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Evening star., 1947-08-16

Inc Home Loan Bank Board re-
ported today that the upward curve
of real estate financing is fattening
out.
To prove its point, the board noted
that June dollar totals were only 8
per cent greater than those in June,
1916, while last January the amount
was SO per cent above those in the
same month of the previous year.
Meanwhile, the agency estimated
that, during the first half of this
year, financing of non-farm real
estate in the Nation totaled IS $780,
100000. This is an increase of II per
cent over the amount in the same
months of 1916.
Experts attribute the rise to a
greater average size of loans re-
corded.
The boards latest report is lin
tied to loans of $4,000 or less.
Following are the number and
amount of mortgages recorded in
the first six months of 1947, by class
of lenders along with their ratio OF
participation in the total:
Savings and loan associations,
376,666 for $1,654, ,694, oil 81 per cent
Insurance companies, 55,978 for
$3.50 ,209 900, or per cent.
Banks and trust companies, 294, ,63a
for 81 ,423 ,848 900, or 27 per cent.
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1O9 Exhibitors Enter
First Annual Home
Show Exposition

With eight weeks still remain
ing, the first annual Washington
Home Show Exposition opening
October II in the National Guard
Armory already has drawn 100 ex-
hibitors, it was disclosed today.
Clarence w. Gosnell, chairman
Of the Home Show Committee of
the Washington Home Builders As
sociation, estimated 80 per cent of
floor space in the big armory had
been signed for.
Sponsors predict all available
space will be sold out before the
end of this month.
175.000 Expected.
The exposition, the first of its
size ever to be held in Washing
ton, will run through October 10,
during which time home builders
expect at least 175,0O0 persons to
view what industry has to offer
home-owners and prospective home
owners.
Exhibitors include the Veterans
Administration, the Labor Depart
ment, the District Public Library,
American Institute of Architects,
and the Greater National Capital
Committee Of the Washington
Board Of Trade.
List of Exhibitors.
The complete list of exhibitors
as of this week follows:
Acoustics, & Insulation Corp, Alumi-
mum Outside Blind Co. Amco Products
Co; American .Heating Co, American
Institute Of Architects. Anchor Post Fence
Division Of Anchor Post Products, Inc;
+. 81 aE ES assslfts,s ssls aas;;
Chanberlin Co. Of Amerita, Clark Babbitt
1ndustsies' nSs,s Inc; q A. Cos f. cer .C0hens $
sussISa SssRIasets5ss ss 9ssss 5ss Nams r. e;
Davenpark CO.. Detroit Steel Products Co,
trict Public Library. District Hardware
Eadio ss,dIe g. Appliance Co.: Inc, Dopglas q
Electric Institute Of sWashinston. Fiat
Metal Manufacturing Co, First Federal
Savings & Loan Association, Frigidaire
Sales Corp, Gates Contracting Co., General
Electrict Supply Corr, Georges Radio Co.,
GiehneT. Inc; Goldenbere's:
Stanley Gordon, Greater National Capt
(see EXPOSITION, Page B-3J
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Delay of 2orMore Years Seen
In $40, 900 Home Building !

custom-built homes require ma
terials not used in veteran housing.
Special mill work is cited as an
outstanding example. They say it's
very scarce and, when available, is
high-priced.
The three homes shown with this
article are typical of the higher
priced dwellings now being built
in the Washington area. They
range in price from $24,5OO to more
than double that figure.
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Three FILA Officials Named
To New Posts IN Agency

Three Federal Housing Admins
tration officials have been appointed
to new posts in the agency, Com
missioner Frank D. Richards an
nounced today.
Walter L. Greene, former assist
ant to the commissioner, has been
appointed first assistant commits
sioner. Mr.. Greene has been with
FTIA since 1884.
Maurice r. Massey, former COM
missioner in charge of Zone l, has
been named assistant commissioner
in charge of field operations. Mi.
Massey also has been with the
agency since 1884. He served In
the Army during World War II.
Herbert C. Redman, assistant
commissioner of Zone 3, has been
appointed to a similar post in Zone
/. He joined FILA in 1885.
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By MoIcoIm Lomborne, Jr.

Washington area builders estimate
it will be another two years before
there will be any appreciable specu-
lative construction of homes SELL
ing above $4,000.
There is even now small amount
OF construction Of higher-priced
homes. But when viewed against
the big veterans home building pro-
gram under way, it's only a drop
in the, bucket.
Until the needs of veterans for
low-priced housing have been filled,
home-owners seeking larger prop
critics on take-your-choice basis
may have to wait.
Must Stop Some Time.
Builders checked this week place
the day of finally meeting veteran
demand at least two years away.
One builder commented that he
could foresee no end to the veteran
demand for houses, but he added:
1T has to stop some time"
He pointed out that there was a
good market for homes selling above
900, but that many prospective
buyers lacked CT preferences. The
last remaining Government restric-
ton on home building, this regu-
lation requires that completed
home be held for a veteran for 80
days.
Another builder observed that
some persons are sitting it out
that is, waiting for prices to come
down-before deciding on buying
larger and more expensive houses.
"In For q Long Wait"
1ne the opinion cot tSomel experts,
these, people may be- an1for long
wait. While there is little agree
ment on just when the prices that
go into the making of a house will
come down. the consensus is that
it's someWherG In the distant fu-
ture.
Several builders point out that
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Two 52-Housing Units
For Area Veterans
Approved by FHA

Two more rental housing projects
in the Metropolitan Area, which
will provide 50 dwelling units for
families of World War II veterans,
have been approved, the Washing
ton Office Of the Federal Housing
Administration announced today.
Director James A. Hewett said
this brings to 70 the total of vet
erans' multi-family rental housing
projects by the local insuring Office
under the new FHA program.
Blaine Terrace Apartments will
be built by Myron Davy and Frank
]. Murphy at Thirty fourth and
Blaine streets NE. Glenelg Apart
ments will be built by Irwin D. Pot
ter and Lachlan G. Mcpherson at
Lee Highway and Wayne street,
Arlington.
The Washington project will con-
sist of two-story structures contain
ing "a units of AZ rooms each. 1t
will be financed by the Metropoli-
tan Mortgage Co., with a mortgage
Of $4,000 to be insured by FHA
under Title " of the National Hous-
ing Act, Mr.. Hewitt said.
The Virginia development will be
made up of two and three-story
structures consisting of six units of
three rooms, six of 3A rooms and
llll6 q ~ rooms. Y Peoples Life; 7 Ins7 /
7 fstranes CO, viii a. the financing.
with FHA-insured mortgage OF
$685. 300, Mr.. Hewitt explained.
All told, $3.50 new dwelling units
lage called tfoE lypqdders FHA-insured
mortgages n excess excess of$51, $4,000 u
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Godgets
Three-Woy Valve
Keeps Sediment
Out Of Boilers
By HiIson Munsey

Sediment is sure to form In any
water heater in time, no matter
how clean the water supply. Unless
removed, this sediment will gradu-
ally decrease the capacity of the
heater. Because this cleaning in
wolves the opening and closing Of
some of the valves at certain inter-
walls it is usually forgotten. A valve
is being sold that automatically
baekwashes the heater coils every
time a water faucet is opened and
the job Of cleaning the coils by hand
can be forgotten without any danger
that the coils will clog up with
sediment.
This valve is simple but effective.
When all faucets are closed water
circulates in the regular manner
through the heating coil into the
tank and back sagain through the
coil. When a faucet is opened,
however, the action is reversed and
Ethsq &AteFo from the supply oVpipe
flows directly through the St6n into
the heater and washes out any sedi-
ment that has accumulated.
This is accomplished with a three
way valve. A piston, operated by
20 SE9e GKDGETS, Page Bsyg
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District Rental
Housing Picture

The number of persons seeking
houses and apartments for rent in
creased slightly in the last week
over those the week previously, &C
cording to the District Housing Cen
ter, 1400 Pennsylvania avenue NV.
The center reported it had re-
ceived 757 applications as against
745 week earlier. They were broken
down into 729 for dwellings and %
for rooms.
Added to the center's registry dur
ing the past week were II dwellings
and 126 rooms. This is 27 more
than were received the week before
Last weeks applicants are clas-
sifled as follows:
Veterans Nom
servicemen Persons Total
sss:ssii|;ss y: :ai|;:! iss|sis sn szoa - i,s
-unreasonabIs T,fAaff to q 4ftiS
distance to
sylss!eas is&%s.s g. aS s.
Desire to move
from public
,5,ssssl.I } hSaatns ii.!z--afab llsw Il l#E
~ inadeaustse -.GGo 4o7 7frtt a!'n62 4bs
Totals --------- 64s 100 757
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street NV, owner; builder not Sc
lected; Harvey P. Baxter, architect;
to erect one 2Story brick dwelling
6216 Thirtieth street NV; to cost
$4,000.
Modern Construction Co., 931
Longfellow street NV, owner and
builder; Berla and Abel, 1886 Con-
necticut avenue NV, architect; to
erect two 2-story brick and cindel
block dwellings, 7420-22 Eastern
avenue NV; to cost $4,000. !
Huitt A. Scott, 4807 Fitch place
NE, owner; Huitt L. Scott, builder;
j. S. Woodson, 4918 Fitch place NE,
architect; to erect two 2-story brick
dwellings, 566-568 Kastle place NE;
to cost $4,000.
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County Realty Boord
Picks Nominutina Group

j. Ingram Medley, past president
Of the Montgomery County Real
Estate Board, has, heen named by
PrssidensE. MuEaT as chsdsMRn Of
the nominating committee to pre-
sent slate for annual elections
Oct. 6.
Other members are Henry j.
Comor,} G. r. Graham, Frank L.
Hewitt ,sjft, and Hdspard g. .jHolfnead..
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(See FIRST AID, Page B-2)
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tSee GADGETS, Page BY
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-12-12

Aiken warned that there are mon
opoly-seeking elements of industry and
commerce that, in their lust for power
or money are determined to break the
strength of organized agriculture al
any cost, by any means.
Farmers 1aust organize and stand
by their organizations, he said. Go
operatives especially have brought to
the American farmer a higher degree
of independence and higher standard
of living. The co-operatives are free
enterprise in action"
Aiken is ranking member of the i'm
portant senate agricultural committee,
and was chairman of the. special sub
committee which held hearings in the
northwest on long-term agricultural
needs.
James E. Wells, Jr., commissioner,
Central Bank for Co-operatives, ad
dressed delegates Monday. He re-
viewed the progress co-operatives
have made over the years, and out
lined future problems and needs of
the co-ops.
The convention theme, "Conserva-
ton for Better Land, Cooperation for
Better Living was emphasized on
Tuesday by the speech of H. H. Ben
nett, chief, Soil Conservation Service.
Other Tuesday speakers were Roy
F. Hendrickson, Washington repre-
sentative of the National Federation
of Grain Co-operatives; Rt. Rev. Msgr.
L. G. Ligutti, secretary, National Cath
Ollie Rural Life Conference; M. d.
Guild, manager, Indiana Cooperative,
Inc; DR.. o. B. Jesness, chief, Division
of Agricultural Economics, University
of Minnesota.
On Wednesday, James F. Turner,
president of the National Farmers
Union ofSEngland and Wales and of
the International Federation of Agri-
cultural Producers, told about farm
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-12-12
Co-ops
Force Price Drops

Oslo-CNS-Me and delicatessen
prices have been cut 10 per cent by
Coop stores in Oslo and its suburbs,
reports Andreas Juell, president of the
Norwegian cooperative wholesale;
and private dealers have had to fol-
low suit. Prices have also been re-
duced, in response to a government
appeal, on margarine, soap, soap
powder, footwear and textiles, which
are produced in Coop factories. Pri-
Yates retailers and wholesalers have
met these reductions also.
Price reductions have been found
easiest to effect on products co-opera-
lively produced as we'll as co-opera-
lively distributed, Juell comments.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-12-12
MONTANA DAIRYMEM ON
SPOT WITH STATE
SANITARY BOARD

Following last weeks DISCLOSURES
concerning the quality of milk being
supplied Helena consumers by Capitol
City distributors, the State Livestock
Sanitary Board has announced that a
breakdown shall be forthcoming on
dairymen in all parts of the state who
are not observing pertinent sanitation
laws. This campaign will be carried
on as vigorously as the limited in
spection force of the board will permit.
This announcement plus pledge of
close cooperation with various county
and city health officers, was made
Wednesday at a meeting of the board,
at which time State Veterinarian, DR..
w. J. Butler, informed Helena health
officers that :. Immediate steps will
be taken to assure the people of the
state that no unlicensed or uninspect-
ed milk will be permitted to be sold :"
The board has also advised Montana
milk distributors, by letter, that they
must live up to state laws. Failure
to do so will be cause for suspension of
licenses, which are required under
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guaranteed, with federal funds, the
The committee in their November %
report asked Montana's two senators
and two representatives at. Washing
ton to Immediately institute an in
vestigation.
Deal Given GIs, Deplorable
Gas a direct result of this request
the chairman of the German commit
tee received a telephone call from
James R. Ridden, director of civilian
production at San Francisco, verify
ing the action of Sen. James Murray
in reference to an investigation. Mr..
Ridden stated that due to the very
limited personnel in his department
it was impossible to cover all the
complaints within his jurisdiction He
suggested that the German committee
contact the United States District At
torney for Montana, John B. Tansil
of Billings, and ask that an investiga-
ton be made by that department He
further stated that it was deplorable
the manner in which the GI's have
been taken advantage of all over the
United States, and particularly in
California
"The VFW committee contacted
United States District Attorney Tansil
at Billings and he has agreed to meet
with the German committee on Tues
day, December 8.
Liberty, Justice-Blind Words
"The VFW committee recently re-
ceived letter from CT in California
and herewith quotes a part of this
letter: I am very glad to hear about
the action of your committee in help
ing the GIs in Billings, Montana. If
more action was taken all over the
United States in the same manner, the
CT would feel that the Liberty and
Justice he fought for had a value
other than just blind words used by
grating, cold blooded, money mad
groups or individuals. 1t is a heart
breaking thing to realize that the
dollar is the controlling factor in this
country when all along you have
thought that fair play is the byword.
In many cases, like my own, families
are split up due to the housing short
age yet you can see in the papers
countless apartments and houses for
rent, but who can pay the price they
ask? How many Vets, with families,
;an raise 500 to $3.50 per month for
'ent? There is something wrong and
can't help but believe there are some
men in the United States who know
what steps to take to relieve this sit
1ation. I think the German commit
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turnout for a special election on a
single issue and observers labeled it
as a Democratic" victory since most
of the opposition for the reorganiza-
ton plan came from labor residential
areas in the city.
The Democratic spirit of Great Falls
citizens can be seen in the fact that
4,037 of them signed the petition to
put the proposition on the ballot but
only 2,226 voted for the plan. Many
were against the plan but wanted it to
get fair hearing and a decision be-
fore the people. OF the "a precincts
in the city 23 voted the plan down;
10 voted for it and one was split at
a tie vote.
Fourth ward, residential area of the
business and professional people for
the most part lead in the number of
voters with 46 per cent casting ballots.
This bears out the contention of po-
litcal observers that business elements
go to the polls more consistently than
labor and agriculture.
In the first ward, business district
and courthouse area 5 precincts voted
for the plan and five against. This
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-12-12

The report of the German VFW
committee, as supplied by the NEWS
LETTER follows:
"The German VFW investigating
committee has been moving step by
step in it's endeavor to bring before
the proper federal authorities the I'M
fair tactics of the contractors in the
Calhoun Lane subdivision at Billings,
where 21 CTS and their families stand
a good chance of losing their homes.
The German committee is also asking
federal authorities to thoroughly in
vestigate the operations of the Mon
tana agencies of the Federal Housing
Authority and Veterans Administra-
ton, who have endorsed the unfair
tactics of the contractors, and have
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-12-12

mean to them. The hearing will be
held before the Forest Service attor-
ney. Then it will be too late for us
to do much about it.
Another Version of Gland Grab"
"To me this is just another phase
of the attack on the Public Domain
The timber management boys have
taken over the Kootenai National
Forest. This plan continues for sixty
years without regard to the people
of Troy, without regard to free access
to the forest by sportsmen | believe
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diately denote this general to privacy
for publishing this little declaration of
war on his own motion.
We have American soldiers in
Greece, in Turkey, still some in Italy
and China John Foster Dulles, a
Russo-phobe Republican, has been sent
by Truman to France to confer with
DeGaulle. About what? Is this for
any other purpose than to promise
DeGaulle money, arms, transfer of
our German Occupation Force, if he
will use them to transcend the popular
forces, Socialist, Communist, labor
union, political parties in France.
We are voting 500 million dollars,
not in charity as the common man,
good hearted dullard, is told This
money is for direct intervention in
the internal politics of France, Italy,
Austria. The Communist factions in
Italy, France, Austria are the hun
griest sections of society. Is our mon
ey being sent to feed them? The mere
fact that Communism is so active
shows that there is much food in all
these countries. Men do not fight for
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-12-12

ing problems in England and Europe
M. w. Thatcher gave his annual
address to delegates on Wednesday,
James G. Patton, National Farmers
Union President, and Glenn J. Talbot,
North Dakota Farmers Union Presi-
dent were also Wednesday speakers
In his Monday report on the years
business, Thatcher said that earnings
of the cooperative hit their peak de-
spite drop in volume of grain handled
Volume would have exceeded all other
years but for the tight box car situa-
ton, he told stockholders. Co-opera-
tive elevators in the country were the
victims of inequitable treatment in
the distribution of box cars. Thatcher
said that Independent and line eleva-
tors were beneficiaries of the "arbi-
trary and misunderstood" car order
No. IA, issued by the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
Most outstanding operation of the
year, Thatcher reported, was the han
ding of flaxseed early in the fall of
1916. Charging that the farmers dur
ing that season were being 'fleeced''
by selling their flaxseed at the ceiling
price of 81, Thatcher said that GTA
selling all flaxseed consigned
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food unless they know that there is
food. Two million workers in France
know whether or not there is food for
which they are staging almost a re-
volution.
1t is horrid for Russia to force
German prisoners (and others) to
work for wages where put. 1t is
splendid for Schuman to drive Mar
seilles dock workers back to work
with bayonets (or the governor of New
Mexico to follow last week the same
plan) 1t is glorious for congress to
enact the Taft-Hartley bill 1t depends
on whose OK is gored. 1t is fine for
the king we support in Greece to ex
cute men for striking.
Mr. Truman is of honest purpose.
He recalls his failure as a haber-
dasher. He has an inferiority COM
pick He relies on Advisory commit
tees. These rely on the Brass Hats.
And the Brass Hats are controlled by
the exploiting capitalists, not just of
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ward had the precinct with the tie
vote and that perhaps typifies the I'M
certainty in the minds of some bust
ness people about the merits of the
Montana version of the commission
manager idea.
Every precinct in the second, third
and fifth wards where most of the
laboring people live turned thumbs
down on the plan. The second ward,
alone, defeated the city manager idea
by sol votes.
Democracy in Action
The whole argument over the COM
mission-manage plan was character
lied by very active campaigning by
both sides who endeavored to set forth
their viewpoints on the basis of prin-
ciple free from smearing.
The Great Falls Junior Chamber of
Commerce initiated the petition to
put the plan before the voters and
carried the campaign for it on the
plea that the city needed more eff
cient and money saving type of adj
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closer 10 SZU,UUu,UOU.
Thatcher's annual report high
lighted the first days session of the
association which has more than 100,-
600 grain producer members farming
in the Spring wheat areas of western
Minnesota, North and South Dakota
and Montana More than 5000 pa.
irons, delegates, stockholders and
farmers elevator managers registered
before close of the convention We'd
nesday evening.
The st. Paul municipal auditorium
was crowded Tuesday evening when
the cooperative held it's annual din
ner. Sen. George D. Aiken of Ver-
mont highlighted the dinner with a
speech in which he praised the Grain
Terminal Association for it's splendid
progress.
He said that Coop grain marketing
efforts give evidence "of persistence
in support of worthy cause-higher
incomes and better living for the farm
families of the northwest"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-12-12
Butte Sportsmen to Discuss
Timber Deal Further
BY BERNARD KING, Rocky M

By BERNARD Rocky Sportsmens Association
Association
hold further