YESTERDAYS 1945
Cpl Chapman rode on the running board and was cheered to the square, where he was given a civic welcome by the chairman of the Gelligaer Urban Council, County Coun WH Lee.
Mr Ness Edwards said Cpl Chapman was the Rhymney Valley’s first VC and the first South Wales miner to win the VC in this war.
“One has only to read the description of the incident in the official record to realise,” said Mr Edwards, “The high degree of courage that was necessary to earn this outstanding distinction.”
Cpl Chapman said to the large crowd: “I would like to thank you for the surprise you have given me.” MANY Cardiff housewives who went to buy meat on Saturday returned home empty-handed because the meat offered for sale was unfit for eating.
Mr W Strong, president of the Incorporated Cardiff and District Meat Traders’ Association, said a heavy consignment of Irish beef came in on Monday. It was in poor condition when delivered owing partly to the sultry weather and delay in handling.
Most housewives are in the habit of buying only small pieces of meat early in the week, such as chops or stewing steak, and saving up the greater part of their rations for the weekend.
Canton butchers refused to take the beef, but as it was a choice of that or nothing, accepted it later.
One butcher in Cathays described the meat as “stinking”.
A Roath park butcher said the reason for the beef being in such bad condition was that it travelled in unrefrigerated vans from Pembroke or Milford Haven. AN allegation that the same department of Cardiff City Corporation that had summoned him for employing a boy under the age of 12 to deliver newspapers, had permitted boys to be employed on farms, was made by a Cardiff newsagent at the Cardiff Stipendiary Magistrate’s Court, today.
The defendant, of St Fagans Road, Cardiff, pleaded guilty to employing a boy of 11. He alleged that the education department allowed boys to work on farms during school hours, but at the same time prevented him from employing boys after school hours. THE story of a simple action by a dog which led to the tragic death of his invalid master was told at an inquest in Cardiff on Monday on Thomas Walter Perkins, aged 67, of Balaclava Road, Cardiff.
Perkins, it was stated, was walking with his dog on a lead when the animal jumped at another dog.
The lead jerked and he was thrown to the ground, sustaining injuries from which he later died.
The coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death. PATIENTS at the Ministry of Pensions hospital at Rookwood, near Cardiff, above, will soon be doing physical exercises by wireless. As in other hospitals, each bed is fitted up with a set of headphones, controlled by a master radio.
Now in addition to the BBC programmes, bed-ridden patients will be able to do simple exercises on instructions given over the microphone by their gym instructor. Medical officers will be in the wards at the time to see how the patients react. FINGERPRINT impressions on chocolate were stated to have been found by Scotland Yard experts, according to evidence given at Aberdare in the case in which three youths were committed for trial.
The accused were charged with breaking and entering the Aberdare Co-operative bakery last October with intent to commit a felony.