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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 24, 1948
Page
9
In the outback facilities including stations, fire brigades, harbors operate near outpost bases. High frequency channels are scarce so future mobile users will share channels in the same areas. Expected license costs discussed.
Thousands of factory owners traders and households push private policing as Britain’s police forces remain understaffed. In three months Manchester added 500 Ajax Guards Bureau subscribers with 2 man patrols trained ex servicemen and Alsatian dogs in blue uniforms and peaked caps under manager W R Dewis.
Ajax bureau proposed a transport guard system to curb black market thefts by using eight guards, four dogs and two or three motorcyclists for convoys. London rival Night Guards, Limited, formed before the War and re opened two years ago, recruits mainly former guards and police inspectors, but not current officers seeking private work.
The International Wool Publicity and Research Executive meets in London to set policy for world wool promotion. Members include Douglas T. Boyd and H. K. Nock for Australia, J. H. Moorman and B. Hobson for South Africa, N. R. Jameson and W. Horrobin for New Zealand, with US officers Newsom and Savell. The drive aims to promote wool regardless of origin and expand Secretariat activities with new offices and international committees.
The Movie theatre draws both adults and children with silent programs priced around 8d for youths and 18 for adults. Programs feature Lon Chaney in Flesh and Blood, a comedy short, and Pearl White serial Chapter 6 with gramophone music while audiences are urged to treat silents seriously.
Starlet Jane Greer wins the Queen of Glamor award from the Hollywood Independent Press Photographers Association. She earns praise for beauty brains and personality and receives a Cleopatra statuette. Ava Gardner Rita Hayworth Linda Darnell and Maria Montez follow in order.
Sensational piece in the Royal Academy summer show is a portrait by 35 year old John Merton of a beautiful sitter. The subject, 30 year old Mrs Daphne Wall of Eatonsy, appears in three poses to capture her mobile, expressive features.
The hanging committee marked the portrait doubtful as Sir Alfred Munnings threatened to resign over its acceptance. Commissioned by Mrs. Wall seven years ago, the work took 1200 hours by Mr. Merton and six weekend sittings by Mrs. Wall. A break in Mrs. Wall’s door glass triggered intruders who fled when her mother and sister intervened. Mrs. Wall refuses to sell, planning to hang the painting in her dining room.
Quotations describe sufferers of a disease called glass bonmos as unable to move for fear of fracture. Turning in bed causes fractures and severe fragility.
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