News in Brief Lied About Fellow Soldier
DANVILLE (Virginia), Thurs.--(AAP).--An American ex-serviceman who was pinned under a wrecked car shot himself…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1950
350 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 18
"Sliding to War"
VATICAN CITY, Fri. (AAP).--The hydrogen bomb means that the cold war is "sliding irresistibly towards waged war," the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Petition From War Criminal Suspects
TOKIO, Fri. (A.A.P.-Reuter).--Eighty-five Japanese war criminal suspects at Sugam[?] prison have petitioned the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Anzac Day Commemoration At Citizens' Gathering
COFF'S HARROW, Sun. -- The form of service which should be adopted at Anzac Day Commemoration service has for…
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If a motion to be moved at next meeting of Coifs Harbour Sub-Branch of the Returned Servicemen's League is carried,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seek Higher Pension for Disabled Soldiers
HOBART, Wed.-- The totally and permanently disabled Soldiers' Association Congress decided to-day to press the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Wounded In Alleged Brawl
Police investigating an alleged brawl in a tent on railway property at Ryan street, South Grafton, on Wednesday night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Macksville Show on Anzac Day
Some difficulty has arisen because the second day of Macksville Show falls on Anzac Day. but satisfactory…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Says Statesmanship Could Avert War
LONDON, Tues. (AAP).-- Britain's Attorney-General (Sir Hartley Shawcross) told a Labour rally in Lancashire, he believed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →R.S.L. Complaint About War Medals
The existing arrangement for the supply of war medals to ex-servicemen was criticised at a meeting of the North Coast District R.S.L. Council at Grafton yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Calls for War on Crime
WASHINGTON, Thurs. (AAP), President Truman has called for a great moral crusade against organised crime in the United…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →African War Cripples
The Rehabilitation Centre at Igbobi. Nigeria, West Africa, was erected before the end of hos[?] in the Far East to fit limbless ex-servicemen with artificial limbs and rehabilitate them so that they could return to their civilian employment and compete with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →P.O.W. Sustenance Pay Covers All War Theatres
SYDNEY, Mon.--State R.S.L, President (Mr, Yeo) said to-day that the P.O.W. sustenance pay scheme covered Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Admits De-control Decision Could Bring Prices War
MELBOURNE, Wed.-- The Victorian Premier (Mr. Hollway) admitted to-day that the State's decision to de-control…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War's Bombs "In Few Days" Now
Lieut.-General Curtis Le May, commanding general of the C.S. Strategic Air Command, mid recently that if atomic…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hits At Delays In War Trials
CANBERRA, Fri.--Extraordinary delays in the trials of Japanese suspected war criminals, some of whom were still held in prison without trial four years after the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Air Plans If War Begins
LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.).--"Secret plans" for a re-grouping of Britain's airliners should war start in South-East Asia have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Starts "War for Decency"
Former actor Robert Montgomery has asked a U.S. Federal Court to revoke the citizenship of New York…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Slates Inquiry Method On War Widows
MELBOURNE, Thurs.--Disgust towards departmental officials who visited the homes of war windows late at night to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Meeting Futile Predicts War
CAIRO, Fri. (AAP).-- Predicting an atom war, Colonel Robert McCormick, publisher of the Chicago "Tribune,"…
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