European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 21, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                November 1950 the stars and stripes ready for the cold business in the electric Power output retail Trade registers gains Supply men of the 7th Marine rest in the chosen Reservoir sort boxes of Winter gear and clothing to be issued to the unit for fighting a the bitterly cold korean standing forces of studied 20 the Pentagon is considering a plan to build a trained armed Force of and then reduce the number on continuous Active duty to to expand defences swiftly in an there would be sufficient Reserve and National guard units filled with fully trained reliable sources disclosed that this proposal under consideration Fol lowing a speech by Gen Omar chairman of the joint chiefs of suggesting the development of a new system of ready Reserve and National guard in a speech to the press managing editors at Bradley proposed that the Reserve and National guard system be modified to strike a sound bal once Between military and civilian demands for until re serve and guard units can be brought to an improved state of Bradley americas manpower resources May have to be taxed severely to create the Active armed forces informed persons Here said the Pentagon is studying a proposal to build up the Active strength of the armed services to men within the next year and a provided Congress votes the huge required to reach this advocates of the proposal to re Duce the number on Active duly Bennett appointed to head Point in 20 president Truman has picked Henry Garland presi Dent of Oklahoma to direct the Point in program of j we to underdeveloped areas of the i v Bennett will be administrator of a face technical cooperation adminis s traction in the department of that Agency handles Point in and f certain other including inter american the White House announced the appointment shortly after Bennett bad visited with As Point in Bennett will succed Capus ambassador to who has been acting and Ince after that to who would be backed up by the highly ready Reserve and guard units that Brad Ley say Hie proposal would have these advantages it possible to maintain adequate military strength for years to if without incurring such enormous costs that the country and Congress would ultimately abandon the to a minimum the in roads that military needs will make for Many years into manpower available for Industry and other productive off the size of the Active military Force so that As Well As will have the firmest possible basis for planning military one official expressed belief that Industry will be much quicker to make needed expansion if it is assured of a continuing demand at a fairly stable plans for Navy under the plan now being the Navy would continue expanding until the Middle of next after which it would be maintained at about the same unless a Gen eral conflict should the air Force and army would continue to expand for some an element of the proposal is a request that Congress extend from 21 months to two at the period of service for another idea reported under on which no decision has been is to require Young men deferred from selective serv ice to take six months or a year of military after such they would go into the if adopted by the defense depart this proposal would require congressional legislation would be necessary also to require draftees to join but highly Reserve and National guard units after serving their hitch on Active Federal by Phillips new 20 business trends were slightly mixed last but most key industries operated at High Marks and conditions in the consumer Field showed improvement electric Power output scored a new a modest but evenly distributed Rise in retail Trade Over both the previous week and last year provided the biggest talking Point for economists pulling for a big Christ Mas in its weekly Dun Bradstreet said much of the in crease in store Phillips business was attributable to a combination of cooler weather and approach of the Winter shopper interest was pictured highest in apparel and lowest in House tending to contradict reports that Many merchants were loaded up with slow moving merchandise bought during the summer wholesale ordering was reported to be holding up exceptionally there was a noticeable increase in the number of buyers visiting various wholesale with Only 29 business Days to go before prospects Lor a Good season were increased As the weather took on a Normal Winter pattern the tax question received a thorough airing at Many the businessman wondered How big the new rates on Corpora Tion profits would be and whether there would be an excess profits tax on top of that Truman plugs for Levy on excess profits president Truman set the pattern in official thinking by plugging for a billion a year Levy on excess corporation profits at the Start of Public hearings by the House ways and Means there were Many opponents of plan a highly placed government financial authority sketched a dreary picture of the Road including the tax a member of the Federal Reserve Board told a Cham Ber of Commerce meeting the nation could expect higher diversion of orders to defense longer work new credit restrictions and fewer new automobiles and Homes the associated press Index of 35 wholesale commodities Rose for the fifth straight week to the Highes level since the week of 1948 the labor department reported wholesale prices Rose to a new record nearly 9 per cent above Levels prevailing before the korean the business Chart contained ii declines and 10 advances last an unusually close but the plus Side had it All Over the minus column in significance and bearing on the National except for a rather Sharp drop n automobile for which Here was an acceptable explant declines from the preceding week were generally Small and in virtually All cases left operations at exceptionally High paper Mills show continued High output steel for was estimated at Only a handful under the tons produced in the preceding week which was an Al time operations in paper Mills were scheduled at per cent of less than a Point under father kills baby new 20 Young father admitted that he be came enraged and killed his 14 Mont hold son because the baby police the father was Walter who came Here from three months Brackens have 5th child 20 Connie the forme Connie Nickerson of the new York presented comedian Eddie Bracken with their fifth child we weighed in at eight three Byrnes warns klan in 20 governor elect James Byrnes turned his first Post election speech into an attack on the Kun flux klan and warned night aiding gangs to take cover while he is in if men who Parade dressed in sheets and carrying pistols Are under any misapprehension As to what will be the policy after Byrnes want them to know that in this state there can be but one presided Over by a governor elected by the the former Secretary of state said no group of masked or would be permitted to take the Law into its own if a Man violates the Law in South he shall be punished through the Byrnes there will be no room in this state for a government presided Over by a grand dragon or a grand in Horry masked groups recently shot up a negro dance accidentally killing a policeman wearing a klan Robe Over his uni and flogged a the klan denied any connection with the restricts exports of wonder drugs 20 the government has acted to re Tain in the an ample Supply of the new wonder drugs Essen tial to the treatment of wounded the Commerce departments International Trade office said that validated licenses will be required for shipment of All sulfa drugs and such As penicillin and to All foreign coun tries the record High of per freight car loadings totalled a decline of cars from the preceding but still within a Short distance of the two year record number loaded in the week of 28 and More than cars ahead of loadings at this tune last soft Coal output at tons was tons under the preceding week but fully up to seasonal expectations and nearly tons ahead of production in the 1949 week when labor troubles hampered automobile production fell Back sharply to units from 009 in the preceding week and compared with a year the Industry had to contend with an unusually Large backlog of unfavourable among these were growing materials Short including Model and possibly a Lack of incentive to push production in the face to credit restrictions which dealers say unnecessarily stifled the Sale of new and old cars Auto stocks pile up under credit curbs reports from the Field indicated dealers stocks have mounted rapidly since the government tightened payments and shortened the length of time to the biggest Gap in production ranks this week took shape ordered Here was a series of staggered shutdowns affecting some workers and extending Over the next three the company and Union disagreed Over the Rea sons for the partial engineering construction work took a Sharp upswing without Bene fit of any Large adding up to for the largest in More than a me total com pared with in the previous a year construction activity also was booming with volume totalling civilian expert to evaluate of performance in Korea in we 20 the air facing a congressional inquiry into its tactical air support work in has announced it is sending a civilian expert there to make an impartial evaluation of its combat perform Robert president of the University of will make the study at the request of air Secretary Thomas Stearns was chief of operations analysis for the 20th air Force during world War the announcement made no refer ence to plans by chairman Carl Vinson of the House armed services to investigate the close air support Given by the air Force to ground troops in to it said Finletter asked Stearns to make the study to provide the air Force with an impartial evaluation of the air forces capabilities for guidance in future air Force plan steams will be accompanied by maj Gen Thomas White of of he is expected to be gone about a crude Oil production shows slight increase crude Oil production Rose trifle to a daily average of barrels from in the preceding week and compared with a year electric Power output curved up Ward in its usual seasonal pattern and in doing so hit a new High at this compared with in tic preceding week and in the 1949 one of the Best signs of Good business notwithstanding sea Sonal dips and other Day today was a decline in bankrupt cies to lowest Point of the this compared with 181 in the preceding week and 222 a year brokers excess reserves Rise Bank clearings outdistanced vol ume in the preceding week by a big margin due to the election Day Holiday in the earlier period and made almost As Good a showing Over the 1949 the figures last week the preceding week year ago there was a modest Rise in Busi Ness excess reserves and brokers1 Loans but Small declines predominated in other banking the Stock Market kept in a late rally in rails was big Factor in keeping bullish forces in the Saddle without much All about was added to the quoted value of listed shares Railroad Bonds tagged along at a comfortable Pace but the big Newt in Bonds was the Sale of nearly of new municipal and state paper and about of new corporate