Peace Slogans Sparked Disruption in Brisbane Labour Day
In Brisbane a Labour Day march featured few peace and anti war slogans. Police intercepted and banned Communist and religious ads while two Electrical Trades Union members fought briefly in Ann Street over slogans. The procession drew over 20,000 onlookers with 100 officers guarding the route and officials from unions government departments and councils displaying more than 0 floats.
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Brisbane
Ann Street
Electrical Trades Union
A. H. Dawson
Anne Street
Queens Street
A. Caldwell
AWD
Man Charged with Murder of Wife in Gamnamoulia Court
Charles Alfred McNiven was charged in the Gamnamoulia Court with the murder of his wife Neithen McNiven. The wife died from wounds at Gani head Baad tajcetes on Saturday night. McNiven was remanded for eight days.
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Man
Gamnamoulia
Wes
Charles Alfred Mc
Neithen
Ganihead Baad Tajcetes
McNiven
Divorce Court grants custody after parental abduction
Sydney reports a 43 year old man, August Raymond Wunsch, wins custody of two daughters aged 42 and six after admitting to taking them from school while the mother held custody under court order. The mother Joyce Ellen Wunsch had defied the order by marrying the respondent Stephen Wunsch. The judge ruled the mother should have reassessible access.
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Sydney
August Raymond Wunsth
Condobollti
Joyce Ellen Wunsch
Hradfield Park
Mr & G Webb
Smid
Stephen Winsch
Wiinsch
Clancy
Queen and Duke to tour 50 towns in Australia trip
Canberra announcement confirms Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip will visit 50 towns across the Commonwealth plus six capitals. The tour runs from February to April next year, includes a five day Canberra stay with a nationwide broadcast, rail and motor travel, and stops for races, sports, concerts, and hospital visits.
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Canberra
Australia
F. Berryman
Duke of Edinburgh
Commonwealth
RAAF
Adelaide
Kalgoorlie
Duke
Harrison
Sydney
Queen
Wenmera
Generserryman
Mr. Harrison
Brisbane
Cairns
London
Berryman
Duke of Bainargn
Toowoombs
Rockhampton
Townville
Queensland
Toowoomba
Townsville
Oakey
Kingaroy
Maryborough
Maikay
Pakistan Named Neutral Nation for POWs at Panmunjom
The United Nations nominated Pakistan as the neutral country to handle prisoners of war who refuse repatriation as armistice talks resume after a one day adjournment. Communists named India, Pakistan, Burma and Indonesia as neutrals but rejected Switzerland. Talks continued with a partial pause and no immediate reaction reported from the Communist side.
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Panmunjom
United Nations
Commant Ysterday
Pakistan
Harrison
India
Burma
Indonesia
Sigley
Attica
Thesider
Switzerland
Nam I
Nam
Atomic Energy Power Stations Here Urged
In Canberra Professor Marcus Oliphant urged Australia to act with Great Britain to establish atomic energy power stations. He noted US cooperation would face security hurdles and said Britain is the nearest ally for this project, aiming to have stations ready within a few years.
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Canberra
Australia
Great Britain
Marcus Oliphant
Difcult
United States
Oliphant
Lear
Australian National University
Federal Council of the Electrical Manufacturers of Australia
Rebels poised to strike at Laos capital
London Reuters reports 30 000 Vietminh troops spread across Laos near Luang Prabang. French defenders face possible attacks as Vietminh near the capital, with several battalions within 26 miles and Vietminh forces north of Luang Prabang.
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Laos
London
Reuters Vientiane
Luang Prabang
Temparauens
Minh Roope
Times
Singapore
Indo-China
South-East Asia
Burma
Siam
Malaya
Biam
United States
United Nations
Daily Telegraph
Paris
Monsieur Letourneau
Saigon
Fort Paksuong
Nam Suong
Mekong
the Times
Southern Pacific
Hong Kong
South China Morning Post
Vietnam
Thorn
Jand
Ultimatum to Soviet Urged by U S Lawmaker
Washington yesterday, Mr Short, chairman of the House of Representatives committee, urged the United States to threaten the Soviet Union with removal from Southeast Asia and the Middle East if it persists. He warned of risks to U S defence expenditure and cautioned Republicans against exploiting fear. The article notes French, Chinese Nationalist, and Singaporean nationalist groups favoring crises, while urging restraint to avoid widening conflict.
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Washington
Short
Hous of Representive Mites
United States
Soviet Union
Asia
Middle East
Four Men Missing on Fishing Trip at Mackay
Four Daily Mercury staff members including chief of staff R. C. MacPherson are overdue after a fishing trip from Mackay. Searches by water and a diverted plane failed to locate the crew aboard the 28 foot Noel B near St. Bees and Kewick Islands. The boat left Mackay early Saturday and was bound for fishing grounds. a second police launch and a patrol plane intensified efforts overnight.
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Mackay
St. Bees
Kewick Islands
J. F. Buggy
Southboung
Noel B
Messrs. L. Woostey
Wellington Street
Advances for Home Building Reach 83 Million in Six Months
In Brisbane the Commonwealth Bank and private trading banks advanced 83,407,000 to home builders and buyers in the six months to December 31. This was the lowest figure for housing advances since the six months ended December 21, 1950. Bank advances totalled 82,780,000. other advances included agriculture dairy and grazing 145,123,000 manufacturing 164,683,000 and commerce 110,685,000.
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Brisbane
Commonwealth Bank
Commonwealth Statisoian
S. R. Carver
Two Dead in Louisiana Floods Amid Severe Weather
Flood waters submerged a southern Louisiana region causing two deaths and leaving hundreds homeless. The toll from six days of storms reaches 43 fatalities nationwide, with rivers overflowing and about 600000 acres of crops covered by six to eight inches of water. Officials warn property damage could run into millions of dollars as weather continues to threaten the area.
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Atlanta
Louisiana
Solicitor to Call Medical Evidence in Sanity Case
In Sydney 1951 a solicitor Oliver Carey Johnston seeks damages against two doctors who certified his sanity and caused six months at Callan Park Asylum. He plans to call medical witnesses to prove misconduct and vanity of the psychiatrists Dr Horace Layton Spearman and Dr William Henry Randall. The hearing adjourned until Monday due to counsel illness.
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Sydney
Callan Park Mental Hospital
Oliver Carey Johnston
Supreme Court
Johnston
Nix Gwn
Horace Layton Spearman
William Henry Randall
Callan Park Asylum
Callan Park
Justice McClemena
J. H. Wootten
Impeachment Demanded Over Passports for Communists
Senator Ashley charged the federal government with issuing passports to four Communist union leaders for travel to a Chinese Labour congress. He named Waterside Workers’ Federation, BWIU Queensland, Building Trades leaders and others, claiming secrecy and a threat to Australia’s policy. He said the visit also linked to Peiping briefings amid tensions in Indo China and Korea. Labor defends travel freedoms but condemns travel to enemy nations.
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Sydney
H. £. Holt
Australia
All China Federation of Labour
Waterside Workers’ Federation
Roach
Queensland
B.wiu
Queensland Building Trades Group
G. M Lawson
Victorian
Building Trace Federation
G. Lewins
Victorian Tramways Employees’ Union
C. O'Shea
Ashley
Hospital Employees’ Union
J. D. McPhee
Holt
All-China Federation ‘of Labour
Ernest Thornton
Wits Australia
Fac
Peiping
China
Korea
Labour
Won Custody of Child She Has Not Seen
Sydney reports 24 year old Mrs. Jill Mary Hackney won custody of her eight months old daughter she had never met. Acting Justice Myers granted custody to Mrs. Hackney over her wealthy husband in an Equity Court action heard last week. Ben Charles Ackney of Bathurst involved as defendant.
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Sydney
Jill Mary Hackney
Myers
Hackney
Ben Charles Ackney
Bathurst
Equity
New Deal for Land Under Menzies
The Australian government under Menzies outlines a new land policy amid shortages in farming gear caused by prior Labour policies. The plan includes five yearly depreciation incentives of 20 percent for farm improvements, aimed at boosting production and stabilising national solvency. The minister argues Labour failed to support primary industries and blamed unions and communism for production declines.
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Chifley Labour
Army
Mr. Francis
Labour
Australia
United Kingdom
Australe
Manazies
Comet Fire During Storm Crashes Near Calcutta
The Times reports a British Overseas Airways Constellation crashed near Calcutta during a severe electrical storm. All 43 aboard perished as the airliner disintegrated in flames after the plane stalled and nosedived into trees. Eyewitnesses described a red flash and a wingless wreckage amid exploding debris.
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London
the Times
Calcutta
Lmyani
British Overseas
Passenarrs
Lorton
Sanday
Catenty Do
Counterfeit £10 Notes Worry Banks in Melbourne
Banks in Melbourne report a surge of counterfeit ten pound notes in recent weeks. Officials say the fakes improve each time and appear to come from the same source, with five new fakes detected in the last three weeks, bringing total discoveries to over twenty in Melbourne in months. The notes are described as the best yet and closely resemble authentic currency.
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Melbourne
Tne
Ust
Commonwealth Bank
Killarney Man Dies in Warwick Road Crash
Roy Dorrington a 38 year old resident of South Killarney was killed when a utility truck failed to navigate a bend near Ahern's slaughter yards three miles from Warwick. Two other men Leslie Allan and Kevin Kenny were injured and treated at Warwick Base Hospital. The fourth occupant escaped injury.
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Killarney
Wilda
Stanthorpe
Ahern
Warwick
Imsth
Roy Dorrington
South Killarney
Leslie Allan
Warwick Base
Kevin Edward Kenny
Iin
Dorn
Prairie
Claike
Mecamister
Kenny
Slaughter Yards
Lived 414 Hours Without Breathing
Melbourne bank clerk Arthur Williams fell from a bus and fractured the skull. He lay unconscious in an iron lung with a weak heart, breathing stopped for 414 hours before his heart failed at 1 p.m. yesterday. Medical efforts to stabilize and operate failed.
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Melbourne
O Et Vincent's Hospital
Arthur Williams
Lay
Seore
Williams
Bus 4 overturns. several children treated after crash
A bus incident at Boonah left Lucky Escapes with a bruised arm while two other children May Herrmann and Seeley Cooper sustained a bruised eye and leg. The bus was extensively damaged and medical staff attended the scene.
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May Herrmann
Seeley Cooper
Boonah
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S.W
BEZRS
Li Rson
Green
Ubeiisie
Menzies
Dorrington
Lucky
Messrs. Howards’ Limited
Warwick and District
Electrice
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