Malaya Tribune, 17 April 1936

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  • 39 1 The Malaya Tribune Malaya's National Newspaper: Guaranteed Largest Sales vol xxm. -No. 89 SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1936 FIVE CENTS. The Malaya Tribune Singapore: Friday, April 17, 1936. Malaya Tribune 20 PAGES. SINGAPORE, FRIDAY. APRIL 17, 1936. FIVE CENTST
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    • 67 1 Read The SUNDAY TRIBUNE Dominant In Malaya I I i sAs s GyiMigE*gjg mas wg, 3 MILK AT ITS BEST I SAFE FOR BABY I j Blue Cross Milk contains the nourishing and essential ingredients baby specialists recommend: Vitamins, Proteins, Sugar and Fat, all I necessary for building a healthy
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    • 193 1 THE NEWS WITH YOUR BREAKFAST Try The MOItM\4. TMBUXE TO IS KY Sole Agents:-SIME, DARBY Co.: Ltd., Singapore-Johore-Malacca and Negri Sembilan. ic.s. 6. PENNY -A- MILE— Think! The Austin Seven.will take three others and yourself for less than a cent per mile each, all m t Kemember! Twelve years of
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  • 586 2 SHIPPING NEWS NOTICES HONGKONG COAST FOG-RIDDEN Shipping Had Difficult Time Hongkong, Apr. 10. THE entire coast between Hongkong and Shanghai was covered with a blanket of fog yesterday and shipping between these and intermediate ports had a most difficult time. The Empress of Russia,, which was due here early yesterday
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  • 66 2 Orders For 30 Vessels Of 213,540 Tons Tokyo, Mar. 31. Shattering all records set in the post war era, orders for the construction of 30* vessels, with the total tonnage of 213,540, have been placed, with Japanese dockyards in the first three months of this year, the Nippon
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  • 294 2 Questions In House Of Commons IN the House of Commons last month Mr. Ben Smith (Bermondsey, Lab.) asked tTie President of the Board of Trade whether, in the discussions taking place between his department and the classification societies on the question of the seaworthiness of ships, he
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    • 424 2 BRITISH INDIA P. O. S. N. CO.'s SAILINGS: OUTWARDS. Dae. Tonnage. Spore, 1936. BEHAR 6,000 Apr. 19 CHITRAL 16,000 Apr. 24 SOUDAN 6,600 May 6 RANPURA 17,000 M»y 8 RAWALPINDI 17.000 May 22 BURDWAN 6,070 June 4 CORFU 15,000 June 6 RANCHI 17,000 June 19 SOMALI 6,810 July 1 NALDERA
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    • 581 2 X. Y. K. UME GENERAL PASSEtfGEIt AGENTS, CUNARD WHITE STAR, LTD., (Incorporated in Japan). To LONDON, via Penang, Colombo, Aden, Port Said, Marseilles Gibraltar. m,s. TERUKUNI MARU Apr. 29 s.s. HAKUSAN MARU May 14 s.s. HARUNA MARU May 28 ss KATORI MARU June 11 Rates to Ist class Naple $497
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    • 530 2 P\SSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICE. BANGKOK LINE. Luxurious One Class Motorships. Most Cabins have adjoining private bath. Excellent Cuisine. FOR MARSEILLES, LONDON ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG AND COPENHAGEN. From From From From Spore Malacca Port Penang M.S. Sham BORINGIA m l Jr* ERRIA 5-5 5-5 6-5 8-5 LALANDIA 26-5 26-5 27-5 29-5 JUTLANDIA
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    • 476 2 STEAMER SAILINGS NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD (Incorporated In Germany). The undernoted are the Company 1 mtended fixtures.— OUTWARDSF«r MANILA, HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, For C|HNA J JAPAN. Due Spore IBM "ISAR" Apr 2IJ *"GNEISENAU" omits North China Api y HOMEWARDS FOR HOLLAND, HAMBURG AND BREMEN: "LIPPE" omits Holland Apr. 20 "GOSLAR" also calls Marseilles.
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  • 208 3 RATHER QUIETER TONE BuytrH Not So Keen As Yesterday (By Out Financial Correspondent) Singapore, Friday morning. Rubber (Singapore) 267 cts., unchanged. Market Tone: Quiet. Tin (Spore) $101»-, down $</«. To-days Prices:— London 7%d., up 1 16d. Market Tone: Very Steady. New York: 16 1 16 cts., unchanged.
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  • 193 3 Prices Realised At Saks Yesterday Singapore, Thursday. THE Singapore Ch umber of Commerce Rubber Association held its 1,273 rd auction to-day when there were: Catalogued 753,005 lb.—tons 336.16 Offered 750,765 lb.—ions 335.16 Sold 612 138 lb.—tons 273.23 London—Spot 7 9 lOd. New York—Spot 16 116 cents. PRICES
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  • 1549 3 FINANCIAL NEWS VIEWS LATEST SINGAPORE SHARE QUOTATIONS Ti? following share quotations are issued by Fraaer and Co. and Lyall and Evatt:— MINING Singapore, Friday, 10 am. lssUfc Fvaser Lyall Value Co. gvmtt 4- Ampat 5 9 6,3 5 9 6 3 S Kumban 28 d 29 6 28 3 29
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  • 96 3 DAILY PRICES CURRENT. Singapore, Thursday noon. .No. I.X.R.S.S. in cases (F. 0.8. April) 26% 27 Good F.A.Q. in cases (F. 0.8. April) 26 13 16 26 15 16 No. I.X.R.S.S. (Spot-loose) (awardable Spore) 26 7 R 27 do. May June 27 V 8
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  • 501 3 Sung>.i Ramal Syndicate SLIGHTLY LOWER PRICE (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Thursday. 'J'HAT a slightly lower price for their rubber and a large measure of restriction as compared with the previous year had combined to reduce the profits from $28,828 to $21,543 was revealed
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  • 60 3 LYALL EVATT'S DAILY REPORT Singapore. Friday. MINING: Steady no special change,. RUBBERS: Active, Buoyant commodity price has brought about buyers »n all sections. Malacca Pinda $L37V Indragiri $1.10 Changkats .92»/ 2 United Malacca $1.66, Biogas .871/2, Nyaiaj .95, Ulu Benut .47. Mentakabs fambalak .65, S. Baga i $2.77%, Lunas £1.87%,
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  • 580 3 TRACTION CO. Board's Suggestions Carried London. Aor. R. AN extraordinary general meeting, fol- lov/pd by r'n of the Prefererce nnd ftrrifnarv stockholders of the vSin?rapore Traction Comnanv Ltd was held vestertta* at Winchester Hcuw Old Broad-street, v c Mr. L. W. Hawking (chairman of the comDanvK who
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    • 126 3 THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LIMITED. MEYER CHAMBERS, RAFFLES PLACE. Capital Fully Paid Yen 100.000.000 Hrservo Fund Yen 129,150,000 READ OFFICE: YOKOHAMA. BRANCHES at A exandria, Batavla, P>ombay, Berlin. Calcutta, Canton, Hairen. Fengtien. Hamburg, Hankow, Harbin. Honolulu. Hongkong, Hsinking, Karachi, Kobe. London, Los Angeles, Manila. Moji, Nagasaki, Nagoya, New York. Osaka.
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    • 27 3 KASTKRN UNITED ASSURANCE CORPORi. HON, LTD FIRE, MARINE, MOTOR CAR, PERSONAL ACCIDENT AND WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION INSURANCE. HEAD OFFICE: 16D, Cecil St.. Singapore L G. JOHNSON 4mnd Manager.
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    • 464 3 THE UNITED CHINESE BANK, LIMITED. «Jncui in the S.S.) ji-a, chuua Street, d•.'imam Building) Singapore, .-vutnoi v* v capna.l $4,000,000 Subscribed and Paul Up $1,000,000 Telegraphic Address: IYEHUABANK Telephone Nos.: 5182, s*B*. 5184, 5185 5186. Board of- irectors: Wee Kheng Chiang, Esq., Chairman, Khoo Beng Cheang, Esq., Deputy Chairman. Chionh
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    • 577 4 M. HASSAN 36 37, BRAS BASAH ROAD, SINGAPORE. We undertake all sorts of work j in electrical, gas and water ser- vice lines. We give prompt attention to all j orders either big or small. Why not consult us about your requirements? Estimate submitted upon reI quest without charge or
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    • 1426 4 MORTGAGEE'S SALE OF Valuable freehold residential property situate at and known as No. 753, Grove Road, Singapore Tr be held at our saleroom, Nq. $7, £hulia Street, ON TUESDAY. 21st APRIL, 1936, AT 2.30 P.M. PARTICULARS Valuable freehold land and compound house.No. 753, Grove Road, Singapore, area 24,179 square feet.
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    • 352 4 f f A toothache specific "When toothache begins to make you sore S 7 s ime y° u ought to know I The P ain wiU vanish from your jaw i 5 I h With a touch of Odontoro" \vW Prices: Large bottle $1, small 30 cts. I ffifjt l
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    • 229 5 5 Bay SHIRTS and I" 1 JAMAS MADE BY SHIMURA CO., THE SIGN j OF QUALITY ISS.&CO.I 82-2, Bras Basah Road. Telephone 4382. Well-finished in SILK OR COTTON. j OFF OX j "DIAMOND,, I niquc fasblonable Fountain Pens i and Pencils. L Transparent lairpumpfilling Made in U.S.A. y Prices from
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    • 190 5 Week-End Shopping Bargains IN SINGAPORE. This weekly feature is intended to serve as a guide to the latest goods and novelties on display in the shopping centres of Singapore. It should doubtless prove very helpful to our readers when planning their week-end shopping. The. firms mentioned here are of high
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    • 191 5 j SOME ISEFI L j AXXUALS. j 1 Electrical Year Book 1936 $0.90 I Mechanical World Year Book 1936 0.90 i J Mechanical Engineer's Pocket Book 1936 1.80 The "Practical Engineer" Mechanical Pocket Book j and Diary, 1936 1.50 Sporting Chronicle RACING UP-TO-DATE, Jan. 1 to I Dec. 31, 1935
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    • 293 5 The Coleman Hair Dressing Saloon Hill Street Branch Singapore, beg to inform their numerous patrons that their old and experienced barber who was in China on leave, has now returned and resumed work. For Weight-Reducing take Turkish Bath at Coleman Hair Dressing Saloon. GLAND THERAPY AMAZING EFFECT in an hour.
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    • 128 5 j FOR SERVICE AND SATISFACTION PLEASE SHOP AT Shanghai Trading Co. j 55, HIGH STREET, SINGAPORE. Specialists In Chinese Hand Emb. Silk Lingerie Linen Table Cloths Camphor Wood Chests and Curios, etc. At Lowest Charge. j MAX FACTORS COSMETICS Agents: FEDERAL DISPENSARY Ltd., (Inc. in F.M.S.* RAFFLES PLACE i Churns
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  • 42 6 Nam Yong, Prjcish, 769 'ons, from Semarang 10.4. to Batavia 17.4. Toboali, Dutch 662 tons, from Bagan 16.4 to Bagan 18 4 Senang, Dutch 7*23 tons, fnm Palembang 16.4 to Palembang 18.4.
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  • 40 6 iTtie Air Mail 'Imperial) despatched from Singapore on Apr. 8 was delivered in London on Apr (8 day^). The Air Mail J Netherlands) aespatched from Singapore on Apr. 11 was delivered in London on Apr. 17 (6 days).
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  • 124 6 Mails expected fn.m Europe (London Parcel Mails) by the Ex. Sarpedon time of general delivery cf parcels 9 a.m. tomorrow. Mails expected from East and South A;rica and South America by the Arabia taaru, due at Singapore, to-morrow. Mails expected irom Australia, Netherlands Indies by Air (Qantas), time
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  • 108 6 British Official Wireless. London, April 16. Paris 74 61 64. New York 4.94 VaMontreal 4.97 M>. Brussels 29.21. Geneva 15.16>/ 4 Amsterdam 7.28. Milan 62 11 16. Berlin 12.28. Stockholm 19.39Vfe. Copenhagen 22.39 V Oslo 19.90 V 2. TT ienna 26 Prague 119>/ 2 Helsinßfors 227.
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  • 102 6 Public Functions And Sports Fixtures TO-DAY, APP. 17 High Tides:—s.sl a.m., 8.04 p.m. Football: S.A.F.A. League, Div. 11, S.C.F.A. II v. R.A.F. 11, Anson Road Stadium; Friendly, S.C.C v. Mental Hospital. L.iwn /Tennis: Tournaments at S.C.C. and S.R.C. Swimming: V.M.C.A Carnival. TO-MORROW, APR. 18
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  • 73 6 ALHAMBRA.—"Music Is Magic." CAPITOL.—"Music Hath Charms." PAVILION —"Peter Ibbetson." EMPlRE.—Cantonese Talkie. GREAT WORLD—Cabaret Dancing Siue-isiiows, Maiay Operas, Cninest.' Wayawss, Cinemas, Talkies, etc. MARLBOROUGH—"Les Miserables." iNtiW wuKuj.—Caucuei Lmitcinft, Side-shows, Malay Operas, Chinese Wayangs, Cinemas, Talkies etc. REGAL.—"Bright Eyes," followed by Coming Out Party." RlTZ.—"Paris In Spring" and "In a Monastery
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    • 226 6 MALAYA'S PREMIER HOTEL TO-NIGHT Cocktail Dance cabaret success 6.30 to 8.15 p.m. y 11E W 011T H Dinner Dance SISTERS (informal) TWO OF AMERICA'S MOST 9.30 to midnight POPULAR CABARET ARTISTS. NON-DINERS $1.00 RAFFLES CELEBRATED WHEN IN PENANG STAY ORCHESTRA 11 AT THE E. O. HOTEL. Directed by DAN HOPKINS
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    • 237 6 LATEST ADVERTISEMENTS ORDINANCE NO. 44 (BANKRUPTCY) IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. SETTLEMENT OF SINGAPORE. Summary Case.X In Bankruptcy. No. 440 of 1933. Re KHOO HENG KENG of No. 56 Koek Road, Singapore, Clerk to Messrs. Sisson Delay. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a. First Dividend is intended
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    • 172 6 unpleasant j |||mb laxatives? ||p i I Chocolax contains the Jf < I necessary principles of a laxalive in a delight- |§|SB ful chocolate form. 2p| pSI Acts gently like j nature without pain or griping—and tastes lika 111 your favourite candy. j|p Get the convenient, j|| pocket size package
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    • 91 6 LATEST ADVERTISEMENTS ORDINANCE NO. 44 (BANKRUPTCY i IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. SETTLEMENT OF SINGAPORE. Summary Case. lr> Bankruptcy. No. 185 of 193" Re M. A. RODRIGO of Governs Quarters. No. 26, Anthony Road, Singapore. Clerk. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN ill I First Dividend is intended to
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 75 6 s Postal Intelligence .j. SINGAPORE MAILS CLOSE TO-DAY Rengat and Temhilanan (Flevo) noon Ceylon (Andre Lebon» 1 p.m. Trengganu (gene.-eUy), Besut, Dungun Kemaman, Kemasek and Kretay (Boribat) 2 p.m. .lava, South-Wesv Sumatra, S.East Borneo, Ceiebcs, Moluccas and T. Dilly iPlancius) 2.30 p.m. Muntok (Plancius* 2.30 p.m. Bengkalis, F. de Keck,
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  • 835 7 THE INQUEST Verdict Of Death By Misadventure A VERDICT of death by misadventure in both cases was returned at the inquest on the two young soldiers of the Middlesex Regiment who were drowned in the Power Station reservoir, the Coroner commenting on the brave action of Pte.
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 166 7 .J. .J. FOR GREATER MILEAGE j j j GREATER SAFETY I DDNLOP I DUNLOP DVfiLOV j j "90" FORT "90" J j THE DUNLOP RUBBER CO <SS> LTD. SINGAPORE KUALA LUMPUR PENANG. i £c •> t —fl DISTANT PATIENTS !BY PSYCHO THERAPY. lljfflHj MAKTIX(i p jni. 6, JALAN SKOLA, KUALA
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    • 322 7 Kill Kidney Trouble Quick Thousa- is of sufferers from Ktdney trouble and Bladder weakness have stopped Getting Up Nights, Leg Pains, Circles Under Eyes, Swollen Ankles, Nervousness, Stiffness, Rheumatism, Dizziness, Lumbago, Burning. Itching, Smarting. Acidity and of Vigour by a Doctor's now discovery called Cystex (Slsstex). Gently soothes, tones, cleans,
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    • 293 7 km ■mm! Smart well dressed men these Tjk perfect collars J «L km with their Din BpQ IjL 9 Ask for sty 1 c NOU THAN TWO MILLION MEN ENJOY THE NEAT, COOL CBISPNESS OF WY-AN-ISED COLLARS. EASY PRICE TO THE NECK AS SOFT COLLARS. COM- fj FORT AND FORSIAL
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    • 156 8 oi»lM\<. I ».\k.ii i 7he alhambra A f] 3iiou3 singing star the screer/s nuttiest m a cpniediaßs...gorgcoai girls Z feoe and Hear .-.gay tußcs..tjn a hilarious BEIJE DANIELS fam US Star Musical (om:dy I m e^ SM \\i ALICE FAifE seTI Tift fi RflY WALKER B,vy of BEBE DANIELS Beautiful
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    • 312 8 HERRING IT WAS THE WALLS OF HIS WORLD IT IILTI) Ii MAGIC OF ALL HIS DESIRE WITH IT UPON HIS FINGER HE COFLD SCORN THE TORTURES OF HIS PRISON CELL! AmW'" TO-NIGHT 6.15 9 15 §L\ *±<Jm\ PARAMOUNT PRESENTS ,a W GARY COOPER-ANN HARDING ;tl CM THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ROMANCE
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    • 142 8 T Millions of Radio listeners (he world over have heard him vnn i SEE this famous British Artis lf in a Rollickin" Tmed,'. C APITOL I NIGHT j j I TO-NIGHT 6~ 9 j MUSIC .Jr j &C\ HATH 5/ I A_ I Opening To-Morrow CAPITOL Si'^ J ,< J.L
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 299 9 OPENING TO-NIGHT T 1 m She's the Gay New Star •II Our Electric Lights Fea-ture! 1 j i Take Our V/ord, ture I j f She's the I j S ously melodious j picture all her own! H HOSTESS I Phil Regan i Cone and meet the dream of the
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    • 169 9 CAFE PE LUXE HIGH STREET (fully licensed) OPEN TILL MTDNKJUT. phone con LUNCHEONS, I DINNERS &A LA OF THE HIGHEST CARTE BUFFET. I QUALITY ONLY. Drop in for lhat Last Drink Snack after Hie Show. Ice Cream Sundaes in Every Variety. 'fk\ "The Phantom Broadcast" I II 491 ViV HII
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    • 336 9 f% mm*mw the king of REX RECORDS Ml IB I 111 II HI M I I Hill! ■IMI FROM FILM:— "MUSIC HATH CHARMS" 8670 Honey Coloured Moon PT Music Hath Charms 8698 Many happy returns of the Day P T PRICE 05 cts. EACH. (F.MS. 70 cts.) Obtainable from all
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  • 50 10 LIM—Mr. Lim Boon Hoe and family thank those relatives and friends and well-wishers for their kind attendances and help at night-visit and at th° funeral of the late his beloved wife Madam Wong Poy Keng and also to those who have sent wreaths and letter of condolences.
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  • 632 10 RECENTLY we published a letter from "A Ratepayer" criticising- the system under which the Mohammedan and the Hindu Advisory Boards each appoint a nominee to the board of the Municipal Commissioners. Usually letters signed "Ratepayer," "Pro Bono Publico" and the like do not command a great amount of attention,
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  • 114 10 Motor Magnate Back in Singapore Singapore, Friday. MR. W. E. Rootes, vice-president of Society of Motor Manufacturers and Tradeis oi Great Britain and a partner Of the firm of Rootes, Ltd., returned to •Singapore last night by the Johan Van Oldenbarnevelt. accompanied by his son. Mr. Geoffrey
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  • 67 10 New Japanese Move In China Sin Chew Jit Poh. Hongkong. April 16. The Japanese are planning to establish cultural institutes in each of the provinces of Fukien, Kwangtung and Kwangsi. A sum of $100,000 is to be spent as preliminary expenses. The institutes will co-operate with Japanese economic
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  • 54 10 Siamese Chief Of Staff To Attend Them (From Our Own Correspondent) Bangkok, April. 16. The British Charge D'Affaires was among those who wished bon voyage to the Chief of the General Staff of the Army, who flew of this morning by the X.L.M. plane for London to attend
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  • 39 10 Sin Chew Jit Poh. Amoy, April 16. The Amoy Municipality held a competition for aged people yesterday Madam Wong, 99 years was the oldest competitor. More than 160 persons took part —Sin Chew Jit Poh.
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  • 46 10 Sin Chew Jit Poh. Shanghai, April 17. The Peace Preservation Headquarters in Taiyuen announce that the Communist remnants in Shansi, numbering more than 10,000, will shortly be aliminated. Traffic has been resumed for the whole of the Tungpu Railway —Sin Chew Jit Poh.
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  • 127 10 NOTES COMMENTS Casting Pearls--! i READER is more grieved than angry with the chair ticket he received at a Police Band concert at Katong Park recently. The ticket bears the caption "Municipal Abbatoir, Singapore," and also the information that it is a receipt for 'pen rent," which costs 10 cents.
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  • 258 10 I jyjH. A. C. J. TOWERS, who had much to do with the organisation of the first all-Malay school cricket match, has published an interesting souvenir of the occasion In the form of an illustrated brochure entitled "Playing the Game." The match was played at Pasir Puteh
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  • 195 10 extraordinary position arose in connection with the recent election for the Shanghai Municipal Council, ir seems that 323 votes in one ballot box had not been counted, "by some unaccountable inadvertence," as the official statement had it, and as a result the election has to be done all
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  • 133 10 yHE ratepayers are very aggrieved at having to go through the inconvenience of voting once again, for an election for the Shanghai Municipal Council is a tedious business. The arrangements are so antiquated, we lead, that voters have to form up in long queues and lose precious time
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  • 443 10 By "Looker On" MERE Is the wise saying of the Rev. Ivan H. Hageciorn: "If you get a good wife, you will become very happy. If you get a bad one, you will become a philosopher ft Now then, you bachelors! ft* Willesdon Electricity Department has
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  • 500 11 NO DAMAGE Ship To Resume Journey Reuter. A REUTER message received this morning states that the P. and O. Far Eastern liner, Ranpura. has been refloated from the sandbank at Gibraltar on which she has been stuck fast since Tuesday. Just before
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  • 149 11 Abatement Of Flight From Franc Reuter. London, April 16. AN abatement in the recent flight from the franc is shown by to-day's Bank of France return for the week ended Apr. 10. in which although the goM reserve decreased £12.6 millions, liabilities also fell £11.4 millions.
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  • 510 11 Ethiopia Rejects Proposals Reuter. British Official Wireless. Geneva, Apr. 16. JT is understood that Baron Aloisi informed Senor de Madariaga that the Italians are willing to negotiate peace or an armistice on condition that the negotiations are direct between Italy and Abyssinia
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  • 231 11 TURKEY STRAITS CONVENTION British Reply READY TO START DISCUSSION British Official Wireless. London. Apr. 16. THE United Kingdom Government has now replied to the recent Turkish communication regarding »he Straits Convention and the demilitarised zones. An aide memoire received at the Foreign OiTice on Apr. 11 expressed the nesire of
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  • 127 11 Last Of The "Wild Men" Of Turkey The last of the Turkish bandits, a gang of 35 of the cruellest of all the so-called "wild men" of Turkey, have now yielded to the authorities. A new province has been formed In the area where these men carried on
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  • 170 11 Head Of Boots Pure Drug Co. Singapore, Friday. LORD Trent, chairman and managing director of Boots pure Drug Co., Ltd.. the huge multiple-shop cnemists. is a passenger by the Johan van Oldenbarnvelt. which arrived last night and left this morning for Europe. Accompanied by Lady Trent
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  • 44 11 Communist Labour Protest Reuter. Madrid. April 17. THE Communist Party and the Na- confederation of Labour h?ve rsllc! a 24-hour strike ih Madrid to-day. 'Hiis is bel'eved to be a nrotcst against the Governments dilatory application of th» Left Wing programme.—Reuter.
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  • 84 11 Students Slip At Sungd Waterfalls TWO Singapore Chinese had narrow escapes when picnicking with members of the Chinrse Students' Literary Association. Kuala Lumpur, and pupils of the Pooi Ying Girls' School at the Sungei Panchorang Waterfalls last Saturday. While climbing the hill they fell; one of them rolled
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  • 76 11 Military Staffs Confer In London British Official Wireless. London, Apr. 16. .The representor ye? of theaimy, naval and air force stafTj cl Belgium, France and Great Britain, who have met in 1 or.don fcr conversations in pursuance oi the agreement recently reached between these Governments in connection With
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  • 43 11 President Roos:vclt Lays Cornerstone Reuter. Washington, April 16. DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT to-day laid the cornerstone of the new $12,000,000 Ministry of the Interior building, using the trowel with which Washington laid the cornerstone of the capital in 1793.— Reuter.
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  • 288 11 CHINA ALERT U.S. Asiatic Fleet Arrives Sin Chew Jit Poh. left Japan yesterday for Manchuria. Mr. Suma, the Japanese ConsulGeneral in Nanking, has informed the Chinese authorities that smuggling in North China is a direct result of the high tariffs imposed and if they were reduced
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 79 11 I) HEYMAN PURE CREAMERY BUTTER j U Prepared under the most hygieX nic conditions—the contents of every tin is of the highest NJ standard and never differs—an I) Australian Product. JOSEPH TRAVERS SONS, LTD. ,Inc m Enßland 16G6 f i »JL SIXr APORK PENANG mum. I s s I 'His
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  • 668 12 WAS WORRIED Frequent Visits To Lawyers Singapore, Friday. THE death of Mr. M. K. Mohamed Yusoof, who wa- found shot in his home in Adis Road on the morning 01 April 8 was inquired into by the Singapore Coroner, Mr. W. G.
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  • 107 12 Singapore, Friday. Mr. A. Barcosh, a European warder of the Prisons Department, was yesterday fined $6 by Mr E E. Colman, the Fifth Magistrate, on a charge of driving his car in a negligent manner at the junction of Victoria Street and Rochore Road on Feb. 6. It
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  • 542 12 "Peter Ibbetson" GERALD DU MAURIER'S STORY AT THE CINEMAS Singapore, Friday. READERS of Kipling will find "Peter Ibbetson," at the Pavilion, somewhat similar in plot to "The Brushwood Boy. Gerald dv Maurier's story, however, has an undercurrent, of drama as well as the theme of mental
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  • 106 12 107-Year-Old Man "Suffering From Illusions" Mr. Kiel S. Barber, aged 107, according to the police, was taken to the police station here for questioning after his wife—so years his junior—complained to a policeman that he beat her. No action was taken on the complaint of wife-beating but Mr.
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  • 20 12 Mr. E.A. Brown has returned to Singapore after his holiday at Home, accompanied by Mrs. Brown and their two daughters.
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  • 331 12 Epworth Leaguers Enjoy Good Concert Singapore, Friday. f > THE Victoria Memorial Hali was packed last night by Epworth Leaguers from all over the Peninsula when the Chamber Orchestra of the Singapore Musical Society presented a concert programme for the All-Malaya Institute. Lida Langerveld, who rendered seven violin
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  • 148 12 No Cases For First Tirtie In 25 Years (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Friday. FOR the first time in quartei of a century, there were no cases in the first Magistrate's Court this morning. In making the usual presentation of a pair of white
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  • 130 12 THE following passengers are disem--1 barking at Singapore from the "Katori Maru" due to arrive here to-morrow: Mr. W. H. A. Arentz (Batavia), Mrs. P. V. de Burg. Miss M. C. Folkerts (Belawan),- Mr. and Mrs. A. Marca. Mrs. P. and Miss J. P. Marlow. Mr. P.
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  • 95 12 From Son Of China's Govt. Chairman Reuter. j Columbus (Ohio), Apr. 17. jyjISS Viola Brown, the salesgirl of the local Woolworths who eloped and married Mr. James Lin, the foster-son of the Chinese President (Chairman of National Government) on July 14, 1935, was granted an uncontested
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  • 167 12 Coconut Hits Woman In Singapore, Friday. TWO nasty street accidents occurred yesterday. Shortly before 11 a.m. a 11-year-old Chinese girl was knocked down by a sustained a fracture of the right leg motor-car in new Bridge Road. She and was taken to hospital by ambul ance.
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  • 108 12 H.M.S. Cornwall To Return Home H.M.S. Cornwall, which was recently in Singapore, will leave Hongkong foi Home in May to undergo extensive repairs. She will pass through Singapore. A sum of £198,700 is set aside in the new Navy Estimates to be spent on the vessel up to
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  • 74 12 London, Apr. 16. THE liner Queen Mary, with about 1,000 officials and officers and the crew of the vessel, left Southampton last night for her speed trials, and will not return for about a week. Many eminent engineers, representing the builders and owners of the
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  • 91 12 Scheme To Establish New Service Hongkong, April 15. THE Construction Department in Can1 ton has suggested to the Canton Government that it encourage the establishment of a shipping service between Kwangtung and Malaya. The proposed scheme includes a suggestion for a five-year monopoly and a subsidy equal to 15
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  • 75 12 Will Help Sino-American Trade Sin Chew Jit Poh. Shanghai, April 15. •THE negotiations of the Chinese bank- ers with Mr. Henry Morgenthau. the Secretary to the U.S. Treasury, have been successful. Senator Pittman, Chairman of the U.S. Foreign Relations Committee, says that the establishment of a branch of
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  • 45 12 Sin Chew Jit Poh. Shanghai, April 16. The Charhar-Hopei Council has appointed Mr. Wong Tze Chiang Director of the Government Mint in Tientsin. The Mint is to make subsidiary coins for circulation in North China. This report is officially denied in Nanking.—Sin Chew Jit Poh.
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  • 46 12 THE following visitors to Singapore are registered at Raffles Hotel: Mr. W. D. Carew, Mr. and Mrs. Harman, Mr. and Mrs. Cameron, en route to Freemantle, Mr. L. R. Macphail, Mr. and Mrs. Mungo Park, en route to England, Mr. and Mrs. Caruth, Malacca.
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  • 13 12 Dato Roland Braddell has been appointed a member of the Johore Executive Council.
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  • 350 12 NO REDRESS Full Consideration By Government (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Apr. 16. AN important communique regarding the question of quit rents and other taxation affecting the rubber industry in Malaya was issued this evening in Kuala Lumpur. The text of it is as lollows:
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  • 163 12 Sir Thomas Comyn-Plalt Back In Singapore Singapore. Friday. SIR Thomas Comyn-Platt. who is touring Malaya to investigate the preservation of wild life for the Society of Empire Fauna, has returned to Singapore and is staying at Government House. Accompanied by Mr. T. R. Hubback, the Chief
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  • 23 12 Reuter. London, April 15. A minor operation was successfully performed on Mr. Ramsay MacDonaM to-day and he is reported *to be doing well.—Reuter.
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  • 344 13 BACK TO OIL LAMPS CANDLES BLACK-OUT IN SINGAPORE FOR 2 HOURS Government House Affected Singapore, Friday. A SHORT circuit in one of the underground cables of the Municipal •lectric supply was the cause of one of the worst black-outs experienced in Singapore for a long time, when shortly after 6.30
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  • 273 13 Speeding Up Of Ocean Mail Cape Town, Apr. 6. THE speeding up of the ocean mail Africf and South Africa, from 17 days to 14 days was announced by general J. C. Smuts £o a n rd e th° f JUStiCG at a luncheon on board the new
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  • 237 13 New Books For Issu2 On Saturday THE undernoted newly added non- fiction and fiction works will be ready for issue at Raffles Library, on Saturday:— With Horace Plunkett in Ireland, Illustrated, R. A. Anderson; The Battle I Ground, Hilaire Belloc; Peter Porcupine, Marjorie Bowen; The Dwellers on the
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  • 95 13 Reunion Dinner To Be Held I In May A re-union dinner of all Old Boys of the Christian Brothers' Schools will be held en Thursday, May 14, 1936, at 8 p.m. at the Victoria Memorial Hall. Founders Day falis on that date. The attendance last year was
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  • 579 13 "Youth v. Vices'' EVILS OF GAMBLING OPIUM Singapore, Thursday. I\R. Chen Su Lan addressed a v packed hall in the Anglo-Chinese School to-day when he delivered an address, "Youth vs. Vices" to those who have come to Singapore for the Twelfth All-Malaya Epworth League Institute.
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  • 164 13 Canton Opposes Giving Him Special Rights Nanking, April, 17. Marshal Chiang Kai Shek has arrived in Chungking, in Szechuen. Dr. Wang Chung Hui and Mr. Liv Yen have conveyed to Nanking the 1 views of the South-west Political Coun- j cil opposing; the prantin» of snecia 1 rights
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  • 32 13 TV«« Mot;*"or«ri*>s M;^rit"*- maP vp^qp! s.s. Andre Lebon from Saigon arrived to-day at 9 a.m. and will sail on at 2 n.m. for Colombo. Aden Djibouti. Port Said and Marseilles.
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    • 71 13 iROLLEICORD I With th: ROLLEICORD you •j* take the exact picture you want, J V the way you want it and when you jt want it. J With its Mirror reflex focussing v you see the picture you take up to and during exposure, v Fitted with Zeiss F/3.8 Lens
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    • 299 13 UrttE MISS \umrsArw* lumr lAr^^^p SAl\>, j ESKIMO PIES Vanilla Ice Cream, coated with Chocolate We can recommend +his delicious confection, from personal trial. Having some special friends to tea, we looked round for "something different" and found it in ESKIMO PIES which proved to be most tempting. The children
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  • 428 14 Good Play By Anderson Singapore, Friday. rpHE biggest surprise in the 1 S.C.C. Spring Tennis Tournament was created yesterday when Roy Smith the former Cricket Club champion, was defeated by A. D. Anderson, who on the form he displayed yesterday has
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  • 369 14 Draw For First Rounds (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Thursday. THE absence of Ong Ec Kong, for many years Selangor tennis champion will tend to take away much of the interest in the Selangor lawn tennis championships which begin this evening
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  • 196 14 List Of Postponed Matches Singapore, Fiiday. THE First Division' League match between the R.E. and the Chines? originally fixed for Saturday, April 18 at the Anson Read Stadium has been postponed to Monday, May 25. The Second Division match between H.MS. Terror and the RAF. II will be
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  • 531 14 Ping Pong Team Tour To Kuala Lumpur rE August BP. ping pong team, who won a double success in the interclub and the open championship of the Singapore Ping Pong Association in 1935, visited Kuala Lumpur during the Easter holidays. The team comprised of Chen Shih Chien
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  • 154 14 Ties Arranged In Volunteer Tournament The following ties in the S.C.C. Volunteer' Snooker Tournament have been arranged: Friday, April 17:—M. F. Cutler and G. Sufold v. N. G. Bi-shop and C. R. W. Goult. Monday, April 20:— F. J. L. Maygfr and J. V. West v. A. D.
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  • 32 14 The Lam Yew Athletic Party defeated the Junior Civil Service Association by fcur goals to one at the latter's ground on Wednesday. All the were scored by Ah Kow.
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  • 38 14 Chinese Olympic Footballers In Action Sin Chew Jit Poh. Hongkong, April 17. The Chinese football team to Om World Olympic Games defeated a combined British military and naval team here yesterday by 4-o._s;n Chew Jit
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  • 45 14 Singapore, Friday. The 120 yards free style swimminhandicap will be held at the V M C A Swimming Pool to-day. The 80 yards breast stroke and 40 yards breast stroke for Juniors will also be completed. The events will start at 4.15 p.m.
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  • 114 14 Rivers-Baby Johnson Fight In Ipoh Singapore, Friday. MR. Patrick W. Duggan, oi Singapore, writes regarding fchg reference made in these columns to Al Rivers' fight with "Baby" Johnson in Ipoh recently. As is already known, Rivers was beaten by Johnson, who conceded the American 10lb., but Mr.
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  • 403 14 S.R.C. Beaten INDIANS WIN BY ODD GOAL Singapore, Friday. THE odd goal in three decided the Third Division match between th» Indian Recreation Club and the S.R.C. on the lattcr's ground yesterday. The Indians netted twice during the game and the Padans Club were only able to
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  • 272 15 "RIFFRAFF" Her Cameraman Explains lEGOERS who sec Jean Harlow i striking brunette in the new ront drama, "Riffraff," coming week to the Alhambra Theatre, curious as to why the popular v'rtro-Goldwya-Maye* star shed the ed platinum tresses with which 1« oeen
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  • 179 15 taates Of School Of Experience road or common educational ads to .success in motion ng. While physicians, end lawyers get their training sional colleges, most actors are from the .school of varied experience. er the cast nf R.K.O. -Radio t hit "BY Your Leave." the
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  • 301 15 WAS A NEWSPAPER MAN FOR YEARS t EC CARRILLO, scion of the oldest families in America, now a popular screen player, revealed during production of "On Wings of Song," musical drama, starring Grace Moore, which is the next change at the Capitol Theatre, that he
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  • 309 15 HABITUES OF THE CLUB Refinement And Wealth WEEKS of research on the part of experts are responsible for the authenticity of the Sporting Club scenes in the Casino at Monte Carlo as seen in 20th Century's starring picture for Ronald Colman, "The Man Who Broke
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  • 232 15 A Regular Screen Farce THE mechanics as well as the spirit of rhe amateur programmes come in for some goodnatured spoofing in the new Paramount screen farce, "Minions in the Air," opening shortly at the Alhambra Theatre. Most of the action in this sprightly film takes place
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  • 291 16 Several Song Hits COMBINING a diverting story, v catchy music, eye-filling dance spectacles and a highly competent cast, "Music Is Magic/ the New Fox musical romance, which is today's change at the Alhambra Theatre. "Music Is Magic" provides a fastmoving, tuneful vehicle for talented Alice Faye. Her
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  • 49 16 Sin Chew Jit Poh. Shanghai, April 16. The Charhar-Hopci Council has appended Mr. Wong Tz* Chiang Director of the Government Mint in Tientsin The Mint Is to make subsidiary coins for circulation in North China. This report is officially denied in Nanking -Sin Ch?v/ Jit Poh
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  • 322 16 FOR DINNER SCENE Ann Harding's Chair IF the screen hui to cenfem to Emily Pest, there ju: t wouldn't be any drama, according to Henry Hathaway, director of P.tramount's dramatic romance, "Peter Ibbetson" now shewing at the Pavi'Jen Theatre, with Gary Cooper md Ann Harding in
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  • 101 16 Roused Laboratories Expert In Singapore Singapore. Wednesday MR. M. MONTAGUE, of the RoUfSCi Laboratories, of Paris, is n Singapore in the course of a business tour oi the East. the Rousse] Laboratories is a large French Arm of pat nit, medicines and chemicals, rounded by Dr. Roussel
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    • 175 16 ZtftYOUR nourishing food to build sturdy bones What wp are feeding our children is what determines their normal healthy growth, or othenvis*. Modern parents, like modern doctors, know that It pays to give thought and care to what the children eat, if they are to grow healthy and vigorous in
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    • 249 16 JOK THE CHILD WITH COLIC Colic is frequently associated wvh diarrhoea and may be the result of food rasonlng. Sometimes harsh purw arc the cause, the use of whicl? cannot be too strongly deprecated where young children are concerned. If colic is associated with constipation and vomiting there is probably
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  • 183 17 Old Lady Tslls Secret Of Her Vigour The writer of the following letter once suffered from rheumatism, headachcs. and depression. Then one day a vigorous old lady told her the secret of good health. And now she writes to tell others how she discovered
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    • 120 17 POST ON TUESDAY EVENING j WtĔ^J^ 9 HOMEWARD MAILS FRCM MAILS HOME NOW LEAVE NOW DUE WEDNESDAY THURSDAY m SUNDAY SUNDAY AT DAWN EVENINGS. j THE IMPERIAL AIRMAIL RATE TO UNITED KINGDOM IS 1 25 CENTS PER OZ: I IMPERIAL AIRMAIL m 1 EXpam ETffl its unique feature is that
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    • 215 17 Tel BTB6. BE IMP—TO »aTEI HAVE YOLK EYES EXAMINED AN D WE LL- D R ESS ED! CONSULT US FOR A PAIR OF MODERN. SMARI ANT- WELL-FITTED EYE-GLASSES. SIGHT-TESTING FREE. Expert Workmanship Guaranteed NEW CHINA OPTICAL CO., »6, Higk» Street, SINGAPORE. > VITALITY RESTORED MEN AND WOMEN MADE YOI'NG AGAIN
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    • 165 17 NOW ON SALE m SIXTH .Malayan Listeners I SPEC/AL FEATURES I 15 DAYS WORLD'S PROGRAMMES j Western Australia's Nev; Short-Wave Station Azimuthal Map. What goes on in a Valve Short-Wave and T s me-Zone Map of the World Letters to the Editor 20 cts. AT ALL BOOKSTORES 20 crs. If
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    • 1331 17 jfa j I 1.10 p.m. Nirom news bulletin. Z.H.J. PENANG Listeners Kratlio iJ£|; w W 5.50 p.m. Time signal. Talk (or TO-DAY children by J .G. de Vries. 700 d m Time Signal irric!lT TT\TPTT?F occasions will be relayed in the Empire microphone and by other means. 6.05 p.m. Vitya
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    • 643 18 •y-~— Tfc* tiiSt Shop D °wn North Bridge Road at One Five Seven, J Not far to stray, I There GIFT SHOP HATS like I dreams of heaven J Just steal your hearts away. t All the Town is calling loiidlv 1 GIFT SHOP HATS TO OWN. Now, Girlies, make
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    • 459 18 WOMAN'S GREATEST SIN Women are now flocking to this Man It is now a sin for women to look wrinkled and ugly. Prof. Dr. Stejskal. famous physician and scientist in the University of Vienna, has extracted a new product from young animals called Biocel. The moment -Ml this vital substance
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    • 70 18 m i£ COMBINATION FREE OF This offer applies to Singapore oSy I*MJ V.Vil S-1m disposal all the fine independence of UmJ ravelling by motor car; it offers freedom f" a,,f '■"me at will; it protects against 7f m FIWfTTIrf*Ĕ weather; it shor.ens the thru, enrouteincreases daily accomplishments; it is IW
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    • 945 18 2 RO, ROME MillJlYllll Usfd!4*rS 3.15 p.m. Recorded music, 'pictures. Hadio ft£\JßS j p ££SSf2 S°S tor TO-DAY M 4.35 p.m. News In French. Violin, and Cello by Joset Haydn r^ U (Continued Jrom page 17j 5.05 p.m. News in English. End of rich Kartig, Fabio Doriuo i 9.20 p.m.
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  • 969 19 r o w Eats Watch MothersMn-Law Honoured 93,500 Miles By Lift General Becomes Military Student r-i a uftF stories from various parts of Q TR AN worldl are told in the following D nom Reuter correspondents THIS COW TICKED Tins i-s probably the strangest story a JLSef
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  • 132 19 Storm In Natal, Worst In Living Memory Ladysmith, (Natal). THE roof of a hospital was torn off in a storm described here as the worst in living memory. Rain and hail driven by winds of gale force left a trail of destruction. Houses and shops were damaged, gardens
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    • 585 19 I Torrential Rain-Steamy, humid conditions Colds 'Flu Fevers 1.1 1 Headaches all go together. It is necessary to guard against infection and 1 I S be ready for any emergency. If taken at first symptoms, 'ASPRO' wtl stop I I a Cold or the Flu in one night. 'ASPRO' eliminates
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