Evening star., 1946-11-03
Legion Conference
On Housing 10 Open
Here Tomorrow


Secretary of Navy Forrestal will
open a five-day housing conference
sponsored by the American Legion's
World War II Housing Committee
at 10 am. tomorrow in the main
ballroom of the Hotel 2400.
The seven committee members.
all World War II veterans. will
question 81 officials of Government
the armed forces, labor, industry
and veterans organizations in the
investigation of all phases Of vet
erans' housing programs.
Among the leaders to appear dur
ing the week are Secretary of State
Byrnes; Secretary Of Commerce
Hartman; Secretary of Agriculture
Anderson; Housing Expeditor Wy
att; Civilian Production Admins
traitor Small: OPA Administrator
Porter and Dillon S. Myer, commits
sioner of the Federal Public Hous-
ing Agency.
Appointed Last Month.
Since their appointment at the
Legion's national convention early
in October, the committee members
have toured the country to study
regional housing conditions.
Results of their court of inquiry
this week will be presented to the
Legion later this month at ar
executive committee meeting at
Indianapolis, along with proposals
for a permanent housing program
Heading the committee is Rich
ard C. Cadwallader, OF Baton Rouge
La, a Legion national vice COM
mander. Other members include
Hayward S. Cleveland, of Port
Washington, N. Y; j. D. Sawyer,
of Middletown, Ohio; Arthur L.
Marcus, of Greendale, Wis; Clark
Murdock, of Omaha: Dick Vail, of
Fresno, Calf, and Frank j. Nc
Clure, of Kansas City, Mo.
Program for Tomorrow:
Tomorrow's program follows:
Mr.. Patterson, 10 am; Mr.. For
restal, 1890 am; Charles B. Hen
derson, acting chairman, Recon-
struction Finance Corporation, HIS
am; James w. Follin, assistant
administrator, Federal Works Agen-
cy, HAS am; Abner Ferguson,
counsel, U. S. Savings and Loan
League, noon; Mr.. Myer, 2 pm;
F.. w. Kelsey, assistant veterans
administrator for finance, pm;
representatives of the National Con-
ference of Catholic Charities, Fed
eral Council of the Churches of
Christ in America, United Council
of Church Women, National Cath
olic Rural Life Conference and the
Rabbinical Association, $3.50 pm;
Mr.. Anderson, 4 pm. and H. Red
ding Stevenson, chairman, Arkansas
Governors housing committee, 4:30
pm.
Principal speakers during the re-
mainder of the conference include
Tuesday-Mr. Hartman; Marri-
ner Eccles, chairman, Federal Re-
serve Board; Surgeon Gen. Thomas
Parron, U. S. Public Health Serv-
ice; w. A. Ayres, chairman, Federal
Trade Commission, and Mr.. Porter.
Union Officials to Speak.
Wednesday - Mr.. Small; r. j.
Thomas, vice-president. United Au-
tomobile Workers, CIO; Richard
Gray, president, building and con-
struction trades department. AFL,
and Sam Neel, Mortgage Bankers
Association of America.
Thursday-Mr. Byrnes; Mr.. Wyatt;
Raymond F. Foley, commissioner
F e der a l Housing Administration
and Herbert w. Nelson, executive
vice-president, National Associa-
ton of Real Estate Boards.
Friday-Commissioner John Rus
sell Young; Louis Starr, commander,
Veterans Of Foreign Wars; Jack
Hardy, commander, American Vet
erans of World War II, and Frank
w. Cortright, executive vice-presi-
dent, National Home Builders Asso-
citation.
All sessions of the hearing will be
open Tn the r,1lhlic