20 Nov 1950
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1950
Page
1
HAL BOYLE recalls a dusty front line ride with a young medic nicknamed Junior. An exchange with a strict military policeman ends with a scarred scarlet scarf and a moment when no one speaks for fear he might break down.
Chairman Spence says President Truman seeks a short session bill to extend rent control to March 31, 1951. Spence will introduce a resolution and hold hearings with support likely if testimony justifies passage, though fate of the proposal remains unclear.
Raleigh, Nov 20. Ernest B. Liles, a 24 year old Negro man, faces execution after Thanksgiving for raping an elderly white woman in Franklin County. He was convicted in April and had served time for assault with intent to commit rape in Scot County before the current death sentence. The parole commissioner said he will confer with Governor Scott on Wednesday about the case.
In Chattanooga Tennessee last night police conducted an amphibious raid on a Tennessee river houseboat and captured 13 people while 50 reportedly escaped. Officers found a crowded scene as customers fled upstream by boats and a lifeboat overturned in shallow water. Three men and a woman were held as state witnesses, others charged with vagrancy and public drunkenness. a suspect blamed for selling beer without a license remains at large.
Mr and Mrs Frank Davison of Indianapolis reported that six tons of coal were dumped on their basement floor during a ten day visit in Kentucky. They asked police to determine who sent the coal and why it was delivered.
Ernest Ingenito, a gunman in New Jersey, refuses all solid food while under guard in Gloucester County Prison after admitting to shooting his in laws and wife’s relatives. He drinks coffee and smokes, remains silent, and faces potential electric chair as investigators review the case.
Washington panel reports Democrats rally behind Secretary of State Acheson amid Republican calls to overhaul foreign policy. Senator Fulbright urged unity, Kilgore praised Acheson’s handling of the Korean crisis, while Taft and Welker pressed for reconsideration, sparking debate over public vs private inquiry.
U S High Commissioner John J McCloy threatened to limit Soviet aircraft flights over West Germany after rejecting Moscow’s claim that an American jet attacked Maurice Thorez’s plane en route to Moscow. He urged immediate steps to prevent recurrence of unsafe Soviet piloting over the U S zone.
In Korea war parcels from GIs carry gifts chosen and sent by 300 American Red Cross volunteers in Japan. Remote shopping lets soldiers order items from well stocked Japanese stores. china sets are especially popular with messages to loved ones.
In South Bend Indiana Ernest Kolesiak’s television antenna touched a 27 000 volt line causing sparks fire on pipes melting around the kitchen sink and a blown television set. Mrs Kolesiak peeled potatoes as molten specks stained her spectacles. Fire bounced on the roof and power was cut by the utility. A glove burned in the yard and the house showed scorch marks where wires passed through walls. Kolesiak was only slightly burned and their dog ran off then returned refusing to go home.
Western Electric has become owner, not just lessee, of the Pomona Mills property in Guilford County. The deed filed Friday shows a sale around 315000 dollars, transferring from Guilford Investment Corporation to Western Electric. The firm plans renovations over months to produce electronic equipment for armed forces under government contracts.
New York, Nov 20. Barbara Hutton said there is no chance of reconciling with her fourth husband Prince Igor Troubetzkoy. The ailing Woolworth heiress, arriving from Madrid, indicated she had not decided on divorce and planned to visit doctors and family in the United States for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
American tanks and infantry penetrated a snowbound North Korean valley within five miles of the Manchurian border as U S Seventh Division forces pushed eight miles through the mountains. Marines moved two miles along the Changjin reservoir coast and ROK forces advanced up to three miles on the northwest front. The Kaplan operation outside the walled city yielded a swift red collapse with surrendering troops and praise from General Barr and Colonel Powell.
Berlin reports that millions in the Soviet bloc are being fed revised wartime history through state produced films and broadcasts. Moscow films present a distorted Allied war record, praising Stalin and denigrating Churchill Roosevelt and Eisenhower. East Germany shows strong Youth FDJ support for The Fall of Berlin and On A Secret Mission amid iron curtain pressure.
Enterprise Sports Editor Bill Currie revisits the Carolina Duke football rivalry from 1932 onward in a feature that highlights the series high spots. The backward glance appears on Page 2-B today.
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