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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1948
Page
1
An Associated Press survey of 27 senators and 325 representatives elected shows strong support for the Marshall Plan and for high farm price supports. Voters lean toward standby price controls and partial repeal of Taft Hartley though opinions split.
AP correspondent DeWitt Mackenzie notes support in Washington for a U S led security pact with Western Europe allied by the Western European Union nucleus of Britain France Belgium the Netherlands and Luxembourg with possible inclusion of Iceland and Portugal to strengthen collective defense beyond World War II.
Canton Ohio reports Betty Woolridge died at 22 ten days after Dr Horace Smithy who pioneered a valve opening operation. The surgery done in January at Charleston South Carolina aimed to relieve rheumatic fever scar tissue. Smithy later died of the same ailment and pneumonia. six earlier patients included two deaths, four survivors noted as doing well.
Secretary of State Marshall is expected to visit Washington before month’s end to report on the Paris United Nations meeting and review U S foreign policy problems. Officials weigh whether and how long he will stay in the cabinet after January 20, with retirement considered though Truman may ask him to remain to handle Western Europe NATO talks and other Cold War issues.
U S. Representative J Parnell Thomas chairman of the House committee on un-American activities was indicted on a conspiracy to defraud the government charge. Three counts of false claims and 34 overt acts are included. Helen Campbell, his former secretary, is indicted on the conspiracy charge. If convicted maximum penalties could reach 32 years in prison and a $40 000 fine.
New York November 8 Recovery continued in the stock market with prices advancing about a point. Railroads led the rise with steels and motors contributing, while chemicals retail and tobaccos showed slight lag. Among gainers were Santa Fe Southern Pacific Illinois Central U S Steel Bethlehem Steel General Motors Chrysler Goodrich Electric Power & Light American Smelting Eastman Kodak Oliver Sinclair Oil Gulf Oil. Lagging were Sears Roebuck Du Pont Allied Chemical J C Penny American Tobacco Douglas Aircraft and Philip Morris.
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Maj Gen Bennett E Meyers's conviction on charges of inducing another to testify before a Senate committee. The ruling was split 2-1. Meyers has served since March 14 in jail under an 18 months to five years sentence from a U S District Court for wartime air force contract matters. He was the chief purchasing officer for the air force during the war.
President Truman spent a Sunday worshiping at First Baptist Church in New Bern before continuing to Key West for vacation. Gov. R Gregg Cherry and Gov. elect W Kerr Scott attended, with Rep. Graham Barden among onlookers as the brief county town stop drew a crowded congregation.
Mrs. J. P. Creighton 49 a former Lander College teacher Greenwood South Carolina died in a Charlotte hospital. Her husband is a partner in the Atlantic Building Co. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow with burial in St. George South Carolina. She was born Mary Carroll Stokes and was the daughter of the late James and Margaret Utsey Stokes. She moved to Charlotte in 1928 five years after her marriage.
Paris reports show Gen Charles De Gaulle's RPF sweeping gains in the upper house elections with about 99 to 121 seats claimed by the party as Communists lose most of their seats. Local colleges conducted balloting amid national scope. Colonies elect 51 members next month.
Howard Frederick Munch, UNC mathematics professor since 1926, collapsed and died of a heart attack at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during a visit from Chapel Hill to see his daughter. He previously led Rockford schools and was born in Holloway Michigan. He studied at Adrian College and did graduate work at the University of Chicago.
The Associated Press reports a fair but warmer day with rain expected tomorrow across the Carolinas. Morning lows ranged from 30 degrees in Asheville to above freezing elsewhere, with Greensboro 39 and Charlotte 48 among other readings.
In San Francisco a 67 day West Coast maritime strike may end soon as CIO representatives delay arrival. A two way peace plan calls for CIO and San Francisco Employers' Council to back any accord and oversee local unions and employers. If no deal within 10 days, union members vote on the last offer.
Washington reports a post election debate over possible reprisals against southern lawmakers who backed the States Rights revolt. Leaders say no reprisals to date with unity urged. party control remains solid and patronage questions hinge on national committee decisions after inauguration.
Washington November 8 The GOP post election scramble hints Harold Stassen and others may shape policy as Thomas E Dewey lanes no immediate plan to step down. Party influence could move to figures like Vandenberg Taft Wherry Martin Halleck and rising names Stassen Ives Knowland Baldwin Saltonstall Lodge Ferguson Brown Driscoll Gibson Youngdahl Carlson.
Three tank cars carrying about 1 000 gallons of gasoline and four freight cars derailed from a Missouri Pacific freight train at Dodson a suburb of Kansas City. Three people suffered minor burns while fire companies battled the blaze for two hours to stop the inferno from reaching two other loaded tankers as a huge smoke plume spread over the southern part of the city.
President Truman relaxed at Key West naval base spending a fifth rest period with White House aides. He wore tan slacks and swim trunks for beach walks and swims while delaying decisions until after his two week stay ends.
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