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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27
Scars
rs Pct. in First
Quarter Of Al
Local Area Contracts
Reac h $32,247,000
Dodge Reports Say

Construction contracts awarded
in the Detroit metropolitan area
for the first quarter of this year
were up rs per cent over the same
period in 1910, Miles w. Beatty,
Detroit manager of Dodge Re-
ports, announced Saturday.
Beatty emphasized the Dodge
summary was based on actual con-
tracts and that residential build
ing, non-residential building and
engineering construction all made
individual gains over their 1910
counterpart.
~ Per Cent Gain
Awarded contracts in the De-
troit area for all types of con-
struction from January to April
amounted to $50, PAT, 900, compared
to $1S,336, 900 for the same three
months in 1910. Contracts for
March totaled S12,087. 900 this
year. Last year they aggregated
So, 700, 900.
Residential building contracts
for the three months period
moved to $21, 200, 900 in a AZ per
cent gain over S14,456, 900, the
1910 record. The March valuation
reached $9,139, 900, compared with
Sc, S89, 900, the March, 1910. total.
Non-residential building con-
tracts awarded in the first quar-.
ter were valued at S10,043, 900.
This is an improvement of PIT
per cent over the same period
a year ago.
Wolff Reports Permits
Building permits in Detroit for
the week ending April IS, totaled
81, 752, 051, Joseph p. Wolff, COM
missioner of buildings and safety
engineering, reported Saturday.
OF the authorizations issued by
Wolff, 391 were for new buildings
while permission was granted for
additions or alterations to BIB
structures.
Wolff reported permits issued
last week for 229 single or two
family dwellings which will cost
an estimated 81, 146, 2S5.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27
Two Boom Eras
Linked by Trees

More than 20 years ago ambi-
tious subdividers opened a de-
velopment in Mckinley and Roose.
welt avenues, Dearborn, just of
West Outer drive. Neat streets
were plotted and sidewalks laid.
while small maple trees bordered
the thoroughfares.
This project, unfortunately. went
the way of many similar postwar
real estate ventures. No houses
were built and weeds soon COW
cred the streets walks and lots.
But the weeds weren't the only
things WHICH, grew. The tiny
naples, set out by the developers,
expanded inch by inch, foot by
foot.
Today the development has been
given new life. Taken over sew
eral months ago by Volk and Row
SEX. builders, the weeds were cut.
the streets and sidewalks repaired
and the development even given
new name Maple Grove -
because of the huge naples which
now stand majestically on each lot
in the project.
Twenty-Five homes ranging from
$4,000 TO 81 500 have already been
built or are under construction
and the builders contemplate a
suburban development embracing
300 homes.
All homes have many features,
including plastered basement walls
and attic space for future home
expansion. Extras. often over
looked in the lower-priced homes,
are included in the Maple Grove
dwellings. There are broom
closets, mi k chutes, b tht u b
showers and tiled kitchens.
The development is adjacent to
schools and fast county roadways.
Here is the way to Maple
Grove:
Take Michigan avenue to Mon
roe avenue in Dearborn. then
drive south in Monroe TO the de-
velopment. You can also take
Michigan TO West Outer drive.
turn left for a mile, and you're at
Maple Grove.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27

Constant of available being made here
Hall revealed registration bureau will be established
within the next two TO three weeks to get clear picture of hous
ing facilities available here.
Periodically the defense housing coordnator in Washington is
spprised by Hall available
and the employabeS the who could
be hired before outsiders.
These include those welfare WPA high school
Rnd those unemployed who taking defense industry
Hall likewise pointed to the possibility widespread
lEent Of in defense industries.
units In this community for the coming year he said Under
normal conditions the building industry
at least 10000 units Under Title VI of the FHA this figure
he Increased from 1000 TO 5000.
81 absolutely need
with purely
believe this on N
tive building
can't that In the
eminent housing is necessary"
Michigan fifth in the nation in the amount of FILA modern
zation and property Improvement loans for the
19 FILA Administrator Abner Ferguson reported Saturday.
Citizens of this state applied for 9699 FILA modenzaton
for estimated $579316 Ferguson also reported that the
Der of such loans for the nation whole increased 80
last year.
Tenant Selection
discussion he led ".
Credit Association luncheon
Continued Page Two)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27
LET Contracts
For New Plant

Contracts for design and con-
struction of a 43.000-square foot
welded rigid frame addition to
the National Twist Drill Com
pany's new plant at Rochester,
Mich. have been awarded to the
Austin Company, engineers and
builders, it was announced Satur-
day.
The extension will follow the
same "tree-form" sawtooth design
applied in the initial unit of the
Rochester plant, with 40-foot
aisles entirely free of cross men,
bers from floor TO roof. 1t will
consist of three individual sections,
S0x140 feet, S0x300 feet, and a
power house 40x60 feet, with three
oil-fired full automatic high pres
sure boilers which will provide
steam for drop hammers and
processing.
Wood block floors will be pro-
vided throughout most of the
plant.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27
Makes Recommendation

Unreasonable tax exemption
for lOw-cOst homes.
establishment of a fair
ratio between the tax burden
and income return.
3-Provision for reasonable
tax-serving facilities.
Recognizing that the local tas
burden in the future will be
greater than ever before and en-
phasizing that little will be gained
from complaint or gripping" Hus.
band asserted that the size of the
tax load makes il imperative
that II be distributed fairly and
with due consciousness of the ul-
innate results"
He buttresSed his assertion con-
corning tax burdens with figures
from the Hole. which the Fed
eral Home Loan Bank Board di-
reefs. and which has paid out
$444 100000 in taxes during the
last eight years.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27
Realtors Report
Moving Decline

Detroiters are becoming less ant
less conscious of the so-called Ma,
l moving day in the opinion Satur
day of w. E. Knoertzer. director
of research for the Detroit Rea
Estate Board.
although both the Michigan
Bell Telephone Company and the
Michigan Consolidated Gas Com
pany report an increase over
the number of accounts serviced
last year the percentage of
changes is lower in I94I than 1t
was in 1940," Knoertzer said.
Board members who special
lie in property management re-
port fewer address changes for
DetrOiters than we have ever
known.
THE big volume Of moving
will be done by those buying
newly constructed dwellings. So
far this year, 2,663 permits for
residences have been issued
against 1882 for 1910. The I94I
volume for this type of construc-
ton Is $1S.093, 286 In comparison
with $S,6S0,142 In the cor
responding months Of 1910.
"Detroits apartments now are
1914 per cent occupied. Rentals
have not changed materially and
where increases were made they
appear TO have been necessitated
by modernization, new equip
ment or increased taxes"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27
Local Realtors
Studying Taxes
In Washington
Bassett and Palmer
Represent State at
National Conference

Arthur F. Bassett and Louis C.
Palmer, Detroit realtors, were in
Washington Saturday representing
this community and state as dele
gates TO the National Conference
Of Real Estate Taxpayers.
The conference has before II
important proposals looking TO a
restudy of the whole national
state. and local tax question in
view of the tremendous emergency
expenditures and will review pro-
posals now pending in many state
legislatures TO give real estate
more equitable taxes.
Palmer is chairman OF the De-
troit Real Estate Boards legisla-
tive committee, while Bassett is
chairman of the Michigan Real
Estate Associations legislative
committee.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27
Board Of Commerce Co-operatinq

Willis Hall manager industrial department of
troit Board Commerce. his
operating much the locally described by Jerome
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27
Real Estate Crucifed

The conference delegates heard
DIR. William II. Husband. member
of the Federal Home Loan Bank
Board, declare Saturday that real
estate is being crucified on cross
of taxes, with a consequent threat
to the stability both of home
ownership and local government"
Declaring that taxing authori-
ties themselves will suffer in the
end from the impossible" burden
placed on the ownership of real
estate in hundreds of communities.
Doctor Husband made three speci-
fic suggestions for the moderni-
Zation Of the archaic tax
systems which now exist:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27

on Page Two)
Evening star., 1941-08-18
Public Ring Workouts
Started by Poland
For Blunt Battle
Turner'S Arena Chosen
As Temporary Site
For Boxing Drills

The minor item of a training
camp for Bill Poland still was up
in the air today as the Jewish
heavyweight's handlers prepared to
launch him on the final stretch
of a strenuous siege in preparation
for his 25-round bout with big
Eddie Blunt next week at the ball
park.
Promoter Joe Turner voted for
his own arena as q site, pointing
out that it would give the fans an
opportunity to size up both men
as Blunt already is due to dock at
the w street terminal today. And
with virtually all of the other
heavyweights on the card slated
to condition themselves at the same
place Poland would be assured an
ample supply of cannon fodder.
Jack Kearns, Poland's agent
went to New York yesterday to find
his fighter and bring him back.
They were due this afternoon ir
plenty of time for a workout and
cit would have to be at Turner's S
since no other arrangements had
been made. There was talk OF
sticking Poland out in the country
and some mention was made OF
Tom ODonnell's farm in nearby
Maryland, but Kearns wants him in
town where the prospective GUS
toners can work up an appetite
for the fight watching him bat
around his sparring partners.
Evening star., 1941-08-18
Off Again, On Again!
Buddy Lewis Gets
New Draft Status

Chairman w. B. Crumption OF
CASTOR County Selective Service
Board No. 2 today said that j. K.
(Buddy) Lewis, Washington Base
ball Club outflelder, had been denied
a new appeal for deferment, it was
reported by the Associated Press in
a dispatch from Gastonia, N. c.
Lewis was slated to be inducted
into the Army at Fort Bragg, N. c.,
tomorrow, but his appeal for a sec
ond 6O-day extension-until October
11-held up induction. Crumption
said Lewis had appealed the boards
decision and that the Charlotte
Board of Appeals would hear the
case this week.
Lewis informed reporters on Sat-
urday that he had been notified by
his draft board that through a
technical error in notifying him OF
his date of induction he would not
be called until the next contingent
of draftees left his district, probably
about october l.
President Clark Griffith of the
Mats said Lewis had received mail
from his draft board this morning
at Griffith Stadium and that it had
been forwarded to the Washington
rightflelder at Cleveland, where the
Mats will face the Indians tonight.
Evening star., 1941-08-18
Nancy Merki, IA, Nabs
Individual LaureIs
In National Swim
American 1900 Mark Set
By Portland (Oreg.) Girl;
Riviera Team Victor
BY the Associated Press.


HIGH POINT, N. c., Aug. 18.-
The photogenic glamour girls, the
ones who had their pictures in all
the papers until this meet started,
took back seat today and little
bit Of a miss from up toward the
end of the Oregon Trail started
home with highest individual honors
of the A. A. U. national women's
swimming championship.
Nancy Merki of Portland, Greg,
Just IA years old, scored 13 points,
ending with a new American record
of IL minutes 16 seconds for the 800
meter free style. Next, in a tie at
10 points, were Betty Bemis Of In
dianapolis, Ind, and Helen Crlenko-
vich of San Francisco, diving spe-
cialist.
Almost as unexpected was the way
the Riviera Club of Indianapolis,
unheralded and omitted from pre-
meet gossip, clinched the team
trophy with 43 points. Portland had
81 and the Women's Swimming
Association of New York City 20.
During the three-day competition,
Miss Merki also broke a national
meet record and swan the 1900
meter event in 22:12.2.
Four other old times were bet
tered before the final event yester-
day. Miss Dennis swan the 400
meters in 5:23.7, and Patty Aspinall,
her teammate, went the 200-meter
breaststroke in 13:14.9. The In
dianapolis team of Joan Fogle, Mary
Ann Walter, Ann Hardin and Betty
Dennis, Swan the 800-meter relay in
10:30.7, and Gloria Callen of the
New York City Association clocked
the 100-meter backstroke in 1:17.5.
Evening star., 1941-08-18
None But His Son Will Succeed Him, Says Connie Mack
Noo Tenth ned by Ace Meet Louis Gombng Lid soogo Iighd

a job as master Of ceremonies
somewhere anytime he wants to
quit racing. The Cavalier Arena,
Richmond's new $l75,O00 sports
center, Is looking for basket ball
games and other attractions.
Any one interested should write
Ben Wahrman of the Richmond
(Va0 News-Leader. Lou Nova is
the 10th guy Ray Arcel has
trained to fight Louis. And look
what happened to the other nine.
Folk who know say the gambling
lid has been clamped down tighter
at Saratoga this year than ever
before.
This good old daze-Have you
noticed how boxing is falling back
on old-time stuff? First it was
Benny Leonard sparring with Lew
Tender. Now Battling Nelson,
who's crowding so, is going to
tackle Johnny Coulon in a three
rounder at Detroit. Ard, Of
course, that 25-round Blunt
Poland affair next week in WASH
ington goes clear back to when
Jess willard and Jack johnson
fought - rounds tn Havana.
Evening star., 1941-08-18
Double Win in Clutch
Makes Flag Easy
For Newark
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Newark Bears aren't called
the Little Yankees" merely because
they're one of the more important
farm clubs of the American League
leaders. When they run into really
tough spot in the International
League race, they act like the big
Yanks, too.
For that reason, there's very little
doubt left that they'll win the 1941
pennant. They ran up against the
second-place Montreal Royals in
double header yesterday to start
crucial" series. 1t is the seasons
last clash between these teams and
it appeared the penant might de-
pend upon the outcome.
All the Bears did was to slap down
their rivals. 6-2 and To, to the de-
light of 1928 fans, and pull out six
games in front. Since the other
first-division clubs, Buffalo and
Rochester, also lost double-headers,
that made Newarks position very
comfortable.
Evening star., 1941-08-18
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, Jr.,
ASSnciatad Presr Qn0rts Writer


NEW YORK, Aug. 18.-Connie
Mack, denying rumors that jim
my Dykes had been offered a job
managing the AS, said the only
guy who will succeed him is his
son, Earl.
Weeks Wash.-Jack Dempsey
opens a three-month tour with
the Cole Brothers Circus today
at Bluefield, w. Va. He's sched-
uled only to put on sparring ex-
hibitions and suchlike, but since
Jim Braddock boxed with a kan
garoo up in Canada a while ago,
we'd suggest they line up one
of Clyde Beatty's tigers for old
Johnno. Billy Dear, whose golf
is lot tougher than his name,
won't, play in the amateur at
Omaha next week. He wants to
be no hand when a little Dear
arrives about that time. Col.
Matt VIM, who made the Ken
lucky Derby what it is, will be
guest of honor at Saratoga to-
night when the folks who helped
him run racing at Juarez, Me1-
Evening star., 1941-08-18
World Records
Mark |nboard
Boat Racing
Two Made in Windup
Events; New National
Stokes King Crowned
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RED BANK, N. j., Aug. 18.-The
famed Gold Cup race appears as
dead as last years Christmas tree,
but so long as motors balk and boats
tip, the sport of speedboat racing
will retain the element of uncer-
tainty that draws crowds.
Zalmon G.. (Zammy) Simmons of
Greenwich. Conn, won the 38-year-
old trophy that symbolizes the big
boat championship by driving his
My Sin" once over the 30-mile
course Saturday after all the other
boats entered had failed to appear
Even he acknowledged that it wasn't
much fun to win that way.
After that was over, the drivers
and spectators really had some fun.
Schrafft New Champion.
Yesterday, with 10000 looking on,
two world records were set in the
inboard classes; new National
Sweepstakes champion was crowned
and the outboard pilots, though un-
able to set any records, provided
plenty of thrills in their efforts to
keep their tiny craft from upsetting
on the choppy North Shrewsbury
River.
George Schrafft, a recent Harvard
graduate from Newton, Mass, won
the National Sweepstakes with his
Chrissie w after the defending
champion, Jack Pop) Cooper of
Kansas City, was forced out of ac-
ton. Schrafft just did manage to
finish the final heat. After chas-
ing Joseph Taggart's Tommyann Sd
of Canton, Ohio, home in the first
heat and winning the second when
the Taggart craft was forced out
with a broken oil line, Schrafft's
motor petered out with lap to go
on the final 15-nile heat.
He managed to get 1t started
again, limped across the finish at
about Is miles an hour and collected
enough points to win the race. His
total was 827 points to 1874 for Frank
Ripp of Rockville Center, N. Y, who
took fourth, second and first in the
three heats with his Meadowmere Sd.
Motor Trouble Stops Cooper.
Cooper had a series of mishaps to
illustrate the uncertainties that beset
a speedboat racer. He had motor
trouble Saturday with his new Tops,
so he changed motors, using the one
from Tops Sd. He had no time to
overhaul the motor that had run
through 10 consecutive races. Still
he got up to second place in the
second heat and then had to drop
out when some of the plywood in the
hull gave way
Edison Hedges of Atlantic City
N. j., drove his new boat, Uncle Sam
to victory in the national 135-inch
championship and then shattered
the world record for class B racing
inboard runabouts twice in success
sive heats with American Eagle. The
second time he brought his speed UP
to 1926 miles an hour. Tom Ehr-
hart of York, Pa, broke the record
for class B racing runabouts when
he drove Doris Sd to a mark OF
45.478 miles per hour.
Evening star., 1941-08-18

co, in the old days stage a get
together. Howard Johnston, who
was N. G. A. A. rasslin' champ in
1885, got his doctors degree in
dairy husbandry from Penn State
the other day. And no cracks
about his throwing the bull.
Today's Guest Star.-Carl L.
.Hogendorn, North English Qowa)
Record: $50 our next-door
neighborhood from Norway, Iowa,
Hal Trosky of the Cleveland In
dians, is having bad headaches.
Could 1t be that ne is getting
back q few of those that he
helped give to Oscar Witt last
year?"
Rookie Roundup.-The Dodgers
have a red-hot pitching prospect
in Victor lombard of their
Johnstown (Pa.) Glass D farm.
He's a little guy, fresh out of
high school, and the scouts
didn't pay much attention to him
until he began striking out an
average of Is a game. One Of
the big reasons for the success
Of the Camp Upton team Is
Catcher Hank Bunowski, who
Evening star., 1941-08-18

left modern that of Tony Gaeno
that Lightweight Hawkins had better thrust
hook explained Hawkins jabbed and
notion every hurt"
Now then, what Ketche Walker and Dempsey Mr.. Kearns
his head brought Ketch
how-of terrific had lot of brass
Walker WELL is
guy of money with This official altme
because haven't had chance to think but I'd
Hawkins left Louis right hand Loughrans all
ability his ferociousness
would just about the perfect fighter"
time, anxious to
subject of Poland Jewish from the Bronx
Blunt said Poands the
fight which schedule "is guy kicked
Buddy Music,
him a bad piece stuff"
Evening star., 1941-08-18
Chase in Spot to Save Griffmen
From Cellar and Harris Job;
Hudson Conquers Red Sox

Cleveland, Detroit, st. Louis and
Chicago.
Hudson hurled a five-hit brand of
baseball at the Red Sox yesterday
at Griffith Stadium to achieve a
6-2 victory, but the hero of the
game to 1000 customers was Gen.
ter Fielder Roger Cramer, who twice
robbed lean Ted Williams of triples
at a time when the Mats were strug-
Cling to preserve 80 lead.
In the fifth inning, with two out,
Pete Fox on second and Joe Cronin
on first, Cramer backed against the
center-field barrier for Williams
mighty 425-foot poke, but it was in
the eighth that Cramer contributed
more spectacular catch.
With two out, williams blasted a
tremendous drive toward the center
field bleachers, but Cramer leaped
high against the barrier and made
a back-hand stab for one of the
finest catches Griffith Stadium fans
have viewed this season.
Washington spurted into a 80
lead in the first inning. George
Case was safe on Cronin's low throw
to first, and Cramer beat out a slow
roller to Second Baseman Bobby
Doerr. Buddy Lewis forced Cramer,
but Cecil Travis walked to fill the
bases and Mickey Vernon smashed
single off Pitcher Heber New
some's glove, scoring Case and leav-
ing the bases filled.
Run Is Forced in.
George Archie walked, scoring
Lewis, and Travis scored after Jake
Early flied deep to Pete Fox in
right. Morris Aderholt grounded
out to leave Vernon and Archie
stranded.
Boston mustered two runs in the
fifth when Doerr singled, Frankie
Pytlak reached first on Aderholt's
tumble and Newsome doubled to
right. scoring both.
Hudson then settled to retire the
last 13 Red Sox in order, but, with
two out in the eighth, Washington
collected three more runs. After
Cramer and Lewis both had been
tossed out by Newsome, Travis
punched a single to left. Vernon
singled off Doerr's glove, the ball
caroming into right field, and when
Fox fumbled the ball Travis scored
and Vernon continued to second.
Archie's single to center fetched
Vernon home and Archie took Sec
ond as Jimmy Foxx muffed Early's
grounder. Aderholt's single to right
scored Archie.
Evening star., 1941-08-18
The MuuIer Always Was Geored for Distance

of the old school, all for taking swing
didn't mddeweight
Kenneth Instead Mr.
satisfied himself by saying th ph and who in the heck
Overln, anyway?
fighters least 20 rounds Look at Dempsey
his last fights before he wired one day at
fight Could he fight? H.
and let punch
his left and learn that bob
always
rounds"
cautiously spies from the
hiding behind the pillars Not
percevng his bfoa the good doctor lowered his voice
only shifted to his boy Poland
another Dempsey whispered MI kearn All
and that bobbng and weaving
stve down pa Shep me- got everything except that stuff
stopped here leaving Master William Poland
of perfect fighter
for the time being good docs perfect fighter composite OF Da
Hawkins right Loughn brains and Dempseys
tenacity and oughneSs
Only in parting again mention Poland and
reminder After he knocks out this big
through Nova, Conn and Louis
without any would have done and this kid is
the seem
Evening star., 1941-08-18
Showdown in National League Struggle Due Dodger 4ame Se
Win, Lose or Draw
By FRANCIS E. STAN.
Jack Keorns and His Perfect Fighter

Kearns probably pubcized fight
history admits that he conenousy couldn't begin to pick
pugs heard Of read about
Keans who here to help promote Joe Turner
Griffith Stadium August a. confessed that he not
about a lot of points
of those glamour boys of days BY He man
Stanley Ketche Walker and Jack Dempsey
fellow named Bill Poland the
public picking atm composite fighter he stumped
with him the other and Jack said the only who
question in composite picture Dal Hawkins
today heard of Da Hawkins He
lightweight" great to paint
fighter we'd have have Hawkins left hand it.
with a left hand"
champion His bid fame nlpped by
Cans him 25-rounder. Still insisted Keans
artist the known
Hawkins left the toward the greatest
tighter that lived"