The Straits Times, 15 August 1937

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  • 38 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES THE LEADING SUNDAY NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA FINAL EDITION No, 295 Sunday, August 15, 1937 Price 10 cents THE SUNDAY TIMES The Leading Sunday Newspaper In Malaya. Sunday, August 15, 1937 No. 295 Price 10 cents
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  • 318 1 Hundreds Killed When Bombs Hit Streets BRITISH TROOPS LEAVE HONG KONG: OTHERS STAND-BY Three Great Fires Devouring City: A.P.C. Tanks Ablaze iFTER A DAY OF FIGHTING WHICH MADE THE SEVEREST ENGAGEMENT OF THE 1922 SHANGHAI HOSTILITIES SEEM LIKE A MERE SKIRMISH THE CHINESE \EROPLANES BOMBING THE
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  • 129 1 New Empire Marketing Board COLONIES ONLY London, Saturday. II is announced that the Government has decided to constitute a Colonial Empire Marketing Board to fulfil in respect of British Colonial territories some of the functions formerly discharged for the whole Empire by the Empire .Marketing Board, which was abolished in
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  • 61 1 (From Our Own Corrmpondent) London. Satnrday. Cold: 19s 6d Silvrr (Spot): :od. two months 70d. Cotton: BoBd twluntes: New York. 4.98 5 16: Amutrrd.im. 9.04; lion,- Kor«. 1». 2 13 Ibd Shanghai. Is. 2 S 164. Prpprr: Lampong black. \u« -Sr^t 3 1 16 d. Toffrc: Robust* -.anda
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  • 518 1 CYSTEMATIC plane attacks on the Japanese flagship Idzumo and Japanese military positions were the features of heavy fighting in Shanghai yesterday afternoon, according to Reuter. Chinese machines manoeuvred freely over the International Settlement over which anti-aircraft shells burst incessantly. Two bombs dropped by a Chinese
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  • 327 1 BRITISH MOVE FOR SAFETY OF SETTLEMENT REJECTED WICE- Admiral Hasegawa has reject- ed the suggestion from Captain Benson of H.M.S. Danae to move the Idzumo, Japanese flagship, on the ground that the position of the vessel alongside the Japanese ConsulateGeneral wus conducive to the bombing of the Settlement areas by
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  • 285 1 DAIN fell over most of England i yesterday and little play was! possible in the cricket matches. In the last test match of this year's series between England and New Zealand, at the Oval, a start was not possible until 1 05 p.m. New
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  • 30 1 FIRE BROKE OUT 3 O'CLOCK THIS MORNING IN THE KITCHEN OF THE HAPPY WORLD RESTAURANT. THE BRIGADE WAS CALLED AND THE FIRE QUICKLY CONFINED AND PUT OUT.
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  • 51 1 Bad Ems, Saturday. Ir* the German open golf champion* ship Henry Cotton had a record first round of 63. He leads the field by nine strokes the previous record was Auguste Boyer's 66. Cotton had an eagle and nine birdies. The MUM par is
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    • 11 1 MODERN ano ARTISTIC FURNITURE SUNWAHCo., 83 Victoria St. Phone 2425. Spore
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    • 12 1 EARLIER CABLES....Page 8 COMPARISON OF ARMED FORCES OF CHINA AND JAPAN...Page 21
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  • 1507 2 Are Young Men Useless After Working In Malaya? The Atmosphere In British Firms AS two young Englishman, still sweating in London clothing, stumbled down a gangway on to a Singapore dock a few days ago, an American fellow-passen-ger watched them over the rail and drawled to a Dutchman
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  • 221 3 Seeking Converts To Mormonism '•'PROM the missionary viewr point, Australia is a harder country to work on than a socalled savage land," declares John Sharp, young Mormon missionary from Salt Lake City who left Singapore by the Rawalpindi yesterday on h-s return to the United States. Guided by Utah"s great
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  • 65 3 Lights Wife's Cigarette, Shoots Her Long Beach, Calif. THE world's greatest trapere expert, Alfredo I'odona, aged 43, met his estranged wife, Vera Bruce, aged 31, also a trapeze exponent, at his attorney's office whilst planning a property settlement. t'odona lit his wife's cigarette and then shot her in the head,
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  • 139 3 Gigolos For Girl Tourists I «pOR the benefit of girl tourists, Singapore needs a few taxi gigolos," think Miss Louise Williamson and Miss Mary Somers, two pretty New Zealand globetrotters who have been visiting Malaya. This is no reflection on Singapore bachelors, who the girls think treat feminine travellers nobly.
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  • 395 3 These People Were In Singapore Last Week ROUND THE WORLD BY MOTOR-CAR f\S a three years' round-the-world motor tour a Californian and his wife passed through Singapore during the week. They were Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Wallace, two smiling prune ranchers from Napa, California, whose picture is on the
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  • 118 3 Airport As Laughing Stock i 1 1- Singapore people don't stop boasting about their airport it will become as much a laughing stock among tourists as the Sydney Harbour Bridge." So thinks Captain Stanley B. Bonnor, United States Army, who has been passing through Singapore on his way to join
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  • 107 3 BABY'S RIGHT TO BE BORN UPHELD New York. LJAS an unborn child the right to be born If the mother dies? Judge Kalodner, of Philadelphia, answered "Yes" to this question. Surgeons at the city's General Hospital therefore over-ruled the child's father and will operate on Mrs. Mary Mocccwsini as soon
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  • 15 3 An earthquake shock caused several walls to collapse at San Rogue, Saint Michael's Island. Azores.
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  • 156 3 El Centra, Cal. U7HILE fifty persons of the con- gregation looked on, F. W. Simmons, 42, shot to death Dr. O. Lamar Exver and then killed himself in the Seventh Day Advcntist Church here. Simmons, a hatchery owner, accused the physician of an attempt
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  • 43 3 The Shanganl Batlleneld. in the Bubi District of Southern Rhodesia, where Major Allan Wilson and his party of 34 early Rhodesian settlers were killed to a man in 1893 fighting an overwhelming force of Matabele, has been proclaimed a national monument.
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  • 14 3 The King of Bulgaria opened the new port of Tzarevo, on the Black Sea.
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    • 461 3 fitfj^ More Speed-More Comfort To England fcvery Wednesday and Sunday, luxury air services leave Singapore for India (2 days) Egypt (6 days) and England (S days). You fly in a bic 4-enitined air Uner as far as Alexandria, where you join oce of the new Empire flying boats for the
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 557 3 IN SINGAPORE TODAY (INLMA TIPE TABLE Today SINGAPORE AI.IIAMCRA: •"Tundra". 3.13—6 15 anu Today 9 if H. V?. 4 22 a.m. 7.1 ft.; 4.05 p.m. C \PITOL: 'Wai!:Ui Weddinc" with Bins 8.4 a. 3.15— 15 an 1 9.15. L. W. 9.34 a.m. 4.9 ft.; 11.05 p.m. GAUUCK— OCTLANG: "Jehanara" end
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  • 280 4 Result Of Increase In Cost Of Materials MOST BRITISH MAKES AFFECTED SINGAPORE is having to pay more for its motor-cars. Following recent increases in the prices of raw materials, nearly all English metor manufacturers have raised prices. Increases ranging from two to ten per cent, have
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  • 344 4 HEALTH DRIVE BEING ORGANISED (By Our Seremban Correspondent) ATTEMPTS are being made in Negri. Sembilan to organise sanitation competitions in the various kampongs with a view to improving the health of the kairipong folk. Efforts are also being made forj local pad! cultivators to render
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  • 118 4 Ex-Admiralty Tanker For Japan A FTER changing her name three times the former Admiralty chartered Norwegian tanker. The I ma.— formerly the Herborg, Conus and War I Begum.— was re-registered at Slnga- pore as a British vessel, before sailing last week for Japan. Tired of Inventing new names for the
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  • 63 4 (From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru, Saturday. The building erected in Tampoi Road near the sth. mile, Jalan Scudai, for the mental asylum at a cost of $1,500,000 is to be occupied at the end of the month. There are about 500 patients In the mental
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  • 173 4 Shepherdesses 9 "Visions Discredited THE POPE BANS PILGRIMAGES Rome. *THE Pope has instructed the 1 Bishop of Bellnno, near Venice, to forbid pilgrimages to the moantain village of Voltage, where the Virgin is alleged to have appeared to five young shepherdesses. These girls claimed that since the beginning of the
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  • 90 4 'Whoopee Tree' Which Yields Red Wine Hew York. fiMTITItMNG wittt the largest collection of wood specimens ever gathered from Lower Mexico, Mr. Uewellyn Williams, Curator of the Botany Field Museum of Chicago, was especially gratified to report the discovery of a so-called "whoopee tret," which yields red totne. It is
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  • 273 4 Driver Killed: Woman And Daughter Injured TWO FA IAL ACCIDENTS ill bt^UAMAT £>i b uiu;H, bcuurday. TTWO people iuow tueir uves this wet*, in Segamat District as the result vi motor accidents. Wnlie ou ni& way lroin tvluhiig to Segainat, the Malay Oliver ol Jaspector lbraaim
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  • 86 4 Charged With Stealing Them STATED to have eaten seven £1 notes, Annette Berry, a 28-year-old Irish domestic servant, of Rosslyn Crescent, Harrow, was bound over for twelve months at Wealdstone for stealing money from a Harrow cafe where she worked. Detective Gingell stated that after being
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  • 348 4 Barman Who Nurses Fancy Fish Feeds Them With Ants' Eggs And Brandy CAMMY SOITER, barman in the Kaiser-I-Hind, is crack aquarium keeper of the P. and O. Over 40 years with the company Sammy knows all the tricks of the game. "Sammy" arrived in Singapore last Thursday from China with
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    • 434 4 A Martyr to Indigestion £^T FOR 14 YEARS 14 years ol suffering ended In a day That's the wonderful story of the writer of th« following letter -As a manutacturing chemist. I congratulate you on the excellent formula ot Digestif Renni 3 I have been a martyr to ndjgfitiou and
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    • 266 4 One of this Year's Grandest Screen Stories and Filmed In the Wondrous New Perfected Technicolour! R«m«mb»f htr wiuwo/ nomt... "4 3 4Wm you'll n«v«r forget her lovly fac*t <j^ jm Henry FONDA Leslie BANKS W^l lftw(^ '5 THE WORIO FAMOUS T£NO« '3 Mr J^^SBKSPB?SBSfc Dimtarf by H«M SdtaitaF PAVILION— NEXT
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    • 112 4 EDUCATIONAL ENGLISH LADY staying in Singapore, will give English conversation lessons. Write Box "V" Sunday Times. EXPERIENCED SALESMAN (European) for Import. Good advancement. Salary expected. Box No. Z, Sunday Times. i *i I Business house sports club wishes to RENT OR HIRE A SEASIDE BUNGALOW, Pasir Panjang or between Katong
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  • 443 5 Will Not Regret Freedom Says Politician TRADE PACT WITH U.S.A.: BUILDING AN ARMY "Y HERE is no reason why the Philippines ever should have reason to regret securing their independence. Assemblyman Jose M. Veloso, of Manila, told a Sunday Times reporter yesterday. On his return to
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  • 80 5 t. A >IA should drop her ancient agricultural methods." thinks Manila's Assemblyman Jose Veloso, who h!!! leave Singapore for the Philippines by air this morning. He sa>» the Malayan Governments should give advanced agriculture' tuition to all Malays seeking it. Philippine Universities were now placing
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  • 179 5 Soldier As Ricksha Puller Theft Charge Against Two Fusiliers •TWO Inniskilling Fusiliers, James Hamilton and Patrick McCabe. appeared in the Singapore Second Court before Mr. F. V. Duckworth, en a charge of theft of a ricksha. They pleaded guilty, but the case was postponed to Monday, on a personal bond
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  • 35 5 Francis Federer, the Czech stage and screen star, announces from Hollywood that he is to marry Margo, the Mexican actress and daughter of one of Mexico City's leading surgeons, probably in October.
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  • 326 5 BRUSH WITH FRANCO SHIP A LTHOUGH they haven't seen their home port, Kios, for over three years, the crew of the Greek freighter Adelfotis looked happy enough when they arrived in Singapore last week. Built at Sunderland in 1908, the Adelfotis
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  • 132 5 INQUIRIES TO BE MADE /CRITICISM of the long: adjournment of cases in the Singapore Second Magistrate's Court were made by Mr. F. V. Duckworth, when he came on the bench for the Brst time yesterday. His comments were made during j the hearing of a charge
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  • 81 5 (From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru, Saturday. INCHE Mohamed Hassan, the wellknown Malay tutor to Europeans, has been appointed private secretary to the Sultan of Brunei and is leaving today to take up his new appointment. Inche Hassan, who is a Perak Malay, retired from
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    • 72 5 STOPJPRESS! The Standard Predominatei tbe Read*. f|? It's the Pride of Every Owier. SOLE AGENTS:— The Malayan Cycle Co., Ltd. 7 8 PHOBY GHAUT. Htndrnburx Relies on X/EEDOL MOTOR OIL ltW PENNSYLVANIA AT ITS FINEST Sole DbtrlbuUrs far: MALAYA AND SOUTHERN ASIA. K LEE SAN 10.. rENANO. URGENTLY WANTED, accommodation
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    • 653 5 The small wonder acorhcrs yf they put the "GIN" in car enGINe. %M |T 1^ R I I They clean up the cylinders— <li- JW lX I VV minate "KNOCK" and act as an aj#^«»«*«k» mi upper-cylinder lubricant. They _MOTOR TABLETS prevent misfiring and prolong en- l^^ gine life. They
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  • 690 6 Early Brightness Dulled By News From China Singapore, Saturday. •THE week for share and com- modity markets opened full of promise but, unfortunately, at the close today the disturbing situation in China has cast ts shadow. On Monday tin was strong both, in London and locally
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  • 173 6 Aut. 11, 12. 13. American Can. Com. 109 109 3 4 Uo\ American Telephone anu Telegraph 170 i 170% 170 Atcheson RaUroad 79 81 82 Chesapealc 51% 52 52 Dupont 1«1 160V2 163' i Firestone 33% 33., 34=;, General Electric 56 3 4 57 58 General Motors
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  • 92 6 Saturday, Aug. 14, Noon. No. 1 K. R. S. S. in cases (F. 08.) Aug. 2S;« 30 Goed F. A. Q. ia bales (F. 0.8.) Aur- 39 316 29 516 No. 1 K. It S. S (Spot loose) A ward able Spore 29 hi 29
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  • 248 6 Rice quoted per koyan 40 pica's Other commodities quoted per pi: .1 ricept where otherwise stated. Buyer Seller Gambier $8.00 Hamburg Cube $15.00 Java Cube $11.00 Pepper. White Muntok $17.00 White $16.50 Black $9.75 Copra. Mixed $5.60 Sun Drted $5.90 Tapioca. Small Flake $4.00 Pair Flake $3.60 Medium
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  • 1263 6 Fraser and Co.'s List CLOSING QUOTATIONS: SATURDAY, 1 P.M. SINGAPORE MCNICIPAi 6% 1801 red. 1940 MOO.OOO Interest Mar. 31. Sept. JC 109 H IHH norn 4H% 1807 red. 1847 11.800.000 Interest Mar. 31. Sept. 30 107 110 Don 4H% 1809 red. 1866 $1,000,000 Interest Mar.
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  • 249 6 List Supplied By Messrs. Fraser Co. Singapore, Auk 14, 1937: 1 p.m. Books Close Company Dividend To Date TU* Payable Austral Malay 3 3 A% Int. Sept. 3 Sept. 10 3*4% Bonus Hong Kong Tin 30% Int. Aug. 20 Ipoh Tin 15%% Final Aug. 3 Aug. 28
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    • 219 6 S. E. Levy Co. Shanghai, Hongkong, Manila, Singapore. investment Bankers and Brokers in Securities and Commodities. Daily Foreign Market Cables and Quotation Service. MEMBERS. NEW YORK COTTON EXCHANGE. COMMODITY EXCHANGE. INC. NEW YORK COFFEE SUGAR EXCHANGE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE. CANADIAN COMMODITY EXCHANGE. SHANGHAI STOCK EXCHANGE. HONGKONG SHARE BROKERS' ASSO.
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    • 702 7 1 WHERE TO STAY COMING TO LONDON? I I um^ 10n,,0n ialis"" THEN STAY AT tPSfVl'l 'NSISTENTLI LONDON'S PREMIER 2J COME: RESIDENTIAL HOTEL JK^A kl enJ T Clth KING'S COURT HOTEL <^Sj^ HOTEL RUBENS Lelnstcr-Terrace, Hyde Park. W. 2. 2mlns. Kensington Gardens. Evev modern Bouth Kensington s w convenience. Including
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 825 7 Today's Wireless Programmes SINGAPORE ZHL 1 33 Mc/s (225 m) am 11.30 Light orchestral concert played by the TangUn Club Orchestra, under direction oi Rex Allen. Relay from Tanelln Club. March. Bunch of Roses". Cappl. Overture. 11:e Merry Wive* of Windsor". Nirolal. \v*Uz. •There's no place like Home." Siruu.su Suite.
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    • 331 7 TRANSMISSION 5. GSD 11.15 Me (15 5 m) GSB 9.51 Me/s (31 5 ml a.m. 6.40 "London T.ok. by Walter Fitzgerald. d.50 Big Ben. Srots anc Gaelic Concert. 7 20 "Anita and the Elephant."* Revue and a fantasy. Book and lyrics by lan Grant. Music, oy Len Hayes and Billy
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    • 681 7 Produced by M. H. Allen, 12.20 Close down. Electrical retordlnc t Gramonfront records. BERLIN. DJB 15.21 mc/s (19.74 ra.): DJN 9.54 mc/s (11.45 m.l; DJE 17. 76 me/s (16.89 m.l and DJQ 15.28 mc/s (19. 6J m.) 6 15 Call DJB. DJN. DJE. 6.20 Concert of light music. 7.15 Technical
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    • 291 7 9.20 Protestant Church. Batavia-Centrum. 1.1.50 Opening announcement. 10.53 Concert by Nlrom Orchestra. 11.50 Dance music by the Tjlkini band. Ba-tavia-Centrum. p.m. 12.30 Luncheon music. 1.10 News oullctin. 1.20 Luncheon music (contd). 2.10 News bulletin. 2.20 Close down. 5.50 Time signal. Opening announcement. 5 54 Bible storlea for children. 6.05 What
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  • 417 8 Slackening Of Home Discipline During Childhood "ALL YOUNG ANIMALS MUST BE TRAINED" I ORD Horder, Physician-in-Ordinary to the King, gave his opinions on home discipline and punishment when addressing students at the City of London Vacation Course in Education at Bedford
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  • 171 8 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Muar, Saturday. U/l'i'll an attendance of 50,000 over two days, the Johore State Agricultural Show, last week, is believed to have broken Malayan records for shows of this kind. This attendance figure is higher than that for the M.A.H.A. Show at
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  • 133 8 KUALA LUMPUR GIRL MAY GET FILM ROLE A KUALA LUMPUR girl may get the feminine lead in the film "Booloo" to be made in Malaya by Paramount soon. The director, Mr. Clyde E. Elliott, and the cameraman, Mr. Carl Berger, will probably go to the I Federal capital this week
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  • 144 8 Reason Behind Apparent Indecision JAPANS apparent Indecision over her course of action is ascribed to a serious split in the Japan**-..: Cabinet over the issue of peace or war, according to foreign reports from Tokio, says Sin Chew Jit Poh. Foreign consuls in Shanghai, including British,
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  • 72 8 Berlin. AN order calls for the surrender of all sacks made o jute or similar ha"-- 1 fibre throughout Germany. Such jacks as are in the hands of traders must be returned to the official purchasng centres within one month. It is also forbidden
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  • 118 8 Th.o thousand Irish pilgrims who crossed from Ireland marched «o Marble Arch, London, where they visited the site of the old Tyburn tree where martyrs icere executed in the old days. They are on their way to Downside Abbey, in Somscrt, where a pilgrimage is being
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  • 654 8 Shanghai War British Women And Their Children May Be Evacuated Shanghai, Saturday. "rpER^IFIC reprisals," including: the air bombing: of Nanking, are predicted by Japanese circles in Shanghai in retaliation for the Chinese artillery and infantry offensive against the Japanese positions and air attacks on the Japanese flagship
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    • 233 8 The original Gum Free i^fj^/fo/r dressing |B\M ft^N^^S^^y* smart quo io LonJoo and. Id fact, «U part* lfß^'4 of th« world rely on Brylcrecra to enstir* \$WJf balr-tmartneM mnd, what It equally Ira- portaot. halt bealth. Brylcreetn combine* the** two qualities at no other bair drettinf yS +S doe*. It
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  • 915 9 By The Onlooker IT NUS U A L studies of Malayan aboriginal life in remote Kelantan areas have recently been completed by MR. AND MRS. JULIUS WENTSCHER, the noted German artists, whose work is well-known throughout the Peninsula. They spent several weeks up the Gallas river, passing
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  • 141 9 117— THE MODEL CITY ["Writers of sensational novels have referred to Singapore as the 'cesspool of the East: but today we are in danger of another kind of propaganda— that which paints Singapore cs a model city." Mr. W. Allan Eley at a recent Rotary meeting. l Singapore's
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    • 574 9 For more than SO years Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has enjoyed tin- confidence of the entire medical profession. It is a safe, proven remedy, pleasant to take and entirely free from all harmful narcotics. It acts quickly, breaks up congestion, dear* the air passages. Keep a bottlr >l Chamberlain's always on
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  • 439 10 More Than 5,000 Likely To Make Journey To Mecca INCREASE DUE TO YEAR'S TRADE PROSPERITY MANY thousands devout Mohammedans in Malaya are preparing themselves for a pilgrimage to Mecca, holy city of Islam and birthplace of the Prophet Mohammed a pilgrimage which begins next month and
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  • 30 10 The skipper of the Hull trawler Cape Duner, who was fined £1,000 at Reykjavik on a charge of illegal fishing in Icelandic waters, has appealed against the decision.
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  • 61 10 SIX American newsboys arrived in England recently aboard the s.s. Manhattan at the start of a European tour during which they will visit twelve capitals. The boys are winners of a contest organised by an American newspaper magnate, and won their prizes by their ability to call •Extra!
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  • 186 10 "Boy Wizard" Expelled From Wall Street Washington. THE new Securities and Exchange Commission used its punitive power for the first time in inflicting the severest possible penalty— expulsion from all the exchanges to which he belonged upon Michael J. Meehan, formerly known as the "boy wizard of Wall Street," on
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  • 149 10 36 Five-Ton Bombers For Australia ■pHE Royal Australian Air Force; has ordered new Bristol Blenheim bombing planes capable of a level speed of 279 miles an hour. The number ordered has been kept secret, but it is believed to be 36. When in commission they will more than double the
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  • 60 10 Calasiao, Pangasinan QUIRICO Arenas, who claimed to be 123 years old, has died. He was considered the oldest man in the province although no official record of Arenas' birth could be obtained. The deceased was captain of the town In 1861. He was town councillor here
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  • 162 10 BISHOP URGES STERN PUNISHMENT upKIMINAL cads' of the road are attacked by the Bishop of Winchester (Dr. Cyril Garbett) In the Diocesan Gazette. He writes: "There are road hogs who risk killing man, woman, or child If they can reach their destination a few minutes earlier;
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  • 50 10 It Is officially stated that the two destroyers at present being built at Yarrows for the Greek Navy are expected to be delivered next spring. Work on two deatroyers of the same type is to begin next year at dockyards which are to be built in Greece.
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  • 291 10 TOP OF THE SOCCER WORLD Germany's New Goal LJKKK HITLER PLANS TO SUPPLANT GREAT BRITAIN AS THE SUPREME FOOTBALL NATION. YOUNG GERMANY IS TO BE DRILLED ON THE MOST SCIENTIFIC LINES SO AS TO BECOME UNBEATABLE AT ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL. The idea is to give Germany a "safety-valve" daring political troubles,
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  • Books Of The Week
    • 321 11 Search For Ancient Kingdom Quest for Sheba. By Norman Stone Peam and Vernon Barlow. Ivor Nicholson and Watson. 12s. 6d. WORMAN Pearn's unpretentious account of his wanderings In Southern Arabia is a welcome book. His object was to trace, if possible, the ancient kingdom of Balkls,
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    • 501 11 Romance, Crime And Adventure His Own People. By Richard Starr. The Lily Pool Mystery. By C. Oavison Nice Carryings On! By John Bagley. Suir de Alibi. By John Rowland. Jenkins Colonial Library. THESE four books from Jenkin's Colonial Library include a romance, two detective stories, and what ls usually described
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    • 344 11 Three New Novels Hors« Thief Trail. By Frederick MM The Passionate Problem. By E. V. Savi. Hurst and Blackett. 3s. 6d. each. Melody's Month. By Barbara Stanton. Hurst and Blackett. 3a. M. HORSE Thief Trail is a good example of the Western tale, with plenty of bad riding, straight shotting
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      4 11 A WADI DU'AN TOWN
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      2 11 "DAVID CHALK"
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    • 745 11 HUNTING BIG GAME AND THE REACTION OF THE ANIMALS Bis Game Encounters. By Stanley Jepson. H.F. G. Witberby. Ltd.. London, and Times of India, Bombay. Second edition, Us. 5/8. T HAVE read this book with much interest. It is divided into two sections, the first consisting of short accounts \ff
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    • 427 11 Story Of Journey To Mecca Tiumphant Pilgrimage By Owen Ratter. Harrap. 10s. 6d. "TRIUMPHANT Pilgrimage" is the story of an Englishman who turned Muslim and made the pilgrimage to Mecca in the face of much opposition. "David Chale," as re is called in this book,
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    • 451 11 Sand and Sun. By Michael Terry. F.R.G.C.. F.R.E.S. Michael Joseph. 12s. 6d. ""TO convey the atmosphere of un- touched Australia, to paint an intimate picture of what confronts the bushman-prospector. to verse you with life In the scrub, to show comradeship at Its best,
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  • 1695 12  -  Nathaniel Gubbins By a month of taking only one furtive peep at the front page of a newspaper each morning to see if we were at war or not, I have just got down to serious reading. How serious it was may be judged by the
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    • 137 12 PANYON OHUI FOOD DRINK OF THE EAST FOR i^jpjv HEALTH J^^^|V ENERGY Suit- Aernts for Malaya: NAINA MOHAMFD SONS, Singapore Kuala Lompur. HA sen *Mc«rs 7 4 A v, 1 4 SPECIAL AUSTIN FEATURES PROVED BY YEARS OF SUCCESSFUL SERVICE Sound-insulated body. Upholstery in real Engine n.^unted on rubber for
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    1690 13 To Manufacturer By Way Of "The Greatest Gambling Hell On Earch" UAVE you ever given a thought as to how the rubber you see being shipped from Singapore reaches the manufacturer who produces 101 articles of every-day use in which rubber is the most important constituent First thoughts are
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    • 532 13 Check that g^ fatal loss t Mf of weight/ *m( ATYPICAL *'8 n °f dread diseased SPECIMEN T WBt r ZISE&J Put on pounds of fine, firm flesh jj |H ou aX w > oa *y to wcll > what that steady loss of weight foretells. Check it qow, Jflv
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    • 420 13 CONTRACT BRIDGE RY THF FOUR ACES Mr H kZl€r made his "impossible" *w contract by a fake squeeze. On the diamond opening he won with The ability to play difficult con- dummy's Acei discarded a spade, then tracts well is Charles Hutzler's trumped a diamond. The King of forte at
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  • 556 14 •THE "Old Timer" has been dL»closing, partially, "What's wrong with our City Fathers." He has not yet stressed one very important point— that, unlike city and town councillors at Home, they represent nobody in particular. Even the S.S. (S.) A. nominees have been at pains to
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  • 1993 14  - Official Salaries And The Fight Over Income Tax Sir Laurence Guillemard "Trivial Fond Records"— ll by |MHEN I came out I found a very efficient staff in the Administrative Service, but it had one weak feature. It consisted of two separate branches, one in the colony, the other in the
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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. N. LINE, FINLAYSON GREEN, SINGAPORE.
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  • 667 15 Impasse In Negotiations For Manila- Batavia Service COMPETITION WITH IMPERIAL'S PENANG-HONG KONG ROUTE ASSERTIONS that the Royal Netherlands Indian Airways (K.N.I.L.M.) are being barred from conducting a service between Batavia and Manila as a result of a secret agreement between Imperial Airways, Pan American Airways
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  • 212 15 CHICHAK STALKING IN ZHL STUDIO nEOPLE who listened to ZHL'S third Mandarin lesson last week complained that the station transmitter had an internal complaint. Punctuating the remarks of the tutor, Mr. Chang Vi Ling were high piping notes that sounded nothing like Mandarin. The njise could not come from Mr.
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  • 128 15 Calcutta. CIX doctors are leaving Calcutta for the Andaman Islands, the convict settlement in the Kay of Bengal, to help the authorities to deal with 187 prisoners, convicted of acts of political terrorism, who are on hunger strike. The convicts petitioned the Government
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  • 32 15 Eight •train-riders" itrpmps who stow away on trains^ were killod and t.y,ht others injured when a Canadian National Railways goods ttakl was tit railed near Gogama, North Ontario.
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  • 452 15 ALLEGATION AGAINST WOMAN WHOSE DOG WAS RUN OVER K WOMAN'S alleged attack on a motorist after his car had run, over her do? was described at i Steyning. Sussex, police court when I Miss Patricia Mathers, of Northover Farm, Ashurst, was fined £2 and
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  • 35 15 About 3.000,000 members of the French retail trade, hotel ani wine j business, artisans, medical and dental unions and small industries are to form an lnter-professlonal confederation to defend themselves against, I monopolies.
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  • 189 15 'THE much-boomed new machine-gun, I announced to be adopted by the British Army two years ago, has failed to report for duty. It was in July, 1935, that Mr. Douglas Hacking, Financial Secretary to the War Office, announced in the House of Commons that
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  • 134 15 360,000 LEAVE WALES IN LAST 12 YEARS Cardiff. I OCAL authorities throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire may soon combine to urge the Minister of Labour to bring to an end the juvenile labour transference scheme as far as Wales is concerned. Statistics now being received by various Welsh authorities, especially
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  • 133 15 "Wireless Will Never Replace Newspapers" AN acknowledgement of "the wide I and generous outlook of editors of' English newspapers, which has raised j journalism in England high above that of other countries and is constantly raising it still higher," was made by the Bishop of
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  • 198 15 ONLY HIS "NAME" LEFT FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW CREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW, 13. year-old British star, who has earned thousands of pounds by bis wonderful acting has only £60 in the world now. Litigation has taken all his money. Just now there is no more coming in. His fortune has vanished. His future is
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  • 409 16 Startling Growth Of Caravan Population FORECAST OF SOCIAL CHANGES IN NEXT 20 YEARS Washington, i A PRESIDENTIAL Committee has assumed the mantle of prophecy and attempts to forecast some things that would happen in the world of science twenty years hence, so that the Government would be
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  • 545 16 PICTURES EVERYBODY LIKES *T*HE statisticians tell us that there are now millions and millions or camera owners— more than 16 millions In the United States alone— but how many of them take pictures that really qualify as pictures, such as might be chosen to adorn the walls
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  • 130 16 HIGH PRICE FOR WATTEAU WORK Drawing of Woman's Head Fetches £5,800 London. A NTOINE WATTEAU'S drawir.p of a woman's head brought the record price of £5,800 at Sotheby's. The work, which is part of the famous French collection formed by the late Comte 6reffulhe, was the most highly priced single
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    • 207 16 If you are w readily rattled" 1| ...you are jBK. really unwell PHE worst ailments grow gradually. This is especially true of nerve disorders. And do not forget that the nerves influence every organ and every function of the body. Ask yourself if you are jumpy, easily rattled, irritable, irresolute.
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    • 533 16 Husband's Hair was in a Terrible State Hit Hair 6r (w b using KOTALKO J^^B^aiM, JT) •«»»«■<•• M* i HP! *W *v In turibie iCM*. On« blf bald patcb om -\>r I the top ot bl» ba*4 *"jflk' lt r3^*' *m m- P—m ■PP** trying to get till* >^Hu L
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  • 707 17 Dress To Your Personality Max Factor's Advice WHEN Greta Garbo appeared In the "Painted Veil," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer spent thousands of dollars on a two-word advertising campaign— "GAßßO SMILES!" Why? Well, think back a moment. Did you ever before see Garbo smile on the screen? No? Of course, you didn't! She seldom
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    24 17 piiit! attQM > c'leclivety '-sed as a trimming on the sleeves and collar of this smart coat of black wool georgette. Model by Diana Shaw.
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  • 107 17 I IGHT wood helps to give the room a cool appearance, and various new side tables in light oak. and weathered sycamore, are especially useful, being low, wellbalanced and in various sizes to suit the style of the room and the space available. An original coffee table
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  • 93 17 |£EEPING the hands cool Is often a difficult problem when one is doing fine handwork. Hands which perspire a great deal should, of course, be washed often, and if lukewarm water is used, and a fatty soap, the skin will not become rough. Another useful suggestion is to
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  • 88 17 •TRIM a cutlet for each person. Cover the bottom and sides of a deep pie dish with sliced potatoes and season well. Put in the cutlets, season them, and cover with chopped onion and skinned, sliced tomatoes. Season again. Cover with rather thick slices of potatoes. Almost fill
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  • 111 17 1"HIS is a favourite savoury that was served in the eighteen seventies and eighteen eighties at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Cut some rounds of bread about '.tin. thick and 2in. in diameter. Fry them a golden brown. Dip some mushrooms in butter and grill them; lay one
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  • 159 17 •"THE subtle blending of flavours in this sauce places the finished dish in the ranks of food aristocrats. Make plenty, there'll be calls for more than the whole family. 3 tablespoons fat or oil 1 medium-sized onion Va cup chopped green pepper 2 tablespoons chopped ripe olives 2/3
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  • 65 17 DEACH jewellery is something so D delight the hearts of girls who would rather bask in the sun than swim in the surf. From large clips, in the shape of fish, sea serpents and the like, to wear on beach dresses and pajamas, to pins, beads, bracelets
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  • 72 17 IT coloured washing frocks have 1 to be dried out of doors in strong sunshine they should be turned inside out or hung inside an old bolster case to prevent their colour from fading. To keep them in good shape they should be hung on wooden hangers or
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    • 214 17 At VOGUE'S.. Clothes Make the Woman Highlights of Fashion FLASHES FROM PARIS AND NEW YORK AUGUST SHIPMENT JUST ARRIVED. Ladies who are quick to recognise .trrrstingly smart clothes, will find cunsi&tingly from these distinctive models rra l mastery in styling: and skill in srwinjr;. Tli-v appeal to you in Style,
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    • 555 17 "THE ACCENT OF YOUR MAKE-UP CANT BE FOREIGN TO YOUR FROCK" *--Jf The colour of your uress affects your skin tones and make-up should be chosen in complementary shades. With these dress colours use Elizabeth Ard?n maKe-up as follows and be sure of a successful appearance: With sports clothes: Nasturtium
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  • 701 18 Beach Clothes To Rival The Sunshine |U0 opportunity is being lost of letting beach clothes rival sunshine by way of bright slacks, shorts, peasant kerchiefs, and shady hats. Orange shorts are being worn with bright blue blouses. Play suits show cream and green floral prints, or yellow and red candy
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  • 76 18 MESHED gloves are not specially IV cool or in any way smart. Far more chic is to carry the correct pale suede gloves than to wear a sort of nsh-net affair not flattering on the hand. The plain glove is now U*e rage; even those very exquisitely
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  • 60 18 TTO brighten suede articles, go over them with a clean cloth dampened with a little vinegar. Brush with a wire brush, and they will look like new. A SMART effect is given to this coat, designed for the fuller figure, by the applique work of eire satin
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  • 346 18 Dainty Handbags For The Evening VOUR evening frocks need a lovely handbag to make ihem perfect. So, if you are planning to buy just a certain number of new dresses for holiday wear, then unless you already have a really super bag you will probably do wisely if you strike
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  • 95 18 1% tt>. peeled bananas, 1 lb. castor sugar, n>. butter 6 lemons, 6 eggs. JUIASH the bananas with a fork. ITI Put the butter and sugar into a double saucepan. Beat the eggs and squeeze the lemons. Strain the beaten eggs and lemon juice on to the butter
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    • 399 18 Personality I Vt^kj^, can best be expressed I fifsffipu} in a 3jp? 5 S COIFFURE v. which is distinguished for F I INDIVIDUALITY and ARTISTRY >. We have a style for YOU— an d always the LATEST STYLE FIGARO, 93, BRAS BASAH ROAD, SINGAPORE. Phone 2868. >t« 4KAFfI.ES HOTEL Business
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    • 268 18 New Air-Floated lace Powder Amazing Discovery of fans Beauty Chemist Face powder ten times finer and lighter than ever before thought possible I Onlypowder that floats on air is collected lor use. This is the amazing new process ol a Paris chemist now adopted by Tokaloo. 4||>§ V KlmhM lokm.«io.
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  • 706 19 Joan's Table Talk IMET curtains may have taken the place of lace curtains but they themselves are now being modernised in attractive ways. Plain, fine net hanging at windows is often finished with graduated tucks extending a dozen inches from the hem the
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  • 1049 19  - Attempt To Make Law In England To Ban All Beauty Aids Mary Knight Cosmetics Through The Ages By IT seems probable that cosmetics were first employed in the East, as the earlier-t records of their use are contained in the history of Egypt as far back as 3500 8.C., when
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    • 171 19 v ran w d D %(iIT" Small .boys can be heroes «o smaller girls \\.n*' f iacd'th* lcve oi adxciratfon seem* to b« instinct Jfir in )h« 'species. V^TL JR jßut no^small^boy-or small oiil-will try to" >V\^r^l! £show.oiil unless h« feels*well,~co~wise mothers J~— •milea! '.thesel exhibitions^! prowess and are >A
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    • 177 20 f ROTTEN i CABA TABLETS GIVE INSTANT RELIEF, SOOTHE THE THROAT AND CURE I YOUR TROUBLE. CABA TABLETS REFRESH AND PREVENT INFLAMMATION OF THE THROAT NO OTHER MAJOR MOTION PICm fl TURE UNIT HAS EVER SKY-ROCK-dB S9b V ETED TO INTERNATIONAL ACCEPT»JB b^BbVs's^BßH VN( KIN Xs SHORI a lIMI %s
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    • 308 20 LOST ENERGY RESTORED Mn. L. M. B. writes "As I hive been suffering with WK\ terrible depression and hysteria, with no energy, for A^R\ long time, I have taken Phosferine Tonic Win*. B^BJA I am now on the third bottle and I am feeling great JHB^V "I asked my doctor
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    • 574 20 $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 Pu-zle printed below. Should no reader succeed in solving the puzzle correctly, the $100 will be awarded in respect of the
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  • 332 21 THE ARMED FORCES OF CHINA JAPAN A COMPARISON of the positions ot Japan and China as regards both sides' armed forces and economic resources and a brief survey of world events which have hastened the Japanese to take th? big risk on the mainland of the Continent of Asia, on
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  • 596 21 Although the United States and Great Britain do not like to see Japan slicing away another piece of Chinese territory, they do not wish to see the Soviet assist China and play into the hands of the Chinese Reds, as indicated by
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  • 450 21 SOMETHING WORTHY OF COMMUNITY'S STRENGTH WEALTH A SWIMMING pool for Chinese only big: enough to suggest the strength of the community, attractive enough to be proud of, suitable enough to become a social centre. Has not someone thought of it? Singapore Chinese swimmers have long
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    • 281 21 ii^Jr <^>3fc». SHERL£Y"S ■WAJflvlf If iK/rJBB. conUta Happy: \k^^^%^^ SHERLEY'S c. Tee v* Coadttoa Nwtei And that Al l V" HI FlflA keeps then biood cool, their appetites f^ U L mM m W' fw keen, tncir spirits bubbling and makes *7 W\ 4_ 5 tbem the oappv. contented pals
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    • 298 21 SAVING SUICIDES FROM THEMSELVES Plea For Wider Use Of Psychotherapy TREATMENT WORTH RISK OF ERROR ACCORDING to an expert writing in the current issue of "The Practitioner," "the psychological treatment of potential suicide adds to the number of people who find life worth while," and a strong plea is made
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  • 659 22 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES MALACCA CORRESPONDENT JJV& T. S. M. Perumal presided over the ninth annual general meeting of the Malacca Young Men's Hindu Association held recently at their premises. Mr. K. S. A. A. Sambantham Chettiar, read the treasurer's accounts which were passed unanimously. Among the
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  • 67 22 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca. TOE Malacca Junior Library, started In 1930 with a gift of 500 books, records a year of steady progress in the curent annual report. A collection ot 1200 now covers a wide range of juvenile subjects. The Library receives an annual government
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  • 1383 22 PIE Malacca Badminton Association! held a number of ties during the week at the M.V.C. D-11l Hall. Results, to date, are: Men's Singles First Round: Scow Chul Chiang beat Yap Chuan Choon 15_5, 15—11; Leong Tan Cl.ee awarded walk-oVer from Lim Kcng Watt; Wong Kok For.?
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  • 1077 23 Suggested Malayan Team If Sports Are Held BY OUR ATHLETICS CORRESPONDENT TTIE Chinese National sports commit- tee telegraphed last week a reply to inquiries from Malayan sportonwn that there wi.l be no postponement of the seventh Chinese National Olympiaa to be held in Nanking in October. This
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    32 23 A pliu:usrrapta taken at the Ntgri Sembilan Chinese Recreation Club when a dinner was Riven to Mr. Chant Kent Yon*, the Negri State Councillor, who has been awarded a Certificate of Honour.
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  • 291 23 i From Our Own Correspondent.) Seremban. "THE Negri Sembilan Chinese Recrea- tion Club retained the Chang Seng Long inter-cub lawn tennis cup for the third year in succession by defeating the Negri Sembilan Medical Services Club, in the last fixture of this tennis league. The
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    16 23 Ine Malacca (left) cricket team *fc* lost v the United Serv.. (right) last week-end at Malacca.
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  • 234 23 R.A.F. (TOWN OFFICE) BEAT CLERICAL UNION Eight Goals Scored At Balestier A fast and clean game was witnessed by a very large crowd on Thursday, on the Clerical Union Ground, when the R.A.F. (Town Office) beat the Clerical Union 5—3. Play opened much in favour of the Union. Only some
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  • 132 23 OESULTS In the Adameveans B.P. annual tournaments, to date, are: Men's Handicap Singles: R. Kylasam (scr.) beat P. A. L. Manassee (—3) I&— s, 15—11; Leong Tah Chee (—8) beat Dr. S. J. Chong (—3) 15—9, 15—14. Men's Doubles: Chan Slow Kow and Tiew Kirn Yam beat Scow
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  • 109 23 MR. E. V. G. DAY, acting Resident Councillor, Malacca, opened the new camp site of the Malacca Boy Scouts Association, at Bukit Duyong on Thursday, and distributed awards as follows: Warrants: R. S. L. Joseph; S. M. Wong Hon Chong; 8. M. Tan Kirn Sun; C. M.
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  • 48 23 •THE main /card on the City Park boxing programme on .nday is a ten-rounder between Young Johnson, the F.M.S. negro lightweight champion, and Ignacio Fernandez, official lightweight champion of Malaya. Each round is scheduled to last three minutes, for the first time in Malacca.
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  • 204 23 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca, Saturday. DESENTMENT is felt by sports clubs and associations in Malacca over the latest Municipal circular which cancels the allotment of playing grounds with a provision! that in future a ground may be booked only by advance payment of one
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  • 213 23 ISKANDAR CUP Johorc's Victory Over Singapore (From Our Own Correspondent.) Muar. /CONGRATULATIONS to the Johore lawn tennis players for their splendid victory over their Singapore compatriots In the challenge round for the Iskandar Cup. Johore won by three matches to two and the outstanding player was undoubtedly Yon bin Mian,
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  • 66 23 Entries for the Clerical Union billiards tournament close on Saturday, Sept. 11. The tournament will provide for four events in the three ball game: open championship (300 up): "A" handicap (200 up); "B" and "C" handicaps (200 up) four events In the four ball game will be under
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  • 1391 24 Steady Drizzle In Early Afternoon A STEADY drizzle fell before the opening today of the second iday of the Perak Turf Club's skye meeting. The afternoon was coo! and a large crowd was present. Dividends were good, and the totes and cash sweeps were
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  • 122 24 Paterson's 65 Record At Bukit Timah DLAYING in the replay of the 1 Clifford Cup at the Singapore Golf Club yesterday M. M. Paterson went round in the record score of 65. Detailed score: Oat: *****454 3—33. In: *****342 5—32 ISLAND CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP IN the Island Cup golf championship yesterday
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  • 216 24 MANIAM'S SIX FOR 24 JOHORE C. C. BEAT ENGINEERS 'From Our Own Correspondent.) Johore Bahru. HPHE fine bowling performance of S. S. Maniam. wi. took 6 wickets (or 24 runs, mainly contributed to the narrow victory of the Johore Cricket Club over the Royal Engineers, Changl. on the Civil Service
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  • 167 24 THE sixth annual Singapore open championship Xt-mile cross-coun-try race organised by The Clerical Union, will be run oa Sunday Oct. 31, starting from the Clerical Union's Clubhouse, Rangoon Road at 7 a.m. The closing date is Oct. 24. Prizes will be awarded to winners of the first
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  • 136 24 TAN PENG CUP Segamat Represents North Johore (From Our Own Correspondent.) Segamat. A DISPLEASING feature of the North Johore Europeans versus Rest match was the poor representation of the other districts of the North. The Tan Peng cup was donated for a North Johore Europeans vs. Rest match, not a
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  • 42 24 S.C.C. tennis ties for this week are: MONDAY Championship Doubles: Semi-Final T. B. Rogers and J. Rlley vs. A. Ferguson and W. M. Edwards. WEDNESDAY Subsidiary Tournament E. Fozard and O. O. Fugler vs. E. O. Staunton and C. Hewetson
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  • 72 24 The following will represent the Social A.P. at soccer against the Balestier Friendly A.P. today at the M.F.A. ground (Balestler Plain) Sim Ah Pang. Llm Kum Chin, Ong Swee Chin Teo Ban Teck. Sng Ah Lye. Jimmy Wee. Son Kirn Swee, Urn Chin Alk. Tan Chi :nii*. Tan
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    22 24 The girls' hockey team of the Pens] onnat Notre Dame at Cameron Highlands In the top picture is the boys' cricket team.
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  • 146 24 PADANG CRICKET STOPPED BY RAIN RAIN Interrupted play in the twoday cricket fixture between the S.C.C. and the S.R.C., which began on the Padang yesterday, the S.C.C. having 111 for the loss of seven wickets when stumps were drawn for the day. The match will be continued today at eleven
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  • 658 24  -  "CAPTAIN DASH" BY THE biggest meeting of the racing year In Malaya Is approaching. It is the Singapore Turf Club's Autumn Gold Cup Meeting which opens at Buklt Tlmah on Aug. 28. On the last day of this meeting. Sept. 11, there will b°
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  • 494 24 Pensionnat Notre Dame Sports 'THE second annual sports of Pen- sionnat Notre Dame. Cameron Highlands, were held last week. The girls' dressing race caused much excitement and laughter among the audience and ths Oxford and Cambridge bjat race supplied much amusement and cneering. Among those present were: Rev. R» Cardon,
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  • 83 24 This Week's Singapore Soccer CIVE First Division matches are to be played this week in the Singapore league, the most interesting being the game between the Royal Air Force and the Innlskilling Fusiliers on Friday. The fixtures (all at Anscn Road stadium) are: Monday: Div. I: Malays vs. kuyai Engineers
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  • 90 24 (From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru. Entries close for the Johore lawn tennis championship meeting on Saturday. The events are men's singles championship, men's doubles, mixed doubles, veterans' doubles and novices singles. The qualifying rounds will be played from Wednesday. Sept. 1 to Saturday. Sept. 18, at Johore
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  • 218 24 Point scoring: Win 15: tic 716: wiu lit inns 5: loss on Ist Inns 3 no result 4 pts each: no play, match Ignored; no play for two days on» inning match, win 10. loss 3 p Middlesex 10 Yorkshire 23 Sussex 27 Derbyshire 23 Gloucester 26
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  • 856 25 Championship Chances Now Much Brighter Chinese 3. Inniskillings 2. THE Chinese beat the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers by three goals to (wo yesterday in the vital First Division match. By their win they made their chances of the championship much brighter but things *il!
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  • 139 25 A RECENT recruit to the wireless station staff at Seletar is S S. Chowdbury, a brilliant hockey player. He went to Hong Kong in 1934 to take a wireless > ourse and was a star in the Radio Sports Club hockey team. He was selected for
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  • 273 25 MALACCA CLUB SKITTLED OUT STOUTER TAKES FOUR FOR SIX rFrom Our Own Correspondent.) Maiacca. Saturday IN the last cricket matrh of the sea son b.'gun here today C. J. A. tie Vries' Asiatic side skittled out the Malacca Club for 52 runs by the tea interval Of the bowlers G.
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  • 44 25 In the Uwt, tennis matcn for the Kllney Cup, S.C.R.C. vs. S.C.C, to be played at the SC.C. on Monday, the B.C.C team will be N. S. Wise and R. F Smith, singles and doubles, with J. A J>an as ncn-playing captain
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  • 59 25 Marcel Thil. recognised by the International Boxing Union as world middleweight champion, has cabled Mike Jacobs, the New York promoter, that he will leave for the United States next month to defend his title against Fred Apostoll. of California. It is understood that Thil was offered a guarantee of $35,000
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  • 115 25 ■Prom Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca, Saturday. RESULTS in the Malacca Badminton Association's championships played this evening are: Mixed Doubles: Scow Chui Chiang and Miss Yoong Woo Klan beat Lin Keng Watt and Miss Lin Guat Eng. 11-21 21—7. 21— Mah Tiaii Kit and i Mrs. Khoo Sian
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  • 113 25 ALL BLACKS SUPERIOR IN ALL PHASES Wellington, Saturday. 1UEW ZEALAND beat South Africa at Rugby by 13 points to seven before a crowd of 50.000 on a slippery ground. The All Blacks were superior in all phases despite the loss of a threequarter early In
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  • 294 25 R.N. And R.M. Win For Fourth Time The R.N. and R.M. won the InterService Championship at the All England Club. Wimbledon, on Aug. 8, when the final totals were: R. N. and R.M., 7 wins Army (holders). 6 R.A.F., 5. This is the R.N. and
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  • 22 25 AsenaU £12.000 bid for Bryn Jones has been finally rejected by Woiverhampton Wanderers, and Grlmsby have declined -!»her Betm^a<t or Glover at
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  • 217 25 NON-BENDERS LOSE TO A S.R.C. TEAM rE S.R.C. XI beat the Non-Benders at cricket at the S.R.C yesterday, scoring 166 against the Non-Benders' 129. NON-HfcNDKRS Dr. J. M. Lowson b N. SulHvan 16 A. F. Hunter b LeCain 11 S/L. Watts c Reutens b P d'Almelda 22 A B. Jordan
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  • 398 25 INHERE was only a poor crowd at the Clerical Union Hall yesterday to witness the junior badminton tournament games but th--y were well rewarded jy seeing really interesting games and, for a Junior tournament, the standa:d of play seen must be considered \?ry high. Ahmad
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  • 182 25 English And Scottish Teat For Next Week-end England has entered for live events —athletics, basket-ball, fencing, tennis and swimming —in the University games to be held in connection witti the Paris Exhibition during the wees commencing Aug. 22. The English athletic team will prooably be: A.
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  • 33 25 Paynter s 322 for Lancashire against Sussex on July 2*. scored out of 546. occupied five hours. Included three sixes and 39 fours, and vac the highest evw made by professional for Lancashire.
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  • 43 25 Prom Cnir Own Correspondent) Penang. Saturday. The Kedah police defeated the- Ptvt^i". o'otlre In ih/r i-nnnal mateh 1 for the Clayton 1 Cup this evening by two goals to one to win the Cup 'or the second time since its presentation.
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  • 23 25 The cricket match, between the Ceylon Sports Club and the Combined Colleges to have been played at Balestier yesterday was cancelled.
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  • 65 25 There is a new croquet champion, us the result of the final of the Championships at Roehampton on July 10. when C. P. Colman wort the title by defeating Lt. -Colonel W. B. Dv Pre minus 14. plus 14. plus 5 atfer a close contest. Lord ToMemache and Sir Gerald
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  • 601 25 GUNBOAT'S GREAT WIN OVER FAHMY 2 Knock-Outs, Both In The First Round FLUSIVE GUNBOAT JACK (10.9^4) confounded Mohamed Fahmy (11.4) by clever ringcraft at the Happy World Stadium last night, and won a comfortable but unspectacular points verdict. A sensational knockout of Neil Hemchit (9.8^4) by Nai Boon Mah (95%)
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  • 90 25 IN the Command knock-out football competition the Mldd'esex second team met the Sappers at OiTlman Barracks yesterday and after ten minutes extra time each way had been played the score was still nil-nil. The Mklds. had the best of the came throughout and but for the
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  • 713 26 Building Scheme Comes Up Again Junior Singles And Doubles Tournaments BY OUR BADMINTON CORRESPONDENT PiK Singapore men's junior singles and doubles badminton tournaments have now reached the third round and are becoming more interesting. MOM of the recent games saw the 1 Uton well matched
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  • 244 26 Scgamat Badminton Tournament (From Our Own Correspondent.) Segamat rE Segamat anJ District badminton tournament is r\bou: to begin and. provided the *?athev proves favourable, snould be cjnclu.ied towards the end of Auguv. and thus make it po 0 f-r the local champions in eprl' event to participate in the forthcoming
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  • 162 26 I! 1 brated Hi first ann!v.'.'.U a dinner at the Happy World 11 on Saturday, Aug. 7. The Meet BF. tx-ot the Rex B.P. in a return friendly by tt nami-: to two. thus ng the defeat of three gomes to four :mi in-.-Ltn 1 The natches wen
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  • 119 26 Playing at the couii of tho Jovial B.P. at a low Road 1.«.-t Sunday ItU Useiui BP. bo:t the Paya Lebar Epwortn League by four vimes to three Scores (Useful nrsi) Oeorge Chen beat Lie Yang Chim, 1111,5 11, 15—3: Wee Kirn Wee beat Sim Ycow Urn, 13—13
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  • 128 26 The following tics In the Singapore men's Junior s.'igles and doubles championship badminton tournaments will be played at the Cl-mal 1.*****1 today 10 ajn. Doubles 8. RaJOQ and P. Balssiiigam (Novice) vs. Low Choon Poh and Lre Bt-ng Watt Mayflower^, Samuel Lcong and Seah Kirn Kow (Jovial) -o
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  • 90 26 Tl>f Mercantile Co-operative S<»ciety beat the Syr. an Christian Union at badminton by Uirtf games to Iwo. playing tt the latter s court, r.t-sults (Co-uptratlve first 1 Tay K< v iep lor-.t lv P. Bala Siiwar.i 13—15. 3—15; Tav Keng Ann beat V C. Koshl 15 S. 16—5;
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    16 26 i lir lemonade and bun race in progress at the Singapore Vehicle.) Department Sports Club meeting.
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    19 26 Croup pl-.otorraph taken at a farewell party at Malacca to Mr. Njim Wee Chiow, who is to visit China.
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  • 1502 26 (By Our Selangor Badminton Correspondent) WELL played Buklt Bintang. The final of the Selangor inter-girls school tournament was played at the V.I. Assembly Hall last week end. between the Buklt Bintang Girls School and the Methodist Girls School, j The superiority of the former was show 11 by
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  • 126 26 At the annual general meeting of the Havelocic B.P. at the residence of Mr. Charlie Yeo the following were elected office-bear-ers for the ensuing year President, Mr. Low Cheng Gam, (re elected); vice-president Mr. Lee Teng Guan (re-elected): hon. secretary. Mi Kum Kirn Chuan hon treasurer, Mr Charlie
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  • 160 26 From Our Own Correspondent.) Muar. A SURPRISE was created in the open doubles of the Muar District Badminton Association tournamnet when Chua Huck CHeong and Moktar (Floodlight) beat their team mates Yeo Cheng Swee and Chow Ah Soo who were expected to win the title. Moktar
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  • 305 26 'From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru. WITH the exception of the Junior singles and the mixed doubles all the other items in the Johore Bahru district badminton tournament have reached the final stage. During the week five matches were played and all ol them were very closely
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  • 99 26 The Golden Eagle B.P. lost to the Jagoh Muslim B.P. Results (G.E.B.P. first) Chan Saw Woh lost to Yunos 10—15, 11—15- Peck Choon lost to A. Malek 12—15. 10—15; Dawood lost to Mohd. Alwl 2—15- 2—15- Lai Chuan beat Othman 15—5, 15—1; Eddie lost A. Rahman Hi
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  • 78 26 All correspondence regarding the Lads United B.P. iffalrs should be addressed now to Mr. Tan Hock Leong. the hon. secretary and treasurer. 15, Emerald Hill Road or c/o The Electricity Department, Singapore Municipality. The hon. sports secretary is now Mr. Low Kee Swee, c/o Evan Wong It
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  • 100 26 The Batavia B.P. beat the Blue Bird B.P. by five names to two last Sunday at their court. Results (Batavia first): P. H. Tan btat Wan Sallim 15—8. 14—14 (3—2): Bertie Koh lost to Samadi 13—13, (I— s>. 10—15; Robert Yap beat S. Abhadi 15—6. li^— Siak Koon
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  • 69 26 The Inter-team tournament of the Spartan 8.P., which should have been played last month, was postponed due to bid weather. Ties have been re-arranged and will be played at the Party's court on tl c following dates Sunday, Aug. 15, 3.45 p.m. A. Team vs. C. Team; Sunday,
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  • 47 26 The following will represent the United A. P. against the AU Blues B.P. at the litter's court at 3 p.m.: Richard Tan, C. B. Nalr. L. ScheUcis, Yulln Chen. A. P. Rodrigues, Yeong Tens Kum, Iltyd Rodrlgues, Tham Ah Yew, Khoo Kirn Swazi, Ferdinand Rodrigues.
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  • 483 27  -  "Kcho By Began Season Badly But Now Playing Well AND so SiWin won thei Valaya Cup all right. It was a hard match, worthily won and lost, :mtl evwythiag eoasMwtd the reMilf irai rijfht. Selangor failed to produce the fine team spirit which has won
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  • 65 27 The aecoiid annual SingaporeJo •ore-Singapore cycle roj»d race '32 mile course) will be held this year on Sunday. Nov. 2b. at 6 a.m. The closing date for entries is Nov. 21. Entry forms from Mr. Joseph Van, 8, Piinsep Street, or Mi H. M. Sasson, 117-B,
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  • 742 27 Yacht Club At Home And Regatta LADY THOMAS PRESENTS PRIZES I IKAVY rain in the late afternoon tailed to marr the Royal Singa- 1 pore Yacht Clubs eighteeenth annual at home and regatta yesterday evening. Among the guests were the Governor. Sir Shenton Thomas, and Major-General W.G.S. Dobbie. Lady Thomas
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    28 27 A group photographed at tbc farewell of the Seremban Medical Services club to Dr. U J. Lawson and Mrs. Law -on prior to the doctor's ataaaiat to Kelantan.
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  • 33 27 A tea party will be held at the Happy Restaurant at 1 p.m. today for the success in the recent trip to Batu Pahat. Members of the Pair B.P. are Invited.
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  • 49 27 Ted Broadribb, Tommy Farr's manager, on leaving for America, said I shall be back In about eight weeks as manager of a world champion. I have studied Louis closely on the nlms and In my Judgment he Is overrated and will be beaten by Tommy's boxing and greater speed."
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  • 689 27 'From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban j^ING George V School, Seremban, held their sports meeting last week-end After the Headmaster, Capt. O. G. Williams, had made a brief speech, H. H. the Yang dl pertuan Besar of Negrl Sembilan distributed the prizes. The attendance Included the
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    36 27 A photograph of the staff of the Government English School, Stramat. prior to the departure of Mr. A. C. Straehan, the headmaster, on leave. Mr. Strmchan is in the centre with Mrs. Straeban on bis left.
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  • 340 27 SEGAMAT TENNIS FITTING PLAYERS FOR STATE TOURNAMENT (From Our Own Correspondent.) Segamat. WITH the cose approach of the Johore State lawn tennis tournament it would be a great idea if Segamat began an Inter-Party tournament and thus Kept her representatives In [trim. It would, moreover, greatly help I In improving
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  • 248 27 The Vehicles Department Sports Club cele-braU-d their seventh anniversary at Bcrllnda," Martia Road, Katong. the bungalow of Mr. Choo Lye Huat. on Aug. 7 and 8. The celebration began with the playing of the final of the draughts competition between Othman bin All and Abubakar, the
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