29 Nov 1939
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1939
Page
1
British announced a lone German raider was shot down over the northeast English coast as coast watchers saw the fight. Survivors' fate unknown after the craft sank. meanwhile Britain prepared a new total blockade on Germany starting Monday.
Crystall Lake Illinois November 29 Dr EB M Brunswick used an infrared beam and mirror camera trap at a filling station. A flashbulb clicked when a prowler crossed the beam, triggering a loud siren. The captured portrait led Sheriff Lester Edinger to Harold Lewis who confessed to multiple burglaries in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin.
North Carolina a Democratic state rejects Roosevelt’s November 23 holiday and will observe Thanksgiving tomorrow. The decision ushers in a new hunting season for quail turkey grouse and rabbit. State offices close and several federal offices join the double Thanksgiving observance. Football games include Virginia NC at Chapel Hill and Davidson Wake Forest at Charlotte. Blue Ridge Baptist Association churches in McDowell County send farm produce to Thomasville Orphanage.
Milwaukee's William G. Ryan testified before the Dies Committee that the American Youth Congress is a Communist party front. He claimed most members are not Communists but that the party exerts control through small minorities. He cited allied groups and noted Mrs. Roosevelt offered to testify if valuable information existed.
U S Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court verdict ordering the Am erican Federation of Hosiery Workers and its president William Leader to pay Apex Hosiery Company 711 932 55 for damages from a 1937 sit down strike. The court sent the case back for trial and found no union intent to restrain interstate commerce.
In San Antonio on November 29 prosecutors and defense questioned veniremen about political histories as they sought a jury to try Maury Maverick charged with paying another's poll tax. The process aimed to clear the way for testimony by day's end with focus on factions and Maverick's ouster from city government.
Asheville and nearby towns faced loss of electricity after a strike by Carolina Power and Light Company electrical workers. About 80 temporary workers restored lines. roughly 75 members remained off the job as negotiations continued. Hospitals maintained power with auxiliary plant readiness.
Berlin sources say Germany stays officially neutral in Russia Finland tensions. They argue Russia has Baltic access rights, Finland must yield strategic islands, and that Russia was unfairly treated after World War I while German sympathy favors Russia without government endorsement.
Senator Borah and Senator Wheeler declared they would oppose special taxes to fund rising national defense costs saying any levy would fall on the little fellow. President Roosevelt discussed separating normal and emergency defense expenditures into two budgets and weighing borrowing as an alternative.
Berlin reports the government will reserve all measures to counter England's blockade of German exports on neutral ships. A British air raid on Borkum Island was repelled with no damage. London claims a heavy cruiser was sunk by U boat forces near the Shetland Islands, though British reports deny it.
Secretary Perkins reports a 3.6 percent rise in food costs for the three months ending September 15, lifting the cost of living for wage earners in 32 large cities by 1.2 percent. The increase mainly occurred between mid August and mid September, with all items except rents above June levels.
Turkish maritime authorities reported a submarine of unknown nationality sighted at the southwestern entrance to the Dardanelles near Tene dos Island in the Aegean Sea. Officials declined to guess at its identity or destination.
Baseball commissioner K M Landis fined the Detroit Tigers Brooklyn Dodgers Dayton CO and the Columbus club of the American Association 2500 in total and issued rulings awarding back salary and free agency to players He cited failures to file contracts and player negotiations with his office and warned clubs against destroying agreements
Helsinki prepared a note responding to Moscow’s accusation of hostility and border tensions. The Finnish cabinet finalized the draft and aimed to send it to Moscow, while officials denied full mobilization and ordered border patrols moved back to reduce clash risk.
Reports from Helsinki and Moscow indicate Finnish troops may be withdrawing from the Soviet border to avoid clashes as Moscow presses for negotiations. Fresh border incidents and artillery exchanges are cited, with Soviet forces reinforcing frontier garrisons. The Finnish government calls the situation critical and denies clashes while messaging the Kremlin.
Fritz Kuhn the Bund leader faces a jury on larceny charges after prosecutors call him a pathological liar and a strutting little fellow. Judge Wallace will issue the charge as five counts remain, warning imprisonment over 20 years if convicted.
Adelaide Tate 38 a divorcee fell to her death from the 17th floor Greenwich Village unit of Age Skipling a Shell Oil engineer after sending cryptic telegraphs. She had two children Albert a government employee in Washington and Louise a Louisiana State University student. Skipling said she had a key to his apartment and had frequently run up phone bills before the fatal jump.
Earl Browder spoke at Yale amid a noisy student crowd and outside demonstration as veterans and officials failed to block his visit. The meeting drew about 500 inside a 406 seat hall and a larger mob outside as cries and noise broke the event for hours. Browder urged action to remove capitalists from power amid protests from Yale students and veterans groups.
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