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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1950
Page
2
The King spoke of continued efforts for world peace while warning of renewed dangers and the need for rearmament. He outlined plans to nationalize sugar industry parts, grant permanent price and production controls, reform 99 year lease laws, strengthen civil defense, and boost home food production as part of a broad national program.
Red Fleet reports Russia’s army and navy are being strengthened due to danger of a new war from capitalist encirclement. It says growth of the country’s economic might accompanies a strengthening military power of the socialist state.
Tokyo dispatch reports Royal Air Force weather experts forecast cold air for United Nations forces in Korea next month with snow and ice. Minimum temperatures may drop to the low forties, and the cold is expected to continue through January.
Lane resigns as Democratic national committeeman clearing the way for Maryland Democratic committee to appoint George P. MaHoney. MaHoney, Lane’s primary rival, polled more votes than the governor but lost the nomination under Maryland’s county unit system. In New York Frank Gannett calls for Dewey retirement, says he won’t back Lynch or Dewey. Dewey declines to engage, saying citizens may hold differing opinions in a free country.
GREENSBORO Oct 31 Up Western Electric has leased North Carolina's Pomona Mills near Greensboro to manufacture electronic equipment for the armed forces. About 2,000 employees will man the new Greensboro operations as part of a sale to Guilford Investment Corp. The firm leased the property to Western Electric, with Kemp C. Clendenin handling the transaction. Western Electric now employs about 2,500 in Winston-Salem and 1,700 in Burlington. expansion follows a boost in national rearmament demand and will require substantial renovations before starting.
Jno Boettiger, former publisher of the Post-Intelligencer and, later, the Arizona Times, died after an overdose of sleeping medicine at the Weylin Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. He had been living in North Hollywood and had remarried Virginia Daly Lunn after a 1947 divorce from Anna Boettiger. Elliott Roosevelt notified his mother, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, of the tragedy. Police found two notes in Boettiger’s room. one unreadable, the other to his wife.
Wilson NC October 31 record payout for the season amounting to 46,231,481.32 dollars for 80,314,354 pounds of tobacco sold at the local market. Sales Supervisor Alton B. Boswell reported an average of 57.42 dollars per hundred pounds.
In Peoria Illinois a man is in serious condition after a bullet wound to the head. The injury occurred when his father in law mistook him for a squirrel during an incident on October 31. The event is being investigated by local authorities.
Alfred Hewitt aged 40 from Elizabeth City North Carolina sustained severe burns when a 36 foot cabin cruiser caught fire in the Deep Creek canal near Deep Creek last night. He was hospitalized in Portsmouth with his condition described as fair today.
During Phillip of Orleans era in the 16th century a long strip of muslin was adapted into a tie. It was sewn onto the shirt rather than wrapped around enparreek, reflecting a simple yet distinctive accessory choice.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky previewed a harsh anti Lie tirade to be delivered from the assembly rostrum, labeling Lie a two faced tool of the United States and urging against extending his term. An unused portion of the sisal plant is now yielding a soil improving building block material.
American forces press toward Sinuiju from Chongju, with Sonchon seized at noon and six miles advanced. British Commonwealth troops took Kusong after heavy fighting, while US First Cavalry Division moved to aid the shattered ROK Sixth and Eighth divisions regrouping near Kujang and Tokchon.
The Navy said two American destroyers and carrier planes from Valley Forge Leyte Sicily and Bacdong Strait are providing gun fire support as Marines mop up Korean Reds near Kojo on Korea's east coast.
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