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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1943
Page
2
Domei News Agency reports that the luxury liner Conte Verde and the gunboat Leparto were scuttled by their crews at Savngha after Ito's armistice with the Allies. It also claims 127 Italian vessels were destroyed or captured as Japan notes Italian ships in allied waters.
A city electrical worker Thomas oran narrowly escaped a flying horseshoed horse while near a manhole in Manhattan. The frightened horse kicked a barrier, nearly impaling him, as a fruit wagon spooked it. He escaped through a narrow passage to safety.
Investigators from the District OPA Authority probe gasoline black market activities in Schenectady and Rome. George Myers, chief attorney, questioned more than a dozen people at the Schenectady Rationing Board rooms as part of ongoing efforts to clean up illicit trading following arrests in Schenectady and Rome.
Lieutenant Snow recovered a 200 year old Massachusetts Bay Chart showing an ancient Cape Cod Canal lost since. He carried the fragile artifact through North Africa and Italy, survived a near fatal air raid, and had the chart hung in the Pilot House as a reminder of the canal’s early existence. The note on the copper plate records Captain Samuel Bellamy’s 1717 wreck of the Whidda with bullion, while Snow earned the nickname flying Santa Claus for delivering Christmas baskets along New England coasts.
Orville E Brown of Watervliet was fined 1250 for possessing a stay squirrel during the closed season. District Game Protector William H Winters of Glens Falls announced three conservation law violations on Sept 12 in Dresden with settlements totalling 3250.
Waterford Jome Chapter O E 5 met at the Masonic Temple with Mrs LaVerne Conklin and Milford E Frost presiding. Mrs Conklin and Mrs Margaret Burgess were named delegates to the Grand Chapter meeting in New York the week of Oct 12. A rummage sale was planned for Oct 21 22 and 23 on Congress Street Troy with Florence Leggett as chair and a committee including Helen Mead Elsie Stanley Mary Mitchell Emma Stark Cora Cleminson and Laura Randall. A birthday and wedding anniversary ceremony honored the Worthy Matron with a bouquet of War Stamps. A social followed with Versa Hammersley in charge and refreshments served by Eleanor Van Kleeck’s committee.
The Associated Press reports a Tokyo radio dispatch from Korea stating that five brothers were born yesterday to a 24 year old Mitsubishi Mining Co employee's wife. The broadcast, recorded by AP, conveyed the surprising birth.
A fragment notes a mother and babies doing well and mentions the mother’s fame as fab shoku Kaneyama. It adds a line about Bonds of Victory and a U S statement that it produces one third of the world’s iron ore. The text blends names, achievements, and commodity facts without a clear narrative.
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