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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1945
Page
2
The forecast calls for warm conditions today and tonight into Tuesday with scattered thunderstorms in the western portion Tuesday afternoon. No significant hazards expected.
The Senate row over General MacArthur's Japan occupation plan escalated as critics including Wherry and Chandler attacked Acheson's remarks. Acheson defended the policy, noting occupation decisions are made in Washington, not in Tokyo. Barkley called a recess as the White House released a lengthy occupation policy statement addressing the controversy.
Modest upturns appeared in today’s trading for select stocks led by Eastern Airlines Du Pont Goodyear Montgomery Ward Lehigh Coal Navigation North American and Kennecott with others like General Motors Chrysler U S Steel Bethlehem Pacific Gas and Electric Sears Roebuck U S Rubber Anacon da Standard Oil NJ J I Case General Electric and Westinghouse also noted. Potatoes show balanced arrivals and steady quality with Idaho russets and several regional varieties priced across U S No 1 ranges. Cotton futures eased slightly with nearby Oct Dec and Mar contracts posting small declines from earlier levels.
In New York on Sept 24 rumors circulated that print cloth ceiling prices would be raised while moderate sales of sheetings mainly to the bag trade were completed in the cotton textile market.
Hog receipts about 3 000 with total 6 500, barrows and gilts at 14.75, sows at 14.00. Cattle salable 20 000 to 21 000, calves 1 500, fed steers and yearlings steady, best steers 18.00, bulls steady, vealers scarce at 15.00, stock cattle firm to higher, practical top heavy sausage bulls 12.00, fat bulls 13.25.
The article discusses Russia rising as a dominant eastern power while Germany and Italy are sidelined and France weakened. It notes the resulting disorder, new vacuum centers, and the complex competition of spheres of influence among Soviet, British, and other interests, urging cautious postwar diplomacy. It also includes unrelated home tips on nutrition and drying shoes.
Secretary Henry Wallace told a University of Chicago group that the federal budget can be balanced by 1950 while pursuing full employment and production. He urged businesses to set sales goals and favored expanding foreign trade, suggesting a seven billion dollar trade increase could add three to four million jobs.
Rubin reported that at least 1 cent of six Chrysler locals favored strike in Sunday ballots. The six units cover 60,000 workers, about half of Chrysler's total. Chrysler officials confirmed the meeting date, with Conder to lead the management delegation. Ford and GM locals also moved toward strike preliminaries, while Kelsey Hayes wheel workers near end of a month-long dispute.
The council delegates defer the Hungarian peace talks as Molotov protests based on a Potsdam understanding. Moscow fears Frances and China aligning with the US and Britain, while the core issue of spheres of influence remains the major unresolved point.
New York report confirms Associated Press correspondent Witt Hancock drowned when Japanese dive bombers sank the refugee ship Pee Lee Bras in the Indian Ocean on March 7, 1942. He and William Meae were the only Americans aboard. Hancock had previous Raleigh bureau ties in North Carolina.
New potatoes have smoother skins and less starch than old potatoes and are ideal for boiling creamed mashed and fried dishes.
Captain A William Cook of Alexandria, La., recalls a distant army rescue mission. Twenty one American soldiers and sailors freed from Karachi describe beatings, starvation, solitary confinement and death threats. Seaman Harold Justice, 24, from Nigh, Kentucky, reports worms in rice and disguised meat rations.
The Jeep shifts from military to civilian use with the Universal Jeep featuring cosmetic and mechanical upgrades. It gains an ivory paint finish improved springs seat cushions and optional heater and front and rear stops for peacetime tasks.
A Polish Jewish survivor testified at a Nazi trial in LUENBERG detailing how 3,000 women at Oswiecim were stripped and selected for a Christmas Day gas chamber massacre. She named commandant Hessler and others, describing rail and crematorium killings and executions of a teen girl by Ilse Forster.
Officials say U S aims to reshape Japan by dissolving war leadership and eight great monopolies, liberalizing politics, and demilitarizing education but warns changes will come gradually during the occupation.
Cuba remains the outstanding sugar producer and former exporter in Latin America, supplying more than half of the region’s total production.
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