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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1952
Page
7
Washington reports hundreds of complaints as rent decontrol spreads to about 900 cities and towns. Tenants allege landlords retaliate with large hikes, evictions, and unfair treatment while officials warn many cases are unusual and no trend is yet clear.
United Nations dispatch reports the U S view that Russia has not responded to behind the scenes appeals for a Korean armistice. American sources say attempts in New York and Moscow over eight months yielded no result. Acheson outlined U N positions, emphasizing that peace cannot be bought at honor's expense and detailing three key points on Korean negotiations.
A collage of showbiz chatter mentions Winchell Tavern and a six martini stare joke, Jane Froman and USA Canteen, Nat King Cole’s Capitol disc Faith Can Mountains, Duke Ellington and Rodgers and Hammerstein era projects, Broadway salons, and assorted celebrity mischief. It notes theater plans, hotel decor for the Trumans, Harlem church conversion of Lafayette Theater, fashion and dolls, literary jabs at Hemingway, and late night talk about Josephine Baker and Carol a’s daddy controversy.
United Press surveys show registration records shattered across states for the November 4 presidential election. Officials foresee 55 to 60 million ballots, with weather potentially pushing above 80 million voters in the 1952 race. Census data note 98.4 million civilians are eligible to vote, though many miss state requirements.
Washington officials monitor heating oil stocks for the East Coast using degree-day measurements to predict consumption. If weather turns colder than normal, demand could rise and trigger shortages despite higher refinery output and raised oil ceilings.
Sen Wayne Morse, breaking from Republicans, calls Eisenhower’s Korea visit a cheap grandstand play. Morse notes top military officials, including Vandenberg Collins Fechteler Bradley Pace Finletter Rosenberg, studied Korea closely and that Acheson and MacArthur testimony undercuts the withdrawal aim. He argues the move won’t affect war ends and signals political drama.
Panmunjom Korea Oct 25 United Nations said nine prisoners were injured near a work details camp when they resisted orders. Gen Nam Il protested to Lt Gen Harrison and claimed responsibility, calling for accountability for alleged war crimes.
Henry Wandschneider 72 sued the estate of David Raguet 65 in Eden Prairie Minnesota claiming 17 years of work yielded only 4000 dollars and meals of pancakes as pay Judge James Kehoe heard the case with the administrator John Raguet noting board and room were provided Wandschneider insists pancakes were his daily breakfast for 17 years and he sought a raise.
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