Showing posts with label Cheyenne Wyoming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cheyenne Wyoming. Show all posts

Saturday, February 10, 2024

Thursday, February 10, 1944. Victory at Saidor

Troops entering Quartermaster Replacement Training Center (QMRTC), Ft. F.E. Warren, Wyoming. July 6, 1943. Photo by US Army Signal Corps. Released for publication February 10, 1944.

The landing at Saidor concluded on January 2, Operation Michaelmas, resulted in an Allied victory on this date.  The Australians and the Americans had linked up, and the Huon Peninsula was mostly occupied.

Offloading of Piper Cub used in Operation Michaelmas.

The Minekaze was sunk off of Formosa by the USS Pogy. 

Sarah Sundin notes:

Today in World War II History—February 10, 1944: Japanese surround Indian 7th Division on the Arakan peninsula in Burma; Allies keep the 7th Division supplied through air drops.

The Red Army took Shepetovka, Ukraine.

The U-545 was scuttled after being crippled west of the Hebrides by a Vickers Wellington.  T he U-666 disappeared in the North Atlantic.


On the same day, American Airlines Flight 2 crashed into the Mississippi River. All twenty-four passengers and crew were killed.  The cause of the crash was never determined.

Air travel between Miami and Key West was initiated.


Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Monday, January 24, 1944. Red Advances, Luftwaffe attacks at Anzio, Rendering skunk fat.


 Red Army troops on T-26 light tank in Korsun-Shevchenkovski region.By RIA Novosti archive, image #606710 / I. Ozerskij / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15579411.  The use of "tank riders" by the Red Army, anticpating the use of later Armored Personell Carriers, or perhaps recalling that of mounted infantry or cavalry, the latter of which was still widely used by the Soviets, was common during the war.

The Battle of Korsun–Cherkassy commenced as part of the Soviet Dnieper–Carpathian offensive in Ukraine.

Near Leningrad the Red Army captured Pushkin and Pashovsk.


The British hospital ship was sunk off Anzio.  96 of the 229 aboard died.

The USS Plunkett (DD-431) was also hit.


53 of her sailors would die in the attack, but she'd be back in action by May.

The Anzio beachhead expanded slowly.  The Free French Corps attacked Monte Santa Croce on the Gustav Line. The U.S. 2nd Corps continued attacking over the Rapido.


In Cheyenne, a War Salvage lecture was given on the topic of "How to get fat from skunk without smell". Attribution:  Wyoming State History Society Calendar.

I don't think I'd try that.

Some apparently do, however.

The question is why?

Klaus Sperber, know by his stage name Klaus Nomi, and remembered principally for his operatic performance of his pop song Total Eclipse of the Sun, was born in Immenstadt, Bavaria. He was one of the first well known personalities to die of AIDS, passing away in 1983 at age 39.

Of interest, perhaps, as Sperber was German, German pop music producer Franz Reuther, known by his stage name of Frank Farian died yesterday at age 82.  He had been responsible for Boney M and Milli Vanilli.  His father had been killed in World War Two prior to his birth.

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Monday, January 10, 1944. The Verona Executions.

WACs march down the gangplank of transport at a North African port. Army trucks wait to take them to a nearby transit camp. 10 January, 1944.

The Verona Trial ended with the conviction of all six present defendants, with five sentenced to death.  Tullio Cianetti was spared that penalty, and instead received a 30-year sentence, after writing a letter of apology to Mussolini.

Following the war, he went into exile in Portuguese Mozambique.  He died in Mozambique, which became independent in 1975, in 1976.

The Red Army took Lyudvipol which had been within pre-war Poland.

The British took Maungdaw in Burma.

1944  A United States Army Air Force plane crashed near Cheyenne, killing the pilot. Attribution:  Wyoming State Historical Society.

Sunday, June 25, 2023

Monday, June 25, 1923. Harding comes to Cheyenne and Laramie. The Ku Klux Klan came to Glenrock


The Tribune headlined with an auto accident that occurred in connection with Hardin's visit to Denver the day prior.

In Laramie, it was noted, but the focus was on his visit that would occur today.


He was stopped by Cheyenne as well, where the city gave him a cowboy hat, and he delivered a speech on the coal situation.

Glenrock had a different type of visitor:



The size of the demonstration is surprising.  I was not small.

The paper was silent on the lawlessness that concerned the Klan, but it was likely violations of Prohibition.  The KKK was a supporter of Prohibition.

An elevated train collapsed in Brooklyn, killing seven people.

The Progressive Conservative Party won provincial elections in Ontario.

Portland:



Saturday, May 6, 2023

In the basement.

 From the Cowboy State Daily:

Statues Of Esther Hobart Morris And Chief Washakie Will Stay In Basement Of Capitol

Friday, February 3, 2023

Saturday, February 3, 1923. French Guns, Legislative Hijinks, Kamchatka Earthquake


The Saturday Evening Post was out, as it was of course a Saturday, with a Rockwell.  This one is apparently entitled "Grandpa's Little Ballerina".

The Country Gentleman went with a mid winter fox and its prey.

A magnitude 8.3+ earthquake struck Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula causing a twenty-five foot tsunami.  Twelve people were killed by seven resulting waves in Maui.

The Soviet Union approved plans to create a civil aviation authority for passenger airlines, leading to the world's most dangerous major airline, Aeroflot.

French guns and legislative shenanigans were in the news.


 

Sunday, January 29, 2023

Monday, January 29, 1923. Colorado Rangers disbanded.

Governor William E. Sweet of Colorado defunded the Colorado Rangers.  

The move was made to thwart Prohibition enforcement, even though Colorado had adopted prohibition (like marijuana prohibition) before the Federal Government had, as well as to prevent its use in mine disputes.  They were officially disbanded in 1927, but thereafter became a reserve police force for Colorado.

Sweet was a Democrat from Chicago who came to Colorado with his parents as a small child.  He was a investment banker by profession, and good at it.  He retired from the occupation before entering politics in 1922 at age 54.  As governor, he was a strong opponent of the Klu Klux Klan, which was strong in Colorado, and which he attributed his subsequent defeat in a reelection bid in 1925.  He later moved to the second variant of the Progressive Party, the one that was formed by Robert LaFollette.

He died in 1942 at age 73.

Of note, my grandmother and grandfather, on my father's side, were married and living in Denver, Colorado at this time.  My grandmother, of Irish extraction, was a lifelong Democrat.

The Colorado Rangers originally formed in 1861, modeled on the Texas Rangers.

To the north of this story:

1923  Casper's legislative delegation proposed moving the capital to Casper from Cheyenne.  Wyoming State Historical Association.

This was still an idea that was threatened, from time to time, when I was a kid.

Edward Terry Sanford was confirmed as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Mustafa Kemal Pasha, Ataturk, married Latife Uşaki.  The marriage lasted only until 1925, although it did see her active in the emancipation of Turkish women.  She lived in Istanbul after their divorce, dying in 1975.

Senate Carpentry Shop, January 29, 1923.

Saturday, August 13, 2022

Sunday, August 12, 1922. The news.

Quite the news day, really.

The Herald started off with the harrowing news of trains marooned in the Southwest, due to ongoing labor problems.

 

We're reminded by the page below that there was once an elected position of "County Surveyor". This has obviously gone by the wayside, which raises the question of what other elective offices are really obsolete as elective offices today.




Rules were changing for football.

And airplane rides were for the offering.


I'd forgotten there was once a town called "Teapot".


The Herald wanted to keep the Union Pacific brand off of the range.  

Recently, of course, the state had an opportunity to buy the checkerboard from the UP's successor in interest and blew it.



A Colorado newspaper was happy with something Governor Carey had done, but what it was, I really don't know.


A restaurant was holding a contest for a name.

Charles Winter was running for office.  His son, who lived to nearly be 100, worked in my office building nearly up to that very age.




The train situation, we'd note, wasn't only in the Herald.



Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Sunday, March 1, 1942. Disastrous Day for the Navy, Elanor Roosevelt in Cheyenne.

Elanor Roosevelt in the Panama Canal Zone during World War Two.

As we can see from our companion blog, Today In Wyoming's History, for this day March 1: 1942:
1942 Elanor Roosevelt visited Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Not a large event, in the overall context of things, but something memorable locally.

She was a political force in her own right, something that was well appreciated during her own time. Arguably politically to the left of her husband, the era guaranteed that her role would be largely behind the scenes, but it was as out in the open as the times would allow and then some.  Given her husband's role and his limited mobility, she took on roles that were really unique for a First Lady up until then, and frankly up until the present time.

In big, and disastrous, events:
Today in World War II History—March 1, 1942: In the Battle of Sunda Strait off Java, Japanese ships sink heavy cruiser USS Houston, light cruiser HMAS Perth, and Dutch destroyer Evertsen.
The Japanese also sank the HMS Exeter, the HMS Encounter and the USS Pope.  It was not a good day, although US ships sank five Japanese transports.

The USS Pecos was sunk by a Japanese dive bomber and the USS Edsall was sunk by surface fore from Japanese battleships.

The Navy, as her blog relates, had the first victory against a U-boat, that scored by a Hudson flying off of Newfoundland.

Monday, January 10, 2022

Tuesday, January 10, 1922. Liquor Raids in Cheyenne, Bears in Arizona, Arthur Griffith in Ireland.

As we discusssed here on our companion site; Today In Wyoming's History: January 101922  The Laramie County Sheriff conducted a series of raids on stills.  Attribution:  Wyoming State Historical Society.


 Southern Tariff Association at White House who visited White House on this day i 1922.

Arthur Griffith was elected President of Dáil Éireann.  Already overworked, he'd hold the post until his death at age 51 in August, effectively a casualty of the civil war in the country which had already broken out.







Thursday, December 30, 2021

Friday December 30, 1921. Cheyenne gets gas.

Brattleboro, Vt. from Mt. Wantastiquet.
 

On this day in 1921, the Rock Springs newspaper published reports of the recent big raid in that town.


In Cheyenne, the exciting news was that natural gas, an abundant resource in the state, was coming to the city.



Wednesday, May 26, 2021

May 26, 1921. Rickenbacker crashes in Cheyenne.

Today In Wyoming's History: May 261921   Eddie Rickenbacker crashed a mail plane near Cheyenne.

And this photograph was taken of Craig Street in Montreal, five  years before my mother was born in that city.



Friday, May 7, 2021

May 7, 1921. Behave Yourself


Behave Yourself won the Kentucky Derby on this day in 1921.  The horse was an upset winner.

Foaled in 1918, the horse went on to a career as a stud, sort of, with the owner restricting the horses breeding as he thought its legs had poor confirmation  He was ultimately donated to the U.S. Army's remount program which sent him out to Wyoming. He was considered a poor racehorse and ironically beat the favorite that was owned by the same individual as he was, which resulted in that owners losing money on the race as he'd put money on that favorite, the vaguely racist named Black Servant.

I'm glad Behave Yourself won.  

The horse died in 1937 and is buried in Cheyenne.  He was 19 years old at the time.

Mrs. Harding, General Peshing, and Mrs. Benedict Crowell attended the New York City Police Parade with a troop of Girl Scouts.


President Harding was photographed with Jack and Bob Kneipp, who turned out dressed as period cowboys.

Thursday, March 4, 2021

Wyoming Music. Johnny Cash - Wanted Man - Live at San Quentin


Johnny Cash's Wanted Man, which has also been effectively covered by Bob Dylan, mentions Cheyenne in the lyrics, so we're doing a second Cheyenne reference song in two days.

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Wyoming Music and Mid Week At Work: Lights of Cheyenne


This song is, to put it bluntly, grim, but it captures a real slice of Wyoming.  It's nearly the flipside of Crossland's Bosler.

The characters in this song are so familiar to me from legal work that it isn't funny.  It's accordingly hard to believe that McMurtry, the son of the famous novelist, isn't a Wyomingite.  The central placement of the Interstate Highway (Cheyenne is at the junction of two of them), the truck stop as a place of employment, the line about antelope, are all right on.  Even the the surprising line at the end that reveals the protagonists feelings about Cheyenne are something that you'd expect from a native.

I recently sent a link to this performance to a friend from back East who was somewhat mystified by the lyrics, including the one "She's got a cowboy problem".  This again, shows how accurate this song is, as that lyric makes perfect sense to a local.

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

February 23, 1921. Ridiculing customs.

We always reform or ridicule, not the customs of the remote past, but the new customs of the day before yesterday, which are just beginning to grow old. This is true of furniture and parents.

G.K. Chesterton, Chicago Tribune, February 23, 1921.

Jack Knight. Note the heavy early aviator's dress.  Knight died in 1945 of malaria contracted on a trip to South American that was working on securing a reliable source of rubber to the wartime allies.

The United States Postal Service completed a pioneering air mail run in which Jack Knight, taking off on the prior day from San Francisco, landed at Cheyenne, Wyoming, and then took off and flew through the night to Chicago.  Ernest M. Allison ten took over and lasted at 4:50 p.m. at Roosevelt Field at Long Island, New York.

The flight demonstrated that air mail was feasible.

While successful, it was also conducted under extreme odds, involving arctic conditions and nighttime fires to light the way.  Knight was justifiably regarded as a hero during his lifetime.

Quebec established a Commission des liqeurs to control the quality and sales of alcohol.  Quebec, with its strong French traditions, was the only Canadian province to reject any sort of prohibition.

In its original form, the Commission lasted until 1961.  It has evolved into the latter Société des alcools du Québec which interestingly operates on a model similar to that of the State of Utah's, with the state being the sole distributer of alcohol.

In Washington D. C. a collection of stately dignified women was photographed, probably being members of the women's party that was meeting in the city at the time.



Sunday, December 6, 2020

Sunday Morning Scene: Churches of the West: Holy Apostles Orthodox Christian Church, Cheyenne, Wyoming

Churches of the West: Holy Apostles Orthodox Christian Church, Cheyenne ...

Holy Apostles Orthodox Christian Church, Cheyenne Wyoming.



This is Holy Apostles Orthodox Christian Church in Cheyenne, Wyoming.  This church was built in 2012 and is located on the edge of Cheyenne.

This church is interesting in several ways, one of which simply the way it is named.  The Church is what would normally be called a Greek Orthodox church but presents itself as an "Orthodox Christian" church.  This stands in contrast to what we typically find with the various Orthodox churches which usually identify an ethnic component to them, such as Greek Orthodox or Russian Orthodox.  Indeed, while the various Eastern Orthodox churches are in communion with each other, they are all autocephalous and there are real distinctions between them at least to the extent that each of them has their own hierarchy.

They are also very traditional in many ways and to find one that doesn't note the ethnic component is simply unusual for them.  Also unusual is the design of this church which is highly modern (unfortunately in my view, as I don't care for this external office building appearance).

While not knowing for sure, I suspect that these departures from tradition here were intentional and reflect an effort to deal with a decreasing ethnic component in the Orthodox Churches which they are going to have to deal with in order to survive. At the same time, however, it also may reflect an increased interest in the Orthodox community among traditionalist Protestants of various kinds who have investigated their own churches origins in the wake of numerous doctrinal changes in recent years.  There's been a bit of a boom, more than a ripple but less than a tidal wave, of traditionalist protestants coming into the Orthodox Churches, typically the Greek Orthodox Church, as a result of that.  This church, in its name and design, seems to be designed with an eye towards accommodating that.