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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1940
Page
9
Trade barometers stay above 1939 levels as spring buying lifts steel textiles and motor sectors. The motor industry leads March gains with output near 1937 highs while February car sales rise. export trade remains above 1939 figures amid wartime demand and factory payroll growth.
Federal Home Loan Bank Board launches Spring drive to build Registered Homes under the Federal Home Building Service Plan. American Institute of Architects and Producers Council cooperate to stabilize the small house market with better design and supervision. Six areas east of the Mississippi focus efforts with about 500 designs and local adaptations.
Fifty seven foreign countries and all states contribute materials for American automobiles, highlighting broad, international and domestic supply support fueling U S auto production.
Concord dispatch reports New Hampshire's presidential primary moving toward a Tuesday ballot box climax with Roosevelt likely to receive at least five delegates. The Democratic slate issue hinges on incomplete candidate filings leaving 11 of 16 at-large delegates pledged to Roosevelt, plus two Farley, one Garner and two unpledged. Republican focus centers on J Howard Gile of Nashua pledging to Thomas E. Dewey.
Paducah Kentucky March 9 Will Humble a Negro mechanic told an auto dealer he would return with a bag of money to pay for a used car. He appeared on schedule with 550 dollars in a sack filled with half dollars.
Leonard M. Berg, a speeding offender who had paid fines four times before, told City Judge Nangle the bill should be twenty dollars and costs. The judge agreed. Berg then paid the amount, effectively fixing his own fine.
The New York district attorney urged Dewey to withdraw. His request reduces political stakes for Gile but the ensuing vote will be watched as a barometer of Dewey's strength in the race.
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