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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jan 01, 1940
Page
3
NSW resumed at five for 240 responding to 106 in the first innings and built a dominant total of 876. Barnea scored 198 and Lush gave a sterling 54 as NSW sealed the win by an innings and run with standout bowling by O Reilly who claimed 6-22.
Sydney reports a severe holiday period with two fatalities when a car hit a stationary vehicle near Bradford on Saturn 14. Lyle Pocock 24 Beatrice Pocock 21 and Mrs Elizabeth Shedden 0 died in the crashes. Mrs Shedden died after being pulled from a burning car. Ten others were seriously injured and 32 were hired during the Christmas period.
Melbourne report shows Australia piling 475 in innings with Burton taking 5 for 99 and Fleetwood-Smith contributing not out 11 as Victoria struggles. Key scores include Burton 5-99 and Miller 108, while Waite and Leena excel for Victoria in a high tempo day of play.
In Washington Saturday the Australian labor leader Harry Bridges, head of the CIO Pacific Coast, was found innocent of Communist Party membership and affiliations. The special trial examiner recommended canceling the March deportation order, and Labor Secretary Perkins said evidence did not justify deportation. Bridges announced his intention to apply for U S citizenship.
The Princes Highway from Nowra to Baga shows mostly favorable travel with sections of bituminous surface and several detours for bridge construction. Crews are advancing a new deviation near Moruya and work continues on a high standard gravel route toward Covargo and Boga.
On the Great Northern Road at Apollo Bay a motor cycle carrying two youths collided with a motor truck. Kay 19 of Bentleigh died instantly while his companion Pearl Bramerson 21 of Bentleigh died later in hospital.
The Oriental Developmental Company plans spring shipments from Korea to Manchuria of 4000 to 6000 Bergen bred sheep originally from Australia. The purpose is to test their growth in Mongolia and cross them with Mongolian sheep to gauge viability. The goal is to develop a wool supply suitable for Japan.
The Foreign Office spokesman told the Australian Associated Press that Japan may claim 12000 square miles in Antarctica. Lieutenant Shirage, who charted the area 30 years ago, petitions the Diet to declare it Japanese territory.
A chaotic crowd gathers as police respond to a disturbance. Details are unclear due to garbled text, but the scene describes officers moving to control rioters and restore order amid confusion and noise.
About 150 soldiers attempted to storm a Communist Party platform in the Sydney Domain as 10 000 people gathered. Eight arrested, four soldiers and four civilians. Police restrained the confrontation while speakers traded insults and songs. Deputy Leader H Thorby urged curbing Communist meetings in the Domain and restricting permits and times.
News in Brief covers Germany seizing church art for museums in occupied Ireland, Wallace suspending wheat and flour subsidies due to surplus, Sir William Leeds bidding farewell to M. Potemkin, the Nalle steamer fire in Paris, Chile and Germany extending a trade pact, Hungary enforcing meatless Mondays and Fridays, and Charles Edison named Secretary of the Navy by Roosevelt.
Federal Labour Leader Mr J Curtin states the Australian Labour Party and nation oppose Germany's invasion of Poland and urge negotiation. war is regrettable but resistance to armed aggression is necessary to avert further conquests. The party vows unwavering opposition to armed power until victory.
The Minister for the Army Mr Street will play with the original ALF cricket team in a charity match next Thursday to raise funds for the Com forta Fund.
In Bombay the Congress Committee plans a passive resistance program awaiting Gandhi’s decree. A non violent army would mobilize if civil disobedience is ordered against British authorities. In Italy a rail collision near Carre Annunziata station kills forty and injures about 150 passengers.
Mr H W Thompson of the Country Party urged a composite Ministry to restore a majority government. He urged removing personal considerations and warned against UAP and UCP delays. He doubted Mr Menzies would reject a wartime partnership and urged elections fought on a clear war time policy.
Australia moves to speed oil search as Queensland amends legislation to widen permit and lease areas. The state and a company plan extensive, state funded prospecting in the south west with several hundred thousand pounds expected to be spent. Work to start early in the new year using modern methods to map oil bearing structures beyond the Rams Miles district.
France and Belgium have entered a new trade agreement. Belgium gains agricultural and industrial credit in France under the pact, contingent on keeping imports from France at their former level.
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