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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1945
Page
6
Continued clear conditions across North Carolina with slightly cooler temperatures today and tonight. Frost is likely in the west and central portions, with temperatures then rising Sunday.
All major security exchanges and most commodity markets suspended operations to honor Navy Day. The Chicago Board of Trade stayed open along with grain markets in the northwest due to the seasonal grain run. Livestock markets usually open on Saturdays also remained open.
In Chicago on October 27, salable cattle estimated at 200 with 500 unseen. Market shows steers and yearlings firm near 18.00 top, weights from 828 to 1400 pounds. good to low-choice cattle uneven, many loads moved, fat heifers steady near 18.00, grassers 14.50, bulk fed 15.00-17.50. Cows steady, beef cows 9.25-12.25, bulls up to 14.00 on heavy stock. Slaughter calves 25-50 higher to 13.50. western grass cattle about 2500 head, mostly cows and stockers.
Chicago grain markets report no cash wheat corn or oats. Barley malting 1.21 to 1.39 per unit while feed barley 1.07 to 1.23. Field seed per cwt lists timothy 5.25 to 5.50, red top 11.00 to 11.50, red clover 31.50, sweet clover 10.75, alsike 28.50, alfalfa 33.50 to 36.50.
The writer argues that war over Soviet influence is not inevitable and urges calm leadership and practical compromise. He notes the disappearance of Germany and Italy reshapes power, warns of hunger and political strain in Europe, but insists adjustments can prevent conflict.
The speech enumerates key aims for postwar order including self determination, open seas, free trade, collective security, and the creation of a United Nations to preserve peace. President Truman asserts this foreign policy will guide the United States as it faces the future.
Walter Winchell notes seasonal shift as August ends and autumn coolness arrives in Manhattan. The column lists social scenes and figures including H Morgenthau at the Stork, Hank Greenberg, Eddie Foy Jr, Joan Crawford, a Seegar shop clerk, and Russell Patterson, highlighting celebrity sightings and entertainment events.
In the 66 Club in the Village Joe Frisco and Ken Roberts chat with Frisco quipping he avoided the debating team for being too tall. A newlywed couple faces a playful crowd as Louis Prima jokes about the duration of the bout. In the Pennsy stationmaster’s office portraits fill a wall once from autographed figures, and a tourist is allowed to glimpse a huge book of photos there.
The article reports on congressional consideration of anti strike measures and potential embarrassment to the national labor-management peace conference starting November 5. It notes the federal conciliation service finding near normal strike activity by late October and references President Truman’s wage price policy to be announced on a radio address. Senator Murray proposes an income tax penalty on firms refusing collective bargaining and mediation offers to unions, limiting tax provisions that offset losses.
A collage of Broadway and club world gossip recalls Martha Raye and Nick Condos stuck for hotel space with Spivy, Rose Heitner’s marriage, and abbott of showbiz chatter. Monikers, records, and promotions mingle with zany anecdotes and sharp quips from Manhattan nights.
Conferees set a $5 billion atom program while Senator McMahon, the freshman Democrat from Connecticut, is named chairman of the new atomic committee. His appointment by Senator McKellar, president pro tempore, follows tradition though some seniors feel bypassed. The others named to the group include Johnson, Connally, Russell, Byrd, Tydings, Vandenberg, Milliken, Austin, Rickenlooper, and Hart.
At Fort Lewis Washington Corporal Forrest Green a medical soldier with a long army career is about to drop his two stripes for the rank of civilian Mister Green will still be known as General Green in civilian life despite the retirement.
Bill Holroyd reports a hunting trip with three friends in Mullens West Virginia. Henry Agee had a nightmare and jumped through a window while Joe Hayden fell in a river. Wendell Cook was attacked by pull. Bag was four squirrels. Separately, a home and home football series between California and Notre Dame is confirmed by graduate manager Clint Evans.
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