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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
May 17, 1934
Page
1
London report on a Chelmsford match with Essex where rain halted play after lunch. Chipperfield makes England debut amid influenza concerns. details note Bradman and Grimmett involved, with Australian and Essex players listed. Discusses delays, ground conditions, and a 54 run opening stand before lunch.
Test cricket at Lords ends in a draw as MCC and Australia share honours. Pousford and McCabe set a world third wicket record with 288 in 260 minutes. O'Reilly and Grimmett bowled well, Wyatt top scored for MCC with 72 not out, and the pitch proved dry and tricky for both sides.
Tokyo reports the Foreign Office says Hirota instructed the London ambassador to deliver a note protesting Crown Colony import quotas on Japanese goods. It calls the 1827 to 1931 period unfavourable due to Malay boycotts and urges Britain not to widen quotas to other items.
Three people died and three injured when a motor car crashed about 300 feet over a cliff near Scarborough in a Wednesday afternoon incident. The vehicle wreckage was extensive and a passenger, Miss Marjory Allen, survived with minor injuries while others perished. Investigations consider steering failure or a collision prior to the plunge, with conflicting witness statements about the events leading to the fall.
Tuendas incensed over wage cuts attacked the East India Railway colliery office at Siuldity Blur Province. They stoned the building, injuring the Exogush namager Lemaster. Police responded with force, killing two and injuring several as armed guards maintained order.
A deadly clash at a Los Angeles strike site in the early morning left a striker dead and several others injured. Police fired volleys after attempting nonlethal methods to disperse the mob gathered at the building housing strike rally organizers.
Roosevelt administration pushes new recovery bill totaling 16 billion dollars to fund public works and social programs. Lawmakers consider expedited passage as economy shows signs of revival amid unemployment concerns and rising industrial activity.
Sydney reports that if world wheat prices do not improve, a home consumption price may be set to offset export losses. In Washington, President Roosevelt requests 1,322,000,000 dollars for next budget year, amid talks on public works relief and bread prices in Sydney. The estimate covers interest and recovery, with a projected total of 16,000,009,000 dollars over two years four months.
Bolivian Foreign Minister telegraphed the League of Nations from La Paz accusing Paraguay of rationing Bolivian prisoners and intercepting letters after Bolivian air raids on Gran Chaco airports. Bolivian officers threaten execution by lot. Bolivian aircraft reportedly target Asuncion. The Lord Privy Seal aims to push a League Council to seek an embargo on arms exports to Paraguay and Bolivia.
In Sydney the Premier Mr Stevens told Mr Elliott that once the four tax is lifted the government expects bread prices to fall and has power to act to ensure reductions. He addressed questions in the Legislative Assembly about a claim bread would drop by a penny loaf in Adelaide after the tax removal.
Article notes the Auckland based plane Faith In Australia with T Plum repairing an engine, return flight to Sydney postponed indefinitely. It also references Wyatt’s performance and a cricket match with detailed innings events and team selections for a Lords trial on June 2.
The Master Bakers Association urged the Government to fix bread prices, noting the industry acted with a prior report by the committee appointed by Mr. Brevend. Bread prices would fall in line with flour cuts, though some bakeries had already reduced prices to mirror the move.
Senator Lawson Melbourne Wednesday report that Prime Minister Lyons said the Federal Cabinet agreed that on the Postmaster General Archdale Park Wilson's return from abroad Sir Harry Lawson acting as Postmaster General would take over administration of the Territories. The move is said to be in progress under the Prime Minister's Department.
The Artists Society plans a major Canberra exhibition in Sydney Buildings in May 1935. A wall lighted gallery above the motor showroom at Australian General Electric premises will host the display with a special photograph section. Works by Hiroth Gruner from Canberra and other Australian artists will be shown, including local scenes. Local painters such as D. Biuett Jennie Nettern G Pegch Tillyard Mesure Edwards Zippel Marcus ODeas and Pinlayson will be represented, many noting water colours. some pieces by Gruner will be hung.
For the first time the proceedings of the Legislative Assembly in New South Wales opened with prayer. The prayer was read by the speaker as members stood.
In Los Angeles on Tuesday the State Prosecutor offered three Kidnappers of William Gettle a guilty plea or jury trial. They chose to plead guilty and receive life sentences. the judge promptly imposed the sentences as they were sent to San Quentin Penitentiary.
Prime Minister announces government will take over from Britain the ship under construction, renaming it H M A S Sydney to honor the ill fated trainer M S Phaeton. Projected completion next year under cost arrangements around £2,250,000 Australian. The Leander class shell at Cockatoo Island will be named, displacement about 7 200 tons, armed with eight six inch guns aboard H M A S Sydney.
The Nelson and Rodney face renewed grounding scares amid rough seas near Portland. Reports say the Nelson class ships resist maneuvering due to high freeboard and distant bridges, complicating entry to harbors. Despite difficulties, their fighting power remains described as tremendous.
Jerusalem records a second cloudburst near Tiberias within 24 hours. Flooding turned streets into rivers, swept away goods from houses and ships, and raised casualties among children. Nineteen houses buried, about 5000 homeless, 29 drowned. hospitals treated many survivors.
The article reports on a federal cabinet move to refer the matter to the Council for Administrative and Industrial Research. Wool growers, led by J. W. Allen, push for a ban on exporting whey-derived dairy from Merino, reaffirming the ongoing embargo on Merino breeding exports.
In heavy fog the White Star liner Olympic struck the Nantucket lightship about 100 miles off Rhode Island while heading to New York. Seven crewmembers were killed or missing, four survived aboard the Olympic, including master George Braithwaite. Captain Binks said the crash followed a radio beam signal that narrowed off Nantucket before the ship veered and struck the lightship.
American flyers from New York crash landed in Sabinels County Ireland after 33 hours aloft en route to Rome. Captain Pond and Lieut Cesare et survived a long ordeal with engines at Baldonnell Airfield pending repairs.
Miss Joan Batten, who is traveling in Calcutta, is noted in a brief item from the city diary. The report mentions her presence and related routine movements during a Wednesday edition snippet.
New Zealand aviator Joan Batten flies to Cyprus from London via Calcutta in about two days seven hours, aiming for a direct London Cyprus record. If not delayed by storms she would likely beat Johnson’s Karachi record.
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