20 May 1950
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Newspaper
Geraldton Guardian
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
May 20, 1950
Page
1
Regal Chief took victory in Moonee Valley’s Aberfeldie Handicap as part of an eight-race program. The day featured betting odds and dividends for multiple races with numerous listed performers and entrees across the card.
A Royal Navy midget submarine unit will operate with the U S Navy from an Atlantic coast base. British subs, refined since World War II, have joined forces with American fleets before, with notable attacks in wartime, including against a German battleship sheltered near a Norwegian ford.
British Foreign Secretary Ernst Bevin and American Secretary of State Dean Acheson issued a warning to Russia after Atlantic Pact talks in London. The two nations affirmed their stance on Middle East matters during the discussions.
A guardsman collapsed while on duty at Buckingham Palace. A wet sponge and water were used to revive him, and his bearskin served as a makeshift pillow. Police barred spectators from taking photographs of the incident.
A fire swept Hull Normal School for girls killing four nuns others thought dead. Police recovered a nun's body and three other nuns were reported missing. Eighty five girls and fifty eight nuns, most asleep, were rescued from the blaze.
United States Narcotics Bureau, a 300 officer force, fights postwar drug trafficking as heroin sells high in New York and Paris. International police co operation aids arrests as narcotics agents disguise as workers and monitor ships at origin and destination.
Tonight and tomorrow the Ratio Theatre presents I Remember Tuesday and Wednesday asay based on Norah Lofty novel. Margaret Lockwood and Patricia Hayes lead in a tale of a gypsy girl Janey who becomes mistress to restore a house for the rightful owner. Other stars include Basil Sydney Nora Swinburne Linden Travers and Esme Cannon with supporting names. Next up are Thirteen Lead Soldiers Rusty Leads the Way Red Stallion and The Mikersen Case with stars Tom Conway Maria Palmer Sharyn Moffett Ted Donaldson and War ner Baxter in a slate of melodramas and dramas through the weekend.
Verse styled ad notes a rhyme about Jack and two fells, coldness, and illness. It promotes Woods' reat Peppermint Cure with playful warning against shivering in bed and urges rising to partake. The fragment reflects a period tone and product placement within a humorous medical quip.
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