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Evening star., 1940-01-27
Few Fundamentals,
Kept in Mind, Help
Home Builders
Square, for Instonee,
Is Most Economical
Way Of IneIosine Space

Here are q few Of the "facts Of
life" about building. They help form
the key to the front door of homo
for one-dollar -per-day, which is
worth more in money and satisfac.
ton than you pay for it.
Remember:
A square is the most economical
form in which a given amount Of
space may be inclosed.
A low-pitched roof costs less than
high one A roof without dormer
windows costs less than one with
.dormers.
An inside chimney costs less to
build than a decorative one on the
exterior.
The fewer the outside corners the
lower the cost Of the house. A rec
tangular house is cheaper than an
L-shape.
An elaborate exterior cornice re.
quires expensive material and .
great deal of labor. It's value is
purely ornamental
A full basement adds at least $3.50
to your house. For that amount you
may build an extra room above
ground If you wish.
If you are building q basement,
sloping lot requires less excava-
ton than a fiat one.
A tile, cinder or concrete block
foundation is usually less expensive
than a poured concrete basement
wall.
Room sizes which conform to the
standard lengths of lumber produce
house which may be built with less
waste, less labor.
Bay windows are very beautiful,
but they cost more than twice as
much as the ordinary kind.
You are not required to have q
fireplace to have q pleasant new
home. Simple fireplaces add at
least SIS to your cost.
A front hall is pleasant, but you
can't live in it and 1t may greatly
increase the cost of the house.
Be sure that your plans call for
nothing but stock" windows and
other millwork Special millwork
has no place in a low-cost home.
A short driveway costs lots less
than long one. Watch the garage
location you may easily double
driveway costs to no advantage.
Stained woodwork is cheaper than
painted. There are many interest
ing new light stain treatments which
will save decorating money.
Evening star., 1940-01-27
Sifted Whiting Best
To Clean White EnomeI

White enameled wooden furniture
should not oe washed with soap
and water but cleaned with sifted
whiting, applied with a slightly
damp cloth. Wipe of with q piece
Of old, soft flannel wrung out of
clear, cold water. Polish with q
piece Of old silk. Professional
cleaning Is best for white leather
covered furniture unless the articles
are known to be washable.
The only Joy in white furniture or
accessories is that they be white
so the whiting method is recon-
mended for the paints that might
turn yellow with soap and water,
and q good bath with mild soap
and warm water for the lamp bases,
small Boxes and other objects that
are known to be scrubbable.
Evening star., 1940-01-27

window lowers without creating d.
rect drafts, too.
Clay Sink for Dark Room.
Have you an amateur photog-
rapher in your family? Has he been
making a shambles of your bath
room in his zeal for developing his
own negatives? Maybe then you
will consider as his birthday present
this year vitrified clay sink which
can be installed in the basement,
giving him a dark room to call his
own.
Such sinks can be obtained from
makers of laboratory furniture in
small enough sizes to be feasible for
home use. One maker has sink
which measures 16 inches wide by
IL inches long and inches deep.
1t is made of brown-glazed stone-
ware which is free from soluble salts
| and so won't stain. It has a nipple
outlet which requires only a stand
ard cast-iron drain and is made
without joints into which acids can
penetrate.
This sink costs $3.50 with no back
and $3.50 with high back. Fittings
for such sink should cost about
S.. Installation charges vary, but
you should be able to get such a
sink for about $50 to s35, installed.
A larger sink, made by another
manufacturer, is available for $23 40
and $3084, without and with back.
1t measures "a by 16 by 8 inches.
about the same size as a kitchen
sink. Installed this sink should cost
from $50 to $50.
Special sinks can be made to order
by third manufacturer and shipped
to any part of the country If YOU
have a special problem for special
place. We can tell you where to get
any of these three and your local
plumber can equip it with faucets,
drains and trap when he installs 1T.
4rPlywood Doors. s:
If you are doing over room from
top to bottom and making it mod
ern to the nth degree, no doubt you
are worried. about the door. For the
multi-paneled door which looks 50
we'll in an English or Colonial house
is not the one you would choose for a
modern room. Here flush or slab
doors are the thing.
Well, do over the door, too. 1t is
possible to change the appearance
completely merely by gluing plywood
to both faces. The plywood used for
this purpose is usually about u
inch thick, and for by 7 foot
door would cost about 50 for each
face. Protruding holdings are
planed flush with the surface of
the door and a good grade casein
glue used to press the plywood panel
over them. Enough brads must be
used to keep an even pressure on
the assembly until the glue has set,
that's all.
If you don't want to buy the ply
wood and make over your door you
can get lightweight plywood door
ready-made. 1t is constructed
solidly, yet because plywood is so
light in weight it seems featherlike
to the touch. It costs anywhere
from $6.52 to $976, depending on
the thickness of the door and
whether you select gum or birch
wood.
Don't let your perfect effect be
spoiled by the wrong doors.
(For further information about
products described here, tUrite the
Misses DucaS and Gordon, 23O
West Forty-frst street, Ne1U York
City, and inclose stamped, SELF
addressed enUelope)
Evening star., 1940-01-27
Double Soshinq Urqed

The recent development Of a
prefabricated wood window sash in
which there is ventilating unit
makes window conditioning simple
and practical. Double glazing the
windows of house automatically
reduces the amount of fuel needed
for satisfactory heating and this
saving pays for the double sashing
expense in about three years.
Evening star., 1940-01-27
Real Estate Boards
Oppose Abuses
In Building Field
hiqh Construction Costs
Cut Possibility
Of Home Ownership

Making clear that 1t favors fair
wages to workers In the building
trades, and reasonable profits to
manufacturers and distributors OF
building materials and to contrac-
tors and sub-contractors, the Ma
tional Association of Real Estate
Boards at its recent annual conven-
ton in Los Angeles adopted q reso-
luton opposing abuses which have
grown up in many communities In
the construction industry, greatly
increasing construction costs and
narrowing, unnecessarily, the pos
sibility Of home ownership and Of
building activity.
The action was based upon re-
ports to the Association from its
members in many communities Of
practices locally current which
greatly increase costs. These in
clude: Price-fixing collusive agree
ments between manufacturers, deal
ers. contractors, and trade unions;
restrictions upon production by
trade unions; and provisions in To-
cal building codes which prohibit
modern and economical methods.
1T has been reported to us that
in some communities such practices
increase the cost Of home building
from 10 to Is per cent, thus making
home ownership more costly and Diff
ficult for q large portion of the
families Of the Nation" the reso-
luton states.
Approves Federal Drive.
Concerned to keep open to home
builders the possibility OF using
means for economical construction
as they are developed, the Associa-
ton expressed its approval and sup
port Of the Department Of Justice
In its current drive to eliminate
abuses in the building industry, and
requests its member boards in cities
over the country to give the public
agencies 50 engaged their active
help and cooperation to this end.
The Nation needs more homes
than are being built. Residential
construction, even including that
publicly subsidized and financed, Is
still. well below half of its former
peak. But building costs too much
Corwin D. Edwards, economist In
charge Of the United States Depart
ment Of Justice investigation OF COL
lusive and other cost-raising prac-
tices in the construction industry
said addressing the convention.
with an urgent need in the
country for houses to live in and an
equally urgent need in the industry
for house building work to do, the
reason that no more houses are
built is that people cannot afford
to buy them," he said.
Moreover, the whole problem has
become more pressing because OF
the European war. When we emerg-
ed from war in 1918, our housing
shortage was one of our greatest
problems. The shortage had arisen
because between 1914 and 1918 cap
ital and labor had been diverted
from the construction of dwellings
If the stress of the present war In
Europe should distort our present
economic system In q similar way
the shortage would be much more
acute; for in 1914 we started with
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out handicap, whereas now we
would begin with an accumulated
deficit Of houses which Is already
q major national problem. It is pc
culiarly important therefore that
this deficit be made up while the
opportunity still exists"
Lists Sources Of Waste.
All sources Of waste are obstacles
to low-cost housing, Mr.. Edwards
said. He listed among them unnec-
essarily high cost in financing,
waste in community planning, in
bad selling methods, in poor home
design, in slipshod construction, in
building codes which require un-
necessarily expensive materials or
methods OF construction, or in the
collusive practices occurring in some
cities against which the Antitrust
Division Is now proceeding. But"
he added, many of these sources
OF waste are already being dealt
with. Federal, State and local hous-
ing authorities and private agencies
have been conspicuously successful
In reducing financial charges. Many
OF our larger cities are undertaking
programs OF regional planning
which should contribute to the re-
duction of land costs. The Depart
ment Of Commerce recently under
took to develop model building
codes suitable to low-cost housing.
Within the last two years a ma
tionwide movement has begun to
repeal uneconomic trade barriers,
We should not underestimate the
magnitude of what remains to be
done in these fields; but the energy
and resourcefulnes with which the
problems have been attacked in
recent years is basis for confidence
that they can be solved.
Until there is q free field for
experiment no one can say to what
extent such innovations will in
crease efficiency" he said.
Evening star., 1940-01-27
Queen WiIheImino
Owner of Westchester

Recent disclosure that Queen Will
helmina Of the Netherlands is the
owner, through corporation, of the
Westchester Apartments here, ad-
vanced by Samuel S. Spruce, builder,
as an indication of the stability with
which the Washington real estate
market is regarded by investors.
The reported acquisition of the
property by the Queen recalls to
Mr.. Spruce that the Dutch his
torically are recognized as shrewd
and successful investors.
Evening star., 1940-01-27
Windows
Continued From First Page.)
Clay Sink for Dark Room.

window lowers without creating d.
rect drafts, too.
Evening star., 1940-01-27

(For further information about
products described here, ,Urite the
Misses Ducds and Gordon, 23O
West Forty-trst street, Ne1D York
City, and inclose stamped, SELF
addressed enUelope.)
Evening star., 1940-01-27

Killed by a floating mine and
washed ashore on the coast Of Bel
gium, lotion whale attracted over
1000 curious.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-06-25
Delegates al National Con-
venti0n Told 10 Ad-
vance on a Fronts
CAMPAIGN CRY GIVEN
OUT BY GOV. STASSEN
Warm Fight Being Staged
by Candidates for
Presidency

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, June 25.-
Keynoter Harold Stassen, Governor
of Minnesota, told the delegates to
the Republican National Conven-
ton that the role of the Govern
meht must be that of an aid to
private enterprise and not as a
substitute for it,"
Gov. Stassen called on the Re-
publican Party to advance with a
decisive determined step upon the
four major fronts:
Front of National Prepared
ness.
"3-Front of Fifth Column De-
Tense.
'3-Front of Domestic Economic
Welfare.
"4-Front of Governmental Eff
fectiveneSs.
1.-The saDlest chapter of the last
four years was that the Roosevelt
Administration has turned its polf-
tical gaze upon a third term in
stead of national welfare"
Gov Stassen charged the New
Deal effort to smooth over discrep-
ancies is seen in the appointments
of Col. Frank Knox and Henry
Stimson and is an eleventh hour
confession of failure
Developments early today includ-
ed denials from the Dewey and
Taft camps that the Willkie gains
are pronounced. Then there fol-
lowed emergence of a stop Will
kie" movement headed by eight
Congressman.
The situation up to noon today
was complex"
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Navy
Not Quitting
Is Indicated
Large Part Of Fleet Now al
British Naval Base
in Egypt

The first definite indication that
the powerful French Fleet, second
strongest in Europe. does not intend
to surrender as stipulated in the
Franco German armistice, com e S
from Alexandria, Egypt, where part
of the French fleet remained at the
Egyptian port, Great Britain's main
naval base on the Mediterranean.
Coincidentally Prime Minister
Winston Churchill, of Great Britain,
told the House of Commons that
Premier Marshal Petain violated
most solemn assurances to Great
Britain that the French fleet would
never fall into German hands"
Churchill did not mention the
whereabouts of the French fleet,
however, Viscount Caldecote. Dom
inions Secretary, told the House OF
Lords that Great Britain will make
every effort to retain the French
naval help.
Prime Minister Churchill declar-
ed: 1--WE hope to rescue FIR n e
from the ruins of bondage"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-06-25
REPUBLICAN
CONVENTION
IN UpR0AR
DELEGATES Quarrel Over
Foreign Policy and
Candidates

PHILADELPHIA, June 25.-Sum-
moning his party to oppose gov
ernmental absolutism," Rep, Joseph
Martin of Massachusetts took charge
of the Republican National Conven-
ton today in the midst of row
over foreign policy which fell
athwart the course of Former Pres
ident Herbert Hoover's address to-
night.
Martin, as permanent chairman,
called upon Republicans to rally be-
hind construction of a bar to Trio
janhorses"
Foreign Policy Fight
A Government foreign policy dis
pute developed as the resolutions
committee sought to reconcile the
views of advocates of aid to the
Allies and those staunchly battling
''interventionism."
In a tumult over selection of can
didates and foreign policy, Hoover
delayed completion Of his speech I'M
til later in the day.
The Convention adopted rules
thought likely to trim drastically
Southern representation at future
conventions.
Torn by Conflict
The convention was torn by con-
flict and opposing candidates were
cheered wildly as Martin took the
gavel and pounded away at the
platform.
The Presidential nomination fight
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cease
FIRING
ORDERED
All Quiet on France Front
Germans Celebrate,
French Mourn
(By ASSOCIATED JREss)

Air raid alarms shrilled London
within a few hours after the guns
in France were silenced for the first
time in months by the official cease
firing" order broadcast from Ber-
lin, and the German bugle playing
"das game" and half signalled con-
tmental peace.
simultaneously with the Berlin
order, came orders from the Italian
and French commands to cease fir
ing"
The orders followed the signing
of the Italio- French armistice.
Hitler proclaimed 10 days of re-
joicing and promised that a cam
paign such as the world has never
seen will be launched against Great
Britain.
The French authorities declared
today one of mourning. Business
houses were closed and troops re-
manned in their barracks.
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kIondike
Kate Here
On Louise

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, June 25.-
Klondike Kate, now Mrs. John Mat
son, Queen of the North IN the
rip-roaring gold rush days OF the
Klondike, has arrived back in Al
aska once again She is aboard the
Canadian Pacific steamer Princess
Louise going to meet her husband
who is a successful miner on one
of the creeks near Dawson.
The visit to Dawson will be the
first to the home of her triumphs
since 1887.
Mrs. Matson said it will be sad
homecoming" as the old theatre
where she became famous as a
dancer, burned down during the
winter months.
TT is going to leave vacant
spot in my heart for 1t was the
place where walked with memoir
les"
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SIGNED

WASHINGTON, June 25.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt this afternoon signed
the law for the 81 ,692, 500 900 tax bill
to pay the. high National Defense
appropriations, dipping into the
pockets of An estimated 100000 adj
ditional income tax payers and for
the first time boosting the existing
taxes ga nearly everything but
chewing gum and tobacco.
The measure is designed to raise
money over five year period.
TIE measure also made the Fed
eraJ debt limit forty-nine billion
dollars.
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Longest Raiding Flights Of
War Are Mdde-Only
Slight Damage
R0YAL AIR FORCE
STRIKES AT RUHR
German Command Claims
Great Gains in Last
Days Battle
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

The German High Command to-
day announced that in the last day
of fighting Hitler's armies advanced
to Royan Angouleme, SO miles north
of Bordeaux on Frances West Coast
and captured st. Einee, so miles
south of Lyons in Eastern France.
Meanwhile, Nazi airplanes bombed
England in what the German Com
mand said was an attack aimed az
British airports.
Ruhr Attacked
British bomberS attacked I'll
Ruhr, Germany's rich industrial
region and plastered with high ex-
plosives a series of German-held
airdromes in Holland.
Waves of German bombers, in
one of the widest forays of the
war, Numbered over Britain from
London to the Northeast.
The bombers penetrated the
West Coast over Wales and North
west England, dropping explosives
at many points while British fight
ers and anti-aircraft guns strug-
gled to bring the raiders down.
Damage Slight
Despite the extent of the area
attacked, however, only three civil
ians were killed and Is injured, the
Government announced.
London itself heard the first
air raid alarm since the first weeks
of the war but the government
said there were no casualties or
damage to the capital area. No
bombs were reported dropped. The
drone of planes was heard, how
ever and at least one was picked
out by searchlight.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-06-25
HALT5 SALE
OF VESSELS
TO BRIT0N5
twenty Torpedo Boats Re-
main in u. 5. Other
Deals Turned Down

WASHINGTON, June 25.--Presi-
dent Roosevelt has halted the pro-
jected >sale of 20 torpedo boats to
Great Britain. The boats were made
by the Electric Boat Company.
The halt order was issued on
the excuse that the 1917 Neutrality
Act made such sale of warships
as unlawful.
The United States Navy origin
ally ordered the boats and then
agreed to allow the company to
sell them to Great Britain and de-
liver the order for the United
States Navy later.
Secretary of Navy Edison, in his
last conference with the newsmen,
also disclosed that Great Britain S
efforts to buy Ill World War de-
stroyers had been refused,
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Over Five Million Soldiers
Obey Order 10 Cease
Firing" During Day
.MAzI-FASCIST FIGHTING
WITH FRENCH IS ENDED
Few 0ufbursts Of Joy Re-
sound Over land-No
DECENTRALIZATION
tBy ASSOCIATED PRESS

German and British bombing
planes struck with renewed fury
as peace stilled the battlefields in
vanquished France.
A total of some 5000, 900 French,
German and Italian soldiers quiet
ly obeyed the cease firing order.
The combined Nazi-Fascist on
slaughts against France halted at
$3.50 o'clock Pacific Coast Time)
yesterday afternoon.
The terms of the armistice with
Italy are still unofficially disclosed
but Berlins reports the conquerer's
demands comprise "a paragraphs,
which are "hard but not humilitat-
ing to France"
According to the best available
figures, France had originally g.
7S0, 900 soldiers engaged in the con-
flict, Germany sent some 100000
men into France alone, and Italy
about 100000 soldiers.
Casualty figures are still unavail-
able but are expected to be high.
The cease firing order came
while most of Europe slept and there
were few outbursts OF Joy and none
of the whooping shouts and frater-
nization that marked the end Of
hostilities Of the World War.
italian infantrymen merely stack
ed their rifles and sat down on the
mountain sides to drink hot coffee
and wine.
Artillerymen left their still smok-
ing cannons to join their comrades.
Italians called across the Alpine
snow to French Poilus but no an
swer came back
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-06-25
CLIPPER
IN TODAY
3RD Time
Newspaper Men Call AUX
Bay Most Beautiful
Plane Seaport

With no confusion IN schedules,
no trouble in weather or mooring,
no undue excitement in the small
crowd at the AUX Bay terminal of
Pan American Always, the Alaska
Clipper this forenoon completed its
third flight to Juneau as simply as
taking a taxi from one end of town
to the other
Commanding Officer Capt. Jerry
Jones landed at AUX Bay at 11:44
o'clock this forenoon after stopping
overnight in Ketchikan where his
distinguished passenger list of prom
inent businessmen, newspaper rep
resentatiyes and Gov. Ernest Gru6n-
ing were guests of the First City.
The landing was made on mirror
smooth bay sprinkled with the Wild
ening circles of leaping sockeyes,
and first-trippers to Alaska aboard
the plane were loud in their praise
of what they termed "the most beau
tiful' harbor any plane service in
the world can boast.
A few minutes after the plane
landed, passengers were on their way
totown where newspaper men filed
stories home and found time to call
at the buffet luncheon given by
Gov. and Mrs. Ernest Gruening.
-Four Of the newspaper men aboard
the Clipper literally stepped from
the big flying boat into the trim
Electra for Fairbanks and Nome in
rush trip to take in all of Alaska
that they might before returning
later in the week for a return flight
with Pan American.
Those who flew north were Devon
Francis, Aviation Editor of the As
ISOLATED Press, from New York: An
Gel Talbert, Aviation Editor of the
New York Herald Tribune; Royal
Arch Gunnison, representing the
New York Times and the North AM
erican Newspaper Alliance, and JOS
eph Edgerton. of the Washington
Star in Washington, ID. G.
Other arrivals were: Gov. Gruen-
ing. returning from flight to Seat
tie last Saturday; Peter Andrae,
President of Oceanic Sales Corpora
ton and owner of cannery at
Hoonah, Russell SAILOR. chemical
manufacturer from Minneapolis;
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flee TO
ENGLAND

LONDON, June 25.-Three former
Prime Ministers of France have ar
rived in England, it is announced
tonight.
The former Premiers are Edouard
Herriot, President Of the Chamber
of Deputies: Joseph Paul Bancour
and Leon Blum, the latter Frances
only Socialist Premier.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-06-25
Movie Fans Come
From Sitka for
Gone With Wind

To enjoy preview in Juneau
of Gone With the Wind" which
opened today at the Capitol Theatre,
Mrs. Jack Conway and Mrs. Pros
per Ganty of Sitka, arrived here
today on the Tyee.
They attended the matinee per-
Torrance this afternoon and plan
to return to the Historic City to-
night on the. Yukon.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-06-25
HELPS WITH CENSUS

NAKNEK. Alaska. June Is. -
The population of this Bristol Bay
village owes something to Mrs.
Martha Monsen. 40 years a resi-
dent. Not only is Mrs. Monsen the
mother of IA children, but she also
has been the sole aid In delivering
AZ babies to Naknek methers.