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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1948
Page
2
A House committee approves a measure to draft men into the armed forces. The analysis notes hopes for a Palestine agreement and discusses ethics amid wartime policy debates. Bill Schoentgen supplies the column with the Union’s analysis.
The House Armed Services Committee approved a draft bill to raise total military manpower to 2,005,882 with 18 to 30 year olds registering and 19 to 25 liable for two years. Veterans mostly exempt, but some must register. Seizure of plants for war priorities possible. Senate may combine universal training with draft, complicating passage.
The U S Supreme Court held that enforcing racial or religious restrictive covenants in real estate violates the 14th Amendment. Chief Justice Vinson explained such covenants become mere scraps of paper as courts cannot uphold them. Covenants restrict buyers and tail from 25, 50 year terms to perpetuity, affecting property across the nation.
A Northwestern National Life Insurance report notes inflation affects frauds and victims alike. Charity solicitors now seek $10 to $25 donations and benefit dance tickets run higher than prewar prices, with organizers taking up to 90 percent of gifts.
A Washington column urges voluntary aid to European children as the European recovery plan proceeds slowly. It highlights the Crusade for Children and ICEF efforts, noting dire conditions, high infant mortality, and the need for private humanitarian action to supplement government relief.
Color sketches of seven inch bird designs to be embroidered on towels pillows and cloths include kingfisher red headed woodpecker bluejay robin oriole cardinal and two brown sparrows. Order pattern 6191 with 20 cents and name address pattern number. Some delays due to high demand.
The May 28 commemorative stamp honors four chaplains on the 1943 Dorchester torpedoing. Protestant George L. Fox and Clark V. Poling, Father John P. Ryan, and Rabbi Alexander G. Goode gave their life belts and prayed together as the ship sank, saving others.
Winona Green Sprigg, long a notorious Arkansas prisoner, ordered returned to the state women's prison to complete a life term for murder. State parole officer W. P. Ball said the furlough was revoked after her arrest in Muskogee Oklahoma on bad check charges.
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