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Evening star., 1944-10-18
Wire Charges MIA
Gave Him Run-Around
On Co|ored Housinq'
Builder Says Promised
Priorities Aren't Available; };
Cites Projected Costs
By DON s. WARREN.

Preston E. Wire, Washington home
builder, charged last night he had
been given the run around" by top
officials of the National Housing
Agency in protracted effort on his
part to obtain priorities to build
housing for low-income colored fam
lilies here
He said he lately had been prom
ised" priorities for construction of
low-cost housing for colored families
on 30-acre site he owns at Twenty
first street and Maryland avenue
NE, but that when he went yester-
day to the Washington regional Of
flee of MIA to collect them he was
told there was none available.
Mr.. Wire declared he had met
MIA requirements that he show
there was shortage of low-cost hous-
ing for the colored and that he
could build dwellings to rent for S35
a month or less, but to the latter he
had insisted he be allowed to add
the pro rata costs for taxes, since
public housing is not taxed.
Cites Projected Costs.
The cost of his projected housing,
he said, would be $42 for a three
and-a- bathroom dwelling or s48 a
month for four -and-a- half room
house.
Mr.. Wire declared: "It seems to be
professional business of stalling
off the private builder who wants to
build low-cost housing. The per-
formance amounts to a kiss-off.
The philosophy of the public
houser seems to be to promise pub
licly he will cooperate with the pri-
vate builder, but that when the pri-
vate builder wants to build so many
conditions are put in his way it ap-
pears necessary for the public houser
to have to carry on"
He recalled that next July the
new deadline would be reached on
legal occupancy of alley dwellings
in the District. He suggested that
if no additional privately owned
housing for colored alley dwellers
then were available, public housing
officials would claim there was a
large-scale job waiting to be done by
public housers."
Mr.. Wire said he had laid his case
late yesterday before Representative
Hebert, Democrat, of Louisiana,
member Of the House District Com
mittee, and that he was promised
cooperation. A further campaign
for priorities is planned, he said.
Tells of $4,000 Check.
Mr.. Wire recalled he last May
rendered $4,000 check to the Bur-
ton subcommittee of the Senate, in
vestigating the Districts slum clear
ance plans, as guarantee of his de-
sire to build l 200 colored housing
units on the Northeast site. The
check could not be accepted, he re-
called.
Later, he said he had presented
his challenge to John Blandford
head of MIA, and had been advised
Mr.. Blandford was ready with pri-
critics if builder could show the
necessity for low-cost colored hous-
ing and if he could build such
dwellings to rent for s35 a month, or
less.
He said he had compiled" with
this offer September Is when he
agreed to build 1900 units on these
conditions-provided he could add
to the rentals the pro rata costs for
taxes. He contended his plan would
only put private housing on basis
even with public housing.
Evening star., 1944-10-18
Witness Denies
PlanniingFi|n1on
Sedition Case
Rouschning Says
Subject Never
Was Discussed
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.

DR.. Hermann RauSchning, Ger
man author, a Government witness
at the sedition trial, testified under
cross-examination that he was tech
nical adviser for the movie Hit
ler's Gang" but denied emphatically
a suggestion that plan was dis
cuSsed with him in Hollywood to
make a screen drama of the mass
conspiracy case.
The former confidant of Hitler,
who was called back today for his
fifth day on the witness stand, was
asked by P. Bateman Ennis, attor-
ney for Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze,
former leader of the German -Ameri-
can Bund, If he had discussed with
any one in Hollywood his trip to
Washington to appear at the trial.
He said he had.
WAS there any discussion of
making a movie out of this case?"
Mr.. Ennis asked.
Certainly not" the witness
replied.
Denies Receiving $4,000.
He denied also that he had re-
eeived $4,000 for the use of his
name in the movies. He said his
part in the movies was confined
to technical advice. Asked if he
had not been doing propaganda
work for the movie industry, he
said no. He explained that since
coming to this country in 1941 he
had lived from the royalties on
his books.
You have testified" said Maxi
milan St. George, counsel for Jo-
seph E. McWilliams, that national
socialism was a dynamic movement
in opposition to the established
order. Would you say the New Deal
was such a movement"
No, I would not" the witness
replied
DR.. Rauschning was reminded by
Lawrence Dennis, a defendant rep
resenting himself, that he had
testified to things Hitler told him
which were not in the Fuehrer's
book, "Mein Kampf,'
Learned Plans Direct.
He learned the secret plans of
the Nazis from Hitler, the witness
explained, and many of these were
not made known except to those in
Hitler's confidence. These included
plans which DR.. Rauschning de-
scribed as being aimed at the over
throw of the United States Govern
ment.
rs one who is anti-Jewish neces-
sarily Nazi?" asked Harry A.
Grant, attorney for E. j. Parker
Sage and Garland L. Alderman.
No. said the witness.
Evening star., 1944-10-18
Senators 10 Get
Story Today on
Fight in Stat|er
Sworn Statements
Of Witnesses to Be
Read to Committee

The full story of "the Battle CT
the Statler"-that is what both
sides have to say about how it
started-will be told for the first
time this afternoon behind closed
doors at meeting of the Senate
Campaign Expenditures Committee
The committee then will decide
whether to reveal more details by
holding public hearings on the at
fair. The Battle of the Statler,"
which has snowballed to the pro-
portions of major engagement as
the election campaign has pro-
gressed, is the fight at the hotel on
the night of September % between
two naval officers and guests from
the Teamsters' Union banquet.
which had Just been addressed by
the President.
The committee will learn about
the battle through the reading of
sworn statements from witnesses
and participants gathered by Robert
T. Murphy, committee counsel, and
two investigators.
There are IA affidavits and they
have been photostated for the
five members of the committee, it
was learned.
Senator Ferguson, Republican, of
Michigan, arrived by plane from De-
troit shortly before Chairman Green
called the committee into session.
Other members are Senators Tun-
nell Of Delaware and Stewart of
Tennessee, Democrats, and Senator
Ball, Republican, of Minnesota.
The affidavits to be read at the
meeting include several obtained in
New York from members of the
Teamsters' Union, who have main
tained a stony silence about the af-
fair and the two affidavits from
women with union connections who
said they had been accosted by the
naval officers that night in the COR
ridors of the hotel and that the off,
GERS asked them for whom they
were going to vote.
These last two affidavits were
sworn to by Mrs. Helen Roland, an
employe of the Milk Drivers and
Dairy Employees Union, and Mrs.
Frank w. Lee, wife of a trustee of
the Central Labor Union.
Previously the only story of the
fight made public was that of the
two naval officers, 1t. Randolph
Dickens, jr., and 1t. Comdr. James
H. Suddeth. They said men who
had attended the banquet asked
them if they were going to vote for
the Commander in Chief and called
them disloyal when they refused to
answer
Evening star., 1944-10-18
Officers Service Club
Is Incorporuted Here

Incorporation of the Officers
Service Club of the United Nations
at 1914 Twenty first street NV. as
a non-profit organization was an
nounced yesterday by its trustees
Joseph c. McGarraghy. Harry S
Wender and Mrs. Miriam Calvin.
1t will be operated in cooperation
with Recreation Services, Inc. It's
purpose, according to the incorpora-
ton purposes, will be to establish
and operate club or clubs for "the
entertainment and welfare of the
military and naval officers of the
United States and its Allies"
Evening star., 1944-10-18
Judge Rules Word Striker
On Discharge Not LibeIous
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 18.-Judge
John j. Parker of the Fourth Circuit
Court of Appeals has affirmed a
Judgment of the District Court of
Norfolk in the case of A. G, Stovall
versus Burns g. Roe, Inc, Navy
shipbuilding contractors. In so do
ing he ruled there was no proven
libel involved in writing the word
striker across the discharge slip
of worker.
MI. Stovall, plaintiff, charged that
Navy lieutenant supervising work
at the naval operating base at Nor
folk, where Mr.. Stovall was en-
ployed by Burns & Roe as a ship
filter, had written the allegedly
libelous word on his discharge slip
and further added vocally, Dis
charge these men and report them
to their draft boards"
Evening star., 1944-10-18
Scarce Articles Draw
Largest Crowd in IS
Years 10 Police Sale
Bicycles, Appearing Fit
For Junk Yard, Bring ST;
$40 Given for Toy Truck

Lured in part by the hope of
obtaining articles which virtually
have disappeared from stores be-
cause OF wartime shortages, the
largest crowd in IS years attended
the opening of the police auction
in the police Storehouse at 469 C
street NV. today.
AS prospective purchasers pushed
their way toward the auctioneer's S
block for a glimpse of the items,
there was considerable debate
among spectators over whether the
buyers were getting bargains, +"
especially for such items as bicycles
and children's wagons.
Bicycles which appeared ready
for the junk pile went for Sc and
81 while S24 was bid for a stream
liner" model before the auctioneer
shouted sold"
Property Clerk Thwarted.
Property Clerk Steve Goggins
groaned when miniature fire
truck brought $40 He had received
orders from his grandson for that
particular item but he gave up hope
long before the bidding ceased.
Made up of unclaimed lost, stolen
and abandoned property, the sale
started with two-section wooden
ladder which brought IS
Beginning at the front of the
storehouse on the first floor, where a
lot of bicycles and tricycles were
stacked with the ladder, Auctioneer
Zed Williams worked his way back,
disposing of pile of old lumber for
Sl9, penny weighing scale for SO,
a set of food lights for Sl1 and nu-
merous childrens wagons for over
$40.
Bidding was so brisk that he sell
dom had need to cite the attrac-
tions of his wares
Wooden Oars Bring $3.50.
Even after his warning that tri-
cycle had lost a pedal. a bidder
pushed the price from So to $3.50
And a set of wooden oars, which, he
said, looked as if they came off the
Mayflower," brought $3.50.
When a small steamer trunk was
knocked down for Sc, however. and
wardrobe trunk sold for S14, spec
tators murmured that these were
real bargains.
Foresighted purchasers, unable to
get near the auction block, took a
determined stance near articles they
hoped to buy when the auctioneer
moved their way. One housewife
was sitting firmly by a sewing ma
chine, and another waited grimly
by bundle of mops. They are so
hard TO find in the stores" she said.
Inspector Clement P. Cox, chief
clerk of the Metropolitan Police De-
partment, said the sale would 60 on
at least two days. After the first
floor is cleared, he said, the auc-
tioneer will 60 to the fourth floor
and work his way down.
All proceeds, he explained, go to
the District tax collector for the
general revenue fund.
Evening star., 1944-10-18
Hotels 10 Stop
Serving Butter
AT Noon Meals
Restaurants in Area,
Also Hit by Shortage,
Nay Follow Suit
BY MALCOLM LAMBORNE. Jr.

The majority of Washington
hotels will halt the serving of
butter with lunches beginning
Monday, a decision made as a
result of continuing butter
shortage in this area, it was
learned today.
At the same time it was learned
the Washington Restaurant Asso-
citation has made a similar recon-
mendation to about 1,100 restau-
rants in the city. An Official said
a small percentage of eating places
are serving oleomargarine and thev
would not make any change, since
oleo is not scarce.
The Board of Directors of the
HotG Association of Washington
recommended that its members.
representing 90 hotels, discontinue
serving butter at noon meals until
such time as either point values on
butter are decreased by the Office
OF Price Administration or the sup
ply situation improves.
In place of butter, the establish
ments are expected to serve pre-
serves, marmalade or some other
substitute. Butter was increased
from Is to 20 points a pound on
October /.
Report Great Scarcity.
Officials of both organizations re-
port great scarcity" of butter in
commercial establishments. with
many places already forced to limit
service of the spread.
Meanwhile, the butter industry
mere saw no relief for other con-
sumers. One source said the situ-
alton might even grow worse. House.
holders have been feeling a butter
pinch for more than month. and
the War Food Administration has
pointed out that a shortage of sup
plies will continue for the rest of
the year. This is the period of low
milk production, and accordingly
low butter production.
Fluid cream also is becoming a
scarce commodity, forcing some eat
ing places to ration coffee drinkers.
Several hotels have discontinued
serving cream with demitasse at
private functions.
Charge Price Inequities.
Butter dealers claim the shortage
results from price inequities which
favor fluid cream diversion to prod
ucts other than butter. Government
sources point out, however, that any
change in prices would disrupt the
whole complicated milk price struc-
ture and force an eventual price
increase to fluid milk consumers.
The Government has fought against
any changes which would affect the
price of such basic commodities as
bread and milk.
One dairyman pointed out that
with the return of cold weather cof-
fee consumption increases and thus
increases the use of cream.
Evening star., 1944-10-18
Fire Destroys Residence

Fire from defective chimney
yesterday destroyed the two-story
frame house of Charles T. Spriggs,
colored, 80, on the Browns Station
road near Upper Marlboro. Mr..
Spriggs, who lived alone in the
house, said he noticed smoke COM
ing from second-f1oor window.
BY the time the Marlboro, District
Heights and Forestville Volunteer
Fire Departments arrived, however,
the house had virtually been de-
etroyed.
Evening star., 1944-10-18
Five Men Under Inquiry
In Youth Morals Case

Charges against five men, said to
have transported teen-age boys
from the District to Baltimore for
immoral purposes, were being in
vestigated today by the United
States district attorneys office here
The investigation, being conduct
ed by 1t. Joseph S. Shimon of the
district attorneys office, followed the
arrest last week of a 45-year-old
man in connection with a morals
charge by 15-year -old boy.
Assistant United States District
Attorney Joseph F. Lawless said sew
eral prospective witnesses were be-
ing questioned today and that an
Indictment against the five men
may be asked of the grand jury.
Evening star., 1944-10-18
Stoddurd to Speak

Lothrop Stoddard, author, jour-
nalist and commentator, will be
the speaker at o'clock tonight at
the opening meeting of the season
of the Brotherhood of the Wash
ington Hebrew Congregation in the
vestry of the Washington Hebrew
Congregation Temple, Eighth and
streets NV. Mr.. Stoddards topic
vail be "Our World Today"
Evening star., 1944-10-18
COP Publicity Aide
Denied Deferment
By Appeals Board
Four of 4o1 Druftees'
Requests Rejected;
Leohy Pleas Refused

The District Board of Appeal
doesn't consider a publicity man
for the Republican National Com
mittee necessary to the national
health, safety or interest,"" it was
disclosed today.
The appeal board thereby dis
agreed with a draft board in Cor
NTH, Mo, which had granted Lars
ton D. Farrar, %, an occupational
deferment until February. Mr.. Far
rar was publicity man at Repub-
lican headquarters here until Au-
gust, when he moved to the New
York headquarters.
One of Four to Lose.
Since he was working here and de-
ferred by draft board in another
State, Mr.. Farrar's deferment had
to be reviewed by the Districts
Board of Appeal during the week
ending September 80. Out of 49l
men whose cases were reviewed that
week, Mr.. Farrar was one of four
who lost their deferments and
wound up in la.
The other three losers were bus
operator, assistant manager of
tractor company and supply COM
pany packer. Among the successful
487-who included 800 men over 80
and 81 already rejected for physical
reasonS-Were a 26-year- old bread
wrapper for a bakery, a 27-year-old
dining car WAITER an 18-year-old
medical student and 29-year- -old
War Manpower Commission occu-
pational analyst, al, able-bodied.
On the appeal side, District Sc
lective Service Director William E.
Leahy failed to win any cases he
appealed. MI. Leahy asked the
appeal board to cancel the con-
scientious objector classification
granted to Howard Lee Coleman,
20-year-old helper on a farm owned
by Elder Solomon Lightfoot Mi
chaux, and to put him in LAO for
noncombatant Army duty. Elder
Michaux's helper kept his defer
ment.
Loses Deferment.
Another registrant, who asked to
be switched from one deferred class
to another, wound up with no de-
ferment. He was Everett Evers
Craun, %, listed as manager of the
Mardfeldt store. Granted an occu-
pational deferment, Mr.. Cra,n
wanted deferment as conscien-
tious objector. His case had been
under routine investigation by the
United States attorney since June.
During the week on which the ap-
peal board reported today, Mr..
Craun was put in d-A-O.
Another regiStrant, Nathaniel
Worthington, 36-year-old father of
six children, also tried to shift from
one deferred class to another. He,
too, failed, but kept his first defer
ment. A Treasury Department la
borer, Mr.. Worthington was granted
an occupational deferment, but
wanted classification in 4-D as a
minister. He was held in his for
mer class.
In addition to these cases. the
appeal board granted seven appeals
for occupational deferment and one
appeal for deferment as hardship
case. 1t denied two appeals for
occupational deferment and two for
hardship deferment.
Evening star., 1944-10-18
WPB's Top Staff 10 Honor
Nelson al Dinner Toniqht

The top staff of the War Produc-
ton Board will give a dinner for
former Chairman Donald NJ. Nelson
at the Statler Hotel tonight.
John Lord O'Brien, WPB chief
counsel, win serve as POSTMASTER.
More than 200 of the agency's off,
cials will attend. Other speakers
will include Chairman J. A. Krug
and Mr., Nelson.
Evening star., 1944-10-18
Mrs. Ruth Hanna Simms'
Condition Is Improved
BY the Associated Press.

Py the Associated Press,
CHICAGO, Oct. 18.-Mrs. Ruth
Hanna Mccormick Simms, former
National Republican committee
woman from New Mexico, reported
herself as much improved today at
Billings Memorial Hospital.
She is being treated for a frac-
ture OF. the left shoulder, and has
undergone an operation for removal
of asbone splinter from the break.
She was injured at Alamsa, Colo,
when her horse stepped into COPPER
hole and threw her. T.
Evening star., 1944-10-18
Charter Tulk on Air

Stephen James, member of the
board that drafted the proposed
Montgomery County charter, will
discuss the county government plan
in a talk over Station WMAL at
1890 o'clock tonight. i
Evening star., 1944-10-18
Weather Report

District Of Columbia-Bright and
sunny this afternoon, high near IS.
Clear and cool tonight, low near
So. Some cloudiness and mod
erately warm tomorrow.
Maryland and Virginia-Fair,
not quite so cool tonight. Some
cloudiness and moderately warm to-
morrow.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers
clear at Harpers Ferry. Potomac
muddy at Great Falls.
Tide Tables
FURNISHED by United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey
Evening star., 1944-10-18
Report for Last "A Hcu,

Record for Last 81 Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest. 80. 4:55 pm. Year ago. SIS.
Lowest 40. 7;15 am. Year ago, 40.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 9S. on June Is.
Lowest, II. on January 8.
Evening star., 1944-10-18

Monthly precipitation in inches in tn,
capital tcurrent month to date):
Evening star., 1944-10-18

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From noon yestsraav n pnnr tadsv
Evening star., 1944-10-18
The Sun and Moon.
Precipitation.

Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-20

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The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-09-02
All CT Johnnies
Are Heroes In
Liberation OF
France

Advanced Base Southern France
The mighty Allied war machine,
driven by men of every race, and
color, rumbles steadily onward over
mountain roads and grape laden
vineyards of Southern France,
ever nearer Hitler's doom.
Cheering French civilians line
the roads as trucks and other war
vehicles, many laden by colored
soldiers, speed to fast moving front.
Cheers are free and sincere for Am
erican soldiers, be they black or
white.
Despite poverty from German
yoke, liberated Frenchmen are the
happiest people in the world. John
ny CT. was never a greater hero.
In rumble of artillery and bombs
your correspondent interviewed
dusty smeared men wheeling sup
plies north and found their morale
high. The supplyroute, through
grim, gives consolation to the toll
ing men by the road signs reading,
This way to Berlin"
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-09-02
Eight More Are
Commissioned
Administrative
Officers

San Antonio Aviation Cadet Cen
ter, Texas Eight Negro cadets
havebeen commissioned as second
heutepants in the army air forces
at graduation exercises of the AAF
training commands officer candi-
date school at San Antonio avia-
ton cadet center.
The following completed the rig
orous four month course of officer
training:
William F. Makel, 425 East Goth
street, Chicago, III.
William A. Hudgins, of Phoebus,
Va.
Newton M. Poyer, Ills Boston
Road, Bronx, New York.
William S. Rice, PIG South 62nd
street, Birmingham, Ala.
James T. Williams, 221 East Har-
rison Avenue, Roanoke, Va.
Herman A. Johnson, 27O7 18th
Street, NV, Washington, DC.
Joseph H. Taylor, Rt. l, Ripley,
Tenn.
Thomas Haughabrooks, 215 May
nor street, Montezuma, Ga.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-09-02
Sgt. Eludes Enemy
3 Days, Escapes;
Wins Silver Star

Bougainville, Northern Solo
mons = Staff Sergeant Rothchild
R. Webb, of 818 North Fayette
street Indianapolis, Ind, has been
awarded the silver star for heroic
achievement, and gallantry in ac-
ton against the enemy at Bougain-
vile on May II, 1914, the war de-
partment announced today.
Staff Sergeant Webb was on a
patrol mission in enemy territory
when his patrol was ambushed and
his commanding officer seriously
wounded by machine gun fire. He
evacuated his commanding officer
from the line of fire, dressed his
wounds. and assisted him to the
shelter of a nearby swamp. While
under constant threat of capture
fofr three days in enemy territory,
Sgt. Webb successfully led his
wounded and partially blinded pa
troll leader to safety
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-09-02

THE CAROLINA COTTON PICK
ERS, led by Leroy Hardison who is
rated among Americas first from
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ing in such places as The Savoy
Ballroom in Chicago; Cocoanut
Grove, Salt Lake City; Sunset Ter
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Of Americas choice spots. The band
itself consists of Is pieces, includ-
ing the famed vocalists, Cecil Gro
yes.
Yes, the blues take a holiday
when you get on the solid side
with THE ORIGINAL CAROLINA
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and sweet music
Remember, Back To School
Dance, COIored Skating Rink, Tues
day, September 10.