European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 29, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Spatea by Bob Considine Detroit ins for the first time since the end of the big the american automobile is wooing the not Utec the fabled Breeding Pond of the car turn off the from what to sheer Detroit is still producing cars and trucks each week of though it is traditionally a month noted for shut Downs for retooling or general slackening of the production by the end of the Detroit will have bolted together an Al time and just in Case new yorkers believe that All the cars Are being pent to that whose traffic is becom ing it might be interested to know that the output has created in Detroit itself a traffic problem which is causing the City fathers to bleat pitifully Lor the country voracious postwar appetite for cars seems finally to have been the people didst get that Bug unt Hirsty bucket they were promised during the Barren War years when feature writers dreamed their Heady but they took what was offered and found it this was always the time of year when the big Detroit plants stopped their Force feeding of to let Clear their floors for the newer models coming new models usually being last years Model with hubcaps or larger Ash As we were the plants either wont or cant turn off the spigot the result is that a Man who wants to buy a car today can do a Little shopping he no longer has to Shine the of his or have the old lady take in the dealers for and the dealers Are beginning to of them in Detroit May have to resort once again to a practice of Cut rate Selling that is generally deplored through the it has happened Southern and new York use car dealers especially have done and will do brisk under Decounter business with Detroit the factories continue to ram cars Down the Detroit he Here of no freight m charges attache to the Sale of a car in or at least the charges microscopic when compared to charges As a Detroit dealers have been known to sell excess cars off their floor at Only a profit aver to their dealers factory the cars Are driven away by the new owners to other cities and the of More expensive As much As under the list Price which an accredited dealer in that town must one Memphis lost in sales last year because a fellow without a franchise was Selling the same Model across the Street for and making the Industry Doest seem to be As much worried about the new governmental credit restrictions As Are the accredited a couple of months Man could take two years to buy his car on the now the govern ment has Cut that time to 15 and the payments naturally have had to cars Are piling up in show while the Public tries to make up its mind what the future has for it in the Way of greater and even More Egon better known to members of the Marogen club As samples sauce in the Kitchen of the located on the Banks of the Nec fear at the Mae Ogeni clubs Jimmy favorite maitre hotel of Neucom he officers says Farewell on departure for South America by Ken staff writer another old Veteran is leaving first there was then Burns now its Jimmy is the manager of the Marogen located across the Neckar River from his real name is Egon but in 1945 when he was tending bar at the 3d army Europa officers club his patrons gave up on Egon and subbed it has been Jimmy Ever or rather leaves this week for where he will manage a the Spanish wont bother him for he is just As proficient in that language As he is in French and his native he knows and under stands Spanish speaking for be tween 1925 and 1943 he worked in several Large hotels in Madrid and at one time owned the society cocktail bar Pakanik and the night club la bite he also ran the Royal Golf club of Mayer was born into a hotel family 45 years ago at Mulhausen Mulhouse he started out As a Bellhop in his fathers and lists the Frankfurter and the grand As former places of employ Well As hotels in bad nauheim and Jimmy went to work for the americans soon after be Day and his own discharge from the German a year later he was manager of the Europa and in december 1948 moved to the Marogen stands for colonels and generals As Jimmy Doest just manage the he prepares the samples the Cook greets patrons by name As they enter the takes their orders and suggests the Best Vintage of during floor show nights he acts As master of ceremonies and several times during the evening will take Over the Mike to sing with the his specially love but he is just As Apt to Don a matadors jacket and give Forth with Cielito Lin do and Rancho just to show Bow Long Jimmy has been he to shown Here in the old Cogen dab near beside him u Gen Geoffrey then 3d army feature Section october 1950 contents articles the Marogen clubs Jimmy by Ken Zumwalt i the visa problem by Dorothy Russell i fall planting season by George Learned i Salome at seventy Vii skis leaves Garmisch by Bernard plebes v picture features autumn photographs by Lisbeth Back before the deluge it in regular features those United h strictly Bridge problems Viii Book in women in latest dec films x dec showcase i this weeks cover the incongruous presence of the woman with the umbrella in a Boatload of cows makes this weeks cover one of the most unusual to have appeared in the feature the photograph was taken by Lisbett photog a on Konigs near Berch on a Rainy Sec used a roller Tex loaded with super xxx the photo was made at a 50th of a with other photos Page Al photo credits picture position top left right Middle by Jerry army montage Acme Roto service by Henry others army Back stills by 20th Century Fox radio by National broadcasting company by Rollie Devendorf the stars and stripes