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  2. Allied commander's Report on kidnapping

    TOKIO, May 12.—The Communists "blackmailed the United Nations" for the release of Brigadier-General Francis Dodd from Koje Island prison camp. ...

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  3. DAY by DAY

    EVEN dignified M's.P. have their human moments— Queensland visitor who ...

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  4. Boy, 7, dives to escape a train

    THE wheels of a train missed a seven-year-old boy by inches yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  5. COURT ORDER DEFIED

    MORE than 300 Brisbane watersiders last night defied an Arbitration Court order to work overtime. Day shift men refused to work three ...

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  6. TO LEAD DIGGERS

    CANBERRA, Monday. —A 31-year-old lieut.-colonel will com-mand the Third ...

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  7. U.S. strike effect Big cut in air petrol?

    MELBOURNE, Monday.—Australian airlines petrol supplies may be cut 35 per cent. ...

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  8. 2-year-old war one of costliest

    NEW YORK, May 12.—The Korean war, not yet two years old, has been one of mankind's costliest—with 5 million killed or injured. ...

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  9. VAGUE REPORTS OF LOST PLANE

    DARWIN, Monday.—Several reports that the missing honeymoon Proctor aircraft was sighted over Darwin yesterday are being treated with reserve. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  10. Federal surplus bigger?

    CANBERRA, Monday. —The Commonwealth Government's budgeted surplus for ...

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  11. Famous "cat" dead

    LONDON, May 12.—One of the original "car burglars" has died in a Kensington hospital at the ...

    Article : 137 words
  12. THE MAN WHO CAME BACK

    BRIGADIER-GENERAL Francis T. Dodd (right), freed after being held hostage by Communist prisoners at Koje Island, being greeted by Brigadier-General Charles Christenberry as he reached Seoul on Sunday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  13. Footpath in flames

    GAS company workmen tore up the footpath in Annerley Road, South Brisbane, last night to fight a ...

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  14. Two charged

    SYDNEY, Monday.—Police to-day charged two men with having stolen £7000 worth of nickel pellets from ...

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  15. THE SHOW WENT ON

    SYDNEY, Monday.—Two gunmen stole £100 from the safe of the Park Theatre to-night while the ...

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  16. Meat pact change?

    The United Kiingdom-Australia 15-year meat agreement provided for a return to trader-to-trader ...

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  17. Bombshell Barnes dies in Bundaberg

    BUNDABERG, Monday.—John Francis ("Bombshell") Barnes, former Independent member of the State Parliament, died in a private hospital to-night. He was 47. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  18. Lottery error

    MEXICO CITY, May 12 (A.A.P.).—National Lottery officials said to-day that a mistake made in the ...

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  19. MOST FORMAL—BUT ALL MALES CAN GO

    ANY male citizen in Queensland can attend the State's most formal function next month. It will be a levee—an ...

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  20. COAST RAIN IS LIKELY

    Apart from some scattered, light coastal rain, Queensland is likely to have more fine weather. ...

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  21. Found the key to the trouble

    NEW YORK, May 12 (A.A.P.).—Mrs. Martha Miller, 57, after calling to neighbours in Hartfort ...

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  22. 'Dad' avenged

    SINGAPORE, May 12 (A.A.P.-Reuters).—A Chinese woman terrorist leader, Lieu See Hoon, was killed on ...

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  23. OUT TO BAN SEX COMICS

    MELBOURNE, Monday.— Forty organisations will launch a campaign here on May 29 to ban "cheap, sexy ...

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  24. Egypt rebuff?

    CAIRO, May 12 (A.A.P.). —The independent newspaper At Abram Caiag claims that Epypt will ...

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  25. Steel seizure

    WASHINGTON, May 12 (A.A.P.).—Argument on President Truman's seizure of the steel mills, to avoid a ...

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  26. So scarce, too

    NEW YORK, May 12 (A.A.P.).—Valuable oil, already scarce through the U.S. fuel strike, was ...

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  27. Traffic block

    SYDNEY, Monday—Crash of an interstate semi-trailer on the one-way road to the Spit Bridge this morning ...

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  28. Queen's home?

    LONDON, May 12 (A.A.P.). —The Queen may use Osborne House. Queen Victoria's favourite home on the ...

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  29. Dodged fire, not Customs

    Smugglers took no risk that their smokes would go up in smoke in the freighter Heogh Silverbeam. They ...

    Article : 60 words
  30. COURT ORDERS—WEAR A COAT

    TOOWOOMBA, Monday. —Robert Joseph Thomson, a farmer of Highfields, stood before the ...

    Article : 103 words
  31. PAGE ONE END PIECE

    SEOUL, May 12 (A.A.P.)—Ten years ago Mrs. Mary Nemanich, of Joliet (Illinois, U.S.), scrawled her address in lipstick on a shell case. It has just reached the frontline in Korea, and a howilzer has ...

    Article : 55 words
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