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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. · MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1996.

THERE ARE FEWER MILLIONAIRES

819 In 1930-

There are still many millionaires Road The Column on the loft: But 428 In 1934

Read the story on the Right to see how the How many

millionaires has Great £3-a-wook 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

1932-33

1933-34

819

676

626

-161

428

There are clear indications that

a great redistribution of wealth is taking place.

more

In 1936, Afty thousand 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,- 515 people with annual incomes between £2,000 and £2.500; there wero 14,330 with incomes of £3,000 a year and 8,754 with in- 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.

£50,-

Sartax (paid on incomes of £2,- 000 and upwards) totalled 015,882.

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

Thirty-five estates during the year totalled more than $500,000, Five totalled £2,000,000. One ex-' ceeded £3,000,000.

IN DOG KENNEL

WOMAN STOWAWAY Auckland, Apr, 1.

In

a vacant do kennel on the boat dock of the Mariposa a young

THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN A MONTH AGO.

Little Men Earn

£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- Įdetached villa towns spring-

A bus passing through a cutting in a deep drift at Soutra Hill on the Edinburgh-Lauder road, carly, last

manth.

"The mow is piled almost level with the top of the bun.

Lady Charles Cavendish Says American

Snobs

Drive Her "Nuts"

New York, Apr. 8. "The make-up," abe unid, "made

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

as Adele Astaire duneed herself stage of jaundice."

into the hearta of American But her picture appearance was theatre audiences, has been flirting | 20 surcessful that the producer urged her to return in four with the films.

months to be starred.

On the eve of her departure for

married woman was found, travelling England she has disclosed that nstowaway. The discovery

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"There is a bare possibility that might Alu That," said Lady

made our after the line had left when she and Lord Charles Caven") Charles, "but I don't think I sbali, Sydney. She is of Auckland, and asdish were in Hollywood. Mr. David her father paki her fare the will not Selznick, the producer, persuaded be prosecuted.

her to have a screen test.

BABY RACE- LAST LAP

7 MOTHERS, 64 BABIES IN

£100,000 CONTEST

RACE,"

have to look after Charles, you

know."

One interview quotes her saying:

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

} "I know two abroad. One married a nobleman. It's terrife. They go "gaga" with their 'deah. dentis."

"It drives me muts: Why can't they be just themselves."

...

T£100,000 PRIZE AWAITS THE LUCKY MOTHER, ISOA Britain's

ITS LAST LAP.

Charles Vance Miller, eccentric Toronto lawyer, started the context 10 years ago, when he left in his will the bulk of his pro- perty to the woman having most babies in Toronto between the hour of his death, 4-30 p.m. on October 31, 1926, and 4-30 p.m. os October 31, 1936.

There are now seven mothers with good 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

She expects another before the final closing hour.

Mrs. Kenny is closely followed by Mrs. Emanuelu Darrigo, 44 years fold, 23 years married.

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

A decree nisi was granted by Mrs. Grace Bagnato is third Mr. Justice Bucknil in the favourite with nine definitely rank- Divorce Court last month to Mr.ing children.

Mrs. Kathleen Nagle, Mrs. Alica Edmund Owen Fearnley-Whit| tingstall, portrait painter and.mieck, with nine each; Mrs. Hilda Graziano, and Mrs. Madleine art dealer, against his wife, Harrison with eight each, are the former Miss Eileen Bennett, the other contestants. well-known lawn tennis player.

Mr. Marcus Marsh, the racehorse. trainer, was elted as co-respondent,

STRONG OPPOSITION

All Canada was shocked when the and costa were given against him. terms of the contest became known,

The suit was not contested. The marriage took place in Nover. Religious leaders condemned It. ber, 1929, at St. Margaret's, West Soela! workers held indignation 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 expenses. There were quarrels, and he was shut out of the flat one night- towards the end of 1930.

He continued to live with his wực until July, 1931. In that month ahel

Amarica went to

to play in the Wightman Cup contest, and she did not return to him when she came back to England.

Later, he learned that she had

Complications have set in. Three of Mrs. Kenny's entries and three of Mrs. Darrige's are subject to dispute, on account of Inte registration, the law being that a child must be registered within 30 days after birth, Under the terms of the will, the children must all have been "pro- perly registered."

This may reduce Mrs. Kenny's

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

Marsh.

Flag On Mountain

Peak As Token

Colombo (Ceylon), Apr. 6.

ning, for she has another child on the way,

Mrs. Darrigo's entries may, in similar way, by reduced to eight.

SETS OF TWINS Mra. Kenny, however, has already

Biggest Film Deal

HUGE HOLLYWOOD

COMBINE BOUGHT

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

of

по

Universal Pictures, one Hollywood's biggest film com. bines, was taken over by Anglo-American syndicate for a Hum believed to be about £1,400,000,

The negotiation of this deal was · first announced February 23.

ing up in the south, to re- cord the great treks from the hills of the west and the moorlands of the north tol the cities of the plains.

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

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

That is why they call their book a ploneer work-"The Home Market" (Allen and Unwin, 106, úd. 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 Rixty-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

Out in the farmlands, say the experts, are 1.200,000, actively en- gaged in agriculture-the most numerous of any productive group. Large scale methods of production have not affected agriculture to

Vimy any great extent. One in every

Ridge Land to

The

Canada

Paris, Apr. 15. French Chamber to-day passed a Bill authorising the pre

sentation to the Canadian Govern- ment in perpetulty of a plot of Tard five neres in extent conti- guous to the Canadian Cemetery, at Vimy.

According to the terms of this Bill the object of this gift in "to make posible certain improvement

iseven works on his own account; two-fifths of the agricultural hold- lings are of less than 20 acres.

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

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Between them these £3 to £10 grades earn $1,560,000,000 a year, which is 39 per cent, of the national income.

Right to the end of this book of

in the cemetery where so many dispassionate sutistics are storica defenders of Vimy

Ridge He which throb with the pulsing bead hurled-Renter.

lof a busy nation.

Nudist Romance Ends

Los Angeles, Apr. 3. in November 1933. Bride, bride- THE nudist wedding which groom, minister, and 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 215 years ago is to jone else carried even 'n handkerchief, end in the divorce court.

Mrs. Susie Goodman has filed a suit against Mr. James F. Goodman, alleg ing desertion.

*

[Note: Mrs. Goodman's lawyer stated to-day thut fils client and her | husband gave up nadism « few months The couple were married at after marriage.) Elsinore, California, nudist colony,Reuter.

BULLETS FLY

IN COURT: 3

MEN KILLED

Stockholm, Apr. 3.

REVOLVER bullets fired by an infuriated lawyer in Nykoeping Law Courts, sixty miles from Stockholm,

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on to-day killed the Public Prosecutor and a man seeking Documents exercising their option divorce, wounded the clerk and narrowly missed the to buy were signed tris morning by judge. the Standard Capital Company and Charles Rogers, producer, with Gene- ral Film Distributors, Ltd., the re cently formed British company headed by G. M. Woolf.

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

British interests are said to be in

the neighbourhood of £400,000.

EXCHANGE OF STARS

On both sides of the Atlantic there will be an exchange of films and film stars which should infuse fresh blood into the industry in the two countries, A president has not yet been chosen for the now company.

to this important deal was made by The original suggestion which led

Mr. John Bullock, who represented Mr. Herbert Wilcox, the English pro dacer, in England.

the

The lawyer shot himself dead with the last bullet.

Only a few minutes before, he had been protesting becauso his 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.

Burgemaster 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.

There was a shot, He fell killed outright.

The next bullet struck Anders.

Universal Pictures, owned largest studio in Hollywood and had 600.

tion for its large output of pictures. a world-wide distributing, organian- Hin body pitched forward across the Bible which he had just Inid The new company is entitled Uni- down versal Pictures Corporation.

LAEMMLE RETIRES

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

The now purchasers will take over ducing and distributing organisation If either of them has another within 30 days. cession of King Edward VIII. It is pair, she may win the "rade," in

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MURDERER CHEATS THE GUILLOTINE

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

Ho 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 gallery, he smashed the lug on the officer's head, bounded through the door as fast as his manacled limbe would allow, climbed the gallery rails and plunged down into the courtyard.

He was killed instantly. Render.

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Bullete flow as fast as Willen could press the triggers.

Two brushed the burgomaster's)

turned this on the public until head, singeing his head on either

He cartridge remained. put the revolver to his head,! side.

ilred, and fell dead. knee. Another struck Clerk Nilsson on

Prosecutor Cederbaum's two children were waiting outside the EMPTY CHAMBERS

court on their way home from Then the triggers clicked

on school empty chambers,

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

A Union Jack made of painted had three sets of twins, and Mroactive management of the entire pro- the metal is to crown the highest point Darrigo two nets.

in Ceylon Peak Podurutalago (8,300) feet; It will commemorate the ac-

Mr. Lammio, last of the famous

to serve as a permanent land-mark spite of the disputed Into registra-moviu plongers, has been alling for and a token of Joyalty."-Reuter.

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