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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1946
Page
2
Casual Comment by W A Bivins recounts a noisy Fourth with cannon crackers and ringing bells, a note on fireworks safety, and ideas for future displays at Blair Park. Also honors Bill Hart and includes vignettes on a two paces drill, a college anecdote, and a North Dakota potatoes figure for 1945.
Hollywood couple Jean Pierre Aumont and Maria Montez invest in a new film Queen of Hearts set to start in November portraying Queen Elizabeth and Emperor Franz Joseph. Maria predicts a romantic on screen pairing and notes her own baby, while Aumont recently acted opposite Ginger Rogers and Yvonne de Carlo. The duo plan to share duties after a rest period from the Free French Army.
Ex sailor and author interviews tea examiner Charles Hutchinson to learn tea varieties, origins, and quality. He explains black green and oolong classifications and notes tea standards, brewing tips, and Americans widely consuming tea with tea bag and iced tea innovations.
The noon quotations from NASD dealers show bid and ask prices across a broad list of securities including Acme Alum, American Bakeries, American Enka, Carolina Insurance, Col Stores, Erwin Cotton Mills, Gamble Bros, Hanes, Jetf Stand Life, Northw. Nat. Life, Piedmont & Northern, Sonoco Products, Textiles Inc, Thiokol, and others. Prices range from fractions to several dollars with many entries in the 0.20 to 1.00 dollar area and assorted preferreds and common shares.
The report notes that in June 1943 testimony claimed Cumberland Lumber was thoroughly covered by documents and that three Justice Department officials met the investigating committee. It recalls May’s 1943 disclosure of owning timberland near Partridge, Ky., and later sale of Cumberland to A C Brown in 1945 for about 32,000. May insisted no profit was gained from war contracts and that the committee could verify the accounts.
The liquidation program peaked in July 1944 with 15,400 firms on the blacklist abroad. Latin American governments began removing red tape as they took control, and after V E Day the list was cut twice in June and November 1945. Only the worst collaborators with the axis were left on the list, American officials said.
The High Point board of adjustments will convene on Thursday July 11 in Fire Chief E K Ingram's office to hear Mrs Lit tle Barber Smith petitioning to convert a residence at 313 East Farriss avenue into an apartment. She is closing Guilford Business College and seeks a permit to transform schoolrooms inside the home.
In Rome a mob of several hundred Italian youths attacked vehicles carrying allied personnel after a mass meeting opposing four power force minister decisions in Paris. Police dispersed the crowd in Venezia Square and near allied command headquarters with clubs and rifles as casualties remained minor.
Reportedly Moscow favors making ratification the critical point for setting troop withdrawal deadlines. Molotov’s idea would give Russia leeway to keep troops abroad while treaties await senatorial approval. Estimates place total foreign troops at about 1.5 million, with 600,000 in Germany and 350,000 in Poland, plus possible forces in transit such as in Czechoslovakia.
Funeral services for 55 year old O V Jackson were held Saturday at 4 pm from Friendly Baptist church where he served as deacon. The service featured a male quartet and piano by Mrs W E Rudd. Interment followed in Floral Garden cemetery with pallbearers named.
A Tass dispatch from Paris reported that all major issues at the meeting were settled when agreement was reached on July 4 regarding peace treaty drafts. Molotov reportedly resisted presenting "half digested" proposals and asserted the Soviet viewpoint now has practical soundness.
National Champion Ransford D. Triggs of Madison New Jersey won the eastern regional rifle championship in Altoona Pennsylvania defeating a field of 191 shooters. He dropped only two points across four matches and raised his two day total to 3182 points. The latter section notes a separate India leopard incident and Egyptian beads.
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