European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 6, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes january 1953 Mccarran questioned in papers suit 5 Pat Mccarran who usually is on the asking end of pointed spent six hours Here answering the White haired chairman of the Senate internal Security sub committee testified under oath at a pretrial examination in a damage suit brought by Hank publisher of the Las vegas Greenspun charges that Mccar ran conspired with about 40 Nev Ada hotel and gambling Casino owners to withhold advertising from the newspaper after it criticized the got tax reduction Mccarran vigorously denied that he took part in the alleged con but he acknowledged under questioning that he frequently accepted free rooms and meals from various Nevada n d that he paid nothing for Campaign Headquarters space in Las vegas Swanky Al Cortez hotel during his 1944 and 1950 senatorial Cam he also confirmed that he interceded with the internal Rev Bureau to get a tax reduction for the Motel in Las once the Seri ate crime committee As one of the nations most lucrative gangster run gambling entertainment tax Mccarran said it was a Case involving the Federal entertain ment the once owned by Benjamin bugs who was murdered in wanted to find a to shut off its other business from its entertainment in regard to Mccarran said he also inter ceded with the Justice department to save the from jail in Greenspun had pleaded to charges of ship Ping arms illegally to Mccarran said he suggested Greenspun be let off with a Fine in place of a Lail sentence and that was prefers Home to wac command former wac it col Ruby who was next in Liae to succeed col Mary Hallaren As wac director this gave up the Chance for promotion to become the of William Hollywood movie Art press photo Lovett to give House or Blip v i views on better pcs planning 5 a Secretary of defense Robert Lovett will appear before the House armed services committee this week to outline views that May Start Congress working on a new blueprint for the joint chiefs of Lovett said in a report last week that the joint the country top military were among the military agencies that should be possibly by Dewey Short of the House said Lovett would a 4 world Aloiv you  child a Margarine that is All zapotec Indian women who sell vegetables Market weak hats of Johs to advertise wares to Tetil i Greeh lands Early used Frozen Bear steaks As currency a la Borez steaks for Days Vokk the orig Ltd of Corn has been established and it has Meek  growing wild we will pay for each strange food fact we Tiv and a Worp of 104 but 40th new Pear thursday or the session May be closed to the Short said the Secretary ideas might a congressional investigation of the the defense Secretary said some legislation might be required and also urged a review of the unification which integrated the services under the defense depart to make it More Lovett has not indicated what suggestions he made in a recent memorandum to president tru Man proposing military but on Capitol Hill the joint chiefs have been criticized mainly because each except the is head of his service As Well As its representative on the major planning service rivalries some congressmen say this Means carrying interservice rival Ries into the top military As Well As requiring each service head to occupy two demanding and responsible they advocate separating the two so that the joint chiefs can devote full time to Overall some congressmen have posed giving the chairman of the joint chiefs More authority to re solve Lovett also named the military buying Agen and the research and develop ment All set up under the unification As agencies which should be improved and their authorities and responsibilities All of these Lovett each member is both a claim aril for individual service require ments and a judge of each claims this some con Gressmen the members Are primarily interested i represent in their while the non voting chairmen cannot decide Dif this Lovett would cause their unsatisfactory operation during a period of ses rious shortages in materials or retired Admiral Dies 5 adm Luke Mcnamee for Mer president of the naval War College and former president and chairman of the Board of Mackay radio and Telegraph died Here after a two years business in fhe Outlook for Good in Industry by Richard Fiske new 5 apr business and Industry wound up the old year last week with production Consumers buying and inventories in better balance than at any time since the optimism was in the at least for the first half of the new and even the doubters didst think the second half could be too the High Levels at which business and Industry operated As the year ended was a far cry from the dismal forecasts of last there were rough bus Drivers on lines that serve around riders a Day were on strike in new York some docks were there were other smaller labor troubles throughout the work stoppages reported during 1952 these work stoppages closed out a year that brought More strike born idleness than any period since the labor department re ported work stoppages in pretty close to the record of in 1946 when the unions went after their first round of postwar wage but there was at least one optimistic prediction in the labor Cate William the new Secretary of the american federation of said 1953 will be a practically strike less the key Industrial and financial figures didst mean too much this week As a basis for some of latest available re ports were for Christmas week some took in the new year holi the holidays didst interfere with the Good business Standard and poors a leading statistical and said the Outlook is excellent for the first half of 1953 and a growing number of economists and businessmen who had forecast a letdown in the final half of 1953 Are now becoming More general business trend expected to continue the members of the National association of purchasing agents made a Survey and reported fifty five per cent of the Pur chasing executives reporting see no abatement in the general Busi Ness trend for the first six months of the report said another 25 per cent saw Good business for the first Quarter and 20 per cent estimated 1953 will average about the same As there was Little the report on a possible decline in defense More Atten it was entered on the Dewey studying Korea Bonus plan 5 the question of possible korean War bonuses turned Over to Thomas Dewey office for at meeting of the state Veter ans affairs it was decided that Dewey should deter mine whether c the Bonus idea should be studied by the commis or a joint legislative commit a veterans affairs spokesman said in View of magnitude of such a Bonus the com Mission it Likely that a commute Best would be Able to study the problem such a committee it would take a year for its that would mean the possible constitutional amendment fostering korean bonuses would not go into effect until 1957 at the helpful possibilities of tax Relief and removal of the House Small business com Mittee already has recommended to Congress that controls on prices and materials should b the up of six democrats and five re pull said wage and Price curbs Are hurting business More than they Are helping and urged prompt formulation of a decontrol Industry will receive More structural steel the defense production administration wound up to the old year with an announcement that Industry will get More structural steel in the second Quarter than in any three month period since allocations be Gan two years the spa said tons would be distributed and that the action assures a speedup for the second Quarter in the building of Power rail Road cars and engineering new record forecast the biggest year the construction Industry Ever has seen for the Trade publication of the construction Industry made this fora cast after discounting atomic Energy it is not Likely to repeat its performance in the new record predicted cos tracts totalling in an increase of 5 per cent Over tiie previous the nations steel Mills continued their High but while the remained the worlds greatest steel it was the Only country to show a decline in output in this was attributed to the steel which caused an estimated loss of More tons of new postwar record set in Industrial production Iron metalworking Trade said soviet Russia shattered the 31 production advantage the had the american Mills had a total production of net third larges on the Federal Reserve Board made a preliminary Survey of Industrial production in the nation generally and said a new postwar record was set in november for the third successive and the Board added that december output showed every sign of showing a still further Dun and Bradstreet said the usual pos Christmas drop in demand was reported in most sections by retail storekeepers but the total Dollar volume continued to top a year r the new York Stock Exchange remained steady on the last trading Day of the old year and the first of the but Over the week it was ahead of the and on 30 it hit a new 22year High on the capital Crooks steal congressman car 5 a new congressman from Nevada said Here he already has encountered the Crooks and thieves in Washington he has been hearing same one stole his Clifton too age said the theft occurred while be and his Bride were looking for an the loaded with personal was left two blocks from found hours in another part of the the car had been ransacked and but Young said police recovered most of his to is from