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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1941
Page
2
Noon readings show warm and humid conditions with scattered showers possible. Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with a few showers near the coast from Hatteras to Jacksonville, winds light to moderate southwest offshore.
Boston June 30 Roosevelt told the 33rd annual Conference of the Governors of the United States that the days ahead will test energy ingenuity and statesmanship. The message, read by Governor Harold E. Stassen, urged full government cooperation for America’s safety. Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner charged the army and navy with defense bottlenecks due to contract delays.
A government request proposes doubling tea rations for the poor while reducing allowance for those with reserves. The move aims to ease shortages and redistribute scarce supplies across the population.
The annual Veterans of Foreign Wars encampment opened with a memorial service led by Commander Crosby. He urged vigilance in national defense, naval preparedness, and honoring American ideals, recalling World War I and calling for unity and continued civic duty. The event featured band concerts and a picnic at City Lake Park, with 300 delegates registered for upcoming sessions.
New Zealand reports four collisions between wild horses and heavy trucks in the past year. The government will scrap the amusement tax on race meets, football games, and amateur boxing and wrestling events.
British BAE bombers resumed operations against French bases across the English Channel, raiding the coast between Boulogne and Calais for over 30 minutes. American Eagle Squadron in van of recent RAF sweeps over Northern France. About 25,000 tons of British ships sunk off the east coast of England by German bombers. 18 British bombers shot down during a night raid on the North German coast.
The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the nomination of Attorney General Robert H. Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court. Senator Tydings testified that Jackson was unfitted for service on the court by character philosophy and judicial temperament.
The severance notification was delivered by Vice-Premier Admiral Jean Darlan and the French ambassador in Moscow was instructed to inform the Soviet government. The communique said diplomats would be exchanged under the best conditions, ending the prior arrangement and formalizing the diplomatic split.
A wartime district report describes Soviet and German forces engaging across occupied Poland and near the Finnish border. It notes a massive tank battle between Luck and Lwow, claims of Luck's occupation, and Soviet counterattacks around Minsk and Leningrad. Viipuri losses and Japanese or Lebanese-front notes are mentioned along with Vichy Levant actions.
Frank Rook, 44, a convicted bootlegger, faced a choice after pleading guilty in High Point Municipal Court. He could pay a $25 fine and costs and leave town by 10 pm, or serve a two year road sentence suspended on departure. Officers found ten and a half pints of whiskey hidden in a trap at 30 Putnam Street. Other local cases included Charlie Smith for reckless driving, Marion Cobb for traffic violation, Lee Staten for drunk and disorderly, and James Tysinger for vagrancy.
Navy records list eight Marines rescued from the steamer disaster. Nurses aboard remain uncertain with Mary Beard noting six nurses safe, while indicating more on board if the Maarsden sank. Names given for the eight Marines include Major Walter J. Jordan Edward H. McAllister U. G. Know Jr George V. Clark John F. Skorich Willis G. Smith Augustus J. Eden and William M. Miller. Efforts to confirm remaining passengers continue.
The text notes the blood completes a heart cycle four times per minute and that 2,300,000 passengers rode the Moscow-Volga Canal last year. It also quotes John A. Arey, Extension dairyman, saying turnips are the best feed for dairy cows when corn silage is unavailable in winter.
The general was not at home as bad weather halted the sustained British air offensive against German invasion ports and industrial areas on Saturday night after one night. The RAF resumed operations once weather cleared. Germany claimed 13 British bombers shot down over northwestern Germany. The British reported one German raider shot down in light air attacks on England.
Charlie Yow a High Point lumber worker filed in High Point Municipal Court for $5,000 damages against Dr. W L Patton and the Chatham Hospital of Siler City alleging neglect at work led to blood poisoning after amputation of three fingers and improper treatment prompting transfer to a Greensboro hospital.
Local USO fund drive shows $2,213.50 raised by noon with a goal of $7,500. J H Kalte, local chairman, calls progress painfully slow as several small gifts are logged from donors including Plumbers Union and doctors.
Secretary Knox announced three additional offshore naval bases to be set up in the mid Pacific Aleutian Islands and the Caribbean. Midway Island will host a base August 1 under Lieut. Commander Cyril T. Simard. Dutch Harbor Amaknak Island Alaska follows September 1 led by Commander William N. Updegraff. The Trinidad base at Carenage Bay near Port of Spain opens August 1 with Commander Arthur W. Radford in command.
Cairo June 30 British pilots flying United States built fighters destroyed five Vichy French planes in Syria yesterday the RAF Middle East command reported today. Other aircraft described as large and unidentified were damaged in RAF sweeps over Syria with raids on Palmyra barracks and warehouses Aleppo runways and grounded planes bombed and Deir Ez Zor machine gun fire damaging five more French planes on the Western desert front.
Twenty seven men have been mailed notices to report for their selective service physical examinations at 7 p.m. Thursday night. John D. Ross, clerk of Draft Board 4, announced the details. Examinations will be held at the city health office on 112 North Wrenn Street. The list includes Thurman Scarce, Lemmel James Mabe, Thomas Henry Aaron, William Henry Pugh, Lemmie Robert Rhodes, Cleve Durham, Brodie Shuskey, Glenn Paige, Bruce Ledbetter, Luther Ingram, Donald Rogers, Dillard Byerly, Lester Cox, Clettes Glenn Morgan, Byron Haworth, Samuel Winslow, Lynn Loy, Henry Austin, Curtis Byrd, Fletcher Dunlap, Merriit Doss, Allen Meredith, Grady Jones, Troy Blackwell, Arthur Vincannon, Austin Henricks and Grady Carroll.
High Point city council wraps up the fiscal year by moving funds within departments to avoid deficits. Transfers include 500 between highways and water divisions, 22.35 from highways to electrical, plus 27.65 from contingent, and 2500 from Fund 8 to Fund 11. Also 6000 from excess taxes to the fires division for hydrant rentals. A 435 transfer within public works covers extra shop pay. Moscow-Volga Canal freight up 36 percent. A one legged man fined for shoplifting in Leeds. British bombers set fires along Bengazi waterfront and hit Derna and Gazala air base. one raider missing.
A dense OCR list shows prices and percent changes for major stocks and corporations including General Electric, General Motors, IBM, Standard Oil, Coca Cola, AT&T, Chrysler, Ford, Boeing, Pennsylvanian Railroad, Public Service NJ, and a wide array of industrials, utilities, and transport firms. The data sketch captures bid values and movement across the day with many firms noted and percent shifts, illustrating a broad market snapshot with numerous entities and prices.
The morning raid marked the first daylight attack on the German mainland since June and among the few daylight penetrations since November. British fliers bombed shipyards and industrial districts in Hamburg and Bremen after a 600 mile round trip from the Norfolk coast. The RAF noted heavy strafing and losses on both sides with German reports claiming 13 British bombers downed and the air ministry reporting 11 Allied aircraft lost.
Washington June 30 House Ways and Means Committee tentatively endorsed a 7 percent tax on the sale price of new automobiles, expected to raise about 79 million in new revenue, a compromise after opposing Treasury 15 percent proposal. A 10 percent option was defeated. The note cites a Shakespearean trivia line about the word honorificabilitudinitatibus.
High Point area draft boards announce selective service registration for all men who have turned 21 since October. Registration runs 7 AM to 9 PM at the post office building with Draft Board 4 in Room 217 covering south of the railroad and Jamestown vicinity and Draft Board 5 in Room 216 covering north of the railroad and the Deep River area. Men from other areas visiting High Point for registration will be registered there and data sent to their home boards.
I W A local will hold a special meeting tomorrow night at 727 Grimes Street to discuss strengthening the union. President G H Morton says the local is not connected with any national labor group and has no such plans. A poll indicates plans for strikes remain a last resort.
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