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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1941
Page
2
A Kansas City friend, a city worker with a family, buys a small farm within an hour of the city. The purchase aims to provide health, shelter, warmth, and food, insuring against hunger as urban prospects seem unreliable. The seller’s city-ward dream may fade in five years.
A column traces delays in the U S mission to Moscow due to Germany air routes and China, noting State Department appeasement worries over Japan. It profiles Gen John Magruder, teaching Oriental politics, and covers opinions on taxes, military mobilization, wealth, Mrs Roosevelt’s Civilian Defense role, and world affairs.
The piece traces multi nation unrest under Nazi rule with uprisings in Bohemia Moravia France and Holland. Guerrilla actions in Yugoslavia threaten hostages. Norway imposes death penalties against Nazi collaborators while Austria Bulgaria and Greece see border tensions. Roosevelt Hull and senate debate changing neutrality acts amid U S ship armament and Atlantic threats. Hitler’s 103 day war address claims victory while Moscow reports gains and winter resilience.
Louis Dembitz Brandeis, noted liberal jurist and former Supreme Court justice, died at his Washington residence the night before a new Supreme Court session. He retired in 1939 due to ill health after serving since 1916. The article also reviews wartime spending, U S budget projections, and remarks on religious freedom in Russia after President Roosevelt’s comments, including Myron Taylor’s return from the pope and a dramatic Lake Ladoga incident involving a Dunquerque-style retreat led by Colonel Bondarev.
Berlin reports via radio from New York that the notorious broadcaster Lord Haw-Haw has been banned. Capetown notes Gen. Jan Smuts again calls for America's entry into the war, saying it will speed victory and spare Allied forces from exhaustion.
George Hopkins landed atop Devil's Tower Wyoming after a six day wait. A crew of eight climbers rescued him following a parachute stunt to win a $50 wager and promote a jumping contest. Devil's Tower rises 1280 feet from the plain behind the scene.
A Washington statement calls the plague of mankind an affliction to be banished, urging united action to end widespread misery and disease across nations. The message stresses moral responsibility and collective effort to eradicate suffering.
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