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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.MONDAY,
SEPTEMBER 2, 1935.
THEY GIVE AWAY MILLIONS
"SOAK THE RICH"
PROGRAMME
MILLIONAIRES' GIFTS TO ESCAPE THE NEW DEAL
New York, Aug, 18. AMERICA'S greatest mil- fearing
lionaire industrialists, that President Roosevelt's "Soak the Rich" income tax and inheritance Bill, signed on Saturday, will rob them of most of their fortunes, have given nway millions of dollars' worth of stocks and shares during the past few weeks in the hope of putting themselves outside the
Guitars
from HK.$145.00 | taxable class.
In ten days following the read- Ukuleles $105.00 $200.00 Ing of the President's message to Congress that he intended to press Mandolines $150.00 & $220.00 | for legislation giving him power to
LARGE DISCOUNTS FOR CASH.
'THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR A NATIONAL." TSANG FOOK PIANO & MUSIC CO. 9. Ice House Street, Hongkong.
Tel. 24648.
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The MING YUEN STUDIO has removed to the 3rd Floor of No. 6 Queen's Road Central.
JUST OPPOSITE the Dairy Farm's Soda Fountain.
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impose these taxes ten men gave away securities valued at £207,694.j
But the recipienta of the mil- Honaires' gifts are not disclosed, although it is believed that many of the securities have gone to friends and relatives.
One of the largest gifts was of 85,000 shares in the Socony Vacuum Corporation, which John D. Rockefeller, Junior, son of the richest man in the world, gave away. The stocks are well worth £218,000.
Henry J. Fisher gave away £20,000 in McCall Corporation.
message they had a market value of £172,000.
Motor Cara have taken several promincut lives lately. The frat was that of the wife of Chancellor Schuschnign of Austria. A fortnight apo Prince Alexis Mdwani, former husband of Bar- bara Hutton, died when his car (above) crashed in Spain,' Last week Queen Astrid died.
How Screen Is Aiding The Stage
FABULOUS FORTUNES FOR RIGHTS OF
SUCCESSES
PLAYWRIGHTS and play producers seldom have
Australian Bushmen Stage A Duel
| COMMENCED WITH
SHOTGUNS: ENDS WITH FISTS
One of the most extraor- adinary duels ever fought
A few days after Roosevelt's kind word for the cinema. was staged recently at Ten- A New York authority nant's Creek goldfields, near asserts, however, that but Darwin, in North Australia.
the for Hollywood half Two gold miners, somewhat Broadway theatres would "under the influence," quarrelled, and each grubbed a weapon, one be closed.
a sawn-off shotgun and the other
gave
William K. Vanderbilt away shares worth £20,000. Shares As Presents Here are other gifta by America's richest met: John Willys: 10,000 shares in Amli-
nted Products worth £10,000.
George II. Lorimer: 5,000 shares in Curtis Publishing Company, pro- ducers of the "Saturday" Evening Post" (£19,000).
I. 1. Jamison: 1000 shares in Intres |
national Shoe Company (X1,000). R. R. Williams: 6,000 shares in 8. S.
Krege Company (£28,200). Henry J. Breyer: 565 shares In No-
tional Dairy Products (£12,204), Max Weinstein: 5,800 shores in Ro- seeks' Department Sture (£4,240). Isaac Elliott: 500 shares in United | States Tobacco Company (£84,600). | Charles S. Woolworth: 10,000 shares
in F. W. Woolworth and Co. (£240,- | 0003.
Samuel Murray: 1,600 shares in Uni-
fruit Company (£20,000).
Frederick Rentschler: 20,000 shares
in Uniatreraft (£54,000). Samuci Robinson: 3,700 shares in American Stores Company (£25,- 000).
L. V. Mesta: 5,200 shares in Mesta
Machines (£30,000).
C. J. Newberry: 5,000 shares in d. J.
Newberry and Co. (£60,000). John Crosby; 2,000 shares in General
Mills (226,000).
In association with the Grand Hotel das Wagons Lits, Peking FEW FALSE FIRE
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The Runnymede Restaurant has codenially pride of place among hotels of the East with its calatne, and Justly chalom by Ita socfalions to offer the traveller such as le not to be Lound elsewhere.
ALARMS IN H.K.
ONLY TWO PRACTICAL
JOKES LAST YEAR · Hongkong is probably the most conscientious city in the world regarding false fire alarms.
During the whole of Inst year only two malicious false alarms) were received at the fire brigade alation,
The number of calls received during the year_totalled 195.
Of these 162 were for actual fres, 14 were for chimney fires, four for collapses, three for landslides and 22 false alarms. Eleven of the false alarms were given with good intent and nine were due to elec- trical faults.
Forty-nine lives were loat in fires during the year. Of this total, all but eight were killed in the disastrous Gaubmeter explo- sion at West Point.
The total estimated monetary losa by fire was $283,599.
SALESMAN SAM
To prove it he quotes the a small-bore rifle. They en- prices recently paid for the film trenched themselves about 20 rights of New York play sue-yards apart and blazed away.
This is the list:-
Paramount.
cesses,
For two hours the duel raged, and then the rifleman, running short of ammunition crawled from the rear of his trench downhill "Anything Goes"
(at least) £17,000 and found ingredients for a bomb, "Accent on Youth"
T12000 namely blasting dynamite and a "Stall Miracle"
£7,500 jam tin.
Metro-Goldyn-Mayer "Merrily We It Alons "The Distaff Side“. "Gold Eagle Guy" "The Bishop
Misbehaves"
"Order rner Brothers
Three Men on a Horse" "Page Miss tilory"
R. K. O.
He returned to his trench, threw £15,200 the bomb, and waited. £ 7,000 Nothing happened. £5,000) £3,000
"Have you had enough?" be 2000 yelled to his opponent after a few
minutes.
So the duel ended with Asta in worst "no-man's-land," and the injuries were a few pollets of shot in the arm of one and a black eye for the other.--Austral News.
£16,000 "Enough be d-d," camo the £14,500 reply. "Come out here and finish
It. "Kill That Storfox
£ +,500 "The Farmer Takes a Wife" £13,000
Columbia "Valley Forge"....(about) £4,000 The price paid for "Anything Goes". depend on a...complicated formula. The producers will re- ceive a percentage of the gross receipts of the film above £200,000, with a minimum return of £17,000 guaranteed. Meanwhile, they have been paid an advance of £12,000 against royalties to come.
In addition, R.K.O. have bought Plough and the Stars." for £3,000, Sean O'Casey's Irish drama, "The
and Maxwell Anderson's "Mary of Scotland" for a price that has not been disclosed. Older plays which have been acquired for picture purposes are:-
AMAH AND BABY LOST IN CHANNEL
RETURNING TO EAST FROM HOME LEAVE
TUNE CAMERON, aged 21 months, disappeared with her nurse from the liner Shrop shire a fortnight ago off Pem- broke.
JUNE
Dr. and
Her parents, "Blossom Time"
(Universal). £15,000 J. A. P. Cameron, were returning "As Thousands Cheer" ....
to Penang after spending their (Paramount) £ 6,000 | leave at Edinburgh, "Invitation to a Morder"
Altogether.
(Warners) £4,000
4
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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
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I Not butter, but border poetically.
4 An official who is half priest.
half N.C.0.
pens like Lamentations
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nishes up like Macbeth. Associated with lace.
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10 Sudden snatch.
11 Great name in South Africa.
12 A palindromi
15 A sign to know.
and
16 Kind of remarks are makes win
the opener akids.
18 Don this famous Albey shut
up after ten?
21 Are in paper under water.
All the fashina.
24 Fur
25 In this hive of industry there
are a thousand on the sick list. 28 Worshipped, whichever way you
look at it.
29 An animal and another often
figuring in clues,
.
30 That's abiit the size of it! 31 Mature.
DOWN
1 It's showing intense ill-will to
speak unkindly of an insect, A day at the sales. Never ending.
4 Brutal
It's only in very rough detail when seen in the sky,
6 A name in Russian literature.
7 A musical movement.
9. Often found under arına.--
Sprinkle FLIT POWDER
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MADE BY
THE MAKERS
OF FAMOUS
FLIT
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Alarm Raised They went to lunch, leaving Hollywood and little June asleep, in a cabin with British film producers have pro-her nurse. bably paid playwrights £200,000 this year.
When the stewardess arrived with lunch for June and her A number of this year's Broad- amah the cabins were empty. way Buccesses were backed by The alarm was raised. The Hollywood producers. As their crew searched the ship in vain. contracts with the playwrights On the deck was June's playpen~ give them half of any sum derived empty.
from film rights, they are able to The ship have to and circled the outbid rivals, knowing that halfsen for an hour and a half. There) the purchase price will ultimately was no sign of June or the Chinese! return to them.
Amal.
Let's Hope He Does
13 If a pleture is, does it show that
it is by an “Immortal"?
14 Cricket in proverbially.
17 Polite forni of
address.
10 One sart of acquaintance. 20 The truth without trimmings. 21 of this world, but the end is of
another country,
22 You may put your foot in it, minus a letter, it is a suggestion to buck up.
23 The Indy is the same elther way. 20 South Sen Islands,
27 Beauty draws us with a single
one, saya Pepe.
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JOURNALIST BARRED Manchester Guardian, has been refused permission by the Foreign Once to enter Manchukuo. Reuter.
PERMISSION TO VISIT MANCHUKUO REFUSED
Mr. Timperley, a West, Austra- Changchun, Sept. 1. Han, is well-known in Hongkong. Mr. Harold James Timperley, He was formerly a reporter on China correspondent of the the China Mail,
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