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SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1933.
CHURCH WHERE GIPSIES CAMPED
Stirring History Of Holborn Building.
CELLAR SERVICES.
BRILLIANT
VISCOUNT
KNEBWORTH
Big Loss To Amateur Athletics.
FOUGHT BILLINGSGATE PORTER AND LOST.
London.
THE CHINA MAIL
DWINDLING RANKS OF THE LL.P:
Mr. Wallhead Leaves The Party.
DISAGREES WITH POLICY,
are three."
London.
To-Day's Short Story.
MY
ADVENTURE IN NORFOLK
me:
By A. J.
Alan.
Anyhow, I went Indoors, and set- tled down by the fire. You've no waterfowl had taken a night off at ides how quiet it was; even the
One of the few churches with
DON'T know how it is with house. The whole place looked as more men than women in the
The attentuated ranks of the Independent Labour Party in the wife generally says to
you, but during February my though it might be all right in the congregation is in need of re-
House of Commons have suffered s
summer-time, but just then it made pair.
It is the Church of St. The House of Commons lost one further diminution by the defec"Have you thought at all about to go to the North Pole.
one wonder why people ever wanted of its most promising recruits, and tion of Mr. R. C. Wallhead, M.P.what we are going to do for Alban the Martyr, Holborn,. and Hamateur athletics a brilliant all- the vicar, the Rev. R. Eves round sportsman by the tragic Parliament the LLP., group mua-
In the early days of the present August" And, of course, I say, hopes to have it restored before death of Viscount Knebworth, who tered five, but since then they have, and then she begins look the and of this year in com. lost his life in an aeroplane crash. been going rather the way of the ing through the advertisements least, they weren't working.
Lord Knebworth, who was electTea little bigger boys." memoration of the centenary of ed for the Hitchin Division at the thunderous-voiced Mr. Kirkwood
The of bungalows to let.
At a few minutes to eleven I heard the Oxford Movement.
general election, quickly made his soon seceded to the official Labour usual, and she eventually produced Mrs. What's-her-name Selston-
Well, this happened last year, as the first noise there'd been since Although the church was built mark in Parliament and at the age Party and "then there were four." one that looked possible. It said: had cleared out.
of 29 was serving as Parliamentary These were Mr. Maxton (of as recently as 1863, it has had
It was the {private
the "Norfolk-Hickling secretary to Mr. Duff long black hair, who looks as if he nished
Broad-Fur sound of a car. If it had gone an eventful history.
Cooper, the Financial Secretary to had been transported straight from age. Boathouse," and all the rest of have noticed it at all, only it didn't Bungalow-Garden-Gar straight by I probably shouldn't Father Eves said recently. the War Ofice. The post of the days of the French Revoluit-Oh-and plate and linen. It go straight by; it seemed to stop "P.P.S." (as it is commonly Hon), Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Me also mentioned an exorbitant rent. farther up the road, before it got to "It may seem strange that a
known) to a Minister often serves Govern (who was church so recently built should as the stepping stone
once forcibly I pointed out the bit about the rent the house. Even that didn't make to higher ejected from the House after one but my wife said: "Yea, you'll have much impression. be already in need of repair, but. Parliamentary rank, and there was of the most disorderly scenes ever to go down and see the landlord, de stop.
After all, caTS like other contemporary every indication that Lord Knob witnessed in Parliament), and last and get him to come down. They
worth had a big political future Mr. Wallhead. And so "Now there always do." As a matter of fact, minutes before it was borne in on churches. it was built of the
It must have been five or ten before him. wrong kind of stone.
As an athlete he proved himself
they always don't, but that's a detall me that it hadn't gone on again. In announcing his resignation | "To carry out the necessary a brilliant performer in half a from the I.L.P., Mr. Wallbead ex-lord and asked if he could arrange window.
Anyway, I wrote off to the land-So I got up and looked out of the dozen branches of sport. When at plains that he disagrees with the for me to stay the night in the place and there was a glare through the restoration, I hope to get an Eten he won
It had left off snowing, honours at both revolutionary policy advocated at to see what it was really like. Hegate that showed that there were other £2.500 by the end of this cricket and Rugby football, play- the LL.P. Conference at Derby.
ing scrum half for the college. It The LLP. he says, broke with and that he was engaging Mra. So sight. I thought I might as well wrote back and said: "Certainly," headlamps somewhere just out of The site on which the Church was as an amateur boxer, however, the Official Labour Party, not be-and-So to come in and "oblige me stroll out and investigate.
that he was most prominent. After cause it had abandoned Its bellef and make up the beds and so forth. stands was once a gipsy encamp winning the Eton welterweight in Parliament, but because it con- ment, and the church itself had championship he gained his Box sidered that the Labour Party had in our family-I have to sleep in about twenty yards short of my I tell you, we do things thoroughly pulled up in the middle of the road its first being in a cellar, where ing Blue at Magdalen College, shown weakness. In applying it all the beds, and when I come home gate. The light was rather blind- the first ceremonies were held. Oxford. On leaving the University own programme in Parliament.
he became a well-known figure in "The Derby Conference," he says,cides whether they will do or not,
my wife counts the bruises and de ing, but when I got close to it I "The first steps towards buil- ding the church were taken about occasion he fought a Billingsgate background and set up in its place ing snowstorm, at about the most an attractive young female, from
charity boxing contests.
On one relegated political action to the At any rate, I arrived, in a blind tinkering with the engine, Quite found a girl with the bonnet open, The parish of Holborn porter but lost, while in another the theory of physical force revolu desolate spot on Ged's earth.
contest he defeated a policeman on tion. All my life I have steadfast- was then densely populated, but
I'd what one could see, but she was so points in four rounde. "He is cer- ly opposed the idea of physical come to Potter Heigham by train muffled up in furs that it was rather undivided. John Gellibrand tainly a hitter," Alf Mancini, his force revolution." Such a policy, and been driven on-(it was a good hard to tell. Hubbard, a director of the Bank professional sparring partner once he says, would only lead to suffer five miles from the station). For- of England, wanted to build an-/said. "He has a stinging straight,ing. for the working classes and who was going to "do". 'for me, tunately, Mrs. Selston, the old lady right and he takes as much panish could not have any possible hope there, and she'd lighted a fire, and other church. but the neighment as he gives. I hit him just of ultimate success. bourhood seemed to be too densely as hard as I should hit a profes Mr. Wallhead had been a mem-
cooked me a steak, for which I was populated to made this possible.sional,"
ber of the National Council of the truly thankful.
rear.
1858.
"Hotbed of Crime."
In winter sports Lord Knebworth L.L.P. for twenty years and was
I somehow think the cow, or what- was equally famous, and he won its Chairman from 1920 to 1923. ever, they get steaks off, had only "It happened that at the time).
at Murren-Reuter. many ski-ing contests the second Lord Leigh had in-In Switzerland.
died that morning? It was very er-obstinate. While I dined, she herited some property there. A good story is told of a prae-
talked to me. She would tell me ll Like all similar property, it had tical joke which he played at Murren in 1924, when he won the been let and sublet, and he had Khandahar Cup. Entering the no personal knowledge of its contest under the name of "Martha 'condition. Actually, it was one Mainwaring," he turned up attired of the greatest hotheds of crime as a sports girl completely de- ceiving the spectators who were
in London, but he made it over amazed at the extraordinary turn for the purpose of building the of speed with which "she" display-{
jed. church.
"Incidentally. the character
Lord Knebworth's intellectual of the neighbourhood has not achievements were not one whit
greatly altered. Among my
PATIENT CONTROLS DENTIST.
I found
a fair-sized limousine
MONDAY'S STORY.
Monday's story will be "THE FLAW," by Alice Herbert.
1 Bald:
about an operation her husband had jjust had. All about it. It was a "good evening-anything- 1
moet a lecture on surgery. The can do?" steak was rather underdone, and It. She said she didn't know what was sort of made me feel I was illustrat... the matter. The engine had just Remote Control Foring her lecture. Anyway, she put stopped, and wouldn't start again.
Drill Operation.
BOON TO THE NERVOUS
Atlantic City, New Jersey.
She
me clean off my dinner, and then de. And it'had! It wouldn't even turn, parted for the night.
either with the self-starter or the I explored the bungalow and just handle. The whole thing was awful- had a look outside. It was, of ly hot, and I asked her whether course, very dark, but not snowing there was any water in the radiator. behind his sporting prowess, and A gadget on
quite so hard. The garage stood She didn't see why there shouldn't a dentist's chair about fifteen yards from the back be, there always had been. This he gained scholastic triumphs both which gives the patient control door. I walked round it but didn't didn't strike me as entirely conclu- thousands of parishioners are at Eton and Oxford. It was, how over the drilling going on in his go lu. I also went down to the edge alve. I said, we'd better put kome many young boys who have ever, as a sportsman that he came mouth was introduced to the New of the broad, and verified the boat-in, and see what happened. either been in or are going in to most in the public eye.
Jersey Dental Association recent prison. Only the other Sun.
arrested after aviation up with zest and not so
In recent years he had taken (ly. day three were
But, I love them long ago had a thrilling escape his hand and when the drill begins MURDERED IN LAW some reason why it was unwise to all just the same..
when he had to make a forced to hurt he presses a button. This "Within five years the number landing in his Moth seroplane. stops the drill whether the dentist of baptisms. rose from 295 to
likes it or not. 317; of marriages from five to 22: of Easter Communicanta from 291 to 569; and the collec- tions from £541 to £1,864.
my sermon.
"The Mixed Chalice, Unleaven- ed Bread, Lights, White Linen
-Beuter.
The patient holds the fixture in
The remote control has this advantage," explained the inventor to a group of skeptical practi-
COLLECTORS' TWO tioners clustered around the ex-
STAMP LIMIT.
COURT.
Prisoner Shot Before Trial Begins.
Belgrade.
said, why not use snow! But I thought not. There was an idea at the back of my mind that there was
use melted snow, and it wasn't until
I arrived back with a bucketful that course goitre. I remembered what it was,
and Silk Vestments and Incense International Exhibition calm through the knowledge that the police court at Podgoritza ed her to stand clear,
were introduced by the first vicar, Father Mackonochie.
Opens To-day.
Vienna
Of]
When I got back to her she'd got the radiator cap off, and inserted hibit, "It enables the dentist to
what a Danish friend of mine calls render services pleasantly and it
Just as Blazhe Miranovitch, a "funeral? We poured a little enables the nervous patient to keep
escorted by warders, was entering water in... Luckily I'd warn
he can stop the drill at any time.
|(Montenegro): to: be tried for The first tablespoonful that went "A storm of protest and op.
"The patient with the confidence murder, he fell deadshot through in came straight out again, red hot, position followed. The church's
inspired by having the remote con-
the heart.
and blew the "funeral" sky-high. supporters were styled Papists
No more than two stamps may trol in his hands screws up. ao
He had been killed by the We waited a few minutes until in disguise.
be bought by any one person of the much moral courage that he can brother of the man for whose things had cooled down a bit, but it "One of the main issues of dis- special issue being made for the stand much more pain than he
murder he was to have been tried, was no go,na fast as we poured pute was the matter of baptism. International Stamp Exhibition to could without it. We really and I have neither been able to water in it simply ran out again A huge parchment was laid along be held here from June 24 to that the dentist can do more work sleep or work since my brother's into the road underneath. It was the aisle and nave of the church July 0. to be signed by those, in favour, Each stamp, worth four pence, would be surprised."
when the patient has control. You But how I am satisfied, even if i with the radiator bone dry, and that death," the assailant said calmly, quite evident that she'd been driving as a protest against the persecu- will be sold at eight pence, the “I would be surprised indeed, have to die. The blot on my her engine had seized right up. tion. This dispute was referred difference going to charity. The remarked a cynical dentist in the family honour is wiped out." I told her so. She said s to as the 'Gorham Judgment,' issue will include 40,000 stamps on group-Reuter,
Reuter.
"Does that mean I've got to stop The portest has since been re ordinary paper and 60,000 On
here at night?". moved to the library at Lambeth jobre paper. One of each kind may Palace.
Died on Mountain. "In the end, as the services of to-day bear witness, Father Mackonochie, won his fight. He himself die on a mountain 'in Scotland, having been almost driven mad by persecution. The wood on which shepherds bore
be
be bought by a collector.
Collectors from abroad: will ing for them.-Reuter. able to secure the stamps by writ
UP MT. OLYMPUS ON SKIS,
his body down to be buried has Boasting Winter Sports
aince been made into a cross and now hangs in the church.
"The following contemporary verse refers to the dispute over the matter of ritual:
In Turkey.
Monheddin Bey
SENORITAS AS TAXI DRIVERS.
Beauty-Driver Vehicles For Madrid.
Madrid
Taxiz reifkely to become extremely popular here before
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| FAMOUS FISH DIES AT 113 YEARS.
I explained that it wasn't as bad as all that; that is, if she cared to pt the hospitality of "my" poor roof and it was a poor roofIt let the wet in). But she wouldn't-hour of it. By the by, she didn't know theer circumstances, so it wasn't
Young Blood Compared that. No, she wanted to leave the car
With Lake-Mates.
Paris,
where it was and go on foot.
"Don't be silly; it's miles to any
Death, at the ripe old age of 118, where pat
has claimed one of the famous carp However, at that moment we
A number of dark-eyed senoritas, in the lake at Fertainebleau Jheard a car coming along the road, selected for their good looks, are The exact age of this: aquatic the same way as she'd come. We Istanbul soon to be seen plying taxis for centenarian was proved by a gold could see its lights, too, although, Gavernor of Hire along Madrid streets.
ring which was attached to it and was a very long way of. You Istanbul has returned from They are now busily engaged in on which was inscribed the date how at Norfolk Is-you can see a Stanton, with hyacinthine hazardous climb up. Mt. Olympus studying every mechanical phase of its birth.
Bore a portable confession- box:
While "Father Mac, in purple vest,
Was looking his very legalest
The Governor, who wishes encourage winter sports
a took a large party of Tu
foreigners with him on the a tion. He has given a warm come on his safe return.
A club to provide facil Mackonocamp's nion winter sports is being formed hers
Retter.
"Stanton was one of Father
priests
of their new job so that they will Bat the deceased
to be ready for any emergency. They almost be termed a
will accept no help if anything compared gone wrong, no matter how gallant-brethren in
Kyk: Bome of iven «taxia
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