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THE CHINA HAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1936

HARD WORDS SPOKEN WOMEN'S CAFE

IN IGNORANCE

MR. C. N

C. N. JOHNSTONE'S

INCOME-TAX

PAID £9,224 IN THREE YEARS

COMPLAINTS

How Waitresses Are

Watched

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CLAIM OF GIRL WHO

WAS DISMISSED

A waitress who was dismissed be- cause a woman customer compisin- ed that her finger-nails were "dirty

Clarence Nathaniel Johnstone, the entertainer, made a suc- sued her employer at Clerkenwell cessful application for his discharge from bankruptcy in the County Court last month. London Bankruptcy Court last month,

Mr. Johnstone was adjudged bankrupt on his own petition Miss Gertrude Legal, of March, in January, and he then described himself as of Castellain.mont-street, Russell-square, claimed £1 Os 7d from Emile Gros, proprie mansions, Maida Vale.

for of the Chez Emile Restaurant. Mr. S. W. Hood, Official Receiver, said that the ranking Southampton-row, the point at A proof of debt for $3,464 issue being whether she was entitled liabilities were estimated at £16,354. for surtax had been received, of which £3,211 was preferential. to 24 hours notice or a week's It was understood that outstanding arrears of £8,037 for income-notice. tax were regarded as a joint liability of a partnership.

GERMAN SEEKS “WAR COMRADE”

Briton Whom He Helped

ENQUIRY BY LETTER

A letter from a German soldier, ving in Munster, enquiring after

Slow Service

Miss

Mr. Gros said 24 hours' notice was the rule of his café. The assets had so far realised Legal was dismissed because of the 134, and were not likely to complaint about her finger-nails. realise more than another £100. She was also slow in her service.

Mr. Johnstone formerly worked in partnership with Mr. Layton as Layton and John- Mr. Registrar Friend: I did not stone. After 1931 his income know that a person having a meal to paid attention to the waitress's materially decreased owing

I have heard of a waiter the general depression. On bands. November 12 last the partner-being asked to take his thumb out of the soup, and I can understand Mr. ship as determined by

an impressionable young man notic Layton

ing that the waitress has a pretty face, or, in the naughty nineties. a neat ankle.

There appeared to be doubt. commented Mr. Hood,

a wounded British officer whom hei that for one reason or another M. Mary Evelyn Gros said the had assisted during the war, has but apparently not through complaint was made by a woman just reached London. It reads the fault of Mr. Johnstone the who was lecturing at a neighbouring

"Where are you, comrade? Li

for assessments

income-tax school. Women were more suscep- were always somewhat delayed tible to these things than men. Londen, Ham- Anderson of the Lincolnshire Rest Marseilles, Havre,

burg, Rotterdam. Antwerp & Hall On November 27 and 28, 1917, you

They rather enjoyed making com- Lost. £48,000 Bombay, Karachi & Persian Gulf.

plaints. were seriously woanded in the at-1 Bomias, Marseilles & London,

Since January, 1933, he had] Miss Legal suggested that no London, Ham- tack at Cambrai You were shot! Marseilles, Havre,

and complaint could have been made, burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hall in the stomach and I carried you

out from your dugout in front of paid £9,224 in income-tax Bombay, marseilles & London

After supertax, and his present posi-as the customer left a tip. Bombay, Marseilles &, London. Epenie (Villers au Treu).

a march of five hours we reached tion appeared to be due to the garding the allegation of slow ser- vice, she remarked that part of the Marseilles, Havre, London, Harm- burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hail,

our assembly place, where I hand-following facts:

His income rapidly decreas. menu was written in French, and Bombay, Marseilles & London.

ed you over to the Medical Corps. London. Bombay, Marseilles &

ed from 1932.orwards, mak-it took some time to understand it. Judgment was given for the de- Ham What has become of you and where Marseilles, Havre, London

ing it almost impossible" for fendants with costs. Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hall. are you now? I would be very Bombay Marseilles & London

interested to know whether ombsy. Marseilles & London

England safe

Havre, Londan, Ham- got back to

you and

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ja word?With comradely greet- Hings

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serving with Regt No. 65.")

Faint Recollection

Reserve

The Lincoln British Legion head quarters last month stated:.

"We believe, after making ex- tensive inquiries, that the It Anderson referred to was in one of the Territorial Battalions of the Lincolnshire Regiment either 4th or 5th. The records of these

him to pay off the accumu- lated arrears and his current

income tax and supertax.

His investments, in which?

DEATH

Re-

he had put all his savings," IRONY" OF CAR proved disastrous. He lost $23.049 from 1929 up to June, 1934, in American securities, and £25,029 from 1931 to 1934 in real property invest- ments in New York.

Having become accustomed to living at the rate of several thousands of pounds a year, he was reluctant to

reduce

Police Chief Who Chased Bandits

FLYING SQUAD MEMBER

The inquest was opened at Royal his personal expenditure below Surrey County Hospital, Guild- ford, last month on ex-Chief In- $2,000 a year.

Daniel Gooch, once chief Mr. L. Sainer (on behalf of spector Mr. Johnstone) said that many of Scotland Yard's Flying Squad, are kept at Lichfield. One of the hard words had been written who died in hospital at Guildford Battalion runners here says that and spoken regarding evasion on Saturday night following a car Tamash at the Hog's Back. The of income-tax, but he did sug- being shot in the stomach and be-gest that they had been written inquiry was adjourned until May

and spoken in ignorance of the 25 ing rescued by a German.”

he has a faint recollection of a Territorial officer named Anderson

A similar case occurred earlier true circumstances of his case.

this month, when a broadcast ap-

peal from Cologne led to the fate

of a young Cupar soldier, of whom ali trace was lost in 1917, being

disclosed.

PROF. FOUND HANGED Occupant Of Greek Chair At London

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MOTOR-CYCLIST NOT BLAMED

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DIVORCE CASE ADJOURNED

Mental Cruelty Charge

The father of John Snowden, Mrs. Ivy Akerman, of South- Gooch's car became involved in an aged 25, of Darlington, who was avenue, Southend, the wife who Since 1928 Mr. Johnstone had accident in which two other cars killed at Brooklands last month alleged mental cruelty against her when he was struck by another husband, George David Akerman, paid joint income-tax amount-were also concerned. ing to £23,500 and surtax "I am informed," he said, "that machine, shook hands with the brickworker, renewed her ap £3,500. There was no sugges- he was in the Flying Squad and other rider, John Bryan Warwick plication at Southend last month tion of extravagance. In fact, his name was a household word of Wedmore-road, Greenford, Mid-for a separation order. during the last three years, among certain classes of crimin-jdlesex, at the inquest at Wey- whêm his income was at the als, and he was engaged for 2bridge recently, and said, “I ́am The case had been adjourned lowest, his expenses amounted long time with the Flying Squads not blaming you at all for the eir-for the intervention of probation to only one-third of his income. in stamping out raids by car His present position Was due bandits. only to dire misfortune.

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Hazardous Pursuit

curastances."

officers, as Mr. and Mrs. Akerman Snowden, a member of the Shad been married for only four Hill Motor-cycle Club, was first in months. At the last hearing the this team in the inter-club relay, bench adjpumed the case for six "He was engaged in the hazar-had finished his lap, and was weeks and made an interim order partnership was dissolved owing dous pursuit of tracing these standing near the edge of the for 78 6d a week. to his financial difficulties, and bandits, and it has been remark-track. he had since been unable to ed that it is ironic that a man enter into another partnership, so used to travelling in fast police which, so be (Mr. Sainer)

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Way Blocked

Mr. Akerman told the Court at Warwick said that he found his the previous hearing that her hus-

Wallasey.-Prof, John Marshall understood, was recessary for have finished his work and retir.way to the finish-line blocked. "7/Dand smacked her face when she

ed-and should have had several could not avoid running into spoke to her mother and insisted In those circumstances he the Greek department at Bedford asked that Mr. Johnstone might|

years of happiness and well-earned sometody," he added, "and as far her getting up to make him retirement-and should meet with as I can remember I aimed for altea after midnight. College, was found hanged last be discharged as early as pos-death by a car through an accid-motor-cycle standing on the edge

of the track."*" mouth at his sister's home in Bell-sible so that he might, restart

The jury returned a verdict of field-crescent, Wallasey.

with a clean sheet

ent

Mr. Registrar Kean, said that plumstead High-street, S.E., who death by misadventure, and

Soon after the University term began last October he came to stay it was an unfortunate with his sister owing to fil-health. ruptcy.

He was out with her that morn-

Court Impressed

bank-

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cycles since 1919.

sug-

planation that St. Johnstone L.C.C. Schoolboy's Welcomed

By Students In Soviet Russia

£470,000 IN A FORTNIGHT

Appeal For German Jews

Mr. Robert B. Shannon, of

the gave evidence of identification.gested that there should be more said that his brother-in-law was supervision by officials on 49 and had completed 26 years" (track, and that riders should have ing. On their return he went up

Jin races. stairs while she prepared a hot

The Court was impressed by service. He bad driven cars and more practice before taking part drink for him When she took the fact that during the past this upstairs he was hanging by three years Mr. Johnstone had

the The appeal to Jewa of the girdle of his

dressing-gown paid £9,224 in income-tax. It

British Empire for £1,000,000 to from the canopy of the bedstead was satisfied, too, with the ex-

settle 100,000 young German Jews - Brilliant Career

Mr.

in Palestine and elsewhere had had left all his affairs relating Prof. MacGregor, who was 57 to income-tax to an accountant,

resulted up to the middle of last month in £470,000 being subscrib- and unmarried, lived when and that it was not until last London at Aylmer-road, Hamp April, when he was asked to pay

Sixteen boys from the Earns-Yesterday they were welcomeded. This announcement was made stead Garden Suburb..

The appeal was issued from all a children's club in a House of He had close associations with Revenue authorities, that he bury LC.C. Central School had an vociferously by older students of by the Council for German Jewry. Merseyside. His father, the late made enquiries and discovered enthusiastic welcome on their first Culture, and later by the younger Jewish pulpits in Britain and the Kr. John Brown Wright Mac-that there was a large Sum visit to Soviet Russia. They were children with their Balalanka Empire on April 7, the first day Gregor, belonged to Liverpool and sowing.

There was much in-jof the Passover. For further information, Passage, Freight, Handbooks, etc., apply Edinburg, and his mother was the

recent contributions The only thing open to Mr.in the charge of Mr. H. Kynaston orchestra.

both Among Snell and Mr. John Graham, who terested interrogation, on- daughter of a Liverpool doctor. Johnstone,” remarked Mr. Re-

After leaving Wallasey Gram-gistrar Kean, was to come to wrote in a letter received in Lon-sides on school topics.

"To-day they visited a school The sons, daughters and grand- Liverpool, he had a brilliant career from the enormous burden on

S. Coben (Liverpool),, "They are the first English criminals. The future programme Louis his shoulders.**

visits to factories £36,790; Hampstead Synagogue P&O BUILDING, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL. HONGKONG at Balliol College, Oxford..

He published many translations The discharge from bank-schoolboys to visit the Soviet, and includes

and a children's then(first Est), $16,000; Sir Montagu Phone 27721

from the classics and was an ac-ruptcy was suspended for one the Russian Press and wireless museums

Burton, $9,030 are making much of their stay-ltre." complished essayist and versifier. month

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