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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1948
Page
1
Pope Pius XII warns Italy and the world of a crossroads in the clash over communism during a noon Easter blessing at St. Peter's Basilica. About 400000 Romans heard the message as Italy prepared for the April 18 election, with the Pope urging vigilance and action without naming communism.
Senate armed services hearings on the stop-Russia program will close this week. Chairman Gunn set the deadline as the committee weighs draft revival universal military training and peacetime force expansion. Bernard Baruch urged a work or fight mobilization and universal training in a total war plan. About 60 witnesses, many UMT foes, are scheduled to testify this week including Henry Wallace seeking a third party presidential bid.
The House begins showdown votes on a 6.205 billion euro foreign aid bill to back military aid and science for Europe and China. Passage hoped by Wednesday with a solid three to one margin and minimal opposition. Michigan Rep Albert J. Engel voices strong backing as defense measure.
John S. Lewis, leader of about 400000 idle miners, was to decide by 10 a m whether to testify before President Truman anti strike board on a voluntary afternoon hearing as the coal shutdown Entered its third week cost the nation hundreds of millions. A 10 cent royalty on coal since last July funded union and operators fees in the dispute.
John L. Lewis refused to appear to explain the soft coal strike prompting Truman's inquiry board to issue a subpoena for 2 pm today. Disputes over pension eligibility and a proposed $100 monthly payment for miners 60 or older fuel the tension as the Taft-Hartley emergency provisions take effect nine days after the walkout.
The morning bulletin shows temperatures in the mid fifties to sixties across the region with scattered readings: Charlotte 51, Charleston 62, Raleigh 50, New York 52, Wilmington 66. Rainfall is recorded at several stations with totals mostly under one tenth of an inch.
About 200 AFL United Financial Employes local 205 began picketing the New York Stock Exchange shortly after 8 a.m. EST. No union spokesman was available for comment. The action followed weeks of fruitless contract talks with stock and curb exchange representatives and several member firms. A spokesman said last week the union had scaled down its demands for a union shop and wage increases.
Easter Monday frost damaged budding peach apple and pear trees across the Carolinas with heavy losses feared in Spartanburg and western North Carolina. Temperatures plunged to 11 degrees at Mt. Mitchell and 25 at Asheville while coastal areas escaped freezing.
The National Labor Relations Board announced it granted an AFL Tobacco Workers International union withdrawal of its petition for certification at Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. and ordered dismissal of a CIO petition for investigation and certification due to filing noncompliance. The AFL filed its request on March 11.
Philadelphia officials blacklist James T. Farrell novel A World I Never Made as obscene and urge city solicitor to prosecute sellers. Book sellers and literary groups plan countermeasures after seizures of Studs Lonigan and Raintree County amid on the spot confiscation of literature.
Travelers report Soviet soldiers and North Korean villagers digging trenches and gun emplacements along the 38th parallel dividing the Korean zones. U S intelligence notes work in five valleys with trenches guarding a road and rail lines. over 32 trenches 30 to 50 feet long counted, with three or four new ones daily.
A seven year old, John Guille, who lost both legs in a locomotive accident March 12, received an Easter party at St Luke’s and Children’s Medical Center. Parents, doctors, and nurses watched as gifts arrived from 36 of the 48 states, extending Easter cheer beyond the hospital walls.
New York crowds line Fifth Avenue for Easter parade despite cold winds. Police estimate about a million people jammed the avenue as fashion and whimsy appeared. Ultra-fashionables wore light spring suits while many kept heavy coats and floral hats.
A robber entered Glen Holm's cigar store in Vancouver on a Saturday night, took $63 from the cash drawer, bought gum with a $2 bill, and received $1.94 in change. The incident is reported from Vancouver, British Columbia, with no further details on the suspect.
The AP reports ongoing clashes between communist east and anti communist west across diplomacy and war. In Palestine about 100 died and 200 wounded in Jewish Arab fighting. In China a government counteroffensive pushes back communists toward Manchuria. Rome notes Pope Pius XII blessing millions as Italy heads to elections. Moscow accuses Sweden of base plans for US forces while Finland negotiates a mutual aid treaty with Russia. Romania votes for a socialist constitution with a 90 percent communist bloc result. Western powers seek to dismantle the Allied control setup in Berlin as Pan American conference opens in Bogota.
Washington reports Friends of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and Sen. Robert A. Taft plan to avert a long deadlock at the GOP convention. They may back a compromise third candidate like Sen. Arthur Van den Berg or Rep. Joseph Martin, with Harold E. Stassen as a potential factor. Dewey gears up for Wisconsin appearances.
The 82nd fighter group based at Grenier Field Manchester New Hampshire will depart this week for Alaska for a routing field training exercise. Col Offutt said yearly field exercises are routine and this year’s location is Alaska. About 72 planes and 1,350 officers and men travel with the group including the 95th 96th and 97th fighter squadrons.
Chicago March 29 A presidential fact finding board proposes a 15 cent hourly wage rise for railroad workers but unions push for more gains. Locomotive fires and enginemen president D B Robertson criticizes the plan as insufficient while Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and order of railway conductors seek a joint Cleveland meeting to press additional demands. The board also backs 37 working rule changes with an estimated annual carrier cost of about 62.9 million dollars based on 1946 staff levels.
Bernard M. Baruch told the Senate armed services committee that prompt enactment of universal military training and selective service is essential for lasting world peace. He also pressed an economic mobilization plan and warned that delaying broad resource use could force future war mobilization.
The article notes increasing Soviet American tension and U S leader urging reasonable military preparations. It discusses restoring pre war power of allied nations within five to twenty years so combined strength defeats any threat to free government. Engel, as chairman of the appropriations subcommittee, oversees all armed services funding. The piece mentions the sole military aid in the context of these considerations.
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