The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 8 August 1934

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press AND DAILY NEWS. NO. 14,338. ESTD. 1835. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 8, 1934. 10 CENTS.
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    feverish Rush To Buy Grain Follows Startling Forecast Of U.S. Crop
    200 1 feverish Rush To Buy Grain Follows Startling Forecast Of U.S. Crop ALL PRICES SOARING ALL grain prices are soaring in the United States where it is estimated that the season's crop will scarcely be 75 per cent, of the amount consumed during the past season. Scenes of feverish excitement were
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    RED TROOPS MOWN DOWN Attack On Enghok Repelled
    85 1 RED TROOPS MOWN DOWN Attack On Enghok Repelled Latin Koiifc, Aufc. 7. tachment of Red lied an attack on nghok yesterday lg hl by Govwere mown i -gun fire, the to the Yiukeh ts m disorder. the positions at hands of tlw Red Government division and 01 Gen. Wang to
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    THERE WILL BE NO WAR
    69 1 KOlt TEN YEARS -Mr. LI. George Paris, Au?;. rantee that the i nother major :..n-ci Mr. Lloyd Petit I i question that t to make war at j the psychologies] i war were pn?- I icta must also be j ration. "I was head i
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    LEFT £20,000
    42 1 Hiitdenbarg's Will Berln. Au«. ft. ted that President t\ more than £20,000 Lth custom the will to earlier reports has not bi published. -tat. WQ£ presented by i his son, Colonel Hin- rormer*t eightieth id paymem 01 death Ibi Wireless
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    30 1 Ajaccio. Aug. (i. lion francs tor public •.1 left to the town of the will of Francois I maire periume manuwas a native of the town. irea 500.000 francs to
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    LIVINGSTONE STATUE
    56 1 London, Aug. 5. Scottish bagpipe's lament with the >übd;ied roar of the Devil's Cataract. Victoria Fails, Southern Rhodesia, m :ht background was heard by listeners throughout the Empire during the broadcast ceremony of the unveiling of the statue In memory of the explorer. Dr. Livingstone an the SDOt
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    U.S. FINANCE EXPERT IN SINGAPORE
    376 1 Studying The Silver Position 1 1 THAT is the secret mission that lias brought Professor J. H. Rodgers, Assistant Secretary of the United. States Treasury, to the East In complete secrecy Proiessor Rodgers spent a considerable time m Japan and when he arrived m Singapore
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    SOVIET AIR MISSION
    88 1 Three Giant Planes Land At Le Kourget Paris, Aug. 7. Painted green with scarlet propellors, and with their crews smartly uniformpd m khaki, three giant Soviet aeroplanes landed at Le Bourget today with a Soviet military air mission from Moscow. This was a return visit to that
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    DUKE OF YORK
    28 1 London, Aug. 4. It is announced that the Duke of York has satisfactorily recovered from his recently poisoned hand and is now convalescent.- Reuter Wireless
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    AIR LINER HELD UP BY MONSOON
    52 1 AIR LINER HELD UP BY MONSOON (From Our Own Corresi>ondent Bangkok, Aug. 7. Tlie east-bound Dutch air liner due at Don Muang this afternoon was forced to return to Rangoon after starting for Bangkok, owing to the violence of the monsoon. I The plane will fiy to Don Muang tomorrow,
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    CENTRAL BANK
    129 1 Proposal Considered By U.S. Officials Washington, Aujc. 7. The creation of a central bank ol sue which would take over the funcons of the Federal Reserve system nd place the control of credit and urrency directly In the hands of the rovernment is stated m official circles >
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    $100,000 FORFEITED
    124 1 Canadian Brewer Fails To Appear In Court Seattle, Aug. 7. The Federal Judge, Meterer has ordered George Reifel, the Canadian brewer who was arrested early m July for alleged smuggling, to forfeit the $100,000 bund on which he was released. He and his lather. Henry Reitel, failed to
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    20 RIOT DEATHS
    111 1 Moslems Invade Jewish Quarter Algiers, Aug. b. Twenty people nave been killed and; seventy wounded m riots at Constantine. It appears that a drunken Jewish Zouave entered a mosque during prayer and began insulting the Mussulmans. The latter invaded the Jewish; quarter and fighting raged all night.!
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    18 1 Messrs. C. S. Byrnes and H. S. Scrivener have been elected members of the F.M.S. Chamber of Mines.
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    Last Tributes To Hindenburg On
    428 1 Plains Of Tannenberg VAST ihrong ol 200,000 took part in the burial ceremony of Pre- ?iden f Hinclenburg yesterday at Tannenberg on the plains of Eas' Prussia. Tannenberg, Auk. On the lonely plains of East Prussia' alter an impressive and elaborate ceremonial. President Hindeiiburg was
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    DEMPSEY A FATHER
    89 1 Wife Presents Him With A (nrl New York, Aug. 4. Jack Dempsty has become the father Ol his Out child, who weighs seven and a half pound! and is a girl. She will be named Hannah after her twenty-two your old mother, Jack's Bee lid wile, who
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    CONVICTION UPHELD
    169 2 Hearing Of Lee Boon Tok's Appeal The appeal of Lee Boon Tok against a conviction and sentence for a violation of the Trade Marks Ordinance was heard in the Appeal Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Gerahty. Loe Boon Tok sold a nn el Lubricating '-il called St;>r and
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    DIVORCE SUIT
    116 2 Transferred To Judge's Chamber (From Our Own Correspondent. > Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 7. Two matrimonial suits which were to have been heard in open court this morning were transferred to the Judge's chamber. The first was that between Grorge Lionel O'Hara Hickson and Irma O*Hara Hickson and Levas
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    SERIOUS CHARGE
    69 2 A charge of falsifying accounts was preferred against a Teochew Chinese, named Sim Tong Ann. of Wayang Street. In the police court before Mr. J M. Brander yesterday. The accused was alleged to hive wilfully made incorrect entries in the Of his employer. Tan Yau Khiang, on July
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    Law Notices For The Day
    48 2 Law Notices For The Day Before Mr. Justice Prichard in the 2nd Court at 11 am. Criminal AppealsRex vs. Tay Kim Siak. Before Mr. Justice Gerahty in the 3rd Court at 11 a.m. Bkcy 5 34— Khoo Kay Yeow:- Motion to rescind and annul Receiving and Adjudication Orders
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    Tamil Who Was A "King"
    152 2 Tamil Who Was A "King" Court Comedy (From Our Own Correspondent.' Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 7. "IC ING GEORGE the flfth after •^having been under observation for a week, again appeared in the police court today when the case in which iie is charged with disorderly conduct oy breaking bottles in
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    APPEAL DISMISSED
    123 2 Vendor Who Found 10,000 Francs On Wharf Becaus? he tourd 10.000 francs on the Singapore Harbour Board whar. a.id m.adp no effort to find the iwner V. Sivasamy Ram. a postcard vendor. Is to serve six months rigorous tmorisonment. This sentence was imposed on n the third police
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    30 2 Miss Lily Bohn. second daughter of Mr. A. J. Bohn, Permanent Way Inspector, at Chegar Perah. has left Kuala Lipis to joint the Nursing staff of the General Hospital. Singapore
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    WAS HOSPITAL UNDER-STAFFED ?
    745 2 WAS HOSPITAL UNDER -STAFFED Inquest On A Blind Girl C.M.O. REFUTE* SUGGESTION fFrom Our Own Correspondent) Penang, Aug. 7. /QUESTIONS regarding the staffing of the General Hospital were asked at the resumed inquest today on Rajammal, an 18-year-old blind girl, who fell 65 feet from the fourth floor of the
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    Ban Hin Gold
    202 2 Mines Case Alleged Bribes (From Our Own Correspondent*. Ipoh, Aug. 7. The hearing was resumed jeiorc Mr. Justice Howes in the Supreme Court today of the action in which Ban Hin Gold Mines are suing two Chinese towkays for recission ol sale of 400 acres of mining
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    78 2 The choir of the Straits Chinese Methodist Church. Kampong Kapor Road, will give a concert in the Church Hall on Friday at 8.30 p.m. The principal part of the programme will be rendered by the stringed instruments of the Singapore Musical Society under the direction ot Mr. J. Tryner. Mrs
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      235 2 Diary Of The Week WEDNESDAY, AUG. 8 H.gn Water, 10.35 a.m. 8.1 ft.. 9.25 p.m.. I 9.0 It. football First D:v. Indo-Ceylonese Pvs. Puluu Biuni, Jalan Besar Stadium Second Division. Marine vs. Straits Cattle Traders, Anson Road Stadium R.I. vs. St. Andrew's School. St. Andrew's ground. THURSDAY, AUG. 9. High
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      212 2 TODA Y'S WIRELESS PROGRAMMES SINGAPORE— ZHI Wavelength 49.!t Metres 6 p.m. Recorded music. 0.30 Relay of dance music by Raffles Hotel Dance Orchestra under the direction of Dan Hopkins. C.45 News bulletin supplied by. Straits Times. Stock and* share report supplied by Fraser Co. 7 RELAY OF CONCERT ARTISTES FROM
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    SPECTACULAR AIR PAGEANT STAGED AT PENANG
    714 3 Official Opening Of Flying Club CROWD OF 15,000 THRILLED lOR TWO HOURS nl s.-ventetn machines, comprising R.A.F. iiying boat* and S th < S lC .fP°" and Kual Lumpur Flying Clubs' ma- n the brilliant a, r pageant organised by the PenTnr Sunday alUrnoon
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    MISCHIEF BY FIRE
    367 3 Allegation Against Johore ds 2S saw at» gsft£ Ag JLmfued mfschief by setting fire to his shop, situated in Ja an Trus, Ri.ngam. Mr. M. C. Hay (Public Prosecutor, Johore* who appeared for the State, explained that practically the whole cute depended on circumstantial evidence. The accused
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    Fountain Pen Trade Mark Infringed
    289 3 Fountain Pen Trade Mark Infringed COR the second occasion wLhiii ..ie space oi a lew month! i-airer Duolold lountain pens lormed the sv.biect ol a charge undir tne Mercnancise Marks Ordinance beiore Mr. H. A. Forrer. the 'Jiiminal District Judge, res tei day Iwo ChLiese propriecors of Migh Sticet hi'iriii.
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    Hawker Finds 10,000 Francs
    395 3 BUT FAILS TO LOCATE OWNER Appeal To Supreme Court Dismissed riI.IAT HE found IJ,OOO francs on the I Singapore Harbcur Board wharf una did not take reasonable steps to 1 trace the owner, was the allegation < made in the Appeal Court yesterday. 1 oeiore Mr.
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    PENANG BANKRUPT
    203 3 Application To Examine Wife An application was made at Penang by the Official Assignee on Friday under Section 31 of the Bankruptcy Ordinance arising out of the bankruptcy of the former wealthy Penang towkay, Cheah Lean Guan. Mr. Taylor said that the solicitors of one of the creditors
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    194 3 The Penang Teachers' Variety Concert m aid of Indigent puoils met with such support at the Prnang Town Hall on Friday evening that late comers had difficulty m securing seats. (Continued irom Column 3) This showed that he had imported a total of 210 Pascio pens on June 7. Accused
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    Alleged Three Cents Bribe
    190 3 Alleged Three Cents Bribe OUJONG bin Ibrahim, a Malay con- stable of the Straits Settlements Police, answered a charge of receiving a bribe of three centi from a hawker. when he appeared b.fore Mr. J. M. Erander in the pclice coart yesterday. Bujong claimed to be tried but the hawker.
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    51 3 The Hokten Association at Rembau Street. Klang. was the scene of a wedding on Sunday, between Mr. Lim Wee Saik, eldest son ol Towkay Lim Ah Kam. J.P.. and Mrs Lim Ah Kam. of Kuala Langat. and Miss Yap Cheo 'lee. eldest aaughter of Towkay and Mrs. Yap Kian. ol
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    MOTHERS-TO-BE WHO HAVE HEARTBURN
    226 3 Should Read This Nurses Letter Here is i9Bfttttl ng of real interest to ihcs: mothers-to-be who are suffering during the months preceding the happy event" with ir,:i *estlon in one or another of Itl VArtOM forms: flatulence, heartburn. sickness or acidity. Today it is no linger
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