The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 9 July 1930

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  • 19 1 Straits Echo Weekly (Mail) Edition. U pER ANNUM SINGLE COPY 4<t CTS. tL2S PENANG, JULY 9, 1930. No. 27
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    • 238 1 CONTENTS LEADERS. OUTSTATION NEWS. Standard Wages 541 Poem Urging Revolution 54] Penang Rises 544 Smuggling Chandu At Singapore 546 Penang Port 548 Ipoh European’s Sudden Death 547 Welcome 550 Heavy Sentence On Printers 548 Legislature 554 Lottery Ticket Sold To Public 549 Sir Conan Doyle 554 The “Monopolies Scandal” 549
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    • 148 2 THE STRAITS ECHO WEEKLY EDITION. Published die day prior co the departure of each mail for Europe, it contains the latest local news originally given in the daily issues as well as the leading and special articles. The subscription is $lB per annum, poet free to any part of the
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  • 762 541 A meeting of the Immigration Committee is to take place in Kuala Lumpur on July 16 to pres* cribe standard wages for certain districts, namely, Province Wellesley, the Coastal Districts of Selangor and some parts of Pahang. As standard wages have already been fixed for these districts, doubtless
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  • 207 541 IPOH ROBBERS CHARGED. for publishng an article in rhyme urging the labourers to rise against the capitalist, several Chinese were charged at Ipoh. y (From Our Own Correspondent Ipoh, July 2. A preliminary inquiry was held in the Magistrate’s Court in connection with certain allegations under the
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  • 145 541 Tan Siew Long, a Hokien, was charged at the Penang Police Court yes terday before Mr. A. D. York, with alleged cheating in respect of $l3O. It was stated that Siew Long cheated one Lee Ghee Seok “by representing that he had an option to buy Chop
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  • 587 542 COST SBO,COO. CENTRE FOR MISSION WORK. The new headquarters of the Penang Buddhist Association. will have recreation rooms, libraries, and visitors' reception rooms in addition to a big con gregation hall to accommodate more than 600. The introduction of social reforms and the propagation
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  • 207 542 PENANG OBSTRUCTION CASE. Because he had unloaded fifty-six durians in ten minutes working alone, a lorry driver claimed he was not guilty of causing an obstruction in front of Chowrasta Market. He was fined. Mr. A. D. York heard eighteen cases of traffic obstruction at
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  • 413 542 strange stoby by pexaxg CHINESE. -1 Chinese hawker tore noU«, wftiefe he had /»om customers, into bits be cause the woman who employ 9l,ve him Bits of torn one-dollw notes produced as exhibits in a case t enan o 10l ice Court yesterday when
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  • 510 543 JIANAN'GNEB FINEND AND MONEY CONFISCATED. jhc managers oj two betting houses in Penang were fined b» the District Judge yesterday. The P*iang District Judge yesterday allowed the confiscation of $526. The sum was seized in connection the arrest of Tan Seang Chin, folding a raid at
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  • 331 543 CHARGE OF CRIMINAL MISAPPROPRIATION. The case between two Chinese partners of a Penang firm was continued before the District Judge yesterday. The complainant is Khoo Teow Chong, who accuses his other partner, Chan Ban Yok, in the firm of Ban Seng Lee, of having committed a breacn
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  • 414 543 TRIBUTES TO DR. .1 E. SMITH. Dr. J. E. Smith, the newly appointed member of the Legislative Council, was feted by the Old Xacerians. Old Xaverians gathered at their club premises in Leith Street. Penang, on Saturday to honour Dr. J. E. Smith, the, newly
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  • 601 544 PENANG, JULY 4, 1930 It is fitting that the meeting of the Legislative Council in Penang should be signalised by the asking of questions solely by Penang members. The questions are not frivolous—they are all important and several of them touch upon problems that demonstrate the seriousness of
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  • 95 544 Before Mr. A. D. York at the Penang Pqlice Court yesterday, Detective Inspector Blakesley, opposed bail for a Malay man, who was charged with having possession of housebreaking implements. It was stated that this was connected with another case in which the syce of a well-known European
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  • 137 544 The ease was mentioned at tin Penang Police Court yesterday befor. Mr. A. D. York in which Mohamet Bawa, a Penang Malay, was chargei with giving false information to “a pullic servant to wit, Inspector Miller oi the Central Police Station, Penang, causing him to use
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  • 458 544 WHY NOT A LITTLE THEAIBE movement? (By H.C.W.) Europeans coming to Malaya f» t u first time miss many things that much at Homo. Those especially S ‘7 J' er T") previoUBl in b 5 fed the lack of human comnanioushin the excitement of politics, that fJ
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  • 949 545 proposed to erect a new hotel. Mr T Rogers in the ic.nual Ml Bailway for me report .covers the sixth year of r and shows that, good use is J£ k Ue of the Railway both for Sagers and for goods earned up the HillThe
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  • 384 545 PRC. v. S.X.R.C. Ihe cricket match between the P. R. C. and St. Xavier's Recreation Club, which was to have been played on Saturday at the Esplanade, was postponed. The Eastern Smelters defeated the second team of the P.C.C. by 21 runs at the Esplanade on Saturday when the
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  • 566 546 ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOUND GUILTY. C. P. McCully. Assistant Superintendent of Government Monopolies Singapore. wan found guilty of smuggling chandu. (From Our Own Correspondent:) Singapore. July 3 The case in which C. P. McCully, Assistant Superintendent of Government Monopolies, and a Johore Malay, named Ahmat bin Ibrahim,
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  • 292 546 in the Malaya Cup Trial Match played yesterday, the' Colours were defeated by the Whites. On the run of the play, the Colours should have won. Unfortunately, their custodian was late and a substitute had to be found at the last moment. It was then that a
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  • 931 546 PENANG merchant acquit 7'Ac Judge not beliemna th, prosecution story acquitted th, accused in the Penang "BIJ, Signed Cheque" case At the Penang District Court Ta u, day. proceedings against Cha? Ba Kok came to an abrupt close. Formerly a partner with Chan R, lok in
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  • 430 547 DEFENDANT TO PAY SMALL P A R T. .Is against a claim of $327.25 by the Hewett Art Furniture Company, Mr. L. Flinter wan ordered to pay $6O and $3 costs. The Penang District Judge delivered judgment yesterday in the case between Mr. L. Flinter
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  • 296 547 (brom Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh. July 3 I he death occurred suddenly shortly after midnight on Wednesday ‘of Mr. L. (roodwin. an assistant at Pritchards. Ihe deceased attended office on Wednesday morning but complained of feeling feverish and returned home I hat night he developed a
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  • 410 548 Penang is under a debt to its Resident Councillor, the Hon. Mr. E. W. F. Gilman for the enthusiastic manner in which he has taken up the problem of alterations at the port. Soon after his arrival in the island he began to discuss the matter and then
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  • 522 548 TAMBY RELIEVED OF $l6O. By throwing pepper in his eyes, a Chinese is alleged to have robbed a tamby of 10 ten dollar bills in Beach Street at noon yesterday. In broad daylight a Penang tamby was yesterday robbed of ten $lO bills. Majid, the tamby,
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  • 135 548 (From Our Own Correspondent; WI Si Wore, July 4 hen counsel submitted to the At peal Judges, the Hon. Sir James ham Munson, (C. J.) the Hon. 1. J. Sproule and the Hon. Mr Wfl I home this morning that the ruling d the Hon. Mr.
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  • 217 548 That they disobeyed the order of the Port Officer and anchored their tongkangs in front of Godown No. 5 st the Penang Harbour, was alleged against thirteen Tamil and Cumese tongkang coolies at the Penang Police Court yesterday before Mr. A. The Chinese pleaded “guilty” hut the
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  • 308 549 CONTINUATION OF CASE AT SINGAPORE. Further evidence was record,d yetterday in the cave m Meh a wealthy Singapore merchant is being charged with telling Singapore Turf Club lottery tickets to the public. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, July 4 Ihe case in which Choo Roh
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  • 267 549 McCULLY APPEALS: BAIL IN $lO,OOO. "This sort of thing is backed up by a wealthy gang" said the District Judge of Singapore lohen fixing bail at 810,000 for McCully who appealed against his sentence on the charge of smuggling chandu. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, July 4
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  • 92 549 Following a motor accident which occurred at 12.15 p.m. on July 3, Mr. H. C. Enderby, a European mercantile assistant living in Penang» was charged before Mr. A. D. York at the Penang Police Court yesterday with rash and negligent driving. Inspector Roberts conducted
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  • 190 549 The South China Football team that has come on a tour of Malaya won their first match at Singapore. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, July 4. At the Stadium this afternoon South China beat Singapore by two goals to nil. The game was watched by
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  • 219 549 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, July 4. The Selangor Lawn Tennis Association’s Championship Meeting terminated this evening on the Selangor Club Courts, when the doubles finals were played, Hewett and Hovil beating Kendall and Wedgwood B—o, fi—2. A large gathering witnessed the match. Kendall won the
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  • 474 550 It is understood that the F. M. S. Government has plans in hand to improve the wharves at Port Swettenham. For the first time for many years members of the Legislative Council will hold their meeting today in Penang. The island and other parts of the northern settlement welcome
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  • 347 550 UNKNOWN CHINESE AND TAMIL DROWNED. Two Penang tragedian oj the sea. An open verdict of “found dead through causes unknown’ was returned by Mr. A. D. York at the Penang Polic# Police Court on Saturday following the inquest on an unknown Tamil. The body was found
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  • 451 550 MALAYS’ WORK: RJep. PAWNBROKING. (By Elfa). rhe I ndang of Rembau’s spirited an peal for more sympathetic lor his countrymen in filling ments m the Government be heartily applauded by all those 5 have the welfare of the Malays at The Undang gave instances of iified Malay applicants
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  • 962 551 boys set up new records \T PENANG SPORTS. Winning the Shield from the Penang h L in 1923, the Anglo-Chmeße "L?hdd it until 1923 when the Free The following year, School again succeedrelieving the Free School of the sophy, and has since kept it
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  • 301 551 She wovld have probably saved his life, if she had taken him immediately to hospital.” So said Mr. A. D. York at the Penang Police Court Saturday during the course of an inquiry into the death, of a middle-aged Tamil man who died following injuries
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  • 95 551 At the sixth annual general meeting of the Sungei Patani Malay AssociaItiou on July 3 before which a grand feast was given, the following were elected office bearers for 1930:—President, Che Ahmad (District Officer), vice presidents Tuan Syed Jun, Che Zain Abdin ChQ Abdu’ Ruhmad, Tuan
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  • 2675 552 DOUBLE FOR MR. TOON POON: GOOD RUN BY BIKANIR. (BY "THE RIDING BOY.") The opening day of the Perak Summer Race Meeting on Saturday at Jpoh was favoured by bright weather and there was a large attendance which included His Highness the Sultan of Perak. His
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  • 506 554 Three matters of outstanding interest to Penang were dealt w’th at yesterday’s meeting of the Legislative Council, beside a number of others of importance to the entire peninsula. The verdict o f most people after reading about the proceedings must be that it was a sound business conference, at
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  • 158 554 The year, 1930, has already claimed many renowned victims, notably Sir Henry Segrave, Dr. Robert Bridges, the Poet Laureate and Dr. Nansen, the Norwegian explorer. To-day we record with sorrow the death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the spiritualist authority and doctor who will go down to
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  • 92 554 TWO PENANG CHINESE FINED. A wounded monkey, trembling and chattering, was brought into the Penang Police Court yesterday before Mr. A. 1). York, when tw<> young Cantonese. named ay Tong and Su Chan, were charged with “shooting down three monkeys in a prohibited area, the Waterfall Gardens
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  • 441 554 SINGAPORE MERCHANT acquitted. in the teat case in whirl wealthy Singapore merchant was charged with the lotteries ticket, to the the accused was acquitted The legaWy or otherwise of thp tr4[ tice of members o£ a club sellin. giving tickets in sweeps run cub to their
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  • 1078 555 PEX SKETCH OF COUNCIL meeting. (By L. C. L.) “L.C.L." sends us Me /oT lowing pen sketch of the proceedings of the Legislative .Council in Penang yesterday. Yesterday, Penang witnessed for the jecond time in her history a meeting of the Straits Legislative Council held at the
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  • 287 555 TRIBUTES FROM BENCH AND BAR. Mr. E. L. Talma, retired Treasurer, Straits Settlements and Barrister, dropped dead at the thirteenth hole while playing golf at Singapore on Sunday. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, July 7 The members of the legal profession turned up
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  • 6162 556 GOVERNMENT POLICY ON UNEMPLOYMENT. NO NEED FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF SPECIAL DEPARTMENT. MOTOR ROAD UP PENANG HILL UNDER CONSIDERATION. The Meeting of the Legislative Council was held at 10 a.m. in the Town Hall yesterday. Those present were: His Excellency the Governor, Sir Cecil
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  • 208 560 H O A H L 0 K E WI N S CHAMPIONSHIP. (brom Our Own Correspondent.I Ipoh, July 6 In spite of the counter attraction of racing, the Perak open Amateur Athletic Association meeting attracted a large crowd. The weather was tine. The entries were
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  • 178 560 OBJECTION TO DR AFT TOWN PLAN. (Oom Our Own Correspondent.) A special meeting of the°KiM^a 4 pry Board considered the twelve lions regarding the new d aft I 1 phm. Among the objectors is th?? car ot Saint Michael’s Church V objected to the extension of Jalan'»? < i Jal,land
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  • 225 560 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, July 7 A party of young men from Ipoh who went out hunting to Lenggong on Sunday were concerned in a distressing tragedy resulting in one of the number being accidentally killed as the result of being shot by another member of
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