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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1939
Page
2
National Debt Week notes the U S debt surpassing 40 billion dollars as Roosevelt defends the debt and contends the New Deal keeps purchasing power strong. Critics warn of long term costs while lawmakers push for more spending and tax revision amid defense and welfare debates.
Rep. Martin Dies hearings hear tales of anti Jewish and anti socialist plots as Dudley Gilbert warns of a red revolution. Knights of the White Camellia leader Deatherage discusses anti Communist ties. Bergdoll draft dodger case stirs Senate action. map surveying projects expand across U S territories.
Short items note Blue Peter wins the Epsom Derby as a 7 to 2 favorite. Nominations include Maryland ex-Rep David J. Lewis for a mediation board. U S grants Nicaragua a 2.5 million dollar credit for projects. Three freight trains wreck in Bradford killing three workers. Wisconsin ex-Rep Thomas R. Amilie named special assistant attorney general. U S Employment Service to add 25 percent more jobs in April 1939. Central Arkansas hit by a storm with four dead and many injured, million dollars in losses. George Palmer Putnam and California divorcee Jean-Marie Consigny James wed. Obituaries: ex-Gov John M. Parker Sr and ex-Gov Sir Thomas Astley Cubitt among others.
A wartime era political family tale runs through Kansas City where Tom Pendergast once wielded electoral sway, controlled clubs and liquor interests, and faced a 15 month prison term after admitting tax evasion for 1935 and 1936. The piece also surveys other notable cases and a Omaha mayor’s reform stance.
The piece notes CIOs 1937 strike cost 16 lives and spurred major legal actions. CIO filed 7.5 million dollars in back wages claims against Republic Steel while Republic Steel sued CIO for 7.5 million in damages alleging anti trust law violations. Labor tensions affect AFL NLRB relations as Madden and Wakefield testify. Kentucky guardsmen and federal food aid followed clashes in Harlan County where CIO claimed half of the soft coal miners were covered by a contract. 15 000 workers at Briggs Manufacturing walked out prompting broader factory idling.
In Berlin the German and Italian foreign ministers sign a ten year pact while diplomacy spreads from Geneva to London and Moscow. Britain Russia and others weigh a mutual aid bloc as tension surges and Danzig remains a focal point.
The piece surveys growing tensions over Danzig and the Polish Corridor with Germany seeking road access and Poland’s customs clashes. It cites Goebbels, Chamberlain, Roosevelt, and King George VI, plus Canada’s war memorials and Empire Day remarks, ending with Ireland’s call for peace and unity.
The week includes Festival of Pentecost May 28 and the Dionne quintuplets fifth birthday. Antwerp fair opens May 28. May 29 Supreme Court adjourns and Memorial Day observed May 30. May 31 marks Johnstown anniversary. June 1 Romanian elections. Hitler to host Yugoslavia's Regent Prince Paul. Confederate Memorial Day observed June 3 in Tennessee and Kentucky.
Report details the Squalus sinking near Portsmouth with 59 aboard during a test dive, the failed lift, and seven men saved by the escape bell as divers worked to reach survivors. 26 perished. rescue progress was ongoing with new safety devices and a second submarine, the Sealion, ready to launch.
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