The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 21 May 1930

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  • 19 1 Straits Echo Weekly (Mail) Edition. I PER ANNUM SINGLE COPY 40 CTS. 1.28 PENANG, MAY 21, 1930. No. 20.
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    • 267 1 CONTENTS LEADERS. Seven Years for A “Cowardly Crime’’ In Penang 412 Crown Land No Longer 412 Japanese Prince And Princess in Good Work 395 Penang 413 Three Losses 395 The Unfit 399 Bright 403 A Golf Hope 403 OUTSTATION NEWS. Medicine 407 Brave Woman 411 Young European’s Tragic End 396
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    • 146 2 THE STRAITS ECHO WEEKLY EDITION. Published the day prior to the depar* ture of each mail for Europe, it contain* the latest local news originally given in the daily issues as well as the leading and special articles. The subscription is $lB per annum, post free to any part of
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  • 413 395 Residents in the Municipality have good reason to-day to congratulate the Commissioners on the useful work that was carried through by them yesterday. Ju the first place there will be genera] congratulations on the step which the Comnfssioners have taken to restrict the speed of motor lorries. It
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  • 234 395 Humanity is not so rich in world figures that it can afford to lose Fridtjof Nansen. Norwegian by birth his own life was so devoted to peoples of all races and nationalities that the sigh of genuine regret and surprise will be universal. Dr. Nansen, like so many
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  • 149 395 BAILED OCT BY BROTHER. PENANG THEFT CHARGES. .1 youth appeared at Penang Pulice uurt yesterday to answer charges made by his father. Ng Seng Lim accused his son. Hoong l ee, before Mi-. A. D. York, with offences which were alleged to have been committed on
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  • 211 395 .1 pair of platinum links, a set of silver buttons, and a gold chain figured in a Penang (heft charge yesterday. A Sinhalese youth named Simeon Singhu appeared at the Penang Police Court, before Mr. A. D. York charged with the theft, which was alleged to
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    • 24 395 lit STRAITS ECHO. PUBLISHED DAILY. WEEKLY EDITIONS the news of the week prior departure of Mails for Europe. “Straits Echo" Building. Penang Road. Penang.
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  • 496 396 PENANG COURT SEQUEL HELPING MOTHER WITH LAKS A. Men who were discharged in Hie Penang Police Court yesterday for wrongful arrest. In the Penang District Court yesterday, two Chinese claimed $490.56 damages for false arrest. The parties were Lee Kow and Lee Ow, who were represented
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  • 85 396 (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoll, May 13 The death took place this morning under tragic circumstances of Mr. R. V. Every, accountant of Malaya Consolidated Mining Company at Chemor. He was 24 and unmarried. He was found dead in his quarters with a service rifle beside
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  • 203 396 (From Our Own Correspondent). Singapore, May 13 The Malaya Tribune understands that as many as thirty films were destroyed by a fire on board the “President Polk” which arrived here yesterday. This means that Singapore is short of about 25 films after allowance
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  • 3183 396 COMMISSIONERS ADOPT jq HOGAN'S MOTION ONE-WAY TRAFFIC DECISION. WELD QUAY BY-LAW PASSfIi A TEMPORARY LIKE. The President Mr. G. L. Hau eupied the chair and the others sent were: Messrs. R. Ingham, Sian Ewe, Lim Eow Thoon, C. D L Hogan, B. E.
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  • 138 398 PEXANG man and a Receipi purchase of samtu, wa jL" be fur a bung >n possession of dutiable ♦hi'. .7. T Terubon 8 nt the Penang Police Court,7 terday, when Mr. A. D Ynrlr ed the hearing. Mr. Auten of the Government Jk nopohes, conducted the prosecution the
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  • 142 398 --FINED 20 DOLLARS. JUDGMENT IN PENANG CASE. Mr. F. K. Wilson, the retiring Penang Magistrate, delivered judgment yesterday w two cases which icere previously heard by him. Lum Ah Chye, a Cantonese, who accused of stealing a duck wo cents belonging to a little gir
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  • 825 399 .1 reformers have no greater them throughout than that of the propaga*7the unfit and the support tbow in asjlut" B P nso 9 gooses by the remamder of Station- To quote Dr. A Hgold. "F-> r some time P L to devoted all his scientific of llis en
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  • 1061 399 looking back: where java leads. (B// Elia.) With the retirement of Mr. E. A k S Jn l' ict Ofßcer Kintacers e,,n K 'r 1 Of ,l,e Juuior °<Bctrs concerning whom many a Eibe tO b P 8IM;d the Colon/beTl„. ur'aetk." 8 T* eo n l’ p,i i
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  • 849 400 CONFESSED TO A MURDER AT SEA. CIVIL GAOL DISTURBANCE The inquest on a Chinese who committed suicide in Penang Prison while waiting to answer a charge of murder .was held yesterday. I he man was Tan Ah Oek, a prisoner, who was found
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  • 1015 401 SEABLY KILLED wife AGED 16. JUDGE’S STERN COMMENTS j/f. Justice Sproulc shewed no mercy to an elderly Tamil who made an unprovoked ami cowardly assault on his 16 y ear old u f l f e leith the intention of murdering her. A
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  • 383 401 “TENSE” ATMOSPHERE DURING MATCH. -lh ugly incident marred yesterday'u soccer between the Sepoy Lines and the Post Office Recreation Club. It happened towards the end of the ie Was sent Awards the P.O.R.C. net and, as the attackers rushed in, Huck 800 (the Sepoy Lines centre half
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  • 345 402 HAMBONE DIES AFTER WIN. (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, May 14. Tiie fourth da\ s race of the Singal>ore Turf Club Spring meeting was run in fine weather. There was a large attendance. Hambone developed colic after the first day's win and died. I lac i
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  • 432 402 MEETING TO DISCUSS CRICKET. 1177/ Penang Malays play serious cricket “Vulcan writes: It is pleasing to note that Vulcan s advice has been taken to heart by local Malays as will be seen from the following circular letter which has been sent to the various Malay
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  • 221 402 /'er/orminj mice fi gmd at Penang on Saturday. I hey were concerned in a case a cruelty to animals”. 86 o{ Ihe defendant was Chinese hawker. Mentis A small wooden box, divided into five compartments was produced Court and considerable interest shown m the case,
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  • 147 402 SECOND TRIAL MATCH F 0? I® MALAYA CUP. Au interesting football match was **l icssed by a large number of spectator! mi the Government English school pa mg, Simgei Patani, between a se lected team from North Kedah an combined team from Central and Kedah. In the first
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  • 429 403 However depressing the present .V be and tin and rubber impetus to the pesJ dejment of trade and customs which has just been published. A r nar kaWy prosperous year is commented upon, for. compared with 1(tB i as t year saw an increase of $OOOO,OOO in the value
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  • 127 403 Of all the remarkable achievements in the golf world, remarkable because they become so almost in a day. is the rise to fame of Enid Wilson, the Derbyshire girl. Only two or three years ago she wore a plait and was so nervous when playing in competitions
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  • 164 403 PLEADS FOB PENANG HAWKER. *4 woman created a acene at Penang Police Court yesterday. She was the wife of a Chinese hawker, who was charged with causing obstruction. She rushed into the dock, stood by the side of her husband and though she had a baby
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  • 447 403 LEARNING MECCA PRIESTS VISIT TO PENANG. -In ancient city where at times of prayer people in the streets are compelled to entei the houses of worship. Far from the bustle of civilisation stands holy Mecca, holy to many millions throughout the world, who hope some day
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  • 2183 404 MAN" WHO PAID $74 FOR WIFE. SENTENCED TO DEATH. ACCUSED RELATIVE OF INDUCING WOMAN TO ABSCOND. Struggling desperately in the arms of two stalwart Indian policemen and jittering incoherent sentences such as it is not justice,” ”1 did not kill,” “I am not willing
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  • 298 405 HOUSE RENTS SHOW DROP. /la interesting commentary on 'Che average prices in the Colony and declared trade values in 1929 has been prepared by Mr. J. J. Miller, the acting Registrar of Statistics. For house rents three groups are considered—from $1 to $49, from $5O to
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  • 417 405 PENANG INDIAN CONVICTED. “DRINK USED FOR BAKERY.” /1 bottle of toddy, a big jar, and a steel trim]; adorned the bar table al the Penang Police Court yesterday. Mr. A. D. ork heard a case of alleged illicit liquor sale. Choniamuttu was brought
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  • 470 406 PENANG FKACD ACCUSATION The Penang District Court was occupied with only one witness during the whole of yesterday. The hearing was a resumption of the case against Chan Ban Yok, partner of Chop Ban Seng Lee, of Beach Street, Penang. The allegation against the accused was
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  • 798 406 4 PENANG, MAY 16, 1930. MR. 11. ROBERTON’S WITTY SPEECH. .1 fashionable wedding took place in Penang yesterday. The wedding was solemnised at St. George’s Church. Penang, yesterday of Lt.-Commander Lionel Francis Hopkinson 11. N. (Retired) and Miss Violet Tomlins. Mr. Hopkinson, who is on the staff
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  • 819 407 and its progress is Ips one of the grentes just,r e for the Westerners stay fju Nobody ea r look temporarily or ever forget the sani- influences introduced by lie tapean wherever he hns set Ins foot Plagt ,eH diseases have been known throughout the centuries, so long as
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  • 201 407 “Disobeying the direction of the Port Officer by sailing a tongkang within a hundred feet of the Church Street Ghuat Pi<r was the charge preferred against an Indian Mahomedan named Mydin Pakkir at the Penang Police Court yesterday. Ihe accused claimed trial 'and the Marine
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  • 224 407 I hat they were ignorant of the law was. the plea put forward by two Hokum Chinese yesterday at the Penang Police Court, when Mr. R. K. Awten, of the Government Monopolies, charged them with “possession of dutiable tobacco.” The accused. (low’ Chin and
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  • 2055 408 ASSIZE COURT STORY. TODDY SHOP SQUABBLE. At the Penang Assizes yesler* day a man who was found guilty of the murder of another Indian, was recommended by the jury to mercy. “You have been very strongly recommended to mercy by the jury and it may
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  • 717 409 GOOD ATTENDANCE AND IDEAL WEATHER. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore. May 10. The third day's races of the Singapore Turf Club Spring Meeting was run in ideal weather. The going was good. There was a large attendance. The following were the results: Race 1.—6 Furs. WALLSTONE
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  • 948 410 WIN BY TEN WICKETS. CENTURY BY DR. HOPKINS. Penang icon their match against hcdah bij ten icickelx. By 4 p.m. yesterday the PenangKedah Cricket match was over. I here was just under seven hours cricket in the two days and in this time three full
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  • 400 410 Ihe bride was Mi ss T an second daughter oi Mr. ai)d T Ee bamg. The bridegroom L in Linen hye, of the staff A A pretty Chinese wedding tatG yesterday m Penang in the old s» Government English School Gc, and a popular tennis player there
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  • 339 411 Surprises and shocks have foone another in quick lesion so that almost anyth* that is demonstrated is bevoDd the stage at which one Lamazed. For a young woman fly alone in an aeroplane was «.sidered only a ‘few years ago a and heroic achievement. Khen the news spread
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  • 760 411 TOUCHED A LIVE WIRE. ROLLED OFF ROOF. WARNED BEFOREHAND OF THE DANGER. The story of a Penang electrocution tragedy. Desperate but fruitless efforts were made by European officers in the Penang Municipality to save a thirty-five-year-old Indian coolie who had come into contact with a live wire
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  • 183 411 Bakeries and luddy shops figured in a Penang Police Court case on Saturday. Chonaimuthu. the Indian who was convicted last week at the Penang Police Court for selling toddy without a licence, appeared again before Mr. A. D. York on Saturday anil was fined $l5. Mr.
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  • 644 412 —AND HONOUR HIS PREDECESSOR. Tributes to the retired Chinese Consul in Penang were paid on Saturday. A pleasant function took place in the Chinese Town Hall Penang, on Saturday afternoon, when members of the local Chinese community gathered for the dual purpose of welcoming the
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  • 258 412 The sand problem figures again in the Penang Police Court. The case in which a Chinese and an Indian were charged with removing sand from a land at Batu Gantong again came up for hearing at the Penang Police Court yesterday before Mr. A. D. York.
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  • 618 412 SEVEN YEARS F0 R A "COWARDLY CRIME" IN PENANG. Pcnaf servitude j w y Lt-o sentences of eack were passed by Mr Assizes for’ ’wSO*'began In S js Court yesterday before Jb T Sproule. Of the eight cases h lour were dealt with yesterfa ease will be concluded first of
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  • 130 413 WIN BY 10 WICKETS FOB SELANGOR. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, May 12. The inter-state cricket match play,atß a la Lumpur between Selangor i i in the former wiunlJ f w i c k p Ts. Rain held up L r ail h° ur in the morning.
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  • 974 413 THINK THE ISLAND "A BEAUTIFUL SPOT.” Saturday was a red letter day to the little band of Japanese subjects living in Penang. It is not often that they have the privilege of showing their loyalty to the ruling house of their motherland in some
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  • 321 414 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore. May 1<The last day’s race of the Singapore Turf Club Spring meeting was run in fine weather. The attendance was large. The following were the results:-- //</<•< I.— Far*. LUCKY MISTAKE 9.0 (T. Gunning) 1 TANDUBAS 8.0 (McPherson) 2 CLARITA 7.5
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  • 756 414 A.A. ANTHONY CO. DAILY SHARE LIST Penang, May 22nd, 1930. Name of Company Buyers Seller Tin—Dollar Companies Sets Sets Ayer Weng 0.75 1.00 Batang Padana 0.11 0.13 Bstu Caves 0.80 0.82 Hitam 038 .40 Johan 0.35 0.37 Kinta 1.15 1.17 Klang Rivers 2 2-J 2.3)e Kuchai 1.15 1.17 Kuyoh 0.C9
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