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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1943
Page
9
The exclusive dispatch from Eleanor Roosevelt on a plane over Australia recalls local housing, gardens, and pets amid wartime conditions. She shares impressions of detached homes, verandas, bougainvillea hedges, and koalas, interweaving letters from Australians praising American troops and a note on missing relatives in Malaya.
Honolulu reports Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt says postwar rehabilitation of war wounded will be a serious problem. She notes more injured veterans will return and stresses the need to place them in useful jobs while addressing social reintegration and independence challenges.
Japanese forces boost coast guard duties after the Yamato Maru sinking. Reports say over ten warships sighted at Amoy with additional units off Swatow and Foochow as Tokyo acknowledges the strike.
U-boat commander Guggenberg, prisoner in Recife with five crew, describes attempts by an American plane to crash dive and sink his submarine in South American waters. Duchess of Norfolk volunteers effort near shipyard. nine survivors were shark victims after the sinking.
In Pluasanville New York Guil Wren age nine and sister Nancy age six learn their German shepherd Chips is recommended for a Distinguished Service Cross for wartime actions in Sicily. Chips assisted Pvt John R Rowell of Arkansas during the invasion by clearing a pillbox and helping capture Italian gunners. The War Department notes medals cannot be awarded to animals.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. was under terrific enemy fire during the Salerno landings. He served as executive officer aboard a U S destroyer and remained calm amid heavy combat as the ship aided by escort vessels. Naval officer Al Helfer described the scene and praised Roosevelt's composure and leadership.
Eighty Texas servicemen and several Gan Antonians joined a reunion in London with Maj. McClure Williams leading the largest delegation from Worth Hollywood Avenue. The group traveled 120 miles with 12 others, greeting Gov Coke Stevenson and singing Texan songs at the American Red Grove Mostynouth dinner.
Eric Johnston, president of the U S Chamber of Commerce, will address the San Antonio chamber on Thursday night October 14 after returning from a tour of England where he advocated free enterprise and debated British economists. He will travel next to Mexico.
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