"The Sunday Times" yesterday asked the chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission (Mr. W. J. Cleary) why the recent competition to find an Australian national song was such a failure. "Why weren't the best entries played over, to let the people decide?" we asked. ...
Article : 591 wordsIt had crossed the Atlantic on on endless belt of shipping stretched across a U-boat graveyard. America piled it on Britain and British factories piled more beside it until correspondent cabled from England: "The island is slowly sinking under its weight." It transformed parts of England until, photographed, ...
Article : 891 wordsCAMOUFLAGED HOUSEBOATS are being used by Japanese commanders as their headquarters on Burma rivers in an attempt to escape R.A.F. attacks. ABOVE; Houseboat blending with jungle background. BELOW: Houseboat aflame after an R.A.F. Beaufighter attack with cannon shells and bombs. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 37 wordsMembers of the staff of Western Press Limited gathered for "a feast of reason and flow of soul" round the stone on ...
Article : 139 wordsReaders will doubtless recollect what sardines and salmon look like, though they may forget their taste; tinned delicacies rarer than ...
Article : 286 wordsAbout 4000 years ago an absentminded ancient Briton in Muswell Hill put his axe down for a minute and never found it again. ...
Article : 92 wordsSupporf for the plan to reticulate, water throughout the south and south-West of the State from Wellington Dam (about 15 miles from Collie) is forthcoming from Mr. Charles S. Watson, of Bassendean, who has made a close ...
Article : 460 wordsWASHINGTON, Sat.: The new rocket gun is in such demand amongst the armed forces that 35 million dollars will be spent on ...
Article : 57 wordsEdith Mary Bower (18), was fined £1 in the Perth Police Court yesterday morning. Charged with behaving in a disorderly manner, ...
Article : 41 wordsSubscriptions to the First Victory Loan received from various W.A. country banks and post offices up to noon on Thursday last are as follow, the list showing, in each instance, the number of applications and the amount ...
Article : 409 wordsLONDON, Sat.: London Arm found guilty of overcharging retailers by a total of £47,000 on the sale of 160,000 women's ...
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Advertising : 609 wordsCivilian counting, is complete for the Swan by-election, and it is expected that soldiers' votes will be to hand next week-end. ...
Article : 72 wordsWASHINGTON, Sat.: United States Under-secretary of State, Mr. E. Stettinius, recently returned from London, told a Press ...
Article : 50 words"It is like asking people in from the streets to vote," said one member of the National Party Conferenc when it was ruled that 16 people, who were not members, who were invited to the Conference, should be allowed to vote on the ...
Article : 232 wordsLONDON, Sat.: Among distinguished members of the services attending Australia House at a reception to Mr. Curtin were ...
Article : 57 wordsNEW YORK, Sat.: A Federal Grand Jury had indicted Mrs. Velvalee Dickinson, a dealer in antique dolls, for espionage. The ...
Article : 46 wordsMELBOURNE, Sat.: A full transcript of the evidence at the "Pyjama Girl" inquest will make more than four ...
Article : 137 wordsBette Davis' role in Warners' "Christmas in Connecticut" has been handed over to Barbara Stanwyck. When a Stanwyck ...
Article : 28 words"Wherever you go, honor the uniform you wear; go full out to better the already fine record that has been established by R.A.A.f. air crews." Air Commodore Brownell, "veteran" pilot himself, who won the Military ...
Article : 620 wordsTyrone Rower, who graduated last month from a camp at Corpus Christi, Texas, has been promoted to the rank of full lieutenant in ...
Article : 28 wordsThe engagement was recently announced between Patricia Oric, second daughter of Mrs. and the late Mr. Thatcher, of Urana. New ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON, Sat.: The "Star" publishes a cartoon showing an Aussie soldier guarding a rocky shore and pointing a bayonet at ...
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Family Notices : 287 wordsKALGOORLIE, Sat.: Figures just released in Kalgoorlie in the 1943 report of the Chamber of Mines reveal the tremendous drop in gold production and the number of men employed in the industry last year as compared to 1938. ...
Article : 224 wordsNEW YORK, Sat.: One postwar problem already giving the Allies some anxiety is the final disposition of Japanese prisoners ...
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Sunday Times (Perth, WA : 1902 - 1954), Sun 7 May 1944, Page 3
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