Brief Review Of State, National And World News During The Past Week
OPEN DOOR POLICY
MAY BE RUSSIA’S
Paris — Russia reportedly left
the “door open” Saturday for a
settlement of the Berlin dispute
as Secretary of State George C.
Mashall prepared to leave for
Washington to report to Presi
dent Truman.
J. Daskevich, chief aid to So
viet Deputy Foreign Minister
Andrei Vishinsky handed to Ar
gentine Foreign Minister Juan
A. Rramuglia Russia’s reply to a
questionnaire on the Berlin cur
rency issue. The replies of the
Western powers are expected
by tomorrow.
Details of the Soviet answer
were not disclosed, but informed
sources said it “leaves the door
open.”
Marshall will leave for the
United States this week end to
inform President Truman of de
velopments in the United Na
tions and brief him on the world
situation generally.
This will be Marshall’s second
trip back to Washington since he
came to Paris for the opening of
the United Nations General As
sembly, Sept. 21. Although he
may change his mind. American
delegation sources do not expect
him to return to Paris because
the Assembly is now scheduled
to close by Dec. 11.
Marshall's future role in
American foreign affairs may be
decided in his conference with
President Truman.
A crowded carrot patch must
be thinned if you want a good
crop of carrots. The same thing
applies to trees.
Total cotton ginnings in the
United States up to November
1, amounted to 10.423.000 bales
or about 69 per cent of the ex
pected harvest.
EUROPE WORKING ON
ATLANTIC AGREEMENT
London — The Western Eu
ropean Alliance is working away
on a rough draft of a North At
lantic defense pact for presenta
tion to Washington before Presi
dent Truman’s State of the Un
ion address.
Reports without official con
firmation circulated in diplomat
ic quarters that the representa
tives of the five countries—Bri
tain, France, Belgium, The Ne
therlands and Luxemburg—have
accepted a French proposal that
the defensive partnership with
Canada and the United States
should last for 50 years.
Responsible diplomatic officials
reported the State Department,
in informal exchanges with rep
resentatives of the alliance coun
tries, tentatively has set May 1,
as a target for the document’s
final acceptance by Congress.
TAXICAB DRIVER KILLS
WIFE, MOTHER, HIMSELF
Kokomo, Ind. — A Kokomo
taxicab driver shot and killed
his wife and his mother in a ho
tel room Saturday and then took
his own life, the police reported.
Captain Francis Fisher of the
Kokomo Police Department said
the bodies of Harold E. Fouse,
32; his wife, Mary, 26 and Fouse’s
mother, Mrs. Nellie Jackson,
about 57, were found in the room
shortly after 11: a. m.
Captain Fisher said police were
summoned by hotel employees
when they heard shots in the
room. The officer said it was a
case of double murder and sui
cide. A .38 calibre revolver from
which five shots had been fired
was lying beside Fouse's body.
The nation has 33 million full
time homemakers.
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W. W. Walker, Sly
Officially Opens Christmas Seal Sale
In his bright red pajamas, Francis Louis Lambe, Jr.,
four-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Louis Lambe,
of 1206 Books Avenue. Raleigh, North Carolina, offi
cially opened the 1948 Christmas Seal Sale by selling the
first sheet of seals to the Givernor. R. Gregg Cherry.
Governor Cherry officially proclaimed November 22 to
December 25 as the period for the 42nd Annual Chist
mas Seal Sale and urged all North Carolinians to give
full support to the campaign.
18 Billion Dollar Construction
Program Seen For 1949
Washington — A forecast of
a materials and labor supply
large enough to sash in the
building boom and provide SI8.
1 in.:1' '.enti irth of new con
struction in lltl'l war i'suerl by
the Producers' Council. Ine.
The national organization of
building supply manufacturers
issued its l'orega 1 as the Govern
ment reported there housing de
velopments:
1. The new Federal "yield in
surance” program, intended to
attract large - scale investors in
to the moderate - rental housing
field, was set in motion by the
Federal Housing Administration.
2. The Office ot the Housing
Expediter. ploughing through
complaints of overcharges and
other violations on 64,000 prior
ity - built veterans’ homes, fore
cast completion of its job by Ap
ril. A total of $15,000,000 in al
legedly improper charges is in
volved.
The Producers’ Council said
most materials will be “ample”
for the $18,100,000,000 worth of
new building and $7,000,000,000
worth of repair and maintenance
work forecast for next year.
This would mean a volume of
building, of all types, about e
qual to this year’s, with a pos
sible drop in housing construc
tion but an increase in highway
and other public works jobs. A
Commerce Department industry
committee has estimated that this
year's dwelling construction will
run to 1.200.000 units, including
farm homes.
In iron and steel, the council’s
estimate said. "The outlook is
complicated by the unknown ex
tent and character of the defense
program.” But the report added:
"Unless the armament require
ment is much over that now an
ticipated, iron and steel products
| should be at least as plentiful
WRIGHTS’ FIRST PLANE
IS NOW BACK IN U. S.
Bayonne, N. J. — The Wright
Brothers’ historic plane this
week came home to the soil over
which it first carried man in sus
tained flight.
The famous “Kitty Hawk” had
been away a long time — 20
years in England — because of
an argument.
But the return—though amid
the gray gloom of a foggy day
—was attended by pomp and
splendor befitting the queen of
the sky that the Kitty Hawk be
came one day 45 years ago.
The time-renowned craft trav
eled this time aboard the 13,000
ton carrier Palau, on whose
decks, 24 Corsair planes formed
a guard of honor.
Another guard of marines and
sailors stood by as the plane,
packed in three wooden crates,
two of which originally were
built by Orville Wright, were
taken from the ship.
Thus the Kitty Hawk—which
first flew over the North Caro
lina sand dunes—returned to the
land of its origin.
Floods on main rivers usually
occur during the winter and
early spring, but floods on small
streams are more likely during
the summer. |
for construct inn as lias been the
case during 1
BUCK, CADILAC ARE
I GOING TO COST MORE
I Detroit — The Buick and Cad
illas divisions of General Mo
tors Corporation announced price
increases ranging from $50 to
; $112 on all 1949 model cars.
The increases, general through
out the industry for 1949 models,
made the cost of the least expen
' sive Buick, a two-door special
sedanette, $1,665, a boost of $50
over tne previous 104tf price.
Cadillacs ranged in the new
price schedule from $2,840 for
the 61 series club coupe to $5,
253 for the seven - passenger 75
Imperial sedan.
Dynaflow transmissions, wind
shield washers, and dual back
up lights were installed as stand
ard equipment on Roadmaster
series Buicks. They were sold as
optional equipment on 1948 cars.
The most expensive Buick
was priced at $3,550 for the Road
master dynaflow estate wagon,
an increase of $345 over the 1948
price.
Auction Sat., Of
Burnside Estate
The historic Burnside proner
ty, owned by Robert G. Lassiter,
i owner of the Ore Knob property,
will be sold at auction Novem
ber 27, it was announced this
week.
During the Civil War this pro
perty belonged to the family of
Mary Pincknev Hardy MacAr
thur. mother of General Douglas
Mac Arthur.
This property is located 12
miles from Henderson and con
tains over 1700 acres.
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