European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes june 1948 House Uel Ayi threatened on draft Bill readying stockpiles of vital material 13 the National ammunition Board estimated it has Worth of strategic raw materials Stock piled for emergencies these Are materials such As Nickel for Armor tin for engine rubber for tires and Bauxite for aluminium in air planes caused critical Industrial Short Ages in world War avoid shortages nations military leaders dont want be caught Short a five year stockpiling program Calls Lor storing away Worth of these materials by this backlog would be enough to get Industry rolling should sudden Industrial mobilization be the nation had a stockpile of Only in 1940 shortly before the was plunged into Congress appropriated 000 in fiscal 1947 and 1948 for Stock defense Secretary James j Forrestal has asked for another for stockpiling in fiscal of which is to pay for materials already under the munitions Board has spent All Money appropriated to Senate approves unanimously army retirement Bill june 13 the Striate approved without Dis sent a Bill to a retirement service for members of the armed forces Reserve and National the Bill goes Back to the House action on Senate Amend to a reservist would have 1o be 60 years have at 20 years service have met fixed standards i these include Active attendance at they would be credited on a Point at reservists Tan obtain benefits Only for physical disability the Senate armed services com Mittee estimated the Cost of the program at Tor the first rising to a maximum of about in it estimated the average retired pay for Reserve officers a year and of enlisted Menat about As president Truman visited Chicago head of Iran Mission coming to Neucom june 13 Norman Schwarz head of the military Mission to the iranian will be transferred june 20 to Neucom the army who was chief of the new Jersey to life during the kidnapping will return to Washington for conferences before going to cheering chicagoan Greet president Truman As his car passes president is tour of the state and Jackson the shot at Post june 13 sentry was fatally shot at his Post yesterday at the Navy aviation ordnance test station Here Navy officials top secret weapons Are tested on this isolated the Navy announced Only meaner details of the death of Grant Wil 20 year old Engineta fireman attached to aircraft development Clem was found unconscious at his Post at and died at from a Bullet wound in the he died without re gaining was alone on the sentry Post and was carrying a the Navy did not say whether shots had been fired from his woman mystery writer slain husband held june 13 43yearold woman mystery Story writer was the victim of a murder As gory As any of her Magazine detective the brutally nude body of Katherine Mother of an 18yearold son now in the was found on her blood spattered her a former newspaper feature told police he discovered the body on returning to their fourth floor apartment from work at a Dairy police immediately took him into custody for Brewster takes new thrust at Hughes i contracts Duel june 13 sen Owen Brewster took a thrust his Duel with Howard millionaire plane maker of the investigating committee which passed out of last in speech to the Senate he Felt free Tor indulge in a Little hisioxy1 of hut Hughes i Vestiga i that inquiry was when Hughes charged Brewster proposed dropping the investigation of Hughes wartime plane contracts in return for agreeing to an airline merger Hughes a charge is absolutely brews Ter said he added Hughes reliability questionable because he told committee he had Madeno profit his War Brewster said government tax records showed business made a profit during the Carl Hatch de fended Hatch was a minor Ity member of the Haigh denied Hughes testified falsely be fore the he said the Hughes investigation Tiow unjustly a Senate committee can a reputable army wartime photos now offered for Sale Spe of military units and personalities taken by signal corps photog Raphers during world Are being offered to the Public for the department of the army More than such pictures in the files of the army pictorial service be chased at 15 cents each for 4 by 5 or 50 cents for 8 by 10 Glossy inquiries should be to the chief signal at Tention still picture room 5a the Washington Money should hot be sent until it has been advised pictures desired can be 4cylinder rocket powered plane that beat sound june 13 experts have Revea fed the Power Plant of Angelicas first supersonic plane yeas a simple four Cylinder rocket motor without moving it was manufactured by reaction located in the Tail of the the motor delivers a thrust of pounds at the Speed of would be roughly equivalent to the four cylinders Are mounted in Diamond they can be fired in any three or four at a each gives pounds of the burned in a combustion is liquid oxygen and alcohol forced in by gaseous Nitro x the entire product of the com Bustion Ishie thrust which shoves the plane Are no use any of the thrust As with the Jet in of releases names of fliers killed in Japan june 13 Force officials announced yesterday the names of three fliers killed june 4 when their p61 Black widow fighter crashed on a the three victims of the crash were the Joseph John Clarence George y Lewis begins wage Parley june 13 John Lewis told Soff Coal operators yesterday they have already lost the 1948 contract fight to avoid a third round wage increase for the United mine the president began talk ing about a new contract at the Start of yesterdays negotiating ses Sion with the his action broke the we Klong stalemate caused by his refusal to talk new contract terms until the dispute Over the 1947 welfare fund is settled to his producers said Lewis told them they  Hope to get a new contract to replace the agreement expiring june 30 without a wage he said the pay boosts granted by rubber and other industries showed the impossibility of the operators proposal not to raise wages this you May just As Well to pay the Lewis reportedly told but he gave no hint As to precisely what he train killing Steward june 13 dining car Steward was killed and approximately 38 persons were injured when four cars of a Wash into new York passenger train left curve near the wrecked train was the Baltimore and Ohio railroads new Yor bound june 13 new York negro congressman threatened to stall a House vote on the draft with a series of amendments to wipe out Jim Crow in the Navy and air v i Clayton said he prepared 31 segregation amendments which he would offer if the House took up j the Senate approved 1925 draft Powell said would resort every possible parliamentary trick to delay a House vote if anyone tempted to gag rules committee decision it appeared last night a congressman who fought uni versa military training and was Cool to the draft held the key to whether the House would act at All on the peacetime conscription he was Forest harness member of the powerful House rules committee which will meet tomorrow to decide whether s to Send the Bill to the House floor or pigeonhole Powell announced his plans in a defends loyalty the negro has served and will serve his nation loyally in time of War but he will not be disloyal in time of peace to the Constitution and Flie Bill of Powell Powell said he would stage a strike against any other House business unless he got full time to discuss the proposed peace time draft Law and his 31 Amend such parliamentary Maneu rarely resorted could delay House action War Conant declares june 13 James of Harvard University declared he did not believe that War with Russia is either inevitable or even least if we keep our pessimistic ideas Are prevalent he told the annual meeting of the Harvard alumni a too Conant belief in the approach of another War is coupled with the conviction that a decade hence Western civilization will be obliterated by the new weapons of mass he this is a transition from War to peace not from world War ii to world War no Fri nabs 2 Bank robbers 1 had redeposited loot june 13 Bureau of investigation agents arrested two a convicts for a Bank at suburban River Rouge on june said one of the men posited in another Bank the Day after the Elbow benders found allergic to japanese bars june 13 doctors warned that an occupational disease is breaking out among american troops who spend too much time in japanese medical officers that at japanese bar is the Are coated with the doctor and leaning against them does something to american the lacquer apparently has no effect on the army doctors described the malady As a rash like the effects of it is by Contact with the chemical Urush Iol contained in some Japan Ese the spread of the disease among freq enters of the better officers and enlisted mens clubs brought the following warn ing from the medics since 60 to 80 per cent of the people of the United states Are sensitive to the Hazard of contacting this uncomfortable skin disease is in another development on the moral Allied denied a japanese newspaper re port that occupation authorities plan to bring naked shows Here for the entertainment of Amer