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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1943
Page
3
Private Marion Hargrove, former North Carolina newspaper staffer, is in basic training at Fort Bragg as a cook. He adapts to kitchen duty and KP while detailing army habits and the popularity of shooting the breeze among fellow soldiers. He notes the humor and slang of camp life.
The narrator details barracks humor and character sketches across a battery. Private Hulce dominates sessions with family lore. Private Hargrove fears cooking duty as he learns he will be the new head cook. The piece ends with camaraderie and a teaser for continued anecdotes.
In the House of Commons Maj. Henderson of the War Office reported United States transport planes evacuated more than 16,000 British and American battle casualties during the North African campaign. Additional casualties were transported from front lines by ambulance trains hospital ships and hospital trains.
The article describes United States Army overseas military police duties expanding to guard against air raids and parachute assaults. Patton orders MPs to monitor air and ground threats, direct traffic, secure pre battle points, and protect visiting dignitaries at headquarters.
F. L. Calkin reports white berries growing on Purple Mountain near Mexico Missouri in a patch surrounded by blackberries. He says in his 35 years of berry picking he never saw anything like them.
Secretary Ickes reports that U S armed forces in training camps consume about four times as much fresh fish as civilians. Weekly marine fish intake for 5 million servicemen is 1 750 000 pounds dressed weight with meals once a week. The range of species purchased has expanded from eight or nine to at least 36.
Washington report quotes the Chinese central news agency describing Japanese army plans to curb mutinies among non Japanese troops. The 202 system merges Japanese and Manchurian troops in equal numbers into a single unit. The 303 unit mixes one third Manchurian, one third Korean, and one third Japanese soldiers.
A woman voter told the Los Angeles council that a rooster near her home caused misery. Councilman Roy Hampton brushed off the issue noting his own yard holds many animals and a Victory garden.
Private George Proctor of Company B in the 54th Medical Training Battalion recalls a midnight incident at Camp Barkeley. He awoke to a large mosquito perched on his chest examining his dogtags, while tentmates were already at rec halls.
In World War II era reports, anxiety replaces shell shock as the name for nerve casualties. Army doctors describe a three day forward area treatment behind the lines with bed rest food and continuous shellfire exposure. Sixty to seventy percent return to units. ten percent relapse. This development marks a milestone in army medicine.
Open water fish tend toward bluish or metallic coloring while bottom dwelling fish show mottled or striped patterns resembling stream stones and sand.
The Pennsylvania State College library reports high circulation with more than 93 percent of its 245000 volumes loaned in the past fiscal year. Student loans totaled 54953 and faculty loans 24472 as librarians note increased workload due to the war.
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