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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1948
Page
2
The Mannheim Ludwigshafen area suffered a massive explosion at a dye plant linked to I. G. Farben. Officials report the plant burning heavily and many injuries. Police and U.S. troops aided rescue as authorities feared hundreds dead.
Allan E. Haywood says Western Electric will offer a wage increase next month to about 30,000 telephone installation workers. The offer follows a meeting with Western Electric President Stanley Bracken at company offices in New York.
Police identify Robert Winters, 26, as the victim shot at a church study. a man killed during a theft attempt. A Vulcania passenger jumps overboard near Halifax. rescued by crew. March of Dimes 1948 total is 18,669,299 with half allotted to NYC HQ. Raleigh museum holds three ancient Indian skeletons. Pirates blamed for Catalina crash near Macro with 25 fatalities. Brooklyn parents sue to abolish released-time religious instruction in NYC public schools.
A note links the name Jefferson C Davis to a Union general and Confederate president. It also mentions an inventor who devised saucer shaped clay pigeons after watching boys skip sea shells on water.
Republicans signal a quick adjournment while pressing to let voters decide in November on civil rights and poll tax issues. Some senators note Dewey and Taft advised staying about a week. Democrats deride the plan as sabotaging Truman anti inflation housing agenda.
Valdosta Georgia July 28 Prices for most grades declined for the first time this season despite record sales totaling 8 953 313 pounds. The average dropped to 53 14 per hundred from opening day with lows in low and medium orange leaf and medium quality lugs. U S department of agriculture reports lugs and cutters down one dollar from last week. Season sales reach 25 608 299 at an average 52 74. West Virginia coal mines employ 100 000 men about a quarter of U S soft coal workers.
Allies plan direct talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov in Moscow to assess prospects for an east west compromise on Germany. A Berlin summit of the Big Four could follow if talks show potential, but officials warn no meeting unless it yields more than prior Moscow and London exchanges.
Notice of an absolute divorce case filed in Guilford County North Carolina. Lillian Andrews Crouch and Hugh R. Crouch are named. Hugh R. Crouch must appear by September 2, 1948 in High Point Municipal Court to answer the complaint. Florence W. Allen and D. Ingram are listed as court officials.
Fort Knox July 28 Gen Omar Bradley told newsmen he favors segregation of white and Negro units in the lower levels of the army. He supported combining units into larger formations and said housing the army would take 60 years at current building rates. He denied policy questions about racial separation for officers and enlisted men.
The B 29s on a globe girdling flight crashed in the Arabian Sea. The base listed the crew aboard including Lt Col Charles C Pulliam pilot Lt Robert T Weaver navigator and others from Huntington Galesburg Indianapolis Milwaukee Downey Jacksonville and more. The Escorial palace in Spain is noted as Europe s largest royal residence.
The Veterans Administration began transferring its registration and adjudication units from Charlotte to Winston-Salem. The move affects 83 positions with 51 employees planning to transfer, 22 unable to move, and seven reassigned in Charlotte, leaving 164 employees in Charlotte and reducing space constraints in Winston-Salem.
Streamlining has greatly simplified the car washing process, cutting steps and improving efficiency. The changes reduce workload for workers and speed up service times at shops adopting new methods.
Mrs. N. P. Yarborough production chairman of the local Red Cross chapter expresses gratitude for the women of Greensboro who responded to Red Cross sewing appeals. The efforts support projects for use in polio hospital units.
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