Smyrna times., 1938-10-06
WASHING TON
FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN
WILLIAM r. ALLEN
NEW HOME BUILDING-Mar

WILLIAM r. ALLEN
NEW HOME BUILDING MANY
encouraging factors are noted in
the outlook for new home building
during the autumn and early win
ter. Demand for home loans from
savings and loan associations re
mains excellent as summer wealth
er wanes; home building continues
at healthy pace; and urban fore
closures are decreasing rapidly in
volume. One of the favorable fac
tors noted was the climb in house
rentals during recent months. The
Federal Home Loan Bank believes
that the relatively favorable posi-
ton that the owners of rental prop
critics have held during the past
year has been an important factor
contributing to the improved real
estate market. Even though there
has been a rapid decline in building
cost, rents have continued to in
crease. Speculative builders and
potential home owners realize that
a shortage of quarters has accu-
mulated during the depression, and
that the demand for new housing
facilities must be relieved some
what in the next few years.
! MOTION PICTURE FILM S
TELL STORY OF ALUMINIUM
The story of the production and
uses of aluminium and aluminium
products is depicted in two educa-
tional motion picture films recent
! ly produced by the Bureau of
Mines. The films, silent and con
tanning two reels each, are entitled
"Alumonum, from Mine to Metal"
and "Alumonum: Fabrication Pro
cesses." They are the latest addi-
4 tion to the film library of the Bu-
reau, which now consists of over
1000 reels, that were shown on
\ 102, ,637 occasions in 1887 to an
auience of over 10 million persons.
4 Copies Of these films, in 16-mm and
35-mm. size are available for ex-
hibition by schools, churches, col
/ leges, civic and business organiza-
tions, and others interested. Ap-
! plications should be addressed to
the Bureau Of Mines Experiment
/ Station, $4,000 Forbes Street, Pitts
burgh, Pa. No charge is made for
/! the use of the film. although ex-
hibitor is expected to pay trans
portation charges.
/ F'SCC ROUTES FOOD TO
! STORM VICTIMS - The AgricuI-
tural Adjustment Administration
announced that the Federal Sur
plus Commodities Corporation is
taking emergency steps to route
\ food supplies to victims of New
England storms and floods. The
FSCC bought two cars of evapor-
ated milk, amounting to 76,8000
cans at Norwich, N. T., and began
trucking one carload to New Hav-
en-, Conn, and the other to Pro
idence, r. 1. The FSCC also began
shipment of surplus commodities
from New York to New Haven. A
carload of flour, amounting to S.
600 pounds, previously consigned to
New York relief authorities, was
loaded into trucks at the Bronx
terminal Two cars of butter, or
about $4,000 pounds, also were be-
ing moved by truck to New Haven.
Connecticut relief authorities plan
ned to Immediately bake the flour
and distribute the bread. At Ware,
Holyoak, Fitchburg and Spring
field, Mass, and Norwich, Conn,
trucks bringing FSCC commodities
arrived with the first relief sup
plies to reach the flooded towns.
INFESTATION AND DIR T
BRING SEIZURES - The Federal
Food and Drug Administration re-
ports to seizure of large quantities
of ffours, meals, candies, and other
foods and food materials, because
of the presence of live or dead in
spects, their eggs or exreta. Mill
ed foodstruffs rounded up last
month on this account included g.
626 sacks of white ffolr, 201 sacks
Of buckwheat flour, 18 sacks of
rye flour, 40 barrels Of sausage
-four, 827 sacks of corn meal and
corn flour, 8 sacks of oatmeal, and
856 sacks Of hominy grits Among
some Of the other seizures were H.
4O5 pounds of filthy crabmeat, ]
barrel of caviar, containing para
sites and dirt; 265 cases of moldy
4a.,a+o oots,,n. ood 525 Gallons of