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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jan 21, 1944
Page
3
The piece argues high tariffs in the twenties and thirties caused a global drop in international trade, provoking a low mood of the thirties. It cites Cordell Hull on trade declines and urges tearing down tariffs to restore prosperity, warning of widespread hardship if trade stays restricted.
The Railway Advocate questions wartime industrial agreements as worthwhile and notes the Tasmanian Railway Department and ARU debate. After ARU pressure, some agreements were repudiated and new claims lodged. The NUR derides the “scrap-of-paper” mentality as moral decay and a hindrance to progress.
A commander of Britain's Tactical Air Force argues that hunger and unemployment drive nations toward war. He warns that tariffs may provide short term gains for workers and capital but lead to depression and suffering, while free trade has historically fostered peace and prosperity.
A De Havilland transport overdue on a North Queensland run forced to land on an emergency strip after a sunken strait. Native runners and Volunteer Air Observers Korps located the aircraft and its crew safely, enabling rapid RAAF weather checks and a decision to halt an unnecessary air search while Cairns engineers prepared to repair the damaged plane.
Red Cross officer explains how to read dates on prisoners of war cards captured from Japanese camps. The method starts from the bottom figure and works upward, with examples given to clarify the reading sequence. The article notes confusion among readers and offers practical guidance for interpreting the dating system used on the cards.
Rear-Admiral Howard L. Vickery, vice-chairman of the Maritime Commission, declared at his first postwar press conference that the United States will expand shipping globally after the war, with or without other nations’ cooperation. He said Americans have become a maritime nation and will remain so, pursuing cooperation where possible.
Secretary G. H. Carlisle appointed liquidator to Yellowdine Gold Areas Ltd with aim of returning 9d a share to both preference and ordinary holders. Shareholders narrowly approved liquidation amid doubts over the bottom depth. The doomed company, floated in the 1935 boom to seize a southern block near the Yellowdine find, failed to profit from initial shallow prospecting and later bought Newfield sine near Bullfinch for 212000 cash, yielding over £80000 in bees and 1/6 paid in dividends before deeper testing showed limited ore grade. War conditions hindered further development despite a bore returning 2 ft of 6dwt Pt in deeper ground.
A military political observer recently returned from overseas argues that the United States could pulverise Germany in six weeks if provided air bases by Russia, which the Soviet Union will not grant. The remark appears in the Daily News.
A survey of 1940s Hollywood nuptials notes star marriages across ages and ranks. Judy Garland, Deanna Durban, and Veronica Like symbolize wartime romance amid studio control. Big names like Carole Landis, Maria Montez, Dorothy Lamour, and Barbara Stanwyck appear alongside shifts in age gaps and union patterns.
A Perth sub committee of the health committee reports four three storey lodging houses in Hay Street near Hetett Street present unsatisfactory conditions. Gas cookers sat in unsafe locations, poor ventilation, open food waste in buckets, insufficient lighting, and basements used as bedrooms. Tenants lacked water and struggled to dispose of waste, with verification that improvised kitchenettes and poor sanitation were common.
A Perth health sub committee reports rubbish and food waste scattered at the refuse site, noting bins lack amelling salts and proper cleaning. They compare with modern cities using destructors to reduce waste, urging action amid wartime savings slogans and public concern.
The article notes that even with a desire to retire the decision is largely beyond the President. Supporters fear dismissal from his camp and could mount heavy pressure as the outcome hinges on defeat or retirement.
The Couaren appropriation of 21 million dollars targets the Navy and Marine Corps aerial cameras. Early war units cost 4100 dollars each, now about 2700 dollars due to production. General Arnold claims high altitude plane photography can reveal extensive detail from 35000 feet at 300 miles per hour, per the New York Herald Tribune supplement.
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