19 Sep 1949
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1949
Page
1
Britain cuts the pound by 30 percent to $2.80, aiming to boost dollar earnings and fix a financial crisis. Nine other nations follow with devaluations, hoping to sell more to America and improve trade balances as Canada plans a parliamentary statement tonight.
In Anderson South Carolina on September 19 an elderly man Stenton Isaac Shore aged 73 was beaten in his home on Saturday by a man named Nerman Moore 28 who has been arrested without charge. Shore refused hospital care and collapsed on the way home his body found by a newspaper carrier boy an inquest was scheduled today and sheriff Clint McClain said Moore fought Shore Saturday.
The government moved to avert a looming million man steel strike next Sunday. CIO Steelworkers head Philip Murray and U S Steel President Benjamin Fairless remain at odds over a proposed 10 cent package from a presidential fact finding board. Cyrus S. Ching of the Federal Conciliation Service met with both sides to press a settlement as President Truman weighs further intervention.
Russell B. Maxey, a former University of South Carolina professor, may be sentenced today after a jury convicted him of burglary with intent to murder. Judge T B Greneker indicated a range from five years to life. Ann B Pierce, 35, a brunette divorcee, was beaten Aug 3 in her suburban home, receiving over 100 stitches.
Four people died in North Carolina over the weekend in violent incidents. Durham druggist Robert James Crumpler, 25, was fatally injured when his car was hit near Roseboro and he was run over by an oncoming vehicle. Mary Lee Harris, 22, of Richmond, Virginia, was stabbed to death in Thomasville with Raymond Thomas, 22, charged with murder. Ernest Lee Coker, 28, a Charlotte textile worker, died after being thrown from a motorcycle in suburban Charlotte. Elon College student Roger Fogleman, 21, died in a Burlington car crash when a tire blew and his convertible struck a curb.
Chapel Hill reporter notes Dr. Gilbert Walker of the University of Birmingham endorses devaluation as a path to cheaper British exports and cites benefits to global trade. Walker, guest of Dr. Nicholas Demerath, discusses Fulbright exchanges and predicts a Labour victory in 1950 while lamenting U.S. hesitation to mirror Britain's 1859 economic peak.
U S Peace, an 83 year old farmer missing since Saturday evening, was found conscious in shallow Abbott's Creek water a mile from home near Thomasville. He survived with pneumonia and five broken ribs, transported to City Memorial hospital in grave condition.
Washington news reports Tom Connally of Texas to lead a Senate debate on a 1.314 billion foreign arms program. He expects victory and predicts a four day fight with amendments, including a Georgia senator's push to cut European aid to 300 million while others seek to fund an Atlantic police force under the UN.
A Southern Railway passenger train derailed in Newton injuring around 50 people. The wreck involved six cars and a locomotive, with two Negro cooks reportedly trapped in the diner. victims include Herman Bishop 51 and Dorothy Sherrill two months, with numerous others from Asheville Charlotte High Point and beyond. Rescue teams and hospital resources were stretched as emergencies unfolded.
An American public relations man, William J. Goodwin of Roslyn New York, holds a 25000 dollar yearly contract to sell nationalist China to the United States. He says he aims to win more American money and support for Chiang Kai shek against the communists though he notes expenses eaten into his retainer. He predicts China will receive more than the 75000000 earmarked for Far East aid as debate opens in the Senate.
Angry United Mine Workers members began a walkout to press pension and welfare payments. John L. Lewis leads about 480,000 members toward idle status by nightfall with the slogan No pension no work. Mines in Pennsylvania Ohio and West Virginia shut or threatened as orders circulated from headquarters.
A polio survivor, 30 year old Mrs Dessie Bodenheimer was found beaten near her Thomasville Route 1 home. Deputy Morris says neighbor William Jordan 33 employed at Thomasville Family Laundry is jailed on assault with a blunt instrument charges. The victim remained hospitalized with severe injuries but is expected to survive. A warrant by Bodenheimer’s husband accuses Jordan of delivering the beating.
New York report notes world dollar prices likely fall after the week end devaluation of foreign currencies. Britain cut the pound from 4.03 to 2.80, a 30 percent drop, with other nations possibly following. Prices of foreign goods in the United States could drop but not by the full theoretical amount. The duration of lower prices remains uncertain as American buyers expect cheaper imports in dollars.
Porters vivid account from Newton details a derailment of a Southern railway passenger train with about 50 injured. Arthur Wilson of Charlotte recalls two coworkers killed, Robert Freeman of Salisbury and Herston Longmire of Knoxville, as rescuers struggled seven hours to reach them.
A vigorous New Bern convention of 679 delegates from 74 counties chose Terry Sandford of Fayetteville as president and Eugene Gordon of Burlington to the national committee, signaling fresh leadership for the state Young Democratic Clubs amid preconvention upsets and enduring veteran involvement.
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