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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1947
Page
1
Great Britain planned to formally request an immediate United Nations general assembly special session to address the Palestine issue. A British spokesman said a London cable was expected to deliver delegation instructions to pursue the move.
ASHEVILLE March 29 Advocates of the South Piedmont salary plan swept to victory electing R L Fritz of Hudson as leader of the North Carolina Education Association. Fritz defeated Claud Grigg for president and A C Dawson Jr was elected vice president giving South Piedmont an inside track for 1949. Fritz received 8130 votes to Grigg 6981. Dawson won the vice presidency with 6299 votes to Roberson 761, Lohr 2860 and Elmore 0. C Reid Ross was elected president of the superintendents division. 5 Ray Lowder and Joe McCracken were named officers.
Partly cloudy and warmer conditions are expected through Sunday March 30, 1947 with considerable cloud cover and occasional showers. Official records show varied temperatures across cities including Charleston 46, Chicago 41, New York 42, San Antonio 47, and Memphis 64 with notable differences in rainfall and degree of warmth.
KENASVILLE March 29. Sheriff Ralph Jones pursues Alonzo Smith, Warsaw Negro, after a car chase. The driver smashed jugs in the back seat releasing a strong odor. officers forced a stop and found broken jugs with evidence pulled from seat padding. Smith indicted for transporting.
Raleigh report says legislators stalled by issues including a gag rule and subsistence pay while passing a $48 million permanent improvements bill. Both houses pushed toward a week‑away adjournment as the Senate Finance Committee prepares actions Tuesday on wine and beer sale bills and a $1.5 million Camp Butner hospital appropriation for the mentally ill.
The navy will send two new battleships the New Jersey and Wisconsin and two Essex class carriers the Kearsarge and Randolph to northern European waters in June for a first postwar training cruise. They will be joined by destroyers Cone Stribling O Hare Meredith and the Fort Mandan landing ship. Admiral Conolly said the itinerary is not fixed but may include several northern European countries and the British Isles.
The United States declared no objections to a special UN General Assembly session on Palestine as Britain delayed filing. Secretary Warren R. Austin’s speech to the UN Security Council backing Truman’s plan to aid Greece and Turkey drew cautious praise from diplomats and a predicted reply from the Soviet Union in ten days. Oscar Lange called the UN victory notable.
London reports a foreign office spokesman said Britain will request a special United Nations assembly session to address the Palestine mandate problem. Sir Alexander Cadogan, Britain’s UN representative, is authorized to make the formal request and may act today, though formalities may not be completed until next week.
Dr Coeanie Iranha of Brazil, retiring chairman of the council, calls US policy the best way to cooperate with the United Nations. the excerpt highlights the influence of public sentiment on international stance.
An official report says a British army officer was killed and a police inspector seriously wounded when ambushed by Jews while horseback riding near the Ramle military camp south of Jerusalem. The attack occurred as the pair rode in the Ramle area.
Four thousand Ruhr coal miners at Dortmund walked out in protest over food rations amid broader unrest in the Ruhr. Hunger marches and demonstrations have drawn hundreds of thousands, with crowds stoning British military vehicles in Düsseldorf and delegations pressed authorities for higher daily rations.
William Garner of Snow Hill North Carolina and Jesse E Brown of Philadelphia were sentenced to life by a general court martial for the murder of Pfc Charles London of Detroit. London's body was found in a Yokohama canal after a quarrel at a home of two Japanese girls. Autopsy showed drowning and beating with a razor.
Washington reports indicate Easter recess lengthens odds of final action on the administration’s 400 million dollar Greek Turkish aid package before mid April. House and Senate action on related relief and deficiency bills faces possible delays if quorums or votes lag, while hearings on the Greece–Turkey program proceed and key lawmakers seek back home district talks. Senator Edwin C Johnson among those shaping the debate.
Charles Henry Moore and Estelle Thorpe Moore were found dead at their home three miles south of Asheville. Deputies call it murder and death by own action. Moore had recently lived in Rock Hill South Carolina and children ranged from six months to seven years. A note Moore left reportedly begged his wife to return to him.
Madrid reports the Spanish cabinet may issue a decree declaring Spain a traditional monarchy and recognizing Franco as chief of state. A 20 member regency would succeed him upon death or incapacity, with the archbishop of Toledo and Cortes president among its leaders, while Don Juan is the primary claimant.
The article notes 7000 people ride buses street cars and trackless trolley coaches daily in the United States and Canada, illustrating high urban transit usage across the continent.
Houston oilman H. R. Cullen announced a doubled gift of 160 million dollars to educational medical and charitable institutions funded from oil lands. Cullen, born 1883 in Denton County, estimated oil yield at 80 million barrels with current prices. He and his wife seek to see the money spent in their lifetimes and plan a foundation to distribute funds.
In Shanghai a Chinese army tribunal charged fourteen pirates with seizing cargo worth billions of Chinese dollars and killing over fifty people aboard vessels plying Shanghai to the Yangtze estuary. The leader, a former army officer, allegedly equipped his gang with carbines submachine guns and other modern arms. The raid netted medicines tea cotton and tung oil.
Washington reports that the House Committee on Un American Activities may vote against outlawing the Communist party but will push for strict new legal curbs on Communist activity in the United States. A seven member panel discussed hearings and a historical report claiming the party is an agent of Russia, with 92 documents cited.
In Pretoria a speech prepared for a state banquet and released in London, King George VI called for mutual help and understanding within the British Empire. He urged unity as one brotherhood, noting past differences but emphasizing lessons learned and a resolve to solve common problems together.
The British plan to the Soviet Union France and the United States calls for all prisoners of war to be returned to Germany by December 31 1948. It remains to be seen how the Allied Control Council will shape repatriation and German economic and political questions under Marshall’s timetable.
The Fort Dearborn lifeboat No 3 was found by the ship Victory 665 miles northeast of Midway Island. The boat was bottom-up with propeller missing and no sign of life. All 12 crew members who launched it remain unaccounted for. Thirty-two were rescued from the bow and stern sections. An extensive search by many ships followed.
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