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Parson's Son
THE “HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1938.
Guilty, But Insane
WEEPING FATHER LEADS PRAYERS IN COURT
He Meets Parents Of The
Murdered Boy
CLERGYMEN bowed their heads in prayer in Old Bailey's famous No. 1 court recently when the jury retired-to find a verlict of "Guilty, but insane” in the case of John Stanley Phillips, twenty-three- year-old Oxford theological student and would-be missionary.
The young man, while suffering from schizophrenia ("splitting of the mind")-common mental disease of 1 adolesernee-murdered and mutilated Harold Matthews, sixteen-year-old pantry boy at his cullege, Wycliffe Hall.
tears
Most earnestly, with rolling down his cheeks, prayed the prisoner's father—the Ure. Stanley Phillips, vicar of St., Mary's, Woking, himself once aj missionary.
He has told the avant of lus an-
canterxution in a drawing-2007 191 grown-ups,
"He was mildly bored He was simply not in th slightest in- terested, and was slightly peevishi Summing
schnenphren Dr. Yellowlees said patient.
and
up
wrong singly do not exist for him. He does right in re-
to habit or custom or cr
Xteties about his ser21. od 1 by thought it wrong to take a ball on Sunday, and reorded going to the mediale expediency or wenden hut
Max
to
wholerone
In his real life be lives in a world!
of his own with his own rules, and
When Mc Justice Asquith began he is annoyed when these ales are
sum tap at 10:30 am. paid-'broken in on " CONCER of St Mary's met t
the
the jury
spertally sumuinoned meeting They prayed for thete vlear and fits son. for the dead pantry-boy, and fur
verdiet that afterwards returned Phillips-Uke a mon su a dream
the verdict and the judge sa order that he be detained during the King's pleasure Blarthly F walked away to the cells,
heard
'I FEEL THE NEED
OF RELIGION'
His father met him there and knelt
in prayer by his side while warders)
watched,
mun
sold:
The grey-haired shali carry on my ministry. I feel the need of religion more than ever now that this tragedy has come into Quir ilves.
"I have had wonderful comfurt and support from my parishioners. Two or three times a week they have held meetings to pray for help and/ guidance,
"met the father of the dead boy yesterday, I told him how terribly grieved we were for him in his sorrow and promised to visit him soon in Oxford. He is a fine He sympathised with mun. and bore no imatice towards my poor boy,
GLAMOUR
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BOX OFFICE
POISON
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King George and Queen Elzole the pay a pan pese vent to the irousing estate enants in South Indon The homong estate IN part of Fonderi slurma clearan i project Pubin banding plans find offers backthig in Uated Sister, too, exidened by Mayor LaGuardia's quest for $150,000,000 federal funds a New York City projects
BOY,
BRINGS
AGED TEN, SAVES
43 JEWS
HELP
A 100-ya-old boy is revealed As the hero of 43 refugee Austri- an Jews who are in the show- elad mountainous noman's land between the Ausing German ant Yugedas frontier
At the risk of bring shot by funker guard, he crept
night!
down the valley to the small town of Murska Subota. He told the Jewish community there of the plight of his companions.
UP MOUNTAIN
Penal Reform
In Britain
Prospect Of Early
Legislation
RADIO BROADCAST
Anna Lovtsoff (Soprano) In Russian Programme
THE TEST MATCH
Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.D.W. on a Frequency of 845 k.e's. and on Short Wave from 1.-2.15 p.m. and 0.-11 p.m. on 0.52 m.c's per second.
12.00-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service of Intercession from St. John's Cathedral.
12.80 Light Orchestrat. Fantasia On Norwegian Folk Songs (Arr. Haland)....Norwegian Light Symphony Orchestru cond. by Inge- bret Haland; Italian Folksongs, Med- ley (de Michell) ...Columbin Melster Orchester; Chant De Sirene (Celebre Chanson Italienne-F. Vol- patti, inr.)....Orchestre Napolitum. 12.48 Auton and Tho Paramount Theatro Orchestra.
"The It Parade" Selection: 'Wake Up And Live" Selection; "Big Drond- cast of 1930"-Selection,
1.00 Time and Weather.
1.03 Jack Hylton and His Orches- tra with Los Allen (Baritone),
When A Woman Smiles-Fox-Trot
(Vivian Elis Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye--Fox-Trot (Colc Porter) „Orchestra; Don't Kins Me Good-night (David and Meyer); When Old Friends Meet Again (To- blus anci Polter)............. Les Allen; Hove You Forgotten So Soun--Woltz; Did You Mean It-Fox-Trol
Orches tre; I'll Sing You A Thousand Love Songs (From 'Caln And Mabel') Les Allen; Mendel's Son's Swing
| Song-Fox-Trot, Cabin On The Hill- Top-Fox-Trot (From Walking on
Air... Orchestra.
1.30 Ruuter and
Hugby Press,
Weather and Announcements.
1.10 Variely.
Orchestra;
Medley
Orchestru Dearest Love ("Ope- rette"--Noel Coward): Hey Gypsy.
ay Gypay (Countess Maritzu Kaliman
Leshe Jeffries and Is Vocal-Elste Carliste Elote Carlisle, Oretres- tra-"Saling Along"
Selection Louis Levy and His Orchestra with vocal refrain; Duet-Gailthaler March (Kesehat): Yodelling Duct- In The Ziller Valley. The Baldauf Brothers with Zither and Galtar:
Suio-Ant Evening With You (From "Colleen'); I've Got Two Lip
Quickstep Gerry Moore (Plano) in strict dance tempo under the super- vision of Victor Silvester; Banjo with lustr; Quartett-The World to Wait- ing For The Sunrise (Seitz)... Keu Harvey.
2.16 Close Down.
0.00 Mozart Compositions. US Cinema Owners
Overture "Cos: Fan Tutte"....The .B.C. Symphony Orchestra con- A relief expedition with food was New York.
slucted by Adrian Boult; Sonata in C The Independent Theatre-thepers homeless, countryless Jews are now ent up to the ski-ing hut where the
al
date | Minor The hope that at no distant
Walter Cleseking (Piano Association of New York has inserted sheltering.
he would introduce t Bill deating Solo); Ah! Je Le Suis ("La Flute The boy had saved their displayed advertisement Hollywood
with penal reform, in which would Enchantee"-Act-2.-Nuitter and Report,
thelves, writes the Daily Express Bel-be brought together all the principal Beaumont)... Lily Pons (Soprano) to alter the whole system of signing
movie grade Correspondent.
with Orchestra coud, by John Barbi- that thest cineInR
tired of losing money on the glau
proputeturn irc
roll; Haffner Serende Rondo.... our stars detested by the public
Edith Lorand and Her Viennese Or- chestru. They name half a dozen who take nilions of dollars from the movie Industry but are box off e pason," although their histrtone talent is un-boy had questioned,
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HERDED TOGETHER For live days following April 10 they had lived on eked-out scraps of stale bread, rotten cheese, and sausage which they had brought with the ever the Austrian frontier.
If the not brought the relief expedition they would have størved. The advertisement mentions Cireta As it is, the condition of the exiles, Garho-- "great draw in Europe”. wiose
range from eight to Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, Joan, eighty, is a terrible one. Dysentery Crawford, Katharine Hepburn ("who has attacked nearly a third of them. Have excellent performances in two 1
They are herded together in the had already received a message koreni pictures" a
Edword ski-ing hut, which is about 25 feet from him through a clergyman in - Arnold!
long They have no medical sup- Oxford, and would have gone to him "Uproar it too strong a word plies yet, and there is no rinetor with- earlier but for The Indvice
Le row this advertisement has, in reach lawyers."
VISITS TO LAWYERS
me,
Ccreated.
eractinents connected with probation, was expressed by Sir Samuel Huare, the Home Secretary, in an address at the National Association of Probation Officers in Londoni.
the
that Sir Samuel Hoare said field of penal reform was really one of the great provinces of social re- fun, fadeed, it was the social service of formation. This great service had now come to the point at which it was dealing with: 25,100 cases, Year by year ignorance of the advantages of probation had become less and Lenches of Magistrates from one end of the country to the other tending to make better use of these
were
vnfunble method. St.ll however, there was a great divergence between the attitude of some Benches and others towards the question of pro-
The Yugoslav authorities still re- Mr. Justice Asquiths, summing up
fuse them admittance because they in his first murder trial, sald Phillips!
have no identity papers. These were had been described as Intensely and
Within Two hours the agents of confiscated by the Austrian authori- | bation, narrowly religious, unsuctable, must of the stars named hud arranged ties in Burgenlaud, vastern Austria,
and reserved. At no period did he seem to see then lawyers of the bend when they weir expelled They out of proportion when one Bench to have shown the slightest remorse, to the Artists' and Managers cannot enter Germany.
fear, or other emotion.
Guild in decirle whether to take legal
ution.
Apparently this is
what Harry
sem
6.3% Bongs by Knrlce Caruso (Tenor).
Franck); Prete-Mot Ton Aide ("La La Procession (Brizeux-Cosar
Reine De Saba"-Act 2-Carre) Barbler-Gounod):
Lex Rarneaux (Faure).
6.45 Violin Boles. Nigun (Improvisation from "Bhai Shem-Pletures of Chassidic Life E. Bloch) ....Joseph Szigeti with Kuri Ruhrschtz at the Piano; Madrigale (Simonetti): Czurdias (Monti) Yvonne Curti (Violin) with Pinno Tarantella (Pablo de Sarasate) Manuel Quiroga with Mine. Lemau de Quiroga at the Plano,
1.00 Marek Weber's Orchestra,
Contrasts-Pol-
There was something altogether Fantasia On Melodies of Johann
Strauss (Weber); sent nearly 50 per cent. of ita_easca pourri Of Femous Melodies (RO- to probation and another Bench brocht): Potpourri Of Waltzes (Ro- The day after the happening he
RABBI'S APPEAL
only
Princess"--Waltz 5 per cent. He hoped that brecht); "Dollar" went to Holy Communion, and dur-Brannt, president of the Independent Arigalay, headed a Jewish deputation ended as a result of the changes they My Wife Waltz (Fall)
The Chief Rabbi of Yugoslavia, Dr
they would see this disproportion (Fall); Child, You Can Dance Like Ing the morning walked to a church Association, wants. In Oxford, and appeared perfectly
to the Yugoslav Prime Minister, Dr.
7.32 Closing Local Stock Quota- He told me that "We are prepared Stoyadinovitch, and was told that if had been making in the organization and the greater concentration on the
7.34 Gracle Fields, Frank Crumit inent at the lone Once was one of
And The Hill Billies. the outward and visible signs, and also of the greater publicity given to the question.
BILL NEARLY READY He hoped at no distant date lo in-
normal. The defence was that he to produce our cererds covering 290, the exiles par to Yugoslavia problem, of which the new depari-
wrong.
TI
did not know what he had done was theatres to show how the glamour they could se
Dr. Yellowless, expert in losing vast surts if the
tes are emptying the cinemas and mental diseases, had said he was money.
exhibitors suffering from schizophrenin, or These stars are dead, and ever- dementia praecox, and had defined body but Hollywood knows it. the symptoms BS ON unnatural
ten
identity papers
the ad-
tions.
Pop-Eyed Pete (Kemedy and Carr); Little Mountala Cabin (Kennedy and Carr) The Hi Billies; The Ghl In The Alice Blue Gown (Parker); In Me 'Oroscope (Harper-Halnes)..
Gracle Fields; Whoa, Josephine
but otherwise they could not.
also The Rabbi has appiled British authorities for their the exiles, however, that they must mittance to Palestine. He has told
"We intend to force the producers! count on spending another three truduce a BI11 dealing with the great rumit, Burt); There's No One With emotional indifference, a living in to alter the whole system of siguing weeks in their mountain hut.
write about these Jews for fear into a single, easily manageable form Frank Cruml!: Wandering Shoes field of penal reform or social 4C- The Yugoslav Press in forbidden to formation. It would bring together Endurance (Crumit, Curtis)
all the principal enactments connect (H1 Billies); Nobody's Durtin' But ed with probation. They would also Mine (Jimmy Davis)....The H
two worlds, one "a world of fan- stars at fantastic salaries for long tasy and dissociation."
periods and so binding themselves to The judge referred to letters writ-produce expensive fins with players offending Germany.
Phillips from Brixton Prison the public loathes und will sit pay
by
ay astonishing for the state of de- to see." tachment and indifference they re-
vented. In one, to his parents, the
young
sald:- man
"The drive
frum
Oxford
to
I
Brixton was quite enjoyable.
do
not like this place much yet) compared with Oxford... Much love to you all from John. PS.
I hope the dog proves satisfactory."
Another, to a fellow-student, ran!
went to the chapel service
They one
üs
NO PERSONAL ATTACK
Al. John Mannheimer, executive! secretory of the independent Theatre Owners' Association, tak the Britiah Unlied Press that "We are not attacking the stors person- ally, These stars, if given the right kind of vehicles, would be the same stars os of old,
heinst the at Oxford. These Takes Barefoot vice did not rise to grent heights, the
singing was not good, the
preaching was foir as far as it
went."
he
Dr. Yellowices, said the judge, did not get the impression when visited Phillips in prison that the man was merely pretending to be mad,
of
be able to tie up a certain number | Billies,
Britain to Seek
New Speed Mark
For Landplane mutely
London. Plans for Britain's attempt to establish a new world's landplane nlr-speed record with an R. A. F. machine are now complete,
8.00 Time Weather and Announce- monts.
8.03 Dance Record,
Slow Fox-Trot-Once In A While; Waltz-Glanning Min (From
'Fire- fly. Victor Silvester and His Ballroom Orchestra,
8.10 London Relay London Log. 8.20 London Relay The First Cricket Test Match-England Australia,
V.
of regged ends and make the proba tion system appear at its right focus as an integral and essential part of the
many problema of social reform, He had hoped to introduce the Bill Unfortunately the pressure of Parliamentary time was Ho great that it might be dimeull to it it in to the immediate future..
The Bill, however, was practically ready. His advisers and, he were very anxious to see it passed, lind, A commentary on the closing overs The flight will take place at the whether they got it Introduced in the f before lunch and a summary of the Iminediate weeks before them or morning's play by Howard Marshall beginning of June, and it is hoped by whether they would have to wait a from Trent Bridge, Nottingham. Walk Daily As
Critish aviation experts, a speed of few months, he led the confident 8.35 Studio A Russian Propran nearly 500 m.p.. on a closed cireult hope that before the next annual me with Anna Lovisoff (Soprano). will be attained,
conference of the unsociation the
accompanied by Nura Kanis (Piano). Road to Health
A specinily adapted Supermarine would be on the Statute-hook.
1. (a) The Gate: Spitüre fighter, which is claimed to
Lord Feversham, president of the Dance; (e) An Old Waltz; (d)
(b) Festival be the fastest military machine in the association, fald it was a happy fact Storm. The Russian Vagabonds "Apples, tomatoes and humans world, will be used for the record that the association, working in con-director-Theodore Katz (Salon Or need air," says ex-miner, Oren (Glu-attempt.
Junction with the Home Office, was chestra); 2. (a) Shiroka V Polinh ger) Young, 59, and so for 27 years,
able, with the assistance of the Clarke Daroga (Nikolaevsky); (b) Ay Vi winter and summer, he has been
ACE PILOT IN CHARGE fall Fellowship, to bring greater Droog (Shpovalov)....Anna Lovi taking his "dally alring-off period Leader Brinn Purvis, Commanding to those who were adjudicating in Vorolnikoff); Prince Igor Peasants It will be piloted by Squadron knowledge and more modera methods off; 3. Russian Cherubic Hynn 15-minute barefoot walk.
Officer of the British Al Ministry "Put apples in
the pelty sessional divisions.
Chorus (Borodin-Rimsky Korkakov) hot room with-experimental flight, at the "hush- the young man, "How do you do? out fresh air,”
.Sorokin Russian Choir cond. by says, "and they hush" station at Farnborough, Hamp- You have got yourself into a pretty rot rapidly. Give them air and they shire.
(Continued on Page 15.) bad meas, haven't you?"
keep good for a long time."
The plane will have a super- Phillips' responhe was a blond and.
One of
Young's stunts which streamlined fuselage and an entirely rather humorous smile. Rather an amazes visitors to the town, is to new type of cockpit for the pilot, unconventional opening, is it not?" while barefoot and clad only in a out", of the pilot during high-speed music in his soul," William Catten
shovel the
Magna, Utah, anow of his front walk with which it is hoped the "binck-
Because, he explains, he Fald.
"He was exactly
light shirt and trousers. comparable,"
"Of course I wear an overennt and
ling Invented the fiddlephone. The said the doctor, to a child who protect myself from the cold ke shaped monoplane, will be powered jar Ild, match box, bugle bell, The machine, which is a shark- Addlephone is composed of a jam bus been brought in from solitary play to listen to a pollte minute daily alring-off period."
other folks, but not during my 10-by n 12-cylinder Rolls-Royce 1,000 phonograpli reproducer unit and
horse power engine,
banjo "D" string.
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The specialist had said that when Phillips entered the room he malf to
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