BACK THERE-Whatever Vico President Carner has in mind, it's evidently back there, and you'll probably find it. The pic- turo shows him as he arrived at Amarillo, Texas, to visit his son Tully, during his five-weeks vacation from Washington.
RAIL CRASH: RESCUE DELAY IS ALLEGED
London, July 3. THE story of the Swanley Junction rail smash last Sunday was told over again at the official inquiry by Colonel A. H. Mount, Chief Inspector of Accidents, in London yesterday.
Most of the facts revealed at the inquest were reported in the News Chronicle yesterday, but the fallow Irig udditional points were made:
W. T. Langridge, stution foreinan. said after the accident the freman said: "I told the driver the distant signal was on, but he did not take any notice of me,"
Henry J. Aplin, the driver, denied that he heard his freman say this.
W. A. Wills, the stationmaster, said there were plenty of tools for rescue work but not room to use thein.
The coach sides being of wood,
made it easier to get the passengers out. He trembled to think what would have happened had they
been made of steel.
Colonel Mount said that he under- stood that the control office was advised of the accident at 11.30, and the breakdown gang was asked for at 11.50. He would like to know the cause of the delay.
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MEDIUM POSED AS FATHER, HE SAYS
Greenwich, June 28.
CHARLES JAMES EVENS, fair-haired twenty-year- old apprentice engineer, so nervous that he put a lighted cigarette in his pocket when called into the police court, described here to-day his fight-with an alleged "spi- rit" at a seance.
They were laid down with a binek
Forty-seven-year-old Cilve "The sintes," said young Evens, Holmes, described as a medium, were only turninous on one side his eyes hidden behind heavy cloth over them so you couldn't see smoked glasses, nicotine-stained them picked up.
fingers forming cups for his ears, listened intently.
"There were three apparitions be
TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1937.
ATTACKS
DIVORCES
Drama Of Duel With Law Lord
By
WILLIAM BARKLEY
London, June 28.
FUNNY men A. P. Her-
bert has convulsed people with laughter. Last night his Marriage Bill-a clever name for a Divorce Bill-convulsed the House of Lords. But not with laughter.
The profound issues of his Bill, which grants divorce for insanity, for three years' desertion, and for gross
RED-A new and interesting study of Mao Tze-tung, leading- figure of the Chinese Commu- nista, who is seeking harmony between the Red organization and the Chinese Government. This picture was taken recently at the Communist capital fa Yennanfu, Shensi Province, in northwestern China. The Chi- -nese Government has recently relaxed a rigid censorship on press and speech.
fore i came near to mother and offences, balanced by the SCHOOL
He plended not gulity to obtaining me. 4s, by false pretences from the boy's) mother, Mrs. Violet Evens, of St. "When the 'form was near, I saw
new proposal of no divorce
Audrey's-avenue, Bexley Heath. In a steeve under the drapery. I had within five years of mar- EXAMS
connection with a seance at his house in The Grove, Blackheath.
The case will be continued next Thursday,
Young Evens fumbled painfully In his pocket till his cigarette was out, squared his slim shoulders, then told his story.
put my foot out. Its foot stumbled, against minc."
riage, stirred deep rivalries]
"I let go ins mother's hand-we among members of the Upper SYSTEM
had to link hands and grabbed House. my torch. I switched 16 directly! on the form."
"saw quite clearly it was Mr.
"EVIL FROM GOOD"
CRITICISED
examinations is in
Clive. I could see the face surround- What a wide net membership| The present system of school His Inther, Paymaster - Lieut.-ed by drapery,
of the House can spread on big certificate Commander Evens, R.N., he said, died "I said 'It's you. Clive. He had occasions. Among the 200 peers many ways "an expensive make- in December,
"He went to senuces at Holmes's his slates in his hands. He struck and most of the bishops assem- believe," in which the examining house with als mother, who hoped at me several times on the arms,
bled we looked down from the bodies are forced into the farco to get in touch with the spirit of his "As soon as I saw he was getting Press Gallery on an Archbishop of passing a large number of futher.
rather nasty. I whipped out the chair and a Lord of Appeal, with com- candidates incompetent in par from under me and rammed it at his plete courtesy and careful lan- ticular subjects so as to avoid gunge confronting one another the tragedy of ploughing them. on the issue of divorce reform. So says Sir Philip Hartog in a The Archbishop of Canterbury publication-"Examination of said:-
Examinations."
"was naked," he said, "if I was an earnest seeker of the truth. I feel. said, 'Yes, I have an open mind."
"After two or three visits I was convince it was a fake, so on May 20 I took an electric torch with me,
I sal in front of it.
"Mr. Smith one of the sitters handcuffed him to a high-backed choir. The curtains were drawn in: front.
'RAMMED CHAIR
AT HIS FEET'
"The ordinary electric light was taken off and a red bulb put in. made the room almost jet black,
IL
"They were solid feet.
'MOTHER SCREAMED
-SHE WAS HIT
Mr. F. Milton (for the police): You could not see that?
could see the curtains moving about "No." sald young Evens, "but I
\
"An
they should have conecaled their
"I was sure it was faked, because
"He went on hitting he found
"In this perverse world, where It may be remembered that at I saw a sleeve under the 'form's I wasn't there because I had moved. evil comes out of good just as need of 1938 there was published drapery, and the face supposed to Then he turned and tilt my mother.
Examination of Examinations," be my father's I was perfectly posi-
good comes out of evil, the de- which was the result of an exhaustive tive was not,
"I jumped over the chair and went eision to make the ground for inquiry by Sir Philip Hartog and Dr. after him. He "We all went to a room upstairs.
raced back to the divorce equal as between women Rhodes. That report shook the faith cabinet. We took up places round a horse-
and men has led to endless of many people in the examination shoe table, A gramophone was put 'Halfway across mother screamed on. Mrs.
Clive Holmes and his out she was hit. i turned to protect abuses of the law by collusion.tem and gave rise to much con- told Wife were referred to as Mr. and Mrs. her.
"Now the proof of a single act troversy. The investigators were Clive) asked some one to say a prayer,
"I felt something coming up behind of adultery by man or woman is results so as not to alarm the public "Clive went into a cabinet at the me. It was Mr, Clive,
sufficient ground for divorce. unduly. "I pushed him towards the cabinet. As a result, three things have "What would be the condition of
Σπ reply, Sir Phillp end of the room. I had a good view. He went in.
now asks,
Inside the chair was emply, that by the light of my torch.
been exposed to contempt-the public health if we tried to conceal "The curtains were wide apart.
I saw reality and gravity of the sin of the facts and statistics of disease?"
This new brochure is addressed to adultery; the cause of truth: "Mra, Clive pulled the curtain whde and the law itself.
the National Union of Teachers, which the 'spirit' disrobed-"
has undertaken its publication.
"What "Adultery is being treated with
at does passing an examination levity. It reaches its extreme in
really
mean?" asks Sir Phillp. He says that our modern system of what are called 'hotel bill cases." Parties no longer wishing to live examinations is the descendant of together make an arrangement by those tests of utilisable
carried skill "Then he came out handcuffed which a single act of adultery out by trade and craft guilds. to his chair in the middle of the committed. A woman asks her
"A piece of work accomplished was circle. He was gasping. Mrs. Clive
husband to give her what is called definite evidence of willsable skill. said I had nearly killed a medium. 'her
ilberts
and sometimes To-day we have analogies of these "People started singing hymus.said: 'Give um plenty fresh air. Clive, talking in broken English,
appeals to a sort of perverted sense tests, at the lower end of the scale, of chivalry on his part.
In shorthand and typewriting, and, at inside the cabinet Clive was sup- {Give all de people dere money back result of passion, is regarded as alexaminations for such a profession as
This
of the scale, in grave sin, not here the the higher end posed to be going into a trance.
**There was groaning, and he "I can't do it very well," the youth
episode in 4 mutual that of actuary. Here the examiners started to speak in some one else's apologised for his rendering of the miserable
that can give reliable testimony as to what incident.
arrangement; and I must say assistance for carrying it out is the candidates can certainly do. "Everybody went downstairs excepti
A CONTRAST the compartment before he managed bear its belte ringing.
You could two men, I asked for our money readily given by the solicitors them- And a violin-back. I was paid.
Now for the contrast. selves.
Sir Phillp to wriggle out. There was no one to played a little melody.
"Further, a situation hus been once asked an experienced-examiner "I took mother away and she was
what it would be safe to assert of the direct the operations, The
"Then he Аге
came out with his treated in Lewisham Hospital."
created where this is regarded as brigade were only amateurs. Two
luminous slates."
Mr. W. H. Chitty, the solicitor de-mere form and no act of adultery Powers of a student who could just "succeed in obtaining pass-marks at a hours elapsed before the breakdown Not "he" row.
The magistrate (Mr. L. 1. Dunne): fending Holmes, reserved his cross-ns necessarily taken place. But it Unly
University
examination In Let us have "it" for examination till the next hearing. Is
pass necessary to represent to the ve train arrived.
several subjects. The reply was:—"! Continued bail of £25 was allowed. court that it has taken place. On think you could say that he could this false declaration a marriage is pass the examination at the time he dissolved.
"It is to me astonishing that men as to whether it would be safe to
passed it." To the following question otherwise honourable have resort to say that he had any useful knowledge such a device of constructive per- of the subjects or that he would be jury-a flagrant contempt of the fit for any career the answer was,
first principles of truth.
"No, you could say none of these "LAW IN CONTEMPT" things. When you have said that The law itself is brought into he passed the examination you have contempl. I have reason to bellove said all that can be sald."
Mr. Davidson, assistant to the divi- sional superintendent, said that the control office was told at 11.34. They telephoned to get the breakdown train several times, but the telephone was engaged.
Mr. James Macdonald, a passenger, complained that he lay 51 minutes in
"Mrs. Clive had a small torch, and she made sure with it that our feet: were in.-
volce. Things Jumped about. "He had a tambourine.
how.
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--I hope I am not making any It is far, casier, the opinion of breach of confidence that those Sir Philip, to conduct a large general who are responsible for the adminis-examination designed to test a utilisa- tration of the law regard the clause ble skill than one which is designed in this Bill"-ordering the courts to to test progress. When testing a, inquire If they feel that there is utilisable skill there need be no worry collusion "as giving them all thenbout statistics. powers which they need to prevent | SUGGESTED REFORMS collusion."
Somo notable reforms in 'examing- The Archbishop of Canterbury, tlon regulations are suggested. First, head of the Anglican community, Sir Philip would classify examination admitted a dual personality. As a tests in different subjects in such a Churchman he cannot support way as to show employers in what divorce. As a citizen he has to cases they will be able to rely on a admit that divorce is permitted by Schoo
by School Certificate:
showing the possession of utilisable skill. Another "While every man and woman who Certineates should be supplemented
reform he suggests in
that School goes
to church in any one of the 12,000 gems of ecclesiastical archi- by cumulative school records. tecture which beautify our towns and he question whether prepara- villages waited eagerly to hear how all cases, Sir Philip saya:-"We must an examination is an evil in the head of the Church will decide, distinguish. It it an evil when it Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang: announced tends to sterilise Interest in a subject that his decision WDS undecided.
We wish to said he could not vote for the
encourage. It doen Blil ns & Churchman, and he could nothing but good when it means the
acquirement of not vote against it as
Д much needed citizen. utilisable skill." a Therefore he would abstain on the Arst vote, which In parliamentary usage is called the second the Bill.
law.
He
which he, as
To
of which has absorbed so many montlis
of the time of Parliament.
would watch carefully its pro- Ho
This statement was understood to gress through the next stage, the mean that if the Bill comes through committee stage, and if the cinuses the House of Lords Committoo Churchman, supports unaltered in its mala provisions, the ure tampered with in committee, he Archbishop of Canterbury will either will oppose the third reading, which support if or at least refrain from will be the final vote on this Bill, opposing it.
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