The Straits Times, 4 July 1937

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    39 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES THE LEADING SUNDAY NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA FINAL EDITION No. 289 Sunday, July 4, 1937 Price 10 cents. THE SUNDAY TIMES v The Leading Sunday Newspaper In Malaya. No. 289 Sunday. July 4, 1937 Price 10 cents
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    MALAYA'S OWN NEWS REEL
    452 1 Hollywood Cameraman Leaves For U. S. To Buy Gear NEW COMPANY HAS $100,000 CAPITAL Laboratories To Be Most Up-To-Date In Asia I A I AY A is to have its own film and newsreel company. Before leaving for Hong- Kong by the Kaiser-i-Hind yesterday on his
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    Court Cuts Lawyer's Address
    225 1 Court Cuts Lawyer's Address FOURTH DAY OF JOHORE APPEAL (From Our Own Correspondent.) Johore Bahru, Saturday. AT the fourth day's hearing by the Johore Court of Appeal of the appeal of Mr. I. A. de Z. §ri»vardhene against suspension 4Mn*tegal practice for three qponths. on grounds of unprofessional] conduct, the
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    STOP PRESS
    262 1 HENLEY REGATTA Silver Goblets: Vesta beat London by three lengths in 9 mln. 43 sec. Stewards Cap: Leander beat Thames. lei.gth. 8 mln. 32 tec. Grand Challenge: Viking (Germany) beat Ji-sus College, half length, 7 mln. 33 sec. Visitors Cup: Trinity Hall beat Oriel, easily, 8 mm. 16
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    FORECAST OF T. P. A. ELECTIONS
    85 1 'From Our Own Corresponds I London, July 3. AT the annual meeting of the Tin Producers' Association which is to be held in London on July 13. it ii anticipated that the chairman. Sir William Henry Peat, and tht vicechairman, Mr. Reginald Pawle. will
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    MARVEL
    36 1 "I AM constantly hearing of Quite large men who are altoavs ttying to throttle very small women, 'and they never succeed. It is a marvel to me." Mr. Justice Langton, in the London Divorce Court.
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    47 1 A LLRIGHT allright, you needn't make a scene," says the curly headed competitor to his companion. "I only said you hadn't much of a chance, but you'll have less If you don't smile' at the judge." An amusing scene during the baby show held at Wembley recently.
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    CLOSING PRICES
    122 1 (Kiom Our Own Correspondent.) London. Saturday. Copra, straits SD. Rotterdam, m. Palm Oil, hulk, c l.f norn '<-, Gold £7 silver (Spo«i 19" s d. I mantha 19 IS 164. Cotton 6.75 d. Exchanges: Paris. 18«; New York. 4.94 9 16 Amsterdam, 8 99',; Hone Kane Is. 2
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    Atlantic Air Service Trials
    131 1 TO BEGIN TOMORROW Crossings From East And West AVIATORS the world over are anticipating Monday evening when after many months of elaborate tests and weather observations the Imperial Airways 18-ton flying-boat Caledonia and the PanAmerican Airways giant Sikorsky make the first official AngloAmerican trials from opposite
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    SOVIETS LEAVE AMUR RIVER ISLETS
    106 1 SOVIETS LEAVE AMUR RIVER ISLETS Tokio, Saturday. A MESSAGE from Hsinking states that in accordance with the Shigemitsu-LitvinofT agreement Soviet forces, including more than 20 patrol boats, began this afternoon the evacuation of the Sennufa and Bolyshoi Islets in the Amur River. The Kwantung army has issued a statement expressing
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    PAHANG CONSOUD ATED HAS NEW CHAIRMAN
    75 1 'From Our Own Correspondent) London. July 3. THERE has been a change in the directorate of Pahang Consolidated Company Ltd. Mr. H. Frlsby who has j been chairman of the company for I several years, has relinquished this appointment and is succeeded by Mr.
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    BARON MARCHWOOD AS TIN DIRECTOR
    41 1 (From Our Own Correspondent. > London. July 3. Baron Marchwood of Penang, for- merly Sir George Penny, has been ap- pointed a director of Consolidated Tin Smelters Ltd. which controls Eastern Smelting Co. Penang— Sunday Times cable.
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    Earhart Rescue Rumour Unfounded
    129 1 A HONOLULU broadcast report that Amelia Earhart had been rescued is described as an unfounded rumour in United States naval circles. Last heard of ft 3.32 a.m. (Singapore time) on Saturday, Miss Earhart wirelessed New York that her twin-engined Lockheed Electra had only half-an-hour's fuel. She
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    Used His Wife As A Horse
    166 1 New York. A Jl'Kl of 'Hillbillies" from tlie mountains acquitted, at Woodbury. Tennessee. 72-year-old farmer John Davis on a charge of murdering his wife bj harnessing her to a plough and using her as a horse. He wns found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced
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    Colony Cavalcade
    2076 2 Singaporeans And Others A New Movement In the Settlement Past Present FOR a month of Sundays this page has been distinctly controversial, not to say liverish, and readers may welcome a change today. Fortunately that is possible, for the topic which is uppermost in my mind at the
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    THIS BOXER HAS "LANDOWNER"- ON HIS PASSPORT
    319 3 Mohamed Fahmy, Now In Singapore, Once hen Harvey's Sparring Partner PROUDEST POSSESSION IS HIS BOOK "MY FIGHTING LIFE" Owns Elaborate Mansion And Property In Cairo CMILING Mobamed Fahmy, finely built Egyptian boxefighting here, arrived in Singapore with "landowner" on his passport, not professional
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    Nazi Rules For Car Drivers "SHOULD BE TREATED WITH LOVING CARE"
    357 3 Nazi Rules For Car Drivers "SHOULD BE TREATED WITH LOVING CARE" Berlin. TWELVE commandments have been 1 issued for members of the Naxi Motor Corps. They arc: (It Mastery cf driving and traffic rules (o not suffice. Th* Nazi driver set* an exr.mple by his chivalry and discipline. (2 The
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    BARRYMORE AND HIS EX-WIFE Together Again "Forever"
    108 3 BARRYMORE AND HIS EX-WIFE Together Again "Forever" Hollywood. /^REY-HAIRED John Barrymore, collarless and wearing a shabby suit, one-time matinee idol of the screen, clasped red-haired Elaine Barrie, his 21 -year-old exwife, in his arms after meeting her train at Hollywood Station. The couple hugged and kissed for about five minutes.
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    U.S. DOCTORS RECOGNIZE BIRTH CONTROL
    26 3 New /ork. At its annual meeting the American Medical Association, for the first time, recognized the medical practice of birth control.
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    FRASER AND CO.'S REPORT
    74 3 IN their daily report on the share mai>rv issued at the close of business yesterday. Messrs. Fraser and Co. state that conditions in the local market ruled very quiet, throughout! the day. Tin was unchanged <*X $127.25 j and rubber was easier, spot closing at 31
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    CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RUBBER ASSN.
    81 3 Saturday. Noon. No. 1 K. i; S. S. in cases (F. 0.8.) July 32 32', Good F. A. Q. in bales (F. 0.8.) July 31 5 16 31 7 16 No. 1 K. i: S. S. (Spot loose) Tone of Market: Easier, little Interest. Latest
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    BREAD PRICE PROTEST
    34 3 Five thousand women and children in Ontioch who demonstrated against the rise in bread prices attacked the Government and municipal buildings with stones and the market was closed to prevent looting.
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    KING'S CERTIFICATE
    30 3 King Peter of Jugoslavia, who is 13. was given his certificate of distinguished work in the fourth class of his schDol at a lit*'.- ceremony In Deninje Castle.
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    These "Moos" Make Zoo News
    53 3 These "Moos" Make Zoo News MEW arrivals at the Singapore Zoo at Ponggol are: Five than (wild gotta); Three drab and two Mings. tpecfaa *f wild cattle; Three nilcais, a species *f aa'«lope; Fear spotted deer; And four hog deer. All except the thars, which camp fron Australia, arrived last
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    CHASED INTO FRANCE
    26 3 Four Spanish Government aeroplanes made a hasty landing at the Biarritz aerodrome after being chased into French territory by Insurgent aircraft Sunday Times
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    NORWAY'S £1,000,006
    21 3 The Norwegian Parliament passed the Extraordinary National Defence Budget, providing for an expenditure of £1.000,000 spread over three years.
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    BATA FIRM BUYS THREE VILLAGES Population To Be Emigrated LAND TO BE USED FOR AGRICULTURE
    136 3 BATA FIRM BUYS THREE VILLAGES Population To Be Emigrated LAND TO BE USED FOR AGRICULTURE Belgrade. AMONG the remarkable rhanjjea brought about in late years in Yugo-Slav Macedonia is the recent purchase by the Czechoslovak Bata Company of three whole Moslem villages. Amdalia, Yeni Mahala, and Chanakia, near Strumitsa. Arrangements
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    FAREWELL DINNER (From Our Own Correspondent*
    76 3 FAREWELL DINNER (From Our Own Correspondent* Segamar WESSRS. Key Kirn Chong and K. S. It! nrr( (wo mem j, ers O f tj ie Mr. Key Kirn Chonf wishers and friends was present at the function. Public Works Department, wera entertained to a farewell dinner by the office staff. Mr.
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      701 3 IN SINGAPORE TODAY CINEMA Mails from Europe etc. (Amsterdam) exTaday petted today by air (Netherlands) will be U.HIMBRA: Ace Drummed." 3.15. 6.15 delivered to boxholders at 7 p.m. General it 9.15 delivery of letters on Monday at 8.25 a.m. CAPITOL: Ti.e Good Earth with Paul Malls from China am Japan
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    BLUE RIBAND ENGINEER TO BRING BREMEN I TO SINGAPORE
    308 4 BLUE RIBAND ENGINEER TO BRING BREMEN I TO SINGAPORE Two Trips On Far East Run To Give Him Experience GIANT LINER TO COME ALONGSIDE HERE THE man whose hand was on the throttle of the Norddeut- scher Lloyd Bremen when she won the Blue Riband of the Atlantic and who
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    YOUTH AND AGE
    41 4 QUEEN Mary attended a children's garden party in aid of the Invalid Children's Aid Association at Lambeth Palace, and received purses. In the picture she te seen wKh the Archbishop of Canterbury watching a little boy a sledge.
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    Japan Plans Air Service To Australia TOKIO-DARWIN IN—3£ DAYS
    116 4 Japan Plans Air Service To Australia TOKIO-DARWIN IN— 3£ DAYS AN air service between Japan and Australia m«y be established next year. Japan is taking the fir«t step with a service fro* Tokio to Palau Island. PRELIMINARY discussions about the service were begun when the Japanese delegation was in Australia
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    KINGSWAY STREETS
    29 4 To commemorate the Coronation, Holborn Borough Council propose that streets running north of Kingsway as far as the Cobden Statue, Camden Town, should be incorporated with Klngtway.
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    GOOD SOVIET CROPS
    19 4 Good crop conditions and very favourable harvest prospects are reported from all districts of Soviet Russia.
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    BENEFIT BALLET FOR FAMOUS DANCER
    100 4 BENEFIT BALLET FOR FAMOUS DANCER FAMOUS ballet dancers have collaborated to help their old colleague, Vaslav Nijinaky, vr.r* claimed to be the greatest dancer In the world, and now in a Swiss mental sanatorium. His reason lost, he is penniless. A gala matinee took place at His Majesty's Theatre. London,
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    H.C. Shrubsole In The London News
    136 4 FROM the Daily Express feature "People In London Now:" Lean, tanned, and wiry, Mr. H. C. Shrubsole, from Singapore, deals in condensed milk. He said: "In Sarawak there are Dyaks who have never seen a cow or heard of cow's milk. "I have charge
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    LIFTMAN * ON BETTING CHARGE
    73 4 LIFTMAN ON BETTING CHARGE Ipoh, Saturday. ABDUL RAHMAN, lift* attendant at Cheng Bok Buildings, Brewster Road, in which, among others are the offices of the Perak Turf Club, was this morning arrested allegedly with betting slips. He was produced before the Ipoh Magistrate and charged with accepting bets and trial
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    ELECTRICAL PUPPETS AT CHURCH FETE
    147 4 Big Crowd At K.L. Racecourse (Prom Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. T*HE church fair this evening at the racecourse In aid of the funds for St. Mary's Church was a great success. A constant stream of visitors thronged various sides which were well patronised.
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    Street Lighting Experiments
    411 4 By Film BRITAIN'S SCIENTISTS BUSY V/VAT is the host c«l*v f»r siMct lighting MNt motorists could supfir an answer, based on their own preference. Bat the National Physics Laboratory at TeddingUn, near L*ad*n, is not esneerned with Individual tastes. To nnd a scientific solution to the problem.
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    SOLVING THE MYSTERIES OF SPACE
    381 4 SOLVING THE MYSTERIES OF SPACE Discovery Of Two More Chemicals "LEAVINGS OF CREATION" A STRONOMEBS at Mount Wilson Observatory, in California, have been making discoveries about the "cosmic cloud" the tenuous sea of diffuse matter which, it is now believed, fills the whole of space, writes the Science Correspondent of
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    DAMAGES FOR PRINTER
    38 4 Damages oi £2,065 were approved by Mr. Justice Macnaghten In the King's Bench Division for Edwin Slllwood, aged 15. of Cheriton, Folkestone, whose rtght hand was caught in a printing machine, and rendered "absolutely useless."
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    OWNED UP TO $1,000 BREACH OF TRUST
    191 4 John Little's Bill Collector On Probation CONVICTED on a charge of having committed criminal breach of trust in respect of $1015.14 on various dates between March and June this year, a smartly dressed Straits-born Chinese Hokkien named LI Cheng Bun, aged 26, was
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    K. L. Trees Named After Princesses
    152 4 K. L. Trees Named After Princesses (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, July 2. TWO Flame of the Forest ueeB 1 were planted at the Kuala Lumpur Girl Guides' hut yesterday and named Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose in the presence of a hundred Brown: The ceremony was performed
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    POSTAL PEON GAOLED FOR THEFT
    90 4 Warning To Others Says Magistrate 'From Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. pONVICTED on a charge of thett of a parcel containing a woollen coat addressed to Mrs. T. Dlckson. of the K.R.I, experimental plantation at Sungel Buloh, Kolandasamy, a postal peon, was sentenced to
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      41 4 Bth DAY.. 20 Shows and Every One Packed Out I ICAPITOLI 3 SHOWS TODAY! Pearl Buck's great story continues its glorious Screen Triumph LUISE RAINER s«i PAUL MUNI in M.G.M'. THE GOOD EARTH with 2000 players. (W Early! No Precedng SWts.
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    MALAYA NOT TO ATTEND TOKIO PARLEY
    260 5 WORLD EDUCATION CONGRESS Mr. F. J. Morten Explains Refusal LACK OF FUNDS AND STAFF WUHILE Asia's biggest medical congress, the Far Eastern Rural Hygiene Conference, is being held at Bandoeng next month, the Seventh World Conference of the World federation of Education Associations will
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    Shorts For Women
    196 5 "THE DEVIL'S OWN INVENTION" Controversy In N. I. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Batavia. DITTER controversy has been going on lately in the newspapers in Java concerning the merits and demerits of shorts for women. The conservatives condemn shorts as immodest and unsightly, while the modernists welcome them
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    Wife, 39, Has Six Sets Of Twins
    46 5 Wife, 39, Has Six Sets Of Twins 'THEIR sixth set of twins within eleven years has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ft field at Putnam. Connecticut. Fifteld. a labourer, is fifty-seven, his wife thirty- nine. They have fifteen children, three of them born singly.
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    POLICE BAND
    59 5 The Police Band will play on Tuesday at Waterloo Street at 7 p.m. March. The Desert Song (Slgmund Romberg >; Overture, Bronze Horse (Auber): Selection, Rip Van Winkle (Planquette) Walse, Bye and Bye Sweetheart (Ford); Pot-Pourrl, More Melodious Memories (Herman Flnck) A Dream Picture. The Phantom Brigade (W.
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    Egyptian Who Puzzles Scientists
    130 5 LEADING medical men and scientists all over the world have been puzzled by Hadji AU, an Egyptian, who ha* jtitt arrived in England. This extraordinary man hat complete control over the muscles of his stomach and can swallow, without injury to himself, such strange m ixtures
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    Chain Of Air Bases Across The Pole
    162 5 A CHAIN of huge amphibian tanks serving as portable laboratories, supply stations and repair shops— may soon dot the Arctic icefields along the Moscow-San Francisco trans-Polar air-route. Professor Otto Schmidt, leader of the i expedition which landed four Soviet scientists at the North
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    TREE FALLS ON GIRL
    32 5 The skull of a 10-year-old Chinese girl was fractured on Friday afternoon when a 10-foot cherry tree beside which she was standing in Albert Street fell on her.
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    Solo Flyer Age 12 Asks "Why The Fuss"
    90 5 New York. INSPECTORS of the Bureau of Air Commerce wanted to know why Edward Sommers, aged 12, was allowed to make a solo flight over the Floyd Bennett airfield here. Sixteen is the minimum age for a solo flight pilot. Young Sommers
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    Pig- Tailed Swee Kirn Hai Is Malaya's Only Coolie Drawing A Life Pension
    487 5 Pig- Tailed Swee Kirn Hai Is Malaya 's Only Coolie Drawing A Life Pension CHEERFUL PATRIARCH TELLS HIS STORY QN the first of each month, Swee Kirn Hai, 89 years old, bent, •marled, wrinkled and pig-tailed, comes into town for his pension. He has been drawing that pension for 21
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    POLICE BAFFLED
    26 5 Although they have taken statements from 56 persons and questioned a further 307. the French police are •till baffled by the 60-second Tube murder.
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    X-RAYS SHOW RICHES ON MUMMY
    107 5 V-RAY examination of the mummy of Amenophls the First, which was to have been reburied with other Pharaoh mummies in the Valley of the Kings, h_j revealed a collar of gold and Jewels round the neck. Authorities fear that these riches would be an incentive
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    SHE DRANK BEER FOR 90 YEARS
    73 5 AM RS. Sarah Hooker, licensee of 1 M the White Hart Inn, Humbia, Hampshire, who claimed to be the oldest licensee in Britain, has died aged ninety-two. Mrs. Hooker was renowned for her smooth complexion. Her own words about it were: "It's due to
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    SHALE OIL PLAN IN AUSTRALIA
    178 5 Government Passes £660,000 Scheme A £660,000 scheme for the production of oil from a shale has been adopted by the Australian Federal Government. Preliminary work will being shortly and production is expected to start in about 18 months or two years. An annual output of
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    Thirukazhukundram And Its Sacred Eagles
    599 6 Thirukazhukundram And Its Sacred Eagles AMONG India's better-known shrines is the one at Thirukazhukundram, about 40 miles from Madras. The shrine is on a hill at the foot of which is a huge tank. Thousands of Hindu devotees make pilgrimage to seek relief from sickness and to ask for forgiveness
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    KEEPER PULLED LEOPARD'S TAIL
    250 6 KEEPER PULLED LEOPARD'S TAIL Dies As Result Of Mauling "IT was a case of 'familiarity breeds contempt,' said Mr. George Wardle, manager of the Mossley Hill Zoo, Liverpool, at the inquest on John Frederick Ashworth. aged 31, the keeper who died after being mauled by a leopard. Ashworth, he said
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    PERFECT BIDDING
    65 6 Bridge Championship Won By Austria Budapest. AUSTRIA won the world's bridge championship by defeating the Eli Culbertson team from New York, winning by 2,690 points. Mr. and Mrs. Culbertson were outclassed by the perfect bidding of their opponents, who have practised regularly for four years under their captain,
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    Blonde Mothers Have Most Twins
    146 6 Blonde Mothers Have Most Twins SCIENCE has found that blonde mothers have twins more often than brunettes, and that the mother's age at the birth of twins is likely to be between thirty-five and forty. So sale* Dr. Margaret Wylle, of the family life department, New York State College of
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    MORE MACHINE-GUN BATTALIONS
    374 6 10,000 Soldiers Affected By New Scheme A ROUT 10,000 soldiers will probably come under the War Office scheme for mechanising infantry into machine-gun units. Thirteen regiments, each of two battalions, will be converted— l 3 battalions at home and 13 abroad— and already the changes have been
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    Birds Reputed To Have Flown 1,000 Miles Daily For Centuries
    250 6 Birds Reputed To Have Flown 1,000 Miles Daily For Centuries the shrine with his daughter, and while walking round the hill one day, i lew yards ahead of the child, the child suddenly disappeared. This girl who was named Thirumalaisokamal, is now reputed, to be a goddess and a temple
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    'MR. TORK' MAKES HIS ENTRY
    257 6 New Method To Cut After-Dinner Speeches uwr. TORK," a new terror for after dinner speakers, made his first appearance at the annual dinner of the Kent Section of the Electrical Power Engineers' Association at Ashford recently. Speakers visibly wilted when "Mr. Tork" winked his eye
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    PEASANT'S FIGHT WITH WOLF
    75 6 Struggle For Cubs AFTER a desperate unarmed struggle with a she-wolf Dyordye Yovanovltch, a peasant from Brezno, near Tetovo, caught and carried off to his village nine wolf cubs. The wolf escaped, defeated, but carrying the remaining two cubs In her teeth. The nine cubs were
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    VAST COALITION OF ASIA'S ISLAMIC STATES PLANNED
    270 7 VAST COALITION OF ASIA'S ISLAMIC STATES PLANNED Turkey's Foreign Minister Begins Round Of Visits KEYSTONE A FOUR-POWER PACT Ankara. TI'RKEY is aiming at a vast coalescing of the Islamic States of Asia. With this object in view, Dr. Tewflk Rushdi Aras, the Foreign Minister, has started on a round of
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    Shanghai's "Perfect Couple" Have Speechless Holidays
    138 7 Shanghai's "Perfect Couple" Have Speechless Holidays T"HE fame of Shanghai's "perfect married couple" spread In America with the arrival at San Francisco of Mme. Alexandra Rouble -Jansky, Paris Solr correspondent who recently left Shanghai after completing her assignment to find the world's perfect married couple. Mme. Rouble-Jansky said she found
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    WEMBLEY YOUTH FESTIVAL
    29 7 More than 4,500 women will take part in the Festival of Youth at Wembley on July 3, at which the King and Queen will be present.
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    100th BIRTHDAY
    24 7 M. Blin de Bourdon, who sat as a Deputy in the French National Assembly of 1871, has celebrated his 100 th birthday.
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      1320 7 Today's Wireless CIM/^ A DADT tlle man-in-the-street Why "Heads or MftljAr UKL Tails"?— Counterfeiting. Produced by John Richmond. ZUL 133 Me (2li m.) 6.35 Violoncello recital hy Rita Sharpe. am Minuet from Berenice (Handel, arr. 11.30 Light orchestral music, played by Honor Rendall). Bourrec (Handel), Tauglin Club Orchestra, under direction
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      209 7 CROSSWORD PUZZLE RESULT Only one competitor succeeded in solving correctly The Sunday Times Crossword Puzzle printed ln our issue of June 20, and he therefore wins the $100 prize offered. His name and address are: A. De Souza. 433. East Coast Rd B_n»por_ We give below the solution of the
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    AUSTRALIA'S FLYING BOAT BASES
    246 8 £140,000 Earmarked For Reorganised Empire Air Mails WHERE ANCHORAGES WILL BE SITED Difficulties In Northern Territory AUSTRALIA will spend £140,000 on flying-boat bases for the reorganised Empire air mail service in 1937-38. This amount will be included in the civil aviation estimates to be submitted to
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    ALL-JOHORr INDO-CEYLONESE CONFERENCE
    374 8 ALL-JOHORr INDO-CEYLONESE CONFERENCE (From Our Own Correspondent.) Segamat. AN all-Johore Indo-Ceylonese conference is to be held at Batu Tahat on Friday, July 9, and delegates from all parts of the State will be present. This is the first time that such a conference will be held. A cricket match is
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    UNSEEN WIFE IN DIVORCE COURT
    59 8 Behind A Screen During Husband's Evidence A woman was allowed to sit behind a screen in the London Divorce Court recently while her husband, petitioning for a decree of nullity, was examined in the witness-box. This unusual step was taken on medical advice that it
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    600 AT CLERICAL UNION DINNER
    71 8 THERE were more than 600 people present at the seventeenth annual dinner of the Clerical Union held at the Union premises in Singapore last night. This attendance was stressed by Mr. Tay Lian Teck, president of the Union, in his speech. It was, he said,
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    ROYAL FAMILY AT KLANG EXHIBITION
    229 8 ROYAL FAMILY AT KLANG EXHIBITION Sultan's Interest In Village Products (From Our Own Correspondent). Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. DRETTY Malay women, wearing colourful silk garments and with gold lace shawls over their heads and shoulders, showed the Sultan of Selangor, Sir Alldin Suleiman Shah specimens at their needlecraft today when His
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    CUSTOMS OFFICER ACQUITTED
    110 8 (From Our Own Correspondent). Johore Bahru, Saturday. OEE Boon Tecfc, an out door officer attached to the Woodlands customs office, was acquitted and discharged by Sheik Abu Bakar, the second magistrate, today on a charge of attempted extortion. It was alleged that Boon Teck. after passing two
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    FLYING FAMILY ON WAY BACK TO AUSTRALIA
    54 8 THE De Havlllanc! Dragonfly plane in which Mr. Harry McEvoy, shoe manufacturer of Sydney, Australia, has been visiting the Far East, left Singapore yesterday on its return to the Commonwealth Piloting the machine was Captain Prank Neale and the passengers also included Mrs.
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    MR. R. G. WILLACY MARRIED TO MISS J. N. ANSELL
    97 8 MR. R. G. WILLACY MARRIED TO MISS J. N. ANSELL (From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca. Saturday. T"HE Rev. L. St. G. Petter, Colonial Chaplain, Malacca took the service at the wedding this evening at Christ Church, Malacca, of Mr. R. G. Willacy, the well-known Johore cricketer, and Miss J. N.
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    SUCCESS OF S.A.D.C. PRODUCTION
    107 8 The First Mrs. Fn»ser ST. John Ervine's brilliant drama of divorce, "The First Mrs. Fraser," was given a convincing interpretation by the Singapore Amateur Dramatic Club last night at the first of three performances at the Victoria Theatre. Splendid acting, expert direction and fine settings contributed
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    UNEMPLOYMENT DECREASE.
    14 8 There are 776.000 unemployed in Germany, a decrease of 184,000 for May
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    58 8 r |'KE remains of the late Maharajah of Alwar arriving in Bombay from Paris, where his death took place, after he had fallen down a step when about to ko on to a tennis court. The body was taken to Alwar State for cremation. With full military honours the coffin
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    MR. J. K. SWAINE ON 9½d. RUBBER
    134 8 From Our Own Coriesoondent). Penang, Saturday. iy|R. J. K. SWAINE, a director of several rubber companies, who gave the Straits Times a lengthy interview on June 5 on the rubber position, is sailing home today in the Naldera. Among other statements Mr. Swaine
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    DIVORCED SAME MAN TWICE
    80 8 A woman who divorced her husband and married him again, was granted a decree nisi, with ccsts, by Mr. Justice Bucknill in the Divorce Court, Lonaon. She was Mrs. Rose Ann OGorman, of Leeslde Crescent. Golders Green, N.W. She married Mr. David James O'Gorman, variety artist,
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    Mainly About Malayans
    1168 9 Mainly About Malayans Planter Volunteers Chairman Rebuked A Kedah Concert Wanted To Be An Admiral! By The Onlooker CTATISTICS connected with population problems in a country which is peculiarly rich in practical examples is the hobby of Charles Archibald Vlieland. M.C.S.. Johore's Financial Commissioner and Auditor-General. As author of the
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      315 9 Defend your family v^V disease €MMb\ use *Vt>iiK- LIFEBUOY fr^: y J FOR HEtt Many dangers threaten his carefree life but none so deadly as those you cannot see! Look at the dirt he gets on to his hands and knees at playtime! Where there's dirt there's danger, for dirt
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    FORMER SINGAPORE JOURNALIST'S VIVID STORY OF SHIPWRECK
    1173 10 FORMER SINGAPORE JOURNALIST'S VIVID STORY OF SHIPWRECK His 22 Days In Small Trawler In The Arctic GRAPHIC PEN-PICTURES IN NEW BOOK (From Our Own Correspondent.) London. MR. Jerome Willis has travelled far and written much since w the days when he was a member of the Straits Times staff in
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    Set A Fish To Catch A Fish
    132 10 uoet a fish to catch a fish" would appear to be the motto of Adriatic fishermen if the world's tallest fishing story, printed in the Yugoslav periodical "Rybar," may be believed. According to this, two fishers in the Adriatic village of Novlgrad have
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    MAGISTRATE FINES HIS WIFE
    75 10 She Forgot Her Dog Licence A MAN who appeared at Pon- tesbury police court, near Shrewsbury, on a summons for keeping a dog without a licence, pleaded forget fulness. Maj. James Whitaker, the presiding magistrate: Mrs. Whitaker, [his wife] is up before this court today for
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    BOMB EXPLODES IN MINISTER'S HOME
    122 10 Outrage In Denmark Copenhagen. A BOMB exploded in the garden at the home of M. Alsinff Andersen, the Danish Minister of Defence, who belongs to the Socialist party. It broke all the windows, but injured nobody. A large body of police was hurried to the
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    SUIT AGAINST GRETA GARBO DISMISSED
    49 10 The suit brought against Miss Greta Garbo by Mr. David Schratter, former head of a German film company, for the recovery of £2,000 which he alleged he lent to her in 1924 to finance her film career, was dismissed in the Lob Angeles courts.
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      485 10 HIS BACK ACHED FOR 4 YEARS. Kruschen Put Him Right. For fou" years, this man's back never stopped aching. Now, at 57. he starts the day fresh as a daisy, and his back aches n. > mere. Read his story. 'I had continuous backache for four years. I 1 x>ked
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      Tragedy Of The Famous Nijinsky
      979 11 HIS STORY BY A FRIEND OF HIS BALLET DAYS The Tragedy of Nijinsky. By Anatole Bourman. Robert Ha'e. 12s. 6d. IVfIK. Bourrnan entered the '"imperial School of Ballet in St. Petersburg in the same year as Vaslaw Nijinsky. Through the long years of training they
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      DOCTORS AND THEIR PATIENTS
      265 11 DOCTORS AND THEIR PATIENTS Medical Modes and Manners. By Dr. Harry Roberts. With Chapters on Doctors and Patients in the Past, by Dr. Margaret Jackson. .Michael Joseph. 7s. 6d. IT is the hope of both the authors that this book will act "rather as an intellectual provocant than as ;i
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      FULL-BLOODED TALES OF
      272 11 GUNS HORSES (iunsmoke Girl. By Clee Woods. Melrose. 7s. 6d. A Gent from Bear Creek. By Robert E. Howard. Jenkins' Colonial Library. Mf" UNSMOKE Gi-1" contains more battle, murder and sudden death, tban even the usual Wi'd West thriller. Cole Tyler sets out to transform hls| family
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      Fast-Moving Story Of The Sea
      333 11 Sea Spy. By E. Kcble Chatterton. It Prowls at Dark. By II K. i Taunton. Hurst and Biackett. 7s. 6d. each. KA* Keble Chatterton has the art of the sea story at his finger tips, and in "Sea Spy" he has combined a fast moving
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      MALAYAN JINGLES
      161 11 Ill— IHE NEWGOMn. Fresh from farewells to dear friends, old and icorn, Sad yesterdays, tvhich have left us forlorn, Hie ice again where the ships come and go, And O, the heart throbs that these long, grey wharves know I Now greet we a youth who, ivith heedless
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      179 11 jist received: book ton ill PHOTOGRAPHERS!! PHOTOGRAPHIC HANDBOOK" (Thr H i Home Movies for every use of Stilt and Movie Cameras) —Illustrated— Edited by— C, P. Krnd.ll Frank Witlv. Contain the foll-jwinj chaj>»<"s The Art Craft ot Photography. Sn&rpness in the Right Place. Common Sense about PHtcrs. Good Results with
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    SEARCH FOR ANCIENT BUDDHIST MANUSCRIPTS
    638 12 Italian Professor On Way To Interior Of Tibet TRACING SPREAD OF INDIAN CULTURE DROFESSOR Giuseppe Tucci who has been deputed by the Italian Academy of Sciences to visit Gyantse, a mountain town in Tibet, has arrived at Simla and leaves for Calcutta tomorrow en route
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    Madeleine Carroll Saved By Husband
    110 12 New York. MADELEINE CARROLL, taking a day off from picture-making in Hollywood, was saved from drowning by her husband, ex-Life Guards officer Captain Philip Astley. They had gone for a long swim off Malibu Beach, near Hollywood, when Miss Carroll was struck by several heavy
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    Lauder Teaches Miss Temple
    90 12 Lauder Teaches Miss Temple QIR Harry Lauder. visiting Hollywood, is teaching Shirley Temple to speak Scots. The Scottish comedian brought Shirley a tam-o'-^slanter and showed her the correct angle at which to wear it. He made its rosette with his own hands. Man and child, the old trouper and the
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    WOMEN POLICE FOR CANTON
    43 12 Canton. QANTON will shortly have women police for the protection of the fair sex, according to the Canton Gazette. Investigations as to the actual number of toomen required for this work are proceeding and recruiting is starting almost immediately.
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    LLOYD GEORGE TO TAKE A FLAT
    28 12 Mr. Lloyd George proposes to sell his residence, Dwyfor House, Addison Road, Kensington, and will then seek a service flat in London.
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    NEW COMMANDANT AT SANDHURST
    81 12 Maj.-Gen. W. Brownrigg T*HE War Office announces that Major-General W. D. S. Brownrigg. C.8., D.5.0.. has been appointed Commandant of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He will succeed MajorGeneral B. D. Fisher, C.8., C.M.G. D.5.0., about the end of the year. The appointment will take MajorGeneral
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      500 12 Stop Hair Falling Grow It Like This mi Mi Mtar. ha* .iflUt yna. too, an rtop roar h»lr 'I H S '•"'•a <">" Me"*. I IWdur tod rtnngrr than aM E^' T ">j ft* nt taNtat -a*MH mt lm«m tar. DP S3L mtUiffmM rW IM<«. M tl» tie— 4m faU
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    Sitting On The Fence
    1422 13  -  Nathaniel Gubbins By DATHER than read any more about people being bumped off in Russia, Spain or anywhere else; rather than read any more opinions of the clergy on divorce, or anything else: rather than read any more of murders, suicides, inquests or exhumations, and rather
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      60 13 [jfT^l Bjrga/ns /n p~j Refrigerators M GIBSON U £StK^ Kerosene iLHI^Hi Refrigerator f !^^HJj Model G. A. 50 I rKlii I 5 cuWc feet capacity. I Lragj I $250 F.O.R. or F. 0.8. Singapore. I Ff^DcS£|f I $270 F.O.R. Any Station, Johore. IK "^^Ti^Wi I $275 C.I.F. Tumpat, Kemaman, Knanta.i.
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      312 13 "^'-r'l X] w JMitiT W "May I explain why It is compensation for M actly the right proportion of Unnatural life natural blood correctives that a People often s.y to me Why d <* requires j and this-my own should I condition my dog? It P nv c "medy-is the
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      543 13 CONTRACT BRIDGE BY THE FOUR ACES TTHE average player thinks that squeezes, coups and elimination pla>s occur only on slam hands. Actually the chance for them is just as great with game and partial score contracts. In a recent game at the Regency Club in New York, Walter L. Pate
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    The Straits Times EDITORIAL MANGGERIAL AND ADVERTISING OFFICE: Cecil Street, Singapore. Totidem Verbis Transport "Policy"
    248 14 'THE F.M.S. now has organised road transport, and the measure passed by the Federal Council on Monday will no doubt soon be duplicated in the Colony. That is excellent so far as it goes, but
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    Nimble Minds
    135 14 HIS EXCELLENCY indulged in a little dig at the Government's critics— mainly the newspapers, of course in his speech at the Federal 'Council meeting. He described them as 'nimble-minded,' and in jvery truth they need to be all that i if they are to do their public duty,
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    Foul Food
    153 14 MORE than one hundred tons of food unfit for human consumption were destroyed in Singapore last year. That food was offered for sale to the public. Probably many hundreds of tons of such poison was actually sold and consumed. How much agonising sickness, how many deaths, did it
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    The Cicala And The Nightjar
    1229 14 The Cicala And The Nightjar Singapore Salvo X TENTH OF A SERIES OF ARTICLES BY VICTOR PURCELL "The cicale above in the lime And the lizards below in the grass Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was Listening to my sweet pipings." (Shelley, "Hymn of Pan.") WHEN night time
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    Kelantan Causerie
    637 14  -  Vicomte De Bondy By BUDDHIST TEMPLE THE LAST RELIC OF SIAMESE SUZERAINTY CEW people outside Kelantan have heard of the existence of the Siamese Buddhist Temple at Balai village, within easy distance of the capital, Kota Bharu, and only two miles from the popular sea-side resort of Bachok
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      49 14 To BELAWAN DELI (SUMATRA.) Reduced same vessel return tickets now available. Singapore Belawan return Ist class $80/Interchangeable with Straits Steamship Company, for first return sailing of the ss 'Kedah to Singapore, after arrival of X.P.M. Steamer at Belawan. For particulars apply to: K. P. M. LINE, FINLAYSON GA£S*' SINGAPORE.
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    FAMINE HORROR GRIPS SZECHUEN
    1603 15 First Account Of Actual Conditions In West China THOUSANDS DYING FROM DISEASE STARVATION Men, Women And Children Eat Clay And Roots To Keep Themselves Alive W/ITH disease unchecked, water-courses dried up, and starvation facing the rural population, thousands are dying in Szechuen, according to a letter
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    THE TOURIST COMES TO SINGAPORE—I
    6 15 THE TOURIST COMES TO SINGAPORE— I
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    JAPAN'S WOMEN HAIRDRESSERS ALARMED Man's Invasion
    74 15 JAPAN'S WOMEN HAIRDRESSERS ALARMED Man's Invasion /OSAKA'S women hairdressers are greatly perturbed by the report that Mr. Isaburo Umemoto, a graduate of Osaka Commercial College, has filed an application to sit for the women hairdressers' examination. It Is stated that this invasion by I a man in a hitherto strictly
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    TRAPPED ON CLIFF
    35 15 Trapped half-way up a 500 ft. cliff at Hagglnton. near Ilfracombe. Mr. J. Hawkins, of Turnpike Lane, Hornsey, clung to its face until coastguards lowered him to the beach an hour later.
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    Woman Aged 106 Burned To Death
    49 15 Woman Aged 106 Burned To Death Smyrna. A LTHOVGH she was 1W years old, Emine Hanoum, living in the quarter of Burnova, still enjoyed a nice quiet smoke. When a cigarette set her dress alight, she was too weak to put out the flames. She was burned to death.
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    YEAR'S GAOL AND $2,500 FINE FOR POSSESSION OF HEROIN PILLS
    113 15 YEAR'S GAOL AND $2,500 FINE FOR POSSESSION OF HEROIN PILLS A YOUNG unemployed man, Mak Fa!, was sentenced to one year's gaol and a fine of $2,500 or in default another six months' gaol, by Mr. K. Keen at the Central Magistracy, Hong Kong, for the possession of 8,3? J
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    EX-KAISER CALLS ON PRINCESS JULIANA
    112 15 Bouquet Of White Roses Amsterdam. THE ex-Kaiser spent an hour recently with Princess Juliana and her husband. Prince Bernhard. at their home, Soestdyk Palace, and took tea with them. Princess Armgard of Lippe-Biester-feld. Prince Bernhard's mother, who is making a short stay at the palace,
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    DATE LINE'S TRICKS WITH BRITISH SHIP
    267 16 Abdication And Coronation Officially Never Happened! THE abdication of King Edward VIII and the coronation of H.M. George VI do not officially exist for officers of the Javanese Prince which si rived in Singapore yesterday. The third olicer, Mr. H. Paterson, of this modern
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      204 16 To the Editor of the Sunday Times. WE read with pleasure "Old Timer's"' notes In "Colony Cavalcade" concerning those that are employed within guarded interests and those that are without it, but what will stop the rot of the F.M.S. Posts and Telegraphs Department where at the
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      WORKTHEFIRST CONSroERATION
      215 16 SO a Chief Justice is to decide whether or not Government employees should have their allowances back. These employees (I refer here to those in the subordinate services In particular) contend that it Is "unjust" not to untie the strings of the public purse this time to help
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    8 Drowned For A Hat
    103 16 A HAT caused the death of eight schoolgirls who were drowned In a thunderstorm on a lake near Plenita, Rumania. The girls belonged to a party -vho were making a trip on the lakt <n boats. A priest who was with the party leaned overboard
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    The Vanishing Village!
    144 16 TPHE fate of a "lost" medieval village and the reason why a great country house fell mysteriously into ruins during the 18th Century two queries which have troubled Yorkshire historians for many years are dealt with in an interesting book which has just been published. The house
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    AMNESTY RECOMMENDED
    29 16 Tne Bulgarian Cabinet has decided to recommend the King to proclaim a far-reaching amnesty to mark the occasion of the birth of an heir to the throne.
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    HE DOES THIS EVERY MORNING
    48 16 HE DOES THIS EVERY MORNING npWENTY-seven -year-old Horace. Armleas Wonder, performing with the FaL on Plymouth Hoe, makes tbe onlooker stare when he shaves b.is face with his feet, and he's been doing this every morning for the past t*n yean. He lathers himself In the same way.
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    Modern Hair Styles Ruin Silver Shop
    181 16 •T*HE westernisation of Chinese woman was blamed as the chief factor In the depression that caused the closure recently of the Yang Ching Ho Silversmith Shop, in one of the biggest silversmiths' shops in Shanghai. Silver ornaments, It was pointed out. are no longer
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    RUSSIAN NOVELIST RETURNS
    35 16 The Russian novelist, Alexandre Kuprin, who has been living In exile In France since 1922, returned to Moscow, and was met at the station by representatives of the Writers and Press organisations.
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    Loudspeaker In Every Prison Cell
    59 16 Loudspeaker In Every Prison Cell Oslo. A prison de luxe is shortly to be opened in Oslo. Each cell is to be equipped with a loudspeaker. The inmates will have to listen to news items specially prepared and broadcast front the prison studio. They will, however, possibly be allowed to
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    OX's SUICIDE ON WAY TO SLAUGHTER
    252 16 OX's SUICIDE ON WAY TO SLAUGHTER Repeated Lunges At Lamp Standard THE tale of an old ox who committed suicide by butting his head into an electric light standard as he was being shoved and pulled to the slaughter house is recounted in detail by Chinese newspapers at Shanghai. The
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    LONSDALE'S RARE BOOKS
    28 16 Lord Lonsdale has sent more than 600 of the rarest books in his library at Lowther Castle, Penrlth, to Sotheby's for sale on July 12—14.
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      395 16 indigestion a f^f Stomach feft\ For years she us«<? to be hungry bat feared to eat. Here she tells the easy, pleasant way io which stn obtained welcome reliei •■Youi Digest! Rennie Pastilles are the best thinar I have eve. trie* lor indigestion. Nad gastric trouble so many times and
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    HOW 250,000 TELEPHONE USERS WERE FOUND
    850 18 Postmaster-Generals Speech To Empire Advertisers MAJOR TRYON FORECASTS BIG AIR MAIL PUBLICITY IMAJOK G. C. Tryon, the Postmaster-General, who attended the Empire Advertising Convention, held in the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, spoke of Post Office methods. He envisaged a coming advertising campaign for the Empire
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    422 18 VIEWPOINT IN LANDSCAPES New York. WOW that nature has once, more been adorned with the verdure of spring and a new season of outdoor picture taking has begun, it Is appropriate tc consider landscape p»cture3. Good landscape subjects are. at least, easy to find One can travel
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    GERMANY SEEKS PLATINUM FROM U.S. MUD
    157 18 GERMANY SEEKS PLATINUM FROM U.S. MUD /GERMANY is importing "mud" from the United States. The mud is calculated to be worth £14 a ton to two German scientists who want it for its valuable metal content, which they hope to extract by a cheap secret process. The first of several
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    NO PENSIONS AT 55 FOR SPINSTERS
    130 18 Sir Kingsley Wood, the Minister of Health, has declined to institute an inquiry into the question of pensions for spinsters at 55. In his reply to a deputation Sir Kingsley Wood said that If there were injustices or Inequalities it was right they should
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    This Man Is Turning To Stone
    127 18 This Man Is Turning To Stone jT\()C TORS in Prague municipal hospital are fighting desperately to save the life of a man who is gradually turning to stone. It was in 1914 that the strange I patient first pains in his wrist and I then discovered that his whole right
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    172 18 Three Years For Shooting Woman VILLAGE INN TRAGEDY CENTENCE of three years' penal servitude was passed by Mr. Justice Singleton at Aylesbury Assizes on Albert Boddy, aged 31, a bricklayer, of Lane End Road, Sands, near High Wycombe, for the manslaughter of Mrs. Katherine May Godby, aged 36, wife of
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    Baby Born During Stay-In Strike
    131 18 OOLAND, where the stay-in strike originated about four years ago, can now claim the world's longest strike of the stay-in variety. Four hundred workers of the Becker plush factory In Bealystok, the wool centre of Northern Poland, have begun the 16th week of their stay-in
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    BLUE SUN IN EGYPT
    48 18 The appearance of a pale blue sun over Cairo during a dust storm is officially reported by the physical department. Egypt has recently experienced great gales and severe sand storms, especially in the Western Desert. Visibility has at times been less than 50 yards.
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    421 20 EVEN in table models alone, wireless sets are available nowadays in an almost bewildering variety of shapes, sizes and finishes. There are large sets and small sets, sets in plastic composition, and in oak, walnut and other timbers. In spite of this variety,
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    499 20 Doors In Glass Or Gay Colours For Inside The House THOUGH the front door serves as an indication of the taste of the owner of the house, it is with the interior doors that modern designers are now occupying themselves. Glass doors in modern homes are sometimes illuminated at night,
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    41 21 White Buttons And Edging On Navy Blue Crepe an atWetrve little dreas of navy bine crepe trimmed with a narrow white edging, the acorn buttons are also white while the po«y at the neckline is in contrasting colours. 4 Celebrity model.
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    639 21 WHITE COATS FOR TOWN WEAR ARE FASHIONABLE WHITE coats to wear in town are among the smartest new clothes. One delightful example is a coat in fine wooi georgette. The collar is narrow at the neck, but widens into revers stretching across the bodice, while the sleeves are straight, and
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    DRY BREAD CRUMBS
    127 21 "THE housewife who would have a supply of dry bread crumbs for thickening soups, making stuffing, meat loaf, croquettes and (■scalloped dishes, and for breading meats, wants to keep these dustless while they are drying. A convenient system is to keep a cheesecloth bag in a cup-board
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    1026 21  - Mothers Who Interfere With Their Children URSULA BLOOM ■A Warning By "WHY don't you tell your 11 son not to do it somebody asked me. I commented that a mother was the last person who could interfere with impunity. It was quitf obvious the questioner did not believe me, yet
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    190 21 DED clothes this season are often gay in colour, whatever their material. Sheets of cotton, and those made from linen are tinted in pretty colours, such as apricot, pink and green, and all have pillow-cases to match. A very restful shade of green is seen
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    SERVING RHUBARB THE MODERN WAY
    235 21 iviake a syrup wiln ball a pait of water to every pound cl sugar, and clarify It with whites of eggs. The syrup can then be bottled for further use. Boil up as much of the syrup as required for a dish of compote. Wipe
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    CHICKEN BREASTS
    127 21 An appetising not dish for lunch or supper may be prepared at short notice from a Jar of chicken breasts in Jelly and a few slices of bacon. Stand the Jar in hot water for a minute or two. so that the contents may be turned out easily
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    815 22 Likely Team For Negri 's Last Cricket Match DROPPING OF EDMONDS (From Our Own Correspondent.) Seremban. IMEGRI Sembllan's last State cr'cket i match takes place at Seremban on Saturday and Sunday, July 24 and 25. against Malacca. Negrl Sembilan has lost rather badly both to Selangor and Perak but I
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    MUAR CHINESE TO MEET SEGAMAT
    115 22 (Prom Our Own Correspondent). Muar. nPHE Muar Chinese football team will have a chance of avenging the defeat sustained at the hands of Stgamat Chinese at Kluang, when they meet Segam.at Chinese today at Segamat. When the teams met in Kluang Muar lost by a
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    OLYMPIC CONCESSIONS
    39 22 Tokio. Athletes visiting Japan for the Olympic Games will be given free transportation on Government railv^y lines, while spectators will be carried at half-fare, the Ministry of Railways' Olympic Preparatory Committee tentatively decided at its second meeting.
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    231 22 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Seremban. UR E. B. Holte has arrived in Seremban from Pahang to take the place of Capt. W. Aucutt of the Rubber Restriction Department. Mr. V. E. H. Rhodes, the well-known Negrl Sembilan sportsman of Paroi Estate, has gone on leave to Australia. Dr.
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    FOOTBALLERS FOR KUALA PILAH
    75 22 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Batu Pahat. HPHE Batu Pahat Rangers will take 1 a football team to Kuala Pilah on July 8 to play the Mohamed Club. Fifteen players and reserves are going. They are: Mentol Basir. Syed Jatlar. Abu Mohd. Salleh. Hassan Arsah HJ. Said.
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    PIRATES SELL HOYT TO BROOKLYN
    36 22 New York The Pittsburgh Pirates have sold Walte Hoyt, once known as the "boy wonder" of the Philadelphia Athletics, to the Brooklyn Dodgers. No other player was involved In the deal.
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    48 22 i:>ot -fi'ap;. tofci (ho imrewell party given by the Band of the Nexri Sembilon Volunteer Battalion to Ca»t. W. Aucuii The central figure Is Major G. R. Percy. Officer Cotnmandlnr Nerrl Battalion and on hfc ri*ht is Mr. Aucntt, who has been very actively connected with the band.
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    MUAR CHINESE YOUNGSTERS
    199 22 From Our Own Correspondent.) Muar. TTHAT the standard of football among the local Chinese will be maintained at the present high level was evidenced when a young Chinese team, calling themselves the Muar Chinese Youngsters, met and defeated the Parit Raja team by two goals to nil.
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    NEGRI TENNIS SINGLES TITLE BOWYER TO MEET SAKATA TOMORROW
    380 22 NEGRI TENNIS SINGLES TITLE BOWYER TO MEET SAKATA TOMORROW (By Our Seremban Correspondent.) U/HO will win the Negri Sembilan lawn tennis singles championship That is the question tennis enthusiasts in Negri Sembilan are asking at the moment. Dr. J. H. Bowyer, a newcomer, and M. Sakatß, champion in 1927 and
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    CALIFORNIA TITLE
    35 22 Watsonvllle. Johnny Ladao. the Filipino state bantamweight champion of California, retained his title by technically knocking out Little Caesar, a Los Angeles Mexican, In the seventh round of their I scheduled ten-round fight.
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    SPORTING NEWS OF THE WEEK IN MALACCA
    907 23 IN the ttrst round of the Malacca! Government lnter-djpartmental lt>otrall league, ths Police beat the Education department by four goals to one. At half-time, the Police ied 2—l. The game was scrappy and the chances fluctuated until the end. Kasim opened the scoring
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    ALAI MALAY SCHOOL CELEBRATES
    243 23 VICTORY IN DRILL AND GAMES COMPETITION •T^HE A'.al Malay School, Malacca, gave a tea r<irty in the school compound in celebration of Its first victory in the Drill and Games Competition since its inception 13 years ago. Th? Resident Councillor, Mr. E. V. G. Day. was
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    Around the Clubs In Malacca
    2017 23 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES CORRESPONDENT MORE than fifty people attended the tea-party held In honour of Mr. Tan Soo Chong, J.P., by the committee and members of t 1 High School Old Boys' Association on Saturday evening at the Association's premises. Mr. Soo Chong is
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    STRAITS TIMES P.S.C.
    64 23 The Straits Times Press Sports Club will play a friendly game of badminton with the Eclipse B.P. at the court of the Useful B.P. 522, Kampong Bahru Road, today at 3 pm. The following will represent the S T.P.S.C. Chin Tham Swee, Wee Kirn Wee, John Gann,
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    TOURNAMENTS AT MALAYAN EXHIBITION
    69 23 Under the. auspices of the Malayan Agrihorticultural Association the following badminton tournaments wil be held on Aug. 1 pud 2: men's doubles i partners Wjjj be drawn) mixed doubles < partners will be drawn). The following have been elected to be in I charge of these
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    BOUSTEAD B.P.
    61 23 The following* will represent the BousteaU BP. in a friendly badminton match with the Vehicles Dept. Sports Club at the litter's court today at 10 a.m.: L. C. Smith, W. J. Henman. Yeo Hong Chuan, Chung Clieng Hock. Tan Chee Eng, Low Cheng Koon, Koh Teck Ec, A.
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    TRANQUERAH ENGLISH SCHOOL SPORTS
    534 23 (From Our Own Correspondent). Malacca. items provoked fun and laughter at the twilfih annual athletic sports of the Tranquerati English School, Malacca. Ideal weather, good organisation and a lair attendance, which included Mr. E. V. G. Day, the acting Resident Councillor, Mr. B. F. Bridge, Rev.
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    FRENCH CONVENT'S DISPLAY
    247 23 MASS DRILL AND FOLK DANCES A LARGE gathering, which included Mr. E. V. G. Day, acting BwMant Councillor, Malacca, attended the outdoor display, the lirst of its kind in Malacca girls' schools, h^ld by the French Convent at ihcir grounds oa Friday. Nursery rhymes, folk dancing to
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    NEW MALAYAN RECORD SET AT PERAK RACES
    1676 24 Restriction Returns 1 Mm. 13 Sec. For 6-Farlong Event (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, Saturday. FNE weather favoured the first day of the Perak Turf Club's threeday Summer meeting today. The going was good. There was a large attendance. Capt. H. F. Bloxham's
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    MUAR FOOTBALL LEAGUE FIRST ROUND ENDED
    285 24 (From Our Own Correspondent) Muar. ALL the first round matches in the Muar football league have been played and the Land Office head the table with 14 points for seven matches By winning all their matches In the j first round the Land Office
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    INTERNATIONAL CLUB TENNIS
    147 24 <From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru. Saturday. DESULTS of the matches played In the annual tennis tournament of the Royal Johore International Club are: Men's singles championship: N. A. Hannay beat G. Lowe 6 l, 4 6, 6 3. Tallb b Awang beat E. W. Hide 6—4.
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    MIDDS. GET THE ODD GOAL
    171 24 Middlesex 2; R.A. 1. T*HE R_A. weakened their chances considerably of becoming first division football league champions this year when they went down to the Middlesex yesterday at the Anson Road Stadium by the odd goal in three. The game opened with the R.A. showing
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    CRICKET LEAGUE BEGINS IN BATU PAHAT
    267 24 CRICKET LEAGUE BEGINS IN BATU PAHAT (From Our Own Correspondent.! Batu Pahat. T*HE much discussed cricket League of Batu Pahat started last week and four teams are taking part In it. They are the Civil Service Club, the Indian team, the Malay team and the Government School team. An effort
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    396 24 YOUNG MEN STILL KEEP TOP OF MUAR LEAGUE i From Our Own Correspondent.) Batu Pahat. IN a fast, clean football game the Young Men kept their reputation and beat the Military by three goals to one. No goals were scored during the first half, but in the second the Young
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    61 24 New York. Bobby Pacho. 147'^ pounds, of Arizona, was awarded the decision In his fight against Baby Salvy Sabln. 148 1 2 pounds, of New York, at the end of ten rounds. It is believed that Pacho will now meet Ceferlno Garcia, the Filipino boxer, who has
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    212 24 Point scoring Win 15; tle7V2; win Ist inns. 5; loss on Ist inns 3; no result 4 pts. each; no play, match ignored; no play for two days, one innings match, win 10. loss 3. Yorkshire Sussex Derbyshire Notts ioucester Middlesex Warwickshire Lancashire Worcester 1 3sex Glamorgan
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    28 24 Yeo Oon hem;, last year's winner of the Hawkins tennis cup. Secamat, is expected to retain his title. He has already beaten J. .Ma bin. the New Zealander.
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    NEGRI HOLD SINGAPORE TO DRAW IN CUP GAME
    702 25 State Equalises In Second Half VISITORS DISPLAY POOR FORM AT SEREMBAN I (From Our Own Correspondent.) Saturday, Seremban. THE Singapore-Negri Sembilan Malaya Cup football match ended in a draw of two-all. Negri made a remarkable recovery in' the i second half after
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    Inter – College Cricket RAFFLES NEARING MEDICAL SCORE
    246 25 Inter College Cricket RAFFLES NEARING MEDICAL SCORE /^OOD cricket was seen at the Mcdlcal College Union ground yesterday when the Medical College met Raffles College in their annual inter-college match. MEDICAL COLLEGE Kuldip Singh ct. Kee Pow b Tallala ]5 C. Sandosham b Hoffman 12 L Aivis ct. Cheow Chye
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    TWO PROMISING GIRL ATHLETES
    184 25 (From Our Dwn OMfMpaMUttJ Kuala Lumpur. TWELVE- YEAR -OLD Miss Lim Swee Chun of the Methodist Girls School Kua'.a Lumpur did very well In the high jump at the Selangor Chinese sports held last week. She .ea for second place and this was quite a:, achievement
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    CUSTOMS' TEAMS MEET AT MUAR
    147 25 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Muar. THE Johore Bahru Customs football team, undefeated league leaders of the Johorp Bahru District FA. League, oeat the local Customs team by four goals to one on Friday at the Muar Club padang. The visitors forward line which consisted of
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    24 25 The R.A. goalkeeper jumps to the ball following a corner kick by the MMda in thr game at Anson Road yesterday. —Sunday Times Photograph.
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    368 25 Spectacular Jumping By Schoolboy TWO MALAYAN RECORDS BROKEN (From Our Own Cuneoi*uudent.) Penang, Saturday. CPIXTACLLAR jumping by a Chinese schoolboy was the outstanding feature of the Penang A.A.A. sports this evening on the esplanade when for the first time in Malayan sporting history six feet and eleven feet were cleared
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    MALACCA TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS
    264 25 Mrs. Cox Mrs. Allen Win Doubles Title (Prom Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca, Saturday. THE Malacca Lawn Tennis Association's annual tournament is reaching the final stages. Mrs. M. M. Cox and Mrs. A. Allen won the women's doubles final over Mrs. Yong and Mrs. Chong, the Chinese pair
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    TIME ROBS KHALSA OF VICTORY
    212 25 TIME ROBS KHALSA OF VICTORY THE cricket match played at Bales- tier yesterday between the Ceylon Sports Club and the Khalsa Association ended In a draw. CEYLON SPORTS CLUB C Alwis c Williams b DharmaraJ 0 A N. S. Plllai b DharmaraJ 0 A. V. Arunasalam b Williams 17 R.
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    69-RUN WIN OVER SKINS
    198 25 69 -RUN WIN OVER SKINS DOUBLE- FIGURE scoring by V.M.C.A. batsmen gave the side a 69-mn victory over the Royal Innlskilling Fusiliers at cricket at Tanglln yesterday. INNISKILLINGS. Scott c Leembrugg' n b Hay n Dunkenson b Hay 3 Callan c Barker b Hay 0 Bingham st. and b Lynne
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    22 25 The Midds. goalkeeper fcktfhJH >..*.li for the ball daring the match acalnst the RA. at Anson Road on Saturday Sunday Times Photographs.
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    77 25 Monday: Chinese vs. R. E.. LMv. I. Stadium; Innlsklllings JI vs. Indians. Div. 11. S.H.B. ground; V.M.C.A. vs Casuals. Div. in. V.M.C.A. ground. Tuesday: RAF vs. Police, Div. 1 Stadium. Wednesday: S.C.C. vs. Malays. Div I. padang. Thursday: Midds. vs. Innlsklllings. Div. I. Satdtum. Friday: Singapore vs.
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    McDONNALD GETS 9 FOR 7 AND ALFRED GETS 6 FOR 40
    193 25 McDONNALD GETS 9 FOR 7 AND ALFRED GETS 6 FOR 40 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Batu Pahat. PXCELLENT bowling by McDonnald (C.S.C.) was responsible for the poor score of 38 by the Indo-Ceylonese side against the Civil Service Club on the school ground. This is the first of the cricket
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    344 25 JOHORE C. C.'s BIG VICTORY Innings And 81 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Johore Bahru. •■pHE Johore Cricket C!ub registered their biggest victory of the season when in a whole day match they beat Batu Pahat by an innings and 81 runs. Nagasu earned the bowling honours, taking six wlrkets for
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    S.C.C. DRAW WITH R.A.F. AT SELETAR
    50 25 •"pHE cricket match between the S.C.C.. and the R.A.F., at Seletar yesterday ended In a draw. The club totalled 142 for six and declared Gaillard contributing a well compiled 94. The RAF. replied with 104 for the loss of seven wickets when time intervened.
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    848 25 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Muar. AT a meeting of the Johore Chinese athletics selection committee held at Kluang, the following were chosen to represent Johore in the All-Malayan Chinese sports meeting in Singapore next month: MEN Baaket Ball: Coach: Keng Chew Seng. Lew Song Chor (capt. >,
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    COMMENT, ON JUNIOR TOURNAMENT ENTRIES
    881 26 Only One Rejection What Is The Procedure For Classifying Players? Getting Ready For Inter-State Games BY OUR BADMINTON CORRESPONDENT THE entries for the men's junior singles and junior doubles tournaments for the current year have not come up to expectations but in spite of this,
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    DRAW IN MEN'S JUNIOR SINGLES AND DOUBLES
    605 26 DRAW IN MEN'S JUNIOR SINGLES AND DOUBLES THE drawing of ties in the men's Junior singles and doubles tournaments took pace at the Clerical Union Hall last Monday. In order to enable all ihose who wish to follow the tournaments closely to draw up the respective tables correctly, the following
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    CORONATION B.P.
    55 26 The following members have been selected to play against the Useful B.P. 'B team today, at the home court, 6. Lorong J7a, Geylang. Koh Beng Swee, Ong Swee Tian, Ong Sweo Kee. Yeo Yen Chuan, Ong Cheng Bow and Koh Ork Seah. Reserves Wee Ah Chye. Soli Ah
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    71 26 A photograph of Customs Badminton Party, Kuala Trengganu. taken on the departure of its vice-president, Mr. D. G. Hall. Sitting, left to right: Mr. J. E. MaoLaughlin (successor). Mr. D. G. Hall. Tumi Haji Awang Mohd. Taib, acting Superintendent of Customs (president). Standing, left to right:!" rectors Alias M. Taib,
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    Selangor Badminton BY DARK SHIRT
    324 26 Selangor Badminton BY DARK SHIRT BADMINTON enthusiasts In Selat^or are .til! anxiously looking forward to a visit by the Singapore team. Selangor has already Invited Singapore twice, but in both cases the invitation was regretfully turned down as Singapore was occupied with its own tournaments In addition to other State
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    SELANGOR INTER SCHOOLS TOURNAMENTS
    692 26 'THE margin of victory obtained by Victoria 1 Institution over Methodist Boys' School. In the senior boys' section of the Selangor lntcr-schools tournament, does not Indicate a true complexion of the games. The mission School was unfortunate in not winning at 1 i two. The meeting
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    MALAY INTER TEAM DOUBLES LEAGUE
    306 26 '■•HK Merry Novices B.P. conceded two Jl walkovers during the week end in the Malay Inter-team doubles league, five games to Stapak and a slmitor number to Union Star. The Sentosa B .P. uic.ijitalned their excellent unbeaten record by defeating Bintang Tljja by 3 2.
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    GREEN HIM. B.P.
    114 26 Playing at the A.A.U. court last Saturday, the Oreen Hill B. P. defeated the United A. P. by 6 games to one. Results (Ureen Hill B.P. players first) Soh Hun Leng lost to Richard Tan 2 3, 7 15; Lee Teow Hong beat K. K. Swan. 15—5.
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    Penang Meets Perak Today In Cup Game
    389 26  -  "SHUTTLECOCK" BY Penang. •THE fociu of attention today for North Malaya badminton enthusiasts Is the Penang vs. Perak encounter in a qualifying round of the tournament for the Foong Seong cup Much interest will, of course, be centred on the match between the
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    JOYBELLS B.P.
    142 26 The following will represent the Joybells B.P. in a friendly match of four sing', -r, and three doubles against the Spartan B.P. at I their court, River Valley Road, today at 2.30 p.m. Lawrence de Souza, Koh Chek Tuan. lav Yew Jiang, O. Isaac, Ooh Tian Chye. Sect
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    FRIENDLY SPORTING ASSOCIATION
    42 26 The Friendly Sporting Association will celebrate Its ninth anniversary by a dinner at the Happy World Restaurant on Saturday. July 10. Members who may not have been notified the secretary of their attendance are requested to communicate with him.
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    MERRYTIME. B.P.
    100 26 A friendly badminton jiatcli of fl\c and two doubles will i.c p!a: ej bttwWa .ha Merrytime B.P. and the Happilads A. P. teeny at the latter's court at 2.30 p.m. m 3, Beng Swee Place. Players and support -n art requested to assemble at «he honorary sports captain's
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    SPARTAN B.P.
    82 26 A return friendly badminton match of four singles and three doubles between the Spartan B.P. and the Joybelis B.P. will be played at the former's court, 416. River Valley Road, today at 2.30 p.m. Spartan players will be selected from the following Khoo Eng Tee, Tan Koh Ann.
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    BASKETBALL AND VOLLEYBALL SEASON AT AN END
    268 27 (By A Special Correspondent.) I AST week saw the end of tie shortest basketball and volleyball season on record. It took less than four weeks to complete. The open basketball competition for men resulted in the Kong Seong Old Boys Association becoming champions
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    JOHORE P.W.D. SPORTS Ng Ngoh Tee Wins Cup Outright
    387 27 JOHORE P.W.D. SPORTS Ng Ngoh Tee Wins Cup Outright (From Our Own Correspondent.) Johore Baton. MG Ngoh Tee, the State badminton champion, for the third time in succession annexed the championship in the fourth Johore athletic sports, thus winning the cup presented by the P.W.D athletic association outright. There was
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    KEPPEL WOMEN
    93 27 Twenty-two cards were taken out for the July women's spoon competition at the Keppel Golf Club, which resulted Mrs. J. R. Walker 49—18= 31 Miss O. Famell 47—13=34 Mrs. P. J. Crawley 45— 10 35; Mrs. McNeish 51— 15=36: Mrs. F. Starr 51—14=37. The following have qualified in
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    Form Of Competitors In Singapore A.A.A. Meeting
    735 27 (By A Special Correspondent.) THE fear that the military will 1 monopolise athletics in Singapore has been expressed by some critics. A study of the entries lor the Singapore A.A.A. annual championship meeting will convince anyone that such a fear is quite unfounded.
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    USEFUL B.P.
    177 27 The Useful PM" I Party beat the Merry Union B.P. last Sunday at the home court, by Arc games to two. Scores (Useful first) George Chen beat Richard Tan, 15—7, 1»— 13 (>— 6), 15—6; Wee Kirn Wee beat A, Sujak, B—ls, 15—7, IS— 6, Chin Tham Swee
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    AMATEUR SPORTING ASSN.
    32 27 The postponed special general meeting of the Amateur Sporting Association will be held to-morrow at 8.00 p m. at the residence of Mr. Khoo En* Watt, 41, Craig Road.
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    13 27 Chiuc Urn liuu Miuninc the high Jump at th» Seiaufw CUkiea* sports meettar*
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    Dr. Thomson A Worthy Champion
    490 27 ECHO'S SPORTS NOTES TTO a tyro (handicap 24 and that far from big enough) like myself, it was a great pleasure to see two expert golfers performing in the Singapore title final. Also a comfort to note that even the great ones can drive out
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    AMATEUR ATHLETIC UNION
    78 27 The following will represent the Amateur A.U. "B" team in a friendly return match of six singles and one doubles with the Devonshire "B" team at the latter's court today: Chan Joo Miang, Syed Sallm, Tay 800 Liang, Wee Sin Oon, Soh Hun Leng. Lee Teow Hong,
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    ECLIPSE B.P.
    38 27 following will represent he Eclipse B.P. against the Straits Tin-'- »r Kimpong Bahru Road Chla Chin Seng, Scow Thlam Kirn, Samuel Koh, Chla Chin Soon, Chia Chin Joo, George Waa. Georrte Cheong. and Koh Kong Sun.
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    The Governor Likes Gardenias, Lady Thomas Prefers Violets
    307 28 MORE than 20,000 flowering plants are used in decorating Government House for a year. Mowers are changed twice a week about 100 pots are required to beautify the porch and rooms every day. This constant supply necessitates a continuous cultivation of new
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