Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 6 October 1932

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE ESTABLISHED 1833. PUBLISHED DAILY. No. 236. Vol. LXXXX. THURSDAY, 6th OCTOBER, 1932. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 982 1 Land Annuities Dispute For Negotiation o LONDON CONFERENCE TO BE HELD ON OCTOBER 14 De Valera Smiles London. Oct. 2. The fullest constitutional implications in the recall of Mr. McNeill from the Governor-Generalship of the Irish Tree State should be known shortly. V\ ell-informed quarters in
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  • 122 1 Reuter Wireless. Finding of Committee of Investigation COMMANDER PRAISED Marseilles, October 3. The fire aboard the GEORGES PHILLIPAR in the Red Sea last May which led to the loss of the vessel and of nearly 100 lives has been found due to a defect in the electrical
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  • 38 1 water resulting from a cloud-burst. —Reuter Wireless. Bakersfield (California), Oct. 2. Twenty-seven bodies, mostly of passengers, have been recovered from the train which was wrecked by th huge wall of water resulting from a cloud-burst. —Reu-
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  • 58 1 Reuter Wireless. Yinkow, October 3. Torture and death are threatened to the captives in an impatient message received here from the bandits holding Mrs. Pawley and Corkran. If the ransom is not forthcoming soon, the bandits assert their intention is to brand the flesh of their
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  • 42 1 —Reuter Wireless. Big Deficit For First Quarter Washington, October 1. The United States Government has ended the first quarter of the fiscal year with a deficit of 402,000,000 dollars, about $20,000,000 less than for the corresponding period of last year.-
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  • 475 1 Strong Views Of Italian Journal o IMPOSSIBLE TASK OF COMMISSION Times Comment Naples, Yesterday. Strong views about that masterpiece of ambiguity,” otherwise the Lytton Report, are expressed by the newspaper II Matino which says that the Commission did not go to the Far East to find
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  • 214 1 —Reuter Wireless. Inspection of Many Leading Swedish Industries Rugby, Yesterday. The Prince of Wales and Prince George, who yesterday' showed the keenest interest during the inspection of many leading Swedish industries, to-day, accompanied by the British Minister, Mr. Clark Kerr, left Stockholm by air on a visit to
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  • 198 1 Reuter Wireless. 85th Birthday Celebrations Berlin, October 1. President Hindenburgs 85th birthday was celebrated amid scenes of enthusiasm h 1 n e grCat affection which he is held by all classes. The streets were gay with bunting and tens of thousands of P eo Pl e thronged the
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  • 127 1 —Reuter. Two High Officials Alleged To Be Implicated SMALL AMOUNT Wellington, Yesterday. Advice that misappropriation of public money has been discovered in the New Zealand High Commissioner’s Office in London is contained in a cable which the Hon. G. W. Forbes announces he received from Mr.
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  • 63 1 resume fighting on a large scale. —Reuter Wireless. Rebels Given Time Till Midnight New York, October 1. The rebels in the State of San Paolo have been given until midnight to surrender, according to a message appearing in the “New York Times” which believes that in any case
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  • 69 1 —Reuter Wireless. English Airman Returns After 8,750 Miles’ Flight Moscow, October 1. The English airman who left England on an attempted one-day flight to Russia but was forced down at Mulmeim, near Essen, and then was subsequently able to proceed on his journey to Moscow, left on
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  • 83 1 Reuter Wireless. Ireland’s Strong Protest on Religious Grounds Geneva, October 1. A strong protest on religious grounds to the reference to contraceptions in the report of the League health organisations was made to-day by the Irish Free State delegate at the meeting of the second committee of the League
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  • 26 1 Reuter. Resignation Announced by London Paper London, To-day. Sir Lancelot Elphinstone, Chief Justice of the F.M.S., has resigned, according to the “Daily Telegraph.”—
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    • 1973 2 RATES FOR CASUAL MUNICIPAL NOTICE. BANKS. Ihfi ADVERTISEMENTS S ifi C The Municipal Commissioners of George tenders for the following for one year from The Mercantile Bank Chartered Bank All communications relating to the Ist January, 1933 with the exception o (Incorporated in England by Royal Advertisements should be addressed
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  • 237 3 CANADIAN GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP AND 21 OTHER AWARDS Cattle from the Prince of Wales’s ranch at Pekisko, near High River, Alberta, scored notable successes in the exhibition at Vancouver, British Columbia. They carried off the grand championship and also 21 prizes in the shorthorn classes. The Prince,
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  • 577 3 An Intricate Process of Manufacture Malayan Breweries, Ltd., put on the market to-day the locally made and cheaper beer which has been promised us for some time past. It is produced in the brewery off Alexandra Road which has been erected specially to meet the needs
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  • 534 3 ALCOHOLISM AS CAUSE OF DEATH SAILORS AND LANDSMEN COMPARED London. Working on the statistics for one year only (Sept. 1929-30) the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has made an investigation into mortality in the mercantile marine, on behalf of the Board of Trade. The
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  • 120 3 Before the District Judge, Francis Neelankavil, proprietor and principal of the Royal English School, Tank Road, Singapore, was defendant in a suit brought against him by one of his teachers, in respect of arears of salary for June, July and August 1932. The plaintiff, Mr. J. J.
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  • 54 3 To-day at the Esplanade at 6 p.m. 1. March Heroes All Bidgood 2. Overture The Eclipse Williams 3. Selection Patience Sullivan 4. Serenade La Paloma Yradier 5. Waltz Kunstler Leben Strauss 6. Selection Round the Map Finck 7. Fox Trot What’s the use Wright of Walking out together?
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    • 359 3 BLISTERS FORMED ERURJIONS Cn Little Girl’s Face. Healed by Cuticura. “My little girl’s face and head were covered with fearful water blisters. When the blisters broke they formed sore eruptions which caused her to be very restless through the night. The itching and burning were terrible for she did nothing
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  • 1447 4 Copra Deals OVER $500,000 INVOLVED Over $500,000 is said to be involved in a case, which opened at Singapore on Tuesday and the charges are in respect of payments to the defendant for deliveries of copra which they never received. The defendant is a well known
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  • 244 4 Monday, September 26. Hon. Mr. P. T. Allen and Mrs. Allen, Hon. Mr. P. M. Robinson, Hon. Mr. H. H Abdoolcader and Mrs. Abdoolcader arrived to stay at Government House. At 10.20 a.m. His Excellency the Governor was received with a Royal Salute given by a Guard
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  • 48 4 POSTPONED UNTIL FRIDAY The conclusion of the hearing of the inquiry into the death of Mrs. Shukla Judge, wife of Inspector Judge, has been postponed until to-morrow at 10.15 a.m. The results of the analysis of the finger prints has not yet been completed.
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  • 170 4 TO BUY A “GOOD VIOLIN” Bequests to three of his violin pupils were made by Mr. Francis Llewellyn Bartlett, of Southampton, who died on July 1, leaving estate of the gross value of £9,615, with £9,572 net personalty. Miss Lucia Mary Gammer Spranger, of Clevelands,
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  • 140 4 OFFICIAL BAN AT CANBERRA High Officials in the Australian Department of the Interior have taken their courage in both hands and have set a precedent for the world to follow—if it can. They have banned morning and afternoon tea in the departmental offices at Canberra, for
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  • 171 4 AND A BOLT FROM IT Austral News cables these two air items: The first wedding in the air over Sydney, N.S.W., has just been celebrated in a new Fokker machine. The clergyman read the service as the ’plane descended from 8,000 feet and his words were
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  • 739 4 Dr. H. Harley Clarke, who has been in Borneo for the past few weeks, returned to Singapore by the Marudu. The London Gazette announces that 2nd Lieut. J. Heath Ist Gloucester Regiment, has been promoted Lieutenant. Mr. G. H. Roberts has succeeded Mr. F. G. Coales, who
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    • 230 4 CHEAP ENTERTAINMENT I* I LOUD AND PRICE PURE I $38,00 LIFELIK£ I «Star I Columbia I GRAFONOLA THE ROBINSON PIANO CO., 31, Bishop St., Penang. an a a a a> a a a a a a. a a.> a- ’■w.BNniii a<> ĕ-. a a.i >a a.- a an .a., a.>
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  • 815 5 Even Game COLOURS WIN BY 3 GOALS TO 2 The first State Hockey trial match played yesterday on the Esplanade, on a pitch across the P.C.C. tennis courts, —an admirable ground—, did not, perhaps, quite come up to expectations but, nevertheless, seeing that most of
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  • 489 5 Five Clear Goals YESTERDAY’S SENIOR LEAGUE MATCH A marked superiority in attack and a sound defence paved the way for the Police to score a convincing victory in their Senior League match yesterday against the Province Wellesley Football Association whom they defeated by five goals to
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  • 227 5 —Reuter. Probable Jockeys LIKELY FIELD OF 27 RUNNERS London, Yesterday. The following are the final acceptances for the Cesarewitch Stakes (Handicap), 2»4 miles, to be run at Newmarket on Wednesday, October 12:— Sandwich (Lord Rosebery) 4-9-5 Harry Wragg Nitsichin (Mr. D. Kennedy) 4-8-9—Beary Son of
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  • 52 5 C.R.C. vs. Municipality The following will represent the Municipality against the C.R.C. to-day on the Victoria Green: Cheah Swee Eng, S. Lee Vincent, Yeang Cheng Phoy, W. F. Fletcher (Capt.), Lim Leang Kean, A. H. Kennerley, D. A. Coupar, Lim Peng Koon, Ismail Fazlon, Foo Joo Sun and H.
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    • 233 5 FUN (Bth Mile, Tanjong Bungah) GALA NIGHT. every SATURDAY Tony’s Special Syncopated Orchestra. BOOK YOUR TABLE EARLY. T. V. TEMPLETON. Managing Proprietor, tu. th. a. TROUSSEAU LINGERIE. CORRECT CUT AND FINISH Chinese kAHTEftti. 31, BISHOP STREET. By Courtesy of ROBINSON PIANO Co. RACING A Home turf article oppeors in the
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    • 126 5 The Importance of Salt uor Health ry From the dawn of time salt has been essential to health. Nature demands it —you must supply it in your daily food. When you buy salt choose the best—Cerebos Salt. Pure, dry, free-running —supplied in a pourer tin. UH Cerebos Salt Manufactured by
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    • 98 5 TENNIS I' BALLS I AT A SPECIAL PRICE I SLAZENGERS g Guaranteed in perfect condition and in hermetically sealed canisters containing four Balls. Present season. Not old stock. Slazenger’s Tennis Balls are undoubtedly the best of their I kind. w- vtfwllw Perfectly made, Regulation size, weight and bound. Price $2-50
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    • 89 5 1 zxV 1 I __L' l\ LAST TWO PERFORMANCES OF PARAMOUNT'S Exciting Drama of Modern Youth ’’CONFESSIONS OF A COLLEGE GIRL" WITH PHILLIPS HOLMES and SYLVIA SIDNEY TO MORROW I THE AIR THRILLER SUPREME "SKY BRIDE" WITH Richard Arlen—Robert Coogan and Virginia Bruce Plans at Robinson's Phone 567 ISOBOI Phone
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  • 429 6 STRANGE SCENE IN REICHSTAG WHY NAZIS KEPT SILENCE For a few moments Red Klara (Frau Zethin) had her revenge on her old war antagonist, Von Hindenburg, she demanded, at her opening speech in the Reichstag, his and the Cabinet’s impeachment for violating the German Constitution. t
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  • 634 6 DETAINED ON BEHALF OF U.S. UNDERWRITERS The strange case of the Glasgow steamship Melmay has aroused considerable interest among a wide circle of shipowners and merchants both at home and abroad. Here was a British vessel in pursuit of her lawful business bringing to the United
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  • 659 6 BRIEF COMEDIES AND TRAGEDIES There is an impression current that a large proportion of the people who drawunemployment insurance benefit are malingerers. Those who are in daily contact with these unfortunates know that, except in isolated instances, the unemployed want work and not doles. Day after
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    • 358 6 ■fcu* wtWYfiMii.Wß*r ////X Regd.. aAWATER. ES In a Variety of Approved Colours THE DELIGHT OF WATER NYMPHS AS USED BY MOST COMPETITORS mN the RECENT SEA VIEW HOTEL SWIMMING CONTESTS. [•THE «BLUES s B S No man or woman is more sick of life than a when they have that
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  • 340 7 GRIM MISSION IN MIST AND RAIN RIDDLE OF MAN’S IDENTITY A search party of twelve had a gruelling ordeal on the Cairngorms recently. Through mist and driving rain they trudged over devious' mountain paths for over twenty miles before they reached their objective—a dead body.
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  • 291 7 BRITISH ATTEMPT NEXT YEAR Admiral Sir W. E. Goodenough, president of the Royal Geographical Society, and Brigadier-General the Hon. C. G. Bruce, who signs “for the President, Alpine Club,” issued the following statement recently:— The 'Mount Everest Committee has received from the Government of India, through the
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  • 77 7 AUSTRALIA’S AMBITIOUS SCHEME The latest and widest application of modern floodlighting is embodied in a scheme, just authorised, to illuminate the famous Blue Mountains of New South Wales, states Austral News. All the principal features of Katoomba including the Katoomba Falls, mountain streams, the immense rocks, gorges, cliffs,
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  • 369 7 ROMAN ARCHBISHOP ON SQUANDERMANIA The cost of primary and secondary education in Britain was condemned by the Archbishop of Liverpool in a speech he opening the new Roman Catholic Secondary School of St. Martin, Bootle. For many years, he said, there had been an orgy of expenditure,
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  • 207 7 COMPLAINT AGAINST BRITISH WARSHIPS Catalan dignity has been outraged by the action of two British destroyers—the Seacher and the Shamrock, which moored in the harbour at Barcelona. A white chalk line was marked on the quay to serve as a boundary line for the sentry on duty. This
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  • 249 7 VOLCANIC DUST THE CAUSE The tmusually cold winter in Southern Australia which is incidentally giving the ski-clubs their best sport for years, is now attributed, as are the gorgeous sunsets all over the Commonwealth, to the volcanic eruptions in the Andes earlier in the year. Professor Kerr
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    • 236 7 You Feel Fitter—And You Do Twice As Much V' i tally or physically, all sports -k lose their savour. out energy flags, and your spiri B droops.- Every branch c sport has its champions, and from almost everyone of these champions we have received testimonials th value they have received
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  • 653 8 Though only some fourteen or fifteen years have elapsed since it was introduced in Malaya, the co-operative thrift and loan movement has grown with astonishing rapidity. Societies are now in operation up and down the Peninsula, and all of them are in a sound postion. The value of
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  • 285 8 It would be interesting to know why prison authorities make such a strong point of it that prisoners must be deprived of the solace of tobacco. The rules on the subject are very old, and for all we know may have been first laid down by the
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  • 772 8 Why Does He Chase Uncatchable Hares What is in the greyhound’s mind when he is hunting a mechanical hare? Does he think it is a live hare? If so, is he very stu P id? Will his descendants believe that hares are uncatchable? And is the
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  • 720 8 A NEW AEROPLANE A cheap light aeroplane, which ought to bring flying within the means of pe OpJe with comparatively small incomes, is about to be put on the market. It is to be an open two-seater monoplane of low wing de sign, and will be produced
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    • 250 8 /V.V.V.W.V.V.7.7.7A .Y.‘. .V.. j Estate Supplies I o Acid—Formic Acetic Formalin Latex Cups Latex Tanks Il Rubber Packing Chests < Sulphate of Ammonia and Other Fertilisers Sulphite and Bisulphite Tapping Tools j Etc., Etc., O I GoniPHy€te Phone 357. PENANG. ''aBSSttHtIEIBHBSEKESSESdQ SB BBS SB* FISH KIPPERS, HADDOCKS, FILLETS, HERRINGS, BLOATERS
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    • 31 8 HONEY GRAINS READY TO EAT without preparation. The Fruit and Nut Breakfast Food. I th. SHERRY. Yellow Label (DUKKERS*) Served at special functions G. H. Slot Co., Ltd. t th st—3l-12.
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    • 23 8 E. and O. HOTEL. SPECIAL DINNER AND DANCE. Wednesday, 12th October, 1932. Dance Music By the Band of the S.S. PRESIDENT GARFIELD •WBiHiISHHiSSSSiSMKHiSSiSSHiSy
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  • 49 8 DEATH LEE KEONG OON.—Suddenly at “Morningside on Wednesday at 9 p.m., Lee Keong Oon, the dearly beloved wife of Mr. Cheah Kee Ee, J.P., from apoplexy. Age 56. Funeral in accordance with Buddhist style on Sunday, the 9th instant, at 11 a.m., from Morningside direct to the Cheah Cemetery.
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  • 438 9 Small Powers Do Not Want London Meeting Rugby, Yesterday. With reference to the suggestion put forward by the British 'Government that difficulties arising out of Germany’s withdrawal from the Disarmament Conference might be the subject of an exchange of views in London between the British,
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  • 93 9 -—Reuter Wireless. The Duce Addresses Hundreds of Workers Rome, October 2. Hundreds of Italian “black-coat” workers, all members of the confederation of professional men, and artists met yesterday to hear a speech delivered by Mussolini in which the Duce emphasised that whereas before the Fascist regime intellectuals formed in
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  • 127 9 Reuter Wireless. Thrilling Story of Swim Through Seething Seas Seattle, October 1. A thrilling story of a seaman’s heroism was told by the Captain of the American liner PRESIDENT MADISON on the arrival of the ship here with three survivors from the American steamer NAVADA which was pounded
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  • 101 9 —Reuter Wireless. Two Naval Officers Killed Near Cupar London, October 1. Two young naval officers attached to the Royal Air Force base at Leuchars, Lieutenant R. d. L. Dickson and Sub-Lieutenant V. W. Dobson, were killed to-day in a motor accident near Cupar. While motoring from St. Andrews
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  • 36 9 —Reuter. Amsterdam, Yesterday. The draft scheme for tea restriction has been approved by a meeting of the association of tea culture in the Dutch East Indies according to the Correspondent of the Financial Tinies.—Reuter.
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  • 106 9 Reuter Wireless. Gratifying Success Proved by Examination Results London, October 3. The gratifying success in the training of the blind is proved in the latest musical, literary and commercial examinations. Of 37 sightless students entered by the Royal Normal College, not a single student failed. The outstanding
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  • 66 9 Reuter Wireless. Death of Prominent German Industrialist Cologne, October 1. One of the most conspicuous figures in German finance and industry, Herr Louis Hagen, died to-day at the age of 78 after a short illness. Herr Hagen virtually controlled the German Steel Trust and was also an
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  • 62 9 Reuter Wireless. Vienna Designer Loops F our teen T imes Vienna, October 2. Looping the loop fourteen times on a glider of his own design was the feat accomplished by the gliding pilot Kronfield at Freudenau race course this morning. The last loop was made at less than 500
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  • 153 9 Ipoh Sanitary Board Affairs PROTEST AT REMOVAL OF STAND PIPES (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, To-day. A special meeting of the Kinta Sanitary Board discussed the question of unfair competition on the part of street hawkers of foodstuffs with coffee shops. The Board decided that unfair
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  • 60 9 .—Reuter. New York, Yesterday. The Stock Market plunged down in successive flurries settling many leaders losing two to seven points in a turnover of three million shares. No special reason is offered for the break although there is a certain amount of disappointment in Wall Street at
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  • 130 9 —Reuter. President Hoover’s Speech To Farmers Washington, Yesterday. Mr. Hoover in his speech to farmers declared in favour of the application of annual payment of war debts to securing expansion of foreign markets for American agricultural products. He added I do not approve of cancellation of these debts
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  • 270 9 Rugby Radio Service. Iraq's Gratitude To Britain For "Valuable Assistance Throughout Past Years" 1 .>j y Rugby, Yesterday. On the admission of Iraq to the League of Nations the King sent the following congratulatory telegram to the King of Iraq I have learnt with the greatest pleasure
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  • 103 9 —Reuter. Largely Assured by Private Persons t HOLDING Paris, Yesterday. The great success of the conversion loan is demonstrated by the publication of the final results showing that holders of eighty-one milliard francs worth of old stock adhered to the new scheme leaving only four and a
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  • 77 9 Pair of Diamond Earrings A Chinese woman named Yap Kim Tee was to-day charged before the Police Magistrate with criminal breach of trust in respect of a pair of diamond ear-rings valued $550, the property of Tan Sooi Lim of Kajang Road. The
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  • 92 9 Chinese Fined and Bicycle Confiscated Teoh Ah Hin, who had previously pleaded guilty to a charge of possession of 8 gallons of dutiable liquor, was to-day sentenced to a fine of $BO or in default two months’ rigorous imprisonment while the bicycle which he had used
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  • 116 9 Chinese Method The strange methods alleged to have been adopted by a Chinese coffee-shop keeper, named Goh Choon Poh, to collect a debt due to him, by a man named Chelliah, led him to be charged before the Police Magistrate with wrongful confinement. The
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  • 63 9 resume her journey to New York.—Reuter Wireless. > Grows Tired of Waiting At Gibraltar r Gibraltar, October 1. Jimmy Walker, the ex-Mayor of New York, tired of waiting for the finish of the repairs to the Italian giant Liner REX, has left for Madrid en route to Paris.
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  • 101 9 UN—Spot YESTERDAY. TO-DAY. London £152-0-0 £l5l-5-0 TIN (3 Months) London £153-7-6 £152-12-6 Singapore $78.50 $76.87% Business Done Penang $78.12y 2 $76.75 Business Done < Buyers—No sellers. Buyers—No sellers COPRA— (Sundried) $5.85 $5.85 BLACK PEPPER $22.00 $22.00 RUBBER London 2JJd. 2JJd. New York 3% (G) (G) Singapore 7% cts.
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  • 206 10 MR. BROMLEY AND UNEMPLOYMENT A plea for shorter working hours and increased wages as the only cure for unemployment was made by Mr. J. Bromley (Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen) in his presidential address at the opening of the annual Trades Union Congress in
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  • 250 10 SEARCH FOR SECRET PRINTING PRESS Inquiries were made by detectives in London regarding forged £1 and 10s. notes, which have lately been circulated in considerable numbers in Sussex, especially in Arundel. It is stated that the paper used for the fabrication is almost identical in texture
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  • 299 10 COMMISSION’S VIEWS OF AN EXPERIMENT t The prison population in Britain for the year 1930 showed an increase of 3098 men and 373 women, as compared with 1929. The total receptions were 53,063 men and 6873 women. The daily average population of the prisons—including Borstal institutions
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  • 404 10 READS NEWSPAPERS AND KNITS SOCKS Miss Isabella Miller, who lives in a picturesque cottage on the banks of the Tay at Boat of Murthly, Caputh, celebrated her 102nd birthday on September 4. Miss Miller, despite her age, still retains all her faculties, is up and about
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  • 370 10 CYPHER WIZARD AS B.A. PRESIDENT Sir Alfred Ewing, “the cypher wizard,” who presided over the 101st meeting of the British Association when it opened at York gave as his opening address An Engineer’s Outlook,” in which he reviewed the past achievements of science and
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  • 79 10 TOWN STREETS STILL YIELD GOLD Catching something of the hectic glamour and romance of the gold-digging days of the ‘fifties when it camped 6000 diggers, Wedderburn, a picturesque little town in Victoria, for years dominated by the growing of golden grain, has just discovered that it
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  • 3048 11 Monster Snakes Which Crush Tigers, Buffalo And Crocodiles Here is the exclusive story in words and pictures of the man who “Brings ’Em Back Alive”—Frank Buck, the world’s most enterprising wild animal hunter. He takes YOU into the Malayan jungle. In these amazing photographs and vivid articles are
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  • 3465 12 Estates Resuming Tapping 0 JOHORE P. A. CRITICISE RESEARCH INSTITUTE INDEPENDENT ENQUIRY URGED The fact that several estates which had closed down were now tapping once more was disclosed at the half-yearly meeting of the Johore Planters’ Association, held at the Kluang Club on Saturday. The
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  • 824 13 Schedule cf Principal Lines I, The following is a list of vessels arriving Lpd sailing from Penang during the week: IN PORT TO-DAY g A UTOMEDON from Liverpool for Hong Kong, Shanghai, Pukow and Hankow. I M s SAALE from Bremen, Hamburg Antwerp, Rotterdam, Genoa, Port’
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  • 249 13 OCTOBER THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6. “Mr. Pim Passes By,” Town Hall, Penang (in aid of European Unemployment Fund) 9.30 p.m. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8. Rugby: Taiping v. Ipoh at Taiping. Selangor Turf Club Autumn Meeting, Kuala Lumpur, Second Day. “Mr. Pim Passes By,” Town Hall, Penang (2nd Performance) 9.30
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  • 351 13 PRICE-FIXING AGREEMENT As a party to the sugar agreement which places an embargo on imports and fixes the price of sugar for local consumption at a rate nearly 100 per cent, above world parity, the Commonwealth Government has invited the industry to accept an all-round reduction of
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  • 131 13 PASSENGERS’ REMARKABLE ESCAPE A party of 23 Londoners who were returning home from Wales in a motor-coach had a remarkable escape from serious injury at Bartestree Bridge, Herefordshire, when the vehicle got out of control owing to a failure of the steering gear. The coach crashed
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  • 166 13 BOYS FATALLY INJURED IN ROAD ACCIDENT Sentence of eighteen months imprisonment was passed by Lord Morison at a sitting of the High Court at Ayr on George Smith (26), motor driver, Eddlewood Buildings, Hamilton, on a charge of culpable homicide. The case arose out of
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  • 80 13 How Australia economized during 1931, the worst year of the depression, is disclosed in the Commonwealth Statist’s report just issued. Compared with the previous year’s figures, 6% million Australians spent £ll,000,000 less on beer, wine and spirits, smoked 1,000,000-lb less of cigarettes, imported £5,700,000 less in motor
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 189 13 Actual micro-p!wtoiraph L rat 1 V cause Sanato.en 1 r strengthens tM > >' 1 nerve, regulatin. I the dige.ti.. atiparatu. Conquer ■f 1 K Nerve troubles I M Loss of nerve-strength may result in such seemingly different complaints as listlessness 5 stomach troubles, and lack of appe'J tite, sleeplessness,and
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 70 13 I I HELP THE UNEMPLOYED I To-Night! I Jjj DON'T MISS SEEING I I “MR. PIM PASSES B I I I I I I TOWN HALL s i I THERE IS STILL TIME TO BOOK YOUR SEATS I AT THE < I ROBINSON PIANO CO., LTD. I w n i
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  • By The Burma Mail
    • 784 14 Mr. Banvard Allowed Use Of Dtrfferin Gardens Rangoon, Sept. 26. U Ba Glay presided over the meeting of the Roads and Builings Committee of the Rangoon Municipal Corporation which was held on Friday afternoon. The others present include Mr. H. L. Stevenson, Dr. R. S. Dugal, Mr.
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    • 204 14 London Burma Community's Loss Rangoon, Sept. 26. The very sad news of the passing away of M. B. Lu, the Grand Old Man of the Burma community in London, will be received with deep regret by all throughout Burma who have been to England during
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    • 296 14 Rangoon, Sept 26. A Burman correspondent writes to the “Rangoon Gazette”:— The sudden squall yesterday afternoon brought down a big branch of the banyan tree known as the Shwe-Nyaung-Bin (golden banyan tree), 20th mile, Promeroad, near Htaukkyan. As the tree fell directly across the roadway, it was fortunate
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    • 155 14 Narrow Escape of Inspector of Schools Prome, Sept. 20. U Sein Ywet, inspector of schools, Pegu Circle, who arrived at Prome this morning by the mail train, was involved irt what might have been a serious mo‘or car accident. Intending to proceed to Shwedaung by car,
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    • 116 14 Application Against Rejection of Complaint Rangoon, Sept. 26. On behalf of U Ba So and U Ni, Barris-ter-at-law, of Rangoon, U Myine, Pleader, Bassein, filed an application before Mr. C. B. de Kretser, 1.C.5., Barrister-at-law, Sessions Judge, Bassein, to revise the order of Mr. F. H. Stevenson,
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 167 14 liii-b L j The Fragrance is not the Perfume’s i it is Yours! If they compliment your perfume, it has only haif succeeded! Change to “4711" Tosca and they will compliment you. For a perfume should be M unobtrusive should subtly accentuate your own charm. 4711 Tosca does just that
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    • 208 14 I BAD LEG 6wA &.p WHY GO ON SUFFERING? Pw <$1?? Why endure agonising skin afflictions another dav—when 1/9 spent NOW will bring you relief in a lew a a WWfc. moments? Remember, too—nothing HEALS like wk G»ermolene Ointment —quick, easy, clean ana v w without leaving scars! Buy Germolene
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    • 2296 15 51 t» A I P- -"d O.— BRITISH INDIA YtU I 1 AND APCAR LINES BLUE FUNNEL KJKr S A IT V W H E R E Tl mail PASSENGER and CARGO services Tendon. NOR-H CONTTNFNT BOSTON AND NEW YORK HI I Peninsular and Oriental S. N. Co., p. nanfT
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  • 1197 16 Housing And Cost Of Living The following are extracts from the Report of the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, Sir John Scott, on the Social and Economic Progress of lhe Straits Settlements for the year 1931: Standard rates of wages for South Indian labourers are prescribed
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  • 297 16 Judgment For ExecutionCreditor In the Supreme Court this morning Mr. Justice Prichard, K.C., gave judgment for 1 Ng Boon Yong in the sum of $955.18 which is lying' in the hands of the Court Sheriff. In the issue before the Court to-day Ng Boon Yong
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  • 106 16 —Reuter Wireless. Cable To Brothers To Return Voluntarily Chicago, October 2. The United States District Attorney has cabled to Mr. Samuel Insull, who is at present in Paris, and to his brother Martin who is in retirement in Canada asking whether they would return voluntarily to explain the
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  • 95 16 Friends and relatives will be sorry to hear of the sudden death of the wife of Mr. Cheah Kee Ee, J.P. She had a stroke of apoplexy while in conversation with friends and succumbed at 9 o’clock last night. Besides her husband, she
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  • 211 16 FOOTBALL ning by five goals to two.—Reuter Wireless. Victory For Visitors In 34th Game Belfast, October 1. On the Windsor Park ground before a crowd of 20,000 the English Football League this afternoon gained their customary victory in beating the Irish League by five goals to two
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  • 100 16 P.R.C. v. Y.M.U. The following will be the teams in a match to be played this afternoon on the Esplanade at 5.10 p.m. P.R.C.: —Webb; Dr. da Silva and A. de Zilva; Howell, Foley and Danker; R. J. Williams, C. Pestana, G. O'Hara, Willweber and
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  • 68 16 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS Championship W. M. Edwards beat G. C. Miller 21-13. TIES FOR TO-DAY Singles Handicap Scr. L. M. Norris v. Scr. L. R. Tofield. TIES FOR TO-MORROW Teams of Three Scr. W. M. Edwards, A. F. Baughan and J. A. McEvoy v. -f-l L. R. Tofield,
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  • 57 16 Two Matches on Saturday T. G. Andrews, the New Zealand Davis Cup player, and D. H. Kleineman will arrive at Penang on Saturday and two matches have been arranged for them with a Chinese pair and a European pair to be played on the
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  • 102 16 Death of Son of Former Straits Doctor News was received in Singapore on Tuesday of the death on Monday of Mr Francis Hugh Mugliston, a younger brother of Mr. G. R. K. Mugliston, of Sandilands Buttery Co., (who retired from Singapore a few years ago), and
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  • 68 16 Hotel Extension Late Ferry and Hill Train We are asked to state that after the performance of “Mr. Pirn Passes By” at the Town Hall on Saturday night the management of the Runnymede Hotel have arranged for an extension till 1 a.m. An arrangement has also
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  • 582 16 TO-DAY’S PRICES 6 I The following were the latest quotations in MESSRS. KENNEDY Co.’s share list at 11 a.m. to-day:— Yesterday. To-day. 1 Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers RUBBER Allenby 50 55 45 55 Brunei U. 60 75 65 75 Glenealy 70 75 70 75 Indragiri 25
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  • 399 16 AIR MAIL A mail for Europe, Great Britain, Ireland and North America by steamer to Calcutta, thence by Rail to Karachi for conveyance by Imperial Railways, will be closed at 10 a.m. on Saturday. A mail for Europe and North America Alor Star-Amsterdam Direct Service, will be closed
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 110 16 ON OTHER PAGES Coiled Lightning s Burma News 14 Planter’s Fear Labour Shortage 12 State Hockey Trial 5 Local Football 5 Latest Cable News 1 9 Produce Markets 9 POSITION VACANT II I imrMTT HIM ■MmMMrMZTTMMMMMBMMB—— Conductor/Dresser—3rd grade dresser’s certificate necessary. Salary $5O/- per month with free furnished quarters. Apply
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    • 389 16 M.V. "GLENAP?" VOY. 25 Consignees of cargo per the above yr SSe from Europe are hereby notified ;at is expected to arrive in I'enang on Si> day morning, the Bth 1332, ;r ',i will discharge in the Roads. BOUSTEAD CO., LTD., (Incorporated in the F.M.S 1 Agents—“ GLEN LI.NE LTn
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 37 16 PENANG WEATHER REPORT Temp. Wind Rainfall 6 a.m. 76 E. 1 m.m. Noon 66 TIDE TABLES High Water. Water. TO-DAY 3.16 a.m. 10.20 a.m. 3.59 p.m. 0.52 p.m. TO-MORROW 3.48 a.m. 11.40 a.m. 8.14 p.m. 1107 p.m.
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    • 176 16 a TO-NIGHT at 8.30 p.m. AT SOLAR HALL DEAN'S OPERA OF SINGAPORE. THE ROSE OF ALL OPERAS LN MALAYA Will Stage The Great Chinese Dramatic j Play Entitled 800 SIONG SAT SOH," For Further Partculars See Separate Advertisement. At Lunar Hall Bin Lock Seah Shanghai* Foo chow Opere. Presents POW
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