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SHARING TAXI-CAB FARE A CRIME
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GIRLS WHO DROVE TO A DANCE
London, May 13. When two or more people hire u taxf-cab.and make an agreement share the rare, they may be prosecuted for a criminal offence.
This was held by a King's Bench Divisional Court yesterday. when Lord Hewart, the Lord Chief Jus- tice, Mr. Justice du Parcq and Mr. fustice Goddard hed, before them a case arising from a strict inter- pretation of the Road Traffic Act.
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Un an appeal by Traffic Com- missioners, the Court decided that Miss Mandle Cross, of Ashmere- grove, Ipswich, had caused a taxi- cab to be used as an "express car- riage" when it was hired to take her. and some women friends to a dance and they agreed to share the fare.
The cab had not a road service Ucence, which must be provided for
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"express carriage."
Mr. Justice du Parcq: It would appear that if two barristers share
taxi-cab to go to a county cours and agree to share the fare they ore guilty of a criminal offence 1: the vehicle has no road service Ucence?
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Yeung Hon. 22, unemployed was also charged with soliciting at the Junction of Pedder Street and Des Voeux Road Central, and was sen- tenced to three months by Mr. S.
Mr. Valentine Holmes, for the Tramic Commissioners: Yes; that is the law.
"Then the sooner the public knows it the better," said Mr. Jus-
ice Goddard.
"GROTESQUE RESULTS" Lord Hewart said that the case might seem a hard one, but that was no reason why the law should not be enforced. If grotesque. re- cuits followed that might be a rea- son for an amendment of the law. Miss Cross, Lord Hewart added, had unwittingly committed an offence and the appeal asking that the Ipswich magistrates should find that the offence was proved against her would be allowed.
"Expres. carriages" are defined in the Road Trafic Act, 1930, as "motor vehicles carrying passengers for hire or reward at separate fares none of which is less than 1s. for a single journey, or such greater sum as may be prescribed), and for a journey or journeys from one or more points specified in advance, to ane, or more common destinations P. C. Macrey stated that he so specified, and not stopping to was standing at this corner when take up or set down passengers he was accosted by the defendant other than those paying the appro- who made some suggestions to priate fares for the journey or him,
Journeys in question."
F. Balfour..
Defendant said that the con- stable asked him where there were some girls and defendant replied that there were some in the Dancing Academy.
Mr. W. H. Cox, secretary of the section of the Transport and
General Workers' Union, said:
"The matter wil no doubt receive consideration by our union in view of the Court decision.
"Cases have been heard in the past where taxi-drivers who offered £390 FOR A TOM JONES to share the fare among, say, four
A first edition of Fielding's History of Tom Jones (1749) brought. £390 at Sotheby's, Lon- don, recently.
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NEEDS OF THE
NAVY
Modernization And Replacement
DEFENCE OF TRADE
London, May 14. The annual meetings of the Navy League were held at the Caxton Hall, Westminster. yesterday, when Lord Lloyd was re-elected president for "the Afth successive year.
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R.A.F. PILOTS IN MARY JOHNSTON
THE MAKING
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INTENSIVE TRAINING
London, May 13. The new plan of the Air Coun- cl to intensify training new pilots so that they the process of
may go to the squadrons at the end of 11 months it to take part in the collective training of the unit is now beginning 10 take. effect.
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An Air Ministry Order. issued yesterday. shows both the addi- tional work now undertaken at the R.A.F. Aying training schools and the high standards required of pupils before they pass out of those schools for duty with squad- rons.
Lord Lloyd said that he thought they could say that the Govern- ment policy and the White Paper recently produced were largely the result of the propagandist work of the Navy League up and down the country in the face of pacifists and those who represented a dangerous idealogy. Lady Houston had made 2 generous gift of £10.000-1 second gift, towards the work of. The old system of training kept the league. This had been applied pilots at the flying training school to a reserve fund and the interest for 11 months. but left the more would be used in the work.
Al-advanced forms of individual and though the income was steadily in-formation flying to be learned in erenstrig it was nothing like suff-
the squadrons. flent for their needs
A resolution, submitted by the Chelsea branch, and carried. ex- pressed the 'View that it was essen tial that no increase in
our air forces should be considered as a substitute for the necessary mo- dernization and replacement of our battleships and the increase of our cruiser and destroyer strength.
COMMAND OF SEA
Another resolution, moved on be- half of the Newbury branch, and rarrted, emphasized the importance to the British Empire of keeping command of the sea because such command could not be effectively placed by any system of granarica and food storage.
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At the afternoon session a solution, which was carried un- animously, urged that the accumu- lation of deficiencies in all the De- fence Services should be made good with the utmost rapidity, and drew the attention of the Government to the decline of the merchant navy and fishing fleets.
OLD SYSTEM
The new method, which was be- ing ofganized before the R.A.F, ex- pansion scheme was announced, provides a period of initial train- ing at a civil training school, su that the young pilot is at when he arrives at the R.A.F. school to be gin training in service types of air-
craft.
In his Arst term there he takes instrument flying and night I up
flying. In his second term he gets much more practice in these bran- ches and learns formation flying,
DEAD
Writer Of Several Best-Sellers
London, May 11.
Miss Mary Johnston. the Vir- glatan novel'sh who has died at the age of 85. had a tremendous vague, in the first decade of this century.
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At the age of 17 she sent the manuscript of her first novel. "Prisoners of Hope" (published in this country under the title of "The Old Dominion") to Mr. Wal- ter Page, the publisher who after- wards became Ambassador. Не was so impressed that he immie- diately took train for Miss Johns- ton's Virginian home.
Her.wo first novels, "The Old Dominion" and "By Order of the Company." were her best sellers. Her best books were those con- neeted with the American Civit
War, or which she was an au- thority of these "Cease Firing and "The Long Roll" were favou rites of Mr. Baldwin and were publicly praised by him. AUTHENTICATED BEST-SELLERS Miss Johnston was one. of the few authors whose authenticated sales for a single book exceeded the half-million mark.
In the United States alone. "Ey Order of the Company" sold 315.000 copies. In this country, too, the sale was large.
The world's record is held by a woman. This is Gene Stratton Forter. four of whose books all sold Over
million copies... Freckles" (2.000.000), "Girl of the Limberlost" (1.700,000). "The Har- vester" (1.600 000), and "Laddle" (1.500.000).
He receives his flying badge or "wings" at the end of the first term, and before he leaves he must spend a month at an armament training camp, and so begins to be skifted in air gunnery. The whole of the training at civil school. Service school, and
armament paying guests.. camp is now being compressed, In consequence of the expansion, near maximum rate
up to 15.- within nine months. but it 13 In-000ft.. or service ceiling it less: tended in more leisurely days to (iv) tbe able to dy accurately in devote 11 months to it. The type
Miss Johnston made a great deal of money. She lost a lot of
1. it in the 1929 slump, and "was at one moment so temporarily Pin- barrassed that she had to take
pilot which the system should produce may be gathered from the regulations issued yesterday.
Sir Edward Grigg, M.P., who pro-
TESTS FOR BADGE posed the resolution, said military
The pupil, order to obtain his strength used to consist in two "wings" at the end of the Arst
Army. Now it must consist in great Services, the Navy and the
term. must (1) have completed a total of not less than 80 hours solo three. The new Service, the Royal and dual flying on elementary and Air Force, not only had a vast field service types of landplanes. of ot responsibility to itself but im-
which not less than 20 hours pinged upon the fields originally must be solo on service types of reserved to the Navy and Army as
aircraft: () be able to fysez- their own. The contribution of the Vice type of aircraft reliably and three Services to security must be accurately by day in clear air and dovetailed into a single plan of solely by the aid of Instruments. defence. The Secretary of State and land consistently well at low for War had stated that the Gov-speeds; (i) be able execute
Expeditionary Force for the pur- ernment Intended to recreate the correctly those normal and aero-
batic manoeuvres appropriate pose of meeting their obligations the type of aircraft on which he oversea, He most strongly sup-
is trained; (iv) be able to recover ported the Government's action.
from abnormal positions solely by
depended on it. Our honour and our security alike
the aid of instruments; (v) have carried out on a service type of aircraft an efficient climb to 15,- 000ft. and remained there for 30 minutes; and (vi) have carried cut on a service type of aircraft not less than two triangular cross- country flights of 200 miles or
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EFFECTIVE INTERVENTION
He xas also opposed to the fatalistic doctrine that there was no way of averting a long-drawn struggle in France and Belgium like the last. We had the power to pre- vent it if we chose, and nothing was more clearly in our own in; terest.
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When the pilot takes those tests. he will have been in training seven months and will have spent a short time at RAE depot at To avert It we must show that Uxbridge on disciplinary training. our intervention would be effective" At his final tests he must (1) be in the first stage of war, if wer was able to fly consistently good com- forced upon us. An efficient army DLES .courses In clear air or in was not, however, the only form of cloud; (11) be able to My at a strengthen our diplomacy and rein- accurately for periods of military readiness. necessary to sready height, course, and speed Ave vigorate the organization of peace. minutes as for bombing: (1) be England's life depended upon her able to climb with war load at or
Bea communications.
Every day 110,000 tons of mer- chandise and 50,000 tons of food were landed in our ports. Every day nearly 400 sea-going ships ene tered or left our ports.
CRUISERS AND DESTROYERS To a laymah a weakness in finitely more dangerous than any cruisers and destroyers seemed in-
weakness, from which we might vital to defence of trade, and the suffer in battleships. These were
menace to our trade in the Narrow Seas was growing every month.
Strength for peace was impos- sible without strength for war; the story of the League and Abyssinia was ample proof of that. They must learn by that experience, and make certain that when next they intervened with the League to stop a war they did so in good time and with irresistible effect.
people going, to a football match, Captain Norman Macmillan, pre- haye been summoned; but this is sident of the National League of the first time that I knew passen-Airmen seconded the resolution, gers, could be prosecuted if they which was supported by Commo made an agreement among them- dore H. Stockwell and Mr. H. Beau- selves."
mont, M.P
MARRIAGE TO ALIEN POLYGAMISTS
Cautious, Scotswomen
London, May 9, Mr. W. L. Rind, Asafstant Regis-
before the Committee on the Mar- trar-General for England, gave evidence yesterday at Edinburgh
riage Laws of Scotland:
He wondered, he said, if they had trouble in Scotland over the mar- riage of foreigners, particularly those who were polygamists. There was a great deal of that in Lon- don
"We take a lot of trouble to make the woman understand what her position is when she returns to her husband's country," he said. "It is mostly the case of an English- woman marrying a foreigner,”
any position of a flight of three aircraft during take-offs and landings, dives and turns as ap- propriate to the type of aircraft: and (v) be able to take off and land consistently well by night,
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