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Newspaper
Horsham Times
Location
Horsham, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 06, 1938
Page
1
Melbourne reports Thames Williem Cocamgea a 40 year old laborer remanded at Shepparton Police Court on May 32 for murdering his wife Amelia Jane Low 32. Her body was found in a Mooroopna bedroom with head wounds and two ligatures around the neck.
From Our Correspondent Melbourne Thursday. Keith Dodgshun of Hopetoun farmer elected unopposed to fill vacancy in Legislative Assembly after AL Bussau appointed Agent General in London. Nominations closed with Dodgshun as sole candidate, endorsed by CP.
Canberra officials face a barrier after the Health Department proposed moving the Anatomy Museum into a new suite of offices. The 1921 act forbids use of the museum building for other purposes and Canberra’s zoning blocks department or quasi business structures in the area. Amending legislation may be required to proceed despite local hopes to preserve the museum’s beauty.
Hollywood theatre owners fight for better returns saying top stars like Mae West Greta Garbo Joan Crawford Katherine Hepburn Kay Francis and Marlene Dietrich are losing box office appeal. They urge producers to focus on better pictures and sound business sense amid long term contracts and obsolescence fears. Some stars may pursue court action but officials deny personal attack and stress that values matter more than names.
At the Orsham tonight at 7:45 pm the last show of It Happened In Hollywood and Counsel for Crime with three shorts. Saturday Monday and Tuesday Irene Dunne and Cary Grant star in The Awful Truth. It screens alongside Love in a Bungalow with Nan Grey and Kent Taylor and a cartoon The Hound and the Rabbit.
Goldsbrough Mort & Co Ltd reports for Lith sale a 4819 bale catalogue, average to good selection, representative for this season stage. Highest price 1d for Wee Glen from Cavendish and Forfar from Balморal. 181d for Annadale Coleraine. South East SA offerings include LA Warrawee Kalangadoo at 183d. comeback section notes WWW Glenleigh Jim Winslow wool at 17d.
The Australian Estates Company Ltd reports the May sale series opened in Melbourne on Tuesday with cataloging and intershearing items. The sale highlights include branded DW Tauwuud and Asnes goods in good saleable condition, with expectations of mid June sales for winter augers.
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