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OrJanuary 6, 1941.

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EGYPTIANS HAD INCOME TAX

Course of Levy in History

WASHINGTON, Pa. (UP).—The Income tax dates back 3,500 years to ancient Egypt and was a colonial institution in this coun- try, according to a Washington and Jefferson College instructor. In his "History of the Income Tax." Instructor Reynol V. Ullom traced forms of the tax to 1580 B.C. From the Egyptian beginning, he wrote, It swept through Greece, Italy and various parts of Europe and was used in colonial Massachusetts in 1643,

The ancient Greek tax was

based on an individual's ability

to pay. Usually it was graft Young Girl

and political corruption that caused Income levies to be re- pealed, the thesis said.

Massachusetts' income tax whs to provide for common defence.

Other colonies made similar levies, The first state income tax was levied by Pennsylvania in 1840. It was repealed 31 years later.

Permanent Basis

The Civil War brought income levies to a permanent busis in the United States, with practically every southern site Imposing such taxes. The first Federal Income tax law in

May Sleep Lifetime

FIVE-YEAR-OLD Mary Ellen Reardon, of Chleage, will grow Into beautiful girlhood, woman- hood, middle-age and old age, but never will she awake from a deep mysterious slumber.

This is the opinion of a specin- Hist who, oll golden-haired

1802 Imposed a three per cent tax Mary's birth-day recently, ex- on incomes, from 3000 to $10,000, and five per cent. in excess of $10,000. Amined her and tried to probe

In 1865, it was raised to five per the mystery of the sleep that cent on incomes from $000 to $5,000 has kept her in bed two and a and 10 per cent in excess of $3,000. half years. The following year a $1,000 exemp

The specialist said that a perma

tion became effective but was re-nently impaired nerve centre would placed In 1871.

This levy was the form of legis lation for 20 years, despite an 1873 Supreme Court ruling.

upholding atitutionality of taxes on incomes. The next federal income law, in 1804

invalidates Was

by the Supreme Court on grounds that It tacked representation communistle nature.

und was

of

Ullom closed his history with the ratification of the 16th Amendment!

keep Mary always slumbering, but her healthy body would grow and develop and she would live long.

Her brave mother, Mrs Daniel Reardon, received this verdict with a smile.

"I don't believe it," she said. know one day God will give my child the power to awaken, arise and enjoy the world (or which Fle created her."

600,000 Pray

in 1013. This amendment was the i Six hundred thousand Chileogo outgrowth of a bill introduced by Catholies for over a year have prayed Sen. Norris Brown. a Republienti. every week for this miracle to hap In 1900,

nen.

And those at Mary's bedside say that at the time of devotion in the nearby church they have seen a sweet smile pass over her blue-eyed doll- like face.

ARGENTINE

WANTS PILOTS

of

PALACE HIT-Historically famous Kensington Palaco, London, damaged by German bombs during a recent air raid. Cable picture from London, passed by British consor, shows holos in the roof and charred timbers. The Palace was designed by Sir Christopher Wren. It was here that Queen Victoria received notice of hor accession to the throno.

5-Year-Old German Raid Plans

U.S. Opposed

Highlanders To Food Ships Dodge Nazis

"Would Feed Nazis”

A nation-wide poll by theFour Months!

American Institute of Public

Mr Ralph Ingersoll, owner of Opinion Ins revealed that TWO Cameron Highlanders n New York evening newspaper, Americans are at present strong-have just returned to England who spent three days looking atly against sending food in United from German-occupied France. London, said of German raids on States ships to German-occupied (after dodging the Nazis for Britain:

territories should there be a nearly four months. "This has been one of the most famine this winter. known. It was premeditated. Ingenious methods of thing I have

conversations in New York with the German Consul-General and in San

"I was told five years ago, during

Dr Gallup, the director of the Institute, said that, despite the

sympathy for the innocent victims of the war, the American public's first

They were captured early in June and marched off in à agged column, guarded by tanks.

On the route they fell out with

into a wood, and lay there until night.

dread disease encephalitis, with which¦ alde-de-camp), that they would time Dations would be an indirect method [other men to fetch water, slipped

Mary in the pathelle victim of the Francisco with Wiedemann (Hitler's / reaction was that to feed Hitler's

the

war

occurred. America

for Was

Although they would stand to profit

They decided to make for the coast, but had to travel by night and sleep in woods by day.

mile or two a night. Sometimes they could travel only

A campaign to build up a reserve measles in March. 1038.

he was stricken after an attack of these events,

of feeding Hitler's Germany, corps of 5,000 civit pilots in Argen-

When speelfeally naked If America moment when ting within the next three years is there is no gleam of recognition in

Occasionally her eyes open, but engaged in her Presidential election." should send food in her own ship, 38 now under way, it is reported by them. Beyond an occasional smile the shelters, said: "

Mr Ingersoll, after visiting London eyes" and 62 per cent.

per cent. of those po

replied American Vice Consul Joe D. Wal-expression of the dainty features the calmness and courage of the from this, it was noted that only 35

um bewildered by strom.

never vary. the Argentine Aero

people. I shall go back to America Club, which is sponsoring the plan, kneel before flower-decked altars admiration for the British people."

Men, women, and little children with a are confident that over 20,000 uppll- while the mother of the sleeping

message of good cheer and per cent, of the farmers polled were for aending food and 85 per cent. cations will be received from mem~} beauty awaits the miracle which the had been less damage to obvious would be willing to send food even if without food. Then they found sn

Mr Ingersoll said he found there against sending food. Asked if they military objectives than the impres-some of it went to the Germans, 22 "I believe that a mother's fatth sion given them in America. wii conquer," she says.

Omelals

bers of the Annual conscription classes between 18 and 38 years of) age.

Dolphins Erected At Hung Hom

Three dolphins are in course of erection of the eastern limits of the properly of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, at Hung Hom.

Il

doctors say will never happen.

"We have never given up hope. We pray every day for her recovery." Mary Ellen is being fed on soft food and liquids with a spoon. Her only daily treatment is light massage.

months'

Unscarred

miles he had seen railways, stations, In journey of more than 100 factories, airports, harbours where shipping went on normally, and not a single scar on any of them.

But in London he found more damage to non-military objectives than he had thought would be the

ense.

per cent.. repiled "Yes" and '78 per cent. "No."

NEW R. A. F.

FIGHTER

Into service with the R.A.F.

This, with its abnormally ability to stay in the air without refuelling.

A new type of fighter is coming

Mr Ingersoll compared the complete freedom with which he could move and Its heavy armament, should, to put it mildly, disconcert the Luft- (writes E. G. H. Salusbury,

Correspon dent).

These qualifications may be cou- pled with a novel method for the! detection of the night raider.

about in Britain with the restrictions entilly Herald War

and Germany,

AIR RAID TUNNELS

For the use of residents in the eastern part of Wanchat, on air raid These dolphins will show red tunnel opposite the Royal Naval light by night, and vessels are worn-Hospital is being constructed, and is ed-to-give-then-a-wide-berth. They expected to be completed in two-newspapermen-in-Berlin the are in the following positions:

time. The tunnel, 1 13 Latitude 22.18.11.5 North, Longitude learned, will be able to accommodate 114.11.20,8 East; Latitude 22.18.11.13.7 a large number of people. North, Longitude 114,11.24.2 East; The Air Raid Precautions Depart-

building tunnels and Latitude 22.18.16.1 North, Longiment are tude 114.11.27.7 East.

sites throughout the Colony. Some of these have already been completed.. und sites for further tunnels being surveyed,

The chart affected is No. 1459.

UNIVERSITY COURT

The appointment is notified of Mr Leonard John Davles as a member

on 18

CHINESE NEWSPAPERS

are

It is notified that the following

of the Court of the University of Chinese newspapers circulating in the Hongkong for a period of three years, Colony have been approved by

The following are to be members Secretary for Chinese Affairs under of the Court of the University of Section 3 of the Fraudulent Transfers Hongkong for a further period of of Businesses Ordinance: three years; Messrs Hugh Blackwell The Taun Wan Yat Po, Wa Ts: Layard Dowbiggin, o..., and Mer-Yah Po, Wah Klu Yat Po and Kung vanji Pestonji Tainti

Sheung Yat Po.

U-Boat Bases Allegation Is

In Eire Denied

•

£100,000 Settlement Denied

is

A elvillan population which being bombed is apt to be impatient for results, but our experts have not been idle.

Death Of Edinburgh Schoolmaster

Four Days, No Food.

For four nights they had to go on abandoned French lorry, with a bottle of rum in 11, beside A potato field. They improvised meals by living on potatoes dipped in ram.

Eventually they reached the sea, near a German headquarters, hid In an empty houre 100 yards away, and went to bed in the attic.

In the night they heard German

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Germans slept,

For days they awaited a chance to get away in a boat on the beach.

Eventually they sel off on a dark night. But the tide drove their craft. "back" to a wharf.”

Second Try Succeeds

All next day they lay wondering If they would be captured. German soldiers went past, but missed them. Under the noses of the Germans they made their second try. In beam of A lighthouse a guard saw them pass, machine-gun fire opened, and bullets hit the water by the boat.

the

A wave carried away the mast and swept everything overboard, the

their course, mainsail split in two, the 1lb broke, but day and night they struggled on

trawler and taken to England.

At last they were picked up by a

Round-Up Of Blum's Friends

phine Epstein, who previously was headmaster of D Gulee Seventeen-year-old Mrs Jose- Mr Charles William Falconer, who told the Marlborough Street spring of last year, died at 1 South magistrate that her husband House Road, Edinburgh, recently.

Boys' School from 1020 until the

forced her to cultivate the ac- Mr Falconer, who was 62 years of quaintance of a wealthy Jew, 70e, was born in Edinburgh, years of age, was asked at the He was keen golfer and angler, resumed hearing whether the Constables, He was also known to and i a member of the Edinburgh High | court proceedings were an at-mony as t lecturer. He leaves a tempt to get rid of Mr Epstein widow, and a grown-up family of so that she could marry

the three sons

daughter. lis and Jew.

youngest son. Flight-Lieutenant Dan "No," she replied.

Falconer, played Rugby before the war for Jedforest. 1c recently Has the man said he would settle broadcast some of his experiences in £100,000 on you If you would marry the him?" asked counsel.-"No." In our issues of December 13 inst, we reproduced from a

Mr Falconer took a keen interest. The arrest of the French ex- Mrs Epstein accused her husband. In the life and work of Liberton Kirk. Premier, M. Leon Blum, has London paper the report of an assertion by Dr James Little.

Edward, a general merchant, of Mait-He was ordained an elder in Fife as been followed by a round-up of M.P..

that

Jand Court, W., of using German U-boats operating in the Atlantic are

threats far back as 1907 and was received olled and provisioned from bases in Eire,

whereby she went in danger of her into Liberton kirk-session when he other Socialist leaders in un- life.

came to Dr Guthrie's Subsequently a denial of this ritory.

Answering counsel,

School. occupied France, she said the Throughout his long connection with allegation was made by Lord

Jew had expressed a desire to marry the church he was a tower of strength concentration camps, although They are being detained in "The distinguished divine," said ser if he could. Strabolgi in the House of Lords, Lord Strobelgi, "is quite wrong in

to the session. Counsel: Did you want to marry He made many-sided contact with a newspaper extract of which posing What submarines use petrol him if you could?-No. has been forwarded to us by a which use heavy oil fuel., The idea

I told him the community, as an enthusiastic They are run on Diesel engines, I was too young for him.

Freemason, and was held in esteem in reader who signs himself "Cor-that heavy oil could be conveyed in

the social and sporting side 0 Masonry. He was a former captain caigh-Luimneach." We are glad large quantities to submarines, which

of Liberton, and the. Brnids golf clubs. B grotesque." about it, is grot

to have the opportunity of pub-one knowing

are distinctive warships, without

lishing this extract which is as follows:

Peer Correcta Dr Little

оле

any-

The British representative in Dub

Iln, he added, had a naval advisor, who would be alive to things.

Lord Strabolgi, in the House of Denial Not Published

Advises C.O. To Appeal

JUDGE DAVIES told a con-

no charges have so far been made against them.

Among those arrested as such pro- minent men as

ML Marx-Dormoy, who as Minlas Unitedter of the Interior in 1037 rounded

up the "Hooded Men," the Fascist: gun-runners subsidised by Germany and Italy.

Grandson Succeeds Lord Strickland

The Into Lord Strickland's grand

A. Vincent-Aurlol, ex-Minister of Finance and Inter of Justice in Lords, asked if the Government's at- Why had the Minister of Infor-scientious objector before the

Popular Front Governments, in whose tention had been drawn to the mation, who was anxious to catch up South Wales tribunal, at Cardiff, son, Mr Thomans Hornyold-Strickland, lived after the capitulation.

home near Toulouse M. Leon Blum allegation made by n n Northern Ire with German lles, allowed this state-recently: "You are one of the who is a midshipman in the Royal land M.P. in Belfast, to the effect ment to be publishes without saying

ML Grumbach, Socialist expert on that German submarines were being it was true or untrue? He saw no most honest objectors I have had Navy, succeeds to his grandfather's international affairs, who for years supplied from Elre territory; whether mention in the British. Press of the before me."

Maltese title of mobility, and is re-exposed the pro-Nazism of Flandin, they were aware that this allegation denial which he understood the Eire

cognised by the Crown as the seventh | the pro-Fascism of Laval. And when the objector's appllen- Count Della Catena, hind

Jales Moch, ex-Minister of received

newspaper publiefty Government had and whether they were in a position

tion for exemption was refused, the hnd published.

The title was created by the Grand Transport, who Lord Snell, replying for the Gov- Judge advised him to appeal to get Master of the Order of St John in tective equipment against magnetic

a new pro Invented to refute the allegation and give the ernment, he did not know why a ruling on whether or not a politicni 1745. The English peerage becomes mines which, was successfully tested!

the

Minato!

allowed the statement objection can be regarded as a con- extinct. Lord Strabolg stated that De to appear in the Press, but he could scientious objection.

under his personal supervision dur James Little, who represented Co. any, bearing in mind all that was

Lord Strickland, who was the firsting the naval operations off Norway. Down had declared in a speech that involved, that the British Govern- Abergwynt, was the objector.

of baron, left five daughters but no sons. Such Socialist leaders as M. Paul the Eira Government had winked at ment had no evidence to the effect

liis eldest daughter married Mr Faure, M. Spinasse and M. Severne, He said he was a clerk formerly Henry Hornyod, J.P., of Sixergh who sponsored, more or less openly. ar permitted the supply of petrol to that submarines were being supplied employed by the "New Statesman, Lodge. Kendal, who assumed the n German submarines from Elre ter- from Eire territory.

panco-at-my-price polley and now a member of the I.L.P. additional surname of Strickland, spared for the moment.,.

facts.

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