1936-04-20 — Page 15

THERE

819 In 1930-

ARE

428 In 1934

HOW millionaires has

many

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1936.

FEWER MILLIONAIRES

>

There are still many millionaires Road Little Men Earn

The Column on the loft: But

Read the story on the Right to see how the Great £3-a-week man has greater wealth than the

Britain? The annual report of the millionaire. Commissioners of Inland Revenue gives the' answer for 1933-34 (the last year for which figures are available) as 428.

A table for the preceding

years shows how the numbers

of millionaries have fallen.

-1929-30

1930-31

1931-32

1032-33

1933-34

819

670

625

428

There are clear Indications that!

a great redistribution of wealth is

taking place.

thousand

more

In 1936. Afty people paid income tax than in 1934 and this although 100,000 more were exempted from taxation by the operation of allowances.

SURTAX: £50,915,882

There were during the year 22,- 616 people with annual incomes between £2,000 and £2.500; there

14,330 wore

with incomes of £3,000 a year and 8,754 with In-1 comes up to £5,000.

People earning from £8,000 to £10,000 numbered 2,881. There were 1,201 in the £20,000 a year class, and 339 with incomes of £10,000.

Surtax (paid on incomes of £2,- 000 and upwards) totalled £50.- $15.882.

Death duties totalled £81,289,- 774 compared with £85,337,911 in the previous year.

Thirty-five states during the year totalled more than £500,0X1. Five totalled £2,000,000, One ex- eeeded £3,000,000,

THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN A MONTH AGO.

£1,560,000,000

TWO men decided, nearly a year ago, to

put, Great Britain under the micro- scope; to peer into slums, observe the semi- detached villa towns spring-

A bus passing through a cutting in a deep drift at Soutra Hill on the Edinburgh-Lander road curly-bust-

month. The snow in piled almost level with the top of the bus.

Lady Charles Cavendish Says American

Snobs

New York, Apr. 8.

Drive Her "Nuts

“The make-up," she said, “made

"

Lady Charles Cavendish, who me look like a sufferer in the last France Gives Vimy

as Adele Astaire danced herself stage of jaundice."

Finto the hearts of American But her picture appearance was |theatre audiences, hits been flirting | so surcessful that the producer return in four with the Altus.

months to be starred. I

IN DOG KENNEL, WOMAN STOWAWAY Auckland. Apr. 1. In a vacant dog kennel on to bust deel of the Mariposa a young

On the eve of her departure for married woman was found, travelling England she has disclosed that a stowaway. The discovery was made son after the liner had left when she und Lard Charles Caven Sydney. She is of Auckland, and as dish were in Hollywood, Mr. David her father paid her fare she will not Selzulek, the producer, persuaded be prosecuted.

BABY RACE LAST LAP

7 MOTHERS, 64 BABIES IN

£100,000

CONTEST

THE WORLD'S GREATEST "BABY RACE," FOR WHICH A £100,000 PRIZE AWAITS THE LUCKY-MOTHER-IS-ON ITS LAST LAP.

Charles Vance Miller, eccentric Toronto lawyer, started the contest 10 years ago, when he left in his will the bulk of his pro-

1.

arked her

"There is a hare possibility that!

might do that." said Lady (harles, "but I don't think I shall have to look after Charles, you jungle" imersi ...

saying:

"I like London and Ireland, except for those terrible Ameri- ean snobs-those girls who marry Englishmen and then forget them- įselves.

"I know Two abrual. One narried a nobleman. It's terrific. They go "gaga" with their deah, deals."

"It drives mè nats. Why can't they be just themselves."

Britain's Biggest

perty to the woman having most babies in Toronto between the Film Deal

hour of his death, 4-30 p.m. on October 31, 1926, and 4-30. j.m. on October 31, 1936.

There are now seven mothers with gond chances of winning the race.

The leading mother is 32-year-old Mrs. Lilian Kenny, wife of an Irish labourer. She has had 15 children, 10 of whom are still alive, and 11, of whom may qualify under the terms of the "race."

TENNIS STAR DIVORCED

FORMER MISS EILEEN BENNETT

A decree nisi was granted by Mr. Justice Buckmill in the Divorce Court last month to Mr. Edmund Owen Fearnley-Whit- tingstall, portrait painter and

She expects another before the final closing hour.

Mra, Kenny is closely followed by Mrs. Emanuella Darrigo, 44 years old, 23 years married.

She has had 17 children, 16 of whom survive, and 11 of whom may rank.

Mrs. Grace Bagnato is third favourite with nine definitely rank- Ing children.

Mrs. Kathleen Nagle, Mrs. Alice

Timleck, with nine each; Mrs. Hilda Graziano, and Mrs. Madeleine art dealer, against his wife. Harrison with eight ench, are the former Miss. Eileen Bennett. the other contestanta. woll-known lawn tennis player.

Mr. Marcus Marsh, the racehorse-

West

STRONG OPPOSITION

trainer, was cited as co-respondent, į All Canada was shocked when the and costs were given against him. terms of the contest became known,

The suit was not contested. The marriage took place in Novem-Religious leaders condemned it. Social workers held indignation ber, 1929, at St. Margaret's, minster, and there are no children. meetings.

Mr. Fearnley-Whittingstall's case was that his married life was un- happy, and that he had to cut down exponses. There were quarrols, and. he

of the flat one was shut out night towards the end of 1930.

He continued to live with his wife until July, 1931. In that month she to play in the America went to Wightman Cup contest, and she did not return to him when she came back to England,

Later, he learned that she had

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· HUGE HOLLYWOOD COMBINE BOUGHT

New York, Apr. 6. The most spectacular deal, in British film history was cluded here to-day.

COR-

of

Universul Pictures, one Hollywood's biggest film com- bines, was taken over by an Anglo-American syndicate for a

be sum believed to

£1,400,000.

nbout

Ridge Land to

Canada

ing up in the south, to re- cord the great treks from the hills of the west, and the Imoorlands of the north to

the cities of the plains.

Major G. Harrison and Mr. F. C. Mitchell-they are the two in- vestigators are not out to prove anything.

They are marketing experts. anxious to show which regiona and which sections of the com- munity are best customers for different commodities.

That is why they call their book - ploneer work-"The Home Market (Allen and Unwin, 108. Gd. net).

One glimpse into the future is almost frightening. By 1961, on present fertility and mortality rates, the total of our 10,800,000 children will have fallen to 5,400,000, a decrease of 50 per cent., and old people above sixty-five will have Increased

from 3,320,000 to 5,000,000, an increase of more than 50 per cent.

"In one hundred years' time," gloomily prophesy the authors. "the population of Great Britain will have fallen to 5,000,000,"

LARGEST GROUP

most

Out in the farmlands, sy the experts, are 1,200,000 actively en Igaged in agriculture-the

numerous of any productive group. Large scale methods of production are not affected agriculture to any great extent. One in every seven works on his own account; two-fifths of the agricultural hold- fings are of less than 20 acres.

Here are statistics to prove that, Britain's wealthiest class are the people who earn between 3 and £10 week. Most of them are black-coat workers; one in fifteen

a manual worker.

Parls, Apr. 15. The French Chamber today passed a Bil authorising the pres sentation to the Canadian

an in Bergerandion Govern

Canadian Cemetery

at Viny.

According to the terms of this if the object of this gift is "to make possible certain improvement in the cemetery where so many

defenders of Vimy Ridge le

buried."--Renter.

grur TALIN

year, which is 39 per cent, of the national income.

Right the end of this book of ispassionate satisiles are stories. which throb with the pulsing bear lof a busy nation.

Nudist Romance Ends

Los Angeles, Apr. 3. Lin November 1933. Bride, bride. THE nudist wedding which groom, minister, mud guests were all completely unclothed during the cere attracted world-wide atten- mony.

tion when the ceremony Was The bride carried a bouquet. No performed 21⁄2 years ago is EG jone else"gurried-even-a-handkerchief. end in the divorce court, -

Mrs. Susie Goodman has led a sui against Mr. James F. Goodman, alleg in desertion,

The couple were married at Elsinore, California, nudist colony,

*

[Note: Mrs. Goodman's lawyer stated toxiny that his client and her husband gave up nudism a few months after marriage.]

Reuter,

BULLETS FLY

IN COURT: 3

MEN KILLED

Stockholm, Apr. 3.

REVOLVER bullets fired by an infuriated lawyer in The negotiation of this deal Nykoeping Law Courts, sixty miles from Stockholm, was first announced on to-day killed the Public Prosecutor and a man seeking February 23.

divorce, wounded the clerk and narrowly missed the judge.

Documents exerelsing their option

to buy were signed his morning by the Standard Capital Company and Charles Rogers, producer, with Gene ral Film Distributors. Ltd., the re cently formed British company headed by C. M. Woolf.

Eastman Kodak and Electrical involved in the deal. Research, Inc., of America, are also

British interests are said to be in

the neighbourhood of £400,000.

EXCHANGE OF STARS

his

The lawyer shot himself dead with the last bullet.

Only a few minutes before, he had been protesting because application for permission to plead was refused.

Workman George Anderson was being questioned by Public Prosecutor Harold Cederbaum about his divorce petition when a shot was heard.

Burgomaster Carl Aahman called; out, "who dares to interrupt the court?"

THE ANSWER

Another shot was the answer. Lawyer A. R. Willen was then seen standing in the body of the court with a revolver in each hand.

The Public Prosecutor. ran towards the door of a private room.

On both aides of the Atlantic there Complications have set in. will be an exchange of films and film Three of Mrs. Kenny's entries stars which should infuse fresh blood and three of Mrs. Darrigo's are into the industry in the two countries, A president has not yet been chosen subject to dispute, on account of late registration, the law being for the now company.

The original suggestion which lod that a child must be registered

deal was made by to tha important within 30 days after birth.

Mr. John Bullock, who represented Under the terms of the will, the Mr. Herbert Wilcox, the English pro children must all have been "producer, in England.

the perly registered."

tion for its large output of pictures. This may reduce Mrs. Konny's largest studio in Hollywood and had son.

a world-wide distributing organiza

The new company fa entitled Uni- versal Pictures Corporation.

stayed at a West End hotel with Mr. official entries to eight, or perhaps

Marsh.

nine, for she has another child on the way.

Mrs. Darrigo's entries may, in

Flag On Mountain similar way, bd reduced to eight.

Peak As Token

Colombo (Ceylon), Apr. 6.

SETS OF TWINST Mrs. Kenny, however, has already

Univoranl

Pictures owned

LAEMMLE RETIRES

Carl Laemmle, the veteran founder of the universal organisation, will retire under the change of control

The new purchasers will take over A Union Jack made of painted had three sets of twins, and Mrs. active management of the entire pro- metal is to crown the highest point Darrigo two sets.

...ducing and distributing organisation in Coylon Peak Pedurutalage (8,000 If ofther of them has another within 20 days. fot). It will commemorate the ac- cession of King Edward VIII. It is pair, she may win the "race" In

Mr. Laemmle, last of the famous

many months.

"to serve as a permanent Innd-mark spite of the disputed late registra-movie pioneers, has been ailing for

tions. and a token of loyalty."Router.

There was a shot. He fell killed outright. The next bullet struck Anders.

His body pitched forward across the Bible which he had just lald down.

Bullets flew. de fast as Willch could press the triggers.

MURDERER CHEATS THE GUILLOTINE

Dijon, France, Apr. 4. Italian murderer Michel Rosa should have died on the guillotine in Dijon Prison to-morrow.

He found another way to-day. although chained hand and foot. Rosa asked a warder for water. When it was brought to him,

in his cell on the second co

he smashed the jug on the head, bounded through the door na fast as his manacled limba would allow, climbed the gallery rails and plunged down into the. courtyard.

Ho WOA killed instantly, Renter.

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Two brushed, the burgomaster's head, singeing his head on either side.

Another struck Clerk Nilsson on the knee.

EMPTY CHAMBERS Then the triggers clicked empty chambers.

The burgomaster drove them But the lawyer pulled another home and broke the news to their revolver from his' pocket, Helmother.

turned this on the public until | one cartridge remained. He put the, revolver to his heal, fired, and fell dead. Prosecuter Cederbaum's two children were waiting outside the court on their way home from on school.

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