Four R.A.A.F. Men Die In Canberra Crash Near RMC
Four Royal Australian Air Force servicemen were killed when a Canberra bomber crashed near the Royal Military College in Duntroon during a night flight. Guards kept watch over the wreckage as emergency crews fought the blaze with foam and water fog, while an inquest began. Eyewitnesses described the aircraft pancaking, engines revving, and the cockpit being torn apart as fire consumed the wreckage.
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Father J. How
Rumble
Fulge Wong
Ams
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Air Force Perne
Fomta Cathote
R.A.A.F
Army
A.C.T
F. C. Keane
No. 83 Transport Wing
Ping
Cormrander Breele
Personnean
Duntroon
States Agree On Uniform Gauge Plan
Melbourne and Sydney may be linked by a standard gauge railway within five years, after approval by Victorian and New South Wales governments. The project, cost about £10 million, would allow trains to run Albury to Melbourne on a single line and require Commonwealth financing for national gauge standardisation.
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Melbourne
Sydney
Sir Arthur Warner
Arthur
Australian Transport Advisory Council
Canberra
Victorian
New South
Wales
Commonwealth
Arthur Warner
Albury
Mangalore
N.S.W
Malbourne
Naval Freighter Crash Sets Mountain Afire
A naval freighter plane crashed into a cliff at Foxground near Gerrin gongo WOLLONGONG. It burst into flames and set fire to a large stretch of the mountain top. A rescue party with police and fire brigade battled through blazing scrub guided by a circling navy plane dropping flares. The number of aboard was not disclosed early this morning.
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Wollongong
Foxground
Gerringong
Flamen
T’avy
State Ministers Call For Federal Funds
MeLBOURNE Tuesday. State Housing Ministers unanimously called on the Federal Government to make extra money available to the States for all phases of house construction. Letters were sent to the Prime Minister Menzies the Treasurer Arthur Fadden and Senator Spooner. They asked for more funds to finance war service homes to overcome delays between loan approval and final settlement. The conference chairman Mr. Petty Victoria said ministers were concerned with the housing position as the rate of building declined while materials and manpower were idle.
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Melbourne
Menzies
Arthur Fadden
Spooner
Petty Victorias
U N Troops To Leave Gaza Strip and Ship Passes Gulf
Cairo radio announced U N forces would evacuate Gaza including headquarters. U N E F outposts line the truce border while Israel reports a successful ship passage through the Gulf of Aqaba, named Queen of Sheba, amid U S assurances to ease tensions and support free Suez passage.
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Cairo
United Nations Force
U.N
U.N.E.F
Gaza Strip
Israel
Gulf of Aqaba
Golda Meir
Israaeli
New York
Jerusalem
Queen of Sheba
United Press
Tel Aviv
Strait of Tiran
Gulf
Sharm
Sheikh
Bhe
Saudi Arabia
Washington
Larned
United States
Suez Canal
Scorching Day in Sydney Sets Heat Record
Sydney residents endured a blistering March day with a high of 94.7 degrees shortly after 2 pm, the hottest since 100.2 degrees on March 6, 1951. Temperatures ran about 20 degrees above normal for the season.
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Sydney
Sydney Wool Prices Firm at Sydney sales
The Sydney wool market closed fully firm with less irregularity in broader descriptions. Brokers report a wider, more animated competition among buyers led by the Continent Great Britain and Japan. Realisations included NEM Yass 5 sup AAA 14Bd and AJS Macquodama Burn Yass 5 sup AAAH.
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Sydney
Sydney Woolwelling Brokers’Association
Continent
Great Britain
Japan
Political Deadlock Pressures Indonesian Cabinet Crisis
In Djakarta a cabinet formateur Suwirjo faces failure as talks for a Nationalist Party Nehdathul Ulama coalition stall. Martial law remains, the old government has resigned after four months of unrest, and provincial demands surge in North Sumatra as negotiations head toward a possible stalemate.
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Sesday
Imment
Deama
Crisi
People's Congress
North
Sumatra
Congress
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Gaza
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