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Evening star., 1940-05-30
in Brief
TODAY,

Senate:
Considers bill for Federal aid in
hospital construction; may take up
naval expansion program.
Banking Committee considers bill
to facilitate Government financing
OF defense industries.
House:
Considers conference report on
War Department civil functions bill
Banking Committee resumes dis
cussion of housing bill.
Appropriations subcommittee con-
tinues hearings on $1,000, 1000, 900
Army supply bill.
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Jerusalem Bluckout Ordered

JERUSALEM, May 80 R).-The
first blackout in the history of the
ancient city Of Jerusalem was Or
dered today for next Monday.
Authorities are not taking any risks
regarding the inviolability of the
Holy City In the matter of air raids.
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arranged to accommodate those
already working.
Engineering schools. such as the
Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy, also are to be tapped to provide
intensive courses to train men for
more responsible positions.
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Retired Marine. Officer
Dies at Paris Island
Nv the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
BEAUFORT, S. c., May 30.-Maj.
George Osterhout, 81, U. S. M. c.,
retired, died yesterday after an ILL
ness of two months at the Naval
Hospital on Paris Island.
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John Wayne, Cowboy
Movie Hero, Injured

HOLLYWOOD, May 80 R.-John
Wayne, cowboy movie hero, and Jack
Pennock, supporting player, are in
hospital with injuries received
Tuesday night during a Aim scene
Wayne suffered broken ribs and
Pennock a conclusion and chest
injuries.
They were struck by q wall Of
water released from an overhead
tank and were thrown against an
iron winch.
Liberia decreased its national debt
nao~ly IN ,,a,. cApt 10 CT yeor
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the metal from blueprints or the
original drawings. The method has
proved a tremendous time saver.
After the initial rough design of a
new airplane has been approved for
detailed engineering development,
the plans for the whole airplane and
every part composing it are drawn to
full size on the floor of huge draft
ing room. The outlines of each part
can be transferred directly to metal
without the work of reducing the
drawings to manageable size and
then re-laying the work out from
the reduced drawings on metal, as
formerly was necessary. Possibility
Of errors creeping in also was greatly
reduced by the revolutionary process.
AS a result of the Allied orders
and the increasing numbers of Army
and Navy orders under our own de-
tense program, it was pointed out
BY Martin officials, the American
aviation industry for the first time
is facing the opportunity of applying
something of automobile factory
straight-line mass production meth
ods to aircraft building. 1t was
pointed out that it is doubtful
whether any aircraft company in
American history has produced as
many as 1000 airplanes.
$4,000 Man Hours on BOmbers.
The result of the lack Of mass
production and machine tool meth
ods is revealed to some extent by the
fact that, while only 2l8 man-hours
Of labor are required to produce one
automobile Of common mass-pro.
duction make, between $50 and 40(
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The sun ana Neon. :
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you'll realize that such an assump-
ton is no idle boast.
Local President.
Because it will be host to the
1910 convention and because it may
be considered a typical member,
let us examine the activities of
Washington's Junior Board of Com
merce Presiding over nearly 600
Representatives of 104 industries of
the Capitals life is 28-year- old
Minor Hudson, jr., trim and
blond attorney who recently was
selected as one of Americas out
standing young men below the age
of 81 by the New York Advertising
Club. Born in Virginia, Mr.. Hud-
son has grown up in Washington
and before studying law at George
Washington University captained a
Central High School cadet COM
pany to second place in the COM
petitive drill of 1923.
According to him, "The Junior
Board of Commerce is the only
organization in Washington that is
composed entirely of young men,
managed entirely by young men
and financed by young men, in
which the young men Of WASH
ington can work together with
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Louis in June of that year to per-
feet a permanent organization. So
it was that in June, 1920, Al cities
sent representatives to the new
young mems business organization
and, in Giessenbier's own words,
laid the cornerstone of founda-
ton for the building of one of
Americas greatest institutions for
the development of her greatest
empire, bringing into a definite
realization the naturalization of
the Junior Board of Commerce
idea so that the Nation may feel
the fullness of the energy of her
young men, applied through clear
ly defined, constructive channels
toward a common goal-a greater
America"
1t previously had been declared
at the caucus that youth no longer
should be considered handicap
for participation in the solution
of great municipal, State or ma
tional problems, but rather that 1t
should be accepted as a fact that
young men are a powerful force
in civic affairs.
Look around today at the in
dividual members of the Junior
Board of Commerce and at the
work 1t Is doing as group and
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others of their own age on all the
major problems that affect the
city
Speakers.
Even if it engaged in no civic
work, membership in the local
board would prove valuable to any
young man in Washington merely
because of its weekly luncheon
meetings at downtown hotel. In
addition to the opportunity for the
exchange of ideas with business
and professional men of their own
age, the luncheons offer sound and
inspirational ideas through the ad-
dresses of such public figures as
Secretary of War Woodring. Jesse
Jones. Federal Loan Administra-
tor: Senators and Representatives
and the late Hirosi Saito, Ambas-
sador OF Japan, all of whom have
spoken at Junior Board luncheons
here within the past year.
In addition to these luncheons,
the Washington Board has spon-
sored, for its members, a course in
public speaking and personal de-
velopment and such social and
athletic diversions as moonlight
boat rides, tennis, golf and bowling
tournaments and periodic dances.
Civic Theater.
1t is In it's external activities,
however, that the Washinbton
Board naturally is best known to
the public as whole. and many of
its enterprises have been the kind
to bring it timely, lasting and we'll
deserved praise.
The Washington Civic Theater,
for one thing, owes it's existence in
a large measure to the local Junior
Board. Several years ago, group
of board members conceived the
idea of providing a civic theater in
Washington. Through a commit
tees tenacity, several drama groups
combined to form che Civic Theater
as it now is known. The Junior
Board aided it greatly during it's
first season and continues to CO.
operate in every way.
In 1886, the board started to
raise funds to provide scholarships
for needy boys at the Washington
Boys Summer Camp, and each
subsequent year has made it pos
sible for large number of under
priviledged boys to go to camp.
Annually, it sponsors a boat ride
down the Potomac for crippled
children.
Big Brothers.
Realizing that, even as they will
be the leaders Of the next 20 years,
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Members Nations Future Leaders, Meet Here This Week

listening to a speaker trying to in
terest st. Louis citizens in a bond
issue for public improvements. To
Mr.. Giessenbier came the idea of
utilizing the young man power of
community for public service, and
at the next meeting of his dancing
club he expressed his "We-oWe-
service" theme to its members.
The idea met with immediate re-
sponse, and on october 13, 1915,
Americas first Junior Chamber of
Commerce was organized at Mis-
sion Inn in st. Louis. At the start
it was called the Young Mems
Progressive Civic Association, but
after several years activity under
that name the st. Louis Chamber
of Commerce gave its blessing to
the movement, and its name was
changed to the Junior Chamber OF
Commerce.
Founder.
1t was not until four years later
that the idea of a National Junior
C. of G. was conceived, and Mr..
Giessenbier was appointed chair
man of an organizing committee.
On January 81, 1920, a caucus was
held in st. Louis at which "a cities
were represented, and 1t was de-
cided to hold convention in st.
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proving to be in the case of the Fort
Dupont dwellings on Ridge road Sc.
The first large outlying project for
Negro occupancy, the Frederick
Douglass dwellings on Alabama ave-
nue. at TWenty-first street Sc. has
suffered one delay after another. The
first plans submitted by the archi-
tect were for long rows of two-story,
f1at-roofed buildings that the
Authority felt would prove undesir-
able. New plans were made for
semi-detached and triple houses
grouped about open courts or follow
ing the lines of curving streets.
One-Story Houses.
When these plans were nearing
completion the U. S. H. A. suggested
that one-story houses would be more
economical than tWo-story. This
necessitated changes in street plan
and lot subdivision, as the one-story
houses would occupy more space.
After this suggestion had been care
fully studied in cooperation with
the Federal agency it was decided
that the costs. in terms of site de-
velopment as we'll as building con-
Struction. would be about equal.
The tWo-story houses were again
adopted as the more desirable. Then
the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission. part of whose
Fort drive will extend along one side
of the property, asked the Alley
Dwelling Authority to exchange
some land with it in order to i'm
prove the drive. The exchange is
mutually advantageous, for it gives
the Alley Dwelling Authority sites
for three buildings in place of two,
and frontage on both sides of Bruce
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Bv Bill Dismer, Jr.

Let us look at the United States
business and professional leaders of
the next 20 years. Would you like to
become acquainted with this coun-
try's most promising young men of
today-the leading lawyers, doctors,
bankers, accountants, architects,
clothiers, jewelers., statesmen. broad
casters and publishers-still under
IS years of age?
Then take a peek inside the May
flower Hotel any day this week
after Tuesday noon and see, per-
haps not for the first time, those
into whose hands much of Amer
ica's destiny will be placed for some
time to come.
For if the roll were called of all
the young men of this country who
have distinguished themselves in
any way, it's likely that the large
majority of them would be found
as members of the Junior Board
of Commerce, that enterprising and
fast growing organization OF civic
minded young men which honors
it's Washington chapter this week
by making the Capital the site of
its 21st national convention.
We say "honors" the local group
because the latter is only 6-year-
old infant of the 20-year-old ma
tional organization. Yet the WASH
ington board has increased its
charter membership of less than 80
nearly twentyfold to total of some
$50 in good standing to take rank
with the size of any board in an
average American city.
The Junior Board of Commerce
Is not confined to the States,
for among the 1000 delegates ex-
pected here will be those from
Hawaii, Alaska, Wake Island, the
Philippines, Canada and even Eng
land, China, Australia and South
Africa. Forty-one cities were rep
resented at the Junior Boards first
convention just 20 years ago this
month. This week $50 cities will
send delegates.
What is the idea behind the
Junior Board of Commerce and
how did it start? It's inception must
be credited to young president of
a St. Louis federation of dancing
clubs who realized that his con-
temporaries owed debt to society
payable through active public serv-
ice, for the advantages of American
citizenship which they enjoyed.
It is said that this young NAH
Henry Giessenbier. one day wa
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so are their own juniors-boys now
in their tender and teen ages-the
Junior Boarders of tomorrow, the
local board has inaugurated mod
ified big brother" movement. In
this work, the board co-operates
with the Juvenile Division of the
Police Department and representa-
tives of all civic organizations
which devote all or part of their
activities in youth work.
Traffic safety campaigns. series
of music appreciation concerts by
the National Symphony Orchestra,
called "Children's Concerts for
Adults" and more or less public
forums on public health, aviation,
recreation, and so on, are typical
promotions sponsored by the board.
Perhaps the biggest project the
local board ever has sponsored and
the one which brought it widest
publicity was joint cleanup and
home-renovation campaign under
taken in 1888 The latter was
strikingly exemplifed by the WELL
remembered appearance of THE
House That Jack Built" at Four
teenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue-the transformation of a
100-year-old frame house into a
modern domicile for an outlay of
only $500, to illustrate to the
public how much property could
be improved in looks and value at
a comparatively small cost. 1t was
estimated that more than 10000
Washingtonians inspected the house
during its days on the square in
front of the Willard Hotel.
The cleanup campaign was ac-
complished in cooperation with
Boy Scouts and members of Wash
ington boys clubs, who succeg led
in cleaning up all the vacant < nd
unsightly lots in town. Free tickets
to one OF the Nationals home base
ball games were their reward.
Is it any wonder that America
can approach the future with con-
f1dence with such young men con-
tinually demonstrating their desire
to contribute good deeds and lead
ership to their fellow citizens?
Especially when such past members
of the Junior Board (from which
retirement is compulsory at the
age OF 35) as Gov. Harold E. Stas-
sen of Minnesota, keynoter of the
Republican National Convention;
Senator Claude Pepper of Florida
and Congressman, Mayors and other
high public officials too numerous
to mention have become nationally
famous.
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One of them contained the largest
inhabited alley in the city. Four are
on vacant land. All will be re-
developed for housing.
In estimating needs, the Alley
Dwelling Authority must take &C
count of what others are doing.
During the past year and after the
present program was adopted, other
Government agencies have acquired
sites that year ago contained the
dwellings of approximately 780 low
income Negro families. The Au-
thority itself, when seeking the
worst slums for demolition. finds
them occupied predominantly by
low-income Negroes. These are
facts that must be recognized, so
it Is providing for 1900 Negro fami-
lies and 500 white families. 1t has,
however, site which will provide
for some 400 additional white fami-
lies if the need becomes evident.
In order that there might not be
gap between demolition Of sub
standard dwellings and availability
of new ones. the Alley Dwelling
Authority has sought to push the
vacant land projects on its program
ahead of those involving slum recla-
nation. At the beginning this
seemed easy. Vacant land is bought
by the acre from one or, at most, a
few owners. Slum areas must be as
sembled from small pracels in wide
ly scattered ownership. Moreover
many substandard properties are in
undivided estates, or their titles are
clouded. With an even start, it
seemed assured that the vacant land
sites would be ready first. This is
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erick Douglass dwellings. the first
large reclamation area for Negro
occupation will be started almost
at the same time. Demolition al
ready has begun.
The shortage of dwellings for Ne
gro occupancy, accentuated by the
recent clearing of sites for the So
cial Security, Railroad Retirement
and Census Buildings. mas led the
authority not only to include three
other outlying areas in its program.
but to arrange for gradual instead
OF immediate demolition of slum
areas. The site for the Carrollsburg
dwellings, between Third and Fifth,
I and L streets Sc, and that for the
Kelly Miller dwellings in the neigh
borhood of Howard University, are
to be cleared in sections so that oc-
cupants may have the greatest pos
Slble amount of time in securing
other houses.
Some Remain.
The Authority's experience has
been that considerable part of the
occupants of condemned dwellings
find other accommodations fairly
promptly But some remain until
the last moment. If the Authority
cannot find other dwellings for
them, it permits those whose houses
are to be demolished first to move
temporarily into vacated houses in
the reserved section of the project.
The projects in the accompanying
pictures illustrate the Alley Dwell
ing Authority's effort to build mex
pensive and yet good dwellings
dwellings that will continue to be
assets during the whole period for
which they are financed. It is OBJ
vious that the funds entrusted to us
would be wasted if our new houses
soon degenerated into new slums.
Future Beneficiaries.
AT the beginning, the Authority
considered a shorter amortization
period. 1t is again considering it
and is now discussing with the
U. S. H. A. the practicability of a
project with an amortization period
OF 80 instead of so years. However,
shorter period during which the
cost Of house must be repaid means
higher rents. Moreover, if the house
does not last go years and is paid
Tor In 80 or 40, the tenants during
the last 80 or 20 years will be the
beneficiaries Of their predecessors.
On the other hand, at 30 or 40
years the house will have lost the
freshness of youth. So, one NAV
say that its rent should then come
down.. But, disregarding the fact
that some of our oldest Georgetown
houses that have been standing a
century and more, now will rent for
several times the amount that would
have satisfied their builders, it seems
to be a fact that rents in general
tend to rise over long term of
years. Half-ruinous old alley houses
today rent for more than they did
when new. So perhaps today's rent
OF the Authority's new dwellings
may seem very moderate when those
dwellings are In the last third OF
their expected life span.
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act in 1884, vacancies had disap-
peared. So the Alley Dwelling Au-
thority sought amendments to the
act which would permit it to build
on vacant land in compensation for
the slums no longer adapted to low
rent housing. These amendments
1t secured in 1888 Thus, it now is
able to place the emphasis in ac-
cordance with current conditions.
With the present shortage, especially
for Negro families of low income, it
is emphasizing the construction of
low-rent dwellings. But the basis
Of its program continues to be the
elimination of slums.
Various Stages.
Before the 1888 amendments,
when the Authority could deal only
with squares containing Inhabited
alleys, it was impossible to erect
new dwelling for every hovel re-
moved. Of IA sites reclaimed under
Title I of the Act, five were re-
developed for housing, five for other
uses and the remainder sold or held
for future determination. In the
nine new projects under Title II.
financed by loans from the United
States Housing Authority. that are
now in various stages from land
acquisition to buildings nearing
completion. it is possible to readjust
the balance. Five of these projects
are in rundown neighborhoods.
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building and so the slum developed.
The Authority is endeavoring to
protect its properties against such
causes of deterioration.
Depression Changes.
The Alley Dwelling Act was de-
signed to rid Washington of what
the city long had considered it's
principal slums, the inhabited al
leys At the time of its drafting in
1929 and 1880, there were many
vacant, low-rent dwellings. The
depression and its sequences changed
this picture. After passage of the
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place instead of on only one This
last revision is now completed.
Ten years, or even five years from
now undoubtedly We shall be very
glad that we took advantage of
these opportunities to secure bet
ter results instead of pushing
through construction regardless of
them. Today, under the pressure of
need for the dwellings. we are sub
ject to strains that are far from
comfortable.
Demolition Begun.
Because of delays on the Fred
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poorly planned and poorly con-
structed. Often they violate the
first essential of good housing in
That they overcrowd their lots.
They have been neglected. The life
of house depends largely upon the
care that is taken of it. The char
acter of their neighborhoods has
changed, often due to land over
crowding. People no longer tolerate
cramped living when space is avail
able only few minutes away. The
change in neighborhood character
was followed by neglect of the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-24

Made Loans Totaling ...........
Total Assets Increased .........
Paid Dividends to Shareholders .
Paid Maturities to Shareholders
Total Shares Increased .........
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-22
Legal Notices
ADVERTISEMENT

SEALED PROPOSALS will be re-
ceived at the office of the Board OF
Contracts and Awards, Room 307.
City Hall Tacoma, Washington, un-
til 2 O'Clock p. m. FEBRUARY Q, 1910
for:
Furnishing and installing four
12-inch Automatic Cone Valves
for the South Tacoma Pump Sta
ton,
and will then and there be opened
and publicly read aloud. Bids re-
ceived after the time above stated
will not be considered.
All bids shall be accompanied by q
certified check for SO OF the amount
of the bid, made payable to the order
of the Chief Clerk Of the Board OF
Contracts and Awards. Should the
successful bidder fail to enter into .
contract and furnish a satisfactory
performance bond within ten days
OF written notification OF award. the
certified check shall be forfeited as
damages.
Each successful bidder will be re-
quired TO file performance bond in
the full amount of the contract price,
surety company acceptable to the
Board OF Contracts and Awards.
No bidder may withdraw his bid
after the hour set for the opening
or before the award OF con-
tract. unless said award is delayed for
a period exceeding thirty 900 days.
Work must be commenced within
ten Q0) days after date OF notice
of award OF contract, the valves shall
be delivered I. o. b. Tacoma. on or
before the expiration Of seventy (70)
calendar days of the date of said
notice and the controls shall be de-
livered. installed and tested prior to
MAY is. 1910.
Specifications. proposals. affida-
Wit. contract and bond forms may be
in the office Of said board,
and may be obtained by intending
bidders upon deposit OF $500, which
amount will be refunded upon the
return OF specifications in good con-
dition within three days after the
opening OF bids.
Proposals must be made on tho
printed form attached to the specifi-
cations.
The Board reserves the right to re-
1ect any and all OF the bids and to
waive informalities.
j. J. KAUFMAN,
C. v. FAWCETT,
T. A. SWAYZE.
Board OF Contracts and Awards.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-22
It's 500 Fine
For Bartenders

1t was $100-and-costs day in
Justice Clarence e. Layton's court
Friday afternoon with five Tacoma
bartenders, arrested in raids from
before Christmas until this Thurs
day night. participating.
Fined that sum each were Louis
Martini, arrested Jan. II at the
Stevedore cafe, 1889 Commerce st,
by state liquor control officers;
Tony Angelo, taken Dec. 20 at the
Reno cafe. 1882 Broadway; Andy
vitovich, arrested Dec. "a, at the
Cafe de Paris, 1920 Pacific; Bob
Rice, picked up on Dec. "a at the
Avenue cafe, 1916 Pacific, and
Frank Smith, taken Jan. IS at 410
Ea. 9th
A case against Alfred Edwards,
arrested Jan. 18th at the stevedore
cafe. was dismissed.
Added to the list of cases still
to be heard was Orlando Boni, 20
year-old bartender, living at the
Victoria hotel, who was arrested in
a raid Friday evening.