06 Nov 1941
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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1941
Page
1
A compact reflection on youth’s beauty and its bright illusive dreams and aspirations, opening with a lyrical Longfellow quotation. The piece frames youth as radiant yet transient, inviting contemplation of ambition and hope.
Editor explains that opinions expressed in columns are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of the newspaper. The notice is released by the Western Newspaper Union to clarify byline responsibility.
On Navy Day, President Roosevelt framed U S policy as delivering the goods to friends of democracy and pledged to destroy Hitlerism. He warned that shooting had started and urged sacrifice to defend the American way of life, while outlining a simple foreign policy centered on defeating the Hitler menace. He noted Soviet fronts and the faltering German advance as a military miracle unfolding before the world.
Prime Minister Churchill President Roosevelt and General De Gaulle condemned the Nazi butcheries of hostages in occupied Europe. Resentful civilians fired on high Nazi officers, and every successful strike led to mass executions of people only distantly tied to the crime.
The 40 day crisis neared a frontier moment as John L. Lewis called an 85,000 miner walkout from seven steel coal mines, challenging President Roosevelt amid fears of a draft work or fight order. Knox warned of inevitable clash with Japan as Diet talks on Pacific relations loom. A diary from a Kearny convoy passenger reveals torpedoing details and depth-charge impacts detailing the peril at sea.
An American parachutist Arthur H. Starnes jumped from 31,500 feet with 25 pounds of gear and opened at 1,800 feet. He survived a 190 mph fall, breathing 14 times during 1 minute 56 seconds of free fall, and landed safely after both chutes opened. The stunt spurred new escape possibilities for pilots in combat.
British arming of merchant ships with aircraft spurs U S interest in dirigibles as potential air patrols and carriers. Capt. Charles Rosendahl advocates airship patrols to spot submarines and minefields while supporting land or sea operations, as Washington weighs future air power.
In San Francisco one witness James O'Neil faced a perjury conviction. In London, Joan Stavridi lauded as a Florence Nightingale figure in Crete tended wounded British and German soldiers in a cave hospital.
Detroit and Williamsport Pa host experimental consumer information centers chosen by Miss Harriet Elliott of the Office of Price Administration. A third Southern city will be selected later. A 21 year old Brooklyn amateur radio operator, deaf and blind, was licensed by the FCC and demonstrated radiotelegraph hearing through vibration devices. He submitted 30 Braille-typed pages in the written test.
A Henry George quote asserts that equal rights to land and air follow from existence. It denounces the notion that some men possess a right to be in the world while others do not, framing land use as a universal entitlement.
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