European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 14, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                March 1950 the stars and stripes Page 7 business in the Industry booms in of Coal Accord by Phillips w e w March 13 business and Industry began a comeback last after almost suffering a knockout blow by the great Coal strike of the nations business machine was slow and Uncertain first work Day after the new Coal contract was it picked up As armies of men returned to Coal steel railroads and other lines of Busi Ness sever Ely curtailed by the Long and costly by the end of the Indus trial production was within shoot Levels prevailing Phillips ing distance of before it was on that Day that the Coal slowdown of last fall and Winter blossomed into a full fledged strike that started a Chain reaction which nearly floored Busi Ness and losses figured statisticians already have figured out How much Money miners lost in How much Coal operators lost in arid How much rail roads lost in tonnage not some of the loss is As in the Case of the Home owner who had been using Coal and switched to much of it will be but Long Range economic consequences have yet to come into it seems certain that toe Day package increase won by the miners will encourage other big unions to go after More pay and social outfits benefits from the other Euch farm equipment and electrical appliance the United Auto workers Cio has had the Chrysler tied up for a month and a half in a dispute Over administering a company financed pension general motors the same Union is reportedly preparing a Peppery dish of de mands on general motors for presentation when its contract expires in Early other unions in the circuit undoubtedly Are doing the same All this adds up to Long Odds that upward pressure will be applied to prices of things you Wear and at a time when Normal competitive conditions would Dic Tate Breaks in your in recent months the Price Structure has held remarkably but individual items have fluctuated if there is to be a new round of wage a new round of Price hikes May not be far steel Mills and railroads got Back on the beam last week at a faster clip than other segments of Busi Ness and with the possible exception of almost immediately on news that the miners and operators had agreed on a new business began to pick up in stores across the on the Industrial a Bright picture was painted by steel and its close these were the highlights in the Pittsburgh steel which Cut Back to 50 per cent of capacity the previous had stepped up operations to 74 per cent by Friday night and planned to Start out this week at 89 per Good recovery was shown in Chicago and Cleve land in the Birmingham hardest hit of All the Coal re covery was a Little before the strike not a wheel was turning in steel Mills in the Southern metropolitan Dis by activity had1 stepped up to 22 per cent other things being it was planned to off the new week at 75 per equally Good Prog Ress was expected at the although exact figures were not steels Pacific coast Plant at sailed right through the Coa crisis without any setup at Bethlehem cheerful Bethlehem second largest had this cheerful state ment ready when contacted Friday afternoon recovery has advanced to the Point where we anticipate Normal operations by the first of next that meant All Mills in All districts would be humming along at 95 to 96 per cent of the american Iron end steel Institute estimated last weeks National steel rate at per cent on the basis of information Avail Able on but later reports indicated actual operations were several Points higher than the railroads also lost no time in getting Back on the beam after All kinds of and1 by weekend most operations were the Hal dozen big systems intimately tied up with the fortunes of soft Coal were the busiest of the Chesapeake and largest originating Coal Railroad in the pushed daily loadings at the Point of origin from cars on monday to on and kept right on running full blast in order to Speed Coal to Distant for the the big which recently passed its dividend because of poor earnings during the Coal estimated it would Load at Point of origin about this would compare with cars originated in the same week last when All was Well in the Coal other developments the Baltimore and another big shifted Back into High gear with the recall of most of the or so workers furloughed during the and1 operations stepped lip rapidly on the Western and Norfolk and All big Coal total car loadings of All railroads last week will not be known until the Middle of this but it is a Safe bet Che figures will be substantially above the handled the previous week and will prob ably go above the loaded a i year automobile output again con founded those have Beem wondering How the Industry can come up with so Many cars each with Chrysler completely out of the last weeks Assem Blies in this country and Canada totalled against the week before and last the Sof Coal Industry hit a five Day work week for the Tost time in months and came up with an Esti mated the previous weeks efforts of independents and owner operated mines accounted for a year out put was Market turns cautious engineering construction activity was at a High awards ran to against the week before and last a project of South Western Gas and electric at Long and a Elizabeth River at helped push the total other Industrial indices were about in line with recent perform including crude Oil Ait an average of barrels a Day and electric Power output at kilowatt hours for the the Stock became cautious suddenly after the strike after showing almost com plete indifference to the unfavourable economic aspects of the while it was the Market went into a freeze when it was Over and dropped More than from the quoted value of listed shares last coast to coast Law scotches Jesse james9 March 13 102yearold Man who claims he is Jesse the famed filed to convince a circuit court judge Here that he is anyone but just Frank who was brought into court on a Stretcher with a broken had asked that he be permitted to resume the name of Jesse Wood son contending 1 was born with that name and i want to die with that but judge Ransom Breuer threw the Case out of court after de livering a stinging denouncement of Jesse James and his gang of Austin beefs horse meat March 13 Texas horse meat scandal has spread to and City sanitation Engineer Hargis said the bogus beef tenders apparently came from the same source As those seized in fort Worth and Hargis said the state health department found 466 pounds of meat taken from an Austin wholesaler to be although it was labelled beef Cross burned before judges Home March 13 crudely constructed Cross with Kkt scratched on the base was burned in front of Federal judge Waties Warings he and his wife Are under attack because of their outspoken racial Charleston police termed tiie Cross burning 1she work of the Warings Are in new to thieves get in loot new March 13 Holdup men crashed a television party at the Home of a wholesale jeweler in Brooklyn and escaped with an estimated in watches and the 1 Bank shortage Laid to soft heart March 13  towns Only faces an embezzlement charge growing out of an shortage his friends his sympathetic heart was greater than his civic Leader and former was released under Bond at his arraignment at until a preliminary hearing he was charge specifically with embezzlement of in a transaction last traps mules on Island the flooding of the ice choked Iowa ice Calces in the River blocked Rescue by the ice was too thick to permit the animals to and1 not thick enough to let them walk Cochrane wife said the trapped animals included five horses and Alfred told police that he and has were entertaining guests with a to show when the Doorbell when he two men with pushed into the living March 13 and his neighbors yester Day sought a Way to Rescue 12 ooodstraaded1 horses and at More than before freeze or starve to finh nals were trapped test on to Island created by left destitute in Detroit fire and Frank of driven their apart ment by ask a firemen whether any of their property has been the Zaremski managed to save their two and snatched a bag of belongings and their wedding picture from the French son Tongue ties vet March 13 Chubby 3yearold b o y romped about the Home of Eugi William Cerce today and wondered Why no one understood what he was talking Cerce is the boys but had never seen him before the arrived plane from can i say to him Cerce he can speak Only and i speak despite tie Cerce was Moonshine Keven oers report March 13 the flow of Moonshine whisky swelled last year to the greatest volume since rationing of major illicit distilling Early in world War the alcohol tax unit of the internal Revenue reported an almost 15 per cent increase in the number of stills destroyed and a 14 per cent increase in confident it would1 not take Long to break Down the he had had to Appeal to president Truman and the state department to bring the boy to the the Francis was born of a wartime Romance in his Mother disappeared six months after his birth and Cerce has been unable to find her since then Francis has been cared for by an elderly couple in Cerce helped the couple financially while in the when he was he began a Campaign to get his son to the Beauty divorces Phil silvers los March 13 Joe miss Amer Ica of has divorced comedian Phil the Man who went Home to his when the Beauty and silvers separated the comedian said his mothering Law understands me Idle Rose in january March 13 three distress where at least 12 per cent of the workers were out of pockmarked Prosperity in the Bureau of employ ment Security the census Bureau reported that persons were unemployed in about More than in when 43 trouble spots were employment Bureau director Robert Goodwin predicted things would get belter in the Spring in almost All distress he said construction should pick up and manufacturing industries were expected to rehire workers Laid off for the Winter a gives notices in mass Layoff March 13 the veterans administration gave Job ending notices to thousands of and there were rumours it will close some smaller offices throughout on March administrator Carl announced a would have to drop about employees because it lacked the Money to keep them on the it now has about full time employees and Par time a spokesman said a had passed out dismissal notices so As to give Advance warning to those it May have to but thai the exact number to be dropped had not yet been critics name fallen idol Best British film of year new March 13 Carol Reeds motion picture the fallen idol was selected As the Best British made film of the year by the foreign language press film critics Circle Robert Jossens All the Kings men was named the Amer ican and the bicycle from was named the Best for eign picture of the