1938-10-28 — Page 19

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH,

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1088.

RECTOR'S 'HIDDEN' BRIDE

GIVES A PARTY

Mr. and Mrs. G. P. de Marila arriving at St. Mary's School, Kow- foon, on Wednesday afternoon, for the annual prize-giving. — Staff Photographer.

Green Scarf Examined By Accused Man

Several witnesses called for the defence in the green| scarf murder trial at the Old Bailey recently said that they saw the victim, Phyllis May Spiers, after May 23, the date on which the prosecution suggested she was killed.

Villagers Take

Cakes,

Wine in Perambulator

MARKET HARBOROUGH.

THE Rev. Algernon Mills, forty eight-year-old rector of Oxenden, pretty little Northants border village four miles from Market Harborough, walked through the village street recently with his twenty- eight-year-old bride, former corset factory office worker, whom he married in secret a fortnight before.

Fear that the villagers would stare at her caused Mrs. Mills to stay away from the village at first. She has lived ever since her wedding in the village of Alwalton, near Peterborough, where the wedding took place. Her husband takes services at the: church in this village.

Some of the villagers in Oxenden,;

a hamlet of not more than 200 people, seemed hurt that the rector

hud not married in his own 500-year Vicar Bans Gipsy

old church where he has offlctated for the past six years.

Members of the boys' club had plunned to "abduct" the rector's bride and bring her home to Oxen- den during the week-end.

But they were forestalled by the rector's house- Mrs. Tolt, keeper, and her husband, who drove out to Alwalton in the rector's car and brought the bride home to the rectory about eleven o'clock. The rector was awakened from his sleep by the barking of his dogs.

Mrs. Mills, who before her mar- riage was Miss Isabel Grubb, went to the two services at the parish church which her husband held last Sun- day, walked openly through the vil- lage without any one staring at her.

Said the rector: "I married at Alwalton because I did not want any fuss or publicity over my wife wedding. and when my thought that the people would sture at her we both considered it best for her to stay in Atwalion

Wedding Dress

Nancy Scales, twenty-one- year-old gipsy violinist in n gipsy band playing at Mine- head, Somerset, wanted a gipsy wedding recently when she was

10 Arthur Smith. married baritone singer and playboy, of the band.

The vicur of Minehead would

not allow the band to wear their Hipsy costumes in the parish church, so Nancy and Arthur were married In ordinary clothes.

Later a gipsy wedding was held on Minehead sca front, bride and bridegroom and all the members of the band wore costumes-and Nancy Kipsy went through the usual #tipsy ceremonies, including jumping

the broomstick,

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RADIO BROADCAST

Piano Recital by Nura Kanis from Studio

BIZET SYMPHONY

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z. B. W. on a Frequency of 845 k.e's. and on Short Wave from 6-11 p.m. on 0.53 m.c's. per second.

.6.00 Relay of the Danco Orchestra from the Roof Garden of the Hour- kong Hotel.

(a) Loving yout; (b) Sensation; (c) I hit a new high; (d) Swingtime In the Rockles.

0.14 Record: Moonbeams Dance (Gibbons); Bubbling Over (Gibbons)

...Carroll Gibbons (Piano).

0,21 (0) A gypsy told me; (b) Sweethearts forever; (e) This time It's real; (d) Lullaby In Rhythm.

4.35 Record: Tony (Oakley); White Rose (Oakley)....Olly Onkley (Bunjo) with Piano: The Dove (Yradler)....Horst Schimmelpfennig (Organ).

0,44 (c) Please bo kind; (b) Lady sweet

be good; (c) Good-night

dreams; (d) East-side Kick.

7.00 Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions.

***

7.02 Negro 8pirituals. Just Keepin' On (Phillips) Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone) with Orchestra; Little Wheel A-Turnin' In A-Inchin Along My Heart; Keep (arr. Edna Thomas)....Edna Thomas (Soprano) with Piano; I Stood On De Rubber; Peter, Go Ring Dem Bells (arr. Burleigh); Go Down, Moses (Burleigh)....Paul Robeson (Bass) with Piano accomp. by Brown.

Lawrence

with 7.15

Programme Varicly Frank Crumit, Stanley Holloway, and The Flu Frances Langford

rilles.

You.

Dance Orchestra: Thank Mister Bach--Fox-Trot (from Four Studies In

Song Dance Musle'); Without Words---Fox-Trot (from Four Studies In Dance Musle')... The B. B. C. Dance Orchestra direct- All ed by Henry Hall; Vocal-After These Years (Gilbert-Nicholls).... Master Alfred Conn accompanied by Chas, Smart at the Organ; Humorous The Three Trees (McNaughton); No News....Frank Crumit; Vocal and Instrumental--Yodelling Hobo (Ted and Ezra); The Sunset Trail (Kennedy and Carr)....The Hil

Their Own Novelty Accomp.; Vocal-Is It Truc What They Say About Dixie?

(Caesar Lerner, Marks): Melody From The Sky (lm The trail of the Lonesome Pine). Frances Langford with Victor Young and His Orchestra; Dance Orchestra-Responso Malevo ..Juan Tango; Re-Fa-Si-Tango

Orquesta De Dios Filiberto y su

quen Portens; Humorous Mo

Monologue The Lion and Albert'

with a relative for a time, That STUDENTS STUDY Billies with

was my only object."

Mr. Mills and his bride had known each other about a year before the William Whiting, the 38-year-old Folkestone

wedding. Mrs. Mills was a promi- labourer who is charged with her murder, said that he nent member of a young people's club which used to visit the rectory had never been to the thicket where the body was dis-occasionally during the week. She athletle girl, dork-com- is an covered.

plexioned, with black hair which she is now letting grow because some of

"I am quite happy here now," sold Mrs. Mills, "and I must say all the villagers I have met have been nost kind to me..

Mrs. Spiers was found on May 26 with a green scarf around her neck.

The trial was adjourned when the judge will sum up.

In evidence, Whiting had denied { greaseproot paper. Phyllis WILS that he mudered Mrs. Splers.

wearing n green scarf.

He had given her a green scarf on May 20, he said, but she was not wearing! It when he went for a walk with her on May 23.

She left him and that was the last he saw of her. He returned to the box for cross-examination.

NOT FRAYED

Mr. Oliver: Have you imagined thei een scarf?-No,

Mra. Wright, recalled, said she bought some te paper on May 23 and Miss Miller served her. Phyllis Spiers was with her.

ON THE PILLION Lucy Georgina Godden, Folke At the request of Mr. Roland stone waitress, said she saw Phyllis Oliver, K.C., prosecuting, Whiting ex-Spiers on May 25 on the pillion of a amined the green scarf closely, and

motor-cycle, Sho was wearing o said it was not frayed when he gave green scarf. It to Mrs. Splers on May 20.

Replying to Mr. Justice Wrottesley, she said it was not the green scarf produced in the case that she had seen Phyills wearing, but a scarf of a

Mrs. Spiera was not wearing the bearf on May 23. He did not notice whether she was wearing a scart or not. He had never been to the thie-lighter colour. ket where the body was found.

· CITY PLANNING

FROM THE AIR

CHICAGO,

the villagers critlefsed her Eton crup: a class of city planning which went Holloway with gor)....Stanley

of

Mr. Mills is thinking of leaving Oxenden. He wants a slum parish,

the East End preferably in London.

"My wedding has nothing what ever to do with my decision to leave Oxenden," he said. "I had made up my mind long ago to shift as soon as I got a suitable parish..

Chicago has a "flying classroom." Professor W. L. Balley, of North- western University, is the mentor of

aboard a commercial air liner for a view of acctions of this city.

Professor Bailey's class recently completed a series of 40-minute study Alghts.

"It really is Impossible to observe so extensive a metropolitan region in any other way," he says.

The professor has become noted as an advomic of the study of cities from the ale.

of

nt

Charles the Pinna; Vocal and Instrumental- Pop-Eyed Pete (Kennedy and Carr): Little Mountain Cabla (Kennedy and Carr)......

The Hill Billies Novelty Accompaniment.

8.00 Time, Weather and Announce ments.

with

8.03 Blet-Symphony No. 1 in C Major.

London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Walter Gochr. 8.35 Studio-Nam Kanis

Plano,

as the

Chicago pioneered the extensive and horizontial city

modern times," he says. "It has since been

1. From Bach's "First Partlia": (a) Prelude; (b) Allemande; (c) "I know I am forty-eight, but excelled by Los Angeles, which is a

Courante; (d) Gigue; 2. Capriccio, I don't feel it. I am a strong, dozen times more spacious.

The very high

2 (Brahms); 3. Inter- Op. 70, No. proportion active man and really there is not enough work for me in this vil-Chicago's areas in streets and vacant mezzo, Op. 117, No. 2 (Brahms).

9.00 London Relay "Food" for lage. Besides, I have an urge to yards, greater than in any elly in Thought"," work among young people and the world, is noticeable from the air. belleve a clum parish would give It marks Chicago as ultraspacious if me scope."

not orderly."

Between twenty and thirty vil- lagers turned up at the rectory to celebrate the rector's wedding and welcome home his bride among them. They brought with them a ten service, a breakfast service, a

"Eye" Baby Ill

Three short talks on matters of topical interest.

920 Concert Walties.

Volets Of Spring (Strauss) Czardas: (Grossmann, arr. Katelby)....Ferdy Kauffman and His Orchestra.

0.30 London Belay-The News. 0.50 Songs by Derek Oldham

(Tenor)

After an adjournment, Mr. Justice Whiting denied that he said to a Wrottesley sald he had received Mrs. Thompson: "If you don't keep note from the jury. your mouth shut, I'll put you on the "If I thought it possible to do spot," or that he had said to the what is asked in accordance with landlord of a publle

New York. served ones, "I'll serve the administration of justice in this you as

Helaine Colanthe Chicago baby Asked about his statement to them but it is quite impossible, and biscuit barrel, a cake stand, and whose left eye was removed in May

the judge sald, "I would

other things as wedding gifts. police, he said the police wrote down that being so I can only say no." things which he did not my.

They trundled a perambulator to save her from death-is once more The contents of the note were not

through the village to the rectory seriously ill. made public.

An emergency operation has been Mr. St. John

Alled with sandwiches, cakes and Hutchinson. K.C.,

home-made wine for the party. performed on her at a Chicago addressing the jury for the defence,

Some of the submitted that if they did not think

villagers made hospital for an abdominal complaint, Henry Allen, a Folkestone labourer, that the prosecution had proved that speeches welcoming the bride home, and doctors are hopeful that she will said he saw her at 9.30 p.m. in Mar-Mrs. Spiers was killed on May 23, most of them had known her for a recover.

Helaine who is now six months old, garet Street, Folkestone, on May 24, they could not convict Whiting. year or more. They also song songs.

from ¿loma, a cancerous sullored She was smoking a cigarette.

Hilda Miller, assistant at a Folke that the witnesses for the defence As bride and bridegroom, with growth of the eyes, and it threatened in his productions, will be inter- with a woman to the shop on May May 23 were genuinely mistaken as village, they met Mrs. Reynolds, a and killing her. After stone shop, said Phyllis Spiers came who said they saw Mrs. Splers after their two dogs, strolled through the to spread to her brain, paralysing viewed by Dudley Glass. Presented

bought some to the dale.

A number of witnesses called for the defence sald they saw Mrs. Spiers after May 23, the day the prosecution suggested she was murdered.

25, and the woman

Mr. Oliver, replying, suggested

(Continued on Next Column.)

An Admiral Joins Expeditionary Force for £3 15s. a Week

arcas

Green, from

του Will Remember Vienna (Ham- merstein and Romberg)...with Or- chestra; Under The Lilac Bough (Lilac Time-Ross-Clutam)..with Orchestra and Male Chorus; One Day (Hans May)....with Orchestra.

10.00 London Relay---"Mien Who Make The Shows'.

Archio Pitt, who for many years had Gracle Fields as his leading lady

a jury of by F, H. C. Piffard. doctors and clergymen had decided that an operation should be per- formed, her left eye was removed in May and her right eye was saved.

grandmother. Mrs. Reynolds shook hands with the rector's bride, called her "dear," sald heartily, "Wasn't it a lovely party last night, my dear." Mrs. Moore, wire of the village milk roundsmon, was another vil- expanded lager who greeted the rector and his

bride affectionately.

10.20 Dance Music. Fox-Trots-Please Remember; On Linger Longer Island........Jack Harris and His Orchestra: Targo-Carino) Gaucho; Milongulla .....Orquesta Tipica Francisco Conaro with vocal (Continued on Page 4.)

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QUICK CONVALESCENCE AFTER FEVERS Doctors will tell you that once your temperature falls It's all-important to rebuild your wasted nerve and muscle tisauca.

by motor-cooch to round walɛts that have Recently men worked to prepare 1 being taken Olympia for the 1,200 British Legion Lambeth-roud to collect the police considerably since they were last on

which active service. volunteers, who are now entering greatcoats and peaked caps

"I think she's a very nice girl one end of the hall an civillans and complete their uniform.

A number of them can speak

indeed," said Mrs. Moore alluding leaving at the other equipped ** One man, Mr. G.

German and Д Icwy Czechos to Mrs. Mills, "and I can't under- of Nuneaton, said: "I caught an curly Slovakian. They speak English with police for the plebiselle

After the fever has gone, when stand anybody who would object Czecho-Slovakia,

train to-day to London. My wife

to her as the rector's wife. She the stomach is too weak to digest They will be billeted at Olympla and I were up late last night getting every sort of accent, from Cornish

is such a jolly sort of girl."

ordinary foods, a nourishing and until they leave for duly,

ready. I am very grateful to her to Cockney, Lancashire to Highland. They are shouldering their palliasses

Mrs. Moore described the rector appetising food drink is most essen“. At the entrance the men are given for letting me go."

on their armlets, tuck-Ps "a grand type of man,"

tial and beneficial, ing their stout ash sticks under Some of the villagers sold that if

down the tables pleking up dark blue himself, except that he is 40 and he their identification cards and pass Nothing more would he say about tieing kit bags, water botiles, khaki haver- joined up in 1970. sacks, strong leather belts, blue and | gold British Legion ties and armlets, me down as an ex-Serviceman," they knives and folks, towels and stout any. It doesn't matter about the nah walking sileks,

name,"

their arms, and they are ready to the rector persisted in his decision They are all like that. "Just put Ko-Britain's strangest expeditionary to leave Oxenden they would potion easily digested, but also stimulates

the bishop to keep him in the village

Then they collect their uniforms--- MINERS AND BARRISTERS dark blue serge civilian sults and They have come from every sort of pale blue shirts.

Job-nilners, barristers, professional One corner of the hall is filled with |inen, labourers. straw which is being stuffed into the One who is going out to serve ar regulation pallasses

which the an ordinary policeman is an admital, volunteers

are carrying to the floors but nothing will induce him to give above.

at blankets

Some have come from no await his name, them there and notice boards indicate jobs at all, and the civilian suits where the contingents from the they are discarding for their uniforms various parts of the country will are shabby and carefully mended, sleep on the floor,

They will all, get £3 15%. a' week. After they have been fully fitted They are Joking ruefully as they out here at Olympia the men are buckle the largest-alze leather belts

Piles

..

force ever.

NAZIS PUT GAG ON SOLDIERS

WHO VISITED ENGLAND

The eight hundred German ex-Servicemen who visited. England recently are reported to have been placed under detention on their return to Germany to avold the spreading of reports regarding Britain's war preparations.

During their visit the men were given a Government reception at Westminster Hall and made several sightseeing fours around London.

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