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JOHN DEANE POTTER takes you into the world of Guys and Dolls, the men on the race-track fringe who dream of cash without work'. where the slogan is1 ́ ́Only' fools uso' cheques'

THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, AUGUST· 24, ̄ ̄| 1953. '

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London. Sometimes one of them may sibly comes from racing sucCOISES. have a mall shop. I could not This helps to cloak their othe: sy make more than 34 a activities, and their wius are viol

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ID you know that the income tax man has no authority to look at your bank Ing account? So, presum ably, if you are putting money into it about which you would not like too many questions asked, you are quite safe?

week.

hos

And a no-fax man who wants to put this money Into something solid can only do it through racing.

If you are married that amount is not taxable. But the shop for dealing

a telephone which is ured Dealing? It has never been the same since the saucepan shortage.

Say he has made £500 from a For a few wedd before the quidc deal and he wants to buy Coronation admittedly there was a house with it. He beck

amall market in over-price horse with a reputable book- television acts.

There are a few women who maker. It twins, he can ret will pay a bit extra for American about buying what he wants. made melons, but there handly enough of than to keep a man out of world.

are

Woll it is not quite so straightforward as that. The whole situation is handled with beautiful English delicacy and tact Naturally, said the income tax man in a shocked volee, the liberty of the abject must be

The myton racket protected, so you can always second-hand cars are selling at refuse it we ark to see your bank almost reasonable prices. You book,

* can even buy bananas.

But, he added, examining his nails, if we have reason to believe that your account con- tains entries which will interest t we may give you a demand which will be well-rather on the large side.

If you wish to dispute it, you are at liberty to produce your bank account.

Perhaps I would be cheaper This and cleverer to pay up? attitude, admonished the income fax man, does not always impress

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The world has become bleaker for the chequeless men.

Betting down

dead.

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The income tax man will ask about the £500. He will say it came from £10 which he pui on with small bookmakers.

He was so lucky that the anail bookmakers could no tonger handio him, That was when to dreided to put £500 on with a reputable

bookmaker whose rocords can show that he had ap untaxable win.

The story of the first £300 s diffout to thisprove. There to one anag, however, in this otherwise perfect fairy tale. He is volkrly

betting figures are the most delicate barometer of this. They have smk consistently since 1948 when there were gratuilles to win, and war profits to throw into the silver ring

Two dissimilar kinds of peopro They are the The 2400 million turnover on agree about this horse racing in 1951 dropped to bookmakers and the income tax £370 milion last year, and the collectors. greyhound racing turnover fell to £131 million, £4,000,000 less than the

your before. The cay money world looks back with a sigh to the days of the shortages. They remember the happy hours when the lorries

Bookmakers" records shew that the man with the £0,000 in a suitcase is typical. Quick money men do not take money out of racing, they only put it in

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"Parbleu! Ir's time the Government took

A hand,”

THE

PRIME "MINISTER TAKES FIRM HAND

POSTES

“Zu!! :It's time the Govern ment stopped wild spending.”

“Aki A Minister worthy of the glory of France."".

** Economy measure... den per cent, cut in my

salary:1 ME ? “

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London. TOW that the summer

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BEVERLEY BAXTER,

MP,

discusses the difficulties that confront the Home Secretary, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, and of the repercussions which events may have his political career

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portant witness who can bring light to this terrible affair." Sir David answered that the in is here and the House

quiry would be set up at once of Parliament have

and that the report would prob- ably be concluded before tho lapsed into silence it

dafe set for Christie's execution. is probable that "Sir David

One

not need to be a Maxwell Fyfe and his wife

lawyer

understand Bir Sylvia will take their usual

David's dilemma. To say to a condemned fortnight's holiday in the

man: postponing

your hanging for Isle of Wight.

in order that you Allow me to introduce Sylvin ultimate decision then lay with glory, creating his new Govern the sentence but were ruled out three days

bo questioned- about thu On the contrary, we incline to

te by Mr Speaker. Exclted crowds cun to you. Although she is rather the judges, but I know that his ment, Sir David knew that the view that we may have under

outside No 10 Evans case. If everything goes tired of hearing it, she is the heart

was would be included in the ministry demonstrated was heavy. It

be no And that is why the public alater

Street, then moved on all right there should assessed you. Often the next

further delay. However, I demand is doubled. In order to rumbled round Bellain loading up domand to tax" belting" wins parry this it is now almoest essen with code that were hard to get, leaves the income tax pundits herself, although Vice-Chairman have beca, a power for good if as the head of the law, or

screen and stage star. Sylvia ing was a villain who might either be made Lord Chancellor to thod that you produce your bank. And which sold well over-the- unnalled.

of the Conservative. Party, is an he had not been drawn into the torney General. As Lord Chun- crowded in protest into the cor- to cop you alive for a day or

longer." details.

extremely attractive woman. Nazi movement.

cellor he would receive £10,000

of Westminster.

The judicial committee works Her eyes have a challenging AL

the Socialists of £5,000 a year, or dem

a year, with a retiring

to British law, but bo on the eve of the execution. the mob it seemed wrong that provocative,

and her figure is. Sir David, as a Tory M.P., had 000. & year, I do not say that the the boy who fired the shot At nine o'clock that night the fashionably allm.

no ministerial responsibilites.

money element was the chief should live and that the older Socialists formed a debato and Sir David is magnificently He was in great demand in the attraction

of boy who was not even ormed made a most formidable attack on Maxwell Fyle. The chair- bald on top so that this head courts as a barrister, and could

'Mantraps'

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hoy recall the man who bor- rowed a few hundred pounds to buy up some race stuff." A month later he was walking round Lon- don with a cardboard sultense. >LACKMAIL? The

In amall bars and dark corners shuddered dollcately and took of cafes he paid back the money a sip of tea,

he owed. That suitcase tained 26,000 in notes.

tax

nan

He pointed out that if you have a deposit or savings account all this angentlemanly manoeuvr- ing will be avoided. Under new laws, any deposit which produces more than £15 a year income

has to be returned: by the bank.

This, confided the income tax inan, has produced a surprisingly fruitful tax field,

It is because they know the

mantraps in such fax fields that.

Hard to find

THEY estimate there are nine losses for every gain. If they

taxed the winners they would

Josera.

af Rex Harrison, the typical of him to say that Goer- and assumed that he would Do Buckingham Palace, whilo hall let you know it wo decids

or At hundreds of other people

that time

twinkle, her voice is amusingly were in power in Britain and General he wouki receive £100 Ccording was guilty of murder od swiftly and issued its report

to this man

Committee

con- have to make allowances for the | gleams like virtue. His eyes are have earned £23,000 a year it rectitude, but it would have and was, moreover, in the human of the Judea

arresting and can change from ho had given all his spare, ume added financial security for his of the police at the Ume, should had Rimmed up, his report by

Most of the money in the suit- care was in the boolamakers' satchels within three months, That generally happens to the shy, sly little men who sit around

And the sad stories that this

would bring to light would make even a tax collector veep.

But what makes the bookies weep is that eatty money is get- in bars marsing note-filled ting harder to find and big bets suitcase, after a successful deal. are getting steadily smaller.

Oh,

the barrow boy, and cry the big dealer, if only some black market benefactor, could create another splendid shortage.

quick-money

One snag

would start 2, and 3 won the The notes would be lorries. passed furuvely from hand to bookmakers.

Na way, they are drivers to it is estimated there are 20,000

racing. They cannot put the prople in Britain today who money in the bank, they cannot believe that only fools have an buy a house or a legitimate hand, over onward towards the address and even bigger dools business without feeling the tax man's hot breath on their neck. have a cheque book.

They write no letters, they There is one way out-the race keep no records, they telephone trook. They pose all the time as big punters. Their Income osten-

from Klosi.

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the Nazi war criminals at Nurem- told you, they went each summer and Churchill had slashed all Welsherions rest day on said quite rightly that to deal

vileness.

duty

have

am

Fortunately for the Home Secretary,

the summer roctus came just in time to scatter the Socialists and thus end their

indings of

wife and daughters.

go to the gallows

declaring that there could be look of a puzzled gazelle to to the law. Instead he the

Fale and Ured, Maxwell Fyfe no doubt whatever, that 'Evans Από 20 a lawyer it would dan of wrath denouncing the earned only half that because he have been an understandable sat in flat and listened to WDS guilty and that the verdict wicked.

His valce is persuasive deemed it his duty to speak in satisfaction to be the head of the the shouting of the crowds of the court

absolutely yet bluntly honest. Quite de the country at least twice a # finitoly he gives the impression week on behalf of the Conserva law either in the House of Lords "It is the law." he said over correct

and over again to himself, "and of a dis- tive Party. In addition, he help or the House of Commons, man incapablo

1 must uphold the law." honourable thought, or action, ed the Conservative Central

Next morning Bentley went to Quite definitely

He is exactly organisation to form its policy that,

for the next election

the call came from Down his death, and by noon the SIR David could do nothing else

him out of

but accept the report, nor its mind. Ing Street. An hour later Sir public

would he agree to He and his wife lived well but"

postpone execution of Christie. He he of strain when not ostentatiously. They had & David arrived at his hot and But Maxwell Fyfe showed the wou PEOPLE still speak with awe cemi-luxury flat near the Houses broke the news to Sylvia. He marke

had been made Home Secretary, answered

for he, is also with a condemned man in such of his cross-examination of of Parliament arid,

a cat-and-mouse manner would absolutely fair to the Isle of Wight. Stress Cabinet malaries from £6,000 to Minister for Wales.

But. In the ease of Sir David be unthinkable. On the Tory.. berg. He was

benches we heartily agreed with and never bullied the wretched spread its carpet at Sr. David's 400m well aware that £4,000 the lightning was not content to that pronouncement, but many creatures, but ho drew the feet,

to normal ears strike once in the same place, of us felt dark doubts about truth from them until they stood Then came the election of 1950 a year sounds revested to history in all their which cut the Socialist majority like a lot of money, but let us In fact, against all precedence the hanging of Evans.

to a corporal's guard, followed just look what it means to a It was to strike not only twice was there for the summing year later by the election which man in Maxwell Fyfe's position. but thrice.

First he must return all his Evans Case up and sentencing of the Nazis put the Conservatives in with a and dined with Maxwell Fyfe slightly larger corporal's guard briefs and undertake no further

private work. As Minister WITH considerable ingenully a attack for the dime being. Let the night before the sentences as a majority,

expenses citizen named Christie suc Sir David had nothing whatever it be clearly understood." that At No. 10 Downing Street ho were passed. He had done his

can charge no and the Winston Churchill set in his against his income, which is cecded in murdering no feed to do with the original trial of as prasecutor

duly taxed and super-taxed than seven women over a period

It WDS Just bad luck Worse than that his clients have of me and hiding their bodies Evans. "to" get "unother lawyer in his in his tiny London house and hat in his official position-he

had to miniature garden, where a nor- place.

the Committ

which he had As an economy he gave up mal man could hardly conceal n

brought into being. his ecmi-luxury fat and took a suitcase.

As the House of Commons small ono in

Eventually the Temple, on

with Bylyla arrested, tried for murder and home?" on the last day of the shouted: "Who ..gota the Embankment, doing all the housework in sentenced to death. This me home

there was no mob outery, and felt that he himself had been. session, Sir David must have addlüon to her duties as mother

Vice- Sir David was not urged by reprieved. and

Tory

But unhappily tho Chairman. It was an immense anyone to advise Her Majesty to malignant fates were not finish- facrifice to make, but politics is exercise clemency. Yet before ed with him, a drug as well as a duty, and the date of the hanging a sensa

A dreadful old woman and of course there was the dream flonal legal situation arose.

stupid husband IL

mmmed discovered that dx her was that every senior Minister has

a Mr and Mrs Evans even older woman, who treated

Merrifield went to work for that some day he might be years back, a

and their baby boarded with Mr Premier.

them kindly and said that she I have set down these facts and Mrs Christle in the little would leave them her house

Mrs Evans and London house. because

they are a necessary

when the-died. It occurred prelude to the dramatic events the baby were found murdered Mrs Merrifield that it und to and Evans was put on trial. And pity to delay such an act of that followed like strokes

of und

who was the principal Crowns charity and she most cruelly fate. Although the House is up witness? No less a person that poisoned her benefactor. for the long recess, there is no

Christic.

Both Mrs Merrifield anti her rest for Maxwell Fyfe, even

of sub- husband were though his body is on holiday

Evans was a creature

charged with normal at the Isle of Wight.

could murder. She was found guilty Intellect who barely read and write, and the and sent

10 sentenced be hanged, trus se lont its Interest when the, the jury disagreed about the pollee produced his signed con- husband and he was committed fession, Christie had given his to prison to await the new trial, evidence in a perfectly straight- which could not take place and there is little until the Autumn, doubt that

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Christie

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vernment is responsible for the forward we whole court felt

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Terrible Strain

þUT what about the condemnt- ed woman who was due to swing in three weeks time? She would be a material wit-

and,

therefore, the

RESTPRONTI wough he had, been under there had been a miscarriage of the Socialist Goliaths,

STEEN FUNG

y on odd quirk the Home Scercary la a British Go Metropolitan Police. In addi- tion to that he is responsible sympathy for him in the terribic for all allens who enter or deeds that the murderous Evans wish to

this country, had committed in enter

his home. And thirdly he has sole power You can Imagine the exelie af recommending Her Majesty ment when all this came to to exercise clemency in the light a few weeks ago after ness in the retrial of her hus case of a convicted murderer. Christle had been sentenced to band

no part in death for his multiple murders, execution would have to be The Cabinet plays this. To put it grimly, the ro- We had some clever lawyer postponed, Whereupon, to every- denial of a,ro- MP's in the ranks of the one's astonishment, the husband Drieve or the prieve is a one-man show, Sol was release

Maxwell Fylo should pet Fortunately Parliament was The first storm that broke ver him was when

10- In judicial enquiry to go into up by that time, or there would young year-old rufflan named Bentley the records of the Evans trial have been another onslaught. was sentenced to be hanged al- and determine whether or not with Sir David facing the fury For arrest in the hands of the police of Justice. They had one un- the law officers to release a suspected murderer, so that his for fifteen minutes before the answerable point

wife could keep her engagement murder wVLE ' committed.

the executioner would have. fact Bentley had no gun on him

supplied tremendous case. för at any time during the incident. CUPPOSING," they end,

sald, the Socialist obbery that when Christie gave He had not out to do a robbery

There my latex foam

|with #: 18-year-old accomplice evidence

tho

my story must rest for Lime being. the cushioning ensures that

named Craig, who carried against Evans it WAS TOW revolver and shot a policeman vealed that Christle had mut- in the cool breeze, at the Isle of ut David and his wipe that Sir arting the weight of the body is evenly distributed. It slopes up- designing the seat. There were who was trying to arrest him." dered a number of women in Wight or Bailing their modest wards to thickness of five inches many high-level meetings, field

Quite correctly, under British

much

the same manner as Mrs

struin on him 4t the front to conform to the trials, and seg-sosts before pro- law, both boys were tried for Evans was murdered. Would boat. The

been terrible, for he has had to underside of the thigh....

duction started. 29th

murder` and both found · guilty

lity the jury have been using carry responsibility for Slight ridging of the tough, Old ewents, who had to be and sentenced to death. But certain that Christle had nothing tions which were none of plastic covering in light-green satianed with the nearest am- Craig, the actual murderer, had whatever to do with it and that making. He is still one of the his Bentence, `automatically res for the Army, blue for the Navy minition dose for; m2 sont, may need to. Hife imprisonment bos: Evans was the only one who fyd. possíbje’successors to WT mm-

ventilates the seat in hot think that the modem fighting

could have done the murder?" ston Churchill for the Premier- weather nit

man is being mollycoddled. cause he was under the

Maxwell! Trie Winly.con- ship, but this mories of gruesorno The whole chair is resistant to

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unhappy he water, and even white But now squirmont need suchAt the time I described the immediately set up ladietti cimo wiil sot enhance his

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on-the day before, the execution distinguished lawyer."Yes," at The hangman's rope cam of Bentley, A group of Socialitats i mala da Bochalins but you are shadow far beyond the prison had tried to foron a dabato un' about to hang,

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