The Straits Times, 29 May 1949

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    27 1 LARGEST NETT SALES IN MALAYA THE SUNDAY TIMES Sunday «<Btt— Ot n»« Stralta nm»* faupwi 9r— Pmm No. 722. SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, MAT 29, 1949. PRICK It CENTS.
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    H.K. ORDERS BORDER CURFEW
    330 1 H.K. ORDERS BORDER CURFEW Breaches to be metwitharms HONC KONG, Saturday. THE Hong Kong Government tonight ordered an eight-hour nightly curfew along the frontiers of its leased New Territories on the Chinese rmainland, and warned that any breach of it "might be met with arms if necessary.'* War news from
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    26 1 MR. AMERICA: lack E. r DeMntcr. ot Oakland. California, who was chosen M'«. Mr. America of 1949, in a national weight lifting contest. A. P. pictuc
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    LAST SALUTES FOR SPOOR
    105 1 3ATAVIA, Sat. THO'jSAND3 of people gave the dead Dutch com-mander-in-Chief iv Indoneate, Gen. Simon fcpoor, parting Mints when he made a last trip through Falavia's crowded streets to the military cemetery at M°nteng Pulo, in Batavla's outskirts, this morning. The bier was flanked by tool generals
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    "AS SENSIBLE AS STALIN"
    60 1 "AS SENSIBLE AS STALIN" ALLAHABAD. Sat. Mr. George Bernard Shaw considers India's Prime Minister. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, as "the most able, sensible and enlightened statesman In Asia, as Stalin is In Europe." The playwright's view was conveyed fey Mr. F. E. Lowensteln. author of the book "Shaw Through Camera," in
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    QUATTERS: WIDE NEW POWERS
    293 1 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. MEW. stringent powers which will enable security forces to move squatters from one area to another and enforce residence in the new area for two years, were gazetted in Kuala Lumpur today. Under the new regulations, any squatter who
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    AUSTRALIA TAKES OVER HMS SYDNEY
    59 1 SYDNEY, Sat.— Australia today formally took over the aircraft carrier HMS Sydney on its arrival at the city after which she i? named. The carrier was originally built for the Royal Nr.vy at Devonport, in 1943 a.nd christened HMS Terrible but was purchased after ihe
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    Cable ship strike ends: new crew
    155 1 Cable ship strike ends: new crew Sunday Times Staff Reporter rE strike by 23 Malay seamen of the Cable and Wireless ship, Retr'ever, is over. Captain J. West. Master of the ship. Id the Sunday Times that he had engaged a new erew comprising five of the striking seamen and
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    AIRLIFT DEFIES RED WARNING
    71 1 BERLIN, Sat.— British and American airlift planes for Berlin were today following the regular course along the Buckeburg air corridor, despite a Soviet warning that fe. uind to air firing practice there would make flying dangerous. "There has been and there will be no deviation in
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    JAP EXECUTED
    29 1 TOKYO, Sat— A Japanese naval officer during the war who was convicted of torturing and beheading an American prisoner of war was hanged today at Sugamo prison.—AJ»
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    ENVOY IN ISRAEL
    27 1 TEL AVIV. Sat.— Mr. Alexander Knox Holm, British Minister to Israel, yesterday presented letters of credence to Dr. Chalm Welzmann, President of Israel.— Reuter.
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    EARTHQUAKE IN N.Z.
    24 1 DUNEDIN. Sat.— The most severe earthquake for some years rocked Dunedln and many other places In Otago (New Zealand) yesterday. A.P.
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    CRUISER IN H.K.
    36 1 HONQ KONG. Sat.— The Jamaica arrived here this morning thus bringing the cruiser strength of the British Far East Fleet up to three. The other two are the Belfast and the London.— Reuter.
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    SHOT 'CROC' HAD PIG IN STOMACH
    152 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU. Saturday. A LARGE crowd lined the river-front opposite Hie Supreme Court here this morning when a boat was seen towing a strange, large object. When the vessel moored it was found to be a 3 -feet long crocodile,
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    WHISKEY STOLEN FROM BOAT QUAY
    77 1 Sunday limes SUfl Reporter THIEVES are believed, to have crawled through a lavatory outlet into a Chinese liquor shop in Boat Quay on Friday night and to have stolen 180 bottles of whiskey. The shop people only discovered the theft yesterday morning, when they found
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    CHEERS FOR PRINCESS
    59 1 BELFAST. Sat. Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh left today on their return flight to England after a three-day state visit to Northern Ireland. On their way to the aerodrome a crowd of some 10.000 people broke through the police barrier. Cheering men and women cried:
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    BRUSHED OFF
    33 1 BOMBAY, Sat.— Six persons were killed and Hve seriously Injured in an accident near here when footboard travellers were brushed away by two trains, crossing each other at high speed.— Reuter.
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    MRS. LEONG SAYS "THANK YOU"
    109 1 Sunday Time* Correspondent MELBOURNE, Saturday. MELBOURNE papers carried facsimile* today of a farewell letter "to our dear Australian friends" from Malayan Mr*. Winnie Leo Fan Leong. who b leaving Sydney by air for Singapor on lunc 8 with her little daughter Tie Lu>n Fan Leong.
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    ITHE CUP IS HERE
    34 1 I THE CUP IS HERE MR. Lim Chuan Ceok, tap tain of Malay* victor'Thomji Cup team, leading way down the gangway 01 Corfu, the golden tier hands, when the tea at Penang on Friday
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    Lim has plans for 1952
    154 1 Lim has plans for 1952 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent. PENANG, Sat. MALAYA'S Thomas Cup captain, Mr. Lint Chuan Geok. has brought back with him several plans for the building of badminton halls in the country. Mr. Lim told Che Sunday Times today that Malaya must prepare for the 1952 challenge.
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    Sir Don may tour Malaya
    235 1 Sunday Times Special Correspondent CIR Don Bradman will lead a team of star Australian cricketers to Malaya next season, if negotiations now in progress are successful. Ben Barnett. ex-Test wicket' keeper who left Singapore recently, is now in Australia and has already approached "The Don"
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    LEVERHULME DIES
    32 1 MINNEAPOLIS, Sat.-Vis-count Leverhulmp, 61-year-old head of Unilever Ltd., died here yesterday. He will be burled in the family vaults at Port Sunlight. England, the model industrial village near Liverpool. A.P.
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    The Wooden Horse
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    CHIFLEY'S SCRATCHY CAT
    336 2 Bob Gilmore looks at Australia MELBOURNE. May 22. IMMIGRATION Minister 1 Arthur Calwell likes to let his headline-winning cats out of the bag himself. But last v.eek he let his chief, Prime Minister Chlfley. release a scratchy cat. Chifley revealed that the Government was considering lmporting "at
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    BLAMING MOTHERSIN-LAW
    258 3 BLAMING MOTHERS-IN-LAW 'They want big weddings' Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. J^ALAY mothers-in-law are Hie conservative force which prevents the Malay people from breaking away from the tradition of elaborate and expensive weddings which cost $1 ,000 even in the kampongs, and cripple family finances to such an
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    HE PLAYED WITH RACKET AGED 25
    191 3 HE PLAYED WITH RACKET AGED 25 Sunday Times Staff Reporter f EORQE Holloway, Australl\J an "veteran" tennis player who reached the semifinals of the mixed doubles and the men's singles in the L.T.A. championships last week, used a 25-year-old racket in the tournament. He first bought the racket as a
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    MARION CASE POSTPONED
    89 3 Sunday limes SUIT Reporter JOHORF BAHRU, Bat. k FURTHER postponement was made today In the case against Captain ErnestMarion, who Is charged with the theft of a cinema projector, valued at $3,000, the property of the Army. The Sessions Court was informed that the Legal Adviser, Johore,
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    Municipal Union at new premises
    100 3 Sunday Tiroes Staff Reporter MORE than 400 members of the Singapore Municipal Services (Tnion. the senior staff of the Municipality, and a majority of the Municipal Commissioners attended a tea-part 7 to celebrate the formal opening of the Union's new premises at Farrer Park yesterday.
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    RUBBER
    76 3 The BlnsjiiiX>'<* CTa.r.Dei ol Com merce Rubber Assr.fintiori's noon prices on Saturday (May 28) were. In cents per lb.: Buy** Sellet NO 1 K.S.S Spot loose nominal 32S 32% F.O B In t»l*>.« ->unr No. 1 RS.S. 32^ 32 T» NO. 2 RJS.S. 30% i 31 No. 3 RSS
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    TAIPING BLAZE: CONSTABLE DIES
    42 3 Sunday Times Corrtsnondent TAIPING. Sal. -The Malay police constable, Bidln, who was badly burnt when fire destroyed the Taipint; ttolice station yesterday died in hospital last nigh.. The police are using the Town Hall as a temporary headquarters.
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    TAN SPEAKS OUT FOR BROTHERS
    203 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter C PEAKING on the service rendered by the Christian Brothers in the educational field in Malaya, Mr. C C. Tan, president of the Christian Brothers' Old Boys' Association, said last night that it was "highly regrettable that such devoted service has
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    48 3 MR. D. Farquharion J.P. who is leaving Malays ro4.iy on retirement, is a weN known Nogri Sembibn planter and a leading member of th« European Community. He came to Malaya in 1914 and for 21 years has been manager of rh« Kirby Estates rubber group. Sunday Times picture.
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    CONGRESS RAIDED
    40 3 Sunday Ttaaea Staff Beparter The premises of the East Coast Muslim Congress of Malaya, only organisation of its kind in Kuantan, Pahang, were raided by police recently. The secretary-general of the organisation, Ghulam Jilanl, was detained for interrogation.
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    EXTRAORDINARY, SAYS THE JUDGE
    199 3 Sunday Times S'.iff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Sat. H.\MZAH bin Dree, a Special Constable, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment in the Hijh Court today, after pleading guilty. Accused was originally charged with l'ousebreaking, but Mr. W. M. NfcCall, Federal Counsel, who appeared for the prosecution, told
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    Indian women no longer shy
    192 3 Sunder Times Staff Reporter INDIAN women in Singapore no longer consider it un--1 becoming to act on the stage opposite men; they have come to regard acting as an art, just like painting and singing, worthy of the chastest of them; until re cently it
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    First man in Malaya to get new arms
    479 3 First man in Malaya to get new arms Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday IN September last year Lim Kirn Foo, a 53 -year old gardener from Port Dickson. had both his arms b'trcn off when he was attacked by a crocodile on the banks of the Lukut River.
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    Robbers raid copra tongkang
    149 3 Sunday Times StafT Reporter WHILE two masked men held up the nine-man crew of a copra-laden tongkang. anchored off Beach Road yesterday morning, other men stole 34 bags of copra valued at about $1,500, and made off with the loot m a motor boat. The robber
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    HAD A CARD, BUT HE LOST IT
    68 3 Sunday Times staff X i oiler JOHORE BAHRU. Sal When charged with Jailing to obtain an identity card, Singaram told the Court today that he did obtain a card in Tanjong Malta six months ago but since coming to Johore he hnd lost
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    Chung Ling has earned high praise
    969 4 MALAYA'S LEADING SCHOOLS— 2 IN the year 1915, x the late Tan Sin Cheng, Khoo Beng Cheang, Chee Yong Aik and Lim .100 Teik, and the still-living Mr. Khaw Seng Lee, all members of the PhiIqmatic Union, met to discuss the desirability of opening
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    THE OLD WALLED CITY
    791 4 THE OLD WALLED CITY Another of the series of article, by KATHLEEN HICKLEY, describing her trip across China to Chungking. IT was dark when we reached the walled city. As we drove round the outside road looking for a gateway, the centuries old, ten feet thick battlement walls showed up
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      LA UGHTER &TEARS
      707 5  -  W. Kingsley Ord by "gRIDIE STEEN" is an excellent novel no, away with this piddling halfpraise: it is a great, warm-hearted story written in a superlative prose that at times reaches poetic heights of passion, eloquence and power. It is a work of neargenius in which laughter
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      Hollywood Cage
      421 5 THE SQLIKREL, CAGE," Dy 40WIN GILBERT. (HEINEMANN). HOLLYWOOD llm producers won't be tumbling over themselves, to ay the right of "THE SQUIRREL CAGE." It's a satire and those who purvey the world's day-dreams are timid of satire Moreover It's an ittacK. and a destructive one. on Hollywood itself;
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      Barrier of sex
      434 5 "I'LL NEVER BE YOUNG AGAIN," by Daphne dv Maurier. (Arthur Barker). HOW far can i novel, written in the first person, be convincing, when that person is of the opposite sex to the author? I wondered this as I read the welcome reprint of Miss Daphne dv
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      THE BOY, FATHER ANDSON
      407 5 THE BOY, FATHER AND SON "BOYS WILL BE BOYS" bf K. S. TCENBK, (Michael J^eph). THE boy is father to the man, and a parent of whom we are all shiftily fond. We patronise him: it ls the way of the newer generation (in this case we may not call
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      ACTION
      65 5 "DEATH STALKS IMEJ RANG E," t»y Arthur Hem Cooden. (Harran*. Romance ?m:d gunplay ano cactus. The aitthor ls an old hand at "Wnsteviu' and telli good yarn This one has a mystery Kllior rho L« t.ot discovered until th«- final pages. I' has the usual iiwie.itents. lovely young daugtitors
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      A TRAGIC PATRIOT
      494 5 SARAH, by John Brophy (Cjllins). DOBERT Emmet was the most valorous, lonely and tragic patriot that Irelandever had for a son. The circumstances of his one-man rising, failure and execution roused the regret and compassion of the Viceroy, the Under-Secretary and other English officials accustomed to spare
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    RECORDS OF THE WEEK
    324 6 MORTON Could ,d, new standard in the presentation of .tymphonic inter* pretations of popular melodies. Hit playing and routine, in stylet ranging from straight to swiag. have given him experience that has proved invaluable in either playing piano, leading, 01 ar- ranging for his orchestra. Dozens
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    Sitting on the Fence
    1170 6  -  NATHANIEL GUBBINS by pECENTLY broadcast details of the elimination of anxiety neurosis, persecution mania, and other delusions which haunt the mentally sick, by an operation on the frontal lobes of the brain, have given a man you know a new angle on affairs at home and
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    WAYSIDE BARBERS OF SEREMBAN
    192 6  - WA YSIDE BARBERS OF SEREMBAN SIMPANG LIMA by flying their trade assiduously, Seremban's wayside barbers have pitched their tabernacles*' beneath the shadow of rubber trees in an open space in the heart of the town's shopping centre. Flimsy canvas tents stretched on poles, cane chairs, wooden benches, and nondescript mirrors
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    NOT CONSULTED. SAY FILM MEN
    491 7 Protest over new UKquota Sunday Times Staff Reporter "EXTREME regret" that it was not consulted before Government made public a Bill to increase the quota of British films required to be shown in Malayan cinemas, is expressed by the Kiremarejrraph Renters' Society of Malaya in
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    56 7 MR. AND MRS. Che«fc Hong Lim photographed out.id. the Church of St. Petef and Paul, after their Marriage yesterday. Mr. Clieah is the son of Hrn late Mr. Cheah Loon Ghee, of Labaan, jnd Mrs. CJieah. His bride was formerly Miss Lily Tin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tan Boon
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    LOSES THREE FINGERS
    32 7 Sunday Times Correspondent MUAR, Sat.— Chan Sse. employee at the Sin An Saw Mill, Muar, had his three middle fingers sawn off while at work. He is claiming compensation.
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    A radio to every 125 people
    189 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter kJALAYA has the greatest number of radios in proportion to population one to every 207 people— of any territory in South -East Asia, according a survey just published by the United Nations Educational. Scientific and Cultural Organisation. But Mr. John
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    PROF. OPPENHEIM
    17 7 Sunday Times SUr? Reporter Professor A. Oppenheim has been appointed Deputy Principal of Raffles College.
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    LARGE CROWD AT CHRISTIAN RALLY
    131 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE United Christian Youth rally at the Presbyterian Church grounds in Orchard Road sponsored by th* Singapore Christian Youth Council drew a crowd of mote than 300, mostly young people yesterday. Using the mound as a platform, the fifty-voice com- bined
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    BROADCAST ON YEATS
    47 7 Sunday Times Staff &ep*-ti>r Tonight at 10.30 Radio Malaya, Singapore, will broadcast a programme on W. B. Yeats written by Professor Graham Hough, of Raffles College. Verse will be read by Rhona Connery, Judy Gimson, Pascoe Thorton, David Lyttle, Dick Nancarrow and lah Henderson.
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    SENT TO JAIL FOR TWO THEFTS
    74 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter AYOUNQ Indian, Nathasa. was sentenced to two years' rigorous Imprisonment by the First District Judge, Mr. E. P. Shanks, yesterday when he pleaded guilty to two charges of theft. Nathasa, who had three previous convictions, stole jewellery valued at $318
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    WIFE SCARED OF CAMERAS
    100 7 Sunday Timei Correspondent PAR IT BUNTAR, Sar. kJ V wife Is mentally derannIVI ed and .1 .cared of photographers. Attempts hay* been mad* to have her phonograph taken but every time the saw the photographer the rtn away." said Tan Chai Seng when hit wife, Ng
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    Govt. building delayed in Job ore Bahru
    378 7 Govt. building delayed in Job ore Bahru Sunday Times Staff Reporter lOHORE BAHRE, Saturday. financial provision has been made yearly in Hie Estimates since the liberation, the |ohore Coy ernment has not yet undertaken any permanent building either of offices or quarters- in johore Bahru, the State capital. Opinion is
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    $1,100 FINES IN TAX BRIBES CASE
    140 7 $1,100 FINES IN TAX BRIBES CASE Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE two accused— Mar rimuttu Sittampalam and Arthur Vatsaloo —in the $8,000 illegal gratification case which involved the income tax assessment of a Singapore firm, were sentenced in the Fourth District Court, yesterday. The Judge, Mr. A. H. Forrer. fined
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    SUMS MADE EASIER
    107 7 Sunday Times Correspondent TOUCATION Department experts in Singapore ar« studying the possibilities of a new system of teaching arithmetic. A copy of a Doofc on th*» 1 system has Deen handed on by the Australian Department of Information in Slngaoore. The Australian Information Officer, Mr. K. Kennedy,
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    Seamen charged with taxi robbery
    90 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter pHAROED in the Singanora Third District Court yesterday with stealing a taxi and robbing the owner-dri-ver of $10 in cash, four European seamen admitted taking the taxi but denied robbing the driver of cash. They also denied using force in taking
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    UNION BUILDING LIFTS READY SOON
    61 7 I Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE two new lifts in Union Building are fitted and ready for testing. Inquiries yesterday brought the reply that there could be no definite statement yet as to when the lifts would be in use. Electricity Is not yet available
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      327 7 SINCAPORt 2 **~t'ti«? Mvu>ic; 930 Latin for the Dance": 6.30 News (Cangoo Pioxn ts.im-narv S O2 Ame 'ica 10.00 News (also at 1.30. toneae)- 6.49 Indonesian; 7.15 M^nT'M^ "MoS^A-Sff 7 »-30); 10.15 Hit Parade; g^^Wl^e^ftlSf/- 900 ca; 10^0 News from Kuala Lum- Xl-00 The Adventures of P.C. 40; |^™«f c
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    DEATH
    31 8 PRKSCOTT: On May 28. at Spore :Uil. Elsie Barbara, !>■'., -.ir! v.if of J. M. Prescott (H iisitjirl A- O'> Ltd.). Funerai at Bid dm i Cemeury 5 p.m. May 29.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    65 8 MR <v MM, GAN LAP. J.P.. «inr" t.imily of Jnsin. Malacca, Wteh 'o th»nk all tbOM who paid iro-mn<z ;ind nipht visits sent wreath! .scrolls. condolatory I :u! idtgruM, lent cars. Li-.ir.re and attended thi> funeral of the late Madnm lan T-h Neo: They also apolo-p'-p for the change
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  • SINGAPORE. MAY 29, 1949.
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      REFORM—OR ANARCHY?
      483 8 IN HIS Empire Day message to Singapore schools. Sir Franklin Gimson, told the young citizens that "if you see something that needs reforming, do somethni" about it." In present conditions that might well be considered subversive, had it not come from the Head of Government. Does it not
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      SALUTE
      101 8 WE salute Malaya's worldbeating badminton players who return tomorrow to a Roman triumph, jeanng with them the golden Thomas Cup. They will be welcomed, deservedly, as heroes. But adulation should not be allowed o obscure the fact that tne price of victory has not yet been fully paid, in
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    Wong has a dream for sale
    1137 8  - Wong has a dream for sale 'by TN the vast sad world of Chinese illiterates in Singapore today, there is a saviour Wong, the Story-teller. He'is a saviour because he is that rare individual, who not only can read the tough literature of his race but is willing to impart
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    AUSTRALIA FIGHTS T.B.
    641 8  -  NORMAN BARTLETT by AUSTRALIA, which already has the second lowest incidence of tuberculosis in the world, plans to stamp out the disease entirely within generation. The methods being adopted hold lessons for those who are fighting the disease in Singapore and Malaya. Under the Australian Tuberculosis Act,
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    IT'S A PLACE TO GO
    686 8  - IT'S A PLACE TO GO Frank W. Robinson by OAMPAN operators who tout for hire on Singapore's Clifford Pier refuse to acknowledge that a fellow can be there for any other reason than to take a boat trip. After five of them have found that you're Definitely not sailing today,
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      25 8 A? g jO\ Contest closes on Juna i i 15th at lOam IK ,1 I /'N JT/ \v.GOOd/ \N S GOOD A/ways a? yutt* service
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    UMNO VOTES FOR NONMALAYS
    447 9 Taking wider view Onn Sunday Times Special Correspondent ARAU, (Perlis) Saturday. RY 14 votes to eight UMNO delegates assembled at Arau today accepted a clause in a new constitution opening UMNO membership to nonMalays. The decision was made after a heated four-hour debate. The only delegates
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    28 9 TAI?INC Police Station ttmtly after the fire on Friday broki. out. Police and troops rescued 24 prisoners from Ihe cells The building was completely destroyed. Sunday Times picture.
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    POLO PLAYERS WANT OLD RACEHORSES
    124 9 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MEMBERS vere interested In acquiring racehorses i v outlived their use- on the racecourse iind could tie used as polo ponies, the Hon. Secretary of the Singapore Poo Club. Lt -Col Church, told the Sunday Times. "Members oi polo clubs throughout
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    Children saw body by sea
    214 9 Sunday Times Staff Reporter PENANC. Saturday. THE Penang Coroner, Mr. j P. Blackledge, was told today how school children found the body of a European police sergeant, lying near the Penang Convent sea wall. There was a bullet wound in the hack of the Lead.
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    ESSAY CONTEST IN JOHORE BAHRU
    69 9 Sunday Times Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Sat.— I The library management of the Johore Bahru UMNO is to hold an essay competition for members. Essays may be written on social, artistic or other subjects and should be sent to Inche Arifln bin llshak, c/o the
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    POSTAL WORKERS FORM UNION
    101 9 Sunday Times Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Sat. The Postal clerical and uniformed staff, Johore Bahru, at a meeting helfl yesterday decided to form a Postal Emnloyees Union. Mr. Fon? Fat Pow was elected chairman and Inche Mohamed bin Ismail, of the uniformed staff, was elected vice-chairman.
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    Dane Cup plans made known
    237 9 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday 1/ U ALA Lumpur Flying Club is to join Royal Singapore Flying Club and Penang Flying Club in the proposed inter-State competition for the Dane Cup. Club jfficials here told the Sunday Times that they had discovered from
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    ! ATOM FILM AT X.L
    36 9 ATOM FILM AT X.L I Sunday Times Staff Reporter i| KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. i Members of the Selansor Technical Association saw the i film Atomic Physics at the j British Council centre, Kuala Lumpur, on Thursday.
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    ACCIDENT CLAIM IS DISMISSED
    268 9 Sunday Times Staff Rc|»»>rUr MR. Justice Gordon-Smith in the Singapo;e Supreme Court, yesterday dismissed with costs the action for damages of $20,000 brought by Mr. Chaim Fianchaim ■f tnit Mr. Koh Oeng Koon in connection with a motor car accicent at the Junction of Cecil Street
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    CUT SCHOOLING BY YEAR -TEACHERS
    281 9 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent PENANC. Saturday. %WITH the introduction of post-School Certificate classes, in Malayan schools, the present secondary school course should be shortened by one year, accordir.g to a recommendation made by the Penang Teachers' Union. So that concerted action may be taken in
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    EX-SPECIALS HONOUR THEIR 0. C.
    170 9 EX-SPECIALS HONOUR THEIR 0. C. Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE Commissioner of Police, Mr. R. E. Foulger, last night promised "full support of the regular police for any association that might be formed of members of the pre-war Singapore Special Constabulary on the lines of an ex-servicemen's association." He was
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    VERSE-MAKING COMPETITION
    116 9 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE Singapore Kerala Sa- majam will hold "on the spot verse-making" competition at 10 a.m. on June 12 at 68, Buffalo Road. Competitors will be given a subject and asked to compose poems then and there. The Samajam is also organising competitions in essay
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    HAD REVOLVER, SAY POLICE
    60 9 Sunday Times Correspomlfnt SEOAMAT, Sat —A 39--year-old Hylam. Loh Ah Seng, appeared at Sesarr.a* today charged under the Emergency Regulations '*lth Uiesal possession of a -evolver and 18 rounds of ammunition at Kampo.au Pirarrbai. npar Bui oh Kasap. Another man. Let Joon Tien, was alleged to
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    BIG COLONY WEDDING
    153 9 Sunday Times Womun Reporter HEADS of the three Services and prominent Government and Consular olfkial.s were amongst th-3 300 guests who attended the wedding yesterday of Miss Lorna May Massey, eldest daughter of the Australian Commissioner for Malaya, Mr. Claude Massey, and Mrs. Massey, to Mr. Dudley
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    Utusan Melayu has Wth birthday
    188 9 Utusan Melayu has Wth birthday Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE managing director of the Uiusan Melayu 3 res c Inche Yusof bin Ishak, -.a d at a party held yesterday to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the paper's foundation, that it was perhaps -ie only nev/spaper in the wot IH
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    DEATHS
    55 9 MRS. LEE SIEW CHUAN. iu-e Madam Chua Swtr Choo Nio, passed away peacefully yesterday, 28th instant, k-avinK ix-hind her beloved husband Lee Siew Chua a, her sorrowful mother Mrs. Chua Lip Sian to mourn her loss. Cortege will leave her roMen c No. 39 Blair Road today at A
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      142 9 6* t<t<&?- Cow Gate of course says this Knight of the Bath really people |j3k do ask some funny JJL "I'm fond of Mummy— ;a^^. but if she ever gave me ■^r anything but Cow Gate, foqfc*^ I think I should pack '>. up and leave." "Bone, muscle, sound healthy
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    UNIQUE FASHION SHOW
    872 10  - UNIQUE FASHION SHOW MARY HEATHCOTT by LONDON, May 22. A PPROPRI ATELY enough, in London's Fashion Fortnight, the Drapers' Chamber of Trade celebrated their fiftieth anniveriary with a dress parade. But ft wiis a fashion ,s l v with difference, stagea at Wyndham's Theatre, With prettf young and pr-'ttv not->o-
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    Search your garden tor fresh flower glamour
    482 10  -  SUSAN DEACON by FLOWERS are so popular that, when they are cheap and plentiful, they should be almost a part of your wardrobe another accessory. Make a habit of wearing flowers in the day and evening but keep them fresh. Wilting blooms givi
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    HERE and THERE
    352 10 NOTE en tti« car* of babies from Hollywood: Portland Miw». Nx months old daughter of jamas Mason and Pamela Kellino. is allowed to do exactly what sh« likts sh« operates on a "demand schcdula" she Roei to sleep when sh« feels likes it if she wants food
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    26 10 CTEEPLECHASE, one of the lacqmar scarves at the London Fashion Fortnight, in vario us colours on pure silk crepe-dc chine. It was bought by Queen Elisabeth.
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    VEGETABLE CHANGES
    476 10 VEGETABLES play such a large n^-t in our diet that it is a*i too easy to serve the same kinds In the same ways w?ek after week. You will find these ideas a delightful change. Cucumber Sauce Peel and quarter four cucumbers nnd boil them, without adding any
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      37 10 WOODS*. CIIBE mm The Reliable MC^cJ^Of^ei I Quick relief wi'h A >s St'iir On* I or two of the large toblati in a gloil I lo work immediately. Wofch it (in. Bm $#y a m fl* F
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      300 10 Little and often MaVe thli complexion milk your daytime cleanser. It keeps your skin good tempered. Remove* lipstick and make-up in seconds. Afterwards your powder baa* •preads smoothly. Rouge blends softly. Powder clings, and your lipstick has a newer, smoother glow. YARDLEY fAIOLir OLD BOND STREET LONDON Why do her
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      171 10 iMicirn \^uW**^ OHH you VCGTQK TOLVHtK... I^opLtcK^MAKETj OARilNft.O* li TIRED I AIWAVS YOU ARE CONSTANTLY \lf AiftlAOY AMP IT THE BEACH FEEL IvEN TIRED AND USUESS 1 \j4ms SO >OCO T»o^ y Jfr LAST NI6HT .I'M I WAKE TIRED. BECAUSE YOUR fOOD TAILS I \T" t < %fH $UR£ YOU'O
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    Gun Temple
    723 11 Are there people in whom there really is nothing good? It is not possible to br human and have nothing bad. No one ts all good, but I am not sure about the all had.—OSMAN. YOU can't separate a human being trom human nature and there is something
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    NOT-SO-YOUNG
    611 11  -  Penelope Notebook by THIS is for not so young readers, many of whom have written asking me to help them with their make-up and general appearance. Firstly, then, let me say the woman who has passed her first youth should make it her aim to Rive the impression of
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    He teaches the world to dance
    744 11 VICTOR SILVESTER < \7ICTOR SILVESTER f has done more than any other man to make dancing modern ballroom popular. He teaches the world to dance. His first dancing job brought him a salary of £1 a week. When he applied for it he was
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      323 11 This Precious Used together night and morning will give your skm that flower fresh look. ..they are the first necessities •n your programme of loveliness. Ardcnn Cleansing Cream and Skin Tonic will cleanse and tone v;. skin, giving it a new glowing beauty Treatments and Preparations at MAYNARD CO., LTD.
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      386 12 A.. .1 i:lOilj tiJUy Si'«:(!\l. MORNING M \li\. .)U.\V 11 a.m. WAFERS' "MIGHT Cc DAY" in I:-: hnicolor! AUVIISSION A-i-.ilu II Children 50 cts. LACK SOON TO TriRILL ALL AGAIN! I MIGHTIEST Of II SEA PICTURES! HEKRBO fHTTs y/°':£^. SO PLEASANT TO TAKE r -A (vemafftn. p^^: 'he c eam
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      295 12 VI UMtm OF OETKL2S. Do you ever realise the manifold darters your DEAFNRSS is rBus)n<r you? 1. Advance in age an< B'fertlons of the ears. HEARING IS APT TO BK IMPAI^KD. 2. Partial Deafness when r.p<?lertpd brlnßK TOTAL DEAFNESS. 3. Excessive strain from hard of hearing affects the Brain find
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      157 12 JUST ARRIVED r?'"i"n Journal !y S'rinh $11.00 Si "h Pronouncing Dicf 5 SO V and Itaaiaasa 8.50 I noirow 6.75 Cm- o Yrors In English 1.50 H< T Wrtta lei.ers for all ana 1.50 V.v Divnms Mean I.RO fa Made F. <-y 1.50 Pmti Tr!lim; 1.50 n ."-niser 1.50 f^t
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      469 12 THIS WEEK FOR YOU What the Stars Foretell-, VIRGO (Aug. 24 Sept. 22)— Definitely a change for the better this week. Your worries should be over, so exert fullest efforts now. The early start is the one that gets the best results. GEMINI (May 22- June 22)— The fair sex
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      249 12 SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23Dec 22)— This is opportunity week for you. There will be moderate advances in business if you are cautious. Be careful of putting anything hi writing, however. CAPRICORN (Dec 23Jan. 20)— Be diplomatic with everyone this week and you will avoid any kind of a crisis at work
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      180 12 PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. SI) —A poor week for all your efforts. Be on guard against the duplicity of a supposed friend. Avoid travelling, if at all possible. Ton will be happier with the opposite sex. ARIES (Mar. 22-Apr. 20) Hold back on important decisions until some better time. Be exceptionally
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      618 12 gmm^ffi^ji^gmi^l^is t SOME of the biggest feu occur when one aide is on score and the other recklessly overbids la a desperate effort to prevent their opponents from going out. vulnerable and the o;, po tiei»ts are 40 on score. Your :lijh*.-ha:id opponent deals and olds one -pade You are
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    HENRY INSPIRES SELANGOR CUP VICTORY
    288 13 HENRY INSPIRES SELANGOR CUP VICTORY Perak defeated Three-one Sunday Times Ipoh Sports Correspondent DERAK sustained their third consecutive Malaya Cup defeat when they went down to Selangor at Chinese Assembly Hall ground at Ipoh yesterday by three goals to one. All the goals were scored in the second half. The
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    34 13 THIRTEEN-year old Miss Frances Russell who established a new S.AS.A. record for girls under 14 years in the 50 metres breast stroke with a time of 51.7 sees, at the S.S.C. swimming gala yesterday.
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    SNIP CARTON SOLUTION
    66 13 ERNEST DUDLEY gives this solution to today's problem: Snip Carton Insurance Agent, rolls on to a barnacle, by which he manages to saw through the rope. Re-tying the rope he casts the anchor over the nearest small rock and hauls himself over the quicksands. He repeats this
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    CROSSWORD SOLUTION
    108 13 Across: 1. MtaMd. Pon:p. 11. Once. 12. Approval. 14. Schedule. 15. Dace. 16. Tool. 17 Balm. 19. T <.a 21. Kosy. 22. Glow. 24. Den. 25. Larva "7. Esplanade. ''.9. Snap. 30. Apt. 32. Peri. 34. Sola. 36. Ra-n. 39. Disc. 41. Bats. 43. Epic. 45. Vertebra. 46.
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    CASUALS WIN 3-0
    19 13 CHINESE Casuals beat Fraser and Neave Sports Club 3-0 In a soccer friendly at Farrer I'ark.
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    GOOD FOOTBALL AT JALAN BESAR
    86 13 TODAY first-class soccer is anticipated at Jalan Besar Stadium, venue of a Community League match between /c<alays and the Army (Singapore DLtrict>. Malays are fielding a very strong side comprising players from Kota Raja, Pulau Brani United and the M.F.A. i Army did well In
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    COUNT TABLE
    315 13 the current first-cla^s cricket championship table are. P W L D pts Middlesex S 3 0 2 44 Surrey 4 3 0 1 40 N'hamptonshlre 6 3 1 3 36 Worcestershire 6 2 3 1 32 Yorkshire 4 3 1 1 28 Derbyshire 3 2 1 0 24
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    S.A.S. OLD BOYS
    105 13 THE team to represent the St. Anthony's Old Boys in a soccer match agaust the present boys tomorrow at 5.19 p.m. on the S.J.I, ground will be Oiosen from: Yap Kirn Kang (capt P. Almonte, Cheng Hon Fong. A. Clarke. Chan Hon Ch^e. Lee Kwal Tong, Molt
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    SLTA SEMI-FINALS
    35 13 r3 men's singles semi-finals in the Singapore lawn tennis championships will be played tomorrow at 6 p.m. They are: O. T. Holloway v. H. K Tadi: Chin Kee Onn v. Ong Chew Bee.
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    Kedah outplay Comb. Services
    226 13 Sunday Times Alor Star Staff Correspondent 1/ ID All beat Combined Services five-one yesterday at Alor Star in a Malaya Cup tie on the Kedah F.A. padang before an estimated crowd of 5,000 which included the Sultan and the British Adviser. Kedah took up attack right
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    CLUB AND Y.M.C.A. 1-GAME ALL
    317 13 Sunday Times SUIT Reporter V MCA. beat the S.C.C. by 55 runi In a game of cricket played at the Padanrg yesterd-y. Batting first V.M.C.A. hit 133 for nine wickets declared. S.C.C replied with 77. Scores: V.M.c.A.: Surratta lbw b Hayes 41, Tan Hock Chuan
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    Malacca Crack Up In 2nd Halt
    564 13 R.A.F 6; Malacca 1. A FTER suffering defeat at the hands of Singapore and Negri Sembilan, Royal Air Force won their first match in the southern section of the Malaya Cup competition yesterday, beating Malacca by six goals to one. Played In a blazing
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    109 RUNS WIN IN OLD BOYS' GAME
    228 13 T*HE Christian Brothers' Old 1 Boy's Association beat the Victoria School Old Boys Association by 109 runs In a game of cricket played at Victoria Schcol yesterday. Batting firit the Christian Brothers" O'.d Beys piled up 202. Victoria School replied with 93 Full
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      567 13 Good batting at Hong Lim GOOD batting was seen at Hong iMi Green yesterday when the Old Bovs of St. Andrew's School and Ar.nlo-Chinese School or w in a cricket match. batting first the A.C.S. scored 231, S. Singh being the highest scorer with 6fi. St. Andrew's in, lied with
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    Muar A.A. meet on Tuesday
    135 14 Sunday limes Must Spoiii Correspondent T OVERS of sport In Maar generally express satisfaction over the newly formed District Amateur Athletic Association which came Into being at a representative meeting held at th* Muar Club t&st weekend. Muar will hold Its champion ships at the
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    3-0 WIN IN BENTON6
    24 14 BENTONG Chinese beat Sulaiman School 3-0 at soccer. Yet Fong. Boon Bok (from perrJ'y) and Woon Fook were the acorers:
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    104 14 Twenty-one members of the Tiger Swimming dab of Singapore passed with full marks a life saving test conducted by Mr. Roland Lyne of the V.M.C.A. recently. This picture shows the successful candidates: FRONT ROW: Foo See Soon, Chang Hong, Foong Kok Mun, Kong Seong Leong, Foong Poh Kan (Instructor) Loh
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    BADMINTON IN T.A.
    66 14 I*HE second annual Indian bad--1 minton tournament for Teluk Anson this year will be held in the middle of June under the a aspics of the Lower Perak Indian Association. Entries close on June lv. There will singles and doubles events for women v well as mea.
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    sporting wickets are the real test
    610 14 sporting wickets are the real test Batsmen have had too long an innings By |ack Hobbs, the famous Surrey and England batsman. I OOK out, England! These New Zea landers may be 1j better than we thought. That is my impression after watching them play on "my" wicket at thOval.
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    39 14 This Essex fieldsman crouches as W. G. A. Parkhouse, of Glamorgan, pulls fiercely to leg: a ball from Ray Smith of Essex in the County cricket match between Essex and Glamorgan, last season's champions, at Ilford on May 21.
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    RATNAYAKE STAKES CLAIM FOR REST XI
    397 14 5.C.A. Tournament Latest table, averages GOOD cricket was again witnessed in the S.C.A. tournament last week end when the Colonials scored the only ten points of the series in their match against Johore. Ratnayake proved his all-round ability for the Colonials by taking ten
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    Koenitzs Bowling Was Best Of Week
    286 14 Sunday Times Ipoh Sports Correspondent rpOPPING several good performances In Perak 1 cricket last week-end was the bowling feat of T. H. Koenitx, who took nine wickets for 35 runs, clean bowling eight of his victims. He was playing for the Kinta Town Board
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      279 14 THE MANAGEMENT OF THE CATHAY CINEMA take pride in announcing that THE MEMBERS OF THE MALAYAN THOMAS CUP TEAM WILL MAKE A PERSONAL APPEARANCE ON THE STAGE WITH THE THOMAS CUP ON THE OCCASION OF THE SPECIAL Pre-Release Premiere •f J. Arthur Rank's Technicolor Production! WRP^ JEAtfiiiMMONS DomaU Houston I
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    J.B. BADMINTON
    78 15 Sports Correspondent Sunday Times Johore Bahru AN exhibition ba<lmlnton m.-Uch has been arranged for June 7 between Johore Bahru district and the Eclipse Badminton Party of Slnsnnore. I The matches will be played at the Aycr Molek Malay Boys School, play starting Pt 7. p.m. An admission fee
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    REST TEAM READY FOR FRAY
    770 15 Nothing to lose, much to gain By KEN JALLEH WITH little to lose and everything to gain, nine valiant men from Singapore, Johore, Selangor, Perak and Penang are in fighting trim. The Rest of Malaya team to meet the returning Thomas Cuppers, champion badminton team
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    20 15 MR. Lim Chuan Gcok holding the Thomas lup as the Malayan baamiuloti team steps off the Corfu at Penang: wharves.
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    Napier scores 52 for Navy
    198 15 A SPARKLING 52 by Commander Napier for the Navy and a rapid 59 by Roy Bain for S.R.C. were the main features of the cricket match on the Padang yesterday, when the Royal Navy beat the S.R.C. by 26 runs. Royal Navy: j, Cague c
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    3 RECORDS AT S.C.C. SWIM
    712 15 SINGAPORE Swimming Club's "champions of tomorrow" broke three Singapore records at the Club's championship gala held at Tanjong Rhu yesterday. First record breaker was Miss Frances Russell, 13--year old swimmer, who broke the existing Singapore record of 55 1 seconds for the 50 metres breast
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    ST. ANDREWS WIN
    38 15 St. Andrew's school defeated Qantas Empire Airways at soccer in both their first and second team fixtures at Woods ville yesterday. The school Ist eleven beat the airways team 2-1 and their it-cond eleven 4-1.
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    SOCCER FIXTURE
    40 15 'THE following will represent the x S.H.B. Traffic XI against Borneo Co. Sports Club tomorrow at Raeburn Park: Thum Ah Mun. Sabrl, Ah Biau. Chee Ong, Haniff, Raialoo, Poh Seng, Esa. Mokhtar, Said, Peng Yew and. A. Rahman.
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    FOUR NEW TEAMS IN JUNIOR LEAGUE
    387 15 Badminton Notes by CAPTAIN TEN teams have catered the Selangor lumot 'nter-team doubles league one more than last year They are Lok Hwa 8.P.. Jolly Juniois. Liew Kwong Hon's team, Yoong Yoong Club, Sprlngdale B P., Merrvdale DP., Jaya Stia 8.P.. Selaruor Chinese Athletic
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    Souvenir now on sale
    59 16 THE Straits Times Thomas Cup Souvenir Is now on sale at newsagents throughout Malaya, price ">0 crntt. It contains a complete record of the successful tour of the Malayan badminton team in Europe. There are messages from Sir George Thomas and Dave Freeman and autopraphed pictures
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    3 HORSES SCORE DOUBLES IN PENANG
    2083 16 Spearlight wins trophy race By EPSOM JEEP WELL ridden by E. Donnelly, "Double V Stable's" Spearlight beat Golden Harvest in a photo-finish to take the Summer Cup for Class three stayers at Penang yesterday, the last day of the Penang Turf Club Summer Meeting.
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    44 16 THE captain of Malaya's Thomas Cup dminton team, Mr. Lim Chuaa Geek, smiles as he holds the roreted trophy at Swetfcenham Pier, Penan*, where the Corfu berthed on arrival from England on Friday. On either side of him are members of the Cup side.
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    PAHANG AJU. MEET IN JULY
    142 16 Sunday Tunes Bentong Sports Correspondent AT the extraordinary gei:«ral meeting of the Pahang Amateur Athletic Association held at the Pahang Club, Kuala LJpis. with Mr. C. R. Porsyth, in the chair, it was decided to hold the 1949 State championship meet on Sunday, July 31
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    SEGAMAT ALL OUT FOR 48
    134 16 Sunday Tunes Segamat Sports Correspondent IN a return cricket fixture Gemas R.I. beat Segamat by 27 runs. Gemas thus avenged their previous defeat. Batting first, Segamal were all out for 48 runs, not a single batsI man entering double figures. i Selvarajah (four for 13)
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    ENGLAND SELECTORS NOT HURRYING
    244 16 LONDON, Sat. i IN a tew days' time the teams for the first English Test trial match of the season. North versus South at Birmingham on June 1. 2 and 3. #111 b» announced. With the selection marie so near the match, -jiayers cet very short
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    TODAY'S NEGRI BADMINTON TIES
    104 16 Sunday Times Serenaban Sports Reporters rpHE following ties in the N.B. State Badminton Championships will be played off today at the King George V School Hall. at 9.30 a.m.Men's Single*: when Soon Pong vs. Lee Boon I lan. Goh Hean Chye vs. Thoiig Poh Chiew. Ladies'
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    Negri will win again'
    163 16 Sunday Times Serenban Sports C orrcfcpnna^nt THtEK Is no doabt that Negrl 1 Sembilan will win the Malaya Cup again this year," said both the president and vice-president of tb« N.S. Football Association, Mr. O. B. Folliott and Mr. Llm Ke« Siong respectively, at a dinner
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    SINGAPORE DISTRICT 215
    267 16 Sunday Times K.L. Sports Correspondent SINGAPORE Dlstr'ct batted first against Malaya District in their two day cricket match which began in Kuala Lumpur yesterday and scored 215 all out. Malaya District had replied with 100 lor five at close. Bradley and Knight open- d slowly and the
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    SIMIT CLUB WIN TWICE
    100 16 Saaday Tines Mmar Sport* Correspondent rAR Town Board Sports Club were surprisingly beaten by Slmit Club I—3 in the Muar Soccer League on Friday. Taw Tew. a comparatively obscure player, played a big part in Simit's victory, scoring two of three goal* and creating the opening
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    Selangor Gub win by 31 runs
    55 16 Sunday Times Kuala Lnmpar Sports Reporter CELANQOR Club d feated SeO langor Recreation Club by 31 runs In a cricket i...»tch on the K.L. Padang yesterday. Batting first, Selaiigor Chib scored 131 for seven wlcketo 'declared (Carey 50). The SRC replied with 100. highest
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