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Show Jike0Mets Finds Altce to iioitse His Family TJr JEAN -GEORGE . NEA; Staff Correspondent NEW ' YORK, j Nov. 20 Wore than; ,20,000 i bitter . veterans are walking the streets of New. York! or sitting 50 deep at agencies and housing centers, . waiting ' . for apartments. ,faJVt nigbt they bunk with their wives and children In family parlors, par-lors, on cots In friends homes, or if they are single on blankets on the kitchen floor of any stranger who will offer a roof. 1 ,:"At daybreak they start apart- ' ment huting. One of the most helpful sources is 'the Officers Service - Committee. This volun-j . teer organization has a waiting list of 5000 and has set up offices .in a rent-free room off the lobby -of the Commodore.hotel. " Here servicemen s wives are working free of charge at a special switchboard, while other .volunteer workers, check lists. ' Some veterans come on crutches, some with pale, pregnant wives. -Some veterans, blind, are led in by relatives. All 'are seeking .apartments. Approximately 200 applicants go through this office every day.' On an average day, two are lucky enough to find homes. Hopeless Bottleneck Mrs. Herbert L. Carlebach, ' a vivacious strawberry blonde of abounding energy, listens to each atory and wrings her hands. She has taken the job as chairman of Officers Service Committee and is about ready to resign after four years .because of the hopelessness hope-lessness and bottlenecks in the New York housing situation. She is on the phone every three .. minutes and carries buried in her . pocketbook the addresses of perhaps per-haps two apartments that she brings out for the most desperate cases after long deliberation and weighing. , "We all do that." she said as she thoughtfully told an assistant to give her pocketbook apartment to a Navy commander who had been calling every day for five Weeks. "After all, some of them can stay with their relatives in the' living room. It's bad, but it's a roof." Mrs. Carlebach said she gdes to bed worrying about the veterans who come into her office. At this point, a stocky -corporal bounced up to this reporter, pounded bis 4 - ' , V f V v Like thousands of veterans trying; to find almost any kind of home to live in, Corp. Raymond II. Boutin and his wife, of Stratford, Conn., end up a day of fruitless search by feeding; pireons in Bryant Fark, N. Y. The housing situation is expected to get worse as more soldiers return from overseas. fist in the palm of his hand and in the army air forces, whose wife said: "Some one 'has got to listen to my story. Maybe you will. I have been to every housing bureau in this city. I just came from the City Vacancy Bureau, and there are nothing but cold water flats and old bug-ridden rooms. "I won't give you my name and please don't take my picture. If you did they'd put me on the bottom of the list. I want an apartment." The corporal brought over his little brunette wife. "We have : been going from hotel to hotel for weeks," the corporal cor-poral went on. "And I'm sore. We can only stay in one hotel five days and then we have to pack and move on to another. Not that the hotels haven't been swell, but I can't afford this life. My mustering out pay is almost gone and I haven't a job or a roof." A handsome lieutenant colonel Tempting, satisfying A-l pancakes they're mighty easy eating for sny meal! Easily fixed, too. Just add milk or water, stir, bake . . j and m-m-m how that buttermilk and straight wheat flavor hits the spot! am . m a i PANCAKE AND WAFFLE FLOUR llalsevSntsified lift If.! . - - -- with uccupaiion In Japan sat in a chair clenching her hands over her obvious prfcg nancy, told his story. In ten days they had moved four times. "First we borrowed a room In Manhattan for two night," the colonel said quietly." The City Vacancy Bureau then got us a flat in Brooklyn. We stayed there one night. It was dirty and full of cockroaches. We couldn't stand it. From there we camped in a Park Avenue apartment with some friends for four days, and finally went to a hotel when we had worn out what we felt was our welcome. Now we have to get an apartment. My wife goes to the hospital in a few days and we must have a home for our child." He laughed as he recalled the 10 days of vagabonding. "It's so L ad it's funny. You might add that my wife was overseas with the Red Cross for a year an a half." A lieutenant came into the room. He had obviously been there many times before as he took over the floor with an air of familiarity and talked to the switchboard girls in that old friend tone of voice. "I have found some apartments," apart-ments," he said. "They are just being renovated and the landlady is taking interviews. One room $150, two rooms $175 anybody got a million bucks?" He is a repatriated German prisoner, and had been living behind be-hind the German lines for two years. He leaned against the switchboard and ran his fingers through his hair. "The Germans could find us a place to stay with half the nation blasted to ruins, but New York can't find us a one room apartment. apart-ment. My wife, and I are living with her parents in Brooklyn in a two-room apartment. Her brother and his wife are expected any day. They are all swell people, but gee, we wajit some privacy." Others in the room were asked v. PORTLAND. .Ore., Nov. 20 UJ3 Admiral William F. Halsey to day had said he was. "eminently satisfied, with occupation procedure proced-ure in Japan andad not changed his opinion about the "drabi dirty, fUthym vermin-laden Japs. Tho commander ox ne iiura fleet, h)ghestrahkih naval officer- to vteit Portland since the warVend, Is en rdute to SanPedro where 'he will haul dawn his fleet flag Thanksgiving day before go- in v to" Washington. D. Cv for temporary duty leading to his retirement. re-tirement. He has spent 45 years in a naval 'uniform. .. Halsey quipped . that .someone "would have 'to run pretty last" to catch him for any more wai duty, although he was honestly sorry to- step out of harness. r Asked for his opinion on the size of a peacetime standing navy. Halsey said it "should be large enough and well enough manned so that any country would De afraid to attack us, and strong enough so that at the council table the,' world can depend on us." Halsey had no comment on the Pearl Harbor investigation in con-cress con-cress because he will be called later as a witness. He recalled he was returning from Wake island at the outbreak of war and would have been at Pearl Harbor "but for the grace of God and bad Weather." His flagship Enterprise was 150 miles offshore and his advance air group was in port 'Red Dean'- Here VFW Taking Action On Liquor Issue SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 20 (U.R) Action is underway by the Veterans of Foreign Wars to pave the way for Utahns voting on whether the state should have sale by drink or maintain the monopoly system of state liquor stores, according to Dr. Don C James, commander of the Sugar-house Sugar-house Post No. 3586. James who is also state senior vice commander, said today that his post and the newly organized Atomic Post No. 4355 have adopted adopt-ed resolutions calling for a refer endum on the issue. James contended that the public should have a chance to voice its opinion on the issue. He added that the present set-up is purely a state legislature proposition. He explained that it has been proposed to have all the posts in the state adopt resolutions on this issue, he said, however, that he was not speaking for the state department as it had not passed any resolution on the issue as yet The city of St. Louis is not in county. All laws passed by the Missouri Legislature "apply to the 114 counties of Missouri and the city of St. Louis." how many were in their apart' ments. "Four adults in two rooms." "Four adults and three chil dren and everybody has a cold." "were living in hotels." This goes on all day. Mean while the men are being dis charged in New York at the rate of 500 a day, 3500 a week. By June there will be 100,000 home less veterans. WT llLHAVE TO 2 fejj CHARGE YOU MOKE ) PL ( IF YOU HA VEMOPElTsi :.;, '...1' How much can you pay What would you think if the clerk at your favorite store asked to see what you had in your wallet before he decided what to charge you fora shirt? Or if, fust because you happened to have some money saved up, you were asked to pay more than other people for a haipcut, a ' movie ticket, ot ' even such important items as rent, food and clothing. That's exactly, the kind of reasoning UAW-CIO UAW-CIO .leaders are using in their wage demands on General Motors . They point to funds we have saved up over the years to expand and improve our plants and provide more fobs and more production. produc-tion. They say, "Give us that in higher General Motors does not go along with that kind of reasoning. People should not have to pay more just because they have a savings account ' Tor many years we have used our savings to expand capacity, create more fobs and provide greater values. And we ihtehd to keep on doing just that. We are, at present, embarked on a very important reconversion and . postwar expansion program. pro-gram. Our objective, now as always to produce pro-duce more and better things for more peopled GENERAL MOTORS . '. ' K i Wearing the ornate Pectoral Cross he received in Moscow, the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, aboje, dean of England's Canterbury Can-terbury Cathedral, arrives in New York to address the National Na-tional Council of American-Soviet American-Soviet Friendship. He is known as the "Red Dean" because of bis outspoken admiration for Russia. FBI Men Trailing. Old W Bandit ' OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Nov. 20 U.R) A sharp-shooting FBI agent directing the search .for Matt Kimes, notorious "Kid" ban dit of the 1920s, said today we would' have the fugitive back in custody within a few days. A dragnet- covering" the entire southwest was set out 'for Kimes,; "on leave" from, the state penl tentlary at McAlester since July 24. when he was given 4 60-day leave Of absence to prove he. could CO straieht. . - Directing the search for Kimes was D. A. i Jelly) Brycfc Who pre dicted last, night that Officers; would close in on the bandit with' in" the next few days. .Brycei who outdrew, and killed five men before joining therPPI. generally is regarded with respect by bad men of the southwest be cause of a boast that he could pull and fire a six-gun before "a coin he dropped from his forehead had passed, .his belt buckle. The search for Kimes was hr tensified after five persons iden tif ied him as the man who held up and robbed a Wewoka, Okla.. theater manager of $1,200 Sunday night. Previously, he was wanted in connection with, a $17,692 bank robbery at Morton, Aex., last Feb, 5. DAILY I HERAT .D tkovo. otah county, vtak p&rv c Vtix,l irisurLnLJt r tuksdav. November n. 4s . rHaE , England has a unique save-to-travel scheme. Shilling stamps bearing five per cent interest may be purchased throughout the year, pasted on cards which arc exchanged ex-changed for 10-shilling vouchers, and these in turn are good for railroad tickets at vacation time, according to British Railways. Overheated Furnaces Result In Two Fires Overheated furnaces caused two! small Provo fires Sunday. Wood was charred but no appreciable damage resulted at the home of W. B. Stapley, 495 North Sixth East, at noon. Firemen extinguished extinguish-ed a blaze causing $20 damage at the home of Charles Thorson, 671 East Fifth South. The "second blaze occurred at 9:50 p. m. FLUORESCENT REPAIRS See HURST First For Electrical Service MOTORS - WIRING REPAIRS 269 N. 5th East Provo PHONE 444 Army lhvestifjafes.pibt;On Commies TOKYO," Nov; 20 (U.R) American occupatilon .authorities today were -investlgaMnS a fantastic jre- poir.tnat.a smau group of. 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