The Straits Times, 14 March 1937

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    37 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES THE LEADING SUNDAY NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA FINAL EDITION No. 273 Sunday, March 14, 1937 Price 10 cents. THE SUNDAY TIMES The Leading Sunday Newspaper In Malaya 273 Sunoay, March 14. 1937 Price 10 cents.
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    PLANTERS & GOVERNMENT CONFER ON STRIKES
    520 1 PLANTERS GOVERNMENT CONFER ON STRIKES NO TAPPING NOW ON TWELVE ESTATES NEAR KUALA LUMPUR Controller Of Labour Touring Area 200 POLICE PREPARED FOR ANY EMERGENCY (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. FOR the first time in Malayan planting history a deputation has been sent to the F.M.S. Government to
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    Rival Kings' Dispute Coronation
    188 1 Rival Kings' Dispute Coronation "CORROBOREE OF NO. ONE FELLER KING GEORGE" Melbourne. CKVERAL "kings" in Australia are fiercely contesting each other's claims to represent the aboriginal at the Coronation, says the Daily Express correspondent. King George, elderly chief of the vanishing Larrakeyah tribe at Darwin, is annoyed that he has
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    43 1 > .ii Nam with his bride after their weiding in Singapore yesterday. Mr tVong Yin Fon with his bride leaving St Peter's Church, Singapore yesterday. Sunday Times Photograph. Mr ft SB. Johnston with his bride lea vine St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday. Sunday Times Photograph.
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    CLOSING PRICES
    86 1 (From Omr Own Correspondent.) London, Saturday. RUBBER: Firmer. London, .pot 11 9 16 11 11 16 Apr-June .11% *****6 July-Sept 11% 11 13 16 (i11.,. .1113/16 11% COPRA: Straits SI). Rot., Jan. HO 2s. 6d. PEPPER: Lpg 81., bond, 3' s d Mar -May, 3d. GOLD: £7 4*
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    SHIPPING COMPETITION IN FAR EAST
    46 1 SHIPPING COMPETITION IN FAR EAST London, Saturday. The Imperial Shipping Committee has begun an inquiry into the position of British shipping in the Middle and Far Eastern waters, having regard to the changing conditions of sea-borne trade there, particularly to increased competition under foreign flags. Reuter.
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    Yesterday's Five Weddings
    397 1 Yesterday's Five Weddings Kfili- Benjamin Stephen Besnard Johnston, of Bahau Estate, Bahau. Negri Sembilan, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. C. M. Johnston, of Raydon, Orford, Suffolk, England, was married at St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, at noon yesterday to Miss Joyce Louise, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. H. N. Baron,
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    KILLED ON WAY TO SEE SICK DAUGHTER
    262 1 Mr. John Morey In Fatal Accident At Bukit Timah TWO people were fatally injured in a car crash on the Bukit Timah Road yesterday. They were Mr. John Morey, a well-known Singapore business man who was on his way to see his daughter
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    MUSSOLINI GAZES ON THE SUDAN
    152 1 MUSSOLINI GAZES ON THE SUDAN Camels And Goats Scatter As II Duce Passes Derna, Saturday. WALKING briskly up to the Egyptian frontier at Amseat, Signor Mussolini, who is visiting East Africa, for the first time in many years gazed upon territory where his writ does not run. Amseat is the
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    MURDERERS OF LIEUTENANT SURRENDER
    101 1 MURDERERS OF LIEUTENANT SURRENDER New Delhi, Saturday. T^HE North West frontier situation 1 has improved in consequence of the increased tractabillty of the tribesmen, probably Influenced by the knowledge that powerful British military forces are being assembled. It is understood members cf the gang of Mad Dakhcl, who murdered Lieutenant
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    SHIP BOUND FOR FAR EAST AFIRE IN PACIFIC
    83 1 SHIP BOUND FOR FAR EAST AFIRE IN PACIFIC San Francisco, Saturday. "THE 5,000-ton London motor-ship Silver Larch, bound for the Far East, radios that she is afire in the Pacific 300 miles north-east of Honolulu. The message adds the fire, which first broke out in a hold on Thursday, is
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    COLONY CAVALCADE
    1728 2 This Incredible Island— Twenty-five Millions In T wo Years Kallang and Kranji Buses THE Singapore public does not yet seem to have realised what the latest estimates of the Admiralty, War Office and Air Ministry mean to this Settlement. Twenty-five million dollars are to be poured into this
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    Backstage When The Opera Goes On In Singapore
    475 3 Backstage When The Opera Goes On In Singapore NO FUSS, NO BUSTLE, JUST CLOCKWORK 1?OR you and I a night at the opera is just a matter of dressing, handing over a few dollars, taking a seat and settling down to enjoy the entertainment, icith an occasional break fcr a
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    "IT'S ALWAYS TOO SOON TO QUIT"
    182 3 •THE power of courage and endurance to rearrange our whole j relation to events, is proved daily as cne of our commonest experiences. In Its lowliest form, this compulsion, this power, is simply the act of hanging on. plodding on, doggedly forcing oneself on
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    20 3 MX. Quah Peck Thian and Miss Lee Seok Tuan after their marriage at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Batu Pahat.
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    TAMIL CHURCH COMMITTEE
    101 3 (From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban, Saturday. At the annual general meeting of the St. Mark's Church Tamil committee the following office-bearers were elec:ed Chairman. Rev. B. Stokes hon. secretary. Mr. T. P. DoralraJ hon treasurer. Mr. John Stephens committee. Messrs. J. Williams. J. Daniel. 1 J. D.
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    FRASER AND CO.'s REPORT
    134 3 IN their daily report on the share market issued at the close of business yesterday. Messrs. Fraser and Co. state that the local price of tin rose $19 to $149. In spite of this rise the London market for tin shares was easier but the local
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    CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RUBBER ASSN.
    74 3 Mar. 13, Noon. Buyers Sellers No. 1 K. R.S.S. in cases (F. 0.8.) 39 7/16 39 9/16 Good F.A.Q. in cases (F. 0.8.) ..39 39 >ii No. 1 K. R.S.S. (Spot loose) Awardable Spore 39* 39', March 394 39% Apr.- June 39% 39'/; July-Sept. 394
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    GIFT PLANE WHICH CANNOT BE FLOWN
    42 3 Colombo has been presented wkh an aeroplane by Lord Wakeneld. But it has to be kept in storage because there are no facilities for assembly and testing, owing to the lack of landing grounds in Ceylon.
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    20 3 jy|R. Lee Han Slew and Miss Chung; Seok Heong after their marriage at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Batu Pahat.
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    MALACCA WEDDING
    90 3 (From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca. The wedding in the reformed style has taken place here at the Say Ah Tong premises, of Mr. Lim Boon CJiyt. son of Mr. and Mrs. Lim Boon Yew, and Miss Sim Geok Yee. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sim Hong Peck. The
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      101 3 CHIN TAN. The engagement is announced between Chin Chong Lek of Messrs. Bata Shoe Co., Ltd., Singapore, eldest son of Dr. and Mrs. Chin Kiok Loo of the Poh Hoc Tong Dispensary, Malacca, to Miss Tan Gek Kirn, eighth daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tan Kee Soon of Singapore. The
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      569 3 IN SINGAPORE TODAY CINEMAS. TIDE TABLE. SINGAPORE ALHAMBKA: Tarzan Escape* with Johnny H w n33 a m 9.7 n.; 11. 54 p.m. Weismuller. 3.15 P. l5 9.15. 9.2 ft. :rOL: On stase: Ted Md Bvellyn L. W. 5.18 a.m. 1.5 ft.; 5. 45 p.m. Chr-> in A Chi-T-S-' Tcmplr Garden.
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    HEAVY SINGAPORE RAIN SWEEPS GIRL TO DEATH
    281 4 HEAVY SINGAPORE RAIN SWEEPS GIRL TO DEATH Thirty Men Fight Rushing Waters In Vain Rescue Attempt THIRTY Tamils, Malays and Chinese fouyht rushing waters in a deep drain running down Syed Alwi Road to the Rochore canal during the heavy rain yesterday evening, searching for a three-year-old Tamil girl who
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    Maharajah Distributes Alms
    39 4 I ITTLE Indian children scrambling for coins thrown to them by the Maharajah of Hyderabad, passing in his car. The Maharajah is a noted philanthropist and i ivrs thousands of rupees a year to the poor.
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    Diesel-Plane For Freight Service
    119 4 Diesel-Plane For Freight Service T*HE German Junkers 86 Diesel- engined plane which passed through Singapore a week ago on a flight to Australia for delivery to buyers in that country may be the first of several machines of that type to be sold to Australia. It is believed the buyers
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    MALAYA AND TIN QUOTA
    572 4 WAITING TO HEAR VIEWS OF OTHER SIGNATORIES (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. MALAYA does not feel that she 1 should agree to allow producers of tin to overdraw their export quota accounts until such time as she has consulted and obtained the views of
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    First Aid For Y. M. C. A.
    68 4 A SIX-WEEKS' course in first aid to the injured is offered free to V.M.C.A. members and starts tomorrow night at 8 p.m. Already 25 people have enrolled. Appointed by the local branch of St. John's Ambulance, Dr. J. T. P. Handy will be
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    DOWAGER RANEE LEAVES £1.824
    33 4 The Dowager Ranee of Sarawak, ol Albert Road. Regent's Park, N.W., and of Chy-an-Chy, Lelant, widow of Sir Charles Brooke, second Rajah of Sarawak left .€1.824 (net personalty £858).
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    Woman Plans To Girdle World By Air
    201 4 Woman Plans To Girdle World By Air CINGAPORE will be stopping place "ona world east-west flight from Oakland, California, by Mrs. Amelia Karhart Putnam, who has crossed the Atlantic in her own plane and flown solo from the United States to Honolulu. She intends to leave Oakland on Sunday or
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    MAJOR KELLIE LEAVING SINGAPORE
    69 4 MAJOR KELLIE LEAVING SINGAPORE MAJOR R. H. A. Kellie. M.C., Army Intelligence Stall Officer, leaves Singapore for Gibraltar on May 7 by the P. and O. liner RajH i s successor. Brevet Major F. H. V i n d e n arrives by the P. and O. liner Rawalpindi on
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    SEREMBAN NOTES
    83 4 Mr. R. A. Brown, of the Malay Regiment, has gone home on leave. The death has taken place at Seremban of Mariam bintl Abdullah, the mother of Inche Mohamed Salleh, District Officer, Kajang. Inche Abbas of the Seremban P.W.D. and Inche Abdul Malik of the Survey Department, Kuala
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      422 4 indiqesHon For years she used to be hungry but feared to eat. Kere she tells the easy, pleasant way In which she obtained welcome relief "Your Diffestii Rennie Pastilles are the best tiling I have evct tried for indigestion. I have had gastric trouble so many times and never really
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      75 4 LOOK WHO'S HERE! JIB- "MR. atd MRS." THIN MAN art "ASTA!" M HH Werfittsdiy at the CAPITOL W^^M WILLIAM POWELL 1 I Ni and II I MYRNA LOY H^ ia MGMs Grand VHfl A\ Successor to "THE —^^8^ THIN MAN WW^Kg 'AFTER THE M^MBg«2Bp^MB R^ I Milt IrlAn B^. Directed
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    CREW OF 17 SAVED AFTER 66 DAYS ADRIFT
    208 6 Vessel Caught In Storm With Engines Broken RUDDER SMASHED AND MASTS LOST Tokio. A FTER drifting for sixty-six days "in mid-Pacific with engine broken down and masts and rudder smashed by heavy seas, the crew of seventeen of the Tairyu Matu, a
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    American Delicacies Here Again
    88 6 117/77/ the first direct American maK for several months and a lirge cargo of American delicacies which Singapore gourmets have had *o do without for some time, the first Dolar liner to reach Singapore since the United States shipping strikes throttled sea traffic, the President Hayes,
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    LONDON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EXAMS. 25 MALACCA CANDIDATES GET PASSES
    169 6 LONDON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EXAMS. 25 MALACCA CANDIDATES GET PASSES (From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca. DESULTS of Urn London Chamber of Commerce Autumn Examinations. 1936. just received, show that MalaccT obtained altogether 25 passes out of a total of 39 candidates. The list of successful pupils is i.s follows: ilishrr
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    ELECTION DEATHS
    32 6 Five people were killed and several Injured in the village of Barany. Southern Serbia, when police fired on a crowd attempting to storm a pollingbooth during a municipal by election.
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    SOLDIER HANGED FOR MURDER IN INDIA
    86 6 SOLDIER HANGED FOR MURDER IN INDIA (From Ou r Own Correspondent) Calcutta, Mar. 10. DRIVATE Maurice Henry DurDin, aged 26, of the Ist Battalion the koyal Warwickshire Regiment, stationed at Poona, was hanged at the Yeravada central prison for the murder of Private Arthur Francis Percy of the same regiment
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    SPANISH GIRL OFF TO FRONT
    46 6 UERE Is one of the many Madrid women wbo have donned uniforms and ai helpin; to check the rebels advance. This woman is on her way to the southern Madrid front to join the shock troops of the sth infantry battalion.
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    ECONOMIC MISSION TO NANKING OFFICIAL WELCOME FOR JAPANESE
    91 6 ECONOMIC MISSION TO NANKING OFFICIAL WELCOME FOR JAPANESE Shanghai, Saturday. 'THE Japanese economic commission. headed by Mr. Kodama. noted banker, is due to arrive in Shanghai j today. Mr. Hsu Shl-ylng. retiring Chinese Ambassador, hurried down from Nanking today, and he will accompany the mission to the national capital. An
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    FLIERS AT DAMASCUS
    19 6 MM. Plssavy and Cornet, Frenchmen flying from Paris to Tokio, have nrived at Damascus, says Reuter.
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    24 6 Next month's Italian naval manoeuvres off the coast of Libya, between Tobruk and Tripoli, will be the first of the kind since August. 1934
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    Capt. Hashim Makes Further Plea For University
    163 6 Capt. Hashim Makes Further Plea For University pARTLY to enlighten the non- English speaking Arabs of Singapore, the Hon. Captain N. M. Hashim, 1.5.0., principal advocate for a Malayan university, addressed the Arab Club last night on What Is A University ln what way will a University bring merit and
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    GERMANY'S PLAN FOR EUROPEAN PEACE
    127 6 GERMANY'S PLAN FOR EUROPEAN PEACE London, Saturday. A HINT of the contents of the German reply to Great Britain i.s given in an article in the Frankfurter Zeitunß, which is believed to be inspired. The article says the main outlines will be a proposal for Franco-German I renunciation of war
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    R.R.I. TRANSFER TODAY
    101 6 (From Our Own Correspondent). Kuala Lumpur. Saturday. THE Rubber Research Institute or Malaya will transfer Its offices ana laboratories from Damansara Koad, to Ampang Road, Kuala Lumpur, tomorrow. The new building Is the property or the Institute and has been erected at a cost of around $200,000.
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    INHABITANTS FLEE FROM GUADALAJARA
    53 6 Salarronca, Saturday. Nationalist aeroplanes raport that the inhabitants of Guadalajara are fleeing. A communique records more successes on the Guadalajara front but fom Madrid it is officially stated the Insurgent advance has been checked and the Government troops have captured several guns ii the course of
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    GONSALEZ CO. GIVE "LA BOHEME"
    73 6 ANOTHER brilliant success was scored by the Gonsalez Opera Company last night with "La Boheme before a packed audience at the Victoria Theatre. It presented most of the stars of the company in parts which suited them to perfection. There were Signorinr. Palazzvni, as Miml,
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    SUICIDE SELLS BODY TO PAY DEBTS
    377 6 SUICIDE SELLS BODY TO PAY DEBTS Tokio. QOS Tai-sryoku, 28, has admittedly been an unlucky man. Out of job, unable to support bis wife and children in Korea, heavily in debt, and desperately and hopelessly In love with a young cafe waitress, Gon decided to commit suicide. After spending his
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    $100,000,000 FOR HAINAN DEVELOPMENT
    28 6 $100,000,000 FOR HAINAN DEVELOPMENT Shanghai. Saturday. f HINESE banking interests in Shanghai are reported to have promised $100,000,000 for the development of Hainan Island. Sin Chew Jit Poh.
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    MALACCA NOTES
    244 6 'F>-om Our Own Correspondent) Mjiacca Inspector M. C. Boyie. of the Central Police Station, is transferred to Penang today. Mr. John Laycock. Mr. S C Goho, and Mr and Mrs. Tan Soo Chonc. SDent an evening at the Capitol Dan-:e Hall, Malacca, lost week-end Mr E. E. H
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    Petition To Keep Dr. Kung In China
    63 6 Shanghai. Saturday Leading Chinese industrialists and merchants of Shanghai huv graphed to Gen Chiau» Ki'.i-shelc petitioning him to appoint another delegate to th» Coronation in Lonoon in place of Dr HH. Kung. Finance Minister. The petitioners declare tJ^at Dr Kung's abilities cannot be
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    STAMPS FROM CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA
    784 7  - STAMPS FROM CENTRAL SOUTH AMERICA Fred J. Melville Stamp Collecting By /CENTRAL and South America are again active in the production of new stamps. Few of them equal in design and engraving the beautiful, if not always necessary, stamps of the last quarter of the XIX century. Brazil continues to
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      246 7 Tllr STAMPS OF THE TRF.ATY PORTS OF CHINA AND OF FORMOSA oy Captain H. R. Oldfleld. LL.B. A comoiete history ot this little known group of stamps. IV. er J 9 post free. The Philatelic Journal of Great Britain. The oldest British Philatelic magaruie. now tn Its 46th annual volume.
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      91 7 Coronation Stamps To be issued on Coronation Day. The complete lot, from 45 CROWN COLONIES comprising 135 stamps. Price 27/6 Post Free Order now to prevent disappointment SEFI-PEMBERTON ft CO.. LTD.. 12, South Moltri Street. London, W.I LNGLAND. RARE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS STAMPS. I am always In a poeltlon to offer
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      272 7 S LONDON CA.'.LS INSISTENTLY COME! and enjoy at either HOTEL RUIENS Buckingham Palace Road, facing Buckingham Pa. acr /f of HOTEL >Kuskv REMBRANfiI £W*? South Kensington. S W »/?^«vt l V facing the Victoria and V>J* Albert Museum w Every attention in pleas:ng surroundings PERFECT QUIETUDE THESE COMFORTABLE HOTELS WITH
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      218 7 LONDON The World Centre of Attraction for 1937 Two outstanding Hotels that meet all modern requirements including Hot and Cold running water and Central Heating. HOTEL GREAT CENTRAL Marytebone Road, N.W.I Ca*.Vi I CtnttXart. London HOTEL RUSSELL Russell Square, W.C.I Adjacent to each Hotel is an Underground Station that links
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      515 7 Today's Wireless Programmes SINGAPORE -ZHL. 1.333 kc s (225 m) a.m. 10.30 Church service Morning prayer (records) IJ.OO Interval. 11.30 Organ recital (records). Moon 12.00 Ta:-.; Club Orchestra (Relay;, p.m. 1.30 Close down. 5.30 Evensong. Relay frotr. St. Andrew's dral. 6.30 Piano recital. Rosemary Tay. 7.00 Symphony Concert, >r-.-cords). 7.30
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      504 7 J. E. Lovelock 8 M The news asd announcement* ft «5 Greenwich Usne signal $.23 Close down. TRANSMISSION 2. The following frequencies will be used: GSH 21.47 Me s (12 9 m.) GSG 17.79 Me s (168 m.) p m. 6.20 Big Ben. A religious service in Welsh, from Betbcs4a
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      660 7 2.20 News and review of the Week in Wavelength H.M m 11.885 ke. English. 11.35 News In French. Market prices. 2.35 Trout quintette by Schubert. Played a.m. by the Chamber music orchestra of the 12.05 News in Arabic. Berlin State Opera. 12.20 Concert relay. 3 20 Who is laughing there?
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      240 7 CROSSWORD PUZZLE RESULT Seven competitors succeeded in solving correctly The Sunday Times Crossword Puzzle printed In our \aue of Feb. 28 and the $100 prize is therefore equally divided among them. The names and addresses o.' the winner* are: T. Kltching. Kullm, Kedah; Yeo Sze Sam, 368. Telok Blangah Rd,
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    HEADLIGHT DAZZLE DANGER ON SINGAPORE'S ROADS
    268 8 HEADLIGHT DAZZLE DANGER ON SINGAPORE'S ROADS Heedless Driver Who Penalises Careful Motorist FAULTY road illumination and dazzling headlights are blamed by Singapore motorists as the two chief causes of night road accidents'. Hear the aftermath in the police courts I did not see the man A car was passing, and
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    MEMORIES OF GALLIPOLI
    83 8 IyiEMORIES of Gallipoli were re- called when the Australian j military contingent for the Coro- 1 nation passed through Colombo recently. The contingent, comprising about 160 men, contains a number of "Anzacs' 1 who made history at Gallipoli, and includes a winner cf the Victoria Cross. Arthur
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    Tank Driver Crashes, Dies
    93 8 Cairo. r\RIVER Hayes, of "O Eattcry (the Rocket Troop), Royal Horse Artillery, was killed and five of his comrades were injured as two light tanks they were manoeuvring fell fifteen feet into a desert quarry near Cairo. The men had lost themselves in a sandstorm. News
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    A Monster Of The Deep
    66 8 I*lllB is not a picture of a new sea monster, but scenes during paravane practice on H.M S. Royal Sovereign, now with the Home Fleet on a cruise. The paravane is used for destroying: the moorings of sea mines, or attacking submerged submarines. The picture
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    Fake Gods "Arrested" In China
    267 8 Fake Gods "Arrested" In China Ridding Land Of Superstition WORE than 1,090 images faked gods and petty deities wercj recently "arrested" and placed in a "concentration camp" by the military authorities of Chao An district, in southern Kwangtung, in an attempt to discourage image-worship and to suppress the further spreading
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    UNEMPLOYMENT IN JAMAICA
    54 8 Kingston The Corporation of Kingston regards the unemployment situation as serious. It has agreed to ask the Government to consir* r legislation to encourage agricultural industries as a permanent remedy, and to Invite British Honduras and British Guiana to Induce some of the unemployed to migrate there
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    22 8 An Arab who ran amok on the ParisMarseilles express, wounding two passengers, was killed by another train after escaping Into a tunnel
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    M. MOINE COMTE DIES AT AGE OF SEVENTY
    164 8 Founder Of Noted Singapore Firm pOUNDER of one of the best known French companies trading in Malaya, M. Moine Comte died in Marseilles on Feb. 27 at the age of 70. For nearly 20 years he took a prominent part in the
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    NAVY SHORT OF OFFICERS
    216 8 Re-Employment Plan QWING to the shortage of officers in v the guii.tr, gunner (torpedo) and boatswain branches of the Royal Navy it has been decided to offer employment beyond the retiring age of SO to commissioned officers from warrant rank in these branchesThe announcement was made
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    Tax On Couples With Only One Child
    144 8 Sweeping measures to encourage marriage and check the decline in the birth-rate In Italy are to be studied by the Fascist Grand Council. Proposals include: An increase by five times of the prevent bachelor tax. now levied on the basis of the income
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    1214 9  -  The Onlooker Man Who Will Manage Kallang A irport Sir Cecils Vision SirJulien Cahn As Magician By f|NE cf the best known of Malaya's prcwing number of pilou is Mr. Arthur Newark, who lias this month taken over the post of manager of the S ngapore Airport,
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    EMPIRE YOUTH TRAVEL
    362 9 Flat-Rate On Liners Suggestion DLANS to set up a flat steamship rate, whereby bona flde students may travel for a fixed sum from one 1 part of the Empire to another, are being formulated by the organis^io !of the Empire Youth movement. The scheme has the support
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    MALAYAN JINGLES
    121 9 95 OLD TIMERS Witless the ways of modern days—— We think of the years gone by; We scorn ihe gibes of the griffin tribes, And long for old times, with a sigh. Life sparkled then, when Men were Men (Upstart, repress your smile!); No cars, maybe, or dance
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    Thanks To Staff and A Bonus
    115 10 Thanks To Staff and A Bonus FOLLOWING our normal practice, provision has been made on the usual scale for bonus to the European staff. It is customary to make the payment of the bonus to the local Chinese staff proir to Chinese New Year, and the usual procedure was followed
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    BRIDES MIXED, MARRY WRONG MEN
    247 10 Commonsense Solution To Potentially Embarrassing Situation A REMARKABLE case of mixing of brides has been reported from a place near Su-tsien, says the North-China Daily News. It seems that a bride was being carried in her chair to her new home. On the way a
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    LEADER OF THE MALACCA HAINANESE COMMUNITY
    153 10 LEADER OF THE MALACCA HAINANESE COMMUNITY KJfR- Ngim Wee Chiow, the 48-year 111 old leader of the domiciled Malacca Hainanese community, spent his early years in the study of Chinese classics before he Joined the St. Francis Institution in 1917. Mr. Wee Chiow is an exceedingly busy man. He is
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    The Malay Regiment
    826 10 LIGHTER SIDE OF THEIR LIFE IN PORT DICKSON AND THEIR VISIT TO SINGAPORE 'THOSE who have read Bruce Lockhart's new book "Return to Malaya" will havo a good picture of the formation of the Malay Regiment and or its early life. This article, following on last year's,
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    LIEUT. PIT CHIEH
    146 10 Emperor Of Manchukuo'S Brother To Wed Japanese Tokio. I lEUTENANT Pu Chieh, the little known brother of Pu Vi, twice Emperor of China and now Emperor of Manchukuo, will marry Miss Hiroko Saga, granddaughter of the Marquis Kinto Saga in Tokio this spring. The date of the
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    This Man's Life In The Raw Was Never Mild
    771 11 ENGLISH ORPHANAGE, CANADA, AMERICA, THEN DEPORTATION The Other Half. By John Worby. J. M. Dent. Bs. Cd. THIS is the book which the redoubtable Grandmamma James Douglas tried so hard to get banned. In an Impassioned article published on the leader
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    "DIAMOND JIM," THE SULTAN OF NEW YORK
    450 11 "DIAMOND JIM," THE SULTAN OF NEW YORK Biography Of A Remarkable Man "Diamond Jim." The Life and Times of James Buchanan Brady. By Parker Morell. Hurst and Blackett. 3s. (id. THIS is the book on wnlch the film of the same name is oased, but the printed life story of
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    Inspector Head In Another Good Tale
    281 11 Inspector Head In Another Good Tale Tramp's Evidence. By E. Charles Vivian. The Wonderful Scheme. By Harry Stephen Kccler. Ward Lock's Library. Jl*R. VIVIAN'S sympathetic inspector of police, the redoubtable Inspector Head, plays a large part in solving the mystery of Bernard Wymering's death in a lonely weekend cottage. A
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    ROMANCE OF INCA EMPIRE
    283 11 Day of Immense Sun. By Blair Wiles. llutchinson. 7s. 6d. Strange Experiment. By Valentine." Kurd Lock's Library. lUIRS. NILES writes a vivid romance ITI of the last days of tne great Inca empire of Peru, in her story of Salla. the little Virgin of the Sun.
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    SYNCHRONISED MURDERS
    144 11 "Three Die At Midnight." By Peter Meriton. Hurst and Blackett. 7s. 6d. THIS is a first novel and. in the thriller class, quite an acceptable one. It has all the recognised in-gredients—thorough-paced villain-:, resourceful If lucky crime investigator (working for a change in respectful co-operation with Scotland Yard
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    Sir Cecil dementi's New Book
    292 11 Sir Cecil dementi's New Book A Constitutional History of British Guiana. By Sir Cecil dementi Macmillan. 20s. TT is well said by Sir Cecil dementi, in this comprehensive and mciii sive study of the constitutional history of British Guiana, that "political education cannot be 'crammed.' A workable system can only
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    TWO MYSTERY STORIES
    243 11 Live Cartridge. By Carlton Dawe. The Kidnapped Scientist. By Maurice B. Dix. Ward Lock Library. "I EATHERMOUTH," the Secret Service agent, makes an appearance in Live Cartridge although this time his activities are strictly private and have no international significance. Rather is he occupied in unravelling the
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    FULL-BLOODED AND GRIM
    189 11 Mollrnard. By O. P. Gilbert, Robert Hale. 7s. 6d. 'THIS full-blooded and grim story is the translation of an unusual novel from the French. Mollenard Is the hard-drinking, hard-living captain of a French cargo ship on the Eastern run, smuggler and gun-runner, adored by his crew and
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    Sitting On The Fence
    1783 12  -  NATHANIEL GUBBINS By DEING an open letter to Mrs. Phyllis Doig, of Wimbledon, whose husband complained in court that she dragged his girl friend round the room by the ear when she found them at tea. Dear Mrs. Doig, No doubt your action will be approved
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    CONTRACT BRIDGE
    273 12 VALUES of the FOUR-ACES SYSTEM. ACE 3 KING 2 QUEEN 1 JACK M Average Hand •4 Total Value of Pack 26 By THE FOUR ACES OIDNEY Rusinow and Benedict Jarmel, who won the Metropolitan pair championship of Greater New York, made a "Garrison" finish. In the four-session event
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    FOUR YEARS WITH ULCERATED STOMACH
    240 12 Now Feels Different Altogether." If you endure the terrible agony ot ulcerated stomach— or if you have suffered from the pain of other gastric ills, flatulence, wind, indigestion— you will understand the Joy with which Mr. W. H. H. wrote this amazing letter For nearly
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    "HIDDEN TREASURE"
    352 12 Lady Neish Shows How Readers (an Draw upon the Storehouse of Their Sub-Conscious Minds. "Pelmanism," she says, "teaches you to capitalise your brain power, and to express your thoughts in an orderly manner. It also brines out of that vast but little- appreciated store-house of your sub-conscious mind
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    "TIME IS RIPE FOR UNIVERSITY"
    339 13 Support By Malacca Chinese Leaders HIGH SCHOOL FEES CRITICISED (From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca, Saturday DROMINENT Malacca Chinese, interviewed on the questions of a Malayan university and school fees, made the following comments MR. CHAN KANG SWI The present rate Is too high; education should
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    DEATH OF HAJI AHMAD
    180 13 Popular Education Officer (From Our Own Correspondent.) Seremban. I*ll AN Haji Ahmad bin Abdul r ahmun. Assistant Malay Inspector of Schools, Negri Sembilan, whose death took place suddenly at the Seremban General Hospital, was a very efficient and hardworking officer. He rendered valuable service to the
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    THEATRE CROWD FLOUT HITLER
    58 13 CHEER 'FREEDOM' LINES Berlin. GERMANS, banned from expressing political and religious opinions, have found a way to protest. When a character in the play "Don C.xrlos." presented in Berlin's Deutsches Theatre, shout?d "Sir, give us freedom of thought" there was a twominute burst of applause. And
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    ON PAIN OF DEATH
    30 13 Kins Ibn Saud. according to a Jerusalem paper, has forbidden his subjects, on pain -f death, to take any part in the Arab-Jewish disputes in Palestine.
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    "JOB IN SINGAPORE BUT NO MONEY TO GET THERE"
    269 13 Alleged Forging Of Widow's Names SUBSCRIPTION LIST RACKET DICARDO DA ROSA, Portuguese citizen and alleged swindler, was arrested by the detectives of the Central Police Station charged with having defrauded a large number of American, British and residents of other nationalities
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    LESLIE HOWARD'S £37,000 A YEAR
    69 13 MISS K. FRANCIS— £4S,OOO New York. "TTIE British actor, Mr. Leslie Howard. is revealed as one of the three highest-paid stars employed by Warner Brothers during the past year la a report just published. He received £37,000, compared with £45,000 paid to Miss Kay Francis
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    DEATH OF KIPLING'S FIRST PUBLISHER
    78 13 London. The death has occurred of Mr. Emile Edouard Moreau. Kipling's first publisher formerly a business man of Allahabad and Calcutta. NEW COMET DISCOVERED A comet c' the seventh magnitude near Star 55 in the Pisces Constellation, has been fils^vered by Professor Wilk a: Krakow
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    44 YEARS WITH LOCAL BANK
    357 13 Never Took Local Leave MR. NGEOW NIAN CHIN pENIAL, cheerful, 64-year-old Mr. Ngeow Nian Chin has just retired from the post of general chief clerk of the Chartered Bank, Singapore. A few nights ago, the bank staff feted him at the New World, expressed their
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    Marriage Breakers Will Get Ten Years
    58 13 Berlin. JUIARITAL unfaithfulness in Ger- many will become an offence against the State under new marriage laws now being drawn up by the Ministry of Justice. Highest penalty will be ten years imprisonment. If the happiness of a marriage nas been broken up by
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    CIRCUS MAN'S FATAL LEAP FROM TRAIN
    69 13 Lahore. A CIRCUS performer jumped from a running train, broke both legs and died In hospital. The circus troupe, who had recently given performances in Bombay were travelling by train to a town In the Punjab. The man in question fell asleep in his
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    32 13 The famous statue of the Lion of Judah which stood in the Imperial Palace at Addis Ababa has been sent to Rome, and will be placed In th? Street of the Triumphs.
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    Totidem Verbis
    462 14 'Come To Singapore! 9 TTHE time seems opportune to broadcast some such slogan, for just now all the world is intensely Interested in Singapore, and tourism is a huge business of which this city, and Malaya as a 1 whole, is not at present getting its rightful share.
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    1445 14  - The Chinese Street Victor Purcell Singapore Salvo II By Second Of A Series Of Articles Illustrated By the Author THE street begins with the Heavenly Good Fortune Medicine Shop." Its sign is engraved in large gold characters on a black ground. A hanging side-board announces that hartshorn, ginseng, cassia, and
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    A Best-Seller Gone Wrong— And A Suggestion
    665 14 I*HE Malayan Civil List, published from time to time, fails to kindle our enthusiasm although we agree it is a most useful publication the sort of book one immediately runs to after meeting hitherto unknown Government officials at pahitparties, gin palaces o amusement
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    $100,000 HOUSE FOR MALAYA'S G.O.C.
    502 15 A II Three Service Heads 7 o Change Their Residences NEW FLAGSTAFF HOUSE AT BUKIT TIMAH: AIR COMMODORE FOR TANGLIN: NAVY CHIEF FOR NAVAL ABOUT $20,000,000 is to be spent on defence construction undertakings in Malaya in the coming financial year. Practically the entire sum
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    $20,000,000 This Year For Malayan Defence Undertakings
    386 15 $20,000,000 This Year For Malayan Defence Undertakings PLANS have been prepared and the site selected for the new $100,000 residence for the General Officer Commanding Troops, Malaya. The new building is to be erected on an area of 11 1 acres on the west side of Kheam Hock Road, leading
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    NOBODY WANTS THIS BOY
    195 15 A Hi year-old lad visited the Kobe Prefectural Foreign Affairs Section and begged for a passport in order that he could return to his native place in the South Seas. He added that he couldn't "bear eating Japanese rice." Investigations revealed mat the youth once belonged
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    ITALIAN ISLAND FORBIDDEN
    155 15 Volcanic Rock That Commands Tunis STRATEGIC POINT IN MEDITERRANEAN Rome. A BRIEF decree publisher is of paramount importance i all Powers in the Mediterranean basin. It declares: "It is forbidden to fly over the island of Pantellaria and its relative territorial waters." A map which accompanies the
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    The Lost Cord
    136 15 New York. f^REAT presence of mind icas shown at the famous Metropolitan Opera House in New York by the opera singer. Mile. Natalie Bondanya, during a performance of "The Clandestine Marriage." in which she appeared as Elisetta. 9•■■ IN the midst of the drau\ngroom scene, while in
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    COURTESY VISIT
    46 15 Marshal Ycgoroff. Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Army. Is going tc Kaunas. Riga, and Tallinn to return the courtesy visit the chiefs of the general staffs of Lithuania. Latvia and Estonia paid to the Red Army on May 1 last year
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    SECRET TEST OF 2-PEDAL CARS
    344 15 Coventry. TWO-PEDAL wars for the next Motor Show in October are foreshadowed by some remarkably easy-to-drive models that go out from the car factories here at night on secret trial runs. They are conventional cars to look at, but they have dispensed with the clutch
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    EXONERATED
    31 15 Ministers and ex-Ministers of Western Australia including the Premier, Mr. Willcock. and the ex-Premier, Mr. Collier, have been completely exonerated by a Royal Commission of Inquiry of charges of corruption.
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    CROCODILE FARM APPROVED IN CEYLON
    60 15 CROCODILE FARM APPROVED IN CEYLON THE proposal to establish a Government experimental crocodile (arm in Ceylon has been approved by a joint meeting cf the executive committee of Local Administration and the executive committee of Labour, Industry and Commerce. It was decided that the farm should be In Colombo in
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    NEW LIFE ASSOCIATIONS NEW CHIEF
    54 15 Nanking. Col. J. L. Huang. Secretary General cf the Officer's M:ral Endeavour Association, has been appointed by General Chiang Kai-shek concurrently as Secretary-General of the National Association for the Vromoticn ot the New Life Movement succeeding General Chien Ta-ci.un. whn has resigned on account of
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    VICTORIA THEATRE TO BE RENOVATED
    353 16 New Drop Curtain And Rose Coloured Paint For Interior A $1,400 UP-TO-DATE SWITCHBOARD. A Sl.BOO ART SILK DROP CURTAIN, SEVERAL MILES OF ELECTRIC WIRING, POUNDS OF TEA-ROSE COLOURED PAINT AND MANY NEW FANS are items earmarked for the renovation of the interior of the Victoria
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    TRAGEDY BEHIND FOOTLIGHTS
    223 16 Drama Acted While Leading Lady Dies New York. "TRAGEDY made an uninvited visit to a theatre in which the drama "Tobacco Road" was In its 1.392 nd performance. When the curtain went up for the second act at the Forest Theatre, New York, Miss Maude Odell, the
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    38 16 A group taken at the wedding In Singapore of Mr. Tang Kwang (lock, brother of Mr. P. K. Tang and Mr. C. K. Tang, and Miss Tan Gek ll wee, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tan Boon Hwang.
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    The Mind's Influence On Health
    296 16 The Mind's Influence On Health Sir F. BUZZARD'S "DIAGNOSIS" SIR Farquhar Buzzard, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, opening the Health Week at Oxford, said that there could be no more occurate index of a man's good health than his ability to pursue his daily task without the fear of
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    'I Helped To End A Life'
    156 16 'I Helped To End A Life' A WOMAN in grey stood up after an address by Lord Ponsonby, at a meeting of the Voluntary Euthanasia Legalisation Society in London, and told how she had assisted a dying relative to take his life. The woman, who spoke in strong, vibrant tones
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    MALAYS AND THEIR MOTHER TONGUE
    107 16 MR. T. B. JAYAH, M.S.C., president of the All-Ceylon Malay Association, speaking at a meeting at the Malay Club Pavilion, Rifle Green, Colombo, said Some people in this country think that we have no language of our own. "If representations are made to the proper
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    SABBATH BREAKER "CHARGED"
    173 16 SABBATH BREAKER "CHARGED" A MIDDLE-AGED bachelor, Mr. Malcolm Campbell, appeared as a penitent before a tribunal of the Applecross (Ross and Cromarty) Free Presbyterian Church, charged with being a Sabbath-breaker. The "crime" he had committed was of having worked on a Sunday at his occupation of ship's steward. Of the
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    SHIPS SALUTE NOT FIRED
    86 16 SICK CADET ABOARD San Juan (Porto Rico). WHEN the British cadet training cruiser Frobisher arrived hero Pilot Cadet Christopher Grey was so ffl with influenza that Capt. E. J. Spooner decided not to flre the customary salute. Two Frobisher cadets have died. They were Cadet J.
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      280 17 I 1 HflMnafl a^H i f t 1 I ~T^ 1 H^ ■Hi ■wj 53 HH^ 9H Write your name and »ddre«t here and atoo ON THE BACK OP THE ENVELOPE IN WHICH YOU POST VODR ENTRY. Name Address 14—3—37. DEFINITIONS ACKOSS: DEFINITIONS DOWN: 2. May prove dangerous to a
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    REPEATED ATTEMPTS TO WRECK BRITISH WARSHIPS
    469 18 REPEATED ATTEMPTS TO WRECK BRITISH WARSHIPS Secret Service Unearths Plot Of "Superior Organisation DETAILS OF DAMAGE K "SUPERIOR organisation," attacking the security of Great Britain has beer, behind repeated attempts to wreck the machinery of warships and submarines in the Royal Dockyards during the past few years. Efforts by British
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    442 18 TALLY-HO! TANTIVY! LIGHTS! CAMERA! TTHE "Treasure Hunt' i 1 the "Scavenger Party," so popuh In recent years as a form of amusement for night social gatherings, now have a rival In the "Picture Hunt." Instead of going out to find concealed "treasures" or queer objects In the
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    Penny-A-Week Order For Bride Of 82
    123 18 Penny- A-Week Order For Bride Of 82 WHEN the Hull stipendiary magistrate granted a maintenance order of a penny a week to a bride aged 82 and separation from her husband, who is 72, he said: "You are a silly old couple. Why un earth you ever got married I
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    ATTACK FIRST CAPTAIN'S WORDS ON TAKING COMMAND
    71 18 ATTACK FIRST CAPTAIN'S WORDS ON TAKING COMMAND BE the first to attack be the first tv Inflict deadly injury upon your opponent, and remain :n action until your enemy has disappeared under tre water." With these words to his crews Captain Welchhold took over command ?t Kiel of the First
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    FARM HANDS "SWAP" YOUNG DAUGHTERS
    305 18 Child-Marriage Scandal MANY more extraordinary cases of child marriages have come to light following the nation-wide uproar caused by the wedding of rine-y ears-old Eunice Winstead to Charlie Johns, aged twenty-two, at Snesdville, Tennessee, says the Ne w York correspondent of The People. There is,
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    This Makes Hitler "A Criminal"
    65 18 This Makes Hitler "A Criminal" QR. GOEBBELS, Hitler's witchdoctor Propaganda Minister, has discovered another crime against the Nazi State. It is failure to have children. Failure to have children in Germany nowadays is a sign of distrust in Herr Hitler, says the "AngriiT," Dr. Goebbels' daily paper. Sceptical Germans are
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    CROATIAN SIMON STYLITES
    136 18 HOME IN A HOLLOW TREE Belgrade. •THREE and a half years ago, and after sixty years of wandering about the world, Yandrash Kotsely settled down to spend the remainder of his days in a hollow chestnut tree on the top of a wooded mountain, near Gratchani, in
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    740 19 Max Factor's Advice 1 One Is The Sprinter And The Other The Lon& Distance T) it Knnnpr PVERY blonde has her day, but the brunette usually wins on the second day out. That is the facetious way of saying that from a close observation of the two
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    TRY MILK ON YOUR FACE AND NECK
    223 19 llillLK continues to receive more and more attention these days; history tells us that asses' milk was used as a bath by great beautie?, but it is the milk of cows that we use so extensively today. Children get graded milk that is
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    407 19 CHOWERY weather has its uses, but no woman who wishes to look smart can be expected to welcome it. Still, it is less disagreeable when you are armed with an umbrella, the latest in proofed coats, hats, and one of the new handbags which is made especially
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    Oil And Honey If Your Skin Is Sensitive
    310 20 IF we are not careful when we are facing a stiff wind our skins will become harsh and rough and the sight of them will make us feel quite sad and dispirited. In order to counteract the dryness and the wrinkles wrinkle
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    BLACK HAT, GAY FLOWERS
    33 20 A VEIL and a posy of flowers, are not too lavish as trimmings to the new black hats which are smaller, and much lower than any worn last year.
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    Nowadays A Room Is As Bright As Its Pictures
    650 20 Nowadays A Room Is As Bright As Its Pictures NOWADAYS, it is true to say that a room is as bright as its pictures. The pictures are often selected first, and the colour scheme of the room built around them. Modern pictures with their flat tones of colour are far
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    TROUSEAUX TREASURES
    119 20 lUIODEL lingerie is often selected entirely for the lovely stitches which trim it, and the home embroideress will be interested in the exclusive designs which include pale pink and white threads on delicate turquoise blue silk cami-knlckers. The sheer simplicity of the line of these garments which are
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    Smart Suit In Black And White
    39 21 Smart Suit In Black And White D E V E R SIBLE spotted crepe is r h »en for this smart suit in black and white with novel hackle at the waistline to match. Model by Marshall and Knelrrovr
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    Unconscious Habits Which Can Easily Be Controlled
    601 21 THERE are somo habits in which we indulge unconsciously which do not improve one's appearance. Biting one's lips is one of the most insidious of such habits, and a fairly common one. Becoming conscious of the mannerism is half the battle. Then one
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    CAREERS FOR GIRLS IN MALAYA
    452 21 CAREERS FOR GIRLS IN MALAYA VII Pharmacy Continuing The Series Written Exclusively For The Sunday Times IN Europe pharmacy as a career is growing more and more popular with women, who now fill posts in retail pharmacies, wholesale houses, hospitals, and dispensaries, but in Malaya very few women have iken
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    535 21 Husbands Don't Change After Marriage THE other night a friend of mine dropped in for a chat, and complained bitterly that her husband had changed a lot since they had got married. I told her that it was probably not Jim, but she who had changed I used to think
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    Idea For An Evening Coat
    86 21 Idea For An Evening Coat demand as women would rather go to a woman for advice and the required medicines and appliancps. On the whole it would not be advisable for a girl to take to dispensing for a career unless she is certain of a post at the end
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    15 22 Teams of the Snanydak 3.P. of Kuala I umpar (top) and the Malacca Argonauts (below).
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    Waiting for League Football to Begin
    1182 22 MALACCA SPORTS NOTES Schools Starting When Their Inter-House Cricket fixtures Finish BY OUR MALACCA CORRESPONDENT II7HEN other centres have begun league soccer, Malacca sterns to lie at rest. The Malacca Football Association should convene a meeting at once of the representatives of all affiliated
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    REVIVAL OF SPORTS ACTIVITY IN BATU PAHAT
    503 22 'From Our Own Correspondent) Batu Pahat. WITH the revival of cricket in Batu Pahat there seem to be signs of activity in other branches of sports as well. A meeting of those interested in badminton will be held next week to discuss the
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    PLAYBOY BOXER LEAVES AMERICA FOR ENGLAND
    514 23 PLAYBOY BOXER LEAVES AMERICA FOR ENGLAND Max Baer Takes Gunman As His Escort h/I AX BAER, the playboy of New York and one time world heavyweight champion, has ousted the Schmeling-Braddock-Louis trio from the headlines in the New York and London newspapers. Maxie usually travels with a jazz band and
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    Home Football Results
    348 23 FEW GAMES PLAYED IN SCOTLAND OWING TO HEAVY SNOW London, Saturday. SNOW continues to fall in Scotland and northern England. Scotland is the worst sufferer as not only are many of the roads blocked by snowdrifts, cutting off roac* communication with England, but travellers are severely handicapped
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    LATE NEWS Scottish Road Services Crippled By Strike
    157 23 LATE NEWS Scottish Road Services Crippled By Strike THE whole of Scotland's road! passenger service except Muni- cipal undertakings in Glasgow and Edinburgh is at a standstill M a result of the strike of 10.000 bu employees demanding higher pay and improved conditions. The irrike which is now ln its
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    SIR JULIEN CAHN'S TEAM MAKES 388
    37 23 MATCH AGAINST CEYLON (Prom Our Own Correspondent.) Colombo. Saturday. Close of play scores in tht cricket game between Sir Julien Cahn's team and Ceylyn Cahn's 383 Ceylon 4 for 1 wkt.
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    BASKETBALL
    51 23 Kyoto. The American basKetball team. piCKed from various colleges snd universities on ttie Pacific overwheimec the Kyoto imperial University rlvp by the score of 55 to 17 The horn" squad succeeded 'n totalling only two baskets and i free throw in the first half, while the visitors scored 25
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    GERMAN DAVIS CUP TKAM MAY TOUR OUT EAST
    45 23 Berlin Baron Gottfried von Cramm captain of the German navls Cup team, has stated that the team would tour the United States and then probab'.y tour Japan after th? termination of the Wimbledon and Davis Cup tournaments
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    S.C.C. AT GILLMAN
    40 23 The two-day cricket match between the S.C.C. and Middlesex Regiment, which started at Glllman Barracks yesterday, closed with the score at 140 for the Midds.. and 93 for the club. Play will resume at 11 a.m. today.
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    HOME RUGBY
    103 23 London, Saturday. DI'GBY games played today resulted as follows Army 8, Territorial Army 6. Bath 6, Blackheath 5. Bedford 26. Guy's Hospital 3. Coventry 22. P.ichmond 6. Devonport Services 27, Torquay Athletic 5. Harlequins 11, Old Merchant Taylors 11. Leicester 9, London Welsh 0. Llanelly 29, Gloucester 0.
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    KING OF SIAM'S GOLD CUP
    81 23 PHYA DEVAHASTIN GETS FIRST THREE PLACES (From Our Own Correspondent) Bangkok. Saturday. A big crowd present for the last day of the Sports Club races this afternoon when the favourite and well-tipped Nightingale won the King's Gold Cup. Nightingale is owned by Phya Devahastin whose
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    LEAGUE TABLES
    1122 23 POSITIONS in the leagues including yestrrday"s gitmrs are: DIVISION 1 H W L U f A PtS Charltoa 33 16 6 11 47 37 43 A senal 32 15 6 11 71 43 41 Middlesbro" 33 17 10 6 64 55 40 Manchester C. 31 14 7 10
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    M.R.U. DECLINES TO ORGANISE ASIATIC RUGBY
    274 24 SEQUEL TO ALL" BLUES FJNAL MASCO But Union Ready To Tender "Helpful Advice" DECISION CAUSES DISAPPOINTMENT IN NEGRI SEMBILAN (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ssremban, Saturday. THE Malayan Rugby Union, governing body of the carrying code in the Peninsula, has, it is understood, declined to
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    SEGAMAT MALAYS IN EASY WIN
    781 24 SEGAMAT MALAYS IN EASY WIN Plucky Stand By Student XI (From Our Own Correspondent.) Segamat. DACKED by a better defence, the Segamat Malays scored an easy victory over the Government English School, whom they beat by four goals to one, on the School padang last week in their return soccer
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    BATSMEN RUN THEMSELVES OUT
    316 24 Rain Stops Selangor State Trial PERIMPANAYAGAN'S BRIGHT 45 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. Ambitious batsmen ran themselves out in the Selangor State Trial on the Padang this afternoon between R. H. White's and Hussey's elevens. Too many risks were taken this way and otherwise
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    PERHIMPONAN STIA TEAM AGAINST MIDDS. BAND
    63 24 The following will represent the Pe.himponan Stia Club in a friendly football game against the Band Boys of the Ist Bn. Middlesex Regiment at the Raffles Reclamation ground. Beach Road, today: Ahmad Mohamed, Dolah, Md. Noor. Sarwan. Dahlan, A. Rahim. Ahmad Khodri, Abubakar. A.
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    36 24 The Malayan champion cyclist, S. Pall Singh of the F.M.S. Police Depot, Kuala Lumpur. This year he has already won the ••hampionships at the Penan* cycling carnival *n January and the Perak cycling carnival in February.
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    RAFFLES WIN BY 23 RUNS
    193 24 DAFFLES Institution beat the Ceylon Sports Club at cricket yesterday by 23 runs in a game played on the school ground yesterday. Scores RAFFLES INSTITUTION R. I. Barker b Fernando 11 I. B. Suratta lbw Thuraisingham 5 A. Watts b Alwls 4 S. K. Sundaram
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    FOOTBALL FIXTURES FOR SINGAPORE
    150 24 INHERE are some revisions of Slnga- pore soccer fixtures for th's week, i which are now as follows: Monday: S.C.F.A. II vs. Fort Canning. Dlv. 11. Stadium: V.M.C.A. vs. Medical Services, Dlv. 111. S.H.B. gr nd: Bata vs. H K. S. Bank. 8.H.L., V.M.C.A. I ground.
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    MALAY SCHOLARS WIN
    111 24 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Taiplng. The Matang B.P. travellei to Taiplng and were beaten by the Malay Scholars B.P. by seven games to one. Results (Matans first): Singles: Awang lost to Mohamed Noor 12-15, 2-15: Hamid lost to Osman 8-15. 7-15: Endan lost to Wan Jusch 5-15,
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    All-Malaya Chinese Olympiad For Singapore
    233 24 All-Malaya Chinese Olympiad For Singapore A meeting was called Jointly by the S.C.R.C. the S.C.F.A.. the CSC, the Basket-ball and Volley-bull Association and the S.C.A.A.A.. at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce yesterday to discuss the holding of the Malayan Chinese Olympiad this year. Mr. Aw Chong Vow. who was
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    Chinese Get Three To Airmen's One
    440 24 Chinese Get Three To Airmen's One Chinese 3; R.A.F. 1. •THE First Division encounter be- tween the Chinese and the Royal Air Force at Anson Road Stadium yesterday was a disappointing affair generally. The better team won, although had the airmen taken the few chances which came their way there
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    SEREMBAN CRICKET TEAMS
    117 24 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Seremban. 1*HE Negrl Sembllan Club of Serem- ban is fielding two cricket sides this week-end. On Saturday their cpponents will be the Sercmban AngloChinese School, who will be led by Gurdial Singh, the State player. On Sunday the Selangor Eurasian Association win be
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    OFFER FOR BAER
    34 24 Dallas. Mr. J. Curtis Sanford, the promoter of Cotton Bowl Football, revealed that he had offered Ma:; Baer. the former champion, U.S. $50,000 to fight Bob Pastor at Dallas in June.
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    BRYANT SHIELD TENNIS
    436 24 PAST WEEK'S RESULTS AT MALACCA (From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca. 17OLLOWING are the results in th« Malacca Lawn Tennis Associatioa League, "A" Division, for the Bryant Shield: Tuesday: Wong Ah Leone's T.P. beat Klebang T.P. by 2 cames to 1. Ties (W.A.I. T.P. mentioned first) Chan Boon
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    BRITISH CONTEST
    41 24 The final eliminating contest for th 3 welter-weight championship of Great Britain will bt between Jack Lcrd, northern area champion, and Norman Snow, holder of the southern are a title. The winner qualifies to meet Jack Kilraln (Glasgow) holder.
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    60 24 'THESE two boys from the High School, Kajanit. put up a creditable show at the cycling carnival held recently at ipoh. Mohd. Salleh bin Askor won the schoolboys' championship and in doing so he won seven first places, including the 20 miles race and was placed second in the two
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    HOCKEY'S POPULARITY IN JOHORE
    745 24 STATE ASSOCIATION URGED (From Our Own Correspondent.) Se?amat. INTEREST displayed in hockey in Johore throughout the season Just ended, has surpassed all expectations, id if this interest Is maintained jhore should be able to field a State XI on similar lines to the existing rugger and
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    OBJECTION DISMISSED AT SELANGOR RACES
    2114 25 Good Dividends Paid At K.L. SUCCESSFUL DAY FOR TRAINER LOGUE (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. 'TRAINER P. LoKue had a good day today at the first day 1 of the Selangor Turf Club Spring Meeting. At the end of the fourth race, which
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    500 Malay Children Give Drill Exhibition
    87 25 500 Malay Children Give Drill Exhibition ANY European dictator would have been impressed if he had seen the display of physical culture and sports by more than 500 Malay children from about 20 Singapore Malay schools at the Geylang Malay School yesterday afternoon. The children drilled with a precision and
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    ALVIS'S FINE KNOCK OF 52
    266 25 S.C.R.C. and S.R.C. Draw SWEE KENG TAKES SEVEN FOR 55 'A FINE knock of 52 by L. Alvis and an equally good bowling [performance by Swee Keng, who took seven for 55 were the features of the match between the S.R.C. and the S.C.R.C. on
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    NEGRI SEMBILAN CRICKET
    82 25 Club Defeats AngloChinese School 'From Our Owr, Correspondent) Seremban, Saturday. The Negri Sembilan Club A team defeated the Anglo-Chinese School. Seremban, by 27 runs in a low scoring match. The school scored 42 (Gurdial Singh 12 and Rajarctnam 10), while R. T. Rajasingham took five for 24
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    S.C.C. LAWN TENNIS
    33 25 Owing to the Beating of Retreat on the padang tomorrow, players In the lawn tennis tournament ties at the S.C.C. are asked to begin their matches as early as possible.
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    AIZAWA BEATS THUTT PITT
    647 25 V.M.C.A. TENNIS CIX games sufficed yesterday l~> en able T. Aizawa, the Formosa lawn tennis champion *o entei the semifinals of the men's open singles event in the V.M.C.A. lawn tennis tournament when he won the final set of his match against Chong Thutt Pitt by
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    STRICKLAND BEATS ART OLIVER ON POINTS
    39 25 Chicago. Maurice Strickland, of New Zealand, was awarded an eight round decision here over Art Oliver, of Chicago. Strickland tipped the beam at 183 lb.. while the American weighed in at 193 lb.
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    Second Padang Cricket Trial
    503 25 Second Padang Cricket Trial "THE second, cricket, trial to rnabto selectors to pick the team <> represent Malaya in the match against Sir Julien Cahn eleven during he Easter week-end in Singapore too* plac<! on the Padang yesterday, and some of those in the runnlns for selection certainly gave promise.
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    NEW RULE FOR S. B. A. OFFICE-BEARERS
    930 26 Will It Handicap The Association Rather Than Improve It Chances Of Team Going To Hong Kong Look Remote BY OUR BADMINTON CORRESPGNDENT 'TUL official tournament and inteiStatc programmes for the 192S season having been completed, the annual report on the activities of the
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    100 26 A group photograph taken at the fourth anniversary celebration of the Useful Badminton Party of Singapore. Sitting, (left to right): Ong Eng Wan (committee) A. Thamblayah (vice-president): We« Kirn Wee (hon. secretary); Tan Boon Hong (committee): P. O. John Panikar (president): Ong Say Yeo (hon. asst. secretary and treasurer): Soh
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    8 26 .Malacca's representative badminton team. Johore's representative badminton team
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    26 26 A xr«u» »u»M*i.t#4i i*^*m at a UretreH to Mr. and Mn. F. H. Leeon, of the Naval Bam. Mr. U««u wai in the Chief Fngineer's department.
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    USEFUL B. P. FOURTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
    588 26 USEFUL B. P. FOURTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION ■T*HE Useful Badminton Party cele- brated its fourth anniversary at Mr. Aw Boon Haw's bungalow, Pasir Panjang, last week-end. Swimming events were held at the Haw Paw swimming pool on Saturday. The annual dinner followed. After an address of welcome to friends and members,
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    GENTLE B.P.
    101 26 The Gentle B.P. beat the Rosehlll B.P. by four games to three last Sunday. Results Singles Suadi beat C. B. Nair 15—9, 13 all, s—l Abdul Rani beat K. Regunathan 15—12, 15—10 Ahmat Taib beat Llm Hont: Kong 15— G. 15—3 Abdul Rahman lost to M. Sockallngam 4—15.
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    WIN FOR KILAT B.P.
    139 26 (From Ou r Own Correspondent) Taiping. The Kilat B.P. beat the Sanicals B.P. by eight matches to two. Results (Kilat first): Singles: Mohamed Noor beat Ahmad Naslr 15-5, 15-8; Khoo Boo Soo be l Hajl Ahmad 15-6, 15-11; Wan Jusoh beat Boey Chye Weng 15-5. 15-9;
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    BATAVIA B.P.
    71 26 Th* following will represent the Batavia B.P. In a friendly badminton match of four singles, three doubles and one exhibition singles against the Kampong Glam B.P. today at 2.30 p.m. at the home court Singles P. V. Sarma, Robert Yap, Nobert Gomes, Harry Lee. Siak Koon and Ismail.
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    SELECT B.P.
    109 26 Playing at the Etona B.P. court last Sunday the Select B.P. lost to the Ftona B.P. by three games to four. Results (Select first) T. Rajoo lost to Bertie Koh 15 7, 6—15, 7—15; Thlam Kirn beat Andrew Lim B—ls, lb— 4, I—l 3 (5—2); Weng Choon lost
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    HORLICKS B.P.
    174 26 At the ninth annual general meetIng of the Horlicks Badminton Party held at Mr. Ang Beng Lays residence on Mar. 6 the following were elected office-bearers for the ensuing year: Patrons, Mr. Yeo Slew Chuan. Mr. Chua Hong ICay, Mr. Llm Chong Swee < re-elected); president Mr E.
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    STIA TEKONG CLUB
    72 26 In a friendly badminton match the Stia Tekong Club beat tho PcmseranT Police Badminton Party on the latters ground by thrs? games to one. Scores (S.T.C first) Yacob b-at Sr.'lch 15 ft, 13—13 (s—o) Manir Uddm \rd Tunt;ku Ahamad beat Haroon and Martboom 21—11. 20—2 C >2—3).
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    CHEERFUL LADS A.P.
    84 26 At the first annual general meeting of the Cheerful Lads Athletic Party held at the residence of Mr. Ho Thlam Chuan. 102 Llm Ah Woo Road, loot Sunday the following were elected office-bearers for the year: President, Mr. Llm Chin Ann; hon secretary, Mr. Ho Thiam Chuan;
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    THE COTERIE
    34 26 At the last monthly meeting ot tri3 Coterie It was decided to hold a fourday picnic from Mar. 23 to Mar. 29. A committee meeting will be held today at 11 a.m.
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    SHORTHAND WRITERS
    42 26 The third annual general meeting of the Gregg Shorthand Writers' Association will be held at the Mercantile Institution. 209, Queen Street, today at 430 p.m. A tea party will be herl after the meeting. A group photograph will be taken.
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    AMATEUR SPORTING ASSON.
    30 26 The final meeting of the management committee for 1936 of the Amateur Sporting Association will be held on Thursday at 8 p.m. at 75. North Bridge Road.
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