U.S. Congress Contempt Charges Supreme Court Rejects Appeal
WASHINGTON, Tuesday.—The Supreme Court, by a majority of six to two yesterday, refused to review the contempt of…
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Bridges Sentenced to Five Years' Gaol on Two Counts
SAN FRANCISCO, Tuesday (A.A.P.): Australian-born Labor leader. Harry Bridges, was yesterday sentenced to five years' imprisonment on perjury and conspiracy charges. Shortly afterwards the Government attorney began arguments supporting…
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LITHGOW, Tuesday: Police today charged three Lithgow schoolboys with attempting to set Ore to pit-top buildings at…
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A SYDNEY laborer who has been convicted at the last two sittings of the Wagga Court of Petty Sessions was yesterday…
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MELBOURNE. Tuesday: Police will stand by to quell any disturbances which may occur when striking tramwaymen are…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: Before the died, Dulcle Ellicott, 19, of Rutherford, had identified from a photograph a man who she…
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SYDNEY, Wed.: Higher pay for members of the New South Wales Police Force was sought before the State Industrial…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: After less than a quarter of an hour's deliberation, a jury passed a verdict of guilty on a man charged with murder in the Central Criminal Court today…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: Skip Court ran a brilliant three in 36 seconds at Victoria Park to-day, indicating a first-up chance…
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HOLLYWOOD, Tues. (A.A.P.): Chances appear good for a peaceful out-of-court settlement of Ingrid Bergman's suit against…
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At the Coolamon Court of Petty Sessions yesterday morning, before Mr. M. L. Kingdon, J.P. Harry Soutar Craig was charges with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tenancy Case at Junee Court. Premises Not Dwelling, Decides S.M.
At the last sitting of the Junee Court Donald M. C. Joyce asked the Court to give him the tenancy of a dwelling at 136 Broadway…
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A lost cheque book and wallet figured prominently in the evidence tendered at the last sitting of the Junee Court when a Wagga…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Court of Petty Sessions THURSDAY, 6th APRIL. (Before Mr. W. H. Hall, J.P.)
William Cole (68) WAS fined £1. in default 18 hours har d labour, on a charge of drunkenness…
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SYDNEY, Friday: A mother was prepared to mortgage her home to make part-restitution of £4000 which her son had…
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BRISBANE, Friday: Two aborigines have been charged with murder following police investigations into the spearing of…
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SYDNEY, Frday: There was a heated clash in Central Court today when the Police Prosecutor (Sgt. Goode) produced "two…
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LONDON, Monday.—British and French detectives are making Inquiries, based on the theory that the Viking airliner…
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SYDNEY, Monday—A man who allegedly obtained £200 from a woman by falsely pretending that he could secure her husband's release, from goal was sentenced to two years' gaol in the…
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Died at his residence at Maroubra yesterday, former Police Inspector Harold Elgin Pyne, who was one time stationed at Gundagai…
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