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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1940
Page
5
New York June 22 A shift in industrial and commercial buying aims to assure supply chains amid war and rearmament. Factories stockpile in many sectors while purchase agents warn of potential delivery tightening and the need for liberal inventory replenishment to sustain arms programs.
A long excerpt from an editorial page highlights entertainers and political figures in a lighthearted montage. Quotes from Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn, Cary Grant, and others mingle with jibes at politics and the New Deal. Public figures like Duce and Goering are noted in passing within a collage of familiar names.
Daily Smith describes a prophecy where repentance clears the land, a seven months burial period, then seven years to disarm and dismantle the Babylonian economy. Israel and the United States must turn to God as the old order ends and the Lord wins.
Editor writes of Major Vernon Carter transferring to Anderson to lead Salvation Army activities. Letter urges voters to assess laws on pensions welfare and the PWA, arguing for fair officers and candidates who will improve the country regardless of politics. The piece stresses thoughtful voting in November.
In Greensboro at Sedgefield the North Carolina Association of Public Accountants elected Earle E. Peacock professor of accounting at the University of North Carolina as president, succeeding G. F. Strandberg of Greensboro. H. R. Borthwick of Winston Salem was chosen vice president with Louis D. McMilland of Chapel Hill as secretary and Leslie A. Heath of Charlotte as treasurer.
The Salvation Army leaders Major and Mrs. V. G. Carter prepare to leave Anderson for High Point North Carolina. Their tenure saw rising need during the Great Low mood era and generous local support. They built a Citadel band and advanced Salvation Army goals while serving civic life. their successors plan to continue the band and mission.
Shortage of ships from Scandinavian conditions drives the Philippines to seek ship building help from Japan. More than 700 pigeons that delighted visitors at Rochester Castle were destroyed in Britain's food conservation drive.
Charlotte June 22 The State Chairman Jake F Newell led North Carolina s 23 delegates to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia They are uninstructed by their party and will vote their judgment The delegation includes nineteen district representatives and four at large delegates They seek a winning candidate of caliber and to push statesmanship over politics
A South African astrologer was robbed when a complete correspondence course in astrology was stolen from his parked automobile in Cape Town. The incident underscores a crime in the city, with authorities investigating.
About 26 million American families own pets and spend roughly $1 million every day on feeding.
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