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His Son Or

FATHER SOLVES

MONEY PUZZLE: DO YOU AGREE?

When is a man too old? Should you leave more money to your son than to your daughter? PROBLEMS! The world is full of them.

Here are a

fow selected from news as it came into this office from every corner of the world.

This "When la'n man too old?" problem, first. Mankind has debated it, usually with heat, since the world began,

Colonel Sir Henry F. Bowles, Bt., has one solution. He was asked to offer himself for re-election as chairman of Edmonton, N., magistrates. He refused. "I prefer to make way for younger man," he said,

Sir Henry is seventy-seven.

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The Lord Chief Justice (Lord Howart) has different ideas. In

a civil action at Staffordshire Assizes counsel described a woman

as "an old Indy."

Said Lord Howart: "Nobody under ninety-eight is old.”

Lord Hewart is sixty-six.

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Hero In a serious problem for every parent with money to leave.

Mr. Joli William Birchenal, of Belmont-ront, Southampton, left £10,110, and left more to his son than his daughter-whereas my natural affection would incline me to len equally with my children.

But, he explains, the non may marry, and on the father of a family falls the burden of providing for its maintenance.

Problem: Does a con need mure money than a daughter?

n question of Lime before he touches his old form.

Said Mr. Norman Hillier at the U.S. National Beauty Congress --

"If women want beautiful hair, they should stand on their heads before and after brushing the hair, the to bring a rush of blood to нcalp."

Problem: Is It worth it?

Wimbledon is experimenting with a system of super street lighting.

High-powered light fitted with special reflectors are being used.

On July 6 last year a stamp dealer is guaranteed that they will walked into Edmonton Past Office dazzle the motorist however wet

it

not

the

for a three-halfpenny strump. He weather. They dispet dark patches, noticed a sheet of 120 Jubilee stamps, che a clear white light. thought colour unusual, bought the fut for 25%.

He was right. Instead of ultra- maring they, were cobalt. He went back for more. Another dealer had been there nirendly.

Only three of these sheets had been issued. They were issued by mistake. Their total value to-day In £9,175 (face value, £75).

Problem: Why only Wimbledon? Why not every ather town in the rquntry that can afford 14?

Here is ope about. Kipling's

| "prost, grey-green, grensy Limpopo river all set about with fever tṛers", on the borders of the Transvaal and Southern Rhodesin.

A party of rutives. were frying Problem: How was that mistike "Cunirówfully) to cross' the river intoi ever made?

Here is a problem already on

road to solution:~~

the

Can a racehorse brank its nerk and race again as well as over Henri's Choice broke his neck at

His

THE HONGKONG® TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, APRIL.

Daughter?

“BRITAIN'S MOST BEAUTIFUL BRIDE"

One of the most beautiful British brides of the year was Minn Amicio de Burgh Whyte, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William de Burgh Whyte of London. She married Mr. Roderick Walker. son of Mr. and Mrs. John Walker. Here the bridle, accompanied by the groom, leave St. Peter's cathedral following the ceremony. The bride certainly is every inch a "queen" in this picture with

her unusual and attractive headdress.

MILLIONAIRE'S

NIECE MARRIES A COWBOY

Cheyenne (Wyoming), April 1.

ANNE GOULD, great niece of the American millionaire,

Frank J. Gould, faced a minister here, in the heart of the Einion. A crocodile seized one, the cowby country, and was married for the second time. mauled hini. Comrades rescued him,; Her husband is Herman They stayed on their own bank,

Problem: Has a crocodile ever acted as franite,"

guard before?

Ritual manuscripts, documents re-

Aintree last March. He then ran in a flating to the nuns, and oficial cor- race nt Newbury. He was unplaced, hat ran well. Experts say it be only

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Britain to Strengthen Far East Defences

WAR Office, Admiralty, and

Air Ministry are taking special steps to strengthen Bri- tain's key defences on the route to the Far East.

Work is now proceeding, or will begin in a few weeks, on:

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY STATIONS at Malta, Gibraltar, and Heliopolis.

BARRACKS are, being built in Egypt and the Sudan.

PALESTINE DEFENCES are! being reconstructed at Salnfand.

GIBRALTAR MOLE is being

strengthened.

MALTA is having a new aero- drome, and a scheme of defence is being drawn up.

ADEN is also having a new aerial landing ground..

A RED SEA NAVAL STATION

is being constructed at Bahrein.

MUNITION AND FOOD STOR- AGE accommodation is being pro- |

vided Alexandria.

A recond aerodrome is to bo

one at Singaporn.

Elsburg, a cowboy, of Cody,{ Wyoming.

He was married in riding)

MURDERS

breeches and long boots. In TO DECEIVE

respondence, have mysteriously Van- ished from the Chateau of the Douye, his hand he carried a "ten- a convent near Benlis, France. The nous all young, are above suspicion.

This is the problem police · are trying to solve. Theft of the docu-

ments about the nuns la explicable;

they might be used for blackmail. Theft of the adficial correspondence might be for politieni ends. Bat- Why should paybody steal ritual manuscripts und leave money?

gallon" sombrero hat.

His bride wore a smart!

grey coat and skirt.

A

The marriage was kept secret. It took place on Salue- day-two days after the bride's; first marriage, to Frank Spencer Mendor, n Texan actor, with whom she eloped in December

Here is a pretty little problem! about airplanes, set to would-be tax] · 1934, was dissolved. bispectors in o

| examination,

Civil Service! Itew

"Love In Cottage" Anne-and-her-first-husband

cot-

Then

B. on A's invitation, went for run with bim in his airplane. In settled down to "love in a

three months. alighting, B was thrown out and take" for

his leg was broken, and the air-she went to Florida-alone. plane struck D, who Wa tre Divares followed.

passing in C's Beld. Advise B, C The minister's wife and and D) whether they have courses of daughter were the only witnesses action against A, and on what to her sucond marriage.-Renter conditions?

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William Samuel Hammond, aged fourteen, has pluck. There is problem about that. He dived into and saved another school-boy from aix feet of ico-cold water at Woking drowning.

It's father said: "My son can swim like a cork."

Does a cork "awim"?

Now try this one on the family:

Miss Gould's great-uncle, the famous Frank Jay Gould, started

LOVERS

FAMILY WIPED OUT AND BABY KIDNAPPED

Moncton (New Bruns-

wick), Mar. 30, MOTHER and her two sons have been charged here with murdering a man and his wife so that they could kidnap the couple's baby and use it in attempts to extort money from men.

It was revealed by the prosecu- his career as a farm-boy. He be-tien that Mrs. Mary Bannister came one of the biggest financiers (forty), a widow, was the mistress in the United States and was the controller of several important of a neighbour. She led him to believe that she had given birth to Franka child and, for some time, carried

railway aystems.

His millionaire ROD,

Gould, built the famous £1,000,000 about a life-size doll. casino at Nice, the Palais do la When it became necessary Mediterrance. Later t was des-produce a real baby, she is alleged troyed by Bro.

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to have plotted the crime with her sons, Daniel (twenty) and Arthur: (nineteen),

The cabin of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Lake was found burned, to the ground, with the man's body in the ruins. Mrs. Lako's body and that of her twenty- months-old-son were discovered half a mile away.

Bought A Cradlo

built at Hongkong, and a third JUNGLES in New Guinea where white men have never before When arrested, the Bannister set foot are to be opened up by means of an aeroplane-the youths anid Lake had been killed "Kono," an amphibian monoplane belonging to the American because he mado Improper ad- Museum of Natural History.

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