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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1941
Page
4
The piece quotes and analyzes views on Kaiser Wilhelm II, his role in WWI, and Germany's path to power, alongside calls to defend democracy. It critiques defeatism, urges resolve, and notes shifts in industry toward defense, predicting a quiet Christmas if production stays on defense orders.
In 1910 Spokane, Mrs John Bruce Dodd born an idea to honor fathers. She faced rejection, spoke to clubs, gathered petitions, and persuaded Washington governor Hardly. After perseverance the third Sunday in June became Father’s Day nationwide and beyond.
A speaker warned the war won’t last forever while a High Point resident mourned the death of his German shepherd found dead overnight.
The article questions whether Britain uses invasion fears as a pretext as Germany allegedly infiltrates Syria and troops move to meet them. France and Germany deny the charge. London offers little on future actions in the French Mandate. Uncertainty remains over who truly intends to invade Syria.
The Greensboro Record notes Lou Gehrig's death casts gloom over sports and ranks him as a stellar figure in American sports history. It links Christy Mathewson to that galaxy of stars and recalls Theodore Roosevelt's football analogy about facing life with courage.
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A collection of brief quotations criticizing democracy's fragility and urging action against Hitler. Fosdick argues against entering war hastily while Bevin links traitors to persecution, Hobson champions fighting for freedom, and Donald Nison calls for a united national effort during emergency.
The excerpt recalls Riviera editors plotting, Jack London bristling at late deadlines, and a dinner quip where Percy Hammond spars with a society woman. Language shows newsroom tensions and literary gossip in brisk, period tones.
In a chaotic snippet Jimmy returns home with a scratched face after a fight with Jack who allegedly hit him first. A commentator downplays Japan while recalling a Hungarian pun about Turks. A faux air port tale ends with RAF pilots bombing wooden decoys. Broadway philosophers debate naval tradition versus trains and boats.
New York showmen spar with critics over Shaw’s wit as editor and publisher feuds draw citywide attention. May 31 column notes Daly, Shaw, and presidents fallen to reformers, while Pegler and Winchell’s exchanges provoke reader weariness amid financial pressures. Martin Munkacsi recalls a Europe memory of a little boy.
Local notes show county tax lists to be advertised next week and the printer has them. Mas traffic patrols reported a busy month with many arrests. High Pointers attend a chamber of commerce conference in Charlotte to discuss tourism in the Carolinas. Richard Smoke of Orangeburg is visiting his sister in town, while Mrs. Cecil Dickerson returns home from Conway Ark after visiting Mrs. Willis Slane. Mrs. T J Gold leaves for Virginia Beach to participate in the Southern Woman's Golf Tournament. Col F H Fries, Wachovia Bank president, dies in Winston-Salem. Col Charles Lindbergh plans an Orient flight in late June. A Toronto psychiatry meeting labels Abraham Lincoln as schizoid manic with controlled baser nature.
In Hollywood a housewife interviewing a European girl for a maid’s job asks if she can cook clean care for children and launder. Each time the girl says no. Desperate the woman asks what she can do. The reply is I can assemble a machine gun.
A wave of income tax jitters sweeps Hollywood after a recent court action. Producers dodge specifics about earnings while one bragged his latest picture broke money records in New York, adding humor that he is not under oath.
Arthur Murray, a dance coach, sublet a building to Manfred Zapp, recently indicted as a Nazi agent. The tenant paid four months rent in advance and signed the lease, with Murray later discovering Zapp’s identity and turning the rent over to British War Relief.
A returned Clipper hopper reports Nazi deception by constructing a phony airport in the Dinard district of Northern France. The setup included six wooden hangars and numerous dummy planes designed to lure invading bombs from 1,000 feet.
Twenty years ago Archibald Johnson of Thomasville spoke at the close of the local high school, noting the largest graduating class in the school’s history. The Ku Klux Klan is reported as well organized in the city, with a donation of 150 dollars presented to Mrs.
A provocative suggestion from Duke Daly proposes Rudolf Hess present peace terms to Coventry widows and orphans, aiming to influence wartime diplomacy. The remark ties to wartime leadership and the moral phrasing contrasts with the era's diplomatic rhetoric.
The piece pits Sergeant York as America's WWI hero willing to forego fame to aid England, against Charles Lindbergh seen as ally to Nazi Germany. It notes York's charitable uses of earned film money for Tennessee schools, while Lindbergh profits from aviation fame under Nazi praise. It ends urging devotion to sacred duties over sacred cows and calls for leadership with old royalties.
America planned further shipments of wheat to France but Vichy warned that aid to Germany could conflict with strategic grain policies.
Frank Gurley backs the Associated Charities. Rev O L String will deliver an address at West End Baptist Church Sunday. W L Tabb travels on business to Thomasville. Miss Ruth Wicker and Miss Wanda Marshburn visit Greensboro. Charles M Kephart made a business trip to Greensboro yesterday. Charlotte invites High Point to join the Made in Carolinas Exposition in September. Puchic Colorado floods from Arkansas River rise after heavy rains. Randolph County to get a concrete highway from Archdale to Asheboro.
A modest issue with a few oysters at a restaurant escalates into a large dispute. The case highlights tensions over portion sizes and customer expectations in dining. Local officials and patrons weigh in on perceived value and fair serving standards.
In Washington defense procurement faces crossfire among Army, Navy, OPM and labor. Edson notes high contract rates, early spending, and missteps such as Camp Blanding and Fort Meade, with critics on all sides and the President pressed to steer the effort. He likens the scene to a fighter nearing a big bout, with nerves frayed but progress via contracts and production steadily advancing.
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