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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1947
Page
1
Washington report notes a 68 to 24 senate vote approving broad regulation of organized labor, matching house support for a tougher bill. Analysts say veto risk remains as conference talks begin, with a milder senate version possibly lessening chances of presidential veto.
Dr. Carl V. Reynolds urged North Carolina medical society members to back legislators who resist pressure groups and pass public health measures. He noted key bills blocked in committee, including a uniform milk standard and sanitation protections, and cited budget shifts from 1934 to 1947 with limited state funding.
Partly cloudy and cooler today tonight and Thursday with scattered showers mainly north. Official records show temperatures across multiple cities including Charleston 68, Charlotte 64, Columbia 88, Raleigh 85, New York 75, Miami 74, Detroit 23, San Antonio 99, and Wilmington 64 with varying rainfall amounts.
A two minute tornado ripped through an eastern Findlay area trailer camp injuring 17 residents and destroying 42 trailers with some residents trapped beneath wreckage. Two municipal workers and two women were among those injured as a hail storm preceded the cyclone and the funnel plowed northward after the strike.
In Greenville South Carolina on May 14 1951 the state began presenting evidence to counter defense claims that statements from 26 of 31 defendants in the Willie Earle mob lynching case were coerced by threats or promises. Sergeant W L Ashmore testified that Willie Eugene Bishop was treated as well as possible.
North Carolina will restore special privilege taxes to pre-war levels starting June 1 under the 1947 revenue act. New schedules by Co B Bogart raise auto dealer licenses to 200 for cities over 30,000, and increase licenses for service stations and bike dealers by town population. Other fees rise for automatic machines, bottled drinks, soda fountains, musical goods, five room homes, tourist homes, and security dealers with and without telegraphic wires.
Attorney General Harry McMullan issues digest of opinions on willful abandonment of children not being a continuing offense, concealment of weapons with a blackjack or slingshot, municipal police acts in enforcement, family partnerships for tax, and storage lien proceeds from vehicle sales.
Four of five men charged in the $25,000 armed bank robbery at the Avery County bank in Newland pleaded guilty in U S district court. Judge E Yates Webb sentenced three to 30 years each and one to 25 years. The fifth defendant George Crowe Jr was not tried. D L Henderson said he is wanted in Kentucky and may be released to them. The others from Tennessee and Kentucky received 30 year sentences for conspiracy to rob and receiving stolen money.
Government conciliators called ACEW and Western Electric officials back into session in Washington on May 14 to end a strike that began April 7. ACEW and Western Electric Em ployer association report wage offers seen as a turning point though not accepted yet. Western Electric proposed weekly increases between 2.40 and 3.20 plus 1.03 in regional special payments. A separate federal conciliator in Detroit reported a settlement deal with 6000 Michigan Bell workers pending ratification. In New York 8000 Local 1 American Union of Telephone Workers were ordered back to work at AT and T’s long lines department.
Walter Bedell Smith, ambassador to Russia, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the United States must sell its way of life to Central Europe to counter communist ideology. He said Central Europeans are in a state of mental confusion and low mood and urged use of radio publications and news to spread the U S message.
Lumberton jeweler H. E. Hutchinson aged 35 was seriously injured when the plane he piloted crashed during takeoff from Maxton. He had been en route to fetch the plane owner Clinton Norment, also of Lumberton.
The Associated Press reports hungry Germans in the American zone shifting to bitter resentment while the British zone faces gloom as authorities address a growing food crisis. AMG officials note rising anti American sentiment and German leaders with little hope for the future. A Bevin telegram cites Ruhr chaos unless Hoover acts to avert mass starvation.
About 300 of 400 Cranberry school students walked out yesterday demanding re election of principal C. C. Bolick. Kenneth Anderson, a former teacher, is elected to succeed Bolick, who served two years. Demonstrators marched to Elk Park as a meeting with the school board and officials was planned at Cranberry High School.
Eight Southern railway freight cars derailed four miles west of Charlotte on Gastonia Road blocking the double tracked main line. Three cars were on the southbound track while a northbound freight of about 85 cars became uncoupled 15 cars from the caboose. Wrecked cars include six boxcars a tank car and a flat car with wheels scattered along the right of way.
The senate approved a $350,000,000 relief program for war ravaged countries in Europe and Asia. The vote stood 79 to 4. The action followed initial opposition to a $150,000,000 cut endorsed by President Truman and the state department.
Tokyo on May 14 reports that the public shows rising enthusiasm for a government backed plan to cut prices. Labor unions prepare to support the movement as some goods have already fallen in price and sales rise, though street traders call the program phony and fear merchants may push non essentials out.
President Truman signed a law banning portal pay suits and urged Congress to raise the minimum wage from 40 to 65 cents per hour. He argued the portal bill reduces potential liabilities while defects should be fixed and wage talks can proceed with less uncertainty. The administration seeks wage increases to spur production and employment stability.
Police detain 30 people after an unexploded bomb camouflaged with netting and jeet is found in a tree near the military courts building in Jerusalem. The device held 67 sticks of gelegnite 15 pounds of rivets and two detonators connected to wire. It was discovered by a patrol about 100 yards from the court building in a street used to move prisoners.
The Daughters of the American Colonists will assist in restoring Tryon Palace at New Bern North Carolina and establish a museum in the old church at Midway Georgia. This follows the group’s 26th national assembly decision to resume colonial history memorials halted during the war.
Congress moves to finalize a $400 million aid program for Greece and Turkey to keep them from falling under Soviet influence while the Senate considers a $350 million food relief package for Austria Greece Hungary Italy Poland and China with $15 million for emergencies. The bill requires Senate approval of top directors for the aid mission and names Ambassador Edwin C. Wilson to direct the military aid portion in Turkey.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko blamed British rule in Palestine and urged ending the League mandate. He argued for a dual Arab Jewish state as a solution while Britain faced criticism from the UN assembly. Dr Fadhil Jamaly of Iraq led the Arab opposition and warned of Iraq’s possible stance.
The Churches of Christ in America the National Council of Jewish Women and the NAACP backed federal aid to schools while the National Economic Council opposed it saying it would cede state control. Hearings before the House Education Committee examine bills to fund state school support with safeguards against federal control and racial discrimination.
In Washington on May 14 the prosecution in Kenneth Romney’s trial called John Oberholser a former cashier in the house of arms office to support charges that a $143,863 shortage in office funds was concealed. Oberholser began in 1922 and testified the office bank served to cover deficits. Previously Fangmeyer testified that a bookkeeper, Ma honey, admitted eight years ago the office acted as a house bank and Romney used deductions from other staff pay to cover gaps, with more than $20,000 collected this way.
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