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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1949
Page
6
Senate leaders discuss removing wartime excise taxes on liquor cigarettes and other levies. George argues for full repeal while Johnson and Milkinken favor partial cuts. They cite revenue loss, potential higher income taxes, and relief costs, with George opposing piecemeal action.
Testimony before a committee revealed investigations into over twenty United Nations employees by the Justice Department. Witness No. 8 described a climate of fear and alleged communist pressure within UN secretariat, noting dismissals of staff including Australian commander Jackson and replacements by Russian officers.
Auc tioning of the 1949 crop of flue cured tobacco will begin Tuesday July 26 when the Georgia and Florida markets open. Sales began July 22 on these markets last year and ended August 31. The tobacco branch of the USDA released its first 1949 crop release, estimating Georgia and Florida flue cured tobacco would total 131,708,000 pounds as of July 1, up from last year’s 111,400,000 pounds.
Springfield authorities arrest a 21 year old paratrooper named John Hamilton Jr of Newington Conn for a Fidelity Industrial Bank robbery in New Britain Conn. He allegedly confessed he held up the bank and fled after greeting a teller.
A program of entertainment planned by the Double M club and the Recreation and Parks department will be held at City lake amphitheater at 3 p m today. It was postponed from Friday due to rain and will feature Life magazine staffers Margaret Bourke-White and Ron Raynolds taking pictures. The event was arranged by Chains and Adams studios.
The address linked national strength to a firm constitutional foundation and a growing society built on intelligence and loyalty. Speakers praised the United States as strongest and wealthiest, defined as civic virtues, and celebrated veterans like Robert L. Doughton while noting the role of local leaders and hosts at the Cannons Blowing Rock home.
Lehman said the issue is about free speech in a democracy and not about bias against religion or race. He praised Mrs Roosevelt's 25 years as a public figure noting no acts indicating prejudice and urged tolerance among all people as children of one God.
The grand jury charged Rev. R. C. Lyons, 47, with three masked floggings and one first degree burglary as part of Alabama’s hooded lashers crackdown. Lyons, in jail since Tuesday, had reportedly prayed over a flogging victim before the lash. He described himself as having preached about three years and working as a coal mine mule-handler with no regular church.
Josh Norris aged 75, a farmer, died when struck by a car while attempting to cross highway 701 two miles north of Tabor City. Coroner Hugh Nance of Columbus County said Norris was walking toward a vehicle that had stopped to give him a lift as the oncoming auto hit him.
President Truman urged flexible arms aid plans including an arms reduction pact or UN charter review. House hearings will begin under Chairman Kee as Congress remains split on peacetime arms spending. Acheson expected as first witness. funding may lag or be enlarged by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Also noted are advances in X ray scope tech and a newborn black bear cub at birth.
Public information director at the Los Alamos Atomic Energy Commission project, H Tracy Shelling, who had been missing a week, is said to have registered at an El Paso hotel as authorities from FBI New Mexico State Police Texas border patrol and Santa Fe police widen a joint search.
The U S Navy announced a messenger buoy development aimed at freeing seamen trapped in deeply sunken submarines and reducing the need for deep sea divers. The report notes iron ore from open pits constitutes about 75 percent of U S production. It recalls Abraham Darby, an English Quaker, first smelted iron ore with coke in 1735.
Mayor Victor S Shaw announced Charlotte will remove objectionable comics from newsstands via distributor cooperation. He said no ordinance will be enacted and a committee will review books and discuss findings with distributors. A separate note describes a modern coke oven dimensions.
Reports from Canton and Shanghai describe Nationalist Hunan governor's ouster from Changsha amid suspected disloyalty. Chinese Communist leaders in Shanghai hinted at delays to industrialization. In Tibet officials expel government staff to curb Chinese influence. Kardelj in Belgrade says Yugoslavia withdraws moral support from Greek rebels. Bulgaria's Kolarov pledges strict solidarity with USSR and Eastern Europe.
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