World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Thursday October 3, 1940
Day 399

October 3, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England.
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October 3, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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October 3, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England.
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October 3, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 6: "H.M. Trawler Recoil Lost"
(The anti-submarine trawler Recoil was lost for unknown reasons with the entire 25-man crew.)


October 3, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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October 3, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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October 3, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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October 3, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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October 3, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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October 3, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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October 3, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in column 2: "Japan Is Preparing To Attack Singapore, Rome Warns Britain"
(This report, based on a report from an Italian paper connected to Benito Mussolini, falsely claimed that Japan was going to attack Singapore soon. The prediction came true, but not until Feb. of 1942. It appears that this story was designed to keep Britain off balance.)
Also note the report in columns 4-5: Nazis Near End of Rope Says H. G. Wells, Arriving in U.S."
(Well known science fiction writer H. G. Wells may have been right about rockets and space travel, but wrong on the longevity of the Nazi regime.)
Also note the report in column 4: "Television Station To Be Established In Washington"
(The first television station for the nations capitol would be set up in a hotel.)


October 3, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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Note the report in column 5: "Pope Warning On Reds Is Forecast"
(Pope Pius XII warning Catholics to be mindful of the communist threat. A far cry from the current Pope, who has communist leanings.)
Also note the report in column 8: "Lindy Papa Again"
(Announcement of the birth of a daughter to Charles Lindbergh.)
(Click below for part twenty-two of "Our Country" a twenty-four part series, written by twenty-four different authors, describing what America means to them. Today's piece was written by Edna Ferber.)


October 3, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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Note the report in column 5: "Are Indicted"
(James A. Noe, Former democrat governor of Louisiana and Seymour Weiss indicted for tax violations and fraud.)


October 3, 1940: Front page of The Brainerd Daily Dispatch, Brainerd, Minnesota.
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Note the report at bottom left: "New Kind of Kangaroo Court"


October 3, 1940: Front page of The Charleston Gazette, Charleston, West Virginia.
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Note the report at bottom right: "13 New Paralysis Cases Are Tallied"
[The report is concluded here.]
(Fayette County, West Virginia now had 475 cases of polio, which, at the time, was Virginia's worst outbreak of the disease.)


October 3, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Churchill baut seine Regierung um.
(Churchill is rebuilding his government.)


October 3, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Churchill klammert sich an die Juden
(Churchill clings to the Jews.)
2. Das britische-jüdische Weltbündnis erneut besiegelt.
(The British-Jewish world alliance sealed again.)



   
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