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Evening star., 1946-04-13
ID. c. Builders Hit Wage Board Decision
Daniel Appeals for
Congressional Action
To Settle Dispute
By Robert J. Lewis

The Home Builders Association
of Metropolitan Washington today
called on Congress for prompt and
vigorous action" to settle a dispute
between District builders and the
Labor Departments Wage Adjust
ment Board over a recent decision
raising wages Of employees of GER
tain District home builders.
In a statement, Clarke Daniel
acting chairman of the home build
ers' Low-Cost Housing Committee
charged that the wage scale handed
down by the Wage Adjustment
Board February II "is clear evil
dence Of the administrations two
faced housing policy for veterans
while Mr.. Wyatt (Housing Ad-
ministrator Wilson w. Wyatt) in
sists that the cost of veterans hous-
ing must be kept down, and veter-
ans must have all-around prefer
ence, the Wage Adjustment Board
dictates a wage scale with higher
rates than are now being asked for
by labor in the home building in
dustry," Mr.. Daniel said.
Apprentice Rates Low.
"At the same time, the board puts
rates for apprentices (who will be
80 per cent veterans, according to
Secretary of Labor Lewis B.
SchWellenbach) at less than the
Nations minimum wage. For, in
stance, a starting rate of SIS per
week for apprentice bricklayers.
Meanwhile, Ernest F. Henry, ex-
ecutive director of the home build
ers' group, acting as agent for a
number of builders here, has re-
quested the Wage Adjustment Board
for reconsideration of the recent
wage decision, and an oral hearing
"at the earliest date possible"
The Wage Adjustment Boards de-
cision embodying the new scale was
issued in response to a request by
District home builders and contrac-
tors for authority to pay "up to-
the so-called "a" scale which was
authorized during the war for pay
ment to workers on commercial and
governmental construction.
Paid Higher Wages.
About 80 home builders, in recent
statements to the regional Wage
Sterilization Board in Philadelphia,
admitted they had to pay above the
home-building, or "B", scale to re-
tain workers during the war. War
time violators of the "B" wage scale
now are awaiting decisions as to
what percentage of their illegal pay
rolls will be disallowed for income
tax purposes.
In its decision the board refused
to allow home builders to pay "up
to" the "a" scale. This approval
shall be construed as authorization
to. pay the single rates approved"
the board said mo other rate than
that which is approved may be paid
by these contractors without first
securing approval of such change in
rates by this board"
Mr.. Daniel charged that, under
the order, cost of homes will be
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sections OF the country most in
need.
Q. Why doesn't CPA grant blank
ct exemption from the order for
those materials not critically short
for housing?
| A. For two reasons: /. Even
though the material in question is
not critically short, its use may re-
quire incidental materials and labor
which are short; 2. Blanket exemp-
tionS of materials would cause great
confusion. Thousands of materials
would have to be listed as nom
critical to housing. Such lists
would require constant revision to
keep up with the varying supply
situation in different localities.
Both voluntary compliance and en-
forcement would be almost unat-
tainable.
@. When application is made to
do work using materials which are
not critically short for housing,
what action can be expected?
A. If the materials and labor
would not have any impact on
housing, the citizens District Con-
struction Committee which reviews
Continued nv, Dooa po1
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The Weeks
Housing Picture

A total of 1884 applications to
rent rooms, apartments and houses
were filed with the War Housing
Center, 1400 Pennsylvania avenue
NV, during the week ending at
the close of business Wednesday.
OF these, 1883 were for family
dwelling units and 301 for rooms.
A total Of 1857 applicants were vet
Grams and servicemen, and 387 were
civilians.
During the same period, 100
apartments and 531 rooms were
listed with the center for rent.
Conditions facing applicants were
indicated as follows:
Evening star., 1946-04-13
Realtors PIun BOWLING

Final plans will be made to open
Washington Realtors' Bowling
League competition at meeting of
league members at $50 pm. Thurs
day in the Office of the Washington
Real Estate Board, 1417 K street
NV, Lloyd E. Turner, president,
said today.
Evening star., 1946-04-13
Realty Financing Course
Planned by Bankers

The first educational course In
mortgage banking and real estate
finance ever offered for younger
men will be set up this year by the
Mortgage Bankers Association of
America in cooperation with the
Graduate School of Business Ad-
miniStration of New York Univer-
sity, Byron v. Kanaley, Chicago,
association president, announced to-
day.
A two-Week training course Is
planned for early fall, he said, With
a similar course to be held in 1947.
Evening star., 1946-04-13

S250OO0 MEDICAL CENTER PLANNEDA s25oOO0 eight-sorv
medical center building planned for construction
Nineteenth street NV to provide Offices
and physicians with be given preference according
to spokesman for the Gable Building NV
owner Charles H. Tompkins Co., GOT Sixteenth NV
will be the builder and Berla Abel avenue
NV, the architects
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(See LEWIS, Page B-2.)
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(See PERMITS, Page BED
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CONTINUED on Page B-3.)
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(See CADETS, Page BID
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Total - 1857
Evening star., 1946-12-01

(See DOUGLAS, Page C-3.)
Evening star., 1946-12-01
Worn Transit Equipment Carries Peak Load

Still, at this rate, Mr.. Hecker said, 1t
would take from two to three years just
to replace equipment which is gradually
dying of old age and war fatigue. Some
Of the antiquated vehicles, he said, are
running up repair bills out of all pro-
portion to their returns.
Unless we can get some new equip
ment in q hurry" he added, "the NOR
tality rate will increase at q more rapid
pace than we can make requirements. !"
The industry already has exhausted
its limited supply of parts obtained
from stripping equipment Withdrawn
from operation.
A recent survey of Al transit COM
panies throughout the country made by
the ATA disclosed that of q total Of
48, ,160 vehicles, such as buses. rapid
transit cars, trolleys and trolley coaches
operated by these companies, 1901 units
were laid up on October is because of
a lack of parts.
Mr.. Hecker said despite the down-at-
the-heels equipment with which the in
dustry is operating this country still
maintains the safest transit system in
the world.
distributed by the Associated Press.)
Evening star., 1946-12-01

NEW YORK.-With passengers being
transported at the rate of $4,000, ,000, 900
a year and equipment for only 20,000,-
100000, the municipal transit industry
is riding on its rims today.
Some officials concerned contend
prospects are none too bright for quick
improvement in the country's public
service transportation systems which
operate surface cars, buses and rapid
transit systems.
Guy G. Hecker, executive manager of
the American Transit Association, days
many new refinements In transit travel
originally planned for 1916 are still in
the experimental stage because of
critical material shortages and labor
difficulties in the automotive industry
and interrelated industries.
With national employment close to
the 100000 mark, national income at
the annual rate of $165, 900 900 900, and
retail sales still climbing, the transit in
dustry in October carried 2,069 655 900
passengers, the greatest traffic record
for any single month in history.
Mr.. HeSker said the industry had an
ticipated a breathing space following
the end of the war and both private
Evening star., 1946-12-01
By Norman J. BroaOn

and public transit companies were PLAN
ming to lay out approximately $218,000,-
600 during 1916 for the acquisition of
new capital equipment and improve
ment of existing facilities.
However, the association manager
added, instead of breather we are
getting more business than ever be-
fore" This, he said, "can be attributed
to the rapid transition Of industry from
wartime to peacetime production, to
continuing high employment resulting
and to the inability of people to get new
cars
Mr.. Hecker headed an emergency
meeting of 10 of the leading manufac-
turers OF transit equipment called in
October to consider the problem of ac-
quiring new equipment.
The results, he said, presented this
picture: OF total of 15,751 vehicles in
cluding electric railway cars, buses and
trolley coaches expected to be delivered
in 1916, only 4,765, or approximately 80
per cent. were delivered up to mid-Oc
tober. Manufacturers "hoped" to de-
liver an additional 2,687 units up to the
end OF the year.
Evening star., 1946-12-01

The author of this article, a MEM
Der OF the stat OF The Euening Star
and The Sunday Star, sciu accom-
pany the Byrd expedition to the
Antarctic.
Evening star., 1946-12-01
Big Business Grows Bigger
AS Result of Wartime Gains
Battle for Preservation of Individual Rights Served
as Instrument to Concentrate Economic Power
in Large Corporations
By Edyard A. Harris

The concentration of aggressive po-
htical power in the hands of few led
the United States and its Allies into
World War II, to preserve the freedom
and rights of individuals. But para
dex of transcending importance for the
future is that this same war, according
to congressional reports, served as an
instrument for accelerating the trend
IN this Nation toward concentration OF
economic power.
To the small businessman in every
field of endeavor, economic freedom is
fully as vital as political freedom. Yet
as the country nears the end Of the first
half of the Goth century, it is apparent,
from official studies that antitrust laws
and popular devotion to the concept of
really free enterprise have failed to stem
the tide toward economic concentration.
!, Where does the road lead?
The enduring words of the late SUI
preme Court Justice Louis Brandeis,
foe of bigness, come to mind in discus
sions of economic concentration. Dur
ing the depression of the '30s he wrote,
In a dissenting opinion, that there is
widespread belief that:
''' ;" BY the control which few have
exerted through giant corporations, in
dividual initiative and effort are being
paralyzed. creative power impaired and
human happiness lessened; that the
true prosperity of our past came not
from big business but through the cour-
age, the energy and the resourcefulness
OF small men; and that only
Evening star., 1946-12-01
Five Nations Sending Expeditions
To Dead Continent of South Pole
Admiral Byrd Will Lead 1000 Men to Antarctic;
Soviet Russia, Britain, Norway and
Chile Also Exploring
By Thomas r. Henry

ton of 1000 men commanded by Rear
Admiral Richard E. Byrd. best known
living Antarctic explorer A second and
much smaller expedition is being sent
out by the American Geographic
Society to- study the narrow waist OF
the continent between the Ross and
Weddell Seas to find out If an ice
covered strait divides the continent.
The United States has long history Of
Antarctic exploration. starting officially
with the claimed-and still disputed
discovery of the continent by Capt
Charles Wilkes, later the founder of the
Naval Observatory in Washington. Long
before Wilkes, however, New England
whalers were pushing against the ice
pack and one OF them, Nathaniel Palmer
of New Bedford, reported the discovery
of the land directly south of Cape Horn
which still bears his name and probably
is part of the continent itself.
None of these discoveries was exploited.
British whalers likewise spotted wide
segments of land and named them after
their sovereigns or, as in the case of
Enderby Land, after the heads of their
London firms. Regarding the Wilkes
expedition. by the way, there is strange
story of fantastic plan to sail through
a hole at the South Pole" into the
interior of the earth. It formed the
basis of Edgar Allen Poe's Manuscript
Found in Bottle" which started that
genius on his literary career.
Besides the American there will be
Russian, British, Norwegian and Chilean
expeditions in the Antarctic this year.
Antarctica with its 100000 square miles
may be dead land, but it will remain
no longer neglected land. 1t is the
last great area of the earth which
remains to. be divided among the nations.
The ostensible purpose of all these
expeditions is scientific explorations, the
rewards of which, in increase of the
worlds knowledge, may be very great.
There are all sorts Of meteorological
problems, for example, tied up with the
polar regions Antarctica is breeding
field for weather for all the Southern
Hemisphere, with repercussions felt
throughout the world
Evening star., 1946-12-01

is as democratically illustrative as 1t La
spiritually pernicious."
OF the church the educators say:
"Credal conflicts lead in Ger
many to a battle for the youth which
inyades the schools and does not stop
short Of the Fairgrounds in pursuit Of
jealous advantage"
Lack of Equipment Noted.
Democracy, the educators say, cam
not permit unsportsmanship even in
the name of religion" and must de-
nand tolerance.
And of the market place:
What the democratic way of life
requires economically is spirit of fair
play as between all competitors in pro-
duction and distribution. The modern
state is learning the hard way that no
governmental form can fruitfully sub
stitute for effective participation Of
workers in the process in which they
earn their living and serve their gen.
eration'
The report gives some space to q
description of the physical condition Of
the schools and the experience of the
pupils and teachers. 1t is picture,
familiar to most, of wrecked or dam
aged schools. of food shortages, Of
insufficient clothing. of lack of books
and even. of paper on which to make
notes.
In carrying out our program in the
American zone more than half of the
teachers were removed in the denazi.
Evening star., 1946-12-01

Der OF the stat OF The Euening Star
and The Sunday Star, sciu Gccont-
pany the Byrd expedition to the
Antarctic.
A preview Of the world of the last
man" is Antarctica. the earth's dead
continent.
The great ice-covered plateau upon
which six expeditions, representing five
nations will be converging this winter
is essentially a lifeless land, such as
the whole planet may be pictured a
few hundred millions of years hence,
when the sun grows cold.
Only a few very low forms of life
have survived, In contrast to north
polar lands, where there is striking
variety of higher animals and plants,
including man. One reason Is that the
temperature seldom rises above freezing
around the South Pole-partly due to
its land location.
Yet once, hundreds Of millions of
years ago, presumably Antarctica was
a continent of life-filled forests It
may have been one of the great land
bridges by which life distributed itself
over the earth. Perhaps the location
of the pole shifted. There is no widely
accepted explanation for the striking
climatic changes. All is buried now
under the thousand feet of ice which
covers most of the 6,000-feet-high
plateau somewhat larger than the
United States-a land of lofty noun
tain ranges, with peaks towering to
$4,000 feet, where the temperature goes
as low as 80 below zero and winds of
100 miles an hour are common.
What lies under the ice? Perhaps
Antarctica is a locked treasure chest
of minerals. Perhaps there is iron,
copper, coal? Perhaps deposits of the
priceless uranium? Now there are
scientific instruments which can detect
the presence of deposits through the
ice. For the first time, If 1t seemed
worth while, there is a means of un-
locking the chest-by blasting the ice
with atomic bombs.
First of the scheduled explorations
will be the United States naval expedi-
Evening star., 1946-12-01
Politics in Italy
Near Showdown
Left and Right Forces
Prepare to Wreck
4.Party Rule
By John p. Mex nigh.

RoME-The inescapable logic of
events, combined with the riyalries OF
her public men, appears to be pushing
italy toward a predicted showdown
between her fast coalescing right and
left.
Since the republic edged out the
Savoy monarchy in the June plebiscite,
italy has marveled at the political
acrobatics which kept Premier Alcide
de Gasperi's four-party government
perched on the tight rope of power.
Opposing Combine.
If Socialist Foreign Minister Petro
Nenni, exponent Of "joint action" with
the Communists, was not getting ready
to kick the four-party combine to pieces
and try to set up workers government,
then he was talking through his beret
this last week end.
And If De Gasperi's middle -of-the-
road Christian Democrats were not act
ually standing on the doorstep OF the
renascent right, they certainly were
sauntering in that direction.
To complicate matters, the little Re-
publican Party, fourth group repre-
sented in the government, was re-
ported preparing to pull its two min
listers out of the cabinet.
Recent events sharpening personal
and political animosities were these:
/. Nenni's speech at La Spezzia in
which he demanded early conquest OF
power for the workers within the next
month" He said fatty that the prole-
tartan parties would not "sharecrop
Italy with bourgeois" factions.
Fights Extreme Left.
IA statement by Paolo Cappa,
Christian Democrat undersecretary to
Premier de Casper, that his party
would not "leave to the extreme left,
| minority in the country, the dlrec-
ton of the government"
8. Another speech by Attilio Piccioni,
the Christian Democrats general Sec
retary, in which he declared the Christ
Ian Democrats now were "orlented
toward the renascent right"
4. Evidence in returns from munich
pal elections in Is provincial capitals
that leftist blocs were duplicating VIC
tories they rolled up in five or six
big cities, one of them Rome, which
voted November 10.
S. The unabated feud between De
Gasperi and Communist Party Leader
Palmiro Togliatti over the latter's "pri-
vate mission to Belgrade to talk over
Italo-Yugoslav relations with Marshal
Tito. De Gasperi held the mission ill
timed" and resented Togliatti's report
ing to the Communist press before he
did to the government.
Early Solution.
With Christians Democrat Committees
meeting throughout the country to
clarity" the party's position, early
resolution of the situation seemed likely.
If the Christian Democrats went shop
ping for support from the right, Pic
cioni said. it would be on these condi-
tiorls:
/. That there be no thought of Fascist
or neo-Fascist resurgence.
Q. That the right abandon "the spirit
of social reaction
8. That the issue of monarchy VS..
republic, settled june 2, would not be
raised again.
distributed b. the Associated Prsss)
Evening star., 1946-12-01

(see BIG BUSINESS, Page C-30
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(see BROWN, Page C-33
Kodiak mirror., 1946-09-28

Horseshoe pitching enthusiasts of Kodiak and vicinity will bat tie it out on the Kodiak Com l. munity ceoter courts tomorrow Sunday in their semi-monthly tournament. Play starts at 4 pm and is open to everyone.
 Defending singles champion is M-Sgt. Gervis Floyd. Sgt. Floyd and Kurt Noble are the doubles title holders.
Kodiak mirror., 1946-09-28

Johnny Trenholm, former local student, nephew of Della Kln- ports of this city, graduated from high schoo! at Casper, Wyoming last spring and is now in the Arr my Air Forces, stationed at San Antonio, Texss.
Kodiak mirror., 1946-09-28
NOTICE SCHOOL TAX

The Territorial school tax has been due since January l, l946, and must be paid in full by Dec ember |, l946. At the lattsr date a 50 per cent penalty is assessed and a person convicted of non payment is guilty of a misde- meanor and subject to a fine of not more than S100 and not more than 90 days in a federal jail, or both.
 The tax, in the amount of $5, is due from all male employees between the ages of 2l and 55, and all women also employed.
 The tax is payable in Kodiak at the office of the U. s. Con- missioner
 G. W. Bubeadorf
 Territorial Tax Collector
Kodiak mirror., 1946-09-28

John Toshwak, of Afognak, has submitted an application to the district court for a restaur- ant liquor license. to be used in Afognak Tho application is Ac- companied by a petition of resi- dents for granting the license.
Kodiak mirror., 1946-09-28

George Magnusen, who hss been handling grocery deliveries at Kraft's, IS now driving bus for the Tagura Transit system
 Pete Unger is back on Kraft's truck.
Kodiak mirror., 1946-09-28

G. w. Bubeadorf Territorial Tax Collector
Evening star., 1946-07-11
District Suffrage Club
Halls Noyes' Ideals

The newly formed District of Co.
lumbia Vote Club today pledged it.
self TO carry on the battle for Dis
trict suffrage in the splendid tradi-
tlon OF the late Theodore w. Moves
editor Of The Washington Star"
The lead editorial in the North
east Washington Guide, published by
Roy Fowler, club president, called
attention to the fact that the 80
member organization was organized
July 4, the date Of Mr. Noyes' death
terming this coincidence a sum
mons to arms" in the fight for the
right to vote.
No better summons to arms in
the continued fight for home rule
could be provided than by study OF
the life Of Theodore w. Moves" the
editorial said While others were
content TO bemoan their fate as
orphan citizens of this great Repub-
lie. Mr.. Noyes actively fought for
reform at time when his voice was
actually a voice crying in the politi-
cal wilderness"
Calling attention to Mr.. Moves
appearance before Congress as early
as 1916 to plead the cause of ma
tlonal representation, the editorial
declared the District Vote Club
would carry on where he left
off in spirit of reverence
for this great fallen warrior"
Harvard College was expanded
into Harvard University under the
charter of 1850.
Evening star., 1946-07-11
La Guardia Urges u. 5.
To Admit 100000
Displaced Persons

The United States would admit
100000 of Europe's displaced per-
sons under a plan submitted to the
Government by UNRRA Director
General Fiorello H. La Guardia.
The plan, outlined in a letter to
Secretary Of State Byrnes, calls for
absorption of this group through a
pooling OF unused migration quotas
for period of six months and ap-
plication of the quotas to displaced
persons otherwise qualified to enter
the United States, regardless of
country of origin
For political or other reasons,
1t will not be possible to repatriate
approximately $4,000 persons now
in Germany and Austria, Mr.. La
Guardia estimated He announced
he was calling other nations to
consider admitting a number of
them.
Every one agrees that these un-
fortunate people cannot be turned
loose in Germany the UNRRA
chief said in his letter to Mr..
b9 iiCo. lICy SIioulu DS ltSeLlleO
in countries where they will have
an opportunity of working and earn
ing their living"
In releasing the letter, dated June
26, Mr.. La Guardia told reporters
yesterday the proposal previously
had met with a favorable reaction
from the War Department but that
the State Department had not COM
mented on it as yet.
This country has expressed
greater sympathey for these people
than has any other country" Mr..
La Guardia said 1T is time now
we took some of them in"
He said it should be understood
The project would be expensive. .
1t would cost between $500 900 900
and $3.50 ,00O,00 ~ move the group
Of 10000 here a the step were
taken Immediately, Mr.. La Guardia
estimated. He said the total cost
would be greater in case of delay
since maintaining the group in
German camps costs the Govern
ment approximately 100000 a
wear