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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1939
Page
6
A detailed AP feature contrasts Soviet Finnish tensions with prewar Nazism, noting Soviet demands for a 12 mile frontier withdrawal, the breaking of diplomatic ties, and Finland’s defense odds. It reports Finnish and Allied reactions, British naval moves, and Western statements as war loomed, with Europe’s medical and university shifts described.
The piece surveys a revived push for a United States of Europe. It cites Halifax and Chamberlain on surrender of some sovereignty for organic union and contrasts federation and confederation. It notes Britain’s move toward shared defense policy and economic coordination as a preliminary step.
Southeastern Survey to Bulgarians notes Russia remains a kindly but dyed beard old man. Balkan observers wonder if Russo Bulgarian friendship could shift to teamwork against Romania for land redemption. Hungary fortifies, Romania refuses, Yugoslavia pays debts, Greece profits, Turkey argues with Germans. In German occupied Poland a Jew risks death for night travel or not wearing a yellow armband. The Nazi decree allows unlimited fines or imprisonment.
At the Metropolitan Opera house 4 000 spectators filled the venue for the season opener. Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra played as the second piano and the audience enjoyed the glittering surroundings. A patron performed a cartwheel in the bar while a dog danced in the foyer and standees waited up to 17 hours for a view.
A Canadian doctor reports success using vitamin B-1 to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis also called the muscle wasting disease. The treatment appeared effective in a paralyzed patient and for other conditions like memory loss and sleeping sickness.
A new weapon printing 10 000 pamphlets per hour alarms Europe as Switzerland battles stray leaflets aimed at France or Germany. Nazi cartoons accuse Britain of deceiving France while German airmen scatter French captioned leaflets over northern Switzerland.
The list covers December first week events with dates and places. Activities include Advent beginning on Sunday December 3 and International Golden Rule Week, plus meetings in Geneva Chicago Minneapolis Washington and a Peruvian presidential inauguration with cotton quota voting slated for December 9.
Labor actions stretch from 30 state owned, privately operated San Francisco piers where CIO ship clerks picketed over a new contract as Gov Olson forms a commission to probe harbor tensions. Chrysler and CIOs United Auto Workers end a long Detroit dispute with a three to seven cent wage rise and revised grievance procedures while Hollywood studios concede a 10 percent raise for 23,000 workers only through next February.
Fritz Kuhn leader of the German American Bund was found guilty by a New York jury of stealing 1217 dollars from the Bund to move furniture and pay a lawyer. The defense argued Bund funds were owned by the leadership. Also noted are brief obits and political items about Jim Naismith, Lanky Key Pittman, and the annual Christmas seals fundraiser.
World wheat export prospects for 1939 40 look ample despite U S forecasts of a export drop and acreage shifts by the AAA Meanwhile hog prices near a five year low and livestock fairs draw heavy Canadian and American participation In Lancaster County Pennsylvania Amish shift to Maryland farms near Washington to plant a new colony as farm values rise and farms become unaffordable.
In Short Won by John Miller Elk Grove Calif the men s national crocheting championship. Killed 11 Germans in a train collision boosting the Reich death toll to 83 in a month. Suggested postponement of the 1940 party conventions from June to July or August. Set aside a U S court jury decision holding a labor union liable for damages from a Philadelphia sit down strike. Died James Simpson Chicago merchant Dr Edward E Free science writer Rev John N McCormick Michigan Episcopal bishop Dr Laird J Stabler California scientist Fanny Hatton playwright Princess Zenaide Youssoupoff Russian exile in Paris Philipp Scheidemann first chancellor of the post war German republic.
Capt Fritz Wiedemann denounces the Bund in San Francisco. Prof Charles A Kraus denies any death ray. Rep Jim Dies condemns Stalinist agents in government. Earl Browder argues peace requires removing power from capitalists.
Harold D. Smith, budget director, briefs on a Roosevelt plan to cut the deficit from 3.5 billion to about 2 billion for 1940 41 while asking Congress for a 500 million Army Navy boost. Debates hinge on higher taxes or borrowing to finance defense, with critics urging restraint and economizing.
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