European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                March 1948 the stars and stripes for a Bakers dozen Between March 8 and March 15 it is National donuts a donuts week without a donuts Queen would be so new Yorks Peggy Payne has been donuts walking Man named widow collects March 8 Florence h u b b a r d said Jack benny1 it the right tune saturday night and ended the radio mystery of the walking it was one of a series of contests in which a radio show includes new clues weekly to identity a current mystery who is a widow and a department store was the first person to be contacted s Telephone from Hollywood and gave the right answer immediately there by winning Over in prizes the achievement was anything but difficult since a Chicago news paper several Days ago disclosed that radio comedian Jack Benny was the walking Man and to four Sands of chicagoan were ready to give the answer if prizes in the contest included a Bendix Home Cadillac Gas two week vacation for two persons at Sun a Diamond a Complete Yea around woman and an air and a persian Lamb Margaret sings at news fete Truman asks Honor next year March 8 miss Margaret made a Surprise appearance last night before her father and 700 bother guests at the 25th annual dinner of White House Cor assemblage of Cabinet Mem army and publishers and news had listened with vast amuse ment to Spike Jones and his musical depreciation when the act was the irrepressible Spike stepped Forward and remarked earnestly ill want you to meet a rising Young singing weve always warded her to join the but whenever we offered her a she was always Busy without a formal miss Truman came on the audience applauded her the was he slumped into his chair and bowed Forward while his daughter with Spike Jones at the miss Truman Sang three they were the Shep Herd the last Rose of summer and Cielito she received a tremendous ova and her smiling with told the audience i Hope you will invite me Back Here next year and make Margaret the guest of Honor and ill real pay drop cited by Cio in wage drive i March 8 the Cio called last night for sub Stantial wage increases and offered figures to prove they Are a wage study which the Cio made pictures a loss of 15 per cent wage earners in the race Between prices and take Home pay since january what k called real wages fell thai far for tax Deduc the Cio economists said in a report to Cio president Philip who also Heads the workers with will 1 be for substantial wage increases from the Stee and others beginning april Murray also wants a pension the Cio president wont be the first to Bat in this Springs wage the packing House headed by Ralph Helstein of Are poised to strike March 16 for a 29 cent hourly pay other key Cio in the 1948 Labo management tests in clude the United electrical work and Walter Reuthers United Auto Reuther opens negotiations with general motors next month for a 30 cent hourly in and already is bargaining with the Chrysler motor for a 35 cent hourly the Cio contained in the monthly economic said that in the 18 months since opa was retail food prices have risen 42 per clothing is up 22 per and rent has in creased per Cio economists said that Corpora Tion profits in 1947 High enough to allow wage increases without any Price taken Al these profits would allow a 10 per cent wage increase and still leave corporations with their 1946 profit students watch teacher strike death of Lockridge declared a suicide March 8 f t Specif death of Ross in author of the Best Selling rain Tive who was found dead at the wheel of his car in his garage Here was declared neighbors broke open the door carried the authors body into the friends of the author said he appeared to have been nervous and under considerable pressure Lockbridge won a Mem award last year for his it was the oily Book he had written and he had returned Only recently from Hollywood where he had been working on a movie Man to die for 3rd time March 8 Willie Mcgee last night was sentenced for the third by an Allwhite to die in Mississippi electric the negro was convicted again of the rape of a Young White Laurel housewife on his two previous convictions and sentences had been reversed by the state supreme the Case went to the jury after the defense in a Surprise rested the Case without presenting they had already left for when the jury brought in the verdict after one hour of judge Burkitt Collins sentenced the Young negro to Dieon april two confessions which officers testified were made by Mcgee soon after his arresting were ruled competent testimony Collins and admitted As who took the stand while the jury was out of the courtroom during determination of the confessions charged they were made after he had been threatened with mob Mcgee first conviction was Nulli fied on the grounds that a change of venue should have been the second was quashed when the court ruled the original indictment i was faulty because negroes served on the grand two Minneapolis school teachers walk the picket line outside a Public they Are Pihlstrom and Carolyn More than teachers and students were affected by the the youngsters watching the woman picket line seem to girl kills Mother in Row shoots father next Day March 8 an attractive 17yearold Brunette calmly confessed to a Highway patrolman that Mother after she murdered her an argument tues Day and killed her father the next Day so he  find Betty Jane Kroeger was arrested after patrolmen discovered the bodies of her the body of tred was found in the rear room of the variety store he operated in this Ozark Region the mothers body discovered behind a divan in their Minnie been hot once in the head As was her Betty Jane stated she used an italia make automatic War souvenir brought ack from the Etc by her Betty Well groomed and with dark eyes and Long told olice she and Mother argued about he girls desire to return to East Louis for a she was charged with first degree Friendship ties Given dutch chiefs grand March 8 the Netherlands officials who left Here in route for Home had 400 Friendship and Figur the 400 an extravagance in Holland because they require coupons otherwise needed for cloth Are the gift of mayor George Welsh who collected them from grand rapids president of the conference of was impressed by the tie shortage he visited the Netherlands last the Plain and fancy neckwear is being carried Home by Piet i mayor of Dodd Dies at 63 March 8 wife of the under Secretary of has More storms plague s March 8 rain and Snow storms plagued a great part of the yesterday disrupting travel and Utility ices in several a new cold mass was pushing southeastward across the North and Central toward the Ohio ice storm swept across freezing rain end sleet pelted the Midwest and heavy Snow was forecast for new rain covered a wide Belt from Northern Florida to Penn Sylvania Ohio combined with sub freezing temperatures it Laid a Blanket of ice Over sections of Northern Georgia which snapped Telephone Lin Sand georgias peach crop scheduled to Bloom this week was blast kills rips Hole in destroyer Long March 8 destroyer Duncan limped into port with one Man at least six injured and a gaping Hole in her Side from an internal explosion 200 Miles at As a Navy tug brought the 390 foot ship to spectators could see a split More than 30 feet Lorsy and three or four feet wide on the starboard Side near the Stern and along the water steel deck places were names of casualties were to be announced the cause of the blast not to recognize government of Siam March 8 the the new government of Siam following an Exchange of letters at ban Koit Between Edwin and 30th vets to meet Bassadore to and the siamese new March 8 minister of foreign the 30th infantry division Assoc Ian the and other governments Tion will hold its 1948 convention Here opening july it was announced by Harle pres government was overthrown had Wii Bidrawn recognition last year after the former siamese