 64 runs. Middlesex
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    WATER POLO FIXTURES
    33 8 This week's water polo fixtures: GHO. FAR ELF v s Tiger Swimming Club. Haw Par Pool. Thurs*day. 5.30 p.m. Chinese Swimming Club vs. GHQ. FARELF. at C.S.C.. Sunday, 11.30 a.m.
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    Ghaus Mohammed in 3rd Round
    47 8 Reuter. Chiswick, Sept. 2 Ghaus Mohammed, Indian Davis Cup player, entered the third round of th»* men's singles in the Chiswick Hard Courts Lawn Tennis Tournament today after a hard game against local player J. Dawkina Mohummed won 4-6. 6-1, 6-2. Rente:
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    INDIAN TENNIS ACE SEEDED IN U. S. CHAMPIONSHIP
    269 8 Reuter. NEW YORK, Sept. 2.—Sumant Mirsa. tali Indian Davis cup ace. is seeded Number 12 among foreign entri?s for the me i s singles event in the Uaited ocaies Lawn Tennis Championships which begin at, Forest Hills here i n Friday. John
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    Social A. P. Outing
    68 8 The members o! the Sr*cl il Athletic Pirty had an enj >./abl< outing list Sunday when .ided by the Pi 's dent of rhe P arty Mr. Ho rhye Kee. th y wenl picnicking r.n St. J- hn's P-land. Crowning the day's Lema of holidaying tvas
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    49 8 Jerusalem, Sept. 2. An accidental explosion partially wreck ed a Jewish terrorist arsenal in a north Tel Aviv house today. Ore Jew was killed. Other terrorists in the house escaped. Tr-ops. rushed to the spot, found several bombs, electric detonators and a number of m'nes scattered in the debris.—
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    22 8 A friendly game of water polo untitled t.'v<-"0 l.'.N<) ,«ll 2vvl,„m!n»' Cluo «l U».' tutlpl-'l; ,.<..,« f»si.«!lr e oilo 'rlim-.clv. ui 5 IlN
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    Sussex Force Draw With S. Africans
    162 8 Reuter. Hove, Sent. 2 Despite some very good bowling on a batsman's wicket, the match between the South Africans and Sussex was tamely drawn here today. Behind by 140 runs after the South Africans had declared at the overnight, score of 555 for six.
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    Progressive Party Outlines Its Aims And Programme
    331 8 The abolishment of colour bar is another of its main aims It will "secure for the local neooie full opportunity for advai cement in the Public Servi- (Tribune Staff Reporter). Reform of the Legislative Council with all unolliciai members to be elected by
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    Social B.P. Win
    105 8 Playing 'away" on c unlay 1 laa. the Social B.P. beat the FlyI ing Eagle B.P. by seven games to j nil. The results <Soc:ai players mentioned first» were: SINGLES:—S3 muU Seah beat Chwee 15—7. 15—6, Pang K<a Seng beat Wong 15—9, 5—15 15—10. Kr.ng Khia Em
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    Picture taken at the opening of the Singapore Hospital Assistants' Union premises recently. Left to right: Mr. J. D Singh, secretary of Hospital Assistants Union, Mrs. H. E. Eigne, Dr. J. w. Winchester, Mr H M. Eigne, president of the Union. Mrs. J. W. Winchester. Dr. Scringeour, Chief Medical Officer, and Mrs. M. Alexander.
    54 8 Picture taken at the opening of the Singapore Hospital Assistants' Union premises recently. Left to right: Mr. J. D Singh, secretary of Hospital Assistants Union, Mrs. H. E. Eigne, Dr. J. w. Winchester, Mr H M. Eigne, president of the Union. Mrs. J. W. Winchester. Dr. Scringeour, Chief Medical Officer,
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    Today's Weather report
    78 8 Sunny with isolated showers Singapore's weather lorecast tor 24 hours from noon today com piled by the R.A.F. Central Fore casting Station, Air Command. Far East. Sunny with very isolated showers this afternoon. Fair to fine after dark Wind: Light south-easterly. Sunset: 1038 hours, bun lis 3:
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    S'pore Rickshaw goe to Hollywood—by air
    336 8 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Yesterday afternoon, enthusiasl Fans" gave a colourful send-off to or the Mohicans" of pre-war Singa] all this publicity was a grain bn of the very last of its type in Sin?apoi be sent as a tribute from Singapore to their favourite
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    Fellowship Hour
    231 8 (Tribune Staff Reporter* An enlightening discuss-on-fel-lowship h o ur was neld ast ht at the residence of Mr. and Mrs r. Heppel at Everton Park J The meeting was held under the 1 XZiESi? 0f the Wesle >' (Methodist). sfc, W s nastoi of the Wesley Church, led
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    SINGAPORE TRINTERS UNION
    72 8 The p:esent address of the Sir- I gapore Printers' Union is No 3t i Sit Wah Road and all communic«tions should be addressed to that address. The following changes have been I made in the Executive committee Messrs. A. Jayaram and R. If unasamy as Hon. Secretary
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