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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1941
Page
2
Chicago produce receipts show butter unsettled with 90 score creamery at 33 cents and central ized carrots at 33 cents. Egg receipts total 5,700 with firm prices for fresh graded extra firsts at 35 cents loaf, cars 33, current receipts 31, storage packed firsts 35, other prices unchanged.
Morgenthau warns taxes may rise or borrow to curb inflation as a key guide to setting a new social security tax rate. Current law taxes workers 1 percent and employers 1 percent for pensions plus 2 percent for unemployment. One treasury White House plan would raise the employer pension tax to 2 percent, making total employer taxes 3 percent, equal to the worker pension tax. Morgenthau also urged reporters to consider possible savings in non-defense spending.
Bioff testified about a scheme in which M. Schenck head of Loew's Inc collected more than $1,000,000 from various movie executives and passed it to his brother Joseph, then chairman of 20th Century Fox. He claimed the funds were for the benefit of the entire industry facing legislation. U.S. Attorney Mathias F. Cor.
The cross-examination proceeds as Bioff ignores statements while facing charges with George E. Browne, president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, for allegedly extorting $550,000 from major movie producers in violation of the anti racketeering act.
Soviet dispatches report Kharkov fallen with heavy German losses including 120000 killed or wounded and 450 tanks. Rostov front resists, while Italian and German units face Russian counterattacks. Moscow front shows intensified fighting as Zhukov’s forces recapture ground near Maloyaroslavets Mozhaisk and Volokolamsk.
New York stock markets absorbed the war news as fighting raged near Kalinin, 95 miles from Moscow, with Soviet units in the Volokolamsk area reporting major German losses. A Russian communique said 27 German tanks 18 armored cars 120 vehicles and over 900 enemy soldiers were killed in a four day clash. Berlin and Berlin defense lines were probed as Soviet bombers hit Berlin while German planes raided Moscow. London observers doubted a swift Crimea subjugation as defense forces were estimated at 500000 to 750000. Sevastopol remained in Soviet control as Black Sea traffic continued. In air war Britain constrained German raids to one fighter over Britain while Britain attacked Brest and targets in Belgium and the Netherlands.
New York October 30. Joseph E Davies former ambassador to Moscow asserts the Russian purges of the last decade were designed by Stalin to remove German and Japanese spies. He argues the treason trials and purges were justified by the defendants working for German and Japanese high commands, reflecting forethought by Stalin and his circle.
The article reports on Senate and House members from both parties debating expansion of armed merchant ships and ending wartime restrictions. It cites Thomas defending morality and freedom, Wagner-like remarks on aggression by Japan and Germany, and quotes from Barkley Pepper Wheeler La Follette Nye and others on strategy, timing, and likely votes ahead of a final decision.
Detective Chief Frank N Littlejohn announced about 2000 dollars worth of jewelry seized at the home of Fred W Crawford in Charlotte. Crawford on arrest for breaking and entering and safe robbery with about 85000 dollars in uncut diamonds found in his possession.
The air ministry said the RAF conducted the most devastating shipping attack ever made by a single squadron when British planes bombed Aalesund harbor in Norway last night, sinking or damaging seven ships.
General Drum directs the First Army to treat prisoners of war as in actual combat during maneuvers from November 3 to 30. Large enclosures for captured enemy troops are under construction using Third Army components, with feeding and housing facilities and exchanges to occur as training time allows.
The army orders a regiment of special mountain troops, modeled after units used in Norway and Italy. The first battalion, the first of its kind in U S history, will form November 15 at Fort Lewis, Washington, under Secretary Stimson.
Representatives of Guilford farmers elected S. F. Boswell of Summerfield chairman to head the Agricultural Adjustment Administration program in the county. George Lockwell of Eton College is vice chairman. J. E. Gamble, Max Fryan, J.R.C. Beville named alternates. T. R. Wagoner is secretary and Miss Marie Saleeby treasurer. The meeting followed local gatherings in all sections.
Mrs. Helen E. Dunkelberger of 1207 West Hillcrest Drive today qualified as administrator of the estate of her late husband Herbert F. Dunkelberger. The estate includes about $800 in personal property.
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