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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1948
Page
1
President Truman heads to Oklahoma for a major speech on communism as House committee denounces administration handling of espionage probes. Dewey campaigns through the northwest while Warren and Wallace level sharp critiques amid Berlin tensions and national power concerns.
Raleigh report quotes I W Duggan, governor of the farm credit administration, arguing price supports prevent higher consumer prices. He notes farm costs rose faster than city living from 1935-39 to June 1, 1948, and that without supports farmers would not have produced as much, raising food costs for shoppers.
Most grades on the flue-cured markets rose with strong demand. The eastern North Carolina belt led gains with leaf and smoking leaf up 1 to 4 dollars per hundred. Old belt prices strengthened with few declines amid broad increases. The middle belt showed most grades advancing with similar gains.
John E. McCaw of Indianapolis told an International Convention of Disciples of Christ that youth are not educated but trained. He warned against selecting business or science over the pulpit and urged diligent college pursuit for ministerial timber.
James C. Hall a 26 year old construction worker was held without bond on a murder charge after a coroner s jury linked him to the pistol wound that killed Miss Josephine Porter 22 of Franklin Kentucky. Testimony included an 11 year old girl Cecile Bullard who said Hall fired the shot Hall denied the killing claiming Porter shot herself Detective Sgt B E Murray said witnesses reported Hall and Porter had lived together for more than a year
On the campaign train to Texas and Oklahoma City President Truman heard a dire assessment from Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith. Smith said relations with Russia were never more critical and warned of a continuing blockade threat while stressing firmness and patience to avoid war.
Paris reports defense chiefs from five Western Alliance nations meet with U S and Canadian observers to speed up joint programs and coordinate permanent plans amid East West tensions. UK Belgium Netherlands Luxembourg represented with A V Alexander Col Raoul De Fraiteur W E Schokking M Dupong.
Baltimore, Sept 28 A federal suit seeks 50 000 damages from Whittaker Chambers for defaming Alger Hiss by alleging he was a Communist party member The suit cites testimony before the House committee on un American activities and a Meet The Press broadcast as the basis for the claim Hiss denies the assertions and Chambers defends his remarks from Westminster Maryland
London dispatch reports Yugoslavia will no longer represent Albania in 16 countries and will stop handling Albanian repatriation from Germany and Austria. The move follows a split dating to Albania denouncing Yugoslavia in the Cominform era.
The Western North Carolina conference halted plans for a youth camp on the Lelia Tuttle estate in Burke County due to an inadequate water supply. The rejection followed the education board’s report presented by Rev. Carl King, with Bishop Harrell presiding and sessions adjourned after a busy annual conference agenda.
Fort Bragg reports the death of Pfc. William A. McDonald a purple heart veteran with five campaigns. He died in a Fort Bragg hospital from a careless discharge by another soldier in a recreation room. The corporal fired a .45 caliber pistol the bullet ricocheted off a ceiling hitting McDonald in the head. McDonald was a paratrooper with the 82nd airborne division from Butler Pennsylvania.
Dr. C Charles Burlingame urges a housecleaning in psychiatry with clearer separation of hypothesis from fact and warns against viewing sex as life’s core. He opposes the love starvation theory and excessive focus on sex in emotional troubles. Dr Wingate M Johnson cautions about overdoing exercise after 40 and emphasizes recreation in later life.
The article questions Stalin's control over his lieutenants after the August Moscow meeting. It notes Sokolovsky's demands to control transport in Berlin after lifting the blockade, opposing the four-power accord. Western powers sought Stalin's orders, Moscow refused, and the matter shifted toward UN Security Council action.
Senator Alben W. Barkley urged dissident Dixie Democrats in Asheville to back nominees of the Democratic convention Harry S. Truman for president and Barkley for vice president. He warned a split vote would aid the Republicans and cited past Hoover era as a cautionary example.
Paris dispatch says France urged the United Nations to end the Soviet blockade of Berlin after Western powers failed to gain goodwill in talks with Moscow. Schuman and U.S. and British officials planned identical notes to Trygve Lie, while warning of a potential Soviet surprise as the Security Council meets. He urged a democratic Germany to rejoin the family of nations.
Paul Ruedemann and George Bannantine claim Hungarian economic police coerced them into signing statements accusing them of sabotage at Standard Oil Hungary. Expelled after seven days of questioning, they say authorities threatened to act if they did not comply and denied all charges. They endured days of isolation and near starvation during lengthy interrogations.
An ambulance inbound from Duke hospital collided with a car near Kinston yesterday injuring D. H. Cole about 61 of Jacksonville. Doctors at Memorial General hospital reported a severe cut over the right eye a concussion and other injuries.
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