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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1946
Page
1
A spoof note dated February 1 1946 from the groundhog family declares they will end winter naps and influence weather for six weeks after February 2 if conditions worsen. It cites concerns over shortages housing and war fears while promising to retire to their caves if demands are ignored.
Madrid reports a notable shift in Europe as vast estate owners fade from the landscape. The article notes the accelerated disappearance of the traditional landed gentry whose wealth passed through inheritance, signaling change in social and economic structures.
President Truman interrupted a reporter twice at a news conference to insist the State Department has no policy unless he supports it. He said the department enforces policies laid down by the United States and he would back whatever policy exists. Officials and reporters noted tensions with Byrnes amid questions on the Inter American defense treaty and Argentina.
President Truman suggested wartime big three may have sealed secret agreements with Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin. He noted some pacts were signed at the meetings and that disclosures by Secretary Byrnes about Kurile islands and Sakhalin had sparked renewed questions.
Bucharest radio said Lt. Col Peter Nekrasievitsh, a Russian member of the allied control commission in Romania, was assassinated. The broadcast cited fascist remnants as responsible and noted the funeral attended by Romanian Prime Minister Groza and American, British, and Soviet mission members.
Japanese Lt. Gen. Hikotaro Tajima was sentenced by a U.S. military court commission to hang. Thirteen other Nipponese officers received lesser sentences for the November 1944 execution of three U.S. Navy fliers on Batan Island off northern Luzon. The fliers’ names were withheld.
A Hagerstown man asked Burlington Mayor G. Marvin Holt to help locate a wife. Since the report, about a dozen women have applied by mail, telephone, or in person. Holt will forward the information without recommendation, saying the man should come to town to choose.
Tokyo reports that a tentative new constitution would strip the emperor of his wartime command while keeping the throne. Chief Cabinet Secretary Wataru Narahashi denied Mainichi's published revision as the government’s considered measure. He said the Mainichi piece may reflect reference material.
NBC commentator Robert Magidoff said on Moscow radio that Soviet scientists dream of a Bering Strait tunnel linking the Soviet Union with Alaska. He cited sponsor Vladimir Obraztov, a noted railway expert, and predicted a future reality with chains of motor cars crossing.
A sharp temperature drop hit the Carolinas with readings falling as much as 44 degrees from yesterday. The U.S. Weather Bureau forecast partly cloudy skies and continued cold conditions across North and South Carolina with a brief warmer break expected tomorrow.
Robert D. Beame of the AFL CIO said he would file a complaint with the NLRB over a representation election at Hudson Hosiery Company Monroe Road plant. The 321 to 206 vote opposed the union among about 600 workers in a single plant.
Washington reports security tightens on Bikini Atoll trials with observers restricted from watching the atom bomb. Officials cite two key secrecy aims: bomb nature and verifiable effects on military gear. Few will witness any bomb drop. only select personnel have seen earlier weapons. Also notes likely self destruction measures if missiles fail. Tokyo dispatch says the Far Eastern policy commission sails to Honolulu aboard USS McKinley, then to Washington by Feb 14.
At the United Nations Security Council, Soviet Vice Commissar Andrei Vishinsky accuses Greece of white terror with British troops backing anti democratic elements. He cites a tense Greek situation and reports of fascist violence in Athens and surrounding areas with monarchist bandit actions and alleged police complicity.
Six new pulp and paper plants costing about 60 million dollars are planned in the south. Each of the following firms seeks ten million dollar facilities: Riegel Paper Corporation of North Carolina, Guinettee Corporation in the south, Armstrong Cork Corporation of Macon, Meade Corporation of Macon, and Hudson Pulp and Paper Company of Palatka Florida. The Southern Newspaper Publishers association also hopes to establish a 10 to 15 million dollar newsprint mill. T. W. Earle of Orangeburg South Carolina, Guillan tee vice president, said ample timber is available if fire protection replanting and improved cutting practices are encouraged.
The American Legion urged Congress to probe what it calls a breakdown at the veterans administration under Gen. Omar Bradley. National Commander John Steele cited delays in disability claims, hospital-bed underutilization, GI bill processing backlogs, and staff shortcomings as evidence of neglect. The dispute followed a heated phone exchange with Bradley over hospitalization policy.
Macklyn Lucas of Belhaven North Carolina a marine at 14 and the nations youngest congressional medal of honor winner last fall at 17 was a student at the University of Illinois high school aiming to continue through the university. He spoke of wanting an education and described sleeping outdoors in his car while away from home and his fiancée in Portsmouth Virginia after a long drive from eastern North Carolina. He was wounded when he dived on Japanese grenades.
Chiang Kai-shek announced a possible end to one party rule as China moves toward full political freedom for all parties. He pledged national unity, reorganization of the army, nationwide compulsory education, and economic reconstruction. Chou En-Lai expressed confidence that civil strife would end, noting only minor clashes remain in Shantung and Kwantung.
Dr. R L Pittman of Fayetteville disclosed as the buyer of the former Mecklenburg county courthouse site in downtown Charlotte for 425000. The plan calls for an ultra modern hotel on the site with an expected cost in excess of 1500000, Pittman said during a Miami vacation telephone conversation.
Officials and lawmakers pushed for a settlement in three nationwide strikes involving 1.2 million workers. The steel strike persisted into day twelve with 809,000 workers idle. A White House wage plan was being drafted, but a federal seizure was not being considered.
President Truman calls the steel fact finding board and Price Administrator Chester Bowles to a 4 PM EST White House conference as reports circulate of a new settlement proposal to end the steel strike.
More than 200000 workers in nine GM plants on day 73 of a strike with a federal mediator in Detroit seeking an agreement between GM and CIO UAW over wages and union maintenance. A separate CIO electrical workers strike adds about 200000 at GE Westinghouse and GM plants. President Truman discussed steel seizure but did not predict a break in the stalemate.
Elk Mountain Wyoming February 1 A large search party including 50 military policemen from Fort Warren prepared for a risky ascent of Elk Mountain 11 125 feet high to locate an airplane. Civil air administration officials planned an investigation if the search yields substantiated findings. Weather conditions threatened the moonlit climb and a Seattle to New York flight route prompted the effort.
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