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Newspaper
Cambridge Sentinel
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1940
Page
2
Weekly news analysis notes British forces occupy Crete while Italian war efforts stall. Nazi air raids on England ease briefly as U S initiates first draft preparations this month.
Reports from Joannina show Greek resistance remains stubborn delaying the Italian advance. British aid appears concrete with planes from Egyptian bases, while Italian commander Galeazzo Ciano is rushed to Albania. Conscription seizes 17 million youths for a year of training with payments and meals provided. officers push mentorship to entice clerks toward military service.
In London reports indicate a drop in German raids for England but officials warn the lull may be temporary. Roosevelt senators Britain will receive half of all U S war planes. bomb sight policy splits between navy and army. An airliner crash in a Utah snowstorm kills ten near Salt Lake City. cause suspected as radio beam range failure.
Sir Neville Chamberlain, once Britain’s appeasement icon, reportedly travels secretly to California after losing power. The Munich pledge to Hitler haunted him as wartime bombs later struck London, ending his political era.
Fishermen on Eleuthera island in the Bahamas report sighting a grounded vessel with a tattered sail and two rescued seamen, Robert George Trapscott and Wilbert Roy Widdicombe. They survived after the Anglo Saxon was shelled and sunk by a Nazi raider 500 miles off the Azores on August 2. They later landed on British soil and were flown to Nassau to recount their voyage.
The defense program fuels a farm price upswing as factory activity rises. Economists warn the rise could overshoot, yet farmers see prosperity arriving late but certain. September 1939 219 million. September 1940 222 million for dairy and related income. Milk eggs cheese likely demand leaders as prices rise. Meat and vegetables show mixed signals amid prior potato price drops.
The piece analyzes the 1941 agricultural outlook with optimism for higher farm income and muted exports, notes a growing domestic demand, and warns that higher costs may offset gains. It recalls the October 29 draft numbers ceremony, highlighting the human cost as draftees prepare for service.
Niblets report a French mother in Vichy gave birth to quintuplets four boys and a girl. The girl died, but the four boys were healthy. Fall and winter storks migrate from Holland to South Africa with a Johannesburg report of a stork found bearing a leg tag. A Dutch message on the leg says life under Nazi regulations is hell and that the Dutch people are dying under injustice.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his wife observe firefighters during a London docks tour following a German bombing raid. The raid targeted key shipping facilities harming naval logistics and the war effort.
The piece notes that during World War I the fledgling U S aircraft industry relied on auto factories for Liberty motors and mass production. Now orders have surged to 20 000 bombers of one type, straining capacity. Washington redirects plane part production to auto makers who are gearing up to meet the demand.
King Carol buys 1000 sheets of paper to begin memoirs while Ambassador Kennedy and Jack Knight tout aviation speeds. Mary and Italia D Arpe in Brooklyn face charges after an onion-throwing incident misread as a political act during a rooftop picnic.
Baukhage says national defense program will bring prosperity with rising farm prices while input costs also climb. He notes the nation faces duties as the first draftees are inducted but assures no fear for health or safety.
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