WASHINGTON, Jan. 3—President Roosevelt announced that he would present the national defence program in a special ...
Article : 59 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 3.—It was revealed to-day that in New South Wales, at least, there will be a grave shortage of uniforms for ...
Article : 123 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—"Tunis is, above all a great frontier region or block forming France's North African Empire. Your exploitation of its riches is the ...
Article : 303 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 4.—Commenting to-day on a report of C. Czarnikow Ltd. (London), dated December 22, which he had just received, Mr. F. Curlewis, Secretary of the Australian Sugar Producers' Association, said it would seem to ...
Article : 400 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 4.—Two men to the Coroner's Court yesterday each claimed to have driven the vehicle which was directly behind a truck ...
Article : 885 wordsBURGOS, Jan. 3.—The Nationalists claim to have reached the right bank of the Segre River, within rifle range of Artesa, the fall ...
Article : 328 wordsAUCKLAND, Jan. 4.—Many unpleasant surprises greeted importers when they opened the first export licenses which arrived in the ...
Article : 170 wordsWASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—The Navy Department has rendered to Congress a special report recommending the strengthening of continental ...
Article : 166 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 4.—It is the intention of the Royal Commission on peaks and other aspects of the sugar industry to begin its Brisbane sittings ...
Article : 283 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—The correspondent of the 'Times' in Berlin says: It is stated here that Germany does not intend to attempt submarine equality ...
Article : 137 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 4.—Though his machine was wrecked, the pilot of an Aero Club plane, which crashed on the banks of Moonee Ponds Creek this ...
Article : 75 wordsADELAIDE, Jan. 4.—In the Mount Gambler Police Court to-day, Lawrence Henry Bulling (43), rabbit buyer, Mount Gambler, was committed for ...
Article : 355 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—The diplomatic correspondent of the "Dally Telegraph' says that evidence of Britain's determination to employ economic means ...
Article : 278 wordsWASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Light hearted members gave no indication of the heavy responsibility to be borne this session when the ...
Article : 110 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 4.—"Japan is already beaten," said Mr. John Pomcroy, inventor of the explosive bullet, who arrived to-day after a ...
Article : 128 wordsLONDON, Jan. 4.—It is officially announced that the Spanish Nationalist vanguard is now within 62 miles of Barcelona. The fall of Artesa ...
Article : 105 wordsROME, Jan. 4.—Acting under instructions from Washington Mr. William Phillips, the American Ambassador in Rome, called on Signor ...
Article : 196 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 4.—When a stock train from Coonamble was crossing over the points known as "East Fork," near Orange railway ...
Article : 184 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—A plan for the construction of a youth city in London, preferably on the old Crystal Palace site, as a central meeting place ...
Article : 165 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—The diplomatic correspondent of the Associated Press says the Foreign Office has received confirmation from Burgos of the arrest ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 426 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 4.—Increased pay, a 40-hour week and payment of wages weekly are sought by the Queensland Railway Union in an application to the ...
Article : 81 wordsCAIRO, Jan. 3.—Five members of the Palestine Arab High Committee, recently released from Seychelles, are expected to attend a meeting of the ...
Article : 88 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 4.—No definite conclusion has been reached by the police about the circumstances of the death of James Thomas Marsden (45), ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 249 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—The death is announced of Mr. Eustace B. Grundy. (Mr. Grundy was born in Manchester in 1849. He became a practising ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—The gold quotation is based on supply and demand. About 330 bars, approximately valued at £990,000, were sold. The sterling ...
Article : 157 wordsCOOLANGATTA, Jan. 3.—Marie M'Culkin (12), of Gregory Terrace, Brisbane, who was injured when struck by the wing of an aeroplane ...
Article : 260 wordsCANBERRA, Jan. 4.—The publication of a proclamation in to-morrow's Commonwealth 'Gazette' will indicate the ...
Article : 120 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—Mr. Sidney Ray died to-day. (Sidney Herbert Ray was born 80 years ago. He was a retired ...
Article : 35 wordsMOSCOW, Jan. 3.—A British engineer, Brian Grover, who was arrested at Stattza on November 20 after flying from Stockholm in a sports aeroplane ...
Article : 95 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 4.—A deficit of £884,784 for six months ended November 31 is shown in the Treasury returns issued by the Treasurer (Mr. F. ...
Article : 185 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 4.—Remains found to-day indicate that sharks had attacked the bodies of the victims of the tragedy at Point ...
Article : 120 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—According to present intentions, writes the diplomatic correspondent of the Australian Associated Press, the Foreign ...
Article : 156 wordsHOLLYWOOD, Jan. 4.—It is announced that Betty Grable and Jackie Coogan separated pending the outcome of the suit regarding his ...
Article : 115 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—The correspondent of the 'Daily Mall' at Rome says that in order to lay down the guiding principles for his ...
Article : 112 wordsTOKIO, Jan. 4.—The Prime Minister (Prince Konoye) has tendered the Government's resignation. The Cabinet's resignation was due to ...
Article : 78 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 4.—After an inquiry into the running of the even money favorite Sachem in the Cup Hurdles at Mornington to-day, the ...
Article : 94 wordsBERLIN, Jan. 3.—A strict watch will in future be kept on the careers of youths with the object of diverting labor Into national key industries, ...
Article : 80 wordsBERLIN, Jan. 3.—More newspaper changes indicate that the Nazi organ, 'Voelkischer Beobachter' soon will have supreme sway. The correspondent of ...
Article : 62 wordsPARIS, Jan. 4.—Three hundred cinemas in central Paris are closing to-day for a week as a protest against the new cinema tax which ranges from ...
Article : 65 wordsLONDON, Jan, 3.—Mr. John Stephenson has been appointed assistant Under-Secretary to the Dominions Office succeeding Mr. ...
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Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), Thu 5 Jan 1939, Page 7
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