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Evening star., 1946-03-09
Supply Needs Threaten 7ieup
In Big DC. Apartment Project

families, and rent for $3.50 for
three and half rooms, and $62.50
for four and half rooms, including
all utilities. The company said it
had waiting list of more than 4,5OO
applicants.
This job will have to shut down
unless things change, and change
FAST" Mr.. Wire said fatty.
The project was planned in three
sections, one group of "a buildings,
including AIT apartments, all of
which will be completed and occu-
pied by Monday; a second of %
buildings, including 346 apartments,
now 40 per cent completed, and
third of 80 buildings, including 481
apartments, now just being started
10 in Second Group Rooted.
OF the second group of % build
ings 10 are under roof, but work has
practically stopped on the rest for
lack of materials. OF the third
group foundations are being laid
for a number of the buildings. but
the firm is now hesitating about
whether to proceed because of un-
certainty over materials, though this
week it received District building
permits to proceed.
THE buildings should be started
now in order that the continuity of
the job may not be interrupted" Mr..
Wire said. We've exhausted all the
possibilities to obtain these ma
terials in quantities sufficient to go
ahead. Where do we turn now?"
Mr.. Wire said he believed the
Civilian Production Administration
should act TO make the priority
system work" and added:
Under Way Nearly Year.
We've been under way for nearly
a year with the kind of moderate
rental dwelling units the Govern
ment says it's anxious to push
ahead, and We want to get the job
done. 1t seems to me that if any one
is to have confidence in the priority
system it must be made to do the
job it was set up to do
Mr.. Wire said he deals with
local suppliers and that the diff
Guilty rests with manufacturers, who
refuse to promise deliveries here
He said he talked to CPA officials
Evening star., 1946-03-09

10000 feet of framing lumber on
the second section.
Mr.. Wire cited bathtubS, millwork
and doors as other bottlenecks. I'VE
have Is bathtubs," he said. I'VE
need 32l. We have millwork and
doors for SO apartments. We need
enough for $40 more, including 1850
doors"
Mr.. Wire has been in the construc-
ton business in Washington for %
years, first as a concrete contractor
and then as builder. Before
undertaking the present project he
built 500 houses and TOO apartments.
IF the Government expects us to
take the responsibility of getting
these houses for veterans under
the priorities program" he said
1T should put some teeth in that
program and enforce priorities so
we can go ahead with the assurance
that we can complete the job"
Evening star., 1946-03-09
Outlook Still Gloomy
On Building Material, ,
CPA Survey Shows

With a target of 2,7o0,0o0 homes
to hit by the end of 1947, the Nation
is still facing a gloomy building
materials picture.
That's the conclusion reached as
the result of recent check made
by the Civilian Production Admins
tration, which has the job of spur
ring production to get the housing
job done.
In lumber, for instance, produc-
ton in December was lower than in
any month for the last 10 years.
Only LAT million feet were pro-
duced that month, or % per cent be-
low November and 80 per cent below
December, 1914.
"A kind of paralysis has seized the
industry" CPA said, attributing it
to combination Of factors, includ-
ing dissatisfaction with cost-price
relationships, shortage of labor,
abnormally bad weather and Short
ages of equipment and stumpage."
Output Estimate Cut.
The Forest Service has lowered
its estimate of first-quarter lumber
production by 18 per cent, from 68
billion to Sc billion feet. CPA says
the lumber target for the year should
be at the rate of 80 billion feet, even
though this would fail to cover
requirements Gncluding pipeline
needs by about billion feet.
There are still 1876 idle brick
plants throughout the Nation, CPA
says. January production reached
238,000,000 bricks, a drop from last
falls peak of 265, 100000 month.
CPA says that if the goal Of
veterans homes proposed by Wilson
W. Wyatt, national housing admin
istrator, is to be met, monthly pro-
duction will have to average 420,-
100000 bricks month this year and
450,000000 a month in 1947.
Lag in Building Blocks.
Building blocks is another mate
rial darkening the housing picture.
In 1889 production averaged ga
100000 blocks per month, while
during the fourth quarter of last
year it had fallen to 100000 a
month
Output must be increased to at
least 100000 blocks a month in
1916 and $4,000 900 blocks a month
in 1947 to handle the Wyatt pro-
gram and meet other essential
needs, the agency says.
Production of gypsum board and
lath is looking up, however, with
2l4,000,000 square feet produced in
January in comparison to 174,000,-
900 in December. Requirements for
the Wyatt program are 1926 100000
(See BUILDING MATERIAL, B-2.)
Evening star., 1946-03-09
Housing Expenditures
By Private Concerns
Soar in Past Month

Expenditures last month for pri-
vately financed housing were eight
times more than the amount spent
in the same month a year ago, the
Labor Departments Bureau of La
Dor Statistics reported this week.
Private expenditures for homes
have been rising at an average
monthly rate of $1300O,O0O since
February, l945, and though some
of the increase has been absorbed
in higher prices. much of 1t reflects
an increase in the number of dwell
lings being provided, BIS said.
The value of new residential
building put into place last month
totaled $175,0O0,OOO, which was
higher than for any February since
reports were first made available
in January, 1889.
Expenditures for new private non
residential building, which COM
petes directly with home construc-
ton for critical building materials.
rose S22,000,0O0 last month and
Sl7O 900, 900 from February, 1945
While all types of private non-resi-
dental building participated in the
increase over the year, the greatest
gains were in expenditures for in
dustrial building, which nearly
tripled between February, 1945, and
February, 1916, and for commercial
building, which increased 10 times.
Estimated total construction ex-
penditures Gncluding minor build
ing repairs) in continental United
States approximated 1854 ,000, 900
this February-5 per cent more
than the January total of 1924, ,0OO,-
900. This gain in what is normally
a poor construction month is at
tributable entirely to advance in all
privately financed nonfarm build
ing. All other categories of con-
struction expenditures remained
stationary or declined seasonaIly,
BIS said.
Evening star., 1946-03-09
Labor Department Aide
Gets Cancellation Post

John T. DAILY, 2434 Thirty-ninth
place NV, docket officer of the La
Dor Departments Cancellation Serv-
ice, this week was assigned to CO.
ordinate all Cancellation Service
activity throughout the country in
labor management disputes which
might hamper the new housing goal.
Edgar L. Warren. director of the
service, said Mr.. DAILY will be as
signed personnel throughout the
country to keep labor problems"
adjusted so there will be "a free flow
of building materials moving to the
housing sites"
Evening star., 1946-03-09
Real Estate
Shop Talk

Wilson Wyatt, national housing
administrator and author of the
Governments plan to build 100000
dwelling units by the end of 1947,
Evening star., 1946-03-09

a total of two entire days recently
in order to get some assistance. but
today is receiving less material than
he was obtaining last fall.
He said that while the projects
second section of 346 apartments is
40 per cent completed, critical Short
ages are holding up early occupancy.
No Heating Equipment.
I'VE don't have any boilers or
oil burners, for example" he said.
mo radiators, no refrigerators, no
oak flooring. You can't provide
homes if you have no floors for
people to walk on"
To complete the second section,
he said, he needs 10 group boilers
and 10 group Oil burners, 1,400 radi-
ators, 100000 board feet of oak
flooring, 346 refrigerators, 100000
feet of framing lumber.
Up to now, he said, he has used
Evening star., 1946-03-09
By Robert J. Lewis

Failure of the Government pri-
ority system to make available an
adequate supply of materials threat
ems to close down a $5,000,000 Dis
trict housing project which has been
providing rental apartments to about
rs new families every month since
last September.
This was learned from Preston E.
Wire, president of Wire Properties,
Inc, 1926 K street NV, which is
developing the 1,244-unit Carver
Terrace project on a 30-acre site at
Twenty-first street and Maryland
avenue NE, said to be the biggest
apartment project within the Dis
trict.
In mid-January the firm received
priorities for 827 apartment units
under the Civilian Production Ad-
ministration plan which was set up
subsequent to the lifting of controls
last october Is. The firms block of
priorities were the first to be
granted in the District area.
The apartments are for colored
Evening star., 1946-03-09
Godgets
New Cos Heater
May Be Placed
In Attic Space
By HiIson Munsey

The heating plant of the home, by
tradition, belongs in the basement.
With the increasing popularity of
basementless houses. a utility room
is used, but that takes up valuable
floor space. Now the heating plant
has been moved up into the attic
by an enterprising manufacturer.
His plant is intended for small
homes and uses gas as fuel. 1t
supplies warm air heat, but not
steam or hot water. The combustion
tubes are made of cast iron and are
so simple in construction that the
unit is compact. These tubes are
heated by short, intense, ribbon
fame which is directed to the place
where it is most efficient. It works
with a pilot light and can be in
spected and adjusted easily. Positive
(See CADETS. Page BID
Evening star., 1946-03-09

m e ngs. So Wilson W. Wyatt.
strong has been response to the
announcement Mr.. Wyatt would
speak that the luncheon has been
moved from the smaller Sapphire
Room to the ballroom in the May
flower Hotel.
Members of the building congress
are looking forward to Mr.. Wyatt's
appearance to give them a clue as
to the kind of business conditions
they may expect in the next two
years. They understand regulations
to put his housing program into
operation are almost completed, and
in the question period to follow his
talk they probably will seek to learn
some of its details.
The big question to most mem
bers is: What will the Govern
ment consider essential commercial
and industrial constructions" Nom
essential building is expected to be
(See SHOP TALK, Page BED
Evening star., 1946-03-09
897 Real Estate
Offices Reported
In District

Washington has total Of 1897
real estate sales offices, Edward A.
Dent, chairman of the District Real
Estate Commission, reported this
week.
In addition, there are Ill busi-
ness chance brokerage Offices here.
Mr.. Dents report came at the
same time the commission issued
the first printed list since 1941 of
licensed real estate brokers, real es-
tate salesmen. business chance
brokers and business chance sales
men.
AS of December 81, 1945, there
were 1895 real estate brokers and
/ ,045 real estate statesmen licensed
in the District, total of 1881. Busi-
ness chance brokers numbered 1874
and business chance statesmen, 79
"a total of 213.
Evening star., 1946-03-09

(See SHOP TALK, Page BID
Evening star., 1946-03-09

(See PERMITS, Page B-2.)
Evening star., 1946-03-09

Will nave a rec
ord t u r n o u t
when he speaks
b e f o r e t h e
luncheon of the
w a S h i ngton
Building on =
gress at 1890
pm. Monday.
Already near
ly 400 persons
h We reserved
places, III con-
trast to the av-
e r a g e attend
ance of $50 or
200 at monthly
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-03-02
Meeting Now Needed

One of the most progressive steps made IN the matter
of relations in Jackson praised by press and public
throughout the state and nation the naming OF inter-
racial committees by the white and Negro Chambers OF
Commerce the purpose of meeting Jointly to preserve
nterracia harmony and goodwill here IN Jackson Since
the naming of the two committees we know OF no meeting
in which the two committees have met for the purpose
discussing the matters for which they were named
With the end of the it is becoming daily more evil
dent that the war and conditions resulting from have
brought about large crop of sadsts morons neurotcs
and other social msts in both races and almost any day
there NAV be crime committed which will arouse the
overemotiona to provoke conditions disturbing the me
inter-racial harmony and goodwill of the city
It has been abundanty proven in communities i'll all sec
lions of the nation including the south that iner-raca
meetings dealing with the problems of race relations can
will prevent such outbreaks that more or less pera
nently affect the good name of community
If such meetings prevent such outbreaks II is an m
ctment of the leaders of both groups to have not made
such effort to prevent their occurrence: 4a
General conditions both here and elsewhere suggest the
fact that is about the time for nterracial COM
mttees to hold their first joint meeting
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Red Cross
Continued From Front Page)

AohSuucu TIOn TIoHl TdSc'
Clendon. mad A. J.. Rice.
The advance gift committee
composed of vcoloneIs began soil!
citing the business and profession
al group Tuesday February 26'
House to house soliciting will
begin Monday, March 4, 1916.
Captains and Lieutenants chosen
for West and South jackson are
as fol ows; Abb Z. Holly, Deva l.,
Brown, Maude l.. Taylor, Julia
S. Pope, Picola Haley, Birdie E.
Graves, Cleo c.. Chadwick, Bar
bara A. Beadle, Iva G. Michael,
Annie NJ. Loach, Rosa Lee Brock,
Emma l.. Palmer, Willie Harvey,
Esther NJ. Dixon, Ruth Johnson
Mamie Z Dansby, Minnie Foogy,
Willett Polk, Nettyr J. Wiker-
son, Cleo Harrington, Pauline
Pickens, Minnie Booker, Bobbie
Baker Cora Sykes.
Captain and Lieutenants chosen
for tn North and Northwest
Jackson are as follows: Obyrne
Price, Hattie Bonds, Ida NJ.
Harris. Rrby L. Lloyd, Elizabeth
Walker, Maude Brown, Elnla
Slaughter, Josie S. Earl Anna E.
Taylor Verna johnson, Lillian
Randall, Ethel Stewart, Princess
Bealsey, and Alexander Shinault.
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90, which their parents paid 10
obtain their release.
According to reports the elas.l
last Wednesday, resulted from a
series of minor incidents between
White and Negro children at the
south Gallitan Street viaduct.
Last Wednesday the white stu
dents, some of whom the reports
said were armed with black jacks
me the Negro students in force
the fight starting Wren one of
the boys made an attempt to hi
Amy Spurlock with black jack.
While the two were engaged
policeman came on the scene, one
of whom knocked the young girl
down and after Kicking her seven .
al times dragged her to the car
by the hair.
Among others who were kicked
and slapped were Pearl Johnson
Trenton Carey and Rufus Ma
ming all of Lanier High School.
None Of the -rhite students were
arrested during HE incident early
this week following further in
vtrtigation by police authorities,
accoi> ing to reports, number of
the white Students We arrested
and fined and steps taken to pre-
vent a recurrence of the incident.
A refund of SIS is said to have
been made 20 Mrs. Spurloek
In the meantime the incident
was a major topic of discussion at
the meeting last Wednesday morn
ing of the Board of Directors of
The New Parish Street YMCA and
a large number of other Negro
leaders.
Since practically eve ~vone pres
ent was a member of the Jackson
Nero Chamber Of Commerce
plans for o meeting of the Race
Relations Committees of the
white and Negro Chambers for
the purpose of discussing condi-
tons abo',t which Negroes are be
coming increasingly concerned
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-03-02

Of three Or more people were pro-
hiblted A search of he homes Of
all the 3C00 Negro residents OF
Columbia was started. Some 400
varied types OF fire arms and other
weapons were collected Negroes
suspected Of participation in the
disturbance were placed under ar
rest. Among those arrested were.
A. j. Morton, prominent under
taker, julius Blair Jr. and JutuS
Blair ST., Morton was one of The
II Negroes arrested when patrol
men entered his home. adjoining
the mortuafy shortly before day
break Tuesday.
The men were reported as hay-
ing offered no resistance but tina.
patrolmen were fired upon from
a dance hall, the Twilight Inn
across the street. The fire was an
swered by blasts from tommy guns
welded by pa.rolmen. The twelve
men We're charged with assault
with intent to committee murder 4
Shotguns. two small caliber rifles
and pistol were found in their
possession, along with several
bottles Of whiskey, it was reported
Columbia's Mayor Eldredge Den
ham, restaurant operator, when
interviewed, said, Il have always
been friend to Negroes" He is
sued proclamation calling on all
citizens 20 maintain peace.
Rev. z. A. Brown pastor of St
Paul Church in Columbia, stated
that the riot was regrettable, and
Joined Mr. Joseph Branden, ve.-
eran taXi-driver and Mrs. Rebecca
johnson, former Columbia school
teacher and civic leader, in the
sentiment Of many young returned
the disturbance was the deep re-
opinion that the basic cause of
Ngro Service men to the attempts
of certain elements of white Co.
lumbians to treat Negroes with con-
tempt and abuse.
Mrs. Stevenson and her son ex-
pect to be called for trial some
time in March. Meanwhile the IL,
eco Negro and white citizens of
Columbia continue to live under
an atmosphere of deep, tension,
accumulated bye he presence and
All livities of uniformed state
guards, state highway patrolmen.
Lettering groups of white civil
lians, and grim faced Negroes are
doing about routine affairs. The
public schools, closed Tuesday,
We're re-opened Wednesday, along
with all The other local business
closed down in this agricultural
county-seat during the 16 hours of
racial violence.
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Capital Spotlight
Continued From Page One)

in Shaef (Supreme Headquarters,
Allied Expeditionary Forces) a n d
Chief of Staff in the European
theater of operations. He served
with General Dwight D. Eisen-
hover. now Army Chief of Staff
in North africa and the. European
| theater.,
/ Gen. John c. H. Lee, command
| ing general of the communica-
tons zone in the European thea
Ter, was credited with conceiving
the plan to integrate colored SOL
dierS in white combat unit in that
theater when requirements were
running low in November, 1914.
His original plan, 1t as said, call
ed for indignation on an indivi-
dual basis. .
COMMANDERS QUERIED
The first step General Lee took
vas to query field commanders on
he use of colored combat soldiers
the late picturesque Gen. George
s Patton was reported to h We
told him in rather salty language:
You'd better hurry up. I've
been thinking about it and if you
don't do it, I shall"
Patton had had colored troops
attached to the Third Army, In
the battle of the Bulge the 76lst
Tank Battalion had furnished
tank support for his infantry di-
visions. He knew the capabilities
of colored soldiers when properly
trained and properly led.
After getting approval of tn e
field commanders, General Lee
forwarded his proposal to General
Eisenhower's headquarters. 1t was
there that the hocus-pocus began.
Gen. Smith disapproved the idea.
In the buck passing the plan was
sen. to Gen. Geo. c Marshall, the
Army Chief Of Staff. In Washing
ton it was revised and instead of
colored soldiers being integra.ed
into white combat units on an IN
dividual basis, a subterfuge was
resorted to thanks to General
SMITH
RIFLE PLATOONS
The $500 colored soldiers, who
volunteered from service units
for duty with combat troops, were
attached as rifle platoons to white
infantry companies. But in Com
bat the colored and white soldiers
platoons to white infantry COM
panies. But III combat the colored
and white soldiers fought should
er to shoulder.
Gen. Smith is not a West Point
er. He attended the officers
Training Camp at Fort Benjamin
Harrison, Indiana, in 1917 He re-
manned in the Army after World
War I and in October, 1899. he
was appointed to the War Depart
ment General Staff, becoming
Secretary on September /. 1871.
Another officer who reputedly OPP
General Lees original plan of in
tegration of colored soldiers into
white combat units was Major
General Paul r. Hawley, acting
surgeon general of the Veterans
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Columbia Chain
CONTINUED From Page One)

NNPA sponsored contest which
e..1ses March 2. The essay subject
is THE Importance Of the Negro
Press in Postwar America" The
orizes are 500. $50. and $25 In
Victory Savings Bonds.
The Wendell Willkie Awards for
Journalism achievement will be
made March LIST at a meeting IN
Washington at The United Nations
Club where nationally known
speakers of BIO n races will adj
dress the group. If possible, this
program will be on a national
net work. All American Negro
newspapermen were eligible to try
for the award.
Mrs. Eugene Meyer. wife of the
publisher Of the Washington Post
mas made the awards possible.
and they commemorate the late
Wendell L. Willkie, the COP pres
dental candidate. DR.. Douglas S.
Freeman, winning a III h o r
and editor of the Richmond, Va.
News Leader" is chairman OF
the honorary committee.
COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN
Mark F. Etheridge, one time
FEPC chairman and now publish
er of the Louisville Courier-JOur-
nal, is chairman Of the commit
tee of the Journalists judging the
entries for the awards. Louis E..
Martin, editor publisher OF h e
Michigan Chronicle at Detroit is
chairman of the advisory Commit
tee on The awards.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-03-02
Columbia Leaders
Continued from cage Il

This was around $3.50 D. m. I
learned that four officers ha,i
been shot.
The wounded officers were Will
Wilsford so, shot crically by buck
shot in the head, mouth and
chest, Bernard Stofel, Sam Rich
ardson and Chief j. w. Griffin.
The shooting on Eighth Street
led he Sheriff to request aid of
the Tennessee highway patrolmen
and later call to Governor James
McCord to send in state guard
units. The additional helpers ar
riveG to find Negroes barricaded
in their places on Eighth Sheriff
Underwood who is politically popu
lar with Negroes, said he and the
patrolmen went Tuesday morning
to the Negro business district
knocked on doors and requested
The occupants Of buildings to come
out. He said they were answered
by shots. This led to the shooting
up of the Negro business district.
A curfew was announced. Groups
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he,a were discussed. II will be
the first item to be considered at
the meeting Of the Negro Cham
Der next Tuesday night.
Members Of the Inter racial
Negro Chamber Of Commerce are
W. H. Williams, I. S. Sanders and
Jack Young. Members Of he
white Chamber of Commerce are
Mayor Leland Speed, Mayor w,
Calvin Wells, MIR Pete Laired and
and Mr.. Guy Low.