Soldier Kills Girl in Church
BOURBON (Indiana) Mon: Pte Homer Shoemaker, 24, shot 16-year-old Ruth Golden to death during a church…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Murray · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1952
576 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 29
Air War in Korea Brisker
TOKIO, Wed.: The aerial war was brisker over Korea yesterday. A half-hour fight between 31 US Sabre jets and about 60…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Expects Korean War to End Soon
SYDNEY, Wed.: Troops in Korea, for the first time, had a feeling the peace talks would amount to something, Driver O. McPike said on arrival here today…
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ISMAILIA, Thurs.: Two Egyptian terrorists are believed to have been wounded when British troops fired on a terrorist cable cutting…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Letter Throws New Light on Albury Man’s War Service Briton Writes to Mayor About Capt. P. Heywood
Some little known war service of Albury district grazier, Capt. Phil Heywood, of “Hawksview,” has come to light in a letter which the Mayor (Ald. Bunton) received yesterday from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Diggers Home From War in Malaya
BRISBANE, Fri.: Five Australian soldiers who returned on the liner Merkur today said Communist penetration in Malaya…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →No war, says Calwell
MELBOURNE, Sun.: In the course of a broadcast address this evening the deputy Leader of the Federal Opposition. Mr A…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£180 Mil. Profit on War Surplus Wool
LONDON, Sun.: Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa have made a profit of £180 million from the sale of surplus wartime…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →C.A.E. Speaker’s Claim Korean war will “drag on” until American elections
The Korean war will probably “drag on” until the American elections in November, Mr. C. P. Fitzgerald, foreign affairs expert, told C.A.E. Summer School students [?] Albury yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →War Comforts Fund To Be Revived
This Federal administrator of the Australian Comforts Fund, Mr. C. R. McKerihan, said on Tuesday night the fund would be revived…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Truman Tells Nation World in war shadow
WASHINGTON, Wed.: Although 1951, as a year of great achievement, in which the world had made many gains, the world still walked…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →War Is Not Inevitable, Say Truman, Churchill
WASHINGTON, Thurs.—“We do not believe that war is inevitable. This is the basis of our policies.” This conviction is expressed by the British Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) and President Truman in a joint communique summarising…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Housing plans based on war-time standards
CANBERRA, Thurs.: Minister for Works and Housing (Mr Kent Hughes) said today that the Commonwealth Government was…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Jap stragglers still at war
MANILLA, Tues.: Soldiers have been despatched to Lubang Island, off Mindoro, to search out Japanese stragglers who last Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Indo-chinese War Flares Up
HANOI (Indo-China), Thurs.: The Indo-Chinese war flared up yesterday with a heavy attack by Vietminh Communist rebel troops on the strategic isolated French fortress outpost of Hoa Binh…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Youth wounded taxi-driver, then suicided—findings of City Coroner
SYDNEY, Fri.: City Coroner (Mr. A. N. Bott) found today that a youth had fatally wounded a tax-driver and later committed suicide. The taxi driver was Maxwell Arthur Suthern, 29,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Will Attend Anzac Day in New Zealand
Mr. C. H. (“Charlie”) Brown, Wodonga RSL secretary, is one of 50 Australian returned servicemen who will take part in Anzac Day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →418 U.S. planes lost in the Korean war
TOKIO, Sun.: Three enemy jet fighters were shot down and another was damaged in two clashes between American Sabre…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Largest post-war betting plunge won £23,000 on Pure Fire
MELBOURNE, Sun.: The largest post-war betting plunge was launched at Caulfield yesterday afternoon by one operator…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →British soldier killed in canal battle
One British soldier was killed and three soldiers and three airmen wounded during the battle which raged yesterday between…
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