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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1940
Page
2
Northern New York state faced heavy winter snows returning as spring began. Watertown area reports cars buried in drifts and trains slowed by snow with plows clearing Layton and Adirondack routes. Temperature dropped to eight above zero in Waterman.
Morgenthau argues the 45 billion dollar debt limit should be raised openly by Congress and not avoided. He dismisses the stabilization fund as a nest egg for unforeseen emergencies and notes potential tax collection anomalies from state and local workers. He plans a week to ten day vacation at Sea Island, Georgia after tax news.
June Bourne of Tarboro will represent the town at the Rocky Mount Gallopade set for May 1 to 3.
A city meeting in High Point discusses decentralization trends and the need to lure new industries and shoppers. Local leaders note declining payrolls since 1929, push for labeled production, downtown improvements, and stronger citizen involvement to boost the economy.
John Mebane reports Noble T. Praigg at a city clinic urging High Point to build community self confidence to offset unrest. Leaders like W. T. Powell Mayor Kirkman and J. S. Pickett stress pursuing suitable industries with local support and debunking fears of internal competition.
The new French cabinet includes Reynaud as premier and foreign minister with Chautemps as vice premier. Daladier oversees defense and Roy interior, Rollin commerce, Mandel finance, Bonnet blocade, Monzie public works, and other ministers named. Socialists Monnet and Riviere join as ministers. Daladier resigns amid criticism and Italian press calls it Germany’s victory.
Reports detail bellicose exchanges as British bombers target German positions while a Norwegian boat is abandoned and two Danish ships face losses. The German claim tallies nine ships sunk, with other vessels damaged, amid retaliatory raids linked to Scapa Flow and Salt Island actions.
Mostly cloudy with occasional rain on Friday. Mountains may see rain tonight. east portion cooler. Sandy Hook to Hatteras show NW winds backing to SE or S tonight, NE winds over south portion easing to SE with light rain Friday. Hat, to Jacksonville: NE and E winds shift to SE, overcast tonight and Friday with showers in extreme south.
Thirteen defendants including Local 58 of the AFL and two agents are accused of a conspiracy to restrain trade under the Sherman act. They allegedly ordered a slow down to raise costs for nonparticipants to push contractors out of business. The Detroit Electrical Contractors Association and ten local firms are charged with artificial bidding and allocation of electrical contracts, with Hatzel & Buehler Inc. of New York also named.
Paris reports relative quiet on the Western Front with only yesterday's patrol encounter noted. British forces killed five Germans while rain hindered air operations reducing activity to short flights over the lines.
Reports from Copenhagen note German submarine nests and shipyards in the landlocked Baltic Sea could be targets. The British raid on Sylt destroyed many aircraft seaplanes and bombers with hangars ruined and fuel depots ablaze, as pilots returned to say wrecked barracks and crippled railways followed the strike.
A report says Nazi loaned Red Army air crews for bombing Finland aiding its defeat. Finns, after inspecting a crashed bomber, suspect German uniforms among the Russians. Cables warn Hitler threatened Sweden to block allied aid and loaned staff to attack the Mannerheim line.
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