25 Aug 1941
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1941
Page
1
The Daily News reports partial weather outlook with a hot and unsettled period followed by rain and cooler nights. In war news the Red Army claims counterattacks in the Baltic and Leningrad regions with tank and infantry offensives, sinking German transports and destroying divisions, as reported by the Soviet Bureau of Information.
Three thousand workers from the shipyard at Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock in Kearny New Jersey resume work under Navy management after CIOs vote to end the walkout. The move follows President Roosevelts order for Navy control and aims to establish a maintenance of union dues clause while negotiations continue. An AFL transit strike ended and a separate Great Lakes yard dispute was averted by a bargaining election between AFL and CIO unions.
President Roosevelt nominates Francis Biddle solicitor general to be attorney general of the United States. Biddle moves up from the justice department post vacated by Robert H. Jackson joining the line of Edmund Randolph as an early U.S. attorney general. Charles Fahy is expected to succeed Biddle as solicitor general. Biddle has served as a federal circuit judge in Pennsylvania and held roles from private practice to head positions in the National Relations Labor Board and the TVA related counsel.
Charlotte dispatch reports secretary P I Taylor R Durham of the Southern Hosiery Manufacturers Association warns of broader unemployment in silk hosiery as yarn shortages loom from embargoed Japanese silk and wartime requisition. Durham and mill leaders plan Washington talks with federal officials to seek yarn substitutes and machinery adjustments to avert further layoffs. North Carolina union knotters official Cedric Stallings notes production slows to three to four days weekly.
Clinton L. Mosner subbing for Ray Tucker analyzes congressional leaders views on Roosevelt's sea meeting with Churchill. The piece argues the alliance with Communist Russia does not abandon religious freedom and notes Catholic clergy fear communism as the ultimate foe while party members debate all out aid to the USSR. The article reflects mixed public sentiment and hints at continued discussion.
Washington reports the Senate confirmed Rexford Tugwell for governor of Puerto Rico on a standing vote. Taft had criticized Tugwell as unsympathetic to American ideals and a proponent of collectivism. Berlin dispatches accuse Britain of attacking Iran and delivering a neutral state to Bolshevism. Iran’s neutrality is stated as unquestioned.
London Aug 25 The British government tonight revoked outstanding permits for exports to Iran and prohibited any further exports to that country except under license.
Political circles in Rome condemned the British Russian invasion of Iran as an attempt to seize Iran's oil and to join forces against the German invaders of the Soviet Union. The report frames the invasion as a nationalist attack with strategic aims beyond normal diplomacy.
Examiner Glenn R. Law of the Federal Power Commission denied a motion by censel for the Aluminum Company of America to dismiss an order directing the company to show why three hydro electric plants it operated should not be under power commission license.
Washington August 25 The War Department announced that acting secretary of war Robert P Patterson reduced the prison term of John Habinyak a Pennsylvania draftee convicted by a military court martial of insubordination from ten to three years in prison.
Berlin dispatches report 123 Soviet tanks destroyed in eight counterattacks on the central front over three days. Russians began a ferocious drive Saturday with 32 and 44 ton tanks supported by artillery. One sector saw 95 tanks knocked out by German defense. a single German infantry regiment withstood eight assaults and claimed 28 enemy tanks. German forces claimed advances on all active fronts with secrecy around Odessa and Tallinn centers.
The Duke of Kent eldest brother of King George VI arrived at Norfolk Naval Air Station for a one day inspection tour of defense activities in the Hampton Roads area. He will inspect the Naval Air Station Training Station Yard Langley Field and the Newport News shipyard before a White House dinner. The royal party is led by British and U.S. naval officers with local officials and the British consul in attendance. The visit follows a weekend stay at Hyde Park Florida?
The Domei news agency quotes a "well-qualified commentator" in a strong attack on Churchill's broadcast. It claims the prime minister's speech misinterprets facts in three points and links the message to Britain’s promise to aid the United States if Japan’s expansion is not halted peacefully. Page 2 contains part of the Churchill text with further commentary.
Iran sits between the Caspian Sea and India with the world’s richest oil field. The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company holds a 60-year lease on 500000 square miles, about five sixths of Iran’s area, while most of the land remains desert and nomadic.
The committee approved reducing exemptions from 2000 to 1500 for married filers and from 800 to 3730 for singles, broadening the tax base. The move would bring about 6 million more people under the tax and add 300 to 350 million dollars in federal revenue, mostly from current taxpayers. Some Townsend plan advocates seek to couple higher old age benefits with the tax bill, lobbying for a minimum 30 dollar monthly pension for those over 60.
Five people died in North Carolina over the weekend with traffic incidents dominating. Graham Mercer, 28, died in an automobile-truck crash near Goldsboro. Jack Bristol, injured in the same truck, was taken to a Goldsboro hospital. William Dowling, 35, of Fairfield, Indiana, died in a Jacksonville area crash. Patricia James, eight, of Clinton, died from injuries from Wednesday’s auto wreck. her brother Frank James also died. Robert L. Chandler, 19, CCC enlistee, found dead on tracks near Cherryville after a possible train strike. Coroner Roy M Banks identified a woman near Garner, Wake County as Ruth Smithwick of Raleigh, possibly ejected from a speeding car.
Greensboro hosts a series of alumnae district meetings as part of a 1941 42 celebration of the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina. The events kick off with a Founders Day conference on October 4.
President Roosevelt vetoed legislation to freeze government stocks of wheat and cotton, calling it contrary to sound policy and harmful to farmers and consumers. He warned it would threaten the agricultural adjustment program and parity price goals, and argued the measure would restrict sales and curb market use. The bill would also have required CCC to hold crops and affect future supply management.
The Associated Press reports British and Russian troops invade Persia, pressing toward Bandar Shahpur and other points. German agents are targeted as clashes erupt near the Caucasus border and bombings are claimed around Tabriz. Iranian resistance forms amid coordinated operations by Indian forces and RAF support, with withdrawal promises after German threat removal.
Lisbon dispatch reports 13 British merchant ships reached Lisbon after a convoy attacked off the Spanish coast by German submarines. German claims say 21 Gibraltar-bound merchantmen totaling 122 000 tons were sunk, plus three convoying naval craft and three other ships in separate actions. Survivors contradicted the high command, noting eight freighters escaped to neutral Portugal.
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