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How King Edward Aids Britain's Treasury
PROVISION FOR THE KING'S MARRIAGE⠀⠀
Duke Of York's Extra £25,000
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N annual saving on the Royal Civil List of £155,900 is assured as long as the King re- mains unmarried, according to the report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons which considered the matter.
This is partly because the King is retaining for his privy the revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall, and not drawing £70,000 provided for in the Civil List.
The King also wishes to provide out of the Duchy revenues the extra £26,000 annuity recommended for the Duke of York-in- view of his heavler duties as heir presumptive.
The total of the list is £110,-1 000, compared with £170,000 proposed for King George in 1910.
The allocations made by the committee are:
Privy Purse ..... Household salarles
1910 £ 110,000
1930 £
110,000
and retired allowancen... 125.000 Household ex-
134,000
193,000
Works
152,800 20.000 Abolished
Kozai bounty, alms, and special services
13,200
penses
Tinappropriated
13.200 8.000 Abolished
£470,000 £410.000
The committee further recommends that, should the Duke of York die while heir presumptive, the £25,000 annalty should be continued in trust for the duchess and the surviving children as long as there is no heir apparent
FUTURE QUEEN'S £40,000
: It is proposed that, In the event of the King marrying,
The future Queen shall be provided) with £40,000 (£7,000 for her per- sonal staff);
If a Duke of Cornwall is born, £25,-
A THRONE WAS SEIZED
Crown Prince Aufne Wossen of 000 should be set aside out of the Abyssinin, who helped his father to Dachy revenues for his mainten- auce and education and for theist the invading Italian will pay payment of an annual sum (not for his loyalty with his
Throne.
less than £10,000) to trustees to Strong inducements were held out to the Crown Prince to desert his
be accumulated to provide for his father's enuse and become an Italian future wife.
"The committee mentions that the provision of £20,000 made for Queen Mary in 1910 to take effect on the death of King George now becomes operative.
·SOCIALIST PROPOSAL.
"puppet" King.
MANILA FORMS
'37 · EUCHARISTIC
Mr. C. R. Attlee, one of the five SESSION PLANS
and from
Socialist members on the committee, proposed that, as the King, as Duke) of Lancaster, received "a la MASSES WILL BE CELE- increasing Annual payment" the revenues of the Duchy, it was desirable that the principle-alreadsBRATED IN STADIUM applied to the bulk of the Crown lands should now be extended to the Duchy of Lancaster and that its revenues should in future be sur rendered to the Exchequer.,
!n return for the surrender recommended that £80,000 should be added to the amount payable anmaal- ly to the privy purse.
The proposal was defeated by 13 voles to 5.
Protection From Reckless Car-Drivers
MOTOR ACCIDENTS
San Franciso, May 24. Colonies for the protection of aged
from reckless persons automobile drivers are advocated by Thomas Bell, retired engineer.
Bell said he expected organise the culire nation In support of his project. He plans
AND PARK NEAR BAY
Manila, May 18. Thousands of devout Catholics who converge on Manila for the 33rd International Eucharistic Congress, Feb, 3-7, 1937, will witness a unique celebration of the biennial communian.
Manlin, capital of the only Christ- iun nation in the Far East, will be the scene of the first such Congress to be hell in the Orient and more
than 11,000,000 Cathollex in the Islande, comprising 82 per cent, of the population, propose to make it an Incension which visiting pilgrims will
remember.
Plans include huge open-air masses to be celebrated at the Luneta, a large public park facing Manila Boy, and meetings of ranking church digni Laries in the Cathedral of Manila, ingest of Manila's churches and scene of religious services for more than three-quarters of a century,
·STADIUM SEATS 30,000
Open-air netivities also will be held Loin the new Jose Rizal Memorial
Stadium, seating 30,000 persans.
One trans-Pacific Biner, the Empres
WEAK LINKS IN BIG CHAIN OF DEFENCE
Can Unarmed Zones Last?
Germany has rearmed the Rhineland. Turkey proposes to rearm the Straits. The question arises whether demili- tarised and neutralised zones elsewhere can be preserved. These zones exist at many points as shock absorbers between countries that have clashed in the past.
Some of the zones are designed to protect the inde- pendence of small states. Others safeguard waterways of international importance.
Not all the neutralised zones are disarmed.
The following resume gives principal neutralised and demilitarised zones, by continents:
EUROPE
Neutralised
Switzerland, by Congress of Vienna, 1815.
Neutrality since reaffirmed.
Held compatible with League of Nations membership-in Switzer- land's case. No disarmament,
Belgium, 1839, powers affirm neutrality without disarmament, after Belgium wa independence from the Netherlands. German troops of Belgium -violated neutrality In 1914. After war, neutrality
abolished by Versailles Treats.
Luxemburg. 1867, neutralised and disarmed by powers. Germany In 1914 violated neutrality. Versailles Treaty abolished neutrality and disarmament. Aaland Islands, 1866, Russia forbidden to fortify islands, but did as in World War. Germany took them. Treaty of Brest-Litesk pro- vided that Russia dismantle fortifications, Neutralisation favoured in Paris Peace Conference, 1010, and consecrated in Lengue settle- ment, 1921, of dispute between Sweden and Finland Islands also demilitarised.
Spitsbergen, 1919, neutralised and demilitarized by allied powers. Danzig. 1920-21, neutralised and demilitarised unless Lengue of:
Nations permita arming,
Norway-Sweden, frontier zone, 1905, neutralised and demillarised, Demilitarised
Rhineland. islands of Heligoland and Dune, Baltic coastal areas. German territory. Last named By Treaty of Versailles, 1010. ensured free passage into Baltic to all nations,
By Lausanne Straits Bosporus, Sea of Marmora and the Dardanelles.
Convention, 1923, no naval bases except one at Constantinople (Istanbul); no troops in straits, except 12,000 at Constantinople. Thracian Boundary. Lausanne Convention of 1923 1mits troops in zone 30 kilometres wide on both sides of horder of Turkey with Greece and Bulgaria. Turkish troops, 6,000. Greek and Bolgarian, 2,500 each.
Lakes Peipusi and Pskov, on new frontier of independent Estonia, de-
militarised. Treaty of 1020.
Lake Ladoga, on frontier of Finland. Troops prohibited along Russo-
Finnish border. Treaty of 1920.
AMERICA Neutralised
Panama Canal, by Bay-Pauncefote Treaty of 1001 with Great Britain, and by treaty with Panama, 1903. Other powers not bound to res pect neutrality. United States keeps right to fortify and defend canal.
Strait of Magellan, 1881, Chile and Argentina treály. (Also demili-
tarixed.)
Demilitarised
Great Lakes and Lake Champlain, treaty of 1817 between Britain and United States. Number, size and armament of naval vessels Hmiled.
AFRICA Neutralised
Suez Canal, by Convention of 1888. between Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia and Turkey. British reservations until 1901. Neutrality broken by Britain in closing canal to Spain in Spanish-American War, 1898. Canal close to Central Powers in World War.
Demilitarised.
Strait of Gibraltar, 1001, Anglo-French declaration that Mediter- "ranean const of Morocco-and-Tangier was-to-be-unfortified.except. for, Spanish presidios. Reaffirmed in Franco-Spanish accord of 1912.
ASIA Demilitarised
Sakhalin Island, Treaty of Portsmouth between Japan and Russia, 1905,
WHAT THE WORLD IS DOING, THINKING, SAYING
NEWS THROUGH THE U.P. PERISCOPE
San Francisco, May 24. Scanning the horizon with a late-model flexible News-o-scope brings to light some odd happenings that might be worth a second glance.
Concetto
First activity is indicated at, since the boys are grown. Coalinga, Calif., where 'tis said A. R. Grassi, 27, was recently hard pressed Brower had ants in his pants, to prove to a court that it was Con- his shoes, his food, his bed. cetto Grassi, 24, who committed the Ath fact they wero getting | embezzlement with which he was
his hair when an idea charged.
into
struck him. He traced
the ants'
to
THINGS MARITAL
to establish small communities of Russia, already has been chartered.arious trails, the pests had made.well, that's cruelty.
sumed activities, too.
And at Sacramente a common house By upuct the activities of the SRA disbursing office.
Testimony by Morris J. Oberly. of Detroit, (Mich)., that he was tired of buying his wife, Ella, new
stronghold to a sandhill near his house and nut about forcing them Baked beans may be all right for evacuate. So he filled all the hole Saturday night supper, but when good measure ho could find with gasoline. And for served for breakfast, lunch and din- spread it along the ner overy day for weeks at a time to serve as floating hotel to be lock-
Then he set fire to it......When_tho' So testified Stanley K. Horton, throughout the country, and to od near the Luneta for accommodation
carpenters started rebuilding Bro-Gloucester (Mass), auto dealer in prohibit automobiles from being of pilgrims.
wen's fire-scarred house the ants re- Parochial Eucharistic Congresses
winning t divorce. 119ed 'on the streets of these towns; in which residence would have been held in provincial towns for aeveral months to quicken the `he restricted to persons over 60. ardour of the Filipino people in pre-
"Most of the people being killed by paration for the solemn celebration,
clothes to replace those she had lost autos are old people." Bell said. "The The provincia! celebrations begin
in strip poker games won a divorce only way to save their lives is to keep on Friday with the vigorous ringing
For a week accountants struggled suit before Judge Henry G. Nieol. them away from automobiles. You of church bells and with solemn Mass; to balance the books. There was n Presenting the ladies' side of tho can't keep the autos way from and end with a colourful procession shortage of G cents. Finally experts questionMr. Louis
Christensen, at dusk Sunday in which each wor called in from San Franciso ac-Dedham, Mass., in seeking a them."
In addition to working on the shipper carrles a lighted candle. cidentally dislodged a fly's crooked leg charged, among other things-that carless settlement plan, Bell also la SPECIAL STAMP PROPOSED from
what
appeared to be a her husband blacked her eyes, blacked devoting his attention to an Old age-
revealing the numeral actually was her father's eyes, refused to let her His Grace, Michael O'Doherty, pension plan, which he believes is
go to church, spanked her, throw for superior to that of Dr. Francis Archbishop of Manlia and sponsor of
butter on the floor and rubbed har NAMES! NAMES! NAMES ! the Congress, is in charge of prepara- tions for the ovent. Negotiationa
It must have been the nano: nose in it, and always found fault Bell hopes to obtain the support of
Univeralty of Washington studente with her cooking. Chris organizations to raise funds to pay all with the bureau of posts for the
at Seattle have olected Nathan, testing. persons 30 years of age $00 a month: issuance of speelal stamps have been this amount to be reduced one dollar. A medal will be struck do Washington, fifth generation nephew
CRIME STORY picting Ferdinand Magellan celebrat
of George Washington, as student each succeeding A
Beochbottom, W. Va1-A bur pected to be accumulated, would be the the nestihasp after he dias ond body president for next year, Theme glar worked several hours Jimmy-
1521. A
shield used to pay a flat sum of $5,000 to 400 also has been created.
song of his supporters was the Husky Ing door to a factory storeroom Millworkers found him perspiring, in persons each year. This would go
A huge cross made from fags from hymn "Victory for Washington." those persons whose monthly stipend every nation will mark the centre of On the other hand-Jesse James, an empty Toom--vacated several had been, reduced to a point where the celebration on the Luneta,
64, charged with disorderly conduct weeks before. was fined $5 in Municipal court, Pontiac, bich..
Townsend.
to
Bell does not believe this is serious problem, however, as be thinks most of the very aged persons would be in his autoless colonies any-
La con-
..
SUCCESS STORY, NEW YORK-Charles M. Schwab, etcel millionaire, gave some advico Milan, Italy-Alfredo Grusel, a to young men recently while a valet merchant, liked the name Concetto po made him comfortable, for a trip to
it was not sufficient to support the The first Eucharistic Congress was mon and women past 60.
hoid in 1881 at Lillo in northern France. It was intended to bo a local celebration but it aroused such enthu- sinam that the idea spread.
Since then the church has spon well that ho gave it to all of his Bad Nauheim in a double stateroom sored international congresses at-in- He admitted that all financial tervals of approximately two years.seven sons. The confusion was suf- on the 8. S. Europa. It was: "Don't details had not been worked out com- The last one was held in Buenos Aires ficiently trying while they were in atrive for riches; they mean nothing!" pletely.
school, but it has become much worne-United Press.
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