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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Sep 06, 1934
Page
3
A Milan criminal used homing pigeons to deliver blackmail demands and threats. Police traced two flight lines plotted on a map, locating a pigeon loft and arresting the suspect after a bomb scare at a crowded shop. The case linked to a prior bomb attempt.
Prices at Brisbane market remain around default levels for fine wools, with 64s to 70s western clips carrying dust and vegetable faults. Continental demand is weak, notably for faulty wools. Britain and Japan show good demand for better types, while German barter moves and freight issues signal stressed world trade conditions.
Sydney Wool sales show the market unchanged from the previous day. The Japanese section led with strong support from Yorkshire and local buyers, aided occasionally by the Continent. Greasy merino fleece sold to 4884 for seven bales from Copmanhurst. total loitering 8,858 bales, with 7,140 sold at auction and 2,587 privately.
One of London s famed venues in the Borough East End is slated for demolition to make way for a cinema. The Borough Theatre closed last March after 37 years of drama opera and revue. Renowned names such as Irving Ellen Terry Beerbohm Tree Dan Leno Marie Lloyd Albert Chevalier Sir Henry Lytton and Savoy operas performed there. The new cinema will seat about 1 000 spectators.
Norman Robert Hardy, 26, an iron worker, appeared at Newtown Court on a charge of robbery under crape. Mrs Margaret Hogg testified that Hardy helped himself to a cash box containing £10 from the safe, threatened to shoot if she called for help, wore a black drooping moustache and carried a long revolver, and smashed the phone before fleeing. Hardy pleaded not guilty and was remanded for trial.
Antonio Chiodo and Antonio Audino, recently cleared of murder, faced a new charge in Melbourne's Kew Court for attempting to destroy Rocco Petullo's body without Public Health authorization. Petullo's body was found under a divert on Balwyn Road. Both men were committed for trial.
A city bowling club committee met yesterday and decided the uprist general meeting of members will be held on Monday September 34. The official opening day for the 1934 35 season is set for Saturday October 6.
Justice Long-Inness refused Mina Chandra Parkes interim injunction against Radio JUE Ltd. to stop broadcasting her dramatic sketch The Filbert Family. The rejection ends Parkes claim amid a string of public notices about wool prices and European financial tensions impacting markets.
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