Evening Star Newspaper, July 21, 1926, Page 28

PONISSOUGHT . ON SHIP WEDDING fShipping Board to Ask Sar- : gent for Qpinion on Legality of Rites by Masters. By the Associated Press. Shipping Board authorities are pre- paring to refer to the Department of Justice the question of the lggal pow- ®r of masters of American merchant #ships to perform marriages at sea. In the meantime Shipping Board directions to masters not to marry any couples will stand. * It is emphasized at the board that the opinion of Chauncey G. Parker, general counsel of the board, went no further than to say that no rec- ord of any statutory authority’ for ship masters to perform marriages had been found. Both the State Department and De- partment of Commerce legal advisers thave expressed similar opinions, but none of these has had any bearing on the question of the legality of mar- Tiages already performed. To ex- ite a clarification of the whole Subject the Attorney General is un- derstood to have been asked for an additional opinion. . Some Government officials expect that a test case will eventually bring Bbout a court determination of the marrying powers of ship masters, or that Congress will act at the coming session to eliminate * all doubt in future. S g . Cape town, South Africa, is to spend $500,000 improving its government meat packing plants. Great World Event Forecast for Today Fails to Materialize By the Associated Press. N LONDON, July 21.—Something evidently is askew with the archi- tecural allegory in the great pyra- mid of Gizeh. A prognostication based upon it by the Rev. Walter ‘Wynn, the non-conformist pastor of the United ¥Free Church of the suburb of Chesham, failed to core through today. The pyramid told him “that something important in the world’s history” would happen yesterday, or on or about July 20, Reconsultation with the oracle' fixed the hour more definitely at 4 am. today. Big Ben of Westminster and the Great Bell of St. Paul's Cathedral boomed the zero hour without London being aware that any- thing momentous had happened. Londoners generally took little more than passing interest in the prediction of the confidant of the great Cheops pyramid. Most people were sound asleep at the zero hour, including Rev. Mr. Wynn. His rest was unpurturbed, be- cause he thought he could point to the critical financial situation in France as upholding the pre- diction of the pyramid. EUROPEANS HELD IN CHINA Native Pickets in Anti-British Boy- cott Capture Policemen. \ HONGKONG, July 21 (#).—It is re- ported that two European police ser- geants and four Chimese were cap- tured by Chinese pickets on the Sam- chun River near here when a motor boat went ashore during the recent flood. A detachment of troops has been sent to release.the policemen. The pickets were operating in the anti-British boycott. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO Let Our Personal Shopper Serve You. 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