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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1945
Page
4
A.W.S. urges High Point to stop piecemeal fixes and pursue a long term traffic program. He notes bridge projects alone won t solve congestion and stresses extending streets widening interchanges and eliminating intersection hazards to disperse north south traffic.
Chancellor Jack son notes the six month span since last March reshaped the globe. Germany and Japan defeated. nations form a world governing body seeking law over force. Roosevelt and Churchill exit power as Stalin faces retirement, marking a shift to communism and nuclear age.
Fred English acting Madison County clerk sues about fifty thousand dollars for political mistreatment in a long, bitter dispute with Democrats. The 1941 leave of absence statute and wartime vacancies sparked contests led by Judge Nettles and Johnson, with English resisting transfer of office and later suing Johnson Brigman Snelson and Free for damages.
Lynn Nisber man E Y Ponder and Alvin Dockery faced $25 000 actual and $25 000 punitive damages claims alleging a conspiracy to embarrass the plaintiff. The March 1945 term before Judge Rousseau saw a motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction overruled, with the high court ruling that English acted as clerk de facto and his summons valid.
The matter goes back to Madison superior court for trial on its merits with a jury to decide if English was damaged fifty thousand dollars or another amount. The central issue is the long time fight by Madison Republicans for local self government and partisan tensions color the proceedings.
The International Training Administration ITA grew from a wartime program into a nonprofit cooperative that brings Latin American and other foreign trainees to the United States for up to two years of practical work training. Trainees receive about 150 dollars monthly, learn American daily life, and are processed through state department immigration and labor channels before entering U.S. factories and offices.
The ITA program places Ivan, Jose or Wang with American firms for two years to learn by doing and living in the United States. They receive about 150 dollars monthly to cover expenses and report back to ITA and their sponsors. After completion they return home to promote American practices and possibly become foreign agents or service directors. Elliott S. Hanson leads the cooperative ITA, expanding foreign trade and cultural ties.
Internal fights within the Office of Price Administration delayed a brick price and wage settlement, prompting resignations at a housing conference. Brickmakers sought a ten percent price rise to fund a fifteen percent wage hike, with broader costs affecting public buildings and veterans hospitals marginal. Key officials including Karl Mathiason quit or were forced out as a loosened stance emerged led by Economic Stabilizer William H. Davis.
Paul Mallon Morgenthau Jr notes the fixed rate of fifty francs per dollar hurts American occupation troops and muddles policy. He argues the franc should be valued around one half of one cent to reflect market realities and reduce hardship on soldiers and U.S. manufacturers.
A collage of humorous and sharp notes from wartime era public life. Jests about Churchill flight, FDR’s politics, and spies sit beside roundups of press lore in New York and Paris.
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