European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday february 14, 195 business in the . Confidence remains Ilse is. Trade brisk despite coif crisis new York. Feb. 13 a a pressing fuel shortage growing out of the Coal strike and unsettle labor conditions in other key industries were depressing influences on business and Industry last week. Over All conditions were remark ably Good however considering the fact that almost Complete Industrial paralysis appeared certain within a matter of Days unless the coalmines returned to work. This indicated business Confidence had no been undermined to any alarminpvy5extent. A Industrial production averaged by . Phillips Wheeling steel began cutting Back operations sharply Over the week end and Bethlehem steel second largest producer will face a Coal crisis within another week. Sharon steel banked one of its Furnace sat Youngstown and Cut output of another White Republic shut Down two blast furnaces in the Cleve land District. All this added up of a drop of 1.6 Points in operations in steel Mills sending it to 91.5 per cent of capacity lowest thus far in 1950. Tonnage was estimated at 1,7-14,200 j against 1,774,700 last week when Mills operated at 93.1 per cent of capacity. A year ago Mills operated at 100.1 per cent and produced 1,845,400 tons of steel. The automobile Industry s High production schedules ran into Coal trouble for the first time. General motors announced suspension of saturday work and overtime in All plants in View of the lower than in the Philips preceding week because it reduced operations in a number of fsr. Svs = a s to strongly m numerous other operations including steel motor cars building construction Home appliances and House furnishings. Retail Trade was not unduly Slack for this time of year except in areas where purchasing Power had been Ford s ambitious plans to achieve record output in the first half by Liberal use of overtime i work Hung in the balance with an official Day to Day watch set up on the firm s Coal stocks. Wilson paints Good picture severely curtailed by strikes or of Auto Industry conditions Liere the weather was too bad to j do much shopping. I the combined efforts of All Manu Forward buying was interrupted j lecturers in production however High court asked to end school Bias Washington feb. 13 a . Solicitor general Phil p b. Perlman has asked the supreme court to end the practice in some states of providing separate but equal schooling for negroes and Whites he said it violates the Constitution and is an undisguised species of racial Perlman has filed a Brief As a Friend of the court supporting the claims of two negro students whose cases the court will take up next month. Two cases the unused states he said urges the court to repudiate the separate but equal doctrine As an unwarranted deviation from the i principle of Equality under Law j which the 14th amendment explicitly incorporated in the Funda mental charter of this that amendment to the Constitution provides that no state May deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal Protection of the the two cases coming before the court involve one student who now attends University of Oklahoma classes from an anteroom behind the White students and another who is demanding admission to the All White Law school of the University of Texas. To some extent but the weekly sur vey of Dun & Bradstreet said Trad ing in wholesale markets remained virtually even with the previous week and Dollar volume was fractionally above a year ago. There was Little or no setup in the Large at Tendance at various Trade shows and promotional events beamed for Early Spring and summer Trade. Government intercession in Coal dispute Stock and Bond markets wer nervous and inclined to Back Awa when Selling pressure became pronounced but new buying Power a uncovered with each Sag and Little damage was done to the 3-year old Bull Market most new Security offerings found ready takers a going prices. Perhaps the strongest prop business sentiment at a time when Industrial conditions were Worsen ing with every tick of the clock was government intercession in the lengthy Coal dispute for the first general at week s end Coa stocks were Down to from nothing to about a week s Supply at Norma rates of use. Householders were having difficulty keeping warm in soft Coal consuming sections an the inevitable Black Markei appeared in some places. The governor of Illinois ordered four state colleges closed because of dwindling Coal supplies. Huffak revived its wartime emergency fuel Como Iiene to assuage fair allotments of Coal. Railroad workers hard hit thousands of workers not connected with the mine dispute were Laid off because of the spreading effects erf the Coal shortage. Railroad workers were particularly hard hit As shops that service Coal burning locomotives and per form other Normal work were shut Down or placed on a curtailed operations basis. The big steel Mills in the Pitts Burgh District were asked by the Duquesne Light co., not to use their electric furnaces during weekdays. Tennessee Coal Iron & railroadco., Southern subsidiary of . Steel Cut Back Coke production in the. Birmingham District to 35 percent 01 Vajk Unity and set up a close watch on Coal consumption at the open Hearth furnaces. Was enough to Pep up car output this week despite the loss of production from Chrysler whose workers continued on strike. Assemblies in this country and Canada add up to 130,600 units against 127, 429 last week and 108,911 a year ago. Charles e. Wilson pm s presi Dent painted a glowing picture of conditions in the automobile Industry in announcing suspension of saturday work because of the Coal situation this action is being taken he said despite the fact that the retail deliveries of general motors cars and trucks broke All records for the month of january indicating a continuing High level of demand. The same is True for general motors household appliances and diesel locomotives. Highlights on the business Chart this week included a new record output of electric Power a sizable jump in business Loans and a run up in Money in circulation. Group asks legion to apologize for cartoon of Hoover Washington feb. 13 a the chairman of the citizens com Mittee for the Hoover report has demanded an apology from the Amer ican legion for a cartoon of former president Herbert Hoover. Or. Robert l. Johnson head of the private group backing the Hoover commission s government streamlining proposals described the cartoon As he said the legion distributed it As part of its Campaign against the bipartisan suggestions for reorganizing the veterans administration including a proposal to place a hospitals under a unified government Medica setup. In a letter to National commander George n. Craig Johnson said this cartoon is a Savage caricature electric Power output reaches new Peak on the drab Side was a fall away of Coal production to an estimated 2,000,000 tons against last week s 6,550,000, representing three Days of work and last year s full work week output of 11,383,000 tons. Only the Independent miners worked this week and they can t do very much in meeting the great demand for Coal at this time of Power output of 6,062,095, 000 kilowatt hours was at a new Peak and compared with last week s 5,971.662,000. A year ago production totalled 5,778,476,000 Kwh. Business Loans increased to $13, 918,000,000 from $13,871,000,000 in the previous week and compared with s 15,318,000,000 a year ago. Business Loans have been declining steadily in recent weeks and the upturn indicated businessmen were going along with Spring planning which included building up inventories. Money in circulation reached �26, 985,000,000, compared with last week s �26,928,000,000 and last year s 27,557,000,000. Freight Carload Irtys were lower As was to be expected in View of he drop in Coal output and Indus rial activity generally. Cruz Oil output was about even with last week but slightly below last year. Engineering construction activity was slightly below last week at 141,900.000, but was ahead of last ear s 13l ,200,000. Legislators probe effects of imports on nation s jobless Washington feb. 13 saying they All look alike in pyjamas. I consider this cartoon scurrilous its implications Are entirely in Correct. The Hoover commission never for one moment made a single recommendation to deprive the Veteran of medical care or. Hoover never made the statement you attribute to him nor does it represent his Point of View or that of the bipartisan Hoover commis Sion. I cannot believe american legion that the speaking for the nation s veterans when it sanctions a vicious personal attack on a former president of the unite states. In the interest of fair play i urge you to Issue a Public apology to or. Hoover and the Center named for Arnold Nashville tenn., feb. 13 up the giant air Force research an wind Tunnel project at. Tullahoma tenn., will be named the Arnold engineering development Center in Honor of the late Gen Henry h. Parking place Hap Arnold. Air Secretary w. Stuart Lyming red haired Hollywood showgirl Cara Williams showed up in traffic court Clad in a $7,000 Mink coat and three parking tickets. Cara admitted having 19 other parking tickets evidently where shown above and paid $203 Fine after pleading guilty. Am ton made the announcement her in a discussion of what he said would become one of the most important aviation teat centers in the the Center on which the govern ment plans to spend $150,000,000 eventually will provide the first wind tunnels capable of testing aircraft at supersonic speeds. Construction will begin in Midsummer Symington said with full scale operation expected in four years. Symington said several super sonic wind tunnels at the Center will test High Altitude conditions up to 75,000 feet hypersonic speeds above 3,500 Mph and supersonic speeds of several thousand Miles an hour.1 in the last category Symington said it will be possible or the first time to test models of aircraft at speeds of several thousand Mph some tunnels will require electrical Power of approximately 200, 000 he equivalent to that of the entire greater Nashville the Power is to be furnished by the Tennessee Valley authority. Arctic games give Yukon Gold Rush air Whitehorse Yukon Terri toy. Feb. 13 up the biggest Boot since the Klondike Gold Rush Wai sweeping Whitehorse entire town and the Moun Iii circled area around it was Ikover completely by exercise Sweet Briar history s biggest test for Arctic , natives and Mineri flocked to town on Foo by dog set and in snowmobiles to see the big show. Old timers said there Nev had been anything like planes nearly 5,000 Canadian and a troops and airmen were Here for the War games. Others were arriving hourly to join in a search for it . Air Force c54 transport w mechas been missing since Jaa 2ti Witt 44 persons aboard. The troops garbed in fur Lin parkas and Eskimo style shoe mingled on the streets with indians eskimos and prospectors. Truck and transports lumbered through the Snow packed streets1. Jet air Craft zoomed overhead. The town s annual Winter carnival was an added attraction. Original / it was to have been held the weeks irom now but the Dat we changed for the Benefit of the troop concentrated Here. It. Monmouth my killed in game of fast on the draw Shrewsbury n. J., feb. H a a it. Monmouth i so3di Otelah is be and Ito see who West europeans to study . Paper Industry Washington feb. 13 up the economic cooperation administration announced that 34 technicians from 12 Western european countries will study the . Pulp and paper said the group the largest inter european team to come Here under the Bra technical assistance program will arrive in new York today. Was shot to Suddy tried draw a gun faster county i Ici als Monmouth a suitor prosecutor George a. Gray said pvt Richard e. Knight 20, of Boston was shot through the heart As he end six other Goldie a Rovito it. Monmouth to pick up week 3nd passes Gray said Knight a Guarte � it. Monmouth was one of five itary policemen Riding in the Bao of a weapons Carrier it. Route Monmouth from nearby Cam Coles. A Driver and a Corporal to the guard were in she front Serj he said the soldiers Tolof Hinl that As the vehicle Ioune so thro Uji Shrewsbury Knight arid an 15 year old Soldier Drew their Pistot several times in an Effort of out speed1 one another. The last tin the soldiers said the gun wields by the 18-year-old went off a. A Bullet ricocheted from the Florinto Knight s heart. He was kill of instantly. Coroner s jury rules on Hospital fire f Davenport Iowa feb. 13 a a Coroner s jury has ruled that woman patient set the killed 41 women at mercy a Pital but it recommended a the Ough investigation by the see county grand jury. The Coroner s jury found that fire was set by mrs. Elnora by Perly 22, of Rock Island i a that she was of unsound mind the time. Mrs. Epperly had Coc fessed setting the fire by curtains in her room with a lighter. To
