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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1946
Page
2
Three year old Muller of Sydney suffered kidney illness. His mother recalled a New York dispatch describing a similar case treated with a broth from watermelon seeds. Doctors treated Raymond with the remedy and his condition improved.
The YMCA invites veterans to redeem a 90 day free membership as a community support program. Eligible veterans can sign up at participating branches and begin access to fitness facilities and programs.
Mrs Lizzie Belle Wilson Rickert 79 of 609 East Green Street died at home after a long illness. Born October 29 1866 in Iredell County she lived in High Point since 1912 and was widow of J M Rickert who died in 1941. Survived by two sons two daughters three grandchildren one brother and two sisters. Funeral Wednesday at 2 PM Green Street Baptist Church with internment in Oakwood Cemetery.
Maintenance men and bus drivers of the Power company walked out today in Georgia's third largest city, leaving about 100 000 residents without public transportation.
The article recounts heated debates over revised Case and Truman emergency measures as labor leaders denounce both bills. A coalition of Republicans and Democrats seeks to weaken the measures, while Murray proposes a strike truce. Senate battles continue with Pepper and Mead leading opposition amid division among Democrats and Republicans.
Dade county reports its fiftieth infantile paralysis case this year as navy planes finish spraying the area with four tons of material. The article notes early hand grenades weighing two to six pounds.
The Presbyterian Church in the U S Southern section approved a plan to meet jointly with the northern church if arrangements are possible. Each denomination would hold separate business sessions but share devotions and inspirational meetings. Montreal was set as a future meeting site, though joint talks could alter that plan.
J. J. Ingle a Winston-Salem Republican appealed to the state supreme court after Superior Court Judge W. C. Harris denied a mandamus to force the state board of elections to place Ingle on the November general election ballots. He filed for the state supreme court before the filing deadline but did not name an opponent as required. Harris had denied the mandamus last Friday. if the high court rules against Harris, Ingle would be the Republican nominee on the November ballots.
Governor Cherry predicts mechanized farms and rising farm wages in 1946 as agriculture and industry align for postwar prosperity. He argues for better marketing facilities, removal of interstate trade barriers, and shared sacrifice between farmers and workers to restore confidence and growth. Sea ducks swallow shellfish whole.
Press reports from Araruna in Paraiba state say a recent ruling branded singing in the streets a crime. The same ruling declares that each ball in the street is legal.
In Asheville North Carolina the AFL and CIO exchange sharp charges over communist influence and organizing tactics. AFL leaders call CIO organizers carpetbaggers and northern communists while CIO leaders defend their methods and campaign aims. Both sides push to recruit southern workers and influence 1946 and 1948 elections while avoiding blame for the coal strike.
In New York on May 28 shares led gains but retreated as profit taking trimmed earlier advances. Notable risers included Greyhound Bethlehem General Motors Goodrich Northern Pacific Pennsylvan ia United Aircraft North American Anaconda Sunray Oil Phillip Morris and American Smelting with laggards like U S Steel Youngstown Sheet U S Rubber Glenn Martin American Telephone and American Water Works. In dry goods New York mills faced price control uncertainty and may close four days this week to conserve fuel. Livestock traders in Chicago reported active hog and cattle markets with higher prices for red steers and yearlings and scarce veal, offset by strong demand abroad.
Potatoes arriving in Chicago show 51 arrivals and 97 on track with supplies steady. Market remains firm at ceiling prices for top quality stock with California long whites at 3.97 to 4.29 per 100 pounds and other regional quotes ranging from 3.75 to 4.31 for U S No 1 quality.
The text notes Carter Glass as a supreme court reorganizer with Roosevelt calling him an unreconstructed rebel yet remaining a personal friend. It mentions Mrs Aurelia Glass dying in 1937 and his 1940 marriage to Mary Scott Meade of Amherst Virginia, a widow younger than him. His son Powell, a Lynchburg newspaper executive, died last July.
At a Greensboro meeting Major L. P. McLendon presented the bid for a regional hospital plan. The Moses Cone hospital estate values at 10 million with total value around 15 million plus contributions. Attendees included several doctors, educators, and Greensboro and High Point officials.
A conference between Chinese leader Soong and Communist Gen Chou En Lai followed by Marshall’s meetings with both leaders. Reports note Communist troop movements in Manchuria and a truce condition tied to government restraint. Yenan radio stated the Red evacuation of Changchun aimed to test Kuomintang peace intentions while Hsin Min Pao urged a temporary halt to military transport and a pledge to restore railways.
Labor advisers expect wage increases over 18 percent to collide with wage price policy. Proposals include a health and welfare fund of 25 to 30 million funded by five cents per ton of coal, a shift to a 40 hour work week, higher eighth and ninth hour pay, safety standards set by the federal bureau of mines, sanitation pledges in company towns, vacation pay from 75 to 100 dollars, and union membership rules for foremen after a national labor board decision. A brief October strike over supervisory unions is noted.
Protests by two legislative candidates over county ballots in Dobson, Elkin, and Bryan precincts led to impounding the county ballot boxes. Dobson and Snow challenged returns from their respective precincts. The board scheduled to reconvene at 10 a.m. Wednesday to complete the official county canvass.
Forsyth county shows Folger ahead by 23 votes while Thurmond Chatham loses 68, narrowing Chatham’s lead to 63 pending official results. Per son county adds 4 to Chatham and other counties including Surry Stokes Caswell and Granville have not yet reported.
Sydney four Alex ander Solomon of Gulargambone the first full blooded aboriginal appointed to the New South Wales Aborigines Welfare Board resigns after three months and returns to the bush. He says travel to Sydney for board meetings 375 miles each way cost him too much money.
Los Angeles reports the state supreme court upheld Joan Berry's paternity claim that Charlie Chaplin is the father of her child Carol Ann Berry 2%. The court allowed Berry to seek higher support in lower courts based on need while denying Chaplin further action at this time.
El Dorado Kansas reports Mayor Clarence W. Rice delaying an overtime parking ticket for an out of town motorist by adding a penny and extending the meter by 12 minutes. The mayor said he dislikes seeing visitors ticketed for over parking.
Paris reports that France demands the Mekong river area in Siam, a territory ceded to Siam by Vichy France in 1941, amid Siamese raids by French troops. A foreign ministry spokesman could not confirm or deny the raids across the border from Indochina into Siam.
The United States holds ultimate petroleum reserves estimated at 658 billion barrels. This figure would secure more than 700 years of supply at current and projected consumption rates.
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