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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1940
Page
1
Tornado in South Georgia leaves fifteen dead as relief work continues with damaged Red Isthmus Drive entering its ninth day. Wartime trade notes show U S exports to Japan halved for strategic materials oil cotton and scrap. copper and other metals up twenty five percent.
Paris reports a semi official note stating Germany’s defeat is needed before any international economic framework can work. It says Sumner Welles would be welcome for information in European capitals and notes cautious support for US diplomatic talks with neutrals on a sound economic system and disarmament. England and France push for guarantees of peace through victory.
Berlin dispatch says German high command confirmed British aircraft crossed into Poland coast and claimed German air raiders sunk or damaged enemy ships yesterday, with one German plane shot down.
Helsinki reports nine straight days of heavy fighting as Red Army assaults on the Karelian Isthmus are repulsed with high Soviet losses. Finns describe shortages and continued Soviet attempts to breach Mannerheim fortifications near Summa and Lake Ladoga amid bayonet and grenade combat.
The Netherlands government announced plans to build three battle cruisers to defend the East Indies. A government spokesman said funding measures would be introduced in due time. Unofficial costs were estimated at 650,000,000 to 60,000,000 guilders per ship.
William Dudley Pelley head of the Silver Shirts testified before the House un American activities committee that he favored life imprisonment for Senator Robert M Lafollette Wisconsin progressive Republican L Lewis CIO head and Samuel Dickstein New York Democrat. He said he had advocated such action while questioned by Representative Voorhis. Starnes pounded the gavel as the exchange grew heated with Voorhis asking if other committee members shared Pelleys views. Pelley warned the proposed leaders would be tried by a jury of Silver Shirt members if he were in power. He traced his first brush with communism to youth work in Russia and Siberia during World War I and described travels in the Orient in 1918.
The National Maritime Union filed neglect of duty charges against Capt. Joseph A. Gainard of the City of Flint accusing him of endangering crew safety during actions by a German prize crew. The union seeks license revocation and presented two crew affidavits from Peter Walding and Henry Androvett.
A February twister struck Albany and Americas in south Georgia killing at least 15 people including a white woman and 14 Black residents. Property damage tops 5 million dollars with 450 injured and 250 critically. Officials cited widespread destruction of business districts and hundreds of homes as emergency crews restored lines.
Medallist Bobby Dunkelberger of High Point North Carolina defeated Powell Crichton of Bronxville New York 6 and 4 in the final round to win the annual men s golf tournament at Ormond Beach Florida. Da ladier wins deputies approval in Paris Chamber session. Hecht stock broker indicted for grand larceny in New York.
Reports from Istanbul state Soviet Russia is expanding fortifications along the Caucasian frontier with Turkey to shield oil fields from possible British French or Turkish strikes. Military sources say hundreds of thousands of workers are drafted to build roads and reinforce defenses. German advisor Fritz Todt reportedly visited the Russian side to aid the fortifications. Turkish sources note Todt had also surveyed works opposite Cernauti as a potential entry point for Allied forces into Poland. Turkey is accelerating departure of 190 German technicians released from government duties.
Secretary Hull stressed peace and economic sanity as keystones of postwar policy. He cited curtailment of armaments and liberal commercial policies, and announced Undersecretary Welles would visit Rome Berlin Paris and London to advise on current European conditions.
Raleigh February 10 Revenue Commissioner A J Maxwell a governor candidate issued a statement from Asheville denying any authorization to assess Department of Revenue employees for his campaign He says no pressure and contributions should be purely nominal Major John T Armstrong says suggestions were made without Maxwells knowledge Governor Hoey will investigate reports of patrolmen being told monthly contributions would be appreciated Armstrong says the idea of contributions of 1 a month from 170 patrolmen was discussed in Charlotte January 13 and characterized as voluntary not compulsory.
Montreal February report says Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir, aged 64, remains unconscious but passed a better night and is more active. Doctors note prior indications of slight improvement in his condition.
Sir Kingsley Wood denounced the Russo German pact as disappointing and uncertain. He warned German occupied Poland shows harsher methods than Russian occupied areas and cited Polish exile claims of mass executions. He noted Russian transport woes could hinder oil and raw material supplies. He described two phases of German terror in occupied Poland and cited a Konin incident where 84 victims were shot after a shortage of one.
In Fort Lauderdale Florida Chester Czaja twenty four owes his life to an animal trainer who used a short stick to drive jungle bred lions from his prone body Czaja worked at Clyde Beatty's Jungle Farm spectators including trainer Joseph Arcaria watched as Arcaria attacked the lions with the stick and another trainer George Eckerson carried Czaja to safety
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