Reading the paper on Oct. 12, 1941.
The US Navy announced the destruction of a Nazi weather station on Greenland and the capture of a small Norwegian support vessel in Greenland’s coastal waters.
The weather station had been collecting information to facilitate German submarines operating against Allied convoys in the North Atlantic and to aid in predicting long-range European weather.
US aerial and naval patrols of Greenland have been ongoing since the US first occupied the island in April 1941, following Germany’s occupation of Denmark, which severed Greenland's connection to its mother country.
The Boston chapter of the CIO union organization called for the immediate repeal of the US Neutrality Acts and an investigation of the America First Committee.
This committee was ‘the fountainhead of the forces attempting to defeat national unity,’ they said.
Soviet authorities have urged all women and children in Moscow to evacuate the city as German forces now claim to be within sixty-five miles of the city.
Elsewhere, mechanized German forces have destroyed Soviet positions in eastern Ukraine and taken more than 100,000 prisoners in the past two weeks.
Hundreds of thousands of Soviet dead litter the battlefields.
Defenders in the beseiged city of Leningrad/St. Petersburg report their efforts are having a weakening impact.
German bombers are active from the Arctic to the Black Sea, hitting targets in Leningrad/St. Petersburg, Moscow, Odesa, and rail heads.
Meanwhile, thousands of fresh German troops have been sent to the Eastern Front.
A Soviet army newspaper has called for the opening of a western front in Europe to relieve pressure on the Soviet Union and take advantage of Germany’s concentration of forces in the East.
The Soviet government has denied German reports that it is seeking a separate truce.
‘After every so-called German death blow the Soviet Union seems to grow stronger,’ the Soviet government spokesman said.
The New York based Russian War Relief organization announced a drive to raise one million dollars to purchase medical supplies for Soviet civilians and the army.
The United Palestine Appeal reports that nearly eight million dollars raised from Jews in America has been spent in the past eleven months to strengthen Jewish settlements in Palestine and to enable the immigration of more refugees.
The total Jewish population in Palestine is now estimated at 550,000.
Nazi executions continue in Czechoslovakia and France, along with the mass roundup of Jews.
In Paris yesterday, nearly nine thousand people were arrested for possessing arms or communist literature.
Ten were injured in Oslo yesterday when a partisan hurled a bomb at a train carrying Major Quisling’s Nazi youth group to a Nazi demonstration.
A free-for-all then developed on the train platform and fifty partisans were arrested.
Britain’s Ministry of Food has acknowledged that black market operators have been major buyers of food salvaged from the Ministry’s bomb-damaged warehouses and docks.
With a break in the weather after nine days of rain, RAF heavy bombers targeted Cologne and the industrial Ruhr Valley.
The US announced that three Japanese ships would soon arrive in the States carrying Americans who wished to return home.
The ships will return to Japan carrying two thousand Japanese citizens currently living on the US West Coast or in Hawaii.
Rumors in Washington indicate that unofficial talks between Japan and the US, aiming to resolve differences, have resumed.
Tank battles continue between Axis forces and Allied defenders near Tobruk, in northeastern Libya.
The Axis objective is to gain control of the Suez Canal.
Tobruk is a port city strategically located on the eastern Mediterranean coast near the border with Egypt.
In a speech delivered at the National Police Academy, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover declared the FBI has thwarted the action of Nazi agents in the US.
The agency had surveyed two thousand defense production plants and found no evidence of significant sabatoge.
Local police from across the country, called ‘the nation’s first line of defense,’ had attended the Academy to receive special training in civil defense.
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt celebrated her fifty-seventh birthday yesterday with the President and family aboard the presidential yacht Potomac.
And finally,
A doctor addressing the New York State Osteopathic Society said that ‘a perfect physical specimen, in whom all bodily structures are properly balanced, is unknown among the living.’
Those deviating in one direction were the ‘tall, thin, hungry, busy man.’
Those deviating in the other direction were the ‘short, squat, slow-moving, satisfied man.’
Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of these two types was said to aid in medical diagnoses.
Go tell the Mayo Clinic!
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I’ll see you on Monday.
— Brenda
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