Malaya Tribune, 13 February 1935

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    38 1 The Malaya Tribune Walla's First National Newspaper: Guaranteed Largest Sales Vol. XXII, -No. ST SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1935 r'lfh UEN'K- The Malaya Tribune. Singapore: Wednesday, Feb. 13, 1935. Malaya Tribune SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1 FIVE CENTS.
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    Shipping News & Notices. U.S. SHIPYARDS' LOW RECORD
    1152 2 Shipping News Notices. U.S. SHIPYARDS' LOW RECORD Output Compared With Other Countries REVIEWING the Shipbuilding situation in 1934 in the New York "Journal of Commerce." Mr. H. Gerrish Smith, president of the National Council of American Shipbuilders, states that throughout the year the United States remained at the bottom of
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    £2,000,000 SUBSIDY
    80 2 Heip For Tramp And Cargo Shipping I Reuter Wireless. London. Feb. 7. Co-ordination and operation be ween tramp owners, promotion of co-oper-ation between tramp and cai"?o-Mner owners and fuller employment of British shipping and seafaring classes are among the objects of the influential tramp shipping administrative committee announced
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    DEVOURED BY SHARKS
    97 2 Terrible Fate Of Crew Of Cuban Fishing Boat Havana, Jan. 5. Fear that sharks had devoured their captain, Jesus Pay and six other members of the crew who are missing, were expressed by the five men who were rescued from a watery grave when the fighter Havana
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    SYNCHRONOUS TIME
    222 2 Interesting Installation In New Liners THE two new Union-Castle 25,000-ton passenger liners at present being built by Messrs. Harland and Wolff are to be equipped with an electrical time system, which represents a somewhat revolutionary departure from present practice. Messrs. Harland and Wolff conceivea the idea of applying
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    ROTTERDAM SHIPPING
    86 2 The improvement in the shipping traffic of Rotterdam was maintained unt 1 the end ol 1934. the number of arrivals in the Rotterdam N w Waterway being ever 1,000 above the figures fcr 1983, while the net register tonnage increased by more than 2.000.000 tons. In De ember.
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    N. Y. K. LINE
    133 2 GENERAL PASSENGER AGENTS for CUNARD WHITE STAR LTD. (Incorporated in Japan.) To London via Naples, Marseilles. Next Sailing*— 1935 s.s. HAKOZAKI MARU Feb. 21 m.s. TERKUNI MARU Mar. 6 s.s. HAKUSAN MARU Mar. 21 s.s. HARUNA MARU April 4 s.s. KATORI MARU Apr. 19 MINIMUM FARES
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      357 2 »x L.<\&ltil\ SAILINGS. 11. LI i i BRITISH INDIA f. O. S. N. Co.'s SAILINGS. OUTWARDS. Due Tonnage. Singapore. 1335. BHUTAN 6,100 Feb. 14 CASCTHAGE IVOTO Feb. 15 BEHAR 6,0W Feb. 28 CATHAY 15,000 A tfar. 1 SOUDAN 0.500 Mar. 13 CORFU 15.1/00 Mar. 15 RANCH! 17.000 Max. 29 BURDWAN
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      411 2 PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICE. TO GENOA, LONDON. ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG AND COPENHAGEN. From From From Jrom S'pore. Malacca. Port Pcnang. M S. S'ham. f MEONIA 19-2 10-2 20-2 22-2 A LSI A 12-3 12-3 13-3 15-3 BORING IA 2-1 2-4 3-4 5-4 ERRIA 23-4 23-4 24-4 25-4 LALANDIA 14-5 14-5 15-5
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      347 2 HAMBURG-AMERIRA LINIE. Deutsch [HmJD] Australia*Dampfschiffs Gesellschafi, (Companies incorporated in Germany). PASSENGER AND CARGO SERVICE OUTWARDS HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, NORTH CHINA AND JAPAN PORTS. Due Spore. 1935. s.s. PREUSSEN. via Man la Kb. 22 t m.s. DUISBURG, via Manila Mar. 5 s.s. RESOLUTE, world cruise Mar. If s.s. OLIVA. via Manila Mar.
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      507 2 STEAMER SAlUiM.fr 9Si norddeutscher IfWrtfl LLOYD. jflj (Incorporated i Q Germany). The undernoted are the Company's i a tended fixtures: OUTWARDS. "SAALE," for Manila, H'kong, S'hai, N. China and Japan F e i, "NECKAR," for Manila. H'kong, S'hai, N. China and Japan Ftb. 23 HOMEWARDS. For Rotterdam, Hamburg Bremen. "FULDA,"
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    INDIA'S NEW SEAT OF LEARNING
    355 3 £'!,.")00,000 ll'niversity In Hyderabad New Delhi. i UNIVERSITY which, it is hoped, will /1 become a world centre of Moslem and Indian culture is being erected Hyderabad at a cost of £2.250 000 The University is part of a 'scheme row actually under way to
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    GAY LONDON
    150 3 World's r entre Of Luxury Trades" Madrid. I. ..don the gayest city in Emop: tiie world's centre of the luxury .ices." declares a writer in the Madrid cw paper "El Sol." N".' ety per cent, of the world trade c ainonds is now transacted in Lonci n." the
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    AIR TOURING
    272 3 R?licf For Private Aircraft AN international plan for the encourrnent oi air touring, which has received «Je support of the Royal Aero Club, is in jroee.ss of negotiation. rt rrvoL° riglral 3U gg e stion was that all h.° W r ers T Vlsitlnß this county c n
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    GERMAN BEER
    142 3 More Home Consumption But Less Export Munich. German breweries arc selling more —to Germans—under ihe Hille: regime than thev did before the day)f the Third Reich. At the same time their export to oreign countries is now less Uian for many years past. The 1933-34 balance sheet just
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    21-SEATER GLIDER
    65 3 Machine With A Comfortable Saloon Moseo.v. A glider of novel design capable of •arrying 24 passengers has been conducted here, according to the Tass Agency. The machine has a comfortable saloon, well as cabins for the pilot, mechanic \nd wireless operator. One of the special feature of the
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    FIVE ECLIPSES
    116 3 Solar Observations For This Year Pasadena, California. THE sun this year win* present the greatest show of eclipses tor tn the past 130 years. The moon wi. pass between ihe sun and the earth h< fewer than frve times and >he mooi will be in the earth's shadow
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    JUMPED INTO GRAVE
    148 3 Turk's Grief Over Friend's Death Istanbul. Bay Bekir, a Turkish watchmaker jumped into his own grave. His greatest friend had died and Bekir attended the funeral at Sivas vith a score of other people. A minute after the coffin had been owered into the grave, and just
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    HIS PRIVATE FLAG DAY
    88 3 Four Years' Penal Servitude For Impostor Berlin. Kuno von Eigcn. a man of 20 previous onvictions has been sentenced to foui years' penal servitude for donning the uniform of a Storm Trooper and making unauthorised collections for charity Eigen made collections for the Nazi charity "Mother
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    EXPLOSION IN FLAT
    68 3 Caused By Cleaning A Watch With Petrol Prague. A workman of Darkov in Czechoslovak. Silesia, was cleaning his watch with petrol in the kitchen of his flat when a terrific explosion occurred Killing three women. Injuring two other persons, and Setting up a fire which completely destroyed
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    BURGLARS JOINED THE PARTY
    214 3 But Gun Under Bed Gives Them Away Brooklyn, New York. TWO burglars entered a Brooklyn house while a small bridge party was in progress. They started to divest the bridge p i a y,f rs of their jewellery when the shrill sound of a police car
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    SENTENCED BY DEFAULT
    97 3 Prisoner Who Escapes From Court Twice Paris. Clair Danet was arrested some time tgo for burglary. He escaped as he vas being taken to the examining nagistrate's room, so was sentenced to aye years' imprisonment—by default. Now he has reappeared in court to ap)eal against the judgment.
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      226 3 Colds are not a necessary evil Nobody can protect themselves day and night against infection, but it is easy to fortify your system against those germs to which you have faljen a victim again and again. People who used to suffer from colds regularly, now remain free from this troublesome
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    OLD RETAINER OF THE ELYSEE
    203 4 Retiring After 40 Years' Service Paris. ff. PAUL, the famous old retainer of the Elysee (the President's Palace), is about to retire after forty years' service, during which he bowed to nine Presidents, one Czar and numerous kings. Here are some of his reminiscences, drawn
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    WHIRLING DERVISHES
    117 4 Appeal To British Residency In Egypt For Aid Alexandria. The famous Whirling Dervishes of T gypt have appealed to the British Residency and the Egyptian Governments ave them from extinction. During the regime of the previous i Egyptian cabinet the Ministry of Wakrs j 'Religious Control) decided that
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    INVENTOR DISAPPOINTED
    107 4 Rocket Fired Off But Has Not Returned Duisburg, Rhineland. Has anyone seen a rocket which was fired off from a meadow bordering on the Rhine here on Wednesday last (Jan. 9) and has not been seen since? A young man of 18 spent all his savings on constructing
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    MONGOLS SUSPICIOUS
    194 4 Japanese Enticements Not Alluring Peiping, Jan. 29. MONGOL sources here to-day interpreted recent military activities along the Manchukuo border, both in the Sino-Japanese clash near Tushihkou and the clash between Mongol and Manchukuo forces at Lake Buir, as designed to induce Mongols to fall in line with Japanese
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    DEATH IN A BOUQUET
    115 4 Jealous Admirer Shoots Widow On Her Birthday Cologne. "Many Happy Returns!" said a 55--year-old man to the handsome widow who answered his ring on her door-beil. "How sweet of you!" replied the widow, as her admirer handed her a beautiful Jay bouquet of flowers. Suddenly a
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    20,000 PARSONS
    25 4 It is estimated that approximately 20.000 persons will have received pay cheques as the result of Paramount*-, Picture, "Lives of a Bengal Lancer."
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    A VARIED RECORD
    298 4 Wolseley Company's Great Enterprise IT II sometimes assumed that a motorcar manufacturer makes motor-cars and nothing else, or that, at any rate, he confines himself aflmost entirely to road transport productions. Actually, however, this is far from trine? the cas*>, as a glance at the historical side
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    TOOK THE WRONG CHILD
    145 4 Spezia, Italy. As a "great treat," Signer Renato Testini took his small son to the local cinema. Father was vastly thrilled by the film, lis son soon fell asleep. At the end of the picture, Signor Testini grasped the hand of the child text to him
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    "WONDER DOGS OF WEIMAR"
    335 4 Answer Questions By Professors THE achievements of four famous dog known as "the 1, Wonder-Dogs o f Weimar" have been studied by German university professors and the conclusions of these experts are the subject of an article by Dr. L. Kuhle in the medical section of
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    GREATEST COMEDIANS
    42 4 Two of the screen's greatest comedians ZaSu Pitts and W. C. Fields both have leading roles in Paramount's forthcoming production, "Mr. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch." Pauline Lord, a New York stage star will be seen in the title role.
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      45 4 mmmmaßfSlKSi' ft I kI makes Craven "A" the /-V EH easiest cigarette to e\- {SH —rrff&fe&C. liire^M^P^iJ^x^Mßi I tract from the packet. MB instantly accessible. ifffl Craven .Vsealed within j I the air-tight tin. render- y s O&fc dkW'* g| NO ANIMAL FATS IN PALMOLIVE
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      91 4 AT FOR TO-MORROW The day's work is half-done when the morning is well begun when youVe awakened fresh and started the day full of energy. Well, there is one unfailing recipe for these good mornings Bourn-vita at bed-time the night before! Bourn-vita has been proved, beyond all doubt, to be
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    TO-DAY'S MARKET POSITION
    156 5 Kl'BBER steadier AFTER SAGGING I'ncertainty Over Gold lause Decision Our Financial Corresjxmdent) Singapore. Wednesday, morning. io day's Trices ll ihlKT (Singapore), 21 cts., down Yg ct. Market Tone: Quiet. (Singapore), $113 1 i, down $V 8 N( lerciay's Prices: Minn: 6 5 16d., unchanged. Market Tone: Quiet.
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    NEW GUINEA GOLD
    53 5 Exploitation By Anglo-Dutch Combine Reuter Wireless. The Hague, Feb. 10. d the Dutch Indian Govgranted concessions to Anglo-Dutch mining com'o explore Dutch New Guinea Though a great part of the the new company will be in the Dutch will have the ..nd the seat- will b3 at
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    SINGAPORE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    62 5 DAILY PRICEB CURRENT. *or X M A. No. L X. Ribbed Smoked Sheas. spore, Wednesday, noon. Buyers. Sellers. °se) 21 2H B i t month 21 516 21 716 21% 2 l- s June 22 7 s 23 24U 24 1 4 25 U 25% Market:
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    Financial News & Views. LATEST SINGAPORE SHARE QUOTATIONS
    1307 5 Financial News Views. LATEST SINGAPORE SHARE QUOTATIONS MINING S ngapore. Wednesday, 10 a.m. Issue. VaJue Buyers. Bellers. 4 Ampat Tin 4 3 4-9 £1 Asam Kumbang Tin 34 35 6 El Austral Malay 611- 621--5 Ayer Hitam Tin 13 6 14 6 SI Ayer Weng 2.10 2.15 £1 Bangrin Tin
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    SHARE MARKET
    365 5 Messrs. Eraser And Co.'s I Weekly Review Singapore, To-day. MESSRS. Fraser and Co., in their weekly report, state:— With a small business passing, Kuchais have been placed round 90 cents. Mambaus 59 cents, Hitam Tins I fl cents and Ulu Piahs at .06 cents. Aver Panas at $1.80,
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    TIN CONTROL
    154 5 I Guard Against Foreign i Domination iFrom Our Own Correspondent) London, Jan. 30. TRONOH Mines, Southern Tronoh Tin Dredging and Ayer Hitam Tin Dredging companies have all three convened extraordinary meetings for the purpose of passing resolutions: (a) Limiting the right to vote at shareholders meetings to Britisn
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    THOS. COOK AND SONS
    219 5 Outstanding Features Of Strong Balance Sheet The balance-sheet made up to October 31 last of Thos. Cook and Son (Bankers*, Limited, shows, as usual a very strong position. Its outstanding fea ure is the highly liquid character of the assets, the liabilities on current and other
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    RUBBER POWDER TESTS
    133 5 (From Our Own Correspondent) London. Jan. 29. j The Rubber Powder Company, Ltd., of 20, Copthall-avenue, E.C.2. has successfully carried out a series of demonstrations in Amsterdam with the latest type of machine for the production qf rubber powder from liquid latex by the de Schepper process.
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    MORE CRITICISM OF TIN CONTROL
    431 5 Suicidal Policy Of High Price i ADDRESSING the annual general meeting of the Perak Branch of the F.M.S. Chamber of Commerce at Ipoh on Monday. Mr. J. L Hope, the chairman, iaid he was not in favour of the drastic control restriction has now become,
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    PEPPER SITUATION
    55 5 Reuter. London, Feb. 12. A meeting of firms interested in the pepper situation unanimously decided to proceed with the formation of a Pepper Sales Control Committee to look aftei proper marketing of stocks of whitepepper. A further meeting was fixed lor Feb. 14 to which foreign shippers and
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    PETROL PRICES
    158 5 Asiatic Petroleum Co. (S.S.), Ltd. Prices for Shell Motor Spirit and various brands of Kerosene are as follows: Shell Aviation Spirit in 4-gallon drums per British Imperial gallon $1.19 Shell Motor Spirit ex pump per British Imperial gallon $0.82 Shell Motor Spirit to 4-gallon drums per British Imperial
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      115 5 SOUTH 'BRITISH L-NSI RANCE COMPANY, LTD-, (Incorporated in New Zealand). FIRE, MARINE, MOTw AND WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION. L. C. MARGOLIOUTH. Manager. 'fFICE: 2, FINLAYSON GREEN. THE EASTERN BANK l/«TED (Incorporated in England). SINGAPORE BRANCH I 4, D'Almeida Street. m, tn, P( an( j Subscribed m Capital £2,000,000 P»id-up-Capital £1,000,000 *ee«rve Fund
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      28 5 THE EASTERN UNITED ASSURANCE CORPORATION, LTD. FIPS, MARINE, MOTOR CAR, PERSONAL ACCIDENT WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION W INSURANCE. HEAD OFFICP. 16D, Cecil 8U StaffM*" L G JOHNSON. Oe—«1 UUm if».
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      79 5 Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij, V< (NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY), Established in Amsterdam, 1824. HEAD OFFICE: AMSTERDAM. WITH BRANCHES IN ROTTERDAM AND THE HAGUE, BATAVTA. Branches throughout the Dutch East Indies and in the Strait* Settlements, India. China, Japan and Arabia. LONDON BANKERS: The National Provincial Bank, Limited. Correspondents in the principal Cities of
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      209 5 trlE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK LIMITED, MEYER CHAMBERS, RAFFLES PLACE. Capital Fully Paid Yen 10G.000.000 Reserve Fund Yen 124.250,000. HEAD OFFICE: YOKOHAMA. BRANCHES at Alexandria. Batavia, Berlin. Oairen. Fengtien, Hamburg. Hankow, Harbin. Honolulu, Hongkong, Hsinking. Karachi, Kobe, London. Los Angeles, Manila, Moji, Nagasaki, Nagoya, New York, Osaka, Paris, Peiping, Rangoon, Rio
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      132 5 Oversea-Chinese Banking* Corporation Ltd. (Incorporated in Straits Settlements SUCCESSORS TO THE CHINESE COMMERCIAL BANk Ltd THE HO HON'2 BANK. Ltd AND THE OVERSEA-CHINESE B\NK, Ltd CAPITAL Authorised $40,000,000.00. Paid Up »10.000 000 00 HEAD OFFICE: CHINA BUILDING. CHILI* STRFFT SlKTapobb LOCAL BRANCH; 458. NORTH BRIDGE ROAD BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Chee
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      530 6 M. HASSAN, N A 37, BRAS BASAH ROAD, SINGAPORE. •vc undertake all sorts of work vi electrical, gas and water service line. We give prompt attention to all orders either big or small. Why not consult us about your requirements Estimate submitted upon request without charge or obligation THONE 3411.
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      534 6 il FAR EASTERN MUSIC fj school. Established 1928. A Government Registered School). (For Boys and Girls). 1-A. Kirk Terrace, Dhoby Ghaut, Singapore. Enrol for a Sound Musical Education -Systematic Training both in Techni ,me and Theory. Complete wading to T.C.L. Certificate, Diploma etc. Booklet free M ANCIANO. Prtncioal MERCANTILE INSTITUTE,
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      707 6 H. V. SHARMA COMPANY. NOTICE. The Fowci oi Attorney given to Mr. V. P. Kanagasundram P llai of No. 17, Robinson Road. Singapore, to act on behalf of the above Company and of Harikrishna Vanmalidass Badheka has been cancelled as from this date. Dated 12th Febru.-uv, 1935. (Sd.) H. V.
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      541 6 I WHAT OFFER? For Sale, as a going concern, a fully established business, comprising Ladies' Millinery, Dressmaking, Children's Clothing, Singers Sewing and Hemstitching Machines. Shop Fittings, Lights, etc. Owner leaving the Colony. A good opportunity for anyone desiring a business, situ- ated in a good business centre of Singapore. Replies
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      496 6 TIN ORE BAGS J (IN STOCK) I g made of rj H Best Quality Canvas S I Size 13'/o" x 2V/ Z g Price 35 cents each. I HYE SENG CO, j I Ship-Chandlers, Sail-Makers. 535 36, Chulia St., Thone 4817 THE ORIENTAL OPTICIAN IN SINGAPORE WHO HAS OVER TEN
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      276 6 mTHE SWATCH LATEST 1935 MODELS on view at YICK WOII HING 429, NORTH BRIDGE ROAD. (Near Middle Road). mjj i.m.l > ~'Hr~*»»- Ma I 5 Blades for 10 Cents j Kazor with I Blade 30 Cents Obtainable everywhere. i Agents: SCHIFFNER CO.. J 1 6, North Bridge Rd.. C srwaTtBTaTBTCBa-HBT&.--._MV.
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    DRIVEN BY HUNGER
    97 7 Rodents Invade Arctic Outpost Moscow. A wireless S.O.S. from the small Arctic outpost of Mare Sale on the Yamal Peninsula in the Karsky sea reports that thousands of lemmings (small rodents) are invading the Peninsula In immense droves and are threatening the outpost's winter food supplier Wooden
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    BERLIN, SHORT-WAVE STATION
    202 7 Wireless Programme For To-Day THE wireless programme for to-day as announced by the German Shortwave Station, Berlin, Broadcasting House, is as follows:— 4.05 p.m.: DJB, DJN Announcement (Germ., Engl). German Folk Song. Programme Forecast (Germ.. EngU. 4.20 p.m.: Light Music. 435 p.m.: Topical Talk. 4.50 pm.: News
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    F.M.S. GAZETTE
    358 7 The Latest List Of Appointments 'From Our Own Reporter, Kuala Lumpur, Monday. THE following list of appo ntments is published in th? Gazette: Mr. R. Bovd. offloer of Class 11. M.C.S.. to be Director of Co-operation F.M.S. and S.S.. Class LA. M.C.S. Mr. William Hool to be Charge
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    CORONER'S INQUIRY
    85 7 Warrant Issued For Man's Arrest Singapore, Tuesday. The Coroner, Mr. W. G. Porter instructed that a warrant be issued for the arrest, of a Chinese named Ng Lui. at the conclusion of an inquiry to-day, into the death of a 50-year-old Hokkien, who died at the General Hospital
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    F.M.S. BAR COMMITTEE
    47 7 (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Monday. The following have been elected to form the Bar Committee of the F.M.S.: Kuala Lumnur: Mr. Paul Storr. and Mr. Yong Shock Lin. Ipoh: Mr. H. Huntsman, Mr. J H. B. Will and Mr. K. M. Coomarasamy.
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    In And Out Of Kuala Lumvur Town
    629 7 Quite A Lively Place These Days (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Monday. KUALA LUMPUR is certainly getting more and more lively these days. With the Chinese New Year festivities iow on, the town has suddenly appeared -o stage a great amusement revival,
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    F.M.S. VOLUNTEERS
    85 7 (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Monday. Second Lieut. F. I. Hamilton Moore, Malayan Volunteer Infantry, has been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. A commission as S'cond Lieut, in the Malay States Volunteer Regiment has been granted to Mr. G. D. MacDonald. Lieut. D. M. McDiarnrd, M.V.I,
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    MISSING BICYCLE
    77 7 Singapore, Tuesday. Charged with theft of a bicycle valued at $10.20, and dishonestly retaining the cycle knowing at the time that it was stolen, a Chinese named Yong Soo claimed trial on both chaiges when he was produced before Mr. Oakley, tne Third Magistrate, this morning. The accused
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      295 7 FOR THAT "TOO FULL" FEELING AFTER MEALS. [f you arc troubled with 'gas,' eructation, digestive difficulty, or are constipal d, liverish, sick headachy; have a coated v pleasant breath; try Pinkettes. be dfl gh.vd with the speedy help Laxative perfection, mild yet t, ("hem;sts everywhere sell THE GENTLE UTTIC J
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      555 7 Wireless TO-DAY'S EMPIRE PROGRAMME Music By British Composers TO-DAY'S Empire Wireless programme is as follows: Orch?s?ra P m The BaMA 7.05 p.m.: Nightmare Series. A Story by Marjone Bowen, told by the Author Greenwich Time Signal at 7.20 p.m. /.20 p.m.: Quentin Maclean, at the Organ of the Trocadero Cinema,
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    MR. AND MRS. BEGG IN COURT
    392 8 Dancer In The Witness Box Singapore, Tuesday. IIJHEN the hearing of the case in if which Mrs. N- C. is charging Miss Nna Gonzales and three other women with assaulting her on the night of Dec. 17, was resumed in the Fourth Police Court
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    POLICE BAND
    77 8 The Band of the S.S. Police, under the direction of Mr. F. EL Minns, wilf play tne; following programme, weather bermitttng at Tek* Ayer to-day, comme, cmg atO p.m. 1. March Medley Passing Ol the Regiments, Winter; 2. Overture P f ea^ ant Suppe; 3. Selection', The Belle
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    "WHEN THE SWORD IS LOST..."
    161 8 Germany's Specific For Maintaining Peace Reuter Wireless. Dresden, Feb. 9. i THE view that a re-armed Germany is I the best guarantee for peace in Eu- j rcpe was expressed by General Goer- i ing in a speech made during his official visit. He said
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    EX-AUSTRIAN MINISTER
    91 8 Dr. Rintelen To Be Tried For High Treason Reuter Wireless. Vienna, Feb. 9. Dr. Anton Rintelen, former Austrian Minister to Rome, who was proclaimed Chancellor by the Nazis during the abortive putsch in which Dr Dollfiiss was murdered, will be tried for High Treason by a military court
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    MUSICAL SOCIETY ORCHESTRA
    66 8 Orchestral members of the Singapore Musical Society are asked to note that the usual Monday rehearsal for next week has been postponed to Wednesday, the 20th inst., as the theatre will be in use for a performance on Monday. Rehearsal will commence at 5.30 p.m. and members
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    652 8 JUST WHAT YOU WANT TO KNOW TO-DAY'S SHIPPING DESTROYERS ARRIVE I I Concentration Of Warships In Singapore The destroyers HM.S. Mcdwav "Umi H.M.S. Bruce, together with nine submarines, arrived in Singapore this morning from Hongkong. The nine submarines are the Perseus, Parthian. Oswald, Rair.bow, Olympus, Osiris, Pandora, Protens and Phoenis.
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    MONEY MARKET
    196 8 SELLING Singapore, Feb. 13. London 4 months' sight 24 7,32 London 3 months' sight 2 4 3,1* London 60 days' sight 2 4 London 30 days' sight London demand JJJ London T.T. »?n Lyons and Paris demand 860 Hamburg demand J*" New York demand w> /J Batavia and
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    STERLING EXCHANGE
    87 8 Rio 4*4 sellers Paris 74 7 16. New York 4.88 3 16. Montreal 4.88 1 2 Brussels 29.99. Geneva 15.13. Amsterdam 7.24. Milan 57%. Berlin 12.20. Madrid 35 13 16. Stockholm 19.40. Copenhagen 22.39V 2 Oslo 19.90V2. Vienna 26>4. Prague 117%. Helsingfors 226>/ 2 official Athens 515. .Bucharest
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    PRODUCE
    218 8 j Singapore, Feb. 13. R (Siam) W. Coast N. 1 per Koyan $122 R (Siam* W Coast N. 2 per Koyan $120 R. *Siam> W. Coast N. 3 per Koyan $119 Ricp. B. Siam N. 1 per Koyan $123 Rice, B. Siam N. 2 per Koyan $120 Rice, Siam,
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    DIARY OF THE DAY WHAT'S ON?
    183 8 Public Functions Ar.fi Sports Fixtures TO-DAY, ?EB. 13 High Tides.—5.38 a.m., 9.05 p.m. Golf: Keppel Club, Women's Co. e Meeting; Garrison Club, \v y Monthly Medal (Bogey). Basketball: Shanghai Tunj School v. Nanyang Girls' Hi;..-a New Worid, 9 p.m. TO-MORROW, FEB. K High Tides.—7.07
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    AMUSEMENTS
    69 8 ALHAMBRA.—"Flirtation v APOLLO. —Chinese picturi CAPITOL .—"Bird Of Paradise EMPIRE.—-Myri ana Mai Tell the World." GREAT WORLD.—Cabare. Dancing, Side-shows, Dean's G r and Opera, Chinese Wayangs, Cinemas, Talkies, etc. MARLBOROUGH. Hil "Vina-Veli." NEW ft r OßLD. —Cabaret Dascmg; Side-shov>s, Maiay Opera Cl yangs, Cinemas. Talkies etr PAVILION.—"LittIe M RITZ.—EImo
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    "LOCUST AIRMAIL"
    70 8 Durban. Natal The locust airmail has arrived. Mr. C. J. Smith, of Pinetown has just caught a locust to whi tied with cotton a tiny scrap It bore Christmas greetings Kictrey, P. P. Burg/ "P. P. Burg" stands for P burg, which Is 200 miles from Dv the
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      73 8 DAILY WEATHER REPORT Malayan Meteorological Service Yesterday. LastiNtßnt Max. Bright Mia. Temp. Rainfall. Sunshine. Teratv Mauons. Deg. F. Inches. Hours. Deg. F. A lor Star 93 Nil 10.4 71 Sitiawan 93 Nil 9.5 7! Kota Bharu 85 0.50 3.8 IT: Bukit Jeram 11 0.10 10.9 71 Malacca 94 Nil 9.2
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      645 8 [POSTAL INTUUCtjja SINGAPORE MAILS CLOSE TO-DAY Trengganu (Kretay only) (Prachatipok) 2 p.m. Trengganu (except Kretay) (Tung Sjng) 2 p.m. Muntok, Palembang and Pladjoc (Thedens) 3 p.m. Pangkal Pinang (Thedens) 3 p.m. Pontianak (Khoen Hoea/ 3 p.m. Djambi and Kocala Tongkal (Tohiti) 3 p.m. Soengei Liat (Magnet) 4 p.m. Indo-China (Cap
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      137 8 Da vies, M.A. (of the Y.W.C.A.) will be the speaker. Silver Star Minstrels: Invitation of Mr. George Wan. 19. Kebun Stangee. Assemble, Mr. Tan's residence, 18, Lorong 24A, Geylang, before 7.30 p.m. Fancy dress. Free transport. SATURDAY, FEB. 1G Siew Sin Sia: General meeting, Mr. Gwee Ah Sye's residence, 139,
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    TROOPS MUTINY IN MANCHUKUO
    203 9 Japanese Planes Bomb Railway Sin Chew Jit Poh. Shanghai, Feb. 12. rRTIAL law has been declared along the Mukden-Sh'anhaikwan Railway owing to the activities of Chinese Volunteers and the mutiny of Manchukuo troops. Over 100 Volunteers appeared in the vicinity of Suiching on Sunday night I
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    REV. J. M. HOOVER.
    112 9 Death Of Member 01 Methodist Mission Singapore, Tuesday. NEWS reached Singapore to-day of the death of the Rev. J. M. Hoover, of the Malayan Methodist Mission, at Sibu, Eritish North Borneo. Mr. Hoover, who was G3 years of age, had been in charge of the mission's
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    TRIBAL WAR AVERTED
    167 9 Detective-Sergeant Calls Upon Headmen At Night Ladysmitli, Natal. The tribal feud between the Mabasos and the Mangwenis, which has been smouldering for some months, has flared up again, and a tribal war has only been averted by the presence of mind of a detective. A Mangweni warrior
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    TAXI DRIVER FINED
    105 9 Alleged False Report To Police Singapore. Tuesday. A taxi driver named Mhd. Asiz was sentenced to a fine Of $100 or in default six weeks' rigorous imprisonment by the Second Magistrate, Mr. N. Gnce. today, on being convicted on a charge of giving false information to the
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    LYNCHINGS IN U.S.A.
    146 9 Last Year's Victims Were All Negroes Tuskegee, Alabama. THERE were 15 lynchings in the United States during 1934, a decline of 13 on the 1933 figures, according to figures published here by the Tuskegee Institute, a college for negroes. "Eight of the persons lynched were in the
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    BUS DRIVER FINED
    243 9 Sequel To Collision In South Bridge Road Singapore, Tuesday. In the fourth Magistrate's Court before Mr. Whitton this afternoon Teo Ah Leng was charged with rash and negligent driving of his motor-bus 5.485 along South Bridge Road on the liith Dec. last and thus conidTng into a
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    AN EARTHQUAKE A DAY
    87 9 Oil-Drillers' Optimistic Interpretation Unlly, Saskatchewan. For at least two years an earth tremor has occurred every morning tn a distric* ten miles west of here with such regularity that pepple set their clocks by The 'quake begins at 3.45 a.m. precisely ana is followed by rumblings
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    SHIP'S ENGINEER
    45 9 Death While Vessel Is In Harbour (From Our Oicn Correspondent) Penang, Thursday. Mr. Robert MacClean, aged 45, Chief Engineer on the B. I Sirdhana, passed away last night on board ship while the vessel was in harbour. The funeral takes place this evening.
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    USED CRIMINAL FORCE
    67 9 Singapore. Tuesday. Alleged to have used criminal force on Corporal Vine, of the Air Base a Mohammedan overseer, also employed at the Base, appeared before the Second Magistrate. Mr. N. Grice, to-day. The trouble arose over the accused wanting to admit two friends to the Base. His
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    MORE BULLYING
    645 12 jDEFORE the Great War there was a good deal of talk about the balance of power in Europe. There is still some argument about it but it is fast giving place to dis cussion of the balance of power in the Far Ea-t. In this neV balance of
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    MR. N. L. LINBON
    175 12 Malacca Chief Police Officer Retiring 'From Our Owji Correspondent; Malacca, Feb. 11. Mr. N. L. Lindon. Chief Police Officer. Malacca, who is shortly retiring, was rntertained to lunch by the members of the Malacca Police Co-operative Society. In the afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Lindon were entertained
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    DE BEERS DIAMONDS
    121 12 Washing Operations To Be Resumed Reuter Wireless. K mberl'y, Feb. 11. Th° 'own is overioyed at the surpns2 announcement by the Chairman of Dcbeors Consolidated Mines that diamond washing operations which were susoended three years ago in consequence cf the d cressed state of the wo..'i diamond
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    FLOWER SHOW
    58 12 To Be Opened By The Governor On Mar. 29 The dates of the Singapore Flower Show have been changed to March 29, 30 and 31, instead of April 5, 6 and 7, as originally arranged. It will be under the patronage of H. E. the Governor and will
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    DR. A. L. HOOPS
    83 12 (From Our Oion Correspondent) Malacca, Feb. 12. At the luncheon of the Malacca Rotary Club to-day, the members said good-bye to Dr. A. L. Hoops, C.3.E., who is shortly going on leave. Speeches were made by Mr. Tan Cheng Lock, C.8.E., the chairman, Dr. Tan Seng
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    66 12 The Hon. Mr. G. Sturrock, Director of Public Works, S S., returned from Penang by the Kedah from Penang yesterday. The death of Mr. A. J. T. Allison occurred in Hongkong on Feb. 3 at the age of 55. Mr. Allison was an engineer with he firm of John T.
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    Notes and Comments Biblical Quotations
    229 12 CEYLON'S State Councillors, however efficient they may be in quoting Hansard, rsvealed at a recent meeting that Bible reading does not come «ithin the compass of their research. One member is reported to have got rather involved in referring to Jacob's voice and Esau's hands
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    Brighter Police Courts
    189 12 PENANG may not be in the limelight days, but the Pol-ce Magistrate in the Northern Settlement certainly seems to be getting his share of it. The other day he told man who came before him that his .air was too long and ordered, or rather advised him,
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    Two Trade Fairs?
    141 12 A CORRESPONDENT makes the i gestion that in connection the celebrations of His Majesty's Silver Jubilee S ngapcre might very well hold two British Trade Fairs—the one at the Great World already arranged for and another at the New World. In the ordinary way it might be
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    A Dumping Problem
    111 12 IN Malaya there serjns to be a mark t for the most dilapidated of motorcars, but in the United Stat:s the problem of the old car which no die will vake as a Rft lias become a serious on.. Cne way out of the difficulty is tj
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    Topics Of The Dey
    266 12 By "Looker-On" READING some copy sent to us from London, I was astounded to come across the heading "Giraffe-Necked Women of Penang." I read on, and there it was again--•The two giraffe-necked women of Penang were an interesting feature of a clinical met ting held at
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    36 12 j FINANCIAL NEWS, 3. CLUF. DIARY, 6. WIRELESS PROGRAMMES, 7. SAWMILL TRADERS' PETITION TO GOVERNOR I* EARL OF ROSSLYN INTERVIEWED. ISPERAK STATE COUNCIL, 14. SPORTS NEWS, 16 and 17. TRADE WITH INDIA. 23.
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    Giant Airship In Distress Over Pacific S.O.S. WIRELESS MESSAGE
    287 13 WE ARE COMING DOWN Naval Dirigible Mster-Ship Of Ill-Fated Akron San Francisco, Feb. 13. THE airship Macon has sent out an S.O.S., stating that she is falling 110 miles vouth of San Francisco.— Reuter. ILL-FATED AIRSHIPS rr;-; Macon is the huge
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    NEW SINGAPORE FLYING BOATS
    134 13 Trip To Ceylon And Back iManned I FTER the R. A. F. Flying Boat Squar No 205 is re-equipped in March. Singapore III's in the place of w (Obsolete Southamptons, a fligh: if Indian Ocean from Singapore .0 Ceylon, has been planned. I: not likely to
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    IRISH SWEEP CASE
    70 13 Reuter Wireless. London, Feb. 11. It is believed the first fine of its kind was inflicted at Wimbledon Police Court to-day on David Holton, a stock lerk. charged with having three books of Irish sweepstake tickets in his pos- s.sion for the purpose of sale or distribution.
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    AIRSHIP SERVICE
    59 13 Reuter Wireless. Berlin, Feb. 9. An agreement fcr operation by a Ger- Spanish company of a regular airline from South America with landi.tces at Friedrichshaven, Barcelona, and Seville, ha;? been concluded between the German and Spanish Governments. The company's capital will be raised in equal proportions by the
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    DEBATE ON INDIA BILL
    434 13 Question Of Dominion Status Reuter. London, Feb. 12. THE question of Dominion Statu; infused spec'a 1 animation in'o th Closing stages of the India Bill debate which maintained a high quality of nterest up to the last moment. Sir Thomas Inskip, replying to several ha'lenges, i
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    MR. ATTAMAR BEN-AVI.
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    UNREST IN AUSTRIA
    102 13 Battle Between Police And Communists Reuter. Vienna, Feb. 12. APART from a revolver batt'e between Pclics and Communists, in which a Communist was killed and a detective seriou ly injured, and many arrests made, the day was comparatively Quie. chiefly owing to the precautions of the authorities,
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    ARAB AND JEW IN PALESTINE
    1029 13 Political Problems QUARREL NEARLY SETTLED Singapore, Tuesday. Y'HE quarrel between the Arabs and the Jews in Palestine, which has been one of the main political problems in the Near East, is nearing an amicable settlement. This statement was made to the Malaya Tribune to-day by
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    KIDNAPPING TRIAL SENSATION
    278 13 Outburst In Court MINISTER'S STARTLING STATEMENT Reuter Wireless. Flemington, Feb. 12. A SENSATION was caused at th.? end of Mr. Wilentz's address when a Congregational Minister rose in the body of the court and shouted: "A man, not Hauptmann, confessed to the kidnapping to me in mv
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    KING'S JUBILEE
    233 13 His Majesty To Broadcast Empire Message London, Feb. 11. The King has arranged to broadcast a message to the Empire m thi evening of May 6 which is the principal day in the celebration of the Jubilee though the official programme continues until June 20. when the King
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    OLD MASTERS STOLEN
    80 13 Thieves Raid Stockbroker's Home i Reuter Wireless. London, Feb. 9. Many thousands of pounds worth of paintings, tapestries, porcelain and silver have been stolen from the Scottish mansion of Mr. J. E. Holm 1 a wealthy stockbroker, near Paisley. Valuable old masters were cut ruthlessly from their
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    HEAD-ON COLLISION
    53 13 Reuter Wireless. Moscow, Feb. 9. Eighteen people were killed and nine injured in a train disaster at Saratov, 450 miles south-east of Moscow, a passenger train colliding head-on with a freighter in the local station. Both engines and several carriages were smashed. The station-master stands charged with criminal
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    BRITISH TROOPS IN SHANGHAI
    183 13 Inferior Accommodation Alleged Reuter. London, Feb. 12. |N the House of Commons, Mr. David Reici. Conservative M.P. for Down, requested immediate steps to secure that the Inni-killing Fusiliers now quartered in inferior hutments in Shanghai be provided with accommodation equal to the brick and stone structures
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    NOT TO BE CAUGHT NAPPING
    751 13 Italy's Mobilisation ISSSUE OF ULTIMATUM DENIED Reuter Wireless. Rome, Feb. 12. ITALIAN circles say that there were three or four frontier incidents besides those at Ualual and Afdub. The Italians have not advanced beyond Ualual and Afdub, which they have held for the past five
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    Sultan Attains His Life's Desire PERAK STATE COUNCIL
    489 14 Dindings Cession HILL PASSES ALL STAGES (From .Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Kangsar, Tuesday. OX a certificate of emergency the Perak State Council yesterday passed the Dindings Cession Bill through ail its stages. 1 lie Sultan was congratulated by tiie unofficial members on
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    MALAYS AS AIR PILOTS
    95 14 Statement In Perak State Council <From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Kangsar. Tuesday. SPEAKING on the adjournment at tha meeting of Perak State Council yesterday. Mr. T. R. A. Windeatt referred to the probability of facilities being made available, with the assistance of Government, for the training
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    THE CINEMAS
    108 14 "Massacre" At The Roxy Richard Barthelmess' newest picture for First National, "Massacre." opened at the Roxy Theatre last night. Barthelniesi' has the role of a Sioux j brave who has been educated at Has- kell. Called back suddenly to his reservation. his eyes are opened to the pitiful
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    MARTYRED ENGLISHMEN
    129 14 Canonisation Ceremony At Vatican Reuter Wireless. Vatican City. Feb. 10. In the presence of the British Ambassador, and the British Minister to the Holy Se,e, their wives. Sir Horace and Lady Rumbold. and many members or' the British and American colonies in Rome. His Holiness the Pope this
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    AMBULANCE CALLS.
    124 14 At 4 p.m. yesterday an Indian cyclist fell off his cycle while proceeding along Yeo Choo Kang Road. He sustained a compound fracture of the lei: arm and was removed to Tan Tock Seng Hospital by ambulance. There were three cases of assault yesterday. The first was a
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    BANDITS ACTIVE
    266 14 Dolonor City In Panic Sin Chew Jit Poh. Shanghai, Feb. 13. THS Manchukuo troops who revolted in Chinchow belonged to General Yu Tse Shan's division. They are now massed along the Liaoning-Jehcl border. A brigade of Japanese troops has reinforced Chinchow in readiness for another possible attack by
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    EMERGENCY AERODROME
    134 14 Work To Begin On Bathurst Island Darwin. Feb. 4. Work will begin shortly on the new emergency landing ground, which will be constructed at Cane Fourcroy, on 'he south-eastern extremity of Bathurst Island. The landing ground is on the, direct air mail route between Darwin and Koepang The
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    CHARLES LAUGHTON
    16 14 Charles Laughton's new Paramount picture. "Ruggles of Red Gap" is now well into production.
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    OVERSEAS CHINESE
    300 14 Numbers Who Return To Homeland j Sin Chew Jit Poh. Nanking. Feb. 13. ACCORDING to investigations by the Overseas Society the number of w~7lned overseas Chinese for the months of January to November last year 358.400. The number of those who left China for abroad was 143,700. A
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    STOLEN "BABY" AUSTIN
    106 14 Driver Recognises His Car On Geylang Uoatl Singapore. Wednesday. A Baby* Austin car owned by a Chinese, which had been missing since Monday, has been recovered in rather unusual cireumsi ance*. Whilst the driver was walking along Geylang Road yesti rday afternoon he recognised the missing car
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    $100,000 JEWELLERY
    22 14 Claudettc Colber will wear jewellery to ihe value ci almost 100.000 dollars in her next picture. Faramoun'-'s "The Gilded Lily."
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    PRINTER CHARGED
    149 14 Alleged Thefts Of Office Valuables Singapore. Wednesday. LEE Ah Ho, a Chinese printear employed at the Warta Malaya Press, was this morning produced before Mr. Oakley, the Third Magistrate, on threa charge.s of theft. In the first instance he was charged with theft of eight brass water taps
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    UNEMPLOYMENT AT HOME
    69 14 Reuter Wireless. London, Feb. 11. Unemployment) in Britain increased by 240 000 between Dec. 17 and Jan 28 and now totals 2.325.000. The rise, which normally occurs at this time of the year. was accentuated dv the soell of unfavourable weather In addition to the seasonal dror
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    THIEF'S DARING
    92 14 Woman Robbed White Waiting For Bus Singapore, Wednesday. A DARING daylight robbery occurred on Changi Road, near the 6th mile, yesterday afternoon. Shortly before 2 o'clock a Chinese woman was waiting for a bus when she was accosted by a Malay man who, after threatening her with injury,
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    GOVERNMENT AND UNEMPLOYED
    567 14 Need For Action ANNUAL REPORT E.S.A.M. "IT would appear that the tim< 1 now arrived when Gov< should take a more active looking after ihe unemp] >y<. might say almost unemployable who are permanently domu Malaya, and whose future out prospects, it it were not for the
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    Kallang Basin Closure Opposed SAWMILL TRADERS' PETITION
    1136 15 \erodrome Scheme LOSS OF NATURAL HAKBOUR a PETITION is being prepared by A the sawmill owners, timber merants, tongkang and junk owners id those in the allied trades in urapore, for submission to H.E. e Governor with regard to the ,vernmentV proposal to
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    AIR CONVENTION
    38 15 Italy To Participate Under Certain Conditions Reuter Wireless. Rome. Feb. 9. An official communique is being issued to-day containing si formal assurance that Italy will participate in the proposed air convention under certain conditions. —Reuter Wireless.
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    WITH ALL HANDS
    112 15 British Trawler Feared Lost Reuter Wireless. Reykjavik. Feb. 9. GRAVE fears are felt for the crew ot fourteen of the Grimsby trawler Langanes aground off Slettanes, on the north coast ol Iceland, near Dyrafjoerd which sent out an S.O.S. last night. Another British trawler believed to be
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    THE SHIMMY'
    40 15 Had she chosen. Mac West could have changed her career from acting to dancing, after putting on the first "Shimmy" dance in history. Mac will offer a slow version of the Shimmy in Paramount's 'Belle of the Nineties"
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    POLITICAL CRISIS IN BRITAIN
    637 15 Election Prospects EARL'S TRIBUTE TO MALAYA Singapore, Tuesday. J THINK Mr. Lloyd George is the greatest theatrical humbug 1 have ever known. This was the assertion of the Ear of Rosslyn, made to a Malaya Tribune representative to-day in the course of an exclusive interview. The
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    GAMBLING IN K.L.
    148 15 Four Young Chinese Women Convicted (From Our Own''Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday. Smiling broadly as they entered the dock, four young Chinese women and two men were charged this morning in the First Police Court with gambling, to which they pleaded guilty. Detective-Inspector Leong Boon Swee, outlining the
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    Three Penang Boxers To Appear At The New World Exceptionally Strong Card For Friday
    288 17 Murota And Abayan Finish Their Training (By "X.0." Singapore, Wednesday. THE three Penang featherweights, Jayaraj, Damaraj and Sylver who figure in Mr. Bell's proon Friday, are expected to rri> i this afternoon. main event itself, between
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    HONOURS EVEN
    406 17 I ninspiring Play On Paciang Singapore. Tuesday. A SOCCER match, which however, d:d < icduce spectacular football at was witnessed on the S.R.C. ::ici this evening, when the two I Clubs' .second elevens played to a wo-all draw. the very first trial this season teams of both the
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    S.C.R.C. CRICKET
    33 17 mbers arc kindly reminded that the will be having its first cricket tice to-day (Wednesday, Feb. 13). iii enthusia&ta are invited and ii 1 '->! there will be a good turn out.
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    GAME OF MISSED OPPORTUNITIES
    884 17 Soccer Friendly CHINESE AND WILTS IN GOALLESS DRAW Shave gathering and clearing well. The Wilts were on the defensive, the Chinese doing most of the attacking at this period and Shave did some good work between the uprights. CHINESE OVER-EAGER The Chinese were over-eager In front
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    CHARTERED BANK R.C.
    138 17 Enjoyable Dinner Last Saturday THE Chartered Bank (Local Staff) Recreation Club held its Annual Dinner at No. 545-A, Serangoon Road, on Saturday night, Feb. 9. The dinner was a great success anu ihe members and guests present, numbering over a hundred, thoroughly enjoyed themselves. The hon. secretary,
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    A REAL "HAT TRICK"
    136 17 Sydney, N.S.W., Jan. 29. A "hat-trick" was performed during a county cricket match between Riverview and Newtown. The ball that gave S. McKellar. of Riverview, his third successive wicket was hit by the batsman into a fieldsman's hat, and was caught by another member of the
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    PROFESSIONAL TENNIS TOURNEY
    164 17 Title Championship This Year FOLLOWING the international tennis professional championships held at Wembley, the authorities there have decided to put on another professional tournament some time in 1935. and hop? t<o have it recognised as a world's title event. The International Professional Tennis Players' Association will make
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    MAX BAER
    30 17 Max Baer. world's heavyweie,h -hampion. requested that he not be asked to portray the role of a professional fighter in his first Paramount picture. "Kids on the Cuff."
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    ENJOYED WATCHING A FIGHT
    762 18 K. L. Indian Gets Hurt Himself i I (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Monday. HOW an Indian, who, according to his own words, was "enjoying the fun" of a fight in front of his house and was himself struck on the head with a sDanner,
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    UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF
    37 18 Reuter Wireless. London, Feb. 9. Government's unemployment relief adjustments will cost the Exchequer nearly £5,000,000 annually. This is revealed in the text of a new Bill issued to-day accompanied by a financial memorandum. —Reuter Wireless,
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    GUNMEN FIRE INTO THE AIR
    292 18 Guests Lined Up And Searched (By Air Mail). Cork, Jan. 30. "PTICK up your hands!" Guests at a lj mas Hiic di.iner here last* night froze in their chairs. They wer? covered by a dozen revolvers carried by unmasked raiders. Except for that curt command
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    SOVIET FILM INDUSTRY
    111 18 "Movie" Festival To Celebrate 15th Anniversary Moscow. Moscow is planning a World Moving Picture Festival for 1935. ;o celebrate the 15th anniversary of the formation of the Soviet film industry. Apart from the official film organisations of the U.S.S R.. representatives of the most important film companies
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    SELANGOR HOSPITALS
    266 18 (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur. Monday. The following committees have been appointed to v.sit the hospitals in Selangor during 1935: BUNGSAR AND GENERAL HOSPITALS. X.L The Tengku Laksamana, the Chi:f Kathj. Rev. W. Buckingham Mr. A. H. Flowcrde.w, Rev. J. G. Hall, Mr. Khan Ah Chong, Mr.
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    HEAD OF TELEGRAPH COMPANY RETIRES
    486 19 >ir. Baker's Long Service W ith Cable Co. ..ving served in various capam the scrvice of the Eastern >legraph Company, aur- i 37 years, Mr. W. G. Baker. Divisional Manager at Sing•urs from the service of the a and will sail for t ompanied by
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    BRITISH CELANESE
    84 19 Appeal In Patents Dispute Reuter Wireless. London, Feb. 11. delivered to-day, the I massing the appeal of ";ainst the decislbn of i appeal in favour of Courta..ang judgment in the f'tay Court. i occupied 35 days in the 17 days in the Court of i:t clays in the
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    WORKED AS A CLERK
    15 19 Paramount comedian "College Rhythm," i in broker's office be- ring pictures.
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    DOUGLAS MACLEAN
    20 19 M arLean one of the greatest nt screen stars, is now working at ramount Studios as a director.
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    RUBBER COUPON CASE
    452 20 Pahang Clerk's Appeal Upheld 'From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lipis, Feb. 11. THE Supreme Court. Kuala Lipis, was crowded to its utmost capacity when the criminal appeal of one Manickam Vairamuttu was argued today and concluded successfully in favour of the accused who appealed against the conviction
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    U.S. GOLD CLAUSE
    113 20 Court Adjourns Without Decision Reuter Wireless. Washington, Feb.. 12. The Supreme Court adjournea without giving a decision in the Gold Clause. Reuter. TWO-HOUR CONFERENCE Washington, Feb. 9. While nine Supreme Court Justices were holding the usual closed Saturday session in the Capitol, President Roosevelt and the Attorney-General,
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    CEYLON EPIDEMIC FUND
    123 20 We have received a money order for $10 for the CeylOn Epidemic Fund from subscribers In Gemas. and have forwarded tiif money to thy Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. The following is the full list of the subscribers: A. Ponnudurai. Station Master Gemas, $5; T. Krishnwer. Hospital
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    MALAYAN RUBBER STATISTICS
    195 20 Foreign imports of rubber during the month of January. 1935. In dry tons. WET RUBBER DRY RJBBER dry weight) Country of Origin Smoked Dry Unsmoked Estate Remill Crepes Blanket Crepes. Native Wet Scrap. Lump Total Sheet Sheet Crepes Bark and Scrap Crepes Sheet and Bark (All grades)
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    Selangor Colts Hockey Team
    81 21 or Colts hockey team, who drew with the Singapore Colts on th Clanger c.R.C. ground recently. Views of the part v eiven by the Sh a Imami Ismaili Kho ia Community of Singapore, in honou rof the celebration of the birthday of H.H. the Right Hon.
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    DESPERATE CHARACTER
    139 21 "Jtrco'ona's Public Enemy No. 1 Arrested In Cafe Barcelona. Public Enemy Number M'lnc-'eH, a despe. ate chais known to have particimany of the important hold- i -ior fcem captured at last, v.u. recognised by a policeman was entering a cafe, known as J ho General's Bar," to take
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    NO PARKING AT BENDS
    115 21 Where A Motorist Must Not Mend His Tyre Paris. You must not mend a puncture at a bend in the road. This is the latest edict of the French courts. •jlhe case has attracted some attention. M Eecci, a Paris moorist, was mending a punctured tyre
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    TRIP TO ALASKA
    29 21 Carole Lombard and Gary Cooper will journey all the way to Alaska, the lartherest location trip for many years, to make scenes for I-aramounl's forthcoming "Renegades."
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    DRUNKEN MAN'S ACT
    109 21 Takes Off His Clothes To Pay His Tram Fare Tokyo. Pressed to nay his tram fare of 7 sen M), which he said he had not got, an obviously drunken Japanese proceeded to i>* off his clothes. "Here." he said Tb the conductor, 'take these for my
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    VAST RESEARCH
    42 21 Cecil B. DeMille, famous Paramount director, is right now in the midst of vas*: research for his next big picture, "The Crusades." Henry Wilcoxon who played Marc Antony in "Cleopatra" is to play Richard The Lionhearted in the new picture.
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    RELICS OF ROMAN TIMES
    159 21 Coins And Manicure Unearthed Budapest. A manicure set, 1,500 years old, has Deen unearthed near Szentes (Hungary' —and it is almost identical with the ones used to-aay. The discovery was made while excavations were in progress *on the bank: the River Tisza to locate the tomb
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    OUT-GANDHIING GANDHI
    100 22 Hunger Striker On The Mahatma's Doorstep New Delhi. A HAWKER of cloth has sat down in front of Mr. Gandhi's cottage here and has started a hunger strike. He wants to get rid of the "unfair" competition started by the retail cioth shops which rome of the mills
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    GOLD RING ON CORPSE
    140 22 (lue To Drowned Sailor's Identity Riga, Latvia. Tile body of an unknown man WAS washed ashore at Ziemupe. There was nothing to identify it except a rubber boot oi" Norwegian make and a heavy gold wedding ring on the right hand. The ring bore the inscription
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    AVERTED RAIL DISAST ER
    121 22 Schoolgirl's Frantic Signals To Train Driver To Stop Belgrade. A schoolgirl has averted what might have been a serious railway disaster on the Zagreb-Split line. Between the Gratchafz and Tzerovatz I stations, high in the Lika Mountains, an avalanche of stones feil on the line. A
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    THE SILENT GUN
    140 22 Soldier Arrested for Stliin.2: Powde* Istanbul. THE Ramazan gun Is fired three tifrres every twenty-four hours during the gr?at Mohammedan Fast. But in the town of Brusa the inhabitant were as.onfshea beeause they could not hear the gun. Enquiries were made and it was found that the
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    LIKE A MOORISH PALACE
    125 22 New House For Governor Of Cyprus Nicosia. Cyprus. The new Government House in the form of an old Moorish Palace is rising white and gleaming from the blackened ruins of the Governor's former residence which was burned down by rioters in the 1931 disturbances. Designed by
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    TOY BREAKS RECORD
    92 22 Philadelphia. Taking off from a four-foot water tank, a tiny, mono-wipged seaplane, powered by a rubber band, soared into the air and stayed aloft for 10 minutes 59 seconds, setting a new junior worlds record for model aeroplanes. The model was owned by Hyman Oslick of Philadelphia,
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    "QUINS" INSURANCE
    172 22 Lloyds May Be AsktA Tor Undertake Risk Toronto. nfTtfi guardians cf the quintuplets born J ten months ago to Mrs. Dionne at Callander. Northern Ontario, are thinking of asking Lloyds of Lottuon to insure them because of dijmeuTties m the way of insuring them here. It is of
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    POSTHUMOUS AWARD
    176 22 Mother Who Dies To Bear Her Child Milan. Every year a gift of 25,000 lire (about (£438) is given by a Milanese indus.rialist for "an act of humanity ana fine sentiment." This vear the pri2e has Tseen awarded posthumously to Signorina Angelina Senise Bucco of Naples, and the
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    FOOD STATISTICS
    104 22 Consumption On German Railways Berlin. Travellers on German railways eat at least 1,200,000 rolls of bread every yeai- and about 4,000 eggs every day This is one of the facts published in an article on the German restaui antcar system in the "8-Uhr Blatt." The central kitchen in
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    NATIVE WITCHCRAFT
    139 22 Mandates' Commission Of League To Make Enquiry Geneva. Witchcraft will shortly engage the attention of the Mandates' Commission of the League of Nations. An enquiry into the measures taken by Britain, France and Belgium to stamp by Britain, France and Belgium to stamp •hey adminster under mandate from
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    NEW LOCUST KILLER
    125 22 Exterminating Pest Witl Bacteria Bloemfontein, Orange Free State. A bacterial disease, deadly to locusts, but harmless to mammals and vegetalion. is the discovery claimed by Di. F. T. Dreyer, Professor of Zoology at Grey University College here. The bacterium was obtained from brown "hoppers" In the Bloemfontein
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    "JIMMY, I'LL MARRY YOU"
    254 22 "JIMMY, I'LL MARR Y YOU" Startling Proposal Oi Shirley Temple Hollywood. SHIRLEY Temple, the 6-year-okt film j star, has had her first proposal but she had to make it herself She was sitting on James Dunn'.- ici.ee during the interlude in the filming a pictufc. "J'immy. I'll marry you." the
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    "MONSIEUR NIVIDIK"
    168 22 First Electrically Operated Lighthouse In France Paris. An electrically operated lighthou the first of its kind ever erected ii France, has just been put into stvv. e on the Nividik Rock near Ushunt Island. •"Monsieur Nividik," as the Breton peasants call i'. lias almost human inactions. His giant-
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    SOVIET COSMETIC CRAZE
    112 22 Women Paying Attention To Personal Appearance Moscow 1 Russian women are paying particular attention to their personal appearance. Figures iust published reveal an increasing demand for rouge and perfunv which in the early days after the 191 < revolution were frowned upon by Con. munist leaders. During
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    PLAGUES OF EGYPT?
    95 22 Women Responsible For Marriage Crisis Alcxandr i "Women arc responsible for tli :i riage crisis in Egypt" wa tin- moti< put before a meeting hen aftrr ;i bate between two emincnl EgyP 1 'Jociologists. Ono professor stated thai in remedy the crisi. 1 the following points were
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    MAKING FEET FLAT
    73 22 Pounding Of Beats Tor w e;«'>! Policemen Seattle. Washing" The feet of the Seattle Police ihave been examined —in the coin physical examination —and afters it was announced that only a few cl men had flat feet. The policemen were delighted But their smiles deserted tin in
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    TRADE WITH INDIA
    439 23 New Agreement COTTON GOODS SURCHARGE Agreement between the >m Government and cut of India, which has I ndon. was published t :u! 1 Paper. .'iront supplements the Agreement by laying !es to he followed in an protective duties oi< >o(is, iiiid recording by his Majesty's G nment
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    THE "DATSUN"
    49 23 Colombo Japanese car has been landed cylinder "Datsun," with ater tourer body of smart deI so much interest that obliged to move on the collected outside the shop being exhibited, is not vet fixed, but it is be- be under £150. A further ol Datsuns" is expected
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    DEATH OF DR. BRUCE LOW
    403 23 Former Medical Officer In S.S. (By Air Mail). London, Jan. 30. OLD residents of 4« Straits Settlements wIH rc r et to hear of the death at the R ,J < l m^ aratn r t ,v of 53 of Dr. Rehert Bruce Low, who
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    COMEDY OF ERRORS
    157 23 Lady Who is Always Mistaken For Mrs. Roosevelt Philadelphia. Mrs Franklyn Roosevelt, wife of the, American. President, has a double, who is her image even to her smile. She is Mrs Mexlc Protzman, a lee turer in French at the George Washington University in Washington. When she
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    "VANDAL" PIGEONS
    158 23 Build Nests On Cathedral Statues Rouen. The famous cathedral of Rouen is in danger of losing hs hundreds of beautiful exterior statues. "Every statue nests a pigeon and some have two or three." says a petition signed by architectural experts, "If this is allowed to continue the cathedral
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    CANADA GETTING WARMER
    100 23 But The "Frozen North" Will Remain Victoria. British Columbia. Canada's climate is getting warmer, according to Mr. E. Napier Denison Director of the Dominion Meteorological observatory here. Film directors need not despair however because for many centuries to come there will still be a "Frozen North- where
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    HUMAN SKELETON IN METAL CAGE
    201 23 Grim Relic Of Pirate Days Hempstead, Long Island. AN old human skeleton in a crude metal cage, similar to those once used as i torture chambers by pirates, has been tiscovercd. by some boys playing on a vacant plot of land here. Protruding from a
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    BERLIN NIGHT FAIR
    154 23 Horse-Riding, Shooting And Swimming For Visitors Berlin. A night resort lias been opened In Berlin where guests can: Drink and dine. Dance. Ride horses. Shoo Swim. It is called the "Golden Horseshoe." and i.s housed in a converted dancehail In the centre ol the city. .tables for
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    FULSOME EPITAPHS
    114 23 Forbidden By Law In France Paris. No longer will tombstones in France record the angelic virtues" of men. or women for that matter, who were known to be no better than others. Fulsome epitaphs arc now forbidden by law in France. For the past ten years it has
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    NO BIGGER THAN A FLY
    125 23 World's Smallest Dynamo Completed Budapest. An unemployed young man. Istvan Zimmermann of Szekesfehervar. has just completed what is claimed to be the world's smallest dynamo. Ii is no bigger Uuin an ordinary fly. It is 4 millimetres long and 2 millimetres high. The coil contains
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    FORGOT GUN WAS LOADED
    119 23 Minister Accidentally Killed j Himself Prague. "When I came in, he ha a the revolver to his temple—so," said Methodius Hejlek, a 38-year-old minister of the Church of Bohemian oiethren, at Jeske Suaejovice, Bohemia. He was telling his wife and children how he had saved a
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