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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1940
Page
2
Kannapolis police officers J H Davis and Albert Parham were wounded while serving a warrant on Crowell Winecoff at a boarding house. Winecoff was shot and hospitalized in critical condition. Mrs Lois Earnhardt received bruises. Winecoff had earlier attacked Sam Atkins about a decade ago and resisted arrest with pistols and a rifle.
The Finns repelled attacks described as heavy casualties while naval strikes hit the Finnish fort at Mantsi on Lake Ladoga Island. Reports say Soviet efforts to reorganize the Ladoga offensive failed, and a rural community in North Sabo was heavily bombed over two days. Turku suffered widespread destruction including a streetcar hit. two telephone operators died fleeing to shelter. A Turku newspaper printed underground after its plant was bombed.
Alicia Hart notes dramatic differences in carriage among hotel lobby women. A dark haired guest stands out with a confident, alive walk, while others appear flat or awkward. The column urges daily posture checks and a tall chest uplift to project vitality and beauty.
The statement mocks the 1919 disarmament promise and claims the Allies forced Europe into partitioned self rule. It alleges economic decline and religious neglect under postwar orders, accusing the League of Nations of pressuring Germany to live by treaty terms.
County Tax Supervisor A C Hudson said county offices will stay open Thursday and Friday 8 30 a m to 9 p m and Saturday 8 30 a m to 5 p m for tax listing without penalty. Commissioners approved the extension to aid those ill or blocked by snow while urging remaining filers to list tomorrow as extra staff will be released that night.
The United Mine Workers of America adopted a resolution opposing any U S government loans to Finland and urged the United States not to participate in war in Europe and Asia. The convention also pressed for stronger wage hour law enforcement and considered curbing National Guard use in labor disputes.
German forces attacked 14 vessels using bomb and machine guns with planes flying low over Scotland and Kent. British defense reported no inland penetrations and no sinkings among 13 merchant ships and one Latvian vessel, though crew casualties occurred. A winter storm aided coastal defenses while a suspected German plane triggered alarms along England’s east coast.
New York gossip column notes Alexander Korda plans on embattled England while Merle Oberon frets by phone after learning her husband landed safely. Douglas Fairbanks dies, and a dream signals trouble as events unfold in Old New York theater and film circles.
North Carolina mostly cloudy with snow this afternoon or tonight and again Wednesday. South Carolina cloudy with snow or rain in the north and central portions this afternoon and tonight. Georgia partly cloudy and slightly colder with snow expected in far northeast this afternoon. Virginia light snow tonight then generally fair and not so cold tonight in the north and east portions.
Winds from Sandy Hook to Hatteras bring moderate northerly flow with northeast gusts and broken to overcast skies. South of the region sees similar winds shifting to northwest with rain and overcast conditions tonight into Wednesday, with light snow possible in the southern portion.
H A Barkley of Greensboro presented News In The Air at the Civitan meeting at the Sheraton Hotel. The program showed how news was spread from ancient Africa to today and included a scene on the Panay sinking with a reporter relaying signals to world centers. Fifteen Civitans and 16 guests attended. Dr H L Brockmann presided and theatre tickets were awarded as an attendance prize.
Reitzel was found on the floor of a rooming house amid a deadly cold spell that caused five deaths in the prior 11 days. Mrs. W. T. Best reports rising relief requests as sub-freezing temperatures bite the poor. Lakes and rivers froze statewide including the Yadkin below Elkin and Lake Waccamaw with several inches of ice for the first time since 1918.
The Western front communique reports no notable activity after earlier aviation and artillery movement. Daladier urged stepped up arms production and declared that victory must include more than armed triumph, while promising merciless action against German or Russian propaganda disseminators.
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