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Evening star., 1942-08-20
IVA Official to Speak

Speaking on What Makes Work
ers Want to Work" Gordon Clapp,
general manager of the Tennessee
Valley Authority, will address men,
bers of the Society for Personnel
Administration at the annual dinner
business meeting to be held at $50
pm. next Monday at the YWCA
6arker Hall, Seventeenth and x
streets NV.
Evening star., 1942-01-03

Echo. Nd. builder: Porter h Locke.
designers; to make repairs, 500
Fourteenth street NV; to cost
81 $50.
Col. and Mrs. Horace Smith, 2207
Massachusetts avenue NV, owners;
H. D. Pullman, $3.50 Forty third
street NV. builder; John J. Whalen,
designer; ito make repairs, 2442-
2444-2448 Massachusetts, avenue
NV: to cost $700.
J. l.. Hartrauft, 5109 Eighth street
NV, owner: John w. johnson, 3615
Fourteenth street NV, builder and
designer; to make repairs, 5109
Eighth street NV; to cost $500.
Mrs. Florence Urciolo, GOT New
York avenue NV, owner; Acie
Coles, 723 Euclid street NV. builder;
to make repairs. 1905 I street Sc;
to cost $500.
Mrs. Florence Urciolo. o07 New
York avenue NV, owner; Acie
Coles, 723 Euclid street NV, builder;
to make repairs. 1927 I street Sc;
to cost $500.
Evening star., 1942-01-03

George T. santmyers, 14l0 II street
NV, designer; to erect one 1-story
brick and cinder block restaurant
2741 Nichols avenue Sc; to cos1
5000.
FL Sandoz, 2 Dupont circle NV.
owner; Harry w. Goff, Dupont
circle NV. builder; j. Wilmer
Smith, 8O8 Seventeenth street NV.
designer; to erect one 1-story brick
ONCE addition, 2 Dupont circle
NV; to cost $4,000.
Two-Story Brick Dwelling.
Kenneth H. billiard, care Of 215
Florida avenue NE, owner and
builder; j. L. Turner. Alabama ave-
nue. Sc, designer: to erect one 2
story brick dwelling, 10l Forty-sixth
place NE; to cost $4,000.
Stanley Co. of America. Earle
Building, owners; Edmund w. Drey-
fuss, 1919 Fifteenth street NV. de-
signer; to erect two 1-story brick
and concrete toilet room addition,
56l2 Connecticut avenue NV; to
cost $4,000.
Nathan Alpert. 3201 Warder street
NV, owner and builder; w. B.
Honey, designer; to make repairs.
329 E street Sc; to cost $4,000.
Peoples Drug Stores, II P street
NE, owners; Skinker G Garrett,
1719 street NV, builders; to make
repairs, 40-48 Decatur street NE;
to cost $4,000.
H. Rozier Dulany, jr., Munsey
Building, owner; D. T. Etzler, Glen
Evening star., 1942-01-03
By MARGARET NOVEL;.

1t Is always interesting to flnd
out anew how circumstances alter
cases in spite Of the fact that We
have been informed Of this fact
since infancy. Circumstances are
working overtime these days and
our point Of view Is altering just as
fast as We can change our minds.
Things that until the present
seemed shabby, down at heel and
ready to be thrown away suddenly
seem valuable. The faded summer
slip covers, the old portieres. the
velvet draperies that last summer
we were sure we would never want
again, now are valuable as long as
they are not worn through and We
begin to think up ways of using old
fabrics rather than purchasing new
Based on the idea that it may be
impossible to get new fabrics, or
more patriotic to conserve what we
have. it is amazing to discover the
possibilities of the things We almost
threw away.
Salvage Old Slip Covers.
The fowered slip covers that
looked so tired at the end Of the
summer may have their good Sec
tions used in combination with
plain material and be most at
tractive. The back and under arm
section of a chair cover usually re-
mains unfaded and whole long after
the other parts are useless. Try
covering sofa cushions with this
and using them on a couch with
plain cover. The contrast Is inter-
esting and looks very much as
though you planned 1t that way.
Velvet draperies and portieres
have not been top fashion for some
time, but now. when we need heavy
fabrics at the window, they may
serve a double purpose. Many Of
us feel that made-over draperies
do not deserve the luxury of dry
cleaning and 1t is up to us to pro-
duce something useful at very small
cost
Velvet may be washed with very
good results. II it is done with care,
but the pressing Of velvet Is difhcult
for the amateur. To avoid this dif1-
Evening star., 1942-01-03

1875 Connecticut avenue NV. de-
signer; to erect ten 2-story brick
nats, 207 = 400 213-215-2l9-22l -225-
227-23l-23S Hawaii avenue NV: to
cost $500 each.
Dora T. Kaplan, 1929 Champlain
street NV, owner; Tracy Construc-
ton Co., builders; Edmund W.
Dreyfus, 1919 Fifteenth street NV,
designer; to erect one 3-story con-
crete and masonry public storage
garage, 2340 Champlain street NV;
to cost $4,000.
Freida Butler and Lena RoSenoh,
939 New York avenue NV, own
ers; Edmund w. Dreyfuss, 1919 Fiji
teenth street NV, designer; to
erect one 2-story brick and cinder
block residence, 3036 Davenport
street NV; to cost $4,000.
Barkley Bros, Inc, Shoreham
Building, owners and builders; Dana
B. Johannes, jr., 927 Fifteenth street
NV, designer; to erect one 2>story
masonry family nat, 10O5 Bunker
Hill road NE; to cost $1l, 900.
Residence Permit Granted.
G. r. Mikkelson g. Son. 1855 Rit-
tenhouse street NV, owners and
builders E. Burton Corning, 1925
Connecticut avenue NV, designer;
to erect one 212-story masonry
residence, 1854 Stuyvesant place
NV: to cost $500.
Frank Calcara. 1901 Neal street
NE, owner and builder; w. B.
Honey, 1885 Morse street NE, dea
signer; to erect two 2-story brick
and cinder block dwellings, ST
Burns street NE; to cost 5000.
Harlan Snoot, 2647 Woodley road
NV, owner; Frank B. Phillips, 81
Fifteenth street NV, builder;
Frank G. Beatty, 140l Woodside
parkway. Silver Spring. Nd, de-
signer; to erect one 1Ha-story brick
and cinder block dwelling, 5274
Loughboro road NV; to cost 5000.
Ernest and Helen Manuel, 329
Raleigh street Sc, owners; A. C.
Minnix. 14l6 F street NV. builder;
Evening star., 1942-01-03
The Home Clinic
This Is q Good Time to Reuse
Old Druperies and Slip Covers

Guilty and be ultra smart you may do
an antique velvet" job and be
greeted with loud hazzahs. Then
you may use your old draperies or
portiers rs such-or to upholster
chairs for sofa cushions and be
very proud of your efforts.
How to Wash Draperies.
Wash the draperies In mild soap
suds and warm water. Do not rub
them or whirl them In the wash
ing machine, but holding them by
the top hem "slosh" them up and
down In the suds. If they are faded
you may dip them In a dye bath at
this point. following the directions
on the package, and rinse them
carefully. Then fold and roll the
draperies as you did your broom
stick skirt last summer and run
them through the wringer In q roll.
Keep them twisted and dry them In
this shape. When nearly dry they
may be opened UP and stretched
into shape.
The surface of the fabric will be
covered with the many fne creases
that is q characteristic Of old velvet.
If the creasing does not please you.
you may dampen the velvet and
twist 1t again, If they do not hang
straight. damp sen the draperies. roll
them up for . short time until they
are evenly damp all the way through
and then hang them At the window,
pull into shape and thumb tack them
to hang evenly. This use OF old
material may please you 20 much
you will demand the soft ,crushy
folds of antique velvet forever.
Don't forget the ability OF pack
age of dye to transform your whole
outlook on life. In the years when
fabrics have been 70 cheap and
plentiful and every color In the
world was available there has been
no need to seek subtle shades in the
home dye bath. But As the number
Of colors are restricted and sturdy
materials become scarce We suggest
that you take up grandmothers oc-
cupation of re-dyeing all good mate
rials and find out again what beauti-
full and distinctive color schemes you
can create when you need them.
Evening star., 1942-01-03
New5nap-GripC Catch
Fastens Cabinet
Doors Securely
Quick-Settine Powder
Mixed With Water
SeoIs Cellar Leuks
Continued From Page B-1.) }

10 cents each. Other finishes can
be furnished on request at slightly
higher price.
Evening star., 1942-01-03
Permits
Continued From Page BID

can Security IL Trust Building,
owners: John M. Harris A8socia-
ton, New York City, builders; Hola-
bred, Root IL Arclas, designers; to
erect one history brick and stone
hotel, 1901 Sixteenth street NV;
to cost S4.5O0 900.
Potomac Electric Power Co, Tenth
and E streets NV. owners; Stone
e. Webster Engineering Corp. Bos-
ton. Mass, builders and designers;
to erect one 7-story stael and con-
Evening star., 1942-01-03
HOUSING Prices Level OFF

Greater bidding activity and q
leveling of Of prices has been noted
In the United States Housing Au-
thority's public housing program In
the last two months, Administrator
Nathan Straus disclosed today.
Evening star., 1942-01-03

crete electric power building, y Y
street S.W.; to cost $70O. 900.
Defense Hotel Planned.
Defense Homes Corp, Federal
Loan Agency Building. owners: !:
Louis Justement, 1913 Connecticut
avenue NV, designer: to erect ono
8-story brick and concrete hotel.
76Ol Sixteenth street NV; to cost
$640, 900.
]. B. Tiffey, 500l North Capitol
street, owner and builder; j. H. Abel.
Evening star., 1942-01-03

To tighten springs in curtain
rollers, hold roller firmly, put end
of spring between tines of fork and
turn until spring is tight.
The midland journal., 1942-01-23
MISCELLANY:

Santa Barbara, Calf: Mickey
Rooney, No. / film star, married a
little-mown 19-year-old movie &C
tress, Ava Gardner from North
Carolina.
New York: Joe Louis defeated
Buddy Baer in a one-round knock
out and then had announced he
would enlist in the army, not waiting
for the draft.
Rangoon, Burma: A japanese air
raid threw three elephants into a
panic and they stampeded, causing
considerable confusion before they
were recaptured.
Rome: Italy had confiscated the
entire filing station network OF the
Texas company within its borders,
it had been announced.
London: Britain was still further
cutting its food ration as the de-
mands began to food in from the
South Pacific campaign.
Tokyo (by radio): A 80 per cent
tax increase has been necessary in
Japan to finance the new war ex-
penditures, it was announced.
Berlin: Dispatches from Tokyo
told Of Seueo Dye, famous Jap pole
vaulter, being killed In action az he
led landing party on Luzon.
The midland journal., 1942-01-23
DEFENSE:
REORGANIZATION

President Roosevelt recognized
growing congressional dissatisfac-
ton over the Civilian Defense team,
comprised of Mayor LaGuardia and
Mrs. Roosevelt, and while he did
not take LaGuardia's title of di-
rector away from him, he brought
Dean James M. Landis of the Har-
ward law school down to Washing
ton to take actual charge.
The house had made discreet rep
reservations to the President that
Mayor LaGuardia, as head Of the
nations largest city, had plenty to
do to see that New York's defense
situation was cared for, and had no
time to see to the country as whole.
They also limited around that Mrs.
Roosevelt could only be considered
a part-time executive, and that the
OCD needed hard work and full
time.
They recommended it be put into
the hands of the war department.
President Roosevelt's answer was
Dean Lands, but in the meantime
the house voted an inquiry into the
manner in which the problem had
been handled.
Mayor LaGuardia, Mrs. Roosevelt
and Paul v. McNutt had been sum-
moned to testify.
The midland journal., 1942-01-23
SHORTAGES:
u. S. Feels Pinch

One after another shortages Of
various commodities and manufac-
tured products began to be felt, and
the average American began to
feel the pinch of war as he never
had felt it even at the height of the
last World war.
Some of these shortages could be
traced to lack of raw material from
the south Pacific; others to the de-
mands of the war upon industry,
still others on both.
First came the rubber shortage
and the consequent rationing of
tires, directly due to the Philippine
situation; second was the abrupt
ending of production of new pas
senger cars and commercial trucks,
and the rationing Of them.
In line with this came difficult
ties in delivering milk and other
commodities in larger cities and
towns.
The cutoff in sugar caused a
price rise, and the government
moved to buy in the major portion
of the Cuban crop. In many cities
this precipitated panicky purchas-
ing of sugar, with the result that
grocers started rationing it them
selves.
It also was reported that there
soon would be instituted the ration
ing of spark plugs and batteries,
probably of other manufactured
goods associated with the auto in
dustry.
The midland journal., 1942-01-23

Such case is that of "J.G.," who
writes me from Georgia:
! 'sWhen ! married my husband, !
loved him." says her letter, "but
now after II years of unclouded hap
piness l know that my early love
was only a shadow of what real
love could be-! He is not a strong
man; we live for our garden, our
books, and our one daughter.
"Reggie was invalided after
terrible bout with pneumonia four
years ago, and we took what capital
we had and bought a tiny farm,
which my nine-year-old Rachael and
/ have brought to the point of being
an asset rather than a liability.
Meanwhile Reg had started writing,
little bookish essays at first, for
which he was not paid; later more
ambitious literary studies, one Of
which is to be published in book form
in the spring. Our lives were per-
fect-perfect perfect, until a man I
used to know as college student
turned up in the neighborhood.
"The story of our old affair is no
new one to you. I thought it con-
cerned only ourselves. I was away
from home for the first time, and
every other girl did it, why not ~
The Is years between that time and
this have been disciplinary years,
and I know they have made me a
finer and wiser woman than anything
that was promised by the nature Of
that girl Of 10.
'But all the lessons in the world
can't save me from what is going on
now. I suppose you would call it
blackmail. Victor amuses Reggie,
who calls him rough diamond
and Victor wants to come and live
with us. He has no job, no money,
no ambition. He has grown heavy
and lazy, but on the three occasions
when he has called he has, as say,
made himself amusing, and outlined
what he would like to do with the
farm to develop it.
"Oh, Reg wouldn't divorce me or
leave me-" the letter concludes, "but
his faith in me, his pleasure in what
he calls my lily girlhood, would re-
ceive terrible shock. He is not
strong; he cannot 60 about as other
men do. He has so few pleasures!
His utter pride in Rachael and me
is the greatest of them ALL"
I've written "J.G." telling her that
the only way out is the way of full
confession. That means she can dis
miss the odious Victor in no uncer-
tain terms and then resume her hap
py way of life with no further refer
ence to the cloud that has come up
so suddenly. Victor win have her
old letters. of course, and she the
sting of old memories. And Reg will
have to replace his idealistic love
for his wife with something less
fragile-less perfect.
wonder what her answer would
be today II she could hear that girl,
Of Is years ago, asking, What's the
difference7"
The midland journal., 1942-01-23
Apparently Little Tommy
Vas a Movie Enthusiast

The teacher was trying to get
the pupils to understand the dread
full business of conjugating verbs.
"When say I have, you have,
he has, she explained, 81 am
conjugating the verb to have
] want all of you to understand.
Do your"
They did.
Every good. Now listen careful
ly. i love, you love, he loves
What is that?"
There was moment of silence,
and then up shot little Tommy's
hand.
"Please miss" he said, ''it's
one of them triangles when some
one gets shot!'
The midland journal., 1942-01-23
MALAYA:
At All Costs

While the British were seriously
being forced backward and ever
backward in Malaga, losing the cap
ital of the Federated Malay states,
Kuala Lampur, Sir Henry Pownan,
the commander in the Singapore de-
tense, made the statement that the
British plan was divided into two
general parts, first the slowing or
stopping of the Japanese attack;
second, the turning of the British to
the offensive and driving the in
vaders out. He said:
eve are now engaged in the first
of these activities"
Returning British wounded, how
ever, paid tribute to the fighting
qualities of the Japs, and members
of Commando groups said that when
confronted with the cold steel the
Japs would scramble up into tall
trees, from which, they would hurl
grenades on the British "like mon
keys with explosive coconuts."
They were said to be adept at
hiding in small places, and that at
times furious fire would come from
directions in which it did not seem
possible that soldiers could find
cover.
Raj. activity over the peninsula
was constantly on the increase, how
ever, and American-made bombers,
some of them flown by Eagle fiers
with the volunteer Chinese air force,
were bombing Japanese bases in
Thailand and Indo-China from Bur-
mese flying fields.
The picture was not generally opti-
mistic in Malaga, but it was re-
garded as far from hopeless, at least
at present.
The midland journal., 1942-01-23

TROY, N. Y.-Dr. Donald A.
Wilbur of Rensselaer, Polytech-
mic institute is shoaon testing a
sound detector hastily construct
ed in the institutes physics lab
oratory 20 determine hoso efec-
tively such cheaply built devices
might be adopted throughout
the country BY air raid spoilers.
A fes0 boards, a PhonoyaPh
horn, a microphone and a bat
tery-operated arpIifer and ear
phones are the ingredients OF
the detector that can pick up the
sound of bonlbers fue to ten
miles distant.
The midland journal., 1942-01-23
c4Good
Defense
against
CONSTIPATION

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The midland journal., 1942-01-23
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
o LANGUAGE is stror


= boys that theft and forg-
cry are wrong. And not merely
wrong in being punishable
crimes. Wrong because of what
they do to a boys character,
even if he is never found out.
Wrong in boyhood, because the
stolen quarter or the forged
school excuse are steps to more
serious forgeries and thefts, and
once schooled well in those di-
rections it takes heroic fortitude
it takes indeed a complete
change of personality, to resist
later temptations.
In the same way I wish l
could find words impressive
enough to help girls to see just
how great is the price women
have to pay for that thrilling
''giving in" to the young lovers
of school and college days.
If your husband told you, one of
these cosy winter evenings, that dur
ing his senior year at college he
supported himself entirely by steal
ing and forging, you would be hor-
rified. You couldn't laugh it off, tell
him that it didn't make the slightest
difference to you. You could not
honestly say, 81 love you for what
you are, dear, not for what you
were.'
Having sold his honor once, you
would iceland the world would feel
he might sell it again. And in ex-
actly the same way man knows
that a girl, who was reckless in CIV
ing her favors in girlhood, is not go
ing quite suddenly to attain an en-
tirely different position toward what
ought always to be the sacred SYM
boil of her honor.
These are old-fashioned phrases,
and to girls mine seems an old-fash-
ioned attitude. But I can assure
them that, viewed in the light Of
later years, they will see the whole
thing differently. It would be easier
for young wife to explain to her
husband that she lifted some money
out of the department-store cash
register when she was working there
years before her marriage, than to
explain that she was intimate for
few months with one of the men who
is known to her husband in business.
Buried Secrets Reappear.
OF course, if she can avoid it, and
hope permanently to avoid it, girl
doesn't tell her prospective husband
these things. But that security isn't
always as sound as it seems. Hardly
day goes by without bringing me
a desperate letter from some young
wife who has supposed her secret
long forgotten and buried,
Many of these women say that,
feeling it would be more comfort
able to admit to the affair before
marriage and start on an apparent
ly honest basis, they have softened
the story by saying that the man
was someone you never met. He
died the following year."
This does smooth things over for
the moment. Few men, especially
in anticipation of an immediate
marriage to an adored woman, will
waste time on jealousy of dead
man. But matters are much worse
when the perverse turn of events
brings this man into contact with
the family again, and the unsuspect-
ing husband is perhaps cordial to
him. So that the wife must either
make a clean breast of the whole
thing, or put up with the insuffer-
able situation of having secret
with one of the guests of the house
that would crush her husbands
pride and faith in her if it were made
known. M
The midland journal., 1942-01-23
On Roman Architecture

Although the famed architec-
ture of the Roman Empire pro-
duced an extensive contemporary
literature, there exist only two
books on the subject that were
written by Romans.-De Architec-
tura Libri Decem by Vitruvius and
De Aquis Urbis Romae by From
tinus.
The midland journal., 1942-01-23
MAC ARTHUR:
Tough

Only fragmentary reports at wide
intervals, testimony to the increas-
ing difficulties of communications,
were coming from the Philippines.
Some military commentators saw
hope for General Macarthur and his
defending forces if they could hold
out for three weeks more.
But this was admittedly profile
matical. How much in the way of
supplies and munitions the MacAr-
thur army had was one question.
Another was how long these sup
plies and munitions would continue
to get to him.
Admittedly the Filipino American
troops had all the advantage of ter
rain and superior position. The Mar
wales mountain renge, which they
were defending, wac lofty, provided
much natural fortifcation. and tacti-
cally was the planned line of de-
tense from the outset. This worked
put as planned.
The midland journal., 1942-01-23
RUSSIA:
Brightest Spot

The Russian front continued to
furnish the brightest picture from
the Allied standpoint.
Moscow had begun to report mass
surrenders Of German troops with
out fighting. The Reds also report
ed large masses Of Nazi soldiers in
rapid retreat to the southwest from
the upper central front, abandoning
much war material.
The sieges of Sevastopol and
Leningrad have definitely been
broken, and their garrisons had
swept out beyond the city borders
to engage retreating Germans and
to attempt to form functions with
other Russian troops.
The radio broadcasts picked up
from Germany tacitly admitted the
situation was serious. One described
it as a ''crisis, but one with which
Adolf Hitler win know how to deal"
Hitler was believed to be planning
some sort of major coup, but the
nature of it could not be guessed
at. He also was variously reported
as facing tremendous internal pres
sure as result of his break with
Won Brauchitsch.
There also had been reports that
crack German reinforcements were
being flown by gGders to the Rus
sian front to attempt to bolster the
cracking Nazi defenses.
The midland journal., 1942-01-23

q 100 government
JESSE JONES-RFC administra-
tor and secretary Of commerce, pic
tured sitting ON desk as he listens to
Representative Dingell Of Michigan
charging that the army was build
ing new production plants while
many others were idle.
The midland journal., 1942-01-23
PRICES:

The price control bill finally was
passed, but in such a form that it
was said to have been major de-
feat for the administration.
Although the senate passed it SO
to I, the farm-relief amendment
passed only SIS to 81.
As the bill went into conference it
provided, according to opposition
senator's, such possible farm price
raises that the cost Of living could
reasonably advance Is per cent be-
fore the price control administrator
could do anything about it.