The State's worst bushfires claimed their first victim at midnight last night — a Greenbushes farmer who had been battling since early morning to save his farm. The man—Joseph Clyde Perks (about 30), was trying to fell a blazing tree menacing his homestead when a bough crashed on him. He died at 9.45 a.m. today in Bridgetown Hospital. ...
Article : 448 wordsMONTREAL, Wed (AAP): Salesman Charles Roy (43) claimed today that he had been stripped, beaten, painted red and put into a large baking oven at a temperature of 180deg. for eight minutes on Monday. ...
Article : 111 wordsWASHINGTON, Wed (AAP): The House of Representatives today passed a Bill giving new safe ...
Article : 191 wordsA mixture of smoke and fog cast a heavy haze over the metropolitan area to-day. ...
Article : 242 wordsPICTURED above is the 35ft, gap torn out of a brick fence in Bagot-rd., Subiaco early today by a taxi which careered from King's Park-rd., across ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 127 wordsGeneral-manager D. W. Brisbane of the Midland Railway Co. of WA Ltd. announced today that he would be ...
Article : 75 wordsEighty-year-old former police sergeant George Thomas Switsur collapsed and died at Royal Perth Hospital last night 12 hours before the funeral of his 78-year-old sister Miss Ellen Switsur. ...
Article : 158 wordsHOLLYWOOD, Wed (AAP): Nine-year-old film actress Lora Lee Michel was today made a ward of the ...
Article : 110 wordsCANBERRA, Thurs: Senator Dorothy Tangney, of WA, is in Canberra Community Hospital with an injured ...
Article : 44 words"His ardour and daring inflicted grievous disasters on us, and he deserves the salute which I ...
Article : 177 wordsOn a tour of more than 200 miles through the bushfire area, smoke-blackened men with red-rimmed eyes and tired, drawn faces were met everywhere. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 193 wordsGERALDTON, Thurs: Whe she knocked over a bucket [?] hot water in the kitchen of a hotel yesterday three-year-old ...
Article : 59 wordsThirteen-year-old Irene Edith Holland of Watheroo died under anaesthetic at Royal Perth Hospital at 6.30 ...
Article : 80 wordsIt was too early yet to assess the damage caused by the fires, a Forests Department official said today. ...
Article : 81 wordsNORSEMAN, Thurs: More than 200 people in Norseman last night heard Mr. E. Nulsen MLA, Labour ...
Article : 47 wordsLAS VEGAS (Nevada), We (AAP): A Mustang flghte ploughed into an air fore restaurant today and injure ...
Article : 78 wordsNEW YORK, Wed (AAP): Television used as an "ever-present guard" would greatly re[?]uce the number of prison ...
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The Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1955), Thu 16 Mar 1950, Page 1
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