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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1939
Page
7
The fragment notes a judge identified as John C. Leegggpat or Leeggpat and P Jordan as Register in a lane near a court, with a date of July 12, 19. The text is garbled and not fully legible, limiting precise details.
A 1940 analysis critiques a White House plan for self liquidating federal securities to fund public works and expansions. It notes the plan’s seven year span, allocations to bridges hospitals and highways, rural electrification, farm tenancy, and housing, while warning of political gain, loan limitations, and legal barriers to municipal borrowing.
French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet signed a mutual assistance pact with Turkish Ambassador Suad Davaz, stalling Italo-German aggression in the eastern Mediterranean. The move is seen as a lesson in gentlemanly behavior by Signor Mussolini and shifts Turkey away from the Rome Berlin axis, aiding Anglo French wartime control of the Dardanelles and hindering German invasion plans.
The piece notes Bulgaria’s isolation from pro Nazi currents, Turkey’s potential shift toward Britain in a wider regional conflict, and Mussolini’s lesson from Hatay where Turkey gained a strategic edge. It contrasts France’s mandate in Alexandretta with Italy’s failed efforts for Suez access, Djibouti railroad, and Tunisia.
The 1939 40 fiscal year starts with large appropriations for rearmament. Congress allocates 31.6 million for the first year to develop 12 air and submarine bases. Outlying bases planned at San Juan Puerto Rico Karesle Peatt Harbor Hawaii Pensacola and Jacksonville and Tongue Point. Early June shows 75 warships bringing the navy total to 2 332.
Nations differ in natural resources and export capacity. In wartime, inability to import essentials is a military handicap. Plenary actions can prepare for emergencies without disturbing economic balance. Under the new American policy.
The piece notes U.S. aims to supply Britain with rubber from wartime stocks while curbing reserves. It discusses open market sales to Britain and seven year halts on reserve shipments. It mentions potential gains for America from items like tin chromium and Chinese goods amid existing favored nation treaties.
Farmers in the northern plains and states like North Dakota South Dakota Wyoming and Montana faced extreme drought and dust storms. Despite wind erosion and dry soil contour farming helped preserve moisture as they awaited harvest of a promise of 15 to 25 million bushels, a relief from 1985's 4 million.
The National Safety Council cites 1938 data showing pedestrians accounted for three of every five traffic deaths. Two thirds of those killed violated traffic rules. nine percent of drivers in fatal crashes had been drinking. Advocates urge pedestrians to obey signals and build rural sidewalks.
Amid internal clashes, veteran bay Jones W Leche leads a purge aimed at stabilizing a loyal political machine. Huey Long’s selection at Louisiana State University faces dissension as wreck salvage chiefs predict the Squalus submarine will not be raised before late July.
A notice from Home Owners' Loan Corporation announces a foreclosure sale of a Bedford parcel on Carlisle Road. The property, an estimated 1.34 acres with improvements, is tied to a 1939 mortgage by Horace A Prescott and related parties. Sale terms require $775 cash with the balance due at the auction in Boston.
Public sale of property in Middlesex County described as Lot 4 with 0.82 acres bounded by a road to West Acton Lot 8 a plan and a former Henry H Warren parcel. Bidder to pay $100 at sale and balance within ten days. held under a pre mortgage of Henry F Smith of Concord Massachusetts by Middlesex Institution for Savings. July 12 1926.
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