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cally contested area between those
two worlds.
In this respect it is like Germany
a land of contention between East
and West in which the Russians
and the western powers alternately
strive to dominate or make a show
of trying to find formula for living
together.
u. S. Action is Limited.
Hungary, Bulgaria and even
Czechoslovakia are in the Soviet
sphere. They are subject to the
physical presence of Russian mill
tary power and the activities of Rus
sian secret police, as well as the
political maneuvers OF their own
Communists.
For that reason the United States
and Britain are compelled to limit
their reactions against the Hun
garian coup to protest notes, de-
mands for inquiry and threats OF
appeal to the United Nations.
The Russian-American struggle
in Europe is now continent-Wide.
The concern over developments In
Austria emphasizes the fact but
events have been moving in that
direction right along. The recent
organization of non Communist gov
ernments in Italy and France is re-
garded at the State Department as
a development amounting virtually
to victory for American policies IN
Europe and particularly in Ger
many.
High policy-making officials are
convinced that If the Soviets could
get a Communist dominated gov
eminent in either France or Italy
they would feel they had out
flanked" or jumped over the British
American barrier in the occupied
zones of Germany and Austria.
Possibility of Progress.
According to this view. they would
then be unwilling to make any kind
of reasonable settlement on Ger
many at the next meeting OF the
Foreign Ministers Council. Other
wise, it is believed here, there is a
possibility of progress on Germany
at the November meeting.
The Austrian treaty has been a
primary objective of American pol
lev for the last 10 months. Secretary
of State Marshall and British For
eign Minister Bevin fought hard for
it at Moscow at the same time that
they Jointly declared they would not
accept any pact giving Russia eco
nomic claims on Austria which
would allow it to reduce Austria to
a Soviet puppet.
Some of Gen. Marshall's advisers
believe the Russians would agree to
an Austrian treaty in the near fu-
ture if they could be sure OF control
one way or other-either by political
developments in Austria or by po-
litical or economic provisions in the
treaty. It was said here today that
the United States would not accept
pact under those circumstances.
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be suppressed in the !
With a heavy sigh
piled THAT is quite


With a heavy sigh re-
piled THAT is quite
British Maj. &c,
cumbe's request fol
documents involving h
made after the Russian
antgL Gen. v. P. Svirio
piled to a previous inquiry
documents already had bee
over to the Hungarian gov
and were not accessible.
Gen. Edgcumbe wanted to-
why the Hungarian governri.s Int
could not be asked to produce the
papers.
Smuggling of Funds Charged.
The newspaper Szabadsag at
tackled Mr.. Szegedy- Maszak, who
defying the new regime, bitterly de-
nounced the coup in Hungary. The
newspaper charged that Mr.
Szegedy-Maszak smuggled out OF
Hungary and to the United States
$4,000, 900 belonging to his wife's
family.
Gin Washington Mr.. Szegedy-
Maszak said "the whole story is
absurd" He said he and his wife
brought no more money to Wash
ington than was given them by
the foreign office for official use.'o
In his news conference, Mr.
Dinnyes charged that Mr.. Macy
had engaged in violent and terror
istic measures" while he was pre-
mier Pressed to be specific, he said
the former premier had been "in-
toxicated with the effects of vic
tory" in the November, 1945, cleo
lions in which his Stockholders
Party won 81 per cent majority.
He charged further that the
Stakeholder leadership continually
picked fights in Parliament with
other parties in the coalition"-the
Communists, Social Democrats and
Peasant Party members.
That, he said was the issue
which caused great discomfort
among old party members like my
self, who months ago looked toward
the events which happened just
now
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for a change in the present govern
ment. which came into power in
the fab of 1945 after an election in
which the Communists received less
than 10 per cent of the votes.
The present chancellor is Leopold
Figl, head Of the Peoples Party
which has the support of many
Catholics and most Of the peasants
in Austria. The government is a
coalition of all three parties
Peoples, Socialists and Communist
Socialist Karl Renner Is president
Both Socialist and Peoples Party
members and the predominantly
Catholic and peasant population OF
Austria would reject violently any
change in government as suggested
by Mr.. Fischer.
The informant refused to give
the names of the two cabinet men,
bers present at the dinner, but he
said their word carries great weight
in government councils.
Gruber's Removal Demanded.
In addition to telling the cabinet
members that when Austria wants
a treaty the only way to get it, is
to change the present government"
Mr.. Fischer demanded also the re-
moval of Foreign Minister Karl Cru
Der, member of the Peoples
Party, and Interior Minister Oskar
Helmer, Socialist.
DR.. Gruber has gone to the peace
conference in Paris and Moscow,
where he has participated in vigor-
GUS duels with Yugoslavia over Mar
shall Tito's Soviet-supported de-
mands for huge preparations from
Austria and territorial concessions
in Syria and Carinthia.
The informant said Mr. Fischer
also described as "unbearable"
Chancellor Figl and Vice Chancel-
lor Adolf Schaeff, a Socialist. Mr..
Fischer proposed that he be taken
into the government along with
Reinhardt MacHold, a Socialist and
deputy governor of Syria Province.
Mr.. Fischer was not available for
comment.
The foreign ministers In Moscow
were unable to agree on an Austrian
treaty and set up an Allied Com
mission to resolve differences. The
commission has been meeting in
Vienna, and its slow progress seems
to bear out Mr.. Fischer's alleged
assertion that Moscow is displeased
with the present Austrian govern
ment and Is seeking to delay sign
ing of treaty.
Commission Sitting Month.
The commission has been sitting
for almost a month, and has not
yet put experts to work or started
discussion OF German assets in
Austria, the biggest stumbling block
in writing a peace pact. Russia
claims large proportion of industry
and natural resources in Eastern
Austria as reparations from Ger
many, maintaining they were owned
by the Germans at the close of the
war. Her control of oil and other
such enterprises would give her a
stranglehold over Austrian economy
and American representatives have
said it would endanger the country's
independence.
Signing of the treaty would also
mean the setting of a definite time
of withdrawal of approximately U.s.
900 Soviet troops from Austria.
Russia has maintained it must keep
troops in Romania and Hungary to
guard supply lines to Austria, and
signing of the pact would also cam
eel the reason for maintaining these
large forces on foreign soil two years
after the end of the war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-08
BY the Assoeiafsd Press

The United States Navy took
longer to Lick the U-boat menace
along the Atlantic Coast in the dark
days OF 1912 than the Nazis them
selves expected.
Defense OF the shallow American
coastal waters was very easy" in
the opinion of the Germans subma-
rine chief, who outlined for Hitler
how he would stop the U-boat at
tacks that spread oil and bodies and
wreckage along 1000 miles Of United
States beaches.
The details we're disclosed last
night with the publication of reports
on Hitler's naval conferences for
1942-The German submarines year
of triumph.
The documents. captured in the
German naval archives, were trans
lated by the United States ONCE of
Naval Intelligence and made public
simultaneously in London and
Washington.
More than 100000 tons of Allied
SIupplll6 HClC ou1lA oO41A4S Ao1H, poo
Admiral Karl Doenitz, Hitler's sub
marine leader, predicted in May that
the springs easy killings would not
last.
"One of these days the situation
In the American zone will change"
he reported to Hitler. THE Ameri-
cans are making strenuous efforts
to prevent the large number of sink
ings."
Criticized U. S. Patrol.
He criticized professionally the
inexperienced crews of the United
States air-sea patrol:
THE American fliers see nothing.
The destroyers and patrol vessels
are travelling too fast most of the
time even to locate the submarines,
or they are not persistent enough in
their pursuit with depth charges
1.-THE shallow American cnast Wa
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alone, but by three other powers, the
United States, Britain and France.
This point was punctuated by
Washington dispatches quoting au-
thoritative sources as saying the
United States Government was pre-
pared to abandon peace-making eff
forts in Austria and keep occupation
troops in the country indefinitely to
prevent a Communist grab,
Regardless of what may happen
In Austria, however, the long
Soviet-sponsored Balkan fedora
ton" may be regarded as an accom-
plished fact. regardless of whether
it is every formality organized and
proclaimed.
Italy Seen as Next Objective.
In Italy and France the Com
munists lately have been squeezed
out of the governments.
Many observers believe italy may
be the next objective in frontal
Communist attack. Demonstrations
against American dollar tyranny"
and against the new non-Com-
munist government of Premier Al
eide de Gasperi are regarded as the
first skirmishes All week the Com
munists and Mr. de Gasperi's
Christian Democrats have been en-
gagged in clashes at Florence over
control of the Confederation OF
Labor. Today Giuseppe di Vittorio,
53-year-old Communist, emerged at
the helm as general secretary. Here
tofore, Socialists and Christian
Democrats had shared equally in
the labor leadership. Now they
must take a back seat
If the rumors are true about the
formation of armed Communist
underground in Northern Italy. an
other coup on Hungarian lines can
not be ruled out as possibility.
But if the Communists have
gained ground in Italy, they have
lost ground-and lot of tin
France.
Million Quit French Party.
A French political expert who Is
In a position to know estimated that
the French Communist Party has
been shorn of at least 1000, 900 ad-
herents within the past two months,
out of a probable peak total OF some
5000 900.
There has been no general strike
In France, but there has been an
endless series of individual strikes.
The Communists ordered some OF
the strikes. Government officials
say they instigated others.
A general strike might have re-
suited in catapulting Gen. Charles
de Gaulle, the Communists chief
enemy, into outright power. But
the series of smaller strikes also
appears to have boomeranged.
What the French people want is
food. lower prices, steady work and
all the things that come under the
head Of recovery. The action OF
the French people to Gripping
strikes has been adverse to the
Communists.
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80,002 Civilian Planes
Registered by CAA
By The Assoeiated Press

The United States and territories
had $4,000 registered civil aircraft
at the start of. this year, the Civil
Aeronautics Administration report
ed yesterday. Before the war the
total was less than 10000.
California led in plane regiStra-
tons with S,456, followed by Texas
with 1889. Ohio ranked third with
<.448. -.
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Chinese Reds Occupy
Key Land Approach 10
PORT Arthur, Dairen
~ The Asseciofsd Press

PEIPING, June Chinese Com
munist occupation of Pulantien. key
overland approach to soviet-held
Dairen and Port Arthur. was re-
ported today by both sides in the
Chinese civil war.
The exact circumstances Of this
DEVELOPMENT were in dispute, but it
was expected to have an important
bearing ON the future Of Dairen and
Port Arthur, on which q Chinese
government commission now is
negotiating.
Government Garrison Leaves.
Pulantient is on the Mukden rail-
way, IS miles northeast OF Dairen
and 10 miles northeast OF Port Ar
thur. PROCUREMENT press reports
said yesterday that after sitting
there for months, government gar
| rison had completed its mission
and withdrawn.
Today the pro-government paper
Hsin Min Pao said the Communist
18th division had moved in and that
the government withdrawal followed
Communist dynamiting Of bridges
20 miles farther north, threatening
to trap the government forces.
/ The Communist radio said Pulan-
len was occupied by infiltration
,tics, that 100 government soldiers
killed or captured in a short
1 and that other government
\ 'sneaked away in fright"
forced by the Communist
4euvers, the withdrawal makes
~ future land entry into Darien
and Port Arthur extremely difficult
for government armies.
Dairen Scheduled to Be Free.
If voluntary, it could mean that
the government has acceded to
Soviet in insistence that only civilian
Fofficials and a few policemen take
over the administration Of those two
important Manchurian ports.
Under the Soviet Chinese treaty
Of 1e45, Russia Is entitled to a naval
base at Port Arthur, while Dairen
is to be a free commercial port, but
both are to be under Chinese civil
administration. These terms never
have been fulfilled, the Russians
having held onto both cities since
the Japanese surrender.
Writing from Marking, Associated
Press Correspondent Harold K.
Milks said political observers In that
capital detected "stiffening of the
Chinese governments attitude to-
wards the Soviets," and that while
the government intended to live up
to the 30-year treaty of 1945, "the
patience of the Chinese people is
wearing thin as the result OF re-
peated delays in restoration of
China's sovereign rights over Dairen
and Port Arthur"
Britain's Ministry of Health's APP
peal for part time workers for
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Payments on your nome are
made easy by renting a room.
Renting room is made easy
by advertising In The Star.
Call National 5000. Open 8
am. to II pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-08

New Zealand has appointed sew
eral prominent authors to prepare
history of New Zealand's part in
World War II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-08

Britain's Ministry of Health's ap-
peal for part time workers for
Greater London hospitals brought
$40 volunteers In two weeks.
Evening star., 1947-03-15
VA Bans Red Tape to Speed
Home Loans for Veterans
By Robert J. Lewis

In November 1914 the Nations first CT Bill home loan
Washington
helped 56 veterans throughout the
country 5o9116 to set themselves home
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Foley Expects Record
In Rental Housing;
D. {. Activity Scars

Raymond M. Foley, commissioner
of the Federal Housing Admins
tration. said today applications for
mortgage insurance during January
and February point to a record pro-
duction of rental housing units in
1947 under the FILA program.
The FHA commissioner said 1t
appeared the building industry had
launched what promises to be the
largest volume of home construc-
ton in the history of FILA.
In the two-month period, FILA
field Offices throughout the country
received applications for mortgage
insurance on more than 45,500 new
dwelling units, largely under the
veterans emergency housing pro-
visions Of the National Housing
Act, More than 81 per cent, or
1880 units, were to be for rental.
OF the total rental dwellings,
2,513 units were in q District area
projects for which applications for
insurance on mortgages totaling
$19 ,293,500 we're filed.
AS of March 13 the local FHA
office had entered into commitments
to insure mortgages totaling 4$24,-
100000 for s29 projects under the
program to provide a total of 1912
rental units here.
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Weeks Building Permits Total
$4O4,725: Down so Per Cent

Robert H.
building inspections director totaled $04 $432S
from those issued the previous week
permits $4,000 to build 20 apart
me build dwellings
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In the District area alone, 1888
veterans have bought homes with
$43, 1926 500 in mortgages insured by
the Veterans Administration.
The veteran who wants to buy
gets quick loan service from the
local Veterans Administration Of
flee at 1925 H street NV.
Morgan B. Callahan, the agency's
District loan guaranty officer,
strongly advises veterans to wait
until prices come down. But if they
want to buy now, there's almost no
red tape.
Wait About Eight Days.
From the time an application is
made until a loan is approved, the
eligible veteran seldom has to wait
more than eight days under the
present "streamlined" system, Mr..
Callahan says.
Sometimes there are delays, but,
says Mr.. Callahan, they're not to
be blamed on the veterans agency.
Were set up here to run them
right through and we do just that"
Mr.. Callahan said.
The Veterans Administration to-
day explained the hows, why's and
wherefores of the loan process.
Steps to get loan are simple:
l. The veteran chooses the house,
new or old. that he wants to buy.
2. He goes to the local Veterans
Administration headquarters with
his original discharge papers and
applies for Certificate of eligibil-
ity." s77s*-
3. He takes the certificate to- a
bank or other home financing insu-
tuition and applies for loan. From
there on out, the lending institution
handles everything until the deed is
transferred.
Time required to search a title to
property in the District usually
delays the transfer for about six
weeks after the loan is approved.
Recently, lending institutions have
(See LEWIS, Page B-2J
Evening star., 1947-03-15
Godgets
Woterproofing Mix
Which Resists Acid
May Be Tinted
By HiIson Munsey

Spring and thawing weather forci-
bly, bring to the attention of the
homeowner weaknesses in the build
ing that admit moisture. Now is a
good time to check UP and prepare
for the sealing of those places be-
fore serious damage is done. The
major trouble is often in the base
ment, where water will back Up and
saturate the cement blocks or brick
of the foundation wall.
This dampness can be prevented
by waterproofing the surface either
on the outside or the inside of the
wall. An application of a water
proofing material will prevent fur
ther damage by sealing over all
damp spots, thus keeping the base
ment dry. 1t has a rubber base
which Is chemically treated to make
it permanently adhesive and so
hard that it cannot be affected by
water or wear.
This is not new preparation but
has been on the market and in use
for over 10 years with excellent re-
suits. The material has unusual
penetrating qualities that strengthen
the surface of the material treated
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Lawrence Hanson.
Named Executive
By D. T.. Builders

Lawrence Hanson, SO, legislative
representative Of the National As
sociation Of Home Builders, has
been appointed executive director
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1945. Mr.. Henry will devote full
time to the practice of law.
A native OF Richmond. Va, Mr.
Hanson has been a resident of
Washington for the last seven years.
He is the father of three children,
and lives at 10 Thirty-fourth
street Sc.
The new spokesman for the Dis
trict builders came to Washington
in 1910 to represent several trade
associations and for a year, start
ing in 1912, while on leave of
absence from this work, was en-
ployed by the Office of the Alien
Property Custodian.
He Joined the National Associa-
ton of, Home Builders late in 1945.
Before coming to Washington, he
was engaged in publishing work.
Mr.. Hanson attended the University
of Richmond and the University of
Virginia Law School, and during
and after that time was employed
as a reporter on the Richmond
Times-Dispatch and The New York
Herald Tribune.
The local home builders group has
256 individual and firm members.
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Trade Board to Make Awards
For Pleasing Design Thursday

H. Locraft, chairman Of The Com
mittee on Architecture and Archi-
tectural Awards, will read the cita-
tions. Brig. Gen. Gordon r. Young,
District Engineer Commissioner, has
been invited to present the certif-
Gates. '~
All types of buildings were eligi-
BILE for entry, including residential,
public and commercial structures.
Enlarged photographs of the win
ners will be on display in the hotel
at the time of the meeting.
Purpose of the awards is to en-
courage construction of architec-
turally pleasing buildings and thus
help beautify the Metropolitan Area.
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Permits Of 5000 and over for this
week, and number from last week,
follow:
builder not selected: d. Marcus Haliett s525
Piney Branch road NV, architect; to
erect 10, two-story masonry tiats, two
tn units tsss eashi 8 4sSs to 90 Nash street Me-
ornstein Construction Co. 24so Six
ssrnard snh stEess Nw ana stEse
story brick and cinder block dwellings;
d49S l49 to To- 1927 Morris road Sc; to cost
Lewis Memorial Methodist Church.
Fourth and Hamilton streets NV eMgnsr; Man..;
1oaf HpeF TRentiets Rer Street aW M
saaeations W sdst puldips I'd o $50 Hamilton street
;. G. GSuyes and {. E. cooley, ir;., In
slehc aY5 o srse eh 2sSs sGss ssGss' srss
Clay place NE; to cost ,$4s.0oo:
ovhsT hssr nj E9 @ Hs
place. Hyattsville, Md, builders; George 8.
Brock, s7ol Connecticut avenue nv. NV:
block, concrete and steel additions 70
garage; 2l3o 100 Twenty-fourth place NE;
10 l. e0St " ciarRe' CLARKE: 1897 Good Hope road Sc.
Reichenbach 1919 Good Hope road Sc,
cinder block dwelling; 1918 U street Sc; :
to cost $4,000.
William L. billiard. 10 Third street
NE. owner and architect; builder. not
selected: to erect one 2-story brick
and cinder block dwelling; 3005 N street
Lille KabaEoff, 37o1 Georgia avenue
NV. owner builder not selected; Edmund
W. Dreyfuss. 1919 Fifteenth street NV.
architect; to erect new show windows.
make interior repairs. .37O1 Georgia ave-
nue. NV. to cost $4,000.
John Donate. 800 @ street S.W, own.
er; A. P, Griden, Thirty third place s. e.,
builder; Earl Won Reichenbach, 1919 Good
HoDesroadd. Sc, architect; to erect one
2-story brick and cinder block dwelling,
1924 q street Sc; to cost S12, 900.
& Mrs. Elizabeth Grogan, Third street
and Massachusetts, ave. NE, owner and
-. lSee PERMITS, Page R-3D
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(See LEWIS, Page B-2D
Evening star., 1947-03-15

The Board Of Trade will an
nounce IL winners of its biennial
awards for meritorious design OF
new and remodeled buildings in
Metropolitan Washington at gen.
eral meeting in the Mayflower Hotel
at 8 pm. Thursday. There were 81
entries. H49 -.
Certificates will be presented to
the owners, architects and builders
of each winning building.
This years awards will be the
first in three years. Eligible for
entry in the contest we're structures
completed during 1914, 1945 and
1916.
In the award ceremony, Thomas
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Of the Home
Builders Associ-
alton of Metro
politan Wash
ington and will
assume his new
duties Monday.
Mr.. Hanson
replaces Ernest
F. Henry, a for
n1er 6 e n e r.a /
counsel of the
District Rent
Control Admin
istration, wfle
had served the
builders group
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The Rental
Housinq Picture

Applications for rental housing
were filed with the District Housing
Center, 14OO Pennsylvania avenue
NV, by 1929 persons during the
last week, of whom S42 were veter-
ans or serVicemen.
Thirty-five, dwellings, plus 17S
rooms, were listed for rent
Applicants were as follows:
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Realtors to Hear Carr

Edward r. Carr, new president of
the National Association of Home
Builders, will address luncheon
meeting of the Washington Real
Estate Board at 1890 pm. March
"a in the Mayf1ower Hotel.