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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1946
Page
2
In Nuremberg Kaltenbrunner concedes regular 1942 reports on the Jewish extermination program were sent to him as head of the Security Police and SS. He confirms signing a letter about Hitler decrees for shooting allied captives and Jewish extermination, previously denied knowledge.
At the southern states fair grounds a racing motorcycle crashed into spectators after hitting a track bump. Two youths died: Robert Donaldson, 12, of Charlotte and Mickey Albert Platt, 16, of Concord. Six others were injured including William C. Shue, 14, Mount Pleasant and Bobby Richardson, 11, Illotte. Rider Ray Putnam, Belmont, had a minor leg injury. Spectators sustained various injuries and the crowd scattered as emergency crews responded.
Unc honors Byrnes for role with two presidents and UN leadership while Meta Glass of Sweet Briar College receives the doctor of laws degree. The remarks frame atomic power knowledge sharing and global leadership as crucial to world peace.
Senator Morse warns against international pump priming to avert bankrupt economies and a slide into world inflation and war. Wheeler also speaks on the loan in a Mutual radio discussion arranged by Modern American magazine, with C Folger supporting the loan as reviving a good customer and restarting world trade along multilateral lines.
By 1850 most U S toll roads had become free highways as states and counties shifted policy. The era marked a transition from toll collection to publicly funded road networks, influencing commerce and travel patterns nationwide.
New York District Attorney’s office said an investigation is underway into possible illegal sales of streptomycin, a government controlled drug. The probe followed a Rahway New Jersey mayor’s request after a New York physician was offered exorbitant prices for the drug for a 14 year old girl.
Three High Pointers challenged an OPA decision seeking a revision of a price formula they argued harms a furniture jobber. Walter E. Chaman Roy B. Culler and Samuel Taub appeared, citing an OPA rule restricting price hikes on rough finished frames while allowing a 15 percent rise on direct sales to finished furniture makers, but the agency offered no changes.
More than 2 000 young North Carolina musicians including over 200 locals head to Woman's College in Greensboro April 23 to 26 for the 27th annual state high school music contest and festival. Contestants were chosen from 11 district competitions as wartime restrictions ease. Executive committee for the festival contest is comprised of school officials.
The document lists county groupings for legislative districts from Ninth to Nineteenth, naming counties in each district such as Cumberland Hoke Robeson Bladen in Ninth and Mecklenburg in Fifteenth. It shows district assignments including Guilford Randolph Moore Montgomery Richmond Scotland Anson Stanley for Tenth to Thirteenth districts.
R G Buck Kennedy constable of Thomasville township and local furniture dealer announced plans to run again in the forthcoming elections. He filed his candidacy with the Davidson county board of elections this morning and is the sole Republican candidate for the township constable post. Homeree Coe county farmer and Brewer Amazon mills worker among Democrats filing last week. Kennedy, a Thomasville native, previously served 1938 40 and was elected in 1944.
The Rev. Paul Tudor Jones Jr a pastor from High Point will give the baccalaureate address at Queens College on May 26 as commencement opens Dr Hunter B Blakely Queens president announced The list of attendees includes James C Harper Lenoir Harold T Parry Rocky Mount W T Hearne Henderson Carl G N Cronstedt High Point Mrs Sarah All Albernethy New Bern and John C Lockhart and H Hugh Altwater from the Woman's college.
West leads a singleton diamond after three club tricks and dummy’s queen wins. South anticipates a 3-3 diamond break, draws trumps, then leads spades to force West’s king. The expected diamond break appears as declarer returns to hand and cashes trump, leaving East with two diamonds to stop the suit. South’s careful planning seals the play.
At Flora MacDonald college in Red Springs the McTavishes MacIntoshes MacDonalds Campbells and Stuarts plan a May 7 gathering to mark the 200th anniversary of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s escape engineered by Flora MacDonald.
Federal conciliators met with the American National and Revere firms in New York Philadelphia and Boston seeking a wage settlement. Secretary Schwellenbach named a fact finding panel but unions refused to postpone the strike without panel binding authority which the companies rejected. The hearings were to open this Tuesday.
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