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Evening star., 1947-02-27
Veteran Housing Unit
Plans Breakdown on
Questionable Deals

The newly formed Metropolitan
Area Veterans Housing Committee
has taken steps to breakdown on
1y-by-night" real estate dealings
and to protect former servicemen's
investments In homes.
At its second meeting yesterday
In the District Building, the group
adopted q resolution recommending
that all advance payments made by
veterans on houses be held In escrow
in banks until the houses are COM
pleted.
The committee also appointed a
four-member subcommittee to In
vestigate Questionable" housing
projects now under way In the
Washington area.
Leonard Elected.
Organization was completed with
the election of Waldron Leonard, d.
rector of the District Veterans IN
formation Center, as chairman, and
Daniel A. Dugan, Arlington County
commissioner, as vice chairman.
The committee includes represent
atives Of Government, labor, veter-
ans organizations and the build
ing industry from the District, Alex
andria and Arlington, Fairfax, Mont
gomery and Prince Gorges Counties.
Named chairman Of the sub
committee to probe housing projects
was L. H. Neville Thompson, Dis
trict veterans representative. Serv-
ing with him are Mr.. Dugan,
Montgomery County Commissioner
Oliver Youngblood, and Col. Everett
A. Hellmuth, Alexandria council
man.
Mr.. Leonard said he would under
take an immediate survey of all
veterans housing projects in the
Metropolitan Area to determine the
number, type and progress. He also
said he planned early talks with
commanders of nearby Army and
Navy posts to urge them to provide
additional on-reservation quarters
for military personnel.
Other Recommendations.
OCner recommendations ask Cd
that:
Nonessential building be stopped.
Building codes and zoning laws
be studied with view toward re-
moving the shackles from builders
and developers.
The board itself serve rs an ap-
peal panel for landlords seeking
fair rent adjustments.
Temporary housing be studied to
determine which units can be kept
in operation and which should be
torn down and replaced with better
structures.
Others taking part in the pro-
ceedings included, for the District:
Maurice Palmer, Clark Daniels,
Edward L. McAleer and Frank
Howard.
For Arlington County: Carroll
Wright and Charles Moos.
For Fairfax County: James ].
Corbalis and T. j. Stockton.
Evening star., 1947-02-27
New Fire Envoy Named

DUBLIN, Feb. ~ (P.-Sean Nu-
nan, Irish consul general in New
York, has been appointed Fire Min
lister to Washington to succeed
Robert Brennan, who is returning
to ireland to become director of
broadcasting for Radio Eireann.
Mr.. Brennan has been Minister to
Warrington since 1898.
Evening star., 1947-02-27

|bade farewell to land where they
mapped for the first time several
thousand miles OF coast and raised
many more questions than were
answered.
Perhaps the chief value Of this
great experiment in mass explora-
ton has been to furnish leads for
scores Of later expeditions to study
on the ground what was seen from
the air. These men obviously have
barely peeked behind the white cur
tain Of fog and storm which drapes
the ice-ramparted Antarctic.
Some Flights Continue.
Eastern ard western groups are
still in the field for few more
flights over En6erby Land and in
land from Weddell Sea. But more
than one further week Of such
flights Is highly improbable. The
great continent remains q challenge
to men to penetrate beyond the
coast, as 1t has challenged for
nearly . century.
Admiral Cruzen emphasized on
leaving that the Navy has learned
invaluable lessons on tactical opera
tions In polar waters after taking
thin-hulled ships without serious
damage through the worst ice pack
ever reported In the Antarctic
The expedition is due in New Zea-
land early next week.
Admiral Nimitz, Chief Of Naval
Operations, sent the following mes
sage to the task force, according to
the Associated Press:
"The Chief Of Naval Operations
congratulates Task Force 6S on its
achievements and the determined
manner In which 1t overcame all
obstacles to those achievements
Your experience and training in
operations in polar weather are q
great asset to the naval service"
Evening star., 1947-02-27

fright not to give evidence against
himself.
The policeman testified he did not
arrest Harley until after Harley had
admitted carrying three knives and
turned them over after questioning.
The case was continued by Judge
Nathan r. Margold to permit fur
ther study.
Evening star., 1947-02-27
ADVERTISEMENT.
Beware Coughs
from common eolds
That Hang On

Creomulsion relieves promptly be-
cause it goes right to the seat Of the
trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden ph1egm, and aid nature
to soothe and heal raw, tender, In
famed bronchial mucous mem.
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
D bottle Of Creomulsion with the lm-
derstanding you must Ike the way u
quickly allays the cough or you are
10 have your money back.
CREOMULSI0N
epfc Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
Evening star., 1947-02-27
u. N. Gift Bill Stoned

President Truman yesterday signed
q bill freeing from approximately
s., ,500, 600 In gift taxes John b
Rockefeller, jr.'s, donation Of m
$500 900 New York City site for
the United NATIONS headquarters.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-02-20
PRESIDENCY:
Rush Curb

Mastering its full strength, the
Republican majority in congress
pushed for passage of bill by Rep
resentative Kitchener (Rep., Mich.)
for limiting president to two terms.
Denying Democratic charges that
the measure was Roosevelt,
the COP contended it was designed
to curb the growth of autocratic
power and put historic u. S. tradi-
ton into law.
Kitchener urged speedy action on
the measure to allow state legisla-
lures now in session to ratify it
as a constitutional amendment. In
addition to congressional approval.
three-fourths of the 48 states must
ratify before it becomes effective.
Should congress delay, Kitchener
said, many legislatures may adjourn
to 1949 before being able to act upon
the proposal.
Meanwhile, President Truman in
jected himself into discussion of the
presidency by proposing that con-
gress change the rules of succession
to permit the speaker of the house to
take over when the chief executive
gives up office and no vice president
exists. Under present law. the Sec
rotary Of state succeeds in such
situation. Elevation of the speaker
would permit the advancement of an
elective officer, Mr.. Truman pointed
out.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-02-20
Appliances Find Place in u. S. Homes

commonpaces the American
Opinion reported
wide for marketing interests.
American
radios while 1879 combination
electrical
distributed through 1871
cooking
with 1874 cent 1t will surprise
cooking
followed by coal and oil in that order 1875
combination cooking
of
type reigerao
rigeators
units comparatively the market they
aren in 28 cent of the homes
families heat
while Coal
cent of the
it. Oil used in slightly
reporting heating by
the home 1917 Of the homes reported that wood
was being used along with other type OF fuel
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-02-20
BUILDING:
Labor Pact

ALL building trades unions and
Associated General Contractors of
America set pattern for post
war labor and management re-
lations designed to minimize work
ing disputes and speed completion
of postwar construction.
Officials of the union and contrac-
tors disclosed their plan for indus
trial peace in a letter to President
Truman. Under the agreement,
parties to a dispute would submit
their case to a joint national con-
ference committee composed of rep
resentatives of labor and manage
ment for arbitration. The commit
tee would have no jurisdiction over
organization strikes.
The Associated Contractors repre-.
sent all branches of the construc-
ton industry but principally build
ers of commercial structures, high
ways, roads, bridges, dams and 9TH
er heavy projects. Unions involved
include carpenters, teamsters,
plumbers. roofers. sheet metal
workers, painters and paperhang-
ers, plasterers and cement fin
ishers, stone cutters, marble polish
ers, fathers, bricklayers, hod car
riers, common laborers, iron wcrk.
ers, 81 anite cutters. electricians,
boilermakers and engineers.
Other groups engaged on con-
struction projects also can avail
themselves of the services of the
conference COMMITTEES for settlement
Of disputes. IL was explained.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-02-20
ANTARCTICA:
Ne1u Discoveries

The vast frigid Antarctic lying
at the bottom of the world began
to take clearer shape as a result Of
the Byrd expedition. No less than
$4,000 square miles of hitherto UNI
charted wasteland were mapped
by naval explorers in the first five
weeks of polar operations.
Filters photographed and charted
4 great bays, eight major mountain
ranges, more than 20 islands, 3 inn
portant peninsulas and 1000 miles
Of coastland. Most important sim
gle discovery was vast bay cutting
deeply into the continent from
Franklin Roosevelt sea. 1t meas
ured 100 miles in length and 100
miles in width.
Now on his fourth antarctic ex-'
petition, Byrd remained sold on
the white-capped continent. He as
serted that it contains a treasure
house of raw materials which could
supplement U. S. resources depleted
during the war.
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is said to have increased his hold
ings in the New York Central to
$4,000 shares and bought up almost
$18,000,000 in Rock Island securi-
ties. Control of these two lines
would give him a run from New
York to Chicago to New Mexico,
from whence he could bargain for
track rights to the Pacific coast,
completing his dream of a trans
continental line.
An aggressive champion Of rail-
road modernization to keep up with
other competitive modes of trans
portation, Young repeatedly has as
sailed carrier interests for failure
to improve their properties. He is a
strong believer in advertising.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-02-20
U.N.:
How to Disnrm?

I Sick of war, the U. S. and Rus
iSia remained sold on world disarm-
ament, but as the two great pow
ers in conflicting camps, they locked
horns on procedure.
The atomic bomb remained the
mub of the problem. The U. S.
insisted that no adequate system of
collective security could be devised
until establishment of effective con-
troll over A-bombs, long-range rock
cts and other mass destruction
weapons. The Russians, on the 9TH
er hand, wanted the U. S. to sur
render the A-bomb and disarm at
the same time.
U. S. military experts reason that
should the U. S. give up the atomic
bomb without securing effective
control and scrap ships, airplanes
and tanks simultaneously, Russia
would have distinct advantage in
case Of future hostilities since she
could quickly remobilize her ground
forces. Thus, stripped of effective
communication and power, the U. S.
would stand empty handed at the
other end of the world.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-02-20
AID WATERFOWL COUNT

Army air forces has aided
the Fish and Wildlife service
of the department of interior in
taking inventory of the nations
resources of migratory water
fowl by carrying agents Of the
service on training flights to IA
cilitate taking the census.
Directives were given to IL
AAF bases to cooperate with
members of the Fish and Wild
life service to the extent that
their facilities and personnel
permit. Authorization was CIV
en- each Of the bases for service
agents to ride in military air
~~~~~ $4,000 sss4.asssksl sasssA~sssas'-s-'-
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-02-20
WORLD TRADE:
Hit British Pact

Britain renounced any intentions
Of negotiating restrictive trade
clauses with other countries follow
ing Secretary Of the Treasury
Snyder's protest to London over
terms Of an agreement with Argen-
tina.
Under the disputed pact, Argen-
tina would be able to draw on funds
owed her by Britain in years when
the latter sold more than she bought
from the South American nation, but
the money would have to be spent
within the British empire. In this
manner, Britain would prevent Ar
gentina from draining valuable for
eign currency, like U. S. dollars.
Snyder contended that the agree
mert violated the 3s4 billion dollar
loan recently granted Britain in that
it would prevent the free flow of
trade promised in the deal. Should
Britain extend the same provisions
to India, Egypt and other countries,
it would tend to choke free trade.
In answering Snyder, the British
government declared it had no in
tention to apply the terms to future
trade pacts.
Marriage Aid
Alarmed by the rising divorce
rate, the British Labor government
proposed anew welfare service de-
voted toward stabilizing marriage.
Bannered by the London press, the
proposal attracted the keen inter-
est OF parliament. ii
Declaring that the service should
not be a state institution, the gov
eminent suggested that it be de-
veloped through existing facilities of
religious and charitable organiza-
tons receiving state aid. In many
instances, wise counsel may solve
difficulties arising from tempera-
mental differences Or the ordinary
problems Of the day and prevent
marital splits, it was said.
At the same time, the govern
ment said, there is need of educa-
ton for marriage, parenthood and
family life through enlightened CO.
operation of parents, teachers and
pastors. Engaged couples should
receive specific instruction and
guidance before taking their vows,
it added.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-02-20

tional 1i1nelight by
joining in purchase
Of control Of the
vast Van Swerin-
gen railroad empire
for only $50, 900,
heads the Ale
ghany corporation,
which domino ties
the Chesapeake and
Ohio, the Nickle
Plate and Pere
Marquette.
Operating through
H. rrI> 0~
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-02-20
AUTO TRAVEL:
Shows Increase

A car travelling public is driving
more in the postwar world, with fig
ures for 1916 showing that the aver
age passenger car owner used 651
gallons of gasoline and drove some
9,765 miles, the American Road
Builders association points out.
With 1,359,244 fewer cars and
trucks registered in 1916 than in
1941, the nations vehicles used a
billion gallons more gasoline than
in the peak prewar motor year.
In 1916, highway gasoline con-
sumption rose to 25,200, 900, 900 gal
Ions for the nation according to in
dustry reports.
Recent surveys indicate that 3O.6
per cent of the nations families are
waiting to buy new cars. Some 81
per cent of the urban families of
the nation now own automobiles.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-02-20
Mishaps Take Big Toll

Home, sweet home continued to be
the most dangerous place in 1916,
National Safety council reported in
its roundup Of accidents for the
year. No less than $4,000 persons
were killed in their homes and over
5000, 900 incurred disabling injuries.
In all, 100000 persons were killed
and 10, 100000 injured in accidents
for 1916, with an average of out
Of Is people in the u. S. suffering
disabling mishap. Based on wage
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-02-20
PARIS:
Fashion Parade

Hens, ROSTERS, eggs and rabbits
were among the fashion themes Of
famed Partisan designers at the re-
cent style showing in the French
capital.
Schiaparelli set the farmland
motif in hats and on prints, using
cotton instead of silk, wool and syn
thetic materials. Mindful of the
shortage of maids the world over,
what with high wages prevailing
in other work, Schiaparelli thought
fully added de luxe aprons to din
ner dresses for home service.
Simplicity was the theme in all
designs, even in daring evening ap-
pare1, where it was effectively used
to bring out the most Of milady.
Smartly tailored dresses, tailleurs
and peplums were given big play,
although fancy prices, as high as
5000, put the originals out of the
working girls reach.
LIE Long produced knockout In a
classic pink formal slashed to the
waist in the front, back and sides.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-02-20
STATE DEPARTMENT:
Legislative Aims

While Secretary Of State Marshall
called for early congressional action
on his request for full aid to the
hungry in war-stricken areas over
seas, the senate foreign relations
committee indicated it would hold
Off consideration until receiving ex-
President Hoover's report on food
requirements for Germany.
Marshall made his request in a
statement to the committee listing
the departments legislative pro-
gram. Other action sought in
cluded:
Senate approval Of the Balkan
peace treaties signed in Paris Feb
ruary 10. s
Authorization for the st. Law
renee seaway.
Legislation for entry Of dis
placed persons into this country.
Tax exemptions for persons
making gifts to the U.N.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-02-20
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Accidents Kill 100000 in 1885, State Department
Maps Program; Seek Presidential Term Curb

EDITORS NOTE - When opinions
are expressed in these columns, they
are those of Western Newspaper Union
news analysts. and not necessarily of
this newspaper.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-02-20
FINANCE:
4 Conner

Canny 49-year-old Robert r. Young
continued to shake Wall street with
his aggressive advances for trans
continental railroad line.
Young, former New York stock
broker who catapulted into the ma
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-02-20

losses, medical expenses, overhead
cost of insurance for accidents, pro-
duction delays, industrial damage
and property damage from traffic
mishaps and fires, the economic
loss was estimated at over 51z bill
lion dollars. 49,
Automobile accidents claimed 49,
465 lives; falls, 27,800; burns, TO-
200; drownings, 1900; railroads, g.
e28; firearms, 31,100. and scheduled
domestic air travel, 1O7. Only ~
passenger deaths were recorded for
every 100 million passenger miles
covered by commercial air lines.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-02-20
GERMANY:
Plan for Ruhr

Thrice the victim Of German ag-
gression within the last IS years,
France will strive for the permanent
emasculation Of the reich at the
forthcoming foreign ministers con-
ference in Moscow.
Added to the plan for hobbling
Germany politically by breaking the
reich up into loosely federated
states, the French also propose de.
tachment of the Ruhr from the rest
Of the country. Source of 80 per
cent Of German coal and 70 per cent
Of German steel, the Ruhr has been
the economic base upon which the
reich has built it's powerful war
economies.
The French now propose that a
United Nations commission take
over the mining and manufacturing
resources of the region entirely, with
Nazi properties confiscated and 9TH
er German owners Unidentified.
Profits would be used for PREPARATIONS
with remaining sums used to finance
imports Of needed goods.
A local German government would
be set up to handle ordinary civic
and provincial affairs, but it would
not be related to any confederation
Of German states. Strikes, labor
disturbances or passive resistance
would be dealt with by an allied
commissioner If local authorities
proved unable to cope with them.
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~ Don Eddy

public stenographers, news tickers radio at
every seat long distance telephone service.
Sleeping cars will be far cry from the
familiar green-curtained Pullman with that
upper berth only contortionist could love.
New sleepers will be room cars exclusively -
single, double. triple and family rooms. Triple
rooms will have three -decked beds and be for
budget travellers. Single rooms will have beds
that slide out or fold down from the wall,
requiring no help from the porter. A Car of
single rooms will have two levels. upstairs and
downstairs. Every room will have private
Continued on page %
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ID ARRELlNC out of Kansas City on a fast
ID train one day last spring friend of
mine lost his card case. 1t contained only
lodge receipts and memoranda of no real
value. so he reported to the porter principally
as matter of record.
What followed was amazing, in view of the
indifference with which trainmen often treated
passengers problems during the war years.
You'd have thought I'd lost a fortune
he told me- Both conductors train and Pull
man - dropped other duties to lead a feverish,
solcitous search 1T was almost embarrass-
ing my friend chuckled The President
couldn't have had more attention.
freak example of courtesy, you think?
Don't you believe it 1t was part of deep
laid railroad plan to avert catastrophe. Here's
another illustration:
was on day coach out of New Orleans
few weeks ago when young mother got into
difficulties. She had just begun feeding her
infant from a nursing bottle when her other
child, a tot of three or four started fidgeting
uncomfortably and soon was demanding to
be taken hence quickly or else
No passenger rose to her rescue, but the
brakeman did He happened along, sized up
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DON'T SWEAR At THE PASSENGERS

Conductors, brakemen and dining-car
part of new slogan in railroading:
eight competition with courtesy -.
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THE RAILROADS AND YOU:

THE RAILROADS AND YOU:
Here's subject you're an expert on.
What changes would you appre-
ciate most in railroad service?
Commuters: Are your trains
too infrequent, too slow?
Businessmen: DO poor club-car
facilities, rough-riding sleepers leave
you tagged at the end of a trip?
Parents: Do you profit from
courteous help by train employees?
Vacationers: Is your fun marred
by lack of observation cars and
crowded quarters in coaches,
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They were headed that way six years ago.
At Pearl Harbor, 81 of the 1856 Class roads
were in receivership Capacity plus war bust
ness pulled rs out of the hole gave all of them
feeting if false, prosperity The bubble burst
when peace came. With profits vanishing, the
inevitable end appears to be financial collapse
unless volume of new business can be
captured.
"Lace Curtain Department"
MOST of the railroads troubles are due to
transportation evolution, development of the
airplane and the bus. But part of the railroads
trouble, analysts agree, is public ammoslty
resulting from years of high-handed treatment
of passengers, who are additionally regarded
as Improbable nuisances. 0t is good taste
i'm railroad circles to gibe at the Lace
curtain Department.; the important in
come is from freight One bait for business
is new passenger equipment Railroads have
ordered some 81, 100 900 900 worth of de luxe
rolling stock since W Day, most of it daz-
zlingy sumptuousby present standards, all of
it dramatizng the railroads principal advan
tages over its faster and cheaper competitors:
privacy, comfort and more room to move
around.
Super trains of l949 - perhaps earlier -
will have club cars which, of evenings, will
become motion-picture theaters, night clubs,
concert halls, rumpus rooms In dining cars,
tables are being rearranged to minimize crowd
ing and make service less awkward There
will be beauty and barber shops nurseries,
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the situation, took over baby and bottle while
Mama took a walk with Junior, and brushed
off her thanks with an understanding grin.
ing new institutions operating quietly behind
the scenes These charm Schools" called
programs in human relations, are set up by
railroads to teach their employees to be polite
to customers
Five - the New York Central Southern
Pacific, Illinois Central, Erie and the Pullman
Company - are already established. Nearly
every other major railroad is expected to fol-
low suit The ultimate goal is to have all the
10000 American railroaders win diplomas
for department.