European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes May 1948 forum provides Boot training for women in financial Field by discussion group instructed experts by Lawrence Eldred Chicago invasion by women of the financial mans last is on in dollars Are their graphs and balance sheets Are their they Are even taking Boot training through a nonprofit organization called the women finance forum to learn modern Battle in the mens world of High women now own 70 per cent of the private wealth of the numbering More than Are said to hold More corporation Stock than and women 85 cents of each consumer thus some of the once weaker sex have decided they should control the Money flow As Well As hold the that puts them right on the financial front which in Chicago run along la Salle spearheads attack perhaps the sky scraper Board of Trade which dominates the is topped by a statue of a goddess of but the Downto Earth attack is spearheaded by Lorraine director of the forum and an insurance and banking exec during my business interviews with women i have been appalled by their Lack of information on How to handle their Money of Blair said in an i have known widows had no knowledge of their husbands wills or Trust fund More women Are working for salaries now than in any other peacetime yet few know How to invest their women own More of America than this came about through throughout living their through Transfer of wealth to their names for business reasons and through Job what do women do about All the treasure entrusted to them when i saw in the Depres Sion years what a beating women include financial disasters sover which they had no i resolved to do something about lost everything the something is the its purpose is to teach women How to buy and sell securities and futures How to conserve and distribute an estate or other and How to read and understand business pages and financial i Blair is a native of Mil and a e n d e d Milwaukee owner from teaching music she went into banking and in the 1929 crash she lost she including her own department Ina it was then i became a sort of crusader for women financial she it used to be considered a Ladylike for women to talk about but when dollars Are a matter of Security and As they Are for Many i think its time they started learning More about at the Start the forum held one discussion meeting a now it runs a 10week course in led by experts in Metal hands for chemist which can perform delicate Chemi Cal experiments in dangerous radioactive were demonstrated in new York recently by general electric Scien the hands can mix chemicals just As milk is poured out of a the John signs his name by Remote Raymond Duncan prefers Paris subways to Gotham new York 73yearold eccentric and american expatriate who wears Street costumes that look something like a explained the difference Between new and Paris subway in new the riders Are just waiting to get get years f May 1943 troops occupy two Small islands in the aleutians and move within 70 Miles of jape copied May 1944 v Bob Johnsoa shoots Down his 26th and 27th German planes to break the record of 26 set by Eddie Rickenbacker in world May 1945 the first official be Day announcement is made of the unconditional nazi surrender to the May 1946 the asks dim outs in 22 Eastern states due to the Coal May 1947 president Truman observes his r j to their he they look and act dead Between in the subway is sort of a we we look at each enjoy we Are leaving with his Eliza for France after a three month visit in the Duncan received from an admirer on the French liner de Grasse a whisky bottle filled with Hudson River water which pour into the Seine River on maritime 22 a lecturer on dance founder of self supporting communities in and head of the Academie Raymond Duncan in plumed for Douglas Macarthur for he picked his candidate this Way the Academie Raymond Dun can is the Only action list institution in the factionalism is a study of the technique of doing the Best candidate would be a person of action who Doest talk All the divorce rate dropping Washington nations divorce rate is going the Federal Security Agency said preliminary statistics show that the divorce rate last year was about per As compared with in joint i drop of per tax Bureau seeks to add More agents Washington huge expansion of a Uncle Sams tax collecting has proposed to Congress by a com Mittee of the idea to make it easier for honest folks to pay their taxes and to Maki it hot for others who Dodge the Treasury department immediately welcomed the develop ment As a Chance to get at least a part of the in Back taxes it said it has been Una butt to collect because it didst have enough tax the group of professional men who submitted the new report based it on a study they made at the request of they said Bureau of internal Revenue appropriations should be jumped to next year and that Bureau personnel should be boosted by to the Bureau has 000 to operate on the report recommended sweeping changes in the administrative a simplification of tax forms that taxpayers must fill chairman Harold k n u t s o n of the tax framing House ways and Means com Mittee commented i think the recommendations should be too Many people Are escaping their fair share of by evasion and the men making the report were Henry Boston lawyer William it at Lanta Public accountant Loyal san Francisco Public accountant and George Chicago tax Little petting professor says Cornell University Home economics staff professor says a certain amount of petting 4s speaking at Cornell farm and Home week Edward Pope said the important thing is where to draw the Man or who has had wide experience with Dif Ferent types of persons before marriage is Best suited to choose a mate wisely and make adjust ments after marriage he autos have 12year life Washington up Auto mobiles Are now driven Miles Over a 12year period lie Tore they Are the com Merce department said ten years when salesmen looked for customers instead of vice the average scrap Page age for a passenger car was 10 according to Jay Atkin department business the 6 bag address All letters to b bag Edi stars and stripes Apo include name and address names Are on due to space letters May be Cut for provided such editing does not alter the meaning of the cannot Purchase Auto on february 6 i received an yes notice giving me priority 3604 in the Neucom Auto Mobile at that time i waa an yes civilian in according to the yes car lottery policy i could have picked up a Ford car with radio and i failed to do so because i had assurances that i would be Able to pick up a new car in april in the after termination of my i left the euro Pean command March having arrived in the and after investigation i find the possibilities of my getting a new ear Are literally my question is this would i yet be entitled to obtain a car and have it shipped at army expense by my sending my certified Bank or Money order direct to the automotive activities Cen Ter or through a Friend in Bremerhaven i am in dire need of an new yorker editors note the above letter was received by the Neucom chief of special services Tho re Quested that it and his reply appear in b bag because of its interest to Escom cars procured by Escom Exchange system Are procured for occupation personnel who Art Legal residents within this com even though Individuate were eligible to Purchase a new car through the lottery during their tour in the european com yes under present directives cannot sell a car to former residents who have returned to the zone of the such letters As the writers fully substantiate the report received by yes from the general motors corporation concerning the availability of new cars in the the report states that the Normal waiting period for e new car in the zone of the Interior is at present about 16 and that prices in the used car Market have taken a definite trend it also states that the stateside new automobile picture i considerably Darker at the present than during any time of the past year be cause of the recent Coal strike and steel japs invent typewriter Tokyo a great a japanese company announced it had succeeded in making this country first eng Lish language the name Woodpecker Industry the stars and stripes 154 May 191g editor chief William Summers managing editor Ken Zumwalt sports Jack Ellis executive Maurice Kirkwood chief of Bernard Mcguigan news bureaus Stuttgart 9310476518 84668j b 47184 Wiesbaden 8341 Bremerhaven 2228022202 481520 the european edition in published daily at for the occupation forces under the auspices of the troop information and education division Frankfurt the stars and correspondence should be addressed to 7744th stars and stripes Apo mail to the new York office should be sent to 641 Washington this is not an official publication of the reentered As second class matter sept at the at new under the act of March