THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1938.
RADIO
Love and Jealousy Story BROADCAST
In "Green Scarf" Trial
TREE
BRANCHES IN COURT
Four branches of a trer enclosed i
In a frame were strefchird in front
of the dock at the Old Balley re-j cently when William Whiting (33),
WIVES BEATEN
For Going To Church!
-Women in Finsbury Park, London,j N., are afraid to go to church be- a Folkestone labourer, was charges) cause their husbands thrush then if) with the murder of Phyllis May they do," says their vicar. Spiers.
The woman's body was found in af coppice near Folkestone un May 20 A green searf was round her neck, and it was alleged that she had been! strangled.
Whiting plended not guilty,
Mr. Roland Oliver, K.C. (prosecnt-i ing, sald Mrs. Spiers was 22, and be
"I know several women in my parish who play away for that reason," the Bev. E. E, Robinson, vicar of St. Anne's Church, Prople's Park, Finsbury Park,
xald.
When he asked the husbands about it they replied: "Do you want to break up my home?”
If the husbands found out they hod)
to church, or even wanted to,
beat them and made their lives:
was married before she was 17. She intolerable.
lived with her husband for two years.į "These men make their wiver Then they parted and her husband; dockle between loyalty to the Church) had never sees her again.
for having their husbands walk out
"I on afraid there is no doubt that she was a young woman of immoral habits, continued Mr. Oliver. "She hod affairs with many then, ing knew her quite well.
"SNAP COINCIDENCE"
WHIL
"She had obviously been violently attacked, perhaps with Asts, and beaten into a state of unconsciousness,
Tied and knotted tightly around Jer neck was a start. That senrf|
one of the most salient pieces of evidence in this case, Whether she was strangled! by it, by the hands, ur died in some other way is not kno}{I}, But it was clear she was murderedl,"
The swart might have belonged to The murderer. By a coincidence, sie Was "snapped" on the Folkestme! front on the day of her death and the !earf she wo wearing ww! obviously nothing like the green scarf. One portion of what the prosecution ald was her nyn scarf was found in her handbag.
"VERY JEALOUS"
Mr. Oliver said Whiting lived at : Dover for about a year until last; November with married Womin named Rose Woodbridge. She was a elose friend of Mrs. Splers, and i
on there," Mr. Robinson declared.
There
is only one way to stop it.
11 en ant that is to get church.
into
beginning "5e are
with 1 social hour to which men will be invited and encouraged to have heart-to-heart talks. "The stoney we get inep into this) church and in touch with read religion the better for this happiness of many women in this parish.
Captain Anthony Eden. con- demned Eugland's part the Czechoslovak situation nu dan- gerous. Captain Eden is shown above, with Mrs. Eden and their son.
WOMAN SPENT 23 YEARS
SAVING FOR A
" AMAZED”
BY LIFE
IN LONDON
Miss Mildred Jopling, shelf-
Whiting dir not approve of the lister in Sydney Public Li brary, N.S.W., is in London
association.
tion," said Mr. Oliver.
"Whiting and Mrs. Woodbridge seeing her dream of a life-time reparated--ber mother, I think, tookį come true. her away--and this made him very i jealous. He was anxious to and out She saved up six months* who had brought about this separa-holiday with pay and the price of a round-the-world ticket. It "He was desperately in love with fook her 23 years. hej in a statement to the police he; "I was lucky in get my ticket be- raid he worshipped her and in his fore the rates went up," she said t mind Phyllis was the person really the Girl Guides' Headquarters, Bue- responsible for combing! between kingham Palace Road, recently. them
LEFT WITH £1
than her
"Be careful of Mrs. Woodbridge's evidentes," Mr. Oliver warned the The leket cost £148, she said, Jury.
pound less "You may not think her exactly one very reliable sort of woman, but that savings. does not mean 'she cannot tell the
She came by way of San Francisco fruth."
and New York, and is returning by the Suez Canal.
HAIR FIND IN THICKET
HOLIDAY
Talkies For 150 Warships And Shore Stations
Liya Gurevitch (Piano) From the Studio
"FRILLS AND FINERY"
*Radio Programine Broadenst by 2. D. W, on a Frequency of 845 k.e's. and on Short Wave from 0-11 p.m. on 8,52 m.c's. per second.
0.00 Relay of the Dance Orchestra from the Roof Garden of the Hong- kong Hotel,
(n) You'll be reminded of me; (b) My Walking Stickt; (e) Now it can be told; (4) Alexanders Ragtime! Band.
0.14 Record: A Japanese Sunset (Deppen); Ninette (Maud)....R. E. Mel'herson playing on the Organ of New Empire Cinemu, London.
0.21 (a) Médley of Old Favourites; (b) Swing Low Sweet Chariot; (c) Siniall Fry; (d) Vulga Doatinan Swing.
4.35 Record: Idn, Sweet As Apple Cider (Leonard): Sonny Boy (De Sylva-Brown-Henderson)...Harry Roy'a Tiger-Ragamuflns with vocal refrain by Harry Roy, Ray Ellington;; Happy An the Day in Long (from' The Cotton Club Review)....Paul Whiteman presents Ramona and her Grand Piano.
6.44 (a) Foolin' Myself; (b) Mad- house; (c) I still love to kiss you Goodnight; (d) Goodnight Ladies.
7.00 Closing Local Stock Quota- tions,
7.02 Musical Comedy.
"Lucky Breale"-Selection (Archer and Furber)....Debroy Somers Band with vocal chorus: "Stand Un And Ellis and Sing-Selection (Furber, Charig...Ray Starita and His Band From with vocal chorus: Scene "Family Album ("To-night at 8.30" Noel Coward); } Here's Toast; The Musical Bux-Intro:
Hearts
and Flowers....Gertrude Lawrence, Noel Coward and Company rec. by The Phoenix Theatre Orchestra, London cond. by Clifford Greenwood; "Great Day"-Selection (Rose, Eliseu and Youmans)....Jack Payne and H: B. B. C. Dance Orchestra with vocal chorus by Jack Payne.
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7.35 Gershwin-Concerto In Major for Plano and Orchestra.
Paul Whiteman and His Orchest with Roy Bary the Plano.
0.00 Local Time Signol, Weather Report and Announcements.
8.03 Songs by Beniamino Gigli (Tenor).
Ti Vogliu Tanto Bene (Furno-de Curtis); Ninn Nanna Della Vitu (Cherubini-Bixle); Sotoperle, Lucia (81m La Canzonedell' Amore); Ad- do Bel Sogno....with Members of La Scala Orchestra, Milan, cond, by Dino Olivierf.
8.15 Londen Relay-Frills and Finery 2--Jewellery,
The fascination of precious stones strange stories of magic jewels. polsoned rings, diamonds that ren- dered men Invisible, and pearls worth a king's ransom: Written and arrang- Produced by John Richmond.
The Admiralty has placed an order with Gaumont Britished by Jonquil Antony. Equipments for the installation of talkie apparatus in 150 ships
and shore stations.
mes.
A company run by the Admiralty will see to the program- About 10,000 firms a year will be shown, with weekly change of programme in a sea-going ship.
Equipment cost will fall on the Admiralty. Maintenance- will be about £12,000 a year. Sailors will be the projectionists, Each sailor will be charged a ponny a week and the money
the Fleet Cinema Fund.
will be supplemented by a grant of three-farthings a head from
Her biggest disappointment wns
sorry I 66 Hollywood-"So dull! I'm wasted my money on it."
Whiting had denied that the green scarf was his or that he had ever had
Her biggest lough was over a shop one ke it. The prosecution had evidence that right up to the day of sign in a fishing town on Lake Hur-
the murter he was wearing n sintlar green scarf, but that on the day of the murder he was not.
Found on a post In the thicket was a hair similar to Whiting's. On July 1 Whiting told the pollee that he and Phyllis walked to the golf course, She said that she was going “to do herself in and would strangle herself with a scarf round her neck. Accord- ing to the statement she was wearing a green spotted scarf.
on: "Ideal Wormery."
FIVE THRILLS
These things gave her a thrill:
Her first sunset at sea.
The Yosemite Valley in snow.
"Problem Boy" Lured With Car Ride
Mr. C. W. Bourne, who has earned for himself the Views from Penrith, Cumber-distinction of being called the most tactful magistrate on the Wimbledon Bench, succeeded recently in dealing with a Wimbledon "problem boy."
Jand.
1938 plumbing in a 1400 cottage in Devon.
The Changing of the Guard. "The most amazing thing about London in the way you all mantige Mr. Oliver submitted that Mrs, to live packed together without each others' toes ar Spiers could not have strangled her-stepping on
The magistrates decided to see the losing your tempers," she said. selt.
Miss Jopling is keeping a diary of boy, but twice after that when the
case was called the boy was not in i
had been unable o get him there.
8.45 Studio-Liya Gurevitch at the Piano.
C
4.
Or.
1. Rachmaninoff Prelude in Minor; 2. 3rd Lyrische Fragmente (Mediner); 3. Improvisation No.
Mermaid") ("The
(Medtner); The Lark (Glinka Nalakireff).
0.05 London Philharmonic chestra.
Merry Wives of Windsar-Over-
ture (Nicolai); Karella Suito, Op. 11 --Alla Marcia (Sibellus)-Inter- mezzo; Finlandla-Tone Form (Slbe- lius, Op. 20, No. 7).
9.30 London Relay-The News. 9.50 Varlety with Gracle Fields Sandy Powell, Turner Layton and Jack Hylton's Orchestra.
Dance Orchestra. Fancy Meeting You-Comedy
Yours Truly ....Jack Hylton's Orchestra with vocal re- frain: Piano and Vocal-Hypnotized (Silver. Sherman and Lewis); A Rendezvous In Honolulu (Lesile and Burke)....Turner Lay- Two, on; Dance Orchestra-One, Button Your Shoo-Fox-Trot (film Pennies from Heaven) Jack Hylton and
Orchestra with
Is Truly Your Trot
Little
His
Sketch--Sandy's
First A father was summoned in July for not sending his eight-Humor Stoles Singlette: years-old son to school. He pleaded that he did his best, but the Baby...Sandy Powell and Company; Williams) Drinking Songs (arr. boy just played truant.
Intro: There's a tavern in the town; Brown Jun In cellar cool; Little Down among the dead men; Come, Landlord, At the flowing bowl: Here's a health unto His Majesty.... Jack Hylton and His Orchestra with vocal Refrain: Piano Gershwin Medley: Intro: Rhapsody in Blue; Lady be Good; That certain feeling; Looking for boy; Wall
bit, Susie
Arthur Charles Splers, of Bexhill-her journeys to compare it with one on-Sen, husband of the dead woman, kept by her grandfather on his five-court, and the father sald he
aid that shortly before her death he month voyage to Sydney in 1942.
Monkey's
begun divorce proceedings against He had only one quart of water The boy's mother nitended. "We Ride On Wall
her.
and
daily for washing and drinking,tried our best to get him here, but ment for his dinner was cut he just screamed the house down Dr. W. C. P. Barnett, Folkestone roller surgeon, expressed the view down each morning from the mast-when I mentioned 'police court." that the woman's death was caused head.
by garrotting.
Mr. St. John Hutchinson, K.C. (de- fending): You know that Sir Bernard Spilsbury does not agree with your opinion about garrotting?—Yes,
SPILSBURY'S VIEW
Sir Bernard Spilsbury said that he Thought death was due to manual. strangulation rather than garroting with the green scarf.
Falls Are Good For
A Child
Ile
is scared stiff of policemen," she Of Death
Anic.
ALL SMILES
A monkey's performance
In
FL
build I a stairway to Paradise; The man I love....Renaru; Vocal-Film Waltz Songs-Medley; Intro: You're More Than All the World to Me; Cherie; Look Up And Laugh-Med- ley; Intro: Love Is Ev'rythere; Anna Up and from Annocapresi; Look Laugh....
Fields Gracte
with Or- chestra; Instrumental-Nohca I Muo- lau Lani (Liliuokalani-Mekla Keal- Kai); Samoan Love Song (film Taboo')....Andy Iona and His Is-
Orchestra- Free- Fox-Trot (from
Mr. Bourne suggested that a car "Wall of Death" act, which was sald should be sent to tempt the boy with to have brought protests from the free ride. When the court ad- audience, was described In Kingston journed, a probation oMeer and the police court recently. boy's father left in a private Half an hour inter they returned, the Joy, all smiles, allting on the pro bation omcer's knee,
клес Mr. Bourne explained to him how was cruelly ill-treated at Cobham. Alanders with Vocal Refrain; Dance
car.
A travelling showman, Alfred John North, did not appear to answer a summons alleging that the monkey Children often get more good than naughty it was of him to have play warrant for his arrest was issued.
and Mr. Gordon Jones, prosecuting for Mr. Oliver: I don't think it mat harm from their tumbles, even into ed truant 47 times last term,
afterwards Mr. Bourne, addressing the R.S.P.C.A., said the performance ters whether it was manual strangulo- a pond.
the parents, sald the boy hnd pro- | was given at a fair on July 13 and tion or strangulation with a gature,
14. Dr. Alan Maberley told the Summer mised to go to school regularly. There is no doubt it was 'stronguin- tlon?-None at all.
School of the British Social Hygiene He added "We are very much im- The monkey was placed in the scat Council at Hornsen, Yorkshire, re-pressed with him and we shall be of a small motor-car, which was Mr. Oliver: Is it, in your opinion, cently.
very disappointed if he does not then started inside n clrcular bowl possible that she committed suicide
A child of one or two years could keep his promise. Don't bully him. 25 yards in circumference. by strangling herself with a scarf?-
Don't drive him. Just treat him kindly and we think he will keep his
from you."
No, that is quite out of the question, fall and do itself little injury; in my view.
Sir Bernard' agreed that it was very dificult to fix the exact time of death. It might have been on May 23 or May 24.
Often falls out of prams wero promise if he gets encouragement beneficial;
The father was fined 25, 6d.
"TERRIFIED"
As the car increased in speed, it nscended the walls until at lost it was circling at a considerable height. The monkey was kept in the seat by centrifugal force.
O-Kay for Sound'); The Fleet's In Port Again-Fox-Trot (Alm 'O-Kay for Sound')....Jack Hylton and His Orchestra with vocal refrain,
10.45 London Relay Topical Gazette",
A fortnightly review of things at Home. Presented by Pascoe Thorn-
Lon.
11.15 Close Down.
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If a child did not fall between onn and two years of age it would fall between two and four years, and it learned things by falling.
warning it, it lost its balance and Mr. Hutchinson: The police have Recently he allowed a child of 10 developed an air of tenseness. told us of people who thought they months to fall into a pond and the The primary need of a child was
nist to lieginald Charles Nex Land, of Gilstead Road, Singapore, on the saw Mrs. Splers alive on May 25, only thing that resulted was that it an atmosphere in the home of love Could you go so far as to say alie gained a healthy respect for the pond, and protectiveness. This could easily
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The audience | Stephen Gispert, at Kingston, Surrey. 20th?—I hardly think it possible. not frightened about falling moved Use, house, for a child could feel an whole performance.
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