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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1945
Page
2
The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with little temperature change today and tonight. Scattered showers are expected tonight with clearer and cooler conditions on Tuesday.
Two men in a Vance county car, Thomas Moss and Kavan Burwell, were in critical condition after a crash near Henderson. Archie Raymond Jones of Henderson died in a Raleigh area auto truck collision on the Wake Forest highway. Roy Allen Tilley Jr., 19, died in an accidental pistol discharge while examining a firearm with friends. Harald FE Deaver, 14, was killed in a Dix Creek squirrel hunting accident near Canton. investigators call it accidental.
The Supreme Court refused a rehearing on a decision requiring the Associated Press to amend its by laws to curb member admission decisions. A 5 to 3 ruling affirmed that AP restraints on competition violate the Sherman Act. The Chicago Tribune and Robert R. McCormick also sought rehearing, which was denied.
Paris jurors ponder more withdrawals as Laval and defense lawyers withdraw in protest. If all 12 attend day four, only three prosecution witnesses and the summing up remain with no cross examination. Liberation calls the session scandalous and Combat warns of a blow to France’s image of justice.
The interviewee claims crematorium three was already burning upon arrival and that all mutiny participants were shot. He asserts orders for gas chamber selections came from higher authorities at Oswiecim and that doctors chose who to kill. He questions the gas chamber’s morality and names the original gauze fabric's origin in Gaza.
President Truman will travel to Gilbertville Kentucky on Wednesday to dedicate Kentucky Dam the last major TVA flood control navigation and power dam on the Tennessee River. He previously urged seven other TVA projects and will spend time at Reel Foot Lake in West Tennessee enjoying fishing. He closed his Missouri visit with a Pemiscot County Fair speech urging American unity to solve home and foreign crises, vowing not to shirk responsibility in 30 years in public life.
About 60 shoremen in New York and large auto and oil sectors show movement toward work. Ford recalls thousands as 50,000 workers may be back within a week while Hudson Motor Co ends its five week dispute. In Detroit a wave of resumptions eases blockades. Windsor Ford Canada faces plant power shutdowns and picket lines. Industrial action persists in North Carolina and other states with hundreds of mills idle and a nationwide context of war era shifts.
In New York on October 8 stock prices advanced in today's market led by Steels Motors Rails Coppers and Specialties rising fractions to over a point. Major gainers included U S Steel Bethlehem Anaconda Kennecott and Loews at 1945 peaks along with General Motors Chrysler Goodrich Montgomery Ward International Harvester Boeing Grumman Western Union Air Reduction Du Pont Eastman Kodak Philip Morris Santa Fe Baltimore & Ohio Pepsi Cola and Standard Oil New Jersey. Bonds and grains rose while cotton declined.
Potatoes arrivals 305 on track 259 total U S shipments Friday 993 Saturday 11 Sunday 70. New stocks moderate demand moderate market steady for rest stocks. Prices: Russell Burbanks U S No 1 3 35 to 3 45 Colorado Red McClures No 5 No 1 2 75 to 2 85 North Dakota Bliss Triumphs U S No 1 washed 2 25 to 2 35 commercial unwashed 1 75 to 1 85 cobblers 1 75 Wisconsin Bliss 2805 U S No 1 75 peras U S 2 10 to 2 15.
New York cotton quotes show futures up 20 cents a bale at noon, with October at 25.00, December 23.47, and March around 23.52. Noon prices reflect higher day trading while earlier figures imply mixed activity across the board.
Salable hogs 2 500 to 7 500 total with steady demand. Good and choice barrows and gilts near 140 pounds. Sows around 14.00. Cattle 19 000 live cattle and calves 1 500. yearlings and heifers active and steady, cows slow to 15 cents lower, vealers 15.00. Top steers and yearlings at 18.00, fed heifers near 18.00, bulk steers 15.50 to 17.75, bulls 12.35. Northwestern grassers noted, Montana yearlings 14.25, Texas stock cattle 13.25.
Moderate releases of pee cloths and sheetings dominated the cotton textile market with October and November deliveries and some December shifts. Treasury procurement divisions eyed heavy foreign shipments, including inquiries for China, while wool mills accepted limited spring bookings and rayon stayed quiet as converting trades showed high demand for limited October allocations.
The Pearl Harbor inquiry names Gerhard A. Gessell as assistant general counsel for the SEC in the Whitney case. Brig. Gen. Berry says army enlisted men with two years will be discharged next March. Bradley reports 81,266 veterans on unemployment under the GI bill as of September 22 and criticizes regional payment levels. Lucas proposes a joint scientific advisory committee to fast track nuclear legislation, while Vandenberg’s plan awaits House action. Brown seeks press freedom conditions for U S aid and UNRRA funding, and jobless aid faces House hurdles with possible direct floor petition if Ways and Means stalls.
Schwellenbach says foremen push operators to bargain, unions risk 30 percent take home pay loss on a 48 hour week. He aims a test case with the war labor board to signal government price tolerance while wages rise, seeking to avert further walkouts. No specific case or price approval yet.
Senators Hill Walsh and Ferguson voiced broad congressional support for Byrnes opposition to Russia’s demand that the big three decide Europe. They urged Byrnes to share more foreign policy information, and criticized the State Department’s Rio conference veto as a slap at Argentia. Mushrooms contain 90 percent water.
Fred D. Ozment, son of Mr and Mrs V C Ozment of High Point North Carolina, recently graduated from the aviation fire control school in Jacksonville Florida. He entered the navy April 22 1944 and trained at Camp Peary Virginia before transferring to the naval air technical training center. Ozment completed the course as aviation fire controlman third class and will be assigned to an aviation squadron for maintenance of fire control equipment.
The Third Amphibious Corps Headquarters led by Maj. Gen. Keller E. Rockey announced the marines are back in China to restore order rather than intervene in internal disputes. The landing at Chinwangtao targets coal port operations while recalling U S involvement since 1900 and past captures at Tientsin and Peking. The U S expeditionary force will collect weapons and transfer them to the Chinese government as the Japanese surrender approaches. Korea’s 1910 annexation by Japan is noted.
A new cabinet mandates prisoner releases by October 10 and delivery of reports on removing thought police and repealing liberty restricting laws by October 15. Demobilization of remaining Japanese forces in the homeland is nearing completion as nearly 2,000,000 had laid down arms by October 1 and famine fears grow.
The total U.S. potato output for 1945 is estimated at 433000 bushels, versus 379000000 in 1944 and an average 375000000 yearly for 1934–43.
Advertisement touts Cystex as a fast remedy for non-organic kidney and bladder troubles. It claims rapid relief, increased vitality, and a money back guarantee if the empty package is returned. Available in 35, 75, and 156 cent sizes from druggists.
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