European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes monday August 31, 1959 626/000 idled says labor department report economic Pinch of steel strike steadily getting worse Washington a the labor department reported the economic effect of the first month of the steel strike up to mid August was slight. But it said the Pinch is steadily growing worse. More Job layoffs and Adverse economic effects will pile up the report said if the strike goes through a second month. The walkout started july 15. Already it is the longest steel strike since world War ii with the exception of a 59-Daywalkout in 1952. The worst steel strike in . History lasted 109 Days in 1919-1920 and tied up the entire Industry. Another Long one affecting Only part of the Industry was the 64-Day strike of 1937. The present strike has Only two weeks to go to outlast the 1952 walkout. Joseph of Finnegan director of the Federal mediation and conciliation serv ice said Here there has been no Progress toward a settlement. He has been presid ing Over peace talks in new  they Are now in recess until wednesday. The labor department Survey said the Impact of the present strike has been relatively mild so far. The department s Bureau of employment Security conducted the Survey in 31 steel producing and con suming areas. It said most areas reported steel sup plies adequate to maintain production at approximately Normal Levels through mid september. Possibly serious shortages Are expected after  mid August the end of the strike s first month retail sales in steel areas were holding up to High Levels except for some establishments near steel plants which experienced severe losses. The re port said the exceptions were most notice Able in the Gary ind., portion of the Chi Cago area and the sparrows Point Section of the Baltimore  word from High officials in presi Dent Eisenhower s administration is that in View of the still abundant steel sup plies he intends to wait at least until mid september and possibly until oct. 1 before giving serious consideration to invoking the emergency provisions of the Taft Hartley Law. This could result i stopping the strike for 80 Days by court injunction. The government s report said 126,000 workers had been idled by mid August in addition to the 500,000 strikers. Nearly one third of the 126,000 layoffs Are in the Pittsburgh Chicago and Cleveland areas. Applications for Federal surplus food allotments Are reported rising. Welfare applications Are beginning to increase sharply in the steel areas around Chicago and in Canton and Youngstown Ohio Andin Pittsburgh and Johnstown a. Impostor gets contract for role in movie Hollywood up Ferdinand w. Demara who has posed As everything from a Navy surgeon to a High school latin instructor has signed for his first motion picture role. Producer Charles b. Bloch said Demara widely known As the world s greatest impostor will portray a physician in the Allied artists picture the hypnotic  As an impostor Demara was most successful when he impersonated a surgeon in the Canadian Navy and skilfully performed Many operations during the korean conflict before being exposed. He also has impersonated such persons As a Lay brother in a Trappist monastery it Canada a Deputy Warden at the Huntsville Ala state Penitentiary a Dean of the school of philosophy at Gan non College in Pennsylvania and a latin instructor in a North Haven me., High school. Personalized mugs for Coffee customers a protester gets sentence Honolulu a Earl l. Reynolds was Given another six month sentence in Federal court after being convicted of sailing his Hiroshima built yacht Phoenix into the eniwetok nuclear testing zone july 1, 1958. . District judge John r. Ros pronounced sentence after Reyn Olds was convicted of defying the atomic Energy commission s ban on shipping in the Pacific a bomb testing area. It was the second conviction on the charge for the 48-year-old for Mer Antioch College teacher fro yellow. Springs Ohio. After his conviction last year the . Ninth circuit court of appeals granted him a new trial be cause he had been refused a last minute request to act As his own attorney. He was sentenced to serve six months on his first conviction. Maximum penalty for his offence is a $5,000 Fine and two years in  testified he deliberately sailed into the restricted zone to protest continued a bomb testing. Bob Arrol claims that his town Arcola 111.,drinks More Coffee per capita than any other . City. Ten years ago he started keeping private cups for his dedicated drinkers. The Coffee club now number 162 and there is a Long waiting list for membership at Arrol s drug store. Up photo Creek overflows Kentucky Church group marooned Richmond by. A about 100 members of a Church Congre gation were marooned for several hours when a Creek overflowed during a record rainfall in Centra Kentucky. The Rev. Bobby Jenkins pastor of the Antioch Christian Church said there were some uneasy moments when water swirled around the Structure. The Church is next to the Creek in a Rural area. We Sang hymns and wailed until the water receded the pastor said. A . Weather Bureau observer said More than seven inches of rain fell in the area during a 24-hour period ending at 7 am. Vinson a ski information on cutoff of sea master Washington up chair Man Carl Vinson of the House armed services committee said he has asked the Navy for full in formation on the cancellation of its multimillion Dollar Jet seaplane program. The Georgia Democrat said in a interview that he wrote Secretary of the Navy William b. Franke asking him to explain Why the program was abandoned after seven years of development work. The Navy spent $400 million for the plane the pm sea master be fore announcing last week that Thad Given up on the project. The sea master program once held High Promise of providing the Navy with a High Speed bombing negro registration gaining in South Atlanta up a race re lations Agency reported registration of negro voters shows an average net gain in the South but is on the decline in five of the Southern states. Tjie Southern regional Council using 1958 As a comparison with j$56 the most recent presiden tial voting year showed a total Iff Igro re frustration of 1,303,827 in 1088, this Yas an increase of 65,789over j056, the Council us there was a de crease in the number of negro voter registrants in Arkansas Florida Georgia Louisiana and South Carolina. The report said an estimated 25 per cent of the eligible negroes were registered in the South in 1956, compared to 60 per cent of the White voter age population. In1958 the percentage was very Little higher for  Council  29 counties to the South where no negroes Are registered. They included one i Virginia one in South Carolina two in Georgia three in Florida two in Alabama one in Tennessee approximately 15 in Mississippi and four in Louisiana. In the Long perspective there is every reason to expect steady if gradual increase in negro political participation along with rising economic and social status the voting report said. No abrupt or dramatic Rise in the number of negro registrant seems Likely in the foreseeable fun  reconnaissance and mine laying air Craft. The Martin co. Of Baltimore delivered nine planes six test models and three production models. The first two sea masters crashed in1955 and 1956 and extensive modifications were made. The Navy said after it cancelled the program that the applications of Jet engines to aircraft capable of Landing and taking off in water presented almost insurmountable technical drawbacks. The pm program in addition to the Martin contract included construction of a seaplane tender and a base at Harvey Point n.c., allow which were abandoned. The Navy said it considered it had saved $72 million by terminating the project when it did. A spokesman said the Money would be diverted to High priority naval weapons  Vinson said he would wait for the Navy s explanation before announcing if further congressional action would be taken thai King to visit . Washington up Thail and s american born saxophone playing Monarch King Phum Iphon Adun det has accepted president Eisenhower s invitation to make an official visit to the . In Jun of i960. Procession in . Asks gang War end new York a an annual festival on new York s lower East Side was replaced by a solemn candlelight procession through the humid streets in a mass Appeal for an end to teen age gang warfare. It was the Date marking the festival of St. Augustine an occasion heretofore celebrated with Street dancing and gaiety. A statue of St. Augustine was borne aloft but it was carried in a procession of clergymen and anxious mothers who distributed pamphlets urging people to Pray for peace on our  gang truce a two year gang truce Arranger by clergy and social workers of the area terminated aug. 16 with Savage violence. After a Battle be tween the sportsmen and Forsyth gangs Theresa gee 15, Lay dead and 14-year-old Julio Rosario so badly wounded he died two Day Slater. Six other youths were stabbed or shot. The new York times reported that at least three dozen youth gang leaders had been persuaded to quit the lower East Side and take temporary jobs outside the City or attend Camps. The reported departures aimed at neutralizing the area were arranged by Settle ment houses and youth group working with the lower East Side neighbourhood Assn. First degree murder indictments have been returned against John Cruz 18, in the death of the gee girl and against Miguel Gypsy Castro 17, in the death of  was a member of the sportsmen gang and Cruz a for Syth member. 3 Miami deaths ruled suicides Miami Fla. Up three men died Here from self inflicted pistol Bullet wounds in separate Inci dents according to police officials. The victims were identified Selmer Adrian Call 60, Howard j. Myron 33, and Michael a. Catalano,27. The bodies of Myron and Cata Lano were found in their hotel rooms by room clerks. Officers said Myron was a resident of Shaker Heights Ohio. Catalano had lived in los Angeles. Call s body was found near his front door by newsboys. Coast guard Cadet Dies in training ship fall new London Conn. Up the coast guard Academy announced that a 19-year-old cad Etwas killed in a fall from the Rig Ging of the training bark Eagle. He was Ca det 2/c Michael j. Greeley son of capt Quentin Mckay Greeley assistant inspector general at coast guard head Quad. Ters in Washington