[Homer_J_Simpson]

Fights Break Out – 2-4
The International Situation – 3
Vichy Seeks Own Way of Totalitarianism – 4
Nazis Pierce Line Below Moscow – 4-5
Stab Into Crimea Pressed by Nazis – 5
Moscow Reported Mined for Blast if Nazis Enter – 5
Reich Faces Curbs for a Hard Winter – 7
Haakon Gives Thanks for American Gifts – 7
An Alien Internment Camp is Set Up on Long Island (with photo) – 8
Middle East Stage Set – 9
Egypt Notes Dearth in Wheat and Meat – 9
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 10-11
British Win French to Talks on Jibuti – 11
News of the Screen * – 11

* Homer and Mrs. Homer recently read the novel “Random Harvest,” by James Hilton. I was half-expecting it to be unbearably sappy, but was pleasantly surprised. Recommended as a semi-historical novel.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/oct41/f31oct41.htm

US destroyer sunk near Iceland
Friday, October 31, 1941 www.onwar.com

The “Good Reuben James”In the North Atlantic... The USS Reuben James, an American destroyer is sunk off the coast of Iceland by a German U-boat with the loss of 100 of the sailors on board. It is the first sinking an American warship in the undeclared war against the Germans in the Atlantic.