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inside. SO as to offer an even sur
face behind the fixtures.
The roof should be covered with
standard rough tongue and grooved
boards or p1ywood sheets, covered
with any good roll roofing and
having tarred laps. The exterior
walls are intended to be of flush
siding or tongue and groove applied
horizontally.
The plan of the interior is ex-
tremely flexible and can be changed
in any number of ways without
adding additional cost. The kitchen
can be moved back and one of the
bedrooms brought forward, or the
kitchen may be placed diagonally
across the house and both bedrooms
run along the one side.
In these days Of housing short
ages and high vacation house rent
ais, small structure Of this kind
takes on considerable interest to
the average person in medium cir
cumstances.
During the past four or five
years there has been great activity
in buying up and remodeling old
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reached and the current cut "a.
(ReIsased ~ ConsolidAted Nswe
Features. Inr.l
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builder and architect; to erect one one-
story brick and concrete public Ear91e;
I'LL Second street S.E to cost S44 600.
Jay Bee Construction Co. 100 southern
avenue S.E. owner; syndicated Constsge-
builders; qeorse ssntmysrs 22oe ! Z
story brick and einder block dEellnss:
1904 70 I524 Frankford street 81: TO
jay Bee Construction Co., owner; Syndi-
1905 70 l72S Frankford street Sc; 70
&c Charles s. Dulaney. IT.. and wife. 637
New York avenue NV. owners
Duianey. 1916 r street NV. builder;
Louis n. Moss, Alexandria, architect; to
erect 1a-story brick and cinder block
dwelling: 1000 Trumbun terrace NV; to
cost $4,000,
Mr.. and Mrs h. J. ciemons. 1921 As.
bury place NV. owners, builders and
architects; s6sa t. erect two story 6rifs e
cost $4,000. o. 80
J. A. Absher. 1924 W street Be. owner
and builder: Earl ron Reichenbach, 1919
Good Hope road &c. architect: to erect
one 2-story brick and cinder-block DWELL
ing; 3132 Thirty-second place Be: 70
George wasserman, S16 street NV,
owner; M. Cladny Construction Co., 631
street NV. builder: Arthur p. Starr,
1928 Connecticut avenue NV. architects;
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THE EVENING STAR. washington, D. G.
SATURDAY APRIL IL 1917

barns, stables and all types Of un-
used buildings.
But more often than not, the ulti-
mate cost of the alteration and
modernization, to say nothing Of the
moving, has been more costly than
the building OF small and un-
pretentious house.
When you commence an altera-
ton you must be ready to accept
slow progress on the part Of the
Workmen, because the very nature
OF the job requires caution and
figuring. When q good carpenter
Is set on the job Of straight cutting
and mailing and building from the
ground up without any unforeseen
Implications, he can cover lot
Of work.
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First Aid
For Houses
By Roger c. Whitmon

Question: We are planning TO
build q few one-room cabins, also
i've or six three-room cottages at an
inland lake. Where can we get
books Or leaflets ON different kinds
OF cabins and cottages? We would
like 70 pick out the ones we intend
to build.
Answer: You may be able to get
plans for . bungalow or small cot
tage from the Southern Pine Associ-
alton, New Orleans, La. Write for
their catalogue Of bungalows. Also
send 10 cents In coin to the Superin-
tendent OF Documents. Washington,
D. c., and ask for the Government
pamphlet, Farmers Bulletin No.
1873, Farmhouse Plans.
{ II you plan to build log cabins,
you will ind The Real Log Cabin, "
by Chilson d. Aldrich, informative
and well Illustrated. It was pub
lished by the Macmillan Co.. New
York, in 1884. Popular Science
Magazine, New York, has also pub
lished q book on log cabins.
Another Government publication.
Farmers Bulletin 1860, Use OF Logs
and Poles IN Farm Construction"
90 cents), might give you further
ideas.
Old Oak Chest Of Drawers
Question: / am going to bleach an
old, Walnut-stained oak chest OF
drawers and refinish it to match q
waxed birch bed. How should /
proceed? must do the work my
self.
Answer: First sand of the old
finish, or take it OF with varnish
remover. You can then use q pre-
pared wood bleach, following manu-
facturer's directions for use. When
dry, smooth with finest sandpaper
and dust of. But you should UNDER
stand that the grain Of oak is. not the
same as birch, and about the best
you can do will be. to match the
color as well as you can. Give the
wood coat Of white shellac, clear
Evening star., 1947-04-12

Feter Tonelli. Edmonston, Nd. OWNER.
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f{ssR 1a2ssseG "a 8 'Wsrs ~ Il
Yfss NsShodlee GhnrcS. Ssh = II =
slss.os 5; sEl,ft5 fgss ssa'ss aSss ,sssst E m
church $40 alinnssota aysnsis =. q p
Eiy !. Ireser and xsthsr Tsegsr o0l0
Dix street N. s., owner and hutldef: HAIRY
A. HrAndts 6211 Thirteenth street N.W.s
store: 403 sixty-dTst strsst NE; y cost
Fster Tonelli. Edmonston, Nd. owner.
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Mortgage Recordings
Drop 9 Pei ID Month

Small mortgage reourdines ii the
District during February totSled u.
e34 O0o-a drop of ~ per cent from
those in January, but 4 IA per cent
increase over those of February. 1916
the Federal Home Loan Bank Adj
ministration announced today.
The decrease from January,s total
followed the national pattern, de-
cline of 8 per cent having been re-
ported on a National basis Tor mort
cages of $4,000 and less.
The distribution Of local mort
cages among types Of lending insti-,
tutions during February was as fol-
lows:
Number Amount Pct.
. @Assosistions 6s7 sa17s.ooo 47.s
Insurance
g.5P; SPasasi:E sna Tru.. IS sss'e0o 1o.s
Indisiaasls hSH1sl' 4ss @ 1.sos.Soo os.SSo as.s 3
'tfnsaiuaiss Instisasions 1ll zAa,ooo "a
Total I:aaSa 100 100
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Dcrs 6insn. 4007 connseslc,ls *aysnsas
|NsW.e 0Nnerss b01ld9r mot 4e3eete ~
nunA n. ufeyfuss Architect. altsretions
Psrk Trsnsisr CO.. air Effth strest
NE. owner. Fred DreN Conxtruetfon CO..
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ssss sass so e soss s.sss3.9ssSsss 81 sSs asos E'shsa
Essxses b y: os9sEs; ESssf sE!sh s HossSl.
stAct: to relocAte lnYAtory, barber shop and
locker room a hAsement; Ia9 x1shteenth
Evening star., 1947-12-09
Day for Dark Horses
Martins Presidential Lightning Rod
Will Be Hoisted Here This Week

Foreign Relations Committee, ap-
parently content to wait on time.
This situation leads Martins sup
porters to feel that after all the
State has only one really national
figure to offer a convention frus-
trated by Taft-Dewey deadlock.
Takes It In Stride.
The good -humored Speaker takes
it in his stride. All the gossip OF
Washington eddies about his desk.
He hears that most politicos now
feel that Gov. Dewey has been
stopped and the dark horses will
have their day.
His years in Washington have
taught him all there is to know
about politics as the art OF the pos
sible, SO he is aware of his treMen-
dously important swing position be-
tween the conservative House and
the yeasty Senate. He will be more,
not less, in the public eye next ses-
sion.
So he Is available. Like Senator
Vandenberg he will not have to
campaign; in fact, it would hurt
either one to start swinging. The
lightning rod Is their weapon and
they will not abandon it for the axe.
They'll just be there-affable, expe-
rienced and, you can bet on It,
willing.
Evening star., 1947-12-09

live Stal1n!" and Constantine Brown.
Death to Gasperi!" The marchers
also cried Down with American i'm
perialism!"
The long files OF men marched in
exemplary formation. Many of them
wore American uniforms with red
buttons replacing the original brass.
All wore red caps, except a unit from
the north, which for the first time
displayed the Russian fur cap. The
paraders were unarmed, but the
Italian government knows that there
are caches of arms in Rome itself,
ready for distribution to Longo's
partisans at given signal.
The number Of Italian Communist
partisans, which were estimated last
Spring at about 10000, is said to
have increased in the last few
months to more than 100000, thus
almost equalling the combined total
of the regular Italian army and
police force.
Able To Move Quickly.
In fact, the partisans are said to
be in far better position than the
government forces; since they can
be moved quickly to any point where
the Communists wish to strike a
fatal blow at the government. The
best elements OF the regular army
are concentrated on the Italian
Yugoslav border, facing the diversified
4th Yugoslav Army, to prevent 1t
from crossing the frontier If Marshal
Tito should decide to create an in
cident.
The Rome parade Sunday was in
tended to give notice to the Italian
government and to the people Of the
Eternal City that the Communists
have the means to seize power If
Premier Alcide de Gasperi has any
illusions of carrying out "Schuman
coup" in Italy. The apparent failure
OF the French Communists to pro-
woke a civil war in France, which
Moscow hoped would place Maurice
Thorez in power, was warning to
the italian Communists.
American observers have been
more worried about the situation In
Evening star., 1947-12-09
This Changing World
Gasperi Unlikely to Meet Challenge
Bipartisan Forces in Rome March

italy than in France. The reason
for this concern IS that while the
French people stu possess some
resilience-and have men who are
not afraid to use strong measures
the Italians are In less fortunate
position. There Is no Italian strong
man in the real meaning Of the
word among the mont Communist
leaders. Furthermore, the presence
Of Red satellite forces on the eastern
border Of Italy constitutes a men
ace which the Rome government
cannot easily overlook.
Unlike France, there Is small pros
pect that De Gasperi will meet the
Communist challenge with force.
The treaty army" can hardly be
described as reliable, and the once
efficient military police-the car
abinieri-has already been infll-
trated by Communists. It cannot
be described as entirely reliable. A
small percentage of the carabinieri
are already members of Communist
organizations.
Togliatti Move Waited.
Under these circumstances the
activities of Palmiro Togliatti, who
stands much higher with the Mos
COW Politbureau than his French
colleague Thorez. are being fol-
lowed with deep concern In Wash
ington. He is expected to try to
take over the government by a
process Of intimidation. But in the
event of failure, he has in his
pocket the only portion of Italy
which Is important to Moscow-the
highly industrialized and mineraily
rich area north of the River Pc.
This is the wealthiest part of Italy.
Ever since the United States Sen
ate ratified the italian peace treaty
there has been an ill-concealed fear
in Italy that Togliatti would begin
his action after the bulk of Ameri-
can occupation forces were evacu-
ated, thus avoiding risk of conflict
with American troops.
The parade Sunday in Rome was
only an appetizer, warning to the
italian government that the italian
Communists are ready for a show
down which could plunge the coun-
try into civil war The show of
force was a reminder that the
italian Communists have what it
takes to enforce their demands-a
military force capable of backing up
Togliatti in his demands. Within
pistol shot Of the Italian border is
a Yugoslav army ready to give a
helping hand to the italian Com
munists, either by direct action or
inf1ltration.
AS a matter of fact, military OBJ
servers who watched the momen-
tous parade reported that the bear
ing Of some of the units showed un-
mistakably that they were neither
Italians nor occasional" soldiers
In all likelihood, these observers
say, they belong to the new crop OF
tourists" who have infiltrated into
Italy from Yugoslavia.
Evening star., 1947-12-09
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C. ".A-11
8.

Dorothy Lamour for . belt; you are
attacking Americas sense Of humor.
Millions Of Americans like to listen
to MIR. Hope. Millions chuckle when
he talks. So, If you are sincere
about your d - fool pool, you will
switch from attacking Mr.. Hope
and launch an educational program
which viii lift the standard Of l,umor
OF your country. You don't, by any
chance, think. sophomores, that Mr..
Hope doesn't know more about what
makes America laugh than you do?
All of you are young now. but there
will come time when you'll find
out-and the hard way, too-that
this country doesn't reward people
because they have pink hair or a
cute smile or size-19 foot, or any
other little odd item you can think
of.
This country pays of for class
and class alone. When I say Glass"
I mean some one who has, well, let's
call 1t the sensitive touch: some one
who knows what his fellow Amer
leans will pay for.
Now, you college children, 60 on
back to your Saturday night dates,
your meeting of the only girl, under
the only moon and your general all
round general badness. I was an
undergraduate once, but I know that
in your heart the world is too big
for you now.
But, let me tell you, you picked on
the wrong guy when you picked on
Mr.. Hope, who, incidentally, can
stand up right now in a free-for-all
fight and flatten about SO out of 100
of you.
Reckon I could make q club or
fraternity? I always dreamed of be-
ing called "Hasty Henry" of the
Hasty Pudding Club.
distributed by McNausht Syndicate, 1nc)
Evening star., 1947-12-09

in the Capital and has for 50 long
done party chores up and down the
country-he was formerly national
chairman-it took his colleagues
little while to realize he had acquired
his Why Not Me Union card. His
recent activities have convinced
them that he is dues-paying mem
ber.
FavOrite Sons.
Mr.. Martin returned to his native
Massachusetts last week end to
make the climactic speech at an i'm
portant dinner. Eyewitnesses brand
it a candidates speech and appar-
emily it isn't all he accomplished
back home.
It has been commonly accepted
here that Senator Saltonstall, for
mer Governor, would be Massachu-
sets favorite son during the early
balloting in Philadelphia. It is now
understood on high authority that
no decision has been made as be-
tween the Speaker and the two Sen
ators, Saltonstall and Lodge, but
that discussions Of the matter are
in prospect early next year.
1t is a fact that since the Repub-
lican victory of 1916 elevated Mr..
Martin to Speaker, he has enjoyed
power and publicity to a degree
which quite puts the two Senators
in the shade. Senator Saltonstall, a
modest man, has charmed on per-
Esonal acquaintance. But he has not
taken hold of the business of the
Senate or of any public question in
a manner to bring him national at
tention.
Senator Lodge, who quit to 60 to
war, returned here in 1946 by virtue
of defeating the late David I. Walsh.
He asked to be rated a freshman
and no fayors. Favors have been
done him by the leadership, which
respected his war service, but he
has been quietly working in the
background of Arthur Vandenberg's
Evening star., 1947-12-09

war was being fought, the one
man next to the President Of the
United States whom the troops
wanted to see was bobsled-nosed
fellow named Bob Hope.
At the time I am speaking OF there
were 100000 American troops In
this war and I am willing to back
the shot-and-shell Judgment OF these
men against any juke box-playing
sophomore who ever lived. Boys, let
me tell you something! When you
were reading headlines, he was max
ing them. He wasn't young when he
started bouncing all over Gods
green earth to give soldiers q little
lift. 1t would have been mighty easy
for Mr.. Hope to have stayed at home
and never to have looked at any
thing more deadly than Crosby's
horses or his own golf clubs.
Wonder how many miles Hope
travelled to do his bit for soldiers?
Wonder how many climates he had
to get adjusted to. Hot. Cold.
Medium. Fog. Sleet. Mosquitoes.
Bears. He gave it all a quick try
and everywhere he went men
laughed.
You lightweight little college boys
wouldn't know what a laugh can
mean, would you? It's not your
fault, boys, that when men were
slipping slugs in a As you were
dropping slugs in juke box. The
next time war comes around you
will all have to do it and then you
will know, when you haven't shaved
in II days, have no shoes on your
feet and no food in your belly,
what guy from home, with a lift
ing heart, can mean.
Think, Sophomores!
I also would like to tell you, you
campus-cressing witches, that when
you attack Mr.. Hope, you are not at
tacking q man who makes maybe
million year, or a man who wears
Evening star., 1947-12-09
On the Other Hand
Suggests Method of of,Getting at
Secret of Wage.Price Problem

his Economic Advisory Council. The
other is the staff OF the Joint (House
and Senate) Committee on the Eco
nomic Report. Neither has been
seriously charged and neither can
be fairly charged with having slanted
its findings to suit the pleasure of
its respective branch Of Government.
The suggestion then is that the
two Government groups sit as a
combined board to receive the evil
dence Of the workers economists
and the employers economists. That
should not require great deal of
time. The special pleaders, judg-
ing by their public statements, have
the necessary figures and other in
formation at their flnger-tips.
When the combined board had
taken the necessary time to analyze
the material thus furnished 1t might
find itself in possession of a secret
as important as that Of the atomic
bomb-the secret OF what to do
about wages and prices In the pres
ent emergency. Differing from the
atomic bomb secret, 1t is one that
needs to be revealed and quickly.
copyright 1947. Globe syndieate)
Evening star., 1947-12-09

0AAAAA&S"A SoA
dier of World
War II.
The paraders
were a portion Of
the Communist
partisan army
under the su-
prene command
of the Moscow
trained leader,
Luigi Lon 6 o,
who took the
salute near the
symbolic tomb.
Th ere W er e
shouts of Long
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neither organized worker or organ
lied employer-knows what this
means. It means still higher prices
and an acceleration of the imitation
now threatening national disaster.
Whether increased wages actually
will justify higher prices, the public
doesn't know. But the public has
reason to feel sure that higher prices
will be the result. They will be the
result unless the government finds q
way to roll back present prices and
freeze present wages.
New Reuther Proposal.
Walter P. Reuther, now in tri-
umphant control Of the automobile
workers union, has just made one
Of the startling proposals for which
he has become distinguished. It was
he who declared in advance of his
unions demand for a wage increase
last year that the demand would be
withdrawn if the manufacturers
could prove that the added wages
would make necessary an increase in
the price of cars. He wasn't taken
up on that. Instead, the wage in
crease was granted and the price
of cars boosted.
Speaking in Milwaukee on Satur-
day, Mr.. Reuther asserted that
American industry could hike the
total wage bill by 20 per cent with
out one penny increase in the price
index of our economy" The esti-
mated earnings of industry for this
year, he said, is 81, SOC, ,000, 900, after
taxes. So, he argued, industry could
cut prices an average Of 9 per cent
and still make profits of $780,
600 900, after taxes. That would
equal the largest annual profits ever
made before the war.
I'VE still prefer price cuts to wage
increases" he said
On the same day Charles E. Will
son, president Of General Motors, Of
fered a different method of meet
ing the inf1ationary situation. He
would abolish the 40-hour week as
the wage-scale base. This, in ef-
feet, would reduce wages, since it
would eliminate the higher overtime
| pay required after 40 hours of work.
Presumably the reduced wages would
make reduced prices possible, which
would be satisfactory to the public
mentioned above, If not to the
workers.
Special Pleaders.
| Organized labor these days en-
ploys the services of some Of the
country's ablest economists, some on
a consultant basis and some as full
time employees. The same is true Of
organized industry. In both cases
these economists, no matter how
pure they attempt to keep their
thinking, tend to become special
pleaders. The figures and facts they
turn up have a way of proving the
contentious of the group with which
they are associated.
There are two other groups of
economists now at work in the field
iof wages and prices. however, who
are not subject-not yet. at least
to this soft impeachment. One Is
the group serving the President -
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cent poll put Mr.. Hope at the bottom
of their list. ....-
I would now like to ask these
bobby-socked escorts just where they
get of. It seems to me that they
have picked on the wrong man, to
pick on, because the chances are
that when they are dead and gone
and they have worked out their
meager talents selling bonds, insur-
ar1ce and whatever else there is that
young men Of today sell, MIR. Hope
will still be remembered.
Jerks Knocking q Top Guy.
I want to get stern about this
thing. I don't like jerks knocking
a top guy. When these boys were
Is and 16 years old and hard
Evening star., 1947-12-09

candidate W h o
has two chances.
Like the others
he may profit
from q conven-
tion deadlock.
And due to leg
islation enacted
last year he is
next in line in
the Tru m a n
presidential sue
cession, as there
Is no Vice Presi-
dent.
The bustling
Speaker Is so
fopoi1ior q AO11ro
Evening star., 1947-12-09

junior SophlSti-
cation and my
senior m or tar
board. o n / y
when rugged in
this foolish
assortment Of
clothes could I
discuss the find
ings Of, 400 COL
lege students in
40 colleges con-
corning a come
dian Of the air,
n a m e d. Bob
Hope.
The 400 COL
legianS in g. re-
Evening star., 1947-12-09

members Of the
adninistrat ! o n
and members Of
Congress.
Top spokesmen
for organized
labor say a new
round of de-
mands for wage
increases is COM
ing. The pres
ent cost of liv-
ing, they say,
makes this nee
essary.
The poor old
public-that part
- ~ -1S~l a.
Evening star., 1947-12-09
By LoweII MeHet

Herewith a modest suggestion to
those who have some official re-
sponsibinty for dealing with the baf-
fling price-wage problem-meaning
Evening star., 1947-12-09
By Constantine Bro,On

A well-disciplined force of 10000
to Is, 900 men, accompanied by bugles
and drums, paraded Sunday in Rome
under the pretext of honoring the
Evening star., 1947-12-09
By Doris FIeeson

Speaker of the House Martins
presidential lightning rod will be
plainly hoisted this week.
Mr.. Martin is the one Republican
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McLemore-
Irked by College
Bobby-Soxers
Bv Henry McLsmore

At the risk Of looking foolish in
the eyes Of my readers, I am now
going to slip on my freshman cap,
my sophomore saddle shoes, my
Evening star., 1947-12-09
Bv' David Laurence

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Valley frontiersman., 1947-10-22

where the sink ought to be. the boys of the shop course took over.
 Boys Wire
 The masculine part of the home-planning job was wiring and lighting. The boys studied sizes of wire, wiring materials, number and-kindS of outlets and switches, circuit breakers, etc. The boys project didn't stop with the house, either. They also looked into good lighting for barns, garages and chicken houses.
 Once the boys have learned which wires to twist together, and which are better left alone, they will plan wiring and light ing for the houses designed by the. girls. They will work out their project from two angles learning how to wire a new house and how to improve wir- ing in remodelled home.
 Harry Winner, shop instruc- tor, and Miss Lois Winegarner, home economics teacher, are helping students plan the ideal home.
Valley frontiersman., 1947-10-22
Two OShowgOers
 Win Subscription

MISS Gloria CrousOre left the Valley hospital last week in time to attend a Friday evening show and to win months subscrip- tion to the Valley Frontiersman there. Alvin E. Veil also was in the theatre last Friday to claim his gift subscription.
 Next Friday evening, 10 gift subscriptions will be given to Valley residents. A months copy of the Frontiersman will go to the first 10 names drawn. It will not be necessary to be at the theatre to win subscription.