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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1943
Page
3
In Port Said Egypt freed British prisoners recount a Genoa fountain scene where citizens toss coins for an air defense fund. After a heavy raid police found the fountain brimming with Fascist badges instead of money, revealing a symbolic tribute over tattered finances.
Lawrence Derks killed a wolf on the wrong side of the road and thus forfeited a $5 bounty. After a long chase the wolf darted into a fence and was entangled, allowing Derks to kill it. The road divides Gentry and Nodaway counties, affecting where a bounty could be claimed. A separate note mentions a 3,000 acre vegetable project starting in Melbourne, Australia.
Col J W F Hughes of Topeka cannot obtain the 299 dollars owed as state guard officer since 1893. While legislators oppose setting a precedent by paying the aged debt, unofficial collections grow quickly as Rep Henry Buzich pledges 5 dollars from his postage allowance, bringing total to 172 and potentially 299.
London. Lord Leathers says eighty seven of every hundred men aboard torpedoed ships survive. He notes most fatalities occur from enemy attack or during escape attempts, with lifeboat losses under two percent. Rescue usually occurs within hours.
In subsistence combat off Corregidor, MTB crews under Bulkeley hunt a Japanese landing barge. A torpedo mishap nearly sinks them. Ensign Chandler is wounded while repelling two nighttime Japanese boats. They press on with own-fire avoided and sink an additional foe before dawn.
A wartime meditation tracks the blitz through praise and condemnation, contrasting its terror with a mirrored critique of Allied and Nazi actions. The piece shifts to Harry Hopkins planning a Victory Garden, humorously lampooning bureaucratic postwar expectations and political calculations.
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