The Straits Times, 20 April 1947

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  • 20 1 FINAL EDITION THE SUNDAY TIMES LARGEST NEIT SALE IN MALAYA Mo. 612 SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1947. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 52 1 JINNAH MEETS VICEROY Loid .:..d L::d/ .MounibaUen pose with -Mr. M. A. Jinnali, president cf the All-India Muslim League, at the Viceroy's House in New Delhi, shortly before the Viceroy and Mr. Jinn^h began IhCii fiis I < of conTerencPS in an effort ti» find a solution to the present
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  • 137 1 i_,ONDON, Saturday. SCOTLAND Yard detectives were v today closing the net on a London district where friends are believed to be sheltering tho Jewish "bomb girl" who placed explosives in the Colonial Office last Tuesday night. Thousands of people were questioned last night
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  • 20 1 A cheque for £375,000 for licod rrlief in Britain has b.^en .■>ent by the Canadian Red Cross.
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  • 304 1 MALAYAN DOLLAR AID FOR BRITAIN £100 million plan suggested Sunday Times Staff Correspondent LONDON, Saturday. THE great part that a fully rehabilitated Malaya could play in earning vital American dollars to assist Britain in her current economic crisis is being widely discussed by the British Press and the man-in-the-street, following
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  • 113 1 Texas City, Satuiday. THREE hundred workers wearing 1 heavy gloves as protection against th e deadly infection worked from dawn to dusk in Texas City's blasted and charred $150,000,000 industrial district The day's grsly and sickening finds m the twisted and charred wreckage brought the
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  • 109 1 LONDON, Saturday. AHalilax aircraft will leave England on Wednesday for a round-the-world flight carrying a number of experts wha are to examine the trade markets of the I world. Dr. Graham Humby, general manager of the London Ae'/o Motor Service, who is flying as second pilot on
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  • 261 1 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. THREE is a strong probability that, provided there are no hitches, the "'Federation of Malaya will be created bofore the end of this year. While, it is understood, there is no specific date fixed on which the "Malayan
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  • 54 1 SYDNEY, Saturday. Till Sydney Royal Empire Society will spend V Vioi). earmarked for a present of an opal necklace fcr Princess Elizabeth on her twenty-first birthday, on Monday, on food and clothing for British flood victims. The Society will send a congratulatory message instead
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  • 123 1 DUTCH PREMIER WILL FLY TO THE INDIES THE HAGUE, Saturday. THE Netherlands Prime Minister, Dr. Louis Beel, and the MinisI ter for Overseas Territories, Dr. Jan Jonkman, are expected to leave *or Batavia on Apr. 29 and spend one week in the Netherlands Indies. Lieut. -General H. J Kruh. Ch:?f
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  • 50 1 Gwalior, Central India, Sat. •NY Indian state which did no: im er.ter the Constituent Assembly now would be treated as a hostile stats by the country, said Pandit Nehru, Vice-President of the Indian Interim Government, addressing the annual session of the All-India States' Peoples' Conference here.— Reuter.
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  • 87 1 MORE NATURAL RUBBER FOR U.S. CAR TYRES WASHINGTON, Saturday. THE Office of Temporary Con- trols has increased from about three pourds to approximately eigiht pounds the amount of natural rubber that may oe used in the manufacture «>f medium-sized passenger car tyres. The OTC also authorised producers of camelback, used
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  • 52 1 MANCHESTER. Saturday. AUADRUPLETS— two boys and two girls were born to a Salford, Lancashire, woman early today. The children, it is understood, were prematurely born, but oxygen tents, specially designed for premature births had already been erecced in a row at the bedside. Progre&s was satisfactory in each
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  • 26 1 The battleship Warspite yesterday left Portsmouth under tow by two tugs for the Clyde where she is to be broken up, says Reuter.
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  • 50 1 Beaufort West. Saturday. THE travel -weary Royal Family terminated their official f cur of South Africa today with a short 30-minute bait her P for brief ceremonies. The Royal party is due at Caoe Town tomorrow and will embark for Britain after a few dr.ys rest— U.P.
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  • 231 1 SHANGHAI. Saturday. CHANGHAI municipal and mili- tary authorities, in a determined effort to check the latest commodity and foodstuffs price spiral, which has already raised the cost of living for the man-m-the-street by 50 p-u- ctn 1 ,mcc the beginning of April and causing
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  • 67 1 HE WANTS PEOPLES CAR PLANT The Maharajah Januahib of Viwanagar. whose offer for Grantham Productions, Ltd. the company formed to manufacture a low-price British "people's car" is reported to have been accepted by the liquidators and committee of inspection, (irantham recently went into liquidation owing to financial difficulties. It hi
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  • 236 1 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. A "little army" of 1,318 former members of the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army, including 68 women, have been forbidden to travel to Indo-China to fight for the Vietnamese against the French This ban comes from the Chief Secretary
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  • 99 1 Sunday Timrs oir sp udent KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. THE postage raie lor air m.iil within the Malayan Union and Singapore will be 15 cents icr the first cunce and eight cents for each additional ounce. The air mail service begins on May I with the
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  • 180 1 Big UNO rice talks in India next month WASHINGTON. Sat. HELEGATES from the major U rice-producing and consuming countries will meet in India next month :n un effort to increase production, the Food and Agr. cultural Organisation of the Unitt d Nations announced today. The conference will open Ml May
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  • 96 1 NANKING, Saturday. MORE than 2.500 persons wer rendered homeless by a huge fire which swept Kuling. famoi;^ simmer resort in Kiangsi pro vnce and Gen. Chiang Kai-shek s summer capital, on Wednesday according to delayed reports reaching here today. The fire, which was started by the
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  • 71 1 Sunday Times Correspondent IOKIO. Saturday AN official order from Kure permi's an Anzac Day march past in the Plaza opposite tn Imperial Palace by the 67th Aus tral an Infantry Battalion, at present garrisoned in Tokio. This 8.C.0.F. order replace-; the prev'ous order
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    • 23 1 rcjoe Agents in Malaya: THE FEDERAL DISPENSARY, LTD MM NEW STOCKS ARE ARRIVING SHORTLY AND WILL BE AVAILABLE AT ALL FIRST CLASS DEALERS.
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  • 1037 2 SPOTLIGHT on MALA YA Clifford Peer Turns His DOLO-playing DR. LEE 1 TIANG KENG'S appointment to the Malayan Union Advisory Council may necessitate a change in the new Penang Councillor's plans. Dr. Lee was proposing to make a holiday trip to Great Britain this year, but, I understand, that he
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 339 2 nxnTA TJim IVI 50 P ">• Programme summary: news; 10.15 Australian pianists; 10.30 l*nA/l\J IQALA I ft 505 j^y on tne Keys; 5 15 children's Australian Artiste perform in Sericus SINGAPORE corner; 5.30 Religious music; 6.00 Sun- Mocd; 10.45 Australian news; 11. CO cnunAir service; 6.30 News; 6.45 Hot Does
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  • 367 3 REPAIRS ON MALAYA S No 1 BRIDGE War damage Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday, DLOWN up during the 1941 retreat, two spans of the D 1,000-foot long Iskandar Bridge over the Perak River, near Kuala Kangsar, are to be rebuilt with parts supplied by the original designers. Repairs
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  • 38 3 Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. THE value of rubber for the purpose of assessing the customs duty has been fixed at 42-3/4 cents a pound *ot the period from Apr. 17 to Apr. 23.
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  • 213 3 rE wedding took place yesterday at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd of Mr. Ronald Milne, son of the late Capt. J. A. Milne and Mrs. L. Milne of Singapore and Miss Audrey van Tooren, youngest daughter of Mr. R. van Tooren and the late Mrs. R. van
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  • 242 3 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. MO murders or gang robberies were committed in Kuala I" Lumpur in March, and the fact that only five armed robberies and one armed gang robbery were brought to the notice of the police, gives Selangor
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  • 34 3 THE Singapore Children's Orchestra, conducted by Mr. Glan Williams, is giving its first post-war concert at the Victoria Memorial Hall this evening at 7 o'clock. Tickets may be purchased at the hall
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  • 166 3 Sunday Tfanes Reporter OINGAPORE prosecutions for w black market activities took a sudden upward bound in March as the recently reconstituted Price Control Inspectorate got into its stride. The amount of fines levied in March for Food Control offencss came to $57,680, of which $50,930
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  • 80 3 FIRST ship of a convoy of seven former minesweepers of the Royal Indian Navy purchased fr:>m the Admiralty by a Shanghai shipping firm, the 1,200-ton Gypsy Lady. M.F.V- 1511, has arrived in Singapore from Trincomalee, Ceylon, via Penang. It is the intention of the Leader Shipping Company
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  • 268 3 Sunday Times Reporter NO offers have beer, made either In Singapore or the United Kingdom for ttie 19-year-old steam yacht Sea Belle 11, specially built for the use of the Governors and High Commissioners of Malaya. The vessel was put up for sale by
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  • 20 3 Mr. W. O. W. Hastings has been appointed to act temporarily as a judge in the Malayan Union.
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  • 66 3 MRS. LIM KEAN CMYK, who is to represent women's interests on the Singapore section of the Wages Commission appointed by Government. Mrs. Urn is wife of Mr. Urn Kean Chye, Singapore branch organizer of the Malayan Democratic Union and is supervisor of the Nutrition Section of the
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  • 298 3 ANY prisoner under sent -wee cf n death in Singapore, who intends to apply to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council for speoial leave to appeal, must furnish proof to the Registrar of the Supreme Court that the necessary instructions and funds
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  • 175 3 Sunday Times Reporter THE Joint Supply Board, which is responsible for the procu* 1 ment of Malaya's rice, flour and sugar, has been reorganize ed and the office of chairman has been abolished. The Board was formerly responsible for obtaining relief supplies for Malaya and
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  • 89 3 MISS Susheela Dcvi, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Davies, of Singapore, will be giving tv.o violin recitals on All-India Radio. New Delhi, tonight and tomorrow night. Miss Dcvi arrived in New Delhi recently with her mother, who was a Malayan woman delegate to
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  • 78 3 Sunday Times Corr?spondent KLANG. Saturday. A VERDICT of murder against a person or persons unknown was returned by the Kl.'ng Coroner, Haji Abdul Aziz, at the end of an inquiry into the death of a Tamil. Vadiveloo. who wa« found shot dead in a Klang
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  • 229 3 'Malays can supply all labourneeds' Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Saturday THERE are enough Malays in chc country to meet all labour requirements and there is no reason why immigrant labour should be admitted into Malaya, said Mr. Mohamcd Ali Rouse, secretary of the Penang Malay Associatnn, today Mr. Rouse was
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  • 30 3 The Ci-ylor. Rubber Commwsioners. E. W. Whitelaw and S F. H. Perera will leave fc Singapore on the Strathnaver. They will inspect ri'bber production in Malaya— Neuter.
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  • 181 4 IN Chicago, people who 1 want to rid their homes of rats have been advised by an expert to get themselves pythons But, if a man takes a python into his home, his wife may leave along with the rats, he warns. Clifford H. Pope,
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  • 92 4 COL Polito, noted cinemato- grapher, says a woman's most shapely feature is her chin. "Knees, necks, calves, bosom ar.d other feminine contours can be so treated by the camera as to add or detract from the actual physical dellneaments," asserted Polito. several times winner of
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    47 4 The Httl? lady with the provocative smile (and this and that) is responsible for the lifting of many a jaded eye these days in' Hollywood. Hi-jacked from television by film talent scouts, REGAN CALLAIS— is to make her screen debut in RKO Radio's "If You Knew Susie".
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  • 276 4 In Soviet R«**s..3 IN Russia, M -a mos. parts of the world, when little Sonia and Viacheslav have received good marks at school and worked diligently at household chores, their parents t~ke them to t^e circus. Moscow's circus is of the permanent one-ring variety common in
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  • 706 4 MR. V. S. Pritchelt's -The f.ivne Novei" is. Xs its name implies, something more vital than the ordinary run of literary histories. Indeed, "n his Preface, Mr. Pritchett emphatically refutes the idea that his book should be regarded as a history of the n vel. His
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  • 897 4 LOOKING NORTH TO ASIA The Australian Seene by Bob Gilmore MELBOURNE, Apr. 9. its gathering of many races Pandit Nehru's Inter- Asian Conference more than any event since Pearl Harbour, has underlined the South Seas isolation of Australia. Reading the scanty Australian Press reports of the Delhi Conference, and glancing
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  • 416 5 Many still not registered Sunday Times Staff Reporter THERE has been a marked trend towards co-educa-tion in Chinese schools in Singapore since the war, the Assistant Director of Education (Chinese) Mr. R. W. Watson-Hyatt told me yesterday. Out of 124 registered Chinese schools, with an
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  • 325 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter RECENT heavy rains are causing a rapid re-silting at the mouth of the Singapore River, and are setting back the work of dredging. Two grab dredgers and Mudlark, a bucket dredger, are digging deep into the bed of the river to
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  • 69 5 Sunday Times Correspondent BANGKOK, Saturday. rORTY officials of the Siamese S. Ministry of Commerce have been dismissed for inefficiency in a large-scale administrative shake-up in Bangkok. Investigations are still being carried out and it is expected that more officials will be dismissed Simultaneously, a wholesale
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  • 71 5 Sunday Times Reporter THE Australian War Graves Group, S.E.A.C., has closed down and will be returning to Australia in the very near future. The Group, in a farewell message, referred to the assistance and co-operation which had been extended to them sinc P they arrived in
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  • 46 5 INDIAN Muslims will celebrate Iqbal Day tomorrow 1n memory of the Muslim poet, Mohamed Iqbal. A publ'c meeting will be held at 5.30 p.m. tomorrow at the Victorial Memorial Hall. Mr. M. J. Namazie, vice-president of the Indian Muslim League of Singapore, will preside.
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  • 82 5 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. PENANG labourers who petitioned the Governor-Generel Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, last week to declare May Day a public holiday have received a reply from Mr. Mac Donald that he had no administrative or executive authority in the Malayan Union. Mr.
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  • 194 5 Control plan for luxury building suggested Sunday Times Reporter THE Singapore and Malayan 1 Union Governments and the Services should join in formulating a building policy whereby all non-essential building is discouraged, Mr. Lee Kong Chian, chairman of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce, urged yesterday. Mr. Le e pointed
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  • 150 5 SENT OFFICIAL $200 AND AN APPLICATION Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. A LODGING house keeper who sent Penang's Chief Sanitary Inspector $200 in one envelope and an application for a licence i n another was fined $300 by the District Judge, Mr. A. M. I Austin, today on a charge
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  • 65 5 AMONG the many Malayans leaving Singapore today for Australia by the Blue Funnel vessel Charon is Miss Sally Oehlers, 15-year-old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. R. C. Oehlers. of Singapore. Miss Oehlers will enter the Methodist Ladies College at Claremont, Western Australia. Mrs. Oehlers is accompanying
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  • 62 5 Th« Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's Prices at noon yesterday were: Cta. Pr r lb. to. 1 R.S.S. Spot looae 43% 10. 1 R.S.S. fob in bales April 44% 10. a R.S.S. fob in bales April 42% fo. 3 R.S.S. fob in bales April 41H Tone of
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  • 205 5 DUTCH SHIP BACK ON MALAYA -AFRICA RUN Sunday Times Reporter COMPLETELY reconverted and v reccnditionsd in Hong Kong from a troop transport into a passenger ship, the 21,700-ton K.P.M liner Ruys, pride of the X.P.M. fleet of ships, which passed through Singapore this week, is japw on her first peace-time
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  • 196 5 When He Took Up Outdoor Sports Again Here Is the story of a young man who had given up hope of taking part in active sports again. He tells how he tried one remedy after another, and how finally a former sufferer DUt him on
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  • 37 6 Madwn Chan Geok Eng (wife of the late Mr. Koh Ser.g Soon) passed away I>onroli;lly yesterday morning at her rMtdene*, 7 Koon Seng Road .Funeral on Monday at 11 am. to Bukit Brown Cemrtprv D^onlv regretted.
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  • 583 6 THE SUNDAY TIMES SINGAPORE, APRIL 20, 1947. A Public Duty, ALL good citizens througnout Malaya should welcome and give their full support to the efforts which the Governments art now making to re-enforce the laws dealing with the registration of societies, because they are expressly directed against the most widespread
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  • 435 6  -  JOHN LANGDON-DAVIES by WHAT do you suppose was the first means of movement adopted by animals crawling, walking, swimming, flying? Professor Harl^y Brown has shown that none of these is the answer that the flist mecris of going places and seeing things was the pr:peller. To conquer the air
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  • 1410 6  - The Princess is twenty- one tomorrow RUSSELL LANDSTROM, —by TOMORROW, Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, heir presumptive to the British throne, symbol of a war generation bent on great reforms, and one of the world's most popular girls celebrates her twenty-first birthday. The event will mark her transition from royal
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  • 258 6 ATOMIC AGE COLUMN had been thought, by the wave motion of its tail. The problem wa s to find another kind of motion that wculd explain the facts. Professor Brown 6tuck a cork on the spindle of a motor to represent Euglena's body, and Into the cork h e stuck
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  • 508 7 S'PORE FLYING CLUB BUYS PLANES Opens this week Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE Royal Singapore Flying Club is to resume flying 1 at Kallang Airport in the near future with three Auster light aircraft the type that was used evacuating wounded and spotting for the guns in the Burma campaign.
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  • 61 7 17-YEAR-OLD CHARGED WITH EXTORTION WONG SAI HAR. a 17-year-old Chinrrr, appeaivni in the Second Singapore Police Court yestenlay on two charsres of attempting to extort $5,000 from F.ng Hin Wah at Geylar.g on Arr. 12 and 18. Wong who was alleged to nave threatened Fong with death "by being blown
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  • 78 7 Sunday Times Correspondent MALACCA, Satu day. THE annual Thi.unal ceremonies 1 of the Mahriammen Tempi', Gajnh B?rang Read. Malacca, known locally Ps Datok Chachar will start or. April 22 and oonUnnc until May 2. Eighteen office bearers, including tpmpl c wardens, have been e'ee'ed ir.
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  • 191 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter IN ten days time there will be no rickshas on Singapore streets. Any rickshas found plying from May 1 will be seized by the Vehicles Department. By a decision made by the Municipal Commissioners in November, all licences for
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  • 62 7 CINGAFOnE a -c.uhome from officss in the city on pay day have been waylaid and robbed by gargs who have studied tieir movements. A warning was issued yesterday ty the Chief of the Criminal In\estigation Department. Mr. R. C. B. Wiltshire, tlhat office workers returning home
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  • 40 7 Sunday Times Correspondent MALACCA. Saturday. THE Kirn Seng Bridge over the Malacca River, opposite the clock tower, will be closed for two weeks to all traffic from Thursday, April 24, while repairs to the structure are carried out.
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  • 163 7 EX- SERVICES ASSN SEEKS NEW MEMBERS Sunday Times Reporter THE Singapore branch of the ExServices Associaton of Malaya is making a recru ting drive for new members from among exServicemen of World War HThe association which is open to ex-Servicemen of all nationalities, who have campaign medals, began its drive
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  • 86 7 Sunday Times Correspondent BATU PAHAT, Saturday. MEN of the Dorestshire Regiment bagged four large wild boars at Parit Perpat, Batu Pahat, in a drive organised by the Senior Agricultural Officer, Inche Abubakar bin Haji Manan. The largest tusker weighed 190 katis and the other three
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  • 301 7 Sunday Times Reporter PUBLIC Works Department officials expect many of Singapore's Government buildings t~> remain d'apidated for some years. Officials asked when it would be possible to spruce up such buildings as the Government Offices in Empress Place pointed to meagre finances,
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  • 30 7 Mr. Ong Chin Kun, 29-year-old director of the Malayan l'.\m Service, is to fly to the United States via Europe on business. He expects to visit Hollywood.
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  • 268 7 Looting gang leader shot dead at depot A VERDICT of justifiable home- j cide was recorded by the Sin- gapore Coroner, Mr. W. G. Porter, yesterday at an Inquiry into the I death of the leader of a gang of looters who was shot by sentries v hile removing medical
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  • 102 7 Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. FE prices of cigarettes, cigars and tobacco have been otfic'ally fixed by the Malayan Union Government. These prices which are parallel" with those prevailing in Singapore came into force yesterday. It is now an offence for reta lers to sell cigarettes,
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  • 61 7 Sunday Times Correspondent TAIPING. Saturday. A LABOUR contractor, who had paid $4,000 to his 200 labourers yesterday, was threatened with a revolver when three Chinese entered his house in Taiplng today. The contractor, Teh Sim Kiat. was held up ami his house searched but
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  • 41 7 MALACCA, Saturday. INITIAL work regarding the census in Malacca has already started. The numbering of houses In the Jasin and Alor Gajah districts began some days ago, while in the Malacca Municipal district numbering will begin on April 21.
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  • 284 7 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent pi. AM: seats on the 8.0.A.C.-QANTAS. service from SingaI pore to the United Kingdom are booked up to the hilt for four months ahead. The earliest date for which a traveller is able to book a normal passage on
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  • 90 7 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. ACisinese, Quek Boon Kirn, who sad he was a trader during I the occupation and had wanted i capital to s+art a new business. i was today sentenced to a total of 13 months' rieo-rus imprisonment. Quek was convicted on
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  • 132 7 JONES APPEALS AGAINST HIS DEATH SENTENCE Sunday Times Reporter IRWIN Oliver Jones, 36-year-old Singapore businessman who was sentenced to death at the Assizes o.i Apr. 2 for the murder of Maurice Fox, has lodged an appeal against his sentence and conviction. Hearing of the case took seven days and a
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  • 84 7 Sunday Times Reporter DISMANTLED before the wax to prevent their use as p^suible Jap bombing targets, the 206-foot long Fort Canning flag mast and the 86' •> -foot long time ball mast ato not being out back. The mas s, now lying i.i pieces
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  • 35 7 Sunday Times Correspondent BATU PAHAT. Saturday. AN agricultural show will be held at Batu Pahat on July 10 and 11. it was decided at a meeting of Government officers held last week.
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  • 77 8 Toccata and Fugue I.W Brahms Hungarian Dances 1.21 Waltzes .91 Cbopln WalUes Complete I.M m Preludes l.» Album o£ 27 Pieces 2.41 Nocturnes 2M Grieg Poetlsche Tonbilder 1.& Humoresken, Op.«. 1.54 Handel Water Music l.« Liset Llebestraume Flhapaodle Hongroiae No. 2 Moz«rt Sonatinas 1 Sonata No. 15
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  • 417 8 One of my reatf-.s wnu nus ocen involved In a bidding controversy, maintains: "Holding 4J honour tricks, it Is unlikely that partner has enough strength to come In with a response over an opening blci of one No Trump. Nevertheless, game Is a probability, and the opener,
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  • 73 8 THE figure 45 can be dividea into four parts so that when you add two to the first part, subtract two from the second part, multiply the third part by two and divide the fourth part by two, the answer in each case is the same. How is
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  • 66 8 IF a rubber ball were to be 1 dropped from a height of two yards on to a level concrete walk or floor, how high would the rebound be six feet, more or less than six feet? By the way. what makes rub- ber bounce? uoj^ano puosas oj
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  • 491 8  -  STELLA THIS WEEK FOR YOU BY TAURUS (Apr. 21 -May 21) New moon brings your personal hopes and desires into especially keen focus right now. Be sure your judgment is clear in making important business decisions. Social emphasis in afternoon and evening. GEMINI (May 22-June 22)
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  • 477 8  -  NEIL MUNRO I by 11.2 RE is something quite. II different in the way of. quizzes I call it a Code-Quiz. After each clue you will find a series of numbers. Those numbers are the answer In code The same code used for all Che answers —a very simple
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    • 239 8 lii«h SUeet, Singapore. RELIGIOUS Books. Tl "rophct of the Desert by K.L. Gauba $2.40 IT Holiness by Phoenix 2.40 M umad and Teachings of Quran 1-30 Thi- Me^^ge Of Islam by Yusoff All 3.00 The History Of Islam by Haftz Ghulam Sarwar 4.80 Decisive Moments In the Hlitory Of Islam
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 278 8 Sunday Times Crossword DOWN I". L u >p..aa wuwi-iiiy <.o>; 19. 1. Discussion (6); a. Affront (6>; 3 (g) 21 Inamat)e Frank (8); 4. Prults (4); 5. Pertaining (8); pem>n (6) to Mum and Did (8); 8. Metal (4); 7. M -n^^, (6); 26 Car-house Relating to the <«): Kndfe-
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  • 687 9  -  MARY HEATHCOTT A Woman s View of Britain by LONDON, April 7. UOW I hate the queues. Malayans probably imagine I think, dream and talk of nothing but the grocer, the baker and queue. They are right. The queue perhaps is the most detestable of these
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    56 9 AoiCDf a number of dresses displayed at the recent London shows was this smart Emperor red linen suit by Dorville. The jacket has wide elbow-length sleeves and impressed revers, while the simple skirt has inverted pleats at back and front. The shoes have the high and wide ankle strap which
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  • 400 9 IN YOUR GARDEN pocKERiES, their mm riirrton and planting, mal:e a fascinating subject and this week I am going to tell you something more of my rxp r-nces with them in Malara. It is surprising how many dry-weather plants grow and even flower in this
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  • 344 9 Hints for cake makers HERE'S an American recipt for a really luscious layer cake. One breakfast cup of castor sugar, half a teacup of butter, three egg yolks, a pinch of salt, two tablespoonsful of chocolate or cocoa, threequarters of a breakfast cup of milk, one and threequarters of breakfast
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  • 354 9 1 L~#e no illusions about mv locks (though I have been paid a few compliments in my time) and I've tried desperately not to lose my sense of humour, but my husband's habit, of making comments about my appearance my hat, for example is undermining my confidence
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    • 268 9 FOOD PARCELS FROM AUSTRALIA 2 of our 14 PARCELS PARCEL No. 21 PARCEL No. 34 8 oi. Spaghetti 16 ob. tin Dripping 1 Ib. Dripping 16 or. tin Fricasse of Chicken 12 oi. Cheese 16 oi. tin Viennese Frankfurt* 14 oc. Condensed Milk 16 m. Steak and Kidney 24 «c.
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 83 9 Crossword Solution ACROSS: Driven; 5. Picnic; 9. Sugar; 10. Bisect; 11. Robust; 12. Aspen; 13. Tulip; 16. Vale, 18. Entrap; 20. Tailor; 22. Adamant, 23. Foster, 25. League; 28. Once; 29. Class; 30. Flood; 32. Singly, 33. Potato; 34. Islet; 35. Locate. 36. Newest. DOWN: 1. Debate; 2. Insult; 3.
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  • 453 10 S.R.C. SURPRISE NAVY Three-One Victory In League Game S.R.C 3 Navy 1 DISPLAYING their best form since annexing the Victory Cup, the S.R.C. gained a well-deserved three-one victory over the Royal Navy in a S.A.F.A. league fixture at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. The Navy had never been beaten previously and
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  • 288 10 IN a slow sci.rmg cricket match, the Public Work-, Department dre.v with the Police on th. Police Training Depot yi sterday. Chia Kirn Swee was the mest successful batsman, scoring 48 runs which Included five fours and a six. while Yogorajah batted fcr about
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  • 75 10 Sunday Tines Correspondent Ki'ALA LUMPUR, Saturday THE Railway Institute beat the T.P.C.A. by four wickets in a low-scoring cricket match on the latter's ground today. The home team were all out for 71. with Mahadevan scoring 28. Lch Ah Lum was the highest scorer
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  • 701 10 Selangor Round-Up Sunday Times Stall Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. QELANGOR'S soccer league has opened with a burst of >J enthusiasm, both on the field and along the sidelines, which would be good thing if can be maintained till the end of the season. At first
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    20 10 Webber just tips the ball over the bar at the Stadium yesterday when Recs beat the Navy three-one.
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  • 126 10 Three Penang Soccer Players Suspended Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. DRASTIC actiun has been Uktn by the disciplinary board ot the Penan; football Association in cases of three of four player* r/rouifht up before it in connection with rough play, which has been a feature of league football r itches
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  • 234 10 the Association ana finalise details for the Selangor championships. New Rule Envisaged One of the items which Is expected to come up on the agenda or at a subsequent meeting Is the question of residential qualifications In connection with State athletic title meets. This Is an echo of the prewar
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  • 151 10 Selangor Club Victoria Insi draw Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. TIME forced a draw In to-day 1 s padang 1 cricket match between the Selangor Club and the Victoria Institution. The club batted first and declared at 118 for nine, giving the schoolboys a little less than two hours
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  • 112 10 Sunday Tim.s Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. THE V.M.C.A. forced a draw against the Selangor Indian Association in a cricket match at Kamporg Attap today The Indians knocked up 113, Lall Singh and Gorbex Singh being the highest scorers with 31 and 25 runs respectively. Gorbex
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  • 193 10 IN a cricket match played between the Victoria School and the St. Anthony's School on the Victoria School ground, the Victorians won by 42 runs. Scores were: VICTORIA SCHOOL Fred Campos c Peng Hong b Jam»s 2, Gurnam Singh b N. Balhatchet 9, Bala b Balhatchet
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  • 89 10 Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. rE Kilat Club bundled out the Food Control Dept. for a palTy 12 runs in a crcket match on the Railway Ground today and won by nine wickets. M. S. Maniam and Sathasivam were in grand form and
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  • 54 10 THE first committee meeting of the Amateur Sporting Association, will be held at the residence of Mr. Tay Geok Swee. No. 22. Marshall Road. (Near Roxy The?* t Katong at noon today. The meeting will formulate the programme for the current year. A special tiffin will be
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  • 362 10 Sunday Times Correspondent IPOH. Sat. MONDAY will see a key match in the first round of the first division league played between the Kinta Indians and the Ramblers The Indians are at the head of the table, having won all their four fixtures, while
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 90 10 ~^*?|F i r*^Tjj*i^BV CORK-TIPPED If J^^& VIRGINIA J/ fMade specially to prevent sore throats L 50 8 Air-tight tins jE\ with Easy- Access inner foil jKjgm and "Cellophane" wrapping. 3gy Imported front London, England CARRERAS 1 50 YEARS' REPUTATION FOR QUALITY HARWOODS SEROCALCIN FOR THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF COLDS
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    • 94 10 .4 I'*Va. _^^^^1 Sole Agents: NAINA MOIIAMED X SONS Singapore, Koala Lnmpur, Prnang Indigestion? II you're a victiru ot atter-meal misery drowsiness, uncom|fortable fullness. M acute stomach pain youi one »urt standby is 'Bisurated' Magnesia. Immediately it reaches the stomach 'Bisurated* Magnesia neutralises the excess dad that causes digestive pain
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    • 302 10 Use MACLEANS and note the difference Macleans Tooth Paste does supremely well, ail that a good tooth paste shou Id do. It cleans teeth thoroughly polishing them to a natural white brilliance. Start using it to-day the difference will amaze and delight you f TO THE TEETH Use .Cuticurn Ointment
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  • 758 11 PRECIOUS STREAM WINS BIG IPOH RACE Sunday Times Racing Correspondent IPOH, Saturday. PRECIOUS Stream scored her sixth win on the Malayan I Turf when she beat the champion, D.R.8., and Zargun in a thrilling finish at Ipoh today, the first day of the Perak Turf Club meeting. Neglected on the
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  • 366 11 THREATENING weather kept several competitors away from attending the 0.11. Q. S.E.A.L.P. athletic meeting at Tanglin yesterday, with the result that the second part of the final events was substituted with special event*. In spite of the absence of the majority of entrants, keen competltton
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  • 25 11 IN a friendly soccer match nteyed on the Clifford School ground on Thursday the Lipls Food Control XI seat the Lipis Indians three-fwo.
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  • 526 11 rTH the Padang Clubs— the S.C.C. and the S.R.C, suffered big defeats when they met the 223 B.O.I), and Special Commissioners Cricket Chib, respectively at cricket yesterday. On the S.C.C. ground, the Cricket Club batted first and were dismissed for 55 runs; .Bowmer of 223 8.0.D. had
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  • 316 11 S'PORE BADMI NTON TITLE MEETING POSTPONED By Our Badminton Correspondent THE Singapore Badminton As- filiation's application for the use of the Happy World Covered Stadium, has been turned down. ThLs means tha* the Singapore championships have to be postponed still further, despite the fact that players, officials and of the
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  • 846 11 Sunday limes Raring Correspordsnt IPOH, Saturday. IO( KEY Woods was unable to ride at todays races as a remit of a fall off a horse this morning. He was heavily thrown by Mosiac, a two-year old flUy bdenging to Lt.-Col Fox'f stable. A regular backing
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  • 63 11 Sunday Times Correspondrni MUAR. Sat. rE Muar Oovt. English School will play thier Inter-School soccer match against the English College of Johore Bahru at the Muar Club Padang on Monday. The school fc'iam will be selected from the following: Lav S?ng Shiu. Rashid, Bachlk, Mohd Kasnawl. Oani:
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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    • 196 11 ST. ANDREW'S CATHEDRAL. Singapore PAROCHIAL CHfRCH COINCIL Th.^ annual Parochial meeting will be held in the Adelphi Hotel at 6.30 p.m. on Wednesday. 30th April. 1947. This win be preceded by the induction by the Right Rev. J. L. Wilson, the Lord Bishop of Singapore, of the Venerable David Rosenthall
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    • 396 11 Jft.4> Opening TO-DAY €r* 14? tWL H a.m. 2 p.m. 1.15 p m «3(^Jw 6 30 p.m.— 9 15 p.m f tr «W T^^ SL\ ■B^B^B^sflß^B^ t nnsrlsßt woi mm THE MUSICAL TREAT.... A THAT CAN'r BE BEAT! jJf^-S^** W vL. yoor iweaUi away and M 'tOT that spells ENTERr]T
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  • 538 12 WORLD TIN OUTPUT RECOVERY DELAYED Study group on problems Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. THE World Tin Study Group meeting in Brussels has decided to establish a permanent secretariat, which will be located at The Hague, and a management committee which will meet alternately at Brussels and at
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  • 89 12 NEW YO.KX Saturday. BENNY Leonard. 51, former lightweight boxing champion of tlv i world, died on th c night of Apr. 18 in the ring at Little Saint Nicholas arena while refereeing a fight. Death »as caused by cerebral haemorrhage. rd, vho retired in 1925
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  • 102 12 BURGLARS TAKE $10,000 IN WATCHES, PENS Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Suturaay. ONE of Penang's largest depart- I ment stores, the Tong Aih Company, was burgled in the early hours of today and a stock of watches and r>cr.s valued at $10,000 wp.s removed. The loss was d'sosvered this i morning.
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  • 199 12 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE first Vickers Viking aircraft to fly east of India, and co-piloted by a member of the King's Flight, touched down at Kallang Airport, at 4.30 p.m. yesterday. Britain's most up-to-date plane and 40 miles-an-houi faster than the Dakota, the
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  • 260 12 England beatFrance six-three LATE SPORT TWICKENHAM, Sat. ENGLAND beat France by six points (two tries) to three points (penalty goal) in the Rugby Union International today to share championship honours with Wales. A try scored by R. H. Guest in the 35th minute enabled England to lead France by 3
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  • 93 12 LONDON, Saturday. RL'GBY Union matches resulted as follows: London Irish 11. Birmingham 11: Aberavon 6. Peiaith 6; Bath IS, Northampton 13: Bristol 18. Haritquins 8: Camtooine 9. Fenzance and N. 5; Cardiff 6, Llanelly 7: Cheltenham 5. London Hospital 8; Coventry 17, Blrkenhead Park 13; Gloucester 26. Bedford
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  • 69 12 LONDON. Saturday. THE Rugby League Cup s?mi-flrals resulted as follows; LeecU 21. Wakefleld T. 0: Warrington 7, Bradford N. 11. Rugby League results CasUeford 33. Bramley 5; Kcighley 1 3 Dewsbury 16: Featherston? R*. 12, .Oldham 13. Halifax 14. Barrow 24: Liverpool S. 13. Batley 8: Wigan 13
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  • 575 12 ABERDEEN LEYTONSTONE WIN CUPS Home League Foofball Results LONDON. Saturday. WHILE the League matches do- i minated the English program- I me with some promotion and re- legation problems getting nearer I settlement, there were two out- j standing non-League fixtures today in the football programme. The first was the
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