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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1941
Page
2
An explosion shattered a boiler at a Woodward Iron Company blast furnace in Birmingham Alabama. Initial reports said at least ten people were seriously injured and ambulances and police rushed to the scene as crowds gathered near the plant.
A foreign informant in Saigon, unconfirmed by AP sources, reports Thailand’s government may have fallen to a pro British regime. Separately, a catastrophic blast damaged Woodward furnaces, leaving burns on workers and halting production at a plant employing about 500 tied to a 500,000 ton annual capacity.
President Roosevelt proclaimed a state of war between Germany and Italy on one side and Yugoslavia on the other, paving the way to applying the neutrality act restrictions. The move brings Yugoslavia under existing controls, joining Germany and Italy and Greece. It notes 1940 crops were diverted for motor vehicle production on 2,500,000 acres.
The report discusses Nazi aims to be self-sufficient in food, project German economic control across seas, and pressure South America to accept dictation. Col. Donovan urges cautious action for America, warns the war may not be lost and Germany faces eventual disintegration. German advances in Yugoslavia and Greece, occupation of Zagreb, and Croatia’s independence bid are noted with lines about a split Yugoslavia into parts.
President Roosevelt answered questions on the Suez Canal status in wartime. He said the canal’s drain to the Mediterranean may not be in the combat area and that Port Said and Ismaila are not clearly restricted for American ships. He noted cargoes to belligerents via neutrals are unlikely to be pursued to avoid headaches. He dismissed Halifax as a possible open port, saying he had only seen the idea in a newspaper.
German units advancing from Nis toward Belgrade crushed several Serb divisions in Central Yugoslavia and captured about ten thousand prisoners with seventy artillery pieces. Zagreb the Croat capital fell to armored troops, with Luftwaffe support. Five British fuel depots and four transports were hit at Piraeus. Croat formations faced Serb troops as the push continued, with tens of thousands of prisoners reported and substantial war material captured.
General Sladko Kvaternik proclaimed premier of a new independent Croat state and urged Croat regiments in the Yugoslav army to return to Zagreb and swear allegiance. The government would include Bosnia and Herzegovina and Dalmatia with Ante Pavelic as president. Kvaternik said he had taken command of the Croat army.
RAF strikes target German columns and airfields as reports place German forces reaching Yanitza and Bitolj on the Greek Yugoslav frontier. B E F communiques note Greek resistance stiffening in eastern Macedonia while British bombers attack near Bitolj and along routes between Phlorina and Prilep.
Planes complete for Easter sunrise service at Floral Garden Cemetery Sunday morning. R L Pope of Thomasville will be principal speaker with four trumpeters delivering a sunrise salute at 5 29 a m. Rev Julian Lindsay will offer invocation and Edw Suits will give benediction. Girl and Boy Scouts assist with programs and traffic. The floral cross from last year will be used again.
The Greek defense line from Mount Olympus to Chimaera holds against renewed German pressure in Thrace and Macedonia. British and Greek forces report lull on fronts as Greeks defend mountain barriers. Fort Rupeel in the Struma Valley remains under bombardment. German claims of British withdrawal are disputed.
E. K. Ingram city inspector issued to L. G. Jones permits for two new dwelling houses at 2750 dollars each. One on Barbee Street near Fifth, the other on Gordon near Kimrey. Each will be one story with five rooms and brick veneer.
Tax appraisers from the Cole-Layer Company of Dayton, Ohio, will visit about 9,000 homes in High Point as part of a Guilford County wide revaluation. The effort aims to equalize values, potentially lowering many assessments. A second crew will review construction details before determining replacement values and depreciation.
Crosby a High Point Negro is ordered held without bond for trial in Guilford Superior Court on first degree arson causing the death of Tiny Mae Lee, the child who died in a Christmas 1936 fire at 110 Hobson Street. The preliminary hearing in High Point Municipal Court found probable cause. Crosby had threatened to burn the occupant, and he was later arrested in York, South Carolina.
Vernon McLeod launches McLeod's Esso Service at South Wrenn and East Green streets with a formal opening on Saturday. The modern station offers car washing greasing waxing and a full line of products including oil and will operate with trained attendants.
Margaret Fowler Taylor files for absolute divorce from Robert C. Taylor with the Clerk of Court alleging a 1937 marriage and a 1939 separation after two years of marriage. The action cites two years of separation as the grounds for divorce.
The Christian Endeavor Sunrise Service will be Sunday at 7 am in the First Methodist Church basement. Rev. Hoy L. Fesperman of the First Evangelical and Reformed Church will deliver the Easter message. Louise Armfield presides, Milford Byerly introduces the speaker, with music by the Vickery Chapel quartet and Louise Eison. A light breakfast follows, hosted by Willie Edwards for the church.
CIO United Mine Workers push to raise daily wages to 87 and end regional pay gaps as 400,000 idle miners await full employment. Bethlehem Steel and Allis-Chalmers see new wage requests and a four day strike or pending settlements. Conciliator John R. Steelman seeks a plan to return idle workers to work while Sumner urges productivity and national defense through nonstop factory operation. A Mobile conference mediates a CLO dispute at Alabama Dry Dock after workers took a holiday.
A quick Q and A covers Lincoln’s assassination details the fastest animal the cheetah or hunting leopard of India the novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Montgomery as Alabama’s capital and kibitzer for a person who offers unasked card game advice and takes no part in play.
A compact study note highlights common usage errors including prefered phrases over vague forms, pronunciation tips about consuming and cube, and spelling reminders for mammoth. It defines inveterate as deeply rooted with a Tacitus quote and urges mastering one word daily to grow vocabulary.
Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with showers in extreme west by Saturday night. Temperatures largely steady with hot spell near terms. Winds Hatteras to Jacksonville vary from moderate to southerly, Block Island to Hatteras northeast light to moderate. Cloudy conditions move east and southeast Saturday with generally fair night and Saturday weather.
The British expect a stronger Turkish response as Nazi panzers advance through Greece toward the Aegean. They note that even Turkish resistance from behind guns could block access to the oil fields fueling the British Mediterranean fleet. Russia is also seen as a significant obstacle to Hitler's push eastward, while London acknowledges increased pressure from the German advance in Northern Libya complicating the Middle East command.
30 Axis and armored cars near Agedabia Standay fired on grounded Nazi bombers the next day and conducted two raids southwest of El Mechili. Tobruk bombed by seven German planes Tuesday night with little damage. one plane possibly destroyed by anti aircraft fire. British high command pours reinforcements into North Africa. Egyptian Prime Minister Hussein Sirry Pasha says Imperial forces arriving daily and that the western desert campaign is going well with victories in East Africa and confidence in Libya reopening.
Rose Morris filed a complaint in the Clerk of Court for an absolute divorce from Walter Morris after two years of separation. The petition notes they were married in 1925 and separated in 1934.
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