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Evening star., 1951-06-23
Veterans Seen
As Enormous
Housing Factor
Agency Says They
Buy Seven Of
Every 10 Homes
By Robert ]. Lewis
Real Estate Editor Of the Sfur

Washington area builders now
have under way well over $4,000
single-family houses -- most OF
them either available under
'easy- y-credit" conditions or sold
under such conditions for de-
livery on completion.
A survey disclosing that fact
also pointed out today:
l. Almost 80 per cent Of the
houses completed in the first
quarter of this year were sold
under ''easy-credit" financing
conditions In effect prior to rs
suance of mortgage credit curbs
contained in Regulation TX" and
companion restrictions.
2. The number of houses COM
pleted and turned over to the
owners in the first quarter to-
tailed 1,700, in comparison to $500
in the previous quarter. The drop
was attributed largely to the nor
NAL seasonal decline experienced
along with winter building con-
ditionS.
Moderate Income Buyers.
8. Families of moderate means
continue to be the mainstay OF
the building business in this area.
In the last quarter. seven OF every
10 buyers had incomes Of from
$4,000 to $4,000. Six Of every 10
houses ranged in price downward
from $14,500.
4. Veterans constitute an enor-
nous influence on the home-build-
ing business In this area. At least
seven of every 10 homes were
bought by veterans in the first
quarter of the year.
5. When the supply Of homes
available on liberal terms Is ex-
hausted in this area, veterans can
be expected to be most affected.
6. Most of the families who
rented apartments in new build
ings constructed in this area dur
ing the last two years were re-
quired to pay between $50 and
$50 q month.
Z. Families having $4,000 yearly
income needed to pay about two
fifths of their income for rent.
Those who could do this, how
ever, were limited in number, and
therefore most of the apartments
built in the last two years were
occupied by families having more
than a $4,000 annual income.
Revealed in BIS Study.
The information was made avail
able by the Bureau Of Labor Sta
tistics on the basis of the third o1
Evening star., 1951-06-23
NPA Permits Builders
Ito Seek GIMP Orders
For Construction Items

The National Production Author
ity this week issued a regulation
designed to "clear the way for
the construction industry to come
under the Controlled Materials
Plan.
The Controlled Materials Plan
lis the Government system which
becomes effective July to channel
certain steel, copper and aluminium
where the Government believes
lit should go, under circumstances
imposed by stepped-up defense
activity.
NPA announced issuance of the
Controlled Materials Plan con-
struction regulation on Thursday.
1t said it was largely permissive"
in character. ,- .-
The new regulation "permits"
builders to seek defense-rated orr
J Continued on Page BE-, Col. %
Evening star., 1951-06-23
Summer Will Address
Montgomery Realtors

Alexander Summer, president of
the National Association of Real
Estate Boards, will speak at a din
ner of the Montgomery County
Real Estate Board at 8 pm.
Thursday In the Kenwood Coun-
try Club.
About 200 persons will attend.
board officials said, including John
R. Reeves, Maryland Secretary of
State.
Evening star., 1951-06-23
Suburban Store Leased

Morton's, Washington apparel
stores. has leased 1880 square
feet of space in a new Silver
Spring building being erected by
Sam Minskof & Sons, Inc, hav-
ing frontage Of 231 feet on Fenton
street and 100 feet on Colesville
road, the Minskof firm, located in
New York, announced today.
Evening star., 1951-11-30
By Jock Bell
Associated Press Stoff Write,

Senator Taft. Republican. oi
Ohio, could call the turn today on
a possible battle among Senate
Republicans over a new floor
leader, with overtones of foreign
policy and the presidential cam
paign.
Senator Taft, himself seeking
the 1852 G. o. P. presidential
nomination. had only to say the
word for an all-out battle between
his friends and supporters of Gen.
Eisenhower over the leadership
post vacated by the death yes
terday of Senator Wherry of
Nebraska.
Senator Taft, today en- route
back to Ohio from North Caro-
lima. chose to say nothing at all
about the leadership post while
expressing regret at Senator
Wherry's death. He is expected
to maintain silence until after
Senator Wherry's funeral in Paw
nee City, Nebr., Monday.
Senator Wherry'S death left
open the minority floor leaders
job-a job carrying with it the
prospect that its holder, if the
Republicans should win the presi-
dency next year, would become the
Evening star., 1951-11-30
|2-Year-0Id Boy Dies
In Y Street Fire

A 2-year-old twin boy died ir
the bedroom of his home at 421
v street NV. today as fire swept
the two-story brick row house.
His brother was seriously
burned.
The two children, sons of Mr.
and Mrs. Leon Spratt, colored
had been left with a 19-year-olC
baby-sitter, Augustine Adams, oil
222 w street NV, while both the
parents were working. The father
Is. is a barber. employed at 1902
Second street NV, and the
mother, rs, is a file clerk in the
Civil Service Commissions re-
tirement division.
Pvt. T. ]. Nagle of No. Il
Engine Company made his way
through the smoke and flame
filled house to the second floor
rear bedroom. where both children
were found on the bed. He passed
them through window to an
other fireman on a ladder, but
one of the twins had died before
the rescue. The survivor was
taken to Children's Hospital.
NeighborS said the baby-s sitter
was outside the house, apparently
on an errand, when the fire started
and was driven back by smoke
and fire when she tried to re-
enter.
Evening star., 1951-11-30
By the Asseeiated Press

SUDBURY, Ontario, Nov. 30
Provincial police insisted today
the "shoeless hillbilly" who
claimed to have wandered out OF
the New Mexico wilds to join the
United States Army is really
Granger, the ranger.
The police said they are sure
the Peter Granger who bewitched
American Army men with a tale
of how he never saw but one
woman before he buried paw
and decided to join up is. in fact
Peter Ernest John Granger, Is,
"a self-assured, well-educated for
est ranger from Northern Ontario
The United States Army lists
"Hillbilly" Granger as AWOL.
Far from being the unschooled
innocent child of the wilds he
claimed to be, said the provincial
police, Granger is a London-born
former officer in the British army
who turned up in Canada IN De-
Icember, 1850.
When army recruiters in San
Antonio, Tex. heard from Grain
ger November 3 that he never
saw an automobile, that he was
reared on goats milk and had
never seen an honest to-goodness
town, the Army men were capti-
vated. Granger was interviewed,
Evening star., 1951-11-30
'ShoeIess HiI|biI!y' Who Fled
|GI Life Identified as Ronoer

|lionized, taken riding in automo,
biles and shown San Antonio,
night life.
Then, he was sent to the Arm,
Proving Ground at Aberdeen, Md
On November IL, he disappeared
Granger was found Wednesda,
walking along the highway be.
tween Sudbury and Sault Ste
Marie. A tourist camp operator
called police because the man.
behavior was strange. Police sale
he was incoherent.
Friends and police identified
him as the Texas Granger from
newspaper photographs of thu
missing United States recruit
Both men had a missing index
finger on the left hand.
A psychiatrist recommended
sending him to a hospital fol
treatment of head injury re.
portedly suffered in World War II
Forestry officials said Granger
Joined their force here in August
telling them he was born in Lon
don. England, had served with the
British Army in World War II in
North Africa and Europe and
came to Canada in December
1850.
He left his job October 9 fol
"a medical examination at North
Bay and did not report again fol
work.
Evening star., 1951-11-30
Featured Reading
Inside Todoy's Star

All-WoMAN BANK-Mrs. Nettie
Pittmon not only hondles her own
money. but thot Of practically every one
else in the little town of ColIoo, on vir-
sinio's northern neck. With her ore
three other women. mokins up one Of
the few oII-womon bonk stoffs in the
Motion. How's business is told in a
story by Stoff Writer chorIes J. Yor-
broush on pose AIS.
LESSON FOR EURoPE2-The Ions.
time friendship between the United
Stotes and Conodo-one international
border which doesn't even require q
fenee-is discussed on pose Ala BY
Edward Boykin. The only sentineIs, he
soys. ore peoee and good will and on
occasional customs mon on ts>look.
out for smusslers.
Evening star., 1951-11-30
Taft Could Spark C.. O.P. Fiqht
Oyer Successor to WherryPost
Choice Of New Senote Floor Leader Nav
Stir Bottle With Eisenhower Supporters

Senate spokesman for a Republi.
can administration.
These two possible candidates tt
succeed Senator Wherry emerged
Immediately:
Senator Leverett Saltonstall Of
Massachusetts, who has classec
himself as an "internationalist
and is supporting Gen. Eisenhower
Senator Saltonstall, who was Sen.
ator Wherry's assistant. declined
comment.
Senator William Knowland o1
California, one of the leadine
critics of the Truman administra.
tion's handling of Far Eastern af.
fairs, who is supporting Gov. Ear
Warren in the latter's active bic
for the G. o. P. nomination.
Senator Taft might easily ado
"a third of his own choosing-o,
he might back either Senator Sal
Itonstall or Senator Knowland ir
"a move to avoid a party-splittine
fight. Senators Dirksen of Illi-
Inois or Brewster of Maine, out
right Taft hackers, or Senator
Hickenlooper of Iowa were men,
toned as possible candidates.
Republicans who are trying tc
get their party's nomination fol
Gen. Eisenhower lined up imme-
Idiately behind Senator Saltonstall
(Coo DEDTIPT TCAN1c r =
Evening star., 1951-11-30
Tax Collection Scandals
Plague Chinese Reds, Too
By the Assoeioted Pres.

HONG KONG, Nov. 30.-The
Chinese Reds are having troubles
with income tax collectors, too.
Communist radio and news re.
ports from South China have ap.
pealed for help in exposing ano
correcting corrupt and degen.
crate" tax officials and unscrupu-
lous merchants who are "damag-
ing the tax collection system ano
causing great loss of revenue tc
tthe nation"
Six hundred new government
officials have been rushed into
Kwangtung Province to "stimu.
late the people into helping eradi.
cate these miscreants."
The first reports results: Two
senior tax officers were executed
Evening star., 1951-11-30
Theodore Noyes Book
On Sale in Star Lobby

"our NotionoI copitoI ond Its Un-
Amerieonized Americans" book pub
lished lost week in the interest Of q
continuing fight for notionoI represen-
totion for the citizens Of the District,
is now on sole in the lobby Of The
star Building. The price is So.
This ottroetiveIy- bound book was
begun by the Iote Theodore W. Noyes,
longtime editor Of The Stor. 1t has
been completed since his deoth. Here
is on orsenoI Of foets ond powerful
arguments for notionol representation.
Here. too. ore some historical side
lights on Washington. embeIIished with
photographs ond with cartoons by the
late Clifford K. Berymon. Pulitzer
prize-winnins eortoonist. The book is
Q must for those interested in the
history and civic offoirs Of Washington.
Evening star., 1951-11-30
Truman Lecture on Accuracy
Follows Story on LuN in Korea
But President Himself Is Confused on Dute
Of False Armistice Report in World War

widespread confusion and had
previously drawn a disclaimer
from the White House.
At news conference yesterday
at which he read a prepared state
|ment declaring that there can be
no cease fire until an armistice
has been signed" President Tru-
man then veered off, and said he
proposed to give the reporters a
lecture on what he described as
fake armistices. He referred to
the well-remembered false armis-
tice story of World War but
got slightly confused in his re-
|cital, and in consequence it was
necessary for correction to come
from his vacation headquarters
later.
At the outset. the President
read this statement:
."I hope every one understand:
now that there has been no cease
fire in Korea and that there ca,
be none until an armistice ha
been signed.
1T is our duty to continue ou1
Evening star., 1951-11-30
Picture on Poge AS.

ord and ability, pledged himself
to do everything he could to give
Washington the best Police De.
partment the city has ever had.
Maj. Murray also paid tribute
to the man he succeeds, Mai. Rob-
ert j. Barrett, whose disability
retirement becomes effective to.
day. He spoke of Maj. Barrett's
exceptional ability as a detective
and his accomplishments as super
intendent and wished him "a
pleasant and well-earned retire
Iment."
Young Praises Murray.
Commissioner John Russell
Young. who presided over the Dis
trict Building ceremony. told the
overflow crowd:
THE new major came up the
hard way. He is young and full
of pep. He's got ambition and
the confidence of everybody in
Washington"
Commissioner F. Joseph Dono-
hue pledged all support to Maj
Murray, particularly in helping to
get better pay for policemen.
Engineer Commissioner Bernard
L. Robinson observed that the
turnout for the swearing in in
dicates the confidence in Mai
Murray of the entire citizenry OF
the District.
C0vell's Record Lauded.
Although Inspector Howard v
Covell will not be sworn in a.
executive officer until tomorrow
Commissioner Young commented
that Maj. Murray has in Inspec.
tor Covell an executive Office,
whose record compares favorabl,
with the new chiefs.
Beaming in the front row a
the ceremony were Mrs. Murra,
and their 12-year-old daughter
Rose Marie. Four sisters of Maj
Murray also were there.
In addition to District depart
ment heads and higher-rankinl
police, among the other spectator
were former Police Chief Ernes
w. Brown. United States Attorne,
Charles M. Irelan. Inspector MARI
Raspberry, head of the Parl
Police; U. E. Baughman, chief O.
the Secret Service: Prince George
County Sheriff Carlton Beall ane
States Attorney Carlyle Lancaster
of Prince Georges County.
Maj. Murray actually takes ovel
as chief tomorrow morning.
Evening star., 1951-11-30
Allies Refuse 10 Talk
About Withdrawals
Until Truce Is Signed
Also Insist on Joint
Inspection and Bon
On Troop BuiIdup
By the Assoeioted Press

MUNSAN, Korea. Nov. so.-Al-
lied truce negotiators today fatty
refused even to discuss the with
drawal of troops from Korea until
an armistice is signed.
They also made it clear the
q. N. command will not modify
its demand for Cd joint inspec-
ton teams behind the battle lines
and (2) an, ironclad ban on
strengthening front-line troops.
Eve are going to insist upon
those principles" Vice Admiral c.
Turner Joy, chief U. N. negotiator
told the Reds. 1--WE are not 60
ing to agree to immediate with
drawal of U. N. command forces
from Korea. Is that clear? The
sooner it is clear, the sooner we
will begin to make profitable use
Of the time Of this conference.
"Brazen Interference" Seen.
Replying to Admiral joys 30
minute opening statement at Pan
munjom, North Korean 1t. Gen.
Nam II repeatedly called the Al
lied proposals unreasonable and
impractical"
He said joint inspection teams
would be "brazen interference
with the internal affairs of the
other side"
Admiral Joy replied sharply:
"Only the side objecting to such
joint observation can have any
ulterior motive"
An official U. N. spokesman,
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols,
said there was no mention at
today's session of the comparative
quiet which has settled over the
battlefield.
mo Progress" Made.
The U. N. command communi-
que described the session in terms
frequently used during the long
deadlock over fixing the cease
fire line:
mo progress"
Negotiators meet again at PAN
munjom Saturday at II am. g
pm. EST friday.
Outside the conference tent,
Communist news correspondents
began talking today of speedy
armistice."
They unoficially suggested that
a simple" solution to the prob
lem of supervising the armistice
would be a supervisory commits
sion to police only the buffer zone
area.
Negotiators have only AZ more
days to settle armistice terms if
the cease-fire line already agreed
upon is to become effective.
Evening star., 1951-11-30
BULLETIN

KEY WEST, Fla. (P.-The
White House quoted today from
a hitherto secret document to
show that the 9th Army issued
orders Monday directing the
continuance of hostilities until
the signing Of the armistice
agreement"
Presidential Secretary Joseph
Short read from the document
and challenged the accuracy of
an Associated Press dispatch
from Korea.
This statement the Associ-
ated PRESS issued is designed to
confuse the American people,"
he said.
Evening star., 1951-11-30
Final Report
Brings Chest
Total to 9O%
BULLETIN

luncheon of this years Commu-
nifty Chest drive today heard
that 36l 1868 donors have pledged
a total Of s3.684.744, or 90.ss
per cent of the drives goal of
$4,050, 900.
Community Chest campaigner.
hold their final report meeting
today.
Chances are some solicitor.
still will have some follow-up ts
ido, even after this report, how.
ever. The Chest always depends or
picking up a good many dollar.
in late returns.
Montgomery County and Alex.
andria have topped their quotas
Leaders expected most of the othel
seven units to do it-or be within
striking distance-this afternoon
But they had their fingers
crossed about 'Washington's Busi.
ness I. This group, covering the
Districts larger business firms
has the campaigns largest quota
nearly SIS million. Last week, il
had just $1,187,0 of it, of 70 PEI
cent.
Getting another 100000 is quite
"a job. even for a big unit.
Evening star., 1951-11-30
Russia Agrees
To Secret Talks
On Disarninq
Vishinsky Accepts
In BeIIigerent Tone,
Success Doubted
BY the Associated Press

PARIS, Nov. 30.-Russia agreed
today to join secret Big Four dis
armament talks. The Western Big
Three said this was an encourag-
ing sign but added it would be a
tough job to make any real
progress.
The United States Political
Committee voted unanimously to
suspend debate on rival disarma-
ment plans pending the talks
which are expected to get under
way Immediately. The committee
asked a report on progress by De-
cember 10.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Vishinsky told the committee of
his country's decision to take part
in the talks proposed by Pakistan,
Iraq and Syria.
United States Delegate Philip c.
Jessup said this was a hopeful
development, but commented that
the belligerent tone of Mr.. vi
Ishinsky's acceptance speech indi-
Gated the task ahead would be
difficult Similar views were ex-
Ipressed by spokesman for France
and Britain.
The Western powers had already
agreed to talks in an effort to
resolve rival East-West plans for
disarming.
Blasts Jessup Speeches.
Luis Padilla Nervo Of Mexico,
General Assembly president, will
preside at the four-power meet
ings which are expected to begin
shortly.
Mr.. Vishinsky prefaced his ac-
ceptance with blistering attack
on previous speeches by DR.. Jessup
and others and a castigation of
the Western disarmament plan.
I'VE are ready to continue
our efforts and take part in the
work of the proposed subcommit-
tee." Mr.. Vishinsky announced.
Other nations in the 60-member
committee had waited two days
for the Kremlin's decision.
"The Soviet delegation is con-
vinced that its amendments (to
the Western three-power plan)
would facilitate and assure solu-
ton Of the task before u.s." Mr..
Vishinsky added.
Spokesman for the Western Big
Three already have denounced
these amendments as an attempt
to cut the heart out of the plan
and twist 1t into a renewed YER
sion of old Russian proposals.
1t thus appeared likely that the
talks would end in deadlock and
the whole problem be thrown back
to the full committee.
The key to the Western dis
armament plan is step-by-step
disclosure of weapons-including
atomic bombs-under a foolproof
international system Of vertical
ton to make sure all powers are
telling the truth.
Would Ban "Prying."
Soviet amendments would cut
out this section and substitute a
ban on atomic weapons plus a
one-third reduction of conven-
tional arms and armed forces
without any "prying by interna-
tional spies to check on compli-
ance.
Mr.. Vishinsky's acceptance of
the ASian-Arab plan came at the
end of long speech devoted to a
slashing attack on Allied dele
gates.
The Western powers, he assert
ed, had put forward a disarma-
ment plan which actually would
permit them to keep on rearming,
and John Foster Dulles, in a
speech IN Detroit, had proved the
aggressive character of "the North
Atlantic bloc" by calling for
maintenance of "shock forces"
around the Soviet TIpioY
Evening star., 1951-11-30
School Board Head
To Press for RuIino
On Corning Today
Sharpe Demands End
Of Dispute Intensified
By Questionnuire
By Colt HendIey, Jr.

c. Melvin Sharpe. president Of
the Board of Education, hopes to
get the board to settle today or at
a special meeting next week
whether School Supt. Hobart M.
Corning is to be reappointed.
The boards Personnel Commit
tee has scheduled a meeting for
this afternoon that promises to
be the hottest on record. 1t prob
ably will be a closed session as
are all Personnel Committee
meetings when appointments are
being considered.
1.-THE Personnel Committee has
had a month on this thting," Mr..
Sharpe said. I'm going to insist
that the matter be settled imme-
diately."
One thing sure to throw the
board members into a quarrel is
the report on the secret question:
naires sent out to some subordi-
mates Of DR.. Corning asking their
opinion about him.
Forms Believed Coded.
Instructions accompanying the
QUESTIONABLE said they did not
have to be signed. However, it
has been reported that the ques-
tionnaires bore a code" letter so
that the supposed anonymous
answers could be connected to the
sender.
The personnel committee, under
the Craftsmanship Of Adelbert w.
Lee. vice president of the School
Board, sent out the questionnaires
as part Of its evaluation Of the
record Of DR.. Corning. With the
evaluation in hand. it will report
to the full School Board which
then will decide whether to reap
point DR.. Corning to another
three-year term.
DR.. Corning is completing his
sixth year as school superin-
tendent. His present term in
the $14,00o-a-year job expires
March l.
Certain school officials who re-
ceived the QUESTIONABLE said
there were numbers linked in one
corner. With such a code, the
answers could be connected with
the person who answered.
Board members reserved COM
ment on this coding matter, but
some expressed belief that this
had been done.
Voice Disgust Of System.
Some school officials voiced dis
gust at the system which the per-
sonnel committee is using to rate
DIR. Corning's work.
"It violates all rules Of fair play
and is in variance with the rating
system used in the school system
for all other employees and in the
Government" one high official de-
clared.
It was pointed out that an ele-
mentary school principal. for in
stance, is rated by his superior
officers but must be furnished with
a copy of the finished ratings. He
then has the opportunity to dis
cuss with the rating officer any
marks with which he disagrees.
The school superintendent then
reviews and passes on the final
rating.
Even after that, the principal
may appeal to the Board Of Edu-
cation from the superintendent's
ruling and get a hearing. Many
have done this in the past.
Discussion at the personnel
committee meeting today also is
expected to center around just
how the secret QUESTIONABLE be-
came public last week when The
Star published it. The coded
numbers were reported added to
the QUESTIONABLE to check up on
any such leak.
Evening star., 1951-11-30
Murray Is Sworn In
As Superintendent Of
District Police Force
New Chief Promises
Best Department
In History Of City

Maj. Robert v. Murray TODAY
was sworn in as chief of police
before nearly $50 District officials
ranking law enforcement officers
and other friends.
The new chief, extolled by all
three Commissioners for his rec
Evening star., 1951-11-30
Adler Gives Special Show

TOKYO. Nov. 80 (P.-Harmon-
lea Expert Larry Adler gave a
special show in United Nations
hospital at Kure today for a SOL
dier who was getting a blood
TRANSMISSION. HE said he wanted
me to play for him while he was
getting the TRANSMISSION" Mr.. Ad-
ler said
Evening star., 1951-11-30
Reds Report on Subscription

HONG KONG, Nov. 80 (P). -
Official Red China reports today
said the national subscription for
weapons and planes had netted
$50 million In East China. II per
lcent over quota.