Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 26 February 1937

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE ESTAB. 1833. PUBLISHED DAILY. No. 47. Vol. XCV. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1937. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 789 1 fraction of available saving.—British Radio. British Chancellor Replies To Critics COMMONS DEBATE ON DEFENCE 1 .ondon, Feb. 25. Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, moving the second Commons reading of the Defence Loans Bill tonight welcomed the absence from the Opposition’s
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  • 311 1 -Reuter. MAKES PORT WITH HEAVY LIST 300 PASSENGERS SAFE Marseilles, Feb. 25. A BRITISH LINER NEARLY CAME TO GRIEF TODAY WHEN SHE STRUCK 4 FLOATING MINE TEN MILES SOUTH-EAST OF PORT CREUS, SAYS REUTER. AS THE SHIP LISTED DANGEROUSLY THE RADIOGRAM WAS TURNED TN AND THE PASSENGERS
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  • 315 1 Tencifig Turf Club Reaches Decision CLASS TWO PONIES TO RUN r (BY TIC-TAC) Penang race-goers will be glad to learn “hat the Penang Turf Club adhere to their tnree-day programme in April as originaly intended. The racing dates will be Saturday, April 3. Wednesday April 7,
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  • 35 1 .—Reuter. London. Feb. 25. There is no change in the Richmond byelection caused by the retirement of Sir William Ray. The result was: Major Watt (Conservative) 20.546 votes; Mr. Rogers (Labour) 7,709. —Reuter.
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  • 160 1 End Of U.S. Hold Off Strike? HEAVY ITALIAN PURCHASES IN LONDON London. Feb. 25. Following today’s sharp advance in rubber. well-informed circles are keenly speculating whether it signities the end of the “hold off" strike on the part of United States consumers. It is pointed out that
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  • 36 1 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Feb. 26. With a view to testing local re-actions to Empire broadcasting Mr. J. B. Clarke, who is touring the Empire, will arrive in Singapore in October or November.
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  • 21 1 —Reuter. London, Feb. 26. The House of Commons has passed the second reading of the Defence Loan bill.
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  • 17 1 -Reuter. Washington, Feb. 26. The Senate has passed the reciprocal Trade Agreements Bill. —Reuter.
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  • 20 1 Paris, Feb. 25. It is officially announced that the International Commission to supervise the Franco-Spanish frontier will be Dutchmen.
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  • 22 1 .—Reuter. Washington, Feb. 25. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives has formally approved the Neutrality Bill. —Reuter.
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  • 11 1 x—Reuter. Melbourne. Feb. 26. Australia 77 for two. —Reuter.
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  • 248 1 Melbourne, Feb. 26. The city was agog with excitement this morning when the fifth and tinal Test Match began. The weather was sunny and hot and the wicket perfect. The attendance was 50,000 at the start. Sievers was dropped from the Australia side, while
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  • 64 1 .ENGLAND G. Allen (capt.) R.E.S. Wyatt C. Barnett. M. Leyland W. R. I Jam m c>r. d. W. Voce. H. Verity. T.S. Worthington. K. Faroes. L. Ames. J. Hardstaff. Twelfth man: Fishlock. AUSTRALIA D. Bradman leapt.) C.L. Badcock. J. Fin?h ton. L.0.’8. Fleetwood-Smith. R. Gregory. S. McCabe. E.
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    • 92 1 STOP PINKING with "MEIRICH" MOTOR TABLETS SEE CHOP TAN BOON PENG, tor Penang, Ke<3a: Perak. Pei-b St.. Penang—Phone CHOP SOON KIAT, <■4, P St. K. L”rnr>ur, for P'-one n S Jjl fit ft W “ROYAL BAKERY” cakes are made in so many varieties and so tastefully decorated, may be it
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  • 385 2 •Romantic Story Of A £12,000 Pearl HELD in my hand yesterday a pearl, worth more than £12,000, which has smashed a marriage and led to two stabbings writes a Sunday Referee reporter. Mr. L. Kornitzer, of Ely-place, E.C., the dealer who has bought the
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  • 99 2 Bournemouth Challenges Plymouth's Claim Bournemouth challenges Plymouth’s laim to be “the most sober town,” but it is a matter of decimals. “Plymouth will have to vary their claim when they hear of Bournemouth’s record,” said Mr. E. E. Bishop, Chairman of Bournemouth Licensing magistrates. Drunkenness at Plymouth
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  • 111 2 A stag was lassoed by a High Wycombe policeman, after tossing a man over a fence. The animal had, apparently, escaped from the Berks and Bucks Staghounds, who met at Radnage, near High Wycombe. The stag was chased down a main road by a police
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  • 22 2 LONDON LANDMARK DISAPPEARS.—Cutting through ironwork at the Charing Cross-road entrance to the Alhambra, which is in the breakers hands.
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  • 670 2 BRITISH INVENTORS HAVE MANY IDEAS pLECTRIC razors to “mow” your beard without soap or water, “gazers” for fishermen to see into the depths, and railway wagon wheels of papier-machie. These are among the new marvels on show at the British Industries Fair
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  • 458 2 MAIN DIET: HUMAN MILK OXYGEN JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, ninety-six next July, is being kept alive so that he may realise his great ambition of living to be 100 years old. “There is no reason at all why Mr. Rockefeller should not live
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  • 201 3 Bearded Man Found In Empty Waggon BELIEVED TO BE KIDNAPPER OF 10-YE AR OLD BOY FOI XD frozen and starved to death in an empty railway wagon in a siding at Portola,,California, a gaunt, bearded man is believed by the police to
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  • 437 3 ■enemies of people* IN KEY POSTS Moscow, Feb. 23. Many of the Jewish party chiefs of the vast autonomous Jewish region of Birobidjan in Far East Russian have been arrested as ‘‘enemies of the people.” The president of the region, the Jewish Old Bolshevik, Lacberbcrg was
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  • 102 3 Annual Meeting Of Malayan Branch (From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban. Feb. 22. The annual meeting of the Malayan Branch of the British Medical Association, will be held at the Institute for Medical Research. Kuala Lumpur on March 26-28. 1937. Any member desirous of reading a paper should
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  • 37 3 ,—Reuter Last Of Great Abyssinian Chiefs Rome, Feb. 25. Ras Desta the last of the great Abyssinian chiefs to resist the Italians was captured and shot by an Italian flying column. —Reuter
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  • 373 3 New York, Feb. 24. The most dramatic episode since New York began its campaign to clear out organised racketeering occurred before Mr. Justice Phillip McCook, when Louis Beitcher, considered one of the most important figures in the restaurant racket, described his rise to power.
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  • 192 3 BIG GERMAN TRADE BALANCE Berlin, Feb. 25. Germany’s favourable foreign trade balance for 1936 amounted to 55.000,000 marks (£46,000,000) This is shown in the official Statement issued today. This compares with a balance of 111,000,000 marks (£9,200,000) for the previous year. For this striking improvement Great Britain,
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  • 122 3 Sailors Fraternise Gibraltar, Feb. 18. A detachment of German sailors from the "pocket battleship" Deutschland attended the funeral yesterday of Able-Sea-man John Fiancis Turner, of H.M.S. Cairo. Abie-Seaman Turner, who died after a shoit illness in the military hospital, was unmarried and a native of Hull.
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  • 114 3 .—Reuter. Brothel-Keeper’s Attack On Women Tokyo, Feb. 25. Two English women. Miss Ninnie Karoldy and Miss Rose Aville, and two Japanese girls were rendered unconscious and three other English women and 11 Japanese girls were less seriously injured by a Japanese brothel-keeper and three roughs who
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  • 105 3 Allahabad, Feb. 25. The French airman Denis Libert landed at Bamrauli at 10.30 a.m. G.M.T. He proceeded to Calcutta an hour later. —Reuter. 0 The Secretary of State for the Colonies has informed the Ceylon State Council that the Post Office is willing substantially to increase
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  • 220 3 Paris, Feb. 24. Mme. Irene Schmeder, the French airwoman. who was extradited from England and charged with attempted murder, told the examining magistrate at Versailles today how she shot her friend, M. Pierre L’Allement while he was piloting an aeroplane She declared that, in despair
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  • 73 3 Gibraltar, Feb. 26. The Second Gordon Highlanders, commanded by Lieut.-Col. Burney, paraded in full strength for the farewell inspection by Governor Herrington. They will embark on the Dorsetshire for Singapore on March B.—Reuter. 0 Dr. Blavier, the German Nationalist member of the Danzig Diet, who was arrested six
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  • 139 3 Swansea University College Council decided last week to dismiss from his appointment as a lecturer Mr. Saunders Lewis, one of the three Welsh Nationalists sentenced for firing an R.A.B'. bombing school. Before his conviction and sentence to prison on January 19 Mr. Saunders Lewis had been suspended
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  • 158 3 $21,223,900 UP IN 1936 The Chinese Government Salt Administration announces that preliminary figures issued by the Chief Inspectorate of Salt Revenue show the total revenue collected by the Inspectorate during 1936 amounted to $205,433,000, an increase of $21,223,900 over the figures issued for the previous year. The
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  • 187 3 King Christian Decides Copenhagen. Monday King Christian of Denmark has annulled the marriage of Prince and Princess Enk as from Feb 12. at their request, t was announced today. The Royal couple applied for a divorce in November. 1934. The ex-Princess is a daughter of the late
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  • 139 3 London, Feb. 26. Messages from both sides of Spain dwell on the fierce fighting at Asturias acid especially around Oviedo. The insurgents state that the attackers were repelled with enormous losses but Government reports show that the city of Oviedo is being closely pressed.—Reutex. o H.
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  • 497 4 Examined In Court Mr. Ernest Kaai, the Hawaiian showman, was examined on two judgment summonses in the Singapore Civil District Court before Mr. M. R. Bull. The judgment creditors were Mrs. A. Willis and Mr. O. Edwards, both of whom appeared in person and conducted
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  • 278 4 State Supervision Urged is made in Johore under insanitary creditiong,’’ said Lt.-Col. the Hon. Data Yahya bin Abu Talib, introducing a xuhjefJ. which, brought many chuckles at the Johore Council of State meeting on Tueadey A condiment made from prawns and powder, choceiate-coloured after it
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  • 75 4 ♦Charged v.' th having defamed one Josef JDorrfer, fay having- uttered defamatory remarks that Josef Dorfer was a crook and •that toe had committed extortion by tendering worthless cheques, on Jan 5. J.C. Drewet appeared before Mr C.F.J. Ess in the Singapore fifth court on Tuesday, in answer
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  • 585 4 JOHORE GOVERNMENT'S MOVE By an amending bill which was introduced at a meeting of the Council of State, Johore, on Tuesday, the Government are attempting to protect the interests of qualified midwives in the State who, it was stated, are barely able to make a living owng
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  • 26 4 SPACE AND BEAUTY are the keynotes of these flats which the London County Council has bu'lt at Clapham, S.W. Note the sunshine balconies.
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  • 226 4 ARE THEY EXCESSIVE? Will Gowmment state whether the rates of interest charged by pawnbrokers are not excessive and to the best interest of public economic welfare? Is Government prepared to protect •debtors by prescribing reasonable rates of interest This ettack on Johore pawnbrokers appeared in a scries of
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  • 138 4 Question In Council “Almost a year ago I spoke in this Council with reference to the housing of Malay officers,” began Inche Onn bin Ja'afar at the meeting of the Johore Council of State on Tuesday as a preface to his question of what Government had
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  • 740 4 ORPHAN BOYS' HOSTEL, IPOH The Rotary Club of Ipoh are making big efforts to complete an endowment fund of $20,000 for the Orphan Boys’ Hostel. The jubilee Park is giving a charity night on March 19. Mr. and Mrs. O. Venables of Kuala Kangsar, are staying at
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  • 2995 5 Empress Of Britain Due Here On Monday FEATURES OF GIANT “FLOATING CITY’ FOR the sixth successive year the giant Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Britain will arrive in Penang on Monday, bringing some 425 passengers on a cruise around the world, which commenced at
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  • 191 6 air mail A mail for Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, Zanzibar. Northern and Southern Rhodesia. Nyasaland and South Africa via Singapore and thence by Imperial Aiiways will close at 7.30 p.m. today. OUTWARD MAIL A mail for Pulau Langkawi by the s.s. Rimba will close at 5.00 p.m.
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  • 328 6 Court 7o Decide Lawful Claimant Twenty-five tons of rubber, which was'seized by the police on board the s.s. Chaksang early this month, is being claimed by the Netherlands Trading Society and the Overseas Chinese Bank. Inspector Blake, who seized the rubber left the matter in the
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  • 261 6 THIRD ROUND DRAW The third round for the Scottish Cup will be played tomorrow, and the draw is as follows: East Fife vs. Celtic. Duns vs Motherwell. St. Mirren vs. Cowdenbeath. Morton vs. Partick. Clyde vs. Dundee. Hamilton vs. Hearts. BYES Byes:—Aberdeen and Queen of South: ENGLISH
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  • 102 6 NOT FOR HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE Chicago, Jan. 25. The Braddock-Joe Louis fight on June 22 will not be for the former’s titled unless Braddock has previously fought and beaten Schmeling on June 3, which fight is very unlikely. Through this technicality the Madison Square Garden Is prevented from carrying out
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  • 146 6 IRELAND vs. SCOTLAND TOMORROW Ireland will meet Scotland in an international Rugby match at Belfast tomorrow. Following are the teams Ireland: L.B. Malcalmson; C.V. Boyle. A. Bailey, L.B. McMahon. F.G. Moran; Cromey, G. J.’ Morgan (Captain); R. Alexander, Corken. S. Deering, C. R. Graves. P. J. Lawlor, J.
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  • 114 6 FOONG CHIN AND ELLIOTT SELECTED (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore. Feb. 25. Singapore is capitulating to Penang bj’ the inclusion of R. N. Elliott and Cheong Foong Chin in the Colony Hockey XI. The decision is debated by Singapore enthusiasts who doubt if Elliott is good enough.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 171 6 6-15 OPENING TONIGHT 9-30 MATINEE TOMORROW AT 2.45 P M WARNER BROS. BIG COMEDY TRIUMPH OF THE YEAR' Let Ross Alexander, World’s Champion Salesman, and Beverly Roberts show you their 1936 money-making and love-making method: RIBS LXISH? ■mSBST ROSS ALEXANDER I together I BEVERLY ROBERTS I IOGETHER WITH I jqsePH
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    • 385 6 One Super Attraction After ALL SHOWS PACKED OUT Another! YESTERDAY' WindsoRROYAL 6.30 OPENING TONIGHT 9.30 TT Under the Management of Matinees Tomorrow Sunday at 2.30 Keng Huat Film Co THE YEAR’S MOST RIOTOUS NEW 6.30 TONIGHT 9.30 CANTONESE TALKIE Another Super Attraction from THAT YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR! TONG AH
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  • 155 7 HUSBAND'S STORY AT INQUEST That a petty quarrel between husband and wife led the latter to commit suicide by drinking poison was the story given by Ng Seng, the husband of the deceased, at an inquest held before Mr. 11. A. L. Luckham in the
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  • 183 7 VERDICT OF "NATURAL CAUSES'* At an inquest held before Mr. H. A. L. Inickham in the Penang Police Court on a Chinese who died in the lunatic ward of the General Hospital, Penang, on Jan. 10, 1937, a verdict of death due to natural causes was
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  • 384 7 CHARGE AGAINST SIKH The case against Narangan Singh, a Sikh who was charged with having made a false report to the police with intent to cause injury to Arjan Singh, was heard before Mr. J.L. McFall in the Penang District Court yesterday. Court Inspector Astin prosecuted, while
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  • 213 7 Oxford University has already received over £250,000 —with a promise of a further £lOO,OO0 —towards the objects of its appeal for £1.000,000, reported in the Sunday Gazette last week. Lord Halifax, Chancellor of the University, who made the statement at the Goldsmiths’ dinner at the
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  • 93 7 Man Who Laughed At Snake Bites Johannesburg. John Henry Gordon had been bitten 300 times by every kind of snake. He laughed at all the bites and lived to tell the tale. Recently he got his thrĕe-hundredth and first bite from a speckled cobra when he was giving
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  • 706 8 IN the ]>ast we have referred frequently to the spread of drugs by Japanese agents in China. Despite protest from various influential quarters the Japanese Government have declined to intervene, and latest rei>orts from China show clearly that the influence of drug-dealers is rapidly expanding.
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  • 145 8 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Feb. 25 Steadily rising exports of high-grade iron ore from the Japanese-owned mines of Trengganu and Johore have been given fresh impetus by the world steel famine, the effects of which were beginning to be felt by Japan’s heavy industries in
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  • 109 8 A male Chinese, aged about 26 years, died yesterday in a sampan in the Penang harbour. He had been ailing for some time ard his friends were sending him back to Clip a by the s.s Hong Seeng to recuperate. The ship’s doctor refused to allow
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  • 599 8 Fruit And Vegetable Growing In Malaya Cost The Limiting Factor IN our editorial columns yesterday reference was made to fruit and vegetable growing in Malaya and the query was raised why Penang Hill, or certain parts of it at any rate, could not be placed under cultivation.
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  • 332 8 "No More Parties" Hope Cove, Devon, Feb. 20. Tn a tiny cottage on the gale-awept coast, a Yorkshire girl, who gave up her Society friends and a life of travel and luxury to become the wife of a fisherman, told me how she had found happiness, writes
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  • 98 8 Reuter. Santa Monica, Feb. 25. A serious situation is threatened in coMr r.ection with the Douglas Aircraft strike. The grand jury have voted 400 indictments of felony and conspiracy charges. Tftse hundred officers were sent to the factory under orders to arrest the strikers and repossess
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  • 196 9 Demand For Increased Wages Not Met (From Our Own Correspondent). Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 25. A STRIKE of all workmen (foreshadowed in the Pinang Gazette yesterday) has broken out in the Weng Fatt Foundry near Kuala Lumpur, causing great anxiety to tin miners. The Weng Fatt
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  • 256 9 CHINESE PRESENT GRIEVANCES tFrom Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, Feb 26 Over 300 Chinese hawkers thronged the offices of the Perak Chinese Chamber ot Commerce, Ipoh, yesterday, to solicit the aid of Mr. Leong Sin Nam, J.PI, president of Ctiambor, in presenting 'their grievances to the authorities.
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  • 75 9 Sports Club v. Novy Combined The Penang Sports Club will meet a combined team of H. M. S. Cumberland and Falmouth at hockey on the Esplanade today at 5.15 p.m. Follcvdr g will represent the Sports Club: H. E. Pether; J. C. Mithiam, S. V. Adams; J. P. R.
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  • 65 9 (From Our Own Correspondent) Serem ban, Feb. 24. Some 40 employees of rattan furniture shops in town are reported to have downed tools on Friday last demanding an increase of wages The strike was, however, shortlived and of a mild nature, for it is learned, that after
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  • 249 9 WALLACE-BABINGTON The wedding took place yesterday afternoon at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Northam Road, Penang, of Mr. Robert Bruce Wallace, Medical Officer, Dublin Estate, Kedah, second son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Wallace, of Wishaw, Laharkshire, Scotland, and Miss Phyllis Muriel Babington, fourth daughter of
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  • 223 9 Distribution Of Prizes (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 25. The Selangor Badminton Association will bring the 1936 season to a close with the annual distribution of privies of the various championships during the year to be held at the Victoria Institution Hall on Surday afternoon.
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  • 229 9 Selangor Young Women's Christian Association (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 25. “This last year has been a better year than the year before, but I do feel there is a good deal more we could do if we have the whole-hearted support of every member
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  • 95 9 AMUR, tk-j g'.ant Siberian t.ger brought to -the London Zco from Moscow last autumn, is a bridegroom (writes Hugh- Pilcher, F.Z.S-, Editor of “Zpo”). Jezebel, a young Indian tigress, very wild and fierce, is his bride. In Russia, Amur was a wife-killer-Several attempts were made ai Moscow
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  • 184 9 The Penang Municipal Band will perform on the Esplanade today from 8.30 p.m. to 10.30 p.m. Following is the programme:— 1 March —Passing Of The Regiments. Winter. (A Sequel to the famous —“Martial Moments.”) 2 Potpourri— Story Of The Overtures.— Winter. Grand Selection from Classic and Operatic
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  • 118 9 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, Feb. 25. <TTACKED by a lion during a perfor- mance at Bell’s Circus at the Great World, A. Turkey, the tamer, had a fortunate escape from death or serious injury The jungle beast leapt on the tamer and buried its fangs in
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  • 168 9 PERSONNEL SELECTED The F.M.S Government has issued the following communique giving the names of persons selected to represent the Military and Volunteer Forces of the F.M.S. at the Coronation of His Majesty King George VI in May: (i) The Malay Regiment The personnel of the contingent has
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  • 115 9 Award Of Colours (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 25. In the course of its report ot. 1936 the Y.W.C.A. Sports dub states that there has been a slight increase m membership and at the Regional Conference the club was represented by Miss V. B.
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  • 166 9 London, Feb. 25. The terms of the Anglo-Can adi ar. tradagreement are published It remains in force till August 20, 1940 when it may be subject to termination, by six months’ notice. The terms are Canada lowers British preferential duties or. 150 items, affecting 40 per cent
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    • 297 9 NOT Wil i J i pUK* 1 MOTOR OIL 4 E. O. HOTEL PENANG. 0 TOMORROW f Extension to 1 a.m. DINNER «DANCE SUNDAY, 28TH FEBRUARY ORCHESTRAL CONCERT 9 15 p.m. to 11.15 p.m.By the E. O. ORCHESTRA (On the Lawn Weather permitting) 4 i P U-HEN VISITING SINGAPORE STAY
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    31 10 into retorts at the Askern Works of I^Te mptfatdre Carbonisation, Ltd. Present plant treats 3,300 tons of coal per producing tons of Coalite and 55,000 gallons of crude coal-oil.
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  • 659 10 Experiments End In Success Doncaster. The production of a high-class smokeless tfuel suitable for domestic open grates has -been, the subject of endless experiments for years past, and many are the companies •floated which have eventually ended —in smoke, but it is not so
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  • 177 10 IMPORTANT NEW RULES After two years of rubber restriction, Johore i® now uniform with the rest of Wlay* in the law governing regulation. At the meeting of the Council of State on Tuedri', a completely re-drafted and amended enactment was considered on a •certificate of emergency and
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  • 186 10 BUT N.E.I. ESTATE SHIPMENTS LAG Amsterdam, Feb. 11. According to preliminary figures issued today, exports of Netherlands East Indies native rubber in January were nearly 4,400 tons higher than in December at 13,134 tons. There was a fall, however, of about 4,500 tons in estate rubber
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  • 44 10 —A Home Office order is being sought so that the body of Thomas Ford, ship’s steward, of Bristol, which was taken from Swansea mortuary and buried by mistake for another man, may be exhumed and buried at sea. as intended.
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  • 1009 10 London’s Reaction To Defence Loan GILT-EDGED SELLING FEARED (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Feb. 12. In the House of Commons last night, the Chancellor of the Exchequer made the announcement which the City had long been awaiting with great anxiety. Referring to rearmament, Mr. Neville Chamberlain
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    • 896 12 A Deterrent To New Construction STATEMENT BY THE U.S. MARITIME COMMISSION Designed to stimulate construction of modem and faster ships essential to the restoration of a competitive merchant marine and creation of an efficient reserve for national defence purposes, a policy of making no
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    • 1341 12 CAPTAIN R. R. BURGE'S CAREER AT SEA Captain R, R. Burge who sailed as su? Commander of the “Strathmore” on Fel> ruary 13, was bom at Lyme Regis, educated at Salisbury School, Salisbury, and has his present home at Epsom. He first went to sea in October
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    • 419 12 S.S. “BULAN” for Teluk Anson, Bagan Datoh, Port Swettenham, Malacca and Singapore. S.S. “KHANDALLA” from Singapore, sails Feb. 27 for Rangoon ani Calcutta. S.S. “GLAUCUS” from Singapore sails for Boston, New York, Baltimore and New Orleans. S.S. “MENELAUS” from Liverpool sails for Hong Kong, Shanghai and Japan.
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    • 1818 12 RADIO TOPICS PROGRAMMES 1 8.8. C. EMPIRE STATION the coronation TODAY BROADCASTS TDAWCMKQinN 9 Tune in on the following wave- in the course of a recent microphone TRANSMISSION 2. lengths: talk, the BBC Director of Outside BrcadTRANBMIBSION 9 casts, Mr. S. J. de Lotbiniere, made a 6.20 p.m. Big Ben.
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  • 208 13 Hope Of Early Release Istanbul, Feb. 10. i Captain Parker, master of the British oil tanker Vanduara, is still detained at Chanak, where he was arrested in consequence of an accident on January 12, when a Turkish motor-boat sank with loss of life after having
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    • 363 13 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. SINGAPORE PENANG. THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE r ’"'Tip-i- LONDON AN» Noms CONTINENT Leave Due (in conjunction with Glen A Shire Line) Penang London GLENGARRY Ifdon, R’dam, H’burg, A’werp A M’borough Feb. 26 Mar. 29 C. AGAMEMNON Mars., L’don, R’dam, H’burg A Glasgow Mar. 8 Mar. 31 B.
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    • 328 13 TO EUROPE VIA SUEZ. LEAVE Arrive Arrive PENANG Marseilles New York S.S. PRES. WILSON Mar. 17 Apr. 5 Apr. 15 S.S. PRES. MONROE Mar. 25 21 May 4 S.S. PRES. ADAMS Apr. 8 May 5 18 S.S. PRES. HARRISON 22 19 June 1 A wonderful opportunity to visit Cairo en
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    • 761 13 P&O british"lndia PORT SWETTENHAM, MALACCA SINGAPORE S/S "KAROA" SAILING SUNDAY. 28th FEB.. 4 p.m. Peninsular and Oriental S.N. Co., under .Penang, Teluk Anson, Port Swettenham contract with His Majesty’s Government Malacca and Singapore Service. London and Far East Mail Service. v. Outwards from London for China Japan. 2 due Penang
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    • 276 13 RADIO PROGRAMMES KUALA LUMPUR TODAY 1.00 p.m. (An all H.M.V. Broadcast). E.D. 5124 Fox Trot Tango When the Poppies Bloom again. Raindrops. Joe Loss his Orch. tr.K. 304 Fox Trot Al My Life Small Town Girl. Helen War d with Benny Goodman Trio. 34.C1. 305 Fox Trot A Fine Romance
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    • 125 13 PARIS Station Radio-Colonial. Ito call-letter» are: W. L. 19.88 metres T. P. A. 2 W. L. 28.28 T. P. A. 8 W L. 28.88 T. P. A. 4 TODAY Wavelength 19.68 m., 15.243 kc 6.20 p.m. Concert. 7.05 Talk on current French events (in Rumanian). 7.20 News in English. 7.35
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  • 681 14 Exciting Soccer On Esplanade KEAY SAVES P.S.C. FROM DEFEAT The spectacular fashion in which J. F. Keay, scored two goals in the second half of the game was the outstanding feature of a soccer match played yesterday on the Esplanade between the Penang Sports Club and
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  • 30 14 .—Reuter. Second Division League Matches London, Feb .26. Following are results of English League matches played yesterday:— Coventry 0 Leicester 2 Swansea 2 Sheffield U. I,—Reuter.
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  • 963 14 Order Of Running And Scratchings The following 1 is the full programme for tomorrow s races at Singapore, the concluding day of the Spring Meeting, with scratchings and correct order of running: RACE.—I. PONIES—CIass 2—Division 2—6 Furlongs. 0 SPOT WHITE 9.00 Mr. O. Shaik Mohamed
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  • 259 14 WALWYN RIDES GOLDEN MILLER London, Feb. 25. Following are the probables for the Grand National Steeplechase to be run at Liverpool over 4 Miles 856 Yards on Friday, March 19: Golden Miller (Walwyn), Royal Mail (Williams), Drinmore Lad (Morgan), What have You (Mr. Street), Ready Cash
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  • 98 14 Malay College Beaten At Taiping (From Our Own Correspondent) Taiping, Feb. 25. In the first inter-school soccer match played here this season the King Edward VII School. Taiping, defeated the MalayCollege, Kuala Kangsar, by three goals to nil on the School ground this evening. THE TEAMS The following
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  • 630 15 S. America Keen To See Britain's Top Teams A LTHOUGH the playing record of British football teams touring abroad has been nothing to write home about in recent years particularly in the case of full international sides—the football followers of othei countlies seem
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  • 212 15 Mr. Hore-Belisha was at Tynecastle fast week to see the Hearts v. King s Park Scottish Cup-tie. Hearts did not need any of the Transport Minister’s beacons to show them the road to goal. They knew when to cross far too readily for poor King’s Park —who were
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  • 348 15 JARDINE RETURNS TO THE ATTACK It is always pleasant at this wintry time of the year to talk cricket or listen to someone talking about it who knows. That’s why I look forward to my golden hours over lunch at the club with P.F.
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  • 177 15 They Did Not Know The Rules With the Football Association handing out all sorts of pronouncements on ‘Tough play” and the like, it appears that professionals have no time left in which to read the laws of the game. At any rate, a recent Goodison Park incident leads
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  • 103 15 George Macaulay, the old Yorkshire player, has come back to cricket. Not big cricket, but the Saturday League game is a good next-best. We lost one of our few personalities when Macaulay retired from his county. A strong, fighting personality was “Mac” —and a man of
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  • 280 15 Cecilia Colledge, the brilliant young skater, now indisputably Britain’s Queen of the Ice, has returned to London to compete for the British figure-skating championship. Her performance at Prague last week in winning the European title is the talk of the skating world, and the experts
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  • 543 15 GOLFERS* GUIDE —CHAMPIONS BEATEN BY b CADDIES FINANCIAL SIDE OF CRICKET SUSSEX’S LOSS PLAIN WORDS ABOUT BIG RUGBY GAMES I HAD no idea that there were as many as 263 golf courses within 50 miles of London—but there are. I have this on the authority of an
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    • 39 15 Me (i RANTS Q The man in the street says it's good tj The connoisseur says it's good t[ We say it's good Try it —and you'll say it's good. o r r Wx W\ i T jo I
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  • LATEST SHARE AND COMMODITY NEWS
    • 318 16 Strong London, Feb. 25. Yesterday Ri»e or Fal* Em. 5 a».. -rfi Smdrafc 4 px., I%WS 117* .War Lomu 3% B-c. .J. 103* £MI Un. Am. (Unit») 10 Jratertal M A 35% Xoyal Abkc. (Hl M-) 9 St Western Ord. 58 r Cm. Poc. (825) 17 J4
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    • 117 16 London, Feb. 25 ■RUBBER Firm. Spot 102 buyers 10} sellers. April; June 10}? buyers 10JU sellers. July Sept. 10} buyers 10|5 sellers. OctiDec. 10i buyers 101 g sellers. New York: 21.70 cts. United Kingdom Stocks London 26.270 tons Liverpool 38,618 tons 12DPRA Straits S.D. Rotterdam. (Feb.) £2O
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    • 116 16 Crandon on Previously Latest Paris 1051 105 7|64 New York 4.89 .-4 4.88 31 Montreal 4.89 4.881 g "Brussels 29.021 29 02-1 «Geneva 21.44 21.431 Amsterdam 8.934 8.92? Ydflan 92 fg Berlin 12.16 12.151 Athens 547) sellers 5471 sellers Bucharest 670 sellers 670 sellers Buenos Aires 17} unquoted
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    • 194 16 KENNEDY CO. The following are the latest quotations in MESSRS. KENNEDY Co.’s Share List today:— TIN:— Buyers Sellers Ampat 5|4S 5|9 Ayer Weng 1.75 I.Boex Batu Selangor 1.671 1.70 Hong Fatt 1.60 1.65 Jelebu 1.275 I.32aex Kpg. Kamunting 10(3 10(9 Katu 24(0 24(6 Kramat 61|0 62;6 Kuala Kampar 17(0 17|6ex
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    • 198 16 The following are the changes in our quotations up to noon today:— TIN:— Buyers Sellers Ampats 513 5 9 Asams 34:6 35 6cum Bangrins 24’0 25 0 Batu Selangors 1.67 1.70 Hong Fatts 1.585 1.615 Hongkongs 33 6 34 6 Idris 13(3 14 3 Jelepangs 30 9 31
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    • 156 16 A.A. ANTHONY CO. TIN:— Buyers Sellers Batu Selangor 1.65 1.70 Hong Fatt 1.57 J 1.625 Jelebu 1.275 1.325 Kuchai 1.75 1.80 Lukut 1.35 1.40 North Taiping 1.025 1.075 Rahman Hyd. 1.45 1.50 Rantau Ordy. 1.55 1.60 Rantau Pref. 1.575 1.62| Sungei Luas 2.40 2.50 Sungei W’ays 3.20 3.30 Taiping 1.025
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    • 241 16 RUBBER: Buyers Sellers Allenbys 2.05 2.15 Ayer Panas 2.05 2.10 Bassetts -92% .95 Batu Lintangs 1.50 1.55 Bedfords 1.35 1.40 Bentas 1.475 152} Brogas 1.20 1.25 Indragiris 1.72} 1.80 Jerams 1.27} 1.32} Lunas 2.40 2.50 Mandai-Tekongs .25 .27} M. Pindas 1.82} 1.90 Mentakabs .52} .55 N Scudais 1.90
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    • 119 16 TIN:— YESTERDAY TODAY London—(Spot) £244.0.0 £249.0.0 London—(S mooth®) £244.10.0 £249.5.0 Singapore $122.00 $123.50 Business Done Penang M Business Done COPRA. —(Sundrled? $7.75 $8.05 BLACK PEPPER $ll.OO $11.25 RUBBER London 10&d io?d Now York 21?c(G) 2L.’c(G) Singapore-Spot 36}c 36®c March. 36gc 3$3 C April/June 36? c 37j c JulyjSept
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    • 154 16 LEAN CO. TODAY’S OPENING QUOTATIONS TIN:— Buyers Sellers Ampats 5(6 5(10} B. Selangors 1.65 1.70 Hong Fatts 1.60 1.65 Johans 28 32 Katus 24(0 24(6 K. Lanjuts 26|3 27(0 K. Kamuntings 10(3 10(9 Laruts 16(4} 1619 Lukuts 1.35 1.40 Mambaus 1.05 1.10 Nawng Pets 87} 92} Norths 1.00 1.05 Puchongs
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