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SCOTTISH FOOTBALL U.S. FARM RELIEF STEAMER AND FERRY

LEAGUE

SOME UPSETS

MARKED SUCCESS OF VISITING TEAMS

QUEEN'S PARK SURPRISED

Glasgow, Yesterday. The second Saturday's games in the First Division of the Scottish League, produced a crop of sur- prises, the most noteworthy being the defeat of Queen's Park, on Hampden Park, by Cowdenbeath.

Partick Thistle, after losing the first game on their own ground to j Dundee, visited Ayr and returned with the full points.

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Washington, Yesterday. The first important advance un- der the Farm Relief Art is an- nounced, namely, a loan of $4,500,- 000 to asist the stabilization of the Californian grape and raisin indus- try. A similar sum will be raised in California-Reuter's American Service.

MR. GANDHI

SUFFERING FROM "MILD EXPERIMENT"

TAKING GOAT'S MILK

St Mirren, who could only draw the previous Saturday with

Ahmedabad, Yesterday. Queen's Park, visited Glasgow and Gandhi has adopted medical ad- beat Clyce by the odd goal in vice to take goat's milk and curd three.

following his indisposition due to to win his dietetic experiment to eat only Another visiting team

He is still suffer- away were Celtic, who got the uncooked food.

But there better of Morton (one of the new-ing from mild enteritis. comers this season) at Greenock is no cause for anxiety.--Reuter. ánly by the odd goal in three.

the Motherwell, who lost on previous Saturday on their own

RAILWAY SMASH

ground to Rangers, did well to 12 NEGROES AND TWO WHITES

effect a draw with Motherwell on the latter's ground. The same

can be said of Falkirk, who went

to Dundee and shared the points with the premier team, no goals being scored.

The Cup holders, Kilmarnock, visited Edinburgh and ran the Hearts to a draw-a good perform

ance

KILLED

TRAIN DERAILED

COLLIDE

IN NORTH SEA

SPANISH VESSEL GOES DOWN IN SIX MINUTES

TEN OF CREW RESCUED

London, Yesterday.

The Spanish steamer "Ogeno" was struck amidships by the Mid- dlesbrough ocean-going tug "King's Cross" in the North Sea and sank in six minutes. Fifteen of the Spanish crew were drowned and ten rescued from the water.

COTTON DISPUTE

THE ARBITRATION COURT NOW FORMED

MR. MACDONALD'S ADVICE

London, Saturday. The Cotton Arbitration Court will consist of Mr. Justice Swift. (Chairman). Mr. C. T. Cramp, Mr. A. G. Walkden, Sir Arthur Balfour and Sir Archibald Rose.

Mr. C. T. Cramp is Industrial General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen. Mr. A. G. Walkden is General Secretary of the Railway Clerks' Association.

Sir Archibald Ross is a well- known Newcastle shipbuilding mag- Henriette, Oklahoma, Yesterday. Twelve negroes and two white per-nate, and Sir Arthur Balfour was sons were killed in the derailment of Chairman of the Government Com- which had come mittee on Industry and Trade, ap- a passenger-train from St. Louis and was bound for San pointed in 1924. Francisco-Rester's American Service.

Home teams to win comprised ¦ *********62***@*** Airdrieonians, Hamilton Academi-

cals, and Rangers, their victims being, respectively, St. Johnston. Dundee United, and Hibernians.

Results at a Glance

Full results as cabled by Reu- ter are as under:

Aberdeen ..... 2 Motherwell Airdrieonians. 5. St. Johnston

The Chairman

A British Wireless message states that Mr. Justice Rigby Swift is himself a Lancashire mon, an intimate knowledge of the cotton industry.

The Prime Minister, in his mes- sage; expressed the hope that the jarbitration award will be given without undue delay, and will be loyally accepted by both sides. He adds: "The inquiry into the cot ton industry which the Government has just set up must now be push-

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Degrees

Temperature, 10 am,, to-

day

79 Temperature, 4. p.m.,

yesterday

82 Humidity, 10 a.m., iG-

day

91

Humidity, 4 p.m., yes.

terday

84

1.

SHVOK DAM

0

BIG DISASTER IN KASHMIR MOUNTAINS

P. W. D. L. F. A. Pts. Rangers 2 2 0 0 Cowdenbeath 2 200 4

2 0 0 4 2 4

1 1 0 4 1

5

INDUS VALLEY FLOODED .

1

Simla, Saturday.

1 0 2 0

3

2

Ayr United 2 Patrick Thistle

1 St. Mirren Clyde Dundee

0 Falkirk Hamilton A... 5 Dundee United Hearts .... 1 Kilmarnock Morton

1 Celtic Queen's Park. 1 Cowdenbeath Rangers

9 Hibernians League Table

Goals.

Celtic Kilmarnock Dandee Falkirk

St. Mirren Airdrieonians

Ayr United Hibernian Partick T Hamilton A.

Aberdeen

Clyde

Queen's Park

Hearts

Motherwell

Dundee U.

0

Mortor.

St. Johnston 2

0 0

YACHTING

0

GERMAN WIN PRESIDENT

HOOVER CUP.

GIRL'S FEAT IN FINAL

Marblehead (Massachusetts),

Yesterday. Germany won the series of yacht races for the President Hoover cop by 67 to 48 points.

An 18-year-old girl, Miss Elizabeth Tovey, in the Oriole, won the final race, the Germans being second, third, and fourth---Reuter's American Service.

KOREA'S GOVERNOR

Tokyo, Yesterday. Viscount Saite has been appointed Governor-General of Korea in suces sion to General Yamanashi.--Reuter.

courge

that the temporary accommodation which will follow arbitration may be adjusted as an opportunity for both sides, and all sections in com- mon, to meet together to face the facts and to overcome them."

Prime Minister's Message The Prime Minister, in a measage to the Press with regard to the

The huge Shyok dam in the Lancashire cotton settlement, saya

Lancashire Kashmir mountains, near the con-that

must put fluence of the Shvok River and the its house in erder. The

industry requires upper

of the Indus, has cotton burst.

active co-operative organisation and An immense volume of water is certain sections of the industry more in re- racing down the valley, sweeping must not be worked away trees and buildings.

straint of than in the promotion of trade, as apparently had been the

A similar disaster was threaten ed last August......

case.

Mr. MacDonald believes that!

All precautionary measures are with a long and a strong pull all being taken to warn the population together the Lancashire cotton

MR. J. H. THOMAS

of the Indus Valley, and to supply industry can be made to flourish.-- them with means of transport. Reuter." Aeroplanes are patrolling the area likely to be affected by the flood, to give warning of its progress.

All local means of transport is being commandeered, and rushed is being commandeered, and rushed to the zones likely to suffer the most. -Reuter.

Evacuating Attack

Simla, Yesterday. The Shvok floods have reached Attock, which is being evacuated. The river has risen 16 feet above the present level and is just below the highest rise recorded in 1882. Reuter.

Official Statement

Simla, Yesterday. The Deputy Commissioner at At took has wired to the Punjab Gov- ernment that the low lying villages have been all safely evacuated, and

The river has fallen at Bunj!

INTERVIEWED ON ARRIVAL AT OTTAWA

WORLD-WIDE PEACE

Ottawa, Yesterday. Mr. J. H. Thomas to-day arrived at the Government House.

In an

Interview referring to the coming Disarmament Conference in Washington, he said that the British Labour Party desired to set an example of peace for the whole world, but would not sacrifice the interests of the United Kingdom--Reuter.

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