President Says Earhart Hunt
Cost Navy No Extra Expense
Washington, July 20. —President
Roosevelt said today no additional
cost was involved in the navy’s
search for Amelia Earhart who dis
appeared in the south Pacific.
He made this statement at his
press conference when his attention
was called to reports that some
quarters on Capitol Hill intended to
ask a congressional investigation of
the expenditure.
Mr. Rooosevelt pointed out that
every navy plane has to do so many
hours annually in the air and that
ships burn fuel oil regardless of the
duty to which they were assigned.
The money would have been spent
for the purposes regardless of
whether the planes and ships had
been engaged in the Earhart search
or in maneuvers, the chief execu
tive said. The cost to the govern
ment was no greater than it would
have been if there had been no
search, he added.
He described the search—now of
ficially ended—as a sad mission, es
pecially since it resulted in no trace
of Miss Earhart or her navigator,
Fred G. Noonan.
At the same time, he said, how
ever, the search was valuable for
the training and experience it gave
the navy.
The President added that the
navy would have done the same
thing in the case of any American
■rich or poor, when there seemed
a chance of saving life and it knew
where to go to look.
ENGLAND SLACKENS
HER DIVORCE LAWS
Parliament Completes Enact
ment Os Far Reaching
Changes In Statute
London, July 23.—The fight of a
humorist turned crusader against
the “holy deadlock,” of England’s
Tigid divorce laws was victorious to
day when parliament completed
changes in the conditions for term
inating marriage.
Adultery is now the only grounds
lor divorce in England. When the
new laws becomes effective next
January 1 these will be added:
Desertion without cause for at
least three years; cruelty; incurable
insanity for five years.
The new law will apply only to
England and Wales, not to Scotland
<or northern Ireland. Scotland al
ready! reco'f.iizes desertion as the
grounds for divorce.
Herbert Triumph
The new act was hailed as a tri
umph for A. P. Herbert, who first
achieved fame as a member of the
staff of “Punch,” wrote in his novel,
■“Holy Deadlock,” a powerful indict
ment of present divorce laws,, and
carried his fight for liberalization
to the house of commons when he
achieved election as an independent
member from Oxford university
In 1935.
Advocates of more liberal condi
tions for divorce had fought an up
hill battle for a quarter of century.
Today’s action consisted of the
commons’ acceptance of amend
ments in the house lords to Her
bert’s original bill, which the com
mons had approved. The act now
needs only the king’s assent, which
is automatic.
Most important of the amend
ments was a provision that no di
vorce petition shall be made until
three years after marriage. The orig
inal bill had specified five years.
Members of the house who laugh
ed when Herbert announced in his
maiden speech, December 4, 1935,
that he intended to sponsor a bill
"removing the indecent, hypocriti
cal, cruel and unjust marriage laws
of this country,” cheered him and
shook his hand today.
Then it was considered impossible
to secure divorce reform. Numerous
attempts had failed. Herbert was ac
cused of tilting against windmills.
Today the jubilant author said;
“I hope there won’t be too much
talk about a ‘personal triumph’,”
and went on to name those who had
helped him.
“Last but not least,” he said, was
"the much maligned king’s proctor,
Sir Thomias Barnes.”
Sir Thomas Barnes figured in the
divorce case of Mrs. Ernest Simp
son, now the Duchess of Windsor,
as the official charged with super
vising the conduct of parties to a
clivorce during the six months that
must elapse between the condition
al degree and absolute 'divorce.
Mrs. Simpson’s divorce, which
freed her to marry the former King
Edward VIII, spurred public-in
terest in the divorce question but
Rad no direct effect on today’s leg
islation, Was originated a
year before the abdication crisis.
Attempts to have uncurable
•drunkenness, life imprisonment and
aexual abnormalities added to the
list of divorce grounds were defeat
ed during the act’s course through
parliament
The Church of England refused
Ho fitfit the bill. The Archbishop
of Cantebury, its primate, declined
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Farouk I, Egypt’s 17-year-old King,
who will take the oath and hold his
first court as ruling King, after two
years of government by regency.
ROCKEFELLER SEAT
TO STAY IN FAMILY
New York Stock Exchange
Membership Goes To Grand
son Os Dead Oil King
New York, July 22.—The New
York Stock Exchange membership
held by the late John D. Rockefel
ler, Sr., for 54 years will remain in
the Rockefeller name, it was dis
closed today.
A brief announcement by the ex
change said it was “proposed” it be
transferred to Laurence Spelman
Rockefeller,
ous grandson, now assisting his fa
ther, John D., Jr., in the manage
ment of the Rockefeller charitable
enterprises.
Persons close to the family said
that Laurence Rockefeller has no
present intention of making any
active use of the exchange seat. His
grandfather, likewise, wps never
known to go on the floor of the ex
change, retaining the membership
merely to obtain benefit of the lower
brokerage commissions charged
members.
The transfer will not be complete
until two weeks from' today, when
the admissions committee will bal
lot on the membership change.
Brokers noted with interest that
one of young Rockefeller’s two spon
sors—required under the rules
was Robert W. Kellips, once John
D., Sr.’s private secretary.
It was recalled that it was Kel
hps who, on November 13, 1929,
when the market reached its lowest
level for that disastrous year, walk
ed out On the floor at a few minutes
before closing time and said:
“Bid 50 for a million or any part,
Standard of New Jersey.”
That meant he would pay SSO a
share for anything up to 1,000,000
shares of Standard Oil Co. of New
Jersey, then quoted considerably
under that price.
The bid was the beginning of a
rally In the market that lasted un
til April, 1930.
Laurence Rockefeller was a grad
uate of Princeton in 1932 and then
a student at Harvard law school.
Three years ago he married the
former Mary French, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John French of New
York.
When Rockefeller, Sr. bought his
seats in the 80’s they were selling
at between $23,000 and $30,000.
During the boom year of 1929
changes of membership were record
ed at more than $500,000. The most
recent transfer was at $93,000.
house of lords, hfost vigorous op
position came from Catholics..
Herberts final speech for the
measure today referred to the arch
bishop, apparently to his refusal to
vote.
“I don’t agree with the Archbi
shop of Canterbury,” Herbert said,
“and I am bound to say, with great
respect and not for the first time,
that I am not able to follow the
workings of that great mind.”
Authoriative church circles, how
ever, indicated opposition to easier
divorce would continue. Church
leaders were said to favor legisla
tion to offset partly the effect of
the Herbert bill. Such legislation
would make a civil marriage cere
mony before a registrar compulsory
in all cases and provide that those
couples who accepted the church’s
teachings on divorce would have a
church ceremony afterward.
Such a law, it was Relieved,
would prevent persons married by
the church from seeking divorce
on Hie new grounds.
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