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RADIO RESCUE BID IN GAS
12.15 p.m.-Short Service of Interces.
Blod.
12.30 p.m.-Half. An Hour of "swing"
Music,
Junk Man's Serenade; Ja-Da........Ovie
Alston and his Orchestra.
I Know That You Know............. Benny
Goodman Quartette:
That's My Way Of Saying I Love You; Sunset At Sea.... Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye, Back Bay Shuffle; Jungle Drums....
Artle Shaw and his Orchestra. Concerto For Cootle; Me And You................
PIT KILLS 4
GAS WHICH had collected in a deep, narrow hole behind a Newcastle street killed four people `one after another — a girl of seven who fell into the cravity, and a Boy Scout, aged 9, and two firemen Duke Ellington & his Famous arch who gave their lives trying to rescue her.
1.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Pro-
gramme Summary.
1.02 p.m.-Beniamino Gigil (Tenor) in
an Orchestral Programma.
Italian Serenade in G Major (Huge
Wolf)....Lener String Quartet,
el" - Leoncavallo)
The victims were: Irene Page; of Wansbeck Street; Ernest Smith, 9, of Breamis Street; John Tulip, 35, of St. Ann's-row; end George
On With The Motley (from "I Pagilac, Wanless, 37, of Gibson Street..
The hole, 101t, deep and only
Beniamino
Gigli & Members of La Scala Orth.
Pavane For A Dead Princess (Ravel. | 2ft. wide at the surface, was in
ESCAPED TO TEND
arr, Schmid)....Andre Kostelanetz the yard of an empty house' be- HIS WIFE
& his Orchestra. Santa Lucia, I Long For You (Mario)
....Beniamino Gigli with Örch, Ruins of Athens-Turkish March (Beethoven)....Vicuna Philharmonic
Orchestra.
Voice Of The Night (Curtis)... Beniamino Gigli with Orchestra. 1,30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press and
Announcements.
1.45 p.m.-A Hill Billy Programme.
The Billy Band (Al & Bob Har- vey)....Hill Billies with Novelty
accomp.
The Oregan Trail (Hill & de Rose);
All Set And Saddled (Tex Morton
Tex Morton (Yodeller) with his Guitar Wanderlust — Vocadance (Greiner
Moit-Gibson)....Barry Wood (Bari-1 tone) with Orchestra.
hind Irene's home. The gas was sewer gas.
Refused permission to
When 9-year-old Scout Smith leave a factory during an was told that she had fallen in Alert-he said his wife, he said: "Put a rope round me and I'll go down."
mother of six, was ill-an This was done. As he was try- anxious husband cut his
ing to help the child the boy col- lapsed.
way through a barbed Tulip, her uncle, came along wire fence.
He was lowered by a rope. Before he could do anything he, too, be- came unconscious.
"E'L
Then Wanjess arrived: go down," he said. "I have a gas mask."
The Lonesome Trail Ain't Lonesome He got hold of Smith and with Any More (Erard-Trafford): The the help of Percy Wardle hauled Strawberry Roan (Howard, Vincent him out. The effort was 100
& Fletcher)....Big Bill Campbell & his Hill Billy Band, Down The Old Road To Home (Rod- gers & Harvey)....Jimmie Rodgers (Yodler) with his Guitar. Little Mountain Cabin (Kennedy
Carr).The Hill Billies with Novelty accomp.
&
It's A Lonely Trail (When You're Travellin' All Alone-De Leath, Kenny)....Bing Crosby with Orch. 2.15 p.m.-Close down,
6.00 p.m.-Indian Programme. 6.46 p.m.~Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions.
Music
the
8.47 p.m.-Popular
from Films. "Alexander's Ragtime Band"-Selco- tion....The New Mayfair Dance Orchestra.
"Down Argentine Way"--Down. Ar- gentina Way (Gordon & Warren) .Dinah Shore (Vocal) with Orch. "Naughty Marietta"-Selection (Vic tor Herbert)....Reginald Dixun
Organ Solo). "The Road To Singapore"---Sweet Potato Piper (Monaco, Burke).... Bing Crosby (Vocal) with The Four- some aud Orchestra.
"The Road To Singapore”—The Moon And The Willow Tree.... Dorothy Lamour (Vocal) with Orchestra, "Balataika“-Selection (Posford) The New Mayfair Orchestra. "Sanders Of The River"-Külling Song (Spoliansky)....Choir & Orchestra with Mischa Spoliansky at the Plano.
"Spring Parade”—Waltzing In The Clouds (Stolz, Kahn)... Deanna Durbin (Vocal) with Orchestra. 7.20 p.m.-A Ketelbay Programme.
Royal Cavalcade-Coronation March ....The Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards.
In A Persian MarketPlano Duet
by Rawicz & Landauer,
much. Wantess collapsed,
Finally the girl and her uncle to the surface by were brought police in gas masks. All four lay unconscious.
Oxygen was used to try to re- vive them.
Fox-Trots--This Is New; Jenny (both from Lady In The Dark")... Leo Reisman & his Orchestra.
"Cuban Rumba-Caramba (from
Sulte"): Pasadoble - Alfonso ... Tejada & his Orchestra,
He returned when the All Clear went. But he was not allowed to re-enter, it was stated at Gowerton, Glam.
The man, Edwin John Gwyther, of Kingsbridge, near Gowerton, was summoned for causing mali- cious damage to a fence.
Gwyther, it was alleged, said he could be more useful at home than in a works shelter, and that he was not In a concentration camp or a prison.
women,
On his behalf, it was submitted had the common that Gwyther law right of all free men and
The case
for was adjourned three weeks so that the prosecu- |tion could state under what orders works are fenced and answer the magistrates' question:
Have employers the right to confine men in works during
Fox-Trots-I Concentrate On You: Alerts?
I've Got My Eyes On You (both from film "Broadway Melody of 1940)....Les Brown & his Orch. Tango Medley-Intro: Rosita (Du Pont); Jealousy (Gade); Julian (Donato), Waltz Medley-Intro: Always; All Alone; What'll I Do (Berlin)....Joe Loss & his Band. Quick-Step --- Rhumboogie
Lew Stone & his Band.
11.00 p.m.---London- Rotary Special Feature Programme in honour of the Birthday of Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, 11.30 p.m.-Dance Music.......
The Clock And The Dresden China | 12
Figures. Freddy Kaufman & his Orchestra,
Algerian Scene....Albert
(Violin) with Piano.
Sandler
The Sacred Hour....The London Pal-
Indium Orchestra.
7.40 p.m.-Piano and Violin Recital by
Lili. Kraus and Efrem Zimbalist. Romance in G (Beethoven).... Efrem Zimbalist (Violin) & Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra.
Valses Nobles, Op. 71 (Schubert)....
Lili Kraus (Piano Solo),
8.00 p.m.-London Relay The News.
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mentary.
8.25 p.m.-London Relay -- “Listening
Post". Examination of Points
Dally German Propaganda,
6.30 p.m.-London — "Calling
Forces In The Far East".
In
British
Pro-
0.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal,
gramme Summary and Announce- ments.
9.02 p.m.-Studio-Recital by Gaston d'Aquino (Tenor), Y. K. Szo (Bass) and E. O'Neil Shaw (Piano).
1. (a) E. Lucevan Le Stelle ("La Tosca"-Puccini); (b) Preghiera (Tosti); (c) Pordutamente (Tosti); (d) La Mia Canzone (Tasti) .... Guston d'Aquino (Tenor) with Piano accomp.
~2. Quand B Prout (PouishiNGINE,
O'Neil Shaw (Piano).
3. (a) Verrath (Treachery) (Brahms);
(b) Plaisir d'Amour '(Martini); (c); Song Of The Fico (Goethe's "Faust") (Moussorgsky)....Y, K. Sze (Boss) with Plano, (a) Secondate Aurette Amiche (Cosi far Tutte), (Mozart); (b) Bolenne in Quest'ora (Forza del Destino) (Verdi)........Duets by 'Gas- ton D'Aquino-(Tenor) and Y. K. Sze (Bass) with Plano accomp... 9.43-10.00 pim--Naws · In French Com
Short Wave only): Bareb |9,40 p.m.-Alfredo and His Orchestra.. In Gypsy Land forr, Michaeloff),[ Gipsy Princess-Waltz, (Kalman).. Wedding Dance Waltz (Lincko). Magyar - Melodies (Vilmos, arr.'
Piercy),
10,00: pim-London. Rolay-The-News
and Nowo Commentary,
10.10 p.m.-Local Sports Results,
10.10 p.m.Dance Music,
Slow, Fax-Trab-Trado - Winds; Fox-|
Trot-Blueberry Hill,
& his Band,ili
Billy Cotton
Swing Fox-Trofa-Dusk; Blue · Goost. Duka, Ellington & his Famous Orchestra.
BERNHARD'S NARROW
ESCAPE
ACCORDING TO ANETA RE- PORTS FROM AMERICA, PRINCE BERNHARD, SHORTLY BEFORE HIS TRIP TO CANADA. WAS PILOTING AN UNARMED AIRCRAFT WHEN A SQUADRON Slow Fox-Trot-You're Breaking My |OF GERMAN BOMBERS AP- Heart All Over Again; Fox-Trot-PEARED ON THE SCENE, AND Follow Your Shadow. The New STARTED GIVING CHASE. Mayfair Dance Orchestra. Tangos-Tuguman: El Pillin....Juan D'Artenzo Y Su Orquesta Tipica. Fox-Trots Remember September: Devil May Care........Mantovani & his Orchestra. Fox-Trot-in A Moonboat; Waltz-I'll Always Love You....Sydney Lipton & his Grosvenor House Dance Orch, Fox-Trot-Goodnight Again....Billy
Cotton & his Band. midnight.-Close down.
and By manoeuvring
diving quickly the Prince managed to land in an open field, and took cover beneath the trees to avoid the inevitable ground straffing or bombing.
Fortunately the Germans did not realise the importance of their
continued prey and
tr fly on towards their destination,
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