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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1947
Page
9
Curley, the 2-year political leader, remains in critical condition in Cohasset after a better night. Dr Edward Schott updated newsmen while Curley's lawyers push for a temporary stay of his 6 to 18 month jail term due to ill health.
Justice department officials say federal prosecution is being considered for those connected with mob violence in the lynching of Willie Farle a Black man in Greenville South Carolina.
Lawrence Tierney an actor known as a film bad man was granted release from a county road gang sentence after a plea from his father L J Tierney and an anonymous speaker. He had been on parole for drunkenness and had 48 days of the 90 day sentence served before the cut.
Police recovered a stolen country ham reported by Clara Belle Belo. Officers traced the ham to Fred Dixon who had bought it from Lucinda Borders, and the piece was identified as Clara Belle’s ham and returned.
Civitan members gathered Tuesday noon in the Gold room at Gibson’s Ice Cream Plant. Charl ie Risch’s team won the attendance prize as June Dairy Month was announced. Dr. Ruffer, former head of the North Carolina dairy department, spoke on dairy farming improvements.
LAKE SUCCESS June 18 Delegates to the United Nations security council agreed it would be useless to press for a vote now on a world police force. A showdown ballot would likely invite Soviet vetoes, jeopardizing the entire plan as the council resumes debate on the military staff committee report.
Volunteer workers and guardsmen were called to assist as the Iowa River neared a record 16.5 feet in a southeast town. Evacuations affected about 400 residents after Mayor R. Johnson and Sheriff Robert Lewis ordered moves. Red Cross and state troops requested trucks boats and manpower from Des Moines and Newton.
The Allied Control Commission for Hungary convenes in Budapest to discuss recent political developments including Premier Ferenc Nagy's resignation under communist pressure. Lt. Gen. V. P. Sviridov chairs as the Soviet acting head while the United States and Britain push for access to Nagy's deposition, which has been refused.
A Pan American Constellation plane carrying American editors and publishers landed in London after an hour and 20 minutes from Shannon with one engine down. The round the world service stopover at 11:20 GMT included meetings with Prime Minister Attlee, government officials, and Lord Beaverbrook.
Washington June 18 The Nationalist government asks the United States for early approval of a long pending five hundred million dollar loan and larger sums later to aid China’s shaky economy. Ambassador Wellington Koo said blueprints of reconstruction projects are being submitted to qualify for Export-Import Bank credit before the June 30 deadline.
In Paris on June 18 the French cabinet completed a 140 billion franc budget to balance the deficit. A spokesman said general agreement was reached on Finance Minister Robert Schuman's plan with tax increases proposed on tobacco, telephones, postage, rail fares and a new automobile tax forthcoming to the National Assembly.
Cecil L. Baton, 56, of 902 Circle Drive, killed in a Leesburg Virginia air crash last Friday, was honored at funeral services Tuesday at St. Mary's Episcopal Church. Burial followed at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Greensboro. Pallbearers included Doug Keough and Jack Skelly. honorary pallbearers listed a long roster of local names.
American information reports the arrest of Imre Fold, manager of the Allied Officers Park Club in Budapest. He is charged as pro Nazi and linked to a plot to overthrow the Hungarian Republic, mirroring charges used to pressure Premier Ferenc Nagy's resignation.
The North Carolina Merchants Association, in Lexington for its 5th annual convention, pledged to keep prices in line. Judson H. Blount of Greenville was elected president, with T. M. Driskill of Charlotte and John M. Carroll of Asheville named first and second vice presidents. W. L. Dowell of Raleigh was re elected executive secretary and named executive vice president, and T. C. Hinkle of Lexington was reelected treasurer.
Washington June 18 Chairman Langer R ND called a special senate civil service subcommittee meeting to plan a probe into postmaster appointments. The inquiry was authorized by a Republican majority vote after 43 Republicans and one Democrat backed the resolution, while 35 Democrats opposed it.
United Nations Palestine Commission members completed the Holy Land inquiry by visiting sacred sites in Jerusalem and Bethlehem before a one week fact finding tour. Tomorrow they will travel to Haifa to meet the Jewish and Arab municipal authorities and inspect industries and the port area.
The annual convention of the North Carolina Department of Disabled American Veterans opens in Greensboro tomorrow and runs through Saturday. Undersecretary of War Kenneth M. Royall of Goldsboro will speak at a Friday banquet. Officers to be elected Saturday. Henry T. Ireland of Charlotte is the current department commander.
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is invited to the next weekly Kuomintang Central Political Council meeting to help draft a revised policy. A co member told the Associated Press the policy may include a stiffer attitude toward Russia.
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