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: BRL 0 (By -:Wireless)—Before leaving the ol ates: I fold | friends that. oné of the things | Yam to do over here was to try to describe what | 5% air-raid sirgns sound like, Well, Iwill try to. ‘doit.’ “They gape sound quite | e ‘siren,

tone has more of the old-fashioned | . automobile Klaxon in. it, except

ost ‘musical quality rather than being harsh or squawky. The siren sounds one minute for an alert, two minutes for the all clear. Cn an alert, the sound ‘goes from a low fo a high pitch, up and down every few.seconds. The result is that, if you aren’t close to it, it sounds much like a

train whistling fr a crossing— |

except that it just keeps on whistling for one crossing after another. The sirens are-scattered:all over London. They are roughly 15 hlocks apart An alert usually starts inn the south part. of London. you, then all around you, and then beyond to the north. It is like a series of great sound waves washing over the city. If you're indoors the sirens don’t seem loud. ‘ In fact, during my first few days here I didn’t hear them half the time. But when your ear gets tuned to them ‘you know it the second they start. My hotel. isn’t close enough to any sirens for them to be annoying, however, or to wake me up if I'm asleep.

The Music of the Sirens

I had wondered whether the sirens kept .going throughout a raid. They don’t. They sound the warning and then are silent until the all clear— and the interval may be anywhere from 10 minutes to all night. The all clear is announced by the same sirens, but instead of going up and. down they go steadily for two minutes in the same tone.

To me the sirens don’t sound fiendish, or weird. I think they're sort of pretty.

on ot i | bined "whirring of. th although. | they're on the same principle. The | of telephone wires on" a bitter cold night ‘tn, (| prairies. of the Middle V/est.: .

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You can hear the sirens to the south of |

By Ernie Pyle

The other: night. whos: the all clear: soi inded I lay Lon the bed listening. You could hear -hilf a dozen | going | #t once, e same pitch. The. .com= great horns out ‘taere in the of musica. ‘pulsation. ly like the lor ely. te ®

still diirkness ‘gave; ‘off a In fact, it sounded’ ex:

Now, . what ‘do’ -the: gins sound like? | Well, they sound:like ‘hunder in a Viole! it aiestiica)

storm! When they are very close’ they sound as ‘though lightning were striking within | a quarter

of la mile. They shake ‘he floor and rattle the win'dows.| Then as other guns start up, farther and farther away across the city, they sound Lke thunder

traveling away from: xe! il A Reol Affection for the Gups

In reading about the terrific noise of the sirens land guns in the great raids of last Siptember 1 frequertly wondered jus: how close you vould be to ‘the nearest anti-aircraft .gun. Well, thay are all around you. The fartiiest ‘one might oe only - a mile from you. People living in- the neighborhood of of 1e of ese ljguns come to have, a possessive: feeling about it. They Vork up a real “afection for it.” They call it “my. gun,” and tell stories-ahout it to their friends. And they get sore if it’s rnoved Ray In these last few woeks, with Some Lutstanding

.\éxceptions, London has been. fairly quiet while ‘the

Germans give one-night blitzes to other Enlish cities. {But «a great many of the raiders pass right over ‘London, terrifically high, on their way north. Our sirens sound a warning, appareatly when ‘the Germans cross. the coastline, usually about 6 o'clock in the evening, - Then about 16 miautes later our guns start up: : They ‘shoot sporadicelly for .an hour or so, and theh all is quiet.. Sometitzes the: all clear is sounded at this point, but more oft2n not.For | usually there is shooting again around: 11 p. m. ‘and 2 a. m;, and the all clear ordina; ily sounds about | 3. The guns naturally awaken you and awake. But more often than not I am so dreaming of Hawali and tropical moons, w} clear tells besieged. Lextion: that it can niore.

keep you ind asleep, ien the all relax once

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Teun’)

It gives us a certain amount of awed pleasure to announce that at long last something is being done about the tattered carpet in the Mayor's outer office and in the office of his Sepretary, Russell Campbell. Moreover, it is an all-out remedy.” The carpet is actually going to be replaced, with a (yow’ll mever. believe this!) a new one, The cost is to be about $150. This tattered carpet has been one of the things the Mayor hasn’t done anything about with daily precision: for his full term “of office. It is estimated that a whole generation of civic leaders .has tripped over the tatters at one tirhe or another, and their protests, plus a growing community safety: consciousness, induced the Mayor to act. As for Mr. Cainplell, he is overjoyed and suggests that for any ene who can use it the old carpet would make an excellent top soil dressing for a lawn or garden,

'"ASCAP and Churches Like That

THE GENERAL IDEA is that the current ASCAPBMI difficulties. over music affects only the swing bands and crooners, That is not true.

For example, the "Indianapolis Federation of Churches, which sponsors Sunday church services over WIRE, brought its musical selections for two months of Sunday broadcasts to the studios before Jan. 1, the deadline, and suggested that they be looked over. : It turned out that every last one of the 32 numbers hag ASCAP connections and, of course, were barred as a matter of course. However, the Federation wrote to ASCAP about its difficulties and were informed immediately that, if the station didn’t object, ASCAP would allow them to be performed WIRE agreed and the programs are being played as planned. But station officials find the whole thing, aside from this one incident, pretty much of a headache. These questions have to be answered for every single

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—It has not yet been sufficiently emphasized that in his message to Congress President Roosevelt moved definitely toward & shaping of the post-war world.

Earlier, his interest seemec confined . to assisting

Britain to ‘hold out. Now the ‘President is concerned with what

use would be made of Britain’s |

success in defending herself. He is pressing for a defeat of Hitler and the associated tyrannies, and he told Congress that the United States would never acquiesce in a peace “dictated by aggressors and sponsored hy appeasers.” In this, Mr. Roosevelt undoubtedly was trying not only to nip

sentiment in the United States for |

‘an early negotiated peace but to "bolster British morale, seeking to After all, the United States would be left in a most difficult

position should England, after successful resistance to |

invasion, make a peace with Hitler instead of cofltinuing on until he had collapsec. . But Mr. Roosevelt goes siill further. He is in terested in the kind of world that will be established if the British win. As a partner in the British resistance now, Mr. Roosevelt puts forward his post= war basis for the establishment of a “moral order”— “everywhere in the world.”

Healthy Peacetime Life

One point in this basis, a outlined in the message to Congress, is “world-wide reduction of arma-

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ion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression :gainst any neighbor— Ancther is the working out of economic understandings, that will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life. Those two objec‘tives, the first intended to abolish'the means of

~My Day

WASHINGTON, Wednescay.--There are many people. today who must have read in the morning papers, with great relief, that a limited amount of ‘will be-allowed to pass into Spain and unoccupied ce.. This will aid many of the helpless victims of war. last night w~ held our second big reception. All the departments, except the Army and Navy, are represented at this reception and if seems to me that. it is, on the whole, a very friendly : People - know. each: other, { an: informal, pleas--ant feeling. “The crowd stayed: to talk and {o dance, and I thought, the atmosphere was gay, ..- This is another beautiful day. i. started it early this morning by inviting. two guests for breakfast, in addition to my two old friends; Mrs. Grenville Emmet and Mrs. Frederick Stuart Greene, who were staying ir thé house. I had determined that I would only sperd an hour with’ my

guests, but I found that two hours had passed and I |

wag still sitting at the table talking. I had to say a

ther hurried. f ell . felt ogetic to Sibers hs | fo Bang he stm the at :

piece. of music performec: {1. I3 the music by an ASCAP composer? 2. Are the words by an ASCAP lyricis:? 3. Is the arrangement by an ASCAP, arranger? 4. Was it published by an ASCAP pub isher? If the answer is “yes” to any of thes: it's out.

About Signs—And Birds

SOME. ONE CALLED to ask whether the signboard |artists | who just finished the winter scane on a Coca-Cola sign on the point at Illinois snd Washington Sts. painted free hand or from a drawn pattern. This is what happened. They drew a scale on the huge signboard—it’s 42 by 50 feet, the largést in town —and | hainted free hand from that, using a 14-inch square colored model fo: a color guide. They've been at this sort of thing so long they make boljt and sure strokes, Incidentally, the signboard people say ‘that the new neon tubing’ in sighs has cut down the trouble they had been having with birds. Birds used to snuggle up to 'the old bulb signs to get werm in the winter, and they some'imes shorted the signs out. But neon tubing gives off comparatively little heat, sfd birds are showing a growing !disinclination to snuggle up to them.

Here and There

Richard Earl Imel .r., who achieved local fame the moment he was bora in Methodist Hospital, (possesses & document which is the pride of lis grandmother, Mrs. P. E. Wright, 1330 N. Tuxeilo St. It is |his| birth certificate, and it is No. 1, pf Jan. 1, which shows that Richard Earl was borr one and one-half minutes after inidnight Jan. 1. | The Marion County House Democratic caucus was held & couple of days ago in the House [of Represenatives chamber. and was. used for [the purpose of finding the chair Rep. Judson West sat in last session. He folind it, declared that it had more personality than ithe rest of the chairs, and grinned. Since he constituted a majority (he’s the only Marion County IL'emocrat in the Fouse), he made & little speech. (“It’s the last time I'll get to speak this session,” he said with a grin).

B By Raymond Clapper

corqust and the sesontl to abolish the, nied for it, mean some Rind of world-wide organization and .initernaticnal collaboration, They cannot be ¢ pproached in any other: way. Mr. Roosevelt may rot intend to declare war :but he clearly is going to declare peace anil put the United States into it ful! hilt. Mr. Roosevelt obviousiy does not believe [:ivilization can go on with the kind of: business seen [uring ‘the last two decades. Every country has been wracked by ecoiomic distress. | Heavy armamerit burdens are breaking the backs of the strongest industrial nations Weaker nations live in daily terror of being invaded as Norway and the Low Ccuniries were,

Fears “Another Dark Age

‘These. are not only wartime conditions. {They have been made peacetime conditions under the practice bf thes: modern tyrannies. "Relations beiween nations’ had. completely .broken down long before war was "de lared. This kind. of life, spread over most of the world and fastened on it permanently, could only me¢an a slipping backward of -civilization. Many think that it would. be impossible -for the United States to escape being pulled down if tie whole outside world were sinking into a new dark age. Mr. Roosevelt ‘talks:as if he believes that, and as if he is convinced that in this aflair. it is physically impossible for {he United States to. isolate itself. He evidently locks at the world a5 an entity, and thinks the United States must take a hand. in reshaping it or else su mit while others--the Axis combination—shape it. The first step in that program is th: informal Anglo-American Alliance which is now an {inacknowledged | fact. Around this Mr. Roosevelt apparently hopes to build a group as time and American productive effort make it possible. The stricture and

the mechanics perhaps are yet to take thape even|

in his ¢wn mind. But I feel certain that tae purpose Is there and the message to Congress: this week was the first intimation of much to come.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

sending vitamins, coneidnond in tablet. form, for the use of children in Great Britain will be discussed. Six American doctors have been working on a formula in consultation with th: British Ministry of Health and the British Ministry of Food. It has heen foynd that 156 rolls of “Vitariin Sweets,” which are sufficient for one child for one year, may be purchased for $8.65, for shipment to a child in Great Britain. [The British-American ambulance Corps will: receive donations for this purpcse. The conditions under which both children and iolder: people’ ave ‘living in England, requir: more -attention: to.c g. as. much. resistance : -#s possible. The taking of vitamins has‘ been proved t¢ be a good defense against any of the ailments which are sure to follow present war conditions. I have a letter from the Council of the l'eather Industry: of America, who féel that in makiiig my plea for the preservation of ‘wild bird life, I should have made i} clear that whe'e!firms have acquired in the past, a stock of feathe's, they should be allowed to

use them, for not being able to do so constitutes a)

serious loss. I can-see that this i; so, but I also reslize that it will. be’ ment, to know when these stocks are ex-|ing L to. id :

VITAL, OSTROM

County Committee Aid Asks - Co-operation in Talk to Women’ $ Council.

‘As. the Legislature went into session today, its Republican majority was warned’ by Henry Ostrom, Republican County Committee Treasurer, against “overselfishness” in stripping the Democratic Governor of all his power and dignity. Speaking - ‘before the Marion County’ ‘Council of Republican Women at the Columbia Club, Mr. Ostrom also urged both parties to join in a strong co-operative effort for the benefit of the public, but warned against any attempt to enter into bipartisan control of government.

tween co-operative party government. and bipartisan government,” he said. “In co-operative party government, we find that the traditional system of checks and balances is still alive and active in behalf of all the people, and that as Americans interested ‘first in our country we are ready and willing to join hands to the end that laws and procedure ‘which are definitely for the good of the whole electorate are by common consent agreed upon.

“For Selfish Ends”

“In bipartisan party procedure we find that members of opposite political faith join' together, not for ‘the eommon- good, but for their own selfish ends, either in power or money, and what they get does not ‘belong to either one of them and ‘does not spread out to the party members in any instance; and only the individuals themselves and their few statellites whe make the direct contacts are ever benefited. “This treacherous bipartisan procedure is one phase of our government which is doing more to under-. mine and emaciate the people’s idea of their representative government than any other single thing. It threatens the very foundations of our whole government structure. “Unless and until we eradicate and throw. out .all individuals, no matter of which party, who carry on in this manner, we will: not have that good government for which so many people, particularly in this last election, worked and gave their money to see come about.” | Discussing the patronage situa-

that under our present system it is necessary that the party in power distribute the jobs available to those qualified workers whose help and efforts aided in winning the election." °

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He added, however, that the office of Governor . . . deserves and should command the respect of all citizens alike. - The dignity, the integrity and the constitutional prerogatives of the office must be preserved.” “A realistic appiaisal of all the facts involved,” he said, “leads me to ask the question: Are we good citizens interested primarily in representative good government when we openly talk about stripping the ofire of Governor of all its power and historic dignity simply. because it seems to ‘be politically expedient at the moment? “Let us remember that the Democratic Party made that mistake in Indiana, and the people of the State now are looking to the Republican Party to correct that evil system.

Warns His Party

“The responsibility comes in the need for control, and if the Republican Party, through its leaders, cannot restrain itself from overselfishness, and discipline itself to the point where the people have confidence in its organization to carry out the ideas and ideals for which i! placed .ts money and effort last rall, then the Republican Party cannot look for a further vote of confidence. “Sooner or later, we as Anfericans, if our present form of government is to be maintained, must come to the place where we are going to’ think: of good government first; -and if. our leadership is not willing to-do .this and do it right soon, are we to blame anyone but ourselves if some foreign “ism,” even an" ‘ism’ which has. now set the world on fire, should take root in our country and overcome a vacillating, Hoar-sighted ‘localized, selfish ideal?”

POPE URGES WIVES TO BEAR CHILDREN

VATICAN CITY, Jan. 9 (U. P.) — Pope Pius XII has counselled wives to bear children despite the sufferings brought on by war. .a mass audience of ne the Pontiff Jin a purely pastoral discourse, said “Just as winter es ttlon spring, thus does pain precede the promised | joys of fecundity in the mysterious giving of life. , “For: you, dear newlyweds, the present hour is like a joyful hour in the sowing of & field prepared with love. “But you know that especially in these agitated times the sublime mission of giving life to innocent children who are destined to aid you and your country cannot be carried out without suffering. “You must know that God, who is infinitely good, will ease your pain and ‘comfort. you.”

INDIANA NAVAL DEPOT

Budget estimates for 1942 construction work at naval establishments

Burns City, Ind. The 1941 constuction estimates there were—shell loading. plant, $1,600,000; bomb assembly and- filling plant, $500,

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, $420,000; projectile

OP DISCIPLINE WARNS PARTY!

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tion, Mr. Ostram said he believes

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included a total of $3,759,000 for the | East Coast Ammunition Depot at|

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When you looked for one of these gentlemen at the Republican caucus yesterday, you usually found

all three of them together.

You will hear & great deal from them and about ‘them during the next 61

days. That's Rep. Frank Millis of Campbellsburg, House Majority Floor Leader, on the left, discussing strategy with Lieut. Gov.-elect Charles Dawson of Indianapolis and Senator William E. Jenner of Shoals, (right) . Senate majority floor leader. They are the Assembly’s boss-men, along with Speaker James M.

Knapp of Hagerstown.

There are only two women members of the House this session, both Republicans and both getting their first legislative experience. They are Mrs. Nelle B. Downey, dndianapolis, ety) and Mrs. Clara

Van Coons, Crawfordsville.

DINNER TRIBUTE TO TOWNSEND

State and Local Officials to Attend ‘Swan Song’ Affair Tomorrow.

Governor Townsend will sing his “swan song” tomorrow evening at the unofficial political headquarters of Indiana, the Claypool Hotel. * At 6:30 p. m. in the Riley Room, the Governor will be honored by state and local officials, Democratic party leaders and labor figures. The dinner is being sponsored by the Democratic State Committee, with the Democratic Women’s State House Club .and other party organizations assisting. Mr. Townsend will officially bow out. Monday when Henry PF. Schricker will take over the Governor’s office—and also a large attack of headaches caused by a militant, Republican Legislature. Mr. Schricker, who has served with Mr. Townsend for four years as Lieutenant«-Governor, will do the principal speech-making and a girls’ orchestra will furnish the principal music, a la Fred Bays, Democratic state chairman. Mr. Bays also said there'd be special: favors for the guests. Among those who will speak are Chief Justice H. Nathan Swaim of the Indiana Supreme Court; Mayor Sullivan; Frank McHale, Democratic national committeeman; Larry Brandon, secretary-treasurer of the Indiana Farm Bureau; John Bartee, secretary-treasurer of the Indiana State Industrial Union Council; Carl Mullin, president of the Indiana Federation of Labor; Alex Gordon, state chairman of the Brotherhood of Locomotive 'Firemen and Enginemen, and Miss Lillian Bobilya, president of the Democratic Women’s State House Club. Mrs. Charles Wilson, friend of the Townsend amily, will present him with ‘a gift. Hugh ‘Barnhart, State Excise Administrator, is chairman of the arrangements committee, assisted by Mrs. Edna Bingham, Democratic state vice chairwoman; Frank Finney, auto license: commissioner, and William A. Stuckey, member of the Indiana Public Service Commission.

TREATS SHYT IN HIP

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Jan. 8 (U.|

P.).—Shot ‘in. the hip 40 years ago, Charles Charmoskey, 72, appeared the other day at the county hospital for Heatmelt,

‘Caught in Draft’ Role May Be Real

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 9 (U.P) — Jack Chapin, rising young supporting player, was cast for. a prominent role in a fortncoming

picture, “Caught in the Draft,” with Bob Hope and Doroury Lamour. He went home elated cover the’ idea of playing a role in the same film as Miss Lamour. But when he get there, he found his draft questionnaire awaiting him, ahd he now wonders if he, too, caught in the draft, the real one.

ASKS STANDARD TRUCKING LAWS

Head of Association Tells Legislators Trade Bars vw Hurt Industry.

A plea for standardization of laws regulating bus and track transportation has been made to Indiana’s legislators. by John Quinn, president of the Indiana Motor Truck Association. He spoke to the legislators, here for the opening of the General Assembly, at a luncheon yesterday in the Claypool Hotel. The luncheon was sponsored by his association, the Indianapolis Motor Transportation Club, the Indiana Motor Bus Operators, the Indianapolis Inter-Fleet Safety Contest and affiliated industries. “Motor transportation in all its phases cannot do the job required of it under our national defense program, and for which it is prepared, without the immediate removal of trade barriers and the standardization of laws affecting it,” Mr. Quinn declared. He declared that Indiana laws present “no bottle-necks of this kind” but that other states have not followed suit. “Some of the states and, incidentally, one of our neighboring states, choke the arteries of commerce as they reach their borders,” Mr. Quinn charged. He referred to tax regulations, weight restrictions and

other matters, which he declared

should be standardized. Present at the luncheon were Orville Hoffert, Indianapolis, world’s| man champion truck driver, and Walter Cline, Indiana’s champion in the

semi-trailer class,

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Glenn R. Hillis of Kokomo, beaten by 3487 votes in the Governor race, says a recount is up to State Committee.

SERVICE AWARD TO FLANNER AID

Cleo Blackburn Receives Junior C. of C. Prize for Civic Activity.

‘Cleo W. Blackburn, Negro executive ' secretary ' of | Flanner House, today reCeived the annual Distinguished Service award of the In-| dianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce. f

under 36 judged:to have given. dis-

tinguished civic service to Indian-

apolis during the preceding year, was conferred at the organization’s Tuncheon .at the Canary Cottage. _ Mr. Blackburn .is - 31. Born in Mississippi, he graduated from Butler University in 1932 and took a master’s degree at Fiske University.

economics department at Knoxville College and also taught al Tuskegee University. He Was pastor of a church in Nashville, Tenn. ’

With Flanner Hotise 5 Years

' Mr. Blackburn came to Indianapolis to.develop a “folk program” for his people that could be used as a pattern in other Northern cities. He has been. associated iprofessionally with’ Flanner House since February, 1936. : Flanner House, a. Community Fund member, is‘ devoted to the “promotion of the social, spiritual, moral and physical welfare of Negroes, the establishment and ‘maintenance: of industrial and’ other lines of . philanthropy . among Negroes” as ‘the trustees deem ‘prac ticable. Previous Distinguished Service awards have been made fo Dr. C. G. Culbertson, director: of the Indiana University Medical Center research laboratory, in 1936; Henry T. Davis,

reau, in 1937; James PF. Glore, medical artist with the I.- U. Medical Center, 1939, and last year to Harry T. Ice, ‘attorney, who was 'recognized for. his active contributions to civic affairs. No award was given in 1938.

U. S. Leader Guest’

“The -award -committe¢ 'was composed of Ralph L. Swingley, chair- ; J. Russel] ‘Townsend Jr., and Donald ‘A. Morrison Jr. Mary S. Matthews, president of the U. 8. Junior Chamber of Commerce, was a special guest at the luncheon, manager of Indianapolis’ ice hockey team, and several of his players.

TWO LABOR GROUPS FILE AS LOBBYISTS

Two labor organizations, the In-

J{diana Industrial -Union Council, a

C. 1. O. organization, and the Labor Non-Partisan League of Indiana, have registered with the. Secretary of State's office as lobbyists in the Legislature. James Robb. is "president of the Industrial Union and John Bartee, secretary. Ora Gasaway of Brazil, is Dt 1 of the Non-Partisan leonard is sec-

The award, given to a young man|

He was Head of the sociology and |,

secretary-manager of the Indian-|. apolis Convention and. Publicity Bu-| .

.as' were Herbie Lewis,|.

Teckemeyer, Wilde Say ’41 Will Be ‘Strongest in. Many Years.

By DAVID MARSHALL

The Indianapolis real estate market—the most active in years during 1940—will be even stronger this

year. Residential and industrial proper- 4 ty prices will be higher. Rents for single family dwellings will be up, and a large volume of new subdivision building can be expected. This is the forecast of Earl B. Teckemeyer, president, and Urban K. Wilde, executive secretary, of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, in a report. ty the National Asso= ciation of Real Estate Boards. ° The predictions, it is made clear, are on the assumption that the national defense program will continue in its present general form. They do not hold good for such changes in condition which might arise, for instance, if the U. 8. should go to war,

Some Rents Up Already

Mr. Teckemeyer and Mr. Wilde report that residential and indus~ trial property prices are advancing, largely because of greater demand.’ Construction costs — both ‘labor and materials—are up over the same time last year. The material supe ply is described merely as “fair.” : Somewhat higher rents for single family houses are seen, with apart ments and business space rentals remaining near their present levels, Single family dwelling and heated apartment rents already ‘are -up about 5 per cent over January, 1940, Acting as a safety valve, dwelling construction should continue to mount in volume despite defense activities. Little change is seen in the volume of business space fonsiruction, which also was good n 1940. An increase is likely in apartment house construction because, accords" ing to the report, rentals now are at a point justifying investment: in rental housing at current construction costs.

Static Taxes Predicted

A significant change in the 1940 real estate year, Messrs. Teckemeyer and Wilde say, was the rise in demand for industrial properties. This resulted not only from the defense program directly but also from its repercussions on normal production. Demand and prices for industrial properfs2s are expected to be even higher this .year. Downtown business property and farm prices should change little, if any, in the next 12 months, they sai

pected to remain as they are now, (The actual interest rate at which first mortgage loans on new moder= ate-priced homes are most com= monly being made locally is: 4% per- cent.)

is all on the side of the builder. Capital currently is seeking loans, And the mortgage money supply, these realtors believe, will be’ ‘Thigher the rest o the year.

“WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (U. P).— Federal Loan Administrator Jesse H. Jones announced today that the Reconstruction Finance Corp. has made more than $1.000,000,000 in commitments for national defense materials and plants. ‘ National’ defense plants, he said, have absorbed Approximately $500,« 000,000 of the to Approximately $260,000,000 has gone: for stock piles- of strategic metals, while $140,000,000 has been committed for rubber purchases. Administrator Jones revealed that he is conducting negotiations looks" ing to the purchase of 300,000 tons of nitrates as a strategic ma but did not reveal any ‘details the proposed purchase. : He said that only one new. Latin American ‘loan is being considered now by the Export-Import Bank— a small commitment to Cuban sugar ‘producers tor laborers’ Wages,

TEST YOUR. KNOWLEDGE

1—Herbert Hoover was born in California, New. York or. Iowa? 2—What name was applied to President Jackson's small group of ‘intimate f who were said to have influenced the President’s political actions more than did his official Cabinet? 3—Name the famous document that begins “When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one. people. to -dissolve = the political bands,” etc.. : tiWiisre is the Hayden Planetar- ' ? 5—Name the Mayor of Chicago, Ill. 6—~Who- was: the first woman to swim ‘the English’ Channel? oil of vitriol is another name for banana - oil, - concentrated sul- , phuric acid, or Paris. green? i 8—Valona is a seaport in Greece, Albania or Italy? ' Answers 1—Iowa. X %—Kitchen Cabinet. 3—The Declaration of Independence. 4—-New York Sa. 5—Edward J. Kelly, 6—Gertrude Ederle.. 7—Concentrated sulphuric acid. 8—Albania. | gs 8's

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