1937-12-16 — Page 19

WIVES "EASIER

THE HONGKONG- TELEGRAPH.

DIVORCE

TO CAUSE CHAOS

Poor Persons' Adviser Prepares For New Law

(By A Special Correspondent)

ITS OWN AERODROME

Unhappy wives threaten THE NAVY TO HAVE to swamp the divorce courts with applications when Mr. A. P.. Herbert's divorce" Act begins to oper- ate in January.

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Solicitors throughout the country are being consulted by an unprecedented num. ber of women who hope that the Act, by extending grounds for divorce, will afford them the freedom they have long desired.

Hundreds of wives hope to turn their separation orders into divorce decrees that would en able them to remarry.

FIRST SINCE END OF WAR

R.A.F. STATION MAY BE TAKEN OVER

Early next year, It is understood, over the the Admiralty may take IR.A.F. station nt Les-on-Solent,

Hampshire. This station has served

for 14 years as he School of Nuval Co-operation, one of its principal duties being the training of naval Omers as observers for the Fleet Air Arm, writes, Hector C. Bywater. In the Dally Telegraph.

On Jun, 1 the Naval Co-operation

I learn that the situation has School is to be transferred to the caused some apprehension new R.A.F. station at Ford, Sussex, and well-equipped official quarters. A question is and the urge to be asked in Parliament' about establishment at Lec-on-Solent may the provisions for the anti-then pass entirely under naval con- cipated great increase in appli- cations by poor persons.

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This would be one of the first re- sults of the Government's decision, Mr. A. Hassard-Short-Short, who announced in July, to end the system since 1014 has sat as secretary in the of dual control of the Fleet Air Arm Poor Persons Department. beneath and grant the Admiralty full ad- all ship- the Divorce Courts, and has person-ministrative powers over ally dealt with

than 70,000 borne alrcraft, whether they are more poor persons applications, has ul-actually afloat or ashore. ready planned the reorganisation of liis department to cope with the di-

vorce

rush. Staff and accommoda- tion are being enlarged.

NO SPEED-UP PLANS

No arrangements have yet been made for speeding up reforms in the Divorce Courts above, apart from the decision to appoint another judge, making the total four.

PROVIDING ALL PERSONNEL Previously all naval aircraft landed from ships, together with their naval personnel, came automatically under the jurisdiction of the Air Ministry. and muny anomalies resulted,. ·

Another result of the administra- live change will be the eventual re-

placement of all R.A.F. pilots in the

Flee Air Arm by naval officers, Hitherto the Navy has provided only 60 per cent, of the pilots, though all | the observers were naval officers.

THURSDAY, ¦ DECEMBER" ~ 16" 1937.

RUSH IN

THREATENS

COURTS

Dr. A. S. Calhoun of Mount Olive, Miss., with Nurse Evelyn Sharbrough, 11th of the patients to whom he unwittingly ad- ministered a deadly brand of eli xir of sulfanilamide as on infec- tion cure. Although later she knew the medicine might be fatal, she continued her work as above, Government agents raced. with death to recall 700 bottles.

WIFE WAS TOLD "CUT

SOB STUFF”

Love Letters Not Silly, Says Judge

Letters to his wife from Engineer-a inarriage of convenience.

It

If the Lec-un-Solent station is Lieutenant Commander Francis has been said that she was cold, cal- taken over by the Admiralty, it will Henry Lee, R.N., of the destroyer culating and not passionate.

RADIO BROADCAST

Relay from. London: Food for Thought CHILDREN'S CONCERT

Radlo Programme Broadcast by Zaw on Wavelengths of 355 metres (845 .c's.), 31.49 metres (0.52 m.c's).

II.K.T.

12.0 12.20 p.m. Relay of Special Service from St. Jolin's Cathedral.

12.30 Patricia Rossborough (Plano), Limelight Selection;

Dog (Clair-Carter); Poor Little Rich Girl

Selection.

11ot

12.40 Latest Dance Records. Fox-Trois-The First Time I Saw You (Aim Toast of New York); The Folks Who Live On The Hull; Can I Forget You (film High, Wide and Handsome')....Roy

Fox and His

Orchestra. Peckin

New Faces

of 1937'); Big Appin, at Gonella

and His Georgians; Rugtime Cowboy Joe; Salling On The Robert E. Lee;

Harry Roy's Tiger-Ragamuffins.

1.0 Local Time Signal and

Weather Report.

103 Marck Weber and His Or chestra.

The Flower Of Inwail-Scicellon (Abraham) with Comedy Harmonists (Quartet in German); The Skuters Waltz (Gung); Talkie Hits-Med- lex, 1032 (Borchert); Fonfore Selection; Tales Of Autumn-Waltz (Waldteufel); Blonde Or Brunelte- Woltz (Waldtcufel),

1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press; Local Weather Forecast and An- nouncements.

1.40 New Variety Records. Orchestra-Going Greek' Selection ...New Mayfair Orchestra; Vocal- You Needn't Have Kepi It A Secret (O'Connor-Silver de Murcia): Good- night To You All (Denby-Watson)

Morton Downey: Orchestra Sunshine In Spring-Waltz (De Curtis-Baumann); Land Of

Love --Fox-Trot (Melichar-Heyne). Eugen Wolf

Orchestra; and His Comedian-1 Never Thought Thai She'd Do That To Me; Let's

"All Have A Charabane Ride (Miller)....Max Miller: Vocal and Plano Paris. Is Not The Same (Marvell-Strachey); Singing For You (Hackforth).... Lesile Hutchinson; Orchestra-Saxo- phone Fireworks-Fox-Trot....Erle Harden Dance Orchestra,

216 Close Down.

5-8.05 European Programme. 0,05-11 Chinese Programme.

Relay of the Dance Orchestra from the Roof Garden of the Hong-

Suggested reforms have been discussed. It is feared that unless they are promptly carried out the existing machinery will be unable in cope with the divorce rush-

the first six or be the first air station to be owned certainly during

by the Navy for 20 years, twelve months.

and operated Recently two Divorce judges-- the President, Sir Boyd Merriman, like any other naval establishment,

Kong Hotel, Bucknill-were oc- though come RAF officers may be and Mr. Justice pack from magis- temporarily attached for instructional trates' orders. The third. Mr. Justice purposes. Langton, was faced with a list of thirteen defended cases.

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Much of the judges' time is at pre- sent taken up with Admiralty work that divorce petitions are crowded out for months.

Investigations I made yesterday show how well founded are the fears of a great divorce rush in the spring. I examined figures that are now -in-the-hands of officials.

11,000 SEPARATION ORDERS A YEAR

They were obtained by a Home Once committee in 1934. 1 was then calculated that the yearly num- ber of police court separation orders made on the grounds of cruelty, de- sertion, failure to maintain, failure of parental duty, totalled eleven thousand. There were then Afty thousand such orders in operation.

They were still being made at the rate of ten to eleven thousand a year when Mr. Herbert's Bill came before Parliament..

These figures cause alarm because a large proportion of the orders oro in respect of desertion. Under Mr. Herbert'a Act desertion, for three years or more, will constitute f ground for divorce.

Wives with years-old orders for desertion now plan to seck divorce. Wives who were hoping for an order for desertion held their hands when Mr. Herbert's Bill came along, and now await the New Year and the operation of the new law,

I was told recently; "Many wives

will sue for divorce rather than seek

a magistrates' order."

Dr. Hans Ernst Posse, to suc-

·ceed. Dr. Hjalmar Schocht an German Minister of Economies.. Dr. Posso, deputy to Dr. Schacht, who has resigned, has been car- rying

the Ministry burdenk while Dr. Schacht attended to Reichsbank offairs;

It will be manned

way.

Impulsive, were described by Mr.

"She has also been described as a Justice Buckmill in the Divorce Court as "rather cold for a young husband." Woman of brozen impudence, my opinion of her-and a man always Commander Lee, who lives in puts a woman's character forward Cowes (1. O. W.), petitioned for the with diffidence--is that the guiding 1. Make a wish; 2. I'm feeling dissolution of his marriage, alleging principle of her life was to maintain like a million; 3. Yours and Mine; adultery by his wife, Mrs. Eine Mar- herself and her mother by honour-4. Your Broadway and My Broad- To cope with the Impending ex-guerite Unlike Lee, of Marloes Road, able means, and it was for that rea-

5.15 Interval of recorded dance pansion of the Fleet Air Arm-the Kensington, with Major Francis El-son that she married.

music from 23.W. strength of which will probably be ward Morley Clarke, Gurkha Rifles quadrupled during the next few (retired), of Newton Ferrers, Devon. was disastrous, she began to contem- years the staff of the Naval Air

Both Mrs. Lee and Major Clarke plate the possibility of getting rid of Division at the Admiralty is to be denied on oath that they had ever her husband and marrying some one

Rear-Adml. J. H. D. committed ndultery. The petition else." increased.

Assistant Chief

of was dismissed with costs and Major Cunningham, Naval Staff (Air), is in general con- Clarke was dismissed from the suit. trol of Fleet' aviation matters.

Woman Aviator Honoured

Mt. Desert Island, Me. Miss Gayle Pond, social worker,

aviator and journalist, claims the distinction of being the only Ameri- can woman ever to hold a British pilot licence.

To College In Scooter

Fred Craig, Connecticut Staic College freshman, who fractured on ankle in a full from a tree, solved the problem of keeping up his class work by using a scooter bike. Rest- ing his injured foot on the bike, he propelled himself about the cam- pus without discomfort,

Of the husband, Mr. Justice Buck- nill-said-that-he-showed "A-com- plete lack of the very necessary give- and-take if the marriage was to be a success; he regarded love-letters as silly."

"When she found that the marriage

New Coal-Loading Mark Set

Toledo.

The Chesapeake and Ohlo coal The judge went on: "Perhaps, from docks here have established a new an engineer's point of view, they may world record for loading .coal into be but, from a human point of view. | vessels. Their big dumping machines they are not. In his letters he turned 95,002 tons of coul into the never get beyond calling his wife holds of 13 boats within a 24-hour

. The attitude to- Dear Elfe'

his wife is well illustrated by wards a letter he wrote to her less than a month after the marringe. It was as follows:

"You talk as if one moment away from me was some terrible amiction from which you will never recover.. Be prepared to cut out the 'sob stuff. Be pre-

pared to live where I want you to

live; no tears, or fits of sulka.

JUDGE AND WIFE

period.

"Found Loose" Mail Saved

5.20 5. Vleni, Vieni; 6. Public Melody Number One; 7. Whispers In the Dark; 8. Stop! You're break- ing my heart.

5.35 Interval of recorded dance music from 2.3.W.

5.45 9. It Looks like Rain; 10. High, Wide and Handsome; 11. Blacsoms on Broadway; 12. The Big Apple.

Studio Children's`Concert, 6.45 Light Opern:

"Merrie England' (German); Woltz Song: "The Mald of the Mountains (Fraser-Simson): Love Will Find A Way....Helene Esserman (Soprano); A Country Girl Selection (Monck- ton)....London Theatre Orchestra; The Beggar Student' (Millocker-

Zell-Genee); Ich Knuptte manche zarie Bande; Ich hab' kein Gold, bin vogelfrei....Hans Eidesser (Tenor).

7.06 New Variety.

Organ Dixon Hits No. 10.... Reginald Dixon; Orchestra The Acacia Blossoms Twice; More Stars Than There Are In The Sky; Once St. Louis, I Had A Dear Mother; The Sun Is Postal Buthorities here have In Love With The Moon....Magyarl established a special. "Found Loose" Orchestra; Vocal-Sea Winds (As- Imre and Ills Hungarian Gypsy department for the benefit of persons kew-Harrison): Full Sall (Graves- who absent-mindedly attempt to Buck)....Peter Dawson (Bass-

Baritone),

Of the wife, the judge sald: "Somail from 1,200 to 1,500 odd articles far as the wife was concerned it was every month.

Sex War Threatens to Divide

Broadcast House

Women

Push Out

The Men

(By Garry Allighan) THE BBC. IS BEING

TRUN BY A "PETTI-

COAT GOVERNMENT.” Men at the B.B.C. are now proposing to use the staff asso clation, which is being formed, to safeguard their positions.

are Lady Bridgeman and Mrs. MaryĮ WOMEN IN KEY JOBS Hamilton.

Doris Arnold, who joined the Women have been put in control B.B.C. as a typist and became staff of important

depart-pianist, is the first and only woman programme ments. Mary Somerville is in charge variety producer. of school broadcasting, a service which ends daily radio lessons into 6,000 classrooms all over the country,

Morning talks are controlled by Miss Janet Oulgity. She has swept all the old man-made ideas out of the talkn

depart. ments.

A woman is the B.B.C. ambassador to foreign countries. She is Scottish Isa Benzle, and was put In charge of the B.B.C. foreign affairs four years

For come time

many listeners have been unaware of the fact that one of the most successful producers of radio drama was a woman.

The names of plays were printed as being "produced by M. II. Allen."

But Mary 11. Allen is in charge of the entire women's secretarial staff. Her play-producing was a aideline.

Mrs. K. M. Lines, who is in charge of the photographle section, was She has represented the B.D.C once Sir John Reith's secretary. various conferences in foreign couay-

Other women in key positions are tries, often being the unly woman Mary Adams. the television make-up They say that women are getting present. A few weeks ago she expert; Mis G. M. Freeman, the

Morley, all the key positions and that the married John

television staff supervisor; Mrs. Du Barry, whe whole organisation al Broadcasting producer.

provides 70,000 lunches in the B.B.C. House is coming under their con-

Thinking that at least they were canteen every year; Mrs. Towler, the safe from female invasion in the receptionist, who as Caroline Bunka governors, the variety department, the male pru! was supervisor of the women's stuff. supreme body of the B.B.C.. two of ducers got a shock a month ago when No wonder the male staff talks In the five members are women. They a woman was added to their number, terms of a sex war."

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On the board of

7.25 Closing Local Stock Quota- tions and Hongkong Exchange Mar- ket Report.

7.30 Orchestral.

Cond:

Medea Overture (Cherubini).......... Milan Symphony Orchestra Lorenzo Molajoll; 'Portsmouth Poln!' Overture (Walton)....The B. B. C. Symphony Orchestra Cond: Adrian Boult.

7.45

London Relay 'Sporismen Talking': W. W. Wakefield, ML.P.

8 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.

9.05 Concert.

Chinese Programme--Studio

11 Close Down..

8.05-11 p.m. European Programme from Z.E.K. On a Frequency of 640 Klocycles.

8.05 Albert Sandler Orchestra.

and Ilis

(R. Song Of Paradise King); Always (from 'Puritan Lullaby'---- Smith)....Violla Solo by Albert Sandler assisted by J. Samchtinl (Cello), S. Torch (Organ): The Second Serenade (Heykens); Song Of The Nightingale (Hudson and Ailbout)....Albert Sandler and His Orchesten; The Violin Song (from Tinn-Hubens); L'Heure Exquise (Hahn)........Violin Solos by Albert (Continued on Page 4.)

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