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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1946
Page
2
Partly cloudy skies and scattered light showers give way to warmer daytime temperatures. Tonight remains fair and warmer, with continued warmth on Tuesday as clouds linger.
The North Carolina Association of Insurance Agents will hold its 49th annual convention in Pinehurst for three days starting Friday. Edward Stone, general manager of Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation of Boston, will deliver the keynote address on the session topic what's ahead of us.
Congress moves to midweek start on further action with a final roll call planned for Friday or Saturday. The House must rewrite a 3.75 billion dollar credit amendment while draft and CPA bills ride on different Senate versions. Compromise talks between houses and senates will shape the final bills sent to President Truman amid administration hopes for changed House positions.
Raleigh reports March beer shipments to North Carolina fell 10 percent from February and 30 percent from January as a result of a 30 percent cut in Brewers grain supplies. The North Carolina Committee United States Brewers Foundation attributes the drop to reduced grain.
Newton April 27 The spring meeting of the Southern Synod of the Evangelical and Reformed church will convene at First Evangelical and Reformed church in Landis from April 30 to May 2. Rev Joshua L Levens presides as president with business on broad topics including a potential old folks home and park lands. The merger talks between the Evangelical and Reformed church and the national council will be postponed for a future date. Officers include Rev Levens president Rev Wagoner vice president Rev Willian L Lyerly secretary Rev Milton C White ner treasurer and A Shuford Sr lay member.
President Truman invited Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes to the White House for an afternoon conference. White House aides declined to reveal the purpose of the talks amid questions about a Supreme Court vacancy. A press secretary said the planned weekly news conference would be postponed to later in the week.
Senate leaders and top officials clash over famine relief policy as Dean Acheson calls for drastic steps, including seizing wheat reserves, while Clinton Anderson argues for accelerating grain exports and cooperation. The dispute involves government and business interests amid rising domestic demand and wartime production legacies.
Spain votes to defer action on the investigation until Friday hoping Russia reverses its stance and a unanimous vote may be achieved.
Rahbar accuses Col Norman Schwartzkope American adviser to the national police of ordering shootings that killed two tobacco factory workers. The clashes happened on the road to the airport as Azerbaijan delegates arrived for talks.
Delegates discussed the Franco regime as a menace to peace with Rafael De La Collina from Mexico trying to sway Soviet delegate Andrei Gromyko toward unanimity. Gromyko reportedly held firm that enough facts exist to prove the regime's threat and that no further investigation is needed.
President-elect Manuel A. Roxas, poised to guide the Philippines, received good wishes from Sergio Osmena as last week’s election results neared completion. Roxas led Osmena by about 183000 votes, with Osmena the incumbent president facing defeat.
In a session marked by friendliness, ministers including Andrei Vishinsky and Sakry Pasha heard US Senator Vandenberg praise recent Soviet concessions. Reports say Russia will let French delegates join treaty talks, share naval assets with Britain and the United States, and abandon a prior Yalta reparations formula while balancing Yugoslav and Greek claims.
New York April 29 uneven trends marked early stock market action with mixed openings for major names including New York Central JC Penney Standard Oil NJ Kennecott Curtiss Wright Sears Roebuck and Willys Overland while Bethlehem Air Reduction Radio Corp Great Northern National Biscuit and United Aircraft fell. Cotton futures opened 10 to 25 cents higher as USDA reports noted. potatoes in Chicago showed steady to slow demand with varied price levels across regions and potato stock movements.
Salable hogs 6 000 with optioned 15 000 and 14 95 ceiling on barrows gilts while sows at 14 10 ceiling. Cattle salable 12 000 with calves 700. steers and yearlings steady to weak, cows scarce, bulls active. vealers around 16 50 17.00. Sheep 13 000 with 16 500 total. wool lambs bid lower, good to choice wooled westerns around 16.00. pelts 15.00-15.25 for No. 1 2. No slaughter ewes.
The dry goods market in New York on April 29 showed quiet trading. Mills studied amendments to the set aside order for Q2 while concerns rose over higher wages and recruiting in the south, plus a coal strike could affect plant operations. Limited woolen and worsted deliveries and fall shift planning noted.
The piece discusses a possible Franco referendum in Spain to legitimize his rule or probe monarchist restoration. It notes Attlee’s wish to end the Franco era quickly, fearing civil war and noting UN doubt about a referendum under Franco. It questions voter freedom under a dictatorship and the potential impact on international response.
A navy salvage crew hauled 282 precious metal ingots from mud beside a Tokyo bay dock in the largest single day recovery since the cache was found nearly a month ago. The total recovered now stands at 515 ingots.
A proposal argues that victors should determine how much the vanquished can pay before demanding reparations, to avoid bankrupting the defeated nation. The plan emphasizes financial feasibility and seeks a cooperative settlement framework.
Paris April 27 The draft constitution would place a single powerful legislature above a weak president in France's fourth republic. The Communist and Socialist parties push for a strong assembly while MAP opposition argues for limits on executive power with De Gaulle legacy concerns. The plan creates three chambers with limited powers and a president elected by the assembly for seven years, subject to countersignature.
In Frankfurt on April 29, Germans voted in county elections in the American zone. The Christian Social Union, a church backed rightist party, won by a wide margin over the Social Democrats, while the Communist Party polled 5.4 percent of 3,136,347 votes cast amid rioting and pro nazi activity.
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