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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1952
Page
3
Judge Wilson Warlick appointed a federal grand jury to investigate organized crime in Western North Carolina. The probe focuses early on tax matters as part of a sweeping inquiry into the underworld, with the special crime investigation commencing immediately.
Testimony began in the Greensboro trial of F. D. Smith and four discharged policemen accused of protecting his gambling operations. Smith is charged with paying off the officers and they face bribe-acceptance charges. Shug York, the finger man, was convicted as a lieutenant in the butter and eggs numbers lottery. Corner Pass in the Sierra Nevada stands at 7,189 feet.
A frightened boy hitchhiked from Boston to New Haven then hid in a sealed box car. He rode four days across the country before railroad workers at East Madison freed him. He was exposed and malnourished but sobered and recovered.
The Veas Regiment was organized and commanded by George Washington guiding its early unit leadership and structure in the colonial forces.
In ten months of hearings before the Subversive Activities Control Board, prosecutors seek to compel the Communist Party to register as a foreign controlled group under the McCarran Act. Ex-Communists testify that war between the United States and Russia is inevitable and party loyalty centers on aiding Moscow, defending the Soviet Union, and obeying the Comintern.
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