European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 7, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                November 1950 the stars and stripes Page 7 business in the Small drop noted i business volume by Phillips new 6 business activity registered a Small decline last principally As a result of a slower Tempo on the consumer despite the modest which was Industry in general operated at near capacity a Good idea of Overall conditions was the record High electric Power this is the most trustworthy of All business be cause it affected by Day today activity in All lines of retail Trade was on the temperate Side again last week with the Phillips Stifler credit terms in purchases of hard Dun and bradstreets weekly Survey of retail Trade disclosed lessened interest in apparel and House while demand for food remained High in almost All total Dollar purchases were Well ahead of a year some economists believe the Christmas shopping already behind will swing into a More Normal pattern this week two Legal holidays in the week election Day tuesday and armis Tice Day give stores an occasion for special Christmas demand seen unaffected by prices consumer will afford some insight into the question of How much of the Ordinary Christ Mas business was done in the big Rush on stores right after out break of the korean the Christmas shopping season has an unusually favourable economic background this despite the prevalence of High prices and stiff credit terms for those who cant pay nearly in Christ Mas club for will be distributed late in an Al time High for the 40 years of Christma club other forms of liquid savings Are at record High in it was disclosed last week that the number of gainfully employed persons Rose to a new High in october and unemployment dropped to a new two year additional workers will be taken on daily from now both by stores and by heavy seek ing to meet expanded demand from both a record breaking civilian Trade and the unfolding armaments billion sales predicted this month bearing out the optimistic fore casts in other the mag Azine sales management predicted last week that retail sales in no vember would total highest for any november in slightly lower trends in business were highlighted by a decline in steel the first in 10 steel Mill operations fell to per cent of capacity from the preceding and at stacked up against the preceding weeks record High of last year Attis time the Industry was in the midst of labor with operations at per and Only tons of steel products were turned the minor decline was due to Wear and tear on men and machines incidental to the unprecedented Long run of High level for 10 weeks Mills have been turning out More steel than in the immediately preceding output for the last five weeks established Al time a setup has Long been in freight car loadings dipped to from in the preceding week Cpd compared with a year half of the Small decline was in miscellaneous which totalled against a week Auto production recorded a dip at which compared with in the previous week and a year material shortages in some plants and Model changeovers in others have posed problems for production managers in recent and the end is not in also it is fairly easy to get an Auto on the spot a condition viewed As entirely Normal by but considered wholly distasteful by some who claim the stif Fer Down payments decreed by the government have stifled sales of new Oil production show slight decline there was a bit of a slowdown in the Coal with output at against in the previous labor troubles a year ago reduced output to 000 crude Oil production averaged barrels a compared with an average of in the preceding period and last engineering construction contracts dropped to an impressive figure in any but still behind the volume of business closed in the previous a year ago contracts awarded totalled paper at per cent of compared with 107 in the previous and in the 1949 paper Board production Rose to 104 per cent from 101 in the preceding and stacked up against a rate of 94 a year bankruptcies Down from 1949 figure there was a Small drop in Busi Ness to 160 from 165 the previous the number of bankruptcies was considerably smaller than the 221 recorded in the 1949 electric Power production countered the declining trend in other lines of business by climbing to kilowatt hours from in the preceding and compared with a year on the financial Side of the Bank clearings were along with demand business Loans and excess reserves of Mem Ber Money in circulation also Rose to from in the preceding week and compared with a year fitting and proper Terry competing against eight other new showed she was the girl who can fill out Lana Turners gown the miss Turner wore the Silver gown in a use of arms in Battle seen 6 enemy troops on future battlefields May be blasted with atomic weapons launched both by the army and supporting air a defense department report until now the atomic bomb has been the strategic weapon for the mass destruction of not for tactical use against Field in the semiannual report recently the armed now engaged in strictly orthodox War fare in have looked far talking of an Arsenal of new weapons being developed or in the research the report referred to the Hydro Gen bomb radiological Poison germ guided missiles and other Advance in the Secretary of the army Frank Pace recalled that army chief of staff Gen Lawton Collins indicated last summer its by no Means impossible to develop an artillery piece that would fire an atomic woman tells beat her to 6 47 year old woman Lay in a Hospital and told How her husband and son watched As she was horse whipped in a weird religious ceremony to drive the Devil from my Alice told sheriff Thomas Gibbons that she under went the beatings one was administered by her neighbors found her unconscious in her Home and took her to a hos Pital where doctors discovered severe welts and bruises Over her entire a slight and frail Christensen told Gibbons about the religious cult she joined two years ago with her husband and her two she also has a How cultists Chase Devil about 20 of us formed the group because we were sick and tired of the junk they were feeding us in our regular she the which they referred to As the had no name and no connection with other religious or she As part of the weird rites they she members flogged each other to cleanse their souls of she suffered her first whipping last when members Felt she needed the Devil driven from her i asked for the second beating she told my husband handled the business chiefs of higher taxes but balk at profit Levy sea 6 ninety of the nations top business men have told the governments mobilization leaders they Are will ing to pay higher most of them also endorsed a policy of keeping one no of the defense pro but they opposed an excess profits even if it is clothed in the title of a defens profits tax As pro posed by Secretary of the Treasury John Sawyer leads talks meeting at this fashionable coastal resort for a conference of the business advisory the businessmen were led in a discus Sion of the controls program by Commerce Secretary Charles saw yer and William National production Harrison told the businessmen his Agency is attempting to map a two lol Breeyear control program bul has been hampered by a Lack of firm estimates of military require he it was Learned that it was impossible for the de sense department to Lay Down All of its needs Over such a Long Irlette urges West to build 1 air anti new 6 Secretary Thomas Finletter said h e North Atlantic democracies just build and maintain a great and unchallengeable in the air to offset russian mass tend i As Long As an enforceable Peirce does not the Western world must see to it that the most powerful air Arm in the he Finletter did refer to the user in his prepared for he annual wings club dinner at ended by ministers and air chiefs of other North Atlantic but he stressed that air Power can do evil As Well As Good if it is in the wrong he compared air Power to sea Power but said it has the added ability to make violent attacks at the heart of Anene mys he has extended the effectiveness of sea Power Over the and and into Hie enemy countries to the extent that naval aircraft can he that a land Power is now threatening the Eree just As a land Power in 1870 started what Toynbee Calls the time of troubles in which we so now a land Power is perpetuating and stimulating these troubles and is playing with the survival of our two lie legion chief foresees units in Indochina Battle nov 6 american legion commander Earle co a warned the to be ready to Send troops to America has assumed responsibility for policing the he speaking at a banquet Honor ing the Michigan state legion com Cocke said All this talk about the korean War being Ove and the boys Home by Christina is communist designed to create there will be More Amer ican troops going to Korea by Christmas instead of any coming dope addicts in teens Rise 6 narcotic addiction among teen agers is increasing Victor medical officer in charge of the Public health service Hospital said Vogel said the Hospital Roll shows patients less than 20 years old Rose rom 13 in 1948 to 203 this it looks like a definite Effort on the part of drug paddlers to intact Vogel the Only one of its kind n the now has one 14year old under All teen igers Are voluntary Vogel but Many come through pres sure brought by juvenile author he said Chicago was the biggest Center for teenage with Louis and Kansas City second and 6 killed in Indiana As vehicles collide 6 truck heavily Laden with steel crashed with an Hilling six the truck Driver was Hurt seriously and was not expected to state police said the Accident occurred when the car Cut in front of the truck to make a left turn five Miles West of both vehicles rolled into a Ravine and crashed into a the dead were identified As Hazel her and daughter of George Hoffman and his of and Mickey of sister of Swick and truck Driver Guy of was hospitalized with a broken broken fractured Skull and internal in polio closes schools 6 schools and Thea ters Are closed because of a polio epidemic the ban was imposed by Robert p City health for an indefinite period after a third Case of polio was re ported among High school Basket Ball