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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1948
Page
2
The High Point police department reaches full strength for the first time in two months as two traffic officers join after resignations. Brackett resumes duty after private work, and William T. Wooder of 802 Mangum Avenue will report to work Wednesday to complete staffing.
New York report describes a 60 year old man and his 27 year old son Felix Lefkowsky killed after a struggle near a midtown subway station. Felix's dying words claim he pushed his father as both fell onto the tracks. Royal Lefkowsky died instantly. Felix died after leg amputation in hospital.
Judge BD C MacRae in High Point municipal court denounced bootleggers as disgraceful. Darrell Hornady was convicted on two counts of violating the prohibition law and given six months on county roads in each case, six months suspended for two years and a $100 fine plus costs. Walter Banks Davis received six months with suspension, a $300 fine and costs, and his car seized. Davis appealed.
A report notes that about one million Indigenous people in Mexico do not speak Spanish. While demographics vary, the figure highlights linguistic diversity and language preservation concerns in the country.
Three Fayetteville Negro barrs were killed when their car hit a truck seven miles south on Tobacco Trail route 301. The victims are Herman Melvin 45 Daniel Crawford 25 and Charles McInnis 25 who worked in the same shop. The truck driver O L Johnson 31 of Falcon is hospitalized with facial burns and arm injuries.
Taft told an economic club luncheon that Secretary Marshall does not like the Chinese and has no interest in their problems. The Ohio senator and Republican presidential hopeful spoke on foreign policy and the nation’s concerns.
Henry A. Wallace says Truman's request for 570 million dollars to aid Chiang Kai-shek shows continued financial and military intervention in China. He claims U S officers train Chinese forces and bases are secretly built in Tsingtao and Formosa, arguing the Far East is crucial to peace and that the policy threatens the Marshall Plan.
Rev Phillip J O Mara joins the Immaculate Heart of Mary church as assistant pastor under Rev R J MacMillan and chaplain at Pennyburn sanatorium on the Greensboro road. He resides at St Edwards rectory. The church was formerly St Edwards church.
London report notes the United States Britain and France open talks on western Germany's future marking a split world with Russia absent. Reasons given include failure to seal a peace treaty, US Marshall plan aims, Soviet charges of imperialism, and the Cominform coordinating attacks on democracies.
Un Americans for Democratic Action at its first national convention adopted a platform urging abolition of the House committee on Un American Activities. The party denounced the Thomas committee as a threat to freedom of opinion and opposed outlawing Communists while backing registration and funding disclosures for active members.
Raleigh report states State Highway Commission chairman A H Graham announced the restraining order on moving NC 87 near Ossipee was dissolved after Judge Leo Carr lifted the order following a Saturday hearing. The decision allows the commission to proceed with the project.
Thomasville report: Amazon Mills officials and Textile Workers Union of America CIO representatives resumed talks on the labor dispute. The group met Friday and Saturday, with 10:30 start today, noon recess, and 2 PM session. Management says grievance and wage sections of the contract are agreed, but seniority and check-off remain unresolved. Partial progress noted.
Louisiana Democrats will nominate a governor and six other state officers after a rancorous primary. Candidates include Earl K. Long and Sam H. Jones, with Long leading Jones by 120,000 votes in the January 20 first primary.
Four prominent Americans urge the United Nations and the United States to back a four point plan for supporting the partition of Palestine. The group includes Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Herbert H. Lehman Elbert Thomas and Sumner Welles. The note closes with a stray line about tropical trees.
"Baby Betty" Horrell a 750 pound sideshow performer from Tampa Florida died at Foundation hospital after a stay that required six men to transfer her and two beds bolted together. She was 39.
Asheville officials investigate deliberate damage to the slide Slip testing device in the state safety lane. Junius Daves, head of the Asheville project, says a road barricade was crossed on Bryson Street Saturday afternoon, indicating possible sabotage.
Phillip Berman Brumer's manager and buyer after a 10 day New York trip reports no overall price increase for Brumers coming season. He notes encouraging signs that higher costs in women's apparel will not raise Brumer's consumer prices.
An advertisement claims humans have eight percent blood by weight and 5 million blood cells feed tissues and organs. It asserts iron tonics like Co Row boost oxygen delivery, reducing fatigue and weakness for workers and a jubilant public.
A long awaited tonic claims to boost energy and strength. The formula prescribed by physicians since 1932 is now released for public sale through drug stores across the United States with a money back guarantee if rest and sleep aren’t improved.
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