The U.S. freighter SS Black Hawk, detained by British authorities since 19 September, is released. (Jack McKillop)
GERMANY: The U.S. Naval Attaché in Berlin reports that Grossadmiral Erich Raeder, Commander in Chief of the German Navy, has informed him of a plot wherein the U.S. passenger liner SS Iroquois, that had sailed from Cobh, Eire, with 566 American passengers on 3 October, would be sunk (ostensibly by the British) as she neared the east coast of the United States under "Athenia circumstances" for the apparent purpose of arousing anti-German feeling. Admiral Raeder gives credence to his source in neutral Eire as being "very reliable." (Jack McKillop)
POLAND: Lwow: Nikita Khruschev announces the communisation of eastern Poland.
Kock: The Polish Army makes its last organised stand against the Tenth Army.
U.S.A.: Baseball!
A barber from Canonsburg, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh, who had quite a singing voice, recorded "That Old Gang of Mine" with the Ted Weems Orchestra for RCA. That singer was the feature of the Weems band until 1942 when he went solo and became a radio, TV and stage star. The barber was Perry Como. (Jack McKillop)
ATLANTIC OCEAN:
U-23 sinks the SS GLEN FARG.
(Dave Shirlaw)