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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1939
Page
4
Newspaper masthead for the High Point Enterprise dated Monday March 13 1939 lists B Terry A Rawley Ammetta Cec and editor P Rawley with publishing details. It notes subscription rules for town and nearby carriers and credits Associated Press dispatches and The John Budd Co as national ad representative.
A reflective column argues that Franco's Spain reshapes Europe's balance as Italian forces advance toward Madrid. It warns that postwar aid and finance will shape Spain's future and notes the peril of Jewish refugees fleeing Germany and Italy, risking widespread immigration strain and social tension.
A fatal crash on Main street highlights dangers from speeding in congested business districts. Pedestrians face hazardous crossings as cars line up at signals and traverse several abreast, creating jams that trap those on foot.
Four years after a commission detailed road-cost claims counties flooded it with figures. Lenoir pushes for repayment while the legislature drains road funds for general use. The motorist stance on Main Street echoes a deadly weekend crash and prompts officials to press for safer, slower driving.
The Fayetteville Observer ridicules WPA reform schemes by proposing hiring ten thousand imitators of Dale Carnegie to teach unemployment a condensed course from How to Win Friends and Influence People. A local woman credits the book with ruining her cooking as bears read too long. The Raleigh Times questions Nazi aims on Holland and Switzerland and suggests simpler phrasing about floods and Alpine heights.
The piece outlines Daniel S. Tuthill’s rules for effective sales letters including value in content, personal, typed appearance, intimate address, personal signatures for business friends, and courteous follow ups. It also recounts Count Jacques de Bouaille’s humane conduct toward convicts aboard the S S de Grasse in a storm near French Guiana and Dutch Guiana.
Walter Winchell on Broadway notes a hush Inner Circle incident with Mayor La Guardia scolding a member for criticizing Sophie Tucker. Other items include a cop groom shooting acquittal, Dewey aide traveling to London, a divorce suit for a former governor, Christine Fisher mourning oil man Bob Hague, and Julian Bachrach missing since November amid World’s Fair coverage.
A Mediterranean Munich forecast in three weeks. Jack Benny offered to tear up his contract but the sponsor refused. Hines’ sentence may shrink to two or three years. Dixie Davis likely to get a suspended sentence with probation for five years. Theo Rossi and Lady Moira Forbes tied to a Los Angeles merger threat. Goebbels hires eight press agents to woo back Americans, operating in Paris. all are from Chicago. Two are Joosh.
The Herald Tribune foreign staff sees Joe Driscoll move London to Washington and Joe Barnes shift Moscow to Berlin with Barnes covering the Moscow post by plane. Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s Listen! The Wind gains music by Elmo Russ, with Anne writing lyrics.
Valary Vance and Tom Kearns decide to unwind their relationship while a young New York attorney fresh from an annulment seeks new footing. A film firm accuses Variety of libel over 2000s content. Joe E. Brown’s sponsor plans a daydream on April 1 as Gambling Ship borrows sounds without credit. Keane files divorce papers from The Little Foxes producer amid a widening legal haze. San Francisco Worlds Fair fate prompts promoters to consider a bridge option.
A clandestine survey among White House insiders last week suggested Robert H. Jackson would win strongest backing from Progressives for President in 1940. Fortune polls indicate no major party candidate can win without progressive support. Also noted are Ben Wain’s private hairdresser sending telegrams to prominent guests and a Philadelphia sealing on Tuesday involving Jean Vickers and Richard McClain.
A number of lawyers are quietly arrested by federal agents in this district amid a large fraud probe. The SEC probes another Moe Kesson Robbins style setup by a similar-rich firm. Inflation of assets and missing millions loom in the background.
A compact snapshot describes events that occur in sixty seconds across the globe. It captures motion and change as a world moment unfolds in real time.
The piece highlights rapid, varied facts per minute across banks energy use and production. It notes lower savings interest since 1929, a thousand dollar per minute loss to depositors, calories burned, energy and meat equivalents, growing gas stove production, a middle C musical note, piano string vibrations, rising mental health hospital costs, and farmer tobacco earnings, all within a single minute.
Jock Whitney withdraws from a proposed 750000 dollar corporate venture to back Worlds Fair concessionaries. General A C C Critchelys Diana Fishwick will be 3 next month. Em len Roosevelt seeks to place architect Bottomley's daughter.
The piece notes the Securities and Exchange Act would not be altered and names Tommy Corcoran and Ben Cohen as authors. It mentions a Conn to judge under investigation and SEC figures possibly leaving or declining posts. It references Fire insurance rate scrutiny and various political opinions with social commentary and humor.
Bruce Catton reports Congress pursues a four year plan to spend 100 million dollars to stock vital materials the US does not produce in sufficient quantities. The effort aims to map domestic deposits and prepare for emergency production including tin antimony quartz tungsten coconut charcoal and iodine with bills led by Senator Elbert Thomas and Congressman Andrew May.
Henry L. Stimson, former secretary of state, argued that a government can safely speak unwelcome truths or take unwelcome actions to a dictator, a stance that may prove dangerous for a weaker European neighbor.
The London sports writer noted that Dr Ley believed Germans would not play cricket much, reflecting an outsider view as he helped demonstrate the British national game to foreigners.
A judge cites music as a language akin to Latin or French during a copyright trial. Ira B. Arnstein, noted as a composer, is connected to the proceedings, highlighting the legal view of music's expressive nature in the case.
President Roosevelt saluted Jane Brandt an 11 year old Campfire Girl who spoke at a Campfire ceremony. The remark praised her poise and public speaking during the event.
Representative Clare Hoffman of Michigan criticizes the Ten Commandments, arguing he would not support them even if interpreted by the National Labor Relations Board and enforced by Mr. Roosevelt during the reorganiza tion bill debate.
A rabid Indiana basketball spectator toppled from a chair during a game and suffered a broken leg. The incident highlights how sports crowds can pose risks to fans and raises questions about seating safety in arenas.
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