European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stabs stripes Buck Benny rides again gives advice customs it int every Day that Jack americas top radio gives some Long but in the Jeu awing written expressly or International news Benny gives away some free Benny it now touring Europe with his Mary by Jack p a Kis ins the first thing the american tourist discovers is that there is a strange local custom in eur rope called i had never been aware of this quaint prac Tice until i came to e u r o p in Europe people not Only pay for their me a is in they pay the waiter o r bringing the in the this is known As double Benny in theres a shortage of scotch i was told its All being exported to Phil t attended a Cricket match in Lon when i arrived at the Field the spare buying spurts sales 20 retail store sales in july jumped nearly 20 per cent above the corresponding month last year As a result of scare buying brought on by the korean it was the Commerce department said july retail sales totalled about and Rose 2 per cent above june Levels despite the fact that they normally Home furnishing stores reported come of the biggest presumably a reflection of the anxiety of housewives to Stock up on items which might be scarce in the automotive group reported sales were up 9 per cent after Tak ing trends into the department explained that this was due to a Rush by motorists for new tires and other Auto motive accessories and did not necessarily reflect demand for nerf legislators Row Over Money Bill 20 hot words and a near fight Between Kenneth Mckellar and Cannon almost broke a House Senate Conini Iuele witnesses the witnesses 81yearold Mckellar one Point brandished a Gavel when Cannon started to move the close door Row occurred Over the omnibus appropriations it threatened further delay on the package Money Bill Over which the Coli been wrangling for according to one source present at the the near started when the aging tennessean referred to Cannon by a string of uncomplimentary including stupid and pig score was they still had two Days to i hear Branch Rickey wants to import some of the Cricket customs to ebbets i can just imagine a dodger fan Well in the British of the motorists drive on the if than Side of the Street just like on Hollywood but in they do it on in the taxicab Drivers Are they will take you if they want to go there it took me quite a while to get through the i Gall i just barely made expenses Selling French Post i sitting in a sidewalk body sits in sidewalk had a Doc Tor says i will Beable to get up in a couple of theres another custom in Europe americans should be warned i left a pair of shoes outside a hotel room door to be now i have to stay in the room Prygo the French is very volatile the political situation is a bit the government changed twice while i was having with the Orange juice and again with the that cup is made Xvi the a special drip process that takes about 20 that to provide plenty of time for the arsenic and Lye to become thoroughly mixed with the Mary insisted on visit ing All the famed haute couture Christian Balen and now were booking Back on a cattle in Policek Porter Patch proposed for newsmen 20 to now  covering this con world War did not Haw a shoulder Patch or other insignia identifying brought under among correspondents in the most popular Sug that the Patch be in scribed United nations police passport rejected for Rockwell Kent 20 the state department said that it has refused to validate artist Rockwell Kents passport because he had previously used it for travel in countries Jor which was not Kent has been identified with left Wing in response to inquiries about reports that Kent had been unable to undertake trip abroad earlier this state department press officer Michael me Dermott the state department has re fused validate his passport be cause it has been used contrary to he declined to explain this fur ther except to add twas used in countries for which it was not v rubber a Tiargo on Russ asked by Goodrich chief new 20 president of the Goodrich Here that the nations that control or great influence in the rubber producing areas of the far the Sale of crude rubber to the user and the soviet lot Collyer declared the has been receiving Dimini mpg Quanti ties of crude rubber since the end of world War ii while the user has buying substantial paid in cartwheels r r e 20 employees of r the Warren times publishing took their pay in Silver dollars this week As a feature of the firms 50th anniversary of politician Gambler link Eyel 28 Senate crime investigators reported that prohibition Era gangsters have taken Over organized gambling and new Are muscling int Legal Busi Nesses on an increasing added that tutors of Tisins be tween gangsters and National pol including members of be investigated by the Senate crime Wiley is a member of this special set up last Spring to investigate organized the committee made a report on what it has found so mainly in an inquiry into Florida the report said in every ninth suspect held by Fri in aug 20 Fri agents have announced the ninth at rest in their investigation of a Money order Stephen alias was seized at his Home on charges of conspiring with a new York gang to transport and sell the forged stolen american express Money orders in various East coast he was held in bail for a further a special agent m charge of the Philadelphia Fri said Baranetsky was responsible for Sale of Worth of Money orders stolen in the april burglary of the american express local office a total of in Blank Money orders was the complaint which resulted in Baranetsky arrest was filed by the Fri in new York it charged him and Robert Mcmanus with conspiracy to transport the forged indictments previously had been returned against George Fred Alfred John Howard Louis Pappas and Robert All of new Turiano and Mellon were named As the principal con duty lifted on fair exhibits 20 president Truman has signed legis lation permitting foreign nations to Send their products into the duty free for exhibition at the new Orleans and City it has checked there have been Many similarities ton the pattern in Miami organized the report Are Large and resort bribes and corruption Oft Public officials not Only in but also to get legitimate b u s i n e it said there is reason to believe organised interstate crime can Ber with Congress t the report refers to testimony wherein twas alleged new York Gambler Frank Erickson paid for 10 tickets to a democratic wants More details committee officials said the Din Ner was at the Honey Plaza hotel in Miami Wiley said wants More details about cases like participation by gamblers of the underworld in political he results in too stench in the nostrils of the american people to Wiley said there have been ugly rumours for a Long time about links Between the underworld and state and National the commit tee he brings out clearly that there Are such tie ups at the local political especially in it is my and that of the the senator to follow up on rumours and reports of a tie up Between National Harvard sending sociologist team to  20 up a team of 15 or 16 social scientists will leave for Germany 1 to investigate what goes in behind the Iron Harvard University has sponsored by Harvard russian research the project will take the form of Large scale inter views with displaced former citizens of the soviet the social scientists will try to gauge the Impact of the communist system on the individual and study the factors hold people to the system and that cause them to renounce Clyde Kluckhohn will head the j with Munich As its Field head the team expects to inter View hundreds of former soviet citizens before returning to the about next crunch when a locomotive ran away at it pushed the full Man tar through a Concrete Par Apet and had been a Nice shiny the cars occupants had just left presumably not stopping to finish the can of Beer on the autos Senta Tives and party leaders and individuals Raj resenting illegitimate other committee members chairman Estes Kefauver d if nor Herbert Ocoor Charles Tobey the committee report Credi the investigation to Date Shi Ting gambling open Lions and Flushing out and ing operators who Long have Timonio sly proclaimed their a co Mittee it is encouraged interstate c r can be r senators urge is tvs reace to aimed at 20 Twenty eight senators have on president Truman to urge a Imp andal lout crusade Toi co Vii russian people that the was they proposed total mobilize Atida and total eng gement of our pay logical and spiritual forces peace offensive against the Kieru Lijin the bipartisan led y Ralph Flanders presented to a letter called for expansion of of America and other government it information facilities they More Money we need a new Lane a new directness and let plainness of we need message be Indef is a lately reiterated we need to us0 Means new and thought of unthought traditional and a Jav undermine politburo the letter said the program1 senators had in mind and erode the foundations of escape the appalling Pend iture of life and treasure which we Are and thus Cape the totalitarian control of lives which neither the american people can contemplate without let us Tell the russian people that to live in peace wit ii them and Hope that their rulers will not compel Flanders said the pressed Complete sympathy v the Alexander Smith and Villis Robertson who accompanied Flanders to the said the president indicated we might be surprised How far ahead we have such a r Bridges Union bks a wage de North aug20 delegates of Harry badges Cir longshoremen Union voted to demand a 10 per cent Board wage increase for Pacific coast Dock workers unions contract is opened negotiations sept the economic Issue temporarily sidetracked a series of of right and left Wing the Union in a struggle Over dating Bridges ship and user held jews Abraham Multer charged that soviet leaders ruthlessly Trace of jewish religious Tural activity in in this respect communist Are no different than Hitler Multer said Fidiaj r