Ernie wants a showdown on the beer bid .sx A PETROL pump attendant who found himself mixed up in a +21,000,000 takeover bid , said last night he was going to have a " show-down " with his managing director .sx " I want to get this mess sorted out , " said 51-year-old Ernest Clements .sx " It's ridiculous .sx " I'm mixed up in a deal involving millions- and I earn only +12 a week .sx " A few hours ago I didn't even know I was a director of this firm .sx " Mr. Clements , of Ifield Road , Fulham , is registered as a director of Anglasi Nominees , a +100 company in the City .sx After Anglasi announced a +21,000,000 takeover bid for Bent's Brewery , Liverpool , the Stock Exchange Council banned dealings in Bent's shares .sx Stepbrothers .sx Managing director of Anglasi Nominees is Mr. George Burgess .sx " Financial adviser " is Mr. Ron Foster .sx " I know them both- they're my stepbrothers , " said Mr. Clements , as he downed a double Scotch in a London pub last night .sx " But I haven't seen them for years .sx I've signed no forms , and I've never bought a share in my life .sx " I don't know what's in this .sx But I'm going to find out .sx I'm going to Burgess's office on Monday for a show-down .sx " Then Ernie Clements downed another Scotch .sx " The very idea- a brewery bid .sx I never touch beer .sx . " SACK THE MANAGER CRY FANS .sx FOUR HUNDRED angry Soccer fans chanted " Sack the manager " outside Newcastle United Football Club's ground yesterday .sx United had just been thrashed 4-0 by Everton , and now look certain to be relegated to the Football League's Division Two .sx Newcastle's manager is ex-winger Charlie Mitten .sx At half-time , with United two goals down , one disgusted fan climbed the club's flagpole and hauled the Union Jack to half mast .sx It was a riotous day for soccer .sx . HORDES of angry supporters besieged referee Mr. B. J. Matthews in his dressing room for more than half-an-hour after Hitchin Town lost 2-1 to Southall in an Athenian League game at Hitchin , Herts .sx APPLE CORES and orange peel were thrown at policemen at Arsenal's Highbury Stadium .sx HUNGER CITY CALLS MAYOR .sx MAYOR , stop your roaming .sx Come home and help your hungry citizens , instead of trying to kid the world they are NOT hungry .sx That is the call from Labour leaders in the breadline city of Toronto , to Mayor Nathan Phillips .sx Mayor Phillips , wealthy head of a law firm , is more than 4,000 miles away on a holiday tour of Europe with his wife- and issuing denials that there is hunger in his home city .sx As " The People " revealed recently , Britons going to Canada will find Toronto a city without jobs .sx A city where hungry men , women and children line up for food at charity soup kitchens .sx Mayor Phillips was challenged by a Toronto newspaper to tour the city and see the distress for himself .sx But the Mayor announced :sx " There is no " - and left for Europe .sx " I'm going to let the people of Europe know that these stories of starvation in Toronto are all wrong , " he said .sx IN DUBLIN Mayor Phillips said :sx " There may be some unemployment in Toronto- but no widespread hunger or hardship .sx " Earlier , in London , where the Mayor and his wife stayed in the West End at the expensive Westbury Hotel , he attacked the recent " People " series on the hardship a Briton met in Canada and insisted :sx " There is no starvation in Toronto .sx " And at home in Toronto last Thursday 250 of the Mayor's civic employees were laid off by the city council .sx Ten nurses flop exams- and a row blows up .sx FOR three years , a hospital trained ten student nurses .sx Then the girls took their final examinations to become State Registered Nurses .sx And then all failed .sx It was not the first time this had happened at the 134-bed General Hospital at Great Yarmouth .sx Last October , another batch of student nurses trained there failed the examinations .sx And when the latest batch of results was revealed yesterday , it started a storm at Great Yarmouth .sx An angry parent of one student nurse who failed said :sx " This hundred-per-cent .sx failure is shocking .sx " I don't see how it can be all the fault of the girls .sx " The secretary of Great Yarmouth General Hospital , Mr. John Egerton , said :sx " I cannot comment on our results in the State Registered Nurse examinations .sx " A hospital committee meeting is being called to discuss the matter .sx " The hospital is controlled by the Norwich , Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth Hospital Management Committee .sx Its matron is named in the Hospital Year Book as Miss G. Embleton .sx There are two units in the hospital- the Surgical Unit , in Great Yarmouth , and the Medical Unit at neighbouring Gorleston-on-Sea .sx The hospital is on the officially approved list of those which give complete training in nursing .sx DON'T SHOW YOUR LEGS :sx BY ORDER .sx FASHION-CONSCIOUS policewomen in Nottingham have been told by their spinster boss to stop shortening their skirts .sx The girls thought their skirts were too old fashioned so they shortened them by tucking them over at the waist .sx Then Chief Inspector Jessie Alexander found out .sx Miss Alexander , who wears a long skirt , is also angry with the tailors who supply uniforms .sx She claims that one of her policewomen , newly-wed Mrs. Sheila Williams , has been issued with a skirt that is far shorter than regulation length .sx " There has been a slip-up , " she said .sx " In fact my own new uniform was out of shape and I have sent it back .sx " Mrs. Williams said yesterday :sx " I do not think my skirt is too short .sx It is just below my knees .sx " I do not see why I should lengthen the skirt- long skirts look old fashioned- but if Miss Alexander insists , I suppose it will have to be done .sx " MALE COMMENT :sx Nottingham's Chief Constable- Mr. Thomas Moore- said :sx " There is a standard pattern for the length of policewomen's skirts , so we must follow it .sx " All worked up about statue of a worker .sx A UNION ordered a +100 statue to represent the British engineer at work .sx But when the union members saw how the statue was shaping they were FURIOUS .sx . For the statue- designed by 31-year-old sculptor John Paddison for the Amalgamated Engineering Union's Wolverhampton district committee- shows an engineer with his coat half on and half off .sx Sculptor Paddison says the engineer is taking his coat OFF- eager to get to work .sx But the Wolverhampton engineers say the man is putting his coat ON- eager to get AWAY from work .sx Coat on- or off ?sx .sx And that , they complain , creates a false impression that the British workman is interested only in dashing off as soon as the whistle blows .sx Said factory engineer John Williams :sx " It's quite obvious from the man's posture he is putting his coat on in a hurry .sx " Outsiders will get the impression engineers are only interested in getting out of the factory as soon as possible .sx " Said Mr. Paddison , of Riches Street , Wolverhampton :sx " As far as I'm concerned , the man is taking his coat off- and that's the way it's staying .sx " The 4 ft .sx high statue will be finished in six weeks and shown at the local art gallery .sx THE B-AND-B RAIDER .sx POLICE were yesterday searching for the bed-and-breakfast raider .sx After breaking into a factory at Soho Hill , Handsworth , Birmingham , he set an alarm clock belonging to one of the staff and went to sleep in the managing director's chair .sx He stole about +3 from the canteen , which he entered with the help of factory tools , and also helped himself to eggs and milk .sx Gaoled woman let out- to steal .sx A WOMAN serving a two-year sentence at Holloway was taken from the prison to a mental hospital at Friern Barnet .sx On Friday she was allowed out for four hours .sx She went to the West End and committed her 14th crime ; she stole two blouses from a store , it was said at Marlborough Street yesterday .sx The magistrate , Mr. Paul Bennett , V.C. , discharged Mrs. Kathleen Clark , of Grenville Street , King's Cross , absolutely and ordered her return to hospital .sx Bow-WOW of a party .sx FIFTY dogs will sit down to pop and buns , or biscuits , at their own garden party at Blaxton , near Doncaster , today .sx Their " guests " will be dog lovers from all over the country .sx MOTHER SOLD CHILD- FOR 28s .sx A MOTHER was arrested yesterday and charged with selling her five-year-old daughter for +1 8s .sx She is 33-year-old Mrs. Elsie Joseph , of Seattle , Washington State , whose husband , August , is wanted by the police on a similar charge .sx They have seven children .sx Seattle police say that a Mr. Wilbert Bippus , 35 , told them he and his wife had wanted to adopt a child and he offered to buy the Josephs' daughter .sx He paid +1 8s .sx and took the girl home , but his wife made him return the child .sx Banker's son Jeremy sued for debt .sx THE banking family of Lubbock has had its biggest shock since son Jeremy , fresh down from university , flouted mother when she pleaded , " Darling , DON'T become a musician .sx " Jeremy Lubbock , now 30 and a piano player in a West End night club , has not paid up a debt , it was said in the High Court .sx So a Receiving Order in Bankruptcy has been served on him- and some of Jeremy's friends are wondering :sx What would grandfather have said about that ?sx For GRANDFATHER Cecil Lubbock , 83 when he died in 1956 , was a boss of the Bank of England , 32 years a director and for two years deputy governor .sx Spurned .sx And what is FATHER saying ?sx For father Michael Lubbock , a cousin of Lord Avebury , followed the tradition that Jeremy spurned and is a director of the Bank of London and South America , and the banking firm of S. G. Warburg and Co. Pianist Jeremy himself took time off from the keys to tell what HE thinks about it .sx " It's most unfortunate , " he said .sx But is the banker's son ( family motto " The Author Makes the " ) likely to be made a bankrupt ?sx " No , I can promise you there is no prospect of that , " said Jeremy .sx " My assets exceed my liabilities .sx Everything is being ironed out .sx I have the money although I am disputing the debt .sx " " You know , " he said , " I'm no dabbler at music .sx It is my career .sx " BISHOP ASKS COUPLE TO FORGIVE PARSON .sx THE Bishop of Coventry is to ask a vicar why he did not marry two teenage parishioners .sx " I shall go into this matter very fully , " said the Bishop , Dr. Cuthbert Bardesley .sx The vicar is the Rev. Eric Jarvis , of the Warwickshire village of Ansley , who was to have married 19-year-old Barry Wright and Margaret Wilson , 18 , at St. Thomas's Church , Coventry .sx But five days before Mr. Jarvis told the couple he would not marry them unless he was ordered to by his Bishop .sx As a result , Barry and Margaret got married at another church , after a delay of eight days .sx Barry's mother protested to the Bishop .sx He has written back saying he is glad the marriage did take place , and adding :sx - " I hope that now you and your son and daughter-in-law will forgive and forget , and that you will urge the young couple to receive all the help they can through prayer and worship .sx " Last night Barry , of Birmingham Road , Ansley , said :sx " From the first time we met the vicar he seemed to have something against us .sx " He was particularly interested in finding out why we weren't having a white wedding .sx At the wedding rehearsal the vicar told us he would write to the Bishop and tell him that he had two non-active Christians in the parish .sx " He said that if he were told to marry us he would resign .sx " Margaret was terribly upset , " added Barry .sx " I went back and told the vicar that we would be married in another church .sx There was nothing else I could do- it might have meant his resignation otherwise .sx " At Ansley vicarage , Mr. Jarvis said :sx " The decision to go elsewhere was theirs .sx " But I did tell them that in a certain set of circumstances I would write to the Bishop and if he told me to marry them I would have to consider resigning .sx "