European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes june 194 readies optional plan for industries Washington up the Commerce department has drafted preliminary plans for a War production it was disclosed v John chief of the i office of Industry has asked attorney general Tom Clark How far he can go the Law in setting up allocation for the armed serv ices and the Marshall Virden Job is to get producers of Basic such As to agree voluntarily to distribute their output to essential so far the agreement have been directed chiefly at relieving production bottlenecks in the j freight car and housing Virden won an agreement from the steel Industry to furnish 000 tons of steel to atomic Energy projects operated by private con some of his Assoc i acts will serve As a scramble for goods when the Marshall plan gets rolling and the big defense build up puts on there is Likely to be a scramble among manufacturers for scarce if a military lend lease program should he on top of this production of civilian 7 goods might the steel Industry has told Vir Den that it Doest want to caught in the Middle of these conflicting steel men also Are dead set against revived government so they Wel corned Viz ens suggestion for r a voluntary under the tentative government agencies with Large scale production programs would Tell Virden what their requirements Are Likely to to div vying up Virden then would Lay the de Mand before the industries of and ask them to get to Gether with the manufacturers holding government contracts to work out voluntary allocations priority Virden office would not do the actual div vying it merely would approve the plan of oper the Justice department also would have to give its approval to insure against antitrust Law producers and manufacturers who fear they might be injured would be Given a Chance to object at Public hearings a before any pro Gram went into labor would be invited to voice its Opin ions the hearings procedure resembles that of the old War production but under web the government gave priorities backed up by Force of this meant that a producer had to fill the so the government it self was directing the Legal question Virden wants Clark to answer is whether his authority to work out voluntary agreements Broad enough to cover foreign Aid and military japanese rail workers to buy army boots Tokyo railway workers soon will get army combat boots for 40 cents a latest military surplus turned Over to the japanese government for Sale to workers vital some pieces of army dress and equipment eventually will be made available to japans Coal Rice fishermen and other workers As part of an incentive goods program to courage increased army opticians run own Lens shop the Mobile optical shop of the Furth medical depot is ready for operations at ail Claude of Glens and Joseph of Are shown testing the Fri warns Public against Confidence by James Washington Fri warned the Public today to be on guard against an old Confidence game called the Spanish prisoner swindle or the trunk wit the hidden compartment the current Issue of the Bis Law enforcement bulletin said this Racket is becoming wide the intended victim is promised at least in return for about and a simple act anyone who Falls for the gag invariably winds up with out his common is a letter postmarked Mexico City and signed with a simple Portelly an individual who is in a mexican prison for the note usually starts off like my dear sir a person who know you and who has spoken highly about you has made me Trust to you a very delicate at years june 1943 v British bombers raid targets in the Western june Seesaw fighting rages in nor x june 1945 troops on paced by tanks and As sail japanese june 1946 president submits to Congress a plan for the merger of the armed forces into a single june 1947 v the Alindia committee of the Congress party announces in new Delhi it accepts the Briti Sli plan for splitting India into do but that it will not Toler ate the Independent sovereignty of Ter on which depends the future of my dear As Well As my very the prisoner then explains that he has a trunk on Deposit in a customs House inthe and in a secret compartment of that trunk he is a bundle of Bank Bills totalling but heres the the writer says the claim Check for the trunk is in an old which has been confiscated by mexican in order to get this he he must the mexican embargo usually a matter Over the prisoner begs the victim to help him get his suitcase As compensation for his is he will receive on third of Money in the the swindler later sends news paper clippings to Back up his if he Falls for the the victim flies Down to Mexico contacts an agent of m and pays the embargo costs in As a guarantee of the he is Given a Bank Check or Deposit certificate for Over drawn Oriah american phony telegrams assure the dupe that the prisoner has such a sum on once the embargo is the agent the victim is left with a fraudulent a few heart Rendig letters Anda bitter feeling about human a the Fri says the common let ters should be turned to postal authorities new York City real estate valued at billions new York present value of real estate in new York City is the City tax commission this is the highest tax Roll since they and represents an increase Over the of d prescriptions total j glasses ror a hons each month 3 eur com optical shop at the Furth medi Cal depot is occupation personnel with parrs of read ing glasses a month in addition to making 250 pairs a month for displaced persons through the International refugee Iro employs local opticians to mount and fit the lenses which Are supplied by the army out of Stock at the optical old glasses Are fitted with new lenses or and corrections made and old prescriptions Are brought up to a Stock of 720 different uncut single vision lenses is checked when the prescription for a new pair of comes in from dec Hospi Orga razed during the War in the outfit still has two of the original techno theater optical and sgt Joseph shop Are the two vet Erans who supervise the As soon As a prescription is received from the Hospital it is numbered and filed under the number and name of the a new prescription can be processed the shop in three if it Calls for a Stock it needs Only to be Cut and edged and fitted to the proper Mote complicated prescriptions which Call for Lens Powers not kept Stock must be ground from optical the shop is equipped to handle these As Well As Biff bifocals for p to p 1 e whose near vision is very but who have no trouble seeing Distant double one is for close work and Reading and has a High Power of the other is for recognizing objects at a distance and have almost no Power of Magni a total of 19 people turn out glasses needed in the these Are and Ger Man technicians who have been selected for their extensive Back ground in the highly skilled optical Pride of the outfit is the port Able optical shop mounted on the Back of a special purposes be with the equipment contained in the optical shop can follow the army into the Field at a Moni Entjes notice and Supply them with Complete optical the Mobile Shopis kept ready for service at All times and sol die trainees at the shop spend at least one Day out of every week at work in it to accustom them selves to it and to keep equipment in perfect running Washington icons went deeper into debt on the ment plan during the first months since time payment c trots died last a Federal Reserve Board read showed that the instalment c for retail buying reached highest Point in at beginning of i total consumer credit reached a record High of this also includes Cha accounts and Loans repayable a Lump neither of which been under government cent for 17 but it was in the install Field that month cuff buyers Pic up debts an average for each of the it six months after dealers were free to fix their own Down p ment rules and length of time a pay the the average monthly incr had been Only for to previous 12 months under these bad quire a Down payment of ont and repayment of the Ance a Neyr Surveyor spending plans indicates that on out of every four american Ilies will overspend its i Corni heavily this using a Redja or savings if those who bought goods 6i credit last year doubled the Nurna Ber inthe year and 3 000 More families reached verge of debt stage by cashing 01 last during the first six months unrestricted time c Dit for buying autos on the ii stall ment plan went up a to a May 1 fatal of that total was catching up f with credit for tune buying refrigerate washing machines and the like this figure Rose an average just under a Iris nth a total of credit specialists say debt it purchases would go up my faster if there were More n cars t fluorine salts reduce Teeth decay new York Ter supplied with natural fluorine salts has reduced i decay among children in new Jersey towns by at least 50 the journal of Tawf american dental ithe three towns Are Glasso Pitman and Hen Klein of the Public heat author of the Sai the same results had been Foum Newburgh and where the water Supply has be artificially 192  managing editor sports editor june 1948 col William Summers Ken Zumwalt Ellis executive manager Clef of distribution Maurice Kirkwood Bernard Mcgurgan news bureaus Frankfurt 2281322814 Stuttgart 9310476516 Berlin 846681 846680 Vienna b47184 Bremerhaven 2228022202 Munich 481520 Grafe Wohr 438 the european edition is published daily at for the occupation forces under the auspices of the troop information and education division Neucom Tel Frankfurt the stars and correspondence should be addressed to 7744th stars and stripes Apo mall to the new York office should be sent to 641 was Huseton this to not an official publication of the reentered As second class matter at the Postof Nee at new under the act of March