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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jan 26, 1957
Page
1
The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved a fast track for debate on the Eisenhower doctrine as Senate opposition grows. Secretary of State Dulles faces sharp questions from two powerful committees as the United Nations handles Middle East crises.
A heavy collision between mixed goods and stock trains near Cooma injures and kills the driver Robert Noakes of Park Road Butgrove Goulburn, with four engines involved and a large stock wagon crash. The moving train carried 1300 sheep with six sheep trucks damaged and 150 sheep killed or later destroyed. the line remains blocked for days.
Sydney Friday report says the state ALP executive resolved to withdraw Labour Party support from the federal government's migration plan. It urged withdrawal until the federal government demonstrates ability to balance Australia's economy, as the position in the coal industry was considered.
A four engine U. S. air tanker disappeared while attempting to land in bad weather over the Adirondack mountains and was found today. The eight crewmen aboard perished.
The Canberra postal district career dance school held its closing address at the event. The fragment notes a final address delivered to attendees marking the conclusion of the program.
In New York three people tied to a Soviet espionage ring were arrested by the FBI. The suspects named by J Edgar Hoover include Boble 53 Myra Boble his wife and Jacob Albam. The arrests relate to the investigation of Vassili Zubilin a former general in the Soviet secret police who returned to Russia in 1944.
A memorandum from Nehru discussed at a 1951 Commonwealth meeting in London was invoked by Mr. Menon to counter Pakistan’s Kashmir claims. Sir Pierson Dixon and Dr. Walker objected to publicizing the private talks. The dispute centered on whether the PMs agreed to replace Indian and Pakistani troops with Australian and New Zealand forces for the plebiscite.
Kenasoniges Aldridge died after attempting to rescue his wife and two children Thora 4 and Ianthony 2 from a burning Tar and paper shack near Tuena Crookwell ambulance rushed him to hospital where he died. The wife and 10 month old survived under neighbour care. Fire consumed most of the property as the family built a new farmhouse nearby.
A 12 ft crocodile roams the swamp between Cooktown and the dairy, halting fresh milk. It has killed one cow and wounded several others. Dairyman Baumann ranched in the area using a horse and drag but floods and fear of attack forced cancellation of trips. He plans to shoot and lay poison baits to kill the marauder.
Princess Grace of Monaco rose for an hour from her bed and walked only around her bedroom. Doctors ordered beer thrice daily while she nurses her baby and she began feeding the child herself last night. Prince Ranier stood on the palace balcony as 500 Monegasques serenaded the new Princess Caroline. The birth will be entered in the 700 year Rimand dynasty records at a ceremony today.
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