European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes february 19 court rebuffs Meyers in move for mistrial 28 Bennett sub or Attoa perjury irial almost broke up in a mistrial yesterday when prosecution informed Hie jury that one of its key witnesses was Beniac in a Washington hotel room for the defences Quick mistrial motion was denied by Federal judge the jurors were instructed to disregard the Ira of the Protection Angle of to triple Pilot training within 2 years 26 the air plans to expand its Pilot training program from to cadets in the next two Robert chief of personnel procurement for the air speaking before a Senate armed forces also asked that pay for aviation cadets be increased from the present monthly to we Are having considerable difficulty acquiring aviation cadets for Pilot he adding that 800 future flying officers Are in the latest class of cadets ant this must be expanded to three classes of cadets each by 1930 Warren said that the present pay of monthly was established in 1919 at what then was equal to the pay of a master sergeant in the a master sergeant draws while the Cadet gets the same pay As a dim out Start in California san 26 California returned to a wartime lighting dim out last night to can serve electric forced by the worst Winter drought emergency in the drastic electricity curtailment will shut off outdoor lighting and reduce Power consumption from the Ore gon Border to the Tehachapi Moun it is estimated people will be Only Southern California will be exempted from the the dam supplies abundant Power to Ttoe Rich agricultural Region South of the the Brown out will continue until Rains restore the states sinking water Solon puts amt second to of 26 Leo Allen ri1l said yesterday that the billions which Universal military training would Cost could better be spent on such tilings As atomic research and the air Allen is chairman of the House rules committee which has re fused thus far to Clear for House action amt legislation approved by the House armed services com former supreme court Justice Owen chairman of the National Security recently criticized Allen and his committee for keeping the Bill bottled Hollywood fire 26 win whipped fire destroyed a lumber Yard and a Hal dozen damaged a movie set and sent scores of House holders into the streets shortly be fore Dawn estimates of damage ran As although fire depart ment executives declined to name an Fadal was Blue and All reference to it was stricken from the the protected witness miss june a eyed the incident occurred toward the end of during which two government witnesses put the Finger on Meyers As the secret War time owner of the aviation electric Meyers at the time was the air forces num Ber two procurement pleaded guilty he is accused of inducing Bleriot a week Dummy president of to tie to the Senate committee about his alleged ownership of the la who backed up Meyers Story the first time he was called before the Senate body and then reversed himself to identify the general As aviation real has pleaded guilty to Stock in Secretary name Robert Dayton broker and now a contractor said 224 of the total 250 shares of Stock in the aviation electric originally were listed in the name of june Pine said he asked Meyers Why the Stock was not put in his Meyers he said he didst think it was Pine he said you know the i have friends and enemies might try to keep us from getting business we were entitled to and my friends might try to give us refused Pat Story Pine charged further that last july or August Meyers tried to Tell him what to say to the Senate investigators if they should Call him As a he said he refused to go along on any but that he agreed not to Volunteer any miss Ballou testified she once signed some papers for Meyers and later discovered she was listed As the controlling stockholder of aviation but she swore she never got the Stock and never attended a corporation Truman is at key West after Caribbean trip key 86 president Truman completed a Caribbean visit when his private plane landed Here at est yesterday Germany bus the sacred arrived at Boca Chica Airfield after a flight from Tike naval base at Traman plans to rest at his Little White House at the submarine base Here until March win be held in readiness at Chica in tiie event it is necessary for for him to Harry Back to Wash steel scoffs at idea of Price fix 26 a top steel Man who did not raise his prices last night at hints of Price boosting collusion in the steel now Fri Ernest chairman of National steel said the wide spread a ton increase is by no Means a Universal or Concrete Price but in Congress a chorus of condemnation went a Bill to re Vive the excess profits tax was introduced by Joseph Omahoney on the House floor Claude Bakewell called at Tention to steels High profit in the steel companies have Given labor unions an unanswerable argument for wage Taylor Vic presidential runing mate of Henry said he would favor nationalization of the steel Industry if the government can not Stem Price the Justice department pushed ahead the nationwide antitrust in which sent Fri agents into 16 steel company Headquarters the steel Industry was officially except for he asked to be excused from say ing whether he sees the Rise an inflationary threat i Haven advanced my prices i con template no Weir wholesale food inde 67ccnt Westover Keld co named 26 Joseph bar Synski of fort yesterday was named base commander of this air transport commands flying effective Elsie Lemczak smiles approvingly As Batcher Howard a slashes the Price of Steak in a Chain the Chain announced Cut from 79 to 69 cents a Pound and while the photographer was i the store a further cat went into As evidenced by the 66 tag in the new 26 wholesale food Price Index of Dun declined 15 cents in the week ending bringing to 67 cents the cumulative drop in the past six the Agency reported the Index stands at a new Low since compared with a week earlier and the Al time High of reached this the airtime Low was on the six week Price break has pushed the Index Down to virtually the same level As on the corresponding Date in when it stood at Dun and bradstreets wholesale food Price Index represents the sum total of the Price per Pound of 31 Basic foods average hourly earnings in factories hit new High 26 average hourly earnings for fac Eara tory workers have hit a new the labor department report average earnings for a tory workers Rose one cent la month to an the 1939 average was cent in the same period consumer Rose 71 per last months Rise in hourly Ings was the 161h cons Ecat monthly increase reported by labor department since septet despite the Rise in average weekly pay envelopes factory workers decembers Al time nigh of to last part of department the drop in the average work from to Scripps Howard editor die new 26 executive Tor of the Cripps Howardyne died of a hear Tat we in the burned girl flown 69000miles to Hospital Bennett Meyers Protection from whom 26 cablegram from Honolulu yesterday informed Morgan Here that her Fivey Earold granddaughter would arrive in san ending a mercy flight from Tokyo in an army ambulance the Little girl Charlotte Marilyn was critically burned on the legs and lower body 13 when she fell against a she is the daughter of Cullen army doctors ordered the Little girl flown to san Francisco for special medical Jack pot King freed 26 rap Delbert the Man vrho says he wont take from a Slot has been freed in municipal court Shinn had been in the Chicago police lockup since after an Ohio sheriff had asked that he be detectives so run Talfred of having drilled into Many an Ohio Slot machine and tripped the Jack spot Lecer with a thus realizing a handsome judge Matt few Hartigan before whom Shinn appeared dismissed the Solans approve Lynch Bill 26 legislation to make Lynching a Federal offence was approved by the House judiciary subcommittee and goes to the full judiciary committee for approval before it can be voted on in the the Bill is part of the civil rights program advocated by president Truman and opposed by Southern who contend is a problem Best dealt with by individual the Bill would authorize the Federal government to try persons accused of Lynching to Federal Church Bells swing 26 a citizens Here were somewhat startled when the Ion of the historic first unt Taft Church giving out with the Louis policeman George Cowdery the were he Edward the organist later was Given a years far Philadelphia school 26 a five alarm fire swept the Jenks Public school in Philadelphia forcing residents from nearby three Story which 600 wast empty when fire broke Utility clerks ask raise White workers of Westinghouse electric handed cent an hour wage crease yesterday at the session of wage tons Kwh the
