MAYORALTY RIVALS CONFIDENT IN FINAL CAMPAIGN SPEECHES; REUBEN JAMES TOLL PUT AT 97 (11/4/41)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 11/4/41 | James A. Hagerty, George Axelsson, Daniel T. Brigham, C.L. Sulzberger

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by freepmail. Those on the Realtime +/- 70 Years ping list are automatically enrolled. Course description, prerequisites and tuition information is available at the bottom of Homer’s profile. Also visit our general discussion thread

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Advance on Moscow – Operations, 26 August-5 December 1941
The Mediterranean Basin
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – Major Japanese War Objectives and Planned Opening Attacks

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Gordon W. Prange, At Dawn We Slept

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Extra Hour to Vote – 2
How the Times will Flash Election Results by Lights from Its Tower in Times Square – 2
Polls in City Open for Thirteen Hours – 3
The International Situation – 3
Scant Hope in Navy – 3-5
Officers of the Reuben James for Whose Rescue the Navy Holds Little Hope (photos) – 4-5
The Day in Washington – 5
12 Lost on a Navy Bomber Crashing on Atlantic Duty – 5-7
Type of Navy Bombing Plane Lost on Atlantic Patrol (photo) – 6
Pilot Tells Story of Airliner Crash – 7
23% in 7 Colleges for War Declaration – 7
‘War of Workshops’ Depicted by Halifax – 7
Tale of Heroism Aboard Kearny after Torpedo Hit Told by Ensign – 8
Pay for Ship Sunk Refused by Nazis – 9
New ‘Dunkerque’ Seen by Germans in Crimea Drive – 9-10
Crimean Drive Seen as a Flanking Move – 10
New Battles On in Soviet Center – 11
Free French Honor Hostages at Mass – 11
British Bluff Nazis at Tobruk; Nearly Capture a Larger Patrol – 12
Legion Aim Called Defeat of Hitler – 12
History Books Err, Vichy Tells Schools – 12
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 14

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/nov41/f04nov41.htm

Germans advance in Crimea
Tuesday, November 4, 1941 www.onwar.com

On the Eastern Front... The German advances into the Crimea continue. Feodosia falls to the German 170th Division.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/04.htm

November 4th, 1941

UNITED KINGDOM: Leicester: A woman who refused to sign up for war work with the army ordnance department is fined £2.

Submarine HMS Unbroken launched.
Battleship HMS Duke of York commissioned.

Submarine HMS P-511 (ex-USS R-3) commissioned.

Submarine ORP Jastrzab (ex-USS S-25) commissioned.

(Dave Shirlaw)

FRANCE: U-81 left Brest, but headed back some hours later after discovering they did not have charts for their operational area. (Dave Shirlaw)

GERMANY: U-509 commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

FINLAND: Second evacuation of Soviet troops from Hanko. One destroyer and one sweeper lost in mines. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.S.R.: Feodosia falls the the German 170th Division. The Germans are making good progress throughout the Crimea.

Soviet submarine V-2 launched.

Soviet submarine M-58 sunk by depth charges from Romanian destroyer Maria. (Dave Shirlaw)

SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Town: British and South African naval ships have intercepted a Vichy French convoy carrying tin and rubber from Indochina to Germany. The convoy of five ships, escorted by a sloop, the D’Iberville, was captured by four cruisers. The ships tried to scuttle, but boarding parties took them over and prevented the holds from flooding.

The action has already drawn predictable protest from Vichy which regards it as akin to piracy. The convoy was carrying “supplies for the natives of French West Africa, and for French people in the unoccupied zone”, according to a statement from Vichy. “There was no contraband or material that could be used for war.” For some time Britain has watched impotently while Germany brings vital war supplied into Europe on French vessels.

On 30 March a convoy of four French merchantmen escorted by the destroyer Simoun was seen passing the Straits of Gibraltar. When Royal Navy ships ordered the convoy to halt it took refuge in the Algerian port of Nemours. At the time Vichy said that the ships were bringing food to the native Algerians. Later the convoy reached Marseilles. It was carrying rubber from Thailand. This time the Allies have ensured that the rubber has not got through.

COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES: Major General Brereton arrives on Pan American Clipper to take up his appointment as Commander, FEAF, bringing with him a draft of revised Rainbow-5 calling for defence of entire Philippine Commonwealth. (Marc Small)

CANADA: Corvette HMCS The Pas arrived Halifax from builder Montreal, Province of Quebec. (Dave Shirlaw)

[Jacquerie]

The Battle of the Atlantic was a close run thing.

If Doenitz had started with the 300 U-Boats he advised, instead of the 56 he had, there is no telling how long Great Britain could have survived.

[iowamark]

The ads give us insight into the economy of the time. It is interesting how relatively affordable New York City was in this period, which many consider the golden age of New York. The Pickwick Arms hotel is advertising rooms from nine dollars weekly, equivalent to perhaps 150 inflation adjusted 2011 dollars.

[magslinger]

What were their names?
Tell me, what were their names?
Did you have a friend.
On the good Reuben James?

[beebuster2000]

i guess the Prince of Wales wasn't quite as invincible as Churchill thought when he dispatched it. at that point in the war they still didn't grasp that the battleship was obsolete and no match for air power.

i believe the Prince of Wales will soon be on the bottom off Singapore

[fso301]

Interesting on P2 that New York has a "fusion" system similar to that in Chicago where hussein ran as both a Democrat and member of a socialist part.

[PzLdr]

The DUKE OF YORK will take part in the last battleship on battleship action ever fought in European waters when she will sink SCHARNHORST off the North Cape on December 26, 1943.

[CougarGA7]

• Field Marshall von Rundstedt asks for Army Group South to be allowed to halt and rebuild for offensive operations in 1942.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

From “Tale of Heroism Aboard the Kearny” (pg. 8)

Light from three blazing tankers illuminated the grim scene as the Kearny wallowed in the waves.

You can say that again, Associated Press.

OK, we will.

(4 paragraphs later)

Star shells burst to the south and flames from three burning tankers lit up the grim seascape.

Anyway, it was grim.