European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              1964 the stars and stripes 23 Auto records gave business Holiday cheer by Jack Lefler new York was a merry Christmas for Cash registers jangled a Happy tune right up to the closing hours Christmas automobile and steel production was at record corporations have issued glow but dividend and and predictions by business men and economists generally were for continued at least in the Early part of Christmas sales reached record Levels in Many sections of the an exception was the Pacific Northwest where wide spread floods Cut into expectations were that Decem Ber retail business had topped the record total of billion in de Cember the volume for was Estl business finance mated at i2m some re tall Industry sources predicted a Rise to billion next the automobile Industry topped the 1855 sales record of new cars with 10 Days Stilt to the first 8mlllloncarsales including seemed As sales in the Middle 10 of december totalled bringing the number for Calendar 1984 to the holidays halved work schedules of most car Assembly As a output last week was estimated at passenger off 44 per cent from the previous weeks and Down 6 per cent from a year John president of general motors the worlds largest manufacturing army reports Progress in Europe on anti Bias stocks close mixed steels make gains new York Stock Market closed mixed monday with some prices Trad ing was the Market was irregular All moderate gains were shown by steels and utilities but most other sections were thoroughly consolidated Edison and of Pont held gains of a Point or smelting was off 1 and amex Board stocks eased during week new York up were generally easier in slow trading on the american Exchange last volume for the four Days Tot aled shares compared with shares week last control data fractional losses were taken by pol Arlod and general motors was 2 Algeria villages isolated in floods Algiers have isolated two rendered person homeless and caused several deaths in the aures mountains Region of East Era reports reaching Here said torrential which have fallen steadily for a caused seven houses to collapse in Barijka some Miles East of Algiers m the Constantino two children died in one of the hous Shepherd and his flock were reported missing and believed to have been swept away by flood Waters in Batna at least 500 mostly earthen were destroyed in the Khe Mcnela another 500 per sons were reported homeless in the Batna Heidelberg a the army in reacting a presidential committee port of of base discrimination against negro said Mon Lay it has already made much Ogress on the the heat has been on this Tuazon for 2h years and we Al weve made tremendous a spokesman at the Xmas european Headquarters the comment came in response reporters questions following inday of a presidential of overseas in the armed e Flung sunday of a committees study  i week before and in the same brazilian traction topped the Active list with a gain of h at 5 on syntax took second with a gain of 3 at 7 on shares and Cnapp was third with a loss of at on american nitrite robber dropped astr Odata lost fennel dropped new Yoa Honduras it Rosario mining advanced supermarkets oper Bohack added the headed by Washington attorney Gerhard found problems of discrimination in of base restaurants and housing were articular by acute in we would certainly not regard this problem As acute at the resent the spokesman while no one in authority would Call the report a spokes Man pointed out that it was Par envy based on information collected by the committee on a our of european bases two Yean Rollins broadcasting Draper a retreated new York up the 10 most Active traded on the american Stock Exchange last week Gohe added in h Lri to Confer Washington prime minister Risaku Sato Wil hold two meetings with pres Den Johnson in a visit to the United states Slock Market prices Sim Ota my of to tin so l i in bus mom my Tom cd Sefc Mont wlm no dim no my i am  out thu Pui am mini tit Khoh hey Tab Rich Mir in out i a Tawny j1h 141ft train Tufe h 11m St to in no temp Lumo m4 in carb nth High Merril Feaner Frankfurt the report is not current is not reflective of stocks Rose in Oit average new York up stocks traded Over the counter last week Rose in Price on the National quotation bureaus Index of 35 representative closed the Holiday Short Ned week at up from the close a week girl Nelll gained Genera aniline Gaine Ethyl corp7tt Chris Lana securities Anheuser Kusch shed first Boston corp Kalvar 1 and must Flora Niter in the insurance Cut Len life dipped Continental As Suranee i and great America in i gets four Montha in Black Market Case Frankfurt sp4 Arturo a clerk in the v corps he a has Bee sentenced to four months at bar forfeiture of 175 a Mont for that period and reduction to Al for Black Market cigarette the peruvian born so Idle who came from Lima to be York where he was Hai been charged with bribing yes sales clerks to obtain excess cigarettes Over a 11month Pertot and with reselling an estimate to Cartons to Unai theorized czech guard flees German up a Ity Earold Csc Border guard worked his a across the min infested Borde to the the army has set up commit is of Wilto and negro soldiers id of germans and americans tackle the problem of of base weve met with excellent co oration in every Quarter and ave made very considerable the spokesman we do not deny that there Are ill places where discrimination but they Are very he one big problem Are the bars and amusement places where the idler customers themselves in rce this includes aces which negroes take Over or themselves As Well As those where negroes Are about the Only Way we con this kind of thing is through and were orking on it All the we Lave councils made up of negro and White soldiers who try to Irene up this kind of Runoff Lola segregation wherever it crops the spokesman at for discrimination in Nous the army said ii Immell tet blacklists a landlord As soon As a Case of discrimination report my in areas where housing is Short and this Oes not always have much effect contacts More influential Are the con Tant contacts Between local american commanders and Ger Man at every command from Gen Freeman Gen aul Freeman Usa eur commander Schlef on Down we have Active committees working closely with German a Horl Les on these racial prob the spokesman while the army has no Sta us tics on the number of place r communities pointed to a number of specs Al one was bad Kreuz Nach where the 8th inf div is Sta two years ago ther was open discrimination in a East three bars practice by the bar now there the signs restricting serv be have disappeared As Resu of a local Community relation Effort Between germans an Powers the Gesull committee had us gelled More use of off cml Powers to Force bars to drop do Crimin Atory to this the army spokesman commented German Laws prohibit do Crim nation on a racial b they allow German bar owne to select their Clentel and to r o m p a n reported sales and mings will set records this a and that 1865 looks like an ther Good pm earned on sales of in steel production for the week Ding 10 climbed to the rest level since March ills turned out v per cent from e previous the Holiday ced but the Indus y already had exceeded the 57 steel shipments Hurt the Pinch in the steel Lemming from heavy demanded by the automobile go tend because of a growing Portage of Railroad Inland steel raised the Rice of galvanized sheets and ills a steel the 1 and Republic Teel in third fal and other companies were a dying the sources indicated the action might be the Industry most Sig Alcant Price Rise in More than galvanized sheets and Colls Are used mainly by automobile and appliance builders ind they account for bout 5 per cent of All steel ship dividend payments Rose per cent in november to the first 11 months of the ear they totalled billion against billion in the same period of every Industry group showed higher payments this with be largest gains made by the automobile and Oil Refl no Wildcat strikes slopped Wildcat strikes of Dock work is hampered shipping in the few York and Baltimore ports or two the men went ack to work when a new con tract obtained by the intimation i longshoremen association Ila covering new York was Ila members from Maine to Texas will vote on the new con tract the new Yor port contract is supposed to set the Awlern for contracts in other a Federal court in Chicago de led an injunction to prohibit a nationwide strike by three rail Road shop unions but arranged fuse service to anyone they wis so we run into a ticklish leg problem and As guests in a to country we cannot violate Loc the whole problem require the closest watchfulness to Sto segregation wherever it occur weve made great strides we the educational process we been both for we and negro soldiers and our be Man were Noling continue that he a to delay a walkout the department of Justice 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