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Pedro Cardinal Segura y Sacaz. former Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain, named by Pope Plus as Archbishop of Seville. ilo fled Spain when former King Alfonso was exiled but recently returned from Rome to insurgent Spanish territory. lo succeeds the late Cardinalundain y Extaban of Seville, who died in August.

R. A.F.

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LAW SOCIETY ON ON

Baronet's Wife Leads Church

Of Eight

Altar In Dorset

Woods

DAKONET'S wife is the spiritual A leader of a church in Dorset which has no walls, no orgati, pewE, choir or collection, and only eight | worshippers.

This church glands on a slope near a stream at Ashley Chase, Dorset, country set of Sir David and Lady Milne-Watson,

of

Its altar consists of #1 Woodch tross and built-up stones resembling In early altar of the Church

Bigland, says the Sunday Express.

Dedicated to St. Luke, the church, which dates back to the twelfth cen- tury, was reduced to rains in a gale nently 200 years ago.

NO OTHER PLACE

Lady Milne-Watson conducts the services every Sunday when in res- ence at Ashley Chuse. There is no

Planes deman

Crash When Wing Tips Touch

She does so because inhabitanis the eghbourhood lave to walk five miles to Abbotsbury Church, the only other church in the district.

No one sits down at the service, | although three small bunches with clit people Accommodation for

have been provided.

Lady Milne-Watson leads the singing of the hymns, and the voices

Seven squadrons of R.A.F. 'planes of the worshippers re-echo from thef were flying back to North Weald Hy-woods, Ing-eld recently.

After service, Lady Milne-Watson chats with the people, among whom At a height of 2,000 feet the wing he is very popular. In recent] years the Tate Bishop of Salisbury tips of two machines touched..

One 'plane nose-dived and burst in-held a confirmation service there,

to finmen. The other sagged drunk- enly through the air for n little way, then crashed, too.

Two men Jumped with parachutes. Ong reached the ground safely. Th parachute of the other became entan- Aled with the plane. He crashed with the machine and was killed.

Two others died in the burning

Vice Admiral Esteva, Inspec- tor General of the French naval forces, appointed to command all French surface vessels and airplanes taking part in the "anti-piracy" patrol

the In Mediterranean,

U. S. Crime

Is Organised Industry

"Crime in the United States is now a highly organised industry conducted on the same ines as that of a legitimate company," delared Thomas E. Dewey, New York's "rackets prosecutor," In

radio, address, Mr. Dewey pictured a "big shot gangster" ns the president of modern criminal organisation, en- throned In a fashionable apartment

TALKED WITH and conferring with his underlingte,

THE SPIRIT

OF LENIN

wreckage of their plane, and this 10 Years' Gaol For

year's R.A.F. death roll was brought]

to 112 Last year ninety-six were Russian Medium

kiled

PARACHUTE ESCAPES

mem-

the directors. But not commitling erlines himself.

He usually lives in, the best intel, is married, has children who play with your cldhdren in the parks, and later sends his sons and daughters to leading univer- titles," said Mr. Dewey,

"The typical crime corporation handles a multitude of rackets and is divided into

gunman sejad,

more

1937. OCTOBER 26,

EFFECT OF NEW SOFT WOOLLEN JUMPERS

DIVORCE ACT

"INUNDATION" OF

OF POOR PERSONS COMMITTEE

For the Arst time in the history i "Like the prisoner of Chlon, we of the Law Society's provincial) have grown nccustomed to our chains, cont conferences of which the 53rd, was und fe without Income-tax

"AII held at Exeter-a general discussions hardly be imagined," he addezk un the work of the council and the we ask or hope for is that our gaoler

clinins Law Society was permitted after the will sometimes case our presidential address by Mr. Francis Hitle bit, or, at any rate, will E. J. Smith,

twist them any tighter."

After a vigorous discussion, lasting an hour and 10 minutes, two recom- mendations to the council were cor- ried, but the Press were asked not to report the proceedings.

The general feeling? It was under- stood, was that solielfors would not have spoken as freely as they did if they had known that their views were to be made publte.

Testa For Solicitors

Referring to the education of future he selleltors. Mr. Smith and that wholly agreed with the conclusion that the legal profession would in time follow the medient and accept

tests the Intermediate

of the universities as subiclent evidenco of proficiency in the elements of law.

♫

not

Mr. Holme pleaded strongly, that the draft bill produced by Lord Maemlilan's income-tax consolidation and codification committee, which was set up in 1927 and worked until 1034, "should not be relegated to the

mbo of forgotten measures."

n

"Every taxpayer," he said, "would welcome such a simplification of law which he is supposed to know. Now that we have a Chancellor of the Exchequer who can appraise its true value as an excellent piece of drafting, it too much to hope that the Government will take un the bill in the coming session?"

Hardship Ore Married

Mr. Holine, amid laughter, pointed out that treatment of married couples under the income-tux laws "scems

natalesmanlike."

It would, he suggested, be increas- ingly common for the prospective articled clerk to master these cle- "A married couple get a smaller ments in a whole-time course at the allowance than a couple who

entering law school before

into living without going through articles. At the moment, however, formality of adopting the marriage: the council of the Law Societye. This seems to me bad stateman- thought it would be unwise to press ship for the institution of an academic immorality." year before entry.

The president puld rent tribute to the "excellent public work" done by the profession without reward of any

kind for poor persons.

MATRIMONIAL CAUSES ACT

Guidance For The Poor

He predicted that Poor Persuns Committees throughout the country would be inundated with applications for ceriillcates

with to proceed divorce petitions under the new Matrimonial Causes Act. Certainly judges the work of solicitors and would be Increased.

and a direct Incentive

solicitors

arc the

to

dis-

. Discussing the position of book- makers and betting in income-tax law, Mr. Holme mentioned two re- ceri cases and said that the assembled were justified in advising their clients that they could regard in their income-tax returns any sums they had received on suc- cessful bets unless they were book- makers, in which case the position was precisely the reverse.

LEGAL TRAINING Three Requisitos

"Some aspects of the legal educa tion of a country solicitor' were discussed in a paper read by Mr. II. "The public may rely on the Gallienne Lemmon, of Kings Lynn. profession acting with the same care

After 30 years of professional ex.

blackmullers work may be increased," he observed. Darlence, he said, he had come to the

"It is more desirable than ever that the District Registrars should be given jurisdiction to deal with paid divorce cases as they now deal with pour persuna cases.

number of would-be petitioners for

fore- legal conclusion that the Orst and most qualification for round education was a Round knowledge not only of law but of legal principle. was also equally important to be able to apply this theoretical know-

The trial has been concluded at smugglers, and legal staff.

(Com- 26 Komsomol

"EMPLOYS THOUSANDS" The dead were: Sergeant Arthur Muscow of Clifton Reginala Wood, First-class minist Youth organisation)

"Crime has been developed as Aircraftman Robert Pull, Second-berg charged with having arranged

participated in spiritualistic national industry for 30 years, and class Aircraftman Brimley Thomjand

seances during which they held rich, powerful syndicates with brains Soulb.

great ledge practically. employ "Experience proves that a than brawn even Intercourse with the Trotskyist spirit thousands, ranging from the private divorce have but a vague idea of what Wood was piloting a Hawker-De-work, including such

The third requisite, "the most valu- liquidated mon fghter, South was with him traitors as Kameneff and Zinoviell, who does the strong arm work to the is required to enable proceedings to able of all" was a thorough know says the Dally Expren.

During the proceedings it was millionaire general directing opera- be launched or handled with success, ledge of human nature and the or and that a guiding hand is necessary ability to size up a client's mentally The other plane was blloted by further stated that the accused per-lons, usually from New Pilot-Omeer Leon Maxwell Muller. sons had also spoken with the spirit Chicago."

to direct the averuge poor person to and character as well as his pocket, Supporting these revelations comes his or her appropriate remedy." lle escaped by parachute. Pull was of Lenin.

Other points from Mr. Lemmon's with him. It was Puil who became Deemed to have been the principal the announcement that one of Mr.

arrested "Touting And Undercutting” speech were: entangled in the wreckage.

culprit in this criminal affair, the Dewey's Investigators has South was making his first flight. unfortunate ravdium was senten eed to Max Silverman the chief of lle ond a friend were both keen to nei 18 years' imprisonment, and tize re-racketeers who have been

to eight since the Druckman murder.......ense. | legitimate sphere of solicitors in the as observer. They tossed for the pri-mainder of those charged vilege. South won.

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and administration of trust estates exccutorships" was also inentioned by the President.

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Our profession actually has fewer black sheep than any other;

The education of articled clerks. should remain practical and not be allowed to become: neademic: Young solicitors should themselves acquainted with he

general methods of local Industries And the technical terms used in such industrics:

"However much we may individua- ully dislike such interference," said, "it has come to stay." All that Die Law Society could do was to sec that the intruders did not make un- fair use of their opportunilies. There was applause at the President's re- marks.

Academic Misfits.

make

the

Mr. C. L. Nordon, of London, sald that the newly-admitted solicitor Mr. Smith said that another pro-was often of little use. The articled blenu куля that of "outing and clerk should be taught logic, literary undercutting" and the sharing ΟΙ

expression, economics, commercial profit charges with any person not a solleitor or other qualified agent. Practice and practical matters of that

sort. There had been indications; he said, that this was a "widespread mischiet" The highly academically qualified watch the counel! hoped to mitigate If not extingulah.

INCOME-TAX ANOMALIES

"Oriental Despotism”

man was often not practically useful at all. Mr. Nordon suggested that such men should even corn short- hand and typewriting.

A young man came to him at 21 with a ""double-first" at Cambridge. brilliant W. "Although he had taken a

An amusing paper on income-tax was read by Mr. Rundle F. Kolme, of London.

Some of his statements were:

Income-tax is the negation statesmanship. It is A fax thrift.

of

academic course with highly-success- lui results, he reminded me of the gentleman who was too ignorant to be clerk, and there was no vasphey on among the heads of departments."

(Laughter.)

It punliber the Industrious up- prentice and lets his idlo brother go free.

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Shy Carolyn Brendin, a waitress in a cafe on New York's Broadway, works quietly, doesn't make a clatter with her trays, as some girls do. That was why Mrs. Robert Grayson always insisted on a table where Carolyn was serving when she came in for morning coffee.

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