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"CHARLIE IS
MY DARLING"
LO N-
D O N,
Monday.
— Ten thousand cheering stu-
dents, singing . "Charlie Is My
Darling," saw Princess Eliza
beth and the Duke of Edin
burgh award first prize to a
tableau, "Our.. Charlie," at the
International Students' Union
benefit carnival in Hyde Park.
— D.M.W.C
DEATH OF ORANGE,
CONSTABLE
Harry Malcolm .Gray (36),
stationed at Millthorpe, 14 miles
from Orange, was found in
Millthorpe sports ground yes
terday with a wound in his head
and a revolver beside his body.
He died on the way to Orange
Hospital. He and his wife had
been ill for some time. Const.
Gray was transferred to Mill
thorpe from Bathurst two years
ago.
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MYSTERY k n oxville,
SOLYEJB Tennessee. —
v p0iiCe ch i e f
Joe Kimsey has found out what
has been causing a pain in his
shoulder for 20 years. An X-
ray showed a knife blade em
bedded in the bone. Many
years ago, when he was a re
cruit, a man stabbed him in the
shoulder —
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ICE, C©LD HOB ART,
WIN BATTLE Anid6-dayl;
battle against heavy pack ice
failed when lowering tempera
tures forced the French Antarc
tic exploration vessel, Comman
dant Charcot, to abandon an
attempt to reach Adelie Land.
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BOSLEE WOLLON GONG,
Bfcl.AST Monday. — A hot-
asajiiiaa water bQiler ex_
ploded this morning at the rear
of the Hotel Wollongong, hurl
ing bricks and sheets of roofing
iron hundreds of feet. No one
was hurt.
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DEATH ©F towns-
PI©NEER v I L L E,
7 M o n d a y —
Mr. Charles Wallace Words
worth, one of North .Queens
land's pioneer settlers and best-
known public men, died yester
day at his home in Manton,
where he had lived for 62
years. Mrs. W. C. Pepper and
Misses Edith and Evelyn
Wordsworth, daughters, live in
Sydney.
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CRUISER SH A N G H A I,
"SUMK" Monday. — A
Chinese Navy-
spokesman says Nationalist
bombers sank the 5270-ton
cruiser Chungking off I-Iulato
(Manchuria) after they hit her
with three 10001b bombs. The
vessel, formerly H.M.S. Aurora,
deserted to the Communists
early this month and took re
fuge at Chefoo. She was a post
war gift to China from Britain.
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PUBS CLOSE WELLING-
NEEDLESSLY Monday.2—
New Zealand hotels were ord
ered to close from noon on the
day of the recent referendum
en licensing hours. One stayed
open. When proceedings were
taken against it, authorities
had to confess there seemed to
be no legal power to make or
enforce the order.
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BOOSTSHG TOKIO, Mon-
BOSOMS <?ay--?;,wou ?f
Japans best-
known cartoonists, Yutaka Aso
and Saseho Ono, in a broad
cast today, warned Japanese
men not to "fall for the glam
orous post-war rise in bosoms."
They claimed that most Japa
nese girls were using "falsies.'
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WMMNG The Metro-
©N FLIES Pqlitan Of
ficer of
Health (Dr. Grahame Drew)
today warned housewives to
wage unceasing war on flies.
He said that the number of
food poisoning cases was in
creasing and germ-carrying
flies were the most common
source of infection of food.
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