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KING ANTHONY Dr. Lang Not SOUTHERN

OF ENGLAND To Retire

DIVORCED

Descendant Of Henry VIII

This Year

PACIFIC SEES

It made

1939 PROFIT

WASHINGTON THE southern The Archbishop of Canterbury would have a net income of $6,11%- Pacific Company estimated it was only joking." He has Hot made up his mind to retire this 000 in 1939 compared with a net loss year. When the Church Assem- of $5.698,500 in 1938. A 40-year-old man who claims to bly carried "a résolution be "King Anthony of England" and ing the voluntary retirement or a descendant of Henry VIII, was all clergy at the age of seventy- divorced in the Divorce Court. five, Dr. Lang sold: "It is a fact states a "Dally Herald" corres-of which I shall take notice." pondent.

As he will be seventy-five on

advocat-

He was described as Mr. Anthony October 31 next, many people who William Hall, ex-inspector of the read the report began to wonder

Shropshire constabulary..

who would be chosen as his suc

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His wife, Mrs Ethel Hall, of;cessor. Oakley-street, Shrewsbury. Was

His remark was taken to be a granted a decree nisi by Mr.strong hint that he would follow Justice Langton on the ground of the example of his predecessor. "constructive desertion. It was Lord Davidson, who retired in stated that Mr. Hall's conduct made 1928 and was made her leave him in 1927 in Canada,

peer. where he had established a business after leaving the police.

A cross-petition for divorce by the husband was dismissed, and casts were" awarded to Mrs. Hall,

who was given custody of their 13-

year-old daughter, the only child.|

In his summing-up, the judge described Mr. Hall, who conducted| his own case. as a man of most tempestuous, undisciplined erratic disposition"

and

"He appears," said the judge, "ta¦ be capable of the most generous and excellent impulses but he la completely, reckless in his actions." The judge said that Mr. Hall had made his wife's life in Canada un- endurable, and she was perfectly justified in leaving him when she

"CABLE £300′′.

did.

a tempora!

Before that" the archbishopric of Canterbury was regarded "as a life appointment, like the papacy.

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FOREIGN PRESS

IN LONDON

The Foreign Press Association Jancheon on Mar. 21. at which Sir John Anderson was the chief guest, brought together a large company of journalists. diplomatists, and others.

GENERAL & FINANCE

A £3,000,000-

SCHEME

Harbour Changes

At Alexandria

CAIRU, Mar. 14 (By Mall)-

A scheme has beea prepared for the estimate in an Improving the harbour at

Alexandria at a cost of £3,000, appileation to the Interstate Com- merce Commission for permission 000.

the to borrow $8,000,000 from

It provides for deepening th Reconstruction Finance Corporation channel, which is of insuficient to meet maturing equipment depth to permit of the passage of certificates and interest on funded the largest warships, and is regard- debt falling due between April 28 ¡ed as dangerous for medium-sized

and Jurie 30.

warships in bad weather,

Provision is also made for a dry dock for the use of naval ships, and for a petroleum basin for

It estimated a 10 per cent. In- crease in freight revenues in 1939 over 1938 and a 5 per cent, increase in passenger revenues, with an in- | tankers. crease of 3 per cent. in operating

expenses. The estimated increase

in gross revenues was placed at approximately $18,000,000.

The company said I had $20,000, November 1" and that it had been 000 of bank loans falling due

unable to obtain further loans

from private sources.

As collateral for the RFC, loan, the company offered to pledge securities with an estimated market value of $10,835,698. It now owes the RFC $14,000,000.

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harbourside are, under the scheme,

Oil tanks at present on the

to be removed to the south of the railway. They will be flinked · up with the quay with a pipeline.

tank area as a precaution against, A wall will be built round the

the spread of fre..

It is proposed that the cost of the work should be spread over a maximum period of four years.

The improvements are based on a scheme prepared by Sir Cyril KIK- patrick, in the light of amendments made by the late Sir Geoffrey Cor butt.

Sir Cyril Kirkpatrick, a former president of the Institute of Civil Engineers, was commissioned by the Egyptian Government to advise on essential Improvements to the harbour, Sir Geoffrey Corbett, who died in November, 1937, was adviser to the Egyptian Ministry of Com merce

BOVRIL, LIMITED. President at the forty-second It was curious to see, at such a¦ annual general meeting of Bovril moment of crisis, a social gather Ltd., held in London, on February, ing of men and women whose 22, 1939, the Lord Luke, K. B. E countries are now, or may presently (Chairman), after dealing with the be. in conflict. At the head table Company's accounts said he was sat the Ministers of several Near on the high seas on his way home Eastern States, a group of Chinese from America during the crisis The judge added that in 1927 Mr. Journalists were in one corner last September, and on his arrival Hall wrote his wife's father a letter, Japanese in another.

home. In October he noticed in the which contained the statement: ì The company of pressmen could papers a photograph of a collec- arrived seemed a proper thing, to £300 to be cabled within 14 perhaps not be duplicated for tion of various packets of food pro- do. Those who purchased Bovril days with the simple alternative variety of nationality in any other, duets that had been collected for for a period ahead were actually that if the money does not arrive world capital but Paris. The sale for charity.

leaving more chance in a crisis for I will show up damned quick, German representation, once sc They were termed "boarded those who had not got what was heave the door off its hinges if it large, is now small.

goods

and there seemed to be available in the shops. bars my way, and take my daughter

The Czech press in London has, more bottles of Bowl than any DUKE OF ATHOLL'S REMARKS out of your sight for ever."" of course, disappeared since the other product in the photograph, The Duke of Athol (Vice-chair- After the case. Hall, who has association last met. The Austrian This was not surprising, but what man), said: The world was in a published a pamphlet, "By King press as we knew it is no more.. was very surprising was. that it terrible state, morally, financially. Anthony,, A Manifesto," setting out,

ONLY CIVIL DEFENCE

should be considered hoarding for and commercially, but the Com his claims, said his “royal divorce" Some reference

foreign the housekeeper to purchase an pany's product had WOD right" would not cause suspension of his affairs may have been expected extra stock of Bovril; unless she through at every point during active campaign to secure recogni- from Sir John Anderson, but he had done so in a hurry at the last these difficult times because it

talked only of civil defence. There minute.

tion.

to

was a genuine article, It was easy to handle, it kept well, and in- cidentally, he supposed, it was about the greatest comfort in times of adversity. It was very grati tying to know that their product was well received all over the

"I hold a primitive view of mar- was applause at one point when The kind of hoarding which riage, and I do not believe in. Sir John said that, in spite of was objectionable was obviously divorce," he said.

British attachment to the voluntary that last-minute rush. when a Dealing with his "claim." he re-principle in public service, there crials arrived, to buy up and ferred me to his "Manifesto.", was no sacrifice British people hoard away a large stock. On the which, he said, had been lodged would, not make to protect vital other hand, to buy a reasonable with the College of Arms.

stock of Bovril before a crisis world.

WIPK OUT DERTS

interests.

One bit of apparently uncon-

It states that he intends to wipe selous humour occurred in the

out all government, municipal and speech. Sir John told the pressmen U.K. TRADE RETURNS.

oversena debts," remove taxes on not to believe that A. R. P. was "in

FOR JANUARY beer, whisky. ten, cocoa and 4 muddle." To counteract that

The Trade Returns for January entertainments, and abolish local notion he had prepared a document)

good describing civil" defence plans are certainly a

start for The Level of im- "Pedestrians and" pedal cycles was, he said, "especially intended the new year.

ports is below shall have more protection on the for gentlemen of the press and

January 1938. King's highway, and the use of written in appropriately simple nevertheless, exports are slight- pedal cycles by our subjects shall language."

rates.

be

encouraged.” the document:

concludes.

It is signed "Anthony, King of; England, Ireland, Prince of Wales,"į

"I only need a few more docu-i ments to establish my claim," Mr.

NO KID GLOVE"

♫i

MEN IN THE NAVY

ly higher than in January 1937, and imports slightly lower. Bear

th ing

mind that 1937 WRE the "best trading

year since 1929 the fact that 1839 has start- ed better than 1937 18 an en- couraging feature,

A suggestion that men in the On closer examination it would "small. pasty-faced appear that the main causes of

Hall said. "Already I have addressed Navy were

SHOE KING BATA FLIES TO LONDON

1,700 meetings and I intend to go men wearing kid gloves and carry the decline as compared with last on until 1940.”

Mrs. Hall told me. "I'm glad it denied on Mar. 23.by Eari Stanhope of iron and steel scrap

ing attache cases," was strongly year are heavy falls in the imports is all over and I am now free."

and of First Lord of the Admiralty.

raw cotton. The abnormal Im- Lord Stanhope, who was speak-ports of iron and steel scrap in ing at the Constitutional Club, said January 1938 were due to a large that a correspondent had written collective purchase from the U. to him with that auggestion, and A. at a time when there was a he had sent the letter to the great shortage of scrap here. So Director of Personal Services to ask far as raw entton is concerned. "Where do you find them?"

this Industry 18 undergoing В "I have not yet received the severe depression for reasons not Mr. Thomas Bata, Czecho- reply." said Lord Stanhope, "but generally applicable to the slovakian shoe king, whose Central the men I have seen in the Navy of Industry. European factories now lie in are magnificent fellows-great, For these reasons therefore the Nazi", land; arrived by air at deep-chested men full of strength fall in the value of imports, 80 Croydon on Mar. 23 with his wife, and health and life, and as keen tar as industry as a whole is con- from Paris,

as mustard. "We do not take sallow-cerned, is discounted to a material Mr. Bata said to a "Daily Express" faced, gentlemen with kid gloves extent. A .considerable staff reported. "International at-and attache cases.

of the decline in value of the fairs? What can I say? What do "When I was asked if I was imports of other raw materiais

rest

part

I dare say? My factories? Then going to make a recruiting speech results from a fall in price rather were working when I saw them to the members of the Constitu- than a drop, in quantity.

tional Club, I replied, They will On the export side there have

Inst.

FRW

**I am going now to see my good have to be damned good to get into been small changes in connection' people at Tilbury [his English far- his Majesty's Navy.*"*

with food, drink and tobacco and tory). I do not think I shall be in

materials. Manufactures London for more than a week, but "The Kid from Texas" has gone fell by £2,147,000 as compared I have not had time to make into production at the Metro with January 1938, but showed an plans,"

"Goldwyn-Mayer studios under the increase of £563,000 as compared fortnight, since just direction of 3. Sylvan Simon. The with January 1937. Nearly two. before the Germans entered Prague,cast includes Dennis Mr. and Mrs. Bata have been to Florence Rice. Rita Johnsm, Buddy item of iron and steel manntac

O'Keefe, thirds of the drop was in the single Bucharest, Poland, Parla, Bean-Ehsen. Anthony Allan, Tully Mar-tures, the dinavia and back to Paris.

world demand for shall, Jessie Ralph and J.M. Ker-which has undergone. a rigan.

recession in the last 18 months.

Halliwell Hobbes, veteran charac- ter actor and native of Shakes- peare's Stratford-on-Avon, became Debba, the first butler to enter the lives of the Hardy family. The film is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "The Hardy's Ride High," in which the family receives potice of a vast in- fieritance, Bobbés kuls appeared in scores of pictures, having made his debut in sound aims with Jeażne Bagels in "Jealousy." He first appeared on the stage in Glasgow in 1899.

Astonishing Confession

heavy

An astonishing confession was made from the dock in Kusla Lumpur last week by James Henry Nelson, the 28-year-old. Eurasian, who appeared before Mr. AJ. Grattan-Bellew. First, Magistrate, on five charges of burglary.

Committed to the Assizes by the magistrate, Nelson con fessed that he was responsible for all the offences with which he was charged and declared that he had been influenced by read- ing certain magazines and by seeing the flm "The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse," in which a crime-studying doctor tarns criminal. "I also," said Nelson, wanted to study crime."

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