24 Jan 1949
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1949
Page
1
Washington reports the CIO demands speedy repeal of the Taft-Hartley act as hearings are planned to run a month or more. Congressional leaders and committee chairmen debate timing and strategy with a path to restoring the Wagner Act, while labor seeks to beat expiring contracts.
Senator Hayden of Arizona, chairing the rules committee, announced a majority will back anti filibuster changes aimed at ending prolonged debate. Five resolutions were heard as supporters push limits on filibusters to advance civil rights measures. Senate factions remain split with southern opposition and doubts about prompt action from this Congress.
Congress begins full week with committees set to grill proposals on curbing filibusters raising the minimum wage to 75 cents in interstate commerce and extending the reciprocal trade program The Senate plans long hearings on Taft Hartley act repeal while the House weighs reorganizing the executive branch and rent control renewal with a March 31 deadline and a pending June expiration for trade acts
Joe L. Blythe 58 treasurer of the Democratic National Committee and Mecklenburg County state senator died in Washington after a cerebral hemorrhage. President Truman called it a casualty of the campaign. Funeral set for Tuesday at 2 pm at First Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church with Raleigh trip plans canceled. Governor Scott and former Governor Cherry praised Blythe’s public service.
Unofficial returns show Shigeru Yoshida's Liberal Democratic Party gaining 263 of 466 Diet seats, delivering a working majority for the first time since surrender. Communists rise to 35 seats. Democrats 70. Social Democrats 49. independents 12. other parties 23. about 70 percent turnout.
Continued drizzle or light rain was forecast for the Carolinas as flights paused by heavy fog. The dense fog halted operations at major hubs in North and South Carolina and nearby areas, with visibility poor. Temperatures stayed above normal and fog was expected to clear today.
President Truman and party chiefs mourn the death of Joe L. Blythe of Charlotte at 58 from a cerebral hemorrhage in his Mayflower hotel suite. Blythe, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, was praised as a trusted friend and sterling citizen who sacrificed health for the campaign and inauguration duties.
Senator Tydings of Maryland warned that the Marshal plan and similar foreign aid could cost U.S. taxpayers at least 25 billion dollars by 1942 and possibly more if Russia relations do not improve. He noted the need to fund allied nations and indicated future expenditures would rise beyond current levels.
Seattle January 24 The University of Washington board of regents fired three professors accused of Communist party membership. President Raymond B. Allen called the action unique in educational history. Three others given two years probation. dismissals take effect February 1.
New York stock action showed steel shares moving higher in a quiet session. U. S. Steel Bethlehem National Steel Youngstown Sheet Tube Southern Railway Firestone U S Rubber Douglas Aircraft Kennecott Allied Chemical Gulf Oil gained while Santa Fe Southern Pacific Texas Co Union Carbide Goodrich Montgomery Ward and Phelps Dodge declined.
Raleigh report notes the joint appropriations committee will close hearings on 1949 51 spending proposals by February 8, cutting weeks from the 1947 pace. The panel will then hold executive sessions to consider bills and nearly half a billion dollars in requests. Agencies scheduled include the North Carolina sanatoriums the School for the Deaf and the Blind and Deaf and the Durham college.
In Chattanooga Tennessee on January 24 masked and robed men entered Philadelphia Baptist Church during services. The church pianist fainted and her husband resigned as musical director and trustee. The visitors delivered a letter with money, offered a prayer, then departed. Arch Gray later resigned from church duties and 15 members planned to withdraw. The minister said he knew of planned visit but opposed masked entries.
Batavia Java January 24 The Dutch claim progress in mopping up scattered Republican Army units in Java and Sumatra. East Java remains troubled. First summary since January 5 cease fire shows mopping up ended the Republican force as a centrally conducted fighting apparatus, but underground fighting sabotage and sniping persist. Restoring order is taking longer in the areas affected by unrest.
A severe western snowstorm cripples livestock movement with about 2.1 million sheep and cattle snowbound in the Rocky Mountains. Feed delays threaten the industry while hay drops by air to Utah borders. subzero fronts, heavy snows, and bitter cold lash New Mexico to Casper and Butte as Pasadena and Seattle feel rare winter conditions.
Egyptian and Israeli representatives meet in London under UN mediation led by Dr. Ralph Bunche as talks resume after a brief break. A government source reports Britain has formally approved recognizing Israel, with Bevin to announce in Parliament once coordinated with Australia and New Zealand.
Delegations in the Negev dispute faced renewed difficulty as Bunche held separate talks with Egyptian and Israeli representatives. A spokesman claimed immediate problems had been solved though no path to a final accord appeared likely. Reports also said Egyptian troops trapped in the Falaji pocket near southern Palestine faced evacuation delays.
The U S Court of Appeals divided two to one in upholding the bribery and conspiracy convictions of former Kentucky Rep Andrew J May and Henry and Murray Garsson. The Garssons ran a $78 million munitions operation and were sentenced to eight months to two years, with bond pending appeal.
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