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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
August 16, 1939.
GROCER BOY BUILT HOTELS
-NOW OWES
Saved £100 to Start His Own Business
£711,864
THOMAS CRAWFORD GORDON started life in a grocery store, dreamed of creating luxury hotels at popular prices-and recently faced public exami- nation in the London Bankruptcy Court with £711,864 liabilities and assets of £2,366.
Mr. Gordon said: "My greatest ambition was achieved in the completion of this building, which cost more than £800,000 to build.
"The plans took over 18
Judge Clears
A Brother
Mr. Justice Hadson recently dla miased a husband's brother from a divorce suit with the remark, "A wicked charge, based on entirely false evidence,"
Frederick
ick Estaugh, of Woodlands- avenue, Wanstead, Essex, was petit!- tioning in the Divorce Court against his wife Irene Amelia May, of Itavenscroft-nvenue, Wembley Park. Middlesex, alleging her misconduct
Thomas, brother
with hia
Atter
the brother and Mrs. Estaugh had dented the charges, it was stated that the husband did not propose to proceed.
Mr. Justice Hodson dismissed the
months to finish--and I would Gold Mine Director action, with costs and awarded coals
not complete the contract, be- cause I disputed an amount of Bs, 9d. for a broken valve."
He bought all the shares in a company owning the lease for £115,000,
"I come from Ballachulish, in West Scotland. Nearly everybody there a living through the slate quarries, which are the greatest in
carns
the world,
HIS MOTTO
"But I soon realised that I would never realise my ambitions there. It was then fint I first thought of a
Owns Adam
BLACKPOOL.
lo Thomas Estough,
Mrs. Etough was then granted n decree nist on her cross-petition. alleging cruelty. The sult was not contested.
She was given the custody of the
MR. CHARLES STAFFORD,
of Golders Green, a director three children. of goldmine companies, dis- closed recently that he was the purchaser of Jacob Epstein's Adam. He refused to say the price.
"I am an admirer of Epstein," said Mr. Stafford. "Art has always been my hobby.
"I have already left Adam to my
chain of hotels 10 stretch across family an an heirloom. It is the England. In every other industry, i prentest work of imaginative art I MRSS production has successfully have seen. The day after I bought brought down prices, so why not in it I could have sold it to America at the hotel business, I thought.
n profit of £7,000, but I would not part with it for £100,000."
"1 started la a amall way at Glas- gow, and gradually increased my Lcope." He showed me a gold signat ring, on which WAS Inscribed the motto of his elan, "By Courage and not by Craft."
"I've always tried to live up to that," he said.
"I had to form more than 20 com- panies to deal with my various hotels und enterprises, but of course, I have had to relinquish y directorships NOW. I am afraid world conditions caught me napping, and I gave too
many guaranices,"
He
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told the court how, before 1901, he was employed as an hotel manager, rented the Exhibition Intel, Glasgow, with a capital of £108, and later the Hotel Cecil, Glasgow.
The business was sucessful, and ins June 1911, a company was formed to take it over for £10,000,
Since 1932 he speculated in pre- perties, and he attributed his failure to losses in councction with them, to Habilities under guarantees and to the slump in trade in the West End, owing to world conditions,
He said that he had lost thousands of pounds through giving guarantees in connection with properties.
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"PASSPORT TO FUTURE"
When Mr. Epstein trived at the ball in Church Street, Blackpool, where Adam 15 view, he was asked:
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"Why did you say it was appalling that your masterpiece should be shown at Blackpool?"
that time
"Because my idea at was I was going to be the subject of a vulgir sideshow," he anavered.
"I did not realise the setting and the occasion."
"How do you regard your work Adam, now you have seen it in the Blackpool sideshow?"
"I think it my passport to the future. It should have been in the Tate Gallery. I think the trustees of the Tate are lacking both in imagina- tion and initiative.
The statue is a religious one. The block of alabaster was two geurs in my studio in an upright position and
during that time I thought out every detail. It is conceived as an elemen-
ta gure, the father of us all."
round the
Paul V. McNutt, retired na Philippines High Commissioner. recently accepted a post ng heod of, new Federal Security Agency offered by President Roosevelt.
He Wants To Change Empire Broadcasts
MR. W. E. GLADSTONE MURRAY, soft-spoken chief of
Canadian broadcasting, is in London revisiting his old rooms at Broadcasting House-and preparing the ground for a conference of Empire brandcasting chiefs His visit is expected to result in changes in the B.B.C's Em-' pire broadcasts.
Mr. Murmy, who was with the B.B.C. for 13 years, is the leading authority on Empire broadensting,
He recently began his discussions | with the B.B.C. chiefs.
Later he hopes to present to the King the goid microphone which was used for the royal broadcasts during The Canadian tour.
He said: " can only talk of the Canadian aspect of my visit. I shall suggest that the B.1.C. broadcast, a special programme for Canada.
EVEN GOSSIP
news
Dismissed Men Jump In World Fair Lagoon
New York.
-Guides at the New York World's Fair recently waded through the Lagoon of the Nations as a protest against the wholesale dismissal of exhibition employees.
Twelve hundred fair workers were
discharge, Jobless or due for more dismissals are to follow.
The trouble is that the fair is in "We take the Empire broadcasts, danger of being a complete financial but they are not enough. Canada failure.
The management dismayed wants
about London-even by the dally attendance which has gossip. We are very interested in been only half what was expected, what is happening in Londen ¿very is having to wield the economy axe. day.
Canadians do not like the British musical-hall items. Perhaps there is ton much local allusion.
Unless the attendance increase by 100,000 daily almost double the pre- sent average--the fair looks like be- ing written off as a white elephant, As a special inducement, 4s will
of the Parking rates and food prices have
Mr. Murray was born in Fraser- became general manager Valley, British Columbia, Before he buy entertainment usually costing 95. Canadian Broadcasting Co., in 1936, been greatly reduced, but still people" Mr. Stafford said that he intends Relations and later Assistant Con-
he was B.BC. Director of Public stay away." that Adam should world.
troller of Programmes. He was cast in French. It was perfect. In vigorous champion of the "Empire October they are still talking about
When
spoke about the
"Both the King and Queen broad- gold microphone he has with hin,cast in French and made a wonder- The said: "The finest talk the ful impression an the French-
King gave in Canada was his broad- Canadians."
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view,"
She Does Not Know Who Is Paying Debts
AFTER six years, a dividend is to be paid to the creditors of a Mayfair widow by the Official Receiver in Bankruptcy and the woman herself does not know the source of the money.
She is 39-years-old Mrs. "Later he became very ill. I was Violette Daubeny, famous for told there was no hope. He was her Empire tour "Trade
dying. But he had set his heart on buying a beautiful house in Knights- Ambassadressir English firms bridge. With his pension and my which brought £250,000 worth own income we could afford it." of orders to this country.
She paused. "So what could I do?" she
he was dued, "He did not knowi
"When Arthur dled," Mrs. Daubeny went on quietly, "I found myself re- sponsible for the house.
HUSBAND WAS DYING
Recently Mrs. Daubeny tuld, for the first time, the dramatle story of how she lost her money.
"My husbund Arthur, a son of "Soon after, to make matters General Daubeny," she said, "retired worse, I lost my own income. I went with a large pension which was to into bankruptcy with liabilities of end on his death,
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