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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1938
Page
9
Amid talk of looming war in Europe and Asia, Germany moves troops and conscripts while Britain France and the United States warn against following the path of force. Diplomatic leaders including Halifax Hull and Mussolini weigh in as a Kept Conference in Keepsie contemplates disarmament and global cooperation.
The Brandenburg crossed Atlantic in under 25 hours from Germany to New York and back to Berlin in under 20 hours. The Queen Mary set an eastward crossing record of three days twenty hours forty two minutes between Ambrose Light and Bishops Rock. This week brought disasters with seventeen killed in a Czechoslovak airliner crash in Germany and six RAF lives lost in a flying boat accident. Additional wreckage of an eleven-death airliner was found in a Mexican jungle and nine killed when a plane hit Rio harbor. Eight deaths occurred in U S Navy bomber accidents near San Diego. Charles Lindbergh flew across Europe from England to Moscow for Aviation Day. A U S research lab reports tests of an ultra high frequency apparatus to reduce airline radio crackling. German doctors seek new electron microscope to magnify germs a hundred thousand times. Lord Rayleigh cites joint British American effort to curb deadly uses of science in warfare.
Congress probes Americanism and anti-communist activity as Dies family ties to suppression of immigration surface. Witnesses accuse CIO and Hollywood groups of spreading radicalism while TVA and Sen Berry face scrutiny over mineral claims and political influence.
The widow Sadie Leslie Monssen learns of a destroyer named for her late husband as she receives an FHA eviction notice for a missed mortgage payment on her Brooklyn home. A judge scolds her for desiring a mink coat she cannot afford, and her home is sold with a 30 day reprieve. Taxpayers and veterans groups raise support for her.
In a courtroom drama likened to Tammany era prosecutions, James J. Hines faces charges over profits from a $100,000,000 gambling racket. District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey leads the case framing Hines as protector of the racket and linking him to Dutch Schultz's gang. The defense calls perjury amidst claims of political stakes and power. Meanwhile AAA considers subsidies for wheat growers and export plans as Secretary Hull weighs an aid package to ease acreage reductions. In Chicago, AFL workers strike over a 15 percent pay cut halting 20,000 commuters on the North Shore & Milwaukee line, amid federal receivership since 1932 and a remaining conciliator from the labor department.
The item lists notable life events and claims including Sylvia Sidney marrying Luther Adler and a divorce involving Johnny Weissmuller by Lupe Velez. It notes a 45 member Supreme Court in Russia, discovery of two more torso slayers victims in Cleveland, and political probe powers ruling pending in Pennsylvania. It mentions life sentencing of Francis M. Carroll in Missouri, an murder accusation against Dr. William F. Lamance in Missouri, and obituaries and deaths of leaders and officials including Father Andreas Hlinka John Shanahan Charles Hunt and Adolph Lewisohn.
In Georgia chief endorses Lawrence Camp 39 favored by CIO Labor's Non Partisan League as he runs in the September 14 primary against Sen. George 60 AFL President Green supports. George counters that white Democrats in Georgia can choose their own representatives and federal power should not dictate state elections. Roosevelt also touts social security reform and cites Lewis Wagner and others in national push.
Rep Caroline of New York calls war a des apetrved and good weno while warning that Dominion Domination of Canadian soil threatens the United States. Sen Pat Harrison says Congress may broaden the income tax base and raise rates if more money is needed.
The column notes ongoing strife in Palestine with Arabs demanding removal of Jews and Jews asserting historic rights backed by Britain and the League of Nations. The tally tops seven hundred deaths in two years as racial terrorism persists. Central Europe eyes rapprochement within the Little Entente amid possible talks with Hitler.
Fragmented notice lists multiple events with dates in August including a Home Week bid in New Yelo of Foreign Wars, a Mississippi primary debate, a Democratic convention, Dover Aeronautics Authority, a seventeenth anniversary of a U S peace treaty with Germany, a cannon exhibition, and a Republican rally near Washington. Names and exact details are garbled.
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