Zurich Herald, 1955-07-07, Page 7Amazing Stunts By British
fax Dodgers
When the Joneses christened
their daughter Noel they
thought there was no mistaking
her sex . but on reaching
womanhood Noel found that the
income-tax authorities deemed
her to be a man, so she invented
a wife and two children.
By employing her imaginary
wife in her business, Noel even
claimed the wife's earned in-
come allowance and expenses —
but she came to grief when she
invented anon -existent mother -
Rn -law as dependent relative.
Noel was just on of the 78,000
tax -dodgers unmasked last year
In a drive that has reaped a
Useful £25,000,000 for the 'Ex-
chequer. Every year the war
against tax evasion is growing
tougher — and the dodges
dreamed up by cheats grow
More fantastic.
A £7 -a -week Bristol railway-
man claimed relief for a wife
and family that grew year by
Tear until he had four children.
hen he mixed up the dates of
itis children's birthdays and the
income-tax men grew suspi-
eious..- In reality, he was a
baeheloi: Ie went to jail.
A •scYioolteacher claimed re-
lief for her widowed mother —
tind was still claiming nine
hears after her mother's death.
A Yorkshire tractor - driver
claimed for twins when his first
Child was born, He was caught
after seven years. Taking this
trick to excess, however, two
Wily brothers conveniently in-
vented a child whenever they
had an increase of income.
When questioned by the tax
inspectors, they even produced
forged Irish baptismal certifi-
cates to prove it. They ended
up at the Old Bailey.
Then there was the spinster
who listed her two pet cats as
her children and the bachelor
who listed as bad debts the
Rifts he gave chorus girls. Still
more ingenious was the man
who went from job to job and
defrauded employers by forging
tax adjustment forms. The
forms purported to show that
he was entitled to small rebates
of tax and the employers paid
up. Commented a magistrate,
"This is the first case I've heard
elf somebody making a profit out
of income tax!"
For the harsh truth remains
that dodgers pay up — usually
plus fines — sooner or later. On
one occasion, a tax detective no-
ticed an advertisement of an
auction sale of jewellery and
thought it might be worth while
to watch who bought, what.
Most of the buyers proved to
be professional jewellers. But a
business man who spent £1,300.
on a necklace promptly had his
accounts examined to see if his
reported income indicated such
lavish spending power.
The investigation showed not
only that he was trying to fool
the revenue but that he was
keeping two homes. He readily
paid up, with penalties, rather
than risk a court case, The tax
authorities knew, however, that
his wife had discovered his in-
fiedlity when she reported him
for tax -dodging . . , a few
months too late.
When the owner of a small
garage had £4,000 in notes
stolen from his safe, tax officials
pounced — and asked how he
had come to accumulate such
a sum when his earnings were
given as only £800, In addition
to losing ,-4,000, he had to pay
.f: 1,500!
Airplane Trapping
A new hanging rope trap is
now operative on three U.S. air-
fields in east Anglia, Already
one young pilot's life has been
saved by it. Piloting . a super-
sonic Thunderstreak bomber,
Lieutenant Gill Leirnbach radio-,
ed his ground station that his
landing brakes were unservice-
able.
He had to land at 150 m.p.h.,
and unless his machine could
be checked he must, he knew,
overshoot the airstrip. It was
certain death for him — or the
rope.
Quickly the ground staff rig-
ged up their nylon safety at-
tachment, consisting of a 150 -
feet rope, with nylon netting
attached, and fastened to each
end of it a 20 -ton naval anchor
chain, such as destroyers nor-
mally carry.
The pilot was then signalled
down. Shortly after striking the
runway he flew his under-
carriage slap into the rope's
middle, was squarely caught and
though he dragged the great
chains over two hundred yards,
he pulled up finally, with his
undercarriage smashed, but un-
hurt himself, and his precious
'plane designed to carry atomic
missiles, intact.
First tried out in Korea, this
nylon rope trap gives pilots a
second chance should the wheels
or brakes of their aircraft be
damaged. Tricky as it sounds to
be wrapped up in nylon, and
chains, it is also safe.
FEWER SAILBOATS
126 sailboats were shipped by
Canada's boat building industry
in 1953, some 38 less than in
1952, but total factory value
was $83,260, some $6,389 more
than in the preceding year.
1UST CHECKING—Sixteen-year-old John Staib, center, has his
awn car, but he also has a complaint. The youth says police
stop him about three times a week to make sure he's old enough
to drive. Roy Mayers, left, and Pete Witmeyer service the car,
which John bought with earnings from a part-time job.
LEMNIE AT HIM' ---
Universal indignation of a fight fan frantic with feeling over a
decision against his favorite is expressed by this Italian fan,
center, struggling with his welterweight countryman. Scisciani,
right, and manager, over a reversed dicision im a German ring
favoring Russion contender Carlos Dscharerjan. Scene of the
ticketholder's ring debut is the Sportspalast, Berlin, Germany.
Putting The Bees
Out of Business
Some time ago, George Van
Yahres, a tree surgeon, faced a
neat surgical problem: how to
restore unsightly and destruc-
tive cavities that appeared in the
trunks of trees when they lacked
certain vitamin's.
It was fairly simple to restore
the arboreal vitamin counts but
plugging the holes was • another
matter. Van Yahres tried filling
them with cement but it cracked
each time and the holes wouldn't
seal.
Eventually he arrived at the
solution: he fitted rubber blocks
across the cavity, bored a hole
from one side and pumped in
melted parajn wax. The hot wax
filled the cavity and killed any
organisms present. The bark
grew over the rubber.
While the paraffin wax injec-
tion may have 'surprised the
trees, it certainly didn't surprise
paraffin. This unassuming ` ma-
terial, a by-product in the refin-
ing of lubricating oils is one of-
the most versatile of all petro-
leum products and is accustomed
to turning up in odd situations.:
Its use range from making
milk cartons leakproof and .stop-
ping radio -active neutrons to
lining beer barrels. You can even
bathe a sore elbow in it,
Physiotherapists have l o n g
been using wax baths to produce
a moist heat for treating the
hands,, feet, knees, elbows or
shoulders of arthritic or fracture
eases. A little mineral oil is
added to lower the temperature
of the molton wax to about 125
degrees. The patient, for ex-
ample, dips his elbow about 12
times to build up a good coat-
ing; then it is wrapped in paper
and towel for 30 minutes to
keep in the heat. In the ease
of arthritis this therapy seems
to loosen the joints, help blood
circulation and relieve pain.
Wax even played a role in an
attempt to determine the ts•:C of
unborn children. Paraffin was is
useful medically because it is
chemically neutral—indeed, "par-
affin" is a French derivative of
the Latin part= (meaning "Iit-
tle") and affinis (meaning (af-
finity"). For this sex determin-
ation scheme, the pregnant pa-
tient bit on a chunk of wax, thus
producing a sample of saliva.
This was analyzed for the pres-
ence or absence of certain hor-
mones, which were supposed to
indicate the sex of the corning
child.
Just who first separated wax
from crude oil is hard to estab-
lish. It was probably the Scots-
man, Dr, James Young. In 1847,
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!AMRLINQ THROUGH THE YEARS -.. Anton Zither, 84, right, marks the years
numerals on his garden wall. parent pliant for the rambling record of time is
garden, and Ziitner has been guiding the runners through mazes of his floral
1440.
in rose -col... ed
in center of his
calendar since
Young found petroleum, in the
form of oil shale, in Derbyshire,
England. In 1850 he patented his
methods of recovering heavy
lubricating oils and paraffin. By
1854, paraffin was being used by
candlemakers. Large-scale com-
mercial production, however, had
to wait until 1880, and the in-
troduction of horizontal filter
presses. Before this, the refiner
put chilled waxy oil in a bag
and squeezed it in a hydraulic
press to get the oil out; a ted-
ious and rather messy business.
Wax has always been highly
useful to human beings. In fact
there are so many applications
that it's difficult to understand
how the bees kept up with the
demand before paraffin wax was
developed. The Egyptians often
buried waxen images of their
gods along with a dead Egyp-
tian. The Greeks gave their kid-
dies wax dolls, while the Rom-
ans—in the upper tax brackets
—preserved wax masks of their
ancestors.
In the Middle Ages, the mem-
ory of departed monarchs and
other notables was kept alive by
treasuring their wax masks. It
may have been about this time
that the practice began of mak-
ing a wax mask or doll of an
enemy and sticking pins in it.
This was not uncommon strategy
until about the end of the 17th
century and still survives in
more primitive regions. In Spain,
remarkable work was done in
producing wax figures of saints,
skillfully colored.
A method of metal casting
favored by Benvenuto Cellini,
the 16th century Italian sculptor,
came back into prominence dur-
ing World War II for making
precision parts for bombsights,
jet engines and orthopedic ap-
pliances. This is the "lost wax"
process in which a wax pattern
of the finished product is made
and then invested with piaster.
When the plaster has hardened,
the wax is melted by heat,
escapes through one or more
tiny openings in the mold,
through which• molten metal is
then poured. When the metal
has solidified, the plaster is
broken • away, leaving the article
finished except for the removal
of the metal formed in the
"sprue", or pouring aperture.
This method calls for a new
plaster casing for every casting,
but is very accurate. The wax
used is normally a mixture of
paraffin plus carnuba and other
vegetable waxes.
One of the oldest users or wax .
is, of course, the candlemaker.
He has changed a lot since the
13th century, when members of
a guild of travelling candlemak-
ers went from house to house
making "tallow dips". Now con-
tinuous molding machines can
turn out 1,500 candles an hour,
and the wick comes off a reel.
Besides the plain (or power -
failure) candle, you can buy
heart -shaped candles, U-shaped
candles that burn at both ends,
candles that look like beer mugs,
apples or pears.
As an insulating material, par-
affin wax is widely used in the
manufacture of electric condens-
ers. Other ingredients may be
added, for there are micro-or-
ganisms which attack paraffin -
impregnated material, Indeed,
there is one bug, known as Pen-
icillium glaucum, which can ac-
tually use paraffin as its sole
source of. energy. Since paraffin
is inactive chemically, it must
be `afairly tricky problem to
digest it, and would undoubtedly
be impossible for anything ex-
cept Penicillium glaucom.
Another paraffin addict was
John W HcMillan, an early pro-
ducer and refiner of oil in Pe-
trolia, He died in 1891, 'after ex-
pressing the wish that he be
embalmed in wttx. This with
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If you were privileged to
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the walls many pictures he has
painted himself, For this year
he completes forty years as an
amateur painter.
Mr. Menzies, the Australian
Premier, was in the study a
little while ago admiring, the
paintings, some of which have
been shown at the Royal Acade-
my. Sir Winston asked him to
choose one to take back to Aus-
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He chose a study of fishing
smackswith a Moroccan setting
painted at Marrakesh. The pic-
ture has since been flown to
Australia — the first picture by
Sir Winston to be seen there.
It measures four feet by three
feet in its frame.
Sir Winston has hat very
little time for painting lately
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Whenever Sir Winston sub-
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