Tuesday
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 13, 1938.
HUSBAND BLAMED FOR WIFE'S EMPIRE Ask him what he'd like from
AFFAIR WITH CHAUFFEUR
His Entries In
Journal About
Woman Named 'K'
Callous treatment of a wife was commented on by Mr. Justice Hodson in the Divorce Court recently when he dismissed the husband's petition, and, on a cross-prayer, granted the woman a decree nisi.
Petitioner was Captain John Martin Hanchard Goodwin, giving an address at Brae Court, Kingston Hill (Surrey), and the respondent wife was Mrs. Audrey Craven Goodwin, late of Lamb Terrace, Leamington.
Captain Goodwin alleged adultery by his wife with a chauffeur named Leonard Thomas, described as a married man with four children.
Mrs. Goodwin charged her husband with adultery.
Captain and Mrs. Goodwin were married at Highgate, N., in 1921, and afterwards ved at Studley Manor, Warwickshire, and other addresses, There the int being Brue Court. are two ch/kiren.
Giving Julgiment, Mr. Justice Hol- son said that Captain Goodwin, who, whatever his feelings towards his wife may have been, had in her an affectionate and devoted wife, de- cided in 1931, if not earlier, that he would explore experiences of con- jugal Infiellty.
"A BLONDE IN HULL" He made an entry in his journu? in July, 1933, as to "mecting a blonde in Hull and stating, "No doubt there would have been an affair with her. Hiver the op- portunity."
Woman
But the journal went on to de cribe his meeting with o described all the way through as "K" whose name need not be mev. tloned-in April, 1832.
At that time Mrs. Goodwin be- lieved that she and her husband were happy together.
Mr. Justice Hodson said the hus- banit's attitude towards his wife was retown with complete frank. ness in the journal, and he found. as a fact, that Captain Goodwin did not are whether his wife took a lover or not.
"A SCANDAL"
In 1934 Captain and Mrs. Goodwin, came in contact with Thomas.
Captain Goodwin took strong views about the matter, for reasons which did not commend themselves to his lordship.
His attitude seemed to have be said the judge, that "if she has a affair with a man whom I regard as a decent person of my own sucial position, or higher if you like, and I don't know anything about shall not mind, but it is really too
much that she should get on terms of Intimacy with one of the servants. "I think it would be a scandal
I exercised my discretion in favour of the husband in this case," said Mr. Justice Hodson. It would be to strike a blow at the moral one- tion of marriage If 7 do so, having regard to his conduel”
B.B.C. SAYS:
Chinese Girl Is
'Envoy' In Europe
Ley To twenty-two-year- old Chinese student, who has fight on China's battlefronts, is in Europe to plead China's
Ind.
She has lectured in Eng- Her alssion was mapped out by her friend, Mine. Chiang Kai-shel, wife of China's Gen- eralissimo.
The New
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Commander A. J. Spurgeon, R.A.N, and Miss Ruth Owen after their recent marriage at St. John's Cathedral,—King's Studio;
Lipstick Is Black
-And Pearls Are Now Blue
The fan is here-made of tulle, painted silk, or very fine canvas. One had li- lies of the valley so cunningly mounted on net that when folded the fan looked like
a spray of real flowers. An actress is collecting signatures on her pale pink paper fan-a debutante carries a black star-spangled fan with a white taffetn frock.
A hrundful or two of salt added to:
a bucket of whitewash makes it stick better.
Newest lipstick is black...not only Just the holder, but the actual prate : within. Ones on the tips, the result is a soft warm natural rose.
ilus!
The Chinese coat-real, with its tich embroideries or cleverly copied. in printed silk--has always been popular for house wear. Now long high-neck design has crept in for other models. In black it forms an afternoon coat above a plain dress, the Chinese influence reficcled in red
dragon buttons.
New-Type Aeroplane
Rises Vertically, Carries 20 Men
BRITAIN IS BIDDING AGAINST GERMANY TO SECURE EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS IN A NEW TYPE OF HELICOPTER THAT WILL REVOLU- TIONISE TRAVEL, INDUSTRY AND WAR.
In recent tests the plane was proved capable of rising ver tically from the ground carrying a lond equal to a normal machine of the same horse-power.
NEWS
STATUS OF SOUTH
AFRICA
Johannesburg. Radical changes in the constitution of the Dominion party will be pro- posed at the annual congress at Dur- ban. Many branches want to change* the riame to the "South African | Party" or the "Liberul Parly."
The Durban branch will advocate that the party abandon the campaign against the Status Act which defned the sovereign Independence of South Africa. It will also be proposed that the Parly abandon its Insistence that South Atrica shouki return to lis former status as a dominion.
The Dominion party canic Into existence as a pro-English movement
in protest against the Status Act of 1034 which brought the Union Co- stitution into agreement with the Statute of Westminster.
AUSTRALIA
STATE PREMIERS AND FEDERAL SEATS
Sydney,
Mr. 1. S. B. Stevens, Premter of New South Wales, is reported from Canberra to be seriously considering | entering Federal polities and possibly,
the Ministry.
Mr. Buller, Premier of South Aus- tralia, is alrendy nominated for the Waltefeld seat in the Hause of Representatives, now vacant by the death of Mr. C. A. S. Hawker in the Kyeema air Uner disaster. Sir Frederick Stewart, the former Minis- ter, may create a vacancy for Mr. Stevens by resigning from Federal seat.
his
Sir Frederick is a keen admirer of the ability of Mr. Stevens and bas tready hinted that he would be pre- pared to resign, Federal members are eager to have Mr. Stevens in the Cabinet, and state that his financial sense, popularity and knowledge of detail would make him an exception- ally able Treasurer,
Allen Registration. - Legislation providing for the registration of all allens in Australia will be introduced by the Federal Government during the current Parliamentary session.
Kerbside Parking. -- For # trial period of six months from January. prohibition of kerbside parking of motor-cars to be enforced in the city of Melbourne. It is expected that the prohibition will greatly re- duce congestion in city streets, Free parking areas for short periods are to be provided adjacent to shopping
ureas.
Increasing the Militia-Brig. A. G. Street, the New Minister for Defence, stated that bẹ, Mr. W. M. Hughes, External Affairs, and Mr. H. V. C. Thorby, Civil Air Defence, all mem- bers of the newly-created senior group of the Cabinet, will meet on Tueselay to consider a nation-wide campaign to increase the Militi Forces to 70,000.
INDIA
TOO MANY DOCTORS IN TOWNS
Calcutts. According to the Director-General of the Indian Medical Service, Major- We all use aluminium. It was first ¦
Gen. E. W. C. Bradfield, 35,000 to are now proc- discovered 100 years ago, but every
40,000 qualified doctors year brings improvement In manu-
lising in India. Although one doctor in roughly 10,000 of the population facture. Newest cooking pots have a dead flat base which cannot develop Britain has won the first round. {graphers, and map enemy territors would appear to be very inadequate, unemployment has become a serious Arooves or wrinkles, no matter what The Air Ministry has secured an and movements.
They could niso carry the heal. And covers are designed option un a military version of the
sound-problem among the younger meinbers to take on and off with least danger machine for cash payment of locating apparatus, and flash warn of the profession. of burning or waste of time.
ing from over the North Sea of the The inventor is handsome Oskar approach of enemy raiders. It is hard to believe that there can von Ásbath, member
noble
*
£8.750.
of
be blacker black, but there is. Made Hungarian family, and wartime in rich silk materials it can never director of the Austrian Air Research 1. Make Your Own took grey nor that greenish kind of Stution.
Fireworks
2. Don't
Recently the B.B.C. brought
tone other black materials show with wear,
·
.
20 YEARS' SEARCH
He has toiled for twenty years to find the elusive secret of how to make
Newest Jewellery sensation is a helicopter rise vertically when slightly blue tinted pearls. A woman heavily loader and descend in the has mude car clips of a very white
tame manner. Now the serret Is metal with the initials of the wearer,
his. engraved upon them.
•
an amateur firework maker to
Kippers are grand-except the the microphone to talk about cooking smell. Try this-Put them) fireworks with Mr.
Richard in an ordinary jug, talks upwards. Greenhalgh, director of a fire- Pour boiling water over, and star
| for Afteen minutes. Drain and serve
at once.
THE INVENTION MEANS THAT HELICOPTERS CARRY-- ING 20 PASSENGERS WILL BE ABLE TO START OUT FROM
PORTS.
aerial The Navy hopes to form squadrons of these helleopters armed with depth charges to act as convoys to mereliant shipping.
The Happy Ending
Eighteen years old Dorothy THE HEART OF EVERY GREAT Irene ("Dinkie") Dale was re- CITY FROM MINIATURE AIR-cently married to her jockey sweetheart, William Alan Sylvester, 23, who had worked for her father. Miss Dale made an application at Cheltenham police court for consent to marry, saying that her father, Mr. new machines David Date, the racehorse trainer, of photo-Tie Mills, Bishopstone. Seaford,
Sussex, obiected.
work company.
Factories will be able to load up Later, in the "In Town To-
helicopters wath tons of freight from night programme, they told An old-fashioned recipe-but it their roofs and send them speeding you not to take his advice. helps. When a cold beging, go to bed, to far-distant buyers.
In wartime the Here is the reason: It is early with a piece of brown paper. necessary for makers of fire well grensed with tallow on the chest, could carry obervers
works to take out a licence—a İ fact that Whitehall officials! quickly told the B.B.C.
According to Mr. Greenhalgh, the amateur made it clear in his draft that it was necessary to have a licence, but the B.B.C. cut it out to save time.
IT IS ILLEGAL
This is what the B.B.C. sald
in a statement that was almost
an apology:
. . In
thore was a home-made
z
ALL-SO-DIFFERENT
TRIPLETS ARE 16 NOW
Middlewich (Cheshire).
The Broome triplets, Sylvia, Joseph and George, from the this programme) village of Cranage, near Middlewich, were sixteen recently but discussion about they were too busy to celebrate it. fireworks. We All three work on farms. The boys start at 6 am, Sylvia should like to warn listeners at 7 a.m., and they all cycle to work. that the making of fireworks
But farm work-which makes though the nearest one is four miles even for ono's own personal use is illegal and liable to a heavy them all "happy and contented" from home.
the only penalty, unless a licence has and cycling are been obtained from the authori-things the triplets have In com-
ties.
"A number of accidents occur every year in making home- hade fireworks, so our advice to hose thinking of starting is Don't."
mon.
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SPECIAL LICENCE Her mother wrote that she did not object, and as Mr. Dale did not appear to sustain his objection, the magistrates gave their consent.
Notice
was published of the in- tenderl marriage nt Cheltenham Register Office and it was under- stood that it would take place at the end of three weeks. But earlier special licence was obtained and the marriage took place.
The reason is that in
many towns the proportion of doctors to the pop- lation is higher than one to 1,000. Members of the
rural areas. inclined to relic infession are dis- Cairo Colton Agreement-Inding cotton interests are concerned at the concluded in Cairo for agreement new quota arrangements strengthen- lag Lancashire's position in Egyptian markets. It is feared that India's trade will suffer a severe setbuck.
KENYA
CONSULS IN DISPUTE OVER PRECEDENCE
Nairobi. Owing to a dispute between the
conruis
and the foreign
Kenya Government about official order of precedence at the Armistice ceremony the consuls did not participate at the general gathering,
Several hours later they attended together and laid a Consular Corps wreath, They are dissatisfied with the fact that they were assigned u lowly position in the order of preced- ence.
ROTARY MEETING
Hongkong Ilotary Club, in the Roof At to-morrow's meeling of the Garden of the Hongkong Hotel, Mr. Phil. S. Delany, Manager of Pan- American Airways in Hongkong, will PARENTS ABSENT
show J Alm entitled "A Tour by Mr. and Mrs. Dale were not pre-Air." sent, but four or five other relatives attended.
Ming Dale had been employed as a Sylvester, after leaving Mr. Dale's receptionist at Cheltenham hotel.
stables, worked with Mr. D. Piggott, the racehorse trainer, of Cleeve Hil,
near Cheltenham.
near the training stables.
They are now living at a bungalow
Girl, 16, Solo Flier
Sylvin, youngest, in dark-haired, round-faced, plumper than her brothers and thinks the Lambeth Walk makes you "look allly." Tac three started working two Joseph, the eldest by four hours, years ago when they left the small is shy, quiet, fair-haired and likes two-room village school together.
Hamilton, Ont. Joyce field, 10, believed to be one) playing whist.
Thele mother, Mr. Caroline of the youngest girls over to make a George, with tousled auburn hale Broome, baked a special cake for sole night in Canada, announced after falling across his forehead, in friend-them when they had finished work she brought her airplane down safoly ly, noisy and likes going to cinemas, on their birthday.
here that dying alene was "swn!)."
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