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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-03
COP Housing Plan

WASHINGTON Dee. 3-(NEA)-Among the ether things this country may need Is an impartial "Baruch report" on housing
 The question of whats wrong with housing is just badly balled up as the rubber situation was back in the Fall of l942 And history is being repeated all over the lot.
 Appearance of Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt and REC Director George Allen before Senator Homer Ferguson's War Investigating subcommittee was highly reminiscent of wartime investigations of Henry Wallace and Jesse Jones back in the days of sPAB. Just what sPAB stood for escapes the memory at the moment
 Anyway, STAB was one of the forerunners of WPB-the War Production Board-and Henry Wall lace tular head of it till he tangled with Jesse Jones Oh yes Scandalous Procrastinaton And Bungling That's what 1t stood for.
 Maybe 1t is unfair to compare Wilson Wyatt with Wallace Or George Allen with Jesse Jones The point is. Wallace complained that the REC was sabotaging the war effort by not building sCckpies of critical all and pointed to all the other things he had done Deacon Allen, ditto.
 In the rubber shortage case. youu recall that the charges flew thick and fast that President Roose welt had to appoint Bernard Baruch J. B. Conant of Harvard and Karl T. Compton of MT. to survey the whole mess make report, set up new national rubber policy and stop the fighting that every body could get on with the war
 Something like that should happen to clear up the housing situation, but 1t probably won't Here is Wilson Wyatt. on the one hand. claiming that the war is stin on as far as housing is concerned. He urges hl~Oub ptOouctlou anu utaStlc measures 6ucn as were used in shipbulding during the war; to get more and still more houses.
 
 On the other hand, here is George Allen for ETC saying "No," or "Go slow" or wait and sec" or This isn't good risk" or some other form of the cautious bankers evasion Maybe Allen is right After all its the taxpayers money that is being ventured
 The housing lobhies in Washington haven't helped elarify the situation bit while the housing industry has gone right ahead and produced more bricks, motars pipe nmheg and nAt9 and Anianed Mn4p
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-03
In TOday'S Mail

copy of the CTo publication ECONOMIC OUTLOOK which gave the sources for the profit figures, explained that they were after taxes and all other costs. and which gave an abundance of all kinds of detail.
 However, if you are confining your reading to such publications as Business Week. the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and the ld-Tribune, you would know all about the industry's un- precedented profits, they do provide the facts for anyone who is careful and thorough reader.
 Incidentally, I believe that the story of the sensational profits dur ing i946 would make a thrilling Journalistic venture for any news paper which wants to provide its readers with highly interesting and important information. The wage demands of unions are mild matters by comparison.
 Sincerely Yours,
 Harold Senior
 CIO Council
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-03
WRITER SCORES POINT ON REDS WITHIN TRADE
 UNIONS

Editor,
 Waterbury Democrat,
 Waterbury, Connecticut.
 Dear Sir:
 don't know whether you are familiar with the Detroit Wage Farmer, an Independent labor news paper. It is vigorously anti-Com- munist.
 An editorial which appeared in a recent issue of The Wage Farmer Is, l think, fairly good answer to edi- torials run by some newspapers re- gently, which expressed dissatisfac- ton with the CLOS action on Com- munist interference in trade union affairs.
 The Wage Farmers editorial was as follows:
 Nobody need be surprised that the editorial writers of the daily papers are not satisfied with the CLOS fortnight declaration against Communist interference in the CIO.
 The daily paper pundits hoped that the CIO would get all tangled up in the Communist issue, have a big fight and split wide open.
 Instead, Philip Murray nego- tiated unanimous declaration against the Communist Party for which even the Communists were forced to vote. He has thus ruined the Communist issue as an editorial club with which to beat the CIO over the head. No wonder the type writer termiteS are mad!
 The Imaginable part of it is this Some of the same daily newspapers which are screaming for Phil Mur- ray to purge Communists out of the CIO have had, and in some cases still have, Communist Party members on their own payrolls."
 do not wish to suggest, by quot ing this editorial, that the Democrat has Communists in its employ, but I would like to call your attention to a fair statement of fact: Com munists would not become members of trade unions if some employer had not given them a job first.
 The same Democrat editorial which didn't like the CLOS action on Communists also found fault with Philip Murray's statement on the high profits of industry, declar- ing that his figures hadn't been sufficiently authenticated. The edi- torial said he might have enlight- ened his membership and the public more on the sources of his figures and whether they represented profits after taxes. etc.
 think the real trouble was that you didn't follow the facts of the convention closely enough. All re- porters at the convention were given
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-03
Christmas Seals-The Greatest Gift

Purchase Christmas seals is the greatest gift to man kind because it fights tuberculosis of its (manknds worst scourges As approach the Christmas the public is again urged participate in the prevention care and cure of tuberculosis
 The 10th annual sale in progress in Waterbury is finding the usual At this season of the year the appeal goes out all to help in big effort in the cause of spread of tuberculosis The publcs part is small but big in effect Their generosity has brought about since the campaign first originated striking result in the fact that tuberculosis which the leading cause of death has now dropped to seventh place.
 Since World War l. Ant-Tuberculosis League notes n- form us the United States Government has spent than
 billion dollars caring for tuberculosis veterans Of that war; the during the recently ended yet to be estimated.
 It is we'll to remember the veterans at this time It is likewise well to remember that conditions during the past few years have been such that very large proportion especially those who engaged in the war; are suscep fibe to the disease Because know that tuberculosis CAN BE CURED is reason for indifference which VIII wreck what has been accomplished in big way in the cure and prevention of the disease of recent years
 The fight has go in order to assure THE GREAT EST GIFT FCR THE GREATEST NUMBER. The contri- button of the individual is smpbuy Christmas seals to fight tuberculosis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-03
Views of the Press
NO WAR TOYS
(New Haven Journal-Courier)

(New Haven Journal -Courier)
 War toys are out for Christmas l946. The children don't want them. Instead of tanks and torpedo boats, they prefer scooters and tri- cyles of aluminium, games. trucks, trailers and railroad cars. Minia- ture American Indians. too, are go- ing to be popular again. A British toy manufacturer is in this coun- try with samples of toys produced in this one-time munitions factory at Bristol. After the first toys were made in the reconverted factory, he invited the children of the factory personnel to party. Displaying the various toys. the factory people soon learned which appealed to children, and adjusted their program accord ingly.
 Toy manufacturers in this coun- try believe American children also are weary of war toys. This can be viewed only as 2 most encouraginug trend toward peace. It Is a mat ter of great importance, for a child's play activities mold him. It is to be hoped that adults, who often. 1t must be admitted. picks toys more from their own interest than tha of the child recipient can be induced to follow child preferences, and give peace-time toys this Christmas.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-03
Kilroy Was Lucky

One Mir James J. Klroy of Halifax Mass recently was awarded an old sreecar contest for the best expana ton of how the ubtquOus public notices of Kroys wan derngs got started He said he the first to write that "Klroy here"
 Considering the general public reaction to that phrase today we are inclined to feel that Mr. Kiroy should be thankful for the contest sponsors forbearance in simply giving him the streetcar instead of running him with t
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-03

Amid the confusion of elections strikes and whatnot, the news that Housing Expeder Wyatt and REC Director Allen had been having words in public almost comfort ing It signied that Washington still Washington and that in spite of all upheavals, not Republican Con sess could deprive the Democrats of those nramura feuds Nch while perhaps not exemplary government do make anxightlg reading
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-03

Rooms and depressions can be eliminated-but not by government alone. Both labor and manage ment are needed in free America. They have got to learn how to get along.
 Irving M. Ives, Republican sen-
 ator-elect of New York
Evening star., 1946-05-07

took her to the hospital in Mr..
Hogue's car. She was pronounced
dead at the hospital
Miss Callaghan said the plane
was total wreck
Declaring that Miss Champeau
was good flyer" the chief pilot
said the FBI clerk had completed
IS hours Of flying, including IL solo
hours.
MIR. Memmi, who has been flying
for about eight years, had been
an instructor at Hyde Field for
eight months, Miss Callaghan said
Owned by Club.
The plane belonged to the FBI
Recreation Association Club, a CO.
operative flying group formed by
go employees of the Government
agency. .
Grant Stetter, president of the
club, said Miss Champeau won the
consent of her parents to take flying
lessons last fall when members of
the group contributed SIS each to
purchase the plane.
After winning a $50 preflight
ground course given by the club
Miss Champeau began flying les
sons last December. Mr.. Stetter said.
Miss Champeau, who lived at st.
GATHERINGS Residence, 101 North
Carolina avenue. Sc, came here
from Crivitz, Wis, in June, 1943.
She is survived by her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. william Champeau;
a brother, Victor, and q sister, Iva
Jean, all of Crivitz.
Evening star., 1946-05-07
Alexandra Police Seek
Relatives Of Dead Man

Alexandria authorities continued
their search today for relatives or
close friends of Frank Prime, 81,
who died Sunday at Alexandria
Hospital where he was taken a week
ago after being stricken i'll.
MIR. Prime had lived at the George
Mason Hotel since coming to Alex
andria three years ago with land
scape engineering company but nev-
er mentioned names of relatives or
friends elsewhere, 1t. Russell Halves,
chief of the detective bureau, said.
A birth certificate found in his hotel
room indicated he was born in Bris-
tol, VT, but police check there dis
closed no further information about
him, 1t. Hawes said. Mr.. Prime con-
Quoted a small tree surgery business
in Alexandria after resigning from
the landscaping concern.
Evening star., 1946-05-07
Alexandra Election
Cases Set for Nav II

Trial of two suits contesting the
April 2 Democratic councilman pri-
mary in Alexandria was set for
May II in Alexandria Circuit Court
yesterday by Judge Paul E. Brown.
Charges that the election was il
legal and that a large number OF
persons who had not been duly reg
lstered were allowed to vote were
filed by two defeated candidates,
Raymond A. Gallagher, who polled
371 votes against Councilman Paul
Lyme Delaney who received 386 in
the First Ward. and Marshall j.
Beverley who polled 497 against
SOB received by Councilman Ever
EFT A. Hellmuth in the Fifth Ward.
Judge Brown, in claiming iuris-
diction of his court over the cases,
denied pleas by attorneys for the
defendants, j. Randall Cation and
State Senator Andrew w. Clarke,
who maintained that contests of
elections should be referred to the
City Council under the Virginia
CodeS
Evening star., 1946-05-07
Missing Scientist Died in Fall
On Stream Bank in Virginia
Police Recover Body
Of Dr.. W. O. Emery,
Retired Chemist

DR.. William Orrin Emery, SO, miss
ing scientist whose body was found
at S pm. yesterday in Difficult Run
In Fairfax County. Va, met his
death almost instantaneously in a
fall on the stream bank which
toppled him unconscious into the
water, DR.. Nelson Podolnick, Fairfax
County coroner, said today. The
coroner issued a certificate of ac-
cidental death.
Mrs. Gustav Emery, 6310 Hillcrest
place, Chevy Chase, DR.. Emery's
daughter-in-law said Fairfax police
were aided in their three-day search
when they found half-filled flower
basket DR.. Emery was carrying. 1t
contained six newly dug orchid
specimens carefully wrapped in a
paper bag.
Officer Richard Wahl found the
basket at a secluded spot shortly
after pm. and located the body
in about foot of water. The retired
chemist had been missing from his
home at 1882 Cathedral avenue NV.
since Friday.
{ Cash Over Right Eye.
There was severe cash over the
right eye, DR.. Podolnick said, which
DR.. Eme. v is believed to have suf-
fered in tie fall. Chief Carl McIn-
tosh of the Fairfax police said DR..
Emery still clL..ched a small bush in
one hand. Police .,"lieve he made a
desperate effort to recover his bal
ance by grabbing the bush, but that
its roots gave way and DR.. Emery
fell to his death.
The death scene is near Langley,
Va, about miles from the District
off the Leesburg pike. DR.. Emery
fell only few feet from spot where
he had planted several growing
orchids eight years ago.
The search for DR.. Emery was mar
rowed to the Langley area at noon
yesterday when the chemists car
was found parked in a driveway a
mile off the Great Falls road leading
through the property of DR.. A. A.
Snyder. Police said the body was
found 1000 feet from the car.
Autopsy Held Unnecessary.
The body was taken to Money &
King funeral home, Vienna, Va,
last night where DR.. Podolnick con-
Quoted his examination. He said
an autopsy was unnecessary The
body was removed to Hines funeral
home, 2901 Fourteenth street NV.
last night.
Members of the family said fu-
Evening star., 1946-05-07
Richard D. Crompton,
Retired Fireman, Dies

Richard D. Crompton, 10, retired
captain of the District Fire Depart
ment, died yesterday of a heart at
tack at his home at 1923 Fidler lane,
Silver Spring.
Mr.. Crompton was working in his
yard when he was stricken. The
Silver Spring Rescue Squad at
tempted to revive him.
A native of Washington, Mr.
Crompton spent most of his life in
the District, moving to Silver Spring
20 years ago. He had been with the
District Fire Department for about
IS years, and was serving as cap
tain at the engine house at New
Hampshire and Georgia avenues
when he retired about six years ago.
He also served as acting battalion
chief. Mr.. Crompton was a member
OF the Silver Spring Volunteer Fire
Department and of the D. C. Fire
mems Association.
At the time of his death Mr..
Crompton was employed as a guard
at Johns Hopkins Laboratory, Sill
yer Spring, where he had worked
for the past four years.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Myrtle M.
Crompton, he is survived by three
sons, c. A. Crompton, Alexandria;
David E. Crompton, Silver Spring;
John r. Crompton, United States
Army, stationed at Fort Mcclellan,
Ala, and four daughters, Mrs. r. H.
Armentrout, Takoma Park; Miss
Catherine D. Crompton, Riverdale;
Mrs. E. w. Auld. Berwyn, and Mrs.
G. c. Smalling, jr., Takoma Park.
Funeral services will be held at
2 pm. tomorrow at the Warner E..
Pumphrey funeral home, 8434
Georgia avenue, Silver Spring.
Burial will be in Cedar Hill Gene
tery,
Evening star., 1946-05-07
CAB Probing Crash of Plane
In Which Girl Flyer, 79, Died
Instructor Injured
As Craft Falls in
Prince Georges

Inspectors from the Civil Aero
nautics Board today prepared to
probe the crash of a two-seater Tay-
lorcraft plane near T. B. in Prince
Georges County yesterday in which
Miss Fay Champeau. 10, Federal
Bureau of Investigation clerk, was
killed and her flying instructor seri-
ously injured.
Miss Champeau who was en-
ployed in the FBI Identification di-
vision, died en- route to Casualty
Hospital. Her instructor, Joseph
Memmi, 30, Clinton, Md, was ad-
mitted to Providence Hospital with
a broken right leg and contusions
OF the face and head.
The crash occurred on the farm
OF Mrs. William Butterworth short
ly after Miss Champeau had taken
of from Hyde Field near Clinton
for final check-ride in prepara-
tion for her private pilots license
tests.
Falls From 200 Feet.
The plane nosed into the ground
from a height of about 200 feet,
pushing the engine back into the
front cockpit and pinning Miss
Champeau.
Mr.. Memmi, who was in the rear
seat of the 65-horsepower plane, was
thrown clear and was found under
wing.
Although there were no witnesses
to the actual crash, Miss Claire
Callaghan, chief pilot at Hyde Field,
said she believed the plane fell after
practice forced landing.
]. E. Swanson, an employe on the
farm, said he saw the plane passing
overhead about 200 feet in the air
before it went out of sight over a
hill. The next thing I heard was
a crash"
Saw Plane Gliding. i
Lester Hogue and James L. Hill
II, who also are employed on the
farm, said they saw the plane circle
and start gliding in apparent prepa-
ration for landing. They said the
plane pulled up and then disap-
peared over a hill. The crash oc-
CURED Immediately afterward.
Both men rushed to the scene,
about 200 yards away. pulled Miss
Champeau from the wreckage and
Evening star., 1946-05-07

neral services will be conducted at
q pm. tomorrow from the funeral
parlor with burial at Fort Lincoln
Cemetery.
DR.. Emery frequently made trips
to the countryside in search of wild
flowers. In pursuit of his hobby,
DR.. Emery planted many flowers in
infrequently visited areas and re-
turned from time to time to study
their progress.
He was a fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science and member of the
American Chemical Society," the
Cosmos Club, the Washington Acad-
emy of, Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa
and Sigma XII. q.
He is survived by a daughter Alice,
his son Gustav and three grandchil-
dren, Midshipman William Taft
Emery, Patricia Jean Emery and
Robert Elliott Emery.
Retired in 1888.
DR.. Emery, who retired from Gov
ernment service in 1888, joined the
Agriculture Department in 1907 as
an organic chemist In the Bureau
OF Chemistry. A year later he was
made chief of the bureaus syn
thetic products laboratory. He was
placed in charge of special COL
laborative investigations of the Food
and Drug Administration in 1929.
He received civil engineering de-
gree at Worcester Polytechnic In
stitute in 1885 and one in chemistry
in 1886. A native of Vermont, he
did special work in chemistry,
geology, physics, mineralology and
bacteriology at Bonn and Berlin
Universities and got his Phi. D. at
the University of Eriangen in 1888.
Evening star., 1946-05-07
Seven Groups 10 Join
In Home f Economics
Discussions Today

Representatives of seven national
women's organizations that CO.
operate with the home demonstra-
ton program will discuss their aims
for the next year at a home eco
nomics institute today in the audi
torium of the Agriculture Depart
ment's South Building.
The institute, which is being held
in connection with the first ma
tional observance of Home Demon
stration Week, will be attended by
representatives of the Associated
Women of the National Farm Bu-
reau, the National Grange. the
Farmers Union, the National Home
Demonstration Council, the Ma
tional Congress of Parents and
Teachers, the Federation of Wom-
ems Clubs and the Bureau of Home
Nutrition and Home Economics.
Sessions will be held from 10 am.
to noon and from 2 to 4 pm.
Addressing a luncheon opening
the weeks observance yesterday at
the Mayf1ower Hotel, Secretary CT
Agriculture Anderson told home
demonstration leaders that the lob
Of the future is to make rural homes
centers to which farm children will
be attracted.
He warned, however, that while
farms are made attractive as, liv-
ing centers. thought also must. be
taken to give young men and vom-
en- an opportunity to make a living
from agriculture.
I'VE must remember what hap
pened after the other World War
when farm prices crashed" Mr.. An
derson said. I'VE have the respcn-
sibility Of seeing that props are
kept under agriculture to prevent a
similar catastrophy following this
war"
Describing the benefits of the
home demonstration program, Mrs.
j. Homer Remsberg, wife of a Fred
erlck County tMd) dairy farmer.
said farm women have learned to
serve.
These are busy, hard days." Mrs.
Remsberg said. Home demonstra-
ton work has helped us to learn
to pool our machinery and to help
IN repairing worn articles and ma
chimes. 1t has helped us to learn
to be there when We are needed"
Other farm women who ad-
dressed the luncheon included Mrs.
A. B. Engleman of Louisa County.
Va; Mrs. S. S. Studebaker, Tipp
City, Ohio, and Mrs. William Ham
ilton. SomerVille. N. j
Evening star., 1946-05-07
Mcmillan 10 Ask
Rent Controls
Through 1947
Urges Congress Act
On Housing Crisis
Before Law Expires
By Don S. Worren

Extension of the Districts resi-
Dental rent control law through
1947 will be proposed to the House
District Committee at its session to.
morrow by Chairman Mcmillan.
He called for speedy consideration
OF the question late yesterday when
he emphasized the fact that the
present District law establishing the
controls would expire December 81
and that Congress was planning to
adjourn by mid-July for the re.
mainder of this session.
A declaration by Chairman Nc
MILAN that the housing shortage
here showed definite need for con-
tinuing residential rent control for
another year today brought quick
support from District Rent Admin.
istrator Robert F. Cogswell.
More Critical Now.
The situation today definitely is
more critical now than at any time
during the war" Mr. Cogswell said.
He had arrived at this from conclu-
sion from general observation ana
from the number of inquiries being
made to the rent control Offices, he
said.
Mr.. Mcmillan, while scheduling
the question for consideration and
possible action tomorrow, called or
the District Commissioners for q
prompt report.
Administrator Cogswell at once
assigned his staff to gather AL.
pertinent information that was
available, to be presented to tn,
committee, if requested.
Separate From OPA.
Chairman Mcmillan noted tina.
the Districts rent act. which is
separate from the OPA, was ex.
tended last December for one year,
with the thought that the hcdsine
situation here might improve by mex
January, noted that Congress now
Is asked to appropriate s250,O0O for
sewer and water connections for as
many as 900 temporary housing
units Tor veterans which the Fed.
eral Government plans to erect or
park land here as an emergenc,
move.
The Healy Subcommittee of the
House District Committee has sched.
uled a hearing for Thursday morn.
ing on the bill of Representative
Barry, Democrat, of New York, to
establish controls over rental OF
commercial properties in the Dis
trict. This bill has been opposed
by the Commissioners.
Proposed legislation to ban erec.
ton of radio or television towers
IN residential-use districts of the
National Capital is to be considered
Friday morning in hearing before
another House District group, head
ed by Representative Abernethy,
Democrat, of Mississippi.
Evening star., 1946-05-07
Isaac H. Horton Named
To VAS Richmond Stuff

Isaac H. Horton, long a resident
OF Washington, has been appointed
assistant director of contact and
services for the Richmond branch
OF the Veterans administration, it
was announced today.
Mr.. Horton, who served in the
Army in both World Wars, was for
13 years executive secretary of the
American Legion Rehabilitation
Commission. He also was with the
Social Security Board for two years.