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Evening star., 1946-04-20
First Aid
orHouses
Staff Photo.
By ROGER c. Whitman

Insulating Floor of Sleeping Porch.
Question: My rear sleeping porch
is inclosed and covered with an in
sulating brick siding Late in the
fall the porch became damp, prob
ably from the storeroom underneath.
This storeroom also is inclosed, COW
cred with siding and has a cement
floor. What type of insulation
should 1 put under the sleeping
porch and in the side walls? Event.
ually plan to finish off the walls
with Wallboard.
Answer: I infer from your letter
that there is no heat in the sleep
ing porch. Most likely the damp
ness is caused by the condensation
of the warm and moist house air,
leaking out into the inclosune,
against the cold surfaces. A thick
blanket type of insulation cohld
be used under the floor and in
the side walls. AS an added pre-
caution against dampness from un-
derneath (before applying the insu-
lation), coat the under side of the
floor on all surfaces with tar or
liquid asphalt. To make the porch
really habitable during the winter,
lit should have storm sash on the
windows and additional heat.
Finish for Plasterboard.
Question: Having had to take off
our pantry ceiling. we have what
is called plasterboard. consisting of
ss-inch of plaster between heavy
paper. We want to coat it over with
plaster to cover nails and cracks,
and then paint. What would you
advise us to apply?
Answer: 1t is not necessary to do
the plastering job if you wish to
paint. You can conceal the nail
heads by driving them slightly be-
low the surface and filling the in
(Sea FIRST AID Dooa ROY
Evening star., 1946-04-20

ChonneIine Order to
Recognize D. 6. Is
Hiqher-Cost Area
By Robert J. Lewis

| The National Housing Agency
will recognize that Washington is
a higher-cost home building area,
it was learned today.
Under a major MIA regulation,
due to be announced momentarily
it is expected that at least half the
homes to be authorized for at least
time in the District area will cost
between $500 and $4,000. Few
homes costing $4,000 or less are ex-
pected to be built.
The regulation will establish the
policy for issuance of priorities by
the Federal Housing Administra-
ton.
Through the order, Housing Ad-
ministrator Wilson w. Wyatt will
channel building materials into
homes of different cost levels under
$4,000 ceiling.
Veterans Home Ceiling.
The channeling order also is ex-
pected to make clear that veterans
building houses for their own oc-
cupancy will be held to the $4,000
ceiling. At present, speculative
builders must operate within that
ceiling, but veterans building for
their own occupancy are exempt.
When the housing administrator
first announced his far-reaching
program for construction of O.
100000 homes by the end of next
year. he said he wanted the "bulk''
of them to cost $4,000 or less.
So far Mr.. Wyatt has never made
clear in terms of percentage what
he meant by "the bulk" The FORTH
coming order, however, will provide
formula through which a f1ex-
ible, regional determination can be
made of home cost ranges to serve
as a guide in the issuance of pri-
critics. Thus the building of a
greater percentage of homes above
$4,000 will be authorized in higher
cost areas like Washington than
In loWer-cost sections of the coun-
try.
Subject to Revision.
The order. which will be subject
TO revision to provide for a greater
percentage of loWer-cost homes later
when a brighter supply picture al
lows increased construction econo-
mics, also promises means of en-
couraging production OF rental
housing, 1t was learned.
The channeling order, it is under
stood, will provide that in each of
the FHAs SO insuring Offices, of
which the one at 734 Fifteenth street
NV. serves the District area, a re-
gional basis will be established for
preference in issuing priorities.
Under the formula, as unofficially
explained today, the total number
OF priorities approved so far in any
region will be divided by three. The
top price previously approved for a
house in the lower third will then
become the "median" price for the
area.
Fifty per cent of future priorities
will be issued for homes at or above
the "median" price, with the re-
mainder for homes below that level
OF the number issued in the lower
so per cent bracket, half are to be
held for builders of rental housing
it was understood.
The "median" price will be re-
viewed periodically, according to
present plans. This, Mr.. Wyatt is
said to hope, will result eventually
in a larger percentage of lower cost
homes as materials production is
spurred higher.
Evening star., 1946-04-20
Godgets
New Stuin Serves
Also to Waterproof
Building Exteriors
BY HiIson Munsey

When the time arrives for the
Frightening up the outside of the
house, it can be done with a stain
that will color and waterproof al
the same time. This stain will work
ON cement, Stucco brick. stone OF
rough wood and it does not have the
disadvantage of paint in that il
won't conceal the texture of the
material to which it is applied. It
is particularly useful over surfaces
that have become grimy and dull
from constant weathering.
The stain is not nearly as costly
as paint and can be applied much
taSter. When dry, it will not crack
scale or peel and the color will
weather down to a soft and attrac-
tive finish. The stain should be put
on only when the surface is quite
dry. A fiat four-inch brush should
be used and it should be full of the
stain to produce a satisfactory and
even looking job. Two coats will
generally be sufficient except over
very rough surfaces or if greater
depth of color is wanted. In those
cases, additional coats should be
brushed on until the desired effect
is obtained. Cement or plaster must
be allowed to dry thoroughly before
the stain is used
Covering capacity depends on the
porosity of the material to which
the stain is applied. If the concrete
or brick is smooth and dense, a gal
Ion will cover about 200 square feet
with two coats. With ordinary ce-
ment and stucco the coverage will
be about three-quarters of that
space and this is reduced to about
100 square feet if the surface is very
rough. These stains are sold in IL
different colors: Light cream, light
fawn, light buff, French gray, terra
Gotta, Quaker gray, light and dark
brick, ivory, lichen green, pink and
dark brown stone. They are also
made in black and white.
If waterprofing only is required
the same company provides a clear
liquid made in two types. One is
for dark brick or stone surfaces;
the other for cement, stucco and
light brick or stone.
The smell of paint is Objectionable
(See CADETS, Page BID
Evening star., 1946-04-20
The Weeks
Housing Picture

A total of 2,128 apartments and
houses were applied for at the War
Housing Center, 140O Pennsylvania
avenue NV, in the week ending
Wednesday. In addition, 299 per-
sons requested rooms.
To fill the need, 1874 apartments,
plus 487 rooms, were listed for rent.
OF the total of 2,427 applicants,
2,089 were veterans or servicemen.
During the week ended April 12
approvals for construction of 594
dwelling units were granted by the
District Insuring Office of the Fed
eral Housing Administration with
81 / per cent to cost less than $500
or rent for less than $50.
Since January IS the office. which
handles all applications under the
veterans housing program, granted
approval for construction of a total
of 9,1S9 units, with 3l.2 per cent to
cost less than $500.
Conditions facing applicants at the
housing center were indicated as
follows:
Evening star., 1946-04-20
New Office to Open

Tabler, Inc, a new real estate
firm, will open an Office at 1713 M
street NV. Monday, Robert Y. Ia
bier, head of the firm, announced
| TODAY.
Evening star., 1946-04-20
D. {. Building Permits
Tota|ing S753,397
Issued in Week

Building permits totaling $753,397
were issued in the last week by
Robert H. Davis, District director
of building inspections.
Projects of $4,000 or more follow:
Julius Garfinckel, 1417-l9 F street
NV, owner; Charles H. Tompkins
Co., GOT Eighteenth street NV,
builder; Porter & Locke, Metropoli-
tan Bank Building, architect; one g.
story steel, concrete, brick addition
to department store. 1417-19 F street
NV; to cost s455 900.
Leo M. Bernstein and M. L. Kraft,
1415 K street NV, owner; Colony
Construction Co., Inc. 14l5 K street
NV, builder; George T. Santmyers,
2209 L street NV, architect; 10
2-story brick and cinder block dwell
ings; 43 to Ct Underwood place NV;
to cost $4,000.
One-Story Church.
Congress Heights Presbyterian
Church, Chesapeake and South Cap
itol streets S.W., owner; Martin
Bros, 1909 Connecticut avenue NV,
builder; John B. Shook Sons and
Victor Farrar, 1872 Nassau street
NV, architect; one 1-story brick
and cinder block church, 4161 South
Capitol street S.W.; to cost $4,000.
c. v. Stephens, 1880 Half street
Sc, owner and builder; Earl Won
Reichenbach, 1919 Good Hope road
Sc, architect; to erect one 2-story
brick and cinder block addition to
creamery. 1924 Half street Sc; to
cost s35, 600
Milton Diener, 1921 TWenty-second
street NV, owner; builder not Sc
lected; Victor Eberhard, 1910 Twen-
tieth street NV, architect; one l.
story concrete, stone and cinder
block addition to stores, 2535-43
Fourteenth street NV; to cost
$4,000.
Continental Baking Co., 23O1
Georgia avenue NV, owner and
architect; Prescott Construction Co.,
1907 w street NV, builder; make
Continued on Page B-2. Column II
Evening star., 1946-04-20
By Wordsworth W. Wood

There is hardly a home in this
country that does not boast of
either a one or two car garage.
Even through the structure itself
is missing, it will be contemplated,
and sometimes provisions will have
been made for it in the owners
mind. In some cases it will be
attached and in others detached,
but whatever the conditions may be,
the garage has become a very in
tergral part of the average home.
1t is an astonishing fact that
OF all the enclosed areas around
a home, the garage is the most
poorly developed. When you walk
into the average garage you find
"a tremendous amount of space de-
voted to the housing Of one or two
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cars. You find that there is a
waste of at least thirds of the
cubic footage enclosed by the four
walls. You find that the open space
above the doorway, usually entirely
vacant from front to back, repre-
sents several hundreds of cubic feet
Of good storage space.
To turn the unused space in the
average garage into good usable
areas is not much of a problem.
Starting with the open area under
the roof, it might be pointed out that
by flooring over that space, and
leaving a hatch-Way with a ladder
(See YOUR HOME, Page BID
Evening star., 1946-04-20
500 to Attend Meeting
OF Mortgage Bankers

Five hundred persons are expected
to attend a tWo-day conference
sponsored by the Mortgage Bankers
Association of America in co-opera-
ton with the New Jersey Mortgage
Bankers Association in New York,
beginning April 20.
Among speakers will be Edward
r. Carr, president of the Home
Builders Association of Metropolitan
WASHINGTON.
Evening star., 1946-04-20

Continued on Page B-2, Column y
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-20

crosby's Guest - Burl Ives. Americas mightiest ballad singer who win guestar on crosby's pro- gram tonight. WATR-ABc, 10 P. M. became a ballad singer because he just plain liked to sing" It was during his wanderings throughout the country that he picked up many of the ballads he features today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-20

aards saturday Slippery
  the lineup. the Harvards might stand a chance
 In this climatic Ivy League clash Yales slowly developing and greatly uuaerrated expected reach and tO win back o the prestige lost through he defeat by Columbia and the ue with Cornell
 The that vandy Kirk hes broken bone n his right hand offset by the that Fitzgerald who dominated the Harvard game and has been out with injured shoulder the Cornell game available for another field  the national recognition and with the odnal incentive it. MAX ScGE1LN0 again" writes favore newspaper (or ting under esSets The Daily Worker Its amazing how much pub ciy Hers favorste fighter himself these days Dan Parker had nothing better 10 do than turn over his entire column to the eprntng ondraS letter about Max So what
  his entire column Max also The time this capase vure nothing better do wish he he'd do with his stuff
 VAUGHN FLANERY of the Hsrford Md. Gazette country weekly who sending all that against George Ma honey chairman of the Maryland State Racing Commission calls his Maryland Mahoney campaign Vaughn be in didn't think added the State of Maryland.
 THE LATEST antAEahoney contains indictments Washington Times Haes statement that he millionaire the Harfod Gasettes spark
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-20

was featured in the casts of the Andy Hardy and Dr. Kildare film series When Tom Sherlock Holmes" Conway was the heavy- weight boxing champ at Britain's Brighton College When Whitey Grand Ole Opry' Ford was half of the old vaudeville team of Ford and Van. 6 banjo and singing turn When Frank That's FInne- gan" McHugh who once played stock company productions in Wa- terbury hit the legit stage jackpot with his performance in Fall 0ay", a Jimmy Gleason starring vehicle When Marilyn Maxwell, the femme appeal on the Abbott and Costello NEG comedy show, chirped with the Buddy Rogers and Ted Weems orchestras 5. When Vaughn Monroe, the CBS singing maestro, was an engineering stu- dent at Carnegie Tech When Phil Take It Or Leave It" Baker first introduced the heckling stooge in the box to 6 startled Broadway. Ills Initial stooge was Sid Silvers . When Claudette Colbert, one of the CBS Hollywood Players" stars, studied designing while at tending Washington Irving High School in Manhattan When Penny "Blondie' Singleton heIped introduce the smash song hit, ssVa- lencia," in the Shubert slaow.
 Great Temptations"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-20
RY osCAR FRALEY

New York. Nov. 20-(UP)-They came in . steacy sorrowful stream today to see the house where the plumbing finally folded.
 And it wasn't until you looked that for the first time you fully realized just how much had been contributed by charm, wit and vi- tality to the fragile body of Jimmy Walker. sportsman.
 They called him a lot of things, mostly good. some bad. but to the sports crowd he always was their guy. And it was to them he con- fessed recently:
 "The old house looks as good as ever but the plumbing seems to be folding"
 Incident Tn The Garden
 Well. it did. But it win be a long time before, they forget the was up-waisted fellow who once hoped to own the Brooklyn Dodg- CTS: who did so much for boxing and baseball, and who was an ever present, delightful one of them wherever the sports mob gathered.
 They'll remember, some Of them secretly for they like to be tough, cold March night in ie43. The wind whistled jelly outside but in Madison Square Garden it was packed and hot. and foggy with ci- garet smoke. It vas the night Barney Ross came home from the wars.
 Standing there in the white patch of light which flooded the ring were Jimmy and Barney, two of New York's fayorite sons. And you could have heard a whisper in the gallery as Walker raised his hand an began to talk about the little Jewish boy who became a Marine her on Guadalcanal.
 It wasn't what Jimmy said. It was the way he said it. Tears streamed down the face of the bowed. gray-haired figure in Ma
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-20
lenihon And Leone Now 'Buddies"

IsasA oeouge tNnihAn. BoStons Haa Man and one oe the co0ntryS eoee KrAn1eFe wesose caach~as-catch- can lAciaca are hard Co beat, and Michele Leone of Italy. one of Che rcuxnest mAtuaen ln the game today, win make yp e team that win fea- tare the Australian Tag team match which win be presented at S6 Joe sepAA Han on John Street tonight.
 The Irish end Italian combination win have their work put out for them eor they will meet two of the clever ct cuponeneS available In Abe Your lsk, sensational California Hebrew who has been wrestling ls yeaEs, and Raw Schwartz New York City, Ger man. So the answer bo the oft-heard question, Can two roughnecks beat two clever foess' wsll ee answered in this novelty attraction.
 Actlen Galore
 Thas Australian tag team tandem is being shown for the first time in Connecticut and the bout ls listed for the best two out of three tallS with c one hour time limit
 AS sne battle begins only one member oe each team is permitted ao be in the ring. The ether two re- main outside, each holding a one foot rope. The cugnoatants continue to tear at each other until one decides that, he has had enough and rushes to his partner. tags him and seizes the rope. The partner then enters the battle.
 A match os this sort is even wild CT than . regular tandem bout, for sometimes both members Of one team find themselves battling one or both members of the other combina- ton. Then it is up to the referee to halt the milling a. send two of the conbatantS to their corners out side the ropes.
 In the west these matches are now an the rage. They attract record crowds and promoters are staging them at the rate of two per show.
 Two fine supporting bouts, both scheduled for 90 minutes each, will find the Turkish Angel, making his debut in Waterbury, meeting the 800 pound Italian Blinp who has won three consecutive bouts here this season. The opener at s:S0 will show the well-b0ilt Fritz Zigfried Of Ger many grappling with the Japanese sensation who wrestles barefoot, Duke Kcomuka-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-20
Today's Sport Parade

riae forest green who had been lightweight and welterweight cham pion Of the world. And they streamed, too, among the tough guys In the press rows. You have to be quite a man with Q word to do that.
 Best Tribute to Louls
 They'n remember. too, another time when Jimmy, as usual. was one of their honored guests at a boxing writers canner. walker was to present the groups annual award to Joe Louis. He didn't say much. Just this:
 Joe" he said in his piercing voice. you have placed a rose on the grave of Abraham Lincoln" There are other times, too, that theyn remember. Some of them will bring a smile. even though tinged with sadness. Like the oc- casion when a program was being broadcast and an official suggest ed:
 
 Jimmy. can you keep your talk to six minuteS7"
 Drawing himself more erect than ever and placing his hand confid- entially on the officials shoulder, Jimmy smiled:
 Young man. I couldn't even say nel,o to this crowd in six minutes. 1"
 He talked for l4.
 Religion Was Universal
 But now he is finished and the charm. the wit and the vitality are gone. Still they came one last time today, Irishman. Jew and Negro: Catholic and Protestant and He- brew, to see the man who said:
 Nobody ever asked the unknown soldier what was his religion"
 And foremost among them was the sports crowd. They wanted to tell him he was forgiven for the times he shattered their .oughness with tears, and that they were sor- " the plumbing had aolded.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-20
Ficht Results

Buffalo. N. Y.-(UP)-Mel1o Bet tina, lgl Ia, Beacon, N. F, out pointed Bin Weinberg. 2lo. Chelsea Mass. li0).
 St. Paul, Minn. - CUP) - Chuck Taylor, l44%, St. Paul. stopped Paul Ferguson. iz7 i-2. Charlotte, s. c, C0.
 New York CPark Arena)-WPD- Willie Beltram, ls5. New York, out pointed Tony Penino. isl, Brooklyn 8).
 Jersey City. N. J.-(UPl-Jos Lncignano. l4l. Hoboken, N. J., out pointed Vic Moreno. lS7 l-2, Caracas veneznela (i0.
 New York CBroadway Arena)- UP)-Morris Ref, ls7. Brooklyn knocked out Ralph Walton, ls5 Montreal (s).
 Los Aneeles-(UP)-Jackie Will son, i47, Los Angeles. stopped Tony Riccio, l4e, Bayonne, N. ,. C2D.
 Harrisburg, Pa.-(UP)-Bee Be- Wright. iss. Harrisburg. knocked out George Williams. lsl. Baltimore. (6)
 Detroit-CUPD-Villa vicencio. i59 Mexico City, knocked out Elmc Barnes. l5e. Detroit (5D.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-20

wouldn't either. Both Harvard and Matlhews played but Yale won, ia-0.
 Harvard would probably like to ask Yale not tc use Levi Jackson next Saturday afternoon at Solders Stadium, but not for reasons of racial prejudice Harvard was one of the first major universities to drop the color line. Back in le9a and l0eS Bn Lewis who later became assistant O. O district attorney starred on the Crimson eleven One of the good tackles on this years squad Is Chester Pierce col- oreo, who played in the Bowl last Fall But the feel
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-20

BACK teOA Harvard Negro named Bl Mathews Before the that F the E asked their camhrdge rivals Matthews Word back prompt from the settle. Malhewe didn Harvard
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-20
Down the Drives With inc EIks

Elks bowling teams explained by elegant Ed Seery and Cautious Con- rad Larson, the Lakewood trapper are leading the two divisions qf the BPOE circuit: the Larson Lancers having 6 fine 30 won 10 lost stand ing at this time. according to Sec- retary William Magruder Stanton's s figures as Of now.
 Jolly Johnny Oconnor's l47 was high single last week. causing the price of brass to drop on the vladis- vostok metal exchange, while Dash ing Dick Hyland had a isi average for a 393 pinfall that won a verba. citation from President Raymond Rocky Stone, of the Dgckers Dele gation (not attached to uN).
 Latest standings:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-20
Yale Line and Jackson Makes Haruard Decided
By DAN DARKER
Yale Has Chance to WHn TGrdy AccIGim

ling bon that lahoney hs kind of lShmAn whc wun4 @e happy unt he silk hAt and Bn Coums remark hAe e than he k ln the sport of kings"
 Serious charges these m grant Fannery overlooked the eaver that Mahoney finding dope the peoples horses.
 COMMITTEE whose membership % percent white hes just raised sO through benefit boxing show and puec sa
 pon for ahe widow Bobby Burton the Negro bozer who Killed Providence Thus Little nhodys cradle O religious freedom colonial M belief A Che brotherhood assertion of ts intention provide sricler medical examinations would oFder
 JIMMY WALKER beloved by sports writers apd seemed Q have special affection for them He often said that the boys who record dongs of the athletic fair than those any other field of journalism Whether this ue wodnT
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-20

in New York, Sinatra will fill a three-week engagement in the Wedgewood Room of the Waldorf Astoria, opening there Friday, Nov 2o. He plans to return to Hollywood for the Christmas broadcast.
 We remember when Happy Pot O Gold" Felton was a University of Pittsburgh gridiron star . When Henry J. Taylor. world trav- eler and author heard on Mutual network on Mondays and Fridays, broke into the newspaper game on the old Kansas City Journal :. When Sherman Dryer, producer of MES Exploring the Unknown, worked his way through the Uni- versity of Minnesota by producing radio shows for a Minneapolis sta. ton When Bob Hawk, the CBS quipster, sold typewriters and Jerked sodas in Chicago while try- Ing to crash radio When Freeman Amos" Gosden was an assistant to the late Howard Thurs ton, the magic man And when Charles Andy" Correll pounded the piano in dime movie houses When Donald Perry Mason" Briggs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-20

No doubt you have heard of the feud between the Hatflelds and the McCoys, but have you ever heard the feud between Al 'Butterban" VeStro and Dave Penguin Pete" Lee on the Coffee Time Program heard over Station wWCO from e:45 A. M. til o'clock. All water bury is talking about this newest character Of the airways Penguin Pete" Why don't you listen in to waterbury's newest morning pro- gram, COFFEE TIME. GAS to 8 A. M. over Station wwCO.