European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday february 25,1950 miners menu Down to Beans from Steak Bellaire Ohio feb. 24 apr Tom Smith ate soup Beans for dinner today. A few weeks ago he ale Steak and roast beet Tom Smith is an Ohio Coal Miner on strike. There s no Money now for speak and roast beef. Ham Burger plate boil Beans and a few potatoes those Are the Staples of a striker s diet if he can get them. Tom Smith in t the Miner s name but it will do As Well As another for 9,000 Ohio miners Are on strike and Tom Smith is in no worse a fix than Many and not so bad As some. Tom has four Mouths the feed his own his wife s and two children s. The Specter of shrunken diets no spending Money gradual loss of belongings through sales or seizure Are things any father views with dread. But he is determined Towin. No contract no work he says succinctly. We re going to stick it out Taft Hartley act rallying Point in the strike Tom says was the president s use of the Taft Hartley act. Tom sat in the living room of his Home in a mining town near Here and reflected on the Days of the strike already past. The boys weren t much for this strike in some ways up until the president called on the Taft Hartley act. Now they re Back of Lewis just about 100 per  How has the strike affected Tom and his family Tom has done whatever extra work he could find but instead of spending 65 for food in two weeks Tom now spends Only $28. He buys the cheapest food. Mrs. Smith does her Best mend ing clothes instead of discarding them baking bread instead of buying it. She does t go to the movies. With Tom s Good credit rating and some extra work the Smiths have been making out mrs. Smith in t too unhappy. Another Mother in town has a striking husband and 10 children. This family is eating on jl.50 a Day. Bleak towns the Little mining towns Are As Bleak and quiet As empty mineshaft nearby a grocer in Smith s town said i Don t know Bow Long i can hold out and continue to give credit. Before the strike 80 per cent of my business was Cash. Now Only 40 per cent is Cash. Throughout Ohio Coal Fields the Story is the same. Many Are going on Relief. In Jefferson county the Relief Load now is 1,600 cases. Normal Load is 300 to 400 cases. Truman will sit Here a newsman Fries out the president s new Lincoln limousine. Custom built the car has special running boards for secret service men and extra head space for High silk hats. Its fittings Are Gold. Acme agent testifies Wallace met red leaders in vote quest Washington feb. 24 a congressional investigators were told yesterday that Henry Wallace once met with two Wei known communist leaders in an Effort to round up votes for Wallace s progressive party. The testimony came from Matthew Cvetic 41-year-old Pittsburgh insurance agent who Rose to High office in the communist parly while serving As a government undercover agent. Cvetic to a the House in saucers called space ships by Navy officer new York feb. 24 up a Navy commander said he is con Vinced flying saucers Are real space ships piloted by strangers fro Mother planets. Cmdr Robert Mclaughlin a guided missiles expert told of two saucers 20 inches in diameter out running a Navy rocket. In an article in the March Issue of True Magazine the commander who was identified by the Maga Zine As the head of a Navy unit working on classified projects a White Sands proving grounds n. M., said he is convinced these discs Are space ships from another planet operated by animate beings 1 Mclaughlin said he saw one Saucer at White Sands base in May 1949 As he Yeiter for an army up per atmosphere missile to be fired. Tracked a Saucer he said in april 1949 observers at White Sands sent a weather bal Loon aloft and while plotting its course with an instrument called a theol Odite found themselves track ing a Saucer. Computations made by the instrument and a Stopwatch showed the Saucer was discus miners Are Selling their ears j shaped 105 feet in diameter flying Many have had to default on Loans. At an Altitude of 56 Miles at a Speed Low priced car unveiled by Kaiser Detroit feb. 24 up Kaiser Frazer has taken the wraps off its Long promised Low priced car revealing a racy five passenger Sedan it Hopes will put of Back among the big boys of the Auto Industry. The car. Priced to undersell Chevrolet Ford and Plymouth went on display at the Chicago automobile show. The company s 1951 kaisers and Frazer also will be shown. The still unnamed smaller car has a 100-Inch wheelbase. There is no trunk for the two door Sedan body. A Luggage compartment is located behind the rear seat. Henry j. Kaiser chairman of the if Board made no Price announcement. Bur estimates Range from $1,300 to $1.300. Retail Price also will depend on engine size. Of 5 Miles per second. Mclaughlin said the following month he saw a Saucer loafing along at a relatively slow Speed perhaps 1 mile per second but suddenly it spurted like a scalded cat As it shot across the mountains of new Mexico. He claimed that in june Navy men who fired an upper Atmos phere missile saw two Little Saucer a 20 inches wide Start Chas ing the missile upward. Admitting the saucers crewmen would have to be tiny to ride in a 20-Inch space ship the commander said it is staggering to imagine intelligent beings that Small but we must not disregard any  fire destroys foundry Belvidere iii., feb. 24 up fire demolished the National sew ing machine co s foundry with a loss estimated at Between $500,000and a 0,000. American activities committee the meeting took place in Wallace s room at a Pittsburgh hotel nov. 11,1947. He said that hand George Wuchinich were the Well known communist parly leaders at the meeting which he said also was attended by c. B. Baldwin Wal lace s Campaign manager. In Chicago Baldwin said he and Wallace talked to Many individuals and groups at Pittsburgh be fore Wallace announced his candidacy for president. Did t question beliefs not believing in loyalty tests we made no Effort to ascertain the individual political beliefs of any person who sought an interview or who accompanied any group to see Wallace the witness said he and Wuehr Onieh were questioned at length by both Wallace and Baldwin As to How Many votes they thought they could deliver to the progressive party in Western Pennsylvania As officers of the american slav con Gress. This organization has been described by Cvetic and others As communist dominated. Cvetic said the meeting had been arranged by persons in the progressive party who were not known a communists but when rep. Francis e. Walter a a asked him whether he assumed Wallace and Baldwin knew he and Wuchinich were communist readers Cvetic replied assuming they knew it i m assuming they Are men Fontell Genee and knew  Cvetic told How the communists in Western Pennsylvania set up a special commission to carry the communist party line into the progressive party. He said the regressive parly always was Dis cussed at communist meetings and communists were directed to join the progressives. The progressive party was one of our big concentrations he testified. Would you say that All communists Are members of the progressive party waiter asked. I d say yes that they Are All members of the progressive party Cvetic said. Frank s. Tavenner jr., Ommittee counsel asked Bow Many communists there were in Western Pennsylvania. Approximately 550,"he witness replied. Genera says a bomb spurs peace chances Washington feb. 24 a Brig Gen Russell e. Randall . Air attache in Moat inv from 1948-49, urged the . To take the initiative in proposing peace talks to the  he said in an interview that he believes the chances of agreement Are now the bes since the War because of the a bomb. I am of the opinion that Russia recognizes As we do that the Hydrogen bomb might Render All our ideologies nothing but  Cave owner asks loan for woah s Ark new York feb. 24 up the owner of a 26-mile-Long Cave deep in the Foothills of the Missouri ozarks has asked the reconstruction finance corp. For a �1,000,000loan to develop an underground Noah s Ark Safe from a bombard a bomb attacks. Lester Dill of Stanton. Offered his caverns once a hideout for Jesse James As a bomb hideout for the several thousand of Ojito whose survival would be essential to future civilization he suggested that the persons picked to hide away in his Cave scientists such As Albert Ein Stein medical experts chemists engineers and other specialists and promising Young people who would sure a future generation. Dill conferred with his lawyers  and sent formal application Capers for the $1,000,000 Joan to the 1fc in Washington. Self sufficient when the situation is so serious our own government officials Are urging an alternate capital for Washington and Are seeking hidden pots for military and Industrial retaliations and for irreplaceable persons Dill said we should also be preparing to protect the scientific engineering medical educational and creative Genius which has Reade our nation  Dill said his Cave could be developed into a self sufficient City with storage space for a two to three year food Supply for thou Sands of persons. This subterranean Community could be the nucleus for an entirely new world in the event of global wide bombing he said. The country in the immediate Vicinity of the Cave is excellent for farming grazing and fhe beginning of a new  Dill did t say who should be the modern Day Noah empowered to choose the people and presumably the animals two by two most worthy of surviving if the rest of the world were destroyed. If the rec does t like the idea of an underground Noah s Ark he said his Cave would make a Dandy capital City War Plant site or atomic Refuge. A wow voted Best film Ever made Hollywood feb. 24 Tup gone with the wind was chosen the Best film Ever made Charles Chaplin Best actor and Greta Garbo Best actress in a variety poll of More than 200 Industry figures. The poll said film figures questioned had All been in the business 25 years or More. They named Irving thai Berg Best producer and d. W. Griffith Best director. Birth of a nation was second to gone with the wind As the Best All time film and Best years of our lives  Colman and sir Laurence Olivier tied for second in Best All time actor division with Spencer Tracy in fourth place. Bergman second besting id Bergman was second Best in the actress category and Reue Davis and Olivia de Havilland tie for third. Darryl f. Zanuck was second and Samuel Goldwyn third for Best producer Cecil a Demille was Sec Ond and William Wyler third for Best director. In the sound picture division gone with the wind was a so named first Best years second and All quiet on the Western front third. Tracy was top actor Olivier Sec Ond and Colman third. Among silent films birth of a nation was first the big Parade second and the kid third. Valentino second Chaplin was named Best actor with Rudolph Valentino second and Emil Jannings third. Garbo was voted top silent actress with Gloria Swanson second and Lillian Gish third. Runners up among actors included Clark Gable John Barry More Richard Barthelmess Humphrey Bogart Gary Cooper. Doug As Fairbanks Claude Rains Fred Ric March Bing Crosby waiter fusion Henry Fonda Cary Grant. Robert Donat and Paul Muni. Runners up among actresses were Janet Gaynor Helen Hayes Marie dressier Mary Pickford g r e e r arson Katharine Hepburn Norma Talmadge Alia Nazimova Vivien High Renee Adoree consignee Almadge Carole Lombard Clau Dette Colbert and Margaret us a Van. Bonn gets million for tobacco Washington feb. 24 apr the economic cooperation administration has announced the allocation of 81,035,000 to Germany for the Purchase of tobacco including Cigar ets and cigars for delivery not later than aug. 31. . Tourist traffic called big business new York feb. 24 up . Tourist traffic is the fastest growing in business in the world today Wallace s. It Wittaker president of intercontinental hotel corp. Said Here. Whittaker spoke to 16 representatives from five european coun Ries who Are Here studying hotel methods As guests of the economic cooperation administration. They pent a Day at the offices of the he subsidiary of pan american world airways organized to com Ine successful . Hotel tech Liques with the Best techniques and traditions of the countries in which t operates. Whittaker said a great majority f . Tourists now base their Hoice of itinerary to a marked degree on the acceptability an variability of hotel a commode  us Oil held closing s Gap Washington feb. 24 a a Republican senator has suggested that Britain should buy All her old from Sterling sources and thus automatically close tier Dollar Gap Why Fork up $600,000,000 to Send Oil to Britain demanded sen. Henry Cabot lodger Mas speaking to the Senate foreign re lations committee of which he is a member. Why does Britain not buy her own Oil then you could close up the Dollar Gap right there by $000, 000,000." he said. This was the value he said of the Oil which the . Petroleum Industry was exporting to Britain each year. Paul g. Hoffman economic co operation administrator who was being questioned by the committee replied that Britain is expanding her Oil production in the Middle East and the Caribbean but still has not enough for her own need