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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1949
Page
9
In Rock Spring Park a small cocker spaniel was found trapped in a hole after likely chasing a rabbit. Mrs Pauline N and her son Gerhardt with their dog Ponto guided rescuers to the scene. The spaniel was dug out safely as Ponto watched with a wagging tail.
British military government reported Soviet zone children are used to spread Communist propaganda. Letters and drawings by Youth Movement members were placed in metal canisters found in the Elbe river near Lauenburg and sent to British zone children. West German papers note the letters’ jargon indicates teacher guidance.
Admiral Alan G. Kirk is named the new United States ambassador to the Soviet Union and plans to travel extensively in the USSR. Sources say he hopes to visit early in his tenure, including Stalin grad, as he familiarizes himself with the country he is accredited to. Brass is noted as widely used for standard weights.
Book critics praise Mrs. Dorothy Whipple for a vivid novel in Which a deceitful husband targets a widow and her children while Thea Hunter resists. A second review hails Shepherd Mead satire The Magnificent MacInnes about poll takers and a man with a psychic gift shaping public taste.
The 1949 list shows no famous gangsters like Dillinger or Baby Face Nelson. Eight dangerous men and four swindlers are likely obscure due to smaller operations and shifting FBI focus toward espionage and wartime tensions.
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