1951-12-29 — Page 6

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1951.

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LONDON ?

WHEN ARE YOU

SENDING THE MIX

MINK COATS, THE TWO DROPHEAD COUPES

AMD

THE CON CLUB SET,

THE GREAT AMERICAN

ORDERED

TAX SCANDAL

S

living by... HENRY LOWRIE

UPPOSE you though!

that a mul BCross the didn't pay

come tax.

street his i

or paid just fraction of what he should have paid--then you'd pot onad.

"I've enjoyed the mat benia-

Since then

were

sť

Fresh developments runting elsewhere.

Jana's Smyth, who was sacked ast month by Trunan 23 collitor for Northern California. was indicted in San Framiseo

B

WHAT'S GOING ON

King Michael and Carol-a

reconciliation?

London. except to those very

close to

They forecast that he will not

RITISH friends of the him.

Rumanian royal family continue the Morrison alliance.

are wondering

whether EX KING Ambassador's egg

CAROL'S visit

to this

UST controversial 14cal ví

country means a reconcilia. MUST day iy breakfast

KING Which is it to be, ligh or

tion with his son MICHAEL.

has

Their relationship been strained for 2 long time.

Carol's choice 01 the Title PRINCESS HELENA Jor his

wls, the former Madame

the

Lupescu. irritated his son, who

devoted to his mother, former QUEEN

MA

RUMANIA

HELEN OF

She now lives at the

Spaila, near Florence.

Villa

heavy?

American Ambassador WALTER GIFFORD tells KC his favourite breakfast is:-

A large glass of ice-cold fresh orange juice, a medium bolled rgo, buttered toast

cojles Lopped

and lots of with cream.

Kg Michael and QUEEN W ANNE, his wife, with their

Two children, 1stad i quiel

A Princess secret

WHY did PRINCESS ELIZA- BETH and her husband frequently break into laughter

euntry ste in England, occupy when driving through cheering

ing part of LORD BROCKETS crowds in Canada? Hampshire nume, Bramshill Park.

Michael stayed recently Scotland with the DUKE BUCCLEUCH.

Brother Cripps

WHEN

This is the answer. The car Lad a radio which the Duke switched on spfly so that they in could listen to the commenta- OF

tors.

In one city they heard A radio reporter say: "Here they come. The Princess is beautf- ful, clear-eyed, and pink-cheek- SIR STAFFORD ed." CRIPPS became Chance- And the Duke muttered! lor of the Exchequer he joked "What? After that party last to his brother, COLONEL THE night?" Inficted with hum were his HON. FREDDIE CRIPPS: to chier deputy, his chief field de- "Now you will be referred

Francisco as my brother.

change

it has been ne a triakuiships with the tax- sensation after another involving on a charge of conspirary to de- millionaires, ex-convicts, houk- poye

makers, Government prosecutors, and a beautiful brunette.

Melh trandeved his resignation, "for th " d the servire “

Weil. plenty of people in

He was the sixth of thu fit America ar

Fast

Codiertory to he furved out since now us they begin to dis-

Bedanaes new Senator Job enver just how MAN 1?$

Jones Willare Gestised the their neighbours have heal the spring of 1948 us encaping their rightful share of taxes.

ar Moss sjanech in the Senate

sensations were

frand the Government.

Many of the provided by Mr Abraham Puty, and Toilelbaum, podgy lawyer wher see represented Al Capone.

Teitelbaum last April learned This a case was being prepared against him o defrauding the revenue of 200.000 dollars in tux,

lawyer

*

San

BRIBED ?

It will be a

THE voice again

AST July the Norwegian

lonia primo

KIRSTEN

Here was an apt remark For 40 years Culonel Cripps FLAGSTAD made her farewell

heir-p

Now she is planning to sing there again next April in the

at Covent Garden.

of

his

-presumptive to the second LORD PAŘMOOR, has been one of the most colourful Britain's aristocracy. ne samo

is he

writing Now memoirs. One of his friends Assassinated RASPUTIN, the sinister "holy man" of Czarist Russia.

And, in Breckiyn, un day, a deputy collector was in- of taking a 1000-dollar bribe.

rted on a charge grow

The seandad has now to the point where med in the highest positions have been named. Sono people are even saying 1 threatens the Government.

The scandal, which began to break in 1948, has been elimaxed by the sacking or forced resignations This 113 incorne-tax Year of officials.

What startet Willums on to war-path Two years earlier he and his wite Bled returns total- $2,500 dollars with the colacter in Wintregton, bela- Senator learned Ape but the Fote that not a single eend on that he has paid was credited to his ment

Te investigated, and brough Baght 80,000-iollar embezzle- Ditol auf the juggling of 2,0 tax accounts

Warns Introduced in the demanding Senate a resolution the removal of James Johnson, New York district collector, for

Mr Theron Lamar Catulle. the man whose job it was to prosecute tax dodgers, was sacked by President inenclency Truman himself.

Johnson promptly resigned. He was the third New York collector to go for the same

reason

NEW HERO

Two men named Frank Nathan and Bert Naster warned hun that his only way out of trouble was to hire then

for halt a million dollars.

Nathan claimed to be on close personal terms with Caudle, the Government

lak prosecutor whom Truman has now removal.

THE BRUNETTE

The Internal Revenue Bureau in Washington reported that six hundred and thirty-two million dollars were outstanding in de- linquent taxes.

Truman is desperately con-

rerned about the effect of fur scandal on his ahances in the next Presidential elections.

Ke

The friend told him how he tnvited Rasputin to his bome and gave him polsoned wine und food. It had no effect so he shot him through the heart.

Colonel Cripps records: "Even then Rasputin

got up ang walked into the

litle-heard Glaci opera "Al-

ceste

Flagstad changed her

her voice because, at 55, maintaining Its quality.

Her other great interest knitting.

Vi-shy-sky

mind is

19

the was finally kilet, where the Soviet's ANDREI VIHIN.

soine

times,

only

HOUGH bẹ has mixed much with Western diplomats,

BKY st keeps socially aloof. The Soviot Revolution cost In Paris, he returns to the feels the men

immediately involved Cripps, who helped to found a Russian Embassy

after each UNO session. Не Teitelbaum told the investi-

have been disloyal to him per- British bank in Russia,

socially But he returned has appeared that the two sonally. Indeed, Frank McKinney.£300,000 gating committee

chairman of the Democrats, goes after the first World War with three a sad there was u

Washing-

But he is r01 so for as to say Truman feels he plans to rebuild part of Mos-

lacking in which Lort clique

was looking around the country "to see why

has been "sold down the ver. cow.

graces. When he gave an Em- Later, at Monte Carlo,

described he bussy party, guests were soft touches,"

Hence the drastic action pro won £20,000 in a night. Once him as a "solicitous and charm- The clique was said to include Wrong-doers have no

mised, for the President says he tossed for everything in his ing host.

pocket and lost.

After hearing a new opera He

by the Swiss

composer ARTHUR HONEGGER, he re- £7,000

vealed a thorough knowledge of modern French music in discussion with Honegger and French Cabinet Minister JULES MOCH.

Caudle, already Charles Oliphant, chief counsel sacked, and

for the Internal Revenue Bureau

house or how big they are." with ine, no matter who they are

was

arrying about

After Bartholomew

Oliphant said "fantastic" and four, 45-year-old

Thomas F. Murphy, six fool New York resigned his 14,800-dollar-a-year crime buster, is the man Prest job.

den. Truman wants to stamp out M GUT BARTHOLOMEW'S

To appreciate the gravity of what has been exposed you must first understand that unlike the system in Britain. where the collection of taxes is the business of

The scene them shifted to St Both the men who bar ap- civil servants, the tax Lous, but the collector there, proached Teitelbaum accused bosses throughout the Jim Finnegan, a very big figure him of inventing

the clique. United States are political in Truman's party machine, was

cleared by a Grand Jury. appointees, sharing in the spoils of office after an elec- tion.

FOR 'FAVOURS'

The highest of them are appointed by the President himself for favours render- ed to the party.

Throughout America there are 64 of them with the official title

of collector.

One of them. Joseph Marcell,

Government corruption.

Her bridesmaid

A DUCHESS OF KENT I

T

London

ما

the

sudden departure from the chairmanship of the Daily Murphy jumped to fame as Mirrar and Sunday Pictorial is his story of the prosecutor who convicted likely to have tremendous poli- Alger Hiss of perjury for deny- tical consequences. But the beautiful brunette ing that he leaked State Depart- nent secrets to a Soviet sp3 Finnegan, however, resigned, Mrs Shyri Menkin, a young ring.

from Chicago Williams publicly divorcee

and acused the Treasury Department Miami-backed up Teitelbaum'a After that ol withholding secret reports, story. She was described by New York's Police Commissioner, For it was "Bart" who swung These reports were finally pro- him,

"a family and after cleaning up some of the support of the Mirror tu emerged that, although Miss jured. Finnegan, on what the friend," while other witnesses their scandals was promoted a the Socialist machine controlled Cordel had not calised it, she reports said, was indicted on two know her as "Mrs Teitelbaum." lifetime judge. counts of taking bribes and mis- epnduet.

und Senator

Then, one day in the Senate, Williams announced that Com- missioner Oeorge Schoeneman, the internal revenue chief for the whole of America, "turned in his resignation today."

He followed that startling statement with "the collector in

Was appointed by President Hosen was suspended this turn-

Roosevelt to be collector for ing."

Brooklyn. His salary was 10,500

That collector was Denis

dollars a year. but he spent so Delaney, who

was fired three

little time "collecting" In his weeks later and then indicted office that he was able to develop on six counts of taking bribes in his outside activities, and, in one

return for tax favours.

year-1948-his total carnings were 135,000 dollars.

The honest men in the Internal Revenue Bureau promptly made Senator Williams their hero. They gave him tips on the quiet! about what was going on in other districts.

To the Congressional Com- mittee which is trying to get to the bottom of the whole sorry business he admitted that when

In Manhattan, the resignation be filed his own income tax

was forced of James Olson returns he showed only 66,000 supervisor of the New

York dollars as taxable.

Alcohol Tax Unit,

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however,

as

KRITONU PREOS SERVICE..

It may Indeed shake the strength of the Soelalist Party more than the departure of any

its political leaders.

he was appointed of

"I'm afraid we won't be able to make it tonight, Mabel. Charles has a headache,”

SAND STORM!

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THIS IS OUR!

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By Frank Robbins

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DESPERATE GROUP FIGHT THEIR WAY TOWARD IT:/::

troduced singer HELENE MOS PANAGI CORDET LYKIARDOPULO, wife of B Greek shipowner and banker.

in the conversation it

by MR HERBERT MORKI had been a young bridesmaid at Mrs Lyklardopujo's wedding

HON

And there is no doubt about 20 years ago. what that support meant to the Socialists in

elections.

the

last

three

It is a ataggering blow to

Twice fired

Mr Morrison, The departure DR KONRAD

of "Bart" probably means

loss of his most powerfal

strument of propaganda.

the

ADENAUER.

the West German Chan- caller who has been visiting

in- Britain, has been sacked twice

from the same job.

Mayor

"Bart" with Mr Morrison 5 In 1917 he become astute political nind to guide of Cologne, a post he held un

him."

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developed in the Mirror

hijo.

new and extremely effective 1933 when the Nazis fired technique of meas propaganda.

In 1945 the Americans made By that technique during him mayor of the city again, those elections he made an in but a few months later

pact on the minds of millions of readers which was of in calculable advantage to the

Socialists.

Now there may well be 社

Very

big change in Mirzor policy.

Much depends upon the new chairman, CECIL HARMS WORTH KING, He lacks the flamboyance and dynamic ener- gy of Bartholomew, and is re- ficent in expresang, his views

JiaL1400

He pretilke

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the

British occupation authorities removed him.

Adenauer speaks no English, but is being accompanied everywhere here by an inter- At dinner the interpre- pretar ter sits behind Adenauer with his knees almost in the Chan cellor's back.

He translatos pli ecnvaren- tions in whispers in Adenauer's and Adenauer replies

him.

One bare back

FOR 50 years BIR EDWARD MARSH has been going

to arst nights. •

to mo.

Last week he looked round the theatre and: Bald "One bareback and not single white tie. He was not Impressed.

He recalled - the glittering first performance of USCARE WILDE'S The Importanged at Being Earnest Co

||Mim thowa daya,” he Bild," "a frat-night was de/importan? social events and people dress- ed accordin TA

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