Good morning, Whitewater.
There’s a mild November day ahead for us, with a high of fifty-one and cloudy skies. Sunrise is 6:57 AM and sunset 4:25 PM, with 9h 27m 43s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with only 1.3% of its visible disk illuminated.
Friday’s FW poll asked respondents for their favorite Thanksgiving foods. Turkey topped the list, followed in order by Other, Stuffing, Cranberries, Pumpkin Pie, Mashed Potatoes, Sweet Rolls, Green Beans, and Ham.
On this day in 1943, news came from both Europe and the Pacific of Allied victories. Here’s the headline and report in the New York Times of that day:
Ruined Berlin Afire After 2d Bombing; U. S. Planes Smash At Toulon and Sofia; 4 Japanese Destroyers Sunk In Battle
Foe Driven Into Sea By Marines on Betio
By WILLIAM L. WORDENWith the Seventh Army Air Force in the Central Pacific, Nov. 22 (Delayed)–United States Marine assault battalions today conquered the west end of Betio Island, on Tarawa atoll, driving the defenders into the sea and others onto the eastern open flat sections where they became excellent targets for dive-bombing and strafing attacks.
The vicious air attacks were made by Navy planes operating from carriers in this area. The air assault was timed with our artillery fire, which pounded the fleeing Japanese almost at will once they had abandoned their prepared defense positions. Only a few isolated strong Japanese points remain intact.
On the east side of the island some of the enemy attempted to escape by boat, but our patrol aircraft spotted them, sinking some and damaging others.
In our state’s history, from 1909, a Janesville man gets eighteen months for selling margarine:
1909 – Janesville Man Convicted for Selling Oleo
On this date A.E. Graham of Janesville was put on trial for selling oleo as butter. Oleo, an early form of margarine, was outlawed in the dairy state of Wisconsin. On January 27, 1910, he was found guilty in federal court and sentenced to 18 months in Fort Leavenworth Prison. [Source: Janesville Gazette]
Graham shouldn’t have been passing margarine off as butter, yet it’s hard to believe, then or now, that scores of other Janesvillians would not be more deserving of prison time. If in your travels you run into any Federal agents, feel free to give them my contact information (www.freewhitewater.com, adams@freewhitewater.com). I’d be happy to offer a list of contemporary Janesville ‘movers and shakers’ more deserving of incarceration than any oleo salesman.