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CANADA TAXING INCOME
HIGHER RATES ON INTEREST EARNED
REDUCTION OF TARIFFS
Ottawa.
The annual budget brought down in the Canadian Parliament by the Finance Minister, Mr. Rhodes, is a notable production in that it increases taxation, but only to those best able to stand it, while it decreases tariffs, to a consider- able extent, more particularly the British - preference.
means
The financial situation of the country calls for more revenue and this is sought by the imposition of n special surtax on investment income. This
income derived from Interest, dividends, rents and royalties. An exemption of five thousand dollars is allow- ed, and above that the graduated Aurtax increases in rate from two to ten per cent. All Income in excess of fourteen thousand dol fars is regarded as investment in-
come.
People who make gifts other than to charity will hereafter be taxed, an exception being made in the case of gifts between husbands and wives. The rate ranges from] two to ten per cont., the intter appllenble to a gift of a million
lars,
A very important change is made both in the excise duty on domestic liquor and the customs duty on imported liquer from Great Britain. The former is reduced from $7 to $1 per gallon, and the Intter from $8 to $5. This is not to encourage the consumption of spirits but to discourage bont- legging and the extensive industry of smuggling, particularly since prohibition ended in the United
Stries.
THURSDAY, May 2, 1935.
FASHION NOTES
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TRIBUTE TO CECIL RHODES
BY MINER WHO MADE MILLION'S
AMERICAN ADVENTURER
New York.
Mr. John Haya Hammond a prominent American, who knows tho great of the world, picked an Englishman, a Ruaslan and Mexican as the three greatest statesmen of his time.
a
The cecasion was his 80th birth- famous mining day, which the
engineer celebrated by publication of his autobiography. Unfolded-In two volumes is the story of a life span which began in the California of gold rush days to atretch around the work and touch rulers and and diplomacy RAVARES, ·SURVE bloody revolution-and incidentally, to accomulate multiple millions.
Hammond, short and stacky. belies his axe. His mind is keen, his gray eyes penetrating and precise, deliberate direct. s
the weight of speech earries authority,
As he lounged in a luxurious Waldorf-Astorla sulte, flanked by and secretaries and
guards, modestly discussed his full life, it easy picture this man
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a revolutionary leader condemned to die in South Afrien for treason, us trusted advisor to presidents, or repelling an attack by Ravages on mines of the ends of the earth. Hammond has filed these rules, and more, yet dues not consider' his life done. Recently he took up flying and is an aviation enthusiast, When in his teens, Hammond visited President Grant in the White House. With the exception of Chewter Arthur, he has known ONE of the big features for even every president since ile
ing this season, where fabrics Taft's most intimate friend, and other Advisor ta nre concerned, is chiffon-velvet was friend and worked in ridges, while the ends Presidents. are eat into tube fringes and
CHIFFON-VELVET
חסון נו
was
of
The other feature of the budget deals with tariffs and the whole trend is downward. Some thirty dangle round the skirt of an even- RHODES HIS CHOICE items in the British preferential ing dress, and sometimes
In this connection. It is interest. tarif are added to the free at evening capes. Feathers are also ing that liammond chose as the They range from steel plates to apparent in trimmings. Bird-of-greatest statesmen he has ever Dlesel engines, to band Instru- Paradiso tall curl. over the known, Cecil Khodes, with whom menta, chassis for motor cars on shoulders on either side like angel | he was associated in South Afrlen;
melton cloth and empire advertising matter. The upswings, or bunches of dyed cock Count Witte, Russian statesman,
feathers, like immense dahlins, for whom he made a survey reduced on certain woollen and are set at odd positions on Russia's mineral resources, and worsted cloths, carpets, fire xines, linen fire hose and beiting bodice, at the walstue, and down Porfiric Diaz, president of Mexico
the skirt.
whom Hammond frequently saw on under
the British preference. Skirts, as you know, are slit mining trips to that country. Under the intermediate and gen both for afternoon and evening These men had power and eral tarif, toilet ware of sterling
Trains are slit also, and opportunity. dress.
however, that no silver, "zippers" and dressed rab- are either grand and long or short American could have under blt skins are increased.
and sinuous, Sometimes un
form of government," he said, On the whole the budget, converted pleat is placed low down on apologetic that no American was
national conditions,
that included.
gay
sidering the
POISON NOW SAVES LIVES
ANOTHER SCIENTIFIC
ACHIEVEMENT
our
of
may not be as unpopular as bud- the trains of plain gowns open, and show a hint of
When supervising mines in South gets usually are when increasing materiala or lames..
Africa, Hammond acted na chair- the scale of taxation,nited
Flowers are being worn a great man of the Reform Committee of Press,
deal for evening. Sprays of de- English and Americans in the Telously tinted roses and carna- Dutch Transvant, who sought-ad-
Fit tions, enormous floppy popples in fustment of treatment two or three shades, shaggy foreigners by the Boers. Ham- chrysanthemums, or arum lice..ond and his associates organised Very dofinite is the importance revolt which might have obviated of the front part of dresses. Stifthe Boer war had not their accom- silks are rufiled into jabots, and plice, Dr. Jamieson, jumped the draped effects appear on the front gun in an abortive raid. The of many dresses. There is a sug entire committee was sentenced to gestion of the 1900 influence about death for treason, but ultimately certain evening dress while flower was released upon payment of a New York.
many $25,000 fine. A deadly poisonous nut that for muffs accompany them in
In 1908, at 69, Hammond "re- ages has taken human and animal instances.
tired from mining because of, ill to in India and the Hawaiian Jalands, has been proved to contain Foundation director at Beth Davis health and decided to "prospect in He helped clect Taft. the most powerful heart stimulant Hospital, carried experimentation politics." yet discovered. Already the new to its ultimate end by injecting it moved to Washington and was a drug has saved lives in experi- into the bodies of 35 persons in power there until 1931 when he mental use here, its discoverer, the hopeless stage of heart disease, moved away upon the death of his Dr. K. K. Chen, told the New York when -even digitalis barely wife.
He was Hammond, who devoted years of Cardiological society,
work to formation of the World Court as an instrument for peace, recently changed his views OR United States participation in European affairs,
atrengthened heart bents.
Dr. Chen and his wife, Dr. Amy co-announcer of the discovery, say
the ing its effects wore "extremely S. II. Ling Chen, extracted drug from Be-Still or yellow satisfactory." oleander nuts. The Be-Still nut It stimulated heart uction where has been a dreaded peril. Children other drugs failed, enabling the and live stock often ate them and body to combat dropsy and other Invariably died,
lls cumulative with advanced They began experimenting with heart diseuse. the nut three years ago. Dr. Chen
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"They just don't play uur kind of poker," he explained, "We may bluft a bit, but we observe the Thevetin is injected into the rules. I now see the error of my deal with which ways. We just can't is director of Pharmaceutical re-blood, unlike digitalis, search at Lilly Research Labora- usually must be swallowed. It is them."
Hammond's autobiography was tories, Indianapolis. The result isolated in crystaline form from WAS the water-ilke liquid they the nut kernels, each of which published simultaneously in Eng-1 called Thevetin. Last September contains enough to make five in-land and the United States. Dr. Albert S. Hyman, Witkin Jections.-United Press.
SALESMAN SAM
United Press,
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ministrative division.
9 Dear in France, but this supplies meat reasonably enough here. 10 This bee lost Its tail when Shakespeare used it in his Midsummer Night's-Dream." 11 Not rigid in special impressions. 18 Is on at the end of a prayer, or
at the beginning.
16 They may be the best of pals, but they keep their own ends steadily in view.
16 One is hidden in fun, it may be. 17 Military policeman in familiar
guise.
21 This undoubtedly gives point to
a writer. (hyphen).
23 Some papers make a long story
of this. 27 Sin that maintains its grip. 28 Side.
23 Slave..
32 Merit.
30 One cannot quarrel, but this bird would seem to imply that it could.
34 Sale.
36 Trying position.
Down
2 This may be but the reflection
of one's own remarks,
3 Arrange to give the donkey a
little bit.
4 Exercises.
The complaint is that the woman never leaves mother alone.
6 If nobody is taken up it is a
significant algn.
7 The pill in the fam?
8 At one time convicts were--but
not with joy.
12 To bid high at Bridge.
14 The assumption is that food is
.
taken before starting the job, 15 I would seem that this Con- tinental gentleman is well equip- ped far natation.
18 lle: "It's a fine play. It made ma think a bit." Sho: "A- play "
19 And Tree will hurry up with
five-hundred and give the money. after one.
20 Reverse the interdict and make
a grab.
22 If you don't hit it on the head
uso a file.
24 Lady apparently resting while
under a taboo.
25 This is seldom not well done. 20 Very poisonousa.
27 There is nothing in this,
30 There is plenty of air la' this
retreat..
31 The police sometimes look in this
for the murderer.
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