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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1943
Page
9
A wartime analysis notes reviewer praise for early war successes but highlights home front procurement mismanagement. It argues learning from mistakes is vital, listing significant errors while acknowledging remaining war effort and need for improved efficiency.
The Truman committee highlights major war program overcharges and waste. It notes camp construction costs ballooned from 515 to 828 million with related facilities pushing above a billion. Other examples include Wolf's Creek shell plant at 52 million and Canal Oil development projected at 25 and ending at 134 million.
The article reviews cost overruns in Cramp Shipbuilding Philadelphia, concrete barge program, and aircraft projects like Wright Engine plant and Curtiss Wright Helldiver. It notes contracts corrected, lessons learned, and a warning that more costly mistakes may occur despite overall production gains. It also covers a Rutland Legion member's obituary details including survivors and funeral arrangements.
Whitehall residents share news of illness convalescence travel and family visits. Miss Catherine Corbett remains ill at Mrs Lil lian Browns Lafayette Street while Lucy Ryan recuperates at home on School Street. William Stewart’s wife Mrs Champlain Avenue reports her husband Corp William Stewart returned safely overseas. Ke nneth Whalen stationed at Sampton NC visited his parents. Pvt James Eaton returned to duty after visiting family and wife Private Eaton attends Foreign Areas and Language School in Pittsburgh. Pvt Donald Wheelock and wife visited his parents in Oneonta before he reports to Quantico for Officers' Candidate School. Local lodge officers reelected at Skenesborough Lodge 204 B L F and E. Mrs John Reid reelected president. dinner honored Edward Whalen for forty years in the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen in Albany. Whitehall residents attended. Rutland native Henry P Lampton dies in Rutland Hospital after short illness. He was born in Granville and lived in Whitehall. formerly with Nova k Printing Co. in Rutland and a World War II veteran.
The Christmas program is at West Sand Lake School today at 1 45 pm. A candlelight service is planned for Christmas Eve at Trinity Lutheran Church led by Rev. Harry W Lammand with the choir helping. The Young Women's Missionary Society meets Thursday evening at Mrs Walter Hitchcock's home.
Four U S Army technicians with the aid of native allies completed a 200 mile mapping expedition in Japanese held territory. The party landed by plane, spent 13 days updating maps, and then escaped. Native guards protected the team night and day and guided them around enemy positions.
Mrs. Michael Matera a gold star mother and member of veterans auxiliaries died yesterday morning at 290 Fourth Street after a brief illness. Native of Italy she resided in Troy for 50 years. She left a husband three daughters Antoinette Angelina and Mrs Frank Mascelli a son Anthony E Matera and another daughter deceased. Also survive a brother three sisters and three grandchildren.
Mount Vernon Washington Franklin Good, 77, recovered a U S cent he lost in 1883 while helping build a home. The coin fell from his pocket during duck hunting with a single barrel muzzle loader and rolled into a mortise. A new owner plans to raze the building and the coin was found within inches of the original drop site.
James A. DeRossi, 27, and companion Herman Tragni, 21, both charged with first degree robbery after allegedly forcing Guthrie into a car and fleeing. DeRossi waived grand jury examination and remains jailed. Tragni reported injured, receiving hospital care for possible skull fracture. Guthrie injured in taxi collision during escape sequence, investigation led by Asst. Dr. Carleton J. King at Saratoga Hospital. Further details unclear due to fragmented source text.
William Summerbelt of Watervliet has been granted a patent for a gun appearing like a heavy pipe. The device features a frame with a breech block that reciprocates, a jug on the breech block, a housing attached to the frame, and a seat mounted in the housing with a forward extending arm.
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