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EX-KING ALFONSO THE LATE REV. J. WINS LAW SUIT K. MACONACHIE
LADY COWANS
DEAD
£11,000 Securities Claim
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(Special Air-Mall-Service)
A Leader Of Free Church Thought
(Special Air-Mail Service),
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London, March 17. Mr. Justice Lawrence delivered
London, March 37. his reserved judgment in the In "eloquent words, suffused with King's Bench Division on March sincerity, the Rev. Phillip Ro- in the action concerning gers, A.B., "paid worthy tribute to securities valued at about £11,000, the life's work of the Rev. J. Kirk which were claimed both by ex- Maconachie, Congregational mini- King Alfonso and Banco de Viz-ster in Dawlish for the past four caya. The action came up on years, at the funeral. March. I and 2, as an interplaader Coming here in the evening of issue under the title "Banco de his life, after long strenuous work de Bourbon Y Austria” in the ministry Mr. Maconachie im- -the family name of the ex-King, pressed his personality and fine It WES then explained that character on the community during the securities, consisting of Victory his short sojourn in the town. Bonds and shares in the Trinidad As mentioned last week, he died Central Olfelds Ltd., were held by on Friday morning last at the age the Westminster Bank as bailees, of 70 years He had enriched his the bank being no "party to the Church and generation by his gifte action.
of heart and mind, and Els pas sing will be mourned, by many who delighted in his friendship.
Vizcaya
While it was contended for the ex-King that the securities were his own property, having been purchased by him out of his own moneys some years ago, the "Banco de Vizcaya's case WELS that the only rights the ex-King had were rights governed by Spanish law
that he could call upon the
Spanish bank to deliver the securi ties, but that, if they were refused, then his only remedy was to sue them in the Spanish courts.
Fenal Laws
1
Representative `Attendance At
Funeral
Dr.
LONDON MAN SHOT DEAD IN
SINGAPORE:
Great Q.M.G.'s Widow Mourning Girl Who Was To Have Been
Who Sold His Medals
To Bring In Money
Special Alr-Mail Service
"London, Mar. 17. Lady Cowans, widow of Sir John Cowana, the man who was Quar termaster-General during the war
the greatest commissariat officer since Moses") has died in a Lon-. don nursing home after a com- Paratively short illness,
John
Cowans
་༤
was a young lieutenant in the •Rifle Brigade when he met the future Lady Cowans. She was then Miss Eva
His Bride
(Special Air-Mail Service)
London, Mar. 17. Inspector Albert Edward Pope-
Joy, of the Singapore Police Force,
and formerly of the Metropolitan Police, was shot dead by a Chin- alese when he called to make
official inquiries at a pawnshop
Singapore..
He was 26,, and his parents live at Larden-road, Acton Vale, W.
A Reuter message says that Chinese detective was wounded and died later. No arrests have yet been made,
The inspector called at the pawn shop in the course of an investi- gation into a robbery (adds the the shop produced a revolver and shot the officer deau.
May Coulson, and her father was the vicar of Long Preston, York-British United Press). A Chinese in shire.
THE WING SLOT
Making Flying Safer
During the short but rapid de- velopment of aviation, probably no single device has done more to make flying safe than the British invention of the automatic wing slot. Experiments began "towards the end of the Great War. Before that, and for some years after- wards until the use of the slot be fatal flying accidents were caused come general, the majority of
by the Pilot inadvertently "stall- Ing his engine in other words, losing flying speed. (One estimate places the percentage of accidents due to this cause as being as high He was engaged to Miss Muriel McKenzie, a West End saleswo- tion the plot Had no control. His as ninety In the stalled post- man, and they were to have ailerons (lateral controls) were in- been married this year at Singa-operative and rudder and elevator
Inspector Popejoy was eft. 3in. tall, and an athlete. He played Rugby for the Straits Settlements
Before the Great War Lieutenant Cowans had risen to the rank of general, and had seen much ser- vice in India. The war saw him organising the clothing and fee-police team, ding of 7,000,0000 troops, and thanks to his genius all those men were clothed and fed as troops in and fed before. the field, had never been clothed
Jewel of the and St.
pore,
Mrs. Fopejoy, mother of the dead police officer, told the Evening Standard" that her son had been
said: at Singapore for two years. She
He was in the Metropolitan Po- lice, and was formerly at Bethnal had been in the police force for Green and then at Bow-street. He
four and a half years, He was born in Acton, and had lived there all his life until he went abroad."
ters. His mother had a letter from
him a fortnight ago in which he said that he was doing well.
FIRE-PROOF" NAVY
the Congregational Church for the There were few vacant seats at funeral service on Tuesday after- noon. It is a strange coincidence
* £8,000 Swallowed Up that the date, March 6th, coincided with the date of the recognition left £8000 to Lady Cowans, but he In April, 1931, Sir John died. He service to the Rev. Maronachie on had had been so engrossed in his March 6th, 1830.
Those present were well repre- affairs had fallen into great-con- Army duties that His own financial Mr. Justice Lawrence referred to sentative of the other denomina-fusion, and the £8,000 was swal- the decrees made by the
tions in the town and of the Con-lowed up in paying debts." pro- visional Government of Spain in gregational Churches in Devon.
Lady Cowans was thus left with confiscating the ex-King's Amongst them were Dr. H. Saddere only a pension of £225 a year. 1931 property.
(Langdon, Dawlish); and "The contention on behalf of the Pearce (Exmouth), an authority More than once it was suggested. He had a brother and two sis ex-King said his lordship, on China, who were associated with Parliament that, in view of her that these decrees are penal laws the deceased in religious and social husband's great services a special of a foreign State and ought not work in Hong Kong, and the fol-grant should be made to her, but to be recognised in an English lowing Congregational ministers: when she was offered a Civil List court. "The substance of the right Reys, E. Marin (Totnes), Sydney pension she declined it. sought to be enforced by the Courtney (Newton Abbot), E. R Spanish Bank is the delivery to Vente (Teignmouth), S. R. Angel them by the Westminster Bank, (Moretonhampstead), A. R. South who hold the securities as balleescott (Kingsteignton), J. P. Hocking The enforcement of the right will (Bovey Tracey) and J. E. Stephens directly or indirectly involve the (Okehampton). Deacons of the execution of what are endoubted-Dawlish Church:" Mrs. E. A ly penal laws of the Spanish Rickwood (hon. secretary), Mr. Government
W. H. Stone" (hon. treasurer), "The whole case for the ex-King | Messrs. A. J. Ferris, E. Cossins, H. was that the bank were bound by. W. Hitching and W. Lovell, virtue of the decrees I have men The officiating ministers ttoned to hand over the securities the Rev. Hugh Jenkins, M. A. to the Spanish Government in de- (Moderator of the Western Pro- dance of the mandate of the ex-rince) and the Rev. Phillip Rogers, King. For the bank it was con- B.A. (Plymouth). The Rev. F. tended that although the decrees Simmons, M.A. (vican of Dawlish) might be penal, their claim was read the lemon, which was taken not a final one, because they were from the sand chapter of Revela- not asserting the right of the fione. Spanish Government, but their own contractual right to the securities singing of the hymns, "Captain The choir attended and led the as against the Westminster Bank and Saviour of the hosts of Chris
"I am unable to accept that contain chivalry" and "For tention."
with the Lord."
Miss E. Stone presided at the organ and played "O Rest in the Lord" as the coffin was borne from the church.
Accordingly, Mr. Justice Law- rence decided the issue in favour of the ex-King with costs,
LAURA LA PLANTE SUING FOR DIVORCE
16
Marvellous Friends "'
(Special Air-Mail Service)
London Mar. 17.
THOMAS
were
ever
She even sold Sir John's decora- tions-which included the Grand Cross, Collar and Order of St. Michael George, and the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath--and his medals to keep going but soon after she had sold them to a firm of Jewellers an anonymous buyer bought them and returned them to her. Lady Cowans was never able to find 'dứt who this bene factor was.
Financial Bad Luck
In a life on-Sir John Cowans it is recorded that he was always unlucky in money matters.
prize of
British Warships Immunity
(Special Air-Mali Service)...
at
London, March 17.. Recent correspondence in The Daily Telegraph on the effects of British and German shells Jutland has drawn attention to the havoc caused during
that
the precautions taken in our new battle, by explousions and fres.
It may be said, in passing, that
As an example: Once he bought parted with it to a friend, and it ticket in the Calcutta sweep,
drew a winner and a £80,000.
ships make any repetitions of disasters like that of the Queen Sir John and Lady Cowans had Mary well-nigh impossible. Shell- no family,
flash in a turret could not now penetrate to the magazines, "owing to the elaborate yet fool-proof system of anti-flame shutters and baffle plates,
sult was an uncontrolled tut over also soon became useless. The re to one side as the machine began spin, and, if there were not suff- to fall, a nose dive followed by a
cient space between the aeroplane and the ground for recovery, a headlong crash.
It consists of winglets which in The slot device is a simple one.
the front edges of the malfi plane. normal flight le snugly against-
When the machine is "stalled". these winglets move, on arms away from the main plane; the resul- tant narrow slot between main plane and winglet maintains un- broken the air flow over the lift- ing "surfaces, and allows the pilot to maintain full control. The dangerous nose dive and spin are eliminated. The French Govern- ment have just bought from the British inventors the rights to use and manufacture in France the automatic wing slot. This is the sixth foreign government, which has effected such as, agreement: and the actual device is used ex- tehsively in the civil and military aircraft of thirty-four other coun tries.
RADIO LICENCES
Six Million In British Isles
Broadcasting shares with the supreme importance as a means of cinema the honour of being of
phets who foretell that. entertainment. There BIG pro- in the providence of God he should
television is perfected, wireless when'
The Deceased Life's Work"
have been led back to the Dawlish Church. In one sense he had earned But the truly remarkable feature telegraphic broadcasting will dom!- The Rev. Phillip Rogers in an Church for
retirement, but the need of this of our latest ships is their im- pate every other form of enter
munity from Are. When cleat Britain, the programmes of the tainment. Even now in Great address, paid an eloquent tribute
is practically to the life and ministry of Mr experience appealed to him, to for action there Maconachie, a son of the manse, could put in a few more years to This is in striking contrast to our gether with the thought that he nothing inflammable on board. and brought up in the atmosphere the ministry.
pre-war ships, which carried many of the Christian ministry, it was
fittings upon which a fire could truly a beautiful coincidence that
man
The new system of non-flamm-
which was never foreseen by the Eritish Broadcasting Corporation- reach an audience the extent of
inventors and organisers of wire less telephony.
There are now 6,124,000 licences
"It was not too much to say that fees. he became a member of the Daw the men and women to whom he Miss Laura la Plante, the film lish Church in his youth, and was regularly ministered would cherishable constrcution and equipment, in the British Isles, where every actress,
has brought a sult for from that Church recommended as his memory in their" hearts. divorce against het busband, Mr. a candidate to the ministry and
William Selter. "It is simply a very friendly divorce," she says.
The sult has been filed at Riga, Latvia.
entered Western College, Plymou
th, now at Bristol. It was a singu
A-Friendly Man
A
first introduced in the Nelson and apparatus for listening to broad- Rodney, has since been improved, casts 1s subject to a tax of ter and is seen to perfection in the shillings a year, payable to the lar thing that the Church which
cruisers of the Leander and Post Oface. In 1924 there were Speaking for his fellow minis- Arethusa class. Practically all 600,000; In 1930, 3,090,000; and last Mies la Plante, whose first talk try should be the Church to which friendly man; they always enjoyed made of fire-proofed plywood, the increase
helped to send him into the ministers, they felt that he was cabin furniture, for example, is year 6,200,000. There has been an ing film was "Show Boat." is now he gave the last years of his life. his company; humour was in his same material
during the last twelve engaged at Warner Brothers' Mr. Maconachie settled first in talk and cutlook; but more than lower-deck mess tables and stools, lion licences. It should be noted, being used" for months of not far short of a mЛl- studios at Teddington in the pro-Manchester and for 20 years exer- that, he was 1 Y duction of "Chutch Mouse."
of true, and even for light bulk-heads. incidentally, that there has not cised a strongly virile and fruitful Christian fellowship. He lived Many other fittings, for Mr. Selter is at present in Holly- ministry in the Northern city. He this life first to serve his Lord and inflammable wood was used for-paign to account for such an in- which been any general advertising cam- wood" He and Misa la Flante have did not confiar himself to the work Master and through Jesus Christ merly, are now made of aluminium crease. That the number of Ha- been married seven years. Recently Miss la Plante
of the Church, but entered into to serve his fellow-men.
and light-metal alloy castings: said:the larger life of public service
teners, in Great Britain. should The real reason for my taking and became a leader of Free dead. They said of him, "He is not They did not look upon him "ha
Great Improvements have also Increase at such a rate is not sur been effected in the fire-fighting prising, if one considers the very the divorce proceeding is that we Church thought and opinion. He dead; he is risen." Death was not organisation of the ship. Pumps high standard of the programmes Bave just drifted apart. We are was a thinker and organiser and calamity; it was natural, normal, and flooding arrangements are of the British Broadcasting Cor still marvellous friends.
"I have written to him, and Ision. He was one who dared to not enter into the fulness of life. designed to cope with any imagine the best provided in any country. bad the gift of clear, lucid expres necessary. Without it they could much more efficient. and aréparation. They are, on the whole, still am writing him.
able emergency. · "In the papers which have been speak his mind on the great ques
The mourners were the Widow, could now be easily localised tions of the dar fled the ground which is given is Then, after 20 years in Man Essex) niete; Mr.
Miss Batty Vincent (Loughton, incompatibility, independent of chester, us most of them were Coleridge (Torquay) and Miss J. caused several recent first in As regards electrical Installa- and Mrations, which are believed to have guilt on elther side.
"We have discussed it through
aware, quite unexpectedly and the mall, so that it didn't just providential manner
to him
Continental liners, it is probably be
present were true to say that the system now bowl him over when he got the ceived an invitation to become. Johns (Methodist), Rev. P. from this cause impossible,
TO- Major-Gen. Sir Claude Bray, Rev. papers,
pastor of the Hong Kong Church Barrows,
what seemed
A SUCCESSOR TO ELGAR of the earth, because the men, who
Skinner.
க Amongst those
A cordite frè
used in the Navy renders a fire
EDINBURGH SENIOR BURGES
(Special. Air-MallTM Service)
Edinburgh, March 17, In 1883-the year. of their mar
ROBBER SHOT DEAD"
Can Fight In Shanghai
Bushghal, Mar 27.
A Chinese armed robber was shot, and killed by an Annainite police. man in the French Concession early last night after a chase dur ing which the robber fired his pistol four thies at another police- man, but falled to wound him.
According to the French Police, the robber was ficeing after having taken between $50 and $100 from a Chiflede when the victim's cries of
He hopes to be over here some and for 15 years exerfeed there Commander H. A Browning, Dr. A. A. Lech, time during the year, probably in June or 80. If I am still here I was then in his prime, and be and tion Army), Mr F. King M.B.E a keen and fruitful ministry. He R.N., Captain Leedle (Salva shall probably show him the To- his partner in life laid themselves for secretary P.B.H.), Mübe wer of London," added Miss la out to serve not the Church but Hemming (sec. C.A.W.G.), Mesare, Plante with a laugh.
the 1816 of 65 Englim telony W. Staddon (Newton Abbot and His gracious ministry they could District Congregations Church Hay became fragrant to the ends Council). O. Weddington (Newton came under his influence went Abbot). D. Anderson, M. H. M Drapery W. A. Wallace, 7. W all over the world, and wherever Skinner W. Ferris, W. J. Holman, lage the King and Queen made thief attracted the atten circles as to who may succeed the of his gracious, Christian charac. Northcott, R. Robertson, Wwedding presents and the freedom attempted to escape into Chinese Speculation is rife in musical they went they carried, namories Wills (Shaldon). A Atkinson, Wa tour of Great Britain, receiving ton of police and passers by. A pursuit followed and a the robber- Late Bir Edward Elgar as Master of the King's Musick. The office,
It was certainly remarkable that A Thomas A. E. Bowden and D of several cities, including York territory he was halted by a Nan-
Wood (wardena St. Mark's Chur- and Edinburgh. which is really a musical counter-
tao constable. He fired four shots ch), T. Baker, WW Dater At Edinburgh "ARH George at the coristable, all of which mi Dart of the laprenteship in poetry, is how largely in advisory rather The master's duties in the Jaya (Felgurnouth). L. Buca Duke of York and Earl of Invered their mark, and ran to Boule- these and horstonhampstead). W Moore, ness, K.G., received the freedom ward de Montigny. There French than an executive one. It is a The master's duties in these and 3. W Day (Il foombe) A. E. of the city in testimony of the policemen engaged in a gun battle legacy from early Restoration later days were somewhat onetous, Parminderd M. Houghton, B. high respect and esteem entertain with him and he was shot through Limes, when Charles II appointed Including as they did the combos Coysh, C. D. Hamuly, S. Heynolds, ed by the magistrates and Council Davis Mell- clockinåket by cir- tion of birthday, and New Year B F Short C Jordal, Min and the community of Edtriburgh cumstance but a violinist by all odes for the Bovereighs Unitington T Rookie W. Burr, for his Royal Highness, the rights of an artistic mind to the Victorian era members of the J. Cockraap, Cornish, W. Har Now through the death of Lord wield the baton in front of his orchestra were obliged to stand voy, W, Bond, many lady meas Aberdeen the King becomes kain band of "four and twenty fiddlers." while playing at the GUILT.
hors of the Church: tak otimiz -Burgh's senior burgesa.
ter
the head by an Annamite con stable. He died Instands.
The French Police reported the arrest of two other suspects, both of them armed in connection another robbery.: