THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,
APRIL ·9, .1936.
His Son Or His Daughter?
FATHER SOLVES
MONEY PUZZLE: DO YOU AGREE?
When is a man too old? Should you leave more money to your son than to your daughter? PROBLEMS! The world is full of them.
Here are a
few selected from news as it came into this office from every corner of the world.
This "When is a man too old?" problem, first. Mankind has debated it, usually with heat, since the world began.
Colonel Sir Henry F. Bowles, Bt., has one solution. He was usked to offer himself for re-election as 'chairman of Edmonton, N., mugistrates. He refused. "I prefer to younger man," he said.
Sir Henry is seventy-seven.
make way for
a
The Lord Chief Justice (Lord Hewart) has different ideas. In
a civil action at Staffordshire Assizes counsel described a woman
as "an old lady."
Said Lord Hewart: "Nobody under ninety-eight is old.”
Lord Hewart is sixty-six.
puestion of time before he touches
Here is a serious problem for every | his old form, parent with money to leave.
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U.S. National Beauty Congress:-
Mr. John Williun Birchenali. of Sald Mr. Norman Hiller at the Belmont-road, Southampton, left £10,115, ami left more to his son than his daughter-"whereas my natural alfection would incline one to dend; equally with children."
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mus
But, he explains, the marry, and on the father of a family! alls the burden of providing for its] maintenance,
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"If women want beautiful hair,i they should stand, on their heads before and after brushing the hair,
10 to bring a rush of blood
the sen]}," Problem: Is it worth it?
Wimbledon is experimenting with Problem: Dors & son need more ja system of super street lighting. niGney than a daughter?
High-powered · lights fitted with; sperind reflectors are being used. It On July 6 last year a stamps dealer | té guaranteed that they will not walked into Edmioiton Post Ofcedazzle the motörist however wet the for a three-halfpenny -stamp. He weather. They dispel dark patches, noticed a sheet of 120 dubiles stampe, give a clear white light. thought colour unusual, bought the Problem: Why only Wimbledon? lot for 25.
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He was right. Instead of ulten- marine they were cobalt. He went: back for more.. Another dealer hindi been there alrendy.
Only three of these sheets had been issued. They were issued by mistake. Their total value to-day in £8,175 (face value, $75).
Problem: How was that mistake ever made?
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Here is a problem alrendly on roud to solation: -
Why not
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very other town in the country that can afford 17
Here
** about Kipling's "great, grey-green, greasy Limpopo river all set about with fever trees" on the borders of the Transvant and Southern Rhodesia.
A party of natives Tuninwfully) to
wepe
trying
eross the river inte
"BRITAIN'S MOST BEAUTIFUL BRIDE"
One of the most beautiful British brides of the year was Miss Amicie de Burgh Whyte, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William de Burgh Whyte of London. She married Mr. Roderick Walker, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Walker. Here the bride, accompanied by the groom, leave St. Peter's cathedral following, the ceremony. The bride certainly is every inch a "queen" in this picture with her unusual and attinctive headderss.
MILLIONAIRE'S
NIECE MARRIES
A
COWBOY
Cheyenne (Wyoming), April 1. ANNE GOULD, great niece of the American millionaire,
Frank J. Gould, faced a minister here, in the heart of the Union. A crocodile rezal one, the cowby country, and was married for the second time. mnuled him. Comrades revetted him. | Her husband is Herman; the†They stayed on their pwa bank.
Problem: las arrocodile ever Elsburg, a cowboy, of Cody,
sulina A racehorse break its neck ¦ acted as frontier guard before?
Henri Chotea progoms sterk t Aintree Inst March. He then ran in race at Newbury. He was unplaced, but ran well. Experts say it is only
Britain to Strengthen Far East Defences
WAR Office, Admiralty, and
Air Ministry are taking special steps to strengthen Bri- tain's key defences on the route to the Far East.
Work is now proeceding, or will begin in a few weeks, on:
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY STATIONS at Multa, Gibraltar,
and Hellopolis..
BARRACKS are being built in Egypt and the Sudan,
PALESTINE DEFENCES are being reconstructed at Salafand.
GIBRALTAR MOLE is being strengthened.
MALTA is having a new zero- drome, and a scheme of defence is being drawn up.
ADEN is also having a new aerial landing ground,
A RED SEA NAVAL STATION
is being constructed at Bahrein.
MUNITION AND FOOD STOR- AGE accommodation is being pro-l vided at Alexandria.
A second aerodrome is to be built at Hongkong, and a third one at Singapore.
BON KORA Loses 22 Pounds
of FAT In 3 Weeks
1ng experience
Katuni manuscripts, documente
Wyominar-
I
pe
He was married'in riding|
MURDERS
tating to the nuns, and efficiu: rbreeches and long boots. In TO DECEIVE
respondence have mysteriously Yon-
fished from the Chatean of the Donye, his hand he carried a "ten-:
a convent near Seulis, France. The
Fire have suspicion gallon sombrero hat.
This the problem
are! His bride wore a smart
trying to solve. Theft of the torti.
ments about the nuns is explicable; grey coat and skirt. they might be used for blackmail. Theft of the official correspondence might be for political ends. But Why should anybody stent ritual manderipts and leave
money
Here is a pretty little problém about airplanes, set to would-be ins inspectors in a new Civil Service! examination.
In
The marriage was kept a secret. It took place on Satur day--two days after the bride's first marriage, to Frank Spencer Mendor, n Texan actor. with whom she eloped in December 1934, was desolved.
"Love In Cottage" Anne and her first húsband
LOVERS
FAMILY WIPED OUT AND BABY KIDNAPPED
Moncton (New Bruns
wick), Mar, 30...
run with him in his airplane in settled down to "love in a cot- A MOTHER and her two alighting, I was thrown out and lage" for three months. Then i his leg was broken, and the air-se went to Florida--alone, plane struck D, who WAN tres Divorce followed, BARing in C's field. Advise B, C) The minister's
wife
#d
and I whether they have courses of daughter were the only witnesses action against A. and on conditions7
what to her second marriage.-Reuter.
no
Willi Samuel Hammond, aged problem about that. He dived into fourteen, has pluck. There is
and saved another school boy from six feet of ice-cold water at Woking drowning.
can
His father said: "My sun swim like a cork." Dees a cork "win"?
Now try this one on the family:
Miss Could's great-uncle, the famous Frank Jay Gould, started
sons have been charged; here with murdering a man and his wife so that they could kidnap the couple's baby and use it in attempts to extort money from men.
It was revealed by the prosecu- his career as a farm-boy. He betion that Mrs. Mary Bannister came one of the biggest financiers (forty), a widow, was the mistress in the United States and was the of a neighbour. She led him to controller of
several important believe that she had given birth to railway systems.
His millionairo Jon, Frank Ja child and, for some time, carried Could, built the famous £1,000,000) about a life-size doll.
to
casino at Nice, the Palais de la When it became necessary Mediterrance. Later, it was des-produce a real baby, she is alleged troyed by fire.
to have plotted the crime with her sons, Daniel (twenty) and Arthur (nineteen).
WHERE WHITE MEN
:
HAVEN'T SET FOOT
AEROPLANE TO LEAD NEW EXPEDITION
Sydney, Apr. 1.
JUNGLES in New Guinea where white men have never before
The cabin of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Lake was found burned to the ground, with the man's body In the ruins. Mrs. Lake's body and that of her twenty- months-old-son were discovered half a mile away.
Bought A Cradle
When arrested, the Bannister
set foot are to be opened up by means of an aeroplane-the youths said Lake had been killed "Kono," an amphibian monoplane belonging to the American because he made improper ad- Museum of Natural History.
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This is the intention of Mr. Richard Archbold, who has come sister: from America to Australia to lead a scientific expedition to those A new character was brought į unknown jungles.
He will be accompanied by scientists who are now preparing Bannister had taxed him with being
into the story-Albert Powell, Salvationist. The police say Mrs. for their task in Sydney.
The "keystone of the expedito a plotted course and will light intimate with her other daughter. lence of tian will be the neroplane, "Kono," smoke fires so that they can be agod thirteen, and had deceived fat in three weeks. discovered by Mr. Archbold on a inland with the vital food sup
New Guinen duck located by the aeroplano as it fles him so completely that he bought That is the happy
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BARONET FOR ONLY EIGHT DAYS
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London, Mar. 23., In order to Island, off the Papuan coast.
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Sir Frederick Vincent succeed. natives for food and specimens, ed to the baronetcy in the last The unknown regions where the expedition will take knives, white man has never been are in axes, beads, razor blakies, yellow week of February. In the first the north-east interior of Papua. ochre (which the natives aro.
week of March he died. These the expedition hopes to eager to get to paint their faces), reach because the aeroplane will red cloth, and salt. carry its food supplies.
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Sir Frederick was 84 and his heir Viscount d'Abernon. who suc- "For a tablespoonful of salt we Ceeds him is 79. The family's Dr. A. L. Rand, the ornithologist shaf) be able to get 20 lb. of life le tragic. Sir France died in of the American Musoum has potatoes," said Dr. Rand, who has August, 1935, aged 66, and Sir! atated in Sydney that the land made previous explorations in the Anthony his son died in February, iparties of the expedition wil koop New Guinea jungles,Reuter,
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