The Straits Times, 3 August 1951

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1951.
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  • 254 1 Flight cancelled, plane stands by Harriman sends new message from Persia LONDON, Thursday. BRITAIN has deferred sending its ministerial mission to Persia by a day because "certain formalities" still have to be completed. Announcing this today a Foreign Office spokesman said the reply by Mr. Averell
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  • 89 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. A BANDIT "Judge" with a priie of $10,000 on his head was one of the 12 bandits lulled by Gurkhas near Segamat. Johore on Saturday. He was Wong Yew, district committee member for Batu Anam. In a report yesterday Federation Police Headquarters stated
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  • 92 1 2,586 MEN NOW SERVE KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. THE Federation has 2,586 Emergency Servicemen in the police "force and jungle companies, it was announced in Kuala Lumpur today. Since the direction of manstarted in mid-Febru-ary. 2 915 men have actually been called for service but 329 wfMe released on appeals deferments
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  • 31 1 TOKYO, Thurs.— The Empress of Japan will soon wear modern court dress of Parisian design instead pf the modified kimono, it was disclosed by the Imperial Japanese Household.— A.P.
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    114 1 THE crumbling wall at Marine Parade which was referred to by Mr. F. C. James (Progressive East Ward) at Singapore Municipal Commissioners' meeting on Tuesday. To fence off the danger area barrels have been put there by the Municipal Engineer's Department. Mr. James. urging immedrtte attention to the wall, said
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  • 146 1 KAESONG: STILL NO HE AD W AY TOKYO, Thurs UNITED Nations and Communist negotiators met for an hour and 20 minutes today at Kaesong without breaking th* deadlock which threatens to ruin the ceasefire talks Although no progress could op reported from today's talks, there Is a fueling here that
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  • 101 1 LONDON, Thursday. THE Government today removed a ban imposed A during wartime on the right of British workers to strike without first giving notice of a dispute. The ban. known as Order 1305. has been strongly criticised for thp past 12 months by th#> trade
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  • 93 1 WASHINGTON Thurs The United States Britain and Canada have agreed on specifications for four new basic sized bombs it was disclosed today Col V. F Fairfax, of the U.S. Air Force Supply Division, told the House Military Appropriations Committee that the bombs would be interchangeable among
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  • 21 1 DAMASCUS, Thurs.— Syria has refused to place any military forces under the United Nations, it was stated yesterday.—Reuter.
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  • 214 1 WORSE BLACKOUTS LIKELY LMKK broke out at St. James Power Station, Singa1 pore, yesterday when oil splashing hot steam piping caused extensive flames on the steam turbine cylinder and surrounding area. The damage would not be known until the turbine had been dismantled, Mr.
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  • 54 1 A CHINESE living in River Valley Koad Singapore, started a small 'lallang flre last night while making a religions offering in the open. Anxious to save the wooden fence around his house, some distance away, he rang for the flre brigade. The flre was put out
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  • 248 1 'Treaties can end fear in India' AGA KHAN ASKS FOR GUARANTEES Fear, suspicion LONDON, Thurs. 'THE Aga Khan, head of the Ismaili Muslims, said today that if the Commonwealth countries and the United States entered into bilateral treaties binding themselves for about 20 years to defend the established and recognised
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  • 26 1 MANILA, Thurs— The Navy has ordered a ship to Palawan, southern Philippine Islands, after reports that pirates were robbing vessels in inter-island trade.— U.P.
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  • 249 1 'Anything for peace but' KARACHI, Thursday. ]tf R. Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistan Prime Minister iTI turned down today an invitation from the Indian Premier, Mr. Nehru, to visit Delhi for talks about Kashmir. "It is too much even for me to undertake an annual trip
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  • 316 1 JET BOMBER WILL 'RAID STORE TODAY Still hush hush ROYAL Air Force Vampire jet fighters and ground radar installations will combine today to intercept a- high-flying jet bomber "attack on Singapore —the Far East's first all-jet air defence exercise. The bomber will be the twin-jet Canberra, the first delivered to
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  • 45 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. People waited at Kuala Lumpur Railway Station for several hours tonight for the day mail train from Penang which was delayed by a derailment In South Perak. A goods trains was derailed accidentally not by sabotage say the Railway Department.
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  • 148 1 MANCHESTER, Thurs. rE new press, regulation in Singapore must be judged b y the way in whirh it is used, the Manchester Guardian said today "Unhappily, confidence ;n Colonial administrators Is not so profound that it is possible to see with equanim'ty an abnormal
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  • 37 1 'COPY PRIVDA,' 4 PAPERS TOLD LONDON, Thurs. Four more Soviet newspapers Trud. Izvestia. Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star) and Kemsomolskaya Pravda were told to publish in full Mr. Herbert Morrison's articls in Pravda and the papers reply. Reuter.
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  • 35 1 LONDON, Thurs. Lord Jowitt. the Lord Chancellor, left London by air today for a three-weeks' goodwill tour of Australia Re was accompat|?d by Sir Leonard Holmes, former president of the Law Society.— Reuter
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  • 302 2 WASHINGTON, Thursday. J HE United States has' urged India and Pakistan to halt their border dispute over the state of Kashmir "in the interests of general peace in Asia". The American Government, in a note to both parties, urged the mutual withdrawal of troops
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  • 54 2 SAIGON, Thurs —The French crew were killed or injured when a military Dakota crashed on Saigon airfield on a take-off this morning. The plane which had offloaded passengers to take on freight just before the takeoff, crashed into the airfield building and also killed or iniured
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  • 25 2 CAIRO, Thurs.— America has offered to buy the 113.000,000 lb. of Egyptian cotton crop requisitioned by the Crovernment and "not yet exoorted. Reuter.
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  • 47 2 SKYLON AND THE GIRLS BAL L E 1 GIRLS MAKGARFi DREW (left) and En j Baguley rehearsing or L o n d o n's south bank for tne opening 01 tb: Intern liional bullet at tbe Festival Hall. The Festival of Britain sk>lon rises majestically b-tween thsm.
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  • 141 2 LONDON, Thursday. BRITAIN'S new Hawker interceptor fighter plane the fastest in the world faster than the American F-86 or the Russian MIG-15, the Air Minister, Mr. Arthur Henderson, told the House of Commons yesterday. f The Hawker fighter, known as the P-1067 has swept back
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  • 89 2 WASHINGTON, Thurs. THE United States Navy 1 wants $4,497,869,000 for the next phase of its aviation buildup. Vice Admiral John H. Cassady gave the House Appropriations Committee this figure in a testimony, made public yesterday. The Admiral said the Navy Department would
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  • 264 2 ASKS U.N. TO ACT ON SUEZ NEW YORK, Thurs ORITAIN has called on "the Security Council to "exert its authority' if Egypt did not lift her blockade of the Suez Canal to Israel-bound goods. The chief British delcga.o, Sir Gladwyn Jebb, told the Council that Egypt's blockade was "unjustified and
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  • 74 2 LONDON, Thurs !l BRITISH Foreign Office spokesman said yesterday that Mr. Herbert Morrison. the Foreign Secretary waa now studying Pravda's reply to his statement. The spokesman said Pravda's reply was "disappointI mg." He said it did nothing Ito help in making the cx- change of views fruitful
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  • 68 2 HONG KONG, Thurs— People in Canton receiving remittances from abroad m< t register with the authorities, according to a Chinese Press report. Remittances over the equivalent of HK$2OO must be deposited with the Peoples Bank of China. Recipients would be allowed to draw a daily equivalent of about
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    28 2 sin. IS Milt. Edmee Lunn, 20, French, and very proud of her hair which .is two feet seven inches Ion? and she doesn't like the "urchin-cot."
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    • 542 2 PUBLIC ArrAWirrWEHTS CLERKS and Interpreters, male and female, Government Health Department, Singapore. Salary $75/- p.m. plus local allowances, tn the scale of $75 x 5 85 Bar 100 X 5 120 Bar 130 x 10A 170 Bar 180 x 10A 250 p.m. Candidates must be between 18 and 25 years
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    • 801 2 TUDLIV. ArrvlnTWsj^^^^ VACANCIES EXIST FOR STUDENT NURSES. The next course in the Training School ;.t the General Hospital, Singapore, commences on 10th September, 1951. Candidates must be Of a good education (Senior Cambridge preferred) and at least 17i years of age; an educational standard test will be required for those
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    • 761 2 THE PENANG TURF CLUB NOTICE NOTICE is hereby given that a Special General Meeting of the Ordinary Members of the Penang Turf Club will be held at the Town Office, Chartered Bank Chambers. Penang on Friday, 17th August. J951 at 5.00 p.m. for the purpose of considering, and if thought
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    • 697 2 ADVERTISEMENT Special Recruitment »f Clerks— The Malay Reft. 1. A number of recruits are urgently required for training as Tradesmen Clerks in The Malay Regiment. Applicants must have been born In Malaya of Malay parents and be between 18 and 25 roars of age and have standard 7 English. Successful
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    • 182 2 P. W. D. TENDER NOTICE Tenders from Class "C" and upward, registered Contractors will be received by State Engineer, P W.D Selangor up to 3.00 p.m. on 6th August 1951, for Erection and Completion <-; Hostel Accommodation for Malay Regiment Students attending Junior Technical (Trade) School. Maxwell Road. Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 268 3 'Conditions will not wait 9 Poverty an aid to Communism WASHINGTON, Thursday. fHE Economic Co-operation Administration told Congress today that unless the economic strength of South-East Asia is built up, Communism will soon take over there. The warning was made in ECA's 12th report to
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  • 194 3 Move to cut aid to Far East WASHINGTON. Thurs. ■j James P. Richards, chairman of th« U.S. House Foreign Affairs Com- moved yesterday to cm $700,000,000 out of the Administration's $8,500,000,000 aid programme. It won Id reduce economic aid to the Far East by U*****,000.■OO. -\.s the committee began ;-door
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  • 50 3 'VASHINGTON Thurs THS United States Navy Dlans to arm its own cargo vessels for th. first time since the end of World W ir Ships now operating m the ird will also be armed ktatemettt released by the Appropriations Cornhas revealed the p^oX" "Mine.— Reu'or
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  • 51 3 VATICAN CITY, Thurs. The Human Catholic Church has xrommunicated Luciano Negrtni, a priest for falling in love with an American girl. A Vatican spokesman said the 43-year-old missionary has been suspended "a dfvinis" (which means he no longer can say Mass), has been unrrocked, and excommunicated.
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  • 67 3 MELBOURNE, Thurs. A USTRALIAN air freight a U booming: as airlines expand facilities to carry anything: from a bulldozer to a complete factory. Recent consignments have included a railway truck, cheetah, leopard (with an armed crew standing by), newsprint, wool, can, furniture and, to overcome a
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  • 95 3 "FRIENDS ALL, THE; VITTALS IS UP" says Mr.! I James Haver, curator of I the Victoria and Albert j c Museum, opening "Dick- iens' Night" at the Festi-f ival of Britain one off j the most lavish banquets j for 5« years. The 1381 guests
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  • 86 3 HE WILL DIRECT THE PLAN LONDON, Thurs. ■JR. Geoffrey Wilson, recently appointed director of the "Colombo Plan" Technical Assistance Bureau, will leave London for Colombo shortly to take up his new post. 1 Mr. Wilson has worked in the British Foreign Office and the British Treasury, and was private secretary
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  • 142 3 BUENOS AIRES, Thursday. QABOTEUR6 today Dlew up a bridge and cut sections of the Buenos Aires' suburban railways, causing severe temporary interruption of traffic. Eleven bombs went off in less than two hours in four different suburban railway lines. One was found unexploded. Telegraph and
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  • 60 3 TOKYO, Thurs. Japan's second largest political party, the Democrats, today asked the Western powers to ease the terms of the Japanese peace treaty. In a formal statement of demands, the Democrats declared the provisions of the treaty were unfair and unrealistic. The statement called for a
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  • 26 3 RABAT, French Morocco, Thurs.— Press censorship ended yesterday in French Moroco after 12 years. It was imposed on French and Arab newspapers in 1939. AP.
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  • 24 3 TOKYO. Thurs. General Ridgway yesterday bade farewell to 225 wounded Allied soldiers leaving Yokohama aboard the Dan*ch hospital ship "Jutlandla" for repatriation.—A.F.P.
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  • 54 3 FRANKFURT, Thurs. AMERICAN authorities havß returned to their German owners the Hesse Royal Family Jewels held by the United States since 1946. They represented part of a larger group of Jewels stolen from tht Hessian Family castle at Kronberg, near here, in IMS. They were estimated to
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  • 287 3 GO THROUGH COURT SAYS M.P. LONDON, Thursday. |V| K. James Griffiths, Colonial Secretary, was ques- tioned in the Commons yesterday about emergency newspaper regulations in Singapore. Mr. Stanley Awbery, Labour, said they reduced the freedom of the Press. f He suggested the regulations should not
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  • 132 3 WASHINGTON, Thurs. The United States Secretary of State Mr. Dean Acheson said yesterday the United States was taking "careful note" of the identity of Hungarian officials responsible for the mass deportation of Hungarians from their homes. H3 told his weekly Press conference that the United States would present
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  • 94 3 WASHINGTON, Thurs. pENERAL Mac Arthur will take part In the 1952 election campaign by speaking in favour of Republican candidates who have always supported his views on foreign policy, Republican Senator Mr. Harry Cain confirmed. Gen. Mac Arthur has indicated to several Republican Congressmen that
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  • 115 3 Fechteler to be head of U.S. Navy WASHINGTON Thurs. PRESIDENT Truman yesterday chose Admiral M. Fechteler to be America's new chief of Naval Operat'.ons in succession to Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, who died in Italy 10 days ago. Mr. Truman sent the nomination to the Senate, along with the name
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  • 32 3 NEW DELHI. Thurs. The Indian Republic's first general election will begin on the first week of January 1952 and end within three weeks. Mr. Sukumar Sen. chief election commissioner, announced.—Reuter.
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  • 121 3 Spain an asset to West— Bradley OTTOWA, Thurs. PENERAL Omar Brad- ley, Chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff, said yesterday that Spain would be an asset to Western military strength. He told reporters he was not prepared to talk about Spain from the politician's point of view.
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  • 88 3 WASHINGTON. Thurs. The U.S. Secretary of State Mr. Dean Acheson. said yesterday the government was taking definite steps to obtain the release of Associated Press correspondent. Mr. William N. Oatis He did not explain what was being done. He told his news conference he wished
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  • 72 3 TOKYO. Tues. Japan and the Federal German Republic today signed trade and payments agreements which Is expected to result in $50,000,000 worth of trade between the two countries within the next year. Under the new agreement Japan and Germany will continue to trade. The delegations
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  • 31 3 SYDNEY, Thurs. Young, a farming centre of 4,450 people 260 miles south west of Sydney wants Mr. Churchill to open by radio telephone their Jubilee celebrations )n October.— Reuter.
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  • 112 3 HONG KONG, Thursday. A CHINESE woman servant was killed and three people were iajured by falling objects when the typh6on Louise passed near here yesterday. She was struck on the head by a huge signboard. A hawker fell into a stream, receiving serious injuries,
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  • 53 3 HONG KONG, Thurs. Mr. Chan Wen-hu, General Manager of the Shanghai Chinese paper Sin Wen Pao, has been sentenced to life imprisonment, according to the Ta Kung Pao. Chan was arrested several months ago when he was boarding a train for Canton. He was found guilty
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  • 290 4 Alternative to planting cess Number great KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. A SCHEME to compel smallholders to save $5 for every picul of rubber sold, for replanting, has been recommended by representatives of the smallholders on the Rubber Producers' Council. In a memorandum to Mr. O. A. Spencer, Member
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  • 70 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs Nine Malay Other Ranks, who stand charged with being members of an unlawful assembly, were again in the Police Court today when they said that they had not been able to find bail and asked if the officer in Court could not
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  • 37 4 Air Vice-Marshal R. S Blucke, the Air Officer Commanding the RAF. ua Malaya and Mrs. Blucke, left Singapore by air yesterday for Ceylon. They will return to the Colony in about a fortnight.
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  • 100 4 FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN EXHIBITION, U.E. building: 9 a.m. 6 p.m. V.W.CA., Raffles Quay: Mandarin class i advanced) 10.30 a.m.; new Malay class (beginners) 9.15 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. Y.M.C-A. Orchard Road: Judo training, 5.30 p.m.; body-building. 5.30 p.m.; table tennis training, 7 p.m. CHINESE V.M.C.A., Selcgie Road: Music,
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  • 222 4 COLONY ORDERS TWO MORE BOILERS $5,243,000 DEAL A $5,243,000 order for the purchase from Britain of two more boilers for the new Singapore power station at Labrador has been approved by the Municipal Commissioners. The boilers will be ready for delivery in 1955 A report of the acceptance of the
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  • 47 4 RETIRED, MAY GET NEW JOB A retired member of the me Harbour Board may be selected for the post «f temporary security officer at the Municipal Water Department, Johore Works. The post is worth $590 a mnnih ($350 basic salary and $?40 co-; of Iwing allowance 1
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  • 168 4 THE Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, has given his patronage to the independent group of Singapore amateurs who are to present Jean Anouilh's 'strong' play, Ardele, on Aug. 15 at the Victoria Memorial Hall. Mr Mac Donald will attend either the first or
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  • 110 4 rE Governor of Singapore. Sir Franklin Gimson. will unveil the name plate (below left) to open the 80ft wide Shenton Way, near Raffles Quay, at 10 a.m today The flairs and bunting on *$p right are part of the decorations. No invitation* have been issued
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  • 120 4 LONDON, Thursday. 'THE first two Malay cadets to go through the Royal A Military Academy at Sandhurst passed out at the Sovereigns Parade there today. Tomorrow, the cadets, Sergeant Abdul Manon bin Abas, and Sergeant Shokar bin Chik, will be commissioned as second lieutenants in
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  • 78 4 When the Talrea sail* fqr Japan next week, she will have on board 33 Japanese war criminals from Burma besides those from the Federation, Singapore and North Borneo. They are all to finish long-term sentences In Japanese prisons. Commander G. E. W.- W. Bayly, the Singapore Commissioner
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  • 101 4 $350,000 FOR MORE GAS CINGAPORE Municipal Com- missioners will spend $350,000 next year to buy additional machinery to meet the rapidly increasing use of gas. Two more »t*am-driven gas compressors, to cost $*?o,oob, are to be installed. A sum of $280,000 is also to be spent to rebuild six beds
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  • 107 4 SINGAPORE pharmacists yesterday said that penicillin, streptomycin and sulfa drugs were so overstocked in the Colony that they wanted Government to lift the export ban. A leading Chinese pharmacist said the stock of drugs would last Malaya fpr years and supplies were still coming in.
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  • 78 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs.— Ulot bin Hussain and All bin Abdul Rahman who were charged last week with housifcbreaking by night and theft of a wrist watch, fountain pen and clothing valued at $121, were produced in Couri again today when the chatge against All was withdrawn. The case
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  • 113 4 T^^? a reTraC n^ Company has inoreased the cost of living alliance for all employees by 35 cents a day. The daily cost of living allowance of All workers is now 40 per oerit of basic salary, plus $1.20 a day inst-ad
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  • 40 4 An apjaeal by a lorry driver, Ghia Buck: Seng, against conviction and sentence of 14 days' Imprisonment for disIfonestly retaining 19 pairs of sfcolen trousers, was on Wednesday allowed by the Acting Chief Justice, Mfr. Justice Brown.
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  • 27 4 Bandit targets In Negri Sembil^ri, Perak and Johore were hit by Jet fighters, Lincoln R.A.A.F. bombers and bomb-carrying Sunderland flying boats In yesterday's air operations.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 277 4 24. To^ri. Dick, anri Harry (3 8) Straits Times Cross w**i?d RK DOWN. .M. M I. "Let me be no ant for l^^* liill 3 4 H6H 6 stAte b y l p larm n l »5» 111 1 vN HNfc r tt* 2. Aunt's a liar (ana:;.) (10). 3
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  • 476 5 PREMISES WJEfUE MI LICENSED FOR 1950' Not licensed CONDITIONS prevailing at the Aik Hoe rubber factory in Kirn Chuan Road, Singapore, just before its complete burn-out by Communists in July last year are criticised by the Superintendent of the Singapore Fire
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  • 27 5 VVRLL water being sprinkled by Sim Hock Chuan over fully crown bean sprouts, before they are sent to Singapore markets. Straits Tim«s picture.
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  • 145 5 TOWGAY growers are happy 1 over Singapore Municipal Commissioners' decision to stop closing down their wells until growing on a commerrial scale with tap water Has brf>n investigated. 'The ContmiMionerß have given us a SQart&g chanei po that i<iwgay wilj jiot grow as well and will
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    56 5 MR. WOO CiIOONG HUM, 1". an old boy of Ipoh Anglo-Chinese .School, who will leave next week to study medicine at North Central College. Napervillr. Illinois. He expects to be in thr C iii ted States for eight years. His studies will be hrlprd by a scholarship
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  • 320 5 Federation news in brief MR. A. O Coltman, president of the Federation of Malaya Society of Architects, said yesterday that the profession had been*, blemished by the practice of touting, undercutting fees, signing plans of unqualified architects and generally "stealing the work of colleagues." Two hundred
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  • 22 5 MUAB. Wed. Urn Gc< k Cher, tged 23, was acquitted and flUch&rgtd at the Muar Sc*ju;m Conrt lor unlawful
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  • 63 5 ADMIRING a cartoon oi the retiring Australian Trade Commissioner, Mr. James Payne, at a farewell dinner on Wednesday night at the Capitol Blue Room. are. left to right, the acting Dutch-Consul General, Mr. J. Van Der Gaag who is also leavinr Singapore, the Com-missioner-General, Mr. Malcolm Mac
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  • 290 5 COSTS £350, WEIGHS 3001 b. Busy day 4 HUGE 300-lb. cake in the shape of a map of A Australia, costing (including air freight from Sydney to Singapore) £350, will be the highlight of the Australian pavilion at the Happy World Trade Fair opening tomorrow
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  • 97 5 JOHORE BAHRU, ThursManpower registration forms have been issued to all Penghulus and nalk penghulus in Johore, together with a pamphlet "The truth about the Emergency" printed in several languages, as the first step In connection with the call-up in Johore. After the forms have been filled, they
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  • 36 5 Another European officer of the Singapore Municipality has resigned. He If Mr. Charles C. Collqjn, Deputy Municipal Engineer. Mr. Cpllpm Is eXDMted to leafe f<3r New ZealSHa tffe end of the year.
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  • 147 5 Afternoon schools only 'temporary' A FTERNOON schools for J\ overagp pupils who could not be fitted Into morning schools were an emergency measure. It was hoped that eventually they would be abolished the Deputy Director of Education. Mr R E Ince. said yesterday Mr. Ince was commenting on a letter,
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  • 344 5 FIRE BRIGADE WAITED FOR 'RIGHT ORDER WHY the Singapore Fire Brigade was not used to disperse the mob outside the Supreme Court during the December riots, is told by Mr. J. G. Shaw, the Superintendent, In his report for last year, presented to Municipal Commissioners last month. At 1.20 p.m.
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  • 31 5 Mr. Llm Yew Hock, president of Singapore Labour Party, will leave Singapore on Sunday for a month's tour of the United States on a State Department leader grant.
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  • 261 5 Taken from prison to answer suit KA. PADMANABHAN, now serving a prison sentence, was produced before Mr. N. L. Macassey, the Singapore Second Civil District Judge, yesterday, as defendant in a suit brought by Lee Gee Chong for possession of a house in Wilkie Road. Giving Judgment with coeU to
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  • 21 5 MUAR, Thurs. Rifleman Andrew Topping, of the Cameronlans, was fined $45 or 20 days imprisonment at Muar for negligent driving.
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  • 57 6 PARKER: In loving memory of mv beloved husband Alfred Walter, of the Raub Aust. Oold Mine. Malaya, killed on the 3rd August. 1050. "Father In Heaven. Thy will that day. Prom earth did summon him away, Help me. my Ood, and take away All that still makes it
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  • 683 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Fri., Aug. 3, 1951. New Kashmir Crisis mint 09* oonstihieffi a&emfciy in September or October must increase the dang«r still further. There remains a tingle opportunity Of arresting the descent into peril, A mutual withdrawal of troops from the Pakistan-Indian frontiers might lessen the tension, arid
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  • 355 6 The placing of Malaya's two most important priority areas under direct army control is a sign of determination and not of deterioration in Johore and Negri-Malacca. It is unfortunate, however, that ne^s of the change was left to find ite^ovrn way to the newspapers, and that its
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  • 26 6 BELGRADE, Thurs.— More than 200 high-ranking Communists including a number holding high posts in the government, and party, were arrested in Sofia this week.—
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  • 728 6  -  GRAHAM JENKINS By SAIGON. COMPULSION is J being attempted where persuasion failed in Vietnam to rally unco-operative seel ions of the 16million population for the defence of the non-Communist zones. Vietnam's mobilisation deoree now makes it clear that the Government of this French Union
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    • 684 6 JOHN England" was good enough to send me a copy of his letter, which you published on Tuesday under the heading "Stadium or port: a reply", thereby enabling me to reply before my ship leaves for Britain My remarks on the subject (reported in
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    • 58 6 J WROTE to you the other day about the disappearance of Buah Nona Jantong from the market. Now I remember there's another Malayan fruit that has disappeared too: Buah Nam Nam. It's a kidney-shaped fruit and has a sweet-sour flavour. I nave not seen it for a
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    • 271 6 PAN-MALAYAN EDUCATIONAL PLAN? EDUCATION must be care- fully planned. Nothing must be sacrificed with the view of achieving something else. It must have the sanction of the majority of Malayans, both Malays and "domLciled." Brazil and the U.S.A. achieved unity and solidarity through the right type of education. If we
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    • 150 6 IT is most gratifying to note that the Federation Government now proposes to bring the Employees Provident Fund Ordinance into effect from some date in 1952. The Ordinance provides for contributions by employers in respect of all employees (whether monthly or daily rated) whose emolument*
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    • 78 6 MAY I be permitted, lor the eye of the Member for Education, to recommend Visual Education as one of the most impressive aspects of the school curriculum? It has been Instituted in most schools in foreign countries. Yet there is little or no sign of it
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  • 406 6 The New Courts A MALAY and a Scotsman, both living In the Federation, have written to me about last Monday's note en the Sessions Courts which came into being at the beginning of 1949. My Malay correspondent tells me that at one time he was as curious
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    • 773 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. J J < t I J I > < 1 i > j 1 I i I TO MAHESWAHI wo V. MailYHt(nnam. a dalfehter at the Bungxar Hospital on SOUi July 1951. WHITWORTH. On 2nd August at t.ie British Military Hospital. Alexandria to Beryl, wife of Commander W.
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    • 37 6 -|->. READER'S Digest (AMERICAN EDITION) The Reader's Digest holds the unique record of being Hie Mott Widely-Read Magazine in the World. It has a reading audience of fifty million. Sole Agent*: RAJ GOP AL LTD PHONE ***** SINGAPORE
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    • 126 6 R.V.f|l£fj£t ffI^iOPTICIBM Fellow Institute Ophthalmic Opticians (Eng.) Fellow Worshipful Co. of Spectacle-Makers (Eng) Freeman of the City of London. By Appointment to H.M. Forces, South East Asia. 6 Raffles Place m Singapore s Phone ***** jfT C^ V. POISOMCD PENS 1 NEW WNTS EATEN AUVC W COR RO4IVC ACTION l*^
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  • 394 7 Over $30,000 to help homeless Young and old in relief queues RELIEF is pouring in for the more than 7,000 people made homeless in the $1,000,000 fire in Kampong Bugis, Singapore, on Wednesday. Readers of a Chinese newspaper, the Nanyang Slang Pao, have sent
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  • 94 7 Two hundred French troops, bound for Japan to tranship and add to the United Na. tlons fighting force in Korea, arrived in Singapore yesterday on the Messageries Maritimes liner, La Marseillaise The vessel, which arrived at 8 a.m. yesterday left for Saieon, Hon X Kong. Manila and
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  • 65 7 The Singapore Federation of Municipal Unions gave a tea party to Mr. s. Harris, Trade Union officer, attached to the Singapore Trade Union Adviser's Office yesterday, at the union office in Middle Road. Mr. Harris is leaving Singapore on Aug. 8, for Britain on a
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  • 53 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs Teo Kal Wan, a labour kepa'.a of Singapore, was charged in the Police Court today with failing to report the arrival of a vessel within 24 hours and before the discharge of the cargo, to the Customs. Teo claimed trial He wu allowed
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  • 174 7 npHE Naval Base Labour Union will hold a mass meeting on Aug. 11. to protest against the refusal of the local Admiralty authorities to increase the cost-of-livlng allowance for over 5.000 industrial employees of the Singapore Naval Base. This was decided at an extraordinary meeting
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  • 235 7 CHILD ACTORS ARE WELL CARED FOR IF child actors are apprenticed for a number of years to a theatrical troupe, they are usually well cared for, especially with regard to medical treatment, says Mr. A. G. B. Colton. Singapore's Assistant Commissioner for Labour. One week ago thp drummer of a
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  • 130 7 New British cars will be dearer rE price of new shipments of most British manufactured motor-cars is being raised in Singapore and the Federation. A leading motor dealer said yesterday that the increases were due to higher packing charges. He added that for some makes prices would go up because
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  • 29 7 BAI IK PULAU, Thurs. A tea party was held in honour of Tuan Haji Murshid bin Hajl Othman, who has retired from the Service as District Officer.
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  • 133 7 fONVICTING Phua Keng Aik yesterday on a charge of abetting criminal breach of trust, the Singapore Fourth Magistrate, Mr. P. Claque, praised Tamboo Mailvaganam, a clerk at the Bukit Sembawang Estate, and Retnam, a mandore. for their loyalty to their employers. Phua was sentenced
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  • 51 7 Farelf Camera Club will hold an Inter-Services Salon of Photography, from August 25 to September It will be the first exhibition arranged by the club. The two judges are Major the Viscount Hanworth, a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, and Dr. C. GibsonHill, an associate
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  • 54 7 JUST FOUR of a long, long queue and what misery on their faces. These four Tic tims of Wednesday's fire at Kampong Bugis were waiting to register for relief at the centre set up by the Nanyang Slang Pao at the *cene of the fire
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  • 239 7 KS. ANWARI had been suffering from tuberculosis of the lungs for the last two years and seven months and no hospital could admit him as nothing could be done for him, his doctor said in Singapore Civil District Court yesterday. Dr. A. Kulkarni was belnk
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  • 44 7 Pool Kwee Huay, aged 40, a woman was committed for trial at the next Assizes in Singapore yesterday on a charge of attempting to set fire to the attap roof of a house occupied By Sharuddln bin Hajt Isffijyl.
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  • 77 7 .Mrs. M. LOBO, only Indian woman Justice of the Peace in Singapore, was given a farewell party by about 300 friends at the Indian Association, Balestier Road, Singapore, yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Lobo. Catholic, wiU leave by air today for a six-months visit to the United Kingdom,
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  • 64 7 THE Lord Mayor of London, Sir Denys Lowson, has been delayed for 24 hours because the Qantas-BOAC Constellation on which he is travelling has engine trouble. He is due to arrive this afternoon at Kallang airport. The reception arranged by the acting Municipal President, Mr. Norman Ward
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  • 190 7 I watch a submarine pursuit Straits Time* Kepartcr, fTHROUGH the periscope of X the Thorough, British T-Class submarine, submerged 30 feet below the surface off the east coast o.f Malaya, I watched a motor launch tracking our course. Thorough, which has just finished refitting at Singapore Naval Base, was taking
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  • 54 7 WORKERS ASK FOR 'COURT' Singapore Glass Factory Workers' Union yesterday a"sk> ed the Labour Department to set up an arbitration board to settle their dispute with the Singapore Glass Manufacturers 1 Company. The union said -*t would abide by the decisions of such a board, the Depute Labour Commissioner, Mr.
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  • 163 7 DOLJCE who searched a Rochore Road shop found 1 $2,200 worth of spare parts and accessories taken from cars stolen in the past few months, it was alleged in Singapore Third District Court yesterday. The owner of the shop, Ooh Chew Chwee, was charged
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  • 44 7 Ahmad bin Kartubi, who pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing a bag containing $156 and clothing worth $M from a house at Dunearn Botd on July 30, was fined $•■> or tr.ree .days' imprisonment by thp Singapore FfTst Magl.trat", t&i. R. C. S. Bell.
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  • 68 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— T<HE Batu Pahafc— HJuang branch of the UMNO Youth League has not yet decided to throw in its lot with Dato Onn's Independence for Malaya Party or to continue to support UMjNO. The branch chairman said yesterday that the matter would be decided after
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  • 229 7 S.M.C. AGREE TO SELL LAND TO SCHOOL Bigger field rpHE Singapore Municipal Commissioners hay« tentatively agreed to sell to the Victoria School approximately 4,500 square feet of land to enable the school to enlarge its playing field. The land is situated next to the Jalan B^sai Stadium on the Tyrwhitt
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  • 82 7 (gINGAPORE Municipal Com- I missioners have turned down a proposal to have elec- 1 trically illuminated directio- 1 nal signs for the portraits of former Governors and influential citizens of Singapore in the Upper Victoria Memorial 1 Hall. The Commissioners have agreed ifistead that broch-
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  • 48 7 Fourteen Singapore agents Of the Amoy Canning Corporation (H.K.) Ltd., entertained- the general manager, Mr. Wong Tok Sau, to dinner last night. Mr. Wong has come from, Hong Kong to supervise the opening of the corporation's $2,000,000 factory at the eighth mile Bukit Timah.
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  • 67 7 CINGAPORE Municipal Commissioners an- to hand over to Governm- it land at Farrer Park for an extension to Kan«' ;i n k Kerbau Maternity Ho-pCil. It is proposed to buil a new bridge across the mnal along Kampong Java Rii-cl, as a continuation of Hampshire Road
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  • 132 7 A LLEOL'D to have stolen two A sacks of coffee valued at $480 belonging to Lirn Chlan Kee during Tuesday* fire in Kampong Bugis. Kuan Kirn 80, 16. and Seah Ah Jee, 26, claimed trial in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday. Kuan and
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  • 83 7 Applications for tfce >pcond Issue of licences for the import of wheat flour from, Australia under the Inters national Wheat Agreement from 1951 to 1952 should reach the Controller of Imports and Exports Department, Singapore, before Friday, Aug. 10. The Issue will be based on actual imports
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    • 75 7 Fine Quality Diamond Gem Set j Platinum I Engagement Rings Eternity Rings I Platinum Gold I Wedding Rings I Mewnt and Attractive. A Wide Choice of Styles Prices I B. P. De SUVA, LTD. (incorporated in CeylurJ m (Manufacturers Importers of High-Class JtwcUe ry) m Singapore t t Penang ZIiSS
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  • 101 8 MAN Y RATION CARDS MA Y BE A FRAUD Bogus names suspected SINGAPORE'S Deputy Food Controller said yesterday that 5,360 Singapore ration card holders have not applied for re-issue of their cards. The cards were in the names of 11,136 men, women and children whose rations were 25J tons of
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  • 385 8 Suh-Utioni. liable, to. l«*d •hrddint are: TDIHV Boon Tat Street, Telok Kur»u. B.d«k, hanf l B'/i mile, t'h»n«l Prison. T«n» Mer» Bea»r, Sel»r»n« B»..a<k», AtlM Ice, Happy World, Aala Kubb«c Lorong 3, 81ms Ay. Saw Mill, Shell Co., Lee Rubber Works. Mt. Batten Network, K'pore Swimming C tub,
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  • 104 8 IPOH. Thurs. THE proposed Unified Health Services Scheme for Malaya will form the main subject for discussion at the annual meeting of the Alumni Association of the King Edward VII College of Medicine to be held in Penang on Sunday. The morning session of
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  • 65 8 PENANG, Thurs. A 10-FOOT eel entangled in the circulating water pump impeller caused a turbo-alternator in the Prai Power Station to be shut down in March last year. This incident was recorded by the Penan* Municipal Electrical Engineer. Mr. S. Mortimer in his 1950 report Issued
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  • 82 8 Periyan Arumugam, 17, was yesterday sentenced to one month's gaol by the Singapore Fourth Magistrate, Mr. P. Claque, for stealing a gramophone and 30 records, worth $125. from Veerasamy at Yio Chu Kang Road on July 23. The sentence Is to date from July 25,
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  • 51 8 PENANG, Thursday. rpHE special parking space, reserved for the Resident X Commissioner's cat in frpnt of his office in Church Street Ghaut has been removed at the Resident Commissioner's request. Thb reservation was criticised by Mr. C. P. Listen, Municipal Commissioner, at last Thursday's meeting of the
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  • Article, Illustration
    68 8 DANCE RECITAL THE INDIAN dancer Himat Singh Cahuhan and three local girl s will give an Indian dance recital in the Victoria Memorial Hall. Singapore on Aug. 10 and 12. The recital is organised by the Indian Fine Arts Society in Singapore This Straits Times picture shows from left to
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  • 136 8 FAREWELL PARTY TO KOYLIs PENANG, Thurs. •pHE Commanding Officer, Lt. Col. J. C. Preston, and officers of the 2nd Battalion of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry were given a farewell tea party at the E and O Hotel today by Mr. M. Y. Poshni, a Persian carpet dealer. After
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  • 205 8 PENANG, Thursday. PENANG'S consumption of electricity reached a record last year— 23,666,796 units. This was 2,528,477 units more than the total area in 1949 and nearly 10,000,000 units more than the 1940 consumption These figures were given by the Municipal Electrical Engineer, Mr. S.
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  • 240 8 MALACCA, Thursday. TIR. H. Ball told a Malacca Rotary Club meeting last night: "It is a danger sign if any government, after its information service has been accused lie or show that it is not a lie but proceeds to enact of a
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  • 38 8 For stealing a tin of cigarettes worth 80 cents from a Singapore Harbour Board godown on July 12, Muhamed Ismail was yesterday sentenced to one month's imprisonment by the Singapore Third Magistrate, Mr. H. B. Livingstone.
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  • 111 8 City seeks Deputy Engineer MUNICIPAL Commissioners are to call for applications from the Municipal staff for the post of Deputy Municipal Engineer which will fall vacant about the end of this year. Applicants should be Chartered Civil or Municipal Engineers or hold equivalent qualifications. In addition, he must hava had
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  • 27 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs Koh Keng, a Benut lorry driver, was fined $350 in thi» Police Court today for tryine to smuggle ten cartons of cigarettes.
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    • 286 8 Muring 19")0, Clark* celebrated llicir JJ^ *^Mf I fflW^B Hp^^ /^v! IJ'iili iMiiiMrr.'.ary at the factory in ibo S li. art of tlic West Con Miry. 125.*Vrar» tm& -/T^-^ «.f -kill and experienoo, ami *iip-to-tlio> Mj^^£ S iiiinoU- Myliny make Darks *lior£ XR *Jr |M.,,i.lar the world over. For a
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    • 179 8 •nriDAH 10 WaItz Time": 10.30 "Take -Radio Theatre"; 8 30 News <J« SINGAPORE Your Partners> Please cl08e Home Newj; g jQsh whjte jn 10 10.10 a.m. News from KX.; nnr rt*s ...m. r> j.. »i 1 pjn. Rad;> Orch.; 1.30 News; BBC COS T"* Glor y Ro d < Ne
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    • 564 9  -  BRUCE FRASER talking about FILMS pRED Zinnemann has built up with "The Search" and "The Men" (a film aix)iit disabled soldiers, not yet shown in Malaya) an enviable reputation for making pictures with an unusual and sincere approach. His direction of "Teresa". introducing two
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    • 360 9 Louis B. Moves Out Of M.G.M. HOLLYWOOD REPORTER THIS is moving week for Louis B. Mayer and a sad occasion it is In many respects. The departing boss of the big MGM lot still has until Sept. 1 before his 25-year alliance with the company terminates, but he's rented new
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    • 95 9 I I INIVEFUSAL International;; W studio sent five Navajc Indians to the movies to teach" them how to act like Apaches.^ The company is shooting. "The Battle of Apache Pass"; j near Moab, Utah, which is] Navajo country. The script- called for an Apacfie devil; dance. The Naya
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    • 305 9 SOMETHING of a precedent that may spread through the Hollywood fashion world like wildfire was set by Ava Gardner, who turned out to be the big personal show at MGM's colourful premiere of "Show Boat" at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Taking a tip
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    • 217 9 11 a.m.. 1.45. The War Cry %.ww. «.jw SCREAMS wF The War Drum* Jok i And a howling ALm K^/ 7 horde of RED U.I. presents Yvonne De Carlo Van Heflin TOMIDRROW^M'NTfr /:iirvtliitifl...inclmiing ML RDER can happen in SO I- 1 A... the most CORRI PT CITY OV/" 7 Gene
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    • 340 10 LONDON, Thurs. A MORE confident tone developed throughout the London Stock Exchange today as a result of the complete cessation of the recent "forced" selling brought about by the dividend freeze. The slow but steady improvement resulted m sonip hasty short covering the net result being that most
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    • 34 10 HONG KONG, Thurs. pREE marker currency exchange for Hong Kong dollars was quoted at the close tods? as follows: USSI HK86.30 (cash). HKSB.33'i (T): £1 HK115.68; one tahll of gold HK$3lO%.— UJ*.
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    • 218 10 RUBBER MARKET 2 cts. up; easier close after a steady day TiHE Singapore rubber market was steady throughout the day yesterday. The close, however, was slightly easier, with August first-grade at $1.44 a ib. buyers. This was still two cents above Wednesday's close. I Turn-over In the market was moderate,
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    • 36 10 ►THE Malayan Exchange BanKs Association announced yesterday that control direct rates for Canadian dollars were: Buying TT 34 13 16. Airmail (0.D.) 34 15/16. (90 days) 35 3'lfi: Selling. T.T.O.D. ready 34 7 16.
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    • 41 10 SINGAPORE. Thurs., Aug. 2_ 5405 25 (down $4.87 y2.)y 2 London: £805 a ton LONDON, Thurs. Cash Buyers £805. Sellers 806, Forward Buyers £796. Seliers £797: Set tlement £807 (down £12). Turn-over: a.m. 140. pm. 35 tons.
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    • 65 10 WASHINGTON, Thurs. rnHE U.S. Reconstruction Finance Corporation announced yesterday that it had cut its price lor tin from USJI.O6 to $103 a lb. at the smelter in Texas City. Texas. The price cut was the seventh made by the R-F-C. In recent months. The new
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    • 121 10 Industrials and Rubbers steady QUIET conditions again pre; vailed m the Malayan share market yesterday. Industrials and Rubbers were steady, Tins slightly easier. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers" Association were: INDUSTRIALS Burcn S«llera 8.8. Petrol 40/- 41/8 Fraser 6c Neave Ords 3.85 3.70 Hcnrv Wn'Uh 3.15
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    • 111 10 T^HE Singapore copra market 1 was steady yesterday but rather dull, with prices higher than on Wednesday. Buyers offered $4 Hi but sellers held off. Coconut oil was unchanged with no business done. Other sections of the Singapore produce market were quietly steady with prices unchanged. Sellinu prices
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    • 191 10 SHIPS In the Singapore Roads and alongside the Singapore Harbour Board godowns at 4 p.m. yesterday were: Outer Roads: Hai Hsuan, Baud, Hannah Moller. Islander, Daviken. Sandviken. Eastern Queen. Bougainville, Flying Arrow, Carpentaria, Dunera. Foo Yu, Hoi Wong. Dossarus. Inchmull. R. Kerr, Steel Surveyor,
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    • 1329 10 MANSFIELD tfc CO., LTD. (Incorpoi'tad m Singapore) BLUB rUNMBL UNI C.m.r s e#tl<Mi te p,f*i v<* otK«. p«U to i.ad •»<! «sch«f. e.rg« tAILINCS to LIVERPOOL CLASCOW LONDON CONTINENTAL PORTS Duo Sail* P. Sham Panang AnckiMS foi Uvwpool Cla«ow 2 4 Calckai for L'pool C. 11/14 A««. 7 Aug. 8/11
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    • 411 10 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS To New York and Boston via Cerlon, India. Egypt and Mediterranean Ports Singapore P. Swettennam i»enang s.s. "PRESIDENT lOHNSON" C. 15-16/7 Aug. 8/9 Aug. 10/11 Aug. s.s. "PRESIDENT MONROE" 10/18 Aug. 19/20 Aug. 21/22 Aug. s.s. "PRESIDENT HARRISON" 14/22 Aug. 21/24 Aug. 25/26 Aug. I.i "PRESIDENT BUCHANAN"
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    • 414 10 EAST ASIATIC LINE SAILINCS FROM SCANDINAVIA/U K. /CONTINENT: Soor. P Sham Penang -Kambodia" for Bangkok, Hong Kong. Manila Kobe Yokohama 1-7 Aug. "Lalandia" for Saigon Bangkok 7-8 A«g. In Port "Falstrla" for Saigon Bkok 31 Aug -2 Sept 28-10 Aug. 21-27 Aug "Patagonia" for Bangkok, H'Kong, out--* Sut Man, la.
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    • 1053 10 VfoftLISTER tSc CO., LTdT^ r.l.phont No 5906 BLLKRMAM BUCKNALL KLAVKNBSS LINE LONDON HAVRt ROTTF.RB.AM ft LO ANCELES. SAN FRANCISCO. LONDON HAVRI.^ROTTERDAM 6 PORUAND SEATTLE It VANCOUVER •nd tot U.S.A.. North Atlantic Ports *««>»">« ca'go tot Cmtrrt South and Canada via Colombo American Port*, riTV Or COVENTRY fOUCAINVILLE Spore* '*r-m P
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  • 532 11 None in team to Malayan meet By SENTINEL r rHE committee of the Singapore A.A.A., which met last night to select the Colony's representatives at the Malayan championships at Kuala Lumpur on Aug. 17/18, have again barred schoolboys under 18 despite a M.A.A.A. ruling
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  • 240 11 Louis batters Brion in furious fight SAN FRANCISCO Thurs. JOE LOUIS, who is recognised in Britain as world Heavyweight champion, scored a 10 rounds points decision over Cesar Brion the Argentine heavyweight in a furious battle here last night. Louis, punching with practically the same power as when he was
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  • 192 11 Jacson fights RN champion tonight BABY Jacson, the Filipino bantamweight who has just returned from a tour of Australia, will appear in the main event of Darby Koh's boxing promotion at the Happy World arena tonight. Jacson's opponent will be Jimmy Mcllroy of the Navy, who in 1947 won the
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  • 300 11 SPOTTING THE WINNERS JlfY ten to follow at the Penang August Bank Holiday Meeting are: Colonel Daly: For the Gold Cup. One of the finest stayers to have come out to Malaya since the war; scored spectacular win In Perak Derby over 1H miles, subsequently failed in Governor's Cup but
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  • 168 11 LONDON, Fri. riOUNTY cricket leaders War- wickshire today gained a lead of 168 runs on the first Innings over Leicester, who were made to follow on. Close of play scores: Northaats t Wores (Northants): Worcs 230 and 99-1. NorthanU 234-H dccl. Notts t Kent (Notts):
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  • 353 11 From EPSOM JE«P PENANG, Thurs. r»OLONEL DALY stepped up his preparation for the Penang Gold Cup with a rousing mile gallop with newcomer Wise Bird on the outer strip of the main track at fenang thia morning. Cantered once round, Colonel Daly (Crowe) and Wise
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  • 69 11 DUBLIN. Thurs— Joseph McOrath's brll.lant colt Arctic Prince winner of the Epsom Derby laat May. ma not race attain following hi« breakdown in the King George VI and Queen EJzabeth Feitival of Britain stake, at Ascot a fortnight ago. He is to be retired to stud. Arctic
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  • 51 11 SOUTH ORANGE, New Jersey, Thurs: Ken McGregor of Australia, runner up to Dick Savltt at Wimbledon, was beaten by the United States junior champion Hamilton Richardson in the third round of the Eastern United States grass courts championship here yesterday. Richardson won their third round match 6-3 6-2
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  • 307 11 PENANG, Thursday INDIVIDUALITY (Bagby) winner when he breezed 39 sec. wide out on the morn in?. This f Hi. 'looking, three-year-old ,icy hju; struck a brilliant t.nd at the weights I think Merry Go Round will find it tough going on Saturday. Merry Go Round has
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  • 334 11 PENANG, Thurf. LADIES FLAME, with Athol Mulley astride, gave every satisfaction in her winding up gallop at Penang this morning when she skipped over 3f. in 3d i|s on the bit. This speedy daughter of Flamenco Is in splendid -rim and at the weights, she
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  • 1346 12 Soccer clash Road racing BADMINTON, TENNIS, GRAND PRIX, CRICKET SOCCER THE August bank holidays are here again, and with them the greatest sport ing weekend in the Malayan calendar. From today indeed, the tennis enthusiasts started yesterday— thousands of sportsmen and women will vie with
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  • 139 12 CTANVAC had to fight very hard for their three-two victory over Fraser 4c Neave S.C. when they met at V.M.C.A. ground yesterday in a Business House League Cup fixture. Fraser Neave opened accounts in the 20th minute through Zamad but lust before the interval Yin
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  • 436 12 SINGAPORE TODAY. SOCCER: Junior Cup-tie: Indian B.C. 'A' v SHB, St. George's Rd.; Business Houses Lge.: Pulau Bukom v Breweries, River Valley Rd.; Bata v NTS Farrer Park. TENNIS: Singapore championships. SCC; TanrUu Club ties. Tanglin. TOMORROW SOCCER: Community Lge.: Malays v Europeans, Stadium. GOLF: Colony championship,
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  • 280 12 SINGAPORE Cricket Club scored a well-deserved victory of five goals to nothing over Singapore Recreation Club yesterday to win i lie annual Padang shield soccer ■MM. S.C.C.'s forward line combined with perfect understanding, the bull going from one forward to another with clockwork precision.
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  • 418 12 WIN 'iN 25 MINUTES IPOH, Thursday. rpHE Hong Kong champion, K.H.Ip, fresh from his 1 visit to Wimbledon and the United Kingdom, had an easy time in his opening round match in the Malayan tennis championships which began on the padang courts today. He beat Penang's Oh Lock Heng by
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  • 31 12 NEW YORK, Thurs.—Jersey Joe Walcott's return bout with Ezzard Charles has been postponed to enable the new champion to make a world tour. The bout was planned for September.— A.P
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  • 31 12 nPODAY'S Free Press will contain a four-page ractnf supplement with a complete form guide for the Penan* races opening tomorrow and an article on the anti-doping campaign in Australia.
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