Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 26 August 1932

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE ZSTASLISHSD 1833. PUBLISHED DAILY. No 201 Vol. LXXXX. FRIDAY, 26th AUGUST, 1932. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 125 1 of Aix la Chapelle, Germany.—Rugby Rauio Sendee. Congregation of 5,000 at First Service Rugby, Yesterday. Thf' new Buckfast Abbey, Devonshire, built of bath stone by a handful of monks durinu the last 25 years, with their own han <nd without money, on the site of the r s
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  • 73 1 .—Rugby Radio Service. Three Thousand Passengers from Croydon per Week Rugby, Yesterday. With the arrival at Croydon last night of the I .p- rial Airways liner Horatius British civil aviation completed its thirteenth ir of working. During the first year average of twenty passengers flew’ "the Ch. nnel
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  • 150 1 Gamblers* Ingenuity Detected (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, To-day The local police raided a house in Clare Street at 9 p.m. last night in consequence of information received that the premises were used for gambling purposes. The Police found the door giving entrance to the premises closed
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  • 109 1 Rugby Radio Service. Air Council’s Message of Sympathy to Col. Watkins Rugby, Yesterday. Colonel H. G. Watkins has received the following message from Lord Londonderry, Secretary of State for Air, on the death of his son in Greenland. “On behalf of the Air Council I offer deepest sympathy
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  • 56 1 —Rugby Radio Service. Leaving for Balmoral on Monday Rugby, Yesterday. The Prime Minister, whose visit to the King was to have taken place this week, wrill leave London on Monday for Balmoral. It is probable that Mr. J. H. Thomas wall also be the guest of H.M. the
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  • 397 3 Lord’s Comedy Recalled By Cricket Incident DUKE’S “FORTY WINKS” Critics of cricket who have long complained that it is a slow and sleepy game have now been justified. A player at Market Rasen, in Lincolni shire, actually went to sleep during a match! While another batsman
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  • 146 3 NEW PROTEST TO A j GOVERNMENT Alexandria. The last has not been heard of the bathing incident at Stanley Bay, Alexandria’s most fashionable beach, in which Baron Versbach-Hadamar, the Austrian Minister to Egypt, and Ishak Helmy, the Egyptian who swam the English Channel in 1928, were involved. It
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  • 125 3 The prevalence of small peas at this season of the year has led to a strike among pca-shellers in Covent Garden. Between 60 and 70 women employed by Mr. William Bailey—whose family have supplied shelled peas to restaurants and caterers for more than 100 years—decided
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  • 59 3 Ernest Springall, aged 42, a grocer, of West Dulwich, was bound over at Croydon for selling foreign eggs as English newlaid. A policeman saw him at Upper Norwood on a public seat, industriously rubbing eggs with a cloth. By using methylated spirits and a patent cleanser he
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  • 278 3 i FAMILY THAT MADE HISTORY I On August 2 in the year 1100, a charcoal burner, William Purkess, wandering in the New Forest at Minstead, found the dead body of his king, William Rufus, lying alone and forsaken. He put the body in his crude
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  • 95 3 Youth Who Tried to Take His Cousin’s Place A young man who took h-s cousin’s place I in the Army was fined £5, with an alternative of 30 days’ imprisonment, at Maryhill (Glasgow) on August 4, for wearing the uniform of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). He was William
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  • 94 3 From Morocco to See British Museum El Glaoui, the Pasha of Marakesh, whose daughter married the eldest son of the Sultan of Morocco in 1926, has arrived in Plymouth with his suit on his first visit to England. El Glaoui, the most powerful of the Moorish
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  • 115 3 Rescue of Pilot From Burning Aeroplane The King has approved the award of the medal of the Civil Division of the Order of the British Empire to Flight Sergeant Eric Watt Bonar, R.A.F. Reserve, Chief Pilot of Northern Air Transport, Limited, for an act of conspicuous courage in
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  • 89 3 On the grounds of alleged defamation of character and professional libel,” Mr. Alec Waugh, the novelist, has applied for an injunction against Mr. Wyndham Lewis, and Messrs. Chatto and Windus, the publishers of Mr. Lewis’ new book Doom of Youth.” The application has been adjourned
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  • CORRESPONDENCE
    • 463 4 (To the Editor of the “Finang Gazette’’.) Sir, —It appears evident from the tenor of recent cablenews that the United States, in piling up the greatest hoard of gold in modern times, has been de facto leaning on a rotten reed, otherwise we should not now find
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  • 173 4 Kept By Our Ancestors 10,000 Years A<;o The fact that our ancestors of about 10.000 years ago kept pct dogs was revealed, when Mr. Alexander Keiller described to the International Congress of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences at King’s College, Strand, the results of his excavations on Windmill-hill,
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  • 130 4 Miss Brenda dean Paul, the 24-year-old daughter of Sir Aubrey Dean Paul, is to marry. She v. as bound over at Marlboroughstreet Police Court last December for being in unauthorised possession of dangerous drugs. Miss Dean Paul’s brother told the Daily Herald that the
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  • 714 4 s G. Hansom has been appointed to act as Assistant District Officer, Sadong, Sarawak. -rr H. C. Strong, assistant electrical engineer, has resigned from the Sarawak Government Service. yi r O. H. Grove, Assistent Adviser, iluar, will be going on leave shortly accompanied by Mrs. Grove. Mr
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 68 4 BRITISH PICTURES AT THEIR BEST Phone 264. 6J 5 NIGHTLY 9.30 BRITAIN’S MOST SPECTACULAR PICTURE MATHESON LANG DOROTHY BOUCHIER—JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT "CARNIVAL" A BRITISH AND DOMINIONS PRODUCTION. _BQOKINGS AT MOUTRIFS 795 f U imi 1,w mlw> —■———m——— 1 ffEa-fetoMgl i ALLURING, MAGNIFICENT TALLULAH BANKHEAD I IN i I PARAMOUNT'S 4th Celebrity
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  • 1659 5 HORSES IN TRAINING □GUES BSG CONTINGENT ThP follow nc is a full list of Horses and tr .ining for the Singapore Turf Autumn (Gold Cup) Meeting, to be hHd on S' mber 3rd, 7th, 10th, 14th, and 17th:— H VV. REDFEARN < 1 Ea
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  • 385 5 P.R.C. DEFEATED Yesterday’s Senior League Match The Darul Aishan Football Club inflicted a severe defeat on the Penang Recreation club in their Senior League match played on the S.X.I. ground yesterday. The match resulted in a win for the former by five clear goals. On the
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  • 69 5 First Round Draw The following is the draw for the first round of the Penang Football Association Cup Tie Competition: Byes: Darul Aishan Football Club ‘A’, Muthibol Ashan Football Club and Province Wellesley F. A. September 3: Police v. C.R.C. ‘A’. September 10: Darul
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  • 73 5 Smelters v. The Post Office R. C. The following team will represent the Eastern Smelting Club in a friendly game of soccer on the Dato Kramat Ground on Saturday, against the Post Office Recreation Club: K. A. Taylor; W. T. Francis and C. M. P. Badry; A. Abdulla, J.
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  • 273 5 SATURDAY’S MATCHES Bolton Wanderers to Entertain Cup Winners The English Football Season starts this week-end. The following are the fixtures to be played on Saturday: DIVISION I. Birmingham v. Arsenal Bolton W. v. Newcastle U. Chelsea v. Blackburn R. Leeds U. v. Derby C. Leicester C.
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  • 56 5 —Reuter. Aberdeen’s Seven Goals London, August 25 The follow’ing are tha results of matches in the Scottish League played to-day: Aberdeen 7 Kilmarnock 1 Aidrie 1 Cowdenbeath 2 Ayr U. 4 E. Stirling 2 Celtic 1 Partick T. 2 Dundee 0 Motherwell 3 Falkirk 1 St Johnstone
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  • 63 5 ENGLISH TURF. .—Reuter. Easy Win for Young Lover London, Yesterday The result of the Gimcrack Stakes run at York to-day over six furlongs, Value £1,295, for two year olds, resulted as follows: Young Lover 1 Light Sussex 2 Moti Begum 3 Seven ran. Won by two
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  • 134 5 Believed to be One That Scared Bathers A gaint fish weighing a ton and thirteen feet ip length, believed to be a whale, was killed by shots fired from a double-barrell-ed gun by Mr. Orchard, of Poole (Dorset), who found it lying in shallow water
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  • 262 5 British Owner’s Big Expenditure A defence of the research work of the British colliery owners and mining engineers with a view to the better utilisation of coal resources is contained in a reply by Mr. Finlay A. Gibson, secretary of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners’ Association,
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  • 134 5 Private Schools Unlicensed There is nothing to prevent a man who grows tired of pushing cabbages around London in a barrow from going home and putting up a notice to say he has opened a school,” declared Mr. Frank Roscoe, secretary of the Royal
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  • 188 5 Hospital Patient With a Razor Two nurses at St. Thomas’s Hospital, Westminster Bridge, were, saved from serious injury—perhaps from death by their high starched collars when a patient suddenly became deranged during the night. The patient, who recently underwent an operation, suddenly leapt out of bed with a
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  • 202 5 Near Conqueror’s Tree Hastings, Thursday, Aug. 5. Close by one of the most historic ancient, oaks in England the Mayor of Hastings to-day planted an oak sapling to commemorate, on the anniversary of the declaration of war, the efforts being made to foster international peace by
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    • 149 5 i BATHNG I COSTUMES j JUST UNPACKED I FOR MEN and WOMEN I 1 New Modes—New Colours—New Ideas r i Smart Costumes made from superior I i quality pure wool of soft texture. t These Costumes are r f 4 the latest prevailing ff 1 '1 styles as now worn
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  • 763 6 H’NTS ON FOCUSSING AND USING THE LENS STOP We all know that a large window will let more light into a room than a small one, and it is obvious that the objects behind the large vzindow will be better illuminated than those behind the small window.
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  • 161 6 On Heaven and Hell and Some Old Friends Said Mr. Maxton, M.P., speaking at the I.L.P. Summer School, at Caerleon, Newthe easiest thing in the world for a politician to go with the majority. Good friends of mine have said to me, ‘There are some people who
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  • 99 6 An airman, Thomas Bradford (27), tailor, of West Bridgford, was stated at Nottingham Police Court, on August 3rd to have i flown between 30ft. and 50ft. high near his home, to have dived between two row’s of 'houses, and then banked very sharply to clear the
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    • 135 6 a FRUIT i ell y is alf xjtways a welcome delicacy. Cere b o s Kfe/wlOl tiOM 1 Jelly Crystals are made from the purest ingredients —the juice °f ri P e f ruit and the finest sugar. The result is always a y perfect sweet j£ffl(erebos Jfe Jel 1
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    • 98 6 ALL BABIES THkiv BEST ON TRUFOOD. I' B j/ a n I Sturdy of limb, bright of eye, keen, alert youngsters —MALAYA CAN DO Vvilli MURt HUMANISED TRUFOOD BABIES t HUMANISED TRUFOOD builds in ants as nature would have them built. No other food so completely takes the place of
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 534 6 Short Wave Stations For Penang Listeners Midnight 1 h. di. 2 a. m. 8 i m 4 a. m. 5 8. m. 6 m. 5 p. ai- 6 p. ir. 7 p. m. Bp.tr. 9 P« m. 10 p. U P* 01 to to tO tO to tO 10 to
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  • 1888 7 WIRELESS SOCIETY MEETING TO-NIGHT: NEW VALVES BY THE MULLARD CO.: LATEST EQUIPMENT DETAILS rec,.nt issue of the Wireless World ier the heading Has the Radio Trade Name,” appeared the following let How heartily I endorse your recent leadartide Has the Rad.o Trade a Bad it has with me. In
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  • 278 7 SHOULD SECOND-CLASS TRAVEL BE REINTRODUCED COMPANIES SAY “NO” Should second-class travel he reintroduced on British railways? A railway shareholder, in a letter to the press, argues that the second class is the most popular on the Continent, and suggests that if the privilege of using the
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  • 364 7 EXPERT IN ECONOMICS WHO HELPED EX-SERVICE MEN Thousands of Englishmen in all parts of the w’orld, old pupils of Dr. Graham Wallas, will deeply regret the death of the distinguished scholar, w’hich occurred in mail w’eek. He was 75. In the years just after the w*ar
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  • 187 7 Ealing Tired of Its Tank Ealing Recreation Grounds Committee regard their War trophy—one of the earlier types of Tank—as an eyesore, and w’ould like to see the end of it. For this reason the Council is to be invited to agree to its sale on
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  • 228 7 Magistrate on Nudism and Obscenity Mrs. Emily Elizabeth Cane, of Hanwaystreet, W., appeared before Mr. R. E. Dummett at Marlborough-street Police Court for wilfully exposing to view in a shop in Hanway-street certain obscene prints and pictures. There was also a summons to show cause why the
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  • 164 7 The 16-years-old boy who was found exhausted from starvation in a boat off the Southend foreshore and was remanded at Southend Police Court in mail week after having refused his name and address to the police was identified. His name is Biggs, and his home
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  • 207 7 Big Engineering Schemes in Prospect During the next eight years the Egyptian Government will be spending over £12,000,000 on capital works, of first-class importance to the country. The Egyptian Minister of Public Works, Ibrahim Karim Pasha, has just concluded a short visit to England in this connection. During
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  • 193 7 Home Office Order to Miss Dora Maughan Miss Dora Maughan, the American variety artist, who has been in England nearly six years, has been instructed by the Home Office that she must leave England not later than August 31. Miss Maughan appeared at the Alhambra when
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  • 151 7 Ravages of Deathwatch Beetle Repaired Chequers, the famous Elizabethan country house of British Prime Ministers, will see the last of its radical repairs for many years next week. A series of large-scale operations, first to save the roof and later the other timber of the building, has
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  • 440 8 The idea of a Daylight Saving Bill in Malaya is still being toyed with. The Straits Settlements (Penang) Association at a committee meeting on Tuesday discussed the subject and adjourned coming to a decision until the next meeting, members in the meantime to be circularised for their views.
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  • 282 8 A country without debt, which at one time was a proud boast of the Straits Settlements, is a country to be envied. Nobody thought that such a place existed now, but the United States Congress has just learned differently. A delegate from Alaska has informed Congress that his
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  • 301 8 If we may judge by all the efforts that are being made to get rid of it, petrol must be one of the most virulent enemies of mankind. The air is thick at present with accounts of new fuels, designed to supplant petrol in the economy of the
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  • 1106 8 WHAT IT MEANS AND PORTENDS BY Hartley Withers. Big as the British War Loan Conversion looks it is, in fact, a much greater and far-reaching operation than the mere reduction of interest on more than £2,000,000,000 of British debt. It sets a new scale of interest
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  • 947 8 DIAMONDS In seasons of deep and nmi pression such as that through world is passing there hich diamonds; the market for overstocked and prices fall day are only one-third of n larn nd s to. realized four years ago T^?:‘ Ce ever, been noticeable for several signs
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 161 8 I NORTON MOTOR CYCLE 1932. Model, 18, O.H.V. 4.90 C.C. Electric Light and Horn, 3 Speed Sturmey Archer Gear Box. j USUAL PRICE $690.00 CASH PRICE $600.00. A. J. S. MOTOR CYCLE Model 5.6 O.H.V. 2 Pert Engine 3.49, C.C. Electric Light and Horn, 3 Speed Gear Box, Chromium Plotcd
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    • 30 8 E. and O. HOTEL SPECIAL DINNER AND DANCE. 11 14 j WEDNESDAY, 31st AUGUST, 1932 j-| r Dance Music By the Band of the j-j SS. “PRESIDENT PIERCE.” H y!
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 79 8 HOCKCHEW WAYANG ‘ten LOOI KEW CHOO SEE EWE KEE. (3rd Chapter). I Animated Play with Numerous Scenery 5 Transformations. CANTONESE WAYANG HONG LEW ONG HEAO. CINEMA. t::e black boat RIDER SATURDAY AT 10 P.M. COMPETITION DANCE. (Organised by Miss Madge Anderson). HANDSOME PRIZE FOR BEST COUPLES. Competition Limited To Fox-Trots.
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  • 264 9 —Reuter. Choals of Petitions Received by President and Premier I General San Jurjo, leader of t be recent Spanish Monarchist revolt, was found guilty by the civil court which tried him and sentenced to death. Shoals of petitions for his rerjeve then began to pour into t
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  • 164 9 *8 'dead against” his wife’s project—Reuter. To Start from New York on First Fine Evening Rugby, Yesterday It is reported that J. A. Mollison hopes to start from New York on the first fine evening for St. John’s, New Brunswick, on his return flight across the Atlantic. He
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  • 149 9 Cleared Up By An Explanation Madrid, August 16 dent’ the recent diplomatic inci'ißal W 1 !1 aros between Spain and PortPortu” 1 C )nSCCJUence seizure by the muni* ’’'istoms of cases containing addressed to the Spanish EmformiMi' 1 1 is stated in well in1 Q uart ers that
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  • 360 9 —Rugby Radio Service. Correspondence Between Colonial Office and Governors Rugby, Yesterday. Correspondence between the Colonial Oflice and the Governors of Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia and the British Resident at Zanzibar concerning the report on closer union in East Africa, has been published.
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  • 16 9 ward to seeing you.”— Rugby Radio Service. ward to seeing you.”— Rugby Radio Service.
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  • 99 9 King Thrashes Priest Who Insulted Queen Teheran, August 16. An interesting incident which is giving rise to lively discussions occurred in the temple at Meshed, in Northern Persia, when the Persian Queen, Shah Riza Khan’s wife, was insulted by a priest for wearing modern dress, the priest being
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  • 206 9 —Rugby Radio Service. Maintaining I raditions ADMIRAL THANKED Rugby, Yesterday. The King paid a tribute to the efficiency of the Mediterranean fleet in a telegram to Admiral Sir Ernie Chatfield at the conclusion of the visit to the fleet of the Prince of Wales and
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  • 118 9 ,—Reuter. Remarkable Swim Of The Rapids Niagara Falls, To-day. Amid scenes of tense excitement Lieutenant W. T. Van Rhyne, the Dutch Olympic Games swimmer, swam the rapids above the Niagara Fails yesterday one hundred yards above the brink of the cataract. Hundreds of sightseers visiting the falls gasped
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  • 101 9 Resigns F rom Office GIVEN A HIGH DIPLOMATIC POST Berlin, August 16. It is officially stated that the head of the government Press Department, Dr. von Kauffmann, has been relieved of his duties, and will be entrusted with a high diplomatic post abroad. Major Mareks, Publicity Chief
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  • 73 9 Miss Gleitze’s Endurance Record Beaten in Germany Berlin, August 16 The endurance swimming record for ladies, which has hitherto been held by the English girl, Mercedes Gleitze, with 46 hours, has been beaten by a German swimmer, Miss Lu Koch, who, swimming in the Ruhr river between Herbede
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  • 142 9 —Reuter. Mass Protest EARLY SUCCESS New York, Yesterday. Following the dispersal of the Bonus Army another mass protest against economic conditions has arisen in the Middle W est in the form of a “farmers’ holiday,’’ which is tantamount to a strike for higher prices. r armers
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  • 118 9 An Optimistic Note in Speech By Premier Vienna, August 16. The Austrian Chancellor, Herr Dollfuss, speaking at a peasants meeting at Enns, struck an optimistic note regarding the much-disputed loan to Austria. He said that the Government was convinced that by accepting the loan and passing a series
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  • 79 9 To Sell Her Property Through Financial Pressure Bucharest, August 16 Under pressure of tne unfavourable finazicial circumstances of the Royal Family the Queen Mother Marie of Rumania deckled to put up for sale her favourite residence, Castle Balcic, on the Black Sea. It is stated that Queen Marie
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  • 78 9 Laid in Ashes Berlin, August 17. While the tropical heat wave with which Germany has been afflicted for the past few days is continuing unabated in the capital and Southern Germany, violent thunderstorms have been sweeping North Germany, causing much material damage, especially in the free state of
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  • 25 9 —Reuter. Hong Kong, Yesterday. Cheng Kwok Yau was committed to prison. Judgment was postponed pending appeal before the full court on Monday.-
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  • 112 9 Smokeless and Noiseless Guns Rome, August 16. A claim to the invention of noiseless and smokeless guns has been advanced by two Italian artillery officers, Deluce and Guerra, whose apparatus was recently examined by an expert Italian commission in the neighbourhood of Naples. The newspaper, “Mattino,” has published
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  • 186 9 .—Reuter. Sad End of Former American Society Leader Chicago, To-day. Once reputed to be the wealthiest woman in the world, Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, third daughter of J. D. Rockefeller, the multi-millionaire, has died of cancer in comparative poverty. It is understood that she lost a
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  • 372 9 —Reuter. Mr. Quo Tai Chi Replies to Count Uchida I London, Yesterday. X 1 Count Uchida’s speech in defence of Japanese policy is published briefly in most of the morning papers. It is only given prominence in The Times. Public attention is concentrated on the German situation,
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  • 111 9 TlN—Spot YESTERDAY. TO-DAY. London £142 17s. 6d. £146 ss. Od. TIN (3 Months) London £144 12s 6d £147 15s Singapore $74.12% $76.00 Business Done Penang $73.50 $75.87% Business Done Buyers—No sellers Buyers No sellers COPRA (Sundried) 5 45 so so BLACK PEPPER $22.50 $22.50 RUBBER London 2%d. 2
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  • CULLED FROM THE CEYLON EXCHANGES
    • 636 10 PIONEERS NOW BEING REPATRIATED MALAYA NOW FOR MALAYS Colombo, Aug. 16. Behind the Press communique issued a few days ago that conditions in Malaya, both inside and outside the public service were such that large numbers of Indians and Ceylonese were being repatriated, and that no
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    • 79 10 REPLY TO QUESTION IN STATE COUNCIL Colombo, August 15. In the State Council on Wednesday, Mr. Susanta de Fonseka asked:— (1) (a) Will the Honourable the Financial Secretary be pleased to state how many meetings of the Income Tax Board have been so far held up to
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    • 352 10 BILL TO CLEAR UP DIFFICULTIES FIRST READING PASSED Colombo, August 16 In the State Council on Wednesday, Sir Wilfrid Woods, the Financial Secretary, moved that the Bill intituled "An Ordinance to amend the Income Tax Ordinance 1932,” be read a first time. It w’ould be agreed,
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    • 162 10 REGARDING SUSPENSION OF COMMUTED PENSIONS Colombo, August 16. In connexion with his motion which w’as passed by the State Council last week regarding the suspension of commuted pensions in view of the financial stringency of the Island. Sir Henry de Mel, after consulting those members
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    • 119 10 PROPOSAL BEFORE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES Colombo, August 15. With a view of evolving a scheme to popularise Ceylon coconut products in India, a conference will shortly be held between the Executive Committee of Agriculture and Lands and the Executive Committee of Labour, Industry and Commerce. At a meeting of
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    • 936 10 MR. H. M. THOMAS ELECTED PRESIDENT CEYLONESE IMPROVEMENT Colombo, Aug. 16. The annual general meeting of the Ceylon Rugby Football Union was held on August Bth at the G.O.H. Mr. L. Me D. Robison Bth at the G.O.H. Mr. L. Me D. were:—Messrs. J. D. Farquharson (Kalutara),
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    • 314 10 REPORT ON CAMBRIDGE t examinations I 51 PER CENT. PASS i I i Colombo, Aug. 14. That Ceylon girls are more intelligent than their brothers, or, at least that they I take more pains over their school work, is revealed in the report
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    • 135 10 HE. COMMUNICATES WITH COLONIAL SECRETARY Colombo, Aug. 14. SIR D. B. JAYATILAKA made the following announcement in the State Council on Wednesday:— “It was expected that the Appropriation Bill, 1932-33, would be introduced this afterroon, but we have found it impossible to do so. As the Members are
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  • 83 10 Great Britain Seventh The unofficial point scores for all events in which men and women competitors have taken part at the Los Angeles Olympic Games are United States, 434; France, 150; Italy, 126’2; Finland, 120; Sweden, 119; Germany, 108’2’, Great Britain. 87; Japan, 58; Canada, 52; Austria,
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    • 537 10 A Message of Hope J fiSSj to those v/ho hcyJ a Lost Vigour K S -1 I When natur *l vouthful vio-0’”- prematurely lost—whether r BID through illness, stress of cliniau or through overwork—life merely a dull existence. t behoves every man whose vital forces have been rm 1 9
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  • 414 11 ELECTRIC CAMP COOKHOUSE Frimley, Surrey. Among the men in camp with the London Rifle Brigade, on Blackdown, near here, are many old soldiers who were first in uniform in the hardy days of 1914. As they go about their week’s Territorial training for 1932
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  • 235 11 AID FOR DYING MOTOR-CYCLIST Mr. Randolph Churchill, son of Mr. Winston Churchill, and his chauffeur, ren-, dered assistance to a motor-cyclist whom they saw fatally injured near Westerham. Kent, when they were on their way to Oxted Station. The man was Edward George Brand, aged 26, of Balloch-road,
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  • 175 11 LIVING IN LUXURY HOTELS Geneva. Surprising revelations have been made concerning the life of the beautiful German spy, Helene Kahn, who was arrested at the Franco-Swiss frontier village of Moillesulaz after being discovered among a party of tourists in a motor-coach. For some weeks before her arrest
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  • 139 11 Greyhound Race Thrills at a Station An exciting greyhound race in Paddington Station recently held up a train. One of two greyhounds which had arrived from Plymouth slipped its leash, tore at full speed across the station and, darting between pedestrians and passing traffic, used Praed-street
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  • 127 11 Story of Attack on Youth Salisbury, August 9. The story of The Strangler,” the name given to an unknown man who recently attacked women in the Fisherton district of Salisbury, has been revived by a mysterious attack last night upon one of a party of six youths who
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  • 127 11 No News For Two Months Paris, August 9. Friends in Paris are greatly alarmed about the fate of five Princetown University graduates who left Gloucester, Massachusetts, on June 5 in a 52-foot ketch with the intention of crossing the Atlantic. Nothing has been heard of
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  • 142 11 FILM ACTRESS WHOSE BOAT CAPSIZED Copenhagen. It has just become known that Prince Axel of Denmark, a nephew’ of Queen Alexandra, when taking part in yacht races at Stockholm, rescued the Sweedish film actress Miss Margit Manstad from the sea. Miss Manstad w r as sailing
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  • 84 11 Amazing Fruits of a Wilderness Sunday Chronicle Correspondent. Chesshunt, Saturday, Aug. 6. It is claimed that there is more concentrated production of food in the Lea Valley than in any other cultivated area of the same size in the world. There are 450 miles of glasshouses, the
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  • 110 11 Passengers Taken Off By Speedboat While the seaplane Cutty Sark, belonging to the Isle of Man Air Service, was taxi-ing in view of thousands of holidaymakers who were on Douglas Promenade on August 7, she struck a submerged object and tore a hole in her side. The plane
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    • 225 11 Many of the world’s most beautiful women women prominent in Society and on the stage and screen —are enthusiastic users of ODOL, the pure, white tooth paste with the refreshingly pleasant flavour. They know that ODOL is the perfeet dentifrice—just as ODOL is the perfect Mouth Wash—the two combining to
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    • 275 11 ADVERTISING TELLS OF THiMGS I To wear, to use, to eat and to entertain, It is the news that the housewife fosks for. Place the merits of wares before them through the medium of the "PINANG GAZETTE" and increase your custom. F Regulate your I DIGESTION D w t h
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  • 353 12 MARRIAGE HOPES SHATTERED Doctor and Boys’ Big Meals “The enormously fat girl of 15 is something more than a school joke. Behind all that cheery good nature for which 'Fatty’ is notorious there is a tragedy slowly evolving.” This statement was made by Dr. H.
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  • 197 12 Crown and Gems Stolen From Holy Image Two crowns of massive gold, laden with jewels, and a number of other precious offerings, valued at £1,400 have been stolen from the Virgin of Grace image in the Cathedral of Ferrara. The discovery of the theft was made in
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  • 132 12 Record applications for space at next February’s British Industries Fair are announced by the Department of Overseas Trade. Seven hundred and five exhibitors have applied for 270,674 square feet at Olympia and the Court of Honour at the White City, where furniture is to be shown next
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  • 252 12 MANY GERMAN FIRMS Result of Tariffs Since the beginning of this year 160 foreign firms have taken sites or factories and arranged to manufacture in England. This figure was given by a representative of the London Chamber of Commerce, which has been keeping a record
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  • 184 12 Special Museum Exhibit A love spoon of about 1750 A.D. from Llanrwst is the special exhibit at the National Museum of Wales. Cardiff. The spoon has a handle square in section, chip-carved, and hollowed, and containing a ball. It is suspended on a seven-linked chain.
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  • 211 12 Shut After Disturbing Village Calm A “monster which barked like a dog,” and is believed to be a bottle-nosed shark, caused great excitement in the quiet little Hampshire village of Curdridge. Mrs. Bone, who was in a strawberry field close to a tributary of
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  • 108 12 H. P. Floyd’s Success at the Tailteaan Games H. P. Floyd, the Battersea and Times B.C. boxer, who has just won the heavyweight championship of the Irish Nations at the Tailteaan Games in Dublin, has been presented with a gold and silver belt in recognition of
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  • 290 12 EMBARRASSING DRESS PROBLEM FOR CAPTAINS WHAT IS CORRECT? Captains of pleasure-cruise liners are being set a new kind of problem. It is not a nautical problem to be solver by sextant or quadrant. It is a much mon difficult matter, and more than one expert enced
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  • 235 12 Invention That Laid Tiers Of Mines 200 Feet Down In The Sea How tiers of mines 200 feet deep down in the water were devised to defeat the menace of deep-diving submarines, was described to-day to the United States Com mission sitting in Whitehall, to hear claims
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  • 195 12 WORLD “RUINED BY EDUCATION New Standard Wanted, Says Sir N. Angell “The people who have smashed up the world during the last 20 years, namely the ruling classes, are highly educated people. I blame the educational standards for the position in which we find ourselves to-day.” So said Sir Norman
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  • 184 12 I atest Quotations Thur Wad. Bal. *25 Aug 24 Sipt. 19 Paris >8 9.32 88 9.16 123,96 New York 8.46 1 8 846 1 8 4,85? Montreal 3.9*2i 8 Braeseld 24 9) 1/2 24 92i 34 88 Geneva 1 < “Oi 1 < 80 24 86
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 184 12 ■ft I SO AN ORGY OF CHEAPNESS. J THIS actual photographic reproduction, taken last year after our Ist Anniversary Sale, portrays 136 watches which were traded in as part payment for NEW WATCHES OUR 2nd ANNIVERSARY SALE OF WATCHES CLOCKS H WILL LAST ALL SEPTEMBER, AND THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY
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    • 152 12 y Telegraphic Address Postal Address -ASTAGI HOTEL BRASTAGI. GRAND VIOTEL BRASTAGT B r xS’l Ail a. i v Sumatra E. C. telegraphic enquiries must be sent prepaid. REDUCED TARIFF FROM 2nd JANUARY, Terms for a stay Gf one to three weeks SINGLE Gls. 8 DOUBLE Gls. '5 per day, inclusive
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  • 1165 13 schedule of Principal H Lines list of vessels arriving I' ing during the week: M* 1 IN PORT TO-DAY .-..J Langsa, Lho-Seuma- h and Oelee-Lheue. J".' r. tvan-Deli, Langsa, Idi, Sseumawe. Sigil, Sabang and ftM-Uieue-torilay. M nTA MARU from Japan for Ranand Calcutta. H -x-\ fron-
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  • 79 13 FRIDAY, AUGUST 26. King Edward VII. School Team Sports at Taiping. SATURDAY, AUGUST 27. A.C. School, Ipoh: Annual Athletic Soprts. SUNDAY, AUGUST 28 Cricket: F.M.S. Police v. Ipoh Club, Ipoh. SEPTEMBER SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. Singapore Races, first day. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. Singapore Races, second day. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
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  • 333 13 Court Holds Ceiling wes Deserved Mr. Henry Joad, aged 57, headmaster of Hyde Council School, West Hendon, N.W., appealed at Middlesex Sessions against a fine of 10s. inflicted at Hendon for assaulting Alfred George Coles, aged 13, of Colin Park-road, Colindale. Coles said a boy in front of
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  • 163 13 Professor Piccard Making Sure His Balloon Wil! Get There Details of the balloon in which he is shortly to make his second invasion of the space 10 miles or more from the earth, have now been revealed by Professor Pic-, card (states a Reuter message
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  • 143 13 Men Outnumbered In Gym Classes The 1932 woman is as keen on physical fitness as any modern male, and at one place, at any rate, which caters for the training needs of both sexes, the women outnumber the men by two to one. This centre of physical culture
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  • 129 13 Plunged Into Pond When i Animal Sank The silver medal of the National Canine Defence League has been awarded to Supt. Percy Savage, one of the “Big Five at Scotland Yard The award is for rescuing, at great personal risk, a dog which was in
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 328 13 AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION OF MALAYA Assistance AND Advice FOR Motorists JOIN THE A.A.M. TO-DAY. AND HELP TO INCREASE THE BENEFITS. MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FORMS MAY BE OBTAINED FROM: THE HON. SECRETARY. A.A.M. (PENANG KEDAH BRANCH) VEHICLES REGISTRATION OFFICE (PHONE No. 710) PENANG. This space kindly lent by Dunlop Rubber Co. (S.S.) Ltd.
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  • 640 14 MINUTES OF MEETING I Daylight Saving to be Considered I The following is a summary of the minutes of committee meeting held at the Penang Chamber of Commerce on Tues- day. August 23, 1932, at 4.30 p.m. Present: Mr. Lim Keong Lay (VicePresident) in the Chair,
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  • 101 14 Straits Passengers Returning on Saturday The m.s. “MEONIA” is expected to arrive in Penang from Europe on Saturday next, August 27. The following are amongst the Straits passengers:— Mr. W. E. Eaton, Mr. and Mrs. J. Bennett, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. A. Haighton, Mr. S. Diskull, Mr.
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  • 386 14 G.P.O. LEAD TO THE WORLD The telephone service of Great Britain will lead the commercial world in enterprise with tha new Post Office “Telex” system of typewriting from office to office which was established in the London area on August 15. It is hoped by October to
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  • 361 14 A TALE OF LUMBAGO AND 40 PATIENTS The Prince of Wales was the principal guest at the centenary dinner of the BriI ish Medical Association at the Albert Hall. Two thousand doctors were present. 1 Proposing the toast of the Association he said: t “There
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    • 397 14 I I OLD SCOTCH ,"T<WHISKY>®®® k. I tWLu. < MilJLxflrf j' iw^Wl^ F < IVQyRIirE ffIWTH Appreciated I X W K FROM f J W B*. TO I W ItNGfIPQRE < ■\\m w I wW' Sole Agents I C BOUSTEAD CO., LTD., Singapore, Penang, F.M.S. Kelantan OBTAINABLE FROM I Singapore
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    • 17 14 HOME NEWS FOR MALAYANS Read what you friends at Home are doing—Buy the Pinang Gazette EVERY MONDAY.
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  • 492 16 CHINESE RELEASED FROM GAOL 1 Arrested After 25 Years in Hiding I Lam I lor Wcng. a highly connected Ipoh Chinese who was arrested in Ipoh on Wednesday, August 10, and brought to Penang to serve a sentence hich was passed on him by the
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  • 237 16 TRUSTEES SUED Hearing Adjourned Till i September 1 The hearing was again continued the whole of yesterday, in the Supreme Court, Penang, before Mr. Justice Prichard, K.C., of the suit in which Mr. Heah Seng Kim, fourth son of the late Mr. Heah Swee
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  • 315 16 Strange Slogans on Communist Documents KEDAH PROSECUTION From Our Own Correspondent Alor Star, Yesterday Sentence of six months’ rigorous imprisonment was imposed to-day by Tuan Syed Mohamed Idid, Acting Chief Malay Judge, on a Chinese named Wang Kok for being found in possession of seditious
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  • 69 16 LAO TENNIS. RESULTS OF TIES PLAYED YESTERDAY The following are the results of the P.C.C. Tennis Tournament ties played yesterday:— MEN’S DOUBLES HANDICAP (SEMI-FINAL) —3O F. E. Wraight and L. M. Norris beat —3 C. H. Rogers and L. H. Best 6-2, 6-1. MIXED DOUBLES HANDICAP (FINAL) —15.3
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  • 41 16 CRICKET. —Rugby Radio Service. Two Hundred and Sixty Four for Gloucestershire Rugby, Yesterday Hammond made the highest score of his career in first class cricket to-day when he made 264 for Gloucestershire whose first innings against Lancashire yielded 514,-
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  • 156 16 Performance in Aid of Asiatic Unemployment Fund There was a good crowd last night which saw the Charity Performance by Dean’s Opera of Singapore in aid of the local Asiatic Unemployment Fund. The special reserved and reserved seats were booked up early yesterday evening. Amongst the distinguished patrons,
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  • 97 16 One Accused Sentenced To Death From Our Own Correspondent Ipoh, Yesterday At the conclusion of the trial of Chong Yen, Ng Hoi and Wong Sam on a charge of gang robbery and muraer, one assessor returned a verdict of guilty against Chong Yen and both assessors found
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  • 380 16 CHROMIUM PLATING PLANT Judgment in Interpleader Summons In the Supreme Court this morning Mr. Justice Prichard delivered judgment in the issue which was ordered to be tried between Chin Pow Khooi and Wong Ah Phang in connection with an interpleader summons between Wong Ah Phang (execution creditor),
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  • 321 16 Highly Entertaining Film at The Majestic An intriguing drama, full of excitement, thrills and danger is the new’ picture, The Cheat,” w’hich opened last night at the Majestic and wall be show’n over the weekend. Tallulah has the leading role as a woman who has
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  • 622 16 TO-DAY’S PRICES The following were the latest quotations in MESSRS. KENNEDY Co.’s share list at 11 a.m. to-day:— Yesterday To-day Shares B S B S RUBBER Benta 20c 40c 30c 40c Broga 22c 27c 22 %c 27%C Glenealy 60c 70c 64c 70c Jer am 18c 25c
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  • 155 16 HOMEWARD MAILS A mail for Burma (excepting Victoria Point, Mergui and Tavoy) Northern India, Aden, Egypt, Europe, U.S.A. Canada, by the s.s. “Karoa” will be closed at 10 a.m. on Saturday. AIR MAILS A mail for Europe and North America, Alor Star-Amsterdam Direct Service, will be closed at
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  • 83 16 Pan*»nv Aren t 2’> (/?y curtesy of the (Chartered Bank On London Bnrh Dm and 2/8 25 89 4 w/ta 2/8 29/8 Priviie 8 m/s? credit 2/4 1/16 8 Doormautary 2/4 8/16 Or. York Bank Demand 89 7/8 Fr-ece T T 1 COO nom I di* T. T. 158}
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  • 51 16 Consignees of cargo per the above vessel from Europe are hereby notified that she is expected to arrive in Penang, at 7 a.m. on Monday the 29th August, 1932, and will discharge in the Roads. BOUSTEAD CO., LTD., (Incorporated in the F.M.S.) AGENT GLEN LINE
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  • 782 16 KENNEDY CO., SHARE LIST N AMES. L I I Rubber 1 c Allenbv Rubber C > Alor Gajah Ri.h b R 3 Amalgamated Mr, ay Aye’ Httani ((anting jo Aver kilning Rubber Estate, 5“ Av« Midek Rubber Co Ayw Par _RvU.fr Estate. BalauPl Kavn^4 Bassett Rubber Co Batu Lintang Rubber
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    • 33 16 ON OTHER PAGES GENERAL: Correspondence 4 Ceylon News 10 Latest Cable News 9 Governor’s Clemency 16 Revolting Perak Crime 16 Wireless 7 SPORT; Singapore Races 5 English Football 5 COMMERCIAL: Produce Market 9
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    • 36 16 PENANG WEATHER REPORT Temp. Wind Rainfall 6 a.m. 75 E Nil Noon 88 S TIDE TABLES High Water. Low Water. TO-DAY 5.25 a.m. 8.37 p.m. 1.20 p.m. TO-MORROW 9.03 a.m. 12.07 a.m. 10.11 p.m. 4.34 p.m.
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