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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1945
Page
6
Considerable cloudiness and scattered showers continue today and tonight with warm readings. Cooler conditions arrive in the extreme west tonight, while Sunday brings rain and cooler temperatures across the region.
In Washington labor leaders press a 30 percent pay rise as CIO and oil firm negotiators resume talks to avert a general walkout across eight states. John L. Lewis contends independent action may mobilize up to 400000 soft coal miners. Textile strikes add 46000 CIO workers, with 16000 more delaying. Paterson area dye and print workers join a 15 cent hourly demand.
Edward R. Burke chairing the Southern Coal Producers Association reports to John W. Snyder that operators will talk only after 36 000 strikes resume. Burke with Charles O Neill and Harry H Moses resent all bituminous operators and refuse to surrender supervisory staff to the union. He says 92 percent of the industry is already in the union and foremen remain part of management.
The Globester flew 730 miles from Washington to Bermuda in four hours and 16 minutes. It departed Washington National at 5 p.m. with 2300 gallons of fuel and a light passenger load, refueled briefly at Hamilton, Bermuda, then continued toward the Azores while ATC officials prepared tests for passenger comfort.
Helen Klein, age 18 at her 1942 arrest in Poland, identified 10 prisoners in the dock. She said she was chosen for the gas chamber and begged Franz Hessler to spare her. Hessler told her she had lived long enough and commanded her to a table.
New York stocks pared gains as selling pressure appeared amid a day of mixed results. Industrials posted new highs, while rails and utilities showed fatigue after a sprint, with about 700000 shares traded in two hours and a notable sale of Commonwealth and Southern at 1.0.
New York cotton futures jumped over one dollar per bale as the mid September parity figure rose 13 points signaling a higher government support price next month. New Orleans emerged as a notable buyer of the 1946 delivery amid broad speculative buying and cash demand in the market.
Salable cattle estimated 500 with most categories steady to firm. Choice fed steers and yearlings active while others mostly closed or down. top loads at 18.00, weights 984 to 1440. Fed heifers set a new high 17.75. slaughter bulls 15.50 to 17.85. cows mostly steady to 50 lower. stock cattle strong to 25 higher for light to medium grades.
Killing frost spread overnight through parts of the main corn belt and forecasts called for more, lifting grain futures by over a cent. Wheat advanced 7 to 1 cent, December at $1.1678. oats at $1.72 7/8. corn 7/8 to 1% higher, December $0.65 1/8. rye up 1/4 to 1% cent, December $1.52 1/?. barley up 0 to 1 cent, December $1.12.
Testimony describes the defendant not recognizing a key witness, with few witnesses left for the prosecution. Reading of affidavits into the record is expected to take several days, as the case proceeds.
Allied command urged Japan to run shipyards 24 hours daily to ease shortages. MacArthur ordered end to government control of written and spoken word, halting prior censorship. The home ministry had seized Tokyo and Osaka newspapers after interviews with US correspondents and Mikado photos. 9,797 American troops left Yokohama for San Francisco aboard three transports, mainly from the 443rd division.
Reporters note all five foreign ministers aim for a compromise as the conference nears its final session on Monday. The American delegation drafts the final communique while one source doubts it will meet public expectations. The Soviet embassy in London condemns Western distrust affecting talks.
A rapid review outlines economic and military issues from a postwar Congress. Full employment measures, government job creation as fallback, and tax plans face limits and regime scrutiny. The military side covers army and navy discharges, enlistments, Pearl Harbor, and atomic bomb topics amid tense Senate-House dynamics.
An article proclaims there is no mystery to Soviet policy, saying it is as clear as daylight. It notes 60,000,000 pounds of barium sulfate are imported yearly to the United States for use in paints plastics rubber linoleum and paper.
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