The Straits Times, 17 April 1938

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    38 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES THE LEADING SUNDAY NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA FINAL EDITION No. 330 Sunday. April 17, 1938 Price 10 cents THE SUNDAY TIMES [The Leading Sunday Newspaper In Malaya. No. 230 Sunday, April 17, 1938 Price 10 cents
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    EUROPE MORE TRANQUIL NOW
    178 1 Anglo-Italian Accord Is Steadying Factor WILL FRANCE FOLLOW LEAD OF BRITAIN? Duce's Spokesman Reassures Germany RASTER has brought with it to Europe the Continent's most tranquil period for many months last night, the eve of the signing of the Anglo-Italian pact, held new hope for the
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    Czechs Want Peace
    320 1 THE Italian press announced th»> imminent signature of the Anglo-Italian Treaty with big headlines. The end of Anglo-Italian tension is stressed nnd the pa.-sayo of Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha. British War Minister, through Italy is prominently noted. In the great hall where many historic documents have been signed
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    'Why I'm Single'
    49 1 General Evangeline Booth, speaking at Aberdeen, said that once. In the United Sta es. a man said to her diflldently, "Don't you think that the time has come when you should consider matrimony?" Her reply was: "I have considered it. That is why I remain single
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    55 1 David Hearst and his beautiful bride, whose romance uas described in last week's Sunday Times, are here seen arriving in England from the United States on their honeymoon. Mr. Hearst is the youngest son of the millionaire newspaper family and his wife is 17-year-old former Helen Chandler, said to be
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    28 1 -fine f-:athf.rs Kathleen Livingstone, aged 15, as "The Cock" poses for the cameraman before taking part in the semifinals of the Sunshine dancing COmptttttOH at King George's Hall,
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    Franco Has Reached The Mediterranean
    270 1 General Franco's insurgent troops have reached the Mediterranean through a corridor 10 miles wide and 25 miles long. This follows the insurgents' relentless, drive southward. They entered Vinaroz. Soon after Franco's troops entered Vinaroz a Nationalist soldier walked ceremonially into the Mediterranean and planted the
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    AMERICAN PLANS LONG JUNK TRIP
    130 1 Shanghai. Saturday. AN American named Dr. Petersen set out from Shanghai In a Chinese Junk yesterday in an attempt to cross the Pacific. He is being accompanied by his wife. Dr. Petersen, who is of German stock, has christened his Junk Hummel, after the popular
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    MAGISTRATE DIES
    17 1 Inche Ahmad bin Abbas, second magistrate. Batu Pahat. died in hospital yesterday, following an operation.
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    Rickett's Deal With Mexico
    69 1 New York. Saturday. rr is learned that agreement has been reached between the Mexican Government and Mr. F. W. Rlckett, mystery man of finance, for the sale of refined petroleum products. The quantity involved is said to be small. M. Mlrelas. head of the Mexican Government's
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    Airboat Record
    49 1 London, Saturday. TTHE fastest flight with a full load of passengers from Durban to Southampton—a distance of 8,000 miles was established by an Imperial Airways flying-boat which arrived at Southampton on Wednesday. The flying-boat, with 10 passengers and mails, did the Journey in four and a-half days.
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    FLIGHT RECORD BID
    79 1 London, Saturday. A TEAM of four Italian airmen under the leadership of Captain Albertini arrived at Croydon on Good Friday. They intend to make an attempt to smash the record for the flight from London to Capetwon and back set up by Flying-Officer Arthur Clouston, the New
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    GAS MASK FACTORY FOR JAVA
    39 1 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Batavla. |T is stated that a gas mask factory of the Singapore Rubber Works will be established in Bandoeng. The factory will be ready by the end of the year.
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    KAILAN MINE STRIKE ENDS
    35 1 r:E strike at the Sino-Britisl Kalian Mining Administration mines at Tongshan. in East Hopei, which began on Mar. 27, has been settled. The workers have been granted certain concessions, reports Reuter.
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    Chinese Lottery Bride
    151 1 Chinese Lottery Bride A BEAUTIFUL slim 19-year- old Chinese girl in Macassar, Celebes Islands, N.1., is offering herself in marriage to the winner of a $25,000 lottery which she has started in aid of the Chinese relief fund, according to a Chinese report. The first lottery bride in Malaysia, Miss
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    AID FOR CIVIL AVIATION
    35 1 London, Saturday. The text has been Issued of the Government Bill increasing the maximum amount n#-*ubsldies which are paid annually for the development of civil aviation from £1.500,000 to £3,ooo.ooo— Reuter
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    GREAT FOOTBALLER PASSES
    56 1 London. Saturday. The death has occurred at Derby from bronchitis of the soccer player Steve Bloomer, at the age of 64 Bloomer, who played mostly fcr Derby County, with a brief period for Mlddlesbro, obtained 23 caps against Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and was regarded as one
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    54 1 He is walking from Switzerland to Tokio, to arrive for the Olympic Games in 1940! He is Fritz Steininger, a Swiss. The distance is 12,000 miles and the 2.500 miles he will have to do by boat have to be made up by detours on foot. He docs most of
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    Paris Strikes Are Over
    45 1 Paris, Saturday. Forty-six thousand workers of the Renault and other works have already evacuated the factories. Evacuation of the Citroen works is proceeding rapidly. Work is expected to begin on Tuesday, thus ending the stay-in strike in the metal Industries.— Reuter.
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    NORWAY'S RAILWAYS
    18 1 The Norwegian Premier. M. Nygaardsvold, said that new expenditure would Include £4,000.000 to electrify the railways.
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    Penang Is Losing Its Natural Beauty
    432 2 PEOPLE RACE RECKLESSLY > Fo# MODERNITY Gambling Racket May Make It Another City Of Vice 'By A Special Correspondent) TtENANG, one of Malaya's finest beauty spots, is in danger of losing its natural beauty. It is ateo in danger of becoming another city of
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    33 2 te Baslie, rench aviatrix, was a passenger n a netc 200 miles-an-hour Air ranee plxne which landed at Toydon. She was presented with bouquet by the little son of one ni thp nilnts
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    25 2 ...i. a r Charles Li::.-. Chief of the atinn, aha passed through Singapore recently, photographed with his ife on arrival at Liverpool Street station. London.
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    FIVE DIE IN R.A.F. CRASH
    172 2 OEVERAL hours alter a twin- engined bomber was due at Driflleld, Yorkshire, R.A.F. station after a night flight, a fruiterer returning from early morning market found the wreck of the 'plane and the bodies of its crew of five in a field two miles from
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    Swinton Will Be Told Sacked Pilots' Case
    90 2 JMPERIAL Airways pilots, whose dlsmis al six months ago was one cause of the Caiiman Inquiry Into civil aviation, have been Interviewed singly and privately by the company's two Government directors, Marshal of the RAF. Sir John Salmond and Sir Francis Joseph. The
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    Forgot Reminder To Remember
    78 2 >LEN HOUGHLAND, staying in v on hotel in Toledo, Ohio, put a money belt containing £32 under his pdloic. Before he went to sleep he wrote a memorandum to himself reminding himself where he put the money. Tie remeenbered the next day that he had forgotten
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    Beware Of Malaya's Young Tricksters
    475 2 'THOUGH many people have been j 1 tricked by confidence men, few would care to talk about their experiences. Because of this, confidence tricksters flourish. Young boys and girls in Malaya to- day are learning the "trade," and they find the average person an easy
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    20 2 Liandhi. who met the Viceroy, Lord Livh'hgow on Friday, leaving c train at Howrah Station, Calcutta. He always travels third-class.
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    "F.M.S. Should Survey Slim River Valley" MANY OLD RELICS FOUND
    320 2 "F.M.S. Should Survey Slim River Valley" MANY OLD RELICS FOUND "QRAVES now being uncovered in the Slim River valley become increasingly interesting if tin dated 1.700 years ano h these must have been the people trading and occupying the peninsula at the time Ptolemy wrote" Mr. F. W. Douglas, a
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    AUSTRALIA WANTS TRADE WITH FAR EAST COUNTRIES
    253 3 There Has Been Sharp Decline In Recent Years LESS WHEAT TO CHINA AND JAPAN Canberra. TpHE Federal Advisory Committee on Eastern Trade has recommended to the Australian Government that the office of Trade Commissioner in China, held by Mr. V. G. Bowden, be
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    32 3 RED INDIANS WED Here is a Seminole Indian wedding performed in a village near Miami, Florida. The bride is Annie Buster, the groom is Frank Charlie, and marrying them is Dr. Tiger.
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    Britain Must Choose Her Friends Now
    201 3 DRITAIN would have to make up D her mind whether she feared Germanism or Bolshevism more, said Sir Norman Angell in London. Our hesitations in respect of Russia and Spain," he said, may lead us into a new form of the error we committed
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    Time Limit For A Kiss, 5 Minutes ?
    169 3 Time Limit For A Kiss, 5 Minutes UOW long can a kiss be This question was debated In Dorchester Police Court, when Winifred May Strickland, twenty-year-old domestic servant, of Frampton, Dorsetshire, summoned Arthur Sprake. bus driver, of the same village, for common assault by kissing her She declared that he
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    RUSH FOR WARTIME HOMES
    83 3 RUSH FOR WARTIME HOMES THOUSANDS of people in England are buying country hide-outs for the use of their families in the event of air raids. Owners of cottages in remote districts are making money hand over fist. So brisk has the demand become for these isolated houses that premises whL
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    PULLED TACK FROM THROAT
    98 3 Pangbourne (Berks). pEORGE RICHARD ABBOTT was nailing a pair of shoes in his shop in High-street, Pangbourne. According to custom, he had his mouth full of nails. One slipped into his throat and began to choke him. He coughed, turned and twisted his neck, but could
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    18 3 YOUNG ITALIAN SOLDIERS learn the recently—introduced Rcma.i step. These shown here are members of the Rome Military Academy.
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      304 3 I England now 5^ days across the air all the way by Empire Flying-Boat The big 4-engined Empire flying- boats now leave Singapore for England twice a week. They are the last word in air-going luxury. You have a smoking room on board, a promenade deck, hot and cold meaU
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      524 3 IN SINGAPORE TODAY INE>T TIDE TABLE. SINGAPORE. Toda? Today MIIAMRKA: H. W. 12.34 a.m. 8. 5 ft. ■Melody For 2" ulth Patricia EUls. 3.15, L. W. 6.06 a.m. 0.2 ft.; 6.12 p.m. 2.7 ft. CAPITOL: 9 Tomorrow "Rosalie" Nelson Eddy. 3.15, 6.15 9.15 H. W. 00.10 a.m. 9 ft.; 1.06
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    Modern Film Star Is Shy
    313 4 TWO ACTRESSES ON SAME SHIP Olivia And Mary TTWO World's Sweethearts arrived in England from the United States together— the old type and the new. Mary Pckford original world's sweetheart 1913-18— forty-five years oid and forty years in the show business, travelled under the name
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    Bette Davis Has Been Suspended
    339 4 Hollywood. MISS BETTE DAVIS has been suspended by Warner Brothers, and her salary of £500 a week stopped, because she refuses to play the part assigned her in "Comet Over Broadway." Her last film was Jezebel," which is now scoring a great box office success
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    Husband No. 1 Was 'Swell Gay'
    182 4 Hollywood. piLM star Miriam Hopkins, r Ronald Coiman and Brian Aherne have taken part in an unusual "Funeral Meeting" following the death of Austin Parker, a film writer and former husband of Miss Hopkins. r hey gathered in a funer- 1 nrlour "just to
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    71 4 MARRIED AGAIN— JUST FOR FUN: Stan Laurel, film comedian, and the newest Mrs. Laurel apparently in great spirits after their second marriage at Yuma, Arizona. No, they were not divorced and remarried. Just remarried, to show they mean it. This second ceremony was partly for the purpose of stopping "nonsensical
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    £400 A WEEK FOR LONDON ACTOR
    108 4 £400 A WEEK FOR LONDON ACTOR rvERRICK DE MARNEY, 32- year-old London actor, has signed a three-picture contract In Hollywood at £400 a week. After making his last British film. Young and Innocent," directed by Alfred Hitchcock, he went to California to try his luck. His first subject, for Radio
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    "China Can Hold Out Until Japan Is Exhausted"
    267 5 BISHOP OF NANKING IS CONFIDENT If Powers Intervene, War Would End MGR. PAUL YU-PING, 36-year-old, six-foot Bishop of Souza, Vicar-Apostolic of Nanking, has been almost round the world since he left Nanking last October. Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, France and America are
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    101 5 THE SINGAPORE EPWOBTH I EAGLE |.-<rsenied the pneani "The Thin«s that at the Wain Hall latt week It will be presented a«am at Kuala Lumpur today, ttBp.ni, at the All Malayan Epworth League Institute. Those Inking Mrt "<• Standins- (Jaius (Wilson Khoo), I uclu» (Andrew Lee), Justus (S. J. Alfred),
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    WEDDINGS
    39 5 Mr. K. iii-tver, of the Mtthodist Boys' School, Kuala Lumpur, and Miss Indrani, of Kedah, after their wedding: at Kuala Lumpur. Mr. Balk Ksti Leng and Miss (.'hang l.ian Tin, who were married at the Singapore Chinese ConsulateGeneral.
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    High-Level Flying In Airtight Cabins
    285 5 High-Level Flying In Airtight Cabins Experiments are being made by the Air Ministry with airtight cabins to make liners sultible for high-speed, high-level Hying. Economic air transport, at a height of 20,000 ft or 21,000 ft, is possible.. Its advantages Include smoother air ■xnd freedom from storms. Comfort for passengers
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    SERGEANT SPEECHLESS?
    65 5 iVIEET 19-year old George Hammerton, of the Royal Fusiliers, Hounslow Barracks, Middlesex the only man in the British Army who escaped a telling-ofT from the sergeant. A French butcher-boy, George came to England and joined the Army. But he knew no English. Said his squad sergeant, I've had
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    DEATHOFMR3.P.A. NEELAGANDAN
    193 5 THE death took place at 1. Ceylon Road, Kuala Lumpur, last Friday evening of Mrs. P. A. Nee'agandan. wife of Mr. P. A. Neelagandan of the Methodist Boys' School. Sentul, and third daughter of the late Rev. Samuel Abraham, who was a we'l-!:nown Methodist preacher. The late Mrs.
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    Ten Couples Die For Love
    100 5 Ten Couples Die For Love Warsaw. TEN pain of lovers killed themselves he.c because they could not marry. Some took arsenic, others jumped into the Vistula together and the cause of it all was the anti-Semitic campaign In Poland. In six cases Jewesses fell in love with Christian lads. The
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    THE BELJSHA SECRET
    44 5 'THE secret of Mr. Hore-Beiisha's success is out. Mr. F. Woolrish, a Leek hairdresser, who has often shaved the War Minister on his visits to North Staffs, said to correspondent "Mr. Hore-Belisha has the human touch. And he likes close shaves."
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    I Investiture Of Newly-Formed Batu Pahat Troop
    314 5 I Investiture Of Newly-Formed Batu Pahat Troop rE investiture of the newly-formed 12th (Bandar High School) Batu Pahat Troop l>y Mr. N. Rees. the Assistant District Commissioner, took place In the presence of 100 people. Among those present were Mr. H. W Nightingale <2nd Asst. Adviser), I Inche Ahmad bin
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    DREDGER BRINGS UP ODD THINGS FROM SINGAPORE'S HARBOUR-BED
    366 6 Tales Of Tragedy In Buckets Of Blue Mud IT ONCE "ATE UP" A WHOLE ISLAND! QUEER objects come riding up the buckets of dredgers working in Singapore harbour. And the majority of them tell tales of tragedy. Unrecognisable bodies of men, women
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    Man Who Worked For Dickens
    387 6 QEORGE WOOLLEY was a 13--year-old reluctant gardener-in-the-making when he went to work for Charles Dickens at Gad's Hill, Kent, in 1865. A slight, white-haired figure, now 86, but upright still, he lives in a whitewashed cottage at Pilgrim's Hatch, Essex. "They say I am the
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    Mechanical Lie Detector
    64 6 New York. TFOR the first time in the history of American jurisprudence, a holdup suspect was acquitted on the verdict of a mechanical lie detector, invented by Father Summers, of Fordham University, who testified that a 25-year-old defendant was truthful when he denied a crime and faced
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    Tasman Air Service
    181 6 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Brisbane. r PHE Qantas interests in the extension of the air mall service to New Zealand will entail approxinatel) additional new capital of £60,000. In making this announcement, the chairman of directors of Qantas Empire Airways (Mr. Fergus McMaster) said that no forecast
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    PROFESSOR LOVES SCHOOLGIRL
    113 6 PROFESSOR LOVES SCHOOLGIRL New York. MEW YORK'S educational A officials have just fought over a schoolteacher's right to love one of his pupils. Finally they suspended elderly Eberhard Dallmer, German professor at two high schools, for conduct detrimental to morals towards a girl pupil. Dallmer asked Haven't I, as a
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    The King And Queen To Pay £50,000 Visit
    75 6 Paris. AMID great applause, the Chamber of Deputies unanimously voted a special grant of £50.000 for the reception and entertainment of the King and Queen when they visit Paris in June. M. Paul-Boncour, Foreign Minister, said that the Government would make preparations
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    HEARST HANDS OVER
    76 6 New York. BECAUSE he is conscious of the uncertainties of life." Mr. William Randolph Hearst, the United States newspaper proprietor, who Is 75, is making arrangement* to perpetuate his great holdings. He has announced the appointment of Mr. Clarence J. Shearer, a New York lawyer, to reorganise
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    PEER'S FLYING HEIR
    32 6 Lord Forbes, 22-years-old heir of the Earl of Granard. now In New York, is planning to fly the Atlantic this summer, with Dick Merrill, the American aviator, as pilot.
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    Berlin Checks On Germans In Britain
    150 6 Berlin Checks On Germans In Britain DV a special decree of the D German Foreign Office all Germans resident in Great Britain are to be registered and a nation-wide distribution of circulars is now in progress. According to the German ConsulGeneral in Liverpool, Herr Walther Reinhardt, the registration is on
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    Fast Freight
    97 6 T?OUR days after a Melbourne firm, cabled to their agents at Sourabaya, Java. 4,360 miles away, for a special roller bearing it was delivered to them. Half an hour before the overseas plane from Singapore was due to leave Sourabaya the agents received the advice from Melbourne. The
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    MONEY FOR N.I. AIR BASES
    119 6 Brisbane. ■TTIE Netherlands Indies Gov- ernment has asked a credit of 165,000 guilders for the improvement of the ground accommodation on behalf of the British Air Service to Australia. The managing director of Qantas Empire Airways, Ltd. (Mr. Hudson Fysh) said that apparently the amount
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    WARSHIPS IN COLLISION
    27 6 The destroyer Comet was In collision at Gibraltar with the aircraft carrier Courageous. The Comet's mast was brought down and her wireless equipment damaged.
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    78 6 PREPARING BOYS FOR THE R.A.F. AT SCHOOL: Boys between the ages of IS and 17 who are interested in aviation are trained for service with the Air Force at the school of Technical Training at Halton Camp, Wendover, Bucks. 5,000 boys are continuously serving their apprenticeship to the R.AJ. amid
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    CHIANG IS WOUNDED, JAPANESE CLAIM
    531 7 CHIANG IS WOUNDED, JAPANESE CLAIM Grave Concern At Unconfirmed Reports NEW CHINESE SUCCESSES ON ALL FRONTS JAPANESE semi-official reports that Gen. Chiang Kai-shek and his brother-in-law, Mr. T. V. Soong, were seriously wounded during a Japanese mass air raid on Changsha in Hunan Province, are causing widespread anxiety in China.
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    72 7 WHEN HOLLYWOOD HAS A PARTY: When there's a party in Hollywood there is always plenty of fun as can be seen from this photograph taken at the circus party given by Frank Borzage, the film director, in Hollywood, at which film celebrities were present. Here are some of them doing
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    Asia Rotarians Meet At Penang
    276 7 'Frjm Our Own Correspondent.) Penang. Saturday. 'TTHE Middle Asia regional conference of Rotary International opened (fall morning, when the district governor. Mr W Allan Eley. on behalf of the district, welcomed all delegates. Among these present was the governor of the 79th district, which embraced
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    The Greeks Had A Cure For It
    179 7 The Greeks Had A Cure For It New York. 'THIS sneezing world turned watery but grateful eyes to the United States in September, 1935, when it was announced that a group of doctors at Harvard University were about to begin exhaustive study of the common cold from which we might
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    SICK SAILOR LANDED HERE
    68 7 /T\N her way to Labuan Island. British North Borneo, the world's second biggest mine-layer H.M.B. Adventure, called at the Singapore Naval Base yesterday to land a hospital case. She Is expected to sail again today. Adventure, which is on the China Station. Is the only unit
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    INDO-EUROPEAN BOYS FOR N.I. NAVY
    115 7 From Our Own Correspondent.) Batavla. More than 60 Indo-European boys from Java, who have Just Joined the Netherlands Indies Navy, have left for Holland to get training there as sailors and stokers. Before leaving, the boys lined up at the grounds of the Department of
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    New Cruiser Leaving
    77 7 The new cruiser H.M.S. Birmingham, v/hich has been carrying out routine exercises from the Singapore Naval Base during her month's visit here, is expected to leave for Hong Kong tomorrow, to Join the China Squadron. A newly-commissioned ship, Birmingham did not carry out her working up exercises
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    LIBERTY BOND THREATS
    58 7 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Batavla. A GREAT number of threatening letters urging people to buy Chinese liberty bonds have been seized by the police in Java. There is stated to be no objection to the normal sale of these bonds, but any threat to force people to
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    FEWER TOURISTS IN N.I.
    47 7 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Batavla. There Is a falling off of tourists In Netherlands Indies as a result of the political situation in the Far East. But there Is a redeeming point that Qantas planes bring more and more Australian tourists to Java.
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    "UNWISE UTTERANCES"?
    28 7 Berlin. It Is understood that the charges against Gottfried Von Cramm, who is 111 awaiting trial, also include that of "having made unwise utterances whilst abroad."
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    5,000 Catholics At Worship
    111 7 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca, .Saturday. More than five thousand Catholics from all parts of Malaya, including the Portuguese community of Malacca attended the Good Friday celebrations held yesterday at St. Peter's Church— the oldest churoh in Malacca. This year's cersnuny was an Impressive spectacle with
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    VIENNA TO LOSE TRADE Elimination Of Jews
    244 8 VIENNA TO LOSE TRADE Elimination Of Jews Vienna. ALTHOUGH Field-Marshal Goering. the Commissioner for the Four, Years' Plan, intends to make Vienna; the "Hamburg of the Danube." tne city is bound now to lose much of It* Importance as a trade centre so far as foreign companies are concerned. Several
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    THE WEEK'S MARKET ACTIVITIES
    1192 8 All Sections Turn Buyers BY THE SUNDAY TIMES FINANCIAL CORRESPONDENT •T*HE forecast made last week that markets would continue to improve has, fortunately, proved correct and the week Just closed has seen a sharp appreciation in values of all classes of shares. The main factors responsible
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    SINGAPORE STOCK AND SHARE PRICES
    1294 8 Fraser And Co.'s List THURSDAY, APR. 14, 1935: 5 P.M. MINING Buyers Seller* Ampat Tin (4s) 3s 10 .id 4s 4ftd Asaro Kumbang 28s 30s Austral Malay 42s 6d 47s 6d N Ayer Hltam (ss) 19s 20s Ayer Weng ill) .55 .65 Bangrln Tin 18s
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    216 8 List Supplied By Messrs. Fraser Co. THURSDAY, APR. 14, 1935: 5 P.M Total tor Financial Company Dividend Books Date Ex. Dhr. year TIN Close Payable Date to dite Ampat Tin 5% flnai less tax Apr. 21 May 13 Apr V 2 8% Bbtu Selangor 5% W Apr.
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      2080 9 Today's Wireless Programmes CIM/ 1 A DADC 10.50 Announcement. OlfluAr Ul\C m O (Bach, arr. Cyril Scott). Waltz 10.53 Carel van der Bijl Trio. from Ballet. The Sleeping Beauty (Tchal- 11.20 Duets. ZHL IM mm/% (2Z» a*.) kovsky, arr. Mark Strong). Le reveur 11.50 Omroep Orchestra. ».m. (The Dreamf-r; (Arensky).
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    Women Bosses Are Disliked
    139 10 Women Bosses Are Disliked THE policy of allowing women to become bosses" in Whitehall by means of a common seniority list for promotion is being opposed by the exServicemen workers—nearly half the total staffs. In the Ministry of Health the representative of the Association of Ex-Service Civil Tervants has asked
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    TENTH CENTURY CHURCH SAVED
    43 10 To avoid danger to the 10th century church at Sompting, near Worthing, the only one of its kind in England, West Sussex County Council has decided to alter its plans for building a by-pass on the main Brighton-Ports-mouth road.
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    COLONY'S HISTORY TO BE PRESERVED
    278 10 Government Will Appoint An Archivist RAFFLES COLLEGE GRADUATE TTHE man who Ls appointed to a post being created by the Straits Settlements Government will have a life-time job before him. An archivist is wanted. In order to provide an opening for local boys, the Government
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    132 10 ARTIST S ACADEMY PICTURE of his old nurse— but a man pjscd for it: A portrait picture of an old nurse, which is being submitted by Mr. Osicald Moser, R.1., R. 0.1., of Rye, Sussex, for this year's Royal Academy, is expected to cause a surprise. The subject is Nurse
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    12 SQUAWS BEAT UP PALEFACE
    244 10 New V... AMERICA'S Red Indians an unromantic race, except in "western" films, since the gin supplied by early colonists and the riches supplied by the U.S. Government weakened them, has responded for the first time in forty years to the throbbing of war drums. Lewis
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    32 10 POSED for father's Academy picture: Little David Botcherby arriving at the Royal Academy, London, with his father's painting, for which David posed. The picture will be submitted for this year's Royal Academy.
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    Sam Mayo Dies Of Broken Heart
    343 10 CAM MAYO, the comedian whose sad face made him one of the great top-liners of the London music hall, collapsed and died while playing snooker at the Ascot Club, Charing Cross-road, W.C. He was fiftysix. He died of a broken heart. For five years
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      406 10 Rev. Canon's 28 Years of DUODENAL ULCERS To many people the t bought of gastric o» dwxlrnal ulcer calls up visions of an operation. Yet this drastic step is by no means inevitable, tv«n in casts cl long standing ulcers. The Superintendent of the Peace Rivet BUxk in Canada, The
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    Journalist Traces China's Century Of Tribulation
    920 11 CHIANG KAI-SHEK AS "MYSTERY MAN" Anglo-US. Policy Not Fixed? When China Unites. By Harry Gannes. Dent. Bs. 6d. IN his latest work, which is being so much discussed, Mr. Somerset Maugham takes the view that during the present time, and for several years past,
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    117 11 Three Make their Bed. By Barbara Stan ton. The Green Caravan. By Oliver Sandys. The Pitiful Rebellion. By Margaret Peterson. Stolen Fruit. By Rachel Sweete Macnamara. Child of Passion. By Hebe Elsna. All from Hurst and Blackett 3s. Cd. each. *T*HE above additions to Messrs. Hurst and Elacketfs
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    P.C. Wren's New Novel
    527 11 P.C. Wren's New Novel Cardboard Castle. By P. C. Wren. Murray's Imperial Library. Mermaid Tavern. By George W. Cronyn. Jarrolds. Bs. 6d. Mr. PC. Wren's new story Is at once excellent and different— different in manner of presentation and In the qvMity of his characters. Instead of the Ronald Colmanesque
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    Sentiment, Romance, Murder
    316 11 Sentiment, Romance, Murder And Then Goodbye. By Barbara Hedworth. Robert Hale 7s. 6d. Where the Rowan Grows. By Joan Kennedy. Robert Hale. 3s. 6d. The Four Make Holiday. By Mark Cross. Ward Lock's Colonial Library. MISS Hedworth's romance is the story of a man who loves and rides away, and
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    SINGAPORE HAS NEW WAY OF KILLING DOGS
    93 12 SINGAPORE HAS NEW WAY OF KILLING DOGS Infirmory Uses More Humane Method Of Destruction Singapore has a new method of destroying dogs. In place of the old time gas chamber, which is now seldom used, doss are injected with a saturated solution of magnesium sulphate. This method has proved more
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    35 12 STAGE STARS WED: Will Mahoney, screen and stage comedian, has just married Miss- Evie Hayes, the young American actress who appears with him in his shows. The bridegroom didn't divulge uhct the "L" stands for.
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    "INCURABLE" BOYI AT PLAY AGAIN
    283 12 r* ALLOPING consumption most dreaded form of the disease has been cured. Hitherto it has been described as incurable. The. cures have been achieved in the cases of two boys at the L.C.C. Hospital at Highwood, Brentwood, Essex. They were announced by Mrs. Barbara Ayrton
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    Super Planes For Atlantic
    171 12 Dublin. CUPER flying-boats, consider- ably faster than those originally contemplated, will be used by Imperial Airways and Pan-American Airways when the regular North Atlantic air service is started between the River Shannon airport and Port Botwocd, Newfoundland. Internationa] experts gathered here for the Atlantic Aviation Conference
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    672 PRIVATE AIRCRAFT
    38 12 •THERE are 672 privately owned air- craft In Britain, exclusive of those jsed for transport, training, clubs, joy/Iding and taxi work, said Lieut. Colonel A. J. Muirhead. Undersecretary for Air, in a written parliamentary answer.
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    'STARVING' BUT LEFT A FORTUNE OF £7,000
    166 12 'STARVING' BUT LEFT A FORTUNE OF £7,000 New York. A MAN said to be living in Birmingham is likely to inherit at least £7.000 from his aged widowed sister, who died in poverty-stricken circumstances in Lone Island, U.S., Last November. The man's name is given as George Granbrook Barber. His
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    Man Who Left £120,000 Anonymously
    218 12 Man Who Left £120,000 Anonymously CEVEN weeks after his death, the name of a man who gave £120,000 in anonymous gifts to St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, W., is disclosed. The will of Mr. Frank Charles Undo, of Oxford-square, Hyde Park, W., was admitted to probate. "£l,OOO to Col. W. Parket,
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    INJECTION WITH SOLUTION
    150 12 INJECTION WITH SOLUTION by the special committee of the National Veterinary Medical Association of Great Britain and Ireland. The gas chamber, It was revealed, is only being used now when there Is a large consignment of dogs for destruction, or an owner requests his dog to die in this way.
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    Mme. Coty Burned To Death
    101 12 Mme. Coty Burned To Death Paris, Friday. MADAME COTY wife of M. Roland Coty, millionaire son of the perfume maker, and her sister, were burned to death in a car crash. They were travelling at 85 m.p.h. along a straight, broad strip of the Toulouse-Paris road when a tyre burst.
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    Behind The News With Crux Australis
    1339 13 Behind The News With Crux Australis COWRIE VISIT CINGAPORE'S unostentatious welcome to Lord Gowrie, Governor-General of Australia, must have contrasted sharply with the gala receptions accorded him throughout the Netherlands Indies. Although the GovernorGeneral undoubtedly appreciated the warmth of the welcome received from the Dutch and the magnificent Balinese and
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    190 14 U.S. Unwilling To Expose Defences To Airliners' View JAPAN MIGHT ALSO APPLY Washington. THE United States, for national defence reasons, has rejected, applications by British and Dutch aviation interests for permission to establish commercial air bases in Hawaii.. A major reason for
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    Lilliput Land's "King" Abdicates
    232 14 Lilliput Land's "King" Abdicates Vaduz (Liechtenstein). I7RANCIS THE FIRST, prince of Liechtenstein, Europe's lilliputian State sandwiched between Austria and Switzerland, has abdicated his rights over his 10.000 subjects in favour of his thirty one year old nephew, Crown Prince Franz Josef. Since Hitler's invasion of Austria strong: Nazi influences in
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    G.B.S. Goes One Better
    157 14 London. I^R. Bernard Shaw is 40 years ITI ahead of the film star Gladys Swarthout and her husband Frank Chapman, who claim to have lived a perfect married life for five years because they avoid food causing irritability and eat entirely different meals. Mr. Shaw says,
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    New Destroyers For Britain
    71 14 London. *pHE Admiralty has decided to place orders for eight destroyers of the .937 programme with the following firms: H.M.S. Lame and Levely with Cammell. Laird, Blrkenhead; H.M.S Legion and Lightning, with Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company. Wallsend-on-Tyne hulls by R. and W. Marthorn, Leslie and
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    NO AIR RAID SHELTERS
    189 14 •yiIKRE will be no air raid shelters for the public in London. It has been decided that the Tubes shall not be used for the purpose. Plans for the evacuation of a million people from slum houses which cannot be protected owing to their dilapidated condition
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    Police Bullet Saves Man From Gaol
    51 14 A POLICE bullet has saved Patrick Jennings from gaol. The bullet crippled him when he tried to escape detectives arresting him for theft in Montreal. He pleaded guilty to stealing, and the court freed him because of the injury, believing he had been punished
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    Boy Seamen Or School Ships
    47 14 Owing to the great influx of boy seamen into the Savi arising out of rearmament, more ships from the reserve fleet have been allocated for the training of boys. Here are boys carrying cut 6 in. gun drill on one of them.
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    201 14 To Pay 12s. 7Jd. For Shooting Husband Paris. fXAMAGES of one franc— I 1 2 d. U —were awarded by a Paris Court to a German who was alleged to have been shot and wounded by his English wife. The woman, Mrs. Eugene Lini dauer. 37-year-old ex-chorus girl, [who has
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    1300 15  -  Nathaniel Gubbins By ENGLAND WEEK BY WEEK. FASHIONABLE LADIES.— WHY NOT HAVE YOUR LITTLE DOG TINTED TO MATCH YOUK DRESS FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS? I.ADY HAS DISCOVERED PROCESS GUARANTEED HARMLESS TO THE MOST DELICATE ANIMALS, PRETTIEST PASTEL SHADES IMAGINABLE.— advertisement. TN Hollywood, where divorce is the second
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    250 15 Beverley Nichols Is Upset IN his latest tract for the times, News of England (Cape,. 7s. 6d.) Mr. Beverley Nichols handsomely recants the extreme pacifist views which he ventilated five years ago In Cry Havoc and has reiterated often enough since. To "the lunacy of a pro-League policy long after
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    477 15 By THE FOUR ACES /CONTINUING with some hands from the Masters' Individual Championship, we have as today's hand one of the finest examples of defensive play we have ever seen, the play being made by Dr. Louis Mark of Columbus. Ohio, who led at the end of the
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      175 16 King Of Games HTHIS week-end Singapore happy to play host to a fine band of sportsmen, the Ceylonese cricketers who are matching their prowess against an All-Malaya XI on the padang. Dr. Gunasekera ,and his men have been given fe welcome to this country which has impressed them;
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      157 16 JdusINESS men in Malaya have i D their worries, and pretty largesized ones, in these uncertain times, i but they are being vouchsafed some small blessings as a set-off. Foi example, they are saving lots of :ime on mails and money on cables. The "all up" air mail
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      168 16 I ORD EUBANK and others have taken up the challenge of Sir John Bagnall on matters relating to tin control, as they are fully entitled to do in their conscientious disagreement with him. But their line of attack is ill-chosen, and far from calculated to carry weight with
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    1661 16 Malaya Command's New Regiment Is Rich In Glorious Tradition Men Who Make History With Blood And Daring THE 2nd Battalion, the Loyal Regiment, latest addition to the garrison at Singapore, comes from a mL'itary unit as rich In tradition as any other that has served in the East. A regiment
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    84 17 Tour carefree Loyals, one with the famous "Rose" totooed on his upper arm, lather uo for the morning shave. Wixened Chinese sewing amahs keep the men's kit in shipshape order. Smartness is the keynote of Army practice: Loyals Waving their equipment checked
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      319 17 THOUSANDS OF "HUMAN WRECKS" fiP|j| V\l £r~^ Crippled by itifl, locked, Inflamed ADTI TI c. T\J of arthritic )ointi tad muiclo; [ARTHRITIS Liv^A racked with piin; oerer well JH 1 Mr beau»e of the uric and other add* which were f^k for»Ter poitoning the blood ttreaiq, thoutandi o( f—^M WyZl7irr-%u
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    943 18 Mainly About Malayans By The Onlooker T»HE biggest event in Malayan Rotary history is taking place at Penang over this week-end in the Middle Asia Regional Conference which opened in the presence of Rotary Internationnal's President, M. Maurice Duperrey. Behind the welcome to M. Duperrey, who is the French hotel
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    52 18 Paul Harris, M. Maurice Duperrey, \V. Allan Eley, Khan Ah Chong, all of whom are associated with the Rotary organisation. Dr. J. J. Smith, the orchid expert. Mr. W. J. Ashby, noted Roman Catholic, of Ipoh, who gets a Papal medal. Mr. J. F. Noel Bach, a Bruas
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    43 18 The quizzical smile of DAN HOPKINS, Raffles Hotel band-leader, has been captured perfectly in this caricature by V. Tretchikoff, Singapore artist. It is the first of a series to be published in the Sunday Times of Singapore per' sonalities.
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      185 18 j£f%j^K SHORTAGE OF STRENGTH GIVING j**&\ J MINERALS IS THE <v /SssP"\v CAUSE OF YOUR \k l weakness J A&^ at s c Doctor's answer your body has not sufficient prO^ 1 when he is consulted about of the vital minerals it needs. body periodical pain. And if you Give
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    385 19 TAPPERS AND COOLIES FORM SCOUT TROOP "Lions" And "Tigers" Indian estate ippers and pest coolies who c. not understand English, but read English characters by Morse signalling terms such as Ack, Beer, Charlie, form the most unusual scouting troop in Malaya. They belong to the 11th Ipoh (Sengat Estate) Troop
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    18 19 This pleasing picture shows how slanting sunlight can be used in interior photography with delightful effect.
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    208 19 USE SUN FOR INSIDE PICTURES T\O not feel, fellow snapshooters. that just because the sun stays out of doors you cannot make sunlight pictures inside. Wherever sunlight strearas througn a window, there is a setting for a picture, often an extremely good picture, because of the play of light and
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    AMERICA 'SUPREME' IN THE AIR
    216 19 AMERICA 'SUPREME' IN THE AIR New York. pOLONEL LOUIS ARTHUR JOHNSON, United States Assistant Secretary for War, claims that America has nearly as many planes as Britain and Germany together. In a speech to the Saddle and Sirloin Club. Chicago, he said: "The United States has now and can In
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    240 21 Pinky Mauve Nail Polishes Have Lovely Misty Look Colours To Suit Frocks —By The Sunday Times Beauty Expert THERE are pinkish mauves among the colour range of new nail polishes which have a charming misty look and which are intended for wear with the new blues and mauves. Rather deeper
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    127 21 WOOLLEN cardigan designs are most conservative In design. Good taste insists that they shall fit snugly with buttoned waistlines, and little in the way of applied trimmings, though there can be varied stitchery, and cut as carefully moulded as the soft material will allow. One of the latest
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    64 21 (Three Dozen) 2/3 cup fat 1,2 cups dark brown sugax 2 eggs 1 teaspoon cinnamon y 2 teaspoon cloves 1 4 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla Va cup cream 1 cup chopped raisins y 2 cup nuts 3 1/3 cups flour 1 teaspoon soda Cream fat and sugar.
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    CATERPILLAR VASE IS NEWEST IDEA
    864 21 IF you would cultivate a reputation for being clever with flowers, your vases must be right. The newest idea is a caterpillar vase. Made in pink glass, this vase consists of five little bowls fixed one by the side of the other. A flower head
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    446 22 Suede Is As Popular As Ever For Women's Shoes And Handbags But It Means Carrying A Wire Brush, Too! By Sunday Times Woman Correspondent CUEDE is as popular as ever, as handbags in all colours, shoes, and dozens of gloves. The result Is an influx of wire and rubber brushes
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    31 22 This delightful evening frock with its elongated waistline has been made from billowy white organdie lavishly trimmed with insets of lace. The ojf-the-shoulder neckline is also adorned with lace.
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    290 22 Says Adrienne Arden, Astrological Writer MO one can escape the power of numbers. Some of the numbers that recur in your lift- are lucky, others unfortunate. Readers born on the Ist, 10th, 19th or 28th of any month have certain fundamental features in common, for their
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    61 22 IN Italy they poach eggs in olive oil. They are delicious. The oil should be heated, not too hot, In a medium-depth saucepan. Give the oil a whirl with a spoon just before you drop In the eggs, one at a time. They will be a brownish
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    57 22 II7HEN making crullers or dough- nuts or any batter which is to be fried in deep fat, be sure to measure the ingredients very accurately. A dough that contains a little too much shortening or sugar may absorb an excess of fat during the cooking process and make
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    202 24 What Ceylonese Taught Combined States FINE RUNNING BETWEEN THE WICKETS (BY "AUDAX") Seremban. A FINE exhibition of running between the wickets that was what Dr. Gunasekera's cricket tourists gave the spectators at the Combined States match on Thursday at Seremban. Mervyn Kelaart once again showed that he is a batsman
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    Girls Play Soccer At Penang
    35 24 The winning: girls' school team (above) which beat the girls' school team seen below in Penang's first women's soccer match last weekend. Proceeds were devoted to the China Relief Fund.
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    Mervyn Kelaart Hero Of Match HIS 73 NOT OUT WAS FAULTLESS
    631 24 Mervyn Kelaart Hero Of Match HIS 73 NOT OUT WAS FAULTLESS (From Our Own Corrsspondent) Seremban. MERVYN KELAART was once again the hero of the Ceylon cricket XI when Dr. C. H. Gunasekera's team beat the Combined States of Negrl Sembllan. Johore and Malacca at Ssremban on Thursday by eight
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    Ceylon Is Nursery
    105 24 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Seremban. TPHAT Ceylon was the nursery of Malayan cricket was a statement made by the British Resident of Neprl Sembllan (the Hon. Mr. J. V. Cowglll) at the luncheon given by him to the teams In the Negr!-Jbhore-Malacca vs. Dr. Gunasekara's Ceylon XI.
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    SEREMBAN'S GOOD PITCH
    184 24 (From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban. A FINE tribute to the condition of the cricket pitch at Seremban was paid by Dr. C. H. Gunasekera. the skipper of the Ceylon cricket XI now touring Malaya, at the offlcia! dinner given by the Negrl Sembilan Ceylonese community at the
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    FARR TO WED IN LONDON
    71 24 Los Angeles Tommy Farr, the British heavyweight champion, who Is In the United States In search of the world title, plans to marry at the end o* the year. He said today that his fiancee. Miss Eileen Wenzle, the £18.000 showgirl, has signed a con
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    JOHORE SOCCER
    215 24 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Segamal The Malaya Cup soccer competition Is soon approaching and the different States are getting ready. What about Johore who figured at the bottom of the competition tables last year? Insufficient practice together was tne real cause of last year's poor showing. It is
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    CRICKETERS REPRESENTING MALACCA TODAY
    583 25 CRICKETERS REPRESENTING MALACCA TODAY Keen Interest In Match Against Selangor (From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca, Saturday. 1/ERY keen Interest Is being shown In the annual Inter-State cricket match between Malacca and Selangor wh'ch will be played tomorrow and on Monday on the padang. Selangor will be without the services of
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    BRYANT SHIELD
    122 25 (From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca. IN the opening match for the Bryant Shield lawn tennis competition played here St. Francis As -iation, the holders, defeated Mr. W> All Leong's Party by two games to one. Pay reached a high standard and the highlight of the play wns the
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    CHINESE AT TENNIS
    581 25 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca, Saturday. DESPITE such drawbacks as playing facilities and a central organisation like the Selangor Chinese Recreation Club, who have various amenities, a party of Malacca Chinese gave an excellent account of themselves at the Federal capital when they met the Selangor Chinese
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    ABOUT PEOPLE
    192 25 (From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca. MALACCA will soon lose the services of an indefatigable soccer enthusiast in Mr. F. D. Slme who, I understand, will soon be proceeding home on retirement. Mr. Sime's connections with soccer in this Settlement dates over a decade and he has done a
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    FROM CEYLON
    186 25 (From Our Own Correspondent > Malacca. A DELEGATION for St. Johns Col- lege, Jaffna, consisting of the Rev. H. Peto, principal of the College, Rev. J. T. Arulanantham. vice-principal and careers master, and Lieut. E. M. Ponnudural, botany master and director of sports, were entertained at a dinner
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    MALACCA CHINESE LITERARY ASSN.
    474 25 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca, Saturday. A LOSS of over $1,000 incurred dur- ing the past year, part of which was due to depreciation of furniture and fittings and contributions to deserving causes is mentioned in the report of the Malacca Chinese Literary Association to be
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    INDIAN ASSN.
    81 25 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca. AT the annual general meeting of the Malacca Indian Association held at the association's premises in Lorong Panjang the following were elected office-bearers:— President, Mr. D. N. Banrjrjee; vicepresident, Mr. M. A. Arunasalam Chettlar; hon.secretary. Mr. S. N. Doral; hon. treasurer. Mr. R,
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    JASIN PARK
    78 25 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca. CONTRIBUTIONS by the Chinese community of Jasln district and other mukims In connection with Coronation celebrations and the erection of the Jasln Coronation Memorial Park amounted to $3,032.90, states the report. The total expenditure. Including the construction of the Memorial Park, which cost
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    MANY DRAWS
    80 25 There has been a remarkable sequence of drawn games in the important soccer matches played between Apr. 11 and 14 Inclusive. Here are the matches Apr. 11 Saigon XI ys. S.A.F A. Clrtlians, 2—2. Apr. 12: S.C.C. vs. Loyal Regiment (friendly), o—o. Apr. 12: Gordons vs. R.AJF., Dlv.
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    OLYMPIC PROTEST
    39 25 A message from Oslo says that Mr. Mogeas Oppegaard, president of the finance committee of the Norwegian Athletic Federation, resigned because he objects to raising funds to send 0./mplc Games representatives to a country participating In war.
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      193 26 (From Our Own Correspondent Johore Bahru, Saturday. iFHE Royal Johore International Club .mnual tennis tournament will commence about the end of the month. The women's events have been can- j celled owing to lack of entries. Follow- re the entrants for the other events: l Opt-n Singles.
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      MUAR LEAGUE
      541 26 '.From Our Own Correspondent) Muar. THE Muar Football Association Leauue competition will commence next Thursday. The following are the eight teams taking part in the league: Land Offlca. Town Board. Public Works Department, j Police, Customs Sports Club, Johore i Military Forces. Muar Chinese Football Team, and the
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      Soccer At J. Bahru
      216 26 'From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru, Saturday. AFILR playing like a winning team the Muar Customs were beaten by the odd goal in three by he Johore Bahru Customs yesterday on the Istana padang in a closely-contested game of soccer. The nrst half was scoreless this
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      FOOTBALLERS SEE MINISTER
      100 26 A depu ation of six footballers have complained to Colonel John Colville, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, I that while professional c«ricketers were exempt from Income tax on takings j from benefit matches, professional I footballers had to pay. The players were Gibbons (Fulham), iCann (Charlton), McKenzie
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      OLYMPIC GAMES CONDEMNED
      132 26 "I do not personally believe that the 'Olympic Games do the sllgh'est bit of good either to International relations or to sport ltse!f. The element of sport disappears In an atmosphere of nationalism." said Mr. S. M. Bruce, the Australian High Commissioner, speaking lat a recep' ion
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      SCHOOL LEAGUE
      129 26 (From Our Own Corresp indent. > Batu Pahat. For the first time In four years, the Clubs are champions of the Government I School football league with 72 points. Hearts belns: second with 52 points. Diamonds next with 46 and spades 44. In the A Division the Diamonds
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      P. W. D. ATHLETICS
      65 26 i From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru. At a recent committee meeting of the Johore P. W. D. Athletio Association It was decided to hold the annual Inter-dlstrlct competition for the MacConechy Cup next month. Last year the cup was won by Batu Pahat with Johore
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      CRICKET AT RENGAM
      67 26 1 7rom Our Own Correspondent Batu Pahat. Saturday. A European cricket eleven consisting cf players from Batu Pahat and Muar will play the Rengam Cricket club at Rengam on Easter Sunday. The following players hay.> be;n chosen: O. Morgan. N. Rees. Lilly, O. Stlven. T. Keene. C.
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    MAC'S COMMENTS
    496 27 »THE 31st Heavy Battery R.A. did the unexpected at Blakan Mati last Sunday when they drew 2 2 with the Royal Corps of Signals (Alexandra) In the small units cup competition. After the gunners had equalised in the last half they had only five minutes within which to
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    2149 27 Garrison Sports Notes By "Nomad" THE Staff and Departments cricket team, although not at full strength, made an excellent start to their programme by beating the R.A (Changi) by 196 runs at Changi on Thursday. Scores: STAFF DEPARTMENTS C.C. Capt. Walsh, c b MaxwellGumbleton 11 Mack, b Robinson 45 Moss,
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    HOLIDAY CROWDS BET HEAVILY AT IPOH
    1531 28 Beacon Pays $83 In Fourth Race TOH PADUKA THROWN BUT NOT HURT (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, Saturday. IN brilliant sunshine a big holiday crowd attended the first day of the Perak Turf Club's Easter Skye meeting at Ipoh today. The totalisator and sweeps
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    51 28 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, Saturday. A FTER the finish of the ninth race, in which Yacob, riding Beverant, and Lassa dead-heated for first place, Yacob slipped from his saddle and fell rather heavily. He was badly dazed and was taken away in an
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    GOLFERS QUALIFY
    736 28 Malayan Championship (From Our Golf Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. fTHE weather was splendid for todays qualifying rounds over 36 holes In the Malayan Golf Championship on the Selangor Golf Club course. Eight of the 32 entrants will qualify. The semi-finals will be played tomorrow afternoon and the final
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    DOUBLE TOTES
    54 28 The first double tote on races 4 and 5 paid $1,252 on the sole winning ticket. The second double tote paid $116 on eight tickets. THE BIG SWEEP The draw on the big sweep, pool $48,673, resulted as follows: Firsts: ***** and *****. Third: *****. Starters: *****. *****,
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    MONDAY'S WEIGHTS
    292 28 FOLLOWING are Monday's weights for the Perak Turf Club's skye mesting at Ipoh Ponies, Class 2, Div. 1, 54 furs. Taj Mahal 10.12 Caoone 10.04 Bayßcse 10.11 Micky Mouse 10.02 Mister Dick 10.11 Leonle 9.07 Valyrie 10.09 Movaloni? 9.00 Hilarity 10.07 Phoon Tok 8.12 Ponies, Class 2, Div.
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    S.A.F.A. LEAGUE TABLES
    233 28 Latest Positions The following are the S.A.F.A. League tables i 'I i i y l. Goals P. W. L. D. F A pts Malays 5 4 1 0 13 4 8 Chinese 5 3 0 2 13 7 8 Innisk. ..*****36 RA ..*****75 SRC. 6 1 2
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    91 28 Nestanglo A.P.C. H.K.S.B. 0.C.8. M.P.H. Straits Times Wearne's F. and N. Q.E.C. Heap Eng Moh P W. L D. F A. pts 6 5 0 1 18 3 11 7 4 2 1 19 12 9 5 4 1 020 5 8 3 2 1 0 11
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    POINTS DECISIONS
    76 28 Jackie Berg. 145 lbs., of London, beat Frankle Wallace, 14Qy 2 lb., of Cleveland, on points In an eight-round bout at New York. Eddie Brink, 138 Vi lb., of Seranton, Perm., won on points from Al Roth. 139 lb., of New York, in eight rounds, also at New
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    HOME FOOTBALL AND LEAGUE TABLES
    1482 28 DESULTS of the English and Scot- tish League with the tabks up-to-date are: ENGLISH LEAGUE DIVISION I Arsenal 0 Birminj ;am 0 Blackpool 4 Middlesbro' 2 Bolton 1 Portsmouth 1 Brentford 0 St>ke 0 Derby 4 Liverpool 1 Everton 3 Cliarlton 0 liuddersfleld 1 Chelsea
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    HOME RUGBY
    95 28 Home Rugby games played yesterday resulted: Bath 43. Headingley 41. Bristol 14, Leicester 11. Gloucester 24, London Welsh 16. Llanelly 21, Northampton 0. North of Ireland 3. Birkenhead P. 18. Plymouth Albion 14, O.M.T. 11. Sale 24, Rosslyn Park 6. Swansea 9, Harlequins 3. Torquay Athletic 9. Moseley
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    SEGAMAT LEAGUE
    118 28 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Segamat In a thrilling struggle the Police, hot favourltles lor the district championship this season, shared two goals with the Government Services, In their league soccer match. After holding out for the lirst nuy minutes of the game the P.WD. lost their league soccer
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    WOMAN FLIER'S MEDAL
    47 28 For her flight last November with Flying Officer A. E. Clouston. during which they broke all London-Cape-London air records. Mrs. Betty KirbyGreen has been awarded a specul Segrave medal although she had been refused official credit for the trip by the Royal Aero Club.
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    CEYLON MEETS MALAYA ON PADANG
    1826 29 Visitors Bat First On Perfect Wicket, Rally After Rot CEYLON, 158; MALAYA, S3 THE eagerly-awaited match between the touring Ceylon team and an all-Malayan side was started in fine weather en a perfect wicket yesterday. The scene was reminiscent of the visit of Sir Julien
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    BADMINTON TITLES
    1035 29 From Our Badminton Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur. Saturday. ALTHOUGH nothing sensational occurred in the morning sessions today*! p ay in the Malayan Badmin- ihampionshlpt was thril ing and j d an exceptional y high stand- j ard even Internat'ont standard in p;;eh Ong Ber? Chuan one of Selangor's the
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    PENANG vs. PERAK
    226 29 'From Our Own Correspondent! Ipoh. Saturday. PERAK opened with 85 runs at me cricket match between Penang :i d Perak today and Penang replied with 90 lor eight. Double figure scorers for Perak were Clemetson <29>.| Amaladass <19) and Attuni <18i. Williams, of Penang. made the highest
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    COLONY BOWLS
    106 29 IN the singles of the int<»r-colony bowl matches between Penang and fl ni'aporf for the FtaKT and Nonve Trophy. Singapore b at Penang by six games to nil yesterday on the S.C.C rink. Results 'SingaDoro nanvs firsts: T B. Rog-.Ts. 21. beat F N. Syer. 8: H Gray.
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    R. A. F. WIN
    218 29 In a cricket match played yesterday on the St. Andrew's School ground, an R.AF. XI beat a St Andrew's School team by 109 runs. R.AF. F. Sgt. Smith c Neubronner b I. C Rass A F. O. Cave-Brown -Cave Ibw. b Sullivan i 1 Cpl. Hall
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    Three Wickets, Four Balls
    33 29 In the match against APMalaya on the S.C.C padang yesterday, Jayesundera. the Ceylon fast bowler, repeated his performance against the F.M.S. when he took three wickets with four balls.
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    VISITORS DO WELL
    371 29 AT the end of the first day of th* All-Mala7a-Ceylon match the honours were definitely with the tourists. The outstanding feature of the day's p!ay was the fine bowling of the visitors' fast bowler, Jayesundera. Jayesundera bowled an immaculate length throughout the home sides innings and gave
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    ST. FRANCIS
    98 29 (From Our Own Correspondent.! Malacca. Saturday. IN the annual inter-school cricket match yesterday St. Francis' Institution beat the High School by 11 runs. Batting first. St Francis s-'ored 64, In which W. Rcdrigues got 17 (not out), Krusemann, 12. and J. Sequerah 11. Samsudin took four wickets for
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    MALAYS WIN
    46 29 DLAYING at the Istana Pad\ng yes- terday. the Singapore Malays played brilliant soccer to beat the Johorc Bahru selected team by 6—2. Taib was outstanding among the Singapore' forwards and netted four goals. Rashid scoring the other two. Harun and Ibranim scored lor Johore.
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    EARLIER BADMINTON SEASON ADVOCATED
    721 30 It Would Mean Better Form In Championships BY OUR BADMINTON CORRESPONDENT EASTER is usually the season for important sports fixtures throughout Malaya and badminton, which has definitely come to stay in this part of the world, is not without support in this connection as the second
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    JAVA STIR B.P.
    118 30 i From Our Own Correspondent i Batu Pahat. TtHE Ja.'a Stir Badminton CU'.b celebrated Its tenth anniversary by giving a teaparty at which were a large number of badminton enthusiasts. Mr. N. Rees. president of the local body, and the secretary. C. Krlsh-r-an. were among the guests.
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    ECLIPSE B.P.
    162 30 Th~ BcUpee Badminton Party'i B team de- Hatg Badminton Party last Su iday at "heir court in a game of 5 singles and 2 doubles by i games to nil. The other 2 games were abandoned owing to failing light. Resuit-. 'Eclipse players monroned flrst>: Chia Chin Soon
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    SPHINX B.P.
    147 30 A f:i.-ndly badminton match played last Suml.<v between the Sphinx Badminton Party Vincent's Sports Club (Messrs. Bradctvll Brrs> wa> won by the Sphinx B.P. by foui i gs-nies to three. Results (Sphins B.P. DMkTCTt t i Singles. Patrick NMbmUKV oeat Wee Boon Hal i:>— 4. 15—10; Lim Thye
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    USEFUL-LADS B.P.
    275 30 The Useful-lads Badminton Party beat the Snmboe Clerk's Club by 4 games to 3 at badminton and 3 games to nil at table-tennis last Sunday at Puloe Samboe. Results. (Useful players mentioned first): Badminton. Singles.— Wee Kirn Wee beat T.»n Kirn Puay. B—ls. 1111.3 11. 15—7: Chin Tham
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    CHINESE ALOHA B.P.
    126 30 (From Our Own Correspondent Batu Pahat. Rfc Chine: c Aloha B.P. easily beat the Premier B.P. by five games to one in tarn mairh lOceniiy. Results (Aloha B.P. names first): Singlet. Khaw Eng Chin beat Chew Eng Earn 5—15. Js— 9 14 14» 3—!>: Khow Eng Eiftn
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    MUHIBBAH STIA B.P.
    104 30 At the general meeting of Muhlbbah Stla Badminton Party. Batu Pahat. last Sunday, the eK-cti.Jii of office-bearers resulted President. Che' Abdul Kadir bin Mohd. Talb: vice-pre-sident, luan H. Tarmidl b. H. Yussof: secretary and treasurer, Che' Awang b. Abd. Kadlr; committee. Tuan-tuan Nalb Sldlk b. Sarjan. Juraiml.b.
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    Selangor Badminton
    1009 30 PREPARATIONS for the forthcoming Selangor Malays Badminton League Interims doubles are getting along In a businesslike manner. A number of friendly games between local Malay parties iiave been played since February. So far Blntang Tlga Badminton Party have had four engagements and j were successful in all. Jaya
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    BATU PAHAT
    201 30 (From Our Own Correspondent 1 Batu Patiat. rE inter-club badminton competition at Batu Pahat will soon begin and all clubs are putting in a great deal of practice. Tne Jaya Stir Badminton Club are favourites as tney number among their members both the singles and doubles district champions
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    Penang Badminton Notes
    328 30 (From A Special Correspondent.) LOOKING at the fixtures for the Malayan badminton championships, I was struck by the fact that though no player will play two singles matches a day. several of Urn players will be called on to play two match. i a day, in the
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    FOONG SEONG CUP
    332 30 (To the Editor of the Sunday Times) I READ with interest the criticisms against the selection of Johore Team for the Foong Seong Cup contests. The critic was disappointed with the selection made. Of course. It is the usual feeling by one whose prediction was not as
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    DAVIS CUP
    47 30 Berlin. A special tennis tournament to discover he best German doubles team to represent Germany in the Davis Cup has been ordered by the Government official in charge of the tennis section of the German sports organization. No less than 236 doubles teams will compete.
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    NINE GOALS
    590 30 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Muar MINE goals were scored in the soccer match between the Town Board and the Land Office on the Muar Club padang. The Town Board beat the Land Office by 6 goals to 3. The Land Office, who were last year's league champions, will
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    CEYLON-MALAYA CRICKET SERIES?
    415 31  -  "ECHO" Present Match Should Be The Forerunner Of Regular Games BY MOWS the weather? These notes are being written before Saturday, and with some anxiety lest there be Interference with one of the mast attractive cricket matches ever played in Singapore that between Dr. Gunasekera's talented team
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    TOWN XI WINS
    90 31 (From Our Own Correspondent) Segamat. The Europeans met the Town XI in a league fixture and lost by the only goal scored. The Europeans missed the hardworking Lockhart, whose absence resulted in poor support of the forwards by the halves. The Town had a good defence but
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    Heyday Of Singapore Boxing
    643 31  - Heyday Of Singapore Boxing K.O BY n >.* WEXT to soccer boxing has the bigI gest following in Singapore. If I the charges for admission were as low I as one pays for entrance to the footI ball stadiums, the "noble art" would have even a bigger following. The cheapest
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    Singapore's First Lighthouse
    488 32 HORSBURGH GUARDS EAST APPROACH UEEPERS of Horsburgh Lighthouse, 36 miles from Singapore, marking the eastern end of Singapore Strait, can tell strange tales of smuggling and junks bearing immigrant Chinese who land on the East coast of Johore, to escape the immigration quota. All ships from China
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