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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH

FRIDAY, JUNE

1938.

900-Year-Old Church Left To Rot "SAFEMILK"

Closed Because Wealthy Woman

Insisted On A

Bigger One

Timid Rector And Obstinate Patron

A STATELY church, once, loved and beautified by

villagers who came to worship from miles around,

Chaplin May

Talk In His

Next Film

Charlie Chaplin is expected to talk from the screen for the first time in

has stood derelict at Treyford, Sussex, for nearly ninety years because of the misplaced generosity of a wealthy his next film,

woman.

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He has told intimate friends-- according to New York Variety-that

The church is St. Mary of Treyford. Part of it was built in the eleventh century on a mound that has been sacred since the time of the Christian missionaries. To-day it is a ruin, lost in ahe will make a taikle, speaking him- tangle of undergrowth and overhanging trees, forgotten by the ecclesiastical authorities.

In the Torties of last century there gradually crumbled. Its five memo lived at Treyford the all-powerful and rials tell to dust, its rich window and self-willed Mrs. Vernon Harcourt. altar paintings faded before wind and She owsed the largest estates in the rain. neighbourhood and was patroness of the local churches.

The present rector of Elsted, the Rev. W. W. Whistler, said: "Mrs. One day the rector of Elsted, who Harcourt's whim has left us a pro- included Treyford and Didling in his blem that may never be solved.

benefice, timidly approached Mrs. "The new Treyford church is too Harcourt to inform her the large and is inconvenient for all the

that

urches of Elsted and Treyford surrounding parishes. Most of the churches of needed restoring.

people have to walk two miles to

"I won't do that” decided Mrs. reach it. The result is that there Harcourt. "We shall have another is generally only a handful of people church, a much bigger one, with incre. the highest steeple we can build. We shall erect it between the two other churches."

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"But. madam, pleaded the rector. **it mean that the parishioners will have to walk miles to come to

church.

"If they really want to worship. they Will come" was her reply.

And so in 1849 the church of St. Mary of Treyford was locked 'fort Rond, and a little later the church

at

Elsted locked too.

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The large new Treyford church.

its steeple

over-topping all

buildings for 'mlles was opened.

Later,

when Mrs.

Harcourt

moved south to Selsey, her obsll-

"I had been rector at the time I would never have permitied Mrs. Harcourt to have her way.

An unusual signpost embodying the figure of St. Christopher, patron saint of travellers, now points the way to the ruined church,

self, for business as much us for artistic reasons. He has been heard only once from the screen, singing a mock French song in "Modern Times two years ago.

Mae's Matiest!

New York.

Miss Mae West, who arrived here for a visit, brought a new phrase. Gone is the old "Come up and see me semetime."

Now she smiles and says. "Son, you're one of the nicest men Ieper leaned against!”

Five thousand "fans" invaded the railway station to greet the star, who had not seen New York since 1932.

UFS]

Agnew Horine, a graduate of a class for prospective fathers

at the New York Maternity Centre Association, shown winning his diploma at "diapering" a practice dell under the eyes of his" instructress, Sara Ward Gould.

Eighth Year Of Scottsboro

Case Defence Opens

NINE NEGROES SEIZED BY A POSSE

ON MARCH 25, 1931

By THOMAS A. DOZIER United Press Staff Correspondent

Birmingham. YEARS ago 8 posse of muttering

SEVEN

WHO WANTS TO BUY AN ELEPHANT'S TUSK ?

Elephants' tusks are being auctioned in Mincing Lane, where London's biggest ivory sale for ten years started recently.

Thirty-nine tons of varying kinds of ivory-from "scrivel- Joes," the tiny milk-tusks of bably elephants used largely for white farmers flagged shaving brushes, to huge tusks were to be disposed of.

nacy again made itself felt. Her

Some ivory is classed as "hard.": request that the Selsey church

France uses only should be pulled down and rebuilt some as "soft"

miles nearer her home had to hard ivory, but owing to the exchange Lwo

rate is buying very little in Britain. be carried out, Luckily; other means were found to restore the chancel of the abandoned

freight train near Paint The purchase of ivory is. even to Rock, Ala., and seized nine an expert, largely a matter of guess Negroes who were "hobo- work."

One buyer said to a News Chronicle ing" a ride. reporter:

"You can never tell

parently is his chief chance of leav ing this prison cell.

HELD IN BIRMINGHAM, JAIL Clarence Norris, Andy Wright and Charlie Weems, all convicted anew at the July trials, are held in jails at Birmingham and Montgomery await- ing disposition of new appeals be- fore the state Supreme Court. Ap- designed to peals to the state high tribunal were path to the US Supreme Court

to be the first steps in a new

Norris is under death sentence. term and Wright faces a 99-year Weems one of 75 years.

Elsted church, and it's still used as Europe; the bulk of it to Antwerp indications on the outside, ruc; but/ Violence, rescued the nine from Samuel Leibowitz, New York attor-j

a chapel.

But as the trees grew higher and the undergrowth thicker round St. Mary of Treyford, this sister church

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The Scottsboro defence, headed by ney, entered a new phase last week with the appeal move,"

GRAVES' ATTITUDE NOT

The bulk of Indian ivory goes to what a tusk is like until you have Sheriff's deputies, fearing mob Japan. African ivory comes to it in pieces before you. There are

they can mislead terribly. The great the posse and sped them away to and London.

that the tusk be the Jackson county jail at Most of the ivory sold in London danger is

an insignificant Scottsboro, 800 to Germany for piano-keys.

northern Alabama town of few-

-Gov. Bibb Graves, whose term ex- er than 1,500 population.

pires next January, has declined to the case. The nine gave their names to the disclose his attitude on Jailer as Heywood Patterson, Clar-Throughout his administration, he ance Norris, Andy Wright, Charlie has made a strong bid for labour Weems, Ocie Powell, Olen Montgo- and other liberal elements, and some thought that he might mery, Willle Roberson, Eugene Wil-observers liams and Roy Wright. They were grant pardons to the tour Negroes as

a "curtain act" of his

term, accused of raping two white women

He is not seeking re-election. aboard the moving freight, train.

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TWO WOMEN THEIR ACCUSERS was reported to be negotiating with Price and several attorneys to all the vacancy The women-Victoria Ruby Bates-fold officers the Ne-created in the Negroes' counse: creat- groes threatened them with a knited by the resignation of Clarence and forced their male companions to Watts of Huntsville. Watts quit the case last summer after a disagree- from the

June white boys had notified aument with other members of the legal

The

thorities to stop the train, and the staff.

posse was formed quickly.

The affair attracted

jerest in Birmingham. Newspaper Woman Who

that afternoon used the story under subordinate.

pages.

headlines ог inside

To-day, the word Scottsboro has become the battle cry of liberal! groups.

NEW LITIGATION OPENS

The internationally famous cases entered their eighth year of involved litigation in state and Federal courts."

Four of the original nine defen- dants are free under

a compromise reached at the last series of trials al Decatur, Ala., in July, 1937.

Talked-

And Talked

-BY A JUDGE

MR. Justice Hawke, spoke MR.

in light vein, at a Ladies' Night dinner at London Press Club last month.

I am a great believer in the

One Ocie Powellis serving B 20-year sentence at Atmore state Press. What would the future prison for stabbing a deputy during history of the present judiciary an escape attempt. He was wound-be if it were not for the Press?

How would the future know that I did not know what a "hang-over" was if I were not for the Press?

ed by another officer in the break, but recovered. He was reported seriously ill recently, but prison_at- taches sald he is able to be up. The Scottsboro defence is reported to

An old woman who lived in Wade- have "washed its hands" of Powell, bridge, Cornwall, was a confirmed and perhaps his only hope for free taliser. dom is a parole.

On the death of her husband, a Haywood Patterson, central defen- friend of mine went to the house to dant, who has been tried and con- sympathise with the relatives, and victed four times by a jury, has lost asked the daughter what were her what apparently was his last appeal father's last words.

to the United States Supeme Court

"He didn't have any last words, and faces a 75-year prison sentence. mister," she replied. "mother Gubernatorial clemency also ap- with him right to the end.”

was

Countess Died Because Her

Hair Was Long

THE story of a countess who, although wealthy, lived alone and feared intruders so much that she kept a revolver and always had the door of her flat secured by a stout chain, was told at a Brighton inquest recently.

later.

Very few people, and never, She was severely burnt about the any woman, were allowed' in the face and head, and died a week flat in Montpelier Crescent,

The verdict, was "Death by mis- Despite her 84 years, Mme. de adventure." Parravicini retained traces" of great)

beauty, and went about the flat with Bowler Hits 300 Twice

her hair hanging almost to her waist:)

It was her beautiful hair, coupled

with the fact that she chose to cook

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Two 300-pin games

a meal over a gas ring at three within a week by Tony Mack, New- o'clock in the morning, that led to burgh bowler. At the same time, he her death:

scored high totals of 843 and 770 for three-game series. He failed to

As she bent down to pick up the qualify for national recognition, how. frying pan her hair brushed the ever, because the scores were not lighted gas and burst into flames. made in a league match.

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