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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1941
Page
2
Food Stamp program items for September were announced by Gideon L. Bateman, covering same list as August. The blue stamp foods include fresh fruits and vegetables, grains, eggs, and flours. In a separate note, Fire class instructors report Irish youth prefer dances and movies over Irish lessons.
Informants say Japan’s leaders including Teijiro Toyoda and Tsuneo Matsudaira push for a deal with the United States to delay expansionist policy. They warn a pacific clash is possible if Washington refuses to bargain, as Britain and the US freeze credits crippling Japan’s economy and Tokyo fears air raids with few shelters.
The Labor Day radio broadcast spans the Atlantic with a message from British Minister of Labour Ernest Bevin urging a larger flow of military supplies to the Allies. In Rome Fascist circles quote Hitler praising the coming war, while in Washington lawmakers react to Roosevelt’s speech with mixed approval and Republican Senator Nye dismisses it as fearmongering.
Senate leaders express cautious optimism that a revenue measure carrying 456 million dollars over the treasury estimate could win approval by next Saturday night. A conference committee may begin work in a week. An amendment would cut income exemptions for married and single filers, raising about 300 million annually and expanding filing requirements for 6 million more taxpayers.
The report shows a full-time high total of 393803580 for internal revenue collections in North Carolina. The prior record for 1939 40 stood at 32912072658 with folding money paid by taxpayers. The 1940 41 period ending in June this year exceeded the previous record by 64682854.27.
Word has been received of the death of Mrs. E. H. Kohn wife of Rev. E. H. Kohn in Mount Holly She was the mother of Mrs. W. W. Gluyas of 317 Greenway Drive The Rev Kohn is pastor of the Lutheran Church at Mount Holly A separate item notes that violation of government price regulations in Germany is considered a felony punishable by death in extreme cases.
Soviet reports describe continued German pressure with unchanged defense positions along the front. Red Star cites air support and multiple German losses including destroyed planes and trucks, while Moscow tallies heavy Nazi casualties and claims swift counterattacks near unnamed points.
Reports from Berlin and Leningrad describe German and Finnish forces advancing on many fronts. A Dnieper river action sank a Soviet gunboat and set three ships aflame while railways near Kharkov and south of Moscow were bombed. Leningrad’s siege tightens as Kronstadt fortress remains a stubborn defense. A separate note mentions 100 Russian planes destroyed in a day. A Pekinese pup in Klersdorp weighs four ounces.
North Carolina rural electrification progress slowed as copper and aluminum supplies tighten due to defense needs. State REA engineer J. M. Grainger said aluminum is unavailable and copper is limited unless proposed lines aid defense. Gwyn Price will travel to Washington to discuss defense vital lines and attend a regional REA conference Friday and Saturday.
Brief dispatch from Sydney reports sympathizers in Tahiti government failed to seize control from De Gaulle Free French. Governor General Richard Brunot arrested several citizens, likely to deport, while De Gaulle loyalists freed from imprisonment. Separate update from Laval hospital notes improvement after assassination attempt. In Philadelphia, two gunmen robbed a luncheonette, took cash and wallet, then returned money so a detective could verify a companion’s identity.
Fort Bragg will dispatch the 13th field artillery brigade Monday under Brig. Gen. John Craneworth for Pisgah National Forest. The 4,500 soldiers and 600 vehicles including 45 155 mm howitzers cover a 50 mile route via Concord Hickory Morganton and Biltmore with bivouac at Hickory and an overnight in Shelby. The force will reach Hickory on Sept 8, depart Sept 11 through Hendersonville and Charlotte with another stop at Shelby on Sept 14.
Five Russian officials met with Consolidated Aircraft in San Diego to negotiate purchase of large bombing planes. Meanwhile two Russian seaplanes carrying pilots and engineers from Moscow to Washington arrived in Nome, Alaska, signaling coordinated procurement activity.
Five Pennsylvania selectees training at Fort Bragg undertook a 1,250 mile taxi round trip home during a holiday weekend, costing them 40 5 of a month’s pay. A railroad spokesman announced a 30 percent crude oil freight rate cut to speed shipments from southwestern fields to the east coast.
William Clarkson aged 83, brother of Justice Heriot Clarkson of the State Supreme Court, died today at his home in Albuquerque New Mexico. He was a native of Charleston South Carolina.
Washington reports the first real business day under new government rules restricting easy time payments. The Federal Reserve Board set minimum down payments and maximum payoff times for a list of consumer items. Real estate improvement loans and cash loans under 1000 dollars are limited as well.
Two men were injured today when they fell from a unit at the Daniel Brooks Homes project of the High Point Housing Authority. Both men were under treatment at Burrus Memorial Hospital this afternoon. Names include E. L. Beam, 309.
Mrs Ellen Marley 84 died Monday evening in High Point at a daughter’s home. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at a granddaughter’s home, Mrs Johan Curtis, with burial at Fairview Cemetery. Survivors include three daughters nine grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
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Philadelphia September report notes Benjamin L. Jacoby of the Associated Gasoline Retailers warns a general stoppage at eastern 100000 stations could occur if the government does not guarantee a living margin. He cites September quotas cutting Maine to Florida stations 15 percent from July sales to offset oil shortages, arguing July was weak. Jacoby blasts Acting Petroleum Coordinator Ralph K Davies for unknowns in policy and predicts a 25 percent real reduction.
A Washington talks backdrop, Kishi and army spokesman Mabuchi caution against inferring policy shifts from mixed rhetoric. Mabuchi warns Japan seeks the Asia pacific sphere even at risk of a long war with Britain and the United States, urging continued diplomacy but prepared to break out if economic pressure tightens.
The report lists several air crashes involving American personnel and others connected to the RAF ferry command. It notes 22 fatalities in two August incidents, including seven and eleven Americans respectively, plus a missing transport craft with six passengers and four crew. It also mentions Dominican Republic training planes.
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