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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1946
Page
2
D Findlay commissioner reports the 300 hunters survey shows game was average or better in Sandhills and mountains but below average in tidewater coastal and lower piedmont regions.
Eastern Air Lines will adjust the Detroit to Miami timetable effective March 1 with two schedule changes and one new service. Flight 87 replaces 83 to Charlotte Jac Ville West Palm Beach and Miami, Flight 89 replaces 85 to Charlotte Jacksonville Orlando Miami, and a new Flight 88 will run at 6:30 p m to Akron Cleveland and Detroit. The shift brings four Detroit Miami daily flights and eight daily flights among Boston New York Washington Atlanta New Orleans Houston and Miami, totaling twelve Greensboro High Point services daily.
Partly cloudy and warm today with wind and later showers and mild tonight. Wednesday mostly cloudy and colder with morning showers in the east and snow flurries in the mountains. Extended Carolinas forecast through Saturday shows near normal temperatures with moderate to heavy precipitation and potential thunder.
The Exchange Club met at the Sheraton hotel last night featuring a High Point College quartet with Misses Charlotte Churchill and Mary Lou Rainey and Messrs Earl Lawson and Earl Richardson. Soloist Mary Rainey performed When I Have Sung My Songs as Dr G G Perry organized the program.
Protests sweep France and its North African colonies as discontent over the Franco government grows after executions of Spanish republicans. The French labor confederation urges a freight boycott to Spain while Spain and France remain without normal diplomatic ties. A British source notes the border closure diverges from London policy.
Senator Chavez warned funds proven by the House would be restored by the full Senate while opposition argued for deep cuts. Paul A. Porter, new OPA administrator, rushed to the appropriations committee as the panel slashed the house CPA figure from 1.854 million to 927 thousand and the CPA fund from 1.5 million to 750 thousand for the current fiscal year ending June 30. The CIO backed wage policy changes to remove board approval requirements for pay boosts, calling reintroduction of wartime wage controls catastrophic and citing the need for broad collective bargaining. Galileo’s 1932 proof that Earth orbits the Sun is noted.
Washington reports no immediate official comment on France announcing a closure of the Spanish border. The brief item notes the lack of official reaction to the border move dated February 26.
City officials prepared emergency measures to keep transit running if a six day strike materializes. The plan would shift key managers to operate subways elevated lines trolley and bus services. In Philadelphia Acting Sheriff Morrow said police would not interfere with mass picketing at General Electric plant while CIO workers rally for higher pay as Pittsburgh Duquesne Light faces possible blackout.
Bertia Harding author of Amazon Throne and Phantom Crown will lecture tonight at 8 in High Point College under the college lecture course. Her talk titled Our South American Neighbors covers inter American cultural topics with focus on Latin America including Brazil and Mexico.
The article surveys Goering’s fight in court and profiles key defendants Franz Von Papen Joachim Von Ribbentrop and Julius Streicher. It notes defense aims to save individual lives while whitewashing Nazi crimes and avoids blaming Hitler if possible.
In the metropolis area a strike was prevented shortly before midnight as the union heads to a Friday meeting to decide if the wage dispute with the company will be settled by arbitration or by a strike. The union seeks a 20 cent per hour raise for common labor and 25 cents for other employees.
New York stock market attempted a rally but support remained thin and early gains of two to several points turned into losses of up to six. Major movers included U S Steel Bethlehem General Motors Deere Chrysler Santa Fe Pennsylvania and Union Pacific among others. Potatoes and livestock markets report mixed activity with muted demand and steady to firm prices in Chicago.
In a Tennessee town of 12 000, 10 state guardsmen commanded by Brigadier J N Dickinson dispersed 25 white civilians. Dawn volleys and subsequent gunfire left three Negroes dead amid patrols, rioting, and a precautionary police-manned square as highway patrols entered Mink Slide.
Allied headquarters directs that campaign and service ribbons won by American soldiers in the war against Japan be produced in Japan from Japanese silk on Japanese machines with Japanese labor. This move follows wartime policy to localize production.
Congressman Barden spoke to 45 graduates and naval cadets praising Duke University and its president Dr Robert L Flowers. He warned that federal government cannot relieve today’s youth of responsibility and urged graduates to lead in the years ahead.
Izvestia cited the supreme Soviet action as enormous in significance and moved the Red Navy under a unified commissariat. Admiral Nikolai Kuznetsov had served as navy commissar since the war era, with Stalin directing the army and air force but leaving the navy under Kuznetsov under the defense committee. The piece notes the robin as the state bird of Michigan, Virginia and Wisconsin.
Senate hearings feature Pauley declining to detail views on prewar oil sales to Japan. He terms criticism of his stance as unjustified while asserting his record should be clarified in hearings for undersecretary of the navy. A separate note mentions a synthetic water repellent straw for handbags and hats.
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