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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1948
Page
1
Reports say Suchow defenders ordered to retreat south toward Nanking to aid main government forces. Communist forces totaling about half a million push from Suchow toward Suhsien and Pengpu as the capital region's battle tightens.
An Associated Press report notes concerns about eye water products used by residents in Carolina. The piece outlines health effects, regulatory responses, and community inquiries into product safety and labeling practices.
Heavy rains swollen rivers in Georgia Alabama and Tennessee forced hundreds from homes and damaged crops and property with losses in the hundreds of thousands. Forecasters expected more rain in the Carolinas while clearing skies were promised tonight and tomorrow.
An Associated Press survey of six regional areas shows mixed signals. While some sectors show weakness such as department store declines and layoffs in New England and the Middle Atlantic, others report growth with rising employment in the Southwest and Southeast. Construction, paper and chemicals lead gains, while food costs ease in 16 southeastern cities. Agricultural cash receipts across six states total more than 2.03 billion dollars for the first nine months of 1948, about 125 million higher than a year earlier.
In Brooklyn a four year old, Ronnie Sue Moskowitz, devises a wealth split as parents Stan ie and his wife cope with missing funds. She pilfers five dollar bills from daddy’s bankroll and discards valuables, while the maid dumps trash into an incinerator where two diamond rings valued at 1500 dollars are burned but later recovered by police. The father, a multi store proprietor, plans to have rings appraised to assess the loss.
Raleigh reports 1949 license plates in black on orange will go on sale Wednesday at 63 state offices. Motor Vehicles Commissioner Lannion C. Rosser expects about 1,000,000 plates sold in the coming year amid 955,000 registrations this year. Motorists should keep registration cards for easy purchase and show them at mechanical inspections next year. 1948 tags must be retired by January 31, 1949.
Argentine Foreign Minister Bramuglia says he has sent a new three point formula to the Big Four to end the Berlin blockade. The plan calls for an expert commission to study the currency issue and a council recommended lift of the blockade with Soviet mark as Berlin’s sole currency. Timing and six power support remain unresolved.
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus leaves Miami after a four day engagement to winter headquarters in Sarasota. The circuses season ends with a 293 mile run bringing total miles traveled to 19 513 for the year.
Madame Chiang Kai-shek arrives in Washington to press a new push for U S aid to China. Officials say the State Department will show courtesy but privately doubt the mission's impact and fear embarrassing Chiang Kai-shek while seeking ways to deter a Communist conquest of China.
A British government source says the western European alliance has presented a draft defense pact with the United States and Canada. Washington talks will begin soon. the document is a working paper open to revision. Officials note a treaty submission to the Senate in January is unlikely.
Washington officials insist military spending stay at the 15 billion dollar cap set by President Truman. Advisors urge caution to avoid inflationary shocks. Nourse warns levels above 18 to 20 billion could trigger economic repercussions.
The Phi Kappa Psi executive council upheld the Amherst college chapter suspension for taking in Thomas W. Gibbs a Negro student from Evanston Illinois amid disputes within the fraternity. Gibbs and other pledges were initiated after the suspension was ordered for unfraternal conduct.
In Gaylord Michigan on November 7 a probate judge will escort three children to the James Decker Munson hospital in Traverse City for psychiatric evaluation after they admitted firing on and killing 66 year old Arthur King of Vanderbilt. Richard Damer 13 Harry Damer 10 and Robert Black 12 are linked to the shooting. Harry admits firing the fatal shot while the others say they shot at King and missed.
President Truman and his labor advisers begin shaping the new administration policy with a focus on repealing the Taft Hartley Act and drafting a new labor law. A team of Labor Department attorneys prepared a report for Truman's January state of the union message, outlining priorities for Congress.
AP analyst Dewitt Mackenzie notes eight percent of Britons think the United States remains a colony. He cites British misconceptions about American geography, Indians, and culture, contrasts US and UK views, and suggests international educational courses to improve mutual understanding between allies.
In Charlotte on Sunday three hundred amateur radio hob byists from a three state area will witness the first live television broadcast demonstration. A U S Army Signal Corps team from Fort Bragg will operate with special receiving gear and orthicon cameras mounted on army jeeps roaming the city. Reps Everett L Battey and Col H L Caviness are expected to attend and speak.
Betty Grable will be absent from filming after straining a back muscle during a scene with Cesar Romero. The studio says she must rest for a few days, delaying weighty lifting scenes while she recovers.
Six crew members and guests were saved from a dinghy four miles offshore when the $125,000 yacht Tennesee sank after explosions and flames. Owner H C Fownes 58 and fiance Mrs Edith Forrest 36 were aboard with four other men. all survived after hospital treatment for exposure.
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