1939-06-24 — Page 11

"I AM POISONED"

Girl's Cry From-

'Phone Kiosk

A telephone operator at Rodney exchange took a call from a public kiosk in Camberwell-grove, London, and heard a girl say, "I am poison- ed." He signalled another operator to notify Scotland Yard,

A radio cal was sent to . wireless. equipped police car patrolling Cam- berwell, and within three minutes it arrived at the telephone box.

Miss Doris Tubb, 17, of Little- wood, Lewisham, was found in 2 state of collapse and was taken to Lewisham hospital. Doctors, formed the opinion she was suffering from large overdose of aspirin. After treatment she was reported to be out of danger.

Mrs. Blakesley, of Marischall-road,

BELGIANS TO STUDY BRITISH A.R.P.

The Belgian Minister of Nation- al Defence, Lt.-Gen. Denis, told the Chamber that he would send a mission to Great Britain to study the system adopted there for safeguarding the population against air raids ́

He favoured the provision of shelters of corrugated iron in the gardens of private houses as in London.

Lee, E.E., said "Doris, a friend `of my daughter, came to stay with us a fortnight ago, Last week she told us that she had quarrelled with a young man, and that she would not see him again. She did not seem un- duly upset,

NEW EARL WAS LABOURER AT 45s. WEEKLY WAGE

A man who in 1034 worked as a ja niece of the late Lord Hallibur- builder's labourer for 458. a week ton, that led to his reconciliation has succeeded his father as Earl of with his father. Mayo.

"Lord Mayo feels his loss keen- The eighth earl, whose death atly, but I was able to point out to his Maidenhead "home was an-him that the blow was not so hard nounced recently, was a civil en because he and his father had been gineer who worked on the construc- closer friends in recent months tion of the Forth Bridge.

than for some years," the new Differences developed between Countess of Mayo said. him and his eldest son, Lord Naas, and "to preserve his independence," Lord Naas took the labourer's job

Earlier Lord 'Naas had worked on a coffee plantation in Kenya, served in the King's African Rifles, and, in 1925, been foreman in a road construction job.

"When; two years; ago, I married Lord Naas the earl was most charm- ing and I was able to bring him and my husband together.

"My husband was down at the Maidenhead house for several days before his father's death."

Lord Mayo, who is 45, was educat- It was his marriage two years ago ed at Uppingham. Before his mar- to Miss Noel Halliburton Wilson,riage he went into films,

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