Morning Tribune, 19 March 1936

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  • 14 1 THE MORNING TRIBUNE VOL I.— No. 41. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, March 19, 1936. FIVE CENTS.
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  • 462 1 A ITRTHEB development of the Morning Tribune service of financial news is marked today by (he publication on page 5 of our first London markets Review, specially written by our London correspondent. I] V I Ei\ II K 1) Ml I It A L ZONE £077/
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  • 36 1 London, Mar. 18. |(ING EDWARD vm held his flrst levee v this morning at Buckingham Palace, about 700 persons being presented. The Duke of York and the Duke of Kent attended. British Wireless
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  • 127 1 Appreciation Of Defence Gift London, Mar. 18. IN the House of Commons, replying to I Mr. Mathers, Mr. J. H. Thomas colonial secretary said steps were being taken to expediete the matter of the Malaya National Park and the Government would give every encouragement to the preservation
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  • 75 1 Cruiserueighl Champion May Fight In London London, Mar. 18. l EWIS, the world cruise weigth L champion, has been offered a fight on April 24, by the Empress Stadium authorities It is understood the ter p 3 and expenses, are acjepttbte Lewis, provided the bout v .not a title bout,
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  • 84 1 Madrid, Mar. 17. fONSEQUENT on the continuance of political warfare and mob rioting m various parts of the country, m which five people have been killed, it has been necessary to extend the "State of Alarm" for a further thirty days. Communists and Fascists clashed at
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  • 60 1 Chinese Art Treasures Warship Escort Will Be Arranged London, Mar. 18. IN the Commons, replying to LieutCommander Fletcher, Lord Stanley said it was impossible to arrange for the conveyance of the Chinese art treasures aboard a warship, but he hoped to arrange for a warship escort for the ship carrying
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  • 287 1 London, Mar. 17. BRITISH Air Force equipment will be second to none, declared Sir Philip Sassoon, introducing the Air Force estimates m the House of Commons. British aircraft was used by 26 countries and British aero-engines by twentyflve countries and foreign enquiries for the purchase
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  • 1545 2 THE END OF VENIZELOS Dictator And Then Exile Paris, Mar. 18. M. Venizelos, the exiled Greek 1U Liberal Statesman (a former Premier), died here to-day.— Reuter. Very divergent views have been expressed as to the methods and character of the Greek patriot Eleutherios Venizelos. The truth
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  • 198 2 Rubber Planting In P. I.? Manila, Mar 17 A REVIVAL of the old plan of the Firestone rubber Interests to establish rubber tree plantations m the Philippines, possibly m Mindanao, was fore. seen by Francis Smith, a representative of the Firestone Tire and Rubber company of Akron, Ohio, who arrived
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  • 48 2 Arrives In Frame For Holiday London. Mar 17 MR. Wang Ching-Wei. the former Chinese Foreign Minister, who is on holiday following the attempt on his life, arrived m Marseilles to-day Mr. Quo Tai-c'hi. the Chinese Ambassador m London, will shortly meet him In Paris. Reuter
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  • 22 2 Mr. R. Carswell. late manager of Kinta Kellas Rubber Estates, Batu Gajah. has taken over the management of Sungd Bagan Estate, Kelantan.
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    • 63 2 t FRESH MILK— WITH ALL THE TROUBLE REMOVED! JET Klim put an end to delicious, nourishing milk your troubles with milk, to drink. It is especially For Klim is rich, pure cows good for babies. If your milk, powdered with only dealer cannot supply you, water removed. Klim Aeepa send
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    • 73 2 FOR THOSE WITH NEAT, TIDY HAIR i SI I VI Kill SOLIDIFIED BRILLIANTINE IT KEEPS YOUR HAIR IN CONDITION. W^E£^^^ I i PREVENTS THE FORMATION OF DANDRUFF f^^Kk*-. '^B J GIVES HIGH GLOSS TO THE HAIR. B lfc S CAN LAST FOUR TIMES LONGER THAN v| 1/ OTHER BRILLIANTINE .■;>■'»
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  • 579 3 BUT PAULETTE WEARS RING Ambling Round World By Virgina Wight Of The Morning Tribune Singapore, Wednesday. *UE they married? I refer, of course, to Charlie Chaplin and his leading lady. who arrived this afternoon on board the Suwa Maru on a leisurely tour of the
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  • 137 3 Latest Transactions In Singapore Singapore. Wednesday. THE following properties were sold by public auction at the saleroom of Messrs. Cheong Koon Seng and Co.. Ltd.. No. 30 Chulia Street, this afternoon. 9<i years leasehold land and house No I*o Minto Road, Singapore, area 3 344 sq. ft., dated
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  • 59 3 THE Morning Tribune understands on good authority that Mr. Charlie Chaplin applied for special licence to marry m Singapore, by letter from Hongkong. Mr. Chaplin booked at the Adelphi Hotel for suite A, and Miss Goddard and her mother for suite B. The party, accompanied by Mr. and
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    14 3 'Charlie" Chaplin and Miss Paulette Goddord m happy Mood on arrival m Singapore yesterday.
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  • 56 3 86 Dead In North Kashmir Jammu (Kashmir), Mar. 13. r' is reported that 86 persons were who were returning from a skiing exkilled, including three Britiso hfficers, pedition, by avalanches m North Kashmir. Another avalanche m West Kashmir swept 25 people to their death, while 50 others perished m
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  • 61 3 Leaving For Kuala Lumpur Oo Saturday H.E. the Governor, attended by the personal staff, will leave Singapore for Kuala Lumpur at 10 p.m. on Saturday and return by the night mail leaving Kuala Lumpur either on Thursday Apr. 2, or Friday, Apr. 3. The visitors' book will be
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  • 210 3 Neuralia Carries New Batch Singapore, Wednesday. WUH the arrival of *he transport Neuralia on Saturday 13 officers, 30 Flight- Sergeants and 242 airmen will land m Singapore to replace the men attached to No. 100 and No. 36 (Torpedo Bomber) squadrons at the Royal Air Force Station,
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  • 91 3 London, Mar. 15. THE Dc Havilland Aircr ft Company win deliver early next month a new dragonfly biplanp fitted with two Gipsy Major motors of 130 h.p. to King Ghazi of Iraq. The cruising speed of the new machine is 125 miles an hour.
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    • 98 3 The engagement is announced, and the marriage will take place shortly, of Mr. Douglas Cook, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Wallace Cook, at one time of the Straits Trading Co., Malaya, and now settled m Surrey, and Miss Rhona Munro, of Perthshire. Mr. Douglas Cook was with Boustead Co.,
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  • Up-To-The Minute Financial News
    • 389 4 Dullness In New York Singapore, Wednesday morning. Rubber (Singapore) 26 cts., dowi Vs ct. Market Tone: Dull. Tin (Singapore) $103%, down $V To-day's Prices: London: 7 7;16d., unchanged. Market Tone: Quiet. New York: *****16 cts., dowß Mi ct. Market Tone Dull. TIN London: Spot £215 10s., down
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    • 70 4 Special London Cable (By Our Financial Correspondent) London. March, 18. The closing prices were as follows: LONDON RUBBER Market Tone: Steady. Spot: 7 15|32 (down 1|32). July-Sept: 7 1932 (down 1J32). LONDON TIN Spot: £215% (up Kh April-June: £206«/ 8 (up V 2). LONDON GOLD Spot: £7.1.1 (up
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    • 43 4 Yesterday's Closing Prices (By Our Financial Correspondent) London, March, 18. The closing prices were as follows London— New York Cross Rate 4.97 1 4 (unchanged). London— Paris: 74 2732 (down 1,32). London— Amsterdam: 7.26 Va (unchanged). London— Hongkong: Is. 3%d. (unchanged).
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    • 93 4 The Singapore Chamber fo Commerce Rubber Assn. DAILY PRICES CURRENT. Singapore, Wednesday noon. No. I.X.R.S.S. m cases (F. 0.8. March) 26 316 260,16 Good F.A.Q. m cases (FOB. March) 26 26 8 No. I.X.R.S.S. < Spot-loose) (awardable Spore) 26 26 V 8 do. March 2618 26 4 do. Apr.June 26
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    • 281 4 London, Mar. 18, 6.30 p.rn Share of £1 denomination unless otherwise stated Previously Yesterday Rise or fall War Loan, 3* P* Ccm. Union Assce. (Units) 10' b lift i 4 Prudential Assce. "A" 363 4 37Va +3 8 Royal Assce. (£1 share 10s. pd.)
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    • 23 4 SOUTH BRITISH INSURANCE COMPANY. LTD.. (Incorporated m New Zealand) Fire, Marine, Motor and Workmen's Compensation. W. J. DEXTER, Manager. OFFICE 2, FINLAYSON GREEN.
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    • 42 4 THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LTD. (Established m 1880) Capital Subscribed (Fully paid up) V.100,000,000 Reserve Fund V.129,150,000 Head Office: YOKOHAMA, SINGAPORE BRANCH, MEYER CHAMBERS, RAFFLES PLACE. Manager, H. UNAGAMI. Tel: No. 6049 Manager's Room. 5921 5922 General Office. 5923 6472 Compradore's Desk.
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    • 52 4 CYMA WATCHES WAP44 LACHAUXDSFONDS S3 < 0845 DLT MOINE SINOAPORK TAKE JH.LT .^URC IHrORMXWO YOU TAVANNES OBTAINS *AT ACTRONOHXCM. AND CHROHOMCTRfCAI 013^»:»VATOftY «£OCV»ATEI FIVK FIRST fRIfC* AtfD Lg SE ria! J»612« FOR THE SIX BEST CHRONOMETER WATCHES TAVABMKS WATCH CO I j The Successors of MOINE COMTE CO., LTD. General
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  • 715 5 FRASER Co's SHARE LIST Singapore, Wednesday. 5 p.m. MINING Buyers. Sellers Amoat Tin (4s.) 5,6 m Kumbang<£) 28|9 30s.cd. Austral Malay 58;6 59 6 Aver Hitam (5s.) 14s. 9d. 15s. 6d.cd Aver Weng ($1) 1-85 1.75 Sanerin Tin 18,9 196 gain Selangor ($1) 92 96 Chenderiang 13|- 1*1Hitam Tin <50
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  • 1235 5 OUR LONDON MARKET REVIEW By Air Mail WHITE PAPER AND ARMAMENT SHARES: OPTIMISM IN RUBBER: THE TIN CONTROVERSY (From Our Special Financial Correspondent) i London, Mar. 9. AFTER a rather severe setback last week the London stock exchange has t regained some of its strencfh. Shares of the iron and
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    • 27 5 Sime, Darby Co., Ltd. Insurance Agents and Brokers (LLOYDS) 411 classes of insurance transacted 5, Malacca Street. AGENCY APPLICATIONS INVITED. Singapore. Phone 5144. "LOWEST QUOTATIONS PROMPT SETTLEMENTS."
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    • 219 5 Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporaiion Ltd. (Incorporated m Straits Settlements). SUCCESSORS TO THE CHINESE COMMERCIAL BANK, LTD., THE HO HONG BANK, LTD., AND THE OVERSEA-CHINESE BANK, LTD. CAPITAL: Authorised $40,000,000.00 Paid Tp $10,000,000.00. HF\D OFFICE CHINA BUILDING HULIA STREET, SINGAPORE. LOCVL BRVNCH: 458. NORTH BRIDGE ROAD. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: ChM Swee Cheng,
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  • 25 6 TLEANOR WHITNEY, singing dancer, recently signed for "Millions m the Air," wears a size 3B shoe, the smallest of any film actress.
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  • 30 6 MEMBERS of the troupe of Walter Wanger's all-colour The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" have breakfast at 5.45 a.m. while on location at Big Bear Lake, California.
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  • 352 6 Built For "I Give My Heart" rE largest set ever constructed at the British International Studios at Elstree will be seen m "I Give My Heart" the screen version of the internationally famous operetta "The Dubarry," now showing at the Pavilion. Much of the action of
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  • 112 6 Kidnapped Thrilling Scenes In Alhambra Film A society kidnapping, m which the heroine is spirited away to be held for many thousands of dollars m ransom, is one of the features of Universal's gay and colourful tunenlm, "King Solomon of Broadway," now at the Alhambra. Tne victim, m this case,
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    12 6 Jean Gillie m "While Parents Sleep" opening on Sunday at the Pavilion.
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  • 330 6 "Last Days Of Pompeii" COVERING a spar* of tweniy-five years, RKO Radio's "The Last Days of Pompeii," showing at the Capitol, brilliantly dramatises the mad life and fierce up to and (Turing its historic descity up to and during its historic destruction by earthquake and volcanic eruption
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  • 38 6 MARLENE DIETRICH and Gary CoopCl are summoned to work these days by a bell. Instead of shouting 'Quirt the assistant to Frank Borzage. director. rings a bell which he has installed on the "Desire" set.
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  • 31 6 HOLLYWOOD, forever on the scan for the new, has turned to Oeorg* dv Maurier's classic. "Peter Ibbetson for its latest inspiration. Gary Coopt'r and Ann Harding are starred.
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    • 218 6 •8" "Wonderful Realism", it is the Last Word m spectacular «5» effects, .it is safe to say that nothing finer m the way of -J* spectacular drama has ever been shown on the screen" «g» •2* —Malaya Tribune (yesterday). A I SPECIAL MATINEES DAILY at 3.151 .g, IC A PITOLj
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      51 7 TO-NIGHT:— "Last Days of Pompeii," with Prcsi-on Foster, Alan Hale, Basil Rathbone, Louis Calhern, Dorothy Wilson, etc. NEXT CHANGE:— "So Red the Rose." COMING SOON:— "Bottom of the World," the official record of the Byrd Antartic Expedition. David Holt plays the role of Flavius m "The Last Days Of
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      40 7 Edmund Lowe and Dorothy Page. co-starring m "Kinij Solomon Of Broadway." TO-NIGHT:—"King Solomon of Broadway," with Edmond Lowe and Dorothy Page. NEXT CHANGE:—"Ship Cafe." COMING SOON:—"Mutiny on the Bounty."—Showing about the end of March. TO-NlGHT:—"Servants' Entrance," with Janet Gaynor.
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      42 7 TO-NIGHT I ~ive my heart," with Gltta Alpar and Owen Nares. NEXT CHANGE While Parents Sleep," with Jean Gillie and star cast. COMING SOON:— "Passing of the Third Floor 12c:' "Three Live Ghosts." Gitta Alpar, star of "I Give My Heart."
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    • 9 7 TO-NIGHT:—"The Caravan" with Charles Boyer and Loretta Young.
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    • 10 7 TO-NIGHT:— "Broadway Gondolier" with Dick Powell and Joan Blondell.
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    • 47 7 FOLLOWING a very sad and expensive I experience, Johnny Downs will hereafter carry his own wardrobe trunk when he goes on location. Johnny returned recently from a 10--day location trip to Coronado. where he worked on a picture with the same name
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    • 31 7 prosrY m "Anything Goes," B IN ?as C fh°e falsest stab.c ol thorou£ breds owned by. a screen celebn 7. Ac has 15 m training at Santa aniut
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  • 171 7 She Says No But Her Friends Think So UARIOUS national newspapers have T reported during the past week that Charles 'Buddy' Rogers and Mary Brian who are co-starring m the new 8.1.P. picture, "Once m a Million," are about to be engaged to be married. Both
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  • 18 7 IOHNNY DOWNS, featured m J "Coronado," still holds membership m the Boy Scouts of America.
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  • 174 7 And The B.IJP. Executives Drew A Deep Breath •THE 8.1.P. executives were sitting m the private thearte at the Elstree Studios, watching he hair-dressing and lighting aests of Mary Brian and Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, who are starring m the new 8.1.P. comedy, "Once m a Million,"
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  • 93 7 Baby Ruggles Will Be Director AT the rate he is going, Wesley Ruggles, Jr., son of the director, will be at least an assistant director by the time he is 5. The 2-year-old youngster was brought onto "The Bride Comes Home" set to visit his father. Claudette Colbert
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    • 11 7 MARLBOROUGHI oP ffi^ AY! m C A A V A X
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    • 137 7 M t 0- > ~-^r~- <*^^* 1 PAVILION i TO-NIGHT 6.15 9.15. i. Singapore's s Discriminating Pavilion i Antlienees i% eel aim J GITTA ALP Alt j Positively The Greatest Singing Sensation |of Modern Times GITTA i ALPAR i S The Screen's Magnetic j S and Glamorous New Star of
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  • 971 8 POLITICAL REACTIONS ON THE MARKET Fraser Co's Weekly Share Report TRASER and Co.'s weekly report on the Singapore share market, deated Mar. 17, states: The dangerous international situation which has arisen m Europe as the result of Germany's sudden occupation of the Rhineland has effectually monopolised the attention of the
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  • 76 8 Soviet Experiment Successful Moscow, Mar. 15. ACCORDING to reports received here, the Soviet Russian trust for gas production and gas technics, the socalled "Ssojusgas," which has recently erected an experimental plant for the production of helium, has now succeeded m producing considerable quantities of technically suitable helium, using
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    • 56 8 Including A Gaumont British News KING EDWARD'S BROADCAST Don't Miss The fc ma=^ 'WARNER BROS.' Hest Show l—J^^l Merry Carnival of I L^^^^Aj Mirth and Melody DICK POWELL JOAN 111 OMM I I with scores of entertainers including the famous 4 MILLS BROS. TED FIORITO SSd'S "BROADWAY GONDOLIER" WEEK-END MATINEES
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    • 83 8 SUN TALKIE HALL 7.15 TO-NIGHT 9.15 First National Presents MARY ASTOIt m "ltetiirn of The Terror" By EDGAR WALLACE. i THE EASTERN UNITED ASSURANCE CORPORATION LIMITED. (Incorporated In the Straits Settlements) < FIRE, MARINE, MOTOR, ACCIDENT WORKMEN'S COMPEN- SATION INSURANCE UNDERTAKEN. FULL PARTICULARS AND RATES APPLY, c 16D, CECIL STREET
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  • 584 9 -HOMERIC" NOW FOR SALE 2 Ships Left For Atlantic Service WITH the departure of the Cunard White Star liner Aquit?nia from Southampton on her latest vo>a-.i\ transatlantic travel entered upoi; .1 pbaM which will itrouse the interest of all shipping lines. For the first time
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  • 24 9 Mr. J. Gardiner, Assistant Commissioner of Police, F.M.S., is expected to relieve Mr. E. P. Colgan as Officer Superintending the Police Circle at Kampar.
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  • 179 9 But London Education Rate Is Up LONDON has 192,441 fewer children m its elementary schools than it had m 1914-15. but will have to find a record sum from the rates for educaton next year. These facts emerge from reports of the general purposes sub-committee of the
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  • 131 9 Hyde Park Night Attacks Increase ATTACKS on people m Hyde Park at night are increasing, it was stated at the Old Bailey when three men of the Ist Grenadier Guards were sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment each They were: Harold Taylor, twentytwo" Brian Fargus, twenty, and Walter Joseph
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  • 93 9 Sunday School Held At Inn CHILDREN m a lonely Cambridgev shire parish attend Sunday school at local "Lamb and Flag" Inn. The parish of St. Peters March, Cambs. covers about 4.000 acres of Fen country, known as Binnimoor Fen, and parishoners are few and far between On week-days a bus
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    42 9 A new picture of the giant Cunard White Star liner "Queen Mary" lying m her fitting-out basin at Clydebank, Glasgow, where she is now almost completed, m readiness for her forthcoming maiden voyage. Note the beautifully streamlined bridge of the giant vessel.
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  • 120 9 Road Crash Film At Inquest London. A FILM of a reconstructed accident at a road junction was shown at the Chesterfield inquest on Doreen Gratton (11), who was involved m a collision between two cars. The Chief Constable, Mr. T. Wells, the first police chief to have a
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  • 86 9 SECRETS of an experimental train with a new system of controlling electric current, now m service on the Inner Circle of London's Underground system 1 were revealed by London Transport. Devised by an Italian engineer, the invention achieves much higher rates of acceleration. A speed
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  • 86 9 London. RELIEF from pafll m childbirth for* those who cannot afford expensive medical attention will soon be possible for all mothers by the use of the Minitt gas and air apparatus, seen 'here m a demonstration. It nan be worked entirely by the patient, who breathes m
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  • 78 9 London. A YOUNG man and his wife, who each had to have the right leg amputated after an accident, were awarded £4,293 £2,793 for the man, £1,500 for the woman. Lord Hewart gave the verdict at Monmouth assizes. The coupie, Wilfred Stanley Green (28), a
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  • 22 9 Contracts amounting to over £3,000.000 have been secured by MetroDolitan Vickers for work on the electrification if the Central Railway of Brazil.
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  • 425 9 Hustling Up The Workers Riga. REPORTS have reached Moscow that the tour of inspection being made by M. Kaganovich (Commissar for Transport along the railways of Siberia and the Far East is already having a stimulating effect. Disciplinary methods are being applied on the railways of Eastern
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  • 179 9 Man Who Murdered For A Thrill WHO is "3X"— the man who killed for a thrill— mystery perpetrator of one of the most brutal series of murders m the U.S.A.? The murders began m 1930— two persons were killed m New York. Then m 1932, Fred Hart, former
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  • 307 10 The MORNING TRIBUNE Singapore: Thursday, Mar. 19, 1936. A LL attempts to make the que3tion of the preservation of wild life m Malaya a political issue —attempts which have been made m Malaya and m the House of Commons— have received what might be described as a technical knock-out by
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    684 10 AROUND MALA YA CYCLISTS are no longer enjoying the latitude they possessed m the days of I old. It has been realised for some time I that control of some sort was necessary —control that would not prove too bur- j densome to cyclists, but would, at the same time,
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  • 235 10 Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Kinsey of Kuala Lumpur are on holiday at Fraser's Hill. v Dr. and Mrs. L. F. Day, Kuala Lipis, have been spending a holiday on Fraser's Hill. *P 3p 3|« Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Vasey are paying a shoit visit to Kuala Lumpur
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  • 628 11 MEDICAL HELP AND ADVICE Thousands Of Free Patients Singapore, Tuesday. THAT the Government of the S.S. through certain of its departments, is rendering invaluable service to the masses, chiefly the poor, is an admitted fact, but not much of this is actually known to
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  • 85 11 One Of The Mills Brothers Dead JOHN MILLS, one of the four Mills Brothers, who rose from street singing m small Ohio town to international fame on the stage, screen and wireless, has died at the age of twentyfive. He was the eldest of the negro quartet and
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    35 11 One of the new blocks of buildings which constitute the Free Maternity Hospital at Kandang Kerbau. This hospital is considered one of the largest and most up-to-date of its kind anywhere m the British Empire.
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  • 99 11 Tragedy Of Boy Who Was A Bookworm DESCRIBED by his friends as "a book worm." a fourteen-year-old boy was found drowned m his bath, a book m his hand, at his home m Wimbledon. He was Cyril Ernest Englebretson, of Queensroad, Wimbledon. For three-quarters of an hour
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  • 85 11 Noted Railway Manager Dies SIR WILLIAM FORBES, general manager of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railwoy (now part of the Southern Railway) from 1899 until 1923, died at his home at Maida Vale, aged eighty. His family have long been identified with railway work, his father,
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  • 28 11 Mr. Felix Ingold, manager of the Grand Hotei, Ipoh, is going to Penang about the end of this month to take over the management of the Runnymede Hotel.
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 40 11 PHONE 5933 Telegraphic Address: 5934 <^~lk'\ GOODWOOD The most charmingly situated Hotel m the Island. Ideal for permanent residents RESTAURANT Table d'hote and a la carte. COCKTAIL BAR LOUNGE TENNIS. Special Dinner Dance To-Night DINERS $1.50. NO AFTER-DINNER ADMISSION CHARGE.
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    • 62 11 Creme de Celeri Fish A La Orly Roast Fillet of Beef Horseradish Sauce Cabbage Baked Potato Cold Meat Salad Vanilla Ice Cream Cheese, Fruit, Coffee. Try Our SPECIALTIES. flTl 1? O Uf Lobster Hors D'Oeuvres Varies "Capitol" Baked Alasca A Choice of Over 100 other dishes. '"hones 490 C. I^HMMBERCfI
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  • 72 12 WITH THE IN A UNKNOWN Native soldiers working a field gun. Italian bomber^ after return from a bombing raid. A mountain-gun company moving up into position. Field uirele* ions behind the (root line. Advancing across the plains. An Italic M ie *Kun company. A light machine-gun mounted on the roof
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  • 165 14 Decorative HOMES ONE of the most attractive houses m Singapore is Edgehill on Tyersall Road, the residence of Mr. and Mrs. F. X. Lee. The house itself is set up on top of a hill with terraced lawns on all sides. Surrounding the house there are no trees to block
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  • 429 14 TREMENDOUS strides are being made 1 every day m developing the modern furniture theme. And each s'ride brings us nearer to the ideal of a type which is as satisfying from the standpoint of beauty as it is useful m the life of to-day. Probably the newest,
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    22 14 The staircase has a wrought iron railing and the beautiful Chinese screen lends a dash of colour to the square open hall.
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  • 371 14 One Of Singapore's Beautiful Homes to the lovely carpet of lawn which is intensified by the red sand driveway. Inside everything is spacious and cool, with marble floors and pale green tinted walls. A screencd-in verandah is comfortably arranged with bright Chinese red lacquer pahit tables, and wicker chairs with
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    • 12 14 >1 AISOV PERM LADIES' HAIRDRESSERS. 79 Stamford Road. Tel. 4610. CORNER HOUSE
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    • 75 14 OASIS PORTUGUESE S AKIMM'S A Not just plain ({jt small fish, but 'fl£j& ff^ GENUINE //f f\» 'i sardines from ifß^Tjr^' f, Portugal, a tin V^jfJ of which con- I I tains more vitaI J mins than a litre of Cod Liver Oil. Try Oasis once and you will have
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    • 43 14 1^" FREE SAMPLE OFFER ~~j I Send 10 cents m cash or stamp 3, to cover postage j and packing, and a free sample will be sent by return. Address: i I Xcsile's ->li3o WmpU j J *****5, Cecil Street, I Singapore. I
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  • 327 15 Advent Of Small Hand-Loom Revives Ancient Art WEAVING, one of the most ancient arts practised by woman-kind, is due for a unique revival. Not that we have not always had the big looms available, but because of their size and cost, full Bize looms have not
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  • 23 15 Table centrepieces may be made by shellacking striped, plain or orange ana yellow pumpkins and marrows. They keep indefinitely and are very colourful.
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  • 19 15 Wire dish drains make excellent clothes baskets for small pieces and garden baskets to carry trowel, gloves, seeds, bulbs.
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    • 78 15 LUGGAGE CARRIER SINGAPORE j LUGGAGE CARRIER CO. 1 Baggage Contractors Forwarding Booking Agents 'for F.M.S. t Railways. Baggage Agents for:— j Blue Funnel Line i East Asiatic Line i Nederland Line J 8.1.5. N. Co., Ltd., etc.. etc. J Tel. Address.— "LUGGAGE" S PHONE 2428 or call Union Bldg. STATIONER
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    • 185 15 I A TOURIST'S SHOPPING GUIDE HAIRDRESSER If I Bress for modern I I Hairdressing J I '35 Stamford Rd. Proprietor: Y. Kooy, Tel. 4807. RESTAURANT I Real European j Food j I Come and have your steak cook- ed as you like it on an open charcoal prill by JOHN,
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    • 114 15 CHEMIST FEED YOUR DOG WITH SPILLERS Dog Biscuits WINALOT MEAL SPILLERS SHAPES OSOKO SAVAL No. 1 No. 2. Agents: FEDERAL DISPENSARY, LTD. (Inc. m F.M.S.) Raffles Place, SINGAPORE. SILK STORE KAYSER SILK HOSIERY AND UNDERWEAR Sole Distributors: Tajmahal Store I 23 HIGH ST. BOOKSHOP LAWN TENNIS HANDBOOK OF MALAYA 1936
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    38 16 A striking new picture showing the beautiful streamlining of the bridge of the giant Canard White Star liner "Queen Mary" at Clydebank, Glasgow, where she is now almost completed m readiness for her forthcoming maiden voyage.
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  • 209 16 Termination Of Ocean Mail Contracts 1 New York, Mar. 16. MAJOR provisions of the Copeland Ship Subsidy Bill, under consideration by a sub-committee of the Senatt Commerce Committee, have been sharply criticised by Mr. James A Parrell, Sen., chairman of the Committee on Merchant Marine for the Chamber
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  • 150 16 Equipment Tor The Queen Mary London, Mar. 15. THE Cunard White Star liner Queen Mary is being fitted with the largest and most elaborate radio equipment ever placed on board any ship m the world. The transmitters and receivers alone weigh over 11 tons, but m spite of
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  • 110 16 SHIPS ALONGSIDE THE WHARVES OR EXPECTED TO ARRIVE Godown Gate No. Suwa Mam 18 3 Kedah 14 3 Andre Lebon 12 3 Perak 11 3 Klang 10 3 Van der Lijn 6 3 Shyojin Mara 30 3 Pangkor 32 3 Medon 34 3 Karapara 46 4 Shinkyo
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  • 76 16 Effective Work Of Tin Discovery II New York, Mar. 15. THE United States Charge d'AffaireJ has assured the Foreign Secretary of the sincere gratitude of the United States Government for the efforts ol the United Kingdom and the Australian and N:w Zealand Governments on behalf of Mr. Ellsworth
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  • 84 16 AT a general meeting to be held sh( the directors of the Mancheste Ship Canal Co. will recommend the dc claration of the same dividends as la year, viz., V 2 per cent, on the Mancr ter Ship Canal Corporation Preferem stock, 3V2 per cent, on the Preference
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  • 35 16 Messrs. Brigham and Cowan. South Shields, have secured the con tract for repairs to the Russian Pravda. which was damaged by a «>w sion with the Italian steamer to during fog off Dungeness.
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    • 452 16 V^ and BRITISH INDIA P. O. S. X. COS SAILINGS, OUTWARDS. Doe Due Tonnage Spore. Tonnage Spore. b££s£ GE 15,000 Mar2 6 7 CORFU 15,000 jin^ 5 R^^atsia ,Sn?2 Apr 9 RANCHI 17,000 June W HFtK? Apr 10 NALDERA 16,000 July 3 CHTmAT i2X22 Apr 1Q KAISAR-I-HIND 11,500 July 17
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  • 37 17 Piulette Goddard. who arrive?! m Singapore yesterday with H*** l l han m on the Suwa Maru. shows her jewelled vanity case to Miss hapiin on ht of t||e Mornin? T ri bune.
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  • 46 17 Washington, Mar. 15. THE Department of Agriculture hare announced that January and February sugar importations are under, "1,045.957 tons short, of which Hawaii accounts for 190.932 tons, the Philippines for 101,032 tons. Porto Rico for 200.152 tons, and Cuba 593.841. The Virgin Islands nil.
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  • 77 17 the following visitors to Singapore are 1 registered:— t ,>™h Mr C D V Georgi and Mr. J. LamDourne. from Kuala Lum-ur; Mr R. Koch going to Batavia; Mr. and Mrs. F B Lund. Mrs. Walter Blabon Mr. C F Backs, en route to Hongkong; Miss P Sanaserath.
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    • 151 17 urnxs I'iiiip iixe. (Incorporated m Australia) NEXT SAILINGS. Due Sails. MARELLA Mar. 28 Apr^S > slfeciafdieap round trip Uckets rrom Singapore to Australia issued at the IOU °nrsf C^passengers may transfer at Singapore, Brisbane, Sydney or Me!- SSK S tZ SKJ S S THE BANK LINEAMERICAN ORIENTAL LINE SERVICE. (Owßen:
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    • 330 17 fe. jA XO FRENCH PORTS Jf 1 HOMEWARDS. V J& w^*** Q4 vro 7a i r e Bordeaux Apr. 4 SSi—" 55 MS SSSS S: SISU. ay DALNx OUTWARDS (from Marseilles). im For Saigon, Tourane HaiDhorag. Apr Apr. 8 DALNY May 5 1 D C «KW w i For Saigon
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  • 444 18 MR. FAIREY'S DENIAL Fostering War For Profit THAT aeroplane-making firms m Britain foster terror m the public mind m order to force the Government into buying aerial defence machines: and have combined m a ring to establish a price the Government must pay, was alleged at the
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  • 124 18 Body In A Convent Lake Ongar (Essex). CEVERAL nuns living at Kelveden Hall Convent here formed a search party when it was discovered that a sixty-year-old nun was missing after chapel. Later they found the body of Sister May Primavasi, of Manchester, m a lake m the grounds.
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  • 65 18 Death Of Pioneer In Advertising THE death has occurred at his home m Worthing of Mr. Alfred Sell chairman of the advertising firm of Sells, Ltd., and Chairman of Business Dictionaries, Ltd. Mr. Sell, who was eighty-two, was born at Leighton Buzzard. He came to Fleet-street m
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  • 74 18 MAJOR-GENERAL Sir Edward Sinclair May, who was among those besieged at Ladysmith, has died at Rockbeare Court, Devon, at the age of eighty. Sir Edward, who was the eldest son of the late Right Hon. George May, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, became a lieutenant
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    21 18 Helpers at the sale of work at To mlinson Hall to raise funds for the fu rafahtag of the Presbyterian Manse
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  • 132 18 King Tut" Excavators Defy "Death Curse" CONSIDERABLE importance may atv tach to the discovery of two tombs near Luxor. They are near King Tut-ankh Amen's tomb, which was discovered by Mr. Howard Carter and is reputed to have brought tragedy to those concerned m the wor^. Nearly twenty of those
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  • 18 18 Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Thomas of Sungei Patani. Kedah, are on a holiday visit to the F.M.S.
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  • 98 18 Two Queer Jobs For Firemen WHEN a delivery van horse stumbled and fell head first down an excavation m Swallow-street. Piccadilly, London, the carter jumped clear, but the terrified animal plunged about and was m danger of breaking its neck. Twenty firemen with two engines and a crane lifted
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  • 49 18 ON St. Valentine's Day (February 14' every employee of the Chrysler Motor Company will receive, as a personal Valentine from Mr. Waiter P. Chrysler, a week's salary, plus a bonus for every year of service, to mark the close of* the biggest year m the firm'i history.
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  • 222 19 2nd List Of Subscriptions For Year MR. J M. Sime, hon. treasurer of the Children's Aid Society, forwards the second list of subscriptions for the year 1935-6. The total received is $9,985.60, including $4,261.93 from I/)rd Nuffleld. The list is as follows:— Previously acknowledged $4,415.40 Mrs. Small
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  • 118 19 Nearly $79,000 Collected In Malaya THE final statement of accounts for I the 1935 Poppy Day collections m Malaya for the Earl Haig Fund shows that the total received was $78,933, an increase of $2,892 over the figure for 1934 Collections m Sarawak, amounting to £75, have been
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  • 229 19 Does Not Want To Go To War Singapore, Tuesday. "PANADA will not go to war unless t she is directly threatened," said the Ho»i. Ferdinand Roy to a Malaya Tribune representative on board the Reliance this morning *hen asked for his opinions regarding the feeling of the Canadians.
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  • 134 19 (Continued from 710 pm. Vocal concert. E. F. Schul-ler-Wiiss 'soprano): J. M. Jiskoot-Soep-nel (soprano): J. C. Schulte-Hansen (mezzo-soprano), and A. van Hout-rMve-Postema (alt.). 820 p.m. News of the week. 845 pm. The Nirom Orchestra. 9.15 p.m. International compositions played by the Nirom Orchestra. 9.50 p.m English variety music.
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 1035 19 ON THE RADIO J w^ 4.20 p.m. Hitler Youth Programme: British Empire |9*«tf»€i|«llltllll€^ 5 °5 p.m. Carl Maria von Weber m rm *O m ••■■m—m/ Stuttgart. A Radio Play based on Weber's Youth, by F. Ludwig Schneider. Transmission Z: GSG 16.86 mttn* 550 p.m. "Herr Heinrich sitzt am -To WPS
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    • 88 19 (Continued from next column) Nos. 43 and 44 Upper Chin Chew Street, area 2617 sq. ft., <1842>; No. f>B Upper Chin Chew Street, area 1.186 sq. ft 1842»- No 27 Unper Chin Chew Street, area 1310 so. ft.. <184l> and No. 37 Upper Chin Chew Street, area 1.063 sq. ft.
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  • 221 20 Concluding Events Completed Yesterday THE principal event m the Pony Show and Gymkhana organised by the Singapore Polo Club, which was postponed on Sunday due to fading light and the soft nature of the ground, was worked off on the Club grounds to-day when
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  • 367 20 Thrift And Loan Society Meeting Singapore, Tuesday. THE eleventh annual geifenU meetin;; of the members of the Singapore Harbour Board Employees' Co-operative Trift and Loan Society, Ltd., was held at the Singapore Harbour Board Junior Service Club, Cantonment Road this evening. Mr. F. H. Robinson presided. In a short
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  • 63 20 CCOTLAND Yard traffic experts and en- gineers are trying to find a suitable type of gong for police cars. Sir John Simon, the Home Secretary, stated m answer to a question m the House that the Yard wants a gong or siren which has a more piercing sound
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  • 104 20 A SCHEME has oeen devised, according to the Echo d? Paris, by which the stainrd glass windows m French ca,thedrals can be proiCLled against air attacks. The oiiginator.s of the scheme claim that they nave prepared a plan by which all the famous windows m
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  • 1029 21 STOR V AT ASSIZES Terrible Head Injuries Singapore, Wednesday. AN echo of the brutal murder m East Coast Road on the night of Oct. 28. 1935, when a Tamil gardener m the employ of Mrs. Handy was found hacked to death on the front verandah of
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  • 81 21 Peers "Classed As Lunatics"! BECAUSE a peer is refused the right to vote, trie crowd regards him with ridicule, as an individual to be dassed with •prisoners and lunatics said Lord Ponsonby m the House 01 L °He S submitted a motion to give all neers the right
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  • 39 21 Mr Justice N. H. P. Whitley Acting rhiPf Justice SS., Sir Samuel Thomas, Chte JusUce, F.M.S. and Mr. Justice Gordon-Smith who went to .at at the Kedah Court of Appeal on Saturday Police under Mr. C. T. uoDree, \j.v.*t.
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  • 123 21 Thousands Homeless Disastrous Floods And Fire m Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Mar. 18. DISASTROUS floods m western Pennsylvania invaded Pittsburgh to-day, flooding the famous downtown section known as "The golden triangle" and virtually isolating 700,000 people. The waters of the River Alleghany have risen to the unprecedented height of 44 feet. Fires
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  • 110 21 Chinese On Smuggling Charge Singapore, Wednesday. AN alleged attempt to smuggle over $1,500 worth of scrap rubber into the Colony was frustrated by revenue officers on duty near the Sungei Bagan river, off Jurong Road yesterday monitor A Chinese named Cheng Boon Kwang who was said to
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  • 160 21 To-day In Singapore FOOTBALL: Div. 1., Malays vs. R.E., at Anson Road stadium. Div. HI., Medical Services vs. Indian R.C., at S.R.C. ground. CAPITOL:— "The Last Days of Pompeii" with Preston Foster, Alan Hale, Basil Rathbone, Louis Calhern, Dorothy Wilson ,etc. PAVILION:— "I Give My Heart," with Gitta Alpar rind
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  • 18 21 A Commission as Second-Lreutenant has been granted to Mr. Athelstan Charles Stone m the S. 8. V. F.
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  • 224 21 Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday. a STEEL spanner falling from a height of nearly forty feet and passing clean through his eye and halfway through his head was the cause of the death of an Indian Mohammedan, formerly of Singapore, who was employed m the construction of the
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  • 141 21 Fine Acting In "I Give My Heart" "1 GIVE my heart," the new production J which opened at the Pavilion last night, is a screen version of "The Dußarry," the play which was so great a succession London a few years ago. The British and Dominions company have
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  • 125 21 Commission To Visit Malaya London, Mar. 18. DEPLYING m the Commons to Mr. I* Graham White, Mr. J. H. Thomas said after consultation with the Governors concerned he had decided to appoint a Commission to visit Hongkong and Malaya with the following terms of reference to investigate the whole
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  • 55 21 Singapore, Wednesday. IN the S.C.C. Lawn Bowls Doubles 1 Handicap tournament this afternoon, Dr E A Elder and C. R. Wardle plus 2 beat H. B. Knox and W. Williams s.c.r., To-morrow H. E. Stevens and K. C. Olllett plus 2 will meet J. W. Larcombe and
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    • 34 21 {I* y GREATEST STAGE SUCCESS WILL GIVE YOU AN E\fcNlN(. \l/L*l D n l e W AA|* OK KIN AND HILARITY XOV WILL LON(. KhMh.MHKR. wniie r 2irenis jiccp pavilion theatre, n KXT change.
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  • 1807 22 INSTRUCTIVE ADDRESS Mr. Holttum At Rotary Singapore, Wednesday. "THERE is much to be done m the matter of educating the general nublic m the care of trees, and m creating a civic pride m the trees, which should be one of the chief beauties of our
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  • 451 22 Personal Interest Of The King Singapore, Wednesday. A STRONG plea for the preservation of wild same m Malaya was made by Sir Thomas Comyn-Platt, of the Society for the Preservation of Empire Fauna, m a special interview with the Tribune at Government House to-day. Sir Thomas has arrived
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  • 62 22 King John Didn't Lose His Crown KING JOHN did not. as it is said m nomilar st-rv. km his crown m tne quicksands of the Wash. Mt. M. Holmes, of the London Museum. WJ definite rbout this when he addressee! the Society of Antiquirians In Londoir The crown, he said,
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    • 41 22 We meet y° u at the ALHAMBRA TO-MORROW /^^^■HHHk NIGHT m the new C ibaret mBl "SHIP C F E V" '^^l^fe^ V .BBMBMBBBiBBiBBBBMBMBBBMBiBMBBlMBl"""""" Come and enjoy a night of Music, Revelry and Yours m fun, Carl Brisson and Arline Judge
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  • 559 23 DAVIS CUP STAR MAKES A SUGGESTION "Buster" Andrews Visiting Singapore a SUGGESTION that a Far Eastern A tennis competition, between Malaya, Siam, Indo-China, the N.E.1., phUippincs, China and Hong Kong rhould be inaugrated was made by Mr E D ("Bouster") Andrews the J' Zealand tennis star,
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  • 264 23 Big Entry For Contests Singapore, Wednesday. RECORD entries have been received for the Novices Boxing meet which is being organised by the Singapore Amateur Boxing Asso ciation. The meet was to have been hem m the New World Arena, but owing to the Flower Show to
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    17 23 E. D. Andrews playing for New Ze aland m the Davis Cup competition at Eastbourne last year.
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  • 52 23 The following have accepted to play association football for S.C.C. v. R.A. on Friday, Mar. 20, at Anson Road Stadium. E. Cherrington; Capt. N. L. Hammond, and F. A. McCaffery; KG. Gillett, F. E. Hutchinson, R. Davidson; J. E. D. Graham, J. Abbott. H. E. Orr, J. W. Muncey, A.
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  • 116 23 Indian Hemp Valued At $720 Singapore, Wednesday. RAIDING a house m Tan j ong Pagar Road on Feb. 26, inspector Tan and a posse of detectives discovered $720 worth of Indian hemp. Subsequent investigations led to the arrest of two Indian Mohamedans, Mohamed Noor- din bin Marican and
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    • 35 23 for fTT i liililTTT 1 KAv IVEi J.^ BHlllllllllMiffiy or There is anly I RELIABLE H PLACE I QUEEN'S ii 3, Prince Street. lH Phone Telegrams 7634 "Tennis" English, Australian Gut, only used. No other.
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    • 68 23 S THERE HAS BEEN NO SLUMP j 1 LIFE ASSURANCE. WHY? BECAUSE LIFE ASSURANCE IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF OUR DAILY LIFE. 1 j YOU NEED A POLICY THERE IS A POLICY TO SUIT YOU i i I S APPLY FOB PARTICULARS TO S THE 1 GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE
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  • 746 24 FIVE GOALS MARGIN Could Have Got More Singapore, Wednesday. FE R.A.F. were m scoring mood when they met the Police m a first division match at Anson Road stadium this evening, and ran out easy winners by five goals to one m a match which
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  • 525 24 Division Two Points For Fort Canning Singapore, Wednesday. IN a game packed with thrills, Fort Canning beat the R.A.F II by four goals to two m their Second Division fixture on their ground this evening. All four goals by the Soldiers were netted m the
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  • 699 24 (Continued jrom page 1) cussions have as usual on such occasions been based on various draft memoranda submitted by the various Powers. In view of the present fluid condition of the situation these drafts have naturally been kept private, although their broad outlines have become known. Nearly
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  • 297 24 Brisk Matches Yesterday Singapore, Wednesday. TWO games were left unfinished on the V.M.C.A. courts this afternoon when the open invitation Tennis tournament was resumed, so keen were the dulls. In one of the quarter-finals of the men's handicap singles, I. Reshly waopposed to Ramaiya. Playing steadily the
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  • 26 24 Mr. Joseph William de Piro is recosinised as honorary Consul of Finland at .Singapore with jurisdiction covering thr ,Straits Settlements, the Federated and Unfederatcd Malay States.
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  • 20 24 Mr. R. R. Cambridge. Assistant Engineer, Malayan Public Works Service, has been seconded for service under the Government of Kedah.
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