European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 5, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By Joseph Karin forlorn and empty except for its vast array of delicate instruments stands the rambling Ivy covered four Story Brick factory of the Waltham watch in founded 100 years and which has just dosed its in the Homes of jobless men and women hours Are Long and dark for those too old Ever to get other at the watch workers Union head in the taverns on Street Corners 900 of the nations Topnotch precision of them with some Many bit a few and others chiefly worried Over possible foreclosure of mortgages on their at City Hall and in the meetings of business organizations of the watch City without a watch Plant All is of mayor Chauncey Cousens and others were emphatic today in declaring Clear and a Neve Saydie spirit will bring Waltham out of its plight in the shopping not far from the Century old watchmaking Plant the hundreds of stores were doing business As not having Felt the Impact yet Odt the loss of a yearly k payroll that was close to when workers were employed by the company some years of Waltham Are deter mined to write a duplicate of the inspirational Story which electrified the nation in print and on the motion picture screen when emerged from its crisis after the great Amos Keag largest Cotton manufacturing Plant in the went to the a companion piece was the spectacular rebirth of when Tex trons decision to move to the South and puerto Rico put one Quarter of that cites Industrial workers on the officials Are keeping their plans under wraps because they want to give the watch company every Opportunity resume operations through a new through government supervision in a National defense move or through the Waltham plan appears to Center around an offer Froman undisclosed source for the Purchase of the entire watch company Plant mayor Cousens said the closing of tote watch Plant does not mean a crisis to the there Are Only seven watch workers on our alternate plan will Bera pleasant sur he recalled the old Boston Cotton which collapsed in the mid Hirdning More than Waltham residents out of the mayor said that in the Long run Waltham benefited by the collapse inasmuch As the Mill buildings Are now used by no less than 16 different Industrial he ahead absorption of Idle watch workers under the pleasant Surprise these workers Are the Cream of the precision labor Many have grown Gray with the toil of years the first precision watch Plantin the pangs of the jobless months ahead come from those Between the Ages of 60 and 70 or More said miss Viola a longtime employee i feel very Sadr the Waltham watch has been my whole i probably cannot get another Job in every drab situation there always is a Matthew who worked 51 years on Waltham watch declared i knew it  be a steady Job when i table Tennis bounces hark am a popular sport in world tit Selouer Jimmy Mcclure addicts in the dec during tour of zone by Dick staff writer table Nee Ping a gentle indoor game requiring no herculean Effort at the training on the rebound in the according to Jimmy of five world and american who recently captained the american table Tennis team on a european tour that brought the group to the has been cracking the Little celluloid balls for some 17 a manufacturer of table Tennis equip at has few Peers in the paddle table Tennis is a depression he when folks Are loaded with dough they hit the night club but when the dough runs its cokes and paddles at Back in Mcclure and some friends were playing Tennis in Indianapolis when rain turned the Clay courts to we went into the he re and there my first game of table fourteen months and hundreds of games Mcclure annexed his first National singles Mcclure says table Tennis was invented by a couple of British army officers in about but added that there Are Many claims on at any Parker of creators of Many indoor put the first indoor Tennis Seton the Market in Days the Ball was covered with netting to avoid damaging furniture Harley of imported the Here Mecl a championship follows through on Bis b a c k b a n d food offensive that second Only to the forehand Jimmy Mcclure demonstrates the official table Tennis the Ball Mosi be held in the Palm of the hand with the thumb and fingers Parker and on the British Isles the sport was an instant the first celluloid it is were developed by a hamlets gave the game Ite name of Ping but the experts prefer More dignified table Tennis for reasons that should be i m0clure says Are six Standard Schofs for the with Mec lures variations include Wall flips and Mudure lista7 fee As follows official serve with the Ball held in ice Palm of the the thu band fingers extended u forehand chop shot made with the paddle tilted at a 45degree the shot is considered defensive and can be made As far As 12 feet away from the backhand shot with paddle held at the same Angle As in and also defend i forehand favorite of most table Tennis and an offensive the follow through on this shot is Uke a military t backhand also drop shot made on the considered a stopping the paddle is held loosely and the shot is designed to take some of the steam out of the opponents this is the drop shot calculated to some of the steam oat of the opponents shot is made on the table with the paddle held loosely in the Here Mcclory demonstrates the fore hand chop shot the paddle is held at u 45degree table Tennis players use the shot on defensive feature Section contents articles tax problems take the by Omer Anderson drawing by Rollie visits Berlin i i wary by Dwight Schear a message from Genera Marshall in Xii sports feature table Tennis makes a by Dick Habein i picture features gospel tents Glamor girl the Prele Fen festival v1v1 regular features report by Joseph Karfin ii Star atty Paris hats vol by Josephine Culbertson vol Cooks by 1 new by Arthur new dec movies x an program of the x i crossword Puzzle i wishing this weeks cover to brine readers of the stars and m picture of festival life to Peers journeyed to Mainz and of All the photos they brought one by Horst Messer taken in Mainz at the height of the pre Lentea a was chosen As this weeks cover because it most nearly typifies the american Conception of these photo credits picture position top Middle left right Bottom by m ser Schmidt by Curvan 111ca Toon by Rollie by i army Vin by by Lisbeth Back Messerschmidt Back by Waller by Penn Georges Martin Guy Doryne studio stills Courtesy Mem Abc a Chou american red the stars and Stupi