World War II Chronicle: December 30, 1941
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The front page mentions the possibility that the Vichy French regime is considering dismantling the Eiffel Tower to turn the Paris landmark into 70 tons of steel for German munitions. Either this is Allied propaganda or Adolf Hitler came to the conclusion that melting down the (then 52-year-old) tower would have far greater consequences than the steel could possibly be worth… Charles Lindbergh has abandoned isolationism and the former Air Service Reserve colonel offered his services to the Army Air Forces (see page two)…
Page six explains details of the tire rationing program which begins on Jan. 5, 1942 (and will last the entire war)… George Fielding Eliot column on page 16… Summary of the war’s 121st week on page 25 with an infographic is on the previous page… Under page 27’s “Deaths of the Year” we see that the last son of a veteran of the Revolutionary War passed away in 1941, as did the soldier whose bugle call at Appomattox announced the end of the Civil War… Sports section begins on page 28
Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), December 30, 1941. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1941-12-30/ed-1/
