Merle Oberon' s Dash From Fire
HOLLYWOOD, Thursday.-- Many film stars, including Merle Oberon and Claude Rains, scurried to safety. when six acres of…
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Boy Accused Of School Fires
PERTH, Saturday.--A 14-year- old boy was arrested last night and charged with having wilfully set fire to Claremont school…
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BALIKPAPAN (Borneo), Friday.--The rich Borneo oil centre of Sambodja (30 miles northeast of Balikpapan), captured…
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Traffic was held up when the rear car of a city bound tram caught fire in Harris-street, Pyrmont, at 1.30 pm today, through…
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While being questioned about his income and expenditure during alimony proceedings before the Registrar in Divorce yesterday. Mr. T.Januarius…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Attacks on Four Cities Fighter Sweeps Over Japan
GUAM, July 20.—The greatest force of Super-Fortresses ever assembled—more than 600—to-day made the 57th fire attack on Japan…
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GUAM, Friday.--Four big Japanese industrial cities and a large oil-refining centre are in flames following this morning's record Super-Fortress raid…
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IT would be quite untrue to say that he received any perquisites because of his position as President of the Board of Fire Commissioners, Thomas Januarius Smith declared in the Divorce Registrar's Court last week. Smith,…
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BERTH, Sunday.—a 14-year-old boy has been arrested and charged with having wilfully set fire to premises at Claremont State School…
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The Registrar in Divorce (Mr. C K. Body) said today that he was surprised that a man in the position of Thomas Januarius Smith, President of the Board of Fire Commissioners, had proved such an unconvincing…
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LONDON, Monday.-- Twenty-four hundred Italian criminals who barricaded themselves behind steel doors, last night, set fire to the Regina Coeli prison in Rome. The roof blazed furiously and…
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The Erskineville family tragedy in which a father and young son died took a dramatic turn today when it was disclosed that they were probably gassed…
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At Newtown Court yesterday, the Police Prosecutor, Sergeant Goode, said that Marjorie Mary Jean Bonus, 26, of Camden Street, Newtown, had…
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Food poisoning did not cause the death of Leslie Gordon Hayward (42) and his son, Bruce Arthur Hayward (2½), at Erskinieville yesterday morning. Carbon monoxide poisoning is now suspected. POLICE stated today, however…
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GUAM, July 24.—There was no fighter opposition to our raids earlier, although anti-aircraft fire was intense, but the…
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POLICE are convinced that the death of a man and his twin son in an Erskineville home on Monday morning was…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →LETTERS: Honi Soit under fire Do its contributors live as they preach? ... asks an editor, but he says it's hard to argue with an editress. Charges unanswered
SIR,--On Monday I made 11 substantial charges against the contents of the July 12 issue of Honi Soit. The…
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SEVENTH DIVISION infantrymen at the ready while they watch Balikpapan oil tanks burst into 2000-foot flames on Parramatta Ridge. -- Australian Official photo…
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Three boys set fire to grass and a tree in Vaucluse yesterday. Two of the boys, who were all aged 14 years, admitted that they were…
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NEW YORK, Thursday.--Rain is now considered the sole hope of halting the 90,000-acre forest fire in western Oregon…
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