The Straits Chronicle, 3 May 1946

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    12 1 The Straits Chronicle No. 193. MALACCA, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1946. 10 its.
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    INDIAN POLITICAL DEADLOCK WORSENS AS HINDU – MUSLIM RIFT WIDENS
    989 1 INDIAN POLITICAL DEADLOCK WORSENS AS HINDU MUSLIM RIFT WIDENS Cabinet Mission Will Not Find A Solution Which Might Lead To Chaos New Delhi, May 3. reports from Delhi state that the political picture for India has become extremely black since the past few clays as both the Muslims and the
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  • EDITORIAL
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      TRANSACTIONS UNDER JAPS
      679 1 Regarding the disposition of property during the Japanese occupation, our Singapore contemporary, the Malaya Tribune states that special legislation will soon be enacted to deal with transactions involving Japanese “banana” currency. Indicating early action on these problems which face the civil law courts, the acting Attorney-General, Mr.
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    AUSTRALIA AND THE FUTURE OF THE PACIFIC
    898 1 JAPS ROUTED THROUGH SUPERIOR MAN-POWER AND WEAPONS Melbourne, May 2. IN A RADIO talk from the Melbourne Radio last night Charles Speekover, noted Australian commentator on political affairs and also well known for his sound analysis of world affairs dealt in an able
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    TEN YEARS FOR DISCLOSING ATOM SECRETS
    250 2 —U.P. and A.P. London. 1. Dr. Alan Nunn ->- y sentenced to ten im -n--ment for disclosin';' a omic enemy secrets to “unknown person' Hr. May, a 34-year-old seient’st who worked on the atom bomb in Canada, plead"d guilty before Mr. Justio*» Oliver at
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    U.S. Invites Nations To Atom Tests
    201 2 —U.P. and A.P. Washington, Apr. 30. Mir. Dean Acheson acting .Secretary of State, today said that the State Department was inviting other members of the United Nations atomic energy commission to attend the July 1 atom bombing tests at Bikini Atoll. The 11 members
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    Full School Fees
    50 2 School children will be charged full fees as from May 1. 1946, according to instructions received by the local Education Department from Head Office Kuala Lumpur. Principals of local schools have been notified and the scale of fees will be the same as that charged in 1941.
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    Sports In Aid Of Welfare Fund
    377 2 KEEN COT E TTION IS EXPECTED LI'AIN or sVirn* Le fir t Charity Sports in :.ld of the Malayan Well are Fund scheduled for Sunday, May 5, at \> p.m. promises to be a great event and an interesting programme of twenty-eight items has
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    ATHLETIC SPORTS REMINDER
    145 2 The 24 I.G.H. sports will be held on the Malacca Club padang on Saturday the 4th May at 3.0 d p.m. Judging from the intensive training the competitors had been putting in during the last few days on the Padang the real thing promises to be an
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    Franco Monument Blown Up
    45 2 —A.P. Barcelona, Apr. 30. lhe three-ton Franco victory monument was almost completely destroyed by a bomb explosion at dawn on Monday. The monument was erected when Gen. 1 1 raneo entered the eitv in L i 4 r* triumph in 1939.-
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    Special Training For Food Inspectors
    158 2 Specialised training and efficiency tests have been put into o evation by the Food Control Department for shaping Food Inspectors into experts in the detection of olfences against the Food and Price Control ordinances. At a recent written test conducted by the Chief Food Inspector
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    Theft In Brothers’ School
    103 2 Malacca'. May 3. A Malay Leman bin Said an employee of the St. Francis Institution was brought up before Commander Penney in the local Courts to-day on a charge of theft of certain pieces of furniture belonging to the school. Inspector Mobarak who is prosecuting in
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    Unlicensed Hawkers
    38 2 Fines ranging between ten and five dollars were imposed on five Chinese who were arrested by the Police for hawking without licences. One minor Tan Kong Kang, charged with selling vegetables was discharged after being cautioned.
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    PERSONALIA
    73 2 Capt. Croft is now taking over duties of Food Controller from Major C. E. N. Hopkins-Husson who is leaving for home shortly. After a meritorious service of' 33 years in the Government, Dr. I). C. Richards, Health Officer, Malacca, retired on 30th April 194(5. Mr. V. E. Dias, Office-Assistant
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    MP’s To Get A Rise
    72 2 .—Reuter. London, Apr. 30. lhe Government propose to introduce legislation which will give £1 000 a year salary to every Member of Parliament. It is also to be proposed that ministers with a salary of less than £5,000, including the Leader of H.M. Opposition should
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    PERSIAN CABINET RE-SHUFFLE
    167 2 Teheian, May 2. Reuter's reports from the Iranian capital declare that th<‘ Cabinet is faced with another crisis since last night when certain members of the Right Wing repudiated the Russian right to certain oil concessions in the country. These members in a memorandum to the Premier
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    “TOO MANY WHO EAT TOO LITTLE”
    167 2 Washington, May 2. The U.S. Secretary for Agriculture told pressmen yesterday that it was America on whom devolved the major responsibility of saving nearly three-fifths of the world from starvation and miseiy. “In the United States,” he declared, there are too few who eat
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    NO MERCY FOR TOJO
    160 2 Tokyo, May 2. The Allied War Crimes tribunal now trying major Japanese war criminals in Tokyo have received a petition from more than one hundred thousand mothers in Japan to have Tojo executed immediately without a trial. According to a Kyodo News Agency report the petition
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    ‘Reds’ Arrogant In North China
    119 2 —Reuter. Chungking, May 2. Associated Press correspondents returning from North China declare that Russian military authorities have become very hostile and arrogant during the- last few days. American paper correspondents are treated with contempt and discourtesy and in some cases the correspondents have been arrested
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    BIRTH
    20 2 AUROL—General Hospital on 2nd May 1946, to Lily David, wife of Mr. S. Aurol, Food Control Dept., a Son.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      160 2 THE CITY PARK S UN OPEN-AIR TALKIE? 3rd May “STAND UP AND FIGHT” 4th to 6th May, 1946 Columbia Picture pre-sents Robert Paige Richard Fiske in “f LT ING G-MEN (Chaps ]-7) CITY OPEN-AIR TALKIES Ist to 4th May, 1946 FOONG LAD CHOY (Cantonese) CANTONESE WAYANG CABARET AND RONGGENG VENUS
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