Monks Will Build Abbey
GLOUCESTER.
WHEN Cardinal Hinsley bless
ed a huge block of Cotswold stone weighing 30 cwt. in the hilly grounds of Prinknash Park, six miles from Gloucester, re- cently, the work of building the new £100,000 Benedictine abbey and church was begun.
The white-habited monka of St. Benedict, whose temporary home is in a fifteenth-century manor house in the grounds, quarried the foundation-alone themselves out of the rock on the site, When bewn it weighed six tons.
The munks are the only Bene- dictines in this country to wear the white habit-all others wear black. The monks will build the abbey themselves entirely of stone hewn out of the quarries on their lund.
The architecture will be modern, and the abbey will accommodate one hundred manics.
At present there are fty monks, at Prinknash-pronounced Prinash. The oldest, is Father Ambrose, genial, ruddy-faced, now ite is seventieth year. He is an expert linguist, and a gifted iterateur, but helps regu- larly in the kitchen with the hum blest of the lay brothers.
'I'M TOO OLD'
The youngest member of the com- munity in Geoffrey, sixteen-year-old ex Westminster Cathedral choir- boy, who joined the Order six months ago when his voice broke. Geoffrey may see the abbey com pleted, but seventy-year-old Father Ambrose, shook his white hend smilingly. "In a bit too old in the both for that, I'm afrald," he said,
How long the abbey will take in building is a question none of the
monks could answer. The head of the community, Abbot Wilfred Upson, who is Afty-nine, sukl cheer- fully he hoped to see it finished in his lifetime.. Others think the lask will take Afty years.
When asked where he thought he) would get the £100,000 needed, the abbot answered: - "God good."
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The monks rise at four o'clock in)
Monday:
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 19, 1939,
Blue-Book Helps To Send Bigamist
Robert Taylor, screen's glamour boy, is just a husband now. Barbara Stanwyck, film actress, displays her wedding ring after their marrlage at Sun Diego, Cal. Film work keeps them from n honeymoon now,
They Will Manage Empire Creches
TMPERIAL Airways are appointing 14 matrons to the night stopping places on their Empire services to South Africa and Australia.
the morning sunimer and winter. After bearing Mass in their tempor-]
They will be Englishwomen living in the locality, ary chapel in the old manor house, with expert knowledge of the conditions, and their task they go to their daily tasks-some to will be to take the younger passengers off their parents' blast the stone for the new abbey. others to work
in the field growing hands for the night. vegetables for their table,
while
others tend the pigs. The ranks to
They will be in charge of
Into Prison
FREDERICK BOOTH, thirty-nine-year-old self-
styled "Practical Christian," ex-waiter and Piccadilly match-seller, was brought to the Old Bai- ley prisoner's dock recently by the publication of a Government Blue-books.
EMPIRE NEWS
NEW TANGANYIKA
COUNCIL
DAR-ES-SALAAM.
Tanganyika Executive Council is to
be reconstructed, the change provid-j
He was pleading", guilty to a jcharge of committing bigamy.
Sir Gerald Dodson, the Recorder of London, sentenced Booth to three months' imprisonment, and sold:
"I am not concerned that you may be a man of profligate morals, except in so far as it shows the kind of man you are."
The recurder hnd Just heard evi-i dence given by Detective Sergenni Bray, the police officer who had fer- reted out Booth's past.
"Booth's bigamous wife estimates that had elghicen illegitimate announced the detective "I know of eleven." The Government Blue-book which
ng for the oppointment of persons; Sera,"
not holding public office. These wil! be styled "unomeini members of the mentioned Booth was an ofizial re- Executive Council."
The Governor,
Sir Mark Young, In making this announcement, says it is thus Intended to implement his re- marks to the Legislative Council last November regarding the desirability of associating unoffelal persons more closely with the Governments de- liberations and decisions.
port of evidence taken before the Joint Committee of Lords and Com- mons on the Collecting Charities (Regulation) BIll.
GAVE HER £500
Scotland-yard then investigated Booth's activities. They discovered that he had contracted a bigamous
Food Dropped by Parachute marringe ten years ago. Its arrest The power station at Pangani River on a bigamy charge followed imme- Falls, Tonga district, was recently cut diately. off for few days by great floods. A Government acroplane flew over the station and dropped food by parachute to a group of British engineers and native guards who are marooned, Natives had previously attempted to swim the floods with small live stock.
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GOVERNMENT PLANS
FOR A.R.P.
NAIROBI.
The Government, in response to a public demand for information and | advice on the subject of air raid pre-
cautions, has prepared a compretien-| sivo plan for Nairobi.
It provides, in cose of emergency, for an auxiliary fire-fighting service, the closing of schools, the appoint- ment of wardens, the organisation of
Miss Elsie May Humphrey, the bigamous wife, who had separated from Boot three years ago, was at the Old Bailey waiting to give evi- dence I called upon.
The detective sergeant said of her: When Booth parted from Miss Humphrey he gave her £500 for her interest in a charity."
II
In 1923, sald the ofeer, Booth met a seventeen-year-old girl at Brom- ley, Kent, took her 10 register oflee, put a ring on her flager, and told her they were married. She had two children.
Works Schemes For Ex-Servicemen
Kangs to demolish wrecked buildings, MP, presided at a meeting of the Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, and an air raid warning system.
The public are advised to send King's Roll National Council at the members of their families whose pre-House of Commons recently, when it in areas where disabled ex-Servicemen - were
not sence in Nairobi is not essential to was reported that book printed in four languages. country farms.
The plan la explained in a hand-employed as car park attendants, louil King's Roll committees had in Sin Of Rale In 30 Hours-After the past six months been encouraging an almost record, drought, extending such schemes.
were Specin efforts over many months Mombasa recently
also being
turn, was also nearly a record. No don and elsewhere to find employ- fewer than 5.78 inches of rain fell ment in such posts as lifumen. in 30 hours. Houses, collapsed in a portion of a native village which was inundated.
all sorts of other work, such as mak-special creche facilities at these for's Race In *xperienced a rainfall which, in 11s made to persuade employers in Lon-
Ing rosaries, moulding statues and stopping places-special in the tending the bees in their hives.
CUT A ROAD
sense that they will enter for
children from a few weeks old
They have already cut a half-mile to 12 or 13 years of age. long road through from the maini An Imperial Airways official Stroud Cheltenham rond. It will link the outside world with Prink nah Abbey, set in the heart of the
Cotswold Hills.
said: "We have decided
to
start this pioneer organisation
because of the enormous increase In
Front Of Train
A MAN'S race in a car along the railway line to avoid an oncoming train was described William
at Leeds Assizes, the number of children travelling on Two thousand people watched the our Empire servlets. We anticipate a cardinal lay the foundation stone of further increase this summer.
abbey. Overhead, pilots ENTIRELY RESPONSIBLE
the
new
Turner, 50, an electrician at Catterick Camp, pleaded guilty
NORTHERN RHODESIA.
STRIKE THREAT OVER REFUGEES
SALISBURYÝ.
At the beginning of April 29,000 disabled ex-Servicemen were regis- tered at employment exchanges o unemployed, rompared with 31.333
year ago.
Appreciation was expressed at the efforts of the King's Roll cuninitices in bringing about an increr.se in the number of employers enroyed on the King's National Roll from 24,065 at As the result of a mass meeting April, 1938, to 25,293 at April this to trespassing on the railway-held recently, the employees at the year. The number of disabled ex- Roan Antelope Mine, Lustshya, in Servicomon employed by members of the Roll had risen. from 310,770 at the Copper Belt, may go on strike.
fugees. arisen over the employment of re-ining of April this year,
NEW ZEALAND
and causing an engine to be obstructed by a motor-car.
It is understood that trouble hus April, 1938, to 322,218 at the begin-
were testing new bombers-from-at will be the duty of ine matron near-by aircraft factory. The drone to take over the entire responsibility of their powerful engines mingled) of the children if the parents in de- with the gentle voice at the cardinal} sire. as he prayed for a blessing on the
It was explained that Turner monks' enterprise.
"She will ent necessarily be a trained nurse. It is mure important went fishing near the camp and Recently, as they knelt in their that she should be an experienced parked his car in a field. Later, small chapel, the fifty monks of woman, used to the care of children, owing to heavy rain having NEW LOAN LIKELY TO Prinknashi murmured another prayer who can make herself popular at once -that the £100,000 they need
with
the young travellers, read them fallen, he could not drive the car bedtime stories, and put them at case away; after the excitement and fatigue of long journeys.
complete their self-imposed task will
be provided.
Athletes Not Shell-Like
Thus, in Cairo she will be one of the Eaglish co dmunity living there She will come to the hotel when the passengers arrive for the night. Mosambique she will await them on the houseboat where passengers spend the night.
A1
He was trying to get the car to the
BE ATTRACTIVE
AUCKLAND.
Brokers anticipate that the Govern- other side of the railway when a trainment's £4,500,000 loan will be sub- the line, racing the train to the near- was signalled. Turner drove downscribed within a week of issue.
est crossing.
Judges In Colonies
THE SECRETARY OF STATE for the Colonies, Mr. Malcolm Mac- Donald, has decided to suggest to the It reverses the Government's policy Governments of all colonies where statutory qualifications do not already of issuing no fresh loans,
be introduced The train caught up with him a few The principle of alternative repay- jexist that legislation yards from the crossing. He just ment dates, incorrectly described in to provide that those appointed to be OBERLIN, O.
managed to jump clear, and the London as an innovation, was adopted judges of the High or Supreme Court There's nothing to that old theory
"At a remute post such as Sharjah, engine struck his car. reducing it to in the 1033 Conversions and before must be barristers of not less than that an athlete can be only an athlete in Persin, she will be one of the small matchwood,
then. and nothing else, according to a sur-English colony living some des away I think you were the victim of the pos
Mr. Justice Cassels said to Turner: It will doubtless' mark the end of
This standing.
#s
noted With satisfaction at vey here. It showed that more than and will be on cull, if needed.
per cent. local recent meeting of the committed of 80 per cent of the latter men of the There will be 10 on the stopping chapter of weeldents. Just to mark authorities' loans, as the 4 per cent, the Straits Settlements (Singapore) past three years are taking an active places for the route to India and Aus- one's sense of your error, I think the now offered is likely to attract inuch Association, when a letter containing 'part in affairs of campus organiza-tralia and four along the African Justice of the case will be met by money awaiting investment. Interest the information from the Straits
route,"
your paying a fine of £2."
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She had been dying since 1934, when her father's foot slipped
off the brake on to the accelera Fascist Fined
tor of their car near Tunbridge JOHN FRANCIS SUTHERLAND, of Wells, Kent, and they crashed Newton-grove, Shoreditch, E into a tree. That was two years stated to be a district leader of the before her marriage.
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A Harley-street specialist, it was street recently fined £10, with 10 stated, anld that the injuries to her guineas costs, for organising a pro- head "were not likely to give her a cession in contravention of a police lot of trouble in the future."
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The specialist was not called and must stop. the jury returned a verdict of "Acci-
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