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Evening star., 1949-11-19
Agency Assigns Three
To SIum Clearance

The Housing and Home Finance
Agency has announced assignment
of three additional men to its
new division of slum clearance
and urban redeveIopment.
They are Benjamin GlaSsberg,
who has been with the Public
Housing Administration in an ad-
ministrative capacity since 1913;
Gordon E. Howard, PHA econ
omist, and George D. Bell, Of
HHFA. who has been with hous-
ing agencies since 1885,.
Evening star., 1949-11-19
Home Godgets-
By D. M. Derwin

A new midget automatic gas
fired plant for hot-water heating
systems represents an outstanding
development in gas heating engi-
neering due to its unique con-
struction.
A zig-zag flow of water through
the horizontal sections of the water
circuit prevents internal circula-
tion within the absorption unit.
1t generates a Ipositve pressure
which assures rapid and continu-
GUS circulation of hot water
through the entire heating system.
1t has higher capacity in ratio
to size and weight than ever be-
fore attained in dependability. ef-
ficiency and safety. The heat
transfer OF this unit is deep
ribbed, staggered, with horizontal
sections of a patented design pro-
viding a lot of notwithstanding
surface in a minimum OF space.
A special gas-fired boiler and a
welded steel tank serve both as a
hot water storage and expansion
tank. A copper heat exchange
coil is built into the steel tank
and domestic hot waite Is heated
by the storage tank as the water
passes through the coil. A novel
simple arrangement assures maxi
mum efficiency in summer and
winter operation and permits use
LOT the combination system for
convector and for radiant heating
systems. Floor space required is
only 3x4 feet.
Standard ratings in which these
midget units are available cover
heating requirements Of small
homes or large residences. In
multiple dwellings and apartment
houses the heating load can be
economically handled by a group
of midget units. In this case, one
unit is installed in the kitchen or
utility room Of each apartment or
bank of units is arranged tn the
basement.
The tentant adjusts his own
thermostat to his heating comfort,
thus removing the heating re-
sponsibility from the landlord.
The outstanding features Of the
unit are its high efficiency and low
cost, which make it possible to in
Evening star., 1949-11-19
Old Office Buildings
Face Difficulties in
Air Conditioning Trend

An increasing number OF Wash
ington Office buildings are being
air-conditioned as a means Of i'm
proving their competitive position,
the Washington Building Owners
and Managers Association re-
ported today.
In a recent survey, the asso-
citation found that four Office
buildings now under construction
will offer more than $4,000
square feet of Office space to ten
ants-and all structures will be
air-conditioned.
The percentage Of air-condi-
toned building among the city's
older structures would be higher.
the association said, but for sew
eral stumbling blocks.
Wiring A Factor.
First, some buildings do not
have provision for ducts in the
duct-type central conditioning
plant; and, second, many build
tags erected in the 1920s are wired
with direct current, which can't
be used in standard units, the
association stated.
"This is one reason why more
than half of the 80 buildings re-
ported In the survey do not have
adequate wiring to complete air
conditioning" the survey declared.
"The manager of a typical build
ing of $4,000 square feet said 1t
will cost between $15, 900 and $20.-
900 for cable, switches and panel
boxes to supplement for wiring
to all Offices. One out of five OF
his tenants have air-conditioning
but to get it they had to spend
some 5000 to 5000. just to run
line to the basement for their
power"
"Shoreham Plan" Solution.
To facilitate transition to COM
plete air-conditioning. several
plans have been devised by owners,
the association said. The best
known approach is the so-called
Shoreham Plan.
The Shoreham Building con-
tracted with a manufacturer for
the necessary units. These are
installed when a tenant signs a
new lease agreeing to rent rates
10 to Is per cent higher than they
otherwise would pay. One ad-
vantage of this plan Is that it
doesn't interfere with the tenants
who already may have their own
units. Another advantage is that
the tenant pays for the improve
ment and in time, the building ap-
proaches or attains complete air.
conditioning.
Another plan favored by the
owner Of a small building permits
tenants to install conditioning
units only If they agree to leave
them when they move out. In con-
sideration, the owner makes no
extra charge for current so long
as the tenants remain.
Evening star., 1949-11-19
District Rental
Housing Picture

Applications for rental housing
received last week by the District
Housing Center, 1400 Pennsylva-
MIA avenue NV, amounted to
285, Of which 247 were new, and
80 were reapplications.
OF the total applications, 274
were for houses and apartments
and IL were for rooms.
In the same period. only ~
dwellings were listed for rent, plus
SO rooms.
Evening star., 1949-11-19
Home Building Record
Expected This Year
Throughout Nation

Home building in the United
States is heading for a record
high this year.
The Labor Department reported
this week that total starts Of non
farm dwellings during the first
10 months of 1949 amounted to
843, 100 units. ..
There is little doubt that the
total Of $4,000 dwelling units
started in 1925 will be surpassed
this year." a report Of the depart
ment's Bureau Of Labor Statistics
declared.
The agency noted that home
building held a record-breaking
pace for the sixth successive
month with 100000 new starts
estimated for October.
Highest October Level.
"This is the highest October
level in history" BIS stated.
"While it equals the preliminary
total for September, later infor-
nation indicates that the final
September figure will exceed the
100, 900 mark"
The steady growth in home con-
struction is seen in the following
figures on starts for the year:
January, $4,000; February, So
400; March, 50, 400; April, 88,300:
May, 95,400: June, 95,500: July,
So, 100; August. $4,000; September,
100, 900, and October, 100000.
Housing starts for November
may be somewhat lower than in
October. There has been a sub
stantial decline in building permits
issued in the Middle Atlantic
States, including New York, Phila-
delphia and Pittsburgh. Gains,
however, were reported for Wash
ington, San Francisco and Jack
son, Miss.
Aided by Rental Units.
The agency reported that
growth In construction this year
was aided principally by q sub
stantial rise over last year In
the number Of rental-type and
publicly financed units.
| For instance, the number of
rental unit starts through July
was 10 per cent above the same
period last year. The 32,700 pub
licly financed units started in
the first 10 months Of this year
were two and a half times the
$4,000 begun in the same period
in 1913.
The report observed that the
trend toward construction In
metropolitan areas, which began
several decades ago, was evident
during the second and third quar-
ters Of this year, when the enorm-
Gus housing squirt occurred"
Evening star., 1949-04-25

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Just one application gives your fobcs protection through
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doesn't Just coot Boconize is soe odorless, nonnfon
NOBLE horIess to all fobrcs, unaffected by light so
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up to suits and topcoot.
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Evening star., 1949-10-13

Lounge, returning things to nor-
NAL there.
It's getting so it's almost point
less to say home. Almost, we said.
X X
Les Compagnons, or the Nine
Frenchmen, if you'd rather not
wrestle with that "gn" sound in
the middle of French words, still
are living up to every word of
praise ever said about them. They
seem even better than before, pos
sibly because you may approach
them this time with the thought
that no one could be as great as
you remember them to be. They
are, though. The man who has
been going around here claiming
that this is the finest thing that S
happened to show business in 20
years now can make it 81.
These young men have a rare
feel for mood and an unsur-
passed skill at operating as a
harmonic unity. They can sing
a song of pathos in their native
tongue and, by infection and ex-
preston. make you think you
caught every syllable.
The forte of the Nine French
men, of course. is comedy, of a
special sort no one else brings
to After Dark entertainment
They get it vocally with witty
touch of harmony, facially with
the droll roll of nine pairs of
eyes. delicately with the move
ment of a little finger, or with
sheer slapstick of the widest sort
Their best number in this line
still is the riotous "Au Clare de
la Lune," which satirizes, with a
bludgeon, the styles of Cossack
choruses. symphony orchestras
and American swing bands. 1t
is the sort of thing that would
have the customers rolling in the
aisles, if Robert permitted rolling
In the aisles at the Shoreham
Blue Room.
Les Compagnons will be at the
Shoreham Gn the Blue Room at
9:15 and the Palladian Room at
1880 for limited time this trip,
through Saturday only. You're
crazy if you don't make arrange
ments to pay them a call.
x
The night before Les Compag-
mons arrived, George Price set up
shop in the Embassy Room of the
Statler and got his chance to
show that the knowing Snowman
ship of some veterans can cope
Evening star., 1949-10-13

More often than not this de-
partment is lucky if it can come
up with one quick answer when
asked what's good around here in
the way of floor show entertain
ment. Things are different today,
though. Right now the town is
loaded. Les Compagnons de la
Chanson are making the brightest
sort of entertainment you could
want twice nightly at the Shore
ham. George Price is over at the
Statler's Embassy Room, proving
twice every night that the solid
sort of showmanship he has spent
a number of years perfecting pays
off in customer joy. Johnny Brad
ford and Tony Romano are at the
Sazerac Room of the Old New
Orleans demonstrating that tall
ented newcomers to the cabaret life
do turn up now and then. And
Florian ZaBach has brought his
orchestra back to the Mayfower
Evening star., 1949-10-13
Hollywood
Continued From Page C-8.)

holding up Macs scenes with An
ME until he is available.
Dick Haynes certainly has a
loving wife in the former Nora
Flynn. She has booked a ringside
table for every night of Dicks
four-Week engagement at the Co.
conut Grove.
Farley Granger was no sooner
met by Shelley Winters at the
plane from San Francisco than he
came down with a bad cold that
vdeveloped into strep throat.
With All My Love" is now shoot
ing around him.
Eleanor Powell tells me her
mother is i'll, but nothing like
that" when I query her this morn
ing again about the rumors of
marriage trouble with Glenn Ford.
IF I get week off before I start
my Metro picture. We'll all try to
go to Palm Springs"
Gertrude Lawrence would like
Jane Wyman to play Gertie in
her movie biography. "A Star
Danced" Jane is a natural for
the role. She can sing, dance
and act.
Pat knight says Of her present
escort, Richard Fairservice-
"Cornel and met him in Homo
Evening star., 1949-10-13

with any situation. Mr.. Prices
problem at the supper show was
provided by hecklers-not anti
Price hecklers, but glowing cele-
brants who wanted him to sing
their songs.
This sort of thing can confuse
a lot of entertainers by throwing
them off the stride of a prepared
routine. Mr.. Price was not con-
fused. though. If the customers
wanted him to be a balladeer,
well. he'd sing their ballads. With
the musical help of Ted Straeter
and some occasional dialogue
coaching from the sideIines, Mr.
Price whipped through consid-
cradle informal concert, starting
with Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"
and including "Stardust," a pair
OF songs which must have been no
end startled to find George Price
singing them. Then, at the
proper moment. George was into
one of his solid special numbers,
to close and get off the floor in
burst of enthusiasm before the
song requesters knew what had
happened to them.
Informal or doing what he had
planned to do when he came out
on the floor, Mr.. Price is thor
oughgoing entertainer. His imi-
tations are built upon talent and
not the mere knack for aping
voices which supports lot of
latter-day vaudeville players. His
AL Jolson, Eddie Cantor, George
Jessel and Harry Richman are
funny business, all right, even if
lot Of audiences have seen them
before by now.
Mr.. Price has song about the
woes of filling out an income tax
form, too, which remains funny
even the second time it is heard
in one evening. Altogether, he's
just the man to keep the Embassy
Room in fine humor.
Evening star., 1949-10-13

to plan a tour to bring cheer to
the thousands of ex-Gis still in
the hospitals.
Margaret SULLIVAN prefers
Campbell Brath. Maggie. like
Claudette Colbert, hasn't changed
her short hairdo for IL years.
Now the cycle has completed it's
swing and she and Claudette are
fashionable again.
If you want to find Jack
Briggs on the RKO lot, go to
Robert Mitchum's dressing room.
The big attraction is Bob's good
looking secretary. Reva Fred
ericks.
Nelson Eddy is having a part
written in for him in 2. Wayne
Griffin's next production, The
Evening star., 1949-10-13

lulu" Dick is definitely not the
cause of their breakup. That
has been brewing for long time.
X X X
Dolores Del Rio is definitely set
for Ferguson" Her opposite is
the Latin american character
probably played by Jose Ferrer.
Cary Grant and Producer Arthur
Freed hope to cast an unknown
actress as Cary's wife in the pic
ture. The movie starts January Q.
Anne Shirley with Charles
Lederer at Romanoff's And are
they in love! Anne, back from
Mexico with her divorce, will not
resume her career. She prefers
to be Mrs. Lederer only.
Shirley Temple is the latest star
Evening star., 1949-10-13
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. G..
thursday. ocIQRER Ia - :, -

Big Moose" Mr.. Gable is wanted
for the title role.
Joan Evans, l5-year-old Gold
wyn star, has the longest finger
nails in almost an inch
beyond the fingertips. She's
been growing 'em for months as
Evening star., 1949-10-13

part of her Chinese getup for the
press photographers, ball on Sat-
urday.
tReleased by North American Newspaper
Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1949-10-13
After Dark
The Shoreham's Nine Frenchmen,
Statler's George Price Are Fun
By Harry Macarthur

Lounge, returning things to no
NAL there.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-01
Conference Talks
Over How Labor
Can Defeat Taft

Cleveland, Ohio (ILNS). = One
hundred and twenty-five delegates
from local unions in the Cleveland
area affiliated with the United
Automobile Workers of America,
AFL, met at the Hotel Hollanden
the weekend of Nov. 1918 for a
series of sessions designed to i'm
prove union leadership.
UAW-AFL International Presi-
dent Lester Washburn conducted
the opening days session and led
vigorous discussion on the best
methods of promoting membership
interest in local union meetings and
projects. At an evening session on
the same day, international Union
Educational Director Francis Hen
son presided at a political forum in
which the chief subject was "How
Labor Can Beat Bob Taft"
Delegates unanimously adopted
a resolution calling for the draft
ing of Gov. Frank Lausche to run
against Taft in the 1850 Senate
race. A committee was appointed
to personally call upon the COVER
nor and urge his acceptance. The
Sunday. sessions of the conference
were devoted to discussions on
|"Public Relations in Labor Organ
izStions" and EFFECTIVE Contract
Negotiating" The international
unions public relations director,
Ray w. Taylor, led the discussion
on the former subject, while In
t e r n tional Secretary Treasurer
Anthony Doria presented an in
tensive analysis of proper contract
clauses with recommended phrases
for all parts of bargaining agree
ments.
The UAW-AFL director of the
third region, Carl Smigel, arrang-
ed for the entire conference to be
filmed by experienced cameramen.
The finished movie will be used as
a permanent visual record of the
meet and will also be given wide
distribution to stimulate similar
conferences elsewhere in the inter
national union.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-01
Industrialists
Raising Big Fund
To Elect Taft

San Diego, California (LPA)-
More proof that industrialists all
over the country are raising a big
war chest for the reelection OF
their idol, Sen. Robert Taft (R.
Ohio) was brought to light here by
the San Diego Labor Leader.
The Leader printed copy of a
frantic appeal for Taft addressed
by the San Diego Employers Asso-
citation, Inc, to all its members
The appeal glorified Taft as the
savior of the employers, and called
upon them to contribute to his poll
tical fund.
eff Taft goes down to defeat,
the association cried, at will be a
demonstration of leftwing labor
political power which cannot help
but have discouraging effect upon
other congressman and senator's. q.
As the US. Senate is a national
forum, so it will be a national cat
astrophe if Senator Taft is pole
axed. :"
Then the document revealed that
spreading throughout the west,
from Texas to Washington, is a
spontaneous movement to assist
Senator Taft" 1t suggested that a
dollar from each of Several mill
ion business and professional men"
around the country be forwarded
to Taft, along with form letters
praising him for his purported
courageous statemanship." Similar
fund drives are being conducted by
organizations all over
the country. In New Jersey, rich
industrialists were reported to have
raised a half million dollars for
Taft, and in Chicago, employers
We're aiming at an equal amount.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-01

equipment and maintenance of way
departments. There were more
than a million and a quarter of
them in 194S, including engineers
and firemen. 1t takes more than
400 union agreements to cover
them all. The employment outlook
in all occupations is the same as
for engineers and firemen-declin-
ing but still plenty of opportun-
tiles.
One thing a railroader gets is
union protection and government
protection won by the unions for
their members. The unions, some of
which are independent, but many
of which are affiliated with the
AFL, scored some notable victories
ahead of the rest of labor.
AS early as 1926, Congress pass
ed the Railway Labor act giving
rail workers a statutory right to
organize and bargain collectively,
years before the NRA or the Wag-
ner act. The Railway Labor act
was strengthened in favor of the
unions in 1884. The Railroad Re-
tirement act and the Railroad I'm
employment Insurance act guar
antee workers over 65, with suf-
ficient service, pensions that aver
age 83 dollars a month, annuities
to the disabled, and unemployment
benefits. When you're a railroader,
you're in a solid union front.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-01
WOMEN IN
INDUSTRY

In the year ended July 81, 1919,
total of 370,0C0 women dropped
out of the American labor market,
the Bureau of the Census report
ed. Heaviest reductions in women
workers were in the operatives,
laborers, craftsmen, and foremen
groups.
Domestic service lost 144,000
workers in the period, and the
clerical worker group lost over
1875, 900. Sales and professional
worker groups also declined, parti-
cularly during the summer months.
Marked gains were recorded in
women's employment as farm
workers and service workers, and
in the proprietors, managers and
officials groups.
Connecticut has revised its min
imum adequate budget for work
ing woman without dependents.
The cost of commodities and SER
vices, as of March, 1949, amounts
to $1,609.70. The allowances for
group insurance, savings, and ap-
plicable taxes bring the total cost
to $1,866.57.
The new commodity and service
list, while basically the same as
that of the 1916 budget, reflects a
slightly higher level of living.
Most Of the changes are in the
clothing, recreation, and transport
alton categories. The provision of
occupational expense, group insur-
ance, and savings are also new
features Of the states 1949 budget.
:. :. !.
In the midst of putting down
revolutionary movements of var
ious kinds, the government of
Burma has found time to promul-
gate a new Mines Act considerably
improving conditions, the Burma
Gazette says.
First of all, no women are allow
ed to work underground and the
age Of young persons who may be
g m p oy e d underground without
special certificate is raised from
II to Is.
Under the new act the normal
hnurS nf WORK np tho cIIrfapo in
mines are reduced from 10 to s
hours a day and from 81 to A
hours a week. No worker may
work for more than hours with
out having an interval for rest of
at least one hour The normal hours
of work for those employed under
ground in mines are reduced from
8 to 8 day, and 40 hours will con
stitute the normal working hours
in a week.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-01
AFL Masters Saw
Raise
Phony Hiring Cry

Washington.-The AFL Masters,
Mates and Pilots Organization
postponed a strike on East and
Gulf Coasts until Dec. Is at the We
quest of the Federal Mediation and
Cancellation Service to guarantee
the delivery of Christmas and
CARE packages overseas.
But the Masters Union charged
that shipowners had raised a COM
pletely phony issue over hiring
practices in the industry.
Captain C. F, May, president of
the union, said that the organiza-
tion wants the same hiring prac-
tice agreement on the East and
Gulf Coasts as has been granted
to the union on the West Coast.
He said this contract guarantees
the right of shipowners to select
their own employees and safeguards
those employees against discrimin-
atory discharge.
The Atlantic Coast shipowners
have raised the issue that the con-
tract provisions set up so-called
rotation hiring.
"We charge" Captain May said
in a statement, "that the employ
crs are misstating the facts and
have raised completely phony
issue in vain attempt to deprive
their trusted officers of deserved
5ecurity and employment.
1--WE call upon the employers in
The public interest to get down to
business now and negotiate in good
faith"
The postponement was the sec
md agreed to by the union in an
,ffort to keep American ships sail
ng. Both were granted despite the
ielaying, union-busting negotia-
ions which began last September.
The union hoped that the latest
Dostponement will enable its COM
nittee to reach satisfactory
agreement without pre-Christmas
strike.