Hartford chronicle., 1946-07-27


 rental apartments available to Ne gro veterans is through the con- version of existing structures into dwelling units, Housing Expedite1 Wilson w. Wyatt said this week Such conversions require less ma. terials than new dwellings and provide rentals within the reach of the average veterans, MT. Wy att pointed out.
 The Housing Expediter's re- marks were occasioned by the re- port of new dwelling units pro. duced through conversions of ex. isting structures. This report shows that such conversions are running we'll over 100 per cent in advance of schedule.
 Recalling that the 1946 goal of conversions was set at 50,000, MT. Wyatt said that authorizations for 65,000 conversions had been is- sued through May 31, and that 47,000 of these had been started by the end of May.
 He reported rental rates tabu- lated on conversions for a five week period ending May 31 dis closed 50 per cent of the units in- volved rentals under $40 per month.
 "f you have a house that can be enlarged or converted into now's the time to do so. Consult the Federal Housing Administrations qualified leading institutions on securing loan for this purpose"
 Federal Housing Administra- tion offices will furnish the in formation on priorities, MT. Wy att advised.
 Establishment of a service to assist in housing minority groups was announced today by Housing Wilson W. Wyatt, who also is Administrator of the Ma tional Housing Agency. The. new service operates under the direc- ton of Frank s. Horne, as As- sistant to the Administrator-Ex- pediter, and B. T. McGraw, as Deputy Assistant.
 They will assist in the formula ton and execution of the basic policies and operations of the Ma tional Housing Agency and it's constituent units so as to assure equitable participation of, minority groups in all programs of the Agency, including the Veterans Emergency Housing Program. The regional racial relations advisers of the Federal Housing Authority are shifted to the staffs of the re- gional housing expediters to form the nucleus of the new field ser vice. Previously available only in the Federal Public Housing Auth ority the service will now be ex- tended to the Federal Housing Administration and the Federal Home Loan Bank Administration.
 Doctor Horne has been in the government service for the past decade; first, as Assistant Director of the Division of Negro Affairs, National Youth Administrations; and since 1898, with the U. s. Housing Authority and FPHA. A native of New York City, hei graduate of the College of the City of New York, and received the M. A. degree from the Uni versity of Southern California. He also graduated from the Northern Illinois lColleg of Oph- thalmology and Otology and prac- ticed optometry in Chicago for a time before entering the educa- tional field. He was a member of the faculty of Fort Valley State College, Fort Valley, Ga, where he served seven years as Dean of Instruction and three years as Acting Principal.
 Doctor McGraw, deputy assist ant, who also came to the Agency from the field of education, had a previous background in banking, and has been with the Office of the from the inception of the National Housing Agency. He is on leave of absence as head of the Departmento f Economics and Business Administration at University, Jefferson City, Mo. A native of Georgia, and since 1926 a resident of Chicago, Doctor McGraw graduated from University in 1923 and received the M. A. (economics) and M. B. A. degrees from the of Michigan where he was both a General Education Board and Rosenwald Fellow.
 Other Washington personnel in c1uded in the newly established service are M. Franklin Thorne, of FPHA, and Corienne K. Robin ,np of MIA Also included in