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Show Hise Pritrity T Vetmis Calling attention to the return of 4,500,000 additional veterans by next summer, Housing Administrator Ad-ministrator Wilson W. Wyatt, Jr., says that "industrial and commercial com-mercial construction won't he halted" but that much of it will be deferred in order to permit quick construction of necessary houses. The decision of Federal offi cials that returning veteryj1 .... should have priority In connet . tion with the construction ti j homes is already having a best ... ficial effect throughout the coub, try. While the order may cu some inconvenience to clvllUns there Is general approval pf tfci . idea that veterans of the war ii entitled to first considerate. I i Mr. Wyatt insits that the hoJ j ing shortage will be worse "tha1 ... summer than it is now, m v. worse next fall than it will t l: this summer." He says tha: "two years from now the Sic - .' number of families will be liWH r. . doubled-up as we have now." Summing up the housing pj . gram, the Administrator say? W , nation is in this position: " ,; ' we run like hell, we'll wind t v where we are today." |