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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1946
Page
4
The piece discusses B. Car roll Reece's selection as Republican national chair man and John W. Hanes as rival, probing southern strategy, coalition tactics, and the solid south. It then covers North Carolina inheritance tax settlement with New York over Mrs. Schmucker, asking if residency facts were properly used and cautioning against overreaching windfalls.
The Greensboro Council and residents clash over closing part of Walker Avenue to aid the University of North Carolina Woman's College expansion. The column urges closer city university cooperation to ease likely objections to bringing a new four year medical school to Greensboro.
Raleigh correspondent notes the North Carolina Revenue Department and Attorney General celebrate an unexpected inheritance tax windfall from the Schmucker estate. Officials praise the windfall but secrecy rules prevent publishing the exact tax sum. The Schmucker case has a checkered history dating back two years since Augusta Schmucker, longtime New York resident, died in Maine and left a sizable estate before her marriage to Dr. Ralph Schmucker of Charlotte.
The commentary argues for charging a drunken flyer with disorderly conduct even while airborne. It questions limitations of law and suggests serving a warrant if the pilot lands, noting possible action by federal civil aeronautics authorities.
E K Ingram says Franklin D Roosevelt was the greatest president to enter the White House and will be rated highly by historians despite criticisms. He adds that Roosevelt’s virtues outweighed his mistakes and lauds his oratorical skill. He notes Republican opposition to housing programs.
W C Elliott defends constructive housing criticism while Mrs M L Pierce argues popcorn at the Center theater aids families and children. She contrasts it with others who drink, noting popcorn helps income and that most readers disagree on the issue.
The piece analyzes Soviet actions in Iran and Iran’s protest to the United States, comparing Stalin’s tactics to Hitler’s method. It questions time schedules and delays, asks if small nations should be protected, and links the UN walkout to historic League of Nations failures in Ethiopia and Manchuria.
Paul Mallon argues that the league failed to stop Japanese aggression in Manchuria and Mussolini in Ethiopia leading to Hitler’s rise. He warns UNO must empower small nations or face collapse as Russia’s growth shows changing power dynamics and asks if a peaceful order can emerge from its current posture.
The piece argues former vice presidential rival Henry A. Wallace attracts urban backers who fear loss of votes in 1948. It notes rural hostility to Wallace and predicts Democrats aim to win major cities while managing farm and liquor interests amid food shortages and price policy debates.
Americans of Hungarian descent faced red tape to aid Hungarians in distress. The American Hungarian Relief Inc received permit No 586 after pressure to join a communist linked institute for international democracy run by Frederick Field of the Daily Worker and New Masses, amid UN conference coverage.
By George Sokolsky questions how U S policy and allied groups affect world security and national sovereignty. He cites organizations linked to the American Hungarian council for democracy and the American Hungarian relief drive, arguing pressure to include reportedly communist affiliations undermines honest Americans.
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