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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 25, 1943
Page
1
Winter clothes range includes knitted wool slinkies in grey lime dusty pink blue maroon green and fancy knit jackets and cardigans with high necks. Also include childrens jumpers nighties pyjamas and coats with durable qualities and warm linings. Shoes for boys girls and youth with strong sewn soles and comfortable lasts.
United States heavy bombers damaged U boat construction bases at Wilhelmshaven and Emden at midday Friday. Mosquito bombers struck Berlin for the third time in succession and the sixth in nine days. Allied air forces hit Sicily Sardinia Pantellaria and the toe of Italy with North African and Middle East aircraft targeting Egypt. Axis nerves crack as Italy shifts toward the Vatican in peace talks. Russians repelled a large German counter attack at Lishchansk and Kursk raids. Allied planes pound Japanese bases from New Britain to New Guinea. Attu’s battle nears final phase with Japanese encirclement at Chicago Harbour. Comintern advised disbanding. Axis air losses heavily outrun Allied losses. Roosevelt and Churchill review war move recommendations.
Sir Hubert Wilkins reports in the Australian Army Education journal SALT on soldiers’ life along the Alcan Highway from Canada to Alaska. He notes severe winter conditions, inadequate gear, and the need for better clothing and housing while stressing theRoad’s timely completion and its role in victory. He compares Alaska ordeals with hotter climates Darwin and Cape York soldiers face, and highlights winter aircraft maintenance challenges as key to operations. He praises Allied comradeship and calls for enduring unity postwar.
A reader from Guyra reports Mr H J Hume of Snowflake trapped a striking red and white dingo last week. The animal had a white collar like neck band and white on the flanks legs and feet. Hume notes it as the prettiest dingo he has caught and cites a fine coat. He has prior success drawing in multiple dogs. Nearby dog-proof fencing exists with reports of calf losses though sheep killings are not current. The year totals four dogs and one bitch. The State Marketing Bureau estimates maize harvest at 3 100 000 bushels, near the year’s high of 3 141 720.
A fragment notes someone called the arrival of American troops in Britain The Return of the Mayflower The piece mentions descendants of Mayflower passengers and other expeditions.
Major Harold Henry McMinn died at the 113th Military Hospital in Concord Sydney during the week end. He was 55, a son of Police Sergeant McMinn of Lorn, brother of Meredith McMinn of West Maitland, and survived by his wife Mrs. M A McMinn of 45 Jenner Parade Hamilton and four children Marjorie Patricia Harold and Brian. He served with the garrison forces and was once on the staff of the AMP Society in Maitland, well known in the Dungog district.
Mr G Booth told Kurri Kurri Electoral Council at Wallsend that the Boilers Inspection Bill was skipped by the State Government due to a superstition like hoodoo. The Government amended the Factories and Shops Act to settle the issue, with the bill repeatedly defeated at polls amid Parlia mentary superstition surrounding the so called Hoodoo Bill.
Australian production executive aims for 6,500,000 lbs of Australian grown tobacco in the 1943-44 season. The target follows an inter departmental committee and Australian Tobacco Board recommendation in coordination with the Customs Department. Minister Dedman notes pre war 99 percent of tobacco smoked in Australia came from the United States and says the board will ensure encouraging prices and fair share of available leaf to conserve overseas credits.
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