Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 20 May 1933

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE ESTABLISHED 1833. PUBLISHED DAILY, No. 115. Vol. LXXXXI. SATURDAY, 20th MAY. 1933. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 560 1 As Basis Of Disarmament Convention PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S APPEAL READ TO CONFERENCE Herr Nadolny, addressing a specially summoned meeting of the Disarmament Conference, announced that Germany accepted the v I’.nald Plan as the basis of a future disarmament convention. In so tar as Germany may propose any
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  • 141 1 many into a frenzy of Hitlerism. —Reuter Wireless. Foolish Mishandling London. May IS. A vivid picture of the world with its hands tied on the brink of another terrible conflict similar to that which commenced in 1914, coupled with an appeal for fair play for Germany,
    many into a frenzy of Hitlerism.—Reuter Wireless.  -  141 words
  • 50 1 .—Reuter. Walks Out of Hospital New York, May 20. The banker, Mr. J. H. Harriman, walked out of the hospital where he was being treated for heart trouble and the police have broadcast an alarm. Notes which Mr. Harriman left are caus- ing the family great anxiety.-
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  • 43 1 .—Reuter Wireless. F olio wing an Operation London. May 16. Lady Cynthia Mosley, wife of Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the English fascists, died in a London nursing home to-day following an operation performed on May 9th from peritonitis.-
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  • 30 1 .—Reute/. Ex-Ssaman Watson Beaten on Points New York, May 20. In a fifteen round World’s featherweight championship bout. Kid Chocolate (Cuba) outpointed ex-Seaman Watson (Great Britain —Reute/.
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  • 45 1 Calcutta Derby Sweep Calcutta, May 19. The Calcutta Derby Sweep total now Rs. 16 lakhs, and is likely to be Rs. 20 lakhs by May 17, the drawing date. The first prize will be £60,000. The prizes will not be divided this year.
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  • 57 1 passed a fairly comfortable night.—Rugby Radio Service. Condition Serious Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander Ramsay, husband of Lady Patricia Ramsay, daughter of the Duke of Connaught, is seriously ill with toxaemia and underwent an operation two days ago. Although much anxiety is felt it was stated this morning
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  • 29 1 .—Reuter. 137 Coalitionists Capetown, May 19. The new Legislative Assembly will probably consist of 137 coalitionists (75 Hertzogists and 62 Smutsites) 4 labour and 9 miscellaneous.
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  • 59 1 .—Rugby Radio Service. Signed Yesterday London, May 19. A commercial agreement with Iceland was signed at the Foreign Office to-day by the Icelandic Minister to Denmark, Mr. B. Jornson and the British Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, and the President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Walter Runciman.
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  • 111 1 Minister on the situation at Danzig.—Reu r ter. Nazi Terror Raging GOVERNMENT PARTY PROTEST Warsaw’, May 19. “Brown (Nazi) terror rages and Danzig’s existence is threatened,” declares a statement issued by the Government Party of Danzig, protesting against the Nazi activities there, and demanding the deportation of
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  • 144 1 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kota Bharu, May 17. After staying at Rantau Panjang for a night, H.E. Sir Cecil Clementi, accompanied by Mr. H. G. Beverley, A.D.C. and Mr. R. J. Curtis, private secretary, with the Hon. Mr. A. C. Baker and Capt. H. A. Anderson
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  • 72 1 from the Opposition benches. —Rugby Radio Service. Conference Decision London, May 19. The Liberal Party Conference at Scarborough to-day decided by a large majority that the Liberal Parliamentary Party, which at present sits on the Government side of the House, be asked to cross the
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  • 126 1 .—Reuter. Investigating Committee's Report DISQUIETING EVIDENCE! London, May 20. It is understood that evidence of the disquieting nature is contained in the investigating committee’s report on the loss of the Georges Philippar for which the London insurance market officially applied to the French Ministry of
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  • 232 1 Steel Magnate’s £12,000 Ransom Recovered Harwich Port (Mass.) May 7. Two brothers, Kenneth and Cyril Buck, who were arrested, have been charged with taking part in the abduction of Margaret McMath, the ten-year—old daughter of a retired Detroit steel magnate, and with extorting approximately $60.000 (£12,000) as
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  • 67 1 Four Days' Applications OVER 4,000,000 TICALS (From Our Own Correspondent) Bangkok, May 19. The result of the first four days’ application for Siam’s first internal loan shows over four million ticals applied for in Bangkok, exclusive of applications made to provincial treasuries. The total is made up
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  • 50 1 —Reuter. Levy Bill Passed by Commons London, May 19. The House of Commons passed the third reading of the Cotton Industry Bill providing for a continuance for a further five years of a levy of a penny a bale for the assistance of the Empire Cotto® Growing Association.
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  • 213 1 To Be Bought By Monks For £l,OOO Mr. Justice Maugham, in the Chancery Division on May 4, was informed of the settlement of the dispute concerning the and silver altar-piece set with precious stones, promised to Buckfast Abbey in South Devon by Mr. John Henry Schiller,
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  • 96 1 JAPANESE BOMBERS OVER PEIPING Peiping, May 20, 9.30 a~m. A fleet of eleven Japanese bombers arew now flying over Peiping at a low altitude, and the city is prepared for anything. Tientsin. Three Japanese planes circled over the city at 8.10 this morning and then made off eastward.
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  • 269 3 I F THE BLIND MARRY— WILL THEIR CHILDREN WIL BE BLIND? r "dieting Views On Need A Wedding Ban the Hind marry the blind will their be blind also? rhe danger of hereditary blindness is X investigated by the Prevention of Committee, at the requests of the uinister o f
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  • 351 3 A Plea For Stricter Control An appeal for the stricter control by traders of extended credit facilities was made by Mr. Charles E. Gorham, managing director of Bankers’ Commercial Security, when he addressed the annual meeting of the Plymouth branch of the Lbn<lon Association for
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  • 272 3 Man In Car Who Got Nervous POLICEMAN’S POSE AS CLERK A plot to rob a bank was described at the Old Bailey when Sidney Perdue, aged 30, George Thomas Jeffreys (43), and Leslie McCall (20) pleaded guilty to conspiring to break into Barclays Bank,
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  • 160 3 Child ‘Little More Than A Skeleton’ CRUETLY CHARGE An uncle, an aunt, and the mother of a four-years-old boy were each sentenced at Harlow, Essex, to a month’s imprisonment for neglecting and ill-treating the child, who was stated to be illegitimate. They were Sidney Wood, his
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  • 128 3 Cricketers Just Don t Care NO NEW GUARDS Leg-Theory bowling is bound to make its appearance in English cricket this year. But are our batsmen downhearted No! “Body-line” tactics drove Australia to hysteria, and caused sports outfitters over there to produce new and fantastic guards to
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    • 193 3 EbgKsa* VWIT ragßk. .aww fu I I BHK 'imiwiiim mi uh vWHHkJfII f it WiK 1 I f JO i /X ffifueand i w v I®! 11 M The Glamour of Rhythm wwoL- i I -47/7 I In those hours of social enjoyment, the enchanting fragrance of "47ir stimulates and
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  • 148 4 £12,000 to £20,000 Each Trip MONEY SAVED FOR NEW LINER New York, May 7. The United States Shipping Board bowed to the inevitable and pronounced sentence of death on the 48,943-tons Leviathan, once the German liner Vaterland, which is now on her way from England to New York.
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  • 231 4 American Girl Stowaways’ Adventure London, May 4. Two young, pretty American girls stowed away as an adventure on board the Berengaria when that vessel left New York with the Prime Minister on board. When they •were discovered they’ said that they wanted to see England in
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  • 404 4 Great Power* in Aid of Charity The Archbishop of Canterbury, in proposing the toast of “Journalism” at the anniversary dinner of the Newspaper Press Fund at the May Fair Hotel, London, on May 3rd appealed to journalists to temper their power with mercy. It was
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  • 561 4 Mr. P. J° nes J° hol Estate, Tarnpin, has gone Home on furlough. Mr. G. L. Gibson, Surveyor, F.M.S. Survey Department, has gone on long leave. Suleiman, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Ipoh, has proceeded to Kuala Lumpur on short leave. Mr. Marcus Dukes, of the Co-operative Department,
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    • 400 4 AUTOMILE ASSOCIATION OF MALAYA /WmW» (PENANG and KEDAH BRANCH) j I The Annual General Meeting will be held at Ejfch THE TOWN HALL, PENANG ™*?PBl 1 < on I SweAMfarlX THURSDAY, THE 25TH MAY, 1938 jfelplß L 1 at 7 p.m. ALL MEMBERS ARE INVITED TO |WII ATTEND. |s||\ir®Kry J.
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    • 128 4 I Columbia I fSFFER YOU THIS MUSICAL I vX masterpiece at a prics I THAT IS WITHIN YOUR REACH. I I I IBI 1 I COLUMBIA 11 SUPERHET SEVEN" I AUTOMATIC RADIOGRAM. I 8 RECORDS ARE CHANGED AUTOMATICALLY. I JUST PRESS A BUTTON AND SIT BACK AND I ENJOY HALF
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  • 1709 5 Penang Tennis Championships i MRS. RULE AND KNIGHT WIN MIXED DOUBLES i i Mrs. Goodman Distributes Prizes Mrs Goodman, wife of the Hnn the Resident Councillor, and the Hon. Mr. A. M. Goodman llia de their first public appearance vesterdav at the
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  • 235 5 Second Round Results JAPAN ELIMINATES IRELAND I London, May 18. At Dublin in the second round of the Davis Cup, Japan elimiated Ireland by three matches to nil. Nunoi (Japan) beat Lyttleton-Rogers (Ireland) 6—3, 6—3, 7—5. Satoh (Japan) beat McGuire (Ireland) 6 6—2, 6—2. Nunoi and
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  • 67 5 P. C. C. v Krian Club The following have been selected to play for the P.C.C. against the Krian Club at Parit Buntar to-day:— L. G. Lee; C. D. Morgan, S. L. McNee; H. Bracegirdle (Capt), J. W. Muncey, F. E. Wraight; G. R- Evans, J. E. Harvey, H.
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  • 58 5 Lawn Bowls Tournament The following are the results of ties played on Thursday in the above tournament Men’s Singles Handicap:—L. M. Norris —2 beat H. W. Sanders Scr. 21 to 19. F. T. Clifton Scr. beat A. T. Dougal Scr. 21 to 10. T. A. Wemyss —1
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  • 252 5 Cambridge University Defeated VICTORIES FOR KENT AND YORKSHIRE i London, May 18. Following up their victory over Essex, the West Indies defeated Cambridge University by 10 wickets. Batting first the West Indies made 269 runs, Headley contributing 75. The University were dismissed 104 in the
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  • 358 5 Spring Tournament The rain which fell early this morning, left the green very heavy and sticky for playing, but in spite of this some fairly good bowling was seen in the Men’s Double Handicap tie between 4-4 Dodd and McLeod Craik (skip), v 4-5 Rule and Sanders (skip).
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  • 239 5 ST. GEORGE THE MARTYR CHURCH OF ENGLAND I STH SUNDAY AFTER EASTER 7.50 Litany. 8 a.m. Matins: Pa CVH. Hymn 175. 830 Holy Comsnmkm. 9.15 Holy Communion Tamil 6.30 Evensong. Pa CXXXH. Ps. CXXXTV. Hymns 527, 169, 386, 31. THURSDAY—ASCENSION DAY 8 am. Holy Communion. FRIDAY 6 p.m.
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  • 103 5 P. P.W. VOLUNTEER CORPS Forthcoming Ceremonials Important forthcoming ceremonials of the Penang and Province Wellesley Volunteer Corps are as follows: Friday, June 2,1933. King’s Birthday Practice Parade” at 5.30 p.m. Polo Ground. Saturday, June 3, 1933. —“King’s Birthday Parade” at 7.30 a.m. Polo Ground. Saturday, June 10, 1933. —“3rd Annual
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  • 70 5 A wrestling contest (American Style) will be staged at Fun and Frolic park on Sunday, at 3 p.m. between Hackensmith, weighing 250 lbs., and Tiger Doula of India weighing 245 lbs. This event will be followed by a contest between A. Paramanantham weighing 150,
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  • 262 5 MAY, 1933 MAY 20 Singapore Turf Club meeting, Ist day. League Football: D. A. F. C. C. R. C., C.R.C. ground. MAY 23 Penang Turf Club, half-yearly meetlag 4.45 p.m. League Football: P.R.C. "B" v. Phi field’s, Police Ground; Penang Teacher» Municipality, Dato Kramat Ground. MAY 24
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 140 5 WIRELESS 8.8. C. Programme For Straits Settlements, and Federated Malay States from the Empire transmitter, Daventry, England. Two of the following frequencies and wavelengths will be used in the transmissions to the Indian zone. Announcements will be made at frequent intervals. Call Sign Frequency Wavelength GSB 9.610 kc|s 31.55 m.
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  • 339 6 Shot Fired at a Constable THREE BANDITS TO BE FLOGGED Recorder and “Vile Weapons Four bandits were dealt with at the Old Bailey on April 27th. One of them, arrested after shooting at a policeman in Hackney, was sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude; the
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  • 368 6 Dastardly Hold-ups An attempted raid on a branch of Lloyds Bank in Commercial-road, Stepney, was described w’hen Alexander Black, 19, painter, pleaded guilty to being armed with a revolver and assaulting two men with intent to rob. He was sent to prison for twelve months and
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  • 190 6 POLICE “DISARM” HUNDREDS BRAKE ON BANDITS Hundreds of revolvers, pistols, and other kinds of firearms have been handed over to the police in London as a result of Lord Trĕnchards appeal to people who have “guns” and do not need them, or are not authorised to
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  • 296 6 Tribute To Lost Commander Under drenching skies and with her flag flying at half-mast, the Royal research ship, Discovery’ 11.. brethed at St. Katherine Dock. London, on May sth after her 19 months’ voyage in the Far South. No one on board, apart from Lieutenant
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  • 163 6 Use of Revolver A statement that they cut cards as to who should use a dummy revolver in a hold-up was read when Hugh Hughes, 25, commercial traveller, Bath-road, Melksham, Wilts, and Sidney Albert Barber, 25, pleaded guilty to an armed theft from the estate office
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  • 226 6 “Murder” Book Found Near Gassed Youth A church choir boy’s love of reading morbid books and detective stories was revealed at a Southwark (London) inquest on May 2nd on Henry Thomas Arrowsmith, 19, a clerk. The father said that his son had an attack of influenza in
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  • 731 7 (ed By Bathing Suit Designs: Gifts For The r Little Princesses London. May 3. nf York was the guest of the at Chatsworth after puk e H-s at Stanton and Matlock, tlJ Vreceived a great welcome and saw er< merest him. To-day his Royal
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  • 512 7 Mysterious Death In A Wood The inquest was opened and adjourned at Oxford on May 5 by the senior University Coroner iMr. F. E. Marshall) on Miss Edith Margaret Kennard Davis, 21. She was the undergraduate daughter of the head master of Magdalen College, Oxford, and was
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  • 188 7 “Spurious Mysticism Of Materialists” Dean Inge attacked spiritualism as “spurious mysticism’’ when taking "Eternal Life” as his subject in delivering the Warburton Lecture in Lincoln’s Inn Chapel on May 7th. The revival of so-called spiritualism, and the cult of necromancy among masses of the half-educated, he
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  • 1049 7 Suicide In A London Hotel EVIDENCE AT INQUEST Westminster, May 10. An inquest was held at Westminster on May 9th. on the body of Dr. John Theobald Hill, 55, formerly of Limerick who was found dead in a bedroom at the Charing Cross Hotel on Sunday.
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  • 116 7 London, May 8. The Ministry of Education in Irak has issued a circular to women teachers warning them that in future they must be more discreet. They are forbidden to attend parties held in cabarets; use face powder; make-up their lips; or use eye black.
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  • 667 7 Breach Of Promise Alleged By Girl A Portsmouth policeman contested a breach of promise claim by a young Nori which woman in the King’s Bench Divison on May 8. Miss Grace de Lacy, cinema attendant, Bury-street. Norwich, was the plaintiff, and alleged that George Watson, stationed at
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  • 365 7 Flung Overboard —Then Rescued M. HERRIOTS STORY OF EARL BEATTY Paris, May 7. An extraordinary story of the war told by M. Herriot, about Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty, during the former French Premier’s voyage home in the He de France is related
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  • 1096 8 During the past few days the Disarmament Conference has held the stage. The Roosevelt announcement and the discussions thereon have been given full publicity and the Far Eastern problem has suffered a temporary eclipse. But we were reminded of it yesterday by a Japanese comment
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  • 1179 8  -  dead.—H. R. Jukes in the Manchester Guardian. The keeper pointed out to me the freshly ravaged nest, stirring with his foot the broken shells, half a dozen of them, mottled olive, grey, and brown: grouse eggs, smeared and crushed and horrible, all broken, sucked, destroyed. “Carrions,” he muttered savagely.
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  • 848 8 BY THE W AY 1 TRULY HUSTLED HISTORY One effect of political upheaval different parts of the world is thp a for the rewriting of the history of th”*** f in such a way as to make it S qu ar /_.l' t possible with the latest development T v
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  • 255 9 Non-War Area alleged sino-japanese negotiations c W. Council x Protests Canton, May 19. Th e South West Political Council as an Jepeodent government in South China in s-Jatement to the League, states that it y-rns that negotiations are in train bethe agents of the Japanese
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  • 249 9 Opening Bid of Tcs. 50,000 Goes to Tcs. 203,800 As a result of the action by the Siam Commercial Bank. Ltd., the auction took place recently at the sheriff’s department of the property of Nang Saang Mani, Mom Sri Chai erm. Nangsao Song Sri and Nai Term
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  • 95 9 Saigon Trial of Over *OO Communists cha 1 tnal Ver Communists on fgfs of murder, dacoity, etc., occupied a Js at Saigon this month. n the end ten of the men were con--11 r to death; ten to deportation; 20 1 years hard labour or simple
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  • 38 9 —Reuter. 100 Killed Or Injured Shanghai, May 19. Over a hundred were killed or injured when a bomb was hurled into the crowded railway station at Tientsin this evening, according to a Japanese report.—Reuter.
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  • 183 9 Strange Case Of A Hospital NURSE ON DUTY AND DOCTOR PAYS VISITS Sutton Bridge (Lincs), May 3. The Port Hospital at Sutton Bridge wall celebrate its fiftieth anniversary on August 22, and up to now* there has been one patient admitted, and he died. Opened
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  • 248 9 Chemist’s Dealing With Bankrupt Mr. C. W. Pearson, a chemist, was examined in the Bankruptcy Court, Singapore, before the Chief Justice, Mr. W. C. Huggard, K.C., in connection with the bankruptcy of James Uoyd. The examination was under section 31 of the Bankruptcy Ordinance, and was conducted
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  • 184 9 .—Reuter. Final Call At White House CO-OPERATION PLEDGED Washington, May 19Mr. Soong called at the White House at. noon to say farewell to Mr. Roosevelt and left for New York in the afternoon. He will be sailing for London on the “Aquitania” on May 27. It
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  • 801 9 On Way To England POISON IN BODY NOT THE CAUSE OF HER DEATH A singular story was related on Wednesday before Mr. E. G. Bourne, the Singapore Coroner, at the inquest on a Chinese amah w’ho died on May 4, a week after being found
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  • 82 9 TlN—Spot YESTERDAY TO-DAY London £lB9-15-0 £lB9-12-6 Buainea. Done $lO2OO t1M .50 Done -’Buyers no sellers. Buyers no sellers. COPBA-CSnndrled) BLACK PEPPEB 1 17 00 2 <l 23i< New York 4%C.(G) New York SA cts. 9% cis. Singapore TAIWCA W9O ss9o Fair Seed Medium Pearl Rangoon—Parboiled No. 1 White
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  • 810 10 Englishman Sentenced in Absence /WAR GRAVES TROUBLE Wife Admits Tar and Feather Attempt T Abbeville, May 4. Edward Rimmer, of Boundary Road, St. John's Wood, London, formerly head gardener at the great cemetery of Etaples, •where 11,000 British soldiers are buried, was sentenced to-day in absentia
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  • 636 10 Knife And Red Paint Used OUTRAGE IN THE ULSTER PARLIAMENT HOUSE A portrait of King William HI., hanging in the south corridor in the Northern Ireland Parliament House at Stormont, Belfast, was on May 2nd found to have been splashed with red paint, w’hile one of
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  • 164 10 All over the world Kruschen Salts is appealing to girls and women who are striving for an attractive free-from-fat figure. Here is the method they are following to banish fat and bring into blossom all the natural attractiveness that they possess: every morning they take
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  • 294 10 Soviet Scheme To Oust Our Goods WHOLESALE DUMPING IN EUROPEAN MARKETS London, May 5. A scheme for completely ousting British goods from the world’s markets is shortly to be put into action by the U.S.S.R., according to the latest report received in Helsingfors. To this end
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  • 180 10 Anti-Religious Campaign At Its Zenith A convincing picture of the “godless” campaign in Russia, which has led to the establishment of University Chairs of Atheism, is given in a pamphlet, based almost entirely on official Soviet publications, entitled “Fifteen Years of Religion and Anti-Religion, 1917-32.”
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  • 711 10 Alleged Exposure of Fraud WOMAN MEDIUM Story of Undervest as a “Spirit” Edinburgh, May 5. In the Edinburgh Sheriff Court, on May 4, the Sheriff reserved his decision in the case in which Mrs. Victoria McFarlane, or Duncan, of Niddrie, Edinburgh, is charged with having conducted a
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    • 64 10 Slump or no slump, all the advertising business that reaches this office is not accepted. Our Advertising Department exercises discrimination. It has to live up to the traditions of a century of unbroken ■ublication and maintain its reputation for giving advertiser and consumer a square deal. If you see t
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    • 410 10 Dentists Say: iSll A CLEAN tooth never de- HST l&it cays—but most patients’ Ji teeth are not properly cleaned at the back, where old-fash- T ioned tooth-bruthe. don’t fit" chan just the places you are most to miss —the crevices and sur- /aces inside the curve, out of sigfrt Tek
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  • 127 11 Found Dead After Escaping N 0 SIGN OF HURT „.a male patients who had escaped lh( .Stafford Mental Hospital were vin- close to the railway embank-n-ar°the salt sidings, just outside borough boundary. e other man, William Bowers aged a motor driver and salesman of Wol- ampton. was
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  • 298 11 How Mental Level Has Grown London, May 5. That the present occupants of our prisons are of a very different mental calibre to, say, Bill Sikes, is emphasised by the Commissioners of Prisons in their report for 1931 issued to-day. Dr W. Norwood East, the medical
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  • 236 11 A New Agreement Signed Rome, May 7. Signor Mussolini and M. Levenson, the <-ommercial representative of the Soviet Lnion in Italy, signed a new Italo-Russian rude agreement. It falls into two parts: 1 A Tariff Convention—with a reciprocal ftmst-.avoured nation clause—valid until further notice, subject to
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  • 275 11 British Union And “Control” OFFICIAL WATCH Recent “Red” activities in the Post Office are causing grave concern in the Treasury, and a special watch is being kept on flagrant evasions of the Trade Disputes Act. After the General Strike of 1926, when several of the
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  • 343 11 Married, Divorced And Shot In An Hour Belgrade, May 3. The death, at Nice, of Olga Korzakov, a 68-year-old Russian refugee, who once lived in London, recalls an amazing tragedy of her youth, which resulted in a young officer being married, divorced and shot
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    • 88 11 THE TIRELESS SALESMAN —An advertisement in the “Pinang Gazette” is a tireless salesman. From one week’s end to another it talks business without boring potential customers. It tells your story (unknown to you perhaps) to a wide circle of interested readers and its influence is all the mure satisfactory in
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    • 805 11 I suffered unnecessary pains since I was 15” "Kalzana tablets are a boon to such girls as myself who suffer a great deal °f P a3n a certain periods. I have suffered these unnecessary pains since I was fifteen years of age, as a matter of course. Kalzana has done
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    • 1939 12 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND DINNER The eleventh annual general meeting of the Institution of the Rubber Industry was held at the Prince’s Galleries, Piccadilly, London, W.l, on Thursday, 27th April, and was followed by an informal dinner to welcome the Institution’s newly-elected President, Sir George
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    • 164 12 Dutch Attempts to Draft a Scheme Amsterdam, April 30. Persistent rumours have been current during the last few days that a leading official of the Rubber Growers’ Association has been in Holland with the object of seeking contact with Dutch growers in regard to restriction. No confirmation is
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    • 166 12 Sydney, May 1. Commenting on the recent British trade agreements the “Sun” says that their merits can hardly be decided by the cursory judgment of the man in the street. That Ottawa was the prelude and starting point for trade bargaining, the newspaper says, was obvious
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    • 645 12 Mr. H. J. Welch On Restriction May 2. The twenty-fifth ordinary general meeting of the London Asiatic Rubber and Produce Company, Ltd., was held yesterday in the Council Room of the Rubber Growers’ Association, 2, 3 and 4, Idol-lane, E. C Mr. H. J. Welch
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    • 104 12 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association held its 1,122nd. auc’tion on Wednesday. Lbs. Tons. Catalogued 1,109,578 495.35 Offered 999,076 446.02 Sold 882,214 393.85 Spot London 2%d. New York 4% cts. PRICES REALIZED Ribbed Smoked Sheet Cts Per Lb. Standard Quality No Sales Good Average Quality 8%
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    • 890 12 SYMINGTON WILSON’S WEEKLY REPORT London, May 3. Since our last Report the Rubber Market has been active and prices show a further advance. There are two main causes for the advance, namely the renewed restriction talk and the so called controlled inflation in America. It is the latter which has
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    • 638 12 OIL PAL M PLANTATIONS LIMITED Half-Yearly R eporl s The report of the Directors of n., d Plantations, Limited for th« haw r ed 28th February 1933 states; g The Estate has continued to bo 11 regularly by Mr. E. J. C Edward i- last visit was made during v
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  • 596 13 SHIPPIN G ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES schedule of Principal Lines wl <^s‘»» u t fTe^" llTing from Penang during the week: lN PORT fO-DAY U 1 urrn x MARU Bombay. Salls ,S r K apore. Mojl. Kobe, and Osaka. ES kaWANG from Kantang, Pungah and Ghirbio uaTANG from Tongkah, Kopah, Re-
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  • 1599 13 AIR MAILS A mail for Java and Southern Sumatra by train to Singapore and thence by Dutch Air Mail Service K.N.I.L.M. will be closed at 6 p.m. on the 22nd instant. OUTWARD MAILS A mail for Telok Anson Bagan Datoh, Port Swettenham, Malacca and Singapore by the s.s.
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  • 125 13 Latest Quotations Friday Thursday Paris 86 85 31|32 New York 3.87% Montreal 4.45 4.48 *6 Brussels 24.32 24.30 1 Geneva 17.52 Amsterdam Milan 64 13|16 64% Berlin 14.37% 14.37% Stockholm 19.50 19.45 Copenhagen 22.45 22.45 Oslo 19 H|l6 19 11|16 Vienna 31% 31% Prague 113% 113%
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  • 86 13 To-day, at the Esplanade, from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. 1. March— Naworth Castle- Hume. 2. Overture—Fest— Blatterman. 3. Selection—lolanthe— Sullivan. 4. Serenade—La M anol a— Eilenbery. 5. Patrol—Gathering o’ The Clans—6. Selection—A Southern Maid— Fraser-Bimpsefn. 7. One Step—Flame of Desire- Daztvr. GOD SAVE THE KING. To-morrow, at
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    • 100 13 I OPENING TO-NIGHT! A VIENNESE ROMANCE SET TO THE MELODIES OF STRAUSS HERBERT MARSHALL The Sensational Star of “TROUBLE IN PARADISE” IN “EVENINGS FOR SALE" WITH SARI MARITZA CHARLIE RUGGLES. and MARY BOLAND. A glittering revel that swings to rhythm as impudent as that which made IHE MERRY WIDOW immortal
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    • 271 13 Hi 6.15 TO-NIGHT 9.30 MATINEE TO-MORROW AT 2.45 FIRST NATIONAL’S BRILLIANT ALL COLOI’R MUSICAL COMEDY starring Haunting BERNICE Melodies! CLAIRE Uproarious Comedy! with Edward everett Lifting Songs horton ond Music! Mor lipstick is a stick of WALTER PIDGEON Gorgeous Girls i JUNE COLLYER 'l/ier BAE KISS fVIE Beautiful And a
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  • 1090 14 Sir O. Niemeyer’s Plan For Stability A SUGGESTED CENTRAL INSTITUTION The text is now available of the report, made at the request of the Argentine Government, by Sir Otto Niemeyer (the Bank of England expert) on Argentina’s finance and banking system and the draft of the
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  • 287 14 SOME OWN HOUSES And “Work” Distant Suburbs to Keep Neighbours Ignorant War has been declared by the police on the beggars and street musicians w’ho daily invade London’s suburbs. The fact is that many of them are at least as well off as the people from
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  • 212 14 'Amusing Incident In A County Court Miss Sara Allgood, the actress, was a witness in a case at Westminster County Court, on May sth, when Cora Bee. West End costumiers, successfully sued Mr. H. •V. Murray, a theatrical manager, for £lO Ils.
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    • 301 14 Qwd# b?| ■</ V /&A c 3> //At fc&j L whew "fl Xny ©W 1\ A J fyecAj s J sublim©* jih ■—T<v jX 8 Sole Agents N.V. Sirails Java Trading Co. 1 s I ii j ft 1 I I Sj SB EIGHTEEN HOLE GOLF COURSE £xed7«©tf -oZ Me
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    • 323 14 tQ n I I i I i j u i K The most deliciour tonic food you have V ever been asked to take contain; all the B E most important health factors you need! J B Ostomalt contains vitamins A B. C and D, I K the vitamin: that
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    • 2055 15 d HI A —<-■ ©.--British india 1 AND apcar lines I (Companies Incorporated In England) TRAVEL HOME BY DOLLAR MAIL PASSENGER nd CARGO services Leave® Due |MC LONDON AND NORTH CONTINENT. Penang London LINE Peninsular and Oriental S. N. Co., Penang, Teluk Anson Per* Swet London, Rotterdam and Hamburg. May
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  • 444 16 j Few Scratchings SHORT SUIT—SENLAC DUEL IN INAUGURAL RACE a» 7 (By Tic-Tac) Only five scratchings are announced for the first day of the Singapore Turf Club -Spring Meeting opening to-day; and only one of them is in the big race, that is Armide. This
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  • 249 16 Winner Of Main Fight To Meet Boy Nara (By SECONDS OUT The programme for to-morrow night s boxing at the Fun and Frolic Park under the promotion of the Amalgamated Amusements Limited which consists entirely on one side of Siamese boxers is a good one, with the
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  • 342 16 Draws Crowded Houses At Queen's GLORIOUS FEAST FOR EYE AND EAR “Kiss Me Again,” the First National modernised, all natural colour screen version of Victor Herbert’s famous romance, “Mlle. Modiste,” opened to crowded houses last night at the Queen’s. Bernice Claire plays the part of the flirtatious
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  • 129 16 Singapore, May 18. Our market has been uncertain since our last report and although prices have fluctuated considerably only a moderate amount of business has been transacted. Speculators in London and New York are reported to have realised their profits at the higher prices. Latest advices indicate that
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  • 980 16 KENNEDY CO. SHARE LIST E E A I NAMES. S 3 Hg (RUBBER. (Dollar.) Sc. c Allenby Rubber Co. 5® 65 Alor Gaiah Rubber Eatate Jo <• Amalgamated Malay Estates 7S 90 Ayer Hitsm Planting Syndicate 50 0 Aver Kunmg Rubber Estates e IS Ayer Molek Rubber Co. 2? 30
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  • 877 16 TO-DAY’S PRICES The following were the latest quotation* In MESbxUi. KENNEDY Co.’® share list at 11 a.m. to-day. Yesterday To-day. Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers I RUBBER Allenby 55 65 55 65 Bedford 20 40 20 40 Broga 25 30 27% 32% Glenealy 90 1.00 90 1.00
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  • 54 16 PENANG, MAY 20 (By Courtesy of the Chartered Bank) On London Bank Demand 2)3 13|16 4 mjts 2(3 29)32 Private 3 m)ts credit 2)4 5)32 3 Documentary 2)4 9)32 On New York Bank Demand 44% France T.T. 980nom India T.T. 153 Hongkong T.T. 39 dis. nom. Shanghai T.T. 45%
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 135 16 V MOST INDIGESTION REALLY ACIDITY.’ Nearly everybody suffers at times after eating. Some folk call this indigestion, some dyspepsia, some heartburn, others gastritis, but no matter what you call it the chances are ten to one that the cause of the trouble is ‘acidity.’ Excess stomach acid sours food before
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    • 19 16 A small advertisement in the “Pinang Gazette" is busier than the bee. It vrordcs all day and every day.
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    • 282 16 NEW POSITION WANTED —Junior Clerk f Or Fn Firm, state salary. Box v,, tt nglDe «rin» Gazette. J c /<> NOTICES TEKKA (Incorporated in England.) Advice has been received bv cahu declaration of a dividend of 3d nl (less Income Tax) payable in the 31st May. y on Local shareholders
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