From the Evening News,

POP singers Engelbert Humperdinck and Tom Jones are 'fairly manufactured creatures, and don't deserve the furore that attends them'.

Rudy Valee, the American singing star of the Twenties and Thirties, went on in a magazine interview in New York: 'The Humperdinck voice is pretty good, but there is a case of a crazy name, good looks and sex appeal. The same with Tom Jones. I think most of Jones' popularity is exaggerated'.

From the Evening News,

June 1, 1946

IN A broadcast today over Vatican Radio in which he declared that the 'first resolute step towards a just peace has not yet been made', the Pope spoke of the plight of prisoners of war, civilian internees, and those who had been displaced from their homes and were striving to find new homes elsewhere.

'The sacred rights of matrimony and the family,' he declared, 'are crying to heaven louder than all legal texts, and demand that at long last an end should be put to the regime of prisoner-of-war and concentration camps.'

From the Evening News,

June 1,1871

A MEETING of the Town Hall Committee was held yesterday morning, when it was resolved that the specification of the clock required for the Town Hall tower to strike on a hour bell of four tons weight, and four quarter bells be prepared, and that a copy of such specification be sent to Messrs Thwaites and Reed, of London, Mr W. Potts, of Leeds, and Messrs Cook and Co. of York, with the request that they will supply the Corporation with estimates for providing such clock. It was also resolved that tenders be procured for the clock bells for the New Town Hall, and that the contractors, Messrs Ellis and Hincliffe be required to insure the Town Hall building against fire to the amount of £16,000.

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