European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 28, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes March 4951 labor Calm feared Lull before March the present relative Calm on the labor front May be the Lull before a storm of Federal officials said the expiration of government induced strike truces in three major industries next month will Unow scr High pressure areas that could bring serious they possible danger they were the Railroad and shipping the Auto Industry could be a the United Auto workers Cio have scheduled open contract talks with general motors in a few with a list of Strong de ship truce expires the four month truce Between Ibe mates and pilots Union Al and the 38 Atlantic and Gulf coast shippers expires april they will resume bargaining today in new talks Between the communications workers of America Cio and the Western electric key subsidiary of the american Tel Ephone and Telegraph also were to resume in new York the which agreed to delay its threatened nationwide strike until april has some Tel Ephone workers ready to walk it claims another will re their picket lines and will shut off Telephone service from coast to coast unless the Bell system Grants a 15centanhour wage president Truman has named emergency fac finding boards under the railway labor act to try to head off strikes by three Railroad brotherhoods for higher pay and a Shorter work def eld warns on so vie Navy n e w March 27 adm Louie def eld said Here the soviet unions rapidly expand ing combat Fleet outnumbered the Active Navy in every category except carriers and As time goes unless the attrition of our Navy is the weight will shift further in the soviets the former chief of naval operations wrote in the current Issue of Colliers def who was ousted for his opposition to the department of defences decision to Cut Back the said the soviet unions Navy was now greater than Ger Many in sees Ross building Rise in terms of ships in the russian Navy has More cruisers and battleships than we and Many times More he in combat we outnumber Russia Only in and the deterioration of the Dej Fjeld will be accompanied by a Mammoth in crease in the russian shipbuilding which will enable the soviets to bring any future War to the on the under the and Ove vibe gets eight Rodney who instituted Telephone answering service after he went Blind some years sits at Bis Busy desk in Demarest grossed last on i new March 27 Magazine has reported that years of digging Icelow Peters Basilica in Home have yielded archaeological evidence supporting the Catholic belief that Peter is buried on that in connection with the publication by the first pities of the sex life prints an article by Ludwig administrator water crisis viewed As lesson for conservation March 27 a Federal Engineer asserted Here that the new York water crisis May be a Blessing in disguise if it brings the country water Trou Bles into National Carl chief Hydraulic Engineer for the geological declared from a Gen eral Point of americas water resources Are As plentiful today As Ever but he told the National Rivers and harbours Congress the difficulty is found in places where the water Supply is too great or too he urged adoption of comprehensive water conservation Paulsen said that in nearly every state of the one or More communities now has or has had water problems As serious As or More serious than that which now faces new York Paulsen warned that finding a solution May Call for decentralization of populations away from some Wale Short House group oks fund for unknown Soldier March 27 the House appropriations com Mittee has agreed to provide for burial of an unknown Soldier of world War ii in Arlington National the fund was included in the omnibus appropriation the committee designated for a Tomb and travel expenses to bring the body Here and give it ceremonial military Hospital Cut scored March 27 members a House armed serv ices subcommittee have accused de sense Secretary Louis Johnson of ignoring his medical officers a his recent cutback in military As the Threeman group returned from a coast coast inspection tour of army and Nafy Clyde Doyle said m pm be is Are All convinced the order was made without due consideration of All the the subcommittee undertook the inquiry after rear adm Joel Boone was fired As Johnsons top medical officer for criticizing the Doyle said he was certain Johnson issued the order without any consultation with the commandants and surgeons general of the hospitals the he planned to make recommendations to presumably to Call off planned St telling How Vatican workmen delved into unexplored lower beneath the Nave of the worlds largest they penetrated into a Pagan cemetery buried 16 Kaas said excavations confirm convincingly the roman tradition which closely connected neros circus and the Vatican burial in other the place where Peter was executed and the place where he was discoveries Analysed Kaas does not say the explorations launched in 1939 resulted in finding relics of the chief but he asserts that a scientific commission is analysing discoveries giving archaeological support to Catholic life said the announce details of findings during Olic holy the Story of Peters death was that he was executed in neros circus and buried in a nearby Pagan burial ground on the Vatican Hill about 66 this later became the subject of tips on Cadet Cox found West March 27 army officials said they have checked carefully All tips that Cadet Richard Cox still May be alive and so far found them there have been a number of reports that he has been seen since the Hunt for him said a Public information but investigation by the Fri has failed to show they had any at Coxs widowed mrs Rupert she is sure the latest report that her son had been seen alive is entirely senseless and without found this was the tip by Lloyd fitting station who said he Daw a Man who resembled Cox last lusts description fit at the Mother Buick sales up Over 49 March 27 Otis general sales Mana that retail sales of Buick passenger cars have increased per cent Over last and to Tal sales for 1950 already have passed the Waller said total was reached this year a month earlier than in business in transportation j Lead recovery Iriye new March business and Industry a Power drive last week that car ried Many lines to the operating Levels of the year1 reflecting the end of the effects of the lengthy Coal 12 of the 20 major measurements of business were higher than test four were about unchanged and four declined leading the re covery movement were the Indus tries Hurt most by the prolonged Dis electric Power to a lesser re Tail Philips Here Are a few highlights in last weeks master business Chart steel at the highest level since Early april last year freight car loadings Hie Best since mid november Bank clearings the largest since the big turnover last Christmas electric Power output within hailing distance of the All by Phillips 27 week and and re a year i railroads put the Best foot for with car loadings exceeding those of a year ago for the first time in nearly a a heavy run of Coal cars was an important loadings in the latest wee for which figures have been co piled totalled against 707i in the preceding week and a year the Auto makers came up Wlk another super duper production stunt by keeping ahead Ona week Tow Sefc basis despite continuance of the Chrysler the assemblies totalled compared with last week and a year conditions resembled normalcy in the Sof Coal Fields with output run Ning to an estimated about in with last week against a year the figures were completely out of at that time one of the memorial stoppages in effect and output slumped from non Union j time record and the Stock Market at a  a pickup in easter apparel buy ing and sustained interest in other seasonal merchandise pushed retail sales above the previous in most areas of the economic hangovers from the strike lingered in scattered especially where breadwinners had gone heavily in debt to keep going while off new orders for almost All kinds of consumer goods were on a Par with the previous Good heavy for Tele vision and household appliances sent the volume above a year recovery from strike faster than expected while a great majority of store economists believe it will be a Good easter a couple of angles to the current situation Bear watch reports from major manufacturing centers showed the flow of goods to middleman and wholesaler was on Normal basis indicating recovery from setbacks caused by the strike was faster whether these earlier Haney petted deliveries will unbalance inventories will depend in a Large measure on How the trend of easter sales goes in the next two it is widely reported that stocks in Many general merchandise outlets Are higher than anticipated and that merchants had deliveries after counted on slow the strike ended and a fast easter business to bring about a better one furniture Origi Nally scheduled to be received at distributor and retail Levels in april had started showing up in Case of certain it was reported buyers did not now need All the goods they ordered and some deferments had been an important Straw a the wind on this front was the announcement Titis week that several big Rayon makers had begun to curtail product in face of a slowing demand at the retail statistics show trend for week was this was predominantly week in business and everything of importance to the National Economy was in an advancing mood and where there were declines at All they were steel Mills scheduled operations at per cent of High est since april and they expected to turn out tons of product this compared with an operating rate of and ton nage of in the previous h e of 1 crude Oil output rises 1 building contracts fall crude Oil production against a the preceding period and a year v engineering construction award totalled compared last week and 000 a year t paper and paperboard product both were higher than in the ceding week or last and 1 Ber shipments in the latest week m which figures were averaged per cent above auction new orders Sam were per cent electric Power production a4 Vance to kilowatt hours from in the Vious week and compared a year the Reb was due to a higher rate of actin in the Al time High any week was kilo1 hours in the first part of feb when electric heating devices into wide usage in Homes offices that had no on the financial Side of Bank clearings Rose so to from in the previous week and com with a year demand deposits were ahead of 1 previous week and a year business Loans advanced Over preceding week but were last a decline of 11 m Gold stocks carried the total i a 12 m 13 Fri enlists pub in brinks scare March 27 ins eral pressure was applied the fabulous brinks appear to have made the Cle getaway in criminal history their the Fri launched general pain enlisting the Aid of the through posters which Blar the its territorial and the poster personally Fri chief Edgar Hoover tall any informer collect the Toscanini celebrates 83d year with com new March Arturo Toscanini Bas celebs 83d the famous conductor Able of going through a three hour rehearsal without i conducted the Abc phony orchestra saturday of his regular weekly