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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-18
LONDON. England. oct. Q.

LONDON. England oct. ~
IT ISN'T only Nazi bombs that arc wrccking
the stately homes of England
one Of the stateliest Of them all. that
of Earl Howe. kinsman Of Winston Churchill,
war hero master sportsman and former aide
do-camp 10 King George V, has just blown
up from internal amatory combustion
In the process British society has been
treated 10 the most flamboyant display of
flying matrimonial debris it has seen for a
long time.
No less than nine people. not counting
servants and distant relatives were sent
hurting through the air by the series of
heartbreaKs in the noble Earls home, and
when the smoke cleared away these nine peo-
Pile each Of whom had at one time or another
already been married to at least one of the
others, found themselves completely spouse
less.
They were strewn all over the divorce
courts some in quite piquant attitudes.
For instance, the Earl in getting rid of his
wife, had named his own son-in-law cores
pendent;
The Earls daughter had performed sim
liar favor for her stepmother (who happens
10 be four years younger than she isl;
The son-in-aw in question was ,tottering
on the brink Of marrying his mother-in-law;
And finally the Earl's daughterin-law was
trying 10 get her husbands formerland agent
out of Jail in order TO marry him
AS the problem of describing how all this
came about is mainly one of simplification,
the best way to attack it would probably be
- ia use algebra,
But, at the same time, this might just
add 10 the confusion Of those who have for
gotten their algebra maybe if we keep
tight hold Of our hats and start at the begin
ming we can straighten it out with the aid Of
plain English grammar and a little simple
arithmetic
The year 1885 may as we'll be considered
the beginning, because early in that year Earl
Howe's domestic situation was both uncom-
plicated and irreproachable.
He had wife and an unmarried son and
daughter. Period.
BY the end of that year the picture had
changed
Both the son and daughter had got mar
ried. The son. 27-sear-od Viscount Curzon,
had done very we'll by himself by landing
the biggest fish in the current matrimonial
waters. Miss Priscilla Weigall, 81, heress to
the huge fortune of Sir Archibald Weigall,
former Governor of South Australia.
Great wealth was not Miss Weigall's only
charm; she also was a good locker.
In fact everybody in this story is eX-
tremely handsome and glamorous, which is
unusual and may have caused some of the
complications For where there are no sharp
distinctions between beauty and ugliness. it
often follows that the distinctions between
right and wrong likely to get little
blurred too.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-18

loves 1t so his heart is in it so much"
Whenever the Earl raced she watched by
the track. Soon after their return from
South Africa, she came to see him compete
for the Campbell Trophy race at Brooklands.
An hour later she sitting by his side
in an ambulance, speeding for the hospital.
He had crashed and broken a shoulder and
one rib when his car dashed into a sandbank
and somersaulted. pinning him beneath it,
Until he had been X-rayed and days later.
pronounced out of danger Joyce did not leave
his side in private ward in Weybridge Hos
pital
At his next race, nerve-racked though she
was, she was by his side again. with smiles
encouraging words, and jokes.
TT is terrifying after the last crash. she
said to onlookers, but mustn't show it. He
is always the same before a race. His nerve
and bravery are simply wonderful wish
were the same"
There again he missed death by inches as
he had often done before. His brakes
failed at nasty patch known as Starkey's
Bend, and he only righted himself by his skill
and calm
Gossips are still arguing whether or not it
was the strain of watching such performances
that made Joyce seek relaxation outside her
home-with Home.
In any case, as time went on-and ex-
Countess Mary watched and waited on the
sdelincs-the fuse burned closer to the bomb
First hint of what was in store came last
Spring when gal named Nine Mural Coriat
divorced her husband, Harold Isaac Coriat, an
international adventurer who had been land
agent for the Earls son and later an air.gun-
ner in the RAF
Nine. Coriat named viscountess Curzon.
the Earl's daughter-in-law, as correspondent
As the Viscountess, far from denying the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-18

charge, seemed to glory in It, people thought
that her husband, the Viscount, would imme-
diately retalate
Instead, he did nothing.
For three months the whole Curzon family
maintained ominous silence.
Then, with a tremendous bang they all
blew up!
The Viscount divorced the Vscountess; the
Earl divorced Joyce. naming 1t. Home Kid
ston; and Lady Georgiana divorced 1t. Kid
ston, naming Joyce.
If Mary, the ex-Countess, looked on the
holocaust as sign from on high in her be-
half, she was too wel-bred to mention it.
The only person who has so far put his
comments on record is Justice Hem Collins,
whose rather overwhelming duty it was to
dissolve all these marriage ties
Concentrating his attention on the home
wrecking Home the judge remarked
Il have no doubt that but for correspond.
ent's (Homes) Eruption Lord Howe's married
life, which started very happily. might have
continued and would in all probability have
continued happily. 1t has been broken up in
circumstances which do not propose to elab-
crate or repeat, but which 1 trust sincerely
can never happen again"
Lady Georgiana's testimony had shed some
light on the circumstances which the Judge
SHE'D away from repeating.
She said that her stepmother and 1t
Kidston, who comes from a famous motor
racing family himself and, perhaps for that
reason, was a favorte of his father-in-law
had gone away together and had been together
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-18


TO Lose IL 10 Jail Bird
In the same year her brother
married Miss Weigall- Lady
Georgiana Curzon, Earl Howe's
daughter snapped up one of Lon
dons most eligible bachelors.
Lieutenant Home r. A. Kidston.
She was 25, he 81.
Although his name, Home,
suggests the sluggish. domestic
type, actually he was nothing
like that, as the job he has just
done on Earl Howe's home shows.
So, anyhow, at this point all
the Curzons (CurZon being the
Earl's family name) were mar
ried and apparently bent on up
holding the best traditions of
the British aristocracy.
Then, late in the year, the Earl himself
unwttngly lit the slow fuse of the bomb
that went off so spectacularly a few weeks
ago.
He was in a mail boat at the moment, on
his way to Capetown South Africa, to par
ticipate in the Grand Prix motor race.
AS everyone knows, accidents abound in
automobile racing, a sport which has long
been the Earl's passion and in which he has
distinguished himself by great recklessness.
accident before he was anywhere near the
track-in fact. while he was still on the mail
boat.
The accident was named Joyce Mary Nc
Lean Jack stately daughter of South Afri-
can mining commissioner She was taking
time off from her art studies in London to
visit her father in Klerksdorp S. A.
Though the Earl was 81 and she only 81,
they got along famousy so much so indeed
that year later-after both had returned to
London-Mary Countess Howe, the celebrated
beauty who had been the Earl's wife for 20
years, was moved to sue for divorce, citing
her husbands misconduct with Miss Jack in a
London hotel as the reason
Possibly to escape the resulting publicity,
Earl Howe and the charming correspondent
again departed for South Africa, and there in
January 1887, the Earl scored his first motor
racing triumph In four years. Cheered on by
crowd Of $4,000 and Joyce-he won the
Grosvenor Grand Prix
He stayed on in Capetown until his di-
vorce papers arrived by air mail from Lon.
don, and three days later-on February g.
1931-Joyce became Countess Howe in Jo-
Evidently no handwriting appeared on the
wall of the hotel bridal suite where the cou.
pie stayed for the bride told her friends she
waSthe happiest girl in the world Then she
and her husband and her husbands favorite
racing car all took ship for England
The Earls son and daughter were at first
shocked by their fathers behavior, as well as
constrained in the presence Of a stepmother
VINO was younger than either of them ex-
actly the same age as their respective spouses
AS time went on however, they got over
these feelings. and-with the exception of the
discarded Countess Mary-the whole family
seemed on the best Of terms
In fact, Viscountess Curzon, Lord Howe's
daughter=in-la1-- and 1t. Kidsten,v his son-in.
law stood as godparents for Frances Esme
Curzon Joyces baby who was born in 1899
But for one small detail the relationship
between the Earl and his new Countess APP
peared idyllic. The. detail was his racing
Those terrific speeds Of his brighten me-"
Joyce confessed soon after her marriage. but
would never dream Of asking him to give
up motor racing. l just couldn't do it. He
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-18


came TO stay there too.
Something in the air made Lady Georgi
ana realize that her marriage was just about
over. The feeling was confirmed when her
husband wrote to her. saying that he loved
Joyce. and would always love, and never
cease loving her, and-that was that.
Lord Howe in his petition said that naval
duties had called him to Scotland at the time
so that he could not accept his daughters
invitation to Southover House. and his wife
had gone alone. Joyce denied misconduct at
Southover House, but charges of misconduct
elsewhere were never contested, either by her
or Kidston.
One person remarked what a pity IL was
that young Kidston gave up ideas of motor
racing to please his famous brother Glen
Kdston. Otherwise he might have been the
one to go to South Africa for that racing
competition, in which case he would have
met Joyce first, and perhaps have cut out
Earl Howe, and even though it still would
have been tough on Georgiana. the divorce
business afterwards would not have sounded
so odd as getting divorced because you had
fallen in love with your own mother-in-law!
Lady Georgiana had spoken no more than
the truth in remarking that she and Home
had been happy before Joyce arrived on the
scene, At their marriage, the English world
OF sport and society had been delighted to
the two most famous racing families in the
country-Curzons and Kidstons-united.
And it had been freely predicted that the
match would be a great success, for in add-
Evening star., 1942-04-07
Dutch Expect
ewAttuckin
West Indies
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WILLEMSTAD. Curacao. Dutch
West Indies, April THE Dutch
government is taking all possible
military measures in the Dutch West
Indies in view of the serious posi-
bility" that these islands may be
involved directly in new hostiities,
Gov. G. j. Wouters announced today
to the Legislative Council.
An Axis submarine shelled an oil
refinery at Aruba and sank num-
ber of tankers between Arubs and
the Venezuelan coast in mid-Feb-
ruary. 1t was the first direct attack
on Western Hemisphere territory.
United States troops are in the
Netherlands West Indies, and only
last week the entire United Nations
armed forces there were placed
under command of Rear Admiral
j. B. Oldendorf, u. S. N.
Gov. Wouters said British troops
which came here last year had left
following the arrival Of United
States forces.
He declared the serious posi-
bility" of further hostilities was
proved by the submarine attacks in
February.
Evening star., 1942-04-07
48-Hour Week More Efficient
Than so Hours, President Says

United States and that two salient
factors stood out:
First, a person. in time of war,
thinks a great deal, and rightly
about what it costs him and mis-
family to live
Second, an overwhelming ma ajority
of the people are patriotic and want
to do all they can to turn out the
things needed in the war.
AS a corollary to these two points,
the Chief Executive said he had
been giving some attention to stu
dies of the output. of the human be-
ing which have been made here, in
England and in Europe since the
World War, with reference to the
number of hours per week which,
over a period of time, turn out the
most goods.
1t was found, and it is generally
agreed. he said, that the average
person turns out more in 48 hours
than in so.
Evening star., 1942-04-07
India Reported
Cool 10 Britain's
New Concession
Defense Minister
Appointment Would
60 to Native
Earlier Story on Page AID

Earlier Story on Page A-79
~ the Associated Press.
NEW DELHI, India, April T.
The Working Committee of the
All-India Congress was reported
tonight to have decided to ad-
here to its stand against the
British independence plan in
spite of British offer to appoint
an Indian as Defense Minister.
Reports that the dominant Hindu
group still opposed the British pro-
gram for dominion status after the
war followed announcement by the
Moslem League president, Moham-
med Ali Jinnah, that the British
war cabinet was prepared to hand
the defense portfolio to "a repre-
sentative Indian"
Jinnah said this concession was
made by the British war cabinet in
its reply to Indian criticism of the
original British proposal for Indias
postwar independence.
Nevertheless, despite this offer
and renewed efforts by United
States envoy, the leader of the Hin
du All-Indian Congress party ex-
pressed fortnight objections to
other phases of the program, and
signs grew that the whole plan
probably would fail of general In
dian acceptance.
In Touch With White House.
1t was learned that the American
emissary, Louis johnson, had been
in recent touch with the White
House regarding the Indian nego-
tiatiOnS.
Jinnah said the British negotiator,
Sir Stafford Cripps, told him of the
Defense Ministry offer this after
noon and that the proposal would be
considered by the Moslem League
tomorrow.
Mr.. johnson talked again with
Maulana Abul Kalan Azad, presi-
dent of the All-India Congress par
ty, and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. a
powerful Congress leader, after the
two had met this morning with Sir
Stafford, who announced the pro-
posals.
Shortly before, Nehru had de-
clared his opposition to any plan
for India from which the peoples
of the Indian states were omitted
declaration which Congress quar-
ters said was an indication that the
negotiations with Britain were
breaking down.
One element of the British plan
for giving India dominion status
was that separate agreements would
be made with the Indian states if
they chose to remain apart from
a postwar federation.
Nehru Stresses Unity.
Sir Stafford was reported to have
handed Nehru and Azad a British
war cabinet statement.
Nehru, speaking at a reception
given by Thanu Pillay, president of
the Travancore State Peoples Con-
ference, described those who talk
of treaties with the Indian states
as "lunatics, fools or knaves."
He also indicated that whatever
the British government or its ennis
sary might say, the Indian people
had essential unity and that he
would fight those who meant to
disrupt India.
1--WE have remained united in
Evening star., 1942-04-07
u. S. Again to Ship
Supplies to Civilians
In French Africa

Agreement for resumption of
limited shipments of civilian
supplies to French North Africa
was announced by the State
Department late today.
The department said assur-
ances have been received from
Vichy which will permit the
agreed departure of two French
vessels now in New York"
Two ships carrying materials
to the United States will leave
North Africa simultaneously.
Strict guarantees have been
given that the American sup
plies shall not in any way serve
to further Axis ends" Ameri-
can officers will supervise distri-
button.
Evening star., 1942-04-07
Fire Sweeps Coal Wharf
In East Boston Harbor
BY the Associated Press.


BOSTON, April Fire swept
two coal pockets, two cranes and a
lighter today on property taken over
by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding
Corp, not far from a recently ac-
quired Navy pier in East Boston. 1t
sent a heavy pail of black smoke
over the city.
Rapidly assembled fire-fghting
forces, battling the flames from
land, from fireboats and even with
hoselines floated on dories, brought
the flames under control by mid
afternoon and ended the threat of
a spreading water front conf1agra-
ton.
The flame-swept plant was that
of the Massachusetts, Wharf Coal
Co., and the rapid spread of the
fire for time threatened the great
Simpson dry dock of the Bethlehem
Corp.
So dense was the smoke pail that
at times it blotted out the afternoon
sunshine over the business and finan-
cial district. Office workers swarmed
to the roofs of downtown buildings
to see the flames.
Evening star., 1942-04-07
Madras Has Raid Alarm,
But Planes Fail TO Attack

By the Associated Press.
MADRAS, India. April MADRAS
had its first AFRAID warning today.
but no bombs were dropped and the
all-clear signal was sounded an hour
later. No planes appeared over this
great East Indian port.
In the raids on Vizagapatam yes
terday, 400 miles north of Madras
on the east coast. not more than
10 Japanese planes took part. the
civil defense department of the
Madras presidency said.
Only half a dozen were in the
raid at Cocanada.
The damage at VIA gapatam. site
of British naval base, was light
and only a few casualties were
caused at Cocanada.
The fact that such a small num-
Der of planes raided the Indian
mainland attested to the efficiency
of the British defenses at Colombo,
Ceylon, where q Japanese planes
were reported destroyed and 80
others damaged the day before.
Evening star., 1942-04-07
Allied Council in Australia
Acts to Coordinate Supplies

council of the amount of United
States equipment in Australia and
gave an estimate Of the supplies ex-
pected from the United States.
Mr. Beasley said the plan dis
cussed today would be drafted imme-
diately and submitted to the next
meeting of the Australian war cab
met.
The scope of the Allied Supply
Council, the minister added, has
been widened to include control OF
shipping. land transport and dis
tribution of medical equipment.
w. S. Wasserman. chief of the
United States lend-lease mission
in Australia, sat in on today's meet
ing.
Evening star., 1942-04-07
River Towbout Burns
Near East Liverpool, Ohio
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
EAST LIVERPOOL. Ohio, April
T. The Diesel-powered towboat
Smoky City. owned by the zudik
Transportation Co. of Pittsburgh.
burned to the water line today while
bound for New Martinsville, w. Va.
to load coal
Capt Charles Fairfield of Pitts
burgh estimated loss at $20,000-ap-
proximate cost of the 73-foot wood
en- stern-wheeler when built II years
ago. None of the three-man crew
was injured.
The captain and the two other
crew members-Charles White and
Michael Murphy of Pittsburgh
signaled to shore and several fire
companies rushed to fight the blaze.
White was in the engine room
when the fire started there, but he
said he did not know the cause.
Flames spread rapidly to 1900 gall
Ions of fuel. and when the vessel
reached East Liverpool flames en-
veloped the craft.
Evening star., 1942-04-07
President Suggests
Improved Waterways
To Meet Sub Raids
Deeper Inland ChonneIs
Seen Need in Florida;
Barge Line Considered
BY JOHN c. HENRY.

Further development of inland
waterways on the Atlantic Coast
for commercial shipping pur-
poses, as one means of combat
ting Axis raiding activities off,
shore, was indicated by Presi-
dent Roosevelt at his press con-
ference late today.
The Chief Executive said chan
mel depths northward from Jack
sonville, Fla, were at least IL feet,
giving sufficient clearance for me-
dium draft cargo shipping. South
ward, however, a 6-foot channel
depth would prevent substantial
transport by inland waterway to
the Gulf coast.
For use on this developing trans
port line, Mr.. Roosevelt said con-
sideration is being given to emer-
gency construction of a feet OF
wooden barges.
Canal Project Out.
The President warned his confer
ence against interpreting this de-
velopment as new impetus to the
Florida canal project. remarking
that there is no time now to build
this waterway.
Mr. Roosevelt said he had dis
cussed the waterway development
plan with Chairman Mansfield OF
the House Rivers and Harbors Com
mittee.
Asked about possibilities of using
concrete, self-propelled barges, he
said. he believed wooden ships are
easier and cheaper to build. adding
that most of such construction TO:
this seaboard probably would be
done in Maine.
On another phase of the wartime
transport problem, the President
said he believed that States should
remove present taxes against pas
sage over their highways of inter-
state trucks which are engaged in
the war effort. He said he believed
some State governments already
have been approached by the Fed
(See ROOSEVELT, Page 2-X)
Evening star., 1942-04-07
Tyrone Power Applies
For Navy Enlistment
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April Tyrone
Power, film actor, applied today for
enlistment in the United States
Naval Reserve.
Navy officials said Power, if ac-
cepted, probably would be rated as
a chief petty officer in the Office Of
the morale and recreation division.
He probably will be placed on in
active duty for several months until
he completes a picture now under
contract in Hollywood.
The 2S-year-old actor said he
liked the Navy better than the
Army"
He said he had discussed enlist
ing with his wife, Annabella. French
actress, and she had told him 1t was
up to him to do whatever he felt
he should do.
Evening star., 1942-04-07
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt declared today
that the people of this country ought
to examine and get into their heads
the fact that an average person pro-
duces more in a 48-hour week than
when he works a 60-hour week.
He made that statement during
press conference discussion which
began with an inquiry whether any
progress was being made on studies
toward controlling both wages and
profits.
Mr.. Roosevelt said he thought
these studies were coming along. To
a request that he supply clue to
the direction they were taking, he
asserted that he could and he hoped
reporters would interpret correctly
Then he went on to say he had
been thinking in terms of the aver
age man, woman and child in the
Evening star., 1942-04-07
Durable Goods Ban
To Blanket In All
Civilian Luxuries
Earlier Story on Page A-1.)

Earlier Story on Page A-1.)
BY the Associated Press.
Donald Nelson's prediction
that most consumer durable
goods" industries would be shut
pgn by May 81 covered a broad
segment of the peacetime econ
omy. blanketing virtually all
civilian luXuries.
Ranging from washing ma
chimes, refrigerators and auto
mobiles, to bicycles, lawn now
ers and musical instruments,
consumer durable goods" are
defined as any articles of house.
hold or general consumer use of
q sort which last a reasonable
length of time. Food, clothing
and medical supplies are ex-
cluded from the classification.
Evening star., 1942-04-07
GriHs Swamp PhiIs,
Leading, III, in 7th;
Vernon Hits Homer
Fridays Exhibition
Come OF Richmond
Shifted to Capitol .
By BURTON HAWKINS,
star staff Correspondent.


AUGUSTA, Ga, April THE
Nationals were leading the Phils,
II to /, at the end of the seventh
inning of their game here to-
day. Vernon hit a homer in the
second frame.
The Mats scheduled exhibition
game with the Philadelphia Ma
tionals at Richmond on Friday has
been shifted to Washington, it was
announced today. The Phils also
will play Washington at Griffith
Stadium on Saturday and Sunday.
FIRST INNING.
PHILS-Murtaugh flied to Camp
bell Repass threw out L. Waner.
Northey flied to Campbell.
NATIONALS-Case singled to
center. Spence singled to center,
sending Case to third. Vernon
grounded to Murtaugh. who hit
Spence in the back attempting to
force him at second, Case scoring
and Spence continuing to third.
Campbell singled to left, scoring
Spence, Vernon stopping at second.
The runners advanced as Melton
tossed out Early. May fumbled
Estalella's grounder, Vernon scoring
and Campbell taking third. Repass
famed. Croucher walked. filling the
bases. Hudson fouled to Lithwhiler.
Three runs.
SECOND INNING.
PHILS-Litwhiler singled to left
Etten flied to Spence. Livingston
fouled to Vernon. Bragan forced
Litwhiler at second. Repass te
Croucher.
NATIONALS-Case struck out
Spence grounded out to Etten. Yer
(See BASEBALL, Page 2-X)