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Evening star., 1946-04-06
Permits Issued Here
For Building Reach
$743,780 in Week

Building permits of 5000 and
over issued during the last week by
Robert H. Davis, District director
OF building inspections, totaled
$743, ,780. They went to-:
Munsey Realty Co., 1929 E street
NV, owner; Westinghouse Electric
Corp, 1112 Twenty-first street NV,
builder and architect; modernize
passenger elevators; 1929 E street
NV; to cost $4,000.
Lenkin Construction Co., 1918
Fourteenth street NV, owner and
builder; George T. Santmyers, 2209
L street NV, architect; nine 2
story brick and cinder block dwell
ings; 1923 to 1460 Primrose road
NV; to cost $4,000.
Feinstein & Co., OPT Fifteenth
street NV, owner and builder:
George T. Santmyers, 22o9 L street
NV, architect; Is two-story brick
and cinder block dwellings; 166O-72
and 10000 Fortieth street Sc; to
cost SIS 5000.
Two-StOry Office.
Joseph F. Nebel, 9308 Kensington
parkway, Chevy Chase, Md, owner
and builder; Louis Justement, 2011
K street NV. architect; one @
story masonry Office building: 1912
Twentieth street NV; to cost
100000.
Paul M. Segal, Woodward Build
ing, owner; Davis, Wick. Rosen-
garten Co., GLIB Fifteenth street NV.
builder; Horace w. Peaslee, archi-
tect; general repairs to office build
ing, 816 Connecticut avenue NV:
to cost $55,00O.
The Colonial Construction Co.,
BIT Ninth street NV, owner and
builder; George T. Santmyers, 2209
L street NV, architect; one 3-story
brick and cinder block apartment, IL
units, 1880 Bladensburg road NE;
to cost $4,000.
Washington Housing Corp, 93l H
street NV, owner and builder:
Claughton West, 1920 X street NV,
architect; one 3-story masonry
apartment of nine units, 900 D street
S.W.; to cost $4,000.
Hotel EscalatOr.
Shoreham Hotel, $500 Calvert
street NV, owner: Otis Elevator
Co., $40 Eighteenth street NV,
builder and architect: install esca-
lator, $500 Calvert street NV, to
cost s23, 1885.
Nevair Corp, 1922 K street NV,
owner; Lee Turner, 3616 Fourteenth
street NV, builder; A. L. Clas,
Shoreham Building, architect; one
l-story brick addition to restaurant,
1924 Wisconsin avenue NV; to cost
5000
I. Snyder, 42l4 Russell avenue,
Mount Rainier. Md, owner and
builder: H. w. Turner, $40 M street
NV, architect; four 2-story brick
dwellings. 317-21-23-27 Quackenbos
street NE; to cost $4,000.
Ethel B. Cannon, 1910 Fifth street
Y1Y1T0
Evening star., 1946-04-06
Smaller Mortgages
For February Rise 10
S6,4S3,0OO Total
By Robert J. Lewis

Mortgages under $4,000 recorded
In the District totaled $6,483,0 900 for
February, an increase of 29.I per
cent over the same month last year
the Federal Home Loan Bank Ad-
miniStration reported today.
In contrast, the Nations non
farm real estate financing during
February, this year, was 83 per cent
greater than for the same month
year ago, standing at s618,8O0 900.
according to the agency's estimates.
The z 1strict breakdown by type
of lender for last February was as
follows:
No. Amt. Pet
associations - 43s s3.os4. 900 47.e
Insurance
p,s Companies SO 49s,ooO ~
1ndiTIdusis dSmRsas' 592 55922 17SaSSS 7SaSSS Ia Ia
Miscellaneous lend
ing institutions II 401 900 82l
1,o43 se,4s3, 900 100
Meanwhile, John H. Fahey, COM
missioner of the Federal Home Loan
Bank Administration reported to-
DAY that final operating figures of
the Home Owners Loan Corp. to
last January l assure the liouida-
ton of the corporation without a
dollar of loss to the Government
instead of the half billion to a bill
lion dollars deficit predicted when
HOLC was created"
The corporation Was more than
three-fourths liquidated at the end
OF the year, with it's SO 500 ,O0O, 900
total investment now down to
$s53, ,951 900.
During 1945, HOLC had a net
operating profit of S22,6OO,0O0 after
paying all administrative expenses,
bond interest and property losses.
The cumulative losses of s337.-
246,000 taken by the corporation in
the sale of houses it was obliged to
foreclose had been reduced by net
earnings to balance of s5O,371 900
at the close of the year, Mr.. Fahey
said.
Evening star., 1946-04-06
Private Financed Home
Building Figures Soar

Although hampered by materials
shortages, privately financed home
building in the United States scared
from $74 4,000, 900 in the first quarter
of 1945 to $505 100000 in the first
three months Of this year, the Labor
Departments Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics reported today.
Total construction expenditures
rose from $62S, ,000,0 900 in February to
$731 ,000, 900 in March.
Evening star., 1946-04-06
Real Estate
Shop Talk

Douglas Whitlock, chairman of the
Advisory Board of the Producers
Council. will address a meeting of
the Washington Building Congress
Evening star., 1946-04-06

CONVERSION SLATEDPlans to convert the Kedrick Apart
ment Building at 1901 street NV into physicians Offices
announced this week by Phillips Properties 1nc 15o Con-
nectcut NV the The property shown above
occupied by British agencies which expect
to vacate by The said would be made
available for about so physicians. Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1946-04-06
Mortgage Seminar Called

The Mortgage Bankers Associa-
ton of America, in cooperation with
Purdue University, will sponsor a
mortgage bankers farm seminar at
Lafayette, Ind, May 20 to "a, for
executives of banks, life insurance
companies and other institutional
investors, 1t was announced this
week.
Evening star., 1946-04-06

(See CADETS, Page B-4.)
Evening star., 1946-04-06
Fruntz Named FHA
Assistant Commissioner

Arthur j. Frantz, acting assistant
commissioner of the Federal Hous-
ing Administration in charge Of
property improvement loan insur-
ance. has been named assistant COM
missioner, 1t was announced today.
Mr.. Frantz is native OF Spring.
field, Ohio.
Evening star., 1946-04-06

dt IL .ou pm.
Monday in the
Mayfower Hotel
on THE Build
l n g Materials
Situation a n d
Housing"
T cd ay M r.
Whitlock, speak
in G in N e W
Brunswick, N. j.,
before a con-
ference SPONSOR
ed by the Guild
ance and Per-
S o n n e ! Associ-
alton of New
TprSoy aud tho
Evening star., 1946-04-06

tSee PERMITS, Page BAD
Evening star., 1946-04-06
The Weeks
Housing Picture

Applications for 1855 apartments
and 1863 rooms were filed at the Dis
trict Housing Center in the six davs
ending Wednesday. while in the
same period 80 apartments and 497
rooms were listed for rent.
OF the total of 1924 applications,
1882 were from servicemen and vet
Grams, and 1872 from civilians.
The housing center. 1400 Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV, Executive 4160,
said conditions facing applicants
were as follows:
Veterans and Civil
Servicemen ians Total
Just Arrived ~ SIS 102 657
Separate from
Family ---- $40 At GIT
Unreasonable Dis
tance to Commute 13 6 10
Eviction - 211 ia 1926
Prese Housing
Inadequate ----- 583 1913 706
Bs.F - - s--
Total 1882 1892 1924
Evening star., 1946-04-06

(See SHOP TALK, Page B-2J
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-08-10

putting "fair" prices.
Meanwhile, ward groups are
continuing neighborhood price
surveys in preparation for the
Committees plans for consumer
boycotts against specific exorbi-
family priced products.
IN the 4Sth ward, leaflets have
already been issued calling for
specific boycotts. Handbills call.
ing on consumers not to buy
cheese or cream were passed out
before large markets in the ward
last Saturday with good effect.
according to Mrs. Judith Yanoff
OF the local price control group.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-08-10
shows big meat boosts

Meat prices in Chicago have
gone up as much as 100 per cent
since June 80, it was revealed
this week.
In a survey of meat prices
made by the Chicago Committee
for Price Control, comparison
OF prices found throughout the
city on July 81 and August l was
made with the ceiling prices ex-
listing on June 80.
Average increase for ten typi-
cal types of meat at the end of
the first month without price
controls on meat was found to be
80 per cent. AS much as 76 cents
difference was found in the price
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-08-10

per pound of the same cut in
different stores.
u
LARGEST increase in the ten
items checked was found in
smoked picnic hams and such
standard 'low-priced' cuts as
chuck roast, hamburger, and pork
chops.
In an effort to find basis for
setting standards of fair prices
for decontrolled products, the
Committee intends this week to
make professors and distributors
OF decontrolied products commit
themselves to a formula for com
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-08-10
Delegation to demand
action on |ynehings

200 Chicagoans were en-
route to Washington this week to
demand action on the Georgia
lynchings.
They intend to see President
Truman and Attorney-General
Tom Clark to ''let them know
that the people of Chicago expect
their government to guarantee
the rights and safety of all its
citizens.
They were sert on their mis-
sion by the new,y-formed Chica
go Citizens Committee Against
Lynchings. Funds for the trip
were collected from donations at
a giant rally held last Friday at
the Negro Soldier S Monument on
South Parkway a; 35th St.
OVER 5000 persons gathered
at the famous landmark to pro-
test the lynching of two Negro
couples near Monroe, Georgia,
last week. Speaker after speaker
hammered home the contrast be-
tween the lack of protection of
civil rights in parts of the USA
and the "hypocriticap concern
for democracy in other parts of
the world claimed by Secretary
of State James Byrnes.
"Byrnes shouts democracy
in Paris; silent ON lynchings In
America, read one of the
signs at the rally. Others read:
America violates United Ma.
tions charter = Americans
iynched", "FBI = we demand
results. mo more strange
fruit, America tries war cri-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-08-10

Pickets from all over the coun-
try march before the White
House demanding action to ap-
prehend those responsible for
the recent outbreak of lynchings.
AT right: two victims of the Mon,
roe, Georgia, lynching, brother
and sister, are lowered into the
grave following church services.
Labor and progressive groups in
Chicago and elsewhere lead
mounting protests against this
and other instances of murder
and Klan-inspired terror.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-08-10
STAR ASKS
MEAD PROBE
From page

From page l
current Garsson-May disclOs-
ures, scandalOus as they are,
have not yet nicked the sur.
face of the war contracts
racket.
~The only method which the
committee has for starting such
Investigations is on the basis of
information brought to their at
tention by predetermined citizens
who know of specific cases which
should be investigated" the NY.
Senator wrote.
"IF you have any such specific
information, the Committee
would appreciate full disclos-
ure of the case"
Meanwhile, the Mead special
committee investigating the ma.
tlonal defense program this week
announced that it would extend
Its probe to the automobile, air
craft, aluminium and shipbuilding
industries.
A poll of congressman by the
Chicago Star revealed wide.
spread sentiment for full
dress probe of profiteering that
would hit the bigger corpora
tiOns.
SENATOR Ebert D. Thomas,
of Utah, chairman of the Senate
Committee on Foreign Affairs,
told the Star:
Il think a complete investi.
CATION now is essential. Until
1T Is done, the people will not
be satisfied"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-08-10

minals - lynchers go free.
Another placard shove
three large bloody hands, la
beled "Bilbo, Rankin, Tai
madge'.
CHAIRMAN of the meeting
was Milas Stephens, past corn
'nander of the Biles post of the
American Legion. Speakers in
cluded Edward Strong, national
vice-president of the National Ne
gro Congress; Rev. William La
than; Mrs. Rella Chill of the
Hyde Park WI; Rev. j. L. IIo-
race; Herbert March of the CLIO
clearinghouse workers; Earl Sar-
don of UNAVA; State Rep. Cor
neal Davis; State Sen. C. C. VIM
bish; Claude Lightfoot of the
South Side Communist Party;
Henry MCGEE of the NAACP;
Louise Thompson Patterson of
the 1nt1. Workers Order; and
Boris Steinberg of the Chicago
Action Council.
Resolutions were sent from the
rally to President Truman ard
Atty-Gen'l Clark demanding i'm
me date prosecution of the Gcor-
ga lynch mob, and to Gov. Ellis
Arnall of Georgia, commencing
him for his prompt efforts to an,
prehend the killers.
At the conclusion of the meet
ing, those present formed them
selves into giant phalanx two
blocks long, and marched with
their placards to 9th st. and
Vincennes Ave-, where the parade
disbanded.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-08-10

". boeI11. JdSTOT " C0ngI6Edtf0ffet
church, questioning statements on Catholics in fhe
article headed Tribune, Bund are chief sponsors
of hate ads. 1t the contention of the dstin-
guished liberal pastor that these ads had been
blamed on the Protestants.
Rev. Baehr further said that those engaged in
investigating and fighting anti-Semitism in Chi
cago have found Catholics "the most frequent of
tenders" and added that he had not found ire
stricted' ads aimed at Catholics. ''Your article
puts them only the side of the prosecuted
he points out Protestant bigotry is certainly no
to be oondone6-nor is Catholic bigotry!"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-08-10

with Rev. Baehr There bigo
fasstminded Jews, along with
reaconary antiCathoc Negroes These all
victims religious prejudice yet they push the
dvsive and hate doctrines which are used as weapons against
themselves
1T WAS precisely placed
In Chicago Catholics by far the
strongest of the three big scapegoa groups
persecution only theoretically while personally
they cased by elements of the population
along with Negroes Mexicans Japanese
Americans
advertisements held illegal
civil rights law Prosecutions follow publication of such
openly printing these hate is the Tablet of the Catholic
diocese OF Brooklyn This is Grade-A bigory
strategy high priests lump
people to ehnic and religious and the rest OF the
population against them These isolated human islands be
qudaed by the technique of the Naz they be
victims of discrimination leading violence Ku Kax
Klau and reactonary technique in America.
Members minority VINO help the hate the
another minority merely fastening their down
fall 1t may be their turn next
majority they fight against
color and religious peiudces Failure this major
weakness of the Protestant church
any that
ynched those four Negroes Monroe, Ga.
Dixie, particularly its rural noted for psalm
Bible shouting Protestant undamentass And that is the section
color religious lines sharpes grows
strong on its ancahoic its antiJew and anNego stand In
1928 Smith lost the unspakabe Herbert Hoover because he
Catholic.
reason logical sore summer re-
inserting hate in the Tribune Catholics purely
basis of religion But that is not too important
important group recognize prejudice
against the plain people keeps along
purely artificial lines that the top maintain
dictatorship Catholic Jew Negro who practices
bigoy group traitor to his own casa ard
-conspiraor against real democracy :
The Star wants the people Of Chicago superficial
divisions We want Catholics Protestans Genes Negroes
caucasans and everybody else being for raes
intent fight the bigots
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-08-10
zza8 s3||l||a
REV. BAEHR AND HATE ADS
BY FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS

LAST WEEK The "Soudng contained
letter from Baeh pastor United Congregatior
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-08-10

agree Fundamentally with Rev. Baehr There bgo
asoistminded Jews along wit
reaconay aniemic antiCaholic Negroes These
and religious prejudice they push the
doctrines which again
themselves.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-02-19
City Rejects
Zoning Pleas

Members Of the City Plan Com
mission yesterday opposed Two re-
uuested coming changes on the basis
that they were not justified.
One petition was for change OF
zone on Madison street from Resi-
dence Zone B to Business Zone No.
/. The other was from Residence
Zone B to Business Zone No. ! at
the southeast corner Of Congress
avenue and Ross street.
T. L. Scott Smith, city plan en-
gineer, told the Commission that
the Madison street petition was for
a store while that on Congress ave-
nue. was for a gasoline station.
Mayor John s. Monagan, honor
airy chairman Of the board. said he
could not see the justification OF
the proposed changes.
The Congress avenue petition has
not yet come up before the Board Of
Aldermen and will probably be
scheduled for a hearing at the
March meeting.
The Washington Park Commu-
nifty Club has already expressed
opposition to the proposed change
in zone on. Madison street. A pub
lie hearing will be held Friday in
the Aldermanic chamber in the City
Hall.
Tentative layouts for the sub-divi-
sion Of property at Wolcott street
and Stillson road and East Noun
tain Estates were referred Tn the
city engineer for recommendations
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-02-19
SmeIterS
To Strike

The CrO Mine, Mill g. Smelter
Workers Union has called a strike
against the American Smelling g.
Refining Co., which will halt pro-
diiction in the company's Is plants.
The strike will begin next Monday.
and will involve more than 1000
workers from coast to coast.
Establishment Of a common wage
pattern for laborers and mechani-
cal workers In the company's plants
about the country Is one Of the OBJ
jectives sought by the union. Also
at issue the unions demands for q
so per cent wage increase.
Approved Of the strike was voted
by the unions executive board af-
ter failure 10 come to any terms at
an arbitration meeting held with
management Representatives last
week at Perth Amboy, N. j. Efforts
Of U. 8. conc'liator were in vain.
The strike viii hit the Perth AM
boy plant, also divisions at Balti-
more, Nd, Omaha, Neb.; Los An
geles, selby and san Francisco, Cal;
Newark, N. J., Vanadilm and Han
over, N. NJ; Globe and Patagonia,
Ariz.; Murray and Garfield, Utah;
Tacoma. Wash: East Helena, Mont. |:
FL Paeo, Texas; Beckemeyer, ILL.,;
and Leadville. Colo.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-02-19

freedom granted photographers.
who repeatedly asked the Cardinals
and their visitors TO "hold that for
minute"
The press likewise found the
Cardinals most cooperative, SPELL
man cheerfully identified his visit
ors and spelled names all morn
ing, cautioning correspondents &C.
caSlonally to "be sure YOU get that
right"
TITS not as trying as Il was yes
terday, and II Is pleasant meeting
friends again." spellman said Of
the reception.
Praises Firms
0lennon's bearing was regal, and
his sincere interest and knowledge
Of varied subjects brought repeated
smiles to the faces Of diplomats
and noblemen meeting him for the
first time.
When Harrl Holma, Finnish min
lister to the Vatican, was presented,
Glennon Observed
"You have the best runners, the
best singers, and the finest diplo-
mats in the world"
To Admiral Ellery Stone, chief
Of the Allied Commission in Italy,
Glennon said:
II hope you are feeling well.
am so glad to be able to talk the
American vernacular again. My
power Of speech has been run rag
ged."
He greeted Prince Doria Pam
phil, mayor Of Rome, with the
words:
You Romans are great people.
You were great, you are great, and
there Is still something great in
the name Of Rome"
At one stage of the parade, SPELL
man eagerly greeted Jacques Mari
tain, French ambassador to the
Vatican. They talked at length, re-
newing an acquaintance begun in
New York when Maritain was there
The Wednesday ceremony will be
q secret Consistory, attended only
by the new Cardinals, to receive
their symbolic red hats from the
Pope.
1t was not known whether Jose
Cardinal Caro- Rodriguez, 30, Of
Santiago, Calf, who arose from Q
sickbed to receive his appointment
yesterday, would be able to attend
The new princes Of the church
were looking forward to the publiC
Consistory on Thursday when they
will mingle for the first time with
the old Cardinals in rites at st
Peters Basilica.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-02-19

when he saw the man thrust the
gun through the opening in the box
ONCE. He said that he turned
around quickly and dashed into a
nearby liquor establishment where
he placed q phone call to Police
Headquarters.
Roach COmmends Force
After the call, Roberge returned
to the theater amid a mad clamor
Of police sirens as three squad cars
quickly arrived at the scene. Super
intendent Of Police William j..
Roach, who arrived in the first
squad car, commanded the law en-
forcement members quietly and eff
ficiently so as to avoid a panic as
hundreds, aroused by the blaring
sirens, hurried to the theater.
So swiftly and silently did the
armed robber execute the daring
robbery that the theater's manager,
George Stevenson, standing a few
feet away in the lobby, was unaware
that anything out of the ordinary
had occurred until informed by the
nerve shaken Miss Maxwell. Harold
McIsaac, ticket taker, was inside the
theater at the time assisting patrons
in finding seats.
1t. Calvin said today that the
robber, apparently youth, probably
escaped in a car. Meanwhile police,
provided with an apt description of
the bandit, are watching the activ-
tiles of several persons suspected to
be implicated in what was described
as 1.-The first such holdup in a long
long time"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-02-19

Continued from Page u
car and that his production was
being impaired by high price CELL
ingS on parts.
Pointing out that Ford's produc-
ton had not yet attained its full
volume, BowleS said:
II don't know of any intelligent
industrialist that would base his
pricing on small volume. I'm also
surprised that Ford didn't know
that parts were taken out from un-
der price control"
Patman pressed Bowles to tell the
committee how much of a price in
crease Ford asked when OPA was
undertaking to price new cars last
Summer.
Increase Outrageous
II think this should be known"
Bowles said. Normally We don't
reveal the extent Of the price in
creases asked, but because Of the
many statements would say ir-
responsible statements-Mr. Ford
has made. I'm going to say this.
Ford asked OPA for an increase in
price by SIS percent last Summer.
"A figure like that should explain
why Ford is so eager to get rid OF
price control. That's an outrageous
increase"
Crawford then asked the commit
tee to invite Ford to appear.
Bowles told Crawford he didn't
think the request for a SIS percent
increase was "in line with the ira
dition Of the Ford Co."
Ford has always been leader in
high wages and low prices, and I'm
sorry that 1t has departed from this
tradition" Bowles said.
Rep. Howard H. Buffet, (R.-
Neb.), demanded to know by what
authority under the Price Control
Act the OPA issued a statement at
lacking Ford's views on automobile
pricing last Saturday.
Bowles replied that Congress
didn't intend for US to sit idly by
while we're being subjected to false
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-02-19

unanimous vote on wages. manage.
ment representatives had blocked
the ie~cent proposal last month.
At yesterdays session, government
and labor delegates OVERRIDE man.
agement dlssents TO revise the rule
and permit action by a majority
vote. Then by \ ? 10 count, the
conference voted 10 ask the wage
sterilization board to approve a
Nage increase OF 10 cents for the ma
tons 100000 shipyard workers, re-
troactive to Dec. 4.
Conference spokesman did not ex-
plain what authority the wSB had
in the case. The board no longer
has power 10 settle disputes but the
shlpbulldlng case may not be con-
sidered a labor-management dis
pute. wSB approval Of the wage
proposal would permit the govern
ment agencies to order the raise into
effect on government contracts in
private shipyards.