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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-17

the Anglo-French supreme war
council March: %, 1910, for sending
notes warning Norway and Sweden
that the Allied governments can
not tolerate another attack upon
Finland either by the Soviet or
German government"
Document Quoted
IF such an act of aggression took
place, and if the Swedish and Nor
wegian governments refused to
grant facilities for efforts being
made by the Allied governments to
afford Finland help and if the
Swedish and Norwegian govern
ments attempt to prevent such
nelp, this attitude would be con.
sidered by the Allies as contrary
TO their vita interests and would
provoke appropriate reaction the
resolution was quoted.
The document also said British
and French experts would study
"a project of aerial bombing of
the Russia oil basin in the eau,
casus." particularly the results ex-
pectable. "the probable repercus-
sions on Russia" and probable at
titude of Turkey"
SOviets Object
The Soviet deputy prosecutor OBJ
Jected especially to this document
and attacked another as 1.-THE
aightnarish propaganda idea of
the typical Nazi that the Red Army
is trying to incite world revolu-
The British and French prose
cutters also objected to numerous
especially to captured
French files said to show that the
French command in 1899 plotted
an Allied invasion of Belgium and
luxembourg and landings in
Greece.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-17

on-the-job training for veteran en-
George West, director of trade
and Industrial education in the
New Hanover school system, was
appointed chairman of the commit
tee.
Assists
Assisting West will be A. A.
cheiemiego of the state rehabilita-
ton service; Graham Cottingham,
veterans representative of the u.
S. Employment Service, and Leon
ard Barrett. North Cardinals Vet
Grams commission representative.
Employers will now file their ap-
plications for approval with the
new. ca, irman. instead of J. D.
chairman of the state vet
Grams approval committee.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-17
CAMP DAVIS HIRES
CIVIL GUARD FORCE
Civilians Train
As Guards For Naval
installations

Thirty-two civilian guards have
been hired and will start a three
weeks training period Monday, as
preparation for their job of policing
vital Navy installations at the
Army's nearby Camp Davis, sched-
uled to begin operations June 1,
H. B. Lytz, security agent and
plant and property maintenance
supervisor at the camp, said last
night. i
Other men will be added to- the
force which will start training Mon
day. Lytz was unable to say ex-
actly how many additional guards
will be needed, but said that ''suf-
ficiet'' numbers will be employed.
Assisting with the training OF
the future guards, some of whom
are veterans of the work at wal
plants throughout the country, viii
be Chief of Police Charles H. Cas-.
teen, Wilmington, and others from
municipalities of the area.
It was understood that the Nays
installations and supervised work
will be a gradual transition from
Marine occupancy, the present use
of the huge former Army training
camp, and that many civilians will
be required to operate Navy facili-
ties, which project will be super
vised by naval personnel.
The men will be taught their
duties as regards security of the
plant and property thereon, Lytz
said.
AS head security agent at the
site, Lytz came here from Oak
Ridge, Tenn, where he had been
doing similar work at the site OF
the governments atom bomb plant.
He arrived April IA.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-17
PRESSURE AREAS

If you stand with your back to
the wind in the northern heml-
sphere, the area of relatively low
will be on your left; IN
the southern hemisphere, it will
be on your right.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-17
RICH MAN. POOR MAN

LONDON-P)-The number of
Britain's taxpayers has almost
doubled since 1889. But last
year only 60 persons had more
than 6,000-Lbs. ($27, GOO) left after
income tax. There we're 1000 be-
fore the war,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-17
TEXAS TO

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. H~-
The U.S.S. Texas, her big guns
bristling as be%lligerently as when
she first took the water here IN
1914, is coming back to be laid up
with the idle fleet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-17
new COMMITTEE
NAMED FOR VETS
Four Man Group Chosen
To Expedite Application
For On-Job Training

A four-man committee has been
appointed locally by H. M. Roland
suoerintenden. of New Hanover
county schools, to assist win
speeding LID the applications OF the
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-17
BILL APPROVED

BILL APFRUVEU y
WASHINGTON, May Is. -(P)-
A $179, 426, BAT appropriation bill for
the Interior department for the
year beginning July l won House
approval THURSDAY.
Evening star., 1946-09-21
Colleges Will Confer
With FPHA on Takinq
Barracks for Students

Representative of five colleges in
the District area will confer Monday
with Federal Public Housing Au-
thority officials on plans for the
colleges to take over part or all of
80 buildings composing the WAVE
barracks at Massachusetts and Ne
braska avenues NV. The housing
would be used for unmarried men
and women student veterans,
The Potomac River Naval Com
mand recently turned over the bar
racks to FPHA The buildings
housed 1000 WAVES during the
war.
Oliver C. Winston, director of the
FPHA's general field Office, which
includes the Washington area, re-
Gently had preliminary discussions
with representatives o. the colleges
on plans for management of the
buildings and assignment of student
veterans.
| The barracks, completed in the
summer of 1874 have been unoc.
cupied for some time. They have
been turned over to FPHA on a
temporary basis, Mr. Winston said
FPHA said it was likely that when
space is allocated student veterans
would be given larger individual ac-
commodations than were available
TO WAVES, and that thus the build
ings would not house as many per-
sons as during the war.
American University. Mr.. Winston
(See HOUSING, Page B-3J
Evening star., 1946-09-21
Plans 10 Construct
Prefabricated House,
Announced by Firm

Today's Homes, Inc, 1901 Nine
teenth street NV. today announced
plans for construction of 1876 pre-
fabricated houses in two Maryland
developments which the firm said
it expects to start next month. The
company said it expected to build
at the rate of l8 houses a week
shortly after operations get under
way.
John H. Arlington, firm president,
said that los of the houses, manu-
factured by Shelter Industries, Inc,
New York City, will be constructed
In a 50-acre development to be
known as Greenwood Springs, two
miles east of Clinton, Md, on the
Clinton woodward highway.
The remaining 80 dwellings, built
by the Tovell Construction Co.
Baltimore, Md, will be constructed
in Landover Hills, Md, Mr.. AIRING
ton said.
One each of the two types OF
houses will be completed at the two
locations by next week. he said.
/ The Shelter Industries house will
have three bathrooms. living room
dinette, kitchen, bath and full base
ment. 1t was described as con-
temporary ranch-type, and is built
of stressed-skin plyWood.
The Tovell home will have two
bedrooms, dining room kitchen, bath
and full basement, and be of the
Cape Cod type, with exterior walls
of white clapboard.
Mr.. Arlington formerly was as
ISOLATED with the Home Builders
Research Institute here.
Evening star., 1946-09-21
First Aid
for Houses
By Roger c. Whitmon
Limed-Oak Finish.

@. Recently I purchased an un-
finished chair which I plan to use
in front of my desk. The desk is
made of Timed oak" and has a
faint pinkish tint to it. The chair
I was told, is made of pinewood
Can you advise me how to refinish
the chair what materials to use, sc
that will match the desk as much
as possible?
A. doubt very much if it can be
done successfully. Pine has a close
grain and does not resemble oak
My advice is to turn the job over te
a wood finiSher or cabinet maker
and let him do the best he can with
it. The pink tint may be difficult
to match, in any case. I can only
give you the formula for lined oak
finish, which may be of some help
to you. Smooth the wood with fine
sandpaper and dust off. Then paint
with a white compound; a paste
wood filler mixed with turpentine
to the consistency of heavy paint
can be used, and tinted with color
in-oil. Brush this on literally with
the grain. In 20 minutes or so wipe
it off across the grain with burlap
or other coarse cloth. The result is
(See FIRST AID. Page B-2D
Evening star., 1946-09-21
Godgets
Waterproof Adhesive,
Made Of PIostics,
Clements Anything
By Hilson Munsey

There are many times where an
all-round adhesive that will actually
hold is very important There is a
dark, heavy-bodied paste made of
plastics in a volatile solvent on the
market. 1t is the evaporatio of the
solvents that causes the adhesive to
set and for that reason it is i'm
portant that the manufacturers in
structions are carefully followed
when the cement is used.
This adhesive makes a surface
bond and its setting time can be
shortened if the surfaces are pulled
apart once or twice after the ad-
hesive has been applied. In using it
air space should be allowed as much
as possible On dense surfaces like
glass and metal it should be applied
in strips or oaubs and not as a COM
plete covering. Where the surface is
absorbent there is not the same
need for care in this respect. The
adhesive should not be used in
pockets where the air will be alto
gether excluded.
The product can be used to re-
place tiles that have become loose
or detached. It can be used to
cement canvas to wood or for
| linoleum. tile. for repairing drain
boards or kitchen cabinet tops. Metal,
wood or tile thresholds are also sub
| jects for treatment. This adhesive
being waterproof it can be used for
calking boats, waterproofing wood
or ruStproofing metal that is eX-
posed to the effects of salt water.
Another useful application is with
wallboard or tile on either the walls
or ceiling 1t will hold them in
place without the use of nails and
so make a better appearance. 1t can
be stored without danger. ...
When using the material it should
not be exposed to the air any more
than is necessary, otherwise it will
cake in the tube, but if it is used in
temperature under As degrees Fahr-
enheit, should be kept in a warm
room for about II hours.
The adhesive will set under water
and can be applied to moist sur
faces. This makes it useful for stop
ping leaks in waterpipe joints. If
there is any pressure rag should
be wrapped tightly around the joint
after the cement has been forced
| into the leak. 1t has many ad-
vantages in tile setting because it
will adhere tightly to any material,
including wood, gypsum, lath, plas-
ter, concrete, metal or glass.
When used for laying asphalt tile
in the basement it performs a
double duty, not only holding the
tile, but also waterproofing the
floor underneath. When the screw
holes for door hinges get too large
and the door refuses to hang prop
erly, these holes should be filled
with the adhesive and matchstick
forced into it, When the cement
dries thoroughly the screws can be
replaced and will hold the door as
well as ever.
Evening star., 1946-09-21
Building Employment
Doubled Since War

Construction employment last
month was more than double the
VI day total. the Bureau of Labor
Statistics reported today.
August construction employment
stood at 2,317,0o0, which was 1885,
600 more men employed than q
year earlier.
Employment in home building ex.
panded the most rapidly, multiply.
ing four times in the year following
VI day. and thus rising from 206,.
900 to $4,000 by last month. En-
ployment on nonresidential building
did not quite double during tht
year.
More than twice as much wa,
spent for construction includine
minor building repairs) this August
as last-Sl ,21l ,0O0, 900 compared with
S534 100000.
Expenditures for home construc-
ton advanced more than for any
other type of private construction
Employment continued to rise
during the month of August, with
almost $4,000 construction employees
added. and an additional $65 600, ,00C
was spent for construction.
Evening star., 1946-09-21
Mrs. Muurer Moves Shop

The Teresa Maurer Dress Shop
has been moved from 5021 Con-
necticut avenue NV, to 1922 o
street NV, where Mrs. Maurer
has completed remodeling an old
GEORGETOWN building.
Evening star., 1946-09-21
The Weeks
Housing Picture

Applications for rental housing
filed with the District Housing Cen.
ter, 400 Pennsylvania avenue NV.
totaled 1904 during the week ending
september 13.
To fill the need. GO apartments anc
houses and 382 rooms were listed.
For the same week, the Fedora
Housing Administrations District
office approved applications for con,
struction of a total of 127 new dwell.
! ing units, of which 8 per cent were
to sell for less than $500. or rem
for less than $50 a month, plus fivt
converted units.
Since the program started Janu
ary IS, the District Office has ap'
proved construction of 1888 new
units, of which 27.3 per cent were tt
sell for less than $500 or rent fol
less than $50, plus 158 conversion
units.
Nationally, through the same week
316,360 applications for new con.
struction were approved for 724,91'
units, of which 51.1 per cent were tt
sell for $500 or less or rent for SCI
or less, plus 1860 conversion units
Conditions facing rental sppli.
cants here during the week were
indicated as follows:
Evening star., 1946-09-21
Building Pay Row
Reaches 'StaIemate'
Henry Reports
By Robert J. Lewis

The District home building pro-
gram is now hampered and the situ-
alton may be expected to get
worse" as a result of a 'stalemate"
in the wage-scale controversy be-
tween 100 District home builders
and the Wage Adjustment Board,
Ernest F. Henry, executive direc-
tor of the Home Builders Associa-
ton of Metropolitan Washington,
said today.
Builders are seeking to have the
board approve a wage scale which
would allow for a broader range
of wage classifications for building
workers than was permitted by the
board in a decision earlier this
year.
Asked Verified Statement.
The board requested that ''veri-
fed statement be submitted by the
builders showing that they have
not at any time since october 2,
1912, paid rates in excess of those
requested" now, as well as assur-
ance that none of the contractors
is paying rates in excess Of the
requested rates at the present time
Mr.. Henry said today he had in
formed Arthur D. Hill, jr., board
chairman, he thought the request
seemed to be more of an excuse
for further delay than anything
else" but that he had supplied the
information that the builders were
not paying higher rates at present
than they were asking the right
to pay.
Would Need Long Audit.
However. he said, to supply a
verified statement that contractors
had not, since 1912, paid rates in
excess of the amounts now requested
would involve making a complete
audit of the books of each of some
1870 applicants over four-year pc
riod" to discover whether any one
of them had paid, on perhaps one
occasion to one employe, any wages
in excess of those now requested
no matter how small or how unin-
territorial such payment may have
been"
The home builders official sale
that to make such audits would be
"a monumental task which Woulo
be very expensive and consume
months of further delay" and thai
it is ''manifestly improper to inn
pose such a burden upon the ap-
plicants."
Mr. Henry also denied that the
builders are legally required tt
submit this information to the
Wage Adjustment Board.
Evening star., 1946-09-21
18th Anniversary
To Be Marked Monday
By Real Estate Board

The Washington Real Estate
Board will mark its 25th anniver-
sary at an annual meeting on Mon
day, September 80, at the Mayf1ower
Hotel. S. Dolan Donohoe, board
president, announced today. Off
GERS will be elected for the new
year.
Mr.. Donohoe said that business
meeting would be held at 8 pm,
preceded by a members dinner.
During the session, a report of the
Nominating Committee will be given
and Mr.. Donohoe will deliver his
annual report.
Observance py Washington real
tors of the National Home and
Property owners Foundation Week
was urged today by the board presi-
dent, who said Boyd T. Barnard,
national president of the association,
had requested boards throughout the
country to support the membership
drive now being pushed by the
foundation
Mr.. Donohoe also pointed out that
= the Washington Realtors Bowling
League competition will get under
way at the Chevy Chase Ice Palace
next Tuesday evening.
Meanwhile, Arthur w. Binns,
Philadelphia real estate operator
and president of the National Home
and Property Owners Foundation,
announced he had sent President
Truman copy of resolutions passed
by the foundation trustees seeking
the dismissal of Housing Admins
traitor Wilson w. Wyatt.
"Mr. Wyatt has misled and con-
fused the people by his repeated
attempts to inject his public hous-
ing philosophy into the veterans
housing program Mr.. Binns said
Evening star., 1946-09-21
D. {. Building Permits
Show S81,754 Drop
From Previous Week

Building permits totaling s395,876,
a decrease of $81 ,754 from the week
before, were issued by the District
during the last week, according to
the records Of Robert H. Davis,
District building inspections direc-
tor.
Permits of 5000 and over were
as follows:
r. I. Silverman, 1905 K street
NV, owner; Edmund w Dreyfuss,
1919 Fifteenth street NV, archi-
tect; to erect 10 two-story brick
dwellings, 32l7 to 1921 Twelfth place
Sc, and 1926 to 1924 Twelfth street
Sc; to cost $4,000.
Feinstein g. Co.. s27 Fifteenth
street NV, owners and builders;
George T. Santmyers, 2209 L street
NV, architect; to erect nine two
story brick and cinder block dwell
lngs, 1910 to 1880 Fort Davis place
Sc; TO cost s45,000.
Feinstein g. Co, 927 Fifteenth
street NV, owners and builders:
| George T. Santmyers, 1909 L street
NV, architect; to erect seven two
story brick and cinder block dwell
Ings, 1889 to 1855 Fortieth street
Sc; to cost S35, 200.
Roberts Brothers of Washington,
Inc, 1400 M street NV. owner;
Hubscher- -Dieterich & Coleman,
1908 Linden lane, Silver Spring,
builders; A. Hamilton Wilson, archi-
tect; general remodeling. 1927 to
1851 v street NV; to cost $25, 900.
L. p Mater, 1918 Fifteenth street
NE, owner and builder; H. w.
Turner, $40 M street NV, archi-
tect; to erect two two-story brick
and cinder block dwellings, 2005-O7
Upshl=' street NE; to cost $40, 900.
Shiloh Baptist Church. Ninth and
P streets NV. owner: r. A. Nor.
rison, 1130 Gerard street NV,
builder; r. c. Archer, jr., 2l5 Flor
ida avenue NV, architect; to erect
one 3-story brick addition to apart
ment g units; to cost $4,000.
Homesite Realty Co, 44oS Thirty
ninth street NV, owner: Berla and
Abel. 1886 Connecticut avenue NV,
architect; to erect six 2-story brick
dwellings, 4416 Reno road; to cost
$4,000 each.
Homesite Realty Co., 4408 Thirty
ninth street NV, owner; Berla and
Abel, 1885 Connecticut avenue NV,
architect, to build six 2-story brick
dwellings, 4416 Reno road and 3700-
10 Alton place NV; to cost $1,000
each.
/ Luther L, Miller, $3.50 Thirty first
! street NV, owner; H. o. McAhster,
Silver Spring, Nd. builder; Fred
Taylor, Takoma Park Md archi-
tect; to erect one 2-story brick
dwelling, 1856 Thirty first place
NV: to cost $4,000.
! Luther L. Miller. $3.50 Thirty first
j, street NV, owner: H. o. McAlister.
}, Silver Spring, Md, builder; Fred
Taylor, Takoma Park, Md, archi-
, tect; to erect one 2-story brick
/ dwelling, 1854 Thirty-first place
NV; to cost $1,000.
S E. M. Kubersmidt and M. T. Man.
S ton, 407-l5 Florida avenue Me-
e owners; Homer J. Smith, go Quack-
t enbos street NV, architect; one 2
story cinder block brick machine
e shop, 1l12-ll14 Congress street NE;
: to cost $1,000
e j. P. Trouchaud. Annapolis road
a Annapolis, Md, owner: Lipscomh
|. (See PERMITS. Page B-3)
Evening star., 1946-09-21
Carr to Participate
Builders PurIey

Edward R. Carr, president Of the
Home Builders Association of Met
ropolitan Washington and chairman
of the Housing Committee of the
National Association of Home Build
ers, will attend the annual fall
meeting of directors of the national
association here the week of Octo-
ber g.
The directors will seek a drastic
speed up" of the housing program,
President Joseph Meyerhoff, Balti-
more. said. Housing Administrator
Wilson w. Wyatt will confer with
home builders during the week, Mr.
Meyerhoff added.
Evening star., 1946-09-21
Realty Firm Acquires
D. N. Shepard Estate
|nMontgomeryCounty In

George J. Moss, real estate dealer
in Silver Spring, Md, announced
today that Springbrook Forest, Inc,
which he heads, has purchased the
464-acre estate of Donald D. She
pard, Washington and Pittsburgh
attorney, located in Montgomery
County.
The sale was described as one of
the largest transfers of property in
Montgomery County in recent years.
The property, situated in the
Colesville- Wheaton districts Of the
Silver Spring area in Montgomery
County, is about miles from the
District line. 1t has approximately
21a miles of frontage along the
Glenmont- -Colesville and Kemp Mill
roads.
Included in the sale was the To-
room Shepard home, started in 1888
and completed with an addition in
1941.
The land adjoins the 200-acre
Springbrook Forest development.
Mr. Moss said he expects to build
miles of roadway within the prop
erty in the next year, and to COM
bine the land with the Springbrook
and Springbrook Forest acreage de-
velopments to provide a total Of
more than $50 acres for the COM
bined Springbrook communities.
The tract, he said, will be made
accessible from the Colesville road
Georgia avenue extended and the
old Bladensburg road.
Construction of roads, he said
would be started in a month. Three
miles of roads in the Springbrook
Forest development have been COM
pleted within the last six months
he added.
Evening star., 1946-09-21
VA Gronts 161 Looms
Of ST, ,344, ,Oo3 in Week

The Washington regional Office
of the Veterans Administration an
nounced today 161 veterans loans
totaling 1874 ,093, were approved
or confirmed during the week end
ing September 49,
The loans, Of which IA were fol
homes and II for business, raised
the total Washington area veterans
loans to 3,798, and the amount Dor.
rowed to $26,752,051.
Home loans in this area now tota
3,272, amounting to $25, 1862, ,79O. Bus.
iness loans totaling 526 amount tc
81 489 .261.
Evening star., 1946-09-21
Six-Story Building Sold;
S258, 500 Reported Price

The six-story building at 918 F
street NV. has been sold by the
National Union Fire Insurance Co
through Sidney S. Brown, Wood
ward Building. in conjunction with
the Alden Construction Co., to 9la
F Street, Inc. Mr.. Brown said to-
day.
The price was reported to be
S253.5 500.