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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1943
Page
1
A severe November snow storm battered the Troy area with up to 18 inches in higher regions. Roads were blocked and power lines down as state and county plows struggled against drifts. One man died from exertion related to the storm and further cold is expected.
Japanese infantry cavalry artillery and air power battered toward Changteh as they push toward Changsha in Hunan Province. Reports say 10 000 troops gathered at Yochow for a two way offensive from Tungting Lake shores while Chinese officials accuse Japan of using poison gas to hinder counter offensives.
Stockholm reports Berlin mobilizes for a fifth winter of conflict with all usable manpower, including older men. Measures radicalize labor use to strip non essential work. Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung warns of hard winter but steadfast German resolve amid reportedly climactic Allied bombing season.
The German radio reported Berlin endured another heavy raid by Allied bombers after a prior assault last Thursday night. The broadcast claimed extensive damage across many districts, fires burning as fire squads fought the flames amid continued attacks, with communications cut and the attack described as a big terror raid.
A proposed system for service men to vote in next year s elections faced heavy opposition in Washington. The Senate struck out a War Ballot Commission provision to challenge presidential vote validity and rejected a Supreme Court umpire plan. Three southern Democrats urged replacing the plan with a simple absentee ballot option for armed forces personnel and civilians.
Unconfirmed dispatch cites Zurich correspondent of Dagens Nyheter claiming Benito Mussolini killed himself at his Lake Garda villa after arriving in a tense state. No corroboration from other sources. specialists reportedly summoned from Rome but arrived too late.
German broadcasts claimed the fall of Samos, a Greek island near Turkey, as Allied power rises in the Balkans. Samos followed losses of Leros and Cos in the Dodecanese, while Tito’s Yugoslav Partisans widened a counter offensive in Slovenia and recaptured two villages in Bosnia, with a German Bulgarian thrust against Krenje repulsed.
Margaret Drury a 24 year old Lancashire ground mechanic claimed she was the first person to fly from England to Canada as a stowaway. She described squeezing into the nose wheel compartment for 19 hours and surviving on stockings and two daily eggs. Canadian immigration rejected her admission. Ottawa will decide on appeal. She kept a girdle elastic and foundation cream as souvenirs and is content with the adventure.
Plymouth Mass Descendants of the Pilgrim fathers forego turkey for ham on Thanksgiving 323 years after the first feast. The Eilis Brewster family, direct descendant of Elder Brewster, will substitute ham for drum sticks as three sons and a son in law serve in wartime theaters. Mos Brewster notes gratitude for sons and daughters serving and for the family’s good health and plenty of turkey.
Washington passed a bill designed to place pre war fathers at the bottom of the draft list. It would remove draft authority from the War Manpower Commission and slow father inductions. Officials say Selective Service had already aimed to place fathers last, but the debate may delay quotas. Some boards fell behind, jeopardizing the target of 446,000 fathers by January 1.
The Supreme Court held federal law assigns rail dispute settlements to the National Mediation Board or the unions, not the courts. It also denied review for Socialist Workers Party members convicted of conspiracy and insubordination, and ruled probationers cannot receive longer sentences for parole violations.
Senator Taft proposes banning any federal employee from sending materials to military personnel aimed at influencing presidential or congressional elections. The measure targets officers and employees of the federal government.
Allied headquarters denied claims that General George Patton Jr was reprimanded by General Eisenhower and stated he continues to command the Seventh Army in Algiers. The denial followed broadcaster Drew Pearson’s report that Patton had been severely reprimanded and would not be used in combat.
Crowds occupied the chamber of deputies and police headquarters in Beirut yesterday with police joining. The Lebanese flag flew as the country grapples with disturbances tied to sovereignty in the French mandate. A British official warned the crisis was not over and concerns grew over an Algiers report on cabinet changes. President Khoury and Premier Sohl arrived in Beirut yesterday.
The Senate Small Business Committee reported there is no immediate prospect of ending sugar rationing unless domestic production rises through some incentive measures.
London reports a vast underground city carved from solid rock, linked by railway tunnels and conveyors, converted over seven years into a giant wartime munitions warehouse. Guards and workers occupy offices and barracks while ATS telephone exchanges operate below ground. A daylight exit reveals peaceful pastures above ground.
Red Army forces with heavy tank support repelled a major Nazi counterattack near Korostyshev sixty miles west of Kiev. Reports say 80 German tanks were destroyed and German troops suffered heavy losses as Soviet offensives widened toward the Dnieper bend and Rumani Poland borders. The ninth day of battle left German assaults broken with corpses on the approaches to Russian lines.
Britain named Harold Macmilan as her representative on the advisory council for Italy and Alfred Duff Cooper to the French Committee of National Liberation. In Washington, Robert D. Murphy will represent the United States on the Italian advisory council and Edwin C. Wilson will head the U.S. delegation to the French Committee.
Lorenz Hart popular lyricist of Broadway hits died at 9 39 am at Doctors Hospital New York. He left a brother Teddy Hart and was a Columbia University alumnus. Hart wrote lyrics for The Poor Little Ritz Girl Garrick Gaieties Dear est Enemy Peggy Ann Betsy The Girl Friend Lidlo Lady and One Touch of Venus.
The State Department said funds will be sent to American civilians interned in the Philippines through the Swiss legation in Tokyo. After long efforts by the department and the Red Cross, Japanese authorities agreed to permit monthly remittances to buy relief supplies locally.
British war workers resent Mosley release as laborites prepare sharp questions for Home Secretary Morrison. Petitions in London reach a quarter of a million while stewards refuse to “play Hitler’s game.” Independent MP Beakes criticizes sentimental civil defense rhetoric and echoes past releases of political prisoners.
Washington mourns as Senator W Warren Barbour dies at 55 from coronary thrombosis at his home. The Capitol physician Dr George Carver announced the death during a 24 hour recess observed for three late members. Barbour, a Republican, had first joined the Senate in 1981 to replace the late Dwight Morrow and served multiple terms, with reelection in 1940 ending in 1947.
United States Marines landed on Abemama atoll eighty miles southeast of Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands and improved positions on Tarawa and Makin. A Nimitz communique said troops have improved their position but face considerable ground resistance as fighting continues against Japanese artillery and pill boxes.
Admiral Nimitz identified the 27th Division under Maj. Gen. Ralph Smith from Tucson, Ariz, as driving the Japanese from the Gilbert Islands. Brig. Gen Ogden J. Ross of Troy leads a brigade in the division. The 105th Infantry regiment, federalized in 1940, left Troy for Fort McClellan and later Hawaii and the West Coast as part of wartime deployments.
Allied forces supported by two ton Matilda tanks advanced through the northeastern New Guinea jungle to within about half a mile of Jap strongholds near Sattelberg. MacArthur reports show Allied ships damaged or sunk 19990 tons of Japanese shipping in the past eight hours as the campaign tightens along the Huon Peninsula coast.
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