The Straits Times, 12 February 1939

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    38 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES THE LEADING SUNDAY NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA FINAL EDITION No. 373 Sunday, February 12. 1939 Price 10 Cents. THE SUNDAY TIMES The Leading Sunday Newspaper In Malaya No. 373 Sunday. February 12, 1939 Price 10 Cents
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    HAINAN ALARMS POWERS
    655 1 Island As Potential Japanese Air And Naval Base NEW DEVELOPMENTS BEING CLOSELY WATCHED Fall Of Chief City Denied By Chinese COLLOWING the Japanese invasion of Hainan on Fri- day, foreign naval circles in the Far East are closely watching developments on the island, reports Reuter. Hainan is
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    BURIED IN SNOW FOR 72 HOURS
    49 1 Mr. rhrulie g«l— 82-year-old farmer, and hii 81-y?ar-old wife, rliDt.'rraprretl in front of their I :tta«^ in th» Mendip Hills, Somer- >••. V. here th-y had been snowed «ip for 7? hour.v They had to dig a tanrcl through the snow to r?t oat.
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    FIRE GUTS BIG CITY STORE
    83 1 Manchester's Biggest Blaze For 20 Years London, Saturday. "Til.: biggest and most fierce outbreak of flre seen in in:;nchester in the last twenty years today destroyed th* interior of Kendal Milne's stores in the centre of the City. All flve floors were blazing at one
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    SOVIET-POLISH PACT READY FOR SIGNING
    50 1 Moscow, Saturday. THE Soviet-PolL« l i trade negotiations have yielded a comprehensive commercial pact, which is now ready lor signing. The trade turnover betw\ii the two countries, which was practically negligible in 1038, will be inereas-d under the agreement from £2C0.000 sterllns to £6.000,000.— Reuter.
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    CLOSING PRICES
    65 1 ilrom Our Own orrrspondtn!) London, Saturday. R.l.br Steady. London 7 11 ltd. 1 13. IU. Ap. -Juno :*id. .d. July-Sept. 7 13 16d. 7 15 led. Oct.-Dec 84. GOLD £7 Si. 54. SILVEB: Spot i*%*. I months It II ltd. COTTON 5.»7d. E.XI JIANGKS New York 4.58 S
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    FRENCH ASK FOR EXPLANATION
    48 1 Parts, Saturday. TTHK government has Instruct ed the French Ambassador in Tokio to ask the Japanese Government for explanations regarding the occupation of Hainan Island, and also about the extent of the duration of occupation. It is believed the British Government will follow suit.
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    SNAIL RACING IS NEW SPORT IN RUMANIA
    98 1 Ho.-in <;. Popa, a student at the I'nlvcrsity in Bukharet, baa started a new craze in Rumania with his snail racing parties. In his flat he has erected a "racecourse" with a starting po3t, rails made from domi noes, end miniature hurdles. The
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    AEROPLANE HITS BLOCK OF FLATS
    87 1 At Least Four Dead In Volcano Of Flame London, Saturday. AT least four people were killed, including the pilot, when an R.A.F. machine crashed at op speed during dense fog into a block of four flats at Brighton. The petrol tank exploded as tuc machine
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    DUTCH DEFENCES IN WEST INDIES
    44 1 The Hague. Saturday. Vice Admiral Van Du!m. accompanied by several military experts, has left here for the United States to investigate on behalf of the Government defence measures for the Dutch island of Curacao in the West Indies. —Router.
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    CONFIDENCE IN THE FRENCH FORCES
    78 1 Paris. Saturday. AfTER three days 1 deliberations. the Senate commissions for the Army. Navy and Air Force today issued a communique affirming absolute confidence In the French armed forces. The Ministers concerned furnished all the information requested, and the commissions noted with satisfaction the efforts
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    SEVEN ARABS GIVEN DEATH SENTENCE
    79 1 Haifa. Saturday. AFTER a five-day trial seven Arabs have been sentenced to death by a military court on cl~arg3s of carrying flre.irms and resisting the British forces. An eighth prisoner was given life imprisonment In vlow of his age. Th 2 defence p'eadei mitigation In
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    President's Wife Lauds Loyalists
    106 1 President's Wife Lauds Loyalists Washington, Saturday. CO.Mi: stir has been caused by the defence of the Iltpublican Government of Spa:n written by President Roosevelt's wife in her daily n;wspaper column. Revealing she had Just accepted i from the Spanish Ambassador the I gift of several Goya prints, Mrs. Roosevelt rejects
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    FLOOD DEATH ROLL IN SOUTH AFRICA
    80 1 Johannesburg. Saturday. CERIOUS floods In the Transvaal and Natal have extended northwards to Southern Rhodesia and many districts of Mashonaland are isolated So far it is impossible to estimate accurately the death roll, which is at least eighteen, or the damage. Natives In the
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    CHUNGKING AMERICANS CABLE PRESIDENT
    104 1 Chungking. Saturday OCAL American residents. Including' i** Mr. George A. Fitch, chairman ol the former Nanking safety zone, today sent a cable to President Frani:- lin D. Koosevelt. Mr. Cordell Hull, the U.S. State Secretary. ana Senators Key. Pittman. Robert and j Reynolds, protesting against Japanese
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    NEW DELHI TALKS ARE FINISHED
    93 1 NEW DELHI TALKS ARE FINISHED India Makes New Demands (From Our Own Correspondent.) New Delhi, Saturday. THE discussions between tha Government of India and the delegation from Malaya ccnierninsr Indian labourers in Malaya have concluded. In an oflicial statement it is c'eclared thDt the outcome of tne discussions will bo
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    AUSTRALIA TO FORTIFY PAPUA
    35 1 Pc:- A PARTY of Australian miiilary engineers has anv/Ld her? by air to select si*es fcr defence establishments. Artillery rxprrt-. are expected n:-;t wee!: t> plan the dlapcilwcn ol t?.vt?rie:;. Reuter.
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    BURMA POLICE OPEN FIRE ON CROWD
    35 1 pOLTCK opened lire and ct:>: an unruly process! I Burmese. Eleven people were killed and 19 Injured., The den had deiled an ord^r prohibiUr. t.i an to assemble —Reuter.
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    Purge Of Viennese Nazi Leaders
    43 1 Purge Of Viennese Nazi Leaders Vienna. Saturday. CIX out of ten Viennese Nazi leaders have been replaced. according to an announcement by the Nazi Austrian Commissioner. Herr Buerckel. It is stated the purge is a result of Herr Buerckel's fight against corruption Reuter.
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    EUROPEAN CAR CRASH SEQUEL
    451 2 Charges Against L. H. Round JUDGE RESERVES DECISION JUDGMENT was reserved at the conclusion of a case yesterday, in which a European, Leslie Henry Round, was charged in the Singapore Traffic District Ourt with causing grievous hurt to another European, Mr. Harry Elphick, by driving his
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    Chinese Arrested On Murder Charge
    88 2 Chinese Arrested On Murder Charge irYom Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. AFTER nearly a weeks investigations, the polict have made an arrest in connection with the fatal stabbing of I Soan Singh, a Sikh watchman, at Port Swctt. :.:xm. AC: arrested here and was produced before Che Meptat Yunus
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    GUN FOUND IN MILK TIN Chinese Charged
    104 2 GUN FOUND IN MILK TIN Chinese Charged (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. A LLEGLDLY discovered wrapped in j papir and buried in an old milk i tin, a revolver was exhibited In court j today, v.-iip.". Lam BML. a middle-aged Chinese was charged with possession of a weapon
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    THREE MEN FOR TRIAL
    78 2 THREE Ciinese. Koh Ah Liat. Teo See Chuan. and Tham Yew Chong. were committed for trial at the next i Assizes, at the end of a preliminary Inquiry into a charge of attempted murder by shooting, held by Mr. K. A. Blacker in the Singapore Fourth
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    RUBBER FOUND IN MALAYS' KOLEK
    99 2 A FINE of $250 each or in djrault of payment, sentence of three months' rigorous imprisonment. w?s imposed on j two Malay fishermen. Leman bin Tebu and Awang bin Tohat, who admitted imnortinß 20 piculs cf rubber into the 1 Colony without a certificate of
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    PULAU TEKONG SHOOTING
    136 2 A FTER a two days' hearing, the pre- liminary inquiry into the Pulau Tekong shooting tragedy, in which a Chinese estate mandore. Lee Kirn Pong, lost his life, was concluded yesterday before Mr. Conrad Oldham, in the Singapore Second Police Court. A middle-aged Chinese named Yeo Kirn
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    Traffic Heads Reconsider New Airest Powers
    120 2 THE protrr.t of the Singapore Rateps; 3' Association against provisions In the Traffic Regulations, 1933, particularly the proposal to grant powers of arr?st to all members of the Police Force in respect of traffic breaches and the ban on hooting in certain areas r.«
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    CENSUS MADE IN STAMFORD ROAD
    236 2 CENSUS MADE IN STAMFORD ROAD r w*liE work of 30 policemen station- ed at the six principal junctions along Stamford Road, Singapore, throughout last wsek taking a census of motor traffic, will give motorists a better chance to icet through the system of traffic lights. The lights at Junctions with
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    Good Response To Christian Youth Appeal
    170 2 •'THERE has been a splendid response to our appeal," declared Brigad.Vr H. A. Lord to The Sunday Times yesterday, referring to the special appeal to youth made fcv the Salvation Army in conjunction "ith me churches of Singapore. Under the auspif es of the
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    On Tuesday Send Her A Valentine
    443 2 LIAVE you marked next Tuesday in 11 your diary? Have you waited and longed for the coming of that day. realising that it is the festival of St. Valentine, that it may bring the fulfilment of a secret love you nave been cherishing? No.
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    30 2 ,The engagement is announced of Mr. Chla Wai Yin, the youngest son of Mr and Mrs. Chla Peng Kuan, to Miss Wong Chcon Hoe of Singapore. Outstatlon papers please copy.
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    THE SINGAPORE HARBOUR BOARD
    53 2 -inside |kt RtttMi M «r\ arrive. n Location Ship E?.it Wharf I! An::'.'. Plan. 18 ..n io Sarpcdcn 1 1 P.i--1 1 G '.a BunK Enii.irr r>o<k Toba Maru 3u 3L BUvereedar 3! lU «3 Wt -i aya K3 itl 58 New Sec. 10 I^ahure 50
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      316 2 IN SINGAPORE TOD AST CINEMA Today ALHAMBRA Eciovcd Brat with Borita Granvlll?. 11 a.m., 3.15, 6.15 and 9.15 p.m. CAPITOL "Tarzan and His Mate. 11 a.rr., 3.15. 1.18 and 9.15 p.m. PAVILION "Blond Cheat" with Joan Fontaine ani Derrick de Marney. 3.15, 6.15 ani 9.15 p.m ROXY "Boys Town" with
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      290 2 SURFACE MAILS EXPECTED Molls from Holland, etc. expected on Monday by Kcta Inten. TIDE TABLE SINGAPORE Today H. W. 3.45 a.m. 8.5 it.; 5.10 p.m. 7 ft. L. W. 10.31 am. 2.7 ft.; 10.17 p.m. 4.8 It. Monday H. W. 4.39 a.m. 8.1 U.: 6.53 p.m. 6.6 ft. L. \V.
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    "WORTHY HEAD OF OLDEST CHURCH"
    283 3 British Tributes To His Holiness The Pope "WISE IN WISDOM AND SCIENCE OF HIS GENERATION" London, Saturday. THE morning newspapers devote many columns to the life of His Holiness Pope Pius XI, and describing how hi successor will be chosen. Editorials eulogise the Hoiy Father
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    EUROPEAN WOMAN IS VICTIM OF TYPHOID
    128 3 EUROPEAN WOMAN IS VICTIM OF TYPHOID A EUROPEAN woman, Mrs. L. Reeves, of Chancery Hiil Read, is a typhoid patient In the General Hospital. Mrs. Reeves was due to go on leave on Friday. She intended Roing to Australia and the United States on her way to England. Cmm of
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    REPUBLICANS' CONDITIONS FOR PEACE
    369 3 REPUBLICANS' CONDITIONS FOR PEACE Strong Italian Press Views Madrid, Saturday. DR. N<»grin, the Republican Prime Minister, announcing that the Government's headquarters have been established in Madrid, declares that th.Republicans intend to fight until Th? tracaJ&M of Ccn. Francos d -t Iga troops Th? safety cf life and liberty is a-
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    Mr. John Hands' Strike Move Unsuccessful
    288 3 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur. Saturday. INTO the Central Railway Workshops strike picture today stepped Mr John Hands, who. approached yesteroa> by the men's representatives, agreed to take their grievances to tlw Government. Negotiations, however, broke down, and the men refused to go
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    KING FAROUK OVER THE NILE
    37 3 >w..g i.-o.m I'l c Ntai car ariv.n* over the Assouan Dam w'-ere be inauftira ed the scheme for heifhtenkig the dnm. Tlie Kins new to this part of the Nile from Cairo.
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    Special Masses In Singapore For Holy Father
    106 3 r\URING next week special requiem masses will be held at Singapore Roman Catholic churches. The timetable for the services is: Monday. Church of St. Peter and St. Paul. 6.30 a.m. Tuesday. St. Joseph's Church, Portuguese Mission, 6.30 a.m. Wednesday, Church of Our Lady
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    What Happened When Chamberlain And Halifax Visited Vatican
    288 3 What Happened When Chamberlain And Halifax Visited Vatican A LAST memory of the Pope is rc- called In a touching story by Th3 Times diplomatic correspondent concerning the recent visit of Mr. Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax tr, Rome. The Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary visited the Vatican and
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    CHINESE MESSAGE TO VATICAN
    168 3 Changing, Saturday, i PXPRESSING heartfelt sympathy the death of Pope Pius XI and j thanks for his beneficent influence in rallying the Catholics t# champion the cause of humanity and peace, the Chinese Union' of the League of I Nations today sent a message of con-
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    JOINT ANGLO-FRENCH PROTEST SOON?
    105 3 Coincidence Of Hainan 6? Minorca Seizures Paris. Saturday. WITH one accord, the French press raises its voice against the occupation of Hainan Island by the Japanese. Some papers suggest that France In conjunction with Great Britain will send a strong r atest to Tokio. Insisting that
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    39 3 Chatham (Mass). Saturday. THE American freighter Llshtburn.' sent out an S.O.S. stating she had run ajround on Block Island, oil Rhode Island, in a dens? log. The crew of ths Lightburne, which is breaking un. was later rescued.— R°uter.
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    JUDGE'S CAR PLATE STOLEN
    69 3 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur. Saturday |MR. JUSTICE POYSER. the new Chief Justice. F.M.S.. had the number plate of his car stolen yesterday. When his private KCMtaif mr-t the Penang train yes'ciday to take delivery of Mr. Justice Poyser's car he left the official number
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    WUHAN SONGSTERS
    78 3 Five thousand Chinese listened ti j the Wuhan Songsters In ths Covered i Stadium last night. Among thai audience were Mr. Kao Ling Pal. Chinese Consul-General. Mrs. Kao Ling Pai and Mr. Tan Kan Kee President of the China Relief Fund, to which the proceeds will be donated.
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    AIRMAN'S FUNERAL
    343 3 Bidadari Ceremony For Squall Victim WITH full Air Force honours, Aircraftman Frederick William Evans, of Bournemouth, Hampshire, a member of No. 230 (General Reconnaissance) Squadron, was burled at Bidadari yesterday afternoon. Aircraftman Evans lost his life on Wednesday when a canoe capsized in a squall in Johore Strait
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    British Missions In Europe
    162 3 CREDITS FOR RUMANIAN INDUSTRY LIKELY Bucharest, Saturday. ORD SEMPILL. who has been in Rumania for some days on behalf of a group of leading British industrialists and flnanc?rs, has l?ft for London. His mission contemplates lons-term Anglo-Rumanian trade arrangements!, under which Britain will receive timber and
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    Another Fire At The Naval Base
    122 3 Another Fire At The Naval Base SECOND BLAZE WITHIN A FEW WEEKS P*IRE which broke out in the attap roof of the sailors' canteen near the football fl?ld at the r<aval Base just before 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon caused excitement among spectators who had gathered to watch a soccer match
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    NEW TROOPSHIP HAS A NURSERY
    59 3 lht new trocnshlji Ettrick, left Southampton recently with details of irosz: of th; "nd Kins'* Shropshire Light Infantry, for the West Indies. They worj accompanied by their wives and children. The new troopship has a r.psrir 1 rurrcrj f.->r th? kiddies, >«nd thfjr hay» taken
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    MORE WEATHER POSTS TO BE ESTABLISHED
    186 4 Malayan Chain Being Extended To Borneo CTI'DY of the weather by Ihe Malayan Meteorological Service will be assisted by the establishment of weather repnriin^' stations at J:^ -el tun (British North Borneo), and at Kuching. Miri and Bintulu, (Sarawak), by the Governments of these
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    Man Who Planned £50,000 Contest Loseb Libel Suit
    659 4 Man Who Planned £50,000 Contest Loseb Libel Suit lUDGMENT with cost, for The Daily Mail was given in the King's Bench Division in the libel action arising out of a criticism of The Great Thoroughbred Contest in December 1933. Henry Weyman, of St. Agnes Place, Kennington, S.E., complained that the
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    KLANG EPWORTH
    66 4 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Klang. At the annual general meeting of t^e Klang Union Epworth League held at the Methodist Clrls School, the [allowing office-bearers were elected: Presider.t, Mr. Scckallngam; vice-presld-en's, Messrs. Chan Peng Hong, Teh Boon Klat, Miss Kathleen Lazarus. Mr Ng Teong Ghc?; secretary. Mr. C.
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    MRS. J. V. MUTTIAH
    46 4 (Prom Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, Saturday. MRS. Muttlah, wife of Mr. J. V. Muttiah, J.P., died In Lumut Hospital last night. She leaves her nusband. three sons, three daughter* and several grand children. Mr. Muttiah Is a prominent resident of Kuala Kangsar.
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    POLICE BAND
    45 4 The Police Band play on Wednesday at Telok Ayer at 6 p.m Marcn, Victoria (Van Blon); Overture, Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna <Suppe> Selection. The Mikado (Sullivan i; Patrol. The Wee Macgregor (Ar/...3>; Valse, 1 J =te (Sibelius); Selection. Lilac Time (Schubert).
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      199 4 OPENING TODAY 3.15 6.15 9.15 PAVILION A NEW AND SPARKLING SCREEN TEAM I JOAN FONTAINE WITH THE FAVOURITE OF ENGLISH STAGE AUDIENCES, MAKING HIS AMERICAN PICTURE DEBUT DERRICK DE MARNEY > —^^^P^---* LONDON'S SMART SET! TOPPING EXCITING "TEST PILOT 1 BY 1.000 LAUGHS AND THRILLS! Another great hit in the
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      Casting Directors Are Wearing Worried Looks-And With Good Reason
      744 5 pASTING directors in the major studios are wearing worried looks these days—and with good reason. The task of finding types for key spots in current films is getting more difficult day by day. Strange characterisations are in great demand. Privately, the
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      Gone With The Wind Cast Takes Shape
      124 5 Gone With The Wind Cast Takes Shape SLOWLY but surely, the cast ol "Gone With The Wind" Is taking what would seem to be a permanent shape. Rhett Butler, of course, will be played by Clark Oable, and Scarlett O'Hara is now Vivien Leigh (unless prevented by current troubles with
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      Annabella Likes Hollywood
      85 5 Annabella Likes Hollywood ANNABELLA, last seen In Suez," is determined to make good with American audiences (she is already a big favourite in Europe). Sl.e adores Hollywood "It is the best place in the world to live in." She has two homes in France— both closed now. She prefers Hollywood's
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      Similar Voices
      52 5 FXON Ameche's younger brother, U Jim, took a screen test at Twen-tieth-Century-Fox, passed it and then refused to contract because he wants to try radio work first. The brothers' voices are so similar that they cannot be recognised apart on the air. and tha same result occurs In
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      "Curtain" Call
      90 5 COR the first time in cinema hls- tory, two actors come out on the screen after the ending of their picture for a curtain call, as it were. This happens at the finale of "Young Dr. Kildare," when Lionel Barrymore and Lew Ayres step out of character to
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    THE WEEK'S MARKET ACTIVITIES
    956 6 Steadier Conditions With Improved Undertone A FTER many weeks in which the Stock markets have fluctuated widely on nervousness caused by political developments. It is pleasant this week to be able to report relatively steady conditions. With the exception of a rather sharp fall in the
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    SINGAPORE PRODUCE PRICES
    193 6 Sineapore, Feb. 11, noon. Rice Slam West Coast No. 1 $143 Slam West Coast No. 2 $139 Slam West Coast No. 3 $137 Slam Broken No. 1 $120 Slam Broken No. 2 $118 Slam No. 1 $215 Slam No. 2 $200 Rangoon S Q. Meedon $140 Rangoon
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    CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RUBBER ASSN
    86 6 Saturday, Feb. 11, noon. No. IX R.S.S. (Spot loose) 26 "4 No. IX R.S.S. f.o.b. In cases February Z6% 26% G.F.A.Q. R.S.S. f.o.b. in bales February 26 1 i 26W F.A.Q. R.S.S. f.o.b. in bales February 25 3 i 25?6 FUTURE QUOTATIONS No. IX R.S.S.
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    MANILA GOLD SHARE MARKET
    108 6 Manila, Saturday. THE following were yesterday's quotations and this morning's quotations for sold shares on the Manila Stock Exchange. All the shares have a par value of 10 centavos, and the quotations are in prsos. vesieruay run ay asked bid asked bid Antamok 0.4S 0.44 v
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    SINGAPORE STOCK AND SHARE PRICES
    1271 6 Fraser And Co. 's List S ATI RI) AY, FEB. 11, 1939 1 P.M. Buyer* Sellers Ampat Tin <4s) 3s 3d 4s Asam Kumbang ios 27s Austral Malay 40s 45s cd. Ayer Hitam (55.) 21s 9d 22s 9s Ayer Wcng ($1) .55 .60 Bangrin lln
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    Current Company Dividends
    110 6 List Supplied By Messrs. Fraser Co. SATURDAY, FEB. 11, 1 P.M. IUUU .Ul Company Dividend Books Financial TIN Close Date Ex. Olt. year .ustrai Malay 9d. No. 48 3d. bonus Feb. 24 Mar. 3 Feb. 25 5%; luala Lumpur Tin la. Feb. 17 Feb. 17 Ml &ub
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      641 6 "I 'X I YES! I find them wonderfully Jgi |^l I smooth. Craven 'A' Wtm quality was a real am A surprise to me. I M never realised that a v. T cigarette could be ?P, so satisfying, yet ijkJftt**- <so co °l so M^\ jjt free from every \jrap.
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    KUALA LUMPUR AERODROME
    575 7 Area Of Field To Be Increased And Terminal Building And Hangar Erected v?rom Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur. Saturday. DEFORE the year is ended, Kuala Lumpur will possess an airfield and private flying Club clubhouse commensurate with the growing importance of the Federal Capital as an airport
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    Two Girls Circling Globe In Junk
    207 7 Two Girls Circling Globe In Junk Shanghai, Feb. 2. •¥*WO Russian girls, who were formerly cocktail bar hostesses, Luba Schennikoff, aged 23, and Olga Alksne, aged 22, are accompanying a crew of eight men on a rcund-the-world Chinese junk trip aboard the Adventure, which left for Manila yesterday. The junk
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    It Turns Everything Sweet
    73 7 It Turns Everything Sweet A LITTLE red berry found on shrubs in tropical Africa is baffling scientists. It has the gift of turning sweet anything which is sour. Even the most add lemon will taste like a well-sweetened fruit punch if you put one of these berries into your mouth
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    10,000-TON SHIP LAUNCHED AT HONG KONG
    157 7 THE biggest ship built in the Empire outside the British Isles, the 10.000-ton twin-screw motor vessel Breconshire, of the Glen and Shire Line, was launched early this month from the yards of the Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company, Ltd., at Hong Kong. The Breconshire
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    POLICE CARS WITH LOUDSPEAKERS
    157 7 POLICE CARS WITH LOUDSPEAKERS Traffic Directions While Moving In Singapore Streets CAST saloon cars with loudspeakers may soon arrive for the Singapore traffic police. Policemen peering through the sunshine roofs or standing beside the j cars with hand microphones will be able to direct traffic and crowds. Will the lady
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    LAUGHS FROM THE COURTS
    193 7 LAUGHS FROM THE COURTS Husband I wish my wife's tongue was like a clock it would stop sometimes. Wife: My husband offered to send me ail a week, and he kept it until the time came for the first payment. Witness: I have never s«en the man quarrel with his
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    BOOM DEFENCE VESSEL HERE
    70 7 ANOTHER boom defence vessel for Hong Kong, H.M.S. Barlight, arrived at Singapore yesterday from, England, and anchored in the OuteT- Roads. HM.S. Barlight, which Is a 625-ton vessel, is the third new boom defence ship to arrive at Singapore within the past few weeks. Another of
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    PORT SWETTENHAM TAMIL SCHOOLS
    120 7 (From Our Own Correspondent) Port Swettenham. More than one hundred children of the labouring class are today deprived of admission in Tamil schools at Port Swettenham, owing to Jack of accommodation in the two existing schools. It was originally intended to construct a permanent building for
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    KLANG WEDDING
    78 7 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Klang, Saturday. The wedding took place at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes of Mr. Patrick Llm and Miss Doris Agnes Rodrigues. both of Klang. The bride was attended by Mrs. Elsie N. Nunls, of Malacca, and Mr. W. P. O. Stephens, of
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    RAILWAY FOLLOWING ROAD LINKING BURMA & CHINA
    239 8 RAILWAY FOLLOWING ROAD LINKING BURMA CHINA Expected To Be Completed In Three Years CONSTRUCTION of a Yun-nan-Burma railway and a big programme of road construction in the south-western pi mine s of China are well advanced, according to Mr. Hsieh Fun-cheng, who has arrived at Singapore on his way to
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    MISSING MAN FOUND STABBED TO DEATH
    85 8 MISSING MAN FOUND STABBED TO DEATH i From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca, Saturday. THE body of a 22-ycar-cld Chinese, who was reported missing the previous day, was found yesterday by the police lying near the railway line betweet Blimbing and Durian Tunggal. There were several stab wounds on the body.
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    MR. THESEIRA'S DEATH
    37 8 The death has occurred of Mr. A. M. Theseira. of the Waterworks Department. Kuala Lumpur, aged 53. Mr. Tluseira had been with the department at Scremban and Kuala Lumpur for more than 17 years.
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    GOVERNMENT BICYCLE CASE WITHDRAWN
    67 8 WHEN the case in which Raja Khalid bin Kaja Mahmood. aged 19. who was charged with criminal breach of trust in respect of a bicycle, belonging to the Straits Settlements Government, was called before Mr. K. A. Blacker in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday, Mr.
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    QANTAS HEAD IN SINGAPORE
    149 8 New Zealand Air Link Awaiting Government Move TJIE company will be ready in May but when Government will bz ready we don't know," declared Mr. W. Hudson Fysn, managing director oi Qan.as Tmpire Airways, in Singapore yesterday when asked by a Sunday Times reporter when the
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    LEGALLY DEAD
    23 8 Amelia Earhart, the American airwoman, who disappeared on a world flight in the summer of 1937, has been declared legally dead.
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    Do You Remember This Picture?
    71 8 THIS picture of the Fascist guards outside the Palauo Veneiia, the Duce's office in Rome, doing the "Roman Step" was published in The Sunday Times of Jan. 29, 1930. In the picture below, which arrived by the last air mail, the scene has changed. The
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    Here The Guards Have Changed
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    Mainly About Malayans
    407 9  - Mainly About Malayans Onlooker ByThe A MAN who has done as much as anybody to build up Malaya's system of telegraph and telephone communications has just left the country on retirement. He is Mr. V. H. Winson, Director of Telegraphs and Engineer-in-Chief, Posts and Telegraphs Department, S.S. and F.M.S., for
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    Read of Mr. V. H. Winson Mr. P. A. McKerron C. S. M. Strutt Mr. V.K. Chinniah Haji Mohd. Tahir
    621 9 Read of Mr. V. H. Winson Mr. P. A. McKerron C. S. M. Strutt Mr. V.K. Chinniah Haji Mohd. Tahir He has greatly enjoyed living in Malaya. It is certainly a most attractive country in which to work," he says, "provided one keeps one's heakh, as I have been fortunate
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      268 9 On YOUR HOfllE LERVE in 1939 Wonderful World's \f ,S? ff |i-.-^-». th °se incredible new Vt —^L^f^^lf^^ "5 Sfreamiine trains at WITH f M MPER |fi^ J^BA depressed, a natural stimulant will ji W^m4]U^\ lhc finest c >' der a PP'es it is refreshII \^Bm\, In^' an^ i"'-^''^ 113
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      145 9 n J|y» The X All over Scotland fine whiskies /Y\ afe di st>lled the finest of all \jU selected for Johnnie Walker /m VL eacn chosen by experts for (m I^,^ Jm lts s P ecla l characteristics. The jjfe^ Second Step Years pass in oak casks the mK^ whiskies
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    "FLYING FLEA" OWNER IS NOW IN SINGAPORE
    62 10 MR. R. D. DOWNEY (left) a New Zealander, who is now stationed at Singapore with the engineering staff of Qantas Empire Airways, is here photographed with the successful Flying Flea he built in New Zealand. Mr. Downey's plane was the only Flying Flea
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    DOCTOR'S THEORY OF TREATING ALCOHOLICS
    123 10 A LCOHOLICS must be regard- ed as sufferers from spinelessncss." states Dr. J. Bostock, in the Medical Journal of Australia. Such people have 'requently strong feelings of infer, rity, for which alcohol becomes a panacea." Dr. Bostock suggests that the alcoholic patient should be:— Given
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    "PEOPLES PRAM"
    32 10 The Berlin "S. A. Mann," organ of the Nazi Stormtroopers, demands that a Peop'c-'s Pram should be manufactured, suggesting that the cost should not be more than 2Cs. or 30s.
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    Girls Cannot All Have A Clark Gable
    175 10 DOTANY and biology lessons were recommended at a London conference as the best guidance for a girl taking up "the great job of her life marriage and family rearing." Mrs. Ogden, of Burnley, Lanes, president of the National Association of Insurance Committees, who
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    OFFICER WHO SOLD HIS COUNTRY FOR A GIRL
    560 10 OFFICER WHO SOLD HIS COUNTRY FOR A GIRL Spy's Amazing Love Story POOR BOY WHO ROSE TO WARSHIP CAPTAIN CONDEMNE D TO DEATH Toulon (France). J-JIS passion for blue-eyed, lovely Jeanne Morel caused Marc Aubert, youthful commander of a warship, to sell his country for £380. While he lay in
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    PLANTER MURDERED IN CEYLON
    106 10 Colombo. JLJtR Reginald de Vismes Godiray, superintendent of the Ken'.lworth group of estates at Ginigathene, wr.s murdered on Jan. 31 by an estate clerk, who plunged a knife into his back. As Mr. Godfray fell to the floor the clerk ran into the veranda and shot
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    BUILT THE EMPIRE'S BIGGEST DAM
    102 10 !^R. Vincent Hart, enginocr-ir.--l¥l charge of the Caurery-Mettui dam in India, the largest in the British Empire, has died in Cork, aged 57. A native o: Cork, Mr. HI the Indian Public Works Department at Madras for 30 years, and In tlon of his work
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    ONCE A SULTAN'S YACHT
    52 10 Once a former Sultan of Pcrak's ymcht, the 180-lon Esineralda. MM in 1890 at Hong Kortf for the F.M.S. Government, i; now a toasial trader coming regularly to Singapore. With the late Sultan of Selaneor's steam yacht Mrran. she Ij one of the Uae Aik Steamship
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    Fine Descriptions Of The Dances And Dramas Of Bali
    947 11 Fine Descriptions Of The Dances And Dramas Of Bali Book Of The Week Dance and Drama in Bali. By Walter Spies and Beryl de Ztetc Faker and Faber. Ms. AF the two authors of this book, Walter Spies is a musician and painter who has livod for 15 years in
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      95 11 APPOINTMENTS with good salaries as Accountants. Setretar- les. Cost Accountants, Works and Office Managers. Chief Clerks, Bank and Insurance Oflicers. Cashiers and Book-keepers, are the j normal attainments of those who quality with The School of Accountancy. Examinations can be taken In Malaya and success guaranteed by postal training. The
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    ADVENTURES FROM THE ARCTIC TO EQUATOR
    185 12 New Malayan Pilot Who Fought In The Gran Chaco War TINGER-HAIRED, bearded Mr. I. A. Richardson, who last month joined Malaya's rapidly growing circle of airmen as pilot for Wearne's Air Services, is a flier whose career has taken him from the Arctic down
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    Regular Air Passenger In The Frozen Yukon Was A Chinese Trapper
    619 12 Regular Air Passenger In The Frozen Yukon Was A Chinese Trapper CO he came to take up flying. After training with the United Air Lines in the States, he became one of its commercial pilots and made night Mights over the Rockies between Seattle and Salt Lake City. It meant
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    ARCHBISHOP TALKS ON WORLD DANGERS
    340 12 Canterbury, Jan. 28. •"THE need for a sound Christian education to overcome the present reign of suspicion, mistrust and fear was urged by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Lang, at a special service in Canterbury Cathedral today. The service was to inaugurate a campaign to
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    42 GIRLS STILL LOVE HIM
    59 12 42 GIRLS STILL LOVE HIM Bucharvu JOHN COSSTANTINESCV year-old bookkeeper, of 1' near Bucharest, has been aand accused of 42 breach mise cases. The 42 girls involved all I the neighbourhood, aiul th* say they still uant to marr So the authorities have pr to ask John to make his
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    Gretna Bride Betrayed Spy Plot
    321 12 Gretna Bride Betrayed Spy Plot WITH the death in a Hambur<4 hospital of a Gamut pirl who bc-.-amc a ('■retnn Green bride, it is now poonibl to reveal how mff BMItW with daagtrow nuiiflcatloni was unmarked to the Brili>l; and American st-irt services The story goes back to Ma;. year,
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    PRESIDENT'S VAST MAIL
    58 12 PRESIDENT Roosevelt has <■• 7,000,000 letters since he became President in 1933. His mall averages about 4,000 dally. President Hoover used to receive about 400 every day, Mrs. Roosevelt's mall Is also on a huge scale. She employs several secretaries to help her handle it, and devotes
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    Behind The News ...
    1052 13  - Behind The News Crux Australis By CIR Henri Deterding, who died last week, was predeceased by his own biographer. Thirty days before the Oil King died at St. Moritz, 29-year-old Glyn Roberts died in Welwyn Garden City Cottage Hospital. The author of "The Most Powerful Man in the World," an
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    Debutantes Are Received
    48 13 \^i n(. Gustav and other members of the Swedish Royal Family attended the Ball of the Order of Innocence in Stockholm. This is the last of the society balls of the season and was held by the Grand Hotel. Here King Gustav is receiving debutantes.
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    LONDON-PARIS IN 41 MINUTES
    116 13 LONDON-PARIS IN 41 MINUTES A VICKERS Supermarine Spit- fire fighter aircraft, of the type used K y the R.A.F., has flown from Le Bourget to Croydon in 41 minutes. Piloted by Flying Officer J. K. Quill, a Vickers test pilot, it covered the 205 miles at an average speed of
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    RACIAL ORIGIN OF NORWAY'S TRADERS
    81 13 Oslo. NORWEGIAN firms dealing with Germany have received a questionnaire from German trade interests demanding particulars of the racial origin of employers and employees as Xar back as their great-grandparents. The trade review "Farmand" says that the questionnaire also demands particular? of the private economic
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    GREEK KING BUYS 20 SWORDS
    120 13 VING GEORGE of Greece, now in London, where he does most of his shopping, has ordered twenty swords to be made for him. Except that they will bear his coat of arms and monogram, they will be exact replicas of the British naval, infantry, cavalry,
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    ONCE SERVED IN SINGAPORE
    77 13 DR IGADIER-General Vere Lorraine Nuttall Pearson died at Hove suddenly on Jan. 17, at the age of 58. Son of the late Lleut.-Col. John Pearson, of Hove, he was born on Dec. 3. 1880. and educated at Weymouth College. After obtaining his commission in the Middlesex
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    HITCH IN SIGLAP BUILDING SCHEME
    370 14 Commissioners Say 50 Proposed Bungalows Are Terrace Houses A PLAN to build 50 houses on vacant ground in East Coast Road, opposite Still Road, will have to wait until the Singapore Municipal Commissioners have decided a technical point. If they decide against the builders, the
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    She Is Single And Married
    333 14 A SCOTSWOMAN who married a Hindu of the Brahman caste, provided the Edinburgh courts with a problem stated to be without precedent. The First Division of the Court of Session in Edinburgh decided that they had no Jurisdiction to grant a decree of divorce in
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    Musical Saw Saves Men Held Up By Fallen Tree
    68 14 A DANCE band on the way to Yeovil, Somerset, found their way barred by an elm tree, blown doum by the blizzard. To cut their way through they used the musical saw which a member of the band plays vith a
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    PEARS FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
    65 14 Budapest. DR. Halasz, chief doctor at the Erzsebet Hospital, is stated to have excellent results with a diet of pears for high blood pressure. The patients of sixty, and over, are put to bed for a few weeks, and on two consecutive days a week
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      230 14 contains as much as the bottle I citify ANn mere i ccc /iLlll 'i *[i>\ «^--^r yJr^iHil\V MNDREWS LIVER SALT now "Ij im'" j^* > m\ P r esent to you their New m Economy Tin, which con>w^\, tains much as the large s %k via bottles .iljUiy JjW This
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    Sitting On The Fence By Nathaniel Gubbins
    1408 15 Sitting On The Fence By Nathaniel Gubbins To the reader who wrote to the Editor asking: "What is Nathaniel Gubbins ZiJfce"? T AM about 5 ft. 10 ins. tall, weigh 13 st., and don't look a day older than ninety at six o'clock in the morning. Although I can't remember
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    CARDS FOR ALL
    552 15 HERE is a patience, usually called Red and Black, which will appeal to those readers who cannot be bothered to learn the rules of the more intricate patiences. Moreover, it is a good game to teach the children, as for them it serves as an easy introduction
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    CONTRACT BRIDGE
    330 15 WE nearly always enjoy watching a Declarer who has overbid a hand tremendously make it by means of fine play plus a little help from the defence. The reason we say "nearly always" is that we do not enjoy it when we happen to be one of the
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      404 15 m is best for A V i is the answer^m^*^ Those who have the care of the Angier's is unequalled for bronaged and feeble can confidently rely chitis, and for coughs and chronic on Angier's Emulsion to afford catarrhal affections generally, adequate protection against all whether "of lungs, stomach, or
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      232 16 •yHE longer time taken for the transmission of mails from London to Singapore by Imperial Airways flying-boat, compared to that taken for mails sent by the Royal Dutch Airways, was the subject of a question in the House of Commons on Thursday. The reply given was that
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      Malayan Airfields
      202 16 IMPROVEMENTS to the Kuala i Lumpur aerodrome, described elsewhere in The Sunday Times, show that Malaya, after sinking a small fortune in the Singapore Airport, is pursuing a forward policy in internal aviation and is not merely concentrating effort on i those airports used by overseas I planes.
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    I SAW THE BUSH FIRES
    1354 16  -  H.G. WELLS |M^PB Canberra. THE Scientific Association which assembled at Canberra experienced a record heat wa"e and drought and learnt nuch more than it ever expected to do about bush fires. The younger m:n of scienco went off fire-fighting. The fires came down before a
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    MYSTERY OF THE WARATAH
    234 16 To The Editor of The Sunday Times I HAVE enjoyed reading The Sunday Times ever since it started. In the issue of Jan. 29' I was irticularly Interested In the story of the ship Waratah's mysterious disappearance 30 years ago. This took me right back to
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      138 16 I The NEW WORLD CABARET TODAY TIFFIN DANCE 11.30 to 430 p.m. Admission Free. TONIGHT 9.30 TO MIDNIGHT Admission SO eta. PIANO TUNING-REPAIRS REMOVALS HIRE E. CHARLES. Phone 2902 212, Orchard Rd. S Unbreakable Waterproof Wrist Watch lOycari Men's Streaml me Service Motftl $13.15 Sold in London Stores for Moea*
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      34 16 Roundtrip from Singapore to Hongkong/Shanghai and back via Manila, Saigon and Bangkok per Luxury Liner Boissevain," Ruys cr Tegelberg." Roundtrip fare 250 .00 320 .00 Full particulars from Pan. Dept., X.P.M. Line. (Phone 5451)
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    SINGAPORE'S FOUR NEW LABORATORIES
    519 17 Important Part Played In Scientific Investigation Of Crime WITH probably the best equipped laboratories in the Colonial East, the Government Analyst's Department in its spacious new $115,000 building at Outram Road, Singapore, has now excellent facilities for carrying out its increasingly important part in the scientific
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    PLAN FOR FLORIDA CANAL REVIVED
    316 17 PLAN FOR FLORIDA CANAL REVIVED Roosevelt's New Deal Schemes HARNESSING TIDES IN MAINE Washington. DKESIDfcNT Roosevelt has asked Coiiferi-ss to revive the two most criticised and ambitious of his New l>eal pubiic works projects. These ;i: e plans to: Cut (he Florida peninsula by a *r:i-lcv(! c.mal, joining the Mlan'.ic
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    Peace Prize Suggested For Hitler
    39 17 A PROPOSAL that the Nobel Pep.cc Prize for 1938 be given to Hcrr Hitler has been sent to the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament by Senator Brandt, member of the Social Democrat Party.
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    Twice He Drew The Calcutta
    104 17 Sweep Winner TTIE man who twice drew the wln- ning number In the Calcutta Sweep, but sold one of the tickets berore he knew of his luck, has died in London. He was seventy-seven-year-old Mr David Dunn Bryson, a director of four London companies and
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    Too Skinny, So Divorced
    34 17 TUIhETEEN-YEAR-OLD Mrs. Rita Usatick got a divorce in Chicago because her husband, Peter, deserted her a)ter four months because she was "too skinny." "He told me he liked plumper girls,"
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    Only The Press Can Tell People Of Their Power
    92 17 WR. Gerald Dodson, Re:order of the City of London, speaking at a London Press Club said: "It is only when the peoples and the nations can become one that Governments and dictators cannot do as they like, for It will be
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    RUSSIAN DRIVE TO ELIMINATE LOAFERS
    273 17 RUSSIAN DRIVE TO ELIMINATE LOAFERS Dismissal If 20 Minutes Late .Mo-., uh. CONTINUING their big drivr against loafing, the Soviet authorities arc publishiiu iafly lists of workers dismissed, inainlv for unpunctuality. Tliis ha leu to a run on rJarm clacUs and a rebuke to the only factory makin? thtn for
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      72 17 Enough u> make anyone turn nH[ jst V Wg *[J 9 SOOthing flavour, but for thC A»«nufor.M:.Uy«:South:mndßrituhKonhßon»»»--feeling of contentment and l^S^^ satisfaction they associate with it its atmosphere of health and Hff9»F^B^^^^W^r^^^^^^vy¥jK^^^VT#sr happiness. These lovely babies, Jn^r %&A twin daughters of a South Devon Kir? I^^^ dental surgeon know something
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    A Singapore Man's Question:
    511 18 THE story of numbers is in many respects the story of man's fight to conquer his environment. The more complex and intricate civilisation grows the more do numbers enter man's life. When we rise in the morning we usually glance at a watch to see the
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    Here Is The Answer
    1139 18 of mixtures of scales. Take for instance £23.135.11% d. There are no fewer than four scales here The quaternary scale, four farthings to the penny; the duodecimal scale, twelve pence to the shilling; tbe vigesimal scale, twenty shillings to the pound; and finally the decimal scale.
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    SNAPSHOT GUILD
    302 18 ONAPSHOTS at night are fun, and a delightful way to spend long winter evenings. Nowadays, with inexpensive light inj equipment especially designed for the amateur, night snapshots are easy with any camera. You can arrange Interesting and artistic table-top pictures, using toy automobiles, doll houses and miniature furniture,
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      214 18 /^?!f£^« This new 'Kodak' *%I fti:iM& is so clever jpjl Six-20 Kodak Junior— a really *W* r *2 V first-dass camera at a surpris/jNv 1 3m i°B'y low P™*- Features v!^»§ii^s!l A f\% include direct-vision eye-level ■^\^sW 1 viewfinder, choice of anastig- 11/ N mat lenses (/7.7,/6.3, or /4.5), and
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    2893 20  - What The Stars Foretell R.H. Naylor By THIS WEEKS GOOD DAYS FOR: BUYING:— Business deals: Tomorrow 13th; Thursday 16th. Personal shopping: Wed. loth; Thursday 16th. SELLING: Wed. 15th; Prl. 17th ENTERTAINING: Wed. 15th; Thurs :«n. SPORT: Today 12th (except shooting) Friday 17th. I UCKY for you if you were born
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    546 20 LJKRE, voupeU according to month of birth (irrespective ol year) is a statement of probabilities to be expect rf tlii* seek JANUARY (Dec. 23- Jan. JO) Should be a particularly pleasant week for the January born, particularly those born in the first week of the month.
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    756 21 The Glamour Allure Of Beautiful Eyes Can Be Yours With This Formula Max Factor's Advice JJEDY LAMARR'S beautiful eyes have aroused the envy and the admiration of the whole world of femininity. Not since the days when Clara Bow's lovely orbs first flashed their expressiveness from the picture screens has
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    380 21  -  Muriel Rapson By THE needlework sampler has interested women of many generations, and has called forth much artistry and ingenuity in the planning and execution of it. And just as we admire the samplers of many years ago, and rejoice in the delicacy
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    615 22 Your Hair Now Suits Your Millinery Not Your UITHERTO, you may have thought of having your hair done to suit your type. But this plan will not always suit the new millinery. And millinery is the deciding factor this season. You will be rightly coiffured if you arrange your hair
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    475 22 These Things Are Now In Fashion In Europe MINK is a choice trimming for a young-looking black coat. It need not be used lavishly, but just as a neat, soft finish. You see a pretty touch of mink on a boucle coat with concealed centre fastening from the throat to
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    1725 23 How Many Times Have You Been Kissed? THERE is a form of sex blackmail which is growing more common every day in ordinary social life. Let me give you an example of what I mean. Boy meets Girl. Boy invites Girl out to dance or to the cinema. After the
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      571 25 Today's Wireless Programmes SINGAPORE TODAY CHL ttt metre*. EBP MM netraa. *jn. 11.00 Band music, t 11 10 Light orchestral concert. Relay from the Sea View Hotel. IJITo Songs by Webster Booth (tenor), t 13.20 Light orchestral concert (contd.). 1.00 Miscellaneous light music, t 1.10 Interval. 1.45 Organ recital. Relay
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      362 25 10 30 Religious service 11.30 Sunday news, weekly newsletter, sport summary, and announcements. 11.35 Greenwich time signal. .'1.50 Sandy Macpherson. 12.20 Close down. TOMORROW TRANSMISSION 4. GSD 11.15 Me/s MM SB.) ajn. 12.40 Charlie Kunx at the piano. 12 SO Austral trio. 1 .20 Big Ben. Sunday news, weekJy newsletter,
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      107 25 NttOH TODAY VDA «•< OC > IB.). V1»B »C» roc m t« m I. VDB II.BC me iVJ ml. PMN l»3« 0.. i?9.Z rs). p.m. 2.10 News. 2.20 Close down. 4.50 Programme preview. 4.54 Popular recorded music. 6.03 Bible stories for chl'dren. 6.19 B:iulre Celesta Octctt. 6.3) Ne<*ro artifts. 6.50
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      102 25 7.45 Opening announcement. 7.50 Radio-drama. 5.05 News commentary. 8.35 Close down. 8.40 Special broadcast for the Netherlands East Indies on behalf of th« Liberal PrcUstant Radio Society iV.P.R.O.). Religious talk. 8.55 Special broadcast for th? Netherlands East Indies by the Roman Catholic Broadcasting Association (K.R.0.). TOMORROW pjn. 1.00 Announcement. 8.05
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    Singapore's Physical Culture Centre
    140 26 Gym, Massage And Vapour Baths A NEW physical culture centre with all the amenities desired by the person who wants to improve in fitness or reduce In weight has been opened in Singavo''. Business men with little time, or women who dislike vijorous exercise, can now
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    REVIEW OF NORTH PERAK SPORT
    193 26  - REVIEW OF NORTH PERAK SPORT "Trojan" By Taiping. nrHE Malays made their r*ebut at football on Tuesday, when they trounced the King Edward VII School to the tune of s—l. The Malays have,a strong side this season, although they have lost the services of their skipper, Alladad Khan, and one
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    JUNIOR SOCCER IN MUAR
    186 26 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Muar. QCORINO a goal in each half the junior football team of the Government English School beat the St. Andrew's School by two goals to nil In the first round of the junior interschool football competition. The competition is open to schools
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    GEYLANG YOUNGSTERS
    44 26 The Geylang Malay Youngsters Party st>ccer team to rreet the Raffles Institution team on Wednesday at the latters ground is: Kassim Amat Duke. M. YusofT. Dol. Amat Biden, Syed Mohd. (capt Salleh Slmin. Ismail ilasol, Abdul Aziz, Hashlm, Isnin. Ja'afar All. Baharom.
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    OLD BOYS BEAT POLICE DEPOT
    338 26 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Johore Bahru, Saturday. MEETING the Johore Police Depot for the second time this season the Segamat Old Boys' Association hockey eleven repeated their success of the first encounter, beating the Depot by one goal to nil. The first match resulted in
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    147 26 The following are the first round ties in the S.C.R.C. billiards doubles tournament: John Llm and C. K. Pang (—7O) vs. L. H. Teo and Freddie Tan (—20); N& Cheng Koon and Chua Choon Seng (—80) vs. K. T. Gan and Low Huck Leng (—40); Cheong Chee Tong
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    362 27 QUININE AND MODERN METHODS EMPLOYED IN FIGHTING MALARIA. The conquest of the air. which hu lately been developed to m remn rkabJe extent has accustomed us to the use of aeroplanes for the strangest kinds of merchandise. Nevertheless, the fact that thousands of fish are Join in aeroplane; is not
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    2651 27  -  "Nomad" By THE R.A.F. lost three of their most distinguished sportsmen in Sqd. Ldr. Messenger, (pi. Passingham and L.A.C. Appleton when the Rajputana left for Europe on Friday. Sqd. -Ldr. Messenger, who has captained the R.A.F., Combined Services and Singapore soccer teams for the last two seasons
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    GRENIER'S BEAT SELANGOR CLUB AT HOCKEY
    275 28 Remarkably Fast Play For So Late In Season (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. A REMARKABLY fast game of hockey for so late in the season was seen on the padang this evening when Grenier's Eleven beat the Selangor Club by four goals
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    WHITES AND COLOURS DRAW AT STADIUM
    237 28 WHITES AND COLOURS DRAW AT STADIUM IN preparation for the forth coming league football competition, the Singapore Cricket Club held the first of a series of trial matches at the Stadium yesterday, Colours meeting Whites. The result was a draw, each side fco'ing once in the second half. As was
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    SPORT OF KINGS GROWS FAST IN CALIFORNIA
    89 28 SPORT OF KINGS GROWS FAST IN CALIFORNIA Ingelwood. Calif., Jan. 18. OOUTHERN California, made a bold bid for the East's prestige in summer horse racing today when officials of Hollywood Park announced v total of U. 5.5600.000 in purses will be t distributed to owners in a 43-day meeting starting
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    HIALEAH STAKES WON BY CARLISIA
    41 28 Miami. Jan. 21. Carlisia won the US$5,OOO added Hlaleah Stakes today. Early Morn was second and Cherry Jam third. The horses ran over a course of six furlongs. Carlisia paid odds of 13—5 in straight retting.
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    ABAYAN GETS VERDICT OVER KID ARENAS
    158 28 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. ALTHOUGH the verdict was awarded against him, most critics thought Kid Arenas (8) did enough in the last four rounds to give him a clear points decision over Little Abayan (7.12) in ♦Inmain fight of the boxing
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    MAKO FEELS HE CAN WIN AT WIMBLEDON
    367 28 MAKO FEELS HE CAN WIN AT WIMBLEDON Palm Springs, Cal.. Jan. 17. I JNDER the blazing sun of this desert retreat a blond boy who at 23 is almost an old man in his chosen sport was laying the framework for a last and deadly serious— attempt to win the
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    HOME FOOTBALL
    1440 28 DESULTS of yesterday's English and Scottish football games and tables up-to-date are: X rusmii Portsmouth Wolves Sundcrland Chelsea Huddersfleld Sheffield U. Birmingham 2 4 1 1 3 0 2 West Ham 0 Liverpool 1 Blackburn 1 Sheffield W. 1 Walsall 0 Grimsby 0 Everton 2 F.A. C'l-P (Fifth
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    RUGBY UNION
    108 28 Rugby Union games played on Saturday resulted: Bedford 3; Bath 0. Birkenhead 21; Halifax 3. Bridgend 16; London Welsh 0. Cardiff 13: Gloucester 5. Coventry 7; St. Mary's Hos. 13. Leicester 9: Newport 23. Llanelly 8; Northampton 3. Manchester 11: Liverpool 6. Oxford Univ. 8; Bristol 10. P'mouth
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    RUGBY LEAGUE
    76 28 nUGBY League games played on Saturday resulted Bramley 5; Huddersfield 5. Broughton R. 13: York 21. Castleford 27: Batley 9. Dewsbury 2; St. Helens R. 6. Halifax 22: Hull K. R. 2. Hull 14: Wakefleld T. 0. Hunslet 23: Bradford N. 8. Kelghley 6: Featherstone R 8. Leigh
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    APOSTOLI LOSES TO CONN
    74 28 New York, Saturday. AT Madison Square Garden, in s 15-round non-title middle-weight boxing bout, Billy Conn (Pittsburg) outpointed Fred. Apostoll, who is rated world champion by the New York State Athletic Commission. Conn's victory was decisive. He displayed a most effective left Jab and speed. The
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    C.S.A. SOCCER
    87 28 A FRIENDLY soccer match will be played today between the Chinese Sports Association and the St. Matthews Young People's Guide at Farrer Park at 5 p.m. The following 1 will represent C.S.A.: Patrick Yee, Soo Tuan, Sun Leng, Ah Kai. Tian Seng, Fook Loy. Kock Kuen, Wing Fong.
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    464 28 London, Saturday. CIXTY thousand people watchued Ireland beat England t Rugby on the Twickenham ground this afternoon by five points (one goal) to nil. Specia? police were on guard following the recent bomb outrages which have been the work of Irish hotheads. People carrying
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    U.S. YACHTS TO COMPETE IN ENGLISH WATERS
    31 28 New York. Jan. 18. The American yawl Baruna will compete In English waters in the lorthcoming season, together with Mr. Vanderbilfs new 12-metre yacht.
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    595 28 The Week's Sport In Muar •THOSE who are of the opinion that 1 table tennis is a dull and slow Rame would have changed this opinion if they had been present at the Kok Kiew Amateur Dramatic Association hall last week to see the table tennis match between the Batu
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    N. Y. YANKEES TO REMAIN INTACT
    198 28 New York, Jan. 18. I THE New York Yankees, world basej ball champions, must remain Intact under trust during the lives of the grand-nieces of Col. Jacob Ruppert, multi-millionaire brewer and owner of the baseball club who died on Friday, according to the will
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    SAPPERS BEAT AIRMEN IN HOCKEY FINAL
    536 29 Snap Goal In First Fifteen Minutes Brings Victory A SNAP goal by Plummer in the first fifteen minutes of the -,'ame was sufficient to give the Royal Engineers victory ovtr the R.A.F. in the final of the Garrison inter-unit hockey knock-out competition at Tannin
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    24 29 Simpson, Malaya', .crum «.H. away with the ball during th.^e H 6 ainst the Hon, Kon B Cricket Club. which was drawn 19 19.
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    YACHT CLUB REGATTA
    171 29 Two Boats Capsize TTWO boats capsized and seve--1 ral retired in the Royal Singapore Yacht Club biannual sailing regatta held yesterday. A strong wind and a choppy sea made sailing conditions unpleasant. Results of yesterday's races wire International six-metre class sLundon Cup): 1. Tarbet (L. R. Blake
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    PENANG INDIANS BEAT PERAK INDIANS 4-0
    90 29 PENANG INDIANS BEAT PERAK INDIANS 4-0 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Penang, Saturday. DEFEATING the Perak Indians by four goals to nil the Penang Indians became the Northern section finalists In the All-Malaya InduCeylonese soccer com petition. The game was not as one-sided as the score would suggest but the Perak
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    SABIN WINS THIRD SINGLES TITLE
    67 29 Coral Gables. Fla.. Jan 22. WAYNE SABIN defeated Gone Mako In the final of the Mlami-Blltmore tennis singles championship today. G_4, 6—3, 6—l. It was Sabin's third consecutive victory In the winter tennlj circuit He already has stored away the cups he won for taking
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    WEAK MUAR TEAM LOSES TO KLUANG
    436 29 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Muar. Saturday. A HOCKEY team from the Muar Hockey Association travelled to Kluang and met the Kluang district team In a friendly match, which resulted In Kluang winning by the odd goal In three. The Muar side was weak and
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    ST. ANDREWS 0.8. CRICKET MEETING
    90 29 AT a cricket meeting of the St. Andrew's Old Boys' Association, held at the school yesterday the following were re-eiected officers for the y:ar Chairman, G. Vaz captain, J. Moss vice-captain, P. Hill secretary, H. D. Lewis: treasurer, M. Kohloff. Practices will be held on
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    436 29 (From Our Own Correspondent) Taiping. i •T*HE annual general meeting of th i Taiping and District Association i Football League was held at the Kempj Club with Mr. J. L. H. Davis in the i chair. It was resolved to run only one 1 division in the
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    MALACCA CLUB CRICKET OFFICIALS
    42 29 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca. Saturday. AT a meeting of the cricket section or the Malacca Club last night W. H I Jackson was elected captain, O. L. Ste I yens vlce-captaln and O. L. R. Hills convener.
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    LEAGUE HOCKEY GAMES
    479 29 (From Our Own Correspondent.) S;gamat. BETTER effort will have to be made if the Sesamat district hockey league is to be brought to a close th s month. Postponements are becoming common and may delay the competition until early March. Two league matches were played last week.
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    METZ WINS TITLE
    41 29 Oakland. Jan. 16. Dick Metz won the Oakland open golf championship today, defeating E. J. Harrison by one stroke over an 18--hole battle. Metz turned In a card of 69, one under par, while his foe registered 70.
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    Malayan Rugby Team Loses To Hong Kong
    179 29 Malayan Rugby Team Loses To Hong Kong Hon.^ Kong, Satorday. THE All-Malaya touring Ragfey t°ar!i played last match of their vis i and It to All-Hong K«'--18 pcints to 11. Of the three «amcs phyed the Malayan team has won one, drawn one :>nd lost -me. Malaya drew with the
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    207 29 Ceylon S. C, Fancy Dress Hockey r\KESSEi) as an Indian Prin- cess, Mr. A. Ponnamba!a:n won the first prize at the third annual fancy dress hoc'.-.ry gala held by the Ceylon Sports f.'lab In Ba'.estier Road yesterday. K. Kanclasamy, v. colours, won tlic socc .id Indian Prince, and A. N.
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    NORTHERN MALAYA GOLF MEETING
    118 29 (From Our Own Con nt.) Ipjli, Saturday NORTHERN MALAYA amateur fplf championship meeting open to members of recognised k U >:lubs in j Penang. Province Wcllesley. Kcda>., I Perak pnd Sonngor will be he'd on the Ipoh golf course on Feb. 19. 20 and 21 The
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    MALAYAN BADMINTON TEAM TOUR
    590 30 Success Of Samuel Revives Project Of Visit To Europe By The Sunday Times Badminton Correspondent. THE opinion previously expressed in these columns that the high standard of badminton prevailing in Malaya is comparable to the best in other parts of the w< -Id is now confirmed
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    22 30 rVlin Chan Pene. hen. seeretarr of the Humorist table tennis party of Ktanf. l-ira Chwee Ho", lion, rerretary of the Spartan B.P.
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    153 30 ■■■■■Jiijiwwi-niiii mi in us* 11. f The A!l B:ucs E.P. "C" team whlh beat the Green Hill BP. "C" teim, 2—o Back fri-m le'« S. Conceicao, A. It. I»e Souz 1. A. Rodrlguese, V. A. Matthews. F. ll< -i, 11 and C. M. Chcrlan. Front from left M. lar.ge, Claience
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    943 30 AT the recent committee meeting of the Selangor Badminton Association it war, decided to hold the annual general meeting on Mar. 19 at the Pudu Girls' School. Referring to the subject of a badminton hail, the president said there was no possibility of securing a site at the
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    MUAR BOYS BEAT J.B. NOVICES
    85 30 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Muar. 'THE badminton team of the Govern--1 ment English School beat the Novices Party from Johore Bahru. the schoolboys winning all five matches. Results (School first): Singles: N. Stanley beat Satari 7—15, 15—7. 15—6; Haji Hassan beat Sapuan 15_10. 15— Doubles:
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    PORT SWETTENHAM RECREATION CLUB
    140 30 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Port Swettenham. A VERY satisfactory year with plenty of sports activities and a better financial balance are recorded In the annual report of the Port Swettenham Recreation Club whose annual general meeting Is on Feb. 16. The club carries forward. a balance
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    UNITED FAMILY B.P.
    155 30 I TNDER the patronage of Mr. Heng Mul Keng. Mr. Heng Mul Thiam, and Madam Heng Mul Sim, with the presidentship of Mr. Heng Mul Cheng. and the vice-presidentship of Mr. Yap Kirn Swee and Mr. Heng Wllgle, a badminton party has been formed in Singapore under
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    ROXY B.P.
    23 30 A committee meeting of the Roxy Theatre B.P. will be held on Tuesday, at 11.30 a.m., at Mr. Robert Yap's residence.
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    134 30 •■po celebrate their third anniversary. a dinner was held b., the Spartan Br.dmlnton Party at the Great World Restaurant. The President, Mr. Neo Soon Hln. gave away the prizes to: Singles champion, Khoo Eng Tee: singles runner-up. Tan Kok Ann: singles consolation prize, Lee Ki.n Teck; doubles champions,
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    JOHORE B.D.A.
    48 30 (From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru. Saturday It i> understood that Syed Ibrahim bin Hussein, the honorary S3cretary of the Johore Bahru district badminton association, who has carried on the work since the formation of the association in 1935, will net stand icr re-election this year.
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    FUTURE OF LOCAL SWIMMING
    150 31 Effect Of Formation Of Association SWIMMING Is a sport which has been treated casually in the past in Singapore. The formation of a.i Association last week should do much to bring it to a higher level. Championships on a large scale should now be possible. Aquatic
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    Inter-Club Soccer In Segamat
    311 31 Inter-Club Soccer In Segamat (From Our Own Correspondent.) Sfgamat. IN the first inter-dub soccer match of the c?ason, the Indo-Ceylonese did remarkably well to beat tluSfgamat Chinese Recreation Club, on? of the best teams in the district at full strength, by the odd goal in five Play was very keen
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    Trengganu Police Beat Kelantan Comrades
    135 31 Trengganu Police Beat Kelantan Comrades (From A Correspondent.) Kota Bahru. THE Kelantan Military Police soccer team which visited Trengganu recently was beaten by the Trengganu State Police team by two goals to one at Kuala Trengganu. The Kelantan Police have been called "The Kelantan Warriors" for their play in the
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    MALACCA J.C.S.A.
    80 31 <From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca, Saturday. 'THE seventh annual general meeting of the Junior Civil Service Association, Malacca, will be held in the Association premises at Banda Hllir Road on Wednesday at 4.30 p.m. In their report for last year, the committee of management states the membership is
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    107 31 Fhotojrrzph taken at the tenth annual tearral nrrting of the Miri-oU 8.1.. Bark from left Tan Choaf Tee («ommiUee>, Pane Ten; Kiam (rommJUee). Sim Horn Sertf (vice-president). Lee Jauy Scan (hon. auditor) anj Xr Ch:a Henp. Middle frora left: Lee Boon Seng;, Tan Siafc Phiiing ihco. treasurer), Tay Bone Soo
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    Segamat And Genuang Cricket
    462 31 Segamat And Genuang Cricket (From Our Own Correspondent.) Segamat. •T*HE Oenuang Cricket Club will play their first cricket match In three weeks' time when the Tampln Recreation Club visits Genuang. The Segamat Cricket Club held their annual general meeting last week at the Indian Ceylon Association premises with Mr. A.
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    Frisco Sails For Rangoon
    378 31 Frisco Sails For Rangoon Boxing Notes ARTHUR Snares, the Bangalore middleweight, who intended to tour Malaya, is not coming now owing to the departure of Young Frisco for Rangoon. After Frisco was dethroned by Som Pong, preliminary arrangements were made for a return battle, but the matter fell through because
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    MAYFAIR B.P.
    28 31 The Mayfalr B.P. annual tournament will be held in the flrct week of March. The draw will take place today at 5.15 p.m at the court.
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    82 31 The Principal and staff of the Anglo-Chinese School, Klangr, taken on the occasion of the visit of Mr. B. Ponniah to the school, of which Inis an old boy. Seated, left to right: Mr. V. K. Arumugam, Rev. Abel Eklond (Principal) Miss Youndhall. Messrs. B. Ponniah, Koh Liang Sih, Ooi
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    Change Alley
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    Singapore's Bargain Mart
    166 32 Shops Which Sell Anything From A Stud To A Lampshade, From Tinned Goods To Cosmetics CINGAPORE'S Change Alley, the place of bargains, usually has a crowd* men and women lured v,here by the fact that prices are seldom fixed. The prospect of bargaining and cutting an Alley
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      86 32 Head O(Hre: Cecil Street. Slncuporr Phone MM (i lines) wltt exUnstona to all Department* Koala Lumpur: Office: 25 lara Street Phone: 5683 lpob Office: Brewster Koad Tele: 31 Peaanf Office: 12 Bishop Street. Penanf Phone- M" London Ufllre: 4* 43 fleet Street London tt.4Phone: Central SKOK -:<b«t Tele: "I eadmalaix
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