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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1941
Page
4
A compact note cites Deuteronomy 19 21 on eye for eye and warns of lacking court for appeal against worldly judgment. It adds a Carlyle quip about risking court appeal before final judgment. The fragment conveys a theme of justice, accountability, and review.
Sixteen of twenty Thomasville draftees sent to Fort Jackson were rejected as unfit at examination. Seven were black and nine white. The notice urges stricter local medical exams and a national push for physical education to improve youth health and national resilience.
The piece reflects on missed lessons from history highlighting the refrain that experience teaches, yet nations repeat errors. It notes Germany’s missteps in past conflicts and argues power politics and future wars require wiser approaches to avoid repeating harmful outcomes.
The President and R L Doughton favor expanding income taxes over a broad sales tax base for 1941 revenue. They oppose a consumer sales levy, suggesting production at source or higher exemptions, arguing a wide tax base is needed as defense costs rise and widespread income taxation burdens grow.
Uneasy lies the head of the man invested with authority whether he wears a crown or a bowler hat Yesterday Winston Churchill was the idol of all Britain today there are murmurings against him and his control of the government The British arms have suffered reverses Perhaps a mistake has been made in losing something like 100 000 men and their supplies in support of Greece The public buzzes The same conditions environ other men of great authority Mussolini suffers from his reverses Roosevelts prestige depends upon day by day fluctuations of the cause with which the United States has partly enlisted Hear the President talking to yesterdays press conference He reaffirmed the purpose to aid the British and other afflicted democracies and he asked that the American people regard the war for the long pull without becoming fatigued
The piece recalls embroyic mechanical devices and the few who urged awareness, notably General Billy Mitchell who demonstrated air power to destroy a battleship. It notes Arthur Brisbane’s prolific war-plane advocacy, public detachment to arming foes, and the grim turn as bomber planes menace factories and fields.
A reader recounts meeting United States Senator Claude Pepper at the University of North Carolina. Pepper warmly addressed him by name and even recalled his father. The writer urges using a name memory technique: repeat the name, associate it, and recall it to improve social ease.
Brief collection of wartime quotes from Breckenridge Long Sidney Hillman John D Siggers and Edmund A Walsh on labor cooperation production and policy. The clipping also notes a Alaska job cooling off period talk and a wry remark on taxes and thrift from Kilts to Scotsmen.
Reagan McCrary reflects on Walter Winchell, the Atlantic crossing in a bomber, London bombed streets, a Scotch Pioneer Corps boy, morale, Roosevelt’s torn image, bombed London dogs and cats, civic pride, war fund drives, daily mass evacuations, beauty shop scandal, gifts for Britain, and dangers of tank maneuvers.
Fourteen U S combat pilots who landed in Britain as observers last week will show smear artists the American P 40 Tomahawk can hold its own with Hurricanes and Spitfires at any altitude. Also featured is U S Ambassador Winant guiding a Liberator and recalling a famous World War I piloting anecdote. contrasts between London and New York clubs show Americans in uniform and out of uniform drawing attention.
London society notes a glamorous woman with a tragic fiance loss and a Nazi camp awaiting. a remarkable wartime tale follows of a man who disarmed a 3000 pound bomb after a night raid. Lord Brownlow predicts a postwar House of Lords overhaul.
RAF fighter pilots endured heavy combat as they kept firing discipline until closing to 200 yards, turning the tide of engagements with courage and skill in a perilous air battle.
A boy from the Eagle Squadron, recently crashed and barely healed, died after entering Cafe de Paris during the bombing. Whispers persist about a Welsh Guardsman who killed a waiter post strike and a prison letter from a German prisoner noting longing for spring and country life.
An American mocks English RAF cadets in a London club while Britons boast of RAF success. The Home Guard is armed with a cheese knife as a chilling joke about resilience, and the piece hints at German invasion fears and unconventional countermeasures.
A Fleet Air Arm Grumman Martlet flight swooped down through fog onto an RAF airfield while Hurricane pilots watched. The two aircraft then tangled in training aerobatics with the Martlets emerging victoriously in a daily showcase.
The note says the Balkan campaign is unclear and the speaker admits not understanding it. It uses a humorous line about everything being Greek to them to express confusion. No specific events, dates, or actors are named.
Prof. C. R. Hinshaw will direct the Summer school at High Point College once more. Fifth district building and loan men, about 100 strong, held a banquet at the Sheraton Hotel. Postmaster General Walter F. Brown praised the air marking on the High Point Bonded Warehouse noting the city’s bold display during his five state airplane tour. Local residents include Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McGuinn returning from Baltimore and Washington, and C. D. Smith resuming activity after illness. The North Carolina Garden Club will meet in High Point next year.
Dr Henry A Snyder of Spartanburg S C will address a union service at Wesley Memorial Church Sunday Mrs Barr pastor evangelist spoke yesterday at Central Friends Church to women on The Double Standard A R Whitehurst Wake Forest student won first in the State oratorical contest held in the local high school auditorium Today 100 000 troops occupy the Ruhr Valley in Germany and five soldiers killed in action in France were brought to High Point Cor poral James W Pegram Sgt Gilbert B White Reubin E Davis Berth Whitehart Sgt Thomas J McDowell are named
Washington April 23 Peter Edson reports the Truman committee will survey cost plus fixed fee defense contracts. They seek annual five year financials, equipment lists, sub contractors, agents, commissions, materials and any improper actions. Big defense program shows over 300 fixed fee contracts worth about 2 billion. Summer heat adds pressure.
The note ponders if Jimmy Stewart may use a double while peeling potatoes at camp. The defense picture is described as a one place where three strikes didn t seem out. Lindbergh shifts focus from we to they in discussing his chief attention.
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