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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1940
Page
2
Dewitt Mackenzie analyzes Admiral Yonai’s new cabinet seen as a appeasement gesture toward the United States. The move shifts focus from the military to a broad representative government amid expiring trade pacts and Japan’s China policy.
Dr. Munro notes harmony among kin and community. Rev. McCorkle argues youth drive religious work and world mission. Dr. Tripp criticizes rural churches as neglected, treated as leftovers, likening them to urban farmers receiving scant missionary funding.
Early returns from 675 of 1703 precincts show Long leading with 100,724 votes, Jones 64,312, and Noe 49,026. Morrison trails with 138,550 and Moseley at 3,622. Jones predicts a second primary and victory for governor. Coyotes have fixed meeting spots, and the Tire and Rim Association reports inspecting 1,783,225 rims in a month.
Catherine McNelis of Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania, once a top business woman, was sentenced in New York Federal Court to one year and one day in prison for mail fraud tied to the now bankrupt Over Magazines.
William Hayes an umpire in the Piedmont League last summer announced he would seek a seat in the state legislature at next fall's primaries. He said he does not intend to give up baseball or umpiring in general.
The local recruiting office says Everett C. Phillips of Gastonia and Lafon C. Parham of High Point enlist in the infantry at Camp Jackson. Also note presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died July 4, 1826, the Declaration signers' anniversary. A remark on Spanish borrowings and factory handling in Newark, Ohio.
Mostly cloudy and colder tonight and Thursday with possible snow flurries in the mountains. Moderate west and southwest winds rise to the northwest over northern and central portions with overcast conditions tonight and Thursday.
Muti warned that any relaxation of anti democratic policies would be pernicious amid current tensions. He directed assistants to stay informed on public opinion and to explain rationing and requisitioning decisions to prevent confusion and worries.
The North Carolina Dairy Products Association and the Tar Heel Supplymen's Association launch their annual conventions in Pinehurst. M. E. Newson discusses unemployment and farm development while Forrest H. Shuford covers state and federal hour and wage regulations. Jack Hartmen of Charlotte serves as supplymen president and hosts tonight's dinner and entertainment. meetings conclude tomorrow.
The Dies Committee, once dissolved January 3, may be revived next week as Speaker Bankhead predicts a House Rules Committee vote to grant another year of life. Upholding F Grady’s trade plan, officials cite charted gains in farm income and warn that further aid to Finland could widen U S involvement in Europe despite Roosevelt’s assurances.
Albemarle January 17. R R Ingram announces his bid for the Democratic nomination for the 19th district senate seat. He seeks the party’s nomination and competes in the upcoming primary.
Dr Coleman Legschetz former president of the American Mathematics Society delivered a talk at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill on January 17. The event featured insights from his extensive career in mathematics and education.
Dr John M Alexander of Fayetteville has been elected moderator of Fayetteville presbytery. The decision was announced on January 17 at Heads Presbyterian Dunn.
Port Meirion in North Wales stands as Great Britain’s only privately owned seaside resort. An architect designed an Italian type village on this site, creating a distinctive overseas feel within a private development.
The three days old child of Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Bray of 509 Randolph Street died at City Memorial Hospital. Funeral services were conducted at 2 PM at Gren Funeral Home with Rev. W. J. McGee presiding. Burial followed at Clarksbury Church Cemetery.
Funeral services were held today in Smithfield for T. R. Hood, 2, former president of the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association, who died yesterday.
A massive explosion at the Gibbstown New Jersey nitroglycerin plant, part of the E I du Pont de Nemours company, centered on a central unit in the N G Line. About 6 000 pounds of nitroglycerin detonated. two workers believed present in the house near the blast. Ambulances and investigators from Philadelphia, New Jersey state police, and the FBI respond as shock waves and shattered windows spread to Philadelphia and surrounding towns.
General Denis praised Belgium for its armaments saying a small country with a small army can face a stronger foe. He noted improved trenches, better air defense, and a new 130 million franc appropriation in the supplementary budget to finance defenses.
The Interstate Commerce Commission approved a reorganization plan for the Missouri Pacific Railroad System. It consolidates 25 debtors into a new company while Missouri Illinois remains separate. Capitalization drops from 671 million to 560 million with annual charges reduced accordingly. Fixed interest falls from 24.77 million to 7.29 million.
Department of Commerce reports a sharp drop in unmanufactured leaf exports for the first eleven months of 1939, totaling 827,551,760 pounds valued at 72,429,249 dollars, down from 434,876,447 pounds and 139,417,688 dollars in 1938. Bright flue-cured led declines, while manufactured tobacco exports rose to 14,093,374 dollars, up about 600,000 from 1938.
A writer describes a patrol retreat into Finnish forest lines with soldiers on skis and sleds. The journey passes camouflaged tents dugouts and a sheltered farmhouse, then crosses mined bridges to a Finnish village and onto Russian soil near a frozen lake. The return includes meals at a bivouac and a Finnish female auxiliary corps base.
An undated NLRB report accuses the Ha ricks brothers of governing county officials and police, paying salaries, and overseeing mill property and about a thousand workers. It claims they tried to break a local union by founding fellowship clubs and using threats to coerce members into groups.
Since the end of the World War nearly four million new homes have been built in England and Wales. This surge in construction marks a major shift in postwar housing policy and urban development.
A historical note states that 68 percent divided by five of the world’s 43,819,929 automobiles are driven in the United States. The line implies a large U S share of global car usage.
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