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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1948
Page
1
Victor Perlo testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee refusing to identify the woman accusing him of heading a government employee ring that allegedly leaked wartime secrets to a Red spy network. He would not confirm or deny prior membership in the Communist Party.
Week end storms in Britain and France killed at least 22 people and caused extensive damage. Brest port losses exceed 100 million francs. Fishing boats sank, several drownings reported, including a Welsh doctor and a missing Dutch yacht crew. Flooding hit Kent and Sussex. grain harvest outlook uncertain.
Weather across the nation featured widely scattered showers and thunderstorms. The Dakotas and southern Minnesota reported rain while the lower Great Lakes Middle Atlantic states Florida and the central Great Plains had additional showers. The northeast states remained largely dry.
Partly cloudy and warm across North Carolina with possible scattered afternoon or evening showers. Official climate data report temperatures and rainfall for August 9 across cities including Charlotte 83 61, Raleigh 89 75, Wilmington 81 68, and other locations with rainfall amounts shown as .00 or 0.22 inches where recorded.
Manchester reports a four year old boy Joe Creamer found hanging from an electric wire in a blitzed factory ruin. He becomes the third Lancashire child murdered at a new moon in six months. A young man fled the scene as witnesses heard screams. The killings remain unsolved with an eleven year old stabbed at Farnworth and a child abducted from a Blackburn hospital bed.
Rock Hill plant 2100 workers, about 1800 in TWUA walk out over union shop clause. Operations halted at 3 p m as managers plan an indefinite shutdown. Plant subsidiary of M Lowenstein and Sons. unions seek wage reopenings and broader union shop terms in related mills in North Carolina and Alabama.
Henry A. Wallace charges the House Committee on Un-American Activities is persecuting alleged Russian agents and resembles 1930s Germany. He says the administration failed to prosecute those who aided Hitler Germany and political bias drives the current probes.
Jean Activities Committee declines to answer a question to avoid potential self incrimination. He testifies about years of service in government agencies and his role as an economist at the headquarters of the new Progressive Party in New York City. Miss Elizabeth T. Bentley appears.
Two United Nations observers were wounded by mortar fire near the Bulgarian Yugoslav and Greek border. U. S. Lt. Col. Richard Darnell and British Maj. A. W. Fielding, both UNSCOR members, were evacuated to a Salonika hospital after the attack attributed to Bulgarian sources. Fielding suffered superficial injuries while Darnell was reported more seriously hurt.
Cyrus Dietrich a 14 year old Lancaster angler caught a soggy five dollar bill on a fishing line after two bites yielded a sucker and a white fish too small to keep. He fished yesterday with Willard Smith and used dough as bait. The incident occurred despite tough luck and a vanished bait.
President Truman moved to appoint former Massachusetts Governor Maurice J. Tobin as secretary of labor, but Tobin, seeking the governorship, declined to state acceptance. Congress adjourned without confirming many nominees, including Tobin, while Taft and Barkley debated cabinet appointment procedures and recess appointments.
Washington Aug 9 The White House stayed silent on President Truman’s plan after a 13 day Capitol Hill fight. Advisors expect him to sign the Republican housing and anti inflation bills while criticizing them as inadequate. Senators Hatch and Lucas urged passage and warned of blunt critique when he acts.
Reports from his office say R. B. Gantt of 1214 North Main Street was in worse condition at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem over the weekend. He began to hemorrhage on Saturday and doctors managed to stabilize him yesterday. He was greatly weakened and required several direct blood transfusions.
United Nations mediator Count Folke Bernadotte said rumors of coups by irregular elements in Palestine exist. He urged demilitarization of Jerusalem and warned both sides crave peace amid tension as trust wanes and a renewed truce fears resumption of hostilities.
Raleigh reports 44 new polio cases for two days, lifting the year total to 1316. Forsyth leads with five cases, followed by Burke and Guilford with four each, and many counties with two or one case. A Greensboro meeting on follow up treatment involves state and federal health officials.
In Columbia on August 9 1948 about 35 000 Negroes are registered among roughly 480 000 party members for South Carolina s Democratic primary to pick a U S Senate nominee The result could sway the senator and other contests amid disputes over Judge Waring s rulings and attacks from Alan Johnstone and others The field includes Burnet Maybank incumbent and challengers Neville Bennett Marcus Stone and Florence Sumerman also listed are several U S representatives facing renomination or opposition with the Dorn seat contest drawing multiple candidates.
Edward T. Adkins designed a wheelchair accessible car for war veterans. The shakedown ran well except he forgot license plates when crossing the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge. The vehicle can run on gasoline or electric power and includes a torch drill movie camera radio magazine rack and automatic fire fighting equipment.
Ellerbe's infant tobacco market on the North Carolina border belt shut after five selling days due to lack of company buyers government grading service and price support. The market moved 340000 pounds of flue cured leaf from last Tuesday to today and will hold a growers referendum on establishing a market under price support.
MOSCOW Aug 9 United States Britain and France held a third Kremlin meeting within a week with U S Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith leading the procession to discuss the Berlin blockade and German issues The talks followed sessions with Molotov and Stalin as Western officials eye developments on border defenses and potential shifts in the German question while reports from Berlin describe Russians building trenches and mounting weapons along the zone frontier in a tightening security posture.
The agriculture department forecast 1948 cotton at 15,169,000 bales, up 3,318,000 from 1947's 11,851,000. Ginned to Aug 1 totaled 258,928 running bales, above last year, with crop condition 85 percent of normal and lint yield at 313.5 pounds per acre, higher than 267.2 last year.
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