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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1947
Page
1
President Truman asked Congress to enact a federal health and disability insurance program to cover workers unable to work due to illness or injury. He outlined expanding public health services, research funding, medical education, and more hospitals and doctors, stressing national health insurance as the program's heart.
Grandview Missouri May 19 President Truman reported his 94 year old mother is improved though still gravely ill with a weak heart. He spoke to reporters at 6 20 a m after a pre breakfast walk describing her condition as better this morning.
Doris Duke and Hillsborough Township reach a tax peace over a personalty tax suit tied to the Duke endowment fund valued at 251 million dollars. The township agrees not to appeal the New Jersey board of tax appeals ruling. Miss Duke waives about 2 million in court costs awarded after the township lost the suit. The endowment fund, created by James B. Duke in 1924, funds North and South Carolina charities.
Official weather records note considerable cloudiness with cooler temperatures across North Carolina. Forecast calls for scattered showers tonight and Tuesday as the system moves through Raleigh Charlotte and other cities.
Margaret Truman, daughter of the president, cancelled her stage debut in Pittsburgh due to the grave illness of her grandmother Mrs Martha E Truman. She arrived from New York and rushed to Grandview Missouri to be with her grandmother, saying the tour would not be canceled unless circumstances at Grandview dictated otherwise.
Soviet propaganda portrays a coming US depression to lure other nations, while Izvestia claims the Soviet Union remains immune. Washington plans a policy planning review led by Secretary Marshall to assess world economic conditions and foreign aid needs for the coming years.
Louisburg May 19 The state legislature may face a high court test over whether towns may vote on establishing ABC stores House Bill 990 allows a July 1 vote in Louisburg If lower courts rule against the drys they plan an appeal to the Supreme Court.
A North Carolina tenant farmer seeks a new trial after presenting a death by own action note dated August 18, 1946 found in red ink on a calendar page. Charlie Phillips of Angier claims the note, allegedly in the same handwriting as letters from his wife, came before the 1946 murder for which he was scheduled to die.
In Chicago on May 19 three men shot and killed during an attempted robbery at a West Side apartment where 32 guests gathered for a dinner. Victims include Albert Fineberg and Benjamin Eisenstein. a third man named George Stanislawski was among the robbers. One guest Lionel Takiff was hospitalized after being struck. Witnesses say the intruders entered with a hammer and guns. Eisenstein fired at Stanislawski after he moved toward a coat containing a gun.
Washington May 19 Former Kentucky Congressman Andrew J May denied in his government war fraud trial that he entered into a conspiracy to defraud the government. The 72 year old former congressman told his attorney Warren McGee he never thought of such a thing. He said he never entered into a conspiracy with anybody to defraud his country.
The committee approved legislation to raise postal rates for added revenue. Air mail would jump from five to six cents an ounce, with second class mail and periodicals up for higher rates if mailed beyond the county of publication. An air mail postcard option for four cents was also proposed, while other rates remained largely unchanged.
In Greenville South Carolina Judge Judas J. Robert a Jr directed verdicts of acquittal for three of 31 defendants accused in the lynching of a Negro. Seven other defendants received acquittals on certain charges as the mass trial moved toward a jury composed of textile workers merchants and farmers with final arguments set for tomorrow morning. The defense rested dramatically with no witness testimony for the defense yet. Statements by 26 defendants at arrest will be admitted only against those individuals, not co defendants.
Senators Taft and Ball said conference may finish a compromise labor bill this week. Senator George predicted a less tight result than last year and said Truman might have trouble vetoing. He noted labor leaders attack both bills, while the Senate measure reportedly doesn’t unduly curb union activity. House veto of the Case bill stood. Taft and Ball belong to the 10 member conferring team. Hartley said the House will likely align with the Senate version.
An American proposal for world wide elimination of censorship tops the UN sub commission agenda in Lake Success New York as 12 nations gather for two weeks of sessions. Zechariah Chafee Harvard professor and American representative proposed the plan plus equal access for correspondents and freedom of movement. The UN also reports Security Council sessions and plans for a 11 nation commission on Palestine with Arab states undecided on boycott.
Washington may 19 the senate judiciary committee approved Bryce R Holt nomination to be U S attorney for the middle district of North Carolina.
Eleven North Carolinians died in violent incidents over the weekend. Names include James Taylor Rhyne of Gastonia, Oscar Percy Makepeace Jr. of Sanford, Ernest Wade Morris of Kansas City, and others across multiple counties. Across incidents a coroner’s inquiry cleared Officer Charlie Warwick in a self defense finding.
Members of Associated Industries of High Point were notified that the 6:30 PM meeting at the Sheraton hotel has been deferred. President Amos R. Kearns said Dr Rex Winslow, guest speaker and director of the university bureau, fell ill and the talk on industry responsibilities in economic readjustment will be rescheduled after his recovery.
Washington reports telephone pickets ordered back to their beats across the country. The Western Electric strike involves about 20 000 installation workers, with unions claiming the Bell system could be blocked. After failed conciliation, a 6 am deadline passed as negotiations continued. Two other Western Electric unions reached pay raises and no strike clauses.
Treasury Secretary Snyder told the House Ways and Means committee that a period of tax reduction is approaching though he gave no specific cuts or timing. He cited near peace time expenditures and high income as factors, discussing personal and corporate taxes, dividends, exemptions, and security taxes. Democrats push to delay a Senate decision about the $4 billion measure, with Republicans expected to resist deeper cuts.
In Jerusalem May 19 a clandestine radio broadcast by Irgun Zvai Leumi and Stern Gang declared they would not halt violence until Britain lays down arms ends Jewish arrests and stops deportations to other countries. The broadcast warned that British violence could only be answered with more violence and urged UN members to press Britain to disarm.
Prolonged dry weather has damaged early-maturing truck crops and delayed planting and cultivation in North Carolina. The Department of Agriculture reports a sharply reduced commercial strawberry crop due to drought and notes berries ripened before market size. Northwestern reports say Irish potato yields may fall without rain.
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