European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 3, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes october 1950 business in the High level operations paced by steel output by Phillips new 2 j will tax our ingenuity and self paced High level operations in Busi Ness and Industry last not Only did the steel Industry turn out More finished tons than Ever before in peace or but plans were announced to increase present capacity in order to meet greater steel requirements Gen rated by the re armament p r o Gram and near re Cord civilian Railroad car t loadings also stepped up and were the highest in nearly two Auto output was Only slightly under the Peak level of the preceding and electric Power consumption scored new gains in a seasonal expansion that exceeded Normal a Sharp upturn in paper production carried Mill operations to a Point equated Only once before this a More modest boost in paper Board output carried the rate of Mills above theoretical for the first time in l a new increase in Bank Loans for commercial purposes indicated manufacturers and just Plain people still were borrowing Money to buy goods both for cur rent consumption and the gain was less than in recent lending encourage ment to the belief that full effectiveness of the new Federal credit regulations would ease the Situa slight drop is noted in retail Trade nothing developed last week to now whether larger Down pay ments and Shorter pay periods decreed by the Federal Reserve Board in credit transactions was achieving the ends Dun and Bradstreet noted a slight dip in retail Trade Here and but there was Little setup in the steady pressure Here Are a few examples Mil went up a cent or so a quart in Many Eastern cities Beer Cost More in Cincinnati aluminium cooking utensils were boosted pig Iron was hiked a ton by most of the big makers two firms increased finished steel prices appliances were Given another and a line of chemicals widely used in manufacturing Vario usar titles Cost new houses were sharply higher in most improvement in the korean Situa Tion had a depressing effect on come such As which had been bid up excessively by but the Price Struc Ture As a whole was kept rigid by repeated warnings by High govern ment officials that we Are in for 8 Long period of heavy government possibly controlled Industrial production and other Emer gency period of peace at Sawyer warns an idea of How the future shapes up in the minds of men in key government positions was Given by Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer in a at he said in part the Happy period of peace and Prosperity enjoyed since the end of world War ii the time being at an is no advantage in pretending regardless of the outcome of Jie Battle in we have embarked upon a program which will put critical strains upon our Domestic control to the and this will go on for a Lull in labor strife was a Wel come change for management in Many lines of but it came at a wage increases were bigger and More numerous than in any week since the Cost of living started to Rise in and ranged All the Way from 5 cents to 25 cents an the Lull also enabled business men to take a better look at the slowly unfolding pattern of government control Over prices and hardly Felt As the Odds favor a rapid St Pup in government or directives and influence once the military emergency in Korea is ended and our planners decide what and How much they will need to keep ready for any emergency in the steel plants planning on increased output some industrialists already have taken the steel announced plans Friday for an in crease in steel making capacity in the Birmingham District Geneva steel told of plans to add 23 Coke ovens at the Plant Slos Sheffield announced it will let a contract shortly for 30 new Coke ovens at the North Birmingham works and reports circulated that a financial Combine was almost ready to finance Large scale development of Iron Ore deposits in a majority of the Basic indicators of business advanced this led by a Rise to in steel Mill operations from in the week of fore last and compared with a year freight car loadings Rose to from in the previous period and compared with last year Auto output added up to compared with in the week before last and last Sof Coal output increased to tons from in the earlier week an compared with output of Only a year when the Miner were Stock Uncertain at weeks end crude Oil production fell slightly from the record chalked up the week before but was far ahead of a year figures were last the previous and last engineering construction contracts totalled compared with in the week before last and s last paper production Rose to the unusually High Mark of per of capacity from in the Ore ceding week and compared with a year paper Board output was at per cent compared with and two and a year electric Power production at kilowatt hours compared with and to weeks and a year business Loans Frame within an Ace of setting a new record and Janein from in the proc Edine week and compared with in the like week in the Stork Market was nervous and Uncertain of direction much of last an Early end of the korean conflict apparently meant Jne thing to some persons and something else to in trying to find a course under such circumstances Orick retreated and Tien advanced again to leave prices a bit higher on the averages for last Book relates Truman rift with Byrnes 2 president Truman regards James Byrnes As a miserable failure who lost his nerve under russian pressure while serving As Secretary of according to an intimate biography of the chief executive by Jonathan the the Man of inde been published by Lippincott now editor of the Raleigh news and was administrative assistant and later Secretary to president Roose and served on Truman White House staff 33 Days in As democratic National committee Man from North he was closely associated with president Truman in the 1948 election Cam the Book is not labelled As an official but it comes closer to being that than anything yet published the president Truman saw the manuscript before publication and apparently gave Daniels permission to repro Duce intimate great detail Daniels goes into great detail describing the presidents intense disappointment his first Choice for Secretary of state and now a avowed anti Truman democratic nominee for governor of South author the Byrnes break with the 1945 Moscow conference foreign Byrnes lost his nerve at mos president according to who also quoted him As saying he failed miserably As Secretary of state and ran out on me when the going was very rough and when i needed him Byrnes submitted his resignation in april on the a but after Byrnes left office in january the presi according served his bad has now left him when he has found that he made a bad so he and old Baruch have joined the hearts and Scripp Sho wards to Dis credit they will not Pendergast chapter in a chapter entitled the gentleman from Daniels traces at some length the relation ship Between Truman and the late Tom of Kansas jailed Kingpin of Missouri politics responsible for presidents entry into National life As a sen Ator in Stalin is As near like Tom Pendergast As any Man i Daniels quotes the president As hav ing said Daniels also says that if the pres ident had the Pendergast he had the Pendergast smear at his heels All the did not reject it the author Points that Pendergast was forced to Back Truman in the 1934 senatorial race As the Only course open to him1 because Pendergast was in he was1 Loyal to but never subservient to Daniels says of the president during his Senate Pendergast never made any suggestions to him about Truman told airborne Jean Simmons As Ophelia new 2 London was named miss airborne 1950 at the 82d an div Ball in the for the premiere of was presented with a pair of paratroop wings by George s i e g m a president of the associations new York Marlene Dietrich and Sonja he n i e were similarly honoured during the miss Simmons played Ophelia in sir Laurence Olivier film version of Ham to of Crosby flier wed a Toni Bing Crosby and air Force my serious shortages heavy Barksdale were taxes and the problems of inflation j married Here Hudson joins Parade of Price hikes for 51 2 Hudson motor has joined the growing list of automobile manufacturers attaching higher Price tags to 1951 Hudson announced increases of to on its new to introduced this other Auto companies which have raised prices since the Start of the korean 12 a Ishmen jailed for not sending children to school Lancaster 2 twelve More bearded fathers of the Misti sect have gone to jail to keep their children pure in the sight of god their among them was a Bishop of the old time Bishop Levi Stowitz was sentenced to three Days in jail after he refused to Uay a Fine for keeping his old child out of school the Otner 11 received the seme Sylvania Law requires children to attend they reach 17 the 12sentenced were from 40 Amish fathers arrested for keeping children 14 or older out of school the sect holds that at that age the children should be taken from the of n Namish so they can mature in their strict the Amish most of them heavily Wear Black fall crowned and the women Wear Black they fasten their clothing with Hooks and Gen Mccarron Dies at 49 Tittle Tokyo flier oct 2 Gen Henry George who was one of it Gen James Doolittle on the first air raid Over Tokyo in world War was found dead in his Waikiki his doctor told police that Mccarroll had been in ill health for some Yardmaster get raise of monthly oct 2 White House has announced settlement under which Yard masters on the nations railroads will receive an additional 5 cents an hour arid an automatic wage adjustment As the costo living in Dex goes the 5 cents an hour is Over and above the recommendations of a presidential emergency the agreement Calls for a three year moratorium on changes in wages and in consideration of which the employees will receive the additional 5 cents an hour and an automatic wage adjustment based on changes in the Cost of cent an hour in crease for each one Point increase in the costo living the additional increase will mean a total monthly Yard masters of about the settlement provides for a five Day work but this will be set aside for at least one year and thereafter subject to the desires of the employees and the manpower the emergency Board recommended an increase of 18 cents an the new settlement raises the increase to a total of 23 Centa an the same terms were accepted july 6 by the Al switch ens the trainmen and tors brotherhoods have refused a similar leading to govern ment seizure and operation of the railroads since 27 to Avert 2d video link in opens 2 ican and Telegraph officials have opened the second link of the projected new York Sanfrancisco television a 458mile microwave relay system Between Chicago and television viewers in Kan Nebraska and previously limited to Kin scope re cording and local live network to programs for the first time this coaxial spurs on the chicag Omaha net tie in Minneapolis and Kansas officials say there Isan outside Chance that coast coast television will be a fact by late since most of the relay towers be Omaha and Denver have been finished and Sites Between Denver and san Francisco a congressman Dies 2 Republican con Gressman from Colorado Western District from died russian Roulette epidemic9 kills three Houston youths 2 parents wondered today How they could Stop an apparent epidemic of a suicidal game which has taken the lives of three youths Here officers were powerless to Stop the deadly and psychologists were at a loss to explain its sudden popularity Billy 15yearold High school was the latest victim last wednesday when he borrowed a friends spun the Cylinder and fired one shot into his he died two hours russian Roulette is a game played by inserting one Cartridge conflict Are Kaiser into a revolver Frazer and Der and pulling the trigger on 51 Odds that an empty chamber will Stop opposite the firing last Henry played the same game and he was proving his courage to five Young one of whom had accused him peeping in an earlier spin of the Warren shot himself to death 28 when he tried to impress his girl with a game of russian Monroe instructor in psychology at the University of was he said it was easy to explain Why an individual would play the seemingly pointless game in an Effort to gain s of social prestige or to satisfy perverted form of social