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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-09
RUBBER-OIL:
German Patents

Congressman had been looking
with a wary and angry eye at the
Standard Oil group which, it had
been publicly charged, had posses
sion of a superior rubber-oil formu-
la, and had been negotiating with it,
and turning it's patents over to a
German concern even after Deem
Der 7.
For time things had looked most
serious, with Senator Truman say
ing: 'It looks like treason and I'm
going to give the Standard officials
a chance to show why it isn't" but
this feature of the case simmered
down a couple of days later when
he said he was willing to let by
cones be bygones."
But the aftermath was that Stand
ard and its process for making rub
Der out of oil was on the spot, and
it's every move was being watched.
Truman said he didn't like the looks
of the deal whereby the government
was constructing plants for making
aviation gasoline.
''It looks as though the big com.
panies are freezing out the little
ones, and that they will make
enough profit out of their contracts
to pay for the government build
ings," he said.
Another aftermath Of the congress
sional probe into conditions sur
rounding the rubber-making deals
with German firms was that Tru-
man said in the future no foreign
pacts of any sort might be made
without government scrutiny and ap-
proval.
Congress didn't want to be caught
mapping again.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-09
GOOD WAR NEWS

war news for a change.
The United States and the Brit
ish Empire have won a victory of
supreme Importance in the crucial
war production race.
For the first time in the 212 years
of the war the United States and
Britain now are outproducing the
Axis and its vassal states in vital
arms and munitions.
Although the two Allies still are
on the defensive, henceforth Anglo
American war output should pile up
an ever-increasing margin of arma-
ment superiority.
U. S. producing capacity in par
ticular is just beginning to swing
into an about war scale. The mighty
auto industry, for example, is now
being furiously converted. Other
major industries are undergoing the
same transformation. Also hundreds
of new war plants are in various
stages of completion, with hundreds
of others being projected.
Sage old Bernie" Baruch COM
ments: eve can't yet crack our
heels together in celebration, even
if things are better"
What he means is that there are
still plenty of sour spots.
Some of these are: labor supply,
certain obstacles in the flow of ma
terials, shortage of materials, in
adequate use of equipment insult
ficient subcontracting, red tape and
bureaucratic obstruction, the incom-
petence, greed and lack of initiative
of many employers, the profit
mindedness of dollar-a-year men.
But despite all these, U. S. indus
try every week is pouring out a
steadily soaring fioodtide of war sup
plies. On the basis of a private
survey made by the authors of this
column, it can be stated definitely
that with the British Empires
greatly accelerated production the
two Allies now are ahead of the
Axis.
Note: The survey was limited on
the Allied side to the u. S. and
British Empire because it is impos-
sible to get detailed information
about Russian production.
Buy Defense Bonds
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Congressional critics of President
Roosevelt are caustically denounced
by A. F. Whitney, white-crested
president of the Railroad Trainmen,
in the latest issue of the union s
magazine. In lead editorial Whit
ney declares, "No congressman or
congressional committee, no sena-
tor or group in the senate, no Axis
agent or anyone else seeking to use
the war to discredit the President
will throw any sand in our eyes in
any way useful in their desire to
advance selfish. ignoble purpose. /"
ODDS AND ENDS-"Hold Back the
Daton" is holding back other pictures; the.
alter opners hare found it so popular that
they're extending its run, and it's running
neck and neck in receipts ,Uih Caught in
the Draft" Paramounfs top grosser OF the
year Oscar Lepant, of Information
Please" and a couple OF pictures, has been
signed to a term contract by Paramount
+. Ber,oyn, Okla, soiH appear on new
maps as Gene Aufrey, Okla. Jeanette
Macdonald and Nelson Eddy are reunited
again in IL Married an Angel Milton
Berie can tell fpe jokes minute and 1eep
up that pace for t,oo hours s0ifhoa repeal.
ing himself. If anybody'U let him.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-09
Buy Defense Bonds
WHAT HAPPENED
TO M PLANS?


WHAT HAPPENED to the an"
bill, of which we heard much two or
three years ago? Newspaper and
magazine stories and whole books
were written about it. 1t was to
draft all men and women, all wealth
and industrial plants, all labor and
the farmers land. There were to be
no strikes, no profits, no wage in
creases It provided for an "all OUT
war, and was to be passed by con-
gress along with any declaration of
war.
THE GOVERNMENT HAS put a
ceiling on the price of pork, farm
product. Now how about a ceiling
on the price of labor, which makes
the things the farmer must buy?
WHAT'S THE HURRY? You will
only have to wait for it to change
when you reach that next stop light,
and the unnecessary speed will but
cost you an extra mile or so in
wear of your tires, which you cannot
replace when they are gone. Bet
ter take it slower and you will
ride more miles.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-09
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how, because it also presents that
very popular feature-the dirndi
skirt-in this case a dirndl skirt
with a snug fitting belt which
ties in back with sash ends.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1520-B is de-
signed for sizes 6, 8, 10, II and IA years.
Size 8 requires 2Iz yards 39-inch material.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31
Civilian Air
Raid Defense
Plan Outlined
Can Be Adapted
to Nations Office
Buildings. Says Speaker

A civilian air raid defense plan
that can be adapted 10 the ma.
tons 5000 elevator office build
jings and 1S5, 900 industrial build
ings. was presented in New York
recently by John J. Hennessy
Civilian defense co-ordinator OF
ISchenley Distillers Corporation. al
"a meeting of national, state and
city government and military Of
lficials. sponsored by former Gov
Alfred K. Smith, at the Empire
State Building.
Concentration Of large
groups of people for most OF the
daylight hours during the week
constitutes n major civilian de-
Tense problem that requires spe-
cial treatment" said Hennessy.
who formerly served as chief of
staff of the New York City po-
lice department.
Declaring that the danger OF
panic and hysteria among workers
crowded in a building during an
air raid Is almost as great as the
danger of the bombing itself. Hen
messy proposed the formation in
every building of volunteer
warden organization TO handle the
workers, care for casualties and
prevent the spread Of damage and
fire
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31
Defense Workers

Plumhoff warned his listeners
that it was their responsibility tc
see that defense workers got first
choice on any homes constructed
with defense priority rating anc
started since last April.
George w. Miller, local builder
also pointed out in a statement
last week, that the building in
dustry here had all the necessary
materials except lumber.
There Is no actual lumber
shortage" Miller said, but q
forced shortage created by the
army's demand for the freezing
of all lumber disbursements to
private building until such time
as their demands for several
years supply OF lumber Is sat
isfied.
I'VE feel that the Detroit
area, which Is producing more
than one-quarter Of all war ma,
terials, should be favored by
sufficient lumber--and quickly
to build shelter for the civilian
soldier, whose full effort and
well-being are essential to the
production Of tools of war for
the soldier In the front line"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31
Assessors Set
June Meeting

George c. Sexauer, member of
the industrial department of
Homer Warren & Co., will discuss
Decentralization in the Major
Cities of the United States and Its
Effect on Real Estate Value" at
the June dinner meeting of the
Michigan chapter of the National
Association of Assessing Officers
next Wednesday evening at the
Harmonic Society, 267 East Grand
River avenue.
Albert w. Noonan, executive di-
rector of the national association,
will participate in the open forum
injecting to follow Sexauer's talk.
Chapter President Thomas M
Corcoran will preside.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31
Glue Home Friendly
And Inviting Doorway

You don't need to build new
house TO have a new front door.
Ready-made entrances come in
styles to suit different house de-
signs, and if they prove hard to
get these days. you might have one
built.
Hardware may be difficult 70
obtain. but even before the time
OF shortages people were securing
the countryside for old houses
whose antique door latches, knock
ers and hinges could be bought
and transferred to their own
homes,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31
Stars Urges
Re(onditioning

Although the War Production
Board recently frightened its prior
ity requirements, these restrictions
apply mainly to construction in
nonwar areas and were designed to
eliminate nondefense and nones-
sential projects, w. Joseph STAIRS,
director of the homes registration
office of the Detroit housing COM
said Saturday.
'Remodeling and recondition-
ing that will supply nedeed war
housing Is definitely permitted"
STAIRS declared. PRIORITY au-
thorities will look with favor on
remOdeliBg projects which will
make available additional dwell
ing units at rentals workers can
afford to pay which are accessi-
BILE to war plants by foot or ex-
listing lines OF public Transports
ton, and which have been
stripped of all nonessential criti-
cal materials"
STAIRS said full information on
WPB priority procedures and nec-
essary forms are available at the
local office of the Federal Housing
He also said that property own
ers wishing TO remodel. recondition
or convert should apply in person
for free technical service at the
homes registration office. 307 West
Fort street. Technicians will be
assigned TO advise on recondition-
ing possibilities. TO estimate not
only the cost of doing the work,
but also the revenues that can be
expected from conversion.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31
Here
Face Lumber
Shortage
PIumhoff Addresses
Realtors Meeting

The WPB's order freezing the
delivery of soft lumber at the mills
the most critical prob
lem confronting the local building
industry. Carl n. Plumhoff. who
specialiZes in home developments
in the city's northwestern section
last week told members OF the
brokers division of the Detroit
Real Estate Board.
I'VE have hopes that this
freezing order will be modified
10 permit shipments of lumber
to Detroit" Plumhoff said. "A
60-day period In which n builder
can't operate means he will lose
his producing organization. And
ID will be n long time before he
can reassemble an organization"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31
Five More DWELLINGS
Open on Greenwich

Joseph Novack. Saturday, an
nounced opening of five new home:
in Greenwich avenue at Joy road
The models, Novack said, offer
many features no longer generally
available. One OF the models al
1878 Greenwich avenue is oper
until 9 p. m. daily for the conven.
fence of war workers. The develop
ment is near the Kelvinator
Kelsey-Hayes and other west side
industrial plants.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31

d etroit Real
Estate Board,
was announced
S aturd day by
James f. At
kinson, presi-
d e n I of the
b o a r d, a n d
S a m u e ! j.
Slavens, chair
m a n of [ h e
boards publica-
ton committee,
Hallett came
TO Detroit last
fall from Scran-
ton, Pa. He
was associated
with fba Peal
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31

Because folks all know that first
impressions are important, they
take pains to look their best when
going to meet new people.
|. Some forget, though, that first
impressions count just as much
from the outside of house as
from the outside OF a person.
If your home has a friendly, in.
viting entrance, guests feel hap.
PLY welcome as they approach IL
II the entrance is characterless OF
shabby. they are unpleasantly i'm
pressed at the very start.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31

Estate and Building Magazine as
assistant to w. E. Knoertzer, who
has resigned from the publication
TO operate the K-B Report Com
pany. which issues daily real
estate market reports.
In addition TO business expert
ence in the securities and mort
gage field in the east, Hallet has
also done newspaper and publicity
work there. He will maintain
offices in the Bull Building.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31
Building Permits
Down Last Week

Detroit building permits totaled
$S36.515 last week compared to
81 .349,l for the same period in
1871, Joseph p. Wolff, commits
sioner of buildings and safety engi-
neering, reported Saturday. Wolff
issued 1877 authorizations for single
or two-family dwellings which will
cost an estimated S656.25O.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31
Volunteer Director

Hennessy's plan provided for the
appointment of a volunteer build.
ing director TO organize and super
wise a floor-by-floor group oi
trained wardens, first aid and fire
fighting units with suitable equip
ment available in strategic loca'
tons in each building.
Serving under the building di.
rector should be a director fol-
each floor. he said. with several
assistant floor directors to super.
wise divisions. group captains TO be
responsible for assigned groups ol
20 or less workers and monitors
to assist the group captains.
First aid units OF one or
more persons who have COM
pIeted Red Cross courses should
be available In central locations
on floors Of large buildings or at
least one unit on each floor"
Hennessy said. 1.-THE building
management should train Its
maintenance crews and staff
or have them attend training
courses 30 they will be prepared
to combat incendiary bombs,
fire and other hazards Of bomb
ings I'm order to prevent the
spread OF damage"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31
Board Names
Publicity Aide

Appointment Of Harold Hallet
as editor and publisher of Real
Estate and Building Magazine and
publicity representative of the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31
Lye Clogs Drain

Don't pour lye down a drain.
Lye may take the finish off the
fixture and clog the trap. When
lye comes in contact with grease
it forms hard soap which can clog
"a pipe. ~
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31

IN OF
NM the Chicago plan commission. formerly principal hous
W " ing economist OF FEA balances the elements
issue OF The Appraisal Journal
There prospect for full practically all
habtabe structures production Hoy declares
~and districts will co-extensive with factory
section Of the
upward Of production accompanied by
null tne employment practically all Of working population
housing production
cases II already less than cent"
Here's the Hoy the prospects for specific
OF structures:
1-OFFICE BUILDINGS. A higher Of occupancy for
existing office reasonable expectation operating
do not rise rapidly this should increase the income
OF this type Of property.
2-COMMERCIAL PROPERTY The tire shortage least
central
tation lines should their sales the of
outlying which depend private automobile trade for their
However this will benefit developed business centers
chiefly.
3-SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCES. The OF existing
increase during The family seeking quarters will
forced older house Value OF homes
outlying suburban communities wooden towns depending
probably stationary
advance slightly selling $4,000 will
adversely affected.
APARTMENT BUILDINGS. While very few apartment
buildings will plants there will
probably almost 100 medium multi
family another Net such structures
will maintained about the levels during the emergency
H. p. Holmes, local property manager will discuss
provisions the federal control decree
ut meeting of the Eastern Detroit Realty Association
next Tuesday evening The meeting will begin at Sis
p. m. and will be held at 1923 Harper avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31
Material Available

Plumhoff said his firm was able
to get necessary materials for de-
tense homes until the present hum
Der emergency came up. He said
wood was being substituted now
for metal Misunderstanding and
that lit works very we'll"
The prospect that 80 days hence
all homes built locally may be
bathtub-fess was voiced by Plum.
hoff.
I'VE may have tp use showers
for the duration and install the
tubs later" he said. There Is a
possibility that q tiled tub might
be used"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31
Cross-Country Trek

crosscountry trek Of American families moving their house
hold thus
this period check of
industry figures made Institute OF Real Estate Manage
revealed Saturday.
Changing character Of American industry because of
ducon curtamen civilian accounts for
the bulk OF the rise. Il explained
Moving OF Washington and
shift augnlenng the tide OF
family migration ntracty moving Tightening
household reported
While landings good index OF and fall in
family migration labor migration the United States in 191
times the number OF interstate household the
Management pointed Most migrant
bring families them. Many tranplaned
family leaves its household furniture behind.
discussion Of marketing lots which carry restric-
tons of S. 1000 higher will highight Thursdays
meeting developers division of the Detroit Real
Estate Board. The meeting is scheduled for at the
Savoyard Club. William L. McGivern will be the principal
speaker
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31
Initiation Seen
Affecting Real
Estate Values .
MaeRossie Traces
Correlation Of Wages
to Selling Prices

Initiation, (which in general we
must anticipate" will increase
housing values during the war
period, William MacRossie of New
York. president of the American
Institute of Real Estate Apprais-
ers, last week told members of
the Michigan chapter of the insti-
tute at their annual banquet at
the University Club.
THE size of wages, salaries
and other monetary income
have always had a very high
degree Of correlation TO real
estate values" MacRossie de-
clared.
Members OF the Society of Resi-
dental Appraisers and the Society
of Industrial Realtors also heard
MacRossie speak here.
Interest Rates
Discussing interest rates, the
New York appraiser said:
"Long-term interest rates will
rise, slowly, as the current
boom proceeds, but additionally
they lag behind the price level
and the index Of physical pro-
duction until the boom Is well
on Its way TO the top. Then
they rise rapidly.
But interest rates are q less
powerful factor In setting real
estate values, particularly Of
residential properties, than Ii
the factor of wages and income.
The ban. on some types Of
dwelling construction, together
with priority difficulties, which
discourage defense housing, con-
tribute to the forces of buoy
ancy In values for existing
houses-both old and new--ln
defense areas at least until de-
Tense housing projects are COM
pleted.
Upward Trend
"Tn other areas the cutting
OF of any new supply Of houses
Is leading to upward trend of
values there for new and old
houses alike"
MacRossie counseled his listen
Iers to exercise cold blooded,
analytic. objective Judgment" in
lappraising real estate during the
present period Of rising prices.
Real estate under normal
conditions constitutes one Of the
best hedges against infiation,"
the speaker said "but II IL Il 20
be a hedge It must be Of such
type as will receive the impact
of the inflationary forces and
80 located as to receive IL. The
hedger must be seIectiyc In his
real estate"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31
Unusual Conversion

Of abandoned country club in Oak
County dwelling units for workers listed in
report the Homes Registration Office OF the Detroit
Housing Commission
Working recondionng division Of the local Hole
Registration Office provided free technical advice
TO of the abandoned club building including the estimate
OF and a plan of renovation
property hill and overlooking
indicated that the conversion feasible from
housing families workers After submission
plans a local bank proper financing arranged
Saunders, executive secretary OF the Michigan
Association Detroit week assisting
the Board a drive for members.
Adequate organization spells the difference between
failure business Saunders told meet
ing of local realtors.
Mchigans lower approximately IS cent OF
$4,000 Exclusive of land)
purposes Howard Thompson general
of Home Owners Catalogs, revealed Saturday
"Ol installations In Importance Thompson
said They widely accepted In the better class BONES
Thompson predicted that changes building materials and
develop during the period
Tbe postwar private
home building market" he said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31
LoDer Shades

The HenneSSy plan recommends
that during an alarm period in an
office building windows should be
opened at the bottom. window
shades lowered, papers and other
materials on desks placed in
drawers left empty for the pur-
pose and lights extinguished.
Telephone service should be dis
continued except for emergency
use. passenger elevator service
suspended. proprietors Of ground
floor shops should lock street
doors and lead their employees to
safety zones in the building and
visitors already in the offices
should join the group in which the
particular employe being visited is
included. Persons sent into the
lobby from the street should be
Greeted TO designated safety zones
by monitors.
Drills Important
'while it Is important that
drills should not be staged so
often that they become n nui-
sance or interfere with work that
may be essential TO the war eff
fort" Hennessy warned. ct IL
necessary for all the people In
the building to be drilled In the
air raid precautions procedure
90 that they will know exactly
what to do and where to 70
when the signals are sounded"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31
Effect of War
On Real Estate
/ Hoyt Sees Tremendous
Defense fling Demand
By LATE ALLEN


WHAT is to be the effect of the upon real estate
Homer Hoyt director of the research division @
the Chicago plan commission formerly principal hous
ing economist of FILA, balances the many element
involved and up his conclusions In the curren
Of he isa1
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-12-10
Maj Refugee
Tells Perils

Rudolf Nobel, citizen OF Ger
many. who r. attending school Of
public health in Ann Arbor. pointed
out to Kiwanis members at their
meeting wednesday that he left
Germany in 1888 when he and his
brothers decided that they could
not live under Hitler. lie went 10
Switzerland, stayed there FIVE
years and finished his course in
medicine. From there he went to
Paris, France He was informed ~
Cologne when the war broke out
About 10000 foreign born resi-
dents were interncd At Cologne for
two months Then he was trans
ferred TO another internment camp
for four months
Internees we're then given their
choice OF joining the Foreign Le-
gion in Africa or remaining intern.
ed About $50 Joined the Legion
After remaining two months longer
In this camp. they were given a
chance 10 join the French army.
Approximately $500 Joined the
French Army After a few weeks
training they were sent TO North
ern France. bur were not treated az
regular soldiers Soon after this
all foreign troops were taken over
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