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Albert Camis
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New York, Jan. 1.
The largest flying boat ever to be constructed in the
MARRY,
ADVICE TO
United States, recently lifted its 63,000 pounds into the CLERGY
air in the first of a series of test flights.
The giant plane, designed and built by Glenn L. Martin, pioneer airplane designer and builder, is destined for service in Soviet Russin. It was built in Martin's Middle River. Maryland, plant. After completing twenty-five hours of flying testa it was to be dismantled, crated and shipped to Russia. Soviet officials have given no indication of what they will use it for..
REDUCING COST OF
MISSION WORK
Voluntary celibacy on the part of newly-urdained Anglican clergy 18 advocated in a memorial submitted
Powered by four 1,000-horsepower radial engines of the latest to the Archbishops of Canterbury, design set into the leading edge of 157-foot wing, the ship has a York and Wales, Dr.. Lang, Dr. non-stop flying range of 4,500 miles, 1,000 miles greater than the Temple and Dr. Green. flying distance from New York to London.
Horn Player Loses
Libel Suit
Wrote the music critle of the Birmingham Gazette after a per- formance of Beethoven's Sym- phony in D: "Leslie Heward (the fell like conductor) must have Hurling his haton at the horn played at the end of the second movement. That would have been right. 100."
George Henry Francis, Bristol Road, Birmingham, principal horn player in the orchestra, sued the paper, claiming damages for alleg. ed libel. The criticism was des- cribed as a "bald and particularly brutal statement of fact," that he played "abominably badly."
At Birmingham Assizes, after Mr. Justice Finlay had coni- mented, "We have spent not unamasing morning," judgment was given for defendants with cosis.
EUROPEAN PRESTIGE WANES IN EAST
11 is signed by Mr. Athelstan Riley, Chairman of the Anglican and Although the Russian clipper, Eastern Church Association; Lord as the new creation was named, Hugh Cecil, Provost of Elon; Viscount dwarfs the clipper planes now Wolmer, M.P.; Dr. Edwyn Bevon, the archaeologist and Hellenist; Viscount flying the Pacific Ocean from Sankey, the former Lord Chancellor, San Francisco, California to and viscount Halifax, Lord President Manila, Philippine Islands, and of the Council. the Caribbean routes to South
Canterbury, America, it is but the experi- acknowledging the memorial, writes: inental forerunner of an even "We fully realise the importance of larger craft.
The proposal and are agreed in When Dnal tests are completed, thinking that such a scheme might Martin expects to begin work on be of real' value." another, with gross weight of
The memorial points out that the 110,000 pounds, which may be used clergy are being recruited from u in the projected trans-Atlantic ser- different social class from that of former years. Though the signatories
vice
The Archbishop
that
of
The design of the new ship in add that this is in many ways a great corporates many technological ad-gain, they remarks that it is en- vances achieved in Martin's concouraging what needs to be avoided, struction of huge military bombing
"For this class is accustomed to planes and transports for the Unlied
and the States Army and Pan-American Air-early marriages
young ways.
women are particularly attracted to Although the new ship weighs the social position hitherto attained only 11,000 pounds more, thun Mur- by the wife of clergyman. It is n tin's Pan-American clippers operat- mintter of common knowledge that Ing to South Ameries, its pay load after ordination many clergymen will be 10,000 pounds-6.500 pounds marry to escape from the social
problems, greater.
often worry Luxuriously equipped, the plane marriageable man." can curry forty-six passengers in
THE WRONG REMEDY addition to its crew in daylight Lights. Besides Individual sleeper The memorial deals with the accommodations for twenty-six pus- changes in the social aspects
will have in-
| country districts. Fewer sons of the sengers, the plane dividual wash rooms for men and wealthier classes are being ordained, women passengers, deluxe lounges it is stated; fewer ordinands have where the passengers can spend any private means. Filling country their waking hours. and a galley livings becomes Increasingly dimeult. where hot meals can be prepared while the plane is in flight-United Press.
SHIPS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION
of
The remedy at present sought is the amalgamation of benefices, very unpepular in the parishes. Tuls, says the memorial, is surely wrong The remedy is for the priest to live not San Francisco.
in the big glebe house but in a Prestige of the white man
cottage like his humble parishioners. in the Far East is on the de-
The following ships are expected
They point out how grouping of to be in wireless communication with
barishes with a common centre is now cline; Japan will not hesitate the Hongkong Radio Station Sogres,
Achilles, Apoey, Foushing. Shabonce, rendered easy by the development to strike at an independent. Pecten, Haldis Adrustus. Sophie, of rapid transport. This experiment "attempted if there is a Philippines: Japan's
Rickmers, Susana, Susang. Empress can only be a proof Japan, Shinkyo Maru, Talyunn, larger proportion of unmarried clergy
Karantee gramme of territorial expan Yungheng. Formla, Narviken, Shun- available with some
their permanence. tien. President Coolidge. sion embraces the Dutch
BURDEN ON MISSIONS East Indies.
The signatories also point out disadvantages to missionary work of the married clergy,, such as "the enormous expenditure Involved in the Increase of salary on marriage, un increase for each child born, passage money home, the education of children, und pensions to widows."
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These are the opinions of M. Stocker,
veteran master mariner STOP PRESS
here on an indefinite leave of absence from his duties as Swatow harbour pilot.
"No matter who eventually wing the war in the Far East, the white man is loser," Capt. Stocker said, "The Chinese re. sent the lack of assistance they had hoped for; the Japanese are able to progress without his aid."
Capt. Stocker, wit [5 @sailor! aboard, the old U.S.S. Ballimore helped ram home the shells
that alded in the victory of Dewey ut Herally Manila Day, said he was Toreed to leave Swałow "because my duties as a bar plot practically ceased as there were no arriving or departing ships needing the services of a bar pllot."
Discussing the Philippines, he pre- dicted Japanese aggressiveness would extend into that land nation us soon as the last bond between the commonwealth
and the United
States is severed. He said also that It was the consensus of opinion among foreignera in the Far East that Nippon's expansion activities |will eventually embrace the Dutch)
East Indies,
Old-timers in the Far East belleve the current Japanese campaign in China is a result of the Tokyo governmenl'a desire to create puppet state of the neighbouring re- public, with a status, similar to that)
of Manchukuo, Stocker said,
The veteran, seaman has been bar pilot at Swalow for the past 20 there, he nailed a master of Chinese coastal vessels and freight, and passenger steamers, plying between, Japan, China and the Philippines, and around the Dutch East Indies and Sues.
years Before nettling down
Accompanied by his wife and three of their six children, Cynihla, 10: Garth, 15; and Roger, 13; Capt. Stocker visiting relatives
Scavlew, Calif. near Canadero,
at Ho
has no plans for a return to Chinn In the immediate future--United! Press,
CABINET SURVIVES
Paris, Jun. 14. Tite Chautemps Cabinet has sur. ived the crisis, Reuter,
of
Some of the Bishops are already endeavouring to obtain from their ordinands a proinise not to consider marriage for a perlod generally put ot Ave years. On this effort the signatories wish to build.
"It is evident," they say, *that what is needed is not so much a tetarded matrimony as the general building up of a body of unmarried clergy on which bishops and missionary socielles can rely."
They suggest that the attention of ordinands in theological colleges should be called to the great need
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He said that the
article and
for unmarried clergy, and that they INNOCENT MAN'S sketches conveyed the meaning that
should be invited to consider whether
they may not have a
to remain unmarried.
true vocalion
£1,000 DAMAGES
he had attacked Derlism with felon
fous intent and that is acquittal was
nol because of his innocence, but the
"If any man should respond to this LIBELLED 10% YEARS result of the oloquence of his counsel,
asked to
AFTER ACQUITTAL LORD HEWART ON HARMFUL WORDS
the Inte Sir Edward Marshall Holl, K.C.
invitation he should be undertake that he will not marry for five years after ordination, except
Mr. Smith's defence at his trial with the consent of the bishop in whose diocese he is at work. At the
was that during a struggle with Der- ham a revolver went off accidentally. end of five years he would resume his freedom to embrace either the
Everybody's Publications denied vocation of
Damages of £1,000 for 1lbel with that the words and sketches that of of celibacy. It is by this means, with
costs were awarded in the King's capable of a defamatory meaning and out any violent change, that the Bench Division to Alfonso Francis pleaded that the article contained gradual evolution of the body of Austin Smith, who was acquitted at fair and accurate report of judiclai unmarried clergy is contemplated." Maidstone Assizes ten and a half proceedings, and, was fair comment.
COMMISSION'S INQUIRY
all laymen.
confined
marriage
were
years ago of a charge of murdering a man named Derhum in a bungalow QUESTION ALREADY ANSWERED In his summing-up Lord Howart The signatories to the memorial are called "Stella Maris," at Tankerton,
said it would be difficult to imagino They have especially Kent. themselves,
large The defendants were Everybody's words more likely to bring a man mesure, to the financial side of the Publications, of Fleet-Street, E.C., into haired than words which accused question. They state that they are proprietors and printers of Every-him of murder.
What not putting forth their opinions, but body's Weekly. The case came ond
In
relying on the evidence of principals fore the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Juri could possibly be more In-
special jury.
to the plaintiff than the sug- gestion, notwithstanding the verdict Mr. Smith, whose address was of the jury, that it was no accident, of candidates for Holy given as Walnut Tree-rand, Heston, but that the plaintiff really did in-
of the chief theological colleges and Hewart and institutions concerned with the pre- {paration Orders.
Middlesex, alleged that on Aprit 24 tend to use the revolver and did use
the dead man? Upon Dr. Lang states that he has referred Everybody's Weekly contained an It
Ten years ago or more one of the the matter to the recently appointed eldent at "Stella Maris" and the two it an acekdent?" Was it or was it not article purporting to recall the in-
the trini. questions before the jury was: "Was Commission on the Selection, Testing The article was illustrated by
In November, 1920.
Mini Training of Candidates for the ketelses, one depicting a struggle and a totally different thing 10% yeare Ministry. On behalf of himself and the other representing his wife, with afterwards to ask the same question? the other two archbishops, he adds:
have ་ We
the words underneath: "Endeavoured The Jury had answered that question no doubt that the Commission will give the matter the
to pull them. apart." "; attention which it deserves and will make comments on it in their report, or in a separole reply, to us."
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