Evening star., 1942-11-14
ReaItor Session
:ToConsider
Construction
Amount of Priorities
For Privute BUILDING
Causes Concern

The extent to which private build
ers will be permitted to engage in
construction operations during the
war will be 'one of the major issues
at the annual convention of the Ma
tional Association of Real Estate
Boards, meeting this coming week at
st. Louis, Mo.
The Washington builders particu-
larly want to know to what extent
they will have priorities on mate
rials for new construction.
The WASHINGTON group, headed by
Claud Livingston, president of the
Washington Real Estate Board,
along with other members of the
District of Columbia delegation,
will inquire as to the status of local
buildings as well as nearby develop
ments.
Several From Washington.
Those listed from the Washington
area, aside from Mr.. Livingston, are
Paul o. Drury, L. T. Gravatte, Lewis
M. Cooper, j. Wesley Buchanan,
Charles c. Koones, H. Clifford
Bangs, L. F. Colbert. Frank S. Phil
lips, Waverly Taylor and Charles j.
Rush.
Senator Barkley. majority leader
of the Senate, will address the con-
vention, the national association an
nounces. Col. John J. OsBrien, chief
of the Army real estate section. and
John j. Courtney. head of the Navy
real estate division, are to be prin-
cipal speakers at war conference. &"
Representative Boykin. Democrat,
Of Alabama will address the conven-
ton at the opening session. He,
as a member of the House Commit
tee on Public Buildings and Grounds,
has had a wide knowledge of hous-
ting
The Alabama Representative is
known nationally as an advocate
OF use of private enterprise, in so
far as possible, for the supply of
essential war housing.
Hugh Potter. Houston, Tex, chair
man of the Home Builders Emer-
gency Committee, will report on the
work Of the home builders group
in conferences with officials of the
WPB and the MIA in the past re-
cent critical weeks, which, the as
soclatlon says, resulted in the lifting
of the WPB's stop order on private
housing and the reopening of pri-
orlty processing, subject to the new
wartime standards of construction.
To Discuss Rent Controls.
The conference at which David B.
Simpson, Portland. Greg, president
OF the association, will be in the
chair, will include detailed discus
sion of rent control administrative
measures, led by Paul A. Porter,
deputy administrator of OPA in
charge Of the rent division. and
discussion of the Governments new
lease-conversion program for war
housing. led by Frank Bane, deputy
administrator of MIA. in charge of
the conversion program, which will
be administered through the Homes
Use Service Of MIA with HOLC
taking over a large part of the
work.
Conference speakers include John
Galbreath of Columbus, chairman
of the Realtors Washington Com
mittee, whose members will conduct
a detailed discussion of what the
association is doing on major cur
rent problems of the war effort in
connection with real estate; Col.
William May Garland, Los Angeles,
NAREB president during the first
World War, Norman Littell, assist
ant Attorney General in charge of
the lands division, Justice Depart
ment, who will talk on governmental
land acquisitions and particularly
on the appraisal problem.
Ormond E. Loomis, head of the
conversion division of Homes Use
Service; Arthur Goodwillie, chief
of its operations section; Ivan D.
Carson, director of operations of
OPA's rent division and the follow
ing will take part in a panel dis
cusslon on Doing Real Estate
Business in Wartime" conducted by
Brokers Institute with its president,
Frank G. Owens, Atlanta. presiding
Donald T. Pomeroy, Syracuse; Stew
art B. Matthews, Chicago; P. H.
Parrott. Portland. Greg; Kenneth
S. Keyes, Miami: Hobart C. Brady,
wichita: Earl B. Teckmeyer, In