1937-12-16 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WIVES "EASIER 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 "casier divorce" Act begins to oper- ate in January.

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 deerees that would en- able them to remarry.

I learn that the situation hus caused some apprehension in official quarters. Aquestion is

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 R.A.F. station

Lec-un-Solent, Hampshire. This stallon has served

for 14 years as he School of Naval Co-operation, one of its principal chiles being the training of naval Officers as observers for the Fleet Air Arm, writes, fecior C. Bywater in the Daily Telegraph.

On Jan. 1 the Naval Co-operation School is to be transferred to the new B.A.F. station at Ford, Sussex, and the large and well-equipped to be asked in Parliament about establishment at Lee-on-Solent may the provisions for the anti-en pass entirely under naval con- cipated great increase in appli- cations by poor persons.

trol.

This would be one of the first re- sults of the Government's decision, Mr. A. Hassand-Short-Short, who announced in July, to end the system since 1914 has sut as secretary in the of dual control of the Fleet Air Arm Poor Persons Department beneath and grant the Admiralty full ad-

ministrative powers over all ship the Divorce Courts, and has person-

more than 78,000 borne aircraft, whether they ally dealt with poor persons applications, has al-actually afloat or ashore. ready planned the reorganisation of his department to cope with the di

rush. Staff and accommoda- tion are being enlarged.

Vorce

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.

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are

PROVIDING ALL PERSONNEL

Previously all naval aircraft funded from ships, Together with their maval personnel, une automatically under the Jurhelletion of the Air Ministry, and many anomaltes resulted,

Another result of the administra-

tive change will be the eventual re placement of all R.A.F. pilots in the!

Fleet Air Armi by naval officers, i Hitherto the Navy has provided only

60 per cent, of the pilots, though all · the observers were naval ofcers.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1937.

RUSH IN

THREATENS

COURTS

Dr. A. S. Calhoun of Mount Olive, Mis.. with Nurse Evelyn Starbrough, 18th of the patients to whom in unwittingly ud- ministered a deadly brand of eli xir of zulfanilamide as an infec- tion eure. Althoingh later she knew the medielne miglit be fatal, The continued hry work as abo ve. Government agens 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- ja marriage of convenience.

RADIO BROADCAST

Relay from London: Food for Thought CHILDREN'S CONCERT

Radio Programme Broadcast by ZBW on Wavelengths of 355 metres (615 kc's.), 31.49 metres (0.52 m.c'a).'

I.K.T.

12.0 12.20 p.m. Reiny of Special Service from. St. John's Cathedral.

12.30 Patricia Rossborough (Piano). Limelight Selection; Hot Dog (Clair-Carter); Poor Little Rich Girl

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Latest Dance Records, OverwatcThe First Time. I Saw You (Alm 'Toast of New York); The Folks Who Live On The Hill; Can 1 Forget You (film High, Wide and Hundsome')Roy Fox and its Orchestra. Peelin' (fim 'New Faces of 1937'); Big Apple;....Not Gonella and His Georgians; Ragtime Cowboy Joe; Sailing On The Robert E Lee; ...Harry Roy's Tiger-Ragamuffins. Time 1.0 Local

Signat ac Weather Report.

103 Marek Weber and His Or- chestra.

"The Flower Of Hnwall-Selection (Abralım) with Comedy Harmonists (Quartet in German); The Skaters-- Waltz (Gung: Talkle Hits-Med- ley, 1932 (Borchert); Fanfare'-- Selection; Tales Of Autumn-Waltz (Waldteufel); Blonde Or Brunelle [Waltz (Waldleutel).

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Leslie Hutchinson; Orchestru Saxo- Iphone Fireworks-Fox-Trot....Eric cal-Harden Dance_Orchestra,

reforms have Suggested

been discussed. It is feared that unless they are promptly carried out the

If the Lee-on-Solent station is Lieutenant Commander Francis has been said that she was cold, existing machinery will be unable to cope with the divorce rush taken over by the Admiralty, it will Henry Lee, R.N., of the destroyer culating and hot passionate. certainly during the first six or be the first air station to be owned | Impulsive, were described by Mr.

"She has also been described as a by the Navy for 20 years.

Justice Buckalll in the Divorce Court twelve montus.

It will be manned and operated as rather cold for a young husband," woman of brazen impudence, my opinion of her-and a man always Recently two Divorce judges- the President, Sir Boyd Merriman,like any other navel establishment,

Commander Lee, who lives in puts a woman's character forward and Mr. Justice Bueknili-were oc- though some RAF, officers may be Cowes (1. O. W.), petitioned for the with diffidenesis that the guiding cupied

with appeals from magls- temporarily attached for Instructional dissolution of his marriage, alleging principle of her life was to maintain trates' orders. The third, Mr. Justice purposes.

adultery by his wife, Mes. Ele Mar-herself and her mother by honour. list of Langton, was faced with a

To cope with the impending ex-guerite Uniake Lee, of Marloes Road,able means, and it was for that reas thirteen defended' cases.

pansion of the Fleet Air Arm-the Kensington, with Major Francis Ed-son that she married, Much of the judges' time is at pre-strength of which will probably fear (retired), of Newton Ferrers, Devin was disastrous, she began to conten- bc ward Morley Clarke. Gurkha Rifles "When she found that the marriage sent taken up with Admiralty work quadrupled during the next

are

Air

of

years the staff of the Naval that divorce petitions $0

Both Mrs. Lee and Major Clarke plate the possibility of getting rid of crowded out for months.

Division at the Admiralty is to be denied on oath that they had ever her husband and marrying some one increased. Rear-Adml. J. H.

D. committed ndultery. The petition else." Investigations I mode yesterday

Cunningham, Assistant Chief show how well founded are the tears

was dismissed with costs and Major of a great divorce rush in the spring. Naval Staff (Air), is in general con- Ciarko was dismissed from the suit.

1-examined-figures-that-are-nowtrol of Fleet aviation matters...

Porthchusband, Mr. Justice Buck Inill said that he showed "A com- plete lack of the very necessary give- Land-take if the marriage was to be Ja success; he regarded love-letters as

silly."

in the hands of oficials.

11,000 SEPARATION

Was

ÖRDERS A YEAR They were obtained by a Home Ofice committee in 1934. It then calculated that the yearly num- ber of police court separation orders made on the grounds of cruelty, de- sertion, follure to maintain, failure of parental duty, totalled eleven

thousand. There were then fifty thousand suck orders in operation.

They were still being made at the rate of ten to eleven thousand a year when Mr. Herbert's 15!11 came before Parliament.

Woman Aviator

Honoured

Mi Desert island, Me,

Miss Gayle Pond, social worker, aviator and journalist, chuims the distinction of being the only Ameri-

can woman over to hold a British pilot licence.

To College In Scooter

Fred. Craig.

These figures cause alarm because a large proportion of the orders are

Connecticut State in respect of desertion. Under Mr. College freshman, who fractured an Herbert's Act desertion, for three ankle in a fail from a tree, solved years or more, wili. constitute the problem of keeping up his class ground for divorce,

work by using a scouter bike. Rest- Wives with years-old orders foring his injured foot on the bike, he desertion now plan to seek divorce. Propelled himself about the Wives who were hoping for an order pus without discomfort.

for desertion held their hands when Mr. Herbert's Bill came along, and

now await the New Year and the

operation of the new Jawy.

I was told recently; "Many wives

will sue for divorce rather then seek

u magistrates' order."

Dr. Hans Ernst-Posse, to auc- reed Dr. Hjalmar Schacht na German Minister of Economies. Dr. Posse, deputy to Dr. Schacht, who has resigned, has been car- rying The Ministry burdens, while Dr. Schacht nitended to Reichsbank affairs,

cam-

The judge went on: "Perhaps, from an engineer's point of view, they may be but. from a human point of view, . In his letters he they are not... never got beyond calling his wife

'Dear Elfle

The attitude to- wards his wife is well illustrated by a letter he wrote to her less than a. month after the marriage. It was as follow:::

"You talk as it one momenti 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 fils of sulks...

New-Coal-Loading- Mark Set

The

Toledo. Chesapeake and Ohio coal new

docks here have established a world record for loading coal into vessels. Their big dumping machines turned 95,802 tons of coul into the holds of 13. Lunta within a 24-hour

period.

"Found Loose" Mail Saved

St. Louis. Postal authorities here have established a special "Found Loose" Idepartment for the benefit of persons

tylit absent-mindedly attempt Of the wife, the judge said: "So mail from 1,200 to 1,500 odd articles far as the wife was concerned it was every month.

JUDGE AND WIFE

Sex War Threatens to Divide

Broadcast House

Women Push Out The Men

THE

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

Doris Arnold, who joined

to

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'Women have been put in control B.B.C. us a typist and became stair of Important programme depart-pianist, is the first and only woman ments. Mary Somerville Is in charge variety producer. of school broadcasting, a

service

For some time

many stunera

2.15 Close Down.

5-8.05 European Programme. 8.03-11 Chinese Programme. 5 Relay of the Dance Orchestra

from the Roof Garden of the long- kong Hotel.

1. Make a wish; 2. I'm feeling like a million; 3.

Yours and Mine; 4. Your Brondway and My Brond- why.

5.15 Interval of recorded dance music from Z.B.W.

5.20

5. Vieni, Vieni; d. Public Whispers

Melody Number One; 7.

in the Dark; 8. Stop! You're break- ing my heart.

5.35 Interval of recorded dance music from Z.B.W.

5.45 9. I Looks like Rain; 10. High," "Wide and Handsome; 117 Blossoms on Broadway; 12. The Big Apple.

G StudioChildren's Concert, 6.45 Light Opera.

'Merric England' (German); Waltz Song: "The Maid 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-Gence): Ich Kauptte manche zarle Bande; Ich hab' kein Gold, bin vogelfrel....Hans Fidesser (Tenor).

7.66 New Variety. Organ-Dixon Hits No. Reginald Dixon; Orchestra The Acacia Blossoms Twice; More Stars Than There Are In The Sky: Once Iliad A Dear Mother; The Sun Is In Love With The Moon....Magyari mre and His Hungarian Gypsy kew-Harrison); Full Sail (Graves- Orchestra; Vocal-Sea Winds (As-

Buck).... Feter Dawson (Bass- Baritone).

16....

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

7.30 Orchestra),

Medea--Overture (Cherubini).... Milan Symphony Orchestra Cond: Lorenzo Molajoll; 'Portsmouth Point' Overture (Wälton),... The B. B. C. Symphony Orchestra Cond; Adrian Boult.

7.45 London Relay—'Sportsmen Talking': W. W. Wakefield. M.P.

8 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.

8.05 Chinese Programme-Studlo Concert,

11 Close Down,

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

which sends daily radio lessons intoj have been unaware of the fact that Orchestra,

8.05 Albert Handler and [Ifm one of the most successful producers Always (from Puritan Lullaby-

Paradise Song Of

(R. King): of radio drama was a woman.

Smith)....Violin Solo by Albert

6,000 classrooms all over the country.

Morning talka are controlled by Miss Janet Guigley. She has swept all the old man-made Ideas out of the lalks depart- ments..

A woman is the D.B.C. ambassador)

to foreign countries. She is Scottish) Isu Behzle, and was put. in charge of the B.B.C. foreign aftales fair years

ago,

The names of plays were printed Sandler assisted by J. Samehtini

as being "produced by M. H. Allen." | ('Celle), S. Torch (Organ); The

But Mary I. Allen is in charge

of the entire women's secretarial staff. Her play-producing was a #ideliar,

Second Serenade (Heykens): Song of The Nightingale (Hudson and Altbout)....Albert Sandler and His Orchestra; The Violin Song (from "Tina'--Hubens); L'cure Exquise

Mrs. K. M. Lines, who is in charge | (Hahn)........Violin Soles by Albert of the photographie section. was

(Continued on Page 5.) once Sir John Reith's secretary.

(By Garry Allighani

THE B.B.C. IS BEING 1 RUN BY A "PETTI- COAT GOVERNMENT.” Men at the B.B.C. are now proposing to use the staff asso- elation, which is being formed, She has represented the B.B.C at to safeguard their positions. various conferences in foreign couu- Other women in key positions re tries, often being the only woman Mary Adams, the television make-up They say that women are getting present. A few weeks ago she expert; Mix G. M. Freeman, the all the key positions und that the married John Morley, television staff supervisor; Mrs. Du, Barry, who whole organisation at Broadens tinit producer.

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

Thinking that at least they were canteen every year; Mrs. Towler, the safe from female Invasion in the receptionist, who as Caroling Banks On the board at

governors, the variety department, the male pro- was supervisor of the women's staff. supreme body of the B.B.C., two of ducers got a sheek a month ago when No wonder the male staff talks fu

They a woman was added to their number. terms of a sex "war."

the dve members are women.

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