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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1943
Page
11
In a quiet pre holiday session traders kept major indices steady as holiday shopping pauses limited trading volumes. Analysts noted continued demand for technology and financials while energy and industrials showed muted moves amid cautious sentiment.
New York Sept 4 prices show flour steady with various grades listed. Butter prices steady with OPS maximums and creamery premiums. cheese nominal with no quotes. Eggs firm with first receivers selling prices and dozens for different weights. poultry and other fresh prices unchanged.
Pre-holiday trading left the New York stock market largely motionless with many stocks flat. Volume matched last year’s level as transfers totaled 173 570 shares. Leaders included Engineers Public Service and American Telephone while laggards were Santa Fe Southern Pacific Bethlehem General Motors and Dow Chemical. Bonds and commodities showed uneven movements with a few gainers like Cuban Atlantic Sugar and Salt Dome Oil.
The curb market openings show Foster and Adams listing Am Dynamid at the high 42% area with par values near 4235 to 4238. Electric and oil stocks including Amer Gaa & Electric, Cities Service Com, and Imperial Oil display modest percentages, while United Gas and similar utilities hover around 2% to 3% changes. A wartime note urges turning in half empty War Stamp books for interest bearing War Bonds.
The September 4 1943 market notes show cabbage steadier at around 1.25 per basket and tomatoes 1.00 to 1.25 per basket with many fruits and vegetables listed by unit. Prices span peppers carrots cabbage cucumbers and apples plus live chickens and various berries and melons with occasional limited receipts and regional crates noted.
A wartime account describes British Commandos in a coastal raid with 11 sailors and Major Young directing operations. Italians attempt to flee or resist as captors select seven prisoners for extraction, including a Parma officer with a Red Cross nurse companion.
Stephentown Mr and Mrs N L Wershing and their family of Tenafly New Jersey have returned home after a week with her sister Mrs Harry Griswold and mother Mrs Mary Michles who will spend months with them The ninth birthday party for Rosemarie Griswold featured cousins Mary Anne Julie Frances Wershing Betty Bobby Burdick Eleanor Anne Griswold and Jeanette Thomas with games ice cream candy and cake.
A war bond show at Proctor's Theater on Wednesday Sept. 15 will feature six World War II heroes Nan Gray and Gene Lockhart and a premier motion picture. Admission is by bond purchase only to raise funds for the third war loan. Bonds available at banks, stores, and special booths. seating based on bond size.
Walt Dubiel the 22 year old Newark Bears right hander fired a seven inning no hit game against Syracuse in the second half of a double header. Newark won 3 to 0 after taking the first game 4 0. Dubiel allowed four to reach base on three walks and an error. It was the third no hit effort in the International League this season with Buffalos Rafe Gentry and Rochesters Sylvester Donnelly also throwing no hitters.
Ann Corio, widely known as a striptease star in New York, nears completion of a poetry book titled Revealing Lines. The work presents her views on men, life, and the drama.
An explosion on a road near Maslova Pristan east of Belogorod at 11 pm killed two Red Army officers and injured others as a minefield expanded along the Kharkov front. Venturing jeeps and a Soviet air escort faced flare-lit night fire and searchlights before darkness and casualties.
Troy Public Library unveils new arrivals on exhibit for one week. Notable titles include Wind That Swept Mexico by Anita Breton, Summary of the World Federation Plan by Ely Culbertson, Basic Electricity by J L Feirer, American Garden Flowers by Gladys Pratt Freund, Bret Harte of the Old West by A F Harlow, Autobiography of a Curmudgeon by H L Ickes, How to Retire and Like It by R P Kaign, Wartime Jobs for Girls by R Lingenfelter, Before Bataan and After by F S Marquardt, Build It Yourself by Michael Rothman, Here is Alaska by Evelyn Stefansson, and several fiction titles such as Dawn's Early Light and Last Inspection.
In Haviland Kansas a tramp who begged for food at Mrs Amy Matthews door looked at two large sandwiches and said this rationing is sure tough on us fellows The brief scene captures the strain of wartime shortages in a small town setting.
Brig. Gen. A. G. Gillespie announces mass production of body armor for American airmen. The protection targets bomber crews against high velocity fire and ground flak, with armor varying by aircraft type and designed for quick donning and removal. Armor will be supplied to air forces in all theaters, reducing battlefield injuries.
A Madrid dispatch reports an Allied raid on Albert in northeast France caused two fighter planes to crash in flames. An American and a German aircraft fell side by side in a field, both pilots killed. The German plane bore a Stars and Stripes flower arrangement, a remarkable civic tribute presumed to have required many hours.
The War Department announced the promotion of four Army officers on Saturday. David John Ring of 15 Waverly Place Schenectady rises from first lieutenant to captain. Thomas Joseph Callandar of 128 Van Schaick Avenue Cohoes, Howard Lauren Knack Stop 19 Troy Schenectady Road, and Ralph Hammersley Jr. of 18 Sixth Street Waterford are promoted to first lieutenants.
City radio appeal by Mayor LaGuardia drew few volunteers as only five people offered to help meet the emergency demand for apple pickers in the Hudson River Valley. The farm placement office of the Employment Service reported the low turnout yesterday.
Etowah Tennessee resident UP-Dick Owen recalls a western pony's bold performance on a farm during a thunder storm. The pony vaulted a gate, corralled a pasture herd, and guided cattle into a barn as the storm intensified. Meanwhile Capt Carl R. Comstock Jr of Saratoga Springs NY was reported wounded in action in the North African theater by the War Department yesterday.
Allied reporters describe the Italian defenses as astoundingly weak after the landing at Reggio Calabria and nearby coast towns. Italian prisoners outnumbered Germans in a withdrawal that left many in full marching order surrendering. strong Italian and German lines were pulled back toward the toe of the peninsula amid two bottlenecks at Sant Eufemia Squillace and Policastro Taranto.
The Foreign Policy Association warns that Japan may crack internally as its people and soldiers realize they face their first national defeat. It questions belief in unbreakable morale and notes that Japanese may not be immune to ordinary patterns of human behavior under stress.
The report notes white flags in the coastal area as invasion begins. Two units, the Canadian First Division and the British Fifth Division, engage in an initial barrage of heavy guns. A series of skirmishes precedes any full battles, described as early actions rather than decisive combats.
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