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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1939
Page
20
The piece notes President Roosevelt offering Louis D. Brandeis for the Supreme Court, details on Douglas's youth and career, and surveys battles over a government reorganization bill, defense expansion, neutrality policy shifts, WPA funding, tax revisions, and social security reserve debates shaping looming congressional action.
A former air chauffeur to Mme. Chiang Kai-shek and Kansas professor’s son Julius Barr led a test flight that plunged 10 000 feet into a canyon near Alder Washington. All ten aboard perished including nine aviation aces. The wreckage scattered. investigators seek cause this week.
The page lists five quiz questions from last week covering wartime events Czech actions against German armor the ages of Einstein and Ickes union merge aims for AFL CIO Hitler Prague headquarters and two Moslem lands linked by marriage.
In Short reports a son to Toby Wing and Dick Merrill. News notes include the Washington hotel strike ending in compromise, tremors shaking Southern Japan and California, Portugal and Nationalist Spain signing a non aggression pact, Emil Jannings receiving the Goethe medal from Hitler, Kathleen Nolan Watson marrying Sam H Harris, a Wyoming Tarzan killing two peace officers, Loren D Dickinson sworn in as Michigan governor, Martin T Manton facing indictments, and a list of notable deaths including Irving Brokaw and Mme Avril de Sainte Croix.
A listing of upcoming events reads Cherry Blossom Week in Washington D C and anniversaries of fascist movement. Il Duce marks the 20th anniversary while UAW convention in Cleveland and arts expo in New York are noted. Roosevelts trip to Warm Springs and various council meetings are also listed.</s>
The era's big science stories include Tutankhamun's tomb discovery stirring world debate and a silver coffin of Shishak drawing less attention. German air interest in helium for airships clashes with US export limits, while Dutch helium finds emerge. Other notes cover gelatin drink claims for athletic endurance and rapid tissue tenderizing via heat and ultraviolet light at Mellon Institute.
Russia and Japan clash over exclusive fishing rights north of Japan as Moscow auctions Russian lots to Russians while Tokyo objects. Japanese fishers may be escorted by warships as 20 000 fishermen sail north. In Manchoukuo a Communist bandit uprising is reported. Syria faces riots as France handles its mandate with Damascus and Homs. Mexican celebrations mark economic emsancipation after Cardenas seize oil properties a year earlier. International Congress for the Democracy of America debates democracy in Latin America with bans on criticizing foreign powers. Madrid and Burgos trade calls for peace and victory.
Senators, First Lady Roosevelt, a German official, and author Sinclair Lewis are quoted on urgent issues. Harrison warns against internal divisions amid delicate foreign affairs while Roosevelt muses on old houses and leadership spaces. Ley calls for ending pensions talk, Sinclair Lewis critiques Genesis brevity.
A 1924 convention gave Memel to Lithuania but Nazi leader Ernst Neumann, a tall limping German war hero, now claims control. Neumann, released after a 12 year sentence, spoke as Memel’s fate shifted with December Nazi victory in the Memel election. He warned continued association with Lithuania is economically and culturally impossible.
The piece profiles Vladko Machek, a persistent Croat leader now 60, popular despite arrests, whose 1929 rebellion prompted King Alexander’s dictatorship. It notes his 40 percent vote share, calls for rapid autonomy, and cites regional figures including von Neurath and Daladier amid shifting power across Europe.
Hitler sent a flotilla to Memel Lithuania as German troops moved toward the port and a non aggression pact followed. Lithuania yielded under pressure as Britain France and Russia weighed responses and the Balkans braced for a broader clash.
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