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The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-07-14
HINCKLEY GIVEN
 GOOD POSITION

WASHINGTON, July l4.-Presi- dent Roosevelt has selected Robert Hinckley. former Assistant Secre- tary of Commerce, to serve as Di- rector of Contract Settlement, a position in which he will be respon- sibla for terminating billions of dollars worth of munitions con- tracts when the war ends. Hinck- ley resigned as Vice President of the Sperry Corporation to accept his new position.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-07-14
MISS GARDINER BACK
 FROM KETCHIKAN TRIP

Miss Lillian Gardiner, Director of Public Health Nursing of the Ter ritorial Department of Health has returned from Ketchikan, where she was conferring with Public Health Officials.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-07-14

Two Sitka flights were also made; the first transporting Mir and Mrs. Klingenberg, Constance Paddock, John Sledge, Mrs. w. A.. Thomas, and Jack Dunn, and the second carrying Mrs. De Goite and Pete Hackett to Sitka. Bea Mur- phy, Carl Guffert, and Lillian Kelly disembarked at Warm Springs.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-07-14
10 DISCUSS
 WORLD
 RESOURCES
Full Dress Conference Will Be Held Is Official
 Announcement

WASHINGTON, July IA. The United States and Britain announce jointly full dress conference on world oil resources will be held shortly following technical discus sions that have been going on for several weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-07-14
'XZ[5!;E!z7!W|1 Z[!; !z7!W| cS%p e:y9,4 SM%Ws Ss'eHs

Lord Beaverbrook will head the British delegation, and Secretary lt State Cordell Hull will head the American delegation which includes Interior Secretary Ickes. Navy Sec- retary Forrestal and Under Secre- tary of War Patterson.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-07-14
FOUR FLIGHTS TODAY
 FOR ALASkA COASTAL

Two Hoonah trips were made to- day by Alaska Coastal planes, the first carrying Mrs. Gromtzeff, Mrs. Feltman, Mrs. Hillman, William Butts, and Tom Dyer to that city. Mrs. o. K. Rude and Charlie John nie were passengers on the second flight.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-07-14
AMERICANS
 ARE KILLERS IN NORMANDY
Have Slain or Capture d 51,849 Nazis Since
 Landings

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, July 14.-Since the landing on Normandy beaches American troops have captured or killed 51,- 849 Germans, it is disclosed of ficially.
 The doughboys have taken 46,819 prisoners and British and Canadians have taken 1000 prisoners.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-07-14
MISS KRUMREIN RESIGNS

Miss Rosemary Krumrein, a stenographer employed by the Ter ritorial Department of Health, has resigned and will return to her home in the States, it was an- nounced today.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-07-14
JOSEPH BRI5T0W
 DIES AT AGE 83

FAIRFAX, Virginia, July IA Joseph Little Bristow, 83, former United States Senator from Kansas, died today after three weeks illness.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-07-14

DIR. RAE L. CARLSON Optometrist, is located at her office in the Blomgren Bldg. Phone 636 for appointment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-07-14
DIR. RAE l.. CARLSON

Optometrist, is located at her office in the Blomgren Bldg. Phone 636 for appointment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-07-14

BUY WAR BONDS
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-24
RealtyTaxSysten'
Upfor Review
Mortgage Bankers
to Discuss II Oct. ls

American property owners are
now paying at least Sc per cent
more in real estate taxes than
British property owners and it
even may be more, according to
data assembled by the Mortgage
Bankers Association of America
and made public Saturday.
The per capita property tax Is
now around $34 in this country
where the ad valorem system. or
taxation against capital values,
is used.
In contrast, the per capita tax
is now about SIG in Great Brit
ain where the occupancy tax sys-
tenn, or taxation based on the
income or productivity of the
property, has been used for nearly
$50 years.
The merits Of the two systems
will be the subject OF an eXhauS-
tive review at the 3lst annual
business meeting and Conference
on War and Postwar Mortgage
Problems in Chicago. Oct. 1920.
According 10 II. G. Woodruff,
Detroit. association president, the
question of doing something 10
halt the continued increase OF
property taxes must be faced
actively in the postwar period.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-24

The next meeting Of the board
OF directors OF the Eastern De-
troit Realty Association will be
held on Thursday at the home of
Dave Franklin. 1890 f. Outer
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-24
FILA Warns
LOT Buyers
Commissions Hits
Unwise Purchasing
oETRoIT SUNDAY TIMES

Widespread purchase OF building
lots on the instalment plan by in
dividuals and families in the mod
crate income earning group as a
preliminary step TO early postwar
building. Saturday led Commits
sioner Abner II. Ferguson of the
Federal Housing Administration
TO sound warning of the dam
gers involved in indiscriminate
land buying by inexperienced per-
sons.
II building lots are not in areas
lending themselves to proper land
planning 10 assure their future,
they should not be purchased, he
warned, no matter how easy the
terms of purchase are made.
Ferguson said that judging from
past experience. financing for a
large part of the postwar small
home building will be sought
through the FILA insured mort
gage system
To get this insurance a project
must meet FILA requirements,
which cover design. subdivision
layout. suitability. materials and
other essentials of sound values in
a good home.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-24
EIsea Sales Report

Elsea Realty and Investment Co.
reported Saturday Is sales for the
first half of September. including
l3 singles and six fats, for a total
Iof Sl02 $50
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-24
Housing Project
Store Opens

The first building constructed
in Detroit since Pearl Harbor
under VPB approval for the
operation OF a retail food store
has been completed with the
lessee. the A e. p Food Stores,
opening a supermarket TO serve
the 1000 families of the Herman
Gardens housing project.
The building is at l694O Joy
road. across the street from the
entrance of the Gardens.
The structure is of masonry
and steel, 100 by 100 feet.
ii was constructed by Joseph
Lee. owner. TO A e. p specifica-
tons, which include full glass
front. modern fixtures, large cool
ers for meat and produce. en-
ploye rest rooms and roof Ventl-
latorS.
A e. p officials estimate that
10000 persons live in the area
the store is designed to serve.
The 100 by 164-foot parking lot
provided should be large enough
to take care of postwar require
ments, the company pointed out.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-24
Mansion-like Homes Out

The day of the large mansion
like home has passed, authorities
indicate.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-24
Land Developers.
To Hear Menard

Harry F. Menard Of Knight
Menard Co. will be the speaker at
meeting of the land developers
division of the Detroit Real Estate
Board, opening their fall season
Tuesday noon in the Olde Wayne
Club, Clarence W. Treadwe1l, divi-
sion chairman. stated Saturday.
Menard's topic will be Analysis
of Present Business Situation as
Compiled from Opinions of Econo-
mists and Business Leaders"
He will follow this with a fore
cast of the immediate future from
the viewpoint of land developer.
Charles F. Brown, program
chairman, will be in charge of the
round table discussion 10 follow.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-24
Appraisers Chief
Here on Oct. 5
President johnson
to Be Farley Guest

With J. Burrows johnson OF
New Orleans as speaker, the
Michigan Chapter. American In
stitute of Real Estate Appraisers,
will have a dinner in the Book
Cadillac Hotel on the night OF
Oct. 5, as part Of the program OF
the Michigan Real Estate Associa-
ton which holds its convention in
Detroit Oct. 4, S and s, William
r. Luedders of Reaume e. Sillo-
way, Inc. president of the Michi-
gan chapter. stated Saturday.
johnson is national president OF
the institute.
Following Johnson's address, an
appraisal clinic under the leader
ship of George G. Sexauer OF
Homer Warren & Co. will be held.
Two topics of general business
interest with real estate emPha-
sis. will be covered at luncheon
meeting Friday noon, Oct s,
which precedes the annual election
and business meeting of the aSso-
citation.
Morgan l.. Fitch. Chicago real
tor and past president Of the Chi
cage Real Estate Board, will speak
on What Do You Mean-Private
Enterprise" and Louis M. Minis,
director of the Michigan depart
ment Of revenue nd chairman OF
the State Tax Commission. will
discuss Our Much Needed Tax
Revision"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-24
School Growth
atty Brokers TO Be Told
Expansion Program

1.-THE Expansion Program for
Detroit Schools" will be the SUBJ
ject of an address TO the brokers
division of the Detroit Real Estate
Board Wednesday noon in the ofde
Wayne Club by John A. Emens.
chairman of the building sites
committee of the Detroit Board of
Education, Philip c. Baker, chair
man of the brokers group, an.
nounced Saturday.
Emens will be introduced by r
Bliss Wolfe, and Carl II. Plumhoff.
chairman of the program commits
tee will be in charge of the dis
cusSion period.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-24
DEFINITE NUMBER

Such proponents. the FILA ex-
planned, may be made for a def
mite number of months for which
instruments may be skipped or If
the borrower desires 10 maintain
his safety margin, he may prepay
one or more monthly instruments
and continue his monthly pay
mentS without interruption.
Thus certain number OF
monthly instruments would be con-
Sidered paid in advance and If
subsequently, the home owner be-
comes unable 10 meet any monthly
payment. he will be permitted to
skip such payments TO the extent
that they had been prepaid with
out his mortgage being considered
in default.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-24
City Building Aide
To Be UNRA Guest

Carl Schoeninger of the De-
partment of Building and Safety
Engineering will address the
United Northwestern Realty As
ISOLATION Thursday noon at the
Fisher YMCA.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-24
Management Unit
To Elect on tuesday

Members Of the property man.
agement division of the Detroit
Real Estate Board will conduct
the annual election for officers of
the group. Robert J. Brooks,
DRairman. said Saturday al a
betting in the Olde Wayne Club
TUESDAY noon.
Following the election the men,
bers will engage in round table
discussion of current problems
in the management field.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-24
.FHA Clarifies
Building Margin
Of Safety Permitted

Home owners with FILA insured
loans on their properties may
make partial proponents for the
expressed purpose of establishing
a margin of safety against possible
future default, Commissioner
Abner II. Ferguson of the Federal
Housing Administration, said Sat-
urday in a statement clarifying
FILA regulations.
The FHA's statement was sent
to 1857 banks and lending insti-
tutions actively participating in
the FILA program.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-24
Building Plan
Squirt Urged
Producers Council
Sounds Warning

Advance planning Of private
must be stepped up rap
idly in the immediate future If
the construction industry is TO
utilize all available materials and
provide its share of employment
for returning servicemen and war
workers released as the war ends.
Russell G.. CreviSton, chairman OF
the postwar committee of The
Producers Council, stated Sat
urday.
Recent reports indicate that
planning of private projects, In
GLIDING construction OF new
homes, Is we'll behind require
ments, possibly because OF un-
certainty about governmental
plans for permitting early re-
sumption Of private building,
whereas the planning Of public
works In advanced much fur
Their" Creviston said.
MAXIMUM VOLUME
"To insure n maximum volume
Of construction and employment
In the most critical period i'm
mediately following the final end
Of the war, at least SIS, 000, 000,-
900 Of construction should he
planned and ready 10 start when
unrestricted civilian building Is
resumed.
"This total includes the con-
stFuetioH which can be started
soon after the war with Ger
many ends.
PEACETIME NEEDS
AT the present rate. only
about seven to eight billion dol
lars of postwar construction will
be planned completely by the
end of the war
Unless this figure IL increased,
the country Will be prepared In
adequately To meet Its peace
time construction needs and the
industry will be unable To pro-
vide sufficient jobs to permit
full postwar employment"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-24
Eric A. Johnston
Addresses Builders

Eric A. Johnston. president Of
the u. s. Chamber Of Commerce,
viii discuss New Horizons for
the Construction Industry" at the
fall conference OF the National
Association of Home Builders in
Washington. -. C., Monday.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-24
REDUCE PAYMENTS

In addition, borrowers also may
make proponents on the princi-
pal which will have the effect of
accelerating the final maturity Of
the loan by reducing the number
of future monthly payments re-
quired to pay IL off in full.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-24
MAXIMUM VOLUME
PEACETIME NEEDS

AT the present rate, only
about seven TO eight billion dol
lars Of postwar construction will
be planned completely by the
a.I ~ The
Evening star., 1944-03-12

than Id thought it possible to be. Fortunately
our marriage only lasted year
Unhappy in Sicily? In the spring.
That didn't mean thing to Brenda. You
see she was one of those women who are
always bored unless there's an orchestra
playing, and dancing and champagne, and
people to admire their Jewels and model
frocks She didn't like the out-of-doors
because she had that delicate sort of beauty
that couldn't stand the sun
Sicily was the wrong place to bring her
to, then, wasn't it,"
He answered griInly: Anywhere was the
wrong place to come to - for Brenda and me
soon found that we hadn't an idea in
common, or a wish or a liking | remember
one day brought her back from Palermo
coral ornament - not an expensive thing. but
Id thought it beautiful because it was SO
smooth and cool - like the sea it had come
out of, Eomer's 'wine-dark sea Brenda gave
it one look of contempt and threw it down.
Red didn't suit her, she said. But | knew
if it'd been rubies red would have suited her
all right
! AKING out cigarettes, he held them out to
her Absently she put one between her full
soft lips and he lighted it, looking down at her
gold d-dusted lashes Mind you. | don't say
that she didn't suffer through me. too a
serious young ass who thought that his
romantic passion and tender devotion must
wake tender true love in her. He gave
short laugh Funny. wasn't it? Only it didn't
seem funny to NE at the time.
He walked away a few PAGES and back
again: then stood quite close looking down at
her Her damp ruff1ed hair and the clearness
Evening star., 1944-03-12

of her gray-blue eyes gave her beauty
look of innocence that was almost chlldlke
He said thoughtfully: However, there was
Lisa .."
The girl on the wall looked down, studying
the tip of her cigarette Lisa"
The Luscombes little daughter. Her name
was really Elizabeth, but everyone called her
Lisa, giving it sort of Italian flavor. She
was down here alone with.the servants
She said, blowing the smoke around her
head: why, what could child do for you''
"All and more than any grownup, Partly
by reason of being child; and also because
she was rather rare one. I've felt since that
there was some sort of bond between Lisa and
Evening star., 1944-03-12

the scene, the closed shutters like closed dead
eyes, not remembering him.
He remembered it all. though - the exact
tone of those cream stones that turned coolly
green in the morning and warmly pink in
the afternoon the oleander bushes in the
big wine Jars at the door. They'd been
Towering white then: but now the blossoms
we're brown among the dark foliage. The plane
tree threw somber shade over the stones,
and occasionally in the still air leaf fell with
a sound like sigh.
His glance came back to the servant, to her
red cotton blouse and her dark skirt her
grizzled hair and coldly suspicious eyes. He
remembered her. too, now he came to think
of it. She'd been the cook - plump woman
in her forties then; what was her name? :.
WHY, you're Caterina, aren't you?' he
said Don't you remember me? And the little
blue fish you used to fry for me when came
in from fishing - and the zabaglioni you used
to make for us??'
She shrugged her bent shoulders so many
people have come, in so many years - and
since the war one is wiser not to think OF the
good things we used to eat" The gate was clos
ing, slowly firmly "Scnsi, Stgnore. Signore's
friends are all gone. Mi disbiace. Seast -
wait minute, Caterina, Id like to look
round - at the garden. don't suppose the
new family would object Not waiting for her
to say no, he pushed bill into her hand and
stepped past her into the courtyard.
But she didn't even look warmly at the
money. She Just thrust it into her apron
pocket and went back to her kitchen reluc-
tantly. as though she had lost battle.
He looked after her thoughtfully, surprised
at her unfriendlness when most of the Sclllan
peasants had welcomed the Americans with
smiles and flowers. 1t evidently wasn't
Caterinas good day
Turning away from the house. he stroled
through the garden that sloped down to the
sea; a garden of laurel walks and low stone
walls with urns that spilled glossy pink
geraniums, and myrtle bushes. and stone seats
The sinking sun flooded everything with
gold -- piercing the evergreens, painting the
walls rich floating gold as solid-seeming as
the gold from the background of some early
Sienese Virgin. The sea had turned to dark
lake, and above it f1oated a veil of gold
tissue. =. Ironic, Quincy thought. this gold
laden atmosphere, and the people round living
maybe on scrap of bolenta and drop Of
goats milk That was Sicily - Sicily as he
remembered it.
Feeling strangely like ghost, he turned
into the walk under the pergola of vines
Then halfway down he paused.
A girl was coming towards him. She was
dressed in a faded blue cotton frock, and
carried book and wet bathing suit.
j HIS was the new owner of the villa,
evidently - or more like daughter. She
couldn't be more than twenty-one or two.
The sun was in her eyes and she didn't see
him till they were quite close. Then suddenly
she stopped A quick flush rushed up to her
face, and her eyes widened oddly as though IN
surprise or fear.
z1( -rlf f<0 hot
Evening star., 1944-03-12

of long delayed fufilment.
But why -" she whispered. why did
Caterina tell you | was dead?'
Il think know - guilty conscience when
she saw me- Sixteen years ago she stole some
thing from Brenda - something to protect
her little Signorina against the mar occhi0.
It's all part of a story of magic. -.
The coral charm that she wore had slipped
out from the neck of her froCk, and tlnkled
against the buttons of his uniform - the
dark coral amulet, bought for one woman
but keeping safe for him all these years this
other, the woman he was really to love.
If this wasn't magic, what was?
The End
Evening star., 1944-03-12

mo, Sicily doesn't change" " she was
saying. Even war can't change a
place that's enchanted. "
'Enchanted?"
Yes, this islands got an aura of
magic round it. Not only the magic Of
its beauty, but all the spells and mys-
teries that the Sicilians believe in"
The evil eye, eh? The mai occhio?"
She nodded. And amulets to ward
it off. You can't be brought up by Sicll-
ian servants and not believe it
She spoke half laughlngly, but her
hand went up and touched something
that hung inside her dress from the fine
gold chain around her neck. Listen, "
she said, III tell you what happened
to me one day soon after the war
started. I've got an amulet to keep me
from harm. Caterina has always made
me wear it. This day | went into the
town and | had it in my handbag.
Suddenly | missed it - just as | was
standing in the Quattro Can't waiting
for my bus to 60 home. | hurried back
to the cafe where I'd had coffee and
there it was, lying under the table. |
picked it up and ran down to the bus
stop again - but the bus had gone
without me -
"Well?" he asked as she paused.
Well bomb fell on it, Just as it F
the railway station. and not one OF the +
in it escaped death or wounding. y
memory of that darkened her eyes and
sat silent for a moment, pulled back
more to the shatterlng realities of war.
she changed the subject abruptly: -
know the Villa Columbia, do you? 4o
your honeymoon here?"
That's So"
And your wife was very beautil
course, and you were ecstatically
among the nightingales and the Orange
sons"
He gave a wry smile. My wife was
beautiful and she made me more uni
Evening star., 1944-03-12

know. But he'd sort of wanted to renew his
memory of the garden and he hoped she didn't
mind?
The girl appeared to be listening to him
from quite long distance. "What?' she said.
and her voice sounded far away. The flush had
ebbed from her face, but she was still staring
at him intently.
He started again Il guess ought to tell
YOU who | am. My names Gurney.
thought it'd be all right for me to come in
and ="
She gave a little nod. cutting him short,
Yes, look round, of course. The garden
grown rather wild, I'm afraid. We've had no
one to do anything, since the war, except
old Dino; and he's Just kept few melons and
tomatoes and things going. Lucky, because
that's about all we've had" She was talking
nervously. hurriedly. as she led the way down
to the terrace above the sea.
They sat on the low stone parapet and
looked out over the nnmemorial Scllan
landscape.
Yes, it looks lust as it did, he said at
last Except that it was spring then. That
laurestine hedge was mass of white blossom
alive with bees all day. There were pink
asphodels all over the hillside and the scent
of orange blossom and hot myrtles every
where
He glanced round at her and her love
illness came to him suddenly like all the
springtime youth of that Sicily that he
had always remembered.
She was slender, with golden-brown arms
and legs, and exquisitely moulded features.
Her brows arched over gray eyes. Llsa's
eyes had been gray too, and she would
have been lust about the age of this girl.