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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1946
Page
2
Governor Cherry announces Carl L. Williamson is reappointed executive chairman of the state ABC board for a three year term expiring in 1949. Williamson will be paid $6,000 annually. Mexico expects at least 2,000 American tourists this spring.
Preliminary work starts on 52 factory buildings to be erected on Springfield Avenue in front of Brentwood school, with trains bringing dismantled units from Florida. Ten more family units will be placed on Vail street for Negro veterans, bringing Brentwood total to 92 across two sites.
In Westchester Pennsylvania on May 1 Miss Anna Jarvis founder of Mother's Day in 1906 celebrated her 82nd birthday. The movement began on the first anniversary of her mother's death and today the day is observed in 43 countries. She has been confined in a sanitarium since 1943.
Byrnes defends long term European aid while arguing against forcing Germany into poverty. Senator Hatch supports the aim to reassure Moscow of U.S. European involvement. Senator Capehart questions the political and financial cost of a 25 year commitment to feed and guard Germany.
Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal attacked the current plan to merge the army and navy into a single department of defense. He told the Senate Naval Committee the proposal rests on a false premise, favoring coordinated reforms but failing to distinguish unified combat command from home government processes. He warned the army proposal would concentrate power in one man, and proposed a director of common defense under presidential supervision as alternative.
Philadelphia reports the USS San Francisco, famed battleship, to have its history published as a book detailing actions from 1941 through Korea. Commander Erle V. Dennett says copies will go to all hands aboard as of September 1, 1945, and the volume will include about 300 action photographs.
Discussions stress orderly removal of price control while warning a June 30 1946 end could invite a price spike. A proposed OPA expediting committee would decide lingering applications within 30 days. Anderson cites rural land price rises from farmers speculators and urban buyers seeking country homes as inflation hedges.
Conciliator notes PMW workers in Illinois coal mines quitting after failed contract talks with the Coal Producers Association of Illinois. In Kansas City, J A Leveridge warns of a nationwide walkout by terminal elevator employees spurred by the governments 30 cent a bushel export bonus on wheat.
A medical column explains spinal osteoarthritis caused by age and posture, noting X rays aid diagnosis. Advice covers passive and active exercises, bed exercises, heat, massage, and brace use. It emphasizes correcting posture to relieve symptoms, with hormones and saccharin questions and answers included.
Draft boards four and five sent registrants to Fort Bragg for final induction. Seven from board four and seven from board five were already enlisted in the army or navy. Names listed include Paul Ed ar Sapp Jr and Neri Huff from board four and William Grayson Rook from the enlisted group, with transfer and enlistment details for other listed registrants.
Mahatma Gandhi and Mahomed Ali Jinnah, aged 78 and 70 respectively, begin talks with the aim of reconciling differences over a unified federal government versus an independent Pakistan. The encounter offers cautious hope for peace though both remain stubborn.
Stalin calls for continuous improvement of the armed forces through military art and science while warning against international reactionary plots. May Day is noted as the international workers holiday, first proclaimed in 1889. The folding fan tale notes early uses in China and Japan, and West Virginia ranks fifth in natural gas production east of the Mississippi.
In New York on May 1, key stocks showed cautious gains as special situations weighed on select issues. Strength appeared in American Telephone, General Motors, Southern Railway, Chrysler, Electric Power & Light, Westinghouse, U S Rubber, and Northern Pacific, while Allis-Chalmers and several others lagged on various reports and conditions. Separate market coverage noted scattered prints cloth sales and quiet rayon markets with mills selling for prompt delivery and heavy fabric demand yet no new releases.
Livestock trade shows gains for fed steers and yearlings while cows slip. top steer price hits 18.00 with most beef cows at 10.00-12.50. Potatoes arrivals and prices steady to dull across varieties. Idaho Russets and Cobblers priced for 100-lb sacks. U.S. oil well depth in 1945 sets record, at 3,469 feet, up 7.3 percent from 1944.
A High Point reader recounts relief from bloating and choking sensation caused by stomach gas after using INNER-AID. The ad claims twelve herbs cleanse bowels and improve digestion, with sale at local drug stores.
Mrs. Bessie Handley mother of Mrs. John M. and Mrs. E. L. Byerly of this city died at her Wildwood home on April 7. Funeral services held there today. Surviving children include two sons G. E. Handley and Norman C. Handley of Wildwood plus three daughters and nine grandsons, seven granddaughters, two great-grandchildren.
Eyewitnesses describe a first blast as a hedgehog depth charge detonated by a seaman. The weapon weighs about 60 pounds and measures 30 inches long and 4 to 5 inches in diameter. The seaman was slightly injured while the man ahead was killed or badly wounded, according to Fireman Jack Horne of Charlotte, N C.
Partly cloudy and warm conditions persist today through Thursday. Showers and thunderstorms are likely Thursday with drizzle in the mountains tonight. The United States operates 39 petroleum refineries.
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