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Show Wslmstm Washington, D. C. MOBILE HOUSING Harried by the national criticism of failure to provide housing for defense de-fense workers, Defense Housing Coordinator Co-ordinator Charles F. Palmer finally has proposed to Roosevelt that the government buy fleets of trailers and rush them to the most congested congest-ed industrial spots as temporary living liv-ing quarters. In submitting his plan, Palmer carefully avoided the term "trailers" "trail-ers" and has cautioned his staff to refer to them as "mobile units." But never mind the fancy terminology. Plain, ordinary auto trailers are what he proposes to use. Palmer contemplates the purchase pur-chase of thousands of these homes on wheels, but where he is going to get them remains to be seen. A check of trailer manufacturers disclosed dis-closed two interesting facts: First, available at present are not more than 2,000 trailers, a drop In the bucket compared to the tens of thousands of housing units needed. Second, the plants are working day and night on urgent orders for the army, and unless they suspend such operations, can't make trailers. Meanwhile, with a vast army of migrated workers jammed into makeshift quarters, the defense housing problem daily becomes more alarming. Public health authorities au-thorities are scared stiff over the danger of epidemics. ALIENS IN CONGRESS Amid all the breast-thumping on Capitol Hill about aliens, it is interesting in-teresting to note that 20 members of the new congress are foreign-born. Three are veteran senators Robert Rob-ert F. Wagner, New York New Dealer, Deal-er, author of the Labor Relations and Social Security acts, born in Germany; James J. Davis, Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania Republican, former secretary of labor, born in Wales; and James E. Murray, Montana Democrat, born in Canada. The 17 in the house came from all parts of the world and some of them still have strong foreign, accents. ac-cents. B. J. Gehrmann of Wisconsin and Leonard W. Schuetz of Illinois were born in Germany. Karl Stefan of Nebraska and Rudolph Tenerowicz of Michigan were born in Austria. Incidentally, when Stefan gives a radio talk for the folks back home, he says good-by in four different languages, including German. Two were born in Russia Samuel Dickstein of New York and Herman Kopplemann of Connecticut. Rep. Samuel Weiss of Pennsylvania was born in Poland, and Adolph Sabath of Illinois, the genial, popular dean of the house, in Czechoslovakia. There are two Canadian-born members of the house Charles Eaton of New Jersey, and Albert Rutherford of Pennsylvania. Wil. liam Barry of New York was born in Ireland; and Frank Crowther of New York and Robert Ramsay of West Virginia in England. Robert Crosser of Ohio md George Gillie of Indiana were born in Scotland; Noah Mason of Illinois .in Wales, and Pehr Holmes of Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts in Sweden. Outside of congress a number of high placed officials are foreign born, prominent among them Defense De-fense Commissioners Knudsen and Hillman. But the delegate from Alaska, Anthony J. Dimond, was born in New York! FINGER-PRINTERS Most sought-after jobs in the government gov-ernment recently are finger-printers in the Federal Bureau of Investiga-tion. Investiga-tion. One reason for this is that toger-printers often are promoted to G-men. There was an inundation of appli-cations appli-cations for these jobs after enactment enact-ment of the Alien Registration law many from young lawyers. The starting pay is $1,440, and bein finger-printer is no sinecure For one thing, it is hard on the eyes Finger-printers are required to classify an average of 90 prints stra7,Kand afteratim the optical strain becomes serious. The average aver-age "We span.. of a ange,. tot four yea. and most of them seek promotions or transfers to other positions, po-sitions, the ablest becoming G-men. Ir-men have a new method of taking tak-ing finger-prints. The old ink pad with smears, is out. Instead, they use a nice clean pad saturated with an invisible iron salt solution The fingers are pressed on the Pad then the imprint is made on a card which is sensitized with another an-other chemical responsive to the iron solution. This produces a perfect impression of the finger's lhnn, whirls without soiling the skin. . MERRY-GO-ROUND According to the congressional anti-monopoly committee, there are .800.000 uninhabitable home, now being occupied by tenants in the For its ultra-modern army the quartermaster corps actually fs buy ing omahawks. This is the proZ catalogue term for a certain type nl small hatchet used in the army Wendell Wiilkie is signed ua , write a book on the campaign his British experiences. Bobbs-Mer nil has the publishing contract ' |