The Straits Times, 2 May 1937

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  • 39 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES THE LEADING SUNDAY NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA FINAL EDITION No. 280 Sunday. May 2, 1937 Price 10 cents. THE SUNDAY TIMES [The Leading Sunday Newspaper In Malaya. No. 2*o Sunday. May 2 f 1937 Price 10 cents.
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  • 279 1 Plan For New Division Of The Empire's Navies MAINTENANCE COST OF £12,000,000 AND OUTLAY OF £70,000,000 'THE formation of a powerful Eastern Fleet of Empire is believed by naval experts to be presaged by a recent announcement in the House of Commons by Sir Samuel Hoare,
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  • 22 1 Rev. Dr. L. Proebstel. Principal of the Anglo-Chinese School, Penang. will be the guest speaker on Sunday evening .at the Wesley Church
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  • 78 1 TTHE wedding took place recently of Miss Carmen Cory, daughter of the late Sir James Herbert Cory. South Wales ship-and- coalowner to the Hon. H. W. McGowan, the elder son of Sir Harry MacGowan (to be Lord McGowan, Coronation peer), chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries, at
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  • 41 1 Mr. R. Williamson To Act As Attorney General ALTHOUGH no confirmation could be obtained in Singapore yesterday, The Sunday Times understands that Mr. R. Williamson will act as AttorneyGeneral in place of Mr. C. G. How. 11, who goes on leave.
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  • 70 1 Tests End With New Transmitter (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Saturday. THK British Broadcasting Corporation's transmission No. 2 will revert from tomorrow to the usual hours from 6.20 p.m. (Malayan time) to 8.45 p.m. Since Mar. 18 the second transmission programmes have been curtailed by about
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  • 25 1 Owing to the shortage of iron which threatens Japan, a halt has been called in the construction of Government and other public buildings in ferro-concrete.
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    74 1 THE annual recurrence of the Mriji-Setsu. the holiday which commcmoritn the great Emperor Meiji. is the occasion for a general sports meeting In Tofcln. For two weeks young men and women take part in all sorts of games, baseball, I'.iskrthall. football boat races, .-uniting and swimming. Archer* is a favourite
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  • 57 1 SEPTUPLETS REPORTED BORN IN SPAIN Paris, Saturday. THE record set by the birth of the famous Canadian quintuplets has been broken by Spanish scptuplets. according to a report from the Paris Soir's Murcla correspondent. The woman in Murcia gave birth to seven children who are all normal and are expected
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  • 38 1 (From Our Own Correspondent) Bangkok, SaturdayMrs. Bonney left here this morning the weather being favourable, for Rangoon. She had not returned by this afternoon so it is believed that she reached Burma safely
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  • 668 1 CITY STRIVING TO HOLD ITS FINANCIAL PRESTIGE London, Saturday. some recovery was seen! in the markets intense nervous ness persists, the only topic of disCHSsioti being the question of how will the settlement on the Stock Bnhaaga on May 6
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  • 70 1 British Ships To Evacuate Children From Bilbao DLANS are rapidly being formulated for the early evacuation of women and children and the aged from Bilbao. The captains of nine British ships, now in Bilbao after running the blockade, have agreed to transport 5,000 children to France. The Basque president has
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  • 51 1 Karachi, Saturday. |VJ|R Jim Broadbent, famous Aus- tralian airman who is attempting to lower the Australia to England record, landed at Karachi at 6.45 a.m. local time. After a halt of 70 minutes for refueling, he took off again at 7.55 a.m. for Basra.—
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  • 211 1 SUNDERLAND WIN CUP FINAL 3—l King Queen Among 93,000 Spectators London, Saturday. Wembley Stadium, today in addition to (he King and Queen there were many notable overseas visitors to witness the Cup Final which was won by Sunderland by three goals to one. Preston North End led at the interval
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  • 65 1 (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Saturday. RIBBEB: Steady. London, spot lOd. i it July-Sept. 10', d. 10 5 lt>J. Oct. -Dee 10 5 Hid. 10-, d. Jan.-Mar It 5 lSd 10 7 164. COTTON: 7.2 M. GOLD: £7 0s (id. SILVER: Spot 20 S,d. 2 mths 20 7
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  • 1636 2 Fishermen on Parade A Coronation Grumble No Novelties— ls It Worth the Cost? IN the Malay village of Beting Kusa, on the east coast of Singapore Island, a strange beast is gradually taking shape, a mythical dragon a hundred feet long. The kampong is preparing for the Coronation.
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  • 307 3 F. M. S. CHIEF JUSTICE ON MAGISTRATES' SENTENCES "Great Object To Avoid Turning Man Into A Criminal" (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. LJAVING read in a newspaper that a young man had been sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment for begging the Chief Justice of the F.M.S.. Sir Samuel
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  • 131 3 SUMATRA HAS ITSNOUVEAUX RICHES (From Our Own Correspondent.) Batavia. r. Deli Courant has some fantastic stories to tell of the natives of Sumatra who have suddenly become rich on account of the recent rubber boom and the "sale < I their rubber coupons. I.v Tapanoeli c. Batak went round his
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  • 160 3 THE SINGAPORE HARBOUR BOARD Saturday, May 1. Ship* alnnpMf the Wharve* oi expected io %rTiyt Entrance Godown GM« East wharf Rajula 22 1 Shlrala Klang 20 1 laln Rimsang. -sha'espear 18 3 B '-/an 15 3 Menelaus 13 3 Rai:! H 3 Pot«fl--i 9 3 Menestheus 7 3 Emc»" Doci
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  • 267 3 \I7ITHIN the next year Singapore may see Sally Rand, celebrated fan and balloon dancer, in action. Arlinda, slim dark-eyed Texan fill, of the dancing team, Cedric and Arlinda, at present appearing at, Raffles Hotel, told a Punday Times reporter yesterday that Miss Rand is
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  • 100 3 FRASER CO's REPORT IN their dally report on the share market issued at the close of business yesterday, Messrs. Fraser and Co. state that the market opened steady and during f-.o morning brightened considerably. There was a fair turnover in sterling and dollar tin shares. The local prices for sterling
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  • 91 3 Saturday, Nimmi. N«. 1 K. R. S. S. in cases (F. 0.8.) Apr. 36% 36% Good F. A. Q. in cases (F. 0.8.) Apr. 35 5/16 35 7/16 Ne. 1 K. R. S. S. (Spot loose) Awardable Spore 36 36' N May 36U 36« i
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  • 80 3 NEW LINER FOR HOLLAND-N. I. ROUTE (From Our Own Correspondent.) Batavia. IT is reported that the Netherlands Steamship Co. has ordered a new 20,000 ton motorship to bo built in Holland at a cost of 12,000,000 guilders. The vessel is intended for the llolland-N.I. rim. The new ship will have
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 636 3 IN SINGAPORE TODAY CINFMA toxholdcrs at 6 p.m. General delivery ol Today letters on Monday at 8.25 a.m. ALHAMBRA: Coi.ege Holiday »ith Jack Mulls from Europe etc. (Amsterdam* jj. rir 3 xs 6 15— 15 expected today J»y air (Netherlands) wll be CAPITOL: Stowaway With Shlrl:/ Te.r.ple i dtlivercd to
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  • 195 4 In Perfect Health At 73 —Thanks To Kruschen. Thirty-five years ago this septuagenarian m helpless with sciatica. Then he h' urd of Kruschen. Since that day. he httl enjoyed perfect health. Here Is his remarkable story "Thirty-five years ago. I had a Bev?r attack
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  • Article, Illustration
    20 4 Mr. Ng Thian Swee and Ml*s Kok Su Gin who were married at the Chinese Chamber o' Commerce. Ratu Pahat.
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  • 148 4 "Your Mother Has Run Away: Let Us Die" Tamil Tries To Drown His Son (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur. pHARGED with attempting to murder his ten-year-old son by forcing him under water in the Klang River— behind the Federal Government buildings on Nov. 25 a coolie named Ramasamy was
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  • 36 4 The death took place at his resld< nee in Wolff Road of Mr blow Foot Teck at the age of 54. He leaves a wife, five sons and two daughters. The funeral took place on Thursday.
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  • 289 4 Young Malay Faces Charge Under Mohammedan Law WOMAN SAYS HE GAVE HER "MAIN MATA" (From Oar Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur. THAT he hid himself underneath the bed when he heard her husband entering was the evidence given by a Malay woman, Burok
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  • 81 4 New Guns For The Arm> WHEN the Army is fitted with the new gun equipment, the use of shrapnel will be confined to 18-pounders. Shrapnel is not to be discarded altogether, and 18--pounders will be retained, but other existing calibres are to be replaced. What the new calibres will be
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  • 340 4 Selangor Mother Sent To Asylum (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur. PVIDENCE of a tragedy which took place at Sepang Kecbil in (he Kajang district on Sept. 12 when a four-year-old Chinese girl was beaten to death with a stick, was given before Mr. Justice Cussen
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  • 118 4 Lack Of Evidence Against Young Tamil (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala oumpur WITHOUT calling upon the defence Mr. Justice Cu<>sen. at .he Selangor Assizes, acquitted and discharged a young Tamil. Parasuram. who faced the charge of attempted murder of a Tamil Ramalingam In Sungei Besl Road
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  • 18 4 (Prom Our Own Correspondent). Seremban. Tengku Laxamana Abu Bakar bin Tengku Muda Chlk, of Sri Menanti, visited Seremban.
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  • 66 4 At an extraordinary general meeting of the Arab Club the purchase rf a plot of land in Lorong 12. Oeylang (opposite Municipal football field and near the aerodrome and amusement park by donations was approved. Messrs S. I. O. Alsagoff. S. M. Alkaft. M. A. Alsagoff and S.
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  • Article, Illustration
    25 4 Dr. N. Paramanathan of the Medical Department, PerHs, and his bride. Miss Rajeswary, daughter of Mr. S. Arumugam. formerly Clerk of Works P.W.I). Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 94 4 Cairo. TAUGHT -LIEUT. S. L. Mole has looped the loop €7 times in successiO7i in a glider. It is claimed that this is a world's record. Piloting a German-built glider, he took off in a strong wind from Heliopolis towed by an K.A.F.
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  • 170 4 MOTOR -CYCLE AND LORRY IN FATAL CRASH. (From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban. THE inquiry was begun before the Seremban magistrate into the circumstances attending the death of Ir.che Atok bin Daud, a Malay Inspector of Basketry attached to the Negri Sembilan Education Department, who met his death following a motor
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  • 238 4 Additional Benefits For Those Abroad DETAILS GIVEN IN COMMONS r\£TAILS of the promised pay concessions to soldiers were announced in the House of Commons by Sir Victor Warrender. Financial Secretary to the War Office. The concessions amount to £1 18s Bd. for recruits in their first 12
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    • 207 4 CHEAP SALE for 40 D%YS ONLT \JVf ON T. ST VALIF. KVER OFFERED IN TBI BK.<;-ST \ABIETIKS AND 1 KS <>V I AIUKS I NDKRWKAR i i inkvs. Chinese lOS. I'JKING JEWELLERY. CV.IPHOR WOOD BOXES. LAMP SHADES etc.. etc. T US TODAY AND HAVE THE I BEST P'CK .•SU BROS.
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    • 46 4 The Free Press says Coilece Holidaj caa easily rank as one of the best musicals seen in Singapore lalhambra] LUST 3 SHOWS TOBAY. A Paramount Laugh Riot JACK BENNY "COLLEGE HOLIDAY" with George BURNS Gracie ALLEN, MARY BOLAND MARTHA RAVE and ELEANORE WHITNEY BRIGHT. TUNEFUL. AMUSING
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    • 37 4 CONTINUED SUCCESS Season Extended owing to Suco«m! 3 SHOWS TODAY! ICAPITOLJ SHIRLEY TEMPLE Sings and Talks Chinese in "STOWAWAY" 20th Century-Fox Film's Grand Comedy. With the Splendid STAGE Attraction WAN WAN SAN In his amazing Magical Act.
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    • 163 4 BLOWING THE VICTORY BUGLE AT THE TIVOLI THEATRE TODAY 3 pm. 6.15 pm. 9.15 pm J. R. Rangaraju's CHANDRAKANTHA. Never before have You seen or heard Of a Picture of this Stamp made for Masses and lasses. Have you heard or Seen the 1000 Face Hero? If not, do not
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  • 508 5 EVIDENCE AT OPENING OF "VAN DER WIJCK" INQUIRY Iron Plates Which Were "Urgently Needed" FIN ALL V ACCEPTED AS DECK CARGO From Our Own Correspondent). Batavia. THE Council of Shipping has held 1 its first public sitting at the Navy Department to inquire into the sinking of the Van der
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  • 149 5 IN SINGAPORE yesterday in the course of a brief vacation visit was I'hya Prijanusasana, editor and director of the Siam Chronicle, Bangkok, and a member of the newly-created Bangkok Municipal Council. With him are his wife and two daughters. It was Phya Prijanusasana, who in May
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  • 192 5 AN £8,000 "Throne Car" with seats for ei'ht "Angels" is being built at Pasadena, California, for Father Divine. New York Negro leader of a sect whose members believe he is God. Father Divine's followers, known in their higher ranks by such titles; as "Angels,"
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  • 97 5 THE Singapore death rate for the week ending Apr. 24, 1937, was 23 83 per mille per annum compared with in the proceeding week and j 23.57 in the corresponding week of Hsi year. The Infantile death rate was 187.4.1 It was 175.0 in the proceeding week
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  • 307 5 Two leaders of religion, one an Anglican, the other a Unitarian, expressed their despair at the trend of modern thought in England last week. I INSTEAD of our civilisation and education turning the world into a paradise, we are rapidly making it into a
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  • 89 5 'Australian Girls For Good Looks' JLIOLLIE Rowe, twenty-one-year-old Australian from Perth, Coronation visiting at Regent Palace Hotel, London, thinks "English girls are smart— very smart. But you can't rank them with the Australian girls when it comes to beauty. "Australian girls have more sun in their faces," she says. -They
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  • 92 5 fYTJRING the recent strikes in gJ the F.M.S. it was found that the regulation baton was discarded by constables in favour of changkol handles, says the Malayan Police Gazette. Mr. R. G. B. Spicer, InspectorGeneral of the Palestine Police, writing on the Palestine riots says:
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  • 49 5 WHEN MEDALS CAN BE WORN IN SINGAPORE 11/lEMBERS of the public attending any function or ceremony held in connection with the Coronation celebrations at which uniform is worn by Government officers should wear with their mufti any orders, medals and decorations they may possess, states an Eivnregs Ptece communique.
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  • 480 6 VISITING DOCTORS' HIGH TRIBUTE Malariology Course Innovation THE eighteen delegates from Eastern cevntries assembled In Singapore far the malarielogy coarse, which began a fortnight ago, are unanimous in their opinion UmU the parasHology laboratory of the Kmg Edward VII College of Medicine in Singapore ranks
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  • 67 6 San Francisco. A DAUGHTER, weighing seven pounds, has been born to Mrs. William E. Rudd, aged thirteen. Mother and child are reported to be doing well. Mrs. Rudd was married to William E. Rudd, aged twentyone, last autumn, when she gave her age as sixteen.
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  • 207 6 Veteran Cavalrymen •TTTE King's Indian Orderly Olheers for this year, who will ride in the Coronation procession close to his Majesty and stand motionless in the Abbey during the ceremony, have arrived In London. Usually one cavalry officer and three Infantry officers are chosen, but as the
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  • 1129 6 AN encouraging speech on trade conditions was made by Mr. K. Page, the chairman, at the annual general meeting of Robinson and Co., Ltd., held at the Chartered Bank Chambers, yesterday. Proposing the adoption of the report and the accounts, he said: Although we cannot present to
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    • 592 6 v yin^nni^^'^ *_.<!^^^^bbl 1 £Z^^^nn^^nvn^ns 'is •^lsS3iß^^^'M^*^a^HMi2i Since Pat changed to i^^B^^m J *j£ L f Craven *A' she's never had |W 'WP^ ,V| UfHOOIffiMH. a trace of throat irritation. I'm. f^ «v*»l mm. Craven "A" in thr -^Ix** SB craven a mtnc Tell you another thing I've IVI CVt)^
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    • 389 6 cently stated: "I am only 35 years old but for tbo lasi 10 years I have felt like a man of 60. I was no good to myself or any one else. I was tired out all the time and simply could not keep up with the pace of modern
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    • 72 6 You'll have money, 100. when you serve AYLMER SOUPS, because each tin, (by adding miik or water) makes double the quantity of full-bodied soup sufficient for at least 4 generous servings. Discriminating hostesses serve AYLMEK Soups because of that delightful natural! flavour. Your guests (:md your family too!) will prefer
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  • 221 7 Scrapped For Spare Parts Which Are Exported TOURISTS of (en comment on Ihe scarcity of old cars about Singapore. At least 65 per cent, of the cars seen about the city appear to be less than four years old. Although many old trucks
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    46 7 The wedding of Mr. Lim Koon Siong, third son of Mr. and MM Lim Kirn Suah. and Miss Sng Chan Neo. only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sng Nee of I'mhai. Malacca, took place according: to old Chinese style at Ec Man Hn;," Pcnekalan Rama, Malacca.
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  • 92 7 (From Our Wireless Correspondent.) DECENT complaints of dullness in the Sunday programmes from the Singapore wireless station hardly seem to be justified by today's selection of items. Light orchestral music to be relayed from the Tanglin Club at noon will include the Kcler-Bela composition,
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  • 35 7 Anproximately 60 per cent, of the total wood cv., from forests in Canada Is used for domestic purposes and 40 per cent. Is exported, mainly in ths form cf lumber, pulp and paper.
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    • 94 7 Coronation Stamps To oe Issued on Coronation Ds» The C'Dmpletp lot, from 45 CROWN COLONIES comprising IJS stamps Price 27/6 Post Free Order now to oreven: disappointment M I I-I'EMBKRTON A CO.. LTD.. ah Mol'on «strM-t. London. W.I. F.NGLAND. RAKE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS STAMPS. l a.-n always In a position to
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    • 145 7 NEAR LONDON Letchworth Hall Hotel Letehworth, Herts. This 17tti Century Manor House com- j pletely modernised will oe read} toi vlitltors on Mar 1, 193? central Heating; H C. water throughout quiet and •omlortable; 18 hole Goll Course within 50 yards 2 nard find grass Tennis Courts 2 new Squash
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    • 167 7 LONDON CALLS t^ INSISTENTLY and fnjoj at rithrr m&T} HOTELREMBRANDT S%jjp South Kensington. S.W. taring the Victoria and Albert Museum. W^flL or HOTEL /SfeP? RUBENS Buckingham Palace Road, "f faciiie Buckingham Palace E^ery attention In pleasing surroundings PrKKKCT QL'l^'i'UDE THESE COMFORTABLE HOTELS WITH ACKNOWLEDGE.!) RENOWNED CATERING have running hot and
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 415 7 CROSSWORD PUZZLE RESULT Tiree uprountry competitors succeeded in solving correctly The Sunday Tlrr.ps Crossword Puzzle printed lr. our issue of April 18, and they therefore sham 'he $100 prize offered. The names and addresses of the prize winners are: Khoo 800 tone. 1728-4. Cieras Road. Kuala Lumpur; F. Gunn, Tanjong,
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    • 1493 7 Today's Wireless Programmes SINGAPORE* in G: (1) Allegro moderate (2) Adagio 1.20 News in German. 8. SO News in French. Colonial market 13) Finale (Haydn). 135 S.mday music (continued). prices. Station /ML 133 Me/. (M 5 m.) 6.20 Commentary* on the British Haid- 2 '^ws and review of the week
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  • 235 8 He Carries Drumsticks And Cymbals In His Baggage FRIEND OF FAMOUS MUSICIANS (By A Sunday Times Reporter.) CRANZ SCHUBERTH, doctor of philosophy, musiker, maler. Wien, was the entry on the Ade!phi Hotel registry. I expected to find a fossilized professor with a penchant
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  • 109 8 Two Lumps Of Sugar For Troops rpHEY used to give them iron rations but the 32,000 soldiers on Coronation Day procession duty in London 7cill be supplied with the emergency ration of two lumps of sugar. So.'diers on the route, ieclaras the War Office, will need a pxek-me-up. As "slipping
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  • 144 8 Two Squadrons At Trincomalee J^OYAL Air Force planes will be stationed at Trinccmalee, the naval base at Ceylon, by the end of the year. It is believed the new station will be able to accommodate two squadrons. It is expected to cost £400,000. The construction
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  • 98 8 THE new blue uniform to be worn by troops attending the Coronation may be issued to the entire Army. Mr. Duff Cooper, Secretary for War, gave this hint at an Institute of Industrial Psychology luncheon in London. He said he believed that soldiers liked
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  • 71 8 Shanghai, Saturday. /^•EN. Yang Hu-cheng, one of the leaders of the Sian revolt in December and January, may shortly pass through Singapore. After resigning his post early this wtek as Pacification Commissioner of tJhensl, Gen. Yang Is reported to have sent his secretary to Shanghai
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  • 42 8 A Bill designed *o ensure healthy babies in New York State has been adopted by the 3tate Assembly at Albany. It provides that £15 will be paid for every child, legitimate or otherwise, born in the State.
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  • 54 8 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Johore Bahru. Saturday. LJH. the Sultan of Johore's fine new astana. which is under construction was the scene of a theft on Apr 25. when six rim locks were stolen. As a sequel a Chinese wa. c arrested and charged,
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  • 58 8 THE Australian, Corporal George, V.C., who was stated to have been granted a tue passage by Qamus to enable him to get home to the Coronation to replace the V.C. member of the Australian Coronation contingent who died In London recently, did not arrive in
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  • 52 8 London, Saturday. THE Duke of Windsor, according to newspaper reports, will leave St. Wolfgang in the Tyrol for France next week, presumably for his wedding with Mrs. Simpson, since it is expected that her decree nisi will be made absolute by the London Divorce Court on
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  • 59 8 A P. W. D. motor-lorry coming Irom Johore and a Johore motor-car driving towards Johore came into violent collision near Woodlands yesterday afternoon. Two people were injured— the Chinese driver of the car and a Tamil coolie who was seated next to the driver
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    74 8 TJIS Royal Highness Amir Saud, Crown Prince of Sanui-Arabia recently arrived in Baghdad, on a visit to King Ghaiini of Iraq. The Prince stayed In Iraq a week daring which time he attended a review of the Iraq Army. He then returned to his own country before proceeding to London
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  • 146 8 Told To Go Home And Rear Children DV order of Voroshiloff, Soviet Commissar for Defence, all regiments comprised of women are to be immediately disbanded. In expressing the opinion that such corps are of little military value in the event of war, having only a certain spectacular
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  • 115 8 London. WHEN Mr. Kenneth Thomas married Miss Olgra Noake at All Soul's, Langham Place, a gramophone record was made of the ceremony. At the reception afterwards at the Langham Hotel another record was made of the speeches, and during the reception the record of the
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  • 43 8 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Johoro Banru, Saturday. A live electric cable, which is believed to have been blown down during a heavy storm, caused the death of a Chinese hospital sweeper in Jalan Dato Wilson on Apr. 26.
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  • 495 8 Schoolmaster Marries In Malacca (From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca, Saturday. CATHER Fernandez took the ser--1 vice at the wedding this morning at St. Peter's Church, Bunga Raya, Malacca, of Mr. Herman Marie de Souza, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. de Souza of Malacca, and Miss Mary Alethea Richards,
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  • 87 8 An exact replica of the complete set of Coronation regalia, including the Crowns to be worn by thu Kins and Queen, the Imperial Crown of India, the Royal Sceptre, the King's and Queen's Orb and numerous other of the famous Crown jewels, will b
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  • 113 8 TPHE resignations are announced of two overseas Bishops— the Rt. Rev. E. A. L. Moore, Bishop in Travancore and Cochin since 1925, and Dr. Cecil Wilson. Bishop of biinbury, Western Australia, since 1917. Bishop Moon.-, ""ho Is In his year, states in a letter to his dlDC»se,
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  • 44 8 (From Our Own Correspw dent.) Johore Bahru. Saturday. When -1 Kulai shoo i.mis.- was struck by lightning a few days ago, a Chinese boy who was sitting on the verendah received a shock and had to be admittp.l to hospital.
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  • 1165 9 By The Onlooker Fleet Street's Interest In Malay Rulers—Sultan Of Trengganu Explores London War-Time G. O. C. Looks Back— Passing Of A Great Chief Justice "A YOUNG and model ruler, the Sultan has never given a moment's anxiety to his British Adviser or to the High Commissioner
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    • 366 9 BRITISH TRADE FAIR STALL Nos. 117, 118 119. Special offer to purchasers of T HE KINO OF I ItEJL RECORDS I For 1 Rex Record purchased 1 box Rex Needles For 2 Rex Records ourrhased 1 box Gold-plated Radio-jrram Needles For 3 Rex Records purchased 1 Silver-plated Coronation Tray For
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  • 1209 10  -  NATHANIEL GUBBINS By A CCORDING to a letter in one of the papers, a seventeenth century Frenchman, compiling figures of marital unhappiness, found that there were 17,126 couples in England living in open hostility at the time. How he managed to arrive at this exact figure
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    • 376 10 NOW JSIB OPEN Al'/^M |^H^ T& Happiness ,jmm- s^are often handicapped jf* J have been a sufferer from severe weakf£ -^^^0} ness for the past seven years. After B* M*r^^^v. taking Kalzana I found total disappearM ance of the dreadful pains, also my < *^t^*l^^ji| m ittf| general health has
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    • 435 10 CONTRACT BRIDGE d t^iji? nniTD A/-cc Acp und is oiten used By THL FOUR ACES when a hand is strong to pass TTHK latest Cavendish Club Dupli- names ani too weak to i it t v „i th« call one nntrump catt? was won by the Jacobsons. ">«? when his
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  • 125 11 Its Name Is Usquebaugh Which Is Gaelic for Whisky A NEW type of small centre-board yacht popular in the United States, where it originated, and in other countries the International snipe class has been built in Singapore. Its name is Usquebaugh, a Gaelic word which means whisky.
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  • 213 11 Big Changes In Civil Aviation Department REORGANISATION of the Civil k viation Department of the Air try has just been completed. Three directors have been appointed under Colonel Sir Francii S'.Tlmerdine, the Director-genoral. IJlr. J. G. Gibson becomes the Director of Home Aviation. He
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  • 162 11 AFTEU 20 years' litigation, aj Hindu image has failed, before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, to establish a claim to property in the neighbourhood of Calcutta. Two Hindu brothers set up a female domestic deity and finding that their business prospered thereafter they
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  • 100 11 Quebec. IUUSS ANN HARDING, the film star. proposes to surrender to the Quebec authorities following her return from London and seek to quash the warrant sworn out against her a year ago by her former husband. Mr. Harry Bannister, for the alleged abduction of their daughter
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  • 306 11 The Ofllc al Souvenir Programme of the Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth is now on sale Through its pages it is now possible to measure much of the significance of the Coronation <x> share, even at this dis'.ance across the seas, something of the
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  • 60 11 Descendant Of Bounty Mutineer DITCAIRN, the lonely Island in the South Pacific, is sending a delegate to the Coronation. He is Mr. David Young, aged 61. a grt-at-great-grandson of Edward Young, midshipman in the Bounty. He embarked in the liner Arawa when sh-,' called at
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  • 270 11 Emperor Of Abyssinia Opens His Heart THE Emperor of Abyssinia, who trusted his empire to the word of the League of Nations and lost it now declares that but for his confidence in Geneva he would have sought an agreement with Signor Mussolini. He opened his heart
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  • 136 11 MOTHER TOO NERVOUS TO FEED IT Warsaw. AT the Warsaw Zoo recently the 19-year-old elephant Kasla gave birth to a healthy little daughter weighing about 220 lb. This is alleged to be only the 12tn elephant born in captivity, and her name will probably be
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  • 42 11 Three Communists were sentenced to death in Berlin for the murder of a mechanic named Karl Beyer In a public house used as the headquarters of a local Nazi group in the Berlin suburb of Uchtenberg in May, 1932.
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  • 31 11 The British cook of the British steamer Welsh City, 6,303 tons, who was arrested in Japan for taking photographs in the fortified zone at Hakodate, has cow been released.
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  • 1297 12 FOUR years ago Miss Aubyn Reutens, daughter of Mr. Eugene Reutens, lately State Treasurer of Negri Sembilan and now living in Port Dickson, left Malaya for Europe. Later she visited America and while in California met Ralph Dixon, a Hollywood film editor.
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    398 12 XIGHT SNAPSHOOTING WITH BOX CAMERAS ARE you missing the fun of indoor snapshooting at night? Maybe because you have an inexpensive camera, such as th*> bnx. flxed-focus type, you think that indoor picture-taking at night is not for you. Perhaps you still suppose that without an f. 6.3
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    • 142 12 n6r6 s 10 v^^^sejj^^v HEALTH the morning after. When in the cause of good fellowship rules have to be relaxed, when the evening's entertainment is more than usually gay, and the gaiety of the dance leaves one more limp than usual, then last night's indulgence may be counteracted by this
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  • 904 13 What Australia Offers To The Holidaymaker Easy To Reach, Easy To Live AUSTRALIA'S attraction for the tourist from Malaya and other' Eastern countries lies In the fret that the vast island-continent not only offers conditions entirely different in very many ways from the equatorial lane's but also is the only
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    • 82 13 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA gk tf% HU m* mm m AUSTRALIA yW CORDIALLY INVITES THE PEOPLE Mv fiJvL =a OF SINGAPORE TO HER STANDS BRITISH TRADE FAIR, E GREAT W RLD l-i^^^^m^^^^^ ALL DETAILS ARE OBTAINABLE REGARDING MANY FACILITIES FOR nßA^LjrsßlJ l^^ TRAVEL AND THE EXCELLENCE OF THE EDUCATION AVAILABLE *Wt£3^
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  • 473 14 Effect Of Empire Preference THE trade between Canada and British Malaya continues to increase both in variety and volume. During 1936 the total trade between the two countries was $20,994,000 of which $18,228,000 comprised exports from Malaya. In the previous twelve months these figures
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  • 40 14 CANADA exported 613,160 lb. of canned pears valued at $-10,192 to fifteen different countries during a recent month as compared with 111,206 lb. worth $8,465 a year b?fore. The Straits Settlements was among the Importing countries.
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    • 66 14 111 BRANDY AX A I I FESTIVITIES WPS. Q 'GOLDEN JjL VALLEY' fey!] AUSTRALIAN ||P*uxMvuLEvPj| B infe mm IW E W ran 6v M in I W0 m THE LABEL TO LOOK OUT FOR Rj A HIGH QUALITY BRAND fc T?~52£ '"?53 AT A LOW PRICE H I II ffl/
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    • 32 14 gmm. m^ mm M <iK$ %lz DODGE CARS AN D TRUCKS appearance and so obvious in LYONS MOTOR S LTD. ORCHARD ROAD, SINGAPORE. PHONE 5485 Represented throughout Malaya by WEARNE BROS, LTD.
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    • 869 15 THE STORY OF AN ALMOST UNTOUCHED SOUTH SEA TRIBE We, the Tikopia A Sociological Study of Kinship in Primitive Polynesia." By Raymond Firth, M.A.. I'll. I)., With a Preface by Brenwlaw Malinowski. George Allen and I'nwin Ltd. 30s. THE arresting title of this be ok is the
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    • 266 15 Some More Serious Works Available In Malaya •"THE following recently issued non- fiction works have been received and are now available in Malaya The King's Crowning. By the Rev. Robert 11. Murray. John Murray. 3s. 6d. Dr. Murray, after a prologue dealing with the Crown during the last century, gives
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    • 395 15 SET IN SOUTH AFRICA AND CATHEDRAL CITY C.ileeU. By Emmeline Morrison. Hntchinaon. 7s. fid. Low Destiny. By Paul Winter. Michael Joseph. 7s. 6d. MISS Morrison's clever study of a young girl of decided character living alone with her father on an Isolated farm in the driest and most inhospitable district
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    • 250 15 Fair Fat Lady. By Noel de Vie Beamish. Ivor Nicholson and Watson. 7s. 6d. Cairo Card. By S. C. George. Robert Hale. 7s. 6d. IT is no Joke being a freak, especially If you are sensitive and long for the normal joys of life, but
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    • 94 15 Death of a Sadist. By R. R. Ryan. Jenkins Colonial Library. It would have been very ?uay to overdo the horror of Deafh of a Sadist." but Mr. Ryan has carefuhy avoided that pitfall in nla portrait >t ■a brutal and cruel man. two ot whose victims were
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    • 149 15 POPULAR DANCE BOOKS JUST RECEIVED! LATEST EDITION !f How To Dante (With Illustrations) Mast complete instructions, in the art of Dancing. Price .75 The Art of Dane inc. (Introduction of CHd and Hew Dances) .75 Ballroom Dancing by Alex Moore with S6 diagrams Ac Photos 52.4* Modrrn Ballroom Dancing by
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    • 597 15 The most ECONOMICAL CAR MORE POWERFUL SWEETER RUNNING SAFER SOUND-INSULATED Why bos tbc Austin Seven sold so conttii4ci!«ly for acceleration, reduced vibration and extraordinary thirteen years why has the motoring publio oucb nwectnem of running. MOKE EFFICIENT faith in this truly remarkable car? Il is because BRAKES of the Girling
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    • 305 15 "I wish I could Strike on *U P ja some Money-making ldeafya. Sis* Men like the Rt. Hon. the Lord Riddell. Lord BadenPowell, Sir Arthur Quiller Couch. Sir John Foster Fraser. Sir Herbert Austin. Sir Max Pemberton and many more equally famous praise Pelmansm. the simple method of Increasing the
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  • 532 16 The Sunday Times EDITORIAL. MANAGERIAL AND ADVERTISING OFFICE: Cecil Street, Singapore. Totidem Verbis Truly Rural! ■IT was in "Little Dorrit that Charles Dickens so scathingly produced his indictment of the Circumlocution Office that is, the slavish, time-wasting routine and incorrigible evasiveness of government departments. Things haven't really changed much since
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  • 908 16 Retired Malayans Should Go Back To School! An Interview With Mr. William Stirling By The Sunday Times London Correspondent (From Our London Staff) London, Apr. 8. AMONG the retired Malayan civil servants who will not die from schizophrenia— the unfortunate state of mind— or disease— in which you suddenly lose
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  • 125 16 "Facts Fancy" Show (From Our Own Correspondent.) London. CCULPTURES and drawings, done as a hobby in his retirement, compose the unusual exhibition by Mr. William Stirling, who retired from the Malayan Civil Service in 1932, at the Wertheim Galleries, Burlington Gardens, London. The exhibition, appropriately named Facts and Fancy," is
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  • 180 16 102 —"OUT OF THE MOUTHS ff hat icill you do in the Next War, Daddy? (Hush, sonny: that none may say ''What are all these 'planes and guns for. Daddy?' 9 (Hush, boy discretion, pray "Why talk of gas-mask training, Daddy?" (Hush, rascal, lest they hear!) "Why fMust
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    • 37 16 THE SOUTH PACIFIC LINE inaugurates a new and direct route to NEW ZEALAND NO TRANSHIPMENTS. NEXT SAILINGS FROM SINGAPORE: s.s. "VAN REES" Bth May m.v. "MAETSUYCKER" 15th June For particulars apply to X.P.M. LINE, Finlayson Green, SINGAPORE.
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  • 50 17 DCFORE the Nepalese mission which is to represent Nepal at the Coronation ceremony left Bombay for London, it observed the custom of casting an offering into the water for the Goddess of the Sea. Th» Mission will present the King with the Insignia of Rajanva.
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  • 299 17 Film Lion Leaps, Misses Girl By Two Weeks Now Showing Sidelights on Animal Films The story Taken from the House of Commons debate, when Sir Robert Gower (Cons., Gillingham), chairman of the R.S.P.C.A., moved the second reading of the Cinematograph Films (Animals) Bill, the object of which is to prohibit
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  • 47 17 The largest single party of tourists since 1888 arrived in Jerusalem from the Duchess of Pichmond, when 1.050 English and Welsh poured into the city, filling 12 hotels. Seventy motor-cars, < 14 omnibuses, and two ipoclal trains i were used to convey the tourists lrom < Haifa.
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  • 41 17 ClevrUnd Tris Speaker, famous vetTJ-n o: American baseball and hero of a thousand games, has been critically injured In a fall from o window cf th-> second storey of his home, whe-e he was repairing a flow ;r box.
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  • 474 17 Their First Concern Is Rent And Food HOME WITH PARENTS WHEN POSSIBLE CiN what salary can a Malayan-born Englishspeaking clerk marry Inquiries by The Sunday Times reveal that clerks in Singapore have married with a salary as small as $25 a month, raised
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  • 119 17 HOW DO YOU BALANCE YOUR MONTHLY BUDGET? THE Sunday Times offers a first prize of $15 for the best letter of not more than 400 words from a clerk earning less than $75 a month explaining how he makes the most of his salary. A second prize of $10 and
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  • 107 17 U.S. AMBASSADOR "GOING NATIVE" IN LONDON New York. WIDESPREAD discussion has been aroused by the report that Mr. R. W. Bingham. the American Ambassador, has decided to wear knee breeches at the Coronation. While the State Department has ruled that the United States delegation may abide by the sartorial regulations
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  • 55 17 It is stated at Vienna that inure are now about 1,000 Austrian girls wording in England as domestic servants. A special English housekeeping school is popular there. Cooking "In the English way and the preparation of what are described as typical English meals are
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  • 234 17 Retires After 33 Years In Local Courts I Mil. CHARLES PESTANA, second court usher of the police courts, Singapore, has retired after 33 years' service in the courts. Mr. Pestana, "Charlie" as he was; always called by his colleagues.] was born in 188 C. He went to school at Raffles
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  • 232 17 INVISIBLE MAN "SEEN" BY 80 PEOPLE THE Invisible Man, dream of scientists for centuries, has really happened. He appeared and vanished befort a sceptical audience of more than eighty men and women in Craz, capital of Styria. says the Vienna correspond 3nt of the Daily Express. Three local engineers Jules
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  • 78 17 Trouble With Grand Canal Diggers At Wusih Peiping. *rEN thousand v;orkers, engaged in dredging the Grand Canal at Wusih, rioted when officials refused to give them their day's rice allowance before they started work, according to delayed reports from the scene. The men wrecked the police station
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    • 330 18 YOU MEET STANDARD "K" tfte EVERYWHERE ON THE ROADS! <& BUT YOU SELDOM MEET THE SO-CALLED CHEAP CYCLES NOW-A-DAYS. $5/- I *^^wjßk J ofioct*. YOU PAY FOR THE QUALITY AND GET ITS VALUE AFTER YEARS OF USEFUL SERVICE YOUR FRIENDS WILL BE ABLE TO TESTIFY TO THIS STATEMENT. Sole Agents:
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    • 257 18 wVtt^BS^iil SeUwlW* thirty-' I ■^3JB^I Sim tnT hol SOLE IMPORTERS $IM£.DAEBY&Co.,Ltd. BRITISH MALAYA AND SARAWAK THE LEADING MEDICINE #«g FOR SKIN DISEASES, ULCERS, /^W SORES, ENLARGED GLANDS, £B| BOILS, and BAD LEGS, RHEUMATIC COMPLAINTi, PAINFUL JOINTS, LOSS OF VIGOUR. i fj%s£jt^sk\ arlces Blood Mixture is the direct way to health
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    • 607 18 $100 FREE ENTRY CROSSWORD PUZZLE MONEY PRIZES FOR CROSSWORD ENTHUSIASTS OUR WEEKLY "MUST BE WON" OFFER The Sunday Times offers today $100 for a correct solution of the Crossword Puzzle printed below. Should no reader succeed in solving the puzzle correctly, the $100 will be awarded in respect of the
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  • 204 19 How The Individual Business Man Helps ttnpHE cultivation of trade between the units of the Empire has n.>t only come to stay but will be intensified," stated F. W. Field. C.M.G.. His Majesty's Senior r .rade Commissioner in Canada and Newfoundland, in a review of trade
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  • 51 19 CALES ot new automobiles, motor trucks and buses in Canada during the first eleven months of 1938 totalled 104,037 ar.d retailed at $107,316,480 This wus a gain of 9 per cent, in volume and 12 per cent, in value over sales in the corresponding period of
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  • 125 19 OLD NEWSPAPERS EXPORTED TO THE EAST iwHERE do the old newspapers go? This is a logical question when one considers the many millions of copies turned out from the thousands of presses throughout the word. They are liable to turn up in all sorts of places. Surprising as it may
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  • 137 19 /CANADIAN trade with the Orient is of particular interest to Canada's west coast province, British Columbia, where most of the shipping to the Far East is sent from the provincial sea ports. That China, Japan and Malaya are regarded as being very important to this
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    • 153 19 E-M PI REPRODUCTS Discriminating hostesses serve AYLMER Soups because of that delightful natural flavour. Your guests (and your family too!) will prefer them for the same reason... you can taste the difference. Soups, Tomato Catsup, Tomato Juice, Peas, Marmalade are only a few of the AYLMER range. J\ \A J\
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  • 1273 20 Australian Trade With British Malaya Prospects Of Even Closer Relations TFHE advent of regular airmail ser- vires has brought Singapore and .inmercial centres of Australia within lour days journey of each other. Prospects of even closer relations brighten the near future. The participation of Australia In the present British Trade
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  • 649 21 Max Factor's Advice HE SHOULD BE AS COSMETIC CONSCIOUS AS HIS WIFE! I CAN'T quite imagine a man who has not noticed the unusual beauty of Hollywood's feminine stars. Neither is it easy to imagine a woman who hasn't recognized a certain sleek, wellgroomed look
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  • 535 21 KIDNEY-SHAPED DRESSING TABLES POPULAR AS EVER IHDNEY-SHAPED dressing tables, and poufs of the same rounded shapes as stools, are as popular as ever. The newest version is a table fitted with a rod to hold the chintz, the rod swinging out at the slightest touch. Underneath is a well-made, and
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    • 311 21 J j^ LOOK SMARI >■ IS NOT enough j but to Look DISTINCTIVE U whit >•« should imM. We h»ve a «tyle »lw»s> THE LATEST THE BEST FOB EVERYONE LVEN THE MOST DISCRIMINATING. See us today and avoid disappointment. FIGARO. 93. BRAS BASAH ROAD AND RAFFLES HOTEL PHONE 2868 has
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    • 26 21 PARMANAND 'S have received a fresh Consignment of most fashionable material of every description. Specially imported for Coronation Season. PARMANAND BROS. 42, HIGH STREET. PHONE 6766.
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    • 455 21 Innoxa Preparations trt /^H Bnliih made. They rre L I Hf MM j^^BK^ the Creation of Dr. Debit, Bk I I By MM the famous dermatolo%i>l H H^^/VB trui art recommended by H B^^k^^^H y\^Mm iHk dx Medical Profession. A V^H BY *WM\\\\\mm\mm \UMmr SHADOW OF TIME THE TWENTIES. Time
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  • 403 22 Your Eyes Should Be Beautiful And Healthy MOST smart women, nowadayr, spend time and trouble every day in making their eyes look as large and lustrous as possible with the help of all the modern cosmetics at their disposal and why not For everybody's eyes, however naturally beautiful they may
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  • 680 22 STRAIGHT SKIRTS AND HIGH WAISTLINES ANE might suppose that frocks and ensembles in lighter and thinner materials would be less severe in line than last season's. But fashionable silhouettes still show such definite tendencies as skirts which are straight, and waistlines high and outlining the bust.
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  • 148 22 Any fish season sole, bream or small codling Fish stock Little butter 2 tablespoonfuls tomato sauce Mixed vegetables— spinach, lettuce, sorrel, celery, parsley Half a lemon OHRED the vegetables, using any that happen to be in season, and stir in a little chopped parsley. Put into a
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  • 128 22 y 2 lb. rump steak 2 oz. suet 1 tablespoonful rice 1 tablespoonful sieved boiled onion Stock V 2 lb. sieved tomatoes Flour AffINCE the steak, and chop the suet finely. Mix together all the ingredients save tomatoes and stock. Flour the hands and form into balls the
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  • 58 22 London Sausage Scramble Currant Jelly Toasted English Muffins Raw Vegetable Salad, Roquefort Dressing Macaroon Ice Cream and Coffee DROILED open-faced sandwiches D might have been especially invented for buffet parties. They smell so marvellous they look so good as they bubble and brown under th* heat and. they're
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    • 230 22 Mabson "VOGUE" Singapore's Largest Exclusive Ladies' Ready-to-Wear Store FOR THE GALA EVENTS OF CORONATION HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE VI FIRST IN FASHION... FIRST IN VALUE. Presents the latest creations designed by Molyneux for the season of elegance AFTERNOON BRILLIANCE FOR WOMEN OF DIGNITY FOR "COCKTAIL I'RO.MLNADE" AND TEA-PARTY GOWNS VOGLE'S
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    • 354 22 WOMEN of TastePREFER QUALITY SILKS ALL OVER THE WORLD NOTHING CUT b^st SILKS are sold Bt WASSIAMULL'S 31-33, HIGH ST. SINGAPORE. Cut out these I washing hints I Kjjl Sprinkle Lux in a bowl 't\\ _^l of cold water and whisk 1 4t!)t" to a lather. liC^" Turn stockings inside
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  • 35 23 A SMARTLY printed crepe in navy and white is chosen for this little dress for afternoon wear. It has a contrast colour waistband. Model by Marshall and Snelgrove.
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  • 713 23 The Care Of Your Dog-VII EYES, EARS, AND NAILS pui'PIES should cpen their eyes on the ninth or tenth day after they arc born. Ii they are not open on the twelfth day and there is a little discharge alang the edges of the lids the tycs should be fomented
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  • 1624 23  -  E. M DELAFIELD By A Short Story IJELEN, the very young girl, lay 1 back silently in her armchair and listened. She knew that she was looking exactly as she felt youthful, and demure, and withdrawn. Immensely withdrawn from the two middle-aged women, her hostess and the guest who
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    • 236 24 6hrFORD¥« jf\ INTRODUCING A NEW LOW PRICE LEVEL 'Jm TJ: /iV LUXURY CAR VALUE. jM fl i/ h^bblßfeMtm SENSATIONAL PETROL ECONOMY J^ The new 22 h.p. V-type 8-cyllnder engine Is almost an exact replica Wuwl of the famous 30 h.p. V-8 engine except for size, weight and power. It delivers
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  • 322 25 Realism In War Epic With Crackers MUSIC FROM "TALKING MACHINE" (By Our Seremban Correspondent) WORK is proceeding at Temiang. near the site where the amusement park used to be, for a new cinema. This hall should be a welcome addition to Seremban's amenities. I
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    82 25 PICTURE taken after the wedding of Mr. Farleigh M. Theseira. cf St. Francis* Institution, Malaga, and Miss Alice Thomas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Thomas, of Bukit Seremban Estate, Seremban. Standing (from left) are: Mr. A .J. Rozario (sponsor) Mirs Ella Jumeaiix, Miss Gladys Theseira (bridesmaids). Bridegroom and
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  • 229 25 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Batu Pahat. IN the final of the Inter-school District Basketball Tournament for girls, the Al Choon Girls team beat the Ber.g Khoon Girls by 13 points to 8. The local team (Ai Choon) had the better combination and were a shade
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  • 312 25 SEREMBAN CORONATION PLANS (From Oar Own Correspondent.) Seremban. AMONG the Item* in the Malay rtion at the forthcoming] Coronation lant°rn procession at j Serembun will be a battleship complete with cr^w. This representation is being arranged by Inche Abdul Aziz M.S.C., and Haji Ibrahim of Scren.b
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    29 25 Mr. Henry lord and his son Edsel. standing in admiration behind the newest ty>e engine the 1937. 22 horsepower V-8. The 30 horsepower engine is shown at the left.
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  • 315 25 ECONOMY GOOD PERFORMANCE TTHE Ford Motor Company of Malaya, Ltd.. has just announced the new 1937 V-8 22 horsepower car. This new model is termed the "Economy Car In the Low Priceci Field," and is presented for those who want maximum economy with
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  • 1525 26 By The Sunday Times Malacca Correspondent TiiK lollowiiib nominations have been received lor officers for the next Rotary year Juiy 1. 1937. to June M). 1938 President. Mr. A. W. Frisby (Mr. Ho Seng Ong and Mr. Tan Chong Lcki vice-president. Mr. Ho Seng Ong. 'Dr. A.
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  • 725 26 THE Seng Cheong Society of Malacca travelled to Jasin on Sunday and met Jasin Club at cricket. The Chinese lost by 27 runs at the end of an afternoon's enjoyable sport. Batting first, they compiled only 67 runs. Chang Kam Swee. Tarn Weng Hon and Lee
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    • 196 26 I Look at I the 'NECK' lof this [tube y Every tube of Macleans Toothpaste is fitted with a pure white neck and cap of porcelain-like material. This new exclusive patent of Macleans keeps the toothpaste clean, fragrant and hygienic, and absolutely guarantees it free from unsightly discoloration from the
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  • 222 27 Customs As Likely League Champions (Frcm Our Own Correspondent.) Johore Bahru. |T is very creditable that all the elev?n league matches flxed for April have been played without a single request for postponement in j>pite o: the rainy weather and the consequent ursuitability of the ground. So
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  • 142 27 'From Our Own Correspondent). Segamat. VHE Eegarr.ut Cricket Club will visit Tampii to play the Recreation Club In th?ir return cricket fixture today. In the first match at Segamat. seme time ago, Tampin lost by an innings am! a few runs. Ajaib Singh hitting up a
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  • 99 27 (From Our Own Correspondent Batu Pahat. The Japanese community of Batu Pahat held their second annual rports and gymkhana last wee.-, Oki won the championship lor the second yoar in succession. Sawayama was runnerup: High Jump 1 Sawayumu 2 Oki: 400 meres 1 Murakany 2
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  • 86 27 (From Our Own Correspondent) Batu Pahat. In a football game here the Young j^at tne Chinese by the only goal of the match scored Just beiore the final whistle. The teams were well matched and played a fast came throughout. Towards the latter part of the game the
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    39 27 (■ruu. pu >u>eraph of the member iwi the Mayflower B.P. taken at iti. jtUamm of Mr. Lim Kirn Tian, on Sunday, Apr. 18. The occasion was in celebration of the successes achieved by members in the 1936 Sincapore championship*
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    15 27 The Military football team which beat the Batu Pahat Ranters by three goals to nil.
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  • 266 27 MUAR FOOTBALL LAND OFFICE STILL DOING WELL (From Our Own Correspondent.) Muar. WHO will be the 1937 league champions? This question is being asked by all local football enthusiasts The aspirants for League honours are the Land Office. Tangkck. and the Pedara Tunggal (last year's champions;. The Land Oflice have
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  • 175 27 From Our Own Correspondent.) Batu Pahat. \X7ITH the end of the open doubles tournament lawn tennis enthusiasts are now practising hard for the Falconer Cup competition and th,district tournament. Credit is dv? to the Chinese Recreation Club who have by their Interclub tennis matches and
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  • 42 27 Jamaica. Mr. Jerome H. Louchelm's Ponipoon. the winter book favourite for the Kentucky Derby, won the $7,500 added Paumonok Handicap over six furlongs in the feature event of the opening programme of the metropolitan season here.
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  • 481 27 (From Our Own Correspondent) Segamat. T^HiTRE was an exciting finish to the cricket match between the Combined Present and Past Boys of the Government English School and the India Ceylon Association on the town padang, the Boys winning by five runj, despite a fighting Innings of
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  • 83 27 I From Our Own Correspondent > Segamat. JT was wrongly stated last week that the Johore Bahru Cricket Club postponed their cricket fixture with the Segamot Cricket Club and also that was the second time that this Club had disappointed teams in Johore, the first occasion being against
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  • 100 27 The following is the present position of competitors in the Malayan Re rifle competition C. W. Wells, 99, 98, 98, 98, 96, 489: D. F. Button, 93, 95, 93, 95. 97, 473; H. J. Barnard, 93. 96. 92. 95. 97. 473; M. B. Longmore, 90, 100, 91, 92,
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    • 406 27 klXltS RSv^^ See the International View Hotel on Saturday t> vA5' Prizes for costumes by night, May 15. Hu^ Messrs. Charles Heidsieck. Recipe for Pleasure Make up your parly and take it to the Sea View on Saturday night. May 15. Persuade Your lady friends who i.now hou to wear
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  • 2207 28 Thrilling Dead-Heat In First Race SUCCESS OF LADY THOMAS'S ROSTRUM A FINE win by Vandal, third favourite in a field of twelve in the chief event, in the Anniversary Cup, of $3,000 and cup, with the first favourite. Thebez, in second place, and
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  • 252 28 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. DRIGHT cricket was witnessed on D the padang today in the first day's play of the annual Europeans ajrainst The Rest match. When stumps were drawn for the day. The Rest had compiled the huge total of 288
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  • 111 28 EXACTLY one hundred entries have been received for the V.M.C.A. lawn tennis tournament which began on the Association courts at Bras Basah Road yesterday. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Men's Sinrles "A Dr. O. Handas beat Kobayashi 6—3. 6—2. A. J. Pere!ra beat Yadl 6-0, 12—10. Men's singles "ft": Lee
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  • 754 28 INTERNATIONAL FOURS AND JUNIOR SCULLS. 1 VERY full programme has been arranged for the stcond Rowing Regatta of the season at the Royal Singapore Yacht Club. Four crews hav t entered lor the international fours cue and there are six enterles for U.e junior sculls. The
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  • 153 28 BRYANT SHIELD TENNIS AT MALACCA St. Francis Beat Jasin Club (From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca Saturday. Latest results in the Malacca Lawn Tennis Association Bryant Shield League are as follows. 'A' DIVISION ST. FRANCIS ASSOCIATION beat Jasin Club by three games to nil Ties (SF.A.) mentioned first: P. F. de
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  • 203 28 KHALSA Association tkleuted the S.C.R.C. by a bis margin at cricket yesterday on ths Hong Lim Green, scoring 109 to which the Chinese could only reply with 44. Tharam Singh made the highest total for the day of 'it while Dharma Raj contributed a jood
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  • 121 28 The women's match betwe n Garrison Oolf Club anu Sepoy Lines Golf Club, played at Sepoy Lines on Thursday, resulted in a win tor the Ggrrison Club by 5U points to 4%. Details Garrison first: Mrs. D. F. Brown 0 Mrs. G. V. Allen l; Mrs. A. M.
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  • 35 28 London, Apr. 26. In the Brighton tournament Boussus, of France, beat the Chinese player, Kho Sin Kle. 6—3. 6—3, and then overcame Stedman. of New Zea'and. 7 5, 7 s.— Aneta-Trans-Occan.
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  • 515 29 Preston Lose 3-1 After Leading 1-0 At Half-Time IN the Football Association Cup fkial at Wembley Stadium yesterday 1 before the Kin* and Queen aad a crowd of 93,000 Sunderland beat Preston North End by three goals to one, after having been
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  • 997 29 LTS of the games played in the Jerques yesterday, with Im •-■<■ tables up to date, are: Dave Crowl.y is due to onset Pete Barron. the world's fer.th»r-welght chamo in. ri Harrlngay on May 6 Lord Swinun the Air M.iasijr flew from Yorkshire to Hanworth to see
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    25 29 Yadi in action .n the V.M.C.A. lawn tennis singles tournament yesterday Kobayashi in action in the V.M.C.A. lawn tennis singles tournament yesterday. Sunday Times Photographs.
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  • 265 29 S.R.C.'s OFF DAY Hall Fahy In Action For Engineers IN reply to the R.E.s total of 11 1 for eight wickets declared, S. C. knocked up 90 In the one day match on the S.R.C. padang yesterday. Hall's effort of 41 not out was the outstanding feature of the R.E.
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  • 58 29 At Lords M.C.C. 339 Yorkshire 30 for 3. At Oxford: Gloucester 324. DarwallSmith 7 for 44 Oxford Univ. 161 for 3. Barton 96 not out. At Manchester: Derbyshire 341 for 7, Worthington .03: vs. Lancashire. At Cardiff: Glamorgan 551, Dyson 104. Daid Davles 118: Kent 44 for 4.
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  • 191 29 nESULTS of ties in the SRC. lawn tennis tournament Championship Singles C. A Norris beat I M. Eber 6—4. 4— C, B—6 :A. M. Va berg beat A. J Vaz 6 4 6—2. Mixed Doubts Handicap: MA Cjrdeiro and Mrs. L. M. Pennefather (—l5) beat Mr. and Mrs.
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  • 30 29 London, Apr. 27. Wiliiain SuLon. winner of the tile In 1929, beat Cyril Tolley 3 and 1 in the English Amateur Golf Championship at Taun ton— Renter
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  • 260 29 'THERE was a close match between V.M.C.A. and the S.C.C. second eleven on the S.C.C. padang yesterday which resulted in a win for the S.C.C. with two balls to spare. V.M.C.A. started well but after the first three men were gone, rot set in and
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  • 124 29 MALAY REGT. SUFFER FIRST DEFEAT (From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban. TPHE Malay Regiment soccer team, who had to their credit five successive wins, were beaten by the Negri Sembilan Indian Association by two goals to one. The match was the keenest and the most evenly contested league fixture thus far
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  • 62 29 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca. Saturday. The Selangor Club beat the Malacca Ciub at soccer here today by 5 4, the score at half-time being 3 3. 8. Lucock (2), R. Peacock. R. Bennet and T. D. Dolg scored for the winners, while L. H.
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  • 100 29 (From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru A start wu made on Friday at the Ayer Molek Malay School Courts with the Interdepartmental badminton tournament organised for the first time this year. Three doubles and singles were played between the p.w.d. md the Police and the former, who had
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  • 285 29 S. C. C. Batsmen Flay Sungei Ujong Bowlers 215 FOR TWO DECLARED: HOME SIDE LOSE TWO FOR 76 (From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban Saturday. THE first century in Negri Sembilan after some years r as scored today by F. P. H. Pearse with 113
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  • 362 29 (From Our Own Correspondent) Segamat. ■THREE goals to nil was ths score 1 registered by the Singes against the Married in an interesting football match on the town padang. Play was well contested, the Singles having a slight superiority over their opponents. Th? Married
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  • 270 29 NEW ZEALAND BEAT CHINA IN DAVIS CUP Brighton, Saturday. IN Davis Cup games played here 1 today Kho Sin Kie (China) beat Stedman (New Zealand) 6—4. 6 4. I—6, 6 4, and Malfroy beat Choy 6—l, 6—3, 6—l. New Zealand thus wins by three matches to two. In previous games
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  • 49 29 A C'COKDING to a cable i ntoi last night hy the secretary of the Singapore Amateur Football Association, the S.A.F.A. fx'hall team now touring: in Sa^i !'"at the Army yrstrr-Jay by nn -I to nil. Today the team meets S-'.V ,on"s best team.
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  • 165 29 The cricket match at Farrr-r Tark on Saturday between the RA Blakan Matl. ane! Wrarne's wns drawn R.A. Freston b Michael 3 Washbroic b Michael 0 Holwill b Sullivan 0 iHa'.d.T. b ITebarl 0 |L -ut Fr»r~!s b r--"va.i 8 Vernon C/T. Crowther b
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  • 706 30 Getting Ready For Malayan Inter-State Tournament Kirn Fatt And Chin Tee In Kuching BY OUR BADMINTON CORRESPONDENT PREPARATIONS for the selection of a strong local team to compete In the Malayan Chinese inter-State tournament to be held here in connection, with the fourth Ch'neie Olympiad
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    67 30 !i taken m beard the s.s. Marudu during the departure of Leow Kirn Fatt and Yap Chin Tee. They were invited by Urn Ruining Badminton Association to rive exhibition games there, and will he there for two weeks. Left to right: Michael Tan, Lim ChtMM Oak. Leow Kirn Fatt. Yap
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  • 169 30 At the Great World restaurant la/t weekend members of the Marigold B.P. gathered to celebrate the successes achWr.d by Mr. Tan Chong Tee In annexing the 1936 Sin- gspore m»n's open singles and men's open double championship titles. The President. Mr. Koh Hua Quec, made h in which
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  • 79 30 Me-ryliire B.P. oer.t *he Augustlads B P by three Rimes to two. Results. <M»-ryitme first >: Sin-'es: Richard Tan beat Koh Thian i—l 2. 15—10: K. Oleviro lost to Tay Gar. Tin B— IS. 12—15. 10—15; AJxuilM MrUtnr tr-t Khco Soon Guan 15 5, ***** 11 rr--ll"<=: Ri^hnrd
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  • 39 30 The first 1937 ir.onthly general meeting of th» Amateur Sporting Association will be May 5. at 8 p.m. at the rr«k!«nc" of Mr. Khoo Eng Watt. 41. Craig Road. Me*n'"*r htt> camapaign will close on Wc:tn- 30.
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  • 45 30 The Qu.miies B P. of Kuala Lumpur wore baa when they met the Iv.ay Institute. Five matches <• rt fro sinsl s and three doubles. I'd In a draw. The K.L. party w r r .vr.-d to tea and uter they left for U
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  • 15 30 D "C team will meet C team today at 3.30 pjn. Cavanagh Road.
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  • 97 30 (From Our Own Correspondent) SeTemban. Tuan Sheikh Ahmad presided at the annual general meeting of the NegTi Sembilan Badminton Association held at the St. Paul's Old Boys' Association, when the following new office-bearer were elected for the year: President, Tuan Sheil:h Ahmad (re-elected); vice-presidents, Mr. Kung Jit Seng
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  • 46 30 The following will represent the Rex B.P. against the Merridale B.P. today at the latter's court at 3.30 p.m. E. W. Yeo, S. B. Eng. J. H. Gwee, Y. F. Sun and T. N. Teo. Reserves Francis Sim, Robert Yeo and Teoh Tham Poh.
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    17 30 A picture taken at the funeral of Mrs Khoo Kian Chiang: (Ne» Chia Hup Neo) in Singapore.
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    73 30 The Diehard B.P. which m«t the Jo rial B.P. at the Clerical Union Hall, in a friendly inter-party match. Rack row, left to right: Koh If. im Swee, Tan Peng; Hock, Lej Seng Hor, Michael Tan, Ahmad Mattar, and M. Hodri. Front row. Jovial 8.P., left to right: Sim Yeow
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    56 30 The Merry time B.P. which met the August lads B.P. at Geylanc in a friendly match. Back row, left to right: Wan Hussicn, Edmund Yeo. A. ■agak, K. Oleveiro. Sitting, left to right: Richard Tan K<m Koor, Abdullah Mattar, Mansoor bin Mohd Alkree and Mah Bah Chee. The Merrytime B.P.
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  • 325 30 •THIE ninth anniversary of the Sect Kirn 1 Cheng B.P. was celebrated on Saturday a d Sunday. Apr. 17 and 18, at the tun?a- low of Mr. Aw Boon Haw. During dinner the honorary secretary R"ve a brief speech,' and concluded by thanking Mr. Aw Boon
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  • 65 30 The following will represent the Gentle B.P. against the Straits Moslem BP. In the final of the All-Moslem Inter-Party tournament today at the Victoria School hall at 215 p.m. M. Hodri. A. Rahman. A. Rahim. S. Fardan. Kemat Sallch. Suadi, A. Taib. Husalni and A. Rani. Players and
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  • 54 30 Members of the United A.P. are asked to assemble at 11, Bencoolen Street, today at 7 a.m. for free transport to Mr. Chlng Kee Sun's bungalow, at Kee Sun Road, for the annual picnic. The following are the sports events 100 yards flat race, swimming (long distance), obstacle
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  • 421 30 More than 40 members of the Mayflower B.P. and guests participated in a most enjoyable function on Sunday. Apr. 18, at the residence of Mr. Llm Kok Huat, 36, Jurong Road, in celebration of Ihe numerous successes achieved by the Party's members In j the 1936 Singapore championships.
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  • 100 30 At the Thong Yew Koo lak Por (0.X. A.) special genrral meeting held at the Association's premix^s 155-B. Rochore Road Mr. Tan Chea Tong was elected hon. secretary In place of Mr. Tan Leng Soo. In future payments should be addressed to the hon. treasurer. Mr. Chla
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  • 123 30 The August Badminton Party will visit Pulo Samboe this week end to play friendly matches of soccer and badminton against the Samboo Clerks' Club. Soccer teem, Iron Soo Ouan. Swee Ouan, Teck Chye, Ah Loo. Pook Loy, Lye Chuan. Chin Ann. Eng Hong. Koh Inn. Be Soo. Ah
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  • 109 30 (From Our Own Correspondent) Batu Pahat. Badminton enthusiasts are disappointed at the present inactivity of the 8.P.8.A. Hopes of a d strict tournament were h:_jh when the Association was formed but up to date the longed for competition has not yet been proposed. Aspirants to the
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  • 142 30 (Prom Our O-'.-n Correspondent.) Seremban. Me.-.srs. J. D. Sundraj and Kung Jit Seng will represent Negrl Sembilan at the forth- coming general meeting of the Malayan Badminton Association, which will be held ■t Malacca. Negri Spmblltn will also be entering a team for the Foong
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  • 59 30 (From Our Own Correspondent) NJuar. The badminton season in Muar will open the middle of May when the inter-par f y tournament for the challenge cup presented by Tengku Ahmad will be run by the Muar Badminton Association. Entries are being called for and it
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  • 95 30 Playing at the Singapore Pena court last Sunday the Java Pranakan Club beat the S.ngapore Pena B.P. ty four games to three. Scores (Java Pranakan first): A. Rahim lost to Bakar 4 15, 3 15; Same beat Ibraliim 13—13. o—s,0 5, 15 13, 1111;5 11; Badron beat
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  • 297 30 (By Shuttlecock) Penang QIMULTANEOUSLY with the rua- ning of the Jrnior badmlntan championships, the Penang Badrr.inUn Association is now holding the junior inter-ieam tournament in which 13 teams a r e entered. Last year's junior inter-teair champions were the Llmsteaders and they will certainly have to fight
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  • 88 30 The Jovial B.P. jeat the Diehard BP in a friendly match by three games to iwo at the Clerical I'nion Kali last Sunday. Result* (Jovial first) Lee Yang Chim beat Tau Peng Hock 15—12, 15—5; Sim Yeow Urn beat Lee Sang Hor 15—7, 13—13 (3— s> I 1111;5
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  • 543 31  -  ECHO' By Will Wise Retain Or Smith Regain? Team From Si am May Visit Malaya \itHETHER Norman Wise will tomorrow retain or Roy Smith will regain the S.C.C. lawn tennifl singles title it is difficult to predict, after their prolonged battle to set-all
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  • 50 31 New York. Pedro Mcntanez, veteran Puerto Ricar. lightweight, scored a six round knoci-out here over Eddie Ran, of Poland. The bout had been set for tei; rounds Montanez entered the ring at 137! 2 tb.. while the Polish fighter tipped the beam at 144' 2 lb-
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  • 287 31 SINOMITES GET TEN AGAINST MALACCA CLUB THE Malacca Club met the Sinomites at soccer on Thursday at the padang and lost by ten goals to nil. The Europeans were not at full strength and were disorganised in consequence. The Slnomites, fresh from four sucwins in local soccer, played with proper
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  • 111 31 (From Our Own Correspondent) Muar. VON bin Mian, the All-Johore Tennis champion scored another creditable victory when he beat the provincial champion from New Zealand, V Mobin. 6—4, 6—l, at the Civil Service Club courts. Mobin was a hard hitter and fully extended Yon in
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  • 114 31 JOHORE P. T. CLUB (From Our Own Correspcuue. 1 1 Johore Bahru. At the annual general meeting of the Posts and Telegraphs Club, Johore. th- following were elected office-bearers: President, Inche A. Ranee bin Ibrahim; vice-president. Inche A. Rahman bin Jaafar; hon. secretary and treasurer, Inche Omar bin Haji Ismail;
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    14 31 The Batu Pakat second cricket team which lost to the Muar second cricket team.
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  • 214 31 Bhaskaran Top Scorer With 41 "THE Indian Association defeated the Nondescripts' Cricket Club by three wickets in a match on their own ground yesterday. N.C.C. C. Perera lbw.. b Sithambaram 7 G.N. Fernando b Varma 26 T. Sta Maria b Sithambaram 0 S. de Silva
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  • 78 31 i From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh. Saturday. Heavy rain fell when play had I scarcely started in the Storch and Allin cups tennis competitions on the Ipoh Club courts this afternoon and no play was possible. The matches will be played tomorrow. Mrs. Allin.
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  • 48 31 Milan. An Italian team of fourteen amateur boxers, accompanied by Signor Eduard Mazzla. President of the Italian Boxing Federation, will sail on May 28 for New York. The team will compete with American amateurs on June 9 at Madison Square Garden.
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  • 271 31 ■THE Ceylon Sports Club gained a convincing cricket victory over Si Andrew's Old Boys Association on the their own ground yesterday, the home team winning by eight wickets. They continued batting and eventually finished with 215 on the board and five wickets in hand. Ignatius
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  • 54 31 (From Our Own Correspondent) Batu Pahat. Apr 28. Six teams are taking part In the inter-club basket-ball tournament organised by the Batu Pahat Chinese Recreation Club. Play starts on May 1 and the draw is as follows Government English School bye. Kiong Hua vs. Peck Sua. Hua,
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  • 228 31 (From Ou r Own Correspondent) Segamat. PLAYING on the town padang last week, the Segamat Malays secured a hard-earned soccer victory over the Chinese Recreation Club by three goals to two. The standard of play was quite high at times, despite the fact that the
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  • 138 31 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Seremban. MATCHES are being played to schedule in the Negri Sembilan Football Association League and on present form the Malay Regiment and like winners, with the N S. Indians and Chinese shewing up well too. The positions in the league up to Thursday
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  • 176 31 (From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban mitATCHES have begun In the inter- club lawn tennis tournament for the Chang Seng Long Cup which has been held for the past two years by the Negri Sembilan Chinese R.C. The N.S. Japanese Association beat the Port Dickson Club
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  • 542 31 TWO MUAR FOOTBALL GAMES iFrom Our Own Correspondent.) Muar. 'THE Land Office scored their third successive win in the local football league when they defeated the Police by four goals to two on the Muar Club padang. The Land Office were clearly the better
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  • 358 32 Basis Of A Malayan "Navy" TTHE Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Singapore Division, was founded three years ago tomorrow. With a fixed personnel of 50 officers and 200 Malay ratings, the unit has its headquarters at No. 2 Godown where the training vessel 11. M.5.
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