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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1941
Page
1
Berlin reports a 20 percent cut in Germany weekly meat ration effective June 2. Normal allotment drops from 500 grams to 400 grams per person weekly, with workers' rations reduced per labor type. Butter rations rise while other fats are trimmed to keep total fat allowance steady.
The United Automobile Workers union called a strike against three Hudson Motor Company plants in Detroit and GM reported a walkout at four Flint plants despite a postponement set by the Defense Mediation Board. The defense order work remained unaffected as the CIO pressed for a 15 cent an hour wage increase.
Washington reports that farm supplies worth 90 million dollars have been sent to ports for Great Britain. Carl Robbins, president of the Commodity Credit Corporation, stated this during a House Banking Committee discussion on loans to farm agencies for purchases. He said emergency British needs required prompt placement and noted reimbursement would come from lease-send funds if Britain cannot pay from exchange.
A six alarm fire in Baltimore destroyed the Tolchester Line excursion steamer Tolchester and two Chesapeake Bay piers. The blaze, starting aboard Tolchester, spread to the bow of the Southport and forced fireboat action to tow it to harbor. The fire, under control after two hours, also damaged a Tolchester pier and caused several small explosions.
Maurice Early, longtime CIO automibile union adviser, faced a draft act conviction for urging draft evasion. He pleaded guilty, fined 500 dollars, and received a year in prison for nonregistration. Once a Detroit publisher, he later backed Soviet praise and Roosevelt pardoned him in 1934. He may push union recognition at Henry Ford when GM dispute resolves.
London reports Germany moved into Iraq via French mandate Syria using Syrian airfields for Luftwaffe stopovers. British communique says axis specialists aboard planes answered Rashid Ali al-Gailani’s call to aid Iraq. Basra and Habbaniyah remain quiet as Eden warns Syria breach of armistice. Iraq’s oil field region cited as vital to Suez, with axis missions said to have reached Baghdad via Syrian air routes.
Washington May 15 A public hearing on a proposed 37 1/2 cent an hour minimum wage for 630000 textile workers was called with no opposition seeking to be heard. Two day session to study preventing rent and supply deductions by company stores. About 300000 workers in cotton silk rayon linen and jute mills would gain. Industry and labor groups reportedly did not oppose the unanimous textile industry committee report. Philip Fleming expected to issue a wage order by July 1 if the hearing proceeds as planned.
VICHY May 15 The French leader Marshal Petain addressed the nation urging citizens to follow him without reservations after stating Adolf Hitler and Jean Darlan had lit the road to the future He cited France’s enduring power and colonial empire and said he approved the principle of the meeting between Darlan and Hitler The speech came as censorship on negotiations was lifted and lighted the ongoing talks as the path forward.
Several thousand British troops sailors and airmen disembarked from a transport as freighters unloaded war supplies from the United States. Reinforcements from Britain joined existing British Australian and Indian units guarding Singapore amid talks with Chinese representatives on mutual interests.
Reported tonight that Britain attacked an airfield in French mandated Syria while the French foreign office said it knew nothing of events there. In Washington, the Senate defeated a bid to bar the president from transferring foreign vessels seized under pending shipping legislation, despite arguments it would provoke war.
Police Chief William G. Friddle discharged Sergeant Samuel F. Battley and stripped Captain W Christopher Johnson of his rank, demoting him to patrolman first class in a bid to quell dissension. Friddle said the moves were for the service’s good but cited no shared cause, warning similar actions may follow against other officers within the month. Battley, long a Storm center, denied wrongdoing and Johnson’s demotion stemmed from insubordination, not a breach of trust. Both men failed to cooperate with the chief.
May 15 report states Rudolf Hess’s dramatic descent on a Scottish moor was with knowledge of Hitler. Bevin calls Hess a murderer and questions peace talks while Churchill delays a full statement. A German source hints Hess sought peace, as Luftwaffe moves into Iraq via Syria bases.
Washington May 15 Senator Tobey asserts a tremendous and increasing volume of letters to the White House acts as a check on any move to order the navy to convoy war shipments. He predicts sentiment against convoys will peak by Roosevelt’s May 27 speech and plans to delay offering an anti convoy resolution in the Senate.
The House Appropriations Committee proposed a 24,846,047 dollar budget for the upcoming year to fund Congress operations including salaries, the Library of Congress, Government Printing Office, Botanical Garden, and Capitol upkeep. The plan tightens bans on payments to aliens or subversive groups and limits foreign workers at the Library. Distribution assigns 3,875,554 to the Senate, 9,285,218 to the House, 3,825,927 to the library, 5,197,000 to the printing office, and 2,296,071 to the Architect of the Capitol.
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