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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1939
Page
3
The AFL adopts an amendment to its constitution limiting President Green's authority to suspend or revoke state and city labor bodies. Charges must be filed within 45 days after an emergency action, with a trial leading to a decision subject to appeal to the council.
CHAPEL HILL October 7 Plans are going forward for a radio studio not a station to be established under the general direction of the Extension Division at the University of North Carolina this fall. The studio will be connected to various state stations and developed with cooperation from the departments of Dramatic Art Journalism English and the News Bureau as well as the Extension Division. A course in radio script writing management and newscasting is planned with hopes it may be credit bearing.
Greensboro trustees set for Thursday October 12 at two oclock in the president Dr Luther Gobbels office. Reports from Dr Gobbel treasurer H M McIntyre and all standing committees along with budget revisions and routine matters. Finance investment committee endowment and building funds committee nominating and executive groups also meet beforehand. lunch at one. Officers listed: Charlies S Wallace president James E Lambeth vice president T C Hoyle secretary H M McIntyre treasurer.
Four meetings of Davidson County Granges scheduled for Monday night October 9 in Thomasville. Welcome Grange hosts with Hedricks Grove Grange program led by Lucille Hedrick. Denton Grange with Roy Arnold as lecturer. Midway Grange with Tra Disher. Tyro Grange with Churchland Grange and Mrs. Hugh Davis as lecturer.
Rev. C. A. Brown, who has served as pastor at Kernersville Pilgrim Holiness Church for three years, has been assigned pastor of the local church for the coming year by the district assembly at Albemarle this week.
The Kerneraville High School freshman class elects Sue Butner as president Clay Vance as vice president Mary Lee Mooney as secretary and Robert Linville as treasurer for the 1939 40 school year.
Chinese observers in Shanghai and Chungking cited reports of a major Japanese defeat in northern Hunan with claims of large losses and retreat from Changsha. Independent sources and Chungking papers mentioned fleeing Japanese with arms and supplies, estimating about 30,000 casualties.
Brig. Gen. Jacob E. Fickel told 800 delegates at the Society of Automotive Engineers meeting that the United States can meet any air challenge. He outlined a two year plan funded at $300 million to expand air defenses by 1941, including 4 600 officers and 45 000 enlisted, new bases and fields, 5 500 planes, and related labs and reserves.
Secretary Wallace spent his 51st birthday in his Washington office amid war related farm problems. An Iowa corn farmer by background he skipped the usual field visit to stay at desk and keep in practice.
W T Grant Company reports September sales of 8,235,329 dollars, up 7.8 percent from 7,640,446 the year before. First nine months total 66,444,335 dollars, compared with 61,709,966 dollars in the same period last year.
The Composite Index rose 2.8 points to 3.1 percent below normal, the highest October level since 1929 aside from 1937. Steel mills, railroads, electric power, lumber, and auto production surged, while retailers lagged. Payroll gains suggest a strong buying spree ahead with further index gains possible.
The wealth of the United States, after a drop from 1929 to 1934, rose steadily to an estimated 322 billion dollars in 1937 per the National Industrial Conference Board. Per capita wealth reached 2,490 dollars in 1937, down from 2,910 in 1929.
Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff longtime German diplomat and former ambassador to Washington died of a heart ailment in Geneva at age 74. His American wife Jeanne Luckemeyer of New York was with him. He had been ill for 18 months and lived privately, publishing memoirs in 1936. Funeral services were private, with cremation and burial planned in Geneva.
Five men one woman and a dog and cat survived a 6000 mile voyage aboard the Tai Ping, a Chinese junk that sailed only before the wind. Captain John Anderson says typhoons pirates and dwindling rations plagued the trip from Shanghai to Canada, with a dog and cat spared until rescue by the US Coast Guard Discoverer on October 3 near Queen Charlotte Island.
The crew faced heavy strain aboard their junk and cut loose to sail on. Wind died and they drifted into Brook's Bay where the Flying Cloud intercepted on October 4 and towed them to Quatsino.
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