Morning Tribune, 11 February 1936

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  • 14 1 THE MORNING TRIBUNE FIVE CENTS. VOL I.— No. 9. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, Feb. 11, 1936.
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  • 311 1 r %HiW CLOSED DOOR EVEN IF WAR I COMES y t Washington, Feb. 7. IDDRESSING THE SENATE TOA DAY SENATOR PITTMAN. CHAIRMAN OF THE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE CASTIGATED JAPANESE POLICY IN THE FAR EAST AND DECLARED < THAT JAPAN INTENDS TO CLOSE f THE DOOR OF
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  • 61 1 Australian Aviation page 2 Jurong Smugglers 2 Coronation Date 3 shanghai Spy Case Shipbuilding Boom 3 1 nunc iai News 4 Fraser's Share List 5 i in ema News 7 Around Malaya 8 New Barracks in Singapore Women's Topics 12 and 13 Shipping News 15 Kadio Programmes 16
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  • 32 1 A Renter message from Colombo reports that Flight-Lieut. H. D. Giblett, attached to Singapore station, was drowned while bathing at Trincomalce. No details are available at present- Reuter
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  • 191 1 Estimated At £450,000 DAMAGE in the fire which occurred u in the film studios at Elstree is estimated to amount to £450,000, says a British Wireless message from London. Two great film studios at Elstree, Hertfordshire, one belonging to British and Dominions Film Corporation and the other
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  • 197 1 Questions In British Parliament London, Feb. 10. REPLYING in the House of Commons to Mr. Morcing, who inquired what steps were being tafcen on behalf of Tientsin and Pukow bondholders in view of the railways' profits of over half a million dollars monthly, Mr. Anthony Eden replied that
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  • 78 1 Men Decide To Resume Work i London, Feb. 10. fHE strike at Smithfield meat market in London ended yesterday when at a mass meeting the strikers decided to resume work and to observe the conciliation agreement. In view of this decision the union have taken charge of the
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  • 71 1 Eighty Miles An Hour Gale In U.K. London, Feb. 10. A STRONG easterly gale is sweeping southern Englana to-day and the weather is exceptionally cold. The gale reached the velocity of 80 miles per hour at Plymouth this morning and fanomtng vessels report weather of the wildest character
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  • 20 1  - Sin Chew Jit Poh Mr. Wang Ching Wei, the former Premier, intends, under medical adto leave for Hawaii to recuperate.
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  • 165 1 Record Beaten By 10 Hours London, Feb. 10. FLIGHT Lieutenant T. Rose, who left Lympne at 12.25 a.m. on Thursday, arrived at Capetown at 6.2 p.m. yesterday and thereby established a new ,record for the England to the Cape flight, beating the time set up by
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  • 33 1 London, Feb. 10. Marshal Tukhachevsky, deputy commbsare for defence in the Soviet Union, who was one oi the Russian representattves at the funeral of King George. left London yesterday for home.- British Wireless
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  • 234 2 AUSTRALIAN CLAIM Explanation Of Policy Sydney, Feb. 3. IN civil aviation Australia is the second greatest country in the world— second only to the United States. This declaration was made today by the Minister for Defence, the Hon. Mr. Archdale Parkhill, when he reviewed the Commonwealth
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  • 94 2 To-day In Singapore High Tides:— o.s9 a.m., 12.50 p.m. Raffles Hotel:— Orchestra Concert 8.15 to 9.15 p.m. Special Dinner and Dance (formal) 9.35 to midnight. Cabaret Attraction. Louys and Silva. Adelphi Hotel:— Special Dinner IDance. Roller Band. Capitol:— "The Perfect Gentleman," with Cicely Courtneidge and Frank Moran. Alhambra:— "Charlie Chan
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  • 121 2 Tragedy Of A Small Child NG Kim Chye was the three year-old son of a woodcutter employed on the Ho Ho Rubber Estate in Jurong One day last week, Kim Chye went out to play with his two younger brothers— but he never returned. His mother grew
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  • 288 2 "Illegal Trespassing" By Soviet Russians THE Manchukuo foreign office in Hslnking announces that "Illegal Trespassing of Manchukuo territory" committed by Soviet Russians and outer Mongolians "continues unabated", and that twelve such violations occurred during November alone and J55 since March, 1932. This announcement coincides with the arrival in Dairen
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  • 186 2 Effect On The Black Races London, Jan. 31. A former Bishop of Singapore,.. Bishop Ferguson Davie, who retired in 1927, was one of the speakers who reviewed the en*** which the war in Abyssinia has had on the native people of South Africa, at a meeting in connection
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  • 91 2 16 Drowned In Sight Of Shore Helsingfors. SIXTEEN people have been drowned in a ferryboat disaster off the coast of Hango in the Gulf of Finiend. The boat, running on a daily ferry service between the mainland town of Hango and the Island of Russaroe, was nearing the
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  • 83 2 PR the first time since depression days the yield of the business turnover tax in France for last month ls stated to shew an increase Instead of a decrease. The "Matin" states that luxury trades, for example, did 30 per cent, more business last month. The
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  • 142 2 Big Seizure 0/ Rubber A NOTHER attempt to smuggle a large quantity of rubber into the Colony without a certificate of origin was frustrated By revenue officers on patrol duty in a launch off the Jurong Coast in the early hours of the morning of Jan. 8.
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  • 97 2 Twenty Victims In U.S. In 1935 Tuskegee, Alabama. TWENTY persons were lynched in the United States last year, an increase of five over 1934, according to Dr. F. D. Patterson, president of the Tuskegei Institute, a school for the higher education of Negroes. Eighteen of the victims were coloured
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  • 109 2 By Royal Netherlands Indies lines:— From N.E.l.— Mrs. Nieuwenhuis, Mr P M. Fletcher, Mr. V. d. Veen, Mr. and Mrs. Barker MUI, Mr. Kohler, Mrs. and Miss Drenthen, Mrs. Marguerite Surbec. Prince Bhanu Yugala, Mr. K. Scholtens, Mr. H. Lunic, Mrs. de Vries. From Europe and India:— Mr.
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  • 346 3 BEST IN FIVE YEARS Revival Of The Industry London, Jan. 31. BRITAIN was building more new ships at the end of 1935 than at any otier time since the end of 19 3(>_five years ago. Quarterly returns of Lloyd's Register chow that on Dec. 31
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  • 37 3 A rowing boat in which a family ot nine people attempted to cross the River Morava, near tbe town of Krusevatz, Yugoslavia, was upset, and eight of the nine were carried away by the current and drowned.
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  • 70 3 Coronation In May Next Year London, Feb. 9. jy|AY 1937 is likely to be fixed for the Coronation, according to Buckingham Palace sources and an early announcement is now expected. The Imperial Conference will be held immediately before or after the Coronation at a date to be determined after consolation
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  • 85 3 Disaster Due To Bad Weather Berlin, Feb. 8. THREE people in the street were killed and two injured when an aeroplane crashed in the Kaufinfrerstrasse, one of the most important thoroughfares in Munich this afternoon. Apparently, owin? to bad weather, two aeronlanes, believed to be singleseater military machines,
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  • 82 3 Terrible Blizzard In i West rENTY people are dead in the MidWest as a result of the most paralysing blizzard of this century. Hundreds of motorists are stranded in under-zero weather and railway traffic is at a standstill. Several trains are snowbound, including one near the Nevada
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  • 32 3 Boston. Feb. 10. Coastguardsmen report that seven civilian Conservation Corps workers are drifting out to sea on an icefloe off Brewster. Cape c«d. A coastguard cutter has gone to the rescue Reuter
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  • 172 3 A £42fi00 Scheme Of The L.C.C. London, Jan. 31. THE Minister of Transport has made a grant to the London County Council towards the cost of a new bridge over the Thames which is to be built, at an estimated cost' of £42,700, in Glamls Road,
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  • 102 3 Leap Year Offer If Girl Proposes Waukegan (Illinois), Jan. 31. k FREE wedding is promised to any girl n who proposes marriage during the current Leap Year by Mr. Henry Wallenweln, a local Justice of the Peace. Both bride and groom must testify that it was the girl
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  • 194 3 American Sent To Prison Shanghai, Feb. 10. EUGENE Brinson pleaded guilty to-day to a charge of attempting to aid and abet the escape of a Communist spy from a Chinese prison and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and a fine of $500 American. The charge against
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  • Up-To-The-Minute Financial News
    • 243 4 Rubber Firm Again Singapore, Monday morning. Rubber (Singapore) 25*4 cU., up y 8 ct. Market Tone: Steady, Quiet. Tin (Singapore) $99%; unchanged-To-day's Prices:— London: IM-i.. up 1 16d. Market Tone: Very Steady. New York: 15% cts., up Vs ct. Market Tone: Dull. TIN London: No market. New
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    • 55 4 LONDON TIN RUBBER Market Quiet Again (From Our Financial Correspondent I London, Feb. 10, 6.30 p.m. The closing prices were as follows:— LONDON RUBBER Market Tone:— Quiet. Spot 714 (unchanged) Apr., June 7 5]16 (unchanged). LONDON TIN Spot £205^/4 (previously £203) Apr. 1 June £199 -(previously £197) CROSS-RATE London New
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    • 47 4 British Service To Sweden London Feb. 10. THE inaugural flight of the new British air service between England and Sweden was made during the weekend. British Continental Airways will run two services weekly in each direction between London and Malmo beginning to-morrow.— British Wireless.
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    • 42 4 (Established in 1880) Capital Subscribed (Fully paid up) Y.100.000.000 Reserve Fund Y.127,450,000 Head Office: YOKOHAMA SINGAPORE BRANCH, MEYER CHAMBERS, RAFFLES PLACE. Manager, h. UNAGAMI. Tel: No. 6049 Manager's Room 5921 5922 General Office. 5^23 6472 Compradore's Desk.
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    • 295 4 •New York prices quoted in U.S. currency. The above are dealers' middle price jobbers' margins, brokerage and stamp duty are not included. •01 *W m d O\T9 'uopuoi Share of £1 denomination unless Prpvlollsl y Yesterday Rice or fall otherwise stated 16 106% -MM
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    • 172 4 LINGUI TIN. LIMITED. (Incorporated in the Straits Settlements) DIVIDEND NO. 22. p NOTICE IS HfeREBY GIVEN that a First Interim Dividend of 5 per cent, for the year ending 31st. August, 1936. will be paid to Shareholders on the Register on 26th February, 1936. NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY GIVEN that
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    • 21 4 SOUTH BRITISH INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD., (Incorporated in New Zealand) Fire, Marine, Motor and Workmen's Compensation. 2. Finlayson Green. Telephone No. 5926.
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  • 1122 5 FRASER CO.'s SHARE LIST Singapore, Monday, 5 pjn. MINING Bayers. Sellers. Ampat Tin (4s) 5s 9d 6s 3d -am Kumbang 29s 3ls \ustral Malay (£> 59s 60s Aver Hitam (ss) 14s 6d 15s 6d Aver Weng ($1) 1.70 1.80 3angrin Tin 19s 9d 20s 9d Batu Selangor ($1) .90 .95
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  • 125 5 Government To Review Foreign Policy. Shanghai, Feb. 9. INOTHER meeting of the Plenary Session of the Central Executive Committee has been scheduled for April. The foreign policy of the Government will be reviewed and posts in the Central Government reshuffled. The reconstruction plans of the various departments will be
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  • 36 5 Washington, Feb. 6. The Treasury yesterday licensed the export of gold valued at £1,500,000 to France and Holland. This brings th* total hitherto licensed to £2,500,000, of which the bulk is in to-day's steamers. Reuter Wireless
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  • 301 5 Why Wall Street Banks Earned Less New York. rS point of Interest to the shareholder has emerged from the speeches at the meetings of the big Wall [Street banks which have been held in the past few days The drain on bank earnings caused by the payment of
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    • 134 5 *OU HAVE BEEN WAITING 10 YE ARS FOR A SHOW LIKE THIS! theatoroyall at rp j North Bridge Road GRAND STAGE SPECTACLE for 7 nights only! JAVANESE BEAUTIES ON PARADE! The Sirlmpi Javanese Daneers Combined with FAROKA'S CHAMPION KRONCHONG RECORD SINGERS i '"II I JAVA GIRLS 70 THEIR STAGE GALORE!
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    • 432 6 •It fc-^ "She held a jjolden key at which all the doors M tUb of the heart flew open"— Charles Reade thus ~J M lm\ y described PEG WOFFINGTON, the "Little V jf M fgL.\ Dash o'Dablin" who. 820 years ago, took Lon- «J ***M don Town by storm, and
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    • 218 6 Nightly Audiences simply rock with Laughter! Come and see J CICELY COURTNEIDGE dance the RUMBA!! It's a scream In. mam Positively Last Night England's Queen of Burlesque comedy in her first Hollywood M.-G.-M. Production and FRANK MORGAN in a screamingly funny story of a lovable old rascal who always wore
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  • Article, Illustration
    16 7 Cicely Courtneidge and Frank Morgan in M.-G.-M.'s film, "The Perfect Gentleman," now showing at the Capitol.
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  • 342 7 Frank Morgan Is Interviewed FRANK Morgan spent one of the most exciting weeks of his life in Pittsburgh—the week of the opening of Rosalie, that great musical hit of the decade, with Marilyn Miller and Jack Donahue. "I've 'opened' a lot of shows," the veteran actor said
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  • 227 7 WHAT makes songs "danceable"* Thjp «eeret is known: discovered by a tall dark curly-haired young man who olaved a saxophone in an orchestra. Hi* nam** is Fred MacMurray and he is Carole Lombard's leading man in Parajnount's "Hands Across the Table." But please
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  • 193 7 A Pioneer Of Motoring THE Motor Manufacturers' Association has never suggested erecting a statue to Davy Burnaby. The AA. has never asked him to be President. He has never been consulted by Mr. HoreBelisha. Yet Davy Burnaby is one of England's pioneer motorists and cne of the ablest
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  • 35 7 Eric Blore, the eccentric waiter in the Broadway stage production of "Gay Divorcee," is a butler in Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer's "I Live My Life." The character actor appeared most recently on the screen in "Star of Midnight."
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  • 59 7 C laudette To Build Home Make-Up Room r»LAUDETTE Cblbert's new house in v Holmby Hills will have an elaborate make-up room in which she will make herself up before coming to Paramount each morning, thus gaining an hour's sleep. The room will be as complete as any studio make-up department,
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    • 39 7 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm*-*mmmmmmw* tf bJ 0 mM ITS MELODIES WILL HAUNT YOU ITS TANGOS WILL ENTICE YOU! "UNDER THE PAMPAS MOON" A Fox Picture Starring WARNER BAXTER KITTI GALLAN with VELZO YOLANDA to-dav's dancinr sensations including the new pulse-stirring "COBRA TANGO"
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    • 172 7 i SIMULTANEOUS Screening To-nif ht IMPIHI 7 P.M. NIGHTLY 9 PJK. nm-mm-m^aaamW I. KAMI 7.30 (NEW WORLD) 9.30 SIT KOK SIX with TONG SOOT HIN in **The Handsome Husband 94 4. T S THE EASTERN UNITED ASSURANCE j I CORPORATION LIMITED. (Incorporated in the Straits Settlements) t FIRE, MARINE, MOTOR,
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  • 305 8 The MORNING TRIBUNE Singapore: Tuesday, Feb. 11, 1936. THE ONLY WAY jDRITISH troops, we are told, continue to arrive in Egypt and all strategic points in and around Alexandria are now occupied in force. Is this activity dictated by fears of an Italian attack in the event of oil sanctions
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  • Article, Illustration
    647 8 •n" is said that another attempt is to be made by the Municipal Commissioners to induce the Government to take action —a very belated action, it may be ridded —to carry out the reclamation of the Kallang swamps. The emergency action taken last month, by Hooding the fish
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  • 187 8 Mr. R. Heywood, r. former Chairman of the Kedah Planters' Association and a member of the Indian Immigration Committee, leaves for Home on Feb. 20 on long leave. w Mr. J. H. B. Fairley has been appointed a temporary engineer on agreement P.W.D., Johore. Mr. W. G. Reeves, M.C.S.,
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  • 36 8 Mr. B. O. Stevenson, former managing director, Ford Motor Company of. Malaya, Ltd., has accepted the position of managing director of the Ford Motor Company of India, Ltd., following the retirement of Mr. John L. Chidsey.
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  • 452 9 HOME OF "THE MIDDaLESEX" EA Delightful Situation Singapore, Monday. SINGAPORE'S new barracks, now ncarlng completion at I Alexandra Road, will provide the Middlesex Regiment when hey arrive next month with the pleasantest of homes. The Regiment, which is the first of the two additional garrison
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  • 95 9 I Parental Approval Essential In France m ua ne Under the a e of 21 m »y now obtain a motor driving licence ln ranee without the written consent of ji* parents or guardian, according to "*e decision of a commission which has D °en studying the question.
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  • Article, Illustration
    35 9 One of the most charming scenes in the Botanical Gardens in smgapore is the flight of steps, banked with flowers of every hue, which leads down to the garden houses not far from the bandstand
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  • 53 9 London, Feb. 9. t|IS Majesty King Edward vm, who is still living at York House but spends part of each day at Buckingham Palace in the transaction of public business, has gone for the week-end to" his country house, Fort Belvedere, Sunningdale. His Majesty is expected
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  • 91 9 Unique Reform In Burma BURMA can claim the distinction .of being the first country ln the Indian Empire to have its own women wlice. With the anointment of Miss 8. E. Niccoll-Jones to the rank of an inspector of police, it ls thought that the policy of having women
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  • 200 9 British Manufacturers Undercut itILLIONS of picture-books being read by British children and by children ei 5 1 world now bear the words —"printed ln Japan." Japan is making astonishing strides in her conquest of this market. Although the export trade ls only abou a year old, during 1935
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  • 441 9 Improvement In Travel A CONSIDERABLE number of improvements in travel facilities, and several concessions affording of cheap travel have been Introduced lately by the F.M.S. Railway Administration. Those of which information is given below will be of interest to you and afford savings in travel costs. MILE
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  • 160 10 NEW BRITISH STREAM-L INED RAIL-CARS Pick Powell and Ann Dvorak, the two leading stars in the Fox-20th Cent ury musical, 'Thanks A Million," opening at the Capitol next week. A scene at the i-ord M ayor's juvenile fancy dress ball at the Mansion House, London. (Topical Press.) The Great Western
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  • 842 12 The Art Of MAKE-UP Write to our Beauty Correspondent, GRETA CUMMING, c|o The Morning Tribune, for any question of beauty treatment about which you would like further information, enclosing a stamped addressed envelope for reply. TODAY I would like to say a few words on "make-up" generally. Some people I
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  • 603 12 CLENDER waistlines and firm abdominal muscles are necessary to any girl or woman who aspires to have a lovely figure, yet how many let indolence and neglect rob them of this beauty? Bulkiness about this part of one's anatomy ls not by any means confined to the
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 11 12 MAISON PERM LADIES' HAIRDRESSERS. 79 Stamford Road. Tel. 4610. CORNER HOUSE
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    • 42 12 Have you sent your coupon for PRIMA Eau De Cologne cyclax Mrs. McFarlane will give her last talk min the BEAUTY SALON on Friday, February 14 SUBJECT "Your own face, feature by feature— what is it like?" ROBINSON AND CO., LTD., SINGAPORE.
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    • 109 12 how COTY (>enumes can bestow Ine j)ower to charm H Sr ''^*j^ mm WW ¥r*r. "^^L% mm W MM mmma. COR crery woman there is ONE perfect fragrance ONE Coty Perfume that speak* to the emotions of her beams and allure Whether your personality is expressed by a delicate faotaay
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  • 631 13 "lONG hair? Never." This is the manner ln which Adrian, fashion designer for Metro- Gold wynMayer studios, replied to a statement concerning the return of long hair to feminine popularity. "The style of bobbed hair Is one of the very few fads that ultimately resulted in
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 111 13 LUGGAGE rA R RIER I SINGAPORE j S LUGGAGE j CARRIER CO. 1 Bac^age Contractors Forwarding t Agents. i Booking Agents for F.M.S. Railways. I Baggage Agents for:— Blue Funnel Line I East Asiatic Line Nederland Line j L 8.1.5.N. Co.. Ltd., etc. etc. Tel. Address:— "LUGGAGE" I PHONE 2428
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    • 109 13 A TOURISTS I SHOPPING GUIDE STATIONER T We stock j j EVERYTHING j t in l t STATIONERY j E. M. GLOVER CO., j i 9, The Arcade, i SINGAPORE. Tel: 2219. J GRAMOPHONES 4 j COLUMBIA j I GRAMOPHONES and RECORDS j NEW MODELS 11l t I $21 to
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    • 111 13 i i RESTAURANT A j Real European j j Food j Come and have your steak cook- ed as vou like it on an open i charcoal grill by JOHN, Singa- I pore's leading Chef. I I OPEN TILL MIDNIGHT Arcade Restaurant* J Collyer Quay, Phone 4825. jy+* «5* CAMERAS
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    • 49 13 EYES gr__\ifi_*_aEve Specialists. Eye Examinations. Eyeglasses. Exclusively. Phone 3002. SILK STORE GLAMOttOUS GOWKS TAILORED WITH EXACTING PRECISION BY EXPERTS at Tajmahal Store 23 HIGH ST. CURIOS Camphor-wood Chests Mah Jong sets Handkerchiefs Emb. linen table cloths Chinese curios. Obtainable from Soon Joo Coy. 53, High Street, at lowest prices.
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 475 14 I CK \J and BRITISH INDIA P. O. S. N. CO'S SAILINGS, OUTWARDS. Doe Doe Tonnage S'pore. Tonnage S'pore. 1936 1436 SOMALI 6.810 Feb. 12 RAJPUTANA 17,000 Apr. 10 CORFU 15,000 Feb. 14 BEHAR 6,000 Apr. 19 RANCHI 17,000 Feb. 28 CHITRAL 15,000 Apr. 24 BANGALORE 6,000 Mar. 12 SOUDAN
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    • 479 14 ty I fe^ jtk T0 FRENCH pORTS V— |<»|LJ^|S| HOMEWARDS. \t BOUGAINVILLE For Marseilles, Havre, Antwerp Dunkirk Mar. 4 I CAP ST. JACQUES For Marseilles, Nantes, St. Nazaire Bordeaux Mar. 6 OUTWARDS (from MarseiUes). 1936 l For Saigon, Tourane Haiphong. CAP ST. JACQUES Feb. 12 AN OO w S S
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  • Singapore Harbour
    • 317 15 leaves Singapore Today A\ MBER of passengers from Singat are sailing on board the Preside--, Van Buren to-day aft noon. Grace Frederick and Mr. and M "ruce Nicholson who have spent t two weeks tcuring Java and Bali 'in the Van Buren here, contain. ng their voyage around
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    • 59 15 E Cologne. nglish is to be taught instead of French as the principal foreign language in all public and secondary schools ln Germany. It is also to be taught in German elementary schools, ta which hitherto no foreign language lessons have been given. The instruction is to be given during
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    • Article, Illustration
      46 15 Mr. S. B. Hindlemann, a New York connoiseur of precious stones turns his attention to another form of pa stime, admiring a Malayan python in a Katcng garden. The youthful snake-charmer is littl' Jackie Fisher, Mr. Hindlemann is a passenger to-day by the President Van Buren.
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    • 154 15 TO-DAY Karimon (Tong Heng) 9 a.m. Pengerang (Aik Soon) Q a.m Singkep (Hong Keat) 10 a.m. Tandjong Pinang (Hong Keat) 10 a.m Ceylon (Pres. Van Buren) 11 a.m. China (generally), Hoihow (Hai Lee) 2 p.m. Fort de Koek. Padang, Pakan Baroe and Siak (Hong Kwong) 3 p.m. Netherlands
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    • 125 15 SHIPS ALONGSIDE THE WHARVES OR EXPECTED TO ARRIVE MAIN WHARF:— Lch. Kitti wake, WBt. Splendour, Toboali, Lch. Mars, Buyskes. Lch. Sir T. Fraser, Mhta Hari. KEPPEL HARBOUR: No. 1 Dock:— Tung Song. godown gate no. Ra-ula 22 1 Meng Kheng 20 1 Van Heutsz 28 1 Hal Lee
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    • 18 15 Future correspondence between the Dutch and Belgian Governments will be carried on in Dutch instead of In French.
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    • 19 15 Traces of petroleum deposits have been found in the Eastern Pyrenees, and even more certainly ln the Aude Department.
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    • 199 15 Transport In Soviet Ships rl Soviet merchant fleet in 1935 carried over 5,000,000 tons of export, import and foreign freight, representing 10 per cent, of the total Soviet oversea carryings. Under the First Five Year Plan, oversea shipments by Soviet steamers amounted only to 1.5 million tons per
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    • 135 15 Medal For Aberdeen Coxswain THE Royal National Lifeboat Institution has awarded its bronze medal to Coxswain Thomas Sinclair of the motor lifeboat at Aberdeen, and extra noney awards to him and the crew, for their gallantry in rescuing one of the crew of the Aberdeen trawler George Stroud,
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    • 33 15 The S.S. Chitral has left Hongkong and is expected to arrive at this Port at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, the 13th instant. She will proceed alongside the S.H.B Wharf on arrival.
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 196 15 l\|H> -4 HIV A U\E. I j Direct Service. Kxcellent Accommodation. j j Reduced Rates* 1 n FROM SINGAPORE. I Direct Service to JAPAN via HONG KONG. AMOY and SHANGHAI and to i CALCUTTA via PENANG. Taking cargo on through Bills of landing for Canton, Macao, Swatow, i amoy, Chefoo,
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    • 64 15 PHONE jg^ 3 v' if^ GOODWOOD The most charmingly situated Hotel in the Island. Ideal for permanent residents RESTAURANT Table d'hote and a la carte. COCKTAIL BAR LOUNGE— TENNIS. 1 Special Dinner Dance on Thursday 13tb DINERS $1.50 NO AFTER-DINNER ADMISSION CHARGE. I l i Never has there ever been
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 64 16 CHARLES LAUGHTON CLARK GABLE with a cast of nearly 5,000 in "MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY" Opening at the CAPITOL, March 3rd uufc> wt tJW Cs^«Hi A* y*t NO WABM rfm S*m. YH «A Mk V*\\l WaWSKWI. 9WW r Jk imJ/^\. Jill THANKS ft i w^ /v^\ i* TO Kl rA
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 1336 16 w ty TRANSMISSION 2. T GSG 16.86 metres (17.79 mcs) and GSF MAmWLmWm I I*ll4l ll ij i mW[\ THK H HlO 6.20 p.^^. 'Th! at "<*« 80 **> J Ji- MMMLd Mil mm^m. I the p ian oforte-<2>: Cyril Scott. A TO-DAY 2 recital of CyrU Scott's songs, sung
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  • 90 17 The Highest Road In Europe THE highest road in Europe, which has been built over the Iseran Pass in Savoy, linking the valleys of the Tarentaise and the Maurienne, is to be inaugurated by President Lebrun next summer. The road rises to a height of 9,088 feet, or
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  • 59 17 A young peasant boy has been killed by his plough on his father's farm at Straubing, Central Bavaria. Franz Sackstaetter, aged 15, was breaking up the soil of a field, when he tripped and lost control of the plough. He fell in front of it, the
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  • 157 17 WITH rubber going firm it is disappointing to report that interest in rubber shares is particularly negligible. There is no support for output and the local market consists mostly of sellers of higher prices, or disappointed bulls. It would appear, however, that if rubber goes higher or if
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  • 49 17 A new factory-capable of producing 150 lorries a day-has been opened at Brandenburg. Prussia, by the Adam Ope Motorcar Works, an ally of General M °Th? hi^pToduction figure will be reached in* the near future. At present the factory is producing 60 lorries a day-in itself a high average.
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  • 35 17 When Claudette is working, the studio will send her hair-dresser to her home each morning to do her hair, thus eliminating the necessity of first gon? tc the make-up and hair-dressin^ departments at the studio.
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  • 295 17 Storm In Irish Sea Motor Coaster's Seven Buffeting AMPLE evidence of the severity of the recent storm in the Irish Sea can be seen in the damaged condition of the Coast Lines' motorship Ocean Coast, which was docked in Liverpool. Mountainous seas were encountered when the ship was in the
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  • 27 17 Buenos Aires. a pps" a journal believed to be in l\2S i£ Gov— j*m. Transport appear, was the wish of certain leaaers of opinion."
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  • 138 17 Empress 01 Australia Overhauled Alter annual ©fWfraui and lay-up. the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Aus**Ua sailed '^^w^hne Hew Vork. I*e ***el at Madeira, where she will land the British travellers who aje^ making the world cruise in the Bmpn* of Britain. Upon bar MTival on the
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 43 17 f 3£TW Yarn hwa* bun m^JS2£&&' I ro-MQiwow^ at iy e t Aj*| 1 ti*^ 1 Malayan Premferlfof the World's most famou; musical picture, J i| A jj-mmtm ■W^ The Re t ord.br,aM Wjt Trtun.ph!| j GRACE MOORE I "ONE NIGHt OF_LOVI!L I
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 341 17 OS THE RAM© (Continued from page 16.) Radio Colonial TO-DAY wavelength 25.23 metres (11,880 kes) 4 20 pm. Recorded music. 35 Dra News in French. tol p.m. News in English. End of T wSvdeng°th 19.68 metres 15.244 kes) 615 Pm P*<* r maie announcem 6 P 2O p.m- Concert relayed
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  • 79 18 Rejoi9is The Australian Cabinet Canberra, Feb. 6. Mr. Hughes has rejoined the Cabinet as Minister for Repatriation. In a letter to the Prime Minister, Mr. Hughes gave assurances of his unequivocable adherence to the sanctions policy. The Prime Minister asked for his resignation in November following the publication
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  • 64 18 Charges Against German Author London, Feb. 6. The case ln which the German author, Doctor Herman Gortz, was charged with offences under the Official Secrets Act has again been postponed at the Old Bailey to enable official witnesses to be called from Hamburg to show how a certain
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  • 407 18 May Be Sold To Urban Council KENILWORTH Castle, the property of Lord Clarendon, GovernorGeneral of South Africa, may very soon be taken over by the local urban district council. Negotiations for its purchase have been proceeding for nearly two years. It is understood that the price asked
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  • 120 18 Britain Helping The Soviet? Shanghai, Feb. 10. 1 CRISIS is reported to be developing A with regard to the future of the Pacific. Forestalling Anglo-American cooperation in the Pacific, Mr. Koki Hirota, the Japanese Foreign Minister, has instructed Mr. Saito, the Japanese I Ambassador at Washington, to propose
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  • 23 18 Berlin, Feb. 6. The death is announced of the exAmbassador and Colonial Secretary Herr Wilhem Solf, aged 73. Reuter Wireless
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  • 141 18 Vivid Description From Tembien V. G'SAMY. FEB. TEN THE night terror of the war in Tembien is vividly described by a neutral observer recently returned fro^i the Northern Front. He says that following the recent big victory the Abyssinians occupy a dominating position and the fall of
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  • 70 18 Seven Deaths In Troubles At Hama Beirut, Feb. 7. A recrudescence of Nationalist trouble in Syria has resulted in seven deaths at Hama. Thirty-five members of the Government forces were tnjured when called out to cope with a crowd of students and rowdies kho, fired by incendiary speeches,
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  • 76 18 A sale of magazines and periodicals purchased for Raffles Library between January to June of this year will be held at the Library on Friday, Feb. 14, at 5 p.m. Purchasers at this sale will receive back numbers of magazines and periodicals regularly as current numbers arrive. For
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  • 72 18 Dope Den Raid Sequel Peiping, Feb. 10. AN official proclamation confirms the secret execution by shooting of five out of 654 arrested in thf recent raids on three gambling and dope dens. One of the executed men is General Chao Yen Hsu, Vice-minister of War in
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  • 129 18 Gets Farthing Damages Without Costs London, Feb. 7. One farthing damages, without costs, were to-day awarded to Sir Oswald Mosley, the Fascist leader, who brought an action in the King's Bench Division for slander against Mr. Marchbank. General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen. Sir Oswald
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
    • 36 18 CAPITOL.Xoming bAkkyL ZANticK's GREATEST MUSICAL SHOW! m^m t— m i mm \S ■■111 WBr *n\* \m W-mb*W K f £ij\ *a4 BAND **k *AMOHJk\ htf Ml 'HAYMOW WAUUM 1& H# I Kim! nooicnoi mJ Jm Wr
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    • 38 18 M.-G.-M.'S 2-MILUON DOLLAR SENSATION "MUTTNY ON THE BOUNTY" Opens at the CAPITOL, MARCH 3rd. ANCHOR _J mm^/mmmmm *m -AW Brewed and bottled in Singapore by the ARCHIPELAGO BR EWERY CO., LTD. SOLE AGENTS: SIME, DARBY 8c CO., LTD.
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  • 796 19 Changi Back In 5 1/2 Hrs. FINE YACHTING FEAT R.S.V.C. Week-end Racing TANJONG Pagar to Changi (Fairy 1 Point) and return by sail in under 5Va hours is a record made by "Merlin" this week-end which will' take some beating (writes our vachting correspondent. Any type of craft may choose
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  • 78 19 London, Feb. 6. A SENSATION was provided by the British threat to withdraw her icehockey team in consequence of the suspension of two English-born Canadian members of the side by the International Ice Hockey Association on a technicality.— Reuter Wireless. Canada has agreed to raise the ban on
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  • 72 19 International Rugby Ireland To Meet Scotland On Feb. 22 JHE following are the teams in the I rugby international to be played at Murrayfleld on Feb. 22 between Ireland and Scotland IRELAND Morris. Boyle, McMahon, Bailey, Malcolmson. Hewitt, O'Connor, Alexander, C. Beamish, Deering, Graves. Russell, Siggins, Sayers and Walker. SCOfftAND
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    • 24 19 •RACKETS RESTRINGING There is only TONE RELIABLE PLACE QUEEN'S 3, Prince Street. Phone Telegrams 7634 "Tennis" English. Australian American Gut, only used. No other.
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    • 226 19 THE GREAT EASTERN LIFE IS "GREAT" by reason of the fact -j^i________________. that in a period of little more than a quarter of a century it has (1) built up a large business all over Asia; (2) acquired a thoroug hly sound financial position; (3) introduced modern innovations that were
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  • 238 20 No New Freight Service? WITH the opening of the St Lawrence River to traffic reports are again current with regard to the re-starting of shipping ser- vices betweea Montreal aad Singapore. This has in all probability given rise to the report that a new service, with three
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  • 96 20 Killed In Riding Accident j London, Feb. IQ. DRIAN De Valera, the twenty years old ton of the president of the executive council of the Irish Free State, wae accidentally killed yesterday morning. Be was riding at a gallop in Phoenix Park, Dublin, and while passing
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  • 97 20 Late Mr. J. A. Row WE regret to record the death of Mr. J. A. Row, son of Dr. (Jemandar) Apparow formerly of M.S.G. of Taiping, which took place at the General Hospital early yesterday morning. The burial, which was fixed for 4 p.m. yesterday, was postponed in order to
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  • 26 20 A circular letter from the secretaries to the shareholders of Jorehaut Tea states that the crop of tea available for sale in 1935 was 5,435,566 lbs.
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  • Article, Illustration
    24 20 A lorry, motor-car and a ricksha collided at the junction of Victoria Street aad Arab Street on Saturday. Fortunately no one was seriously injured.
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  • Article, Illustration
    25 20 "THE GIRL WITH THE FISHLR BO DY" is the title won by Hester Deane because of the many automobile advertisements for which she has posed.
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    37 20 A police constable going down by rope to the wreckage of the Lowestoft drifter "Shore Breeze" to search for the crew of ten who lost their lies in the recent heavy gales at St. Anne's Head, Pembrokeshire.
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
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