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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1939
Page
18
In Pittsburgh Gary Birmingham Youngstown and other industrial centers steel mills ran at near full capacity with record ingot output surpassing 1929 as autumn activity surged. The AP notes a wartime rush to orders and inventories while trade and finance wavered.
Dr. Carl Speidel of the University of Virginia reports to the American Philosophical Society that metrazol-induced seizures in tadpoles destroy visible nerve endings, yet when dosage stops, tadpoles regrow nerves in a new arrangement suggesting a biological basis for insanity and its treatment.
A Czech youth died after anti German riots during ex Czechoslovakia’s 21st birthday protests. Prague imposed four days of martial law, 1,200 students sent to camps, nine students and others executed as authorities cracked down. Benes eyed collaboration with Sikorski to repair damage in exile.
UAW and Chrysler reached a standstill after 80 percent of workers voted for a union bargaining agent. Six days later 100 Chrysler employees were fired at Detroit’s main Dodge plant for alleged misconduct amid a company slow down. As production lags by six weeks, mediator James F. Dewey tries to move talks toward a settlement.
In brief notes: Joe DiMaggio weds Dorothy Arnoldine Olson. Louis J. Taber of Columbus reelected master of the National Grange for a ninth two year term. A 1940 41 budget forecast aims to edge closer to balance. Riots in India kill 23 Muslims and Hindus and 48 Filipinos in a typhoon sinking. Cuba’s constituent assembly leans 41 to 35 against Batista. GM fined 5000 dollars for antitrust dealer financing. Obituary items note the deaths of Ecuador president Aurelio Mosquera Maravez Methodist Bishop Wallace E Brown ex congressman William H Ryan Isaac Fuld Felix Riesenberg Sumner M Roberts Abraham E Rothstein and others.
New Yorker Lew Hahn leads the National Retail Dry Goods Association proposing to lengthen the Christmas season by shifting Thanksgiving, a plan Roosevelt backs in part with several states aligning. Meanwhile youth unemployment soars with public works proposals led by Owen D. Young. Reed College boasts an undefeated football record prompting campus discipline threats. Fritz Kuhn of the Bund denies theft in court while touting the leadership principle.
In Rochester last May a federal plan let relief families buy three stamps for 50 cents two orange for groceries and a blue for surplus foods. The FSCC would redeem stamps in cash, boosting 1st six months to 1.345 million dollars of business. Banks charged 1 percent service fees, prompting a standoff with FSCC and grocers.
The report explains mining hazards and laws, Britain's accusation of German mine placing off England, and subsequent Allied countermeasures. It details sea incidents including the Simon Bolivar sinking, Grazia, Terukuni Maru, and Britain and France seizing German possessions.
Benito Mussolini says war with arms is the normal state of peoples. Senator Wheeler calls a dictator a receiver for a bankrupt nation. Dr Samuel N Stevens notes a hobby may keep a man broke yet alive. Secretary Hopkins laments a sick period.
Californians note a Berkeley man gets a traffic summons but his car breaks down before his court appearance. A police judge offers a ride and issues a $5 fine. Separate item reports a Santa Monica fisherman hauling 300 pounds of mackerel 50 pounds of cod and a 400 pound broad bill swordfish. An eight week old baby actor Gregory Giese reportedly eats a social security card.
Upcoming schedule lists National Prosperity Week events in New York as the Metropolitan Opera season opens. Byrd’s flight over the South Pole marks its 10th anniversary on Wednesday. Thanksgiving Day is observed in 26 states on Thursday. Ambersne welterweight championship fight takes place in New York on Friday. The Monroe Doctrine’s 116th birthday is celebrated on Saturday and the Army Navy football game is held in Philadelphia.
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