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street NV. builder; M. G. Lapley
designer; to make repairs, 1888 North
Capitol street; to cost $4,000.

street NV. builder; M. G. Lapley,
designer; to make repairs, 1888 North
Capitol street; to cost $1,000. =
Kitchen Addition Authorized.
Eugene D. Melrone, 1707 De Sales
street NV. owner and builder;
William E. Darlington, 1916 L street
NV, designer; to erect one 1-story
brick and cinder block kitchen addi-
ton, 1707 De Sales street NV; to
cost $3.50.
B. Rupert, 1921 Seventh street
NV, owner; L. W. Giles, designer;
to make repairs, 1908 Seventh street
NV; to cost $l,500
The Manhattan Co., 1923 Florida
avenue NV, owner: Pringle Con-
struction Co., Bond Building, build
er; A. M. Pringle, designer; to make
repairs, rear 1905 and 1907 w street
NV; to cost $3.50.
William Montgomery, 5000 Ne
braska avenue NV, owner; Ernest
Cook, 731 Easley street, Silver
Spring, Md, builder; R. L. Pack,
designer; to erect one 1-story frame
residence addition. 5000 Nebraska
avenue NV; to cost $400.
Georgetown University, Thirty
seventh and o streets NV, owner:
John McShain, Inc, Seventeenth
and Spring Garden streets, Phila-
delphia; to make repairs, White
Gravenor Hall, Thirty seventh and
O streets NV; to cost $780,
Rose Levin, 5430 Thirtieth street
NV, owner and builder; j. D.
Smoot. Sl5 Ninth street NV, de-
signer; to erect one 2-story brick
addition to apartment. rear BIS
Ninth street NV; to cost $500.
Edward G. Simnls, 4707 Kane
place NE. owner; Colonial Roofing
Co.. Bond Building. builder; to make
repairs. 47o7 Kane place NE; to
cost $4O0.
Fora L. Booth, 6511 Piney Branch
road NV, owner: William Thomp-
son, builder; C. r. Archer, jr., 2l5
Florida avenue NV. designer; to
erect one 1-story brick addition to
dwelling, IS Piney Branch road
NV; to cost $3.50.
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Permits
Continued From Page Bib

Elm avenue, Takoma Park. Md,
builder: to make repairs. 21l Quack-
enbos street NV: to cost $500.
Rose Levin. 5430 Thirtieth street
NV, owner and builder, to make
repairs, 815 Ninth street NV; to
cost $780,
George Washington University
1000 G street NV. owner and build
er: Edwin Weihe. designer: to make
repairs. TOT Twenty street
NV; to cost $1,000.
Wilbur w. Jordan, 1900 Tenth
street NV, owner and builder; L.
w. Giles, designer; to erect one q
story brick dwelling, addition. 1906
Tenth street NV: to cost $500.
Samuel Copperman, 914 Rhode
Island avenue NE, owner: M
Cladney Construction Co., 635 F
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No Special Paint Needed
For Industrial Camouf|auino

According to an announcement by
the Engineer Board, Fort Belvoir,
Va, especially prepared infrared re-
hecting paints are not necessary for
camouflaging civilian or industrial
installations in the United States.
Ordinary paints are equally effective
in most industrial environments.
In general. infrared paints are
necessary only on military targets
which are to be protected from the
infrared camera and would be
wasted on objects which could be
spotted by visual observation of the
use Of ordinary black and white
panchromatic film.
Advice in camouflaging should be
requested from Army engineers or
the Once of Civilian Defense.
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Cost Of Standard Home
In Capital Increases
12.1 Pei. in Year
Price Control Causes
leveIin9 Of Wholesale
Charges for Material

The cost Of a standard home in
washington has increased l2.1 per
cent. over year ago, the Federal
home Loan Bank Review reported
today. The cubic foot cost was
listed as 26.S cents, as compared
WIN 2o.7 cents a year ago. The
september cost was the same as
That recorded last June, the Review
said.
Using $1,000 house as a median,
the report said the September, 194l,
1gure was s6,170, as compared with
S6,Sl9 last month. In 1910 the cost
was $5,8e4. In the previous year
there was a slump to $5,737. as COM
pared with $5,s33 in September,
1898.
Reported costs in the figures in
clude, In addition to material and
labor costs and compensation in
surance, an allowance for contrac-
tors overhead and transportation
OF materials. plus 10 per cent for
builders profit.
Reported costs do not include the
cost Of land. surveying, planting,
providing walks and driveways,
architects fee, building permit,
financing charges. or sales costs.
Median House Described.
The median house is a detached
six-room home of $4,000 cubic feet.
Living room. dining room. kitchen
and lavatory on first floor; three
bedrooms and bath on second floor
Exterior Is wide-board siding with
brick and stucco as features of
design.
Best quality materials and work
manship are used throughout. The
house Is not completed ready for
occupancy. It includes all funda-
mental structural elements, an at
tached one-car garage, an unfin-
ished cellar, an unfinished attic, a
fireplace, essential heating. plumb
ing and electric wiring equipment
and complete insulation. 1t does
not not include wallpaper or other
wall or ceiling finish on exterior
plastered surface, lighting fixtures,
refrigerators, water heaters, ranges,
screens, weather stripping, or win
dow shades
Nationally, although material
costs in the construction of stand
ard six-room house remained sta
tionary during August. seven-tenths
OF per cent increase in labor
charges pushed the total cost up
two-tenths Of per cent for the
month, the Federal Home Loan
Bank Administration reported.
Statistics on Costs.
In comparison with last March,
when price ceilings were estab-
iished on many building material
items, labor rates we're up nearly
8 per cent while materials rose l
per cent. Both dealers prices for
materials and labor costs are now
nearly per cent higher than in
August, 194l. Material costs are
21.2 per cent above the average
month of 1935-1939 while labor
charges have gone up 29.4 per cent
from the same base period.
Price controls have caused a level
ing off in wholesale prices of ma
terials, according to the Department
of Labor. The combined index of
prices for August-1232 as COM
pared with the 1935-1939 base of
1o0-stowed no change from July
and for the past five months the
index has remained slightly below
the March level, administration ofa-
eials said.
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Strip Shingles Save
War Nail Supply

Many American roofers find that
their major problem arising out of
war is their inability to get nails.
The home owner planning to re-
roof his home before the war is over
can help to conserve nails by choos-
ing asphalt strip form shingles in
stead of individual shingles.
Only about q third as many nails
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are needed to apply asphalt strip
shingles, and less labor is required.
As there is also some shortage OF
labor in the building industries, the
use of strip shingles is doubly help
full.
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Waterford Estate Sold

A Colonial stone house surrounded
oy zoo acres of farm land has been
purchased by George M. Martin of
Leesburg, Va. Known as Westwood
u was the home of the late Mrs
w. 2. Coleman, near Waterford, Va.
Sale price was given as $25,5o0
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TriunouIur Luvutory

Available for low-cost homes and
small bathrooms is a triangularly-
designed lavatory which fits neatly
into a corner, the Plumbing and
Heating Industries group reports.
, 1942-11-11
UE War Program
By Robert Z. Bennett, Pres.
MGR Local 8O7

The United Electrical workers
are leading the organized Labor
Unions of America in their efforts
to win the War by producing more
and more of the materials that are
sent to our boys at the fronts. The
workers of our organization are
eternally vigilant in the protection
of the rights of free labor.
We are about in favor of fur
thering the war effort through the
sacrifices of every American. We
mean by that statement, that all
shall have a part in the burden of
war, not labor alone. Naturally
big business would rather have
labor bear the costs. That is why
you hear the blaring tones of the
radio telling you of the evils of
organization.
Money controls the press and
the radio, money does not control
the feelings of those who work for
a living. High officials of govern
ment have continually praised our
organization for the efforts we are
making to win the War. You can
help us in that great American
task by becoming n of us. Local
807 at 8 East Fifth Street is always
open for new members who are
ready to help win this war!
Help Yourself To A Little Fun !! !
How Do You Like This,
Girls ?
MGR girls working for 67k cents
an hour daywork probably would
enjoy knowing that out at Dinner
Fare Register, a plant nowhere as
big as MGR, girls can make over
$1.OO an hour on a piecework and
bonus system. And what is more,
the only way their yates can go
is UP. That's what a UNION can
do for you.
, 1942-11-11
Independent Goes UE

Eleven hundred members of the
Easy Washer Employees Associa-
ton, an Independent" union,
voted last week to apply for a local
charter from the United Electrical,
Radio and Machine Workers after
they were unable to obtain a con-
tract from the company.
Evening star., 1942-07-29
The Great Game of Politics
New York GubernotorioI Fight Is Viewed
As Another Attempt at White House Purge

almost Immediately the anthem
nett movement, with White House
backing, began, and that the candi-
date whom Mr.. Roosevelt has put
in the f1ght-Senator Mead-is
second-grade New Deal rubber
stamp statesman who is aware of
his own unf1tness to be Governor
and is being compelled to run
against his own wishes.
Another White House Purge.
A final fact is that should the
President succeed in defeating Mr..
Bennett it easily might put Mr..
Farley, to whom Mr., Roosevelt owes
more politically than any one else.
out OF business. In brief, what is
now being tried is another White
House purge" in order that in
1914 there shall be no one in New,
York who can stand in the way of
another draft" movement for the
President or interfere with his
CHOICE 1Or MS successor.
The similarity to the attemnted
purge" OF 1888 and the present at
tempt Is significantly attested by
the almost identical words with
which the White House makes its
position clear. In 1898 the first
man marked for the purge" was
Senator Gillette of Iowa, against
whom the New Dealers had entered
Representative Wearin. Mr.. Harry
Hopkins. speaking for the President,
made this statement: "If were a
voter in Iowa I would vote for Otha
Wearin."
Permitted Quotation.
Last Wednesday the President
permitted Senator Mead to quote
him from the White House door
steps as follows: "If I were a dele
gate to the convention I would cast
my vote for Jim Mead" Mr.. Far
ley's friends have not failed to note
this similarity of statement, nor
have they failed to recall that SEN
ator Gillette was renominated and
reelected.
Now, In much the same way, the
White House is trying to "liquidate'
Mr.. Farley. Under the circumstances,
1t Is not surprising that in the coun-
try as a whole he should be receiv-
ing large sympathetic support. In
the first place, there is a general
feeling that he Is an able, honorable
man who is being unfairly dealt
with.
Widespread Resentment.
In the second place. there is wide
spread resentment over the clarity
with which 1t is demonstrated that
the President has the time and the
energy now to push his personal
political plans for the next conven-
ton.
1t is a formidable combination
Mr.. Farley is fighting, and he de-
serves credit for his independence.
1t must give him courage and con-
f1dence to recall that in the 1898
purge Mr.. Roosevelt's candidates
were rejected in eight States, nomi-
mated In none.
Even In peacetimes there is al
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so far In full strategic harmony.
They have helped each other to
complete operations successfully.
A Japanese attack on Siberia
might kill two birds with one
stone-round out Japanese ter
ritorial conquests in Eastern Asia,
and achieve the Nazi purpose of
cutting large part of Russian
contact with the outside world.
If the Nipponese occupy the
Maritime Province and the
Trans-Siberian Railroad the
Soviets will be stif1ed and no
more able to receive supplies
than our Chinese allies.
In most well-informed Wash
ington quarters 1t Is believed
that Gen. Stern will prove to be
a hard nut for the Japanese to
crack. even II the bulk Of hts
mechanized forces have been sent
to the European front. His
forces hold a system of fortifica-
tions which will give the Japs
plenty to think about before they
decide to attack.
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This Changing World
Jops Moss Forces in Northern Nippon and
Blow at Komchotko Is Believed Probable

With the exception Of the CAM
paign in China the Japanese
Army Is inactive. The monsoons
make any large-scale action
against India impossible at this
time and the presence Of an
American fleet and air force in
and around Australia renders
operations in that region dam
gerous.
The Russians are said to have
withdrawn the major portion Of
their mechanical forces from
Siberia to bolster the defenses
OF Europe. Gen. Grigory M.
Stern, who commands the Soviet
forces in that region. has been
deprived, according to available
reports, OF large portion OF his
tanks and aviation. To what
extent his airfields have been
denuded, however. Is not known.
II the Germans succeed in in
fiicting a major defeat on the
Russian forces fighting in Europe,
1t is more than likely that the
Japanese will attempt to con-
quer Siberia, thus applying a
pincers to the Russian armies
between the Volga and the Far
East.
Only Logical Line.
AS long as the Soviet forces
were fighting on the west bank
of the Don River, transportation
by way OF Siberia was longer
and much more complicated
than by either the Arctic or
Iranian routes. But If the Nazis
break off Russian contact with
the northern seaports and occupy
the Astrakhan region, the only
logical line OF communications
between Russia and the United
States would be the Maritime
Province. 8
The Axis powers have worked
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presupposes air superiority on the
part Of the invader at the point
of landing This means not only
the support Of his own bombers,
but fighter cover against enemy
air attack. The coast of France
has the overwhelming advantage,
as against any other part of the
coast Of Western Europe, that
fighter cover can be given to the
landing directly from bases in
Great Britain.
The further advantages Of
France as an invasion area are
these:
l. The water-borne distances
are short, permitting the use of
small craft and thus relieving to
some extent the strain on ocean,
going shipping.
2. From his home bases in
Germany the enemy would have
a fairly long line Of communica-
ton which could be attacked by
our bombers. .
g. The invaders would have the
support of the greater part OF
the population.
4. The moral effect of the re-
covery by English and American
troops of French soil would be
very great.
The disadvantages Of France
may be stated as follows:
l. The enemy expects us to land
there and there he has made his
major preparations to meet us.
2. The largest concentration OF
enemy troops in the west is in
France.
3. In case Of failure there would
certainly be frightful massacres
among the civilian population
who had aided the invading force.
Brittany Might BE Seized.
AS to exactly where in France
the invasion might take place.
that would depend very largely
on the size of the forces available
for the purpose.
Probably the minimum effort
that would effect any real diver
sion in favor of the Russians
would be a descent upon Brittany
with the idea of holding the
Brittany peninsula on a narrow
front and depriving the Germans
OF their principal Atlantic sub
marine and naval air bases.
A more ambitious project might
include simultaneous landings in
Brittany and In the Cotentin
Peninsula (Cherbourg). The lat
ter landing would support the
former, as 1t would flank the
enemy's communications.
A landing on the shore OF the
Strait of Dover, where the water
haul is shortest, would probably
require still larger forces. It's
position would be more exposed
to enemy attack, but would have
the advantage that any consid-
cradle success gained in this area
might lead to the recovery of the
greater part of occupied France.
This Is probably the largest
scale operation that can possibly
be envisaged this year in Vest
ern Europe, and may well be far
too ambitious for the forces and
shipping available.
A landing in the Low Countries,
on the North Sea coast of Ger
many or in Denmark, would be
progressively farther and farther
away from the English fighter
bases and closer to the enemy's
home bases. The disadvantages
Evening star., 1942-07-29
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.


While the Russians are being
driven back toward the Volga
River military authorities in
Washington anxiously watch
Japanese moves In the North
Pacific and on the Asiatic MAIN
land.
1t does not appear likely, how
ever, that the Japs will attempt
any operations which involve the
use OF their fleet. Japan's naval
power, and especially the aircraft
carrier fleet, was severely stricken
In the last two encounters with
the United States Navy. It will
take at least six months. II not
more, to get the damaged ships
Evening star., 1942-07-29

to sea again, and 1t will take
more than two years to replace
the sunken vessels.
But while Japan seeks to avoid
any major engagement at sea.
there is information to indicate
that her land forces are being
massed on the northern tip of
Nippon at the same time that the
Kwantung army is receiving i'm
portant reinforcements.
It is believed that the Japs will
decide on their next field of op-
erations as soon as it becomes
clear how badly damaged the
Russians have been in Europe.
The concentration of forces in
Northern Japan is interpreted
here as meaning possible inva-
sion of the Kamchatka Peninsula,
where the Russians have an i'm
portant base-Petropavlovsk.
Barrier to U. S. Aid.
Naval authorities from the first
have believed that the Japanese
occupation Of the three Aleutian
Islands was intended primarily
to raise an additional barrier to
communication between the
United States and the USSR via
the Northern Pacific.
The Japanese are settled in
Kisko and Attu. where they are
now making strenuous efforts to
build aircraft bases. They figure
that with such an outpost be-
tween Asiatic Russia and the
United States we would have a
diflicult time assisting our allies
In the event of Nipponese
attack. The Russian defenses on
Kamchatka are believed to be
purely perfunctory: but, Of course,
no one In this country knows
positively what the Russians have
done In that region In the last IL
months.
The possibility of an attack on
continental Siberia - perhaps at
three different points, the Mari
time Province, the Siberian border
opposite Mukden. and Mongolia
also Is considered strong posi-
bility.
Evening star., 1942-07-29
More Ships Reach Egypt
With u. S. War Material
., IN. A.sor;ated press.

z, the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 29.-The BBC
siad last night in French language
broadcast that "a great number OF
ships carrying new war material had
arrived in Egypt from America"
CHS heard the broadcast, which
added. ut was stated In London
this afternoon that these ships car
ried, among other things. new tanks
Of the Gen. Grant type"
Evening star., 1942-07-29

Is certain -- the
President can
not come out OF
1t with credit.
Win or lose, he
will have dimin-
ished his stature
as a war Presi-
dent and de-
tracted from our
national u n ! t y
in the greatest
crisis Of our his
tory.
That is a tough
thing to say. huj
Evening star., 1942-07-29

finished OF by,
and how much
his premium win
Be on the day he
Is carried of TO
his reward. told
me recently that
the rationing Of
gasolin . and
tires would add
l to 10 years to
the life expect
ancy Of the city
dwelling man. /
This interested
Evening star., 1942-07-29

III c IL W IL u dIe
misleading the
American people
about the reve-
nue. to be de-
rived by taxing
h ! g h incomes.
For some time
the myth has
prevailed to the
effect that if
persons earning
$3.50 a year or
over were heavi-
" taxed, there
WOULD ho ropey
Evening star., 1942-07-29
A Second Front in Europe
Maj. Eliot Says Fronce Is Logical Place
To Lond if Biq-ScoIe Invasion Is Attempted
BY MAI. GEORGE FIELDING

BY MAI. GEORGE FIELDING
ELIOT.
This is the third and last OF a
series OF articles dealing NTH the
problems OF second front IN
Europe.
III. The Location Of 4 Second
Front.
If a really large-scale invasion
of Europe is to be attempted, that
is to say an operation involving
the whole or very great part of
Evening star., 1942-07-29

| 1t Is true. Regardless OF how they
feel toward Mr.. Roosevelt, thought
full men everywhere will regret the
| light in which he Is revealed and
deplore the example he is setting
his fellow countrymen. 1t Is the
more shocking because the thing the
President Is now doing is exactly
the thing which he has asked others
| not to do and which he has insisted
| he was not doing-to wit, concern
themselves with partisan politics
while the war is on.
1t Is impossible to reconcile his
present political activity with that
single e-hearted absorption in win
ming the war which the administra-
ton spokesmen have been preach
ing to the rest Of us and attributing
to him. With vital problems of
both foreign and domestic policy
demanding his attention, the proper
solution of which would tax to the
utmost the powers of any President,
Mr.. Roosevelt should not be able to
screen his purely political perform
ances behind the war. It Is not
healthful to hide the facts from the
people, nor is it fair to indict men,
bers OF Congress for political activity
and then ignore the extraordinary
plunge into politics taken by the
President.
Fight Of Own Making.
1t is quite clear that this New
York fight is OF his own making and
that he is in it up to his neck. If
1t were not for him there would
be no fight at ALL Mr.. Farley dis
tinctly did not seek the fight-ouite
the reverse.
The truth Is that the President
went far out of his way to make
this fight in which now is involved
not only the governorship but the
State delegates to the next national
convention. That is the basic fact;
but there are others. There is, for
example, the fact that the Presi-
dent, after conference OF his own
seeking. some six weeks ago, let
Mr.. Farley leave the White House
under the impression that he had
no objection to Attorney General
Bennett as the candidate.
There Is the further fact that
Evening star., 1942-07-29

the III q q l ! e
field troops
now available
in the British
Isles, the log
ical location
of the land
ings is in
France.
1t is ac-
cepted as the
teaching of
e exper / c n ce
that a land
! n e on a
hostile shore
Evening star., 1942-07-29
BY FRANK r. KENT.

Whatever the outcome of the fight
between Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.
James A. Farley for control of the
New York State machine, one thing
Evening star., 1942-07-29

THE opinions Of the Oriters this their
necessarily The Stars opinions presented The
Stars effort to gue all sides OF questions OF interest
readers, although such opinions contradictory
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
Evening star., 1942-07-29
Misleading
Charged on
Tuxes
RefusoI to Effect
Anti-InfIution Plan
loid to Politics
BY DAVID LAWRENCE,

Refusal to face the facts is per-
haps Americas greatest weakness
at the moment. And the prime sin
ners In thx respect are the public
Evening star., 1942-07-29
|kcLenore
Expounds on Horrors
OfCounfrv Life
OF Country Life
BY HENRY McLEMORE.

A friend Of mine. who concocts
those insurance statistics which
show how long a man may expect to
live, what he can count on being
Evening star., 1942-07-29

be greater when the attempt is made
In the midst OF great war which,
at the moment, is not going 50 well
for our side.
Evening star., 1942-07-29

ways resentment over the efforts of
a President to dominate the local
politics Of any State. It Is reason
able to believe that the reaction will