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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1938
Page
2
Industrial leaders pressed to back government plans as threats mount worldwide. War Department discussions showed utilities and railroads rally behind expanded mobilization, with most major companies already joining the preparation drive despite earlier contention.
Washington reports say Canada and 20 Latin American republics could supply over a million trained troops and warplanes to a Western Hemisphere defense pact. Experts note access to strategic minerals—nickel, tin, manganese, rubber, wool, coffee—and bases would bolster US strength, with Brazil and Mexico as key suppliers.
A long mixed text presents a crossword style list of clues across and down with many answers and a narrative about college football results, highlighting Michigan’s 18 0 win over Ohio State, Purdue Illinois and others, plus strategic notes on defense bases and regional rankings.
The United States outlines three battleships with bids near 49.5 million dollars plus 26 million for armament. Battleship No 59 is to be built by Bethlehem Shipbuilding at Quincy Massachusetts for 49.815 million and 26 million for weapons. Delivery set 52 and 55 months with post construction testing. Bids faced delays due to cost estimates after a long shutdown period.
Duke and Duke meets Pitt next week in Durham as Texas Christian faces SMU in a key conference test after TCU routed Baylor 21 6. Yale hosts Harvard in a rain drenched game as Army tops Princeton 19 7 and Georgetown battles Maryland 14 7. Villanova routs Boston University 39 6 while Fordham tames South Carolina 13 0 and Lafayette Lehigh close out.
A section of Broad Street near College Street collapsed into a railway cut causing work delays. Police and firemen patrolled the area for further cave-ins. A barricade blocked College Street and pedestrians were kept off the damaged sidewalk.
William Randolph Hearst urged using Germanys former African territory as a homeland for Jewish refugees from the Nazi regime. In a speech for a nationwide broadcast, he called this expansive state a fitting, wholly adequate refuge for the dispersed Jewish people seeking a national homeland.
In Indianapolis on November 19 the American Legion through its national executive committee denounced the German government for the persecution of racial and religious minorities. The resolution terms Nazi acts a spectacle of intolerance and tyranny and backs the U.S. leaders Roosevelt and Hull in pursuing policy toward Jews and other groups.
H L Crowe city auditor and Lois Welborn city clerk will represent High Point in Charlotte at a conference of North Carolina municipal employees tomorrow. The meeting at Charlotte city hall aims to discuss a retirement system for public service workers and to form a state wide organization with support from the North Carolina League of Municipalities and Charlotte officials. About 30 cities are expected to send delegates.
Germany to reclaim lost colonies and expand eastward while Hitler’s rise faces global tension. Democracies arm as Britain France and the US prepare for possible conflict. Memel and Danzig shift toward Nazi sentiment, but no war yet. US recalls ambassador over anti Jewish program as European neighbors seek cautious stability.
Berlin reports show campaigns to erase Jewish traces from life as churches drop Jehovah and Old Testament names, Jews in Nuernberg forced to cede 90 percent of wealth to labor front and leave in three months, and new measures abroad including a Memel youth movement and a large treasury bill loan.
In New Guinea native women catch aan beetles and thread them into neck aces as part of local adornment.
From a single vantage on the Isle of Man, observers can glimpse England Ireland and Scotland simultaneously across the British Isles. This rare geographic note highlights the island’s unique visibility of all three nations from one location.
A Japanese spokesman in Shanghai says over 200000 Chinese guerrillas and bandits operate between Shanghai and Nanking, creating a river blockade for non Japanese shipping. He cites danger to traffic and constant military attention as the reason for limits on river movement.
Eight people including seven boys and a man died when their car plunged into 20 feet of water from a hole near an anthracite colliery in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania. The vehicle belonged to the Wyoming Valley Crippled Children's Association and was being used by a chauffeur for a hospital clinic. Relatives identified two of the boys, and all eight bodies were recovered from the submerged car by a railroad crane. The hole reportedly opened about three months earlier after a mine settlement left the road blocked by large sash piles.
New York reports a modest stock market recovery after the worst week in over three months. The Associated Press average rose .1 to 51.5, while many major issues lagged. Declines cited include General Motors and Chrysler as traders eyed a possible end to the post Munich correction.
President Roosevelt at the National Press Club dinner praises . objective reporters and recalls 12 journalists. Rodney Dutcher, a Washington correspondent, is noted as a gentle man of the press and dies at 37 from a heart attack at his desk. Dutcher began in Worcester and wrote a daily national and political affairs column for 11 years.
Jamestown in November reports the Jamestown Parent- Teacher Association meeting led by Mrs. P. C. Futrelle with a devotional and a magazine committee update by Mrs. Macy Borum. Billy White won the top subscription prize. Miss Bumgarner’s seventh grade presented a Storyland book week program. The group plans a December library Christmas tree.
On Wednesday November 16 the Modern Book Club met with Mrs W A White Jr. Eighteen members attended. Charles Farrell of Greensboro presented an illustrated lecture featuring Williamsburg New York Hudson River New England and the Shenandoah Valley with emphasis on images of the local coastal fishing camps and life therein.
The Czechoslovak lower house approved autonomy for Slovakia and Carpatho Ukraine amid foreign reports of a revolt in Ruthenia. Agencies noted border violence with six deaths blamed on bands from Hungary and Poland, while officials denied a revolt. Regular troops remain stationed along borders as tensions persist.
Tobacco prices on the Old Bright and Middle Belt markets edged higher for most leaf and lug grades while smoking leaf values fell slightly.AAA figures show Old Belt sales through November 106 at 99,021,490 pounds averaging 24.10 per hundredweight. Middle Belt through November 10 sold 74,323,570 pounds at an average 23.05.
A note explains that digestion of honey occurs within the bee, not after consumption by humans. It clarifies the digestive process is an internal function of the bee during honey production.
Mrs. O. M. Bundy visits daughter Mia as others travel for weekends. Jack Stewart stays in Washington, D. C. Mr. and Mrs. eb Morgan enjoy a Salis bury weekend. Nancy M. Hinson and Catherine Farlow join sisters at Appalachian State Teachers College in Boone for a campus weekend. Mrs. Tom Hendrix stays with her mother in Greensboro.
Washington radio talks and Capitol Hill whispers center on John Nance Garner as a potential influential figure in the next Congress. Despite silence, a possible meeting with Roosevelt at Warm Springs and speculation about a 1940 presidential bid keep Garner in the political spotlight amid a stronger Republican minority and questions of party harmony.
The body of Howard Moore a 17 year old newspaper carrier was found in woods near Durham. His skull was fractured and his throat cut. Officers suspect robbery as motive though the boy carried little money.
The body of Harry R. Will aged 65 died suddenly Saturday morning of a heart attack. The casket was shipped to Philadelphia for services to be held Tuesday. He was born in Germany April 25, 1878, son of Christian and Louise Pagels Wills. He is survived by his widow and two sons. He was sales manager of the Royersford Foundry and Machine Company for fifteen years.
Carolyn Rose Sigman sixteen month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Clarence Sigman of Claremont was killed when she fell under an automobile after the front door flew open. The tragedy occurred tonight as the child sat in the front seat.
Observation notes that a person standing 5 feet high can detect an object about 2.9 miles away on level ground or at sea, illustrating horizon distance with eye height.
President Roosevelt, Brandeis, and Ambassador Phillips discuss relief for German Jewish refugees as anti Semitic measures intensify. Sir Ronald Lindsay and British officials are also involved in talks on resettlement and plans to aid Jewish migration to Palestine. An emergency conference of Jewish leaders from Maryland to Florida is called to coordinate with the Palestine Appeal agency.
A large two mid-wing Douglas bomber from Mitchell New York en route to Maxwell Field crashed in a wooded area near LaGrange. Seven fliers died and a crew member died later in hospital. Major Maxwell said weather caused the crash while a single survivor survived in an unconscious state.
An explosion in Harrisonburg Virginia destroyed a two story frame building. One person was killed five others trapped. Nine hospitalized for injuries and several more treated for minor cuts and bruises. Funeral director A M Higgs identified a body as John Beach aged 20. Police search for how many poolroom occupants remained unaccounted. Plate glass shattered across a dozen buildings in the business district.
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