South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 15 May 1943
Marconigrams
Displays in connection with third birthday celebrations of the Home Guard are being given at many Yorkshire centres on Sunday.
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Major Ian Harvey, prospective Conservative candidate for the Dearne Valley Division, addressed a meeting of the Don Valley Conservative Association at Doncaster on Saturday.
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The new food ration books, which are now about to be issued and which come into use on July 25th, will simplify transactions for both shopper and shopkeeper. They will include the personal points coupons (detachable) for chocolates and sweets, as well as ration points coupons, and yet will run to only 38 pages, as against 40 in the present books, with the personal card in addition.
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Many notable people of Allied nations will be present at the World Rover Meet-end in Sheffield from May 20th to 23rd. The chief speaker will be Prince Bernard of the Netherlands, the Royal Commissioner of the Dutch National Scout Association. Other speakers will be Sir Alfred Pickford, Chief Scout’s Commissioner of Imperial Headquarters; Monsieur Alfred Renou, International Commissioner, Federation du Scoutisme Francais; and Capitaine Edouard Mathe, Rover Commissioner for the district of Versailles.
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Mexborough district Scouts have raised £140 for the Baden Powell Memorial Fund.
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Wings for Victory Weeks (May 2nd to May 8th) in the Doncaster Rural District raised £223,595.
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The gift day at St. George’s Church, Mexborough, on Saturday realised £155 16s. 6d. The target is £1,000.
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Mr. Aaron Foers, of 141, Hough Lane, Wombwell, has grown a pink tulip with four perfect blooms on one stem. Near the base the stalk divides into four stems.
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The death occurred on Sunday of Miss Ethel Smith, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Edward Smith, of West Melton, and member of a well-known South Yorkshire business family. She was 61.
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The Prime Minister is to broadcast at nine p.m. to-day (Friday) to the nation. The broadcast will be relayed on the American on the occasion of the Home Guard third anniversary. The Prime Minister will be heard on the B.B.C.’s Home and Forces programmes.
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“A free Press has been a great asset to the nation in time of war. Every Minister curses the newspaper or another repeatedly, because they do go for us sometimes; but taking our Press as a whole, it has played the game by the national cause. It has done a jolly fine job, and I would not be without it for worlds, even in the most irritating occasions.”—Mr. Herbert Morrison, Home Secretary, speaking in London on Tuesday.
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