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Show Furniture For Vet HomesTo Be-Problem . , .. .. . - . BY IIELENE MONBERG Vnlted Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 4 (UJD the f civilian production administration admin-istration is wondering where the . furniture is coming from for the 1,200,000 homes . for veterans scheduled , for , completion this year.' ' A CPA expert on furniture production pro-duction told the United Press today to-day that CPA is now making a survey revealing the amount of lumber needed by furniture manufacturers to equip million veterans' homes this year. . This survey is expected to be completed com-pleted In about week. ."-Preliminary estimates of CPA show that 80 per cent .of the entire en-tire production of household furniture will be needed to equip 1.000.000 new homes. The remain' - ing 20 per cent of production must fill all other needs. At the. some time, it appears iat the current production rate - of the industry, on which these figures aretbased, is steadily de clining. Many furniture concerns are already closing down or wonting wont-ing shorter hours because of the critical lumber situation, accord ing to tne tfA ouiciai. ,,'For example, CPA Is setting aside most of the production of plywood for prefabricated and other housing. Plywood, it hap- pens, is also used extensively in the manufacture of radios, lug gage and trunks, and many types - of furniture. -Will CPA set aside a certain percentage of furniture manufae .ture to insure the furnishing of . veterans new homes? The answer is no. -The agency hopes that f urni ture dealers will see that veterans vet-erans are taken care of without orders from the government "We hone veterans' needs can be filled In the good old American way, the CPA spokesman said. . Meanwhile, Charles Woodruff, acting director of the new cfa construction division, told a reporter re-porter that the new permits granted grant-ed contractors of commercial and industrial construction would not carry priorities. Ickes' Notes On Pauley Questioned . WASHINGTON, April 4 (U.R) The case of Edwin W. Pauley and his ill-fated nomination to be - i. ' - . - m s . YinnnTBeAvaTBrv rr Tna now itip. J "J ---- - - J 1IV V J 0 A red again today after being buried less than a month. ' , Sen. Millard E. Tydings, D., Md., It was learned, is renewing his demand for a look at original .copies of the sensational memor anda "which former secretary of "the interior Harold L. Ickes wrote ;about Pauley and other Demo crats, too. ' Tydings, a Pauley defender, is , taking up the question with chairman David R. Walsh, D., Mass., of the senate naval affairs committee which held weeks of explosive hearings on Pauley's nomination before it was with drawn by President Truman. - Ickes gave the committee only edited down copies of his notes. Some committee members thought at the time that they were get ting the originals, although Ickes did not say so. Seattle Smallpox Epidemic Checked WASHINGTON, April 4 (UR Tie U. S. surgeon general's office said today it was not concerned by the presence of small pox in Seattle and San Francisco and expressed "complete confidence" that effective measures are being taken to prevent any widespread outbreak of the disease. - Dr. Warren Draper, acting surgeon sur-geon general, gave assurances that tAMk im mm AniAit . 1 .... .'.J there was not "the remotest pos sibility" that a quarantine of the west coast would be ordered. PAGE 12 TROVO. UTAH COUNT?. UTAH '" THURSDAY. AFRO 4, IMS - DAILY HERALD ReconVerted-To Six Rooms and Bath v The famous Quonset hut, which snugly housed Allied fighters from the Arctic to the tropic, during the war, has been reconverted to civilian use and offers a prime solution to the housing shortage. The unit pictured above was recently displayed at Mansfield, Ohio, by the Stran-Steel Division of the Great Lakes Steel corporation. It is a modern, insulated home of six rooms and bath, with hot water heater, refrigerator, radiant floor, heater, electric range, washing machine and-full plumbing. Cost, complete, is less than $4000. Photo below shows the attractive 12 by 20-foot living room. Unit also includes two bedrooms, dinette, nursery and kitchen. ... . I L "' ' """ Silk Available For Export From . : Japan to U;S. ; TOKYO, AprU 4 -(UPJ Prelim inary .estimates indicated today more than 10,000 cases and bales of taw silk are available "for ex- Dort to the United States this month, Allied headquarters announced. The f isure was in addition to 3,100 cases and bales already shipped ship-ped and 9,800 approved for loading load-ing this week. V The April' schedule calls for shipping 0,391 bales from Kobe and 4.660 cases and bales from Yokohama. Although Hammerf est, Norway, is farther north than any other town in Europe, its harbor is ice-free all year round because of warm westerly winds and the North Atlantic Drift originating in the Gulf of Mexico. Average January temperature is little below be-low freezing. 65 Miles Per Gallon V X " t The midget automobile pictured above, develomxi i rtmtu..t tool concern, will soon be placed on the market at the lowest price in American automotive history. The three-wheeled two seater, which will sell for approximately $450, travels at a speed of 45 to.50 miles per hour, yet averages 65 to 75 miles per gallon of gas, according to Frank Brogan, president of the company. The car has no clutch, and,the two-cylinder motor, located in the rear, can be changed like a battery. v-uu nims wins Army Citation FT. DOUGLAS, Utah, April 4 OJ.FD Personnel Director Leslie W. Nlms of the Utah Power and Light company f today was awarded a wars department citation for his services as coordinator of the utilities wartime aid program in tne inxermountain region. - The citation was presented to Nimsvby CoL A. P. Kitson, chief of staff of the Ninth service command. "Cap" Nims is a former resident of Provo. SEVIPLOT PURCHASES FERTILIZER PLANT POCATELLO, Ida., Aprtt 4 (U.R) J. R. SimploL Caldwell. Idaho's leading industrialist, today again owned his super-phosphate lertil izer plant at ocatello. . Simplot purchased the plant from the smaller war Plants corporation cor-poration for $400,000 and said the factory hopes to produce 150,000 - j . m . i. ; a tons oi cummerau icruuzer uy June in order to supply Idaho and Utah demands. Anny to Try Out-tlazi Out-tlazi V-2 Rochet WASHINGTON, AprU 4 CiR) The .army soon will begin a series A AvmavimAiiTa untn n A Ur famous V-2 rocket in an effort to find a defense against .such weapons.. i The war department said : the first test will take place on May 8 at the ordnance proving grounds at White Sands, N. M. Army ordnance ord-nance experts plan to fire a .V-2 weapon and follow its flight with radar. Army experts expect the rocket, which the Germans showered on London in a last-minute attempt to win the war, to rise .100 miles into the stratosphere and to reach a top speed of 3,500 miles an hour. They believe it will land 80 miles away. Safety precautions will be taken against any miscalculations. Witnesses Wit-nesses to the test will be inside a reinforced .blockhouse, which supposedly sup-posedly is strong enough to sustain a direct hit. rvirrr. mi I w ,.t.m i t j a x j y.'smr.' -wsittstii:ttr? Globe-Circling Tours Become Mere 'Milk-Runs' WASHINGTON, AprU 4 (U.R) The air transport command's globster passenger planes have circled the earth 25 times without fatal accident. What six months ago was a milestone in aviation history has become just another -"milk run" today. That's the army term for a routine flight. The round-the-world flights leave Washington at 4 p.m. (EST) on Friday s. Stops include Ber muda, the Azores, Paris, Rome, Athens, Cairo, Dahran in Saudi Arabia, Karachi, Calcutta, Bang kok, Manila. The planes then head through the Pacific islands to Honolulu, San Francisco, Tope-ka Tope-ka and arrive back in Washington at 1:50 a.m. the following Friday. Planes and crews are changed periodically on the way around. The Globster flights cover 23,- 350 miles in approximately 150 hours. Final route changes were made March 1 when the desired European airfields were repaired and became available. The origi nal route went through North Africa. Archie Threatens To Sue Teacher .3. n HOLLYWOOD, April 4 (U. Ed Gardner, the gravel-voiced -bartender. "Archie." in radio's fDuffy's Tavern." threatened to day to sue his schoolteacher for saying he ranked rock-bottom in ber grammar class. "Leave her know that her statement has brought me undue ridicule both socially and pro fessionally, Gardner said. Schoolteacher Mar Varin Riblet of William Cullen Bryant high school at Long Island City, New York, branded "Archie' a "poor siudent'r in an interview in a weekly magazine. fl admit," said "Archie," "that I.was no star student. But unless an apology is forthcoming, I will be forced to institute a suit. Archie's suit would be a return blow to Miss Riblet, who recently sued him for $100,000 damages after he said she had "piano legs' on a recent "Duffy's Tavern" broadcast. She settled out of court for $2500 and a letter of apology. LEAVE FOR MONTANA SPANISH FORK Ross Sterling, Sterl-ing, Ned Wightman and Roy Price re leaving Spanish Fork to commence com-mence construction of a cinder block mill in' Red Lodge, Montana. Mon-tana. They have purchased over a million yards of choice material ma-terial for the building of cinder blocks and Mr. Sterling and Mr; Price are now in Red Lodge, laying lay-ing -the foundation for their plant, which "they hope to have producing in the near future. Dr. Frank T. Reynolds & Practice JLimited to '-PLATE and BRIDGE WORK ?71 South First East Provo PHONE 163 IT WAS ST. PETER AND NO FOOLING DENVER, April 4 (U.R) The startling experience of hearing a voice answer the Buckley field chaplain's office of-fice telephone with "Chaplain's "Chap-lain's office Saint Peter speaking has been explained. explain-ed. The voice belongs to Pvt. Saint L. Peter of Omak, Wash., who said he realized persons seeking the chaplain were slightly overcome by his answer. Bdt what else could he do but use his own name? She's UNO Girl Partying Texans Wreck Cab Driver LOS ANGELES, April 4 (U.R) (U.R) Taxicab Driver C. D. Bales, still sleepy after a 4100 mile trip of 15 days, today advised travellers to take the train. Reporting back to duty in Inglewood yesterday with $900 profit of which he'll get a large percentage Bales recounted how he left the Hollywood Turf club with one fare bound for Oklahoma - City and picked up a dozen more en route. From Oklahoma City he got two fares to Houston, Tex. more fares from Houston back to ' San Antonio and then others back to Houston where four "wild Texas cowboys" engaged the cab back to Los Angeles. "Those wild Texans," he declared, "were too hospitable. hospit-able. They wanted me to celebrate cele-brate with them every night and I had to drive all day." It had taken him five days to recuperate at home since his return. Koreans Fed Up With Communism . . i : i: of Allen- SEOUL, Korea, April 4 (U.R Four Koreans, who said they escaped front the Russian-occupied zone, told a Methodist church group meeting today there was no chance of north Korea becoming be-coming communist now that Koreans Kor-eans have seen the Russians in action. The four Koreans asserted that the Soviets closed schools, banned public assemblies of over three persons and permitted only communist com-munist and leftists people's parties to function. The meeting was held under the auspices of the conservative con-servative Great Eastern News. One speaker told of a student demonstration at the Manchurian border town of Sinjuiju last Nov. 23 when a group of students marchine on communist head- "r. ! quarters were fired on by the $ ! Di(pi ana a -s4 a KAifiot misttA iiMtv. ped a dud bomb. Survivors of the march were pursued through the city by gun- If ire and a "number of students were shot in the back, he said. Ellie Kofler, above. town. 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