1939-08-16 — Page 2

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 16, 1939.

GROCER BOY BUILT HOTELS

-NOW OWES

Saved £100 to Start

£711,864

His Own Business THOMAS CRAWFORD GORDON started life in a grocery store, dreamed of creating luxury hotels at popular prices—and recently faced public exami- nation in the London Bankruptcy Court with £711,864 liabilities and assets of £2,366.

Mr. Gordon anid; "My greatest ambition was achieved in the completion of this building, which cost more than £800,000 to build.

"The plans took

over 18

Judge Clears

A Brother

Mr. Justice Hodson recently dis- miared a husband's brother from a divorce sult with the remark, "A} wicked charge

based on entirely false evidence."

Frederick Estnugh,, of Woodlands. avenue, Wanstead, Essex, was pelltl- tioning in the Divorce Court against bla wife Irene Amelin. May, of Ravenscroft-avenue, Wembley Park, Middlesex, alleging her misconduct with his brother Thomas.

After the brother and Mrs. Estäugli had denied the charges, it was stated that the husband did not propose to proceed.

Mr. Justice Hodson dismissed the

months to finish and I would Gold Mine Director action, with costs and awarded costs

not complete the contract, be-

cause I disputed an amount of 88, 9d. for a broken valve."

He bought all the shares in a company owning the lease for £115,000.

"I come from Ballachulish, in west Scotland. Nearly everybody there earns a living through the slate quarries, which are the greatest in

the workh

HIS MOTTO

"But I soon realised that I would

never realise my ambitions there. It was then that I first thought of a chain of hotels to stretch across England. In every other industry, 100%! production Tas successfully brought down prices, so why not in the hotel business, I thought.

Owns Adam

BLACKPOOL.

to Thomas Estough,

Mrs. Eslaugh was then granted a decree nisi GI her, cross-petition alleging cruelty. The suit was not contested.

She was given the custody of the

MR. CHARLES STAFFORD, AA of Golders Green, a director three children, of goldmine companies, dis- closed recently that he was the purchaser of Jacob Epstein's Adum. He refused to say the price.

"I am an admirer of Epstein," said Mr. Stafford. "Art tuis always been my hobby,

"I have already left Adun to my

family as an Heirloomt It is the greatest work of imaginative art, have seen. The day after I bought) it I could have sold it to America at a profit of £7,000, but I would not.

"PASSPORT TO FUTURE”

"I started in a small way at Glasmart, with it for £100,000." gow, and gradually increased my scope." He showed me a gold signet ring, on which was inscribed the motio of his clan, "ty Coutrage and not by Craft"

"I've always tried to live up to that," he said.

"I Jud to form more than 20 com- panies to deal with my various hotels and enterprises, but of course, I have had to relinquish my directorships now. I am afraid world conditions

many guarantres."

When Mr. Epstein arrived at the hall in Church Street, Blickport. where Adam is view, he was] asked:

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Paul V., McNuti, retired Philippines High Commissioner, recently necepteit a post as hend of new Federal Security Agency offered by President Roosevelt.

He Wants To Change Empire Broadcasts

MR. W. E. GLADSTONE MURRAY, soft-spoken chief of

Canadian broadcasting, is in London revisiting his old rooms at Broadcasting House--and preparing the ground for a conference of Empire broadcasting chiefs

His visit is expected to result

in changes in the B.B.C.'s Em- pire broadensts,

Mr. Murray, who was with the B.B.C. for 13 years, is the leading authority on Empire broadensting,

He recently began his discussions "Why did you say it was appalling with the B.B.C. chirts. that your masterpiece should be

Later he hopes, to present to the shown at Blackpool?"

King

Fold

mlerophone which was used for the royal bromeasts during the Canadian tour.

"Because my

idea at that time! was it was going to be the subject caught me napping, and I gave too of a vulgar side:how," he answered

"I did not realise the setting and the] occasion."

CAPITAL £100

"How do you regard your worki

The

Dismissed Men Jump In World Fair Lagoon

New York.

Guides at the New York World's

Fair recently waded through the Lagoon of the Nations as a protest Canadian aspect of my visit.

He said: "I can only talk of the fagainst the wholesale dismissal of

I shall exhibition employees. suggest that the B.BC. broadenst a special programme for Canada. EVEN GOSSIP

being a

and

Twelve hundred fair workers were Jobless or due for discharge, more dismissals are to follow.

The trouble is that the fair is in "W take the Empire broadcasts, danger of but they are not enough.

complete Bnancial Canada failure.

The management dismayed news "I think it is my passport to the wants future. It should have been in the gossip. We are very interested in been only half what was expected, about London-even by the daily attendance which Ins Tate Gallery. I think the trustees of what happening in London every is having to wield the economy axe. the Tate are lacking both in imagina-day. tie and initiative.

I told the court how, before | Adam, now you have seen it in the 1901, he was employed as an hotel | Blackpool sideshow?" manager, rented the Exhibition Hotel, Glasgow, with a capital of £100, and later the Cecil, Glasgow.

The business was successful, and in June 1911, a company was formed to fake it over for £10,000.

Since 1932 he speculated in pro- perties, and be attributed his failure to losses in connection with them, to Habilities under guarantees and to the slump in trade in the West End, owing to world conditions.

He said that he had lost thousands

of pounds through giving guaranters in connection with properties.

"Canadians do not like the British "la statue is a religious one. The musical-hall items. Perhaps there is block of alabaster was two years in too much local allusion."

my studio in an upright position and. Mr. Muray was born in Fraser

during that time I thought out every became general

Valley. British Columbia. Before he buy entertainment usually costing Us.

Unless the attendance increase by 100,000 daily—almost double the pre- seat average the fair looks like be- ing written off as a white elephant. As a special inducement, 4s. will

detail. It is conceived as an elemen-Canadian Uroadcasting Co., in 1936, been greatly reduced, but still people manager of the Parking rates and food prices favo tal figure, the father of us all."

Mr. Stafford said that he intends Relations and later Assistant Com-

he was h.n.C. Diretor of Public stay away.

of Programmes.

ajcast in French. It was perfect. In vigorous champion of the "Empire October they are still talking about

it. When

about spoke

The gold!

"Both the King and Queen broad- microphone he has with him, cast in French and made a wonder- he said: "The Inest talk the ful Impression Ou the French- King gave in Canada was his broad- Canadians."

that Adam should

world.

go round the

troller

I WON'T! I WON'T!

Fits of temper tantrums-breaking up the party may not be serious to grown-ups but it's tragedy to child. hood. There's something wrong with this "bridegroom". What he probably needs is CASTORIA, the children's laxative. Nervousness and fits of temper are not natu- ral in children. At the first sign of irritation, temper, give them CASTORIA, the laxative made especially for children. It's pleasant, gentle, mild and thorough.. Don't let real tragedy grip your children. Insure their happiness with CASTORIA, the laxative which blends perfectly with their delicate, sensitive systems. Get a bottle today. Keep it in your home.

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He was

She Does Not Know Who Is Paying Debts

AFTER six years, a dividend is to be paid to the creditors of a Mayfair widow by the Official Receiver in Bankruptcy and the woman herself does not know the source of the money.

was

She ig 39-years-old Mrs. "Later he became very ill, I was Violette Daubeny, famous for told there no hope. He was her Empire four as "Trade dying. But he had set his heart on buying a beautiful bouse in Knights- Ambassadress" for English firms bridge. With his pension and my which brought £250,000 worth own income we could afford it.” of orders to this country.

She paused. "So what could I do?" she

"He did not knowi he was dyin

"When Arthur dled," Mrs. Daubeny went on quietly, “I found myself re- sponsible for the house.

HUSBAND WAS DYING Recently Mrs. Daubeny told, for the first time, the dramatic story of how she lost her money.

"My husband Arthur, a son of "Soon after, to make matters General Daubeny," she said, "retired worse, I lost my own income. I went with a large pension which was to into bankruptcy with abilities of end on his death.

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