WHY PRIESTS
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1936.
MUST NOT MARRY-
THE POPE'S FIRST EXPLANATION
U.S: TAX SOUND BRITISH
REFORM URGED
ROOSEVELT ASKS FOR ACTION
BUT CONGRESS REBELLIOUS
(Special to "Telegraph")
Washington, March 3. In his message to Congress to-day President Roosevelt suggested the imposition of a graduated tax on cor- porate earnings, including undistri- buted profits.
FINANCES
BUDGET OUTLOOK
SATISFACTORY
London, Mar. 3,
KEEPING FAMILY FREE OF CARES
Exchequer returns show that. apart from self-balancing items,
22,023,263 was received into the ex-CELIBACY ONE OF
chequer innt wook and that expendl ture, for the week was £19,860,743.
The current financial year ends on
March 31 and the total ordinary re-
Vanue to date is £067,688,537. The
£743,470,000, that the budgetary
THE GREATEST GLORIES"
PROFESSIONAL SMUGGLER
ASSAULTS CUSTOMS
OFFICER
“There are quité a number of cases, of Customs officers, who have seized goods from professional smugglers, being assaulted in the streets, that havo nover been reported," said Detective-Sergeant Riddell in pressing the case against Li Lam, 36, street coolie, who appeared before Mr. Macfadyen this morning.
Defendant was charged with tres
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4-7 pm. Chinese Programme. 6-6.30 p.ss. Children's Stadio Con- cert.
7-7.30 p.m. The B.B.C. Wireless Military Band.
The Flamborough Sword Danco- Folk Dance (arr, Ceel Sharp); Kirkby Antecard Sword Dance-Folk Dance (arr. Cecil Sharp); Woodland- Picturos-ural Suite (Fletcher); estimated revenue for the full year is THE Pope, in a New
Mirella Overture (Gounod, position must be regarded as satisfac- Year's Encyclical lettering on the rails at the Kowloon O'Donnell); Lynwood March to all the Catholics of the Canton Railway at Tsimshatasi (Hume); Prairie Flower-March
yesterday, and with assaulting Kou (Hume). world, stated, for the first Lee-ming, Chinese Maritime Customs
7.30-8 Variety. time, the reasons why Ca- officer. tholic priests must remain unmarried.
to
Total ordinary expenditure date is £672,240,681, against an estimate for the full year of £754,577,000.
Income Tax, which is the largest individual item of inland rovenus, now amounts to £207,408,000, against an estimate for the full year of £232,000, 000. The amount of estate duties He warns the Catholic clergy also This would replace the present collected, £70,000,000, is already within against too great zeal for external capital stock, excess profile and oor £40,000 of the estimate. Customs and good work lest their "personal porate income taxes and is estimated Excise receipts to date total £278,776,-sanctification" should suffer. will viold $1,614,000,000 covering the| 000, against an estimate of £294,920,- | estimated... yilds of the repealed || 000,--British Wireless. taxos, plus $820,000,000 additional.
Secondly he suggested the imposi tion of new processing taxes on a broader base. Thirdly he proposed a tax to recover revenues. lost through the Supreme Court's invalidation of the A.Á.A.
He said that if the polley of work relief is to be followed the United States must be ready to replace the Treasury revenues lost through the A.A.A. decision and the passage of the Bonus Bill. He said that a per- manent revenue' from taxation total- ling $620,000,000 annually was need- ed, of which $500,000,000 could be obtained from substitutes for the pro- consing taxes and $120,000,000 from now taxation.
The existing corporate tax, he said, was scheduled as an inequitable over- tax on dividends going to the stockholders who need the dividends, while those who were able to leave their earnings undistributed escape the surtaxca.
INCOMES WITHHELD "The Treasury estimates that in 1926 over $4,500,000,000 in corporate incomes will be withheld from the stockholders," he asserted.
would pay both the new farm law ex- penses and tho Bonus amortisation, konce the "recapture tax" and the temporary new processing tax would be for the purpose of repaying the Treasury's lons on the processing taxes only-United Press.
CONGRESS STUNNED
Washington, Mar. 3.
Congress is stumped by President
Roosevelt's proposal to
Above everything he warns them against "greed for earthly things,” which might cause them to become "enemies of God."
Free Of Family Cares Denling with celibacy in the Catholic priesthood Pope I'lus says: "A priest is one who should be wholly dedicated to the things of
Instrumental
Detective-Sergeant Riddell stated Banjo Salo-Three Little Words.. that about 8.10 a.m. yesterday the..Len Eillis; Novelty Piano Duct complainant was on duty at Noa. 6 Strike Up the Band....Jenn Wiener "and 6 platforms at the Kowloon and Clement Doucet; Hawallan Para- Canton Railway Station, to see that diso....Andy Tona and his Islanders: no goods were put on the train with. Organ Solo-Lover Come back to me out duty the lines under one of the ileuto Nacht Odor Niel.... Mischa being paid. He saw defen Reginald Foort; Piano Solo... coaches trying to get two parcels, so Spollansky: Banjo Solo-On he went across to take the things Southern Plantation....Ken Harvey; from the defendant, who started to Xylophone Solo The Weman in the strike him.
Shoo....Rudy Stariin; Plano Ducts Gershwin Fox-Trot Medley....Harry Roy's Tiger Ragamuffins. A p.m. Time Signal. 8-8.16. The
Defendant picked up a stone and pummelled the Customs officer, and shortly after Mr. Gibbons came up defendant had a platform ticket but undefendant was arrested. he was not entitled to go on the permanent way. The defendant ad- mitted to the police that the parcels Had
I been put in the coach by him the
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8.20-8.30 p.m. New Mayfair.
buted company profits axundist the Lord. Is it not right then. previous day at Hunghom for a friend Orchestra.
and even
the that ho be entirely detached from. Democrats are not enthusiastic. The the things of the world and have to take to Canton without duty being Republicans are openly hostile. {his conversation in Heaven?
The suggestion in Administration circles that the President regards the proposals as tax reforms, designed 1ο strengthen income tnx and eliminate the biggest leakage caused by the formation of holding compan- los by wealthy persons who thereby evade payment of individual surtax, has not softened the opposition. -- Reuter,
"A priest's charge is to
be ONE CAve ovidence was given.
PRESIDENT QUESTIONED
Washington, Mar. 3. Answering numerous questions con- cerning the tax programme, President Roosevelt, at a press conference, in dicated If this was distributed, he said, it dotails yhat there were a great many to work out, le sald that would be added to the stockholders' the income and taxed, but being withheld not yet on the surplus tax rate had determined, nor whether a
Defendant stated that he was a
and Mr. J. H. Gibbons, solicitous for the everlasting Chinese Maritime Customs Preventive welfare of souls, continuing to Officer at the Kowloon-Canton Rail- wards souls the work of the way Station. Redeemer. Is it not then, more fitting that he should keep him self clear of family cares, which would of necessity take up so much of his attention?" Next his Holiness dealt with the Eastern rites, which are under his authority, but in which the priests are not necessarily celibate.
Greatest Glory
naked.
travelling trader from Canton. He that he went on to the lines to get two parcels from underneath a couch. Ho alleged that when he was taken to the Station Blaster's Office at the railway station he was assaulted by Mr. Gibbons, but, when questioned, admitted that he did not make a report of the incident at the police station, because He had not behave been asked to ask your Worship this case," said the prosecuting offfeer
to take a serious view of There are quite a number of cases of Customs officers who have seized goods from professional smugglers, being assaulted in the streets, that have not been reported. Defendant is a professional smuggler and tas been doing this for years." At the same time, he uttered a can- Church. We only wish to exalt dant was fined $15, or, in default, Convicted on both charges, defen- tion against confusion between a re-what we consider one of the three weeks' hard labour on the first greatest glories of the priesthood and sentenced to three weeks' hard serve and a surplus.
labour on the second, consecutively.
been
it was depriving the Government of corporation may use is earnings for
Lux
They may marry before they be me priests, but married priest.
revenue. A proper tax on corporatoment the opinion that thay not become bishops.
undistributed Income would correct inequality and also simplify taxation procedure.
Dealing with the $517,000,000 lost in the processing taxes, he suggested n tax on the beneficiaries "unfair enrichment by the return_or_non. payment of this Federal excise."
Promident Roosevelt suggested a temporary processing tax with lower rates and a higher base to roturn whatever portion of the lost $517,000,- 000 that the "recapture" tax failed to return.
It is considered worthy of note that the nor corporate tax proposed esti mated to yield $620,000,000 yearly
the
without paying the tax. programme would not retard recovery but might prevent unnecessary plans
To them the Holy Father says "We do not wish what we have
of extension, Hes said that one ob said to be interpreted ne blaming Ject of the programme was to increase any way the different discipline the velocity of the turnover of money, which
Ile said that an adequate reserve celibacy." was permillod, including that for de preciation. He also said that no in- In the personal Income-tax rate was contemplated, aside from the provision-made-for dividends subject to the normal tax rate.-Reuter,
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DAY BY DAY NEWS IN
FULL OF LOVE FOR ALL THINGS IN THE WORLD, PRACTICING VIRTUE' IN ORDER TO BENEFIT OTHERS THIS MAN ONLY IS HAPPY-Búddka.
On Saturday next the fortnightly whist drive of the Craigengower Cricket Club is to be held, commencing at 0 p.m.
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 s.m. to-day totalled 0.14
inch. The total_since January 1 la 4.18 inches, against an average of 5.24 inches.
Through interfering with a printing machine yesterday, Shum Chang, 20, of 60 Bonham Strand, was injured and was removed to the Government Civil Hospital.
BRIEF
re-
Mekara. Benjamin and Potts ceived the following quotations from their Manila Agents this morning: Benguet Consols 11.00 -11.90 s.; Antāmoks 1.20 b.-1.25 5.; San Mauricios 58 00 .; United ¦ Pärsenies. .261⁄41⁄2 b.—,26 a.
Having a clear recoril, Lee Fook-on, 22, unemployed, was bound over when he pleaded guilty Lefore Mr. Balfour
at the Central Police Court
this
morning, to the theft of two motor Jacks from car 1804, the property of Mr. N.S. Ellis, of the A.P.C. The car was parked in Rubinson Road and the jacks were, recovered from stali $2,
in O'Brien Road. Detective.
Sergeant T. Canhuan prosecuted.
exists in
the
Oriental
£2,000,000 PLAN FOR WHITEHALL READY
M.
P'S VISITING the tearoom of the House of Commons" in
London see the model of a vast building.
Within the next fortnight the Office of Works will issue a statement about that proposed building--because it is the outcome of several years' planning of the Whitehall Improvement Scheme.
LEGAL OPIUM "DREADFUL”,
WHY HEROIN PILLS
ARE USED
women,
Here are some of the detalls concerning the building-
It will cost about £2,000,000.. It will rehouse the Ministry of Labour, the Ministry of Transport, the headquarters staff of the Air Ministry, the Cabinet secretariat, and a number of smaller bodies and departmental branches at pre- sent scattered in rented premises around Victoria-street.
Tunes of not-so-long ago-1924; Love, Life and Laughter Selection.
8.30-8.45 p.m. From the Studio, A Pianoforte Recital by Fred Alves,
Programme,
1. Three Preludes....Chopin; 2. Etude in Major.... Chopin; 3: Ritual Fire Dance....De Falla.
8.45-9.15 p.m. The J. H. Squire Celeste Octet. Richard Crooks (Tenor).
1. Moment Musical (Schubert);
Serer da (Moszkowski); 2. I Love you Ao-"Merry Widow" (Lehar); Humorente-Paraphrase for Strings Kathleen Mavourneen (Crouch); 3.
voll me to-night (Spallansky); (Dvorak); Salut D'Amour (Elgar):
tino (Song of the Sout) (Lemaro]. Only my Song (Lehar); 5. Andan Daventry News
9.15-9.30 p.m.
Bulletin.
9.30-9.40 p.m. Three Songs by Master Robert Harris (Boy Soprano).
1. One Night of Love (Kahn); 2. Bird Songs at Eventide (Coates). Love's old Sweet Song (Molloy); I
9.40-10 p.m. From the Studie. "The English Lyricists" by Alistair Drummond
10 p.m. From the Studio.
10-10.30 p.m. A Relay from Da- ventry..
"Yorkshire Pudding." A. pro- gramme of Sketch and veľko' from the East of the Pennines.
10.30-11 p.m.
Dance Music.
11 p.m. Close Down.
DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES
Transmission 1
(GEN, GAD GEB)
1.15 p.m. Pig Des. “A Placadily Daily." 4 p... TAKI “Imperis? Affair.“
Gropawich Time Blana) at 435 pm, 4.15 p... Chamber: Mode. The Pangmat-
Morrison-Pini Trio. The Nuwen. 5.14 pm. Class down.
13.30.
(0.3
Transmission 2
0.8.0.)
7 p.m. Big Ben, Variety: “How's That?" 7.68 pm. Quentin Maclean, si the Organ of the Trocadero Cinema. Elephant and Castle.
Greenwich Time Sirnal at 8p.m. 8.p.m.
A Talk by the Chief Engineer "of The British Broadcasting Cor. paration. A.15 p.m. The BIL.C. Empire Orchestra. 9.16 P.M. The News. Bad p.m. Dance Musle.
3.45 p.m.. Class dewis
A plea that Inferior quality of
Early Start Urged opium led people to take a better substitute was put forward by Mr.
Under the entire structure, C. A. Sutherton Russ on behalf of which will extend from Richmond- Miss Violet Capell has received the Wan Man-on,
to the Horse-Guards- a seaman, aged 40 terraco following letter from the Chairman years, charged with two
Avenue, will be 'n garage, perhaps of the London Hospital in acknow- Leung Sze, married, and Chan Nul, the finest of its kind in the coun-
single, aged 18 years, before Mr. W. try. Bent HomeDear Milsa Capelli-1
staff will be accommodated in the
About 1.500 officials and clerical... CALI new building.
the Dollar liner President Pierce | ledgment of the £5 the recent Schofield, at the Central Magistric
A
A fatal accident occurred aboard
yesterday morning at 8.30 when coolie, Kwok Yu, 29, of 540 Canton Road, fell into the hold. He died in the Kowloon Hospital at 0.16 p.m.
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An armed robbery occurred in the New Territorien "this morning. It is reported that at 1 a.m. eight men, one of whom was armed with.. Goschen, Chairman." rovolver, gained entry to 14 and 16 Liu Fok Village, a grocery shop, and decamped with money, jewellery and clothing. The narauders bolted towards Ho Shoung Houng. The vic tim of the affair was Fung. To-kee, 64, master of the grocery shop.
on
that
Transmission 3
18 pm, Big Dan, “Yorkabire Pudding.” 19.30 pm - Musics) Interlude. 19.35 pm. Prose Banding
1941, pm: A Pianoforte Recital by Egirtan
Growwich_Timo Bignal 11 12.20 mm 11:39 am-The-Nomi - 1215 um. Jan Bøjenska and his Orchestra.
was a great pleazure to receive such this morning, with possession of 363 welcome. Is the London Hospital heroin pills of No, French, Str
Street. again. send to you and your third pupils my grateful thanks for your defendant was also charged with seven-year-old secretary to the The Bienemiah Munkipal
Charles Patrick Duff, forty- benefit by your efforts. Blany thanks, tween February 20 and February 24, kindness in allowing the Hospital to supplying beroin at the address be
Office of Works since 1933, is an- too, for the programme of your dia
Mr. Russ, appearing for the first xious to see construction begla at play which accompanied your letter. defendant, said he was pleading guilty the earliest possible moment, prob-
as be understood the prosecution were ably this spring.. withdrawing the Becond. charge Ho contends The manager of the Wing Tai against the defendant, and the charge those public offices in Whitehall Cheong Company, Ltd., of No. 375 against the two women, Lockhart Road, was summoned before Revenue Officer Grimmitt stated bobbind fur or long been NOTES OF THE DAY Mr. QA, A. Macfadyen at the Kow-had no evidence to support the second should have a better home.
shabbily and unworthily housed loon Magistracy this morning for charge, except the evidence of the. occupying Crown land at Yaumati on two women, and he would accordingly Moon. Tack-chey, 47, farmer, the G, J. Chambers, Sonlor Land Bailiff, was insufficient. He also wished to 22 without a permit. Mr. withdraw the charge, as the evidence peared before B., Balou morning P.WD., asked Fale Warship for per-women. The plan Central Magistracy this
against the two charged with (a) failing to register mission to withdraw the summons as women. The Aimself at the Registration Omer to the rent, of the land amounting to found in the first defendant's wife's allowing falso information to be given $1,800 had been paid. It was stated handbag, which was lit. a drawer, when registering at the Tung Shan that Mr. C..A. Sutherton Russ Waste had two wives and two or three Defendant was himself a piil smoker. Habel, and (e) falling to register present the defendant. The summons
on his way to Court, and would children. Defendant was an ex- himself as n Korean at the Tung Shan Hotel. On the application of Mr. was withdrawn.
saloon boy of the Empress of Carinila, A. R. S. Major A.D.C.I. (Special
previous to which he was on the Pack Branch), accused was remanded to
fic Mail boats,the American,
Mail March o
arsh 9 on bail of $300.
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71 YEARS WED
HUSBAND'S
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of the League, with Britain and this rest. Italy broke the 'rules;, Ethiopia, 'nccording to your Inter-.. pretation of the League Covenant, should have been defended against TRIBUTE TO
those who tittacked her. Such de- HIS WIFE fence as there was came all too Belleved to be Britain's longest-Inte ourselves that in the end; at slowly,We can scarcely congratu- married couple, Mr. and Mrs. John Monday's sitting of the Committee Bellamy of The Grange Stickney, of Eighteen, Mr. Anthony Edon of their wedding recently tion of the application of an oll Lincs, celebrated the 71st anniversary insisted upon immediate considera. aid Mr. Bellamy. She is nearly bi, embargo, It seemed as though
“My wife is a wonderful woman f
there whs to be determined action. The couple have 72 living descen- at last
A 58-year old widow, Wong Sul-boats and the Shinyo, Maru. His chi, was sentenced to six months record showed a very good character, hurd labour by Mr. Macfadyen at the but he was not permitted to be re The ambezzlement of $1,210.08 was Kowloon Magistracy this morning for employed on any of the boats: The alleged against long Yau-hi, alias breach of a Deportation Order dated reason for his discharge from his jobs Hong Wu-hon, 39, salesman of the March 13, 1984, by which she had was not stated N On Lok Yuen Company, when he ap- been banished for ten years. Defens Mr. Ruas said that he did not think 9 year older than tier: husband, pared before Mr. 9. F. Balfour at dant who was arrested yesterday, prosecution would disputs the fact dants, auther record, they bellevalpek the Central Magistracy this morning. | pleaded that she had no food and that the pills were for the defendant's The complainant, Cheung Kat-shing, returned to Hongkong so that her own use. He was informed that the aiderable amount of sympathy was to that Ethiopia was about to sue for managing director, was represented daughter could look after her. Chan palvonlirm which could be procured be felt for the people who could not peaco and would surrender to Italy by Mr. B. CBrooks while Mr. Wo, 82, unemployed, was also sen by lawful mean was of such a dread get good goalky opium to smoke
M D'Almada Remedios, appeared tenced to six months hard labour for ful-quality that it was quits un Mr. Schofield imposed a fine of $300 all the land her troops tanks and for the defendant. The hearing was a similar office, odmitted antisfactory, and people were lod to in default, thred months hard labour, planes had conquered "The League Brod for March Dat 2.80 p.m. bail having been banished for ton years taking a better substitute. If this on the male defendant, and disappears to have roused itself doo being allowed-fr $1,500.
on March 18 last year. A
Information was correct, then a con-charged the two women.
Inte
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