European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Much 4mt the stars and stripes annual food costs prop t s in Ose Ely it re m pay ked the in my Ven Ike and on was it a retail prices Down from Peak since War March 26 the agriculture department said yesterday die annual Cost of the finally Market Basket has dropped almost from its Post War the retail Cost of the Market Basket in january was a drop from the december the department that compared with the postwar Peak Cost of in july the Market Basket contains a Supply of food equal to that eaten by an average family of three in a years time during the prewar period of actual per capita consumption has risen since the department had the banners share of the con Turners food Dollar Rose to 47 cents in january after dipping to 46 cents to the previous two this stemmed from the 3 per cent drop in charges for marketing foods and an increase of about 1 per cent in fee farm Price of Chicago gets onion deluge Price hits Al time Low March 25 Cago was deluged with onions yes and the Price plunged to an Al time railroads declared an embargo on incoming s h i p m e n f s be cause the country biggest rail Tenter was jammed almost to Ca on Chicago Side tracks to ipod 348 freight cars filled with onions nobody seemed to Host of them were assembled at toe sprawling Wood River freight where 359 carloads of Pota toes added to the unprecedented Railroad sources said there was hardly room to switch p the Price for March onions on the Chicago mercantile Exchange plunged 50 cents per 50pound the Price hit the new Al time Tow after a steady decline from a sack last the Price break meant that within a few Days they would be paying 2 or 3 cents a Pound for onions now Selling for 9 the 8 cents a tee knowhow helps latins raise More Coffee March 25 Consumers have a prom More and cheaper Coffee years hence because this coun try has been sharing scientific knowhow with latin the agriculture department said Coffee research project in three Central America countries shown planters there How to or even treble the three n Salvador and Costa have teen supplying this country with Arnost 10 per of its Hare wont be any overnight Toast in the department the anticipated increase in will come it from gradual replacement of Low a Wing Coffee Trees with High u takes a Coffee tree four or five to reach the coffe bearing girl quads get Aid father Ozzie Hargreaves above right offers four cigars to grand father Kendall Knight on the birth of girl shown Hargreaves said that without a new he could not care for the children March 25 Sault Marie wont help sup port its quadruple the citizens of Toronto May take the Job upon comptrollers David Balfour and Allan Lamport said they will ask the Board of contralto open a City fund for the it is really up to the provincial government to help this Balfour but since they cannot get help i will ask Toronto to do the a local radio station has already started a financial Campaign for the four whose parents said their town had failed in its duty on an Al night musical the Sta Tion has received pledges of so Toronto activity followed the outspoken of and Ozzie the that Sault Marie should find accommodations for the family and financial Aid for the quads up in Sault Marie mayor her Bert Smale registered he was quoted As saying that As far As he was the City Council would do nothing for the death urged for top nazis March 25 ins Isidore Dollinger has demanded that John High commissioner in Ger carry out immediately the executions of convicted top nazi War Dolinger said any further delay will completely destroy any 5faith the world May still have in Amer ican m a letter to Tfaye con Gressman earlier this said he was awaiting Appeal action be fore proceeding with the death Dollinger told the House upon i found that on March official notification assent by the state department to commissioner inform ing him that As High commis has Complete to execute the death i am accordingly writing Mccloy pointing out that h is his duty to obey the mandate Given a wife marries los March 25 Hannah divorced wife of former heavyweight boxing Cham Pion Jack was married Here to Thomas 38 year old night club i Farmers hit dec a surplus plan at Smaw March 25 four major farm have objected to a congressional move to give Vannall plan countries Worth of government held surpluses next pc a letter circulated to All the organizations said opposed the to slash Marshall plan appropriations by and substitute the equivalent in farm the organizations charged the plan would Domestic farm program and provide apparent proof of russian claim that America is using the economic cooperation administration for the purpose of dumping its coast to coast britons arrive i to visit War brides Truman appoints Engineer to commission key March 25 Thomas 58yearold new York business executive and has been picked by president Truman for membership in the atomic Energy Murray which will be submitted to the Senate later this was signed at the Winter White House where the chief executive is spending his Murray will fill the vacancy created by the resignation of chair Man David but the president withheld the designation of a new chairman until after april when another Lewis is leaving and another appointment must be Sumner a wild continue As acting president of the metropolitan engineering in Brook is a member of the Board of directors and chairman of the finance committee of the Chrysler cases show increase in year Over 49 March 25 there have been nearly three times As Many influenza cases in the so far this year As there were Dur ing the same period of the Public health service said yes the outbreak continued to spread last week with new a Rise of 7 per cent Over the previous since the service has reported at total of As compared to in a com parable period of new March 25 British parents arrived Here yesterday on the Franconia to visit their daughters married to american the liner arrived two Days late after a rough which capt William Stewart described As the worst in his 30 years in addition to the 71 the British of the and Canada brides parents included eight a came from the Liverpool the group was led by Richard an of liver who said he intended to Settle near Ohio with his family think the children Geta better Charice in a new country than they will in the accompanied by his a son and will first visit another Robert Knauer at Rees said he always contemplated coming to but his wife said i talked him into Elizabeth also of Secretary of the carried a letter of greeting from the lord mayor of Liverpool to mayor William Odwyer of new when the British group queued for checking their one i did not think you queued in we have had enough queues at the oldest member was Mary Anne of she is Here for a six month visit to her Martha of whom she has not seen four Oliver said the party is the largest group to come Over from England representing War Bride House disagree on bread and water March 25 the Senate and House were at Odds today Over How Long a military Pris Oner should be kept on bread and the discrepancy turned up in separate versions of a military Justice Bill passed by each the measure is designed to provide a uniform code of military Law for the armed in the House proposed cutting to five Days the present on week hit for the Mili tary bread and water diet the sen ate suggested three a sen Gatehouse conference committee probably will heed the advice of Sterling Cole four 300 guard planes stage mock raid in Ohio sugar March 25 300 air National guard planes participated in of the largest mock bombing raids in the country since the end of world War an attacking Force led by col Faurot assembled Over Pitts Burgh and then streaked toward the a Gas refinery pumping station in this Small town near the attackers came from Penn Mary land and the District of they included b26 bombers and f47 the defense Force was made up of f51 fighters flown by pilots from Michi West Virginia and Audie Murphy says Lora Lee seemed Well fed March 25 defense including actor Audie said 9yearold actress Lora Lee Michel appeared Happy and Well fed and bore no bruises that her Foster Mother might have the Foster Lorraine is trial on a charge of mistreating Lee and keeping tier underfed so she would not out grow film americas most decorated characterized Michel As a very Good i didst pay any attention to How the girl Murphy she ate like the rest of he was telling of visits he had made to the Michel Lora Lees Only unhappiness when he saw her 23 was that her Foster Otto was he Elanor dressmaker for Lora testified that she found no bruises on the Childs Billy when she fitted the child for dresses either 14 or Spellman returns to raps education Aid Bill new March 25 Francis Cardinal Spellman returned Home to new York at the end of a holy year pilgrimage to Rome with some 300 the new York under questioning by delivered a Sharp new attack on the Barden Federal Aid to education which denies Aid to private and parochial schools for such items As school lunches and Spellman said that if the Barden Bill should be then the next move May be to keep Cath Olics out of Public Public gardens and perhaps off the Side he said he was not asking Aid for parochial either for their maintenance or salaries of he we feel it is in american that any Federal Law should be passed disposing of Federal monies for auxiliary serv ices bus and denying american children these Public Senate unit told tipping billion business in March 25 an expert on the subject told con Gress that tipping waiters and wait resses is a she said waiters and waitresses might be reluctant to report the Money for social Security purposes for fear the income tax collector might find the witness was Imogene author of the handbook for a guide to better service and bigger and better in business she testified before the Senate finance committee on a Bill to expand the Federal social Security program to include waiters and she estimated there were about waiters and waitresses in Public eating places in the she figured they averaged a Day in Wright suggested the possibility that tipping be abolished and a Flat minimum wage Susti a Flat 10 or 15 per cent should be added to each diners she 8th grader asks Lewis for Aid in strike debate 25 an eight Grade Beryl of has asked John Lewis for help in preparing to take the negative on the question should the Coal miners be allowed to strike i think you could help me y Beryl wrote Lewis out of town relaxing after the re cent Coal but his office preparing a reply to