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SAILORS AID LENINGRAD DEFENSE
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TYiese Soviet Baltic Fleet sailors, according to Moscow sources,
are aiding in the defense of Leningrad approaches against Ger
man forces. Picture radioed from Moscow to New York.
UNITED STATES TROO S LAND AT ICELAND
Soldiers of a field force of the United States army lands from tenders and scale the dock-side at
the Icelandic port of Reykjavik. Arrival of the forces to augment marines and air corps forces al
ready there was announced in Washington. This photo sent from London hy cable.
PA-B-C OF THAI FOR
MIDABLE RUSSIAN WINTER
Ru-sia’.s Winter the Winter
that raised havoc with Napol
e n's Grande Arrh.ee—is about to
beg n. Frost is due in Moscow.
Germans are complaining of
■'bottomless mud" about Lenin-!
grad caused by steady rains.
The climate in Russia is some
what milder than in North Am-j
iflca at the same latitudes. Aj
look at a map, however, will (
how to a, Moscow is opposite.
Labrador and even Odessa is
about opposite the city of Que
ilX'S.
The Winter doesn't come all at
once, and it strikes some sections
of the vast country harder than
others; but just as the legends
say, tlie Muscovite Winter is
rough on invaders.
On the northern and central j
fighting fronts chilly rains have
begun. Occasional snow flurries
•vili come after Oct. 1. By the
nd of October the cold will be
severe. Snow blanketing the*
plains will remain until at least
he middle of February. Lenin
grad will become icelocked soon
after the beginning of December.
Farther south in the Ukraine,
snow is expected by December.
The Biaek Sea ports will freeze i
over for a month or so, and Uk-j
rainian plains will be swept by!
snowstorms.
Some fighting can continue for
months, but hardly at a blitz
krieg pace, though later ice on j
rivers may help the invaders. A
large German army will have to
be maintained far from home.
The Soviet “scorched earth” pol
icy will make it difficult to keep
Germans in supplies.
Tough-Skinneil Russians
The tougher-skinned Russians
can continue to fight through th“
winter: they showed that they
could in Finland in 1939-40. Be
sides. they will have behind
them warm, “unseorehed" towns.
Evidence that the Germans are
expecting to keep many of their
'Soldiers in Russia this winter is
seen in roundabout reports that
they 3re buying up 400,000 pairs
of skis and millions of fur coats.
There is the possibility that
they can continue strenuous fight
ing in the south. If they can cross
the Dneiper River they may try
to push on across the industrially
rich Donetz Basin and thence
down through the oil-rich Cau
casus to the Middle East. The
British and Russians anticipated
this by occupying Iran.
Last June when the German
invasion began, observers noted
that Adolf Hitler’s forces were
starting just two days earlier in
June than Napoleon’s forces did.
If Hitler had kt'pt up with Nap
olean (whose fastest mode of
transport was the horse, he
would long since have entered
Moscow.
Even Napoleon didn’t corner
the forces of wily Alexander I.
Napoleon lingered on in the
razed city of Moscow for six
weeks while waiting vainly for
Alexander I to capitulate. On
Oct. 19 he began his withdraw
al. Russians pounced on his fore
es at Maloyaroslavetz, whipped
them. In another week there was
heavy sn-ow. Hit-and-run Russian
forces slashed at his forces. Only
remnants ever reached France.
HERE’S WHY JOE
LUCES CARROTS
OKLAHOMA CITY -/Pi — Car
rots, says J' e Pa-.scro, go thim
into the Navy.
Joe was at the Navy recruit
ing office at 7:30 a.m. on the day
he was 17 years olg, waiting for
the recruiting officer to open the
place. He wanted to enlist.
The doctors rejected him be
cause of his eyesight and Joe
went directly to an eye doctor.
The specialist gave him correc
tive lenses and said he believed1
they would strengthen his eyes.
Joe wore the glasses every day.
Then friends told him they had
heard that the eating of carrots
sometimes strengthened eyesight.
So Joe ate carrots, as many as a
rabbit. In fact he lived almost
exclusively upon them for sever
: al weeks.
A month after his first visit he
went back to the navy recruiting
i office. They tested his eyes and
they were satisfactory.
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MISTAKEN 11 > E N TIT Y
PUEBLO, Colo., (TP) — Chief of
Police .1. Arthur Grady’s ear was
brushed by another in downtown
traffic. The woman driver was
“Imping mad." says the chief,
and got out to tell him about it.
“If there were an officer
around. I'd have you jailed,” she
threatened.
“Well,’ replied the chief with
a smile. “I'm chief of police and
we’ll call every officer in town
if you think it will do any good."
Then the lady smiled: both
she and the chief decided there
wasn’t enough damage to quibble
about and they went their sep
arate ways in good humor.
The Duchess and Her Baby
—
The Washington visit of the
Duke and Duchess of Windsor
smoked out a story that has lain
long untold. Some time ago, !
rumor had it that the Dudhess i
was expecting a child. A news
man who heard the rumor was •
asked by his office to check on
it. So he routed out the Duchess' I
equerry and put the question j
very frankly.
This proper gentleman was
shocked at the thought of having
to get the answer to such a ques
tion, but he did his duty. He
came back with this statement:
“Her Grace wishes to reply
that before she is allowed to
have a child she must obtain the j
consent of the British Parliament!
and —hmm—she’ll be damned if
she’ll ask them.”
Vivisecting England
Harry Hopkins and Aubrey
Williams were talking privately
about some of the social chang
es taking place in England and j
the idea of studying them for the
benefit of the U.S.A. All of which j
brought this remark from Mr.
Hopkins:
“For God’s sake, lets not send
any more people to make surveys
of England! The British are fight
ing a war and they have other
things to think about. They are
fed up on our surveys.
They want food and planes and
guns—but no more vivisection!”
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TEA FOR TWO. AND MORE —Almost hidden is Con
nie Behrens as she holds what may be the largest silver tea tray
ever made, sent from England to New York where it'll lie shown
at lhe Fourteenth National Antiques Exposition Oct. 2ti-?-1. The
giant tray was made in London in 1790 by John Seliol c. i. a.
"refugee” from possible damage by yvartime bombing raids,
SIAMESE TWIN IS MARRIED
Daisy Hilton, (right*. 33, a Siamese twin was married at Buffalo,
N. Y„ irt the city clerk’s office. Daisy’s sister I\lrs. Jam ! Moore
(left), joins them in reading a congratulatory messrge. The sisters
are night club entertainers.
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