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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1940
Page
1
The Southern Furniture and Rug Market executive committee announced plans to modernize and enlarge the ten story building. Feasibility of adding three to four floors will be studied by engineers, with a planned 50 000 to 60 000 square foot expansion. The July 15 opening is targeted pending approvals as demand for space remains strong.
Prime Minister Chamberlain told US and Japan that Britain aims to return trade to normal and avoid friction with neutrals amid the war. He noted curtailment of purchases in America due to dollars devoted to munition orders and cited prodigious war effort with over a million men under arms and strong convoy protections.
Berlin dispatch reports the Schwarze Korps urges artificial insemination to sire sons for the fatherland among childless couples. It calls for high caliber donors, including brothers of impotent husbands, with doctors to advance the practice as a wartime heredity program backed by Himmler.
David Cecil Lyons, 23, driver for a Johnson City Tennessee transport firm, died when his truck rear ended another five miles southwest of Concord. The coroner's jury found Thomas Paul Dyer not to blame after hearing the two were traveling from Greenville to Greensboro and Dyer slowed for Lyons.
Elizabeth City January 31 G D Gatling of Gates County and Merrill Evans of Ahoskie announced candidacies for the Democratic nomination for the first district two senate seats.
Berlin reports two days of intensive raids sinking seven armed merchant ships and two British patrol boats. One ship damaged severely and several lightly, with increased U boat defenses and more reconnaissance along the North Sea coast.
Quarryville Pa January 31 Undaunted by scoffers the Groundhog Lodge faithful prepare for Groundhog Day rituals. Members don top hats and nightshirts to seek the woodchuck's prediction then spread the news as Quarryville observes a local holiday with business closures.
Arthur V. Brown president of two Indianapolis banks and four others were indicted by a federal grand jury on conspiracy to defraud the government through diversion of WPA labor. Indicted: Karl F. Kortepeter Elizabeth C. Claypool Arthur F. Eickhoff and Charles E. Jefferson in two separate incidents.
Salisbury district Methodist Missionary Institute will be held here tomorrow. Church leaders from Cabarrus, Stanley and Rowan counties will attend.
Rep. Ralph G. Flowers announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Catawba County register of deeds. The declaration came from Hickory on January 31 as he pursues the county office.
The United Mine Workers of America convention sidelined a proposal to endorse a third term for President Roosevelt and sent it to the international executive committee for action. John L. Lewis claimed the majority was overwhelming despite opposition and heated debate over a substitute that urged unity on the New Deal liberal platform.
Senator Pittman led discussion as Jesse Jones, head of the Federal Loan Administrator, was summoned to testify on a bill to boost the Export-Import Bank capital by 100 million dollars to back a 20 million dollar Finnish loan. State Department reps may appear. hearings and decisions on related neutrality act resolutions loom.
Japan enforces a self-imposed power famine with 30 to 35 percent cuts in Osaka Kobe Tokyo and Yokohama for ten days starting February 10. Munitions and war-related industries remain unaffected while textiles fertilizers beer and foodstuffs face output reductions. Workers face idle periods as manufacturers risk millions in losses.
Secretary Hull pledged to press for changes in Britain's embargo on American tobacco imports replying to Danville Virginia Chamber of Commerce concerns. He noted London’s war time exchange controls since September 11 1939 restricting U S tobacco purchases as part of broader resource allocation.
Willis Smith of Raleigh delays his formal bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination amid reports he weighs the sacrifice to leave law practice. Other declared candidates include Horton, Broughton, Maxwell, Gravely, Cooper, and Grady as a record field forms.
The Finnish army communique states renewed Russian assaults northeast of Lake Ladoga were repulsed with nine tanks destroyed and five planes downed. About 50 Russians killed at Taipale as Soviet thrusts on the Karelian Isthmus were halted. Unofficial reports claim Pitkäranta was recaptured, improving encirclement of Red divisions in the Kytäla area.
The House Naval Committee tentatively approved a two year expansion costing about 655 million dollars for 21 warships 22 auxiliary vessels and 4500 aircraft. Army plans emphasize sea coast defenses air raid warning system and improved equipment with 40 million for warnings and 300 million for seacoast defenses plus 240 million for critical equipment. General Marshall urged restraint on manpower while Army and National Guard totals hover near 480 thousand.
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