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MR. CHAMBERLAIN surrounded by Cabinet Ministers, who, in the words of Mr. Ernest Brown, had decided, between themselves, to go to Heston Airport “to give Neville a pleasant surprise" before he left for Munich. Several Dominion High Commissioners were also there to see him off,
TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1998.
Woman Denies Lucky Salt Trick RINGS IN A STOCKING
Fortune-telling, getting possession of "two rings tied up in a silk stocking with a pinch of salt" for luck, and talking of "personal electricity in jewellery" these were some of the allegations made at Gosport recently against Mrs. Bessie Burch, who was committed for trial.
20,000 WOMEN, SOME AGED
SIXTY RUSH
TO JOIN A.T.S.
BY MARY FERGUSON
TWENTY THOUSAND rund up in the uniforms they had worn
In the last war.
At the headquarters of the Longlan Scottish Territorials in Westmluster I ++ widow and hirr 26-year-old daughter golug in to join up.
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women of all ages, some were 60, went to Territorial headquarters all over Britain during the recent crisis and offered to join the Auxiliary Territorial Ser-edge of cooking and catering for vice.
The quick response of women
to the War Office announcement
of its recruiting campaign for|
"I don't know what I can do, but I wanted to come along." sald the mother. *I did think Ulint a mother with know-
family might be of some help.
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“I could keep accounts or do almost anything but drive a car."
Day Off To Join
Her daughter, pale-faced and serious,
A mother and daughter enrolling in the A.T.S. recently,
women, published in the news. held her mother's arm proudly,
"We both wanted to be in this thing Women, young and old: "We are here] papera, took officials by surprise, together.
Within a few hours the Duke of York'n Territorial Headquarters in Chelsen closed its doors while a long? queue of women still patiently waited to fill in forms.
"Do Anything"
We come Folders," she said.
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of family of
I am a trained secretary and I am a job, but I am willing to do what can in A.TE."
Tyneside, house-parlourmaid, who got Then there was Nellie Souter, fram the day off to join up.
if they want us."
It was a strange sight to see the lip- stick, curly headed, smartly turned-
oul modern girl patiently queueing up to offer herself as a Territorial Recruiting offices at all Territorial
"I can clean and cook, and if they headquarters had augmented staffs want me for tint I am wiling to go."
One woman of 60, allvery-haired, but to deal with the thousands who were! full of energy, marched up to the recruit-turned away.
"Sorry, you must all come back tong table and demanded to be enrolled. morrow," sald a young clerk who had; been taking names at the rale of thirty na tiour.
We have all we can do today with the forms already filled up."
It was an astonishing sight to see the
women arrive at the recruiting officer.
"Thero were smart women, with luxuri-
boomed at the clerk, but I am an able I may be over age, young man," she woman, Put my name down."
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'Here Again"
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Drivers Wanted
The Women's Legion Mechanical| Transport wanted experienced women! drivers to apply at Landonderry
Margaret Daintree, aged 43, of Brom-Hotis, Pork-line, W., for curalment.
our fox fura, motherly women, with shop-ley, Kent, saw service lu France as a
Women for general duties-clerks,
Beechams
Buy Eno's
Mr. Philip I put through a gigantic merger recently by ar- ranging for the purchase of the Deferred shares of
Eno Tro- prietaries by the £7,500.000 Berchams Tills combine, which he la chairman. Beechams Pills will pay a price
of
ping baskets, and with coats thrown over W.AA.C. their aprons-they had rushed out after Well, here I am again." she said cooks, ric.—could apply to 14, North-quivalent to more than £1,000,000
breakfast, and would go home to prepare with a laugh.
a mid-day meal for the children.
"I'm a bit older now, but I can stil There were emelent fooking young drive a car if they want me." women from offlers anul hops.
That was the attitude of all the
Some
Boy of.12 Picks Locks
Food Bought With Music
ruw, Park-lane.
lby handing over five Becchains Pilla Deferred shares for every eight Eno's A special appeal was made for Ordinary shures they acquire. voluntary clerical workers.
Last July the company paid more than £2,000,000 for the Ordinary shares of Macleans, manufacturers Vicious Dogs; No Mailtoupaste, Fynnau Salts and other
medicines.
Stated to have been found by a pollee officer in a field, she pleaded not guilty to stealing the rings by means of a trick, and was granted: bail.
Mrs. May Isabella Hughes, of Gos- port, said that Mrs. Burch called at her house, produced a pack of cards and told her fortune, for which she paid a shilling.
"Mrs. Burch asked for a pair of] Jugs, saying that she would have to take them away and use them with. her crystal, which was too heavy to
carry.
Three days later she returned with the Jugs and she said that she wILA unable to do anything with them. She asked to come in, as she was unable to hand them over the step,; and then inquired whether I had any Jewellery which I had handled, bel cause of the electricity."
A PINCH OF SALT
"I told her that I could not give her my wedding ring, and she replied, 'No, you are not giving it me, you are only lending it to me for a couple of days. You must-it is for your chil- ziren's sake.'
"Eventually I took two rings of. and she told me to the up the rings in silk stocking, with a pinch of salt. I did this, and she put them in her pocket."
Mrs. Hughes said that on the fol lowing day the rings were brought back by a little girl, and on Mr. Burch's behalf it
urged that WHS there was no case to answer as the rings had been returned,
LONDON A.R.P. AT HALF-STRENGTH
DETAILED SURVEY OF RECRUITING
65,000 VOLUNTEERS STILL NEEDED
After an intensive recruiting cam- pain. stinnulated by the recent erises, London Jus still little more than half the number of "volunteers needed for the Air Raid Precautions Services.
This is disclosed by a survey of recruiting throughout London, The latest available figures from the 28 Metropolitan boroughs, the City of London, and the L.C.C. amount tu
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(Her First Dance (Heykens). B8447 (Song of Paradise. (King).
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Of the total establishment, which represents minimum requirements, it BD561 can be estimated that not more than a ofth, or about 27,000,
fully Alb 313 trained; and not more than another quarter, or abinil 34,000, are now in training.
ANOTHER SIX MONTHS
At the present rate of progress, at least another six moths will be needed to chrot and train the full establishment.
Following are the latest detailed figures for all London:
Required Enrolled
4,000
3.000
Battersea
1,300
Hiermondsey
1,011
Bethnal Green
2,000
1,020
Camberwell
2,50
1,044
Chelsea
3,000
4,000
Deptford
2.000
7.300
Finsbury
1,400
430
Fulham
3,500
2,200
Greenwich
1,000
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Hackney
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5,000
3,50x1
Hampstead
2000
1,700
Holborn
3,0
3.033
Islington
6,000
22,712
Kensingtru
2,500
2,735
Lambells
5.500
2977
Lewislinin
4,000
2.010
Paddington
2,500
2,000
Paplor
2.090
1,400
St. Marylebone
3,400
2,31
St. Pancran
3,500
2,100
Shoreditch
3.000
1.300
Southwark
2,000
1,000
Stepney
4.000
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Stoke Newington
2,000
3,034
Wandsworth
12,000
0,790
Westminster
9,000
Woolwich
2,000
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3,000
Brigade
30,000
7,403
1.921
City Corporation 7,323
It will be noted that Chelsea and Kensington are the only two bor- oughs yet to have recruited above establishment, The Agures are nd- mitted, however, to be misleading, since they bear no relation to the re- quirements of the various service, and eventually will have to be dras- tically "weeded."
It is emphasised that every bor-1 ough should recruit at least 25 per cent. above establishment to ensure obtaining enough suitable volunteers) for each service.
WORST-SERVED BRANCH Relatively the worst-served branch
ARP. in London is the L.C.C. Auxiliary Fire Brigade. The Coun- ell is responsible for recruiting has still enrolled less than a quarter auxillary firemen fur all London; and of requirements. plications are now being reviewed.
Another 1,000 up- Considering the dangers of unpre- paredness disclosed during the crisis By these two denis Mr. H has be- and brought home to every member St. Cloud, Minn. Persons who insist on keeping ugly come far the dominant man in the pubile in Londen, and the patent-medicine Industry, one of the which has been proceeding since highly-organised recruiting campalan old boy here will not be allowed to
dogs here will have to go to the post-most profilable in the country, follow a vocational instinet. He was A wayinter offered to play a selec-letter carriers were bitten by dogs office to get their own mail. Three
Oct. 1, these latest recruiting figures He will control the manufacture off are disappointing to many London charged with having stolen 12 pad-tion on his violin in payment for a within a week, and postal oficials such products as Veno's Cough Cure, boroughs. looks off neighbourhood garnges, meat which Mrs. John Nitschke gave here, under which carriers may avoid Eno's Fruit Salts, Scott's Emulsion, ber of rens, the first rual of volun- "I found I could pleft locks castly,"
Invoked a ruling never before utilized Phosferine, Phylloran, Yeast-Vite. Already, it la admitted in a num- he explained, "and so I took them him. Mrs. Nitschke accepted the all homes where vicious dogs run at Thermogene, and all the products terra which followed the emergency just for fun,"
issued under the Beecham name. is falling of badly.
San Jose, Cat. Police are hoping that a 12-year-
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