As published in the Chicago Daily News, sister publication of the Chicago Sun-Times: On Sept. 1, 1939, all news in Chicago stopped. Whatever Chicago Daily News editors had planned for the front page of the afternoon paper, which would hit newsstands about 5 p.m., it all seemed far less important as bulletins arrived from foreign correspondent Wallace R. Deuel in Europe. “Adolf Hitler today threw down the supreme challenge,” he wrote that day.