Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 18 March 1933

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE ESTABLISHED 1833. PUBLISHED DAILY. No. 63. Vol. LXXXXI. SATURDAY. 18th MARCH. 1933. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 154 1 —Reuter. DEATH THE PENALTY Litvinoff's Reply SOVIET RELATIONS Mote Than Individuals Moscow, Yesterday. M. Litvinoff has informed the British Ambassador that the arrested employees of Metropolitan Vickers will shortly be tried in the Supreme Court on a charge of counter-revolu-tion for which the
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  • 95 1 considered virtually eliminated. Rugby Radio Service. Chiang Kai-shek Not to Fight for Recovery Tokyo, Yesterday. AJthovgh die Chines? are expected to contin" attacks along the Great Wall for ■sometime the Foreign Office spokesman intimated that Government was now satisfied that Chiang Kai-shek’s visit to the north China was
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  • 121 1 Rugby Radio Service. Rugby, Yesterday, i Notice is given by the Treasury of a new issue of two and a half per cent, conversion loan dated 1944 49 to be offered by tender cr otherwise as the Treasury may, from time to time direct. The first tenden wil’
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  • 47 1 Tokyo, March 8. Tire House of Peers unanimously passed the Budget Bill this afternoon. Cape Town, March 8. death has occurred of the German Consul-General in the South African Uni°h, Herr von Kessler, in his 58th year. He r ccntly returned from home leave.
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  • 195 1 To Be Escorted By Italian Planes Rugby, Yesterday. The Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary, who wall leave Geneva accompanied by Miss Ishbel Macdonald late to-night, will be met at Genoa by the Italian Air Minister. General Balbo, who will himself pilot the aircraft in which Mr.
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  • 273 1 Chengchiatun and Supingkai. —Rugby Radio Service. —Reuter. Mukden, Yesterday. Fifty passengers were killed and over seventy injured shortly after midnight when a freighter crashed at the rear of a passenger train which had halted due to partial derailing between Chengchiatun and Supingkai. —Rugby Genoa to-morrow’ morning where they
    Chengchiatun and Supingkai.—Rugby Radio Service.; •.—Reuter.  -  273 words
  • 54 1 The Censorship Being Tightened Lisbon, March 9. The Government has tightened the censorship, which has been extended to all periodicals as well as pamphlets, handbills, posters and political and economic books. Newspaper editors have been instructed to refrain from sensational newsmongering and particularly to publish only the barest
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  • 109 1 —Reuter. Wrecked Off Coast Of Ceylon JAPANESE BOAT TO THE RESCUSE Colombo, Yesterday. Fifteen were killed in an explosion on the Norwegian steamer Hinnoy from Antwerp to China which was wrecked three hundred miles to the west of Colombo. Thirteen survivors five of whom are seriously injured,
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  • 148 1 In the absence of a Triptique system for, the temporary importation into L Kong of non-British cars ne Hong Fu Automobile Association has offered to assist members of the A. A. of Malaya who may visit that part of the world with their cars. At present
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  • 62 1 COLOMBIA PERU DISPUTE Reuter. "League Council Produces Report" EVIDENCE AGAINST PERU Geneva, Yesterday., Follow’ing the Sino-Japanese precedent the League Council committee produced a report on the Colombia-Peru dispute consisting of historique conclusions and recommendations. The weight of evidence is strongly against Peru. The recommendations call for immediate military evacuation of
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  • 62 1 Amorous Bangkok Schoolboys (From Our Own Correspondent) Bangkok, Yesterday. The Minister of Public Instruction on a speech on Friday evening, castigated Bangkok schoolboys for attending cinemas not in order to see pictures but to meet school girls and flirt. Moreover boys were showing a tendency to wait
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  • 117 1 Madrid, March 8. The foreign trade statistics for last year, now published, show a slump. The export trade amounted to 738,000,000 pesetas and imports to 974,000,0000, revealing an adverse balance of 236,000,000 as against the previous year’s 214,000,000. The total volume of trade diminished by 422,000,000 pesetas
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  • 46 1 war loan at one hundred. —Rugby Radio Service. Rugby, Yesterday. The outstanding feature of the Stock Exchange market teas the strength, of leading British Government stocks which registered a general advance of one eighth to eleven sixteenths with tear loan af one hundred. —Rugby
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  • 93 1 Rugby Radio Service. British and French Ministers Exchange Views Rugby, Yesterday. A Treasury communique s’ates that M. Georges Bonnet, the French Minister of Finance, had a conversation to-day with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the President of the Board of Trade on questions raised in the agenda
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  • 71 1 Receives a Distinguished Visitor Rome, March 8. An interesting event was the reception by the Pope of a direct descendant of the Chinese philosopher Confucius. Dr. Kung Shiang-shi claims an unbroken family tree, showing descent through seventy five generations. The Pope chatted with the distinguished visitor, who was
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  • 67 1 —Reuter. To Be Strengthened EXPENDITURE OF £7,000,000 APPROVED Ten New Warships London, To-day. The Daily Herald’s Canberra correspondent says that the Commonwealth Government is understood to have decided to provide £7,000,000 sterling to strengthen national defence which will include ten new warships, additional fortifications, and re-equipment of the
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  • 88 1 Brutal Murder of Ice Water Seller (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, To-day. The allegation that six young Chinese ambushed another Chinese and brutally murdered him was made at the inquest on Pay Boon Whatt, an ice water seller, whose body was recovered from a stream near Tampcnis-road.
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  • 40 1 "LIVING CORPSE CASE Ong Cho Chin Sentenced to Ten Years’ Imprisonment (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, To-day. Ong Cho Chin was convicted in connection with the living corpse” case and sentenced to ten years’ rigorous imprisonment The others were discharged.
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  • 54 1 Misfortunes of Singapore Barrister (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, To-day. A statement that the personal belong ngs of Mr. G. H. Gardside, the local solicitor, including his clothes and false leg had been seized by petitioning creditors was marie in the bankruptcy court when a petition tor a
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  • 39 1 (From Our Own Correspondent) S ngapore, To-day. “I’ll never touch a drop again,” said a penitent Indian who was found by the police in Serangcen read last night and to-day fined $2 for being drunk and incapable.
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  • 50 1 —Reuter. Mr. Albert Wiggin Resigns Directorship cf Federal Reserve Board New York, Yesterday. Mr. Albert Wiggin has resigned the I directorship of the Federal Reserve Board, S’e-v York, on which there are now two vacancies aa Mr. Woodin recently resigned to accept the Secretaryship of the Treasury.
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  • 67 1 Mr. S. S. Sawrey Cookson We are officially informed that a telegram has been received from the Secretary of State to the effect that the Honourable Mr. S. S. Sawrey Cookson, Puisne Judge, Supreme Court, Gold Coast, has been appointed a Puisne Judge of the Supreme
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    • 2107 2 HATES FOR CASUAL not.ceof sale V.V.VAV.'.W.V. BANKS ADVERTISEMENTS Penang Auction Mart I Saturday, 11th Saturday, h, The nederlandsche Chartered EksriT' MAATSCHAPPIJ, OF INDIA, AUSTRALIX AND CHINA BY ORDER OF THE MOR fntRIES closed at 4.00 p.m. on WEDNES- D M M M MW f Incorporated in England All communications relating
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  • 294 3 THE DUCHESS PLEADS FOR UNEMPLOYED Friendly Jobs Are a Great Help CALL FOR AID Rarely has the Duchess of Yor.>. made a long speech in public, but last night she departed from precedent to make a moving reference to the vital problem of the day—unemployment. The occasion
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  • 333 3 Indian Hemp Resin in Medicated Ghee "T A verdict of death by misadventure was returned by Mr. F. G. Bourne, the Singapore Coroner, at the inquiry into the death of a Malayalee named H. R. Wariyor at the General Hospital following the consumption of a quantity of medicated
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  • 278 3 Declared “Mute of Malice” THREE YEARS’ SENTENCE ENDS STRANGE TRIAL An unusual situation developed at Liverpool Assizes w’hen a man, accused of an offence against a girl aged six, refused to plead in answer to the charge. He was John M’Donough (31), fireman, St. Anne Street,
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    • 64 3 SLUMP or no slump, all rhe advertising business that reaches this office t.« not accepted. Our Adver isiug Department exercises discrimination. It has to live up to the traditions of a century of unbroken publication and maintain its reputation for giving advertiser and consumer a square deal. If you see
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    • 186 3 HOW TO AVOID INDIGESTION AN EASY WAY TO DO IT In most digestive troubles, excess acid and fermented food have a tendency to remain in the stomach until the next meal is eaten. That is why intense pain so often follows immediately after eating. In cases of this kind, digestive
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  • 688 4 "THE F'RST YEAR” Charming Film Draws Crowds at Majestic Back to sentiment, simplicity and domesitcity! It is good to find the world’s screen sweethearts, Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, in such a refreshingly unsophisticated and charming film as this adaptation of Frank Craven’s stage play, which naturally
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  • 80 4 Fair isle of Erin, heaven flung, More emerald than the sea, Where hills are old and hearts are young And hope springs ever free; Where cold in sorrow clothes the morn With all her wistful spate, And sudden suns of love are born The no less quick than
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  • 243 4 Story of a Car That Ran Backwards Arthur Wragg, aged 21, the jockey, of Waterloo-road, Epsom, elected to go for trial when he was charged at Kingston, Surrey, recently with having been under the influence of drink while in charge of a car on
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  • 241 4 F.8.1.’s Appeal to Premier Addressing the Prime Minister, the Federation of British Industries emphasise the “apprehensions felt in industrial quarters in respect of the reported intention to subject civil aviation to international control,” which they expressed to the Secretary for Air in November. The federation consider
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  • 170 4 Warning That Police Were Coming Late on Wednesday, afternoon the Monopolies Department, Singapore, received information that the illicit distillation of liquor was in progress in the vicinity of Mandai Road, Seletar, and a party of officers immediately made their way to the spot. Their approach was, however,
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  • 1769 4 The Dowager Countess of Seafield is a passenger to Europe by the Corfu. Mrs. Ketscbker, of Kuala Lumpur is indisposed and confined to her house. Mr. A. H. Flowerdew, M.C.S., left yesterday for a holiday trip to Hong Kong. Mrs. R. Skelchy, w’ho has been residing in
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 93 4 I 'Phono 264 I TO-DAY 2.45—6.15 6 9.30 I I POSITIVELY LAST THREE PERFORMANCES I NORMA SHEARER I Fredric March—Leslie Howard I IN M.-G.-M.’s MOST BEAUTIFUL PICTURE f "SMILIN' THROUGH" TO-MORROW—Opening At The Matinee JAMES CAGNEY IN WARNER BROS. THRILLING EPIC OF THE SPEED»." I "THE CROWD ROARS” FOR RESERVATIONS
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  • 436 5 Modern Young Artists* Silly Social Life" Sir William Rothenstein, principal of the Royal College of Art, speaking at a dinner given by the Authors' Club in London, said he thought no greater harm was done to art than by the silly social life which some of
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  • 125 5 Details of Penang’s Contribution We are indebted to Mrs. P. T. Allen, Hon. Organiser of the Poppy Day Fund, for the following statement of contributions towards Poppy Day Fund, 1932, in Penang. Money collected by— Europeans 5,795 23 Chinese 1,235 29 Ceylonese 150 10 Malays and Arabs
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  • 63 5 Mr. J. C. Cobbett, the Singapore judge, who has been temporarily appointed to a seat on the Malayan bench, arrived from Singapore, yesterday morning and assumes duties in Penang as from to-day. Mr. Cobbett was accompanied by Mrs. Cobbett and child. Mr. Justice Prichard, K.C., and
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  • 209 5 Helpless With Rheumatism At one time she thought she would lose the use of her right hand. But when she started the “little daily dose” of Kruschen, it soon put her right. “I was sure in a bad state,” she writes, “In fact, I could not
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  • 204 5 Motor Car Out of Control in Campbell Street A Chinese named Goh Ah Kow, appeared before the Police Magistrate, yesterday morning as a result of mishandling his cousin’s car in Campbell Street and causing injury to two small boys named Sau San and Yoo Fong.
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  • 131 5 ST. GEORGE THE MARTYR CHURCH OF ENGLAND 3rd SUNDAY IN LENT 7.50 Litany. 8 am. Matins Ps CXIX; Verses 73 104. Hymn 194. 8.30 Holy Communion. 9.15 Holy Communion Tamil. 6.30 Evensong—Ps CXIX verses 105 —128 —238. Magnificat 48. Nunc Dimittis 241. S. Patrick’s Breastplate. Hymns 184, 260.
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  • 341 5 Biggest Swimming Bath in the Country GREYHOUND TOTES W embley Director Suggests Charity Contribution A scheme for creating a huge pleasure playground and sports park for London at Wembley was revealed by Sir Vyell Vyvyan, vice-chairman of Wembley, Stadium, Ltd. Sir Vyell was addressing the
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  • 142 5 Forthcoming Ties The following ties have been arranged for the week commencing Monday, March 20: Men’s Championship Singles.—G. A. Rozells v. H. E. McClelland. Men’s Doubles Handicap.— —30.3 E. Valberg and H. M. Thomasz v. —l5 W. M. Aeria and J. F. Scully. TUESDAY, MARCH
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  • 67 5 P.C.C. v. Penang Free School The following having been selected to represent the P.C.C. at a football match against the Free School on Tuesday on the Esplanade: W. M. Oak-Rhind; C. D. Morgan, A. W. Wallich; H. Bracegirdle (Capt.), J. E. Burnham, S. L. McNee; O. R. T. Henman,
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 34 5 Start taking IS ‘PHYLLOSAN’ I J TO-DAY I I jy It revitalizes and rejuvenates I [s pii ii We] BUILDING PRODUCTS 1 HOLLOW BLOCKS. TILES. PIPES. CULVERTS. FOR QUOTATIONS APPLY— UNITED ENGINEERS LTD., PENANG.
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  • 327 6 A Favourite Chair AUCTION SALE AT RIVERSIDE HOME Fashionably dressed women, dealers, and country folk jostled one another in the crowded marquee at The Wharf, Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire, the home of the late Lord Oxford, when the sale of the contents of the house was
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  • 163 6 Another Dartmoor Man George Colley, aged 33, a labourer, of Goodson-road, Fulham, S.W., who was given six months’ remission of sentence for good conduct during the Dartmoor riots of January' last year, was sentenced at London Sessions to six months' imprisonment for loitering with intent to
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  • 143 6 Cash and Sweep Ticket Stolen from Presbytery A pursuit by priests of an intruder in a Roman Catholic presbytery at Mortlake, S.W., w*as described in Mortlake Police Court. George Arthur Warren, of Hammersmith, W., was charged with breaking into the presbytery and stealing £23 in cash
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  • 522 6 What He Meant “UNEMPLOYMENT CANNOT BE SMALL” Mr. Chamberlain, chancellor of the Exchequer, replied, in a speech at Edinburgh, to w’hat he described as “much criticism, some misrepresentation, and a good deal of abuse,” following his recent speech in the House of Commons on
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  • 55 6 Soldier to Serve Two Years* Hard Labour It was announced that Driver Walter Clarke Heale, of the 23rd Company, Royal Army Service Corps, who pleaded Not Guilty at a court-martial at Devonport to striking his superior officer, was found guilty. He was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment
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  • 129 6 A Coincidence QUESTION ON DAY OF DISASTER A curious coincidence is revealed by an American writer, Mr. George Sylvester Viereck, in The Strangest Friendship in History (Duckw’orth, 12s. 6d.), an able study of the relationship betw*een President Wilson and his “second personality” and confidential agent. Colonel
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  • 370 6 The Unstamped Glass A challenge to drink beer with Mr. C. W. H. Glossop, the Conservative M. P. for Penistone, Yorkshire, in certain licensed premises within a mile of the Houses of Parliament, was readily accepted by Dr. L. Burgin, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade,
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  • 157 6 Bench Forgives Doctor A dramatic story of a car dash by Professor Edward Charles Dodds, a member of the staff of the Middlesex County Hospital, from Swansea to London (191 miles) to perform an operation and save a man's life was told at Oxford. His chauffeur,
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    • 260 6 k </- Vt I «CT'^ft/aF I 1 li^—* 111 ;< ever fresh wonder I EvtX i" *> Pe ,Um Soft a «PT 1 valiant to I P most <W’«” |j| comp'®*' oo t he a a3M 111 of a trying cl,ma eill that realise the I ?I°s of Iheir originatorill
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    • 11 6 WHAT LONDON IS DOING READ CHARLES ROBERTS in the SUNDAY GAZETTE.
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    • 236 6 >- z- ’’WiwO "i' babv J because it ii» I nearest to I nature! HUMANISED HLIj LJ Ll Li. I ST EACH TIN STAMPED E I E your SAirr-iu,, SOLE AGENTS FOR M? LAYA THE DISPENSARY < LTD., PENANG. TOUCH THE POINT TO PAPER AND EFFORTLESS WORDS o’* W s
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  • 1045 7 LADY (MURIEL) BOWDEN “GREAT UNKINDNESS AND CRUELTY NOT PROVED A petition by Lady (Muriel) Bowden for a decree for judical separation from Sir Harold Houston Bowden, of Bestwood Lodge, Arnold, Nottingham, was dismissed in the Divorce Court. At first the petition was dismissed with
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  • 424 7 WOMAN’S DIARY BRIDEGROOM SENT TO DAUGHTER Entries in the diary of the late Mrs Mary Newton Wilmer, who, it is alleged, I went through a form of marriage with I John Byers Maxwell, a journalist, not i knowing that he had married her daugh- ter, were read
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  • 399 7 Fraud at 68 FALSIFIED “CO-OP.” ACCOUNTS A sixty-eight-years-old alderman of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and a former vicechairman of the Watch Committee, who had been for 23 years a city magistrate, was sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment in the second division for fraud in connection with transactions with
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  • 201 7 WHITE STAR LINE’S HELP When asked in the House of Commons whether conversations were stil' proceeding between the Government, the Cunard Company, and the White Star Company (involving, among other things, the resumption of the building of the giant Cunarder), Dr. Burgin, Parliamentary Secretary, Board of Trade, replied:
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    • 37 7 Si.LiJNG MAMt EASY Time», arc bard bu Uerc is uo uced tv oiler that article at a "throws «ay price.” S*n<l along a small advertisement t< the “I’inanp Gazette” and dispose of i* at a satiuctury u*uiv.
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    • 223 7 Building materials READY STOCKS OF "TUNNEL 1 and "TUNNELITE" British Cement—loo per cent. BRITISH MILD STEEL BARS RUBEROID" Roofing Materials MASTICON ASBESTOS CEMENT FLAT SHEETS. ENQUIRIES SOLICITED L HENRY WAUGH CO.. LTD., PENANG SINGAPORE KUALA LUMPUR IRON BANGKOK. wwMjl HL WWk N. «Jr /1 r X /1 J 9 I
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  • 835 8 Last month, the House of Commons held, within the space of a week, two full-dress debates on the subject of unemployment. They added nothing to enlightenment they merely served as an excuse for the liberation of feeling or for the pushing of party propaganda. Mr. Lansbury, who
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  • 907 8 Mr. Woodpecker was taking a half-day in return for giving the whole cl the previous Saturday night and a part of the Sunday to the aid of a horse that was suffering from inflammation due to a surfeit of young grass. He sat on the bench outside
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  • 703 8 FENANG VEGETABLES A visitor who has sampled hospitality of the various hotels of Ma’a- a evpress<><j his surprise that caterers took 0 litti trouble to provide a reasonable variety of I fresh vegetables. Cabbage and turnips varied by an occasional Spanish or Indian 1 onion or stringy
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  • 873 9 To Be Examined By Select Committee AUTOMONY FOR PROVINCES Federal Government Given Responsibility Over Whole Field Allotted To Federation Rugby, Y ester day. Government’s proposals for the reformed constitution of India were issued in the form of a White Paper and will be examined by
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  • 82 9 sion.—Reuter. Constitution Fundamentally Altered NEW DECREE PASSED Berlin, Yesterday. Herr Hugenburg has passed a decree fundamentally altering the constitution of the Berlin bourse and ordering the election on April 29 of a new and smaller bourse committee the composition of which must ba approved by Government agricultural
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  • 353 9 “One, Two, Three” SNOW TRAIL TO I SEA A wife’s telephone call to the police for news of her husband. The discovery of footprints in the snow leading to the sea, where a man was seen struggling in the waves. Two workmen plunging into the
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  • 319 9 Alleged Attempt to Stop Trial Mr. John McGovern, Socialist M.P. for Shettleston, is to ask Sir Godfrey Collins, the Secretary of State for Scotland, to set up a judicial inquiry into the affairs of the Glasgow Corporation following the I conviction at Glasgow of Bailie James Strain,
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  • 611 9 Farewell Siede Luncheon USEFUL SERVICES TO KEDAH (From Our Own Correspondent.) Alor Star, March 16. On the eve of their departure from the State, the Hon. Capt. A. C. Baker, Acting British Adviser to the Government of Kedah, and Mrs. Baker were guests of honour
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  • 216 9 .—Reuter. World Press Reaction GENERAL AGREEMENT London, Yesterday. The Macdonald disarmament scheme has a good press in Britain. The Times commenting says the proposals are bold, comprehensive and precise reflecting credit on the British Delegation and the Premier, who presented them to the world in so swift
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  • 91 9 TlN— Spot YESTERDAY TO-DAY London £l5O-0-0 £149-5-0 TIN—(3 Months) London £l5O-15-0 £149-17-6 Singapore $76.87 $76.37 Business Done Penang $76.87% Business Done Buyers—No sellers COPRA —(Sundried) $4.50 BLACK PEPPER $17.00 RUBBER London 2&d. New York 3&c.(G) 3Ac.(G) Singapore 6% cts cts TAPIOCA Fair Seed *4.°o Medium Pearl $4.10 RICE
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    • 13 9 Every Wednesday Ladies will find special articles of interest in The PINANG GAZETTE."
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    • 156 9 < J C/5 "Swing" costs no more than ordinary brands, and in these days of that’s a great comfort. And talking of comfort, there is nothing like "Swing" blended specially for the Tropics, for ironing out the hardships of life By the way. how long did it take you to
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  • 555 10 Re-Building The State Office "Warrens” CABINET PROPOSAL I understand, says the Lobby correspondent of the Evening Standard, that considerable progress has been made by a Committee of the Cabinet in the consideration Government offices in Whitehall. The immediate plan is for a block
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  • 382 10 Amazing Record FEW WEEKS AFTER INFLUENZA How the crowds cheered! Thousands of them lined this famous stretch of beach as far as the eye could see when just before noon Sir Malcolm Campbell prepared for his amazing record-breaking dash. The visibility was so poor that officials
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  • 322 10 t 7-Years-Old Blue Bird Blue Bird is undoubtedly the most amazing motor-car the world has ever Known. Many of its component parts are identical with those used when its construction was first started in 1924, although the car was not actually completed until the end of 1926.
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    • 38 10 I Lel Ivans’ Pastaim ba good to your throat. You’ll find them particularly so la ‘:1 c s »*ol«*sn«ss f hu*kine<s, coughs or colds. ■EVANS* ■M Pistillu from Chemists everywhere. J® England to a formula ofite Aahmrpool Throat
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    • 435 10 I TOBACCO SO EASY TO WASH SO HARD TO WEAR OUT A TOOTAL PRODUCT HAVE you bought your TOBRALCO Directly you touch Tobralco you are conscious of its quality; its beautiful weave; its firm texture. It proves a wonderful economy in sunny climates—and it washes so easily. The designs and
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  • 158 11 BUT there are fewer weddings Boys of 16 Marry Women of 24 MORE DIVORCES Fewer people were married during 1931 in England and Wales than in v*ze previous year. Statistics issued recently by the Regis-trar-General show that there were 311,847 jnarriages in 1931, as against 315,109
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  • 1401 11 A Year of Effort in the United States CREDIT EXPANSION The major effort of the American Government to deal with the depression is now just a year old, and for that reason this may be an appropriate moment to estimate its value. One reveals no secret in saying that
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    • 824 12 The Japanese policy of flooding the markets of the world with goods made by cheap labour was commented on by Sir George Beharrel, managing director of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., in the course of a speech welcoming a party of
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    • 667 12 Singapore, Mar. 15. After a week's closure the American Banks have re-opened under certain restrictions, and rather contrary to general expectation, the opening quotation for the Gold Dollar showed a small appreciation over the last price published before the Moratorium was declared. Wall Street still remains closed
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    • 40 12 The tin output of Ayer Weng Mines for the month of February, 1933, was 170 piculs. The output of Tin Bentong No Liability for the first half of March, 1933, was: hours, 223; piculs, 44; c. yards, 25,100.
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    • 232 12 BOUSTEAD CO., LTD. Rubber Sales Department Penang, March 15. The New York market has been partially closed during the past week but local values have remained very steady in spite of the doubt as to what effect exchange movement will ultimately have on prices and closing quotations show little or
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    • 117 12 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association held its 1,113 th auction on Wednesday. Lbs. Tons. Catalogued 1,441,209 643.40 Offered 1.350,171 602.76 Sold 1,168,319 521.57 PRICES REALIZED Ribbed Smoked Sheet Cts. Per Lb. Standard Quality No Sales Good Average Quality 6 to 6? 6 Off Quality 5%
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    • 127 12 Latest Quotations Friday Thursday Paris 87 1316 87% New York 3.46% 3.46% Montreal 4.09*4 4.11% Brussels 24.72*4 24.69*4 Geneva 17.87 17.82*4 Amsterdam 8.56*4 8.56 Milan ..67% 67 116 Berlin 14.50*4 14.47% Stockholm 18 15 16 18.90 Copenhagen 22 7|16 22 7j16 Oslo 19% 19% Vienna 31
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    • 465 12 BOXING BOXING PENANG BOXING nowy SYNDICATE Professional /lniaf e#r offers Contests. Two Main Events In One Night. SUNDAY, 19 at 9.30 Pu Drury Lane Theatre Holl FUN FROLIC Saturday. 18th March 1933. 10 Rounds BATTLING CHAN v. TEDDY FONn IPC>H SINGAPORE BOY NARA Vs. JOE DIAMOND g Rounds (Penang) 10
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  • 569 13 Schedule of Principal Lines me following is a list of vessels arriving eailing from Penang during the week: IN PORT TO-DAY gS TUNG SONG from Tongkah, Kopah, Renong and Victoria Point —Monday. S s SUMATRA MARU from Singapore via Ueiawan for Rangoon and Calcutta. sS bULAN
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  • 410 13 MARCH, 1933 MARCH 18 Selangor Turf Club races 2nd Day. Cricket: P. C. C. v. P. R. C. Esplanade, 2 p.m. MARCH 19 Cricket: P. C. C. v Mr. Carr’s XI, Es planade. MARCH 22 Penang Mercantile Employees Co-Opera-tive Thrift and Loan Society, Ltd., halfyearly general meeting,
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  • 594 13 AIR MAILS A mail for South America, by a steamer to Marseilles and thence by French Air Mail Service, will be closed at 6 p.m. today. OUTWARD MAILS A mail for Telok Anson Bagan Datoh, Port Swettenham. Malacca and Singapore by the “Bularf” will be closed at 3
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    • 321 13 For your throats sake, smoke CRAVEN A CORK-TIPPED VIRGINIA CIGARETTES FRESH /(Oshsfrom a (SEALED-FRESH in patent,d < O TRL’-VAC linj and moitturrproof "CELLOPHANE 9 A i| STRIPPING THE LEAF 4 '< room» at Arcadia Wort», vrini and italic arc rapidly and thoroughremoved from the partly con 'xX X ditioned leaf
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  • 974 14 Banker’s Suggestions INDIRECT METHOD OF RAISING PRICES Dr. O. M. W. Sprague, economic and statistical adviser to the Bank of England, addressed an unusually large gathering of the Manchester Luncheon Club at the Midland Hotel, Manchester, on the question Can the price-level be raised The Lord Mayor
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  • 412 14 Perjury Charge SAYS HE HARASSED HER BY FOLLOWING HER A woman, accused at the Old Bailey of perjury in connection with divorce proceedings, complained that her life had been so harassed by the King’s Proctor that her health was breaking down. She was Mrs. Eva
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  • 113 14 Five Men Try Dropping Through a Skylight Five men, anxious to get a job as a milkman, climbed to the roof of a Liverpool building and tried to drop into an office through a skylight. Long before business began, 300 men formed a queue outside the
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    • 272 14 I < g SOHUDO PEC’ TR.»:t MA«X M Tat. No. *****8/23 jj THE INTER-PENETRATION OP n metals by the soldo process h OF CLEANING AND TINNING H H I IN I ONE OPERATION I f WITH “SOLDO” YOU CAN TIN AND 3 SOLDER DIRTY OR RUSTY IRON j AND STEEL
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    • 206 14 L PRICES FROM T| $1.85 pTS I PER PAIR. I* y I I mi Even the loveliest ankles gain grace when dad by Kayser.* There's a subtle witchery about I this alluring hosiery that always makes you feel well dressed. Clear texture, smart colours, perfect fit...at prices sure to please
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    • 2077 15 A s K P ©.-BRITISH INDIA i v AND APCAR line s »*£S3CnC RcferK-teJ-tN riNO 1 (Companies Incorporated in 74* BLUE IFliflMBl! LIND MM*. TRAVEL HOME BY DOLLAR MAIL PASSENGER and CARGO SERVICES VetwL LONDON AND NORTH CONTINENT. Penang London LINE A HECTOR Marseilles, London, Rotterdam and Glasgow. Mar. 23
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  • 134 16 Scratchings For f To-day The following are the scratchings for to-day’s races at Kuala Lumpur. Race 2: Minoru. Race 3: Fortune Star, Westvale and Jagong Mas. Race 4: Gone Up, Supertina and Starbeck. Race 5: St. Stratford. Race 6: Winfield. The Double Tote will be
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  • 66 16 Match Against Perak Club The following are the teams for Sunday’s golf match against the Perak Club. PENANG TAIPING Moncur McKinstery v. Vanrennen White. Aird Fenwick v. MacLachlan Binnie. Carmichael Rees v. How*ard Boyd. Neilson Robertson v. Tate Kneebone. Law Brodie v. Dr. Jacques E. T. Jacques.
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  • 123 16 Exhibition Games at the Golf Club The Japanese Davis Cup players. Satoh, Nunoi and Itoh who are spending an enforced holiday in Penang, in consequence of the fire on the Fushimi Maru, appeared at the Penang Golf Club yesterday and entertained a large crowd
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  • 60 16 The following will represent the Penang Recreation Club “A” in a match to-morrow at Butterworth against the Butterworth Recreation Club: Dr. de Silva V. Vansanden, J. W. Boyle. H. McCleland Dr. N. H. Perera. C. A. Robinson, L. Aeria, H. de Silva. H. Foley, A. Leembruggen
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  • 88 16 To-day at the Esplanade at 6 p.m. 1. March —The Vedette—Alford. 2. Overture —Rienzi—Wagner. 3. Selection —W. H. Squire s Popular Songs—Hume. 4. Patrol —Ma Braw Laddie —Macdonald 5. Waltz —Santiago—Corbin. 6. Selection —Robbie Burns —Elliot. 7. Fox Trot—Around the Marble Arch —Gay. GOD SAVE THE KING To-morrow
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  • 714 16 Hunter's Claim For $1,300 SELANGOR HERD Animals That Were Menace To District How he was charged by a bull elephant w’hose mate he had killed at close quarters was described at Kuala Lumpur, on Thursday by Mr. C. Jackson when his claim for $1,300 in respect
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  • 1166 16 KENNEDY CO. SHARE LIST c l 5 NAMES, n J 5 jH 3 I (RUBBER (Dollar.) c. c Allenby Rubber Co. 4~> 50 Alor Gajab Rubber Estate 25 35 Amalgamated Malay Estates 70 93 Ayer Hitam Planting Syndicate 50 o Ayer Kuning Rubber Estates 5 15 Aver Molek Rubber Co.
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  • 599 16 TO-DAY’S: ÜBICES The following were the latest quotAtions in MESbasS. KENNEDY A Co.’s share list at 11 a.m. to-day. Yesterday To-day. Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers MINING Ayer Hitam lljO 116 lljO 116 Hitam 20 25 20 25 Hong Fatt 25 30 25 30 Hongkong 12 6
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  • 45 16 DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES FUNERAL NOTICE The funeral of the late Mr. Lam Boon Haw is to take place on 19th March, 1933 a. 10.30 a.m. sharp. Friends and relations are requested not to send Bit-cheans or sweet cakes. F.M.S. and S.S. papers please copy. 15 18
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    • 68 16 c 1 1 1 Sleepy Time Attire 1 j LADIES’ Pyjama Suits J If Y ou wan be well dressed even in the wee small hours, come here, where PYJAMA SUITS are 1 offered in brilliant, bold designs for > I young ladies, and in pastel colours < with embroidery
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    • 35 16 PRIVATE GUEST > HOUSE. Vacancies at Number 1, Golf Club Road, Ipoh. Terms Moderate. MISCELLANEOUS WANTED— Second hand heavy car, recent make, Saloon preferred, mileage not exceeding 10.000. Details to Box No. 30, c/o Pinang Gazette.
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    • 59 16 I DINNER SUITS f (MADE TO ORDER) From The Best Quality of Black Tweed 1 x 7 T" 7 <* t '1 w jrMi r I I is if ..v ft.) $7O GUARANTEED «ENTS T.UM A COMPLETE SUIT PERFECT FIT DEPAKTME- I UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF EXPERT CUTTERS AT I
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 96 16 WIRELESS To-day’s Programme Call Signs: G.S.P. G s E Wavelengths: 31.5 metres 25?» P.M. z& 28 metre,. 9 50 Big Ben The News 10 05 Dance Music The 8.8. C. Orchestra *-I Dir 7 Ud by H,nts H »ll lu.do Announcements 10,50 The Midland Studio Orches’r Directed by Frank Cantel/
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