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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1943
Page
9
The undocking of U.S.S. Newman and U.S.S. Liddle at Charleston Navy Yard marks a major shipbuilding milestone 62 days after keel laying. Work proceeds with cranes, lines, and tugs guiding the vessels from dry docks as water rises to meet the river.
Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt was greeted with cheers across Melbourne during a rapid day tour of factories and service establishments. Civilians and soldiers lined streets, with a grand reception rivaling visits by the Duke and Duchess of York in 1927. The day ended with an official banquet at government house.
London reports that United States planes and British forces destroyed seven German U boats in battles near the Bay of Biscay. One British aircraft was lost. A joint Admiralty and Air Ministry communique said the action began after reconnaissance spotted submarines attempting to disrupt approaches to the Bay of Biscay by operating in pairs or threes.
Orthodox authorities announced a bishops congress to elect a patriarch and form a Holy Synod within a week. Stalin approved calling the congress, signaling state church reconciliation after 25 years of estrangement. Dallas witness testifies a divorce case that the principals were married despite constant fussing and fighting.
Private Covell recounts a spring 1943 mission against machine gun nests, spaced from 5 am to 5 pm, with Stuka concussion bombs near him. He details hospital recoveries in the United States, recreation duty, and discharge at Ashford General Hospital, West Virginia, before returning home.
Ithaca IWPI A notable addition enlarges Cornell Universitys Collection of Regional History with over 2000 manuscript briefs of sermons by Thomas K Beecher half brother of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The gift includes letters of Lyman Beecher and several Mark Twain letters along with Bramble family papers and Cook Academy founder Charles Bramble. The donation also adds historical letters old account books and a general store daybook dating back over a century.
The Argentine foreign office said it had no information about a Bern report that Count Galeazzo Ciano sought sanctuary in the Argentine embassy and was arrested. It noted Manuel Malbran was mentioned as the Argentine diplomatic representative in Italy and that the embassy is headed by a chargé d affaires.
In Baton Rouge an article notes Elli ott Trask and Pfc. Perley Hurtzler left the draft board office a year ago and were recently assigned as chauffeurs for headquarters district No. 2 of the Eighth Service Command. Col. B Delamater commands the Triad Building post.
Jacksonville jeweler D Jernigan says a tree from the St. Johns River south bank yields Florida Velvet wood ten times lighter than cork and buoyant after weeks submerged. He cites use for life belts rafts and other gear and notes the Everglades climate could supply steady quantities. His interest grew after daughter Lieut Margaret L Jernigan sailed to North Africa on an Army ship.
Maj-Gen William C. Kepner, veteran airman, assumed command of the U S Eighth Fighter Command in England in a personnel shift seen as part of expanding the fighter force for a new tactical air force aimed at paving the way for a cross channel invasion.
German air raiders appeared over the Thames estuary district last night as anti aircraft guns opened a heavy barrage. This report notes the engagement and the air defense response.
An advance party of the Belgian Congo mechanized brigade arrived in the Middle East after an eight week desert voyage from the Congo. The unit, led by Belgian officers and a young Ostend captain, endured extreme heat and sand to join UN forces on the North African springboard. The convoy, praised for discipline, sustained minimal equipment loss and demonstrated that jeeps remain desert specialists.
Army maneuvers in Central Oregon will involve 75 000 troops across a vast area with complex communications laid by Signal Corps units. Maj Gen Alexander M Patch leads the exercise as ground is blasted to lay thousands of poles and routes for three months of combat maneuvers. Allied observers may attend the final stages.
Sergeant Anthony Scotty Palmer, inducted October 1940, serves in Hawaii as a clariel player in a regimental band. The Mechanicville New York native, son of Mrs Mary Palmer of Cypress Street, has long loved dogs and owned one since childhood, despite Army life.
A dog named Appleknocker becomes mascot for Palmer’s unit stationed in the Islands. Scotty wins band leader’s approval to care for the dog alongside his clarinet. The inseparable pair share meals, with Appleknocker favoring canned rations from Sergeant Palmer. The sergeant jokes about dogs as man’s best friend.
Postmaster General Frank C. Walker said the Office of Defense Transportation urged both major parties to hold their national conventions in Chicago next year due to its central location in the country.
Officers steady the Congo brigade as tanks overrun trenches and dive bombers strike. A mobile Bofor battery maneuvers while five doctors and twenty Belgian nurses tend wounded. A blond Belgian nurse, once in Abyssinian Campaign, moved across Nigeria to join the medical unit. Two brothers and a sister in uniform help fight to free their homeland. The crest bears Verg l’Avenir Toward the future.
In rural England the United States Army operates the world’s largest general store for Allied forces. Major General John C. Lee leads the Services of Supply division managing food, clothing, weapons, housing, medical care, recreation, and vehicles across 200 acres. Guard dogs, anti aircraft batteries, and secret weapon items guard vast warehouses storing 320,000 machine and weapon parts worth about $100 million, with automotive parts and converted hangars filling the racks.
Hundreds of SOS soldier mechanics work on the assembly line at Little Detroit, the Army's largest garage and machine shop outside the U.S. A night foray into a village to watch a movie ends with a noisy misidentification as a half track they had handled earlier in the Tunisian campaign. The crews prize themselves as heroes in the thick of battle.
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