World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Sunday December 15, 1940
Day 472

December 15, 1940: Front page of The People, London, England.
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December 15, 1940: Front page of the Sunday Pictorial, London, England.
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December 15, 1940: Front page of the Sunday Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Note the report in column 2: "Dry Beats Communist"
Report states that the Prohibitions candidate received 10,000 more votes than the communist Earl Browder. Vote tally for 1939 Presidential campaign:
FDR 27,247,939
Wendell Wilkie 22,327,226
Norman Thomas (socialist) 116,793
Roger W. Babson (Prohibitionist) 58,600
Earl Browder (communist) 48,789
John W. Aiken (socialist, labor) 14,861


December 15, 1940: Front page of The Sunday Mail, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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December 15, 1940: Front page of The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in column 3: "School Girl Her Role, Then Dies Of Skull Fracture"
(Tragic story about a 15-year-old girl, Shirley Joan Hall, who fell down a flight of stairs, but went on stage to play her part. She went home, developed a headache and died at a local hospital of a skull fracture.)


December 15, 1940: Front page of The Escanaba Daily Press, Escanaba, Michigan.
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Note the report in column 7: "Nazi Yoke Put On Norwegians"


December 15, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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Note the report in column 7: "Giant Vessel Is Launched"
(Report of the launch of USS Hornet CV-8.)


December 15, 1940: Front page of The Cedar Rapids Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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Note the report in column 3: "Wild Bill Donovan In Lisbon, Portugal"


December 15, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana.
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December 15, 1940: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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December 15, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. In 48 Stunden 87.000 BRT.
(In 48 hours 87,000 GRT.)
2. Die Kette schwerster britischer Schiffsverluste reißt nicht ab.
(The chain of heaviest British ship losses does not end.)



   
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