The Straits Times, 4 June 1939

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  • 38 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES THE LEADING SUNDAY NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA FINAL EDITION No. 389 Sunday, June 4, 1939 Price 10 Cents THE SUNDAY TIMES The Leading Sunday Newspaper In Malaya No. 389 Sunday. June 4, 1939 Price 10 Cents
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  • 868 1 Rescue Fight Fails, 97 Men Perish BIGGEST NAVAL TRAGEDY IN PEACE TIME FOR MANY YEARS Heartrending Scenes When "No Hope" Announcement Made ALTHOUGH the Admiralty threw all the resources of the Navy into the fight to rescue the 97 men in the sunken submarine Thetis, the craft
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  • 138 1 Shanghai, Saturday. IT is learned that Lieut. Cooper, the British language officer attached to the British Embassy who was sent from Peiping to Kalgan to investigate the case of Col. C. R. Spear, British Military Attache, is also being detained. Three months ago Col.
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    56 1 Although only ten weeks old, Agnes Shields was one of the most important persons to arrive at Southampton in the troopship Nevasm, for she was the youngest passenger. Little Agn.es ull born in Egypt and is seen here having her bottle from her proud father, Sergeant John Shields, of the
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  • 120 1 QUO PROTESTS British Consul And Tientsin Trouble London, Saturday. A/i.l Quo fai-chi. Chinese Ambassador, visited the Foreign Office today and protested strongly against the reported instruction given by the British Consul in Tientsin to hand over certain men, alleged murderers of pro-Japa-nese Mr. Ching Shl-kang, to the Peiping Provisional Government
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  • 32 1 Shanghai Saturday. A wireless message received from the Jardine Mathescn steamer Llwo. at present in th? lower Yangtse, says "Fired on by Japanese." No details are given.
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  • 16 1 The death took place en Saturday of Enrique Arbos. the w?ll-known Soai.lsh violinist
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  • 135 1 IT is believed by those engaged in rescue work that three men lost their lives in attempting to leave the submarine. In the case of the four men who escaped they had to crawl up the ship to the stern, open a door admitting water
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  • 403 1 RUMOURS OF PREVIOUS ACCIDENTS Statement By Chief Of CatnmeU Laird And Co. Tilt managing director of 1 Cammell Laird and Co., Mr. K. S. Johnson, in an interview referred to rumours the Thetis had been involved in previous accidents also that she had more than the usual complement on board.
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  • 147 1 Death Of Sir Philip Sassoon London, Saturday. CIR Philip Sassoon, First Com- missioner of Works, died in London early today. He had been suffering since April with a serious throat affection. He was bom in 1888 and educated at Eton and Oxford. His mother was a Rothschild. During the Great
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  • 39 1 (From Our Own ('orrespondrnt) London, Saturday. GOLD: £7 Bs. sd. SILVER: Spot 19 15 lCd. Three mthr, IHMi EXCHANGE: Amsterdam 8.75 Other commodities and exchanges are unchanged from Friday. Saturday's local closing quotations are In pare IS.
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    3 1 SIR PHILIP SASSOON
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  • 19 1 LATE NEWS WIN FOR CHOY At Chiswick in the Middlesex championships final (hoy beat E. I. Filby 6—4, 6—4.
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  • 49 1 At Berlin in the European zone semi-final of the Davis Cup on Saturday Menzel beat Hare 6 o, 6 l, the latter abandoning the game owing to a strained muscle in the back. Hare had strained himself in training on Friday. Henkel beat Shaycs 6—2. 6—3, 6—l.
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  • 147 1 Lords West Indies 4!)1 fur 3 (J. Stollmeyer 117, Headley 227, Scaly 115 not out); vs. Middlesex. Oval: Warwick 245 (Hill 91. Croom 94); Surrey 76 for 1. Swansea: Glamorgan 501 for 8 (E. Davies 134, Brierley 113. Turnbull 56, Smart 60, F. Jones 54); vs. Notts.
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  • 29 1 Cei-il Smith is unable to play in the Westchester Cup American team. His place is taken by Stewart K' chart (handicap ten). See also pago 29 column
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  • 24 1 The British film star m.mi« Oberon married Alexander Korda. well-known British producer, at the Town Hall, Antibes, near Cannes, on Saturday afternoon.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 13 1 PRESENTATION CUPS, MEDALS, AND TROPHIES. P. H. HENDRY SINGAPORE KUALA LUMPUR ANO PENANG.
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  • 373 2 BREACH OF TRUST AS SERVANT OF COMPANY Sums Totalling More Than $5,000 Involved (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumper, Saturday. DLEADING guilty to three charges of criminal breach of trust as a servant of Station Hotels, Ltd.. of sums totalling $5,317.92. Lim Hee Tan, a
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    32 2 Hundreds of worm in Bombay have joined up in (he Women's Auxiliary Corps for emergency service. Some of them are seen here during an anatomy class in the Red Cross Hall, Boubay.
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  • 111 2 Cut Off Wife's Hair, Pays $15 Compensation ADMITTING that ne cut off his 15--yur-V.d wife's hair, Hari Krishna. a 29-year-old Tamil was bound over for six months in a sum of $50 and nrdcrrd to pay his wife, Gnanambal. $15 compensation, in the Singapore Th'rd Police Cou:t yesterday. Hari Krishna,
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    23 2 Pupils of the Gan Eng Sens School v ho were shown over the works of the Straits Times Press, Ltd., yester lay iimrnin
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  • 54 2 Mr. Tan Bong Kwang, Chinese interpreter attached to the Muar Magistrate's Court, is going to Pont lan on transfer, and Mr. Guok Sing In, interpreter at. ached to the Muar Chinese Protectorate, will take his place. Mr. Albert Solomon, Tamil interpreter of the Muar Magistrate's Court, has gone
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  • 187 2 AN association for the Indians o! HMft the first of its k'nd in Johore. has been rcgisteied. The main oblec? of the association is to foster th? .•plrit of fellowship among the Indians in th; d'rtr'.ct and to be of service to less
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  • 149 2 Garrison Life In Singapore Analysed COLLOWIN'G criticism of the behaviour of "black sheep" in the Army and complaints by men of the Singapore garrison in letters to the Malayan newspapers, the Singapore Free Press has carried out an exhaustive inquiry into local Services conditions. As a result, a series of
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  • 161 2 Leading K. L. Ceylonese Dies I*HE death has occurred at the age of 36 of Mrs. Emily R. P. Naysa Dorai. wife of Mr. B. T. S. Naysa Dorai. of the Audit Department, Kuala Lumpur. A highly-respected member of the Ceylon Tamil community, she was a sister of Mrs. A.
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  • 46 2 (From Our Own Correspondent) Port Swettenham. IN a fortnight's time the Dural Akhyar Club, Port Swettenham, will move Into new premises completed at a cost of $5,000 The building is in the heart of th? town with sufficient space for tennis and badminton courts.
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  • 40 2 The Police Band will play today at Botanic Gardens at 8.30 p.m.: March, Lorraine (Ganne): Overture, Masanlellc (Auber); Selection, Princess Ida (Sullivan > Cornet Solo, A Night in Switzerland (HuraaV, Serenade, Standchen Hey kens >: Part I, Unfinished Symphony (Schubert).
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  • 71 2 EURASIAN FACES $4,000 FALSE PRETENCES CHARGE I /CHARGED with obtaining $4,000 from Elsie Mabel Gomes under false pretences, A. A. Montelro, a 35-year-old Eurasian appeared in the Singapore Third Police Court, yesterday. Montriro claimed trial and the case was postponed lor mention to June 17. Police bail of $5,000 was
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  • 113 2 Airman's Escape In Crash At Kuala Lumpur (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday, j U7HILE banking over the aero-i drome yesterday, Mr. Elkan of Anglo-Oriental (Malaya) Ltd., who was flying a Kuala Lumpur Flying Club plane, struck high tension wires on the edge of the airfield but pancacked to
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  • 102 2 *|*WO well-known workers for the China Distress and Relief Fund were married in the Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall. Kuala Lumpur. j They were Mr. Lee Mun Soon and Miss Au Yong fuw Keng. The bridegroom Is the only son of Mr. Lee Wah Lin and is
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  • 149 2 (Prom Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, June 2. IN the Police Court today, Sim Teo!; Hul, dentist, was alleged to have fitted nickel plated tooth caps instead of gold, as ordered by A. T. Giffening. Sim was also charged with being an unregistered dentist.
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  • 37 2 A workman, Ang Cheong, In the Sin Seng Cheong Saw Mill, at Kamponc 3ugh, Singapore, was killed when r. I>g he was handling at one of the rj«chan!cal saws struck him on the forehead
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  • 19 2 Malls from Japan expected on Monday b; Brisbane Maru. Mails from Holland etc. expected on Tues day by Baloeran.
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 18 2 GRANT— At General Hospital Slnga pore on 3rd June to Gwendolen Wendy >, wife of John Grant, a son.
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    • 64 2 an economical treat full of concentrated go odn ess. Kidneys on toast have long been a favourite of the breakfast table. Not >n!v do they make a very puki table, light, early morning meal— but one possessing an abundance of nutritive elements. Kidneys are very easv to prepare -and chenp
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 5 2 X I *l% %m <•■».*„.. jRfS,
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    • 758 2 IN SINGAPORE TODAY •55* S1NGAPOKK MAILS ALHAMBRA: /^f HCl? "Capt. Blood" with Errol Flynn. 11 am.. V/MMEi 3.15. 6.15 9.15 p.m. CAPITOL: Tod*/ 'The Storm* with Charles Btckford and Aden 'Imperial) ..1 p.«. Tom Brown. 3.15, 6.15 and 9.15 p.m. E»st Africa Umperiul) 2 p.m. PAVILION: South Africa (Imperial) ..a
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  • 311 3 Guerilla Forces Close In On City SEVERE CLASHES IN SOUTHERN AND WESTERN DISTRICTS Gunfire Clearly Heard In The Settlement Shanghai, Saturday. pHINESE guerilla forces are active all around Shanghai, where heavy firing on the outskirts is clearly audible in the city. Severe clashes have occurred in the
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  • 196 3 JAPANESE HELD UP IN HUNAN Invaders Suffer 2,000 Casualties Changsha, Saturday. •THE military situation In northern Hanan. south of the Yangtse River, which suddenly becamr tense last week following a fresh Japanese advance, has again been stabilised after elglu days' severe fighting In which 2.000 Japanese were killed and wounded.
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  • 157 3 •THE second organ recital under Municipal auspices will be held In the Victoria Memorial Hall at 9.30 o'clock tonight. In this recital Werner Baer will b* assisted by Aga Lahowska (Mrs. H. D. Mundell) who has sung in the leadirv: opera houses of Europe. Violin obligate will
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  • 164 3 EXPRESSING keen interest in the work of the Ladies' Union. Mrs. B. C. Roberts, wife of the Bishop of Singapore, opened the charity sale of the Union at Moulmein Road, Singapore, yesterday. A number of amusement stalls, including a cot; nut shy, treasure-finding and golf, arranged
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    25 3 R Huberts, who opened the charity sale of the Ladies' L'nion, buy in; a narcel at the sale. On the left is Mr. P. Chelvanathan.
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  • 199 3 Policeman Married At St. Andrews Cathedral |U|R- John Ellis, Inspector of m Police, S.S., was married at St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday to Miss Elizabeth Andrews, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Andrews, of Arundel, Hyde, Hereford, who arrived in Singapore from England the previous day. Mr. Ellis is
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  • 84 3 A FULL house was provided with bright entertainment at the Victoria Theatre last night when a variety show was produced by Mrs. G. Le Mercier in aid of the Redemptorist Monastery building fund. A dog contributed to the success of the show. Trained by Mr. Sladek, the
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  • 45 3 Kobe, Saturday. A JAPANESE salvage concern In Osaka has decided to refloat the 3,800-ton freighter Jlnkai Maru, of the Sugaya Steamship Co. The ship sank off Hong Kong in a heavy stc n five years ago.— Eastern News.
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  • 107 3 ANTI-BRITISH ACTS IN SHANGHAI Japanese Alleged To Be Behind Mill Strike Shanghai. Saturday. fHINESE alleged to be In the pay of Japanese are picketing the British owned Lung Chong Cotton Mill and preventing resumption to work by over 1,500 strikers. "Jnder Japanese instigation the strikers have presented ten new demands
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  • 72 3 Tokio, Saturday. TO put the finishing touches to Japan's policy toward the European situation, the Foreign Minister, Mr. Hachiro Arita. had an interview with the Prime Minister. Baron Hiranuma, this morning. This followed yesterday's conference between the Navy Minister, Adm. Yonal, and the War Minister, LieutGen.
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  • 136 3 190,000 WELCOME THE KING AT EDMONTON Premier Reads Address Of Welcome Edmonton. Saturday. jy|R. W. ABERHART, Prime Minister of Alberta, read an address of welcome when Their Majesties arrived at the legislative buildings yesterday. The King, replying, paid a tribute to Alberta's "rich and fertile soil, and enterprising and courageous
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  • 71 3 Casualties In Clashes With Outer Mongols Hs'nking (Manchukuo), Saturday. •THE Kwantung Army announces that 125 Japanese and Manchus wer.killed In the fighting with Soviet and Outer Mongols near Nomonhan up to June 1. These losses Include 11 officers. Japanese planes. It Is claimed, brought down
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  • 35 3 Chungking, Saturday. IT Is officially stated that a Dutchman Heer Bourdrez, a League of Nations water conservancy expert, has been drowned In the Kingsha River In Yunnan Province. Reuter.
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  • 59 3 Kunming (Yunnan) Saturday. •THE fifth batch of 526 overseas Chinese car drivers and mechanics from Malaya, including three women, has arrived here via Hong Kong to serve the fatherland. During the last month 1.500 overseas Chinese drivers and mechanics have arrived from the Netherlands Indies,
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  • 37 3 Changsha, Saturday. A CONSERVATIVE estimate by Chinese military quarters places the Japanese casualties during the past two months near Nanchang at 8.900, while 50 Japanese officers and men have* been taken prisonerCentral News.
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  • 123 3 Control Yuan Head Laughs At Story Of His Jeath Chungking, Saturday. A JAPANESE broadcast from Toklo tx saying that Mr. Yu Yu-Jen, 61--year-old President of the Control Yuan, was killed during a Japanese air raid on Chungking on May 25, was automatically disproved when a
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  • 275 3 Singapore Bride Wears Crinoline Wedding Gown "THE first Singapore bride to wear a crinoline wedding gown was Miss Moira Betty Plgott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Pigott, of Darwin and Sydney, who was married at St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday to Mr James Edward Henry, manager of Reuters, Ltd.,
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  • 21 3 Tokio, Saturday. The new destroyer Isokaze was launched at the Sasebo naval dockyard in Kyushu today.— Eastern News.
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  • 53 3 Police Visit Selangor Recreation Club (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. •"THE Selangor Recreation Club was visited by officers of the Detective Branch this afternoon. The officers questioned two members present in the Club. No arrests were made. In charge of the police was Mr. C. T. W. Dobree,
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  • 76 3 Londen, Saturday. 'THE Labour Party's annual confer- ence concluded at Southport yesterday with the reaffirmation of Labour's immediate programme as adopted at the last conference. State control of banking and credit and the socialisation of the most important key industries are included in tfie programme
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  • 69 3 IT h reported in Paris that the Russian reply to the British and French pact proposals expresses agreement in principle, while making somewhat extensive reservations on certain points. A Moscow message says the main demand is understood to be that Great Britain and France should extend their system
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  • 104 3 Government To Bear The Expenses Washington, Saturday. THAT American interest In the south Polar territory has been awakened Is evidenced by the fact that President Roosevelt has approved a recommendation for the appropriation of $340,000 for an official exploration expedition. Plans for the expedition are
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  • 38 3 Wellington, Saturday. 'THE Attorney-General, Mr. H. G. R. Mason, announced today that the New Zealand Government is appealing against the judgment of Mr. Justice Callan declaring the Import Control Bill illegal.— RJuter.
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  • 42 3 The Cameron Scottish Rifles firing a salute at the Tower of LMUtan in honour of Queen Mary's seventy-second birthday. Queen Mary was confined to her room at Marlborough House by the effects of her motor-r-r accident.
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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    • 323 4 FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS JUNE 10, 15. 16. 17. •Ot. M« mm 1 1 l«* A^mmmWmTM Itiri 1 ml JT/ M ftrrlr I «v* ■m#.T/7 J< i mx IOkfAW" v«V |WL|r "5^ Do You Make these Mistakes in ENGLISH? MANY pcisr.ns say "Did you U..r fioni him today Thei should s^y
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  • Entertainment
    • 176 5 'French Without Tears" In Singapore ♦TERENCE RATTIGANS brilliant comedy, French Without Tears" will have its opening presentation by the Singapore Repertory Players at the Victoria Theatre next Saturday night, with performances f>lso on June 15, 16 and 17. Th's comedy was flrsi. produced at the Criterion Theatre, London, in November.
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    • 140 5 CHARLIE Chaplin has left no doubt about v.-horn and what he intends to guy" In his new film. Th-> Dictator." "The stcry is naturally concerned wlt'i dU'tator.-. and Hi primary purpose U to maho pc >ple laugh," Chaplin told an American correspondent. "The present political situation,
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    • 93 5 /VM7Y Cooper is very much in d ir.and at the moment. Fran,; Lloyd wants him for "Ri-1.-r rl th" Seas." one of the long line of sea sorh\s now brirz pr.-parcd in Hollywood. Ard W.rnv n-otlvrs want Gar to play one of the Wright Brother., in
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    • 551 5 ACCORDING to letters to Gabriel Pascal Bernard Shaw. whc< was given an Academy award for his first screenplay, did more than merely write, but kept his linger on every phase of the production of the Metro-Goldwyn-Maycr picture, "Pygmalion." In the
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    • 83 5 JU[AETERLINCKS "The Blue Bird 1 ITI is to D€ produced as a film by 20th Century-Fox In technlcolour with Shirley Temple as the star. Darryl Zanuck. head of 20th Century-Fox. Is stated to have paid $< U. 5.1100.000. 1 100.000 for the screen
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    • 24 5 Marlene Dietrich may star with James Cagney in "House Across The Bay." about a gangster sent to AVa.ra? and his faithfu. wife.
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      27 5 Joyc? Comnton. E. E. CUvo (la.i) anJ another player ia "The Last Warning;," the New Unite sal my^t-ry drama t« open a season at the Partflon iodav.
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      32 5 N» -na Sh;:uvr n id Clark Ga^le in a seen: fror.i Idiot's !><■- light," the M.G.M. film version of the Robert F. Sherwood stage success to be shown at th* Capitol thii week.
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      33 5 I i tbai picture (from left) are Olivia Uvt Havilland, George Brent, Johr. Payne and John Litel i.i a scene from "Wings of the Navy," which will be screened a: the AU-.ambra shortly.
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    • 176 5 ALUAMBRA Opens Today.— Return showing of "Captain Blood (Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havllland. Lionel Atwill. Basil Rathboue, Ouy Klbbee, Henry Stephenson. Robert Barrat>. A Cosn.oDJ'.itan adventure romance. Following Attraction.— "Wings of the Navy" (George Brent. Olivia De Havllland, John Payne, Frank McHußh. John Lltel. Victor Jory). A
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    • 85 5 TPHEY are talking In New York of Paul Muni for the leadins role jf "Spell Your Name." the play by Dorothy Thompson and Fritz Kortner. Muni has had the script for a few weeks and the arrangement Is that if he says yes, the play
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    • 41 5 A new Singapore danca band will b; heard from 8.M.8.C. stations at ■J. 20 o'clock tonight. It Is Nick's B M.B.C. Six, a European dance band which has performed with credit In India, Burma and Ceylon.
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • 262 6 SUNDERLAND AIR BOATS ORDERED BY AUSTRALIA Number Is Believed To Be Ten (From Our Own Correspondent.) Sydney, (By Air Mail). yHE NUMBER of Short Sunderland flying-boats of the type based on Singapore ordered by the Australian Government has not been disclosed, but it is believed that at least* 10 have
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    30 6 ll:e Kuala Lumpur District Epworth League Institute meeting held at Klang during the Whitsun holidays. About 180 members from Malacca) SercmI ban, Kuala Lumpur, Klang, Port Swcttenham and Bentong attended.
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  • 101 6 (Prom Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca, Saturday. THE Wuhan Songsters, who made a great impression here wheni they appeared on successive nights at the Capitol Theatre earlier this week, are performing at the Savoy Theatre on Sunday and Monday, and again at the Capitol next Friday afternoon when a
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  • 260 6 K. L. Epworth League Holds District Meeting At Klang (From Our Own Correspondent.) Klang. J7PWORTH LEAGUE members from Kuala Lumpur, Malacca, Seremban, Klang, Port Swettenham and Bentong attended the threeday District Institute of the Kuala Lumpur Epworth League held at the Anglo-Chinese School, Klang, at Whitsun. Members stayed at the
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  • 153 6 50 CHINESE DEMONSTRATE IN IPOH Seven Men Fined $1 Each In Court Sequel (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, Saturday. piFTY Chinese demonstrated r outside the Chinese Protectorate here today against the decision of the Protector in deciding that one contractor had paid their wages properly. The crowd became unruly and
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  • 47 6 (Flc-i.i O.;r Own Correspondent) Malacca, Saturday. /CONTRIBUTIONS, including sums given by humble market gardeners in the Limbongan, Bachang and Gajah Berang districts, has yielded $26,000 towards building a new Roman Catholic Chinese church in Gajah Berang, which is estimated to cost $40,000.
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  • 70 6 (From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca. A MALAY named Ibrahim Bin Mat alias Dam was arrested on a provisional warrant by Detective Inspector Uphill and produced before the Police Magistrate today on a charge of theft of a sewing machine from a house in Kuala
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  • 81 6 (From Our Own Correspondent) Penang, June 3. A FATAL motor accident occurred at Ayer Itam last night when a four-year-old Malay girl was run over by a car and succumbed to her injuries five minutes after admission into hospital. A Chinese, alleged to be the
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  • 213 6 Your Traffic Problem IN collaboration with the Singapore traflic authorities. The Sunday Times is publishing; a series of articles discussing problems afterting motorists, cyclists and pedestrians. Readers are invitrd to submit questions on road problems or on traffic matters nn which they are in doubt. This is the seventh of
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  • 86 6 MAN-POWER BUREAU FOR MALACCA From Our Own Correspondent! Malacca, Saturday. A COMMUNIQUE Issued today an- nounces the Government Is setting up a Man-Power Bureau for Malacca at the Library in the Stadthouse under the charge of two officers of the Education Department, as from June 19, on the lines of
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  • 38 6 The Bishop of Singapore will make his annual visit to Ipoh on June 9. He will hold confirmation services and will visit a school at Tasek. He will also TLjit North and Lower Perak.
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  • 347 6 AUSTRALIA SEES FLEET BASED ON SINGAPORE Statement By Minister Of Defence I (From Our Own Correspondent.) Sydney, Saturday. i IN the event of an emergency. Great Britain will station a fleet at Singapore of sufticient strength to safeguard Empire interests. That is the conviction of the Australian Government. We have
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  • 77 6 300 TEACHERS TO MEET IN SINGAPORE A VACATION course fi the flrst of its kind In Malaya, j to be attended by 300 people from all I parts of Ma'aya, will be held irom Aug. 24 to Sept. 2 at RaflU The Singapore Teachers' Aoo iations are arranging a pfrogr
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  • 68 6 'From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, Saturday. SPECIAL, significance is attached to the King's birthday parade which will be held on the Ipoh padang this year. The Sultan ol Perak will attend with the British Resident. For several y^ars the Perak sultan has not attended parades
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  • 562 7 LEADING DRIVERS TO TAKE PART Very Fast Times Expected ENTRIES for the hill climb to be held at the Gap by the Automobile Association of Malaya next Sunday include a number of the best-known drivers in Malaya and at least two special cars
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  • 39 7 Bangkok padi being unloaded for Singapore from the Apaey last week. This is part of the large supply of rice from Burma and padi from Bangkok, which is heir-, stored at Singapore for an emergency.
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  • 58 7 1» i..r. a OKil v i c, cifiht-year-old d..i»jhler of Mr. John O-nlvie, a widower, of England. passed thrmKh Singapore in a K L.M. aeroplane lust Thursday when flying alone on a I'i.OOO-niil > journey to Australia to join her grandmother and aunt there. The
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  • 184 7 OPEN AIR A.R.P. TALKS TO CHINESE Thousands Hear Of Safety Measures C!'EAKEi{S addressing openair n c '!in«j> are making Singapore's Chinatown A.R.l\conscious. Two or thr3e thousand Chinese attend each cf the lectures, ot which more than a dozen have already been held. Twd thousand peop.e, mainly Hai narr-s^, were told
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    30 7 aue Nejrt &«..i ian ruojrr dral?rj tvn« stuped a cbaniy show »t the Astt. j, V..t\ MM, rstrtnU.^ in aid of tae Ch.n:. l;ca»ei rUiid anrt -collected m»r: Vaza HStS.
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  • 26 7 Two Germans who were stated to j have sold military secrets to an agent |of a foreign Power were behe?ded in Germany for espionage.
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  • 452 7 Malayan Murders Due To Short Tempers, Ready Weapons, Cheap Lives (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur. Saturday. IN recording a considerable increase in serious crime in the F.M.S, last PMC when the figure was the highest for eight years, Mr. C. H. Sansom, Inspector-General of Police, c ->mments j in
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  • 188 7 A MAN'S race in a car along the railway line to avoid an onccming train was described at Leeds Assizes. William Turner, 50, an electrician at Catterick Camp, pleaded guilty to trespassing: on the railway and causing an engine to be obstructed by a
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  • 23 7 A former Jewish Judge of Frank.'ort-cn-Maln has been fined £4 8s for leaving th 2 name "Israel" out cf his denature.
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  • 80 7 GERMAN GUN SENT TO JOHANNESBURG Owner Fined £50 Johannesburg. ROLF Heubcrg^r. a Gsrman-born engineer, of Johannesburg, has been fined £50, with the alternative of two months' hard labour, for being in unlawful possession of a machine rifle a sub-machine gun. The rifle, with 1 1,350 rounds of ammunition, was con-
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    • 606 7 STAMPS iKing C«orf« V. l*tt. »"d |h*JI t>« j I JM 3LH *T- 't«»e»t. otooJeta ID t«4 titin| In pt.t«. l«grt |hem wli.l* ~^^^r ilocki Un ALL rOSTAUY USfO A«I.(M I»JI-J»KC. (4. to 5/- (10) UA> lU3. T,,,,.i,»,i r (J -i. (|0) AKCitimn mi St H«l.». o««r p r,itl<4 H
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  • 770 8  -  The Onlooker -By -Read Of C.Y. Koh Dr. Mary Tan Lin Yao Hsiang Major CM. Kidd A. G. Robinson TYPICA\ of a new generation of Straits Chinese are Mr. C. Y. Koh and Dr. Mary Tan, whose engagement was announced in Singapore last week. Jlr. Koh is
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  • 779 8 Cards For All •T*HIS Is a Jolly, easy-to-learn game, suitable for people who are not card experts. For any number of players up to ten It will prove a very popular diversion. An ordinary whist pack Is used, and the cards rank in the
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  • 52 8 M. Blum, the French Socialist leader, who flew from Paris for talks with Mr. Attlee, and other leaders of the Biitish Labour party, lunched with Mr. Winston Churchill at the iatter's home, Chartwell Manor, Westerham. In the picture are Mr. and Mrs. Churchill and
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    • 372 8 vf] T y I* "fs^f »<Bl k»H| HIDDEN TREASURE! What would you give to discover the ancient chest to unlock those riches that would bring happy release from a lifetime of labour, and give joy of independence while the years are yet kind to you? "A dream", you say. But
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  • 177 9 Across Channel At 48 m. p. h. With Speed To Spare QULAT Britain's new Naval mite," a 70-foot torpedo boat with a maximum speed that is an Admiralty secret, has crossed the English Channel in the fastest time ever recorded 1 hour 26 minutes. Mr.
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  • 281 9 Japan's New Ban On Kissing ONLY PERMITTED IN STREETS AT NIGHT Tokio. A FOREIGNER may kiss a Japanese girl in the street after dark and the authorities would consider his action harmless, but if he were to kiss her in broad daylight in public, his action would be considered so
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  • 314 9 SITE OF FAMOUS BATTLE FOUND Arrows Used At Thermopylae HEROES OF 480 B.C. Athens. I\KI IMIK identification of v the famous battlefield of Thermopylae, fought 2,500 years ago is announced by Prof. .Marinatos. Director of ArchaeologicaJ Services of the Greek Ministry of Education. In 480 B.C. King Leonidas of Sparta
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  • 63 9 iriSCOUNT Nuffleld has given £1,000 to the Baptist Forward Movement, It was disclosed at the Oxford and East Gloucestershire Baptist Association. One of the objects of the movement Is to raise not less than £1,000.000 before 1941 for building new churches. Lord Nuffleld's major
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  • 106 9 Carving His Initials And Girl's— £l-0-2 FREDERICK Slavenburg, of Clntra Park, Upper Norwood, S.E., told Croydon magistrates why he carved his initials and a girl's initials on a seat in Norwood Lake Park. He said: "The damage ivas not wilful. I did it more or less subconsciously. It is called
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  • 21 9 The Danish State Railways have built two carriages containing modern cinema equipment to entertain travellers on long Journeys.
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  • 77 9 SHE HAD NO TREASURE UPON EARTH I Lay n °t up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal MATTHEW VI., 19. M KS COMMISSIONER DAVID ITI LAMB, of the Salvation Army, who died in April, aged 75, left no
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  • 43 9 Chungking. Col. J. L. Huang, head of Madame Chiang Kai-shek's New Life Movement and Miss Lucille King were married here by Mr. George Fitch, American head of the YM.C.A. in China. Foreign Minister Dr. Wang Chung-hul gave the bride away.
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  • 26 9 Gen. Franco stated In his reply to an address of welcome at Valencia: "We have liquidated the 19th century, which should never have existed."
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  • 101 9 BIRD'S NEST IN CAR Found After A 500-Mile Tour Aberdeen. A BLACKBIRD'S nest, containing three eggs, was found on top of the petrol tank of a car here. The rar, the property of Mr. A. Graham, of Woodhill Place, had just been taken to a garage after a 500-mile tour
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  • 21 9 A National Government Is to be formed in Iceland by a coalition of the Independent. Progressive and Socialist parties.
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  • 113 9 Police Allegation IT was alleged :.t Bow Street police court that girls at the Normandy Club, Wardour Street. Soho, coaxed men into paying 2s 6d for supposed corkt.iils which cost a halfpenny." Norman Forth was fined £50, with I £7 7s costs, for keeping the
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  • 21 9 Capt. Lewis, of the Eire Army wai awarded the Monaco Cup at the International Horse Show at Nice
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    • 1062 9 The Secret Driving Force of— Youthful Vigour o Discovered In Ino viands pjm^ Evena?6o\ll| l^^V American Discovery Makes Men *g* W Feel 10 Years Younger- Starts I AjfcAi Work in 24 Hours 'Ml*!! Do you feel older than you are? Are you conscious of the fact This great accomplishment has
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  • 104 10 (From Our Own Correspondent) Klang. THE death took place last week at his residence at Port Swettenham Road, Klang, cf Dato Hassan Orang Kaya Maha Kornla Bijaya. Dato Hassan, who was born in Arabia, came to Malaya 42 years ago and settled at Kuala Langat. He was made
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  • 75 10 *T*EN months' rigorcus imprisonment was passed yesterday by Mr. Conrad Oldham, Singapore Criminal District Judge, on Yeo Kirn Ching when he was convicted of possessing 80 tahlls of non-Government chandu at Godown 22, of the Singapore Harbour Board wharves, on May 19. The value of
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  • 125 10 (From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca. Mr. W. A. C. Haines. Chief Police Officer, Malacca, is on a visit to Singapore. Mr. J. G. Rappaport has been paying a visit of inspection to Malacca lightI houses in his capacity as Harbour Master. Members of the 4th Battalion, Malacca Volunteer
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  • 288 10 Woman Not Enough Pocket Money Man She Took The Initiative CHINESE, FEARING ASSAULT, REFUSES BAIL BEFORE the Segamat Magistrate, Inchc Rauf bin Mohamed Sa'at. Lee Fah was charged with enticing away the wife of Lee Choi Yew, his former employer. Lee Fah claimed
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  • 141 10 A MALAYAN educational conference, which will be attended by representatives of the Government Education Department and Teachers' Associations will be held at the Victoria Institution, Kuala Lumpur, on Auz. 8. The conference, which will last five days, has been convened by Dr. W. Linehan, Director of Education,
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  • 55 10 (From Our Own Correspondent) Penanp, June 3. rE 36th Fortress Company, Royal Engineers, and the Bth (S) Heavy Battery, Hong Kong and Singapore Royal Artillery, will take part in the King's birthday parade on the polo ground next Thursday. The Resident Councillor, Mr. A. M.
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  • 131 10 DISCHARGE IN CABARET SCUFFLE CASE fAI Poll Lin, a dance hostess 1 at the New W«rld Caiiar.-t. and Wu Mun Poll, were «':scharged by Mr. C. 11. Koh in ihe Singapore Fourth Police Coi-.rt yesterday, on a summons charging them with voluntarily causing hurt to Charlie Chew at th" Xew
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  • 50 10 A CHINESE v.-cr::rr.an narrowly missed being run over by a steam roller when he fell in its path at Fogden, Brisbane's engineering yards. 12th mile, Sembawang Road. Th? steam roller grased both his fort and he was taken to hospital with ruls and bruises
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  • 391 10 From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, june 2. AN order of revocation of the grant of probate, in the matter of the will of the late Ho Man. millionaire tin miner of Selangor, was granted today by the Chief Justice, F.M.S., Mr Justice Poyser, in
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    • 546 10 COUGHS COLDS V#. I YOU catch bad c(.ugh», cold« or jdgoßn| tf\ influenza quicker and far mort \^^B M^// 1 1 easily than you may realise; and l/X^\-^^m M^f if such compUints are Itft unchecked /^^\»^S WMtf |Ik bronchitis or pneumonia develop ij(M *^*aMjy^7»| lust as quickly. So be sure
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    • 1134 11 Bulgarian Conspiracy. By J. Swire. Robert Hale, Ltd., London. 12s. (ML IN the days before the war, when there were no dictators to disturb the peace, good cltUenu were troubled by another nightmare the Balkans. Foreign Offices of the world always kept
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    • 332 11 VVERY day we use icords which commemorate the fame of some man or vomar. or place that wotud otherwise be lorgolltn. Few people know how these names came to be common words avd in this special Sunday Times series of short articles the story of their,
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    • 449 11 ENGLISH RUSSIAN MENTALITY The Goldfish. By Ana Stair. Robert Hale. 7s. (id. '"THE Goldfish" Is an unusual novel, both in its subject and Its delineation of diverse characters. Ellse Da vent ry is a socially ambitious, rather silly woman of the pseudoIntellectual type. In her early thirties, with a rich,
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    • 424 11 A Chalk Stream Killing. By Roland Fertwee. The Ordeal of Barata. By S. Fowler Wright. Dead Men Tarn Green. By 11. E. Wheeler. Echo of a Curse. By R. R. Ryan. All from Messrs. Jenkins' Colonial Library. IT Is easy to devine from Mr. Pertwee's "Chalk Stream
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  • 220 12 Victims Are Usually Babies Badly Attended At Birth f)EATH by tetanus in a grown-up a 17-year-old Indian hoy died of it at Bedok recently after being; wounded in the ankle with a bi. iboo pole is a rare occurrence in
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  • 90 12 CHINESE CONSUL'S WIFE ROBBED IN MANILA Manila. JEWELLERY estimated to be worth 40,000 pesos was stolen from a chest in the house of Mr. Clarence Kuangson Young, Chinese Consul-General. Burglars entered the Chinese Consul's residence and broke open a chest containing Jewellery belonging to Mrs. Young. Mr. Young said that
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  • 16 12 One of the world's largest telescopes will be dedicated on Mount Locke, in Texas.
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  • 40 12 Recently there was great Nava! a.'.ivitv in the I>i^li-!j Channel and at ports on the west coast. The British Home Fleet was carrying out a series of intensive gunnery exercises. Here are Marines training with machine guns.
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  • Article, Illustration
    49 12 A COLOI'KI 11, MOtfMt v.^s s.-cn in Hyde Park, London, when an Oriental visitor gave his silken sunshade its first outing 1 of the year. He didn't seem to notice the C'oldstream Guards as they marched imartly past him with their bayonets gleaming in the sun.
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  • 176 12 CAPT. Balfour, Under-Secretary for Air, replying in the House of Commons to Sir Lindsay Everard (Con., Melton), who asked if the suitability of civil aircraft for the R.A.F. had been considered, said: "My Department is placing -\n order for a number of De Havilland Flamingo types
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  • 184 12 World's j Youngest Mother New York. MLVVS of the birth of a healthy baby to an Indian girl a-;cd a few months less than five years has been received here frcm Lima (Peru). Both the child-mother. Lina Medina, whose birth certificate shows she was born on Sopt. 23. 1934, and
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  • 74 12 SII? Arthur Street has b?en r.pTointrd Permanent Umler-Sccr?l:ry for Air fan RWeei in to Sir Donald Banks. who becomes a member of the Import Duties Advisory Committee. Sir Arthur Street, who Is 46. has been First Dcouty Under-Secretary to th° Air Ministry since April. 1933. Sir
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  • 296 12 The Kremlin Moscow. tUI STALIN himself, with his principal lieutenants, carried in a flowered bier the ashes of the two dead Heroes of the Soviet Union who were killed in an air erash Brig. Anatoli Seroff and the woman, Major Polina Ossipenko.
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  • 26 12 Mnulch police have captured a German, named Grlesbeck, who had been terrorising young women In Munich for over a year by snatching their spectacles.
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    • 392 12 MEALS WITHOUT MISERY Are meals a constant dread to too? Do you have to take great care about •very bit of food you eat. for fear of having to pay the penalty in pain? I* stomach trouble the bane of your existence? Even if you have long been a victim
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  • 641 13 1,200 Air Raid Wardens Will Man Posts "BOMBS" WILL BE DROPPED A R.P. exercises will be held in Singapore on June 13 on a scale which will compare with the exercise held in those European capitals under direct threat of air invasion in time of war.
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  • 186 13 £700,000 WAR ON CANCER Compulsory Action By Local Bodies A NEW stage in the British Government's campaign against t.tneer will be reached shortly with the issue by the Ministry of Health of instructions to local authorities on the preparation of local schemes for treatment. It is estimated that the campaign
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  • 25 13 An appeal has been issued to the German public to eat fi.sh twice a week so as to economic in meat consumpon.
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  • 20 13 Leipzig central market was partly destroyed by fire and 14 firemen were burned or overcome by fumes.
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  • 221 13 "Calamity" To Give Back Colonies Oxford. To return the former German colonies would be "a perfect calamity," said Viscount Stonehaven, speaking at the inaugural meeting of the Oxford branch of the Colonial League. "Africa at present is under the League of Nations," he went on. The various nations live together
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  • 45 13 Thousands of German rirU are being conscripted for a year's service in the Women's Labour Corps, where they are tausht farm and domestic work, to brine them up to the idcl of Hitler's Hausfrau* The girls In the picture are peeling votaries.
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  • 191 13 Sacked Bank Clerk Gets His Job Back Glasgow. pEORGE Phillip, Fyvie (Aber- deenshire) bank clerk who was given notice of dismissal because he defied the bank's marriage ban, was last week called to the tiny village police station to receive a telephone call from Glasgow. It was from the executive
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  • 23 13 M. Oberman. a former Governor of Sumatra, stated that an air line connecting Holland. Scotland and Iceland might be established.
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    • 256 13 take PHOSFERINE The first requisite for active, everv-day strength of mmd for serene confidence i* f"^^l that well-regulated nervous system, which c3^H| Phosferinc helps to induce. The B r e»'e»t of all nerve tonic, Phosirrine makes good the wear and tear due to mcn'al I*J wor k or worry. It
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    15 14 Mr. i:. BanJuUmcßZ .-ad Miss Augusta llrnj ..k:. Married at St. Jusiph •> Chnrch. .Singapore, yesterday.
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    14 14 Mr. .V:-.:;ionv Pe:rua and Miss .'.nne PesUna, married m St. tmrntft Chore*, Singapore, jrstcrdjy
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    15 14 ?'r. .11 1 r r-.J liiarroj i.t (T.i CatUetlrv.: of Ihr food Shepherd, Singapore, jre-.itcrda/.
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    27 14 •I. lew Fcr.r Kaon ard Mis, 1 Njmk 1.i.-n. ho were married sj| ban rwenllT. MKs thai is a silUi Oml Sau Yin. a prominent hu*ii>of Serctnhan.
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    39 14 Mr. Yeuh Trek Elif. M.n i>; Mr. Mi Mrs. Yeoh Tc-ow Slam, of Kuala Lumpur, and Miss Tan Li Li. rider daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tan Chin Hean, a!so of Koala Lumpur, married at thr SKan-or llockien iMIMIn,
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  • 36 14 S tomach-Shaped Lung AN X-ray examination sr.jwcd a lump in the abdomen the shape of the stomach, and operation revealed that the rubber latex had coagulated and formed a solid rubber cast filling the entire cavity.
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  • 449 14 Ostriches Do Not 1 Bury Their Heads In Sand: Snakes Are Not Hypnotic Los Angeles, JVC. Raymond B. \U->, assistant professor of biology at the University of California, has created for himself an avocational chair of debunking the American public on animal stories that have come to
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  • 94 14 'From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca, Saturday. OCHOOL concerts are usually very entertaining little affairs, and that at the Malacca Methodist Girls' School at Blckley Park yesterday was particuI larly so, and reflects great credit on I Miss Gertsch, the headmistress and her staff of teachers. The
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  • 48 14 From Our Own Correspondent.) Alor Gajah, Saturday. •THE marriage of Mr. G. S. Muthu- krlshnan, of the Malaya Tribune. Singapore, with Miss iayalakshml. daughter of Mr. T. V. Doraiswamy Iyer, Interpreter in the local court, was celebrated here this mcrning, a Hinau priest from Singapore officiating.
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  • 34 14 The Chantilly from Haiphong, Tourane, and Saigon is expected about 5 p.m. today and will sail about midnight for Madias, Pondicherry, Colombo. Djibouti. Suez. Port-Said and Marseilles. Berth: in the Roads.
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  • 109 14 •From Our Own Correspondent.) Segamat, Saturday. UEE Ah Kow. a youth, was sentence 11 to 35 days' rigorous imprisonment, with the option of $50 fine, by Inchc Rauf bin Mohamed Sa'at, the Scgamal magistrate, on a charge of theft of a motor-car and with
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  • 60 14 vFrom Our Own Correspondent) Seremban, Saturday. Invitations have been issued by th Neeri Sembllan Motor Transport Owners to a dinner at the Negr! Chines Miners' Association Hall on June 9 i 1 honour of Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Nelsor. before their departure to England
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  • 480 14 IN the midst of all this rubber in Selangor, I have always wondered what effect latex would have on the human body when swallowed. An Issue of the Medico-Legal and Crlmlnological Review has, to some extent, satisfied my curiosity. As planters, not only in Selangor but In other
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    • 232 14 lIS YOUR CHILD STURDY OR OUTGROWING HIS STRENGTH? Uauy cLilJrrD grow fa»t without growing in itrengih. They are weak, listles* and irritable; they learn with Ceueral WeukneHS dimcuity at school and are bad playand Weakueßß mates. The cause in most crises is during Pregnancy, (imply a lack of vital minerals
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  • 1845 15  -  Nathaniel Gubbins By WELL," said The Sweep, I see little old von Ribbondrops as got the stummick ache." "That's right," I said. "And little old Ooering as been on a bit of a cruise for is ealth," said The Sweep. "That's right." I said "And little
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    • 349 15 URGE SIZE (8 oz.) 65<£ (Contains as much as a large bottle.) f^%;i^:M:!^ HANDY SIZE (4 oz.) 35$ '^S^BS SIMPLE subtraction shows that buying Andrews in the Economy Tin saves you 45 cents on the large (8 oz.) size, and 30 cents on the handy (A oz.) size, but only
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 197 15 CONTRACT BRIDGE By THE FOUR ACES Wt hi v on on remarked that bold bidding will frequently obtain bettor NNtti than sound accuraUbldding. Raymond Balfe Is known as a bad bold bidder, and while we have s?en him Incur many a substantial penalty, he will offset this by getting phenomenal
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    • 229 15 When West opened the King of diamonds, Mr. Balfe's usually buoyant I spirits sagged, as VALUES he could see three O f the losing diamonds FOI R ACES ln addltlon tc h he gaps ln hearts SYSTEM and spades. Alter ACE 3 winning the first KINr three tricks. Weal kiinu
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  • 237 16 Opinion "Time, Gentlemen, Please 9 THE good wishes of every hotel and 1 cabaret client will go with the petition which, as announced by the chairman of Raffles Hotel, Ltd..: last week, is being presented to the Governor-in-Council asking for aj permanent extension of one hour; on Saturday nights. No
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  • 212 16 ALTHOUGH many young Straits ■A. Chinese pride themselves on their modernism, the results of inquiries made by a Sunday Times reporter, published last week, show that much of this modernism is superficial. "Dancing does not pay," he was told by a well-known Chinese. "It should be discouraged among
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  • 926 16  -  Frank Longworth By How It Became A Free City rYANZIG, now so much coveted by Germany, was once part of London. She appointed her own members on the City Council, and her citizens played an unusually large part in the administration of London business. Perhaps
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  • 632 16 Molotov The Successor To Litvinov fciIOLOTOV, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union, or shall we say the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union, has for the time being succeeded Litvinov as Foreign Secretary while retaining the post of Prime Mirtster. He is not so well
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    • 138 16 Tlw NEW WORLD CABARET TODAY TIFFIN DANCE 1.30 to 430 p.m. Admission Fro*. TONIGHT 9.30 TO MIDNIGHT Admission 50 eta. PIANO TUNING -REPAIRS REMOVALS-HIRE E. CHARLES. Phone 2902. 212, Orchard Rd. Unbreakable Water proof Wrist- Watch 10 years Men's St rear l i ne Service Model $13.15 Se.'d in London
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    • 42 16 Our modern motor-vessel* "Straat So en da" and Straat Malakha offer a splendid opportunity for a three weeks' round trip to Siam, Indo-China and Javc. Steamer passages first class $225.00. Full Information from Pass. Dept., X.P.M. Line, (Incorp. in Holland./ (Phone 5451)
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  • 2089 17 Interview Given To 80 American Reporters "NOTHING HIGH HAT, REGULAR STUFF IN THEIR EYES, VOICES AND HANDCLASPS" FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT NEW YORK. UAItD-HOlLKl) AMERICAN REPORTERS COVERING THE ROYAL TOUR OF CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES HAVE BEEN TAKEN HY STORM BY THE KING
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  • 292 17 WHAT husbands and wives think of each other (and SOflMl their mothers-in-law) raised many a laugh in the courts last week told mp husband I icas vijic than Killing to forgive and forget. In fact I never wanted to sec htm again. ft I knew my
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    • 56 17 Wa acute (q^^^a P4T-A-CAK* FpgP to a toowkL 49 NOW. FOR THE GROWN-UPS PEEK FREAN ASSORTED ASSORTED CREAMS DAY BY DAY ASSORTED BISKWHEAT SAVOURY ASSORTED TWIGLETS CHEESELETS ••VITA-WEAT" CRISPBREAD ETC.. ETC. HUME HY PEEK FREAN CO., LTD, MAKERS OF FAMOUS BISCUITS f*rn\ Obtain front your local dealers m.^*B 'w -JOSEPH
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  • 673 18 Values Maintained But Turnover Smaller 'THE rising trend of world markets which was a strong feature of last week's activities, received a check during the past week. This was primarily due to the slow progress that Is being made in the talks among Great Britain, France
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  • 185 18 'the week and although rubber closed j one-quarter cent below best it Us still one-quarter cent better than at the close a week earlier. l Tin on Tuesday was $115.12>/ 2 and It j remained unchanged on Wednesday; jon Thursday it was $115.37' i;
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  • 99 18 TOURING the week ending May 27, 1939, exports of canned pineapples from Malayan ports amounted to 67,277 cases, of which: 48,849 (73 per cent), cases were to the United Kingdom, 7,730 (12 per cent.) cases to the Continent of Europe, 288 per cent.) cases to Canada,
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  • 114 18 Singapore, Saturday. Buyers Sellers Sago Flour No. 1 Llngga $2.52' 2 Fair $2.50 $250 Sarawak $2.47 l/ 2 Rice Slam West Coast No. 1 No Stock Siam West Coast No. 2 No Stock Slam West .Coast No. 3 No Stock Slam Broken No. 1 $115 Slam Broken
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  • 93 18 Saturday, June 3, noon. No. IX R.S.S. (Spot loose) 28', 28' i No. IX R.S.S. f.o.b. in cases June 2874 29 G.F.A.Q. R.S.S. f.o.b. in bales June 28 7/16 28 9/16 FAQ. R.S.S. f.o.b. in bales June 28' i 28% FUTURE QUOTATIONS No. IX R.S.S.
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  • 248 18 (From Our Ow- Correspondent.) London, Saturday. WORLD rubber stocks, outside the regulated area, declined by 20,460 tons in April, compared with a decline of 36,223 tons in March, according to statistics contained in the May bulletin of the International Rubber Regulation Committee.
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  • 1263 18 SINGAPORE STOCK AND SHARE PRICES Fraser And Co, 's List SATURDAY, JUNE S, 1939: 1 P.M. MINING Buyers Seller* Ampat Tin (4s) 3s 7>*d 4s l'-.d Austral Amal. (ss) 4s 7fcd 5s IVid Austral Malay 38s «2a Ayer Hitam (ss) 22s 9d 23s 9d Ayer Weng ($1) .68 .73 Bangrin
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    • 737 18 CtovenA quality is really outstanding [S*p^zi .n -Ctllophjnr' wrapped i^^^™^™^^^P^^^^^^^^^^WF PACKETS of lo and in W Gtana Hotel, Oslo if you were m Patent 'TRU-VAC tint of SO H-.uyirß 11 this famous Hotel in the j^H Capital uf Norway, you would of course LONDON MADE H be able to buy
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    • 51 18 Current Company Dividends I List Supplied By Messrs. Fraser fif Co. SATTTRDAT, JUNF 1939: 1 P.M total or I Company Uivideno Book* Fin a. 1 1 TIN Close Date Ulv year Raub M. Int. June S June U June I Renong Consold. 6d. No. 26.. June V. June 24 3wa»
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  • 345 19 Garbo's £98,000 For One Picture OMB of the discrepancies in Hollywood salaries are m\»tcties to the world in ue ncral. I ,ir in-tun<c. in 1 i»T.7 .»lar-U-ne IHetrirh appeared in two films one a dismal failure and ♦he other far irom a success. For that she cot 171.W0.
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  • 192 19 £44,000 A YEAR HEADS THE LIST FOR BUSINESS New York. AMH. Walter GifTord, President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, was the highest salaried American business man in 1938, according to figures issued by the Securities Exchange Commission. He received £44.000. Others on the list were Mr. Robert Stanley,
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  • 72 19 Waitress Inherits £1,000,000 New York. >LUMA ABATIELLO, 23 -years-old waitress, was six months ago elling hamburgers at 6d each in little roadhouse in Florida. She arned £4 a week— with tips. Now Pluma— now Mrs. Potter Dorsay aimer— is heiress to £1,000,000, her usband's share in the estate of the
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  • 281 19 IkiIUST sunshine pictures are made outdoors. But charming sunshiny pictures can be made Just as easily indoors, wherever the rays of the sun stream through a window. Such Indoor pictures are especially attractive when the sunlight Is used M "backlighting." The picture above is j "backlighted" the
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  • 710 19 LIBEL ACTION STOPPED Case Against Newspaper "Which Should Not Have Been Brought" A LIBEL action against Assoriated Newspapers, Ltd., proprietors of The Daily Mail, was stopped by a jury in the King's Bench Division. Lord Hewart, the Lord Chief Justice, asked them, By what you have done you think this
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    • 181 19 PFIFFi I the everlasting PsfiS" 38 1 sewing machine! 11l Guaranteed for |'^^ffl| life-long service i 1 Obtainable on cash or easy terms these H *\r*^^SjjZ^M vJ] machines increase the productivity of a shop. Hj 'ffi^mfefL. where sewing machines are used, by their joKiiJl^iß^- B^sf strength and freedom from breakdown.
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  • 2587 20  - What The Stars Foretell R. H. Naylor By This week's good days for: BUYING: Business deals: Wed. June 7 Thurs. June 8. Personal Shopping: Tomorrow. June s—Thurs.5 Thurs. June 3. SELLING: Tomorrow, June 5 Tucd. June 6 Friday, June 9. ENTERTAINING: Tomorrow, June s—Wed.5 Wed. June 7— Thurs. June 8.
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    • 508 20 Kruschen Has Made Me Young Again "Rheumatism got mt badly. I could not bind my armx or kntti. Six months ago I starud taking Kruschtn Salts. Nou, I am back t>n tht Unms courts— ptaying as u<W at nxr/" If you iuflffr from rheumatism, it is because your bodily organs
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    • 131 20 ■^BY ni j t|^E i HI <7J Pi W Vi I* aH "J N l' wf IIH white pearly teeth lil^\ Jsn't this a charming photograph? Di-sinond's mother lias sent it to the proprietors of OvalUne' with a letter which says: "Everyone yS admires his beautiful 11. tie teeth; he
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    • 446 20 THIS WEEK FOR YOU LIERE, grouped according- to behind the scenes, though you month or birth (irrespec- viay not hear about them r tive of year), is a statement of yet. Things Hill go uell in probabilities to be expected this business and your future proswe k pects improve. Ncics
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  • 673 21 First Impressions Are Most Important Max Factor's Advice Little Flaws To Be Avoided WHAT sort of a "first impression* do you rvnd your appearance offer? you don't know, you should check up on yourself and id out, for first impressions are often the most important ones, with things so essential
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  • 758 21 Suits With Pleats And Belts Are Back In Fashion By Sunday Times London Woman Correspondent COME time ago, the Norfolk jacket made a sudden exit from everyday fashions. But most styles come back sooner or later, and this season there are many new suits in linen or tussore which have
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    • 450 21 /fs§wL Modern Woman IWL( Elizabeth Arden's *2»V -i?/ Masterpiece Be sure about beauty. Be sure you choose the best preparations for your t>pc of skin be sure you know how to use them correctly. To be really sure, pay a visit to Mrs. Lynn, Elizabeth Arden's own representati\e who will
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    • 110 21 ■s^H^-^Hb^. 'jL^sT^SHls^i^HKf make-up originated by Max Factor, make-up genius, to keep your lips looking lovely for ■k hours. Alluring color II i*P» harmony thadrs. MYRNA IOY Crtme-Kougt in nature Wf delicate flesh Jones. AT^ALL LEADING^EALERS FBEE! For your color harmony make-up chart mail this coupon! Max Factor P.O. Box 726.
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  • 905 22 All Housecoats Now Lead Double Lives Fashion News From Europe BySunday Times London Woman Correspondent A LL housecoats lead double lives! They make ideal breakfast, as well as dressing gowns, and are gaily attractive into the bargain. In fact, some are extravagantly luxurious. You see them this season made in
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  • 159 22 AN anfdote for that tired feeling is gained by these exercises, as demonstrated by Jo Ann Sayers and Mary Beth Hughes, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer players. Excellent for slim thighs and back muscles is the form of body exercise shown above. Keep the feet firmly on the table, with
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    • 529 22 Jamrr mfm <•> cream* r H renders COflf» I lfour finest ><S^ Z safeguard against/,:,?. r^e^B BLEMISHED SKlN\!gy^^ Being a MEDICINAL and TOILET will endow you with a new peach* Soap. Cuticura serves at wof old pur- bloom loveliness, radiant with pose. It keeps your skin gloriously health. clear and
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    • 228 22 Planta Matya-rime* A railway director, 'tis said. Once carried two crates on his head; To a lady's mquiry f Whafc makes you so wiry V He said: "I eat Planta on bread!' PLANTA^ MARGARINE vf^ for* all cooking and Prying. A delicacy on Toast Pure vegetable. API) 9 YDUR^fr Try
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  • 655 23 Old, Old Story Of Ambition Versus Marriage What Should A Girl Do? ¥F only there were new words, or words that one could coin for old difficulties, new ways to describe that amazing phenomenon that is as old as the mountains yet utterly new and fresh every time it happens!
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    54 23 Bolero frocks are still very poplar. This one is made in the tricolour combination red, white and blue which is particularly favoured by smart women. Here we have the skirt in navy blue, the blouse in red check on a deep br.nd. with buttons down the front, while the bolero
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  • 399 23  -  PAUL CAVAN BY IJSED with discrimination at meals, wines are not an extravagance, and they add considerably to the dignity of your hospitality when you are entertaining, either in restaurant or at home. Tolerably good table wines, oth red and white, are obtainable at quite low
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    • 296 23 Jkm "*s^ 1 I'm always sure of Personal Freshness use urn ikikwj, mi jtkuobt, uurro, »-L»T 4SI 4-1 IS SMOLAMO. Cll M A BBHlßßMsMaMaW<aaJßala^Bni I PEKING RUGS direct from our Peklne Factor ,1 are now on Display. We Invite your 8 early InspecUon of the latest and widest range ever
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    • 416 23 How I Made This AMAZING CHANGE ~7Ff, In 7 Daysw&&~\ Miss Drouet made this amazing chcnge in her appearance in 7 days. Read below her personal letter in which she explains exactly how she did it and how an> woman can do the same. "I can hardly believe it myself,"
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    • 689 24 oss& A WEEK AGO film ne was nearly dropping ftl from exhaustion NOW THRIVING ON THE WINE OF LIFE At night InKjmiil) kept her coMing ■nd twisting in corrured »leeplessne*st by day high tension nerves strained ijH^ J^K and racked her body spent energy /^^r^^k wF\ made every little task
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    • 350 24 *r urattnttm g^f 7 t. I M. \V j^e sweets g F s C 9WfM CHIVERS J ELLIES The most popular jellies flaL,g.tt for over half a century Mrv«4 tkl> w%r. v The rich fruity flavours so characteristic of s*. Chivers' Jellies have won for them a world r-r —^7
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    • 601 24 $100 FREE ENTRY CROSSWORD PUZZLE MONEY PRIZES FOR CROSSWORD ENTHUSIASTS OUR WEEKLY "MUST BE OFFER c Sunday Times offers today $100 for a correct solution of the ord Puzzle printed below. Should no reader succeed in solving the puzzle con.ctly the $100 will be awarded in respect of the entry
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    • 118 25 /*~^/i 'B>|^^__ Til M m jk&SSZ&ssl:.. 'HE nt/l fjf v m& ~^h m~ ff^l 'WE l^L Jaafc. v^n £^^^L. I I HI in v^' a, JBS v iv IK* A, Streamline .adiatoT in j&* BPK. 1 "~*~-—»3> RD (TAIN 'Q DJIIIHIHO y^^r «uHß^^^pß^*™*jn| tlwnl SUPERSEDING The 'Eight' is an entirely
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    • 477 25 SANATORIUM PATTCNT CHECKS LOSS OF WEIGHT Took Flesh-formintf t ablet 9 If you are troubled by steady loss of weight read this letter from a man who put on flesh steadily after takinn a course of tiny, tasteless, Hesh-forming tablets although 12 morttltf in a sanatorium had failed to help
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    • 392 25 CROSSWORD PUZZLE RESULT Thirty competitors succeeded In solving correctly The Sunday Time:Crossword Puzzle printed in our issue of May 21. and they therefore shar< the $100 prize offered. Their names and addresses are SINGAPORE Miss Ivy de Souza. 362. Telok Kurau Rd.; James Goh, 432. Geylang Rd.; John lek, 13,
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    • 301 25 Today's Wireless Programmes SINGAPORE /ML 223 metres. ZHP JO OS metre* p.m. 11. CO Military band music played bv the band of H. M. Grenadier Guards, t 11.10 Light orchestral concert. 12.10 Richard (traditional ballad singer). 12.30 Light orchestral concert. Relayed from the Sea View Hotel ictntd). 1.00 Miscellaneous light
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    • 608 25 EMPIRE STATION TRANSMISSION 5 GSO 9.58 mc/s (31.32 m). GSH 8.S1 roc .31.55 m.) GSI 611 bm/i (46.1* m.) a.m. 6.40 Stock exchange report and sports news. 6.50 Music Hall.* V.'ith Al and Bob Harvey (the famous Canadian comedians), and Ethel Revnel! and Grace West ("Tiic Two Oddments.") 7.50 "London
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    • 561 25 NIROM YDA C.04 nc/i (49.S nu. YDB 9.65 me/l (31.20 m.). VUB 11.86 ow/l (29.3 m.). PMN 10.26 ac/l C!9.2 m.). a.m. 7.20 Opening announcement. 7.50 Divine service. 10.50 National Anthem. Barnabas von Geczy and his orchestra. 11.20 Piano recital by Mrs. R. Haasse. 11.50 Alexander and his Musette orchestra,
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  • 3316 26 Garrison Sports Notes By Nomad rE 32nd Heavy Battery, R.A., met their first defeat In the Small Units Soccer League when the 11th A.A. Battery beat them by four goals to three. The Ac-Acs had a lead of three goals at the interval but only Just managed to emerge winners
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    • 259 26 IE onT^ **D 18 years of Rheumatism -now people stop me amazed!" Can you wonder that people stop Mrs. C. V. B. and aak in astonishment. "What on earth have you done to set so fit For 18 year.-, this lady was a martyr to Rheumatism and High Pressure. To-day
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    • 114 26 fIIOLQVQ G^p~" lliiiMil Til m and qez more miles iviih qreaier safety ihamT l^from anij oilier tyre^ SAFETY Silvertowns*s#* Cblainab t from all Garages, Dealers and the /ollomng stockists SINGAPORE. 1 JOHOU.. 1 BIALACCA. Ban Lee Seng, Raffles Quay. Hock Guan Hin Co. Guan Hce Co.. 28. Mill Read. Klan
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  • 313 27 Will He Get A Fight Against Marquez DEN JIMENEZ is the most impressive of the recent boxers arriving in Singapore from Manila. His form was a revelation to local fight-goers at the covered stadium on Friday. Foor Dharmaraj hadn't a lookin. He took terrific punishment
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  • 46 27 From Our Own Correspondent. > Klang. The annual athletic sports of the Anglo-Chinese School, Klang, will be held on Saturday, June 10, on the school ground at 3.30 p.m. The Old Boys' events are: 100 yards, 220 yards. 440 yards, putting the shot and tug-of-war.
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    26 27 The hadminton team of the Old Students' Association which beat tue Premier School by four goals to three when they met recently at Batu Mm 4
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  • 72 27 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Pllah. A. Chelliah, among the best and keenest tennis players in town, singles and doubles champion for two years consecutively in the Negri Medival tournament, and a representative for the Storch Cup in 1937, has been transferred to Kuantan. The tennis players
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  • 270 27 (From Our Own Correspondent) Muar. THE first round of the Muar football league will be comp'.eted next week when two remaining league fixtures will be played. On Saturday the Hospital Club meet the Johore Military Forces. The Johore Military Forces who have only lost one match this
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  • 193 27 FVISPLAYING good understanding U and superiority in all departments, the Chinese Club scored a good win over the Town Rangers, by five goals to one in the Kuala Pllah district lcaguo. Taken as a unit the Chinese forwards combined well and were speedy. Individually, the two
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  • 36 27 The cricket match between tn Kuala Pilah team and King George School, Seremban, which was to bplayed today (Sunday) has been postponed on account of the ground being usr'l f-r the Mrxlay sports.
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    26 27 The combined teams of the Chinese Sporls Association and the Thye Cheons; b.P. In a badminton match the Chinese SJI. won by four fames to three.
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  • 325 27 KLANG H.S. BEAT THE OLD BOYS < From Our Own Correspondent) Klang. IN a day's cricket played at the High School ground the present boys beat the Old Boys KLANG H. S. OLD BOYS—lst Inns. Ismail c Sharil b Sithampar.im 0: Sallch b Hamid 32; Ibrahim b Abbas 7; Ycoh
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  • 226 27 'From Our Own Correspondent) Muar. A START has been made in the doubles handicap lawn tennis tournament for the cup presented by Mr. K. Kathiravelu. The best match of the week was be- tween Bakri and A. H Gridley and P. 0. Joseph and T. S. Pl!lay. Starting
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  • 1702 28 Soft Going After Rain Overnight VELOCITY PAYS $60 IN LAST RACE (From Our Own Correspondent) I'enang, Saturday. THK piag was soft for the final day of the l'enang Turf Club's first meeting on its new course. Dividends were fairly good. In the
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  • 43 28 IN the ninth race, while turning into the home straight, Wotan (Spencer up) knocked against the rail and both rider and horse fell. Spencer was pinned underneath but extricated himself. He was slightly injured, and Wotan limped back.
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  • 231 28 ENTRIES FOR PERAK TENNIS TOURNAMENT (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, Saturday. rXTRIES for the Perak lawn tennio tournament wero published today: Men's Singles Scow. Chin Sam Hoi, Lincoln Leong, Choo Chee Fatt, Carson, Thivy, Tite, Choon Tan. Caleb, Aziz, Tahlr, Appaduray, Moreira, Tan Cheng Phor Timothy Lee, Khong Kit Soon,
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  • 250 28 THE S.CR.C. beat StT Jrc nh's In- stitution at cricket on th Chinese ground yesterday. ST. JOSEPH'S INSTITUTION 0. Campbell b Swee Kens J P. Yee c Kee Soon b Keng Slew 2 E Jayakoddy b tif.ee Keng 1 N. Aeria c Lim
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  • 246 28 McNeill's 90 Against Klang Team A FINE knock of 90 runs by W. H. McNeill put the S.C.C. in a good j position in their two-day cricket match against the Klang team on the padang yesterday. Batting first the Club totalled 192 runs. Waites. Foster, Ward and Cooper supporting McNeill
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  • 381 28 •TPWO St. Andrew's School teams beat 1 Raffles Institution at cricket yes- J terday. The first team won by 35 runs and the second by 42. Results were First Teams ST. ANDREWS J. Anchant b Yzelman 6 > Guan Hong lbw. b Yzelman 1 1 D.
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    18 28 Fashion seen at a Bournemouth lawn tennis tournament. A girl wearing blur ".trioed trousers and a white hUier.
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  • 192 28 LOYALS' GOOD WIN OVER ST. ANDREW'S 0.B. 5.A0.8.A. A Jansen c Roberts b Tetlow lo R. Thoy c Freeman b Tetlow 2U J. Shaw c Sharpies b Tetlow 1 M. Kohlofl c Miles b Freeman 6 K. Leembruggen b Freeman 5 M. Armstrong c Sharpies b Tetlow <> j Tan
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  • 217 28 OOWLING five maidens in 13 over:. and taking four wickets for 17 1 runs, S. K. Sundram paved the wayj tor a two-wicket win of the Ceylon Sports Club "A" team against a Fort Canning team at Balrsti-r Nestordy FORT CANNING Wilton b N. Pillay
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  • 274 28 Rest Meet Europeans In K.L. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur. Saturday. THE Rest were in a strong position in their annual cricket match against the Europeans at the close of play today. They were 25 runs behind their opponents with eight wickets in hand. Batting first, the Europeans had
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  • 250 28 DLAVING on the St. Awsph'a ground yesterday the St. Anthony Boys' .School second tecra bca. the R' Joseph's Institution second tc?:n st. wnm 11 S. Hombcr: bM. Gammell 1 F. Pasauel b M. Garr.niel! 9 H. CoftfeJro b M. Cammell 0 Qulk Sam.'ork run
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  • 126 28 (Fr.»n Our Own Correspond ni i Pcnang. Saturday. A STATE soccer trial will be held on Monday in preparation for the forthcoming Malaya Cup match between Prnang and Selangor on June 1(1 at Kuala Lumpur. The following hn"e been selected to play In the trial Krds
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  • 35 28 The seml-flnal of the vet^ranr singles of the Singapore lawn tenn'.s championship between Y. Yoshll and Dr. Chen Su Lan, to have b?en played yesterday at the V.M.C.A. court. wa» I not played.
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  • 414 29 MacBerth Shines On His First Appearance THERE was plenty of goal scoring at the stadium yesterday when the Chinese beat the Police by six goals to three in the first division of the IMOML The Police would have done better had they taken their
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  • 182 29 SCORING three BMli in the last five minutes of play the Minesweepers drew 3—3 with the J C.S.A in a second division <b> league soccer game played at the Police Depot ground, yesterday. Play was keener in the second hair than it was in the first. The
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  • 108 29 The following teams will represent the Chines? Sports Association against the St Matthews Young People's Guild today at the S H.B. ground and Henry Waufch S.C. on Monday at the Farrer Park ground: Versus St. Matthews: Patrick Yec So. i Tuan, Sunn Leng, Shing Kong. < Tian
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    557 29 INTEREST In the S.A.F.A. league is Increasing as the competitions aoproachfs the second round. In the llrst division there Is very keen riva.ry between the Malays Sappers, Loyals Gordons ?nd the R.A.F. The Chinese made a very late start ow'ng to the visits to Manila and Sni-rcn. They have
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  • 447 29 'From Our Own Correspondent Segamat, Saturday. THHE honour of rutting the first cen- tury In Sccamat cricket foil to Barr Kumarakulasinghe who made 112 not out against the Government English School when playing for the IndiaCeylon Association on the school padang yesterday. The game ended In a
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  • 120 29 THE Singapore Junior badminton championships went a stage fur- ther when five ties were played at the Clerical Union Hall yesterday. Although two of the games went to the "rubber"' the games on the whole were dull and the standard was poor compared with the games seen
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  • 68 29 (From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca, Saturday. THE sides selected for Malacca's first Malaya Cup trial on Wednesday are as follows: Colours: Gomes, Koh Eng Phln. Chan Wee Liew, Raju. Jair.at. SharlfT. Goh Jit Sin, Chin Chong L«k, Leon. Mustapha, Hassan. Whites: Low Ah Seng, Lim Chwee
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  • 90 29 S.C.R.C. tennis ties are: Monday: Or.g Chew Bee 18) vs 1 Cecil Wong scr. (unfinished match I I Jimmy Kam and Chew Bee (—9) v (Chee Ton* and Huck Toe (unf:r match) Chin Kee Onn vs. Wong Tttfai Teck. 1 Tuesday: Tan Puay Choo and Kun C) vs.
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  • 188 29 BATU PAHAT DISTRICT TENNIS TOURNAMENT j (From Our Own Correspondent) Batu Pahat. ris understood that the Batu Pahat district .lawn tennis tournament. Junior and open events, will be held early this month. The singles title held for four years by Daud Amin. who is now in Kluang, is vacant, and
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  • 52 29 The following have been selected to play football for the V.M.C.A. against M.C.U. on Tuesday at 5.10 p.m. on the Anscn Road ground Edward Wee. M. Swyny, K. Leembrutgen. C. J. Mcxon, Ranatunga, Vaughan. Jackson, I Mcßeath, S. Orton, H. Leigh, Tan Guan j Kiat. Reserves W. Mitchell.
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  • 38 29 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh. Saturday. It has been decided to hold the Perak open amateur athletic championships on July 15. or a fortnight before the Malayan meeting on July 28 and 29 at Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 530 29 (From Our Own Correspondent) Segamat. THE first round of the Segamat and District s:ccer league is almost over with only a few matches remaining to be played. This week will see the start of the second round. Soccer thus far has been remarkably clean despite a few
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    29 29 I i? aaaaat Parliamentary mixed fouisomcs handicap leataaaaeat WM played at Walton Heath go! f dub. Here is the Duke of Norfolk, who partnered bis sister. Lady Rachel Howard.
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    27 29 H. A. F. BROOKE has p!ayc<! state cricket, rnsjrer and ho ki polished wicket-keeper, has kept for all-Malaya. This season he skippers the Srlanjor state cricket team.
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  • 90 29 Meadowbrook, Long Island, Saturday. A WORLD'S record polo attendance is expected at Sundays thirteen:"a renewal of the international rr.r between Great Britain and An. :or t:ie Westcheslcr Cup. The betting is 3 to 2 against a British victory. No British side has succeeded in breaking America's hold
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  • 219 29 BOWLERS DAY AT PORT SWETf ENHAM B'r.im Our Own i Port Swrtteniiam. PONNAMPALAM, the Pert I 4^ tenhom Recreation Clnb'a r bowler, was in great raptured five wieketl frr six run; aralnst the Klang Tear: won by s yen Vlckets. KLANG RACBBII M. Ras'.sh b Perelra 0; T. c Nunis
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  • 86 29 The Royal Johsre In Club U championship for 1939 was v. i by Dr. T. E. Chcah. who beat T. W. Doyle by 3 to 2. Results First round C. P. Allen beat J. W. Moore 5 —4; Dr. T. E. Cheah beat G. Lowe 4—3: Dr.
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  • 71 29 (From Our Own Correspond Seremban. Saturday. The annual athletic sports ot the Seremban Anglo-Chinese School will take place on the School ground! on Saturday, June 10. SINGAPORE RIFLE ASSN. As June 8 is a public holiday in honour of the King's birthday the .mnual general meeting of the
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  • 639 30 Clubs May Ask For Re-organisation Of Singapore B. A. ""THE re -constitution of the Singapore Badminton Association is a matter that will in all probability receive the serious consideration of the majority of the affiliated clubs in the very near future. This can be directly attributed
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  • 844 30 tjADMINTON enthusiasts all over Selar.gor are undoubtedly disappointed at the performances of the Stat< representatives In Leong Sin Nam Cup games of the Triangular Tournament, concluded at Ipoh during the Whitsuntide holidays. IN the curtain raiser, Miss Chan Kon Neong was surprisingly defeated; by the Perak champion Miss
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    95 30 The Singapore LJngnan Branch School basketball team which beat the V.M.C.A. Juniors 24—23. Back from left: Chang Kuo Liang, Yeo Soon Liat, Chen Sou Fan, Lv Lee t nine, and Wu Teck Yen. Front from left: Lee Pak Wah, Haw Hin Kens, Haw Hun Kcng and Leon* Slew Choon. The
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  • 145 30 From left: Tan Chee Enf (A.S.A.) lost to Heng fciak Kwce (U.F.8.P.) B—ls, 10—1.".; Ahmad Mattar (Diehard) lost to Tan Yon* Klan (Mayflower) 9—15, 15—8. 11—15, in the junior singles. From left: Saleh Ahmad (P.S.C.) lost to Dr. S. J. Chang (SfayflttNt 8.P.) 11—15, 9—13. Koh Eng
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  • 106 30 (From Our Own Correspondent) Muar. THE second annual general meeting of the Muar District Badminton Association was held at the Muar Club and, in the absence of the president, Mr. K. Kathiravclu presided. The following were elected office bearers: President, Dato Abdul Kadlr bin Daud: vice presidents.
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    23 30 In a fri."uliy match played at the covered stadium, the Indian Youth Association beat the Mayblossom B. P. by four games to three.
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  • 662 30 AFTER four fruitless years in tht Triangular Tournaments, Penang scored a meritorious win to gain the Leong Sin Nam Cup for the first time, the men players rising to the occasion magnificently, but the women from this Settlement went down to defeat, as was expected, however. The
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  • 380 51 Excitement On First Two Days At Penang RAIN spoilt two days of th« racing at the opening meetlnj of the Penang new course, but the officials in the Northern centn have every reason to be pleasec with the financial side of the meeting. The track
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    14 51 The Minesweepers cricket team which lost to the St. Andrew's School by 128 runs.
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  • 223 51 ■Ft m Our Own Correspondent) Muar. THE fim Muar Malay badminton tourrament ended last week. Displaying fine courtcraft and sending over hard ucciuate smashes Simon bin Hajl Noor won the junior .singles title when he easily beat Ja'afar bin Abdul Hainid. All bin Abdu'lah fought gamely against
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  • 104 51 Port Swettsnhara. rjLAYERS who had ngumi promlnent--1 ly in Malaya Cup soccer matches, n tiiL- days hrn v >", w. nin t';e if the United Banks of Kuala Lumpur, vhen th y m defeated by the Port j nham Chinese Yjunstt'rs In a turn of
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    54 51 ali.-.ts in the inter-club Jun.or tennis tournament for the Sane To Cup played at B&tn Pahat. The beat the Malay Teachers 4—l. Left to risht: Radln Mohamed (M.T.). Yeo Geok Soo (C.R.C.). S/.d .l-ifT.ir (M.T.), Lam Keng Hone (C.R.C.), Quek Bin? Tans (C.R.C.). Adam Salleh (M.T.), Loke Knj Kiat (CRC).
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  • 249 51 •From Our Own Correspondent.) Batu Pahat. Saturday. THE Malay Teachers put up a hard 1 fight in the final of the inter-dub lawn tennis tournament for the Sang Tong Cup, but they found their opponents, the Chinese, too good and lost four of the five games. The
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  • 162 51 'From Our Own Correspondent) Batu Pahat. BY winning their fixture against the Young Men In the Batu Pahat soccer league, the Police have again won 1 the honours. As a team they have showed vast Improvement in their play and deserve to win the honours.
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  • 268 51 MALACCA CUP SOCCER HOPES (From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca, Saturday. MALACCA should have played Its first Malaya Cup soccer match or the season next Saturday, against Johore in Malacca, but last week Johore asked for a postponement and also that the game be fixed for a Friday, and this has
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  • 202 51 i From Our Own Correspondent) Batu Pahat. WITH only three games to complete the Batu Pahat soccer league, the local Association is turning its attention to running a cup-tie. The difficulty Is the small number of teams, for with the five which are at present
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  • 194 51 (From Our Own Correspondent) Muar. /CRICKET enthusiasts in Muar will be glad to learn that cricket in Muar will be revived and that a district match against Batu Pahat Is being arranged. Last week Muar confounded cricket followers In Johore when the IndoCeylonese Association team trounced their Segamat
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  • 126 51 (From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca, Saturday. ATHLETIC sports meet in ?s are follow ing fast on the heels of each other jjust now. The Chinese and Malays I hove just completed their big inter- school meetings and the An^lo-Chinese School held their sports meeting yesterday. Today the High
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  • 43 51 "From Our Own Correspondent) Segamat. TTHE annual team sports of the Gov- ernment English School will be held on the school padang next Thursday. The annual athletic sports wi'l be held some time towards the end of th: month
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  • 36 51 MUAR LAWN" TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP (From Our Own Correspondent.) Muar. Entries are being called for the first Muar district lawn tennis championship. There are five events: open singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles.
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  • 125 51 iFrom Our Own Correspondent-) Malacca, Saturday. •THE cricket team of the United Services Sports Club was expected here today to play a two-aay match against Malacca, but as the visitors have decided to come by boat they will not arrive until Sunday morning and so the
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  • 179 51 Playing against the Sclangor Indian Association badminton team, the XX M School of Commerce had an easy victory when they beai them by ten games to three. Scores K K M.S. first: Thong Poh Chlew lost to N. S. Surdaiam 15 9, 11 15, 12^ 15; R. Victor
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  • 132 51 Batu Pahat The badminton match between the Premier English School and Uie Old Students AlsoctMon ended in a win tor the Old Boys by fou.games to three. Results. (Old Boys first): Tan Swee Long lost to Khaw Eng Chin i 15—6, deuce o—s,0 —5, 1—15; Low Teck
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  • 100 51 In a friendly badminton match p'.aye.l a: the covered stadium th? Indian You.■-..%' Association, beat the Mayblosscm B.P. by lour games to three. (Results I.V.A. flrsi T. Rajoo lost to Ahmad Matiar 6—15; 4—15. P. Balaslngham lost to Lee Kin Sey. 15—9. 6—15, 6—12 (retired); Nutkunam beat
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  • 118 51 I The Chinese Sports Association beat the Thye Cheong B.P. by four games to three. Results. iC S.A. first): Boey Kam Poo beat Goh Chin Jue 15 —2, 15 —7; Fong Soon Weng lost to Chang Kwang Khiang 14—14 (3—l). 12—15. 9—15; Lee Pak Yen beat Koh
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  • 129 51 Playing at the covered stadium last Mon- day the Eclipse B.P. beat the Amateur S. A. by seven carnes to one. Results: iEcii;«e flrst?:—Lee Kirn Seng beat Chan Yew Chonj by 15—9. 15—0; Koh Bcnc Swej lost to Low Cheng Koon by 9—15 13—13 (s—o). 8 —15: Chla
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