Weather Update for Carolina Regions
Partly cloudy and continued cold today and tonight. Snow flurries in the mountains today. Friday should be fair with slightly warmer conditions overall.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1945
Page
2
Partly cloudy and continued cold today and tonight. Snow flurries in the mountains today. Friday should be fair with slightly warmer conditions overall.
Servicemen return from abroad and dock in U S ports. The SS Mahoney City arrives at Net News on November 28 with T William P Snow of High Point. The SS James Fannen is due Boston November 28 with Sgt Andrew F Conrad of Lexington. The SS Duchess arrived San Francisco November with Robert B Hoskins and Claude H Dillon of High Point. The SS Admiral Hugh Rodman due San Francisco November 27 with Sammie Powell of Asheboro.
Ad copy touts genuine aspirin for fast headache relief. Claims quick effect and low price with a 100 tablet bottle advertised at 35c. Promotional line blends misspelled phrases and bargain framing.
Managing Editor A. W. Stamey of the High Point Enterprise spoke to local Rotarians about news gathering, writing, editing, and production. He noted local news requires substantial staff effort and warned omitting features triggers reader calls. Guests included Capt. Charles Smigelski and R. Brookshire along with others from Charlotte Orange and High Point.
CPA Stone predicts higher output next year as demand shifts toward mid and high end pieces. He cites exports and housing as main drivers while labor bottlenecks and wartime prisoner of war labor impacts loom. McCoy foresees long term growth with normal capacity reached late 1946 and a five year gap to fully close demand. Brig. Gen. Kenneth Royall will speak at tonight's dinner meeting.
The National Labor Relations Board will hold a strike vote on December 19 at the American Enka plant in Asheville North Carolina. CIO United Textile Workers sought the ballot to press for union security a 25 percent wage increase seniority provisions shift differentials and paid lunch periods.
Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach took a direct role in the GM strike affecting 225,000 workers. He joined a four hour meeting with CIO UAW officials in Washington and urged GM President Wilson to resume talks after discussions with President Truman.
Transcriptions show Goering secured Seyss-Inquart as Austrian chancellor by threats and pressure. The telegram invited German troops into Austria as part of the Anschluss coup. Goering and other top Nazis smiled as the prosecution quoted their threats and lies leading to Austria’s downfall. The Coburg arrest of Karl Eduard, duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, president of the German Red Cross, with a Nazi general’s rank, was announced by the U S military government.
Pearl pressed questions about changes and notices while Ferguson warned the hearing must not be lengthened. Hull Sumner Welles and Grew testified as the phase continues. Grew faced a diary debate with Republicans proposing inspection and committee counsel Mitchell showing no favor.
The piece argues that civil wars like in China could impact global peace while respecting sovereignty. It anticipates the UN may handle cases where peace is threatened and notes Palestine as an early issue likely to go before the world court. Newfoundland is mentioned as the oldest British colony.
Funeral service for Edna Joyce Kindley four year old daughter of Vance and Ola Hancock Kindley was held at Pleasant Grove Methodist church Tuesday at 11. Rev Grady McDowell and Rev Charles Leonard led the service with a trio singing Gathering Buds and One Little Rose Bud. Mrs David Snider accompanied on piano. Interment was in the family plot at the church cemetery.
Lewis R. Hall, prominent business man, died Monday afternoon. Funeral conducted at Pleasant Hill Method ist church assisted by Rev. C. O. Plyler and Rev. Everett Whisnant. Pallbearers named. Music by local quartets and Calvary Trio. Interment in family plot at church cemetery.
Moscow dispatch reports Generalissimo Stalin will take a “good long rest” before resuming duties in the capital. The source says he remains in good health and plans an extended vacation.
The OPA explains how furniture prices will rise under a three tier plan in March 1942. Manufacturers list all items, then classify into low, medium and high price brackets with specific allowed increases. Low bracket essentials may rise up to 20 percent, nonessentials 13 percent if all wood, seven percent if upholstered. Medium bracket wood furniture up 6 percent, upholstered up four percent.
An advertisement warns that a three day cough may signal chronic bronchitis if untreated and promotes Creomulsion as a potent, non narcotic remedy that clears phlegm and soothes inflamed bronchial membranes. It urges asking a druggist for a bottle with a money back guarantee if it does not quickly ease the cough.
New York stock market showed buying interest with steadier trends among leaders. International Silver touched multi year highs with up to nine point gains. Farnsworth Television, Pilco, Radio Corp, National Power & Light, and J C Penney rose on a 3 for 1 split proposal. Major movers included General Motors, Chrysler, Bethlehem, Eastern Air Lines, Boeing, Northern Pacific, Montgomery Ward, American Water Works, and International Harvester. Weak performers included U S Steel, Santa Fe, Southern Pacific, Goodrich, United Aircraft, Johns Manville, Du Pont, General Electric, American Telephone, Anaconda and Kennecott. Bonds and commodities were mixed.
Cotton futures rose by five cents per bale but settled lower by cents in a volatile New York session on November 29.
Batavia Java Nov 20 The British command announced the complete occupation of Soerabaja the Java naval base city scene of fighting between Indonesian Nationalists and British Indian troops A local administration is now under British control. Military actions continued south of Soerabaja with 12 Indonesian guns knocked out yesterday At Bandung 75 miles southeast of Batavia General in command talks with Soetardjo the West Java governor British issued an ultimatum threatening to shoot Indonesians in the northern Bandung zone and restricted civilian movement near posts
The reconversion process accelerates with 50 000 units per day cleared for peace work. Most plants are ready within 60 days of request and two thirds within 40 days. He cites 27 billion in war contracts cancelled since Japan's surrender and notes one third settled among 122 000 cancelled contracts.
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