Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 29 September 1932

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE ESTABLISHED 1833. PUBLISHED DAILY. No. 230. Vol. LXXXX. THURSDAY, 29th SEPTEMBER, 1932. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 1217 1 "OTTAWA AGREEMENTS WRENCHED TO AVERT A COLLAPSE -Lord Snowden. .—Reuter. SAMUEL GROUP OF LIBERALS RESIGN O NINE MINISTERS Lord Snowden Slashingly Attacks Protection NEW APPOINTMENTS f o London, Yesterday. Nine Liberal Ministers’ resignations were conveyed to the Premier in a letter in which it is recalled that they with Sir
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  • 91 1 Another Attempt on Sir Alfred Watson’s Life OUT OF DANGER Calcutta, Yesterday. Sir Alfred Watson, Editor of the Statesman, was shot at twice and wounded. He was removed to hospital, but is out of danger. The assailant escaped. Two of Sir Alfred’s assailants who were young Bengalis
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  • 73 1 —Reuter. The attempted assassination of Sir Alfred Watson was carefully planned by Indian terrorists and occurred at 6 p.m. Sir Alfred was motoring accompanied by his secretary, Mrs. Rose Grose, when another car dashed up and poured a hail of bullets at Sir Alfred Watson’s car. Sir
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  • 98 1 Craving for Chindu the Cause A middle-aged Chinese named Lee Sang.j who was addicted to the use of chandu, having not been able to obtain his usual; quota, was so depressed that he attempted to commit suicide by jumping into the sea yesterday. A constable who happened
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  • 105 1 A Chinese named Lim Teong Cheong was to-day charged with having assaulted a public servant, namely, Koay Teik Hooi, detective No. 53, while in the discharge of his duties, at Weld Quay on September 23. The accused claimed trial and the case was postponed till
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  • 89 1 —Reuter. Inability to Pay $7,800,000 Due on Sept. 30 REASONS EXPLAINED Washington, Yesterday. Germany has notified the United States that she is not paying the $7,800,000 for mixed claims and cost of the army of occupation due on Sept. 30. The Under Secretary to the Treasury
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  • 90 1 Executive of LL.B. Endorses Italian Motion Geneva, September 22. The executive of the International Labour Bureau has endorsed the Italian motion in favour of the general introduction of a 40-hour week and is convening a special conference in order to investigate all the aspects of the question, which
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  • 54 1 Some Forthcoming Broadcasts Nauen, September 22. Geneva: Beginning from next Sunday the League of Nations’ two radio stations (40.3 and 20.62 metres) will broadcast every Sunday from 11 to 11.45 p.m. local time, lectures on the League’s work in English, French and Spanish. Sir Eric Drummond will
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  • 49 1 Reuter. Absolute Rest and Quiet for Some Days London, lesterday. An official bulletin states that Mr. Churchill is suffering from the effects of severe haemorrhage from a paratyphoid ulcer. The haemorrhage has ceased and his condition is satisfactory. Absolute rest and quiet is required for some days.—
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  • 56 1 .—Reuter. Ex-President Coolidge to Head New Committee New York, Yesterday. A non-partisan Railroad Commission has been formed headeu by Mr. Calvin Coolidge including Mr. Alfred Smith, a former Presidential candidate and Mr. Bernard Baruch with the object of reorganisation of the railways and recommending legisI lation regarding them
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  • 83 1 .—Reuter. Radio Message Picked Up by American Station PLANE IN ALASKA i Washington, Yesterday. The Navy Department has received a radio message intercepted by the American wireless station at St. Paul, Alaska, sent out from the Japanese station at Otchishi which says “Airplane at top of the
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  • 363 1 P. O. RATPUTANA ARRIVES Malayans Return The P. O. Rajputana with passengers and ths English Mails for the Far East arrived at Penang this morning. Among the passengers for this port were Mr. M. B. Shelley, M.C.S., Treasurer, Straits Settlements, and Miss D. M. Shelley, x Major W. Elkins, Traffic
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  • 30 1 ,—Reuter. Chamber Votes Re-entry to League of Nations Buenos Aires, Yesterday. The Chamber by a large majority voted the re-entry of the Argentine to the League of Nations.-
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    • 1776 2 RATES FOR CASUAL NOTIFICATION banks. Th#? ADVERTISEMENTS Tenders will be received up to noon on I Saturday, Ist October, 1932, at the Resi- sons desirous of contracting for supplies Mercantile Bank Chartered Dank All communications relating to for Government at Penang, for a period (Incorporated in England by Royal e
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  • 1314 3 GRATUITIES APPROVED BY COMMITTEE PubSsc Stands For Rikishas And Hackney Carriages Minutes of an Ordinary Meeting of the Municipal Commissioners of George Town, Penang, held on Tuesday, the 13th September 1932. Present: —G.W. Bryant Esq. (President); p r J. E. Smith, Khoo Sian Ewe
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  • 442 3 How Carrying Trade Can be Recaptured That Britain is far too slow in appreciating the possibilities of aviation as an aid to commercial development is the opinion of Mr. Borras Noel Whiteside, M.P. for South Leeds. In an exclusive interview Mr. Whiteside said: In the past
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  • 208 3 Government Winter Problem Hopes that the spring and summer would bring a drop in Paly s unemployment figures are dashed to the ground by the latest report issued by Commendatpre Medolaghi, who is general manager of the National Fund for Social Insurances; for he states that whereas
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  • 96 3 Harmful, Says Former Home Secretary Gangster films are socially harmful and steps should be taken to stop them by tighter censorship. Such is the opinion of Mr. J. R Clynes, the former Home Secretary, who in an interview spoke of the influence of gun man”
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  • 689 3 Sent Her Airman Son to His Doom I have just seen the sad and bent figure of a once-beautiful woman, who made history in the Great War, enter a convent (writes a correspondent of The People”) on the Franco-Belgian frontier. The French secret service knew her as
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  • 67 3 —Austral News. An Australian 276 An Englishman 912 Although women, as in England, have in recent years given a tremendous impetus to the consumption of cigarettes, Australia, according to the latest figures, smokes only 276 a year per head of the total population, compared with 912 in Great
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  • 234 3 Camping Club Rally The Camping Club of Great Britain and Ireland held a “Feast of Lanterns” on September 10 at Horsley, Surrey. Until nearly midnight some 650 campers assem* bled around a fire and joined in singing, while festoons of illuminated coloured lan* terns linked six acres
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  • 96 3 FALL OF POUND BLAMED FOR DROP IN RIVIERA RECEIPTS A drop of nearly half in the receipts of the Palais de la Mediterranee, the luxury at Nice, is closed by the returns iust published (states Reuter). The previous year the takings were approximately £240,000, while this season
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  • 326 4 —Sir E. Wild INCREASING NUMBER OF Housebreakings Burglaries Hold-Ups DISQUIETING OLD BAILEY CALENDAR Auondon, September 13. The judges in two London courts to-day referred to the menace of the street bandit. Sir Ernest Wild, xv.C., the Recorder, stated at the opening of the September session of the
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  • 76 4 Cat Foster-Mother's Rabbits A cat owned by Mr. M. G. Hind, farm manager of the Middles Farm, near Stanley, is rearing a family of five young rabbits alcng with her own three kittens. Mr. Hind discovered the rabbits while he was hay-making. Their mother had apparently been killed
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  • 311 4 European Lady Passenger Injured Returning from the R.A.F. base at Seletar on Saturday night, a party of Europeans met with an accident at the turning into Yeo Chu Kang Road when their motor car, a Hupmobile, collided with an Erskine car travelling in the opposite direction. The Hupmobile
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  • 759 4 Mr. H. L. Linnell has left for home on leave. Mrs. C. H. Huxtable is leaving for home next month. Mrs. W. A. Stanton of Banting has returned from Australia. Mr. and Mrs. V. Frodshan, of Batu Arang, Selangor, have sailed for Home. Dr. J. P. Fitzpatrick,
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    • 178 4 ■■-•31 BISHOP STREET WILL BE OUR NEW ADDRESS AS FROM OCTOBER Ist. To Save Removal Expenses, we are offering cur Stocks at Greatly Reduced Prices. Here's your opportunity to Save Money. I Music from 10 cenis. c copy. Records $l.OO each. Violins $7.00 4t Accordeons $4.00 Mandolines $4.00 Bugles $B.OO
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  • 192 5 C.R.C. v. INDIAN ASSOCIATION The following will represent the C.R.C. against the Indian Association to-day at 5-15 p.m. on the Victoria Green :—Ng Teik Lee, Teoh Chooi Hor, Lim Cheng Hoe, Tan Kong Tat, Yeang Cheng Phoy, Tan Boon Beng, Cheong Foong Chin, Lim Chin Khean, Tan Chong Bee,
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  • 132 5 RESULTS OF TIES PLAYED ON TUESDAY Championship Pairs E. Dunkerley and G. B. F. Southam beat L. R. Tofield and F. N. Syer 21-20. Singles Handicap Scr. L. M. Norris beat -f-4 A. F. Baughan w. 0.; —4 W. M. Edwards beat Scr. J. N. Cooley 21-12.
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  • 130 5 OCTOBER MONTHLY MEDAL The October Monthly Medal (Stroke) competition will be played on Saturday and Sunday, October 1 and 2. MEN’S FOURSOME The following is the draw for the Men’s Foursome Competition: Smith and McKinntery vs. Hogan and Pemberton Bye. Egring-Gould and Samuel vs. P. N. Knight
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  • 220 5 List of New Books The following new books have arrived at the Penang Library: Ballerina, by Lady Eleanor Smith. Blackcock’s Feather, by Maurice VS alsh. Branch Lines, by Frances Evelyn VS arwick Case for Mr. Fortune, by H. C. Bailey. The Cherry Tree, by Adrian Bell. CID., by
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  • 679 5 Two Clear Goals POOR GAME DEVOID OF THRILLS In a somewhat poor game which was devoid of thrills, the Chinese Recreation Club defea'ed the St. Xavier's Recreation Club in their Senior League engagement by two clear goals yesterday on the Victoria Green. The play was mechanical
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  • 38 5 .—Reuter. United States Navy Wins Official Announcement Basle, Yesterday. It is officially announced that the Gordon Bennett race was won by the American balloon United States Navy which landed near Vilna 900 miles from the start.-
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  • 34 5 BASEBALL —Reuter. New York Yankees Defeat Chicago Cubs New -ork, Yesterday. The New York Yankees easily defeated the Chicago Cubs by 12 to 6 in the opening game of the world’s series.—Reuter.
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  • 61 5 The next year’s British Industries Fair will be held in London and Birmingham from 20th February to 3rd March, 1933. It is already clear that the coming Fair will be even larger than its predecessors and in consequence will offer to the trade buyer a wider
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  • 316 5 AFTER MAN WAS FELLED WITH A TYRE LEVER RAID OF SECONDS MILK BOTTLE HURLED AT ESCAPING CAR BY AN EYE-WITNESS London, September 18. Yet another well-planned car bandit raid—one of a long series recently in spite of great police activity—was carried out on September
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  • 153 5 Monday, Sept. 19. His Excellency, H.H. The Regent and thei General Adviser, Hon. Mr. R. O. Winstedt left Muar for Batu Pahat. After breakfast with the Assistant Adviser and Airs. Calder, His Excellency, H.H. The Regent and the General Adviser motored to Johore Bahru visiting en route
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    • 149 5 ft ’H r Ay I VP K akrtMfet! Ba t J I Pg®]y D.D.D. Prescription is an Psoriasis, Bad Leg, Salt ’ckin trouble. Salves worm, Dhobies Itch, or otew n irou DD D cannot do the work —they simplj tl > o wash which not a sticky, smelly ointment, e
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    • 66 5 j A I WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY i To Purchase a hundred and one > useful articles at little cost TWO GREAT BARGAIN DAYS I GRAND TABLE COUNTER DISPLAY THROUGHOUT THE I STORE WHEN YOU MAY I PURCHASE ONE. TWO OR I I MORE ARTICLES FOR I ONLY ONLY K 1 to-morrow
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    • 176 5 •< y y,u i s m y# L J M M Z a M *..M ENTIRE CHANGE OF PROGRAMME! The Beautiful Spanish Star of THE GAUCHO LUPE VELEZ IN Paramount’s Dashing Romantic Comedy •THE BROKEN WING" WITH LEO CARRILLO The Hot-Blooded Adventure Romance of a Daring Aviator Who Fell —in
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  • 708 6 MOTHER’S PROMISE SHILLING FINE ON SECOND ACCUSATION Mrs. Anthea Rosemary Carew, whose address was given as Hotel Washington, Curzon-street, W., was bound over for three years, with residential conditions and the condition that she abstains from drugs except those medically prescribed at Marl-borough-street Police-court, on
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  • 32 6 Australia’s Yield Increases in^ t S't a halr 9 i 2 .r ld rush has worn, or the News' f 1931 “>• «">' x4r%V«“ 9 0 e,d WaS W S hest
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  • 754 6 SUICIDE VERDICT TRAGEDY OF LONELINESS AND WIDOWHOOD London, Sept. 13. “This is just a tragedy of loneliness, widowhood, and mental distress, coupled with insomnia and a certain amount of anxiety as to her financial position,” said the Westminster Coroner (Mr. Ingleby Oddie) in recording a verdict of
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  • 61 6 —Austral News. Hew an Australian Does It When an Australian wants to slim, he or she simply does a tour of the Commonwealth's Northern Territory. Mr. r. a. Parkhill, Minister for the Interior. has just done 7000 miles there. He ias lost 12 lb.— nearly a pound per 500
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  • 342 6 ARBITRATION: NO CHANGE OFFER TO PAY ANNUITIES INTO INTERNATIONAL BANK London, Sept. 14. The Dominions Office has received a further communication from Mr. de Valera, the head of the Free State Government, about the dispute over the Irish land annuities. I understand that the Note
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  • 414 6 Waterway to Bring Timber for Dumping on Europe Soviet Russia is building a canal from the White Sea to the Baltic to bring down from the vast forests of Karelia millions of trees which have been felled during the past two years by slave labour.
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    • 303 6 "Well above the Average- Cow Gate builds the healthy virile child > no£ fat and flabby baby of the ordinary artificial food. That wh Y modem Mothers the B c Th 'g o 1, ,'3 0 DOCBT ■*»"> 1 W a Bm\ w-. v itSBKBk i 411 lIMBb /A-» a
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  • 7586 7 H.E. THE GOVERNOR'S ANNUAL REPORT FINANCIAL POSITION STRONG MANORIAL EXPERIMENTS IN PADDY CULTIVATION Paper laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor. FINANCIAL In the review last year it was anticipated that on the 31st December, 1931 there would
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  • 396 8 Mr. C. E. M. Joad at Glossop, last month, poured scorn upon the Independent Labour Party’s recent decision to separate from the Labour Party. Such a decision, he maintained, could have been made only by those who believed that without revolution a full Socialism, could not be attained.
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  • 299 8 According to the Moscow Correspondent of The Observer, the Soviet Government still is sorely troubled by the inadequacy of the national food supply. This shortage is due to two causes. Not only is there a large decrease in live-stock throughout the country, but the arrangements foB the growing,
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  • 210 8 In the consciousness of the modern civilised man noise fills a large place but he would be astonished to learn how insignificant a thing it is when expressed in terms of power. Discoursing on the subject before the British Association recently, a savant presented his hearers with some surprising
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  • 650 8 SOME AWKWARD MOMENTS ARISE In his offorts to avoid publicity during his recent trip to the United States the Governor of the Bank of England, Mr. Montagu Norman, was the victim of a coincidence that afforded considerable amusement to the people of Boston. He chose to
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  • 911 8 SURRENDER TO WOMEM Women are invading wh at were deemed masculine I ae with the capitulation of tte 0 13 bledon Golf Club, remaining citadels of the "all rn ing die-hards has surrendered golf> not so vers- long ago a member T,* 11 take even his wife
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    • 102 8 Building and Engineering Supplies 1 1 I We carry large stocks and can quote competitive prices. ENQUIRIES SOLICITED. < PENANG. j Tel. 357. I LUSCIOUS PEARS GRAPES. JUST ARRIVED. PRITCHARD’S FOOD DEPT. IF I S H KIPPERS, HADDOCKS, FILLETS, HERRINGS, BLOATERS SALMON New Shipments Constantly Being Received SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE
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    • 33 8 E. and O. THE BEST SITUATED SEASIDE HOTEL IN THE EAST. ALL ROOMS FACE THE SEA each with sitting room and private bathroom attached. Modem Sanitation Throughout EXCELLENT CUISINE under expert European Chef.
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    • 79 8 WEMBLEY gJNDEAVOURS TO |U| A K E gETTER IVELIER gN TERTAIN MENT FOR you TO-NIGHT at 8.30 p.m. DEAN'S OPERA OF SINGAPORE. WILL STAGE Sat Choo Poh A Chinese Dramatic Play. Thean Seng Cantonese Wayang PRESENTS The Devil Of Passion" At The LUNAR HALL WEMBLEY OPEN-AIR CINEMA. Knight Of The
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  • 129 9 Hundreds Dead And Thousands Homeless o RESULT OF GREAT EARTHQUAKE British Mediterranean Fleet To The Rescue MONASTERY DAMAGED Rugby, Yesterday. British warships are hastening to the aid of refugees in Mount Athos, a district of Greece where a tragic situation exists as the result
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  • 212 9 Alleged Request To Commit Perjury (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, To-day. The inquest on Wong Sin Orih began today. Deceased, who held Mr. F. J. Bryant's Power of Attorney, committed suicide on September 12. A doctor gave evidence that deceased had a large gaping
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  • 692 9 Japan and the Lytton Report JEHOL INVASION? u-ondon, Yesterday. Judging from previous experience Japan is likely to take full advantage of the League’s concession in delaying consideration of the Lytton Report in the opinion of the Manchester Guardian which adds that Japanese militarists are ready to admit
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  • 620 9 CLAIM FOR ACCOUNTS, PROFITS DAMAGES Supreme Court Suits 4 PLAINTIFF ABSENT BOTH CLAIMS DISMISSED i I I In the Supreme Court this morning the same plaintiff in two separate suits failed to put in an appearance and His Lord- ship Mr. Justice Prichard dismissed both claims with costs and gave
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  • 635 9 Opening Proceedings of Conference Bureau RUSSIAN PROPOSITION Geneva, Sept. 22. At the meeting of the Bureau of the Disarmament Conference, HI. Litvinoff attempted, without success, to change the procedure established by the resolution of July 22. Deploring the absence of a representative of the Reich, he
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  • 86 9 MN—Spot YESTERDAY. TO-DAY. 4 London £l5l-10-0 £153-12-6 TIN (3 Months) London £152-12-6 Singapore $77.75 $7BBusiness Done Penang $77.85 $78.62 Business Done Buyers—No sellers Buyers—No sellers COPRA-(Sundried) g.|s BLACK PEPPEB S2Z.SU BUBBER oaz d London 3?« (G) New York 7% cts TAPIOCA 5Q $3.45 Medium Pearl $3 30 3
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    • 153 9 AS GOOD AS WHISKY CAN BE BLACK vWxL Obtainbale AND F m RED /y\ V® All LABEL Dealers. JOHNNIE ***** Bora 1620 Strong "THE WHISKY WITH THE REPUTATION." AGENTS: John Little Co., Ltd., Penang, (Incorporated in England) SINGAPORE, IPOH KUALA LUMPUB. RECORD BREAKING SALE A Golden Opportunity to our Patronsl
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    • 267 10 These distressing skin complaints are sure outward signs of impurities in the blood surface treatment cannot bring lasting relief so remove the cause of the trouble from the blood by taking Clarke’s Blood Mixture. Of all Chemisn and Storti. Squatty good in LIQUID or TABLET form ALL jZIS 9 colour*
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    • 305 10 I BRIGHTEN YOUR HOME I W TH f I I /f i I THE LAMPS OMjWING BRILLIANCE I I BE 4 rat Sa IN SB '■CTk 40K 'Wk I m 9 SI OiSllr 9 H JwßFg 9 ’Si E B BRITISH MADE. fl Sole Agents UNITED ENGINEERS LMTED. (Incorporated in
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  • 343 11 AMERICA DEVELOPING GIANT CARRIERS QUESTION OF PROFITS In the search for greater speed in regular air transport, greatly improved designs have been the result of a period of somewhat fallow years for the manufacturers. It has become a truism that the raison d’etre of flying is
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  • 615 11 WIFE AND DAUGHTER WITH HIM London, Sept. 12 Mr. Winston Churchill is suffering from an attack of paratyphoid in Salzburg, Austria, and has gone into a sanatorium there. Mrs. Churchill and Miss Sarah Churchill, his daughter, are with him. They were having a holiday tour
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  • 423 11 Their Trail of Ruined Lives YARD’S VIGIL A Great clean-up of London’s “dope involving a number of arrests, is foreshadowed by new facts disclosed to the “Sunday Chronicle”. Six notorious traffickers, it is understood, are suspected of being the prime movers in the ring. Their names
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  • 137 11 Head Like a Bull Dog’s Framed in legend and fable for generations, a silly season topic and the subject of highly imaginative short stories, the sea serpent has just been brought to land in Australia, the continent of queer survivals of bygone ages. It was caught at
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  • LATEST COMMERCIAL NEWS
    • 2276 12 London, September 14. The London and Liverpool weekly rubber statistical returns proved less favourable than those of recent weeks, for a small decrease at the former contrasted sharply with a large increase at the latter port, and United Kingdom stocks rose to 105,062 tons, comparing with 136,250 tons
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    • 305 12 Higher Percentage of British Cars E i nce of an increasing popularity of *n Australia has been afforded British cars '•tion returns of the four by motor registx. -nv. '’cures are rendered leading States. The handicaps inmore striking m view of cidental to depressed times and °>'
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    • 89 12 —Financial Times. INCREASING NUMBER OF ESTATES CLOSED Amsterdam, September 12. According to the latest official statistics 450 rubber estates in the Netherlands Indies have abandoned tapping. This compares with 419 at end-July, 338 at endMay and 313 at end-April. On 111 estates a partial stoppage of tapping
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    • 413 12 Interview with Mr. E. C. Riddle The importance of the recent rise in commodity prices was stressed by Mr. E. C. Riddle, Governor of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, in an interview with a representative of The Financial Times. Australia, like the rest of the world,
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  • 167 12 Latest Quotations W-d Tuts bat. Sept. 28 Bert 27 Sept 19 BB| 88 1716 128 96 New York 8 451 8 45f 4,85Montreal 8 81 B>2 Braesda 24 b 74 2129 82 84 »-8 Geneva 17 l7 921 24 b 6 An)i?serd&E 2 M Jan 67}
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  • 755 13 Schedule of Principal Lines The following is a list of vessels arriving 53d sailing from Penang during the week: IN PORT TO-DAY uv. FUSIJAMA from Singapore for Venice and Trieste. gS AUTOMEDON from Liverpool for B Hong Kong, Shanghai, Pukow and Hankow. jjV. COL. DILANA from
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  • 309 13 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. The Menglembu Lode Mine Company, Lilted, annual general meeting, Messrs Brown, Phillips and Stewart, Noon. OCTOBER SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1. H 0C pRo Kn n Clu Parit Buntar, v. P.R.C., Esplanade, 5 p.m. y: T ipin Z v Penang A. at Taiping. Selangor Turf Club,
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  • 361 13 Famous Actress Fined WHY SHE TRIED TO AVOID QUARANTINE Folkestone (Kent), Sept. 13. The story of how a Customs officer discovered a toy dog in a famous actresss hat-box was told 10-day to the Folkestone magistrates. Mrs. Beatrice Stelia Cornwalls West, better known as Mrs. Patrick Campbell,
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  • 456 13 Shot Girl He Thought was Faithless When a revolver shot rang out in the oddly named "Cock's Tail’s Bar” of the Old Port of Marseilles, and a woman dropped to the floor dead, the knowing ones shrugged their shoulders and thought it was just another "settlement of
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  • 28 13 Jacob Lieberman, aged eighty-one, has had his sight restored by an operation after twenty years’ blindness. He intends to resume his trade of cabinet-making.
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  • 429 14 Surgeons Think She Will Live SHOT COUPLE Sister’s All-night Hospital Vigil London, Sept. 13. A girl is lying in the Westminster Hospital with a bullet in the centre of her heart, and the surgeons think that she will recover. The girl is Miss Phyllida
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  • 177 14 Bid to Preserve Australia’s Fauna The success of England’s Whipsnade has inspired Australia to project a similar scheme in the picturesque forest-clad Dandenong Ranges outside Melbourne. Only native fauna, such as the kangaroo family, koalas or native bears, wombats, opossums and birds, including the laughing jackass and lyre-bird,
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  • 72 14 Sydney Sets New Fashion slon.’sydney,''nows'oSh wT™ <>«Pre3cncing not only a mild 18 experi states Austral News bm SIX' m ve in V s "X n ™e e ,r k r S Weded with Rev. N r ldea ori ginatSydney, at a roront Oss Croydon at Kangaroo PoXT f
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  • 234 14 Husband’s Grave ACTRESS’S LAST WISH CARRIED OUT The body of Mrs. Dorothie Rutherford, the shot actress, wearing a blue gown—the gift of her dead husband and in which she had asked her friends in a last letter to dress her —also her platinum weddingring, was buried
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  • 403 14 PF.VA.VG CINEMAS To-day’s Change of Programme at the Queen’s r Universal made FRANKENSTEIN a picture which sends the blood curdling with fear and thrill. Now it offers "MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE,” a storywritten by' Edgar Allen Poe, writer of weird and gruesome mysteries, which
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  • 88 14 Foxes have become such a pest to graziers in the famous Burragorang Valley, New South Wales, that something more than the traditional horse and hound has become necessary to exterminate them, states Austral News. So farmers have invented a tin whistle which makes a noise like the
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    • 2055 15 KSSffllQKtaii BALLAD' r“'™ K 14 V 7'/ I I (Companies Incorporated in EaglaSa; BSaUE H^R'W TSMI MAIL PASSENGER and CARGO SERVICES PEISA^X f ;;d C U r“ dam> A ERICANM A 1 L LI NF “%itSS P ™uk Anson Port Swrf. pue Penang Sept. 29 ADRASTUS Oct 27 J- Government,
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  • 542 16 HUSBAND—CHENHALLS The wedding took place yesterday afternoon at St. George’s Church, Penang, of Mr. Charles Thomas Main Husband, Superintendent of Surveys, Survey Department, F.M.S. and S.S. eldest son of Mr. Charles Edward Husband, of Melbourne, Australia, and Miss Edith Kathleen Chenhalls, eldest daughter of the late Rev.
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  • 51 16 P.C.C. V. C.R.C. “B” Friday, on the C.R.C. Ground, at 5.10 p.m.: P.C.C.: E. Walker; A. F. Baughan and J. Crichton; H. Bracegirdle, W. T. Francis and A. L B. Perkins; P ,L. Cooper, J. E. Harvey, R. W. Brown, J. H. Reid and O. R. T.
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  • 51 16 RESULTS OF TIES PLAYED YESTERDAY Teams of Three: -j-1 L. R. Tofield, E Dunkerley and F. T. Clifton beat Scr. T. 2i ei ySS Dr G Chance N. Coobe?t° Übl r e H n l icap: W M Edwards 2L16~ 5 G B F Southam and W.
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  • 564 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 B S B S MINING Batang Padang 7 10 Hitam 20 6 6 Kamunting 6/- 6/6 6/ 6 6 Kinta 96 99 97* 2 1-00 Klang
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  • 60 16 PENANG, SEPTEMBER, 29. (By Courtesy of the Chartered Bank) On London Bank Demand 2/3% m/ts 2/4 Private 3 m/ts credit 3 Documentary On New York Bank Demand 40 France T.T. 1,000 nom India T.T. 153 Bangkok T.T. 80 per tics. 100 nom Batavia T.T. 99% Singapore T.T. prem. Hongkong
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 35 16 PENANG WEATHER REPORT Temp. Wind Rainfall 6 a.m. 76 E. Noon 86 N.W. TIDE TABLES High Water. Low Water. TO-DAY 11.34 a.m. 5.46 a.m. 6.09 p.m. TO-MORROW 12.06 a.m. 6.25 a.m. 12.12 p.m. 6.44 p.m.
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