Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-08-05 | Page 4 | Disputing Captain's Rights

I I I I DISPUTING CAPTAINS CAPTAIN'S I RICH RIGHTS TS Somebody f far or r no apparent rca rea- reason son challenges chaU the th legality of o t marriage marrias ceremonies performed on on shipboard and another time hon ored cUstom custom cUstom 9 the tho ica sea Is about I ut t to walk the plank Ocean voyages once one lasted as a long lone as six ala months and If a i couple of ot passengers fell ell In love i with each other what hat would be bemore bemore bi more StUng fitting than that they be bi married by the th captain of ot the th boat boat bo t Voyages may be b shorter now noir but the th princIple Is the th same sam The Th captain reads a cere cere- cere ceremony mon nony mony makes re records In the tb shIps shIp's log loc and th the pair by common common law are ar legally le wed The Tb captain of ot necessity has hai ruled his little world with numbe- numbe less powers But It wont won't be long loni now until somebody questions hIs rights to read the tho burial service before betor committing the th dead to the th waves