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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1946
Page
2
In Superior Court Judge Sumner Burgwyn sentences Glen Thompson and Ethel Hill to 90 days on the roads after their attorney Bryan Worth argues they were merely courting and not living as husband and wife. Officers testified they found the couple living together, prompting the defense’s claim.
A speaker defends allied relations, rejects disparaging remarks about allies to Germans, affirms free speech among citizens, and declares personal support for the Russians as allies while urging reflection and issuing a warning. The message emphasizes resolve to avoid future war and calls for prudent consideration of loyalties.
A general strike sweeps the Venezia Giulia zone as an Allied boundary commission holds secret hearings. Strikers protest the killing in Servola while police remove a Slovene flag from a church. Reporters barred from sources on the Allied experts studying the Italian Yugoslav boundary dispute. George Washington is cited as first president of the Society of Cincinnati.
The article details a Swiss wartime rationing approach led by Muggli focusing on national self discipline and citizen responsibility. It describes a six-man staff forging cooperation among millers bakers and housewives to tailor food distribution for German French and Italian communities and notes foreign commissions studying the plan and a rise in productive capacity. New York's first elevated railway opened in 1868.
Warner Bowles comments last night urge Americans to regain confidence to curb fears and self interest that delay product and prosperity, arguing collective optimism is essential for quick recovery.
Stabilization Director Chester Bowles said price controls will not hinder production. He dismissed reports that controls slow goods flow as fallacious and promised the OPA and the office of economic stabilization will investigate every complaint and relieve where justified.
The Stabilization director says wage and price increase approvals will be streamlined with minimal red tape. Automatic approval for pay boosts will follow industry patterns, while metal goods may see retail price rises for autos, refrigerators, and washing machines. Civil War admiral Farragut noted as the first to attain that rank.
A listing of across and down clues for a Eugene Sheffer crossword including entries like varnish gum expression of sorrow and securely, with many gaps and a note about the solution time and syndicate attribution.
Spartanburg South Carolina March 11 Four persons were killed and two others critical after a auto truck collision on the Boiling Springs Valley Falls road. Victims include Mrs Manning McAbee and her seven year old Eugene and two Negro men William Dover 27 and Sammie Lee nine of Chesnee. Mrs McAbee and the two men died instantly. Affected survivors include husband and daughter Evelyn eight in critical condition and son Donald five with injuries.
The CIO UAW national convention in Atlantic City on March 23 looms as Walter Reuther gains backing from 17 local leaders representing about 235,000 members while incumbent R J Thomas eyes a seventh term. The GM strike dispute remains unresolved with bargaining deadlock over a 19-20 cent pay raise and other issues, delaying settlement as activity shifts to Detroit.
Scattered stocks continued to rebound with leadership shown by U S Steel General Motors American Telephone Kerr Southern Railway Chesapeake and Ohio Kennecott Sears Roebuck Woolworth Westinghouse and Electric Power Light while Bethlehem Western Union A Anaconda Texas Company Douglas Aircraft and International Nickel lagged. Hog and cattle prices moved higher in Chicago with strong early sales and firm dealer activity. Dry goods traders eyed new ceiling prices and rayon supplies with cautious optimism amid rising raw cotton costs.
Savannah March 11 The board of governors of the world bank and fund opened its first meeting amid a clash over site location Washington New York or Philadelphia eyed as possible capitol. Treasury Secretary Vinson said he would speak after the session about the site issue.
General George C. Marshall departed Chungking for Washington to confer with President Truman on Chinese military and political issues. Before his departure, Chang Ching Chung and Chou En Lai reached a ceasefire arrangement for Manchuria areas not held by Russians, with field teams to supervise implementation. Marshall will first stop in Tokyo to meet General MacArthur.
Marines with 40 points become eligible for discharge today. A two point cut was announced and a timetable follows for further reductions: April 1 men 38, women 16 to 18. May 1 men 83, women eight. June 1 men 28, women four. July 1 men 25, women zero.
The text recalls Churchill’s complex wartime leadership and shifting views on Italian fascism and German Nazism. It notes his early warning against Hitler, his critiques of Munich peace, and his emphatic rhetoric about dark ages and a perilous future, underscoring his enduring influence and outspoken style.
New York police reported four people held as members of a snatch and run gang that stole jewels valued at 400000. Detectives said three were arrested here last week including a well dressed woman, another is in a federal penitentiary. Cartier Inc and Lambert Brothers in Midtown New York were among the victims.
In Nurnberg, March 11, Field Marshal Erhard Milch testified to the International Military Tribunal that Adolf Hitler’s mental state changed after the 1940 conquest of France. Milch said Hitler “was not the same” and that his actions afterward contradicted prior statements, a claim he would not have shared publicly for fear of punishment. He blamed Goering for early 1940s Luftwaffe shortages due to 1937 orders halting four engined night bomber production.
Washington report says Harold E. Stassen may enter the Minnesota senate race and join John Bricker seeking an open Ohio seat. Arthur Vandenberg in Michigan faces reelection as Republican prospects expand for the 1948 presidential contest.
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