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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1940
Page
2
Why take chances before buying laxative cereal All Bran is described as having 20 years of mass use in the United States. It is claimed that distinguished medical men at famous universities have proven its effectiveness by research and that millions have used it daily. Kellogg's in Battle Creek makes the product.
Basis are new continued on page one as the article discusses conditions and the act of redeeming justice. It notes France’s history as not glorious and says Germany felt deep humiliation. It describes heroic resistance and France’s defeat in bloody battles.
The American Liner Washington docked in New York with 1786 passengers after a brush with a submarine. A group led by Donald Harper urged a direct return, but Captain Manning, after state department contact, refused route changes that would delay refugees and risk safety.
Atlanta reports DeKalb County population rose to 86,700 over the last decade, up 16,425. Census director Byron A. Pinkston announced the preliminary figures. Decatur, the county seat, grew from 13,276 in 1920 to 16,536.
The Knox Stimson nominations shock both parties and prompt swift Republican National Committee action. Rumors swirl of cabinet reshuffle and Perkins possible resignation as Frances Perkins eyed as a successor. Knox, former 1936 GOP vice presidential nominee, and Stimson, ex top diplomat and war secretary, are seen as influencing policy amid defense program tensions.
A German convoy escorts Hitler to a railway car near the Alsace monument then to the armistice site at Compiegne. Keitel reads the preamble, French envoys move to German lines, and officers discuss capitulation details as they proceed to the surrender coordinate.
The text outlines German war aims arguing that demands seek to stop fighting, offer guarantees to continue the war against Britain, and lay preconditions for a new peace that includes reparations to the German Reich for the coercive infringement. The phrasing frames Allied proposals as guarantees while implying harsher terms underlying a future settlement.
Mr N M Huckabee addressed the Kiwanis Club on the Georgia school situation and needed tax funds for schools. Guests included Roy Vinson Rose Ferguson and Huckabee, with visiting Kiwanis from Valdosta Cairo and Tallahassee.
Berlin radio said the German army captured 400 planes that had just arrived from the United States and 2700 motors ready for mounting. The CBS report cited DNB the official German news agency but gave no capture location.
The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously held the 1937 eminent domain act did not grant Southeastern Pipeline Company power to condemn private land for a rights of way. The decision reverses Judge Gardner who denied injunctions in Decatur County landowner suits. The pipeline aims to run a gasoline line from Port St. Joe Florida through Georgia to near Chattanooga Tennessee.
A Republican subcommittee hearing in progress examined a farm policy plan led by Representative Hope of Kansas. The proposal links subsidies to national welfare with ongoing conservation payments and favors family-type farms while avoiding crop-control ties and any specific food stamp recommendation.
Marian Brannon and her mother return from a ten day Florida vacation. Mrs. Carl Simonton and daughter arrive from Franklin Georgia to visit W. E. Burdette’s family. Mrs. M T Nunnally Jr and children travel to Raiford North Carolina to visit her sister. Martha Jane Mack and Mary Neel return from Camp Reese at St Simons Island. Old newspapers for sale at Times Enterprise Office. Robert Parker Sr departs for Meridian Mississippi to visit his ill sister Mrs. Lee Vaughan. Mary Asbell assists at the Daily Vacation Bible School in Thomasville.
The Duke of Windsor and Duchess Wallis Simpson joined refugees in Spain as German forces swept France. They crossed from Junquera to Barcelona after border crossing at Port Bou, while other dignitaries including Baron Eugene de Rothschild and Edouard Daladier were noted moving toward Lisbon and Madrid reported others such as Hubert Pierlot and Georges Bonnet in Spain.
Governor E D Rivers announced Miller the restored highway chairman will receive two months salary back pay and a raise from 450 to 600 dollars per month. The decision followed a Road Commission recommendation by Watson and Patten. Miller had said neither he nor his secretary had been paid since April 20. The convention featured criticism of the Stimson Knox appointments with Colonel Knox resigning and canceling a Philadelphia hotel plan.
Washington report notes Senator Nye argues Roosevelt should retire and hand power to Garner to restore confidence and unity in government. He questions the form of any promised military aid to France and criticizes current foreign policy as risky and disaster prone.
Lexington mayor T Ward Havely has ordered 508 brass keys, each 12 inches long and weighing six ounces, bearing the city seal and a plate for inscribed names, a formal gesture for visiting dignitaries once an atmospheric tradition.
Washington reads that the army today turned over surplus supplies and equipment to the Red Cross. The items include 100,000 pairs of trench shoes from 1917 18, 43 rolling kitchens, fifteen incomplete rolling kitchens, and 109 animal drawn ambulances.
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