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WILMINGTON HOPE FOR 800 NEW HOME Permanent Houses Favored Over Demountable Types For Construction Here I,i an attempt to solve the problerr 0f i .uising hundreds of shipyart workers who will be employed her< wuhin the next few months, the Housing Authority of the City oi Wilmington has requested that the p„Hi Housing Authority in Wash jn=tu: construct 800 new hornet i! was revealed Thursday at a mooting of the Wilmington Real jy: - board. If the request is granted, it would increase the number of government built and government-owned wai housing- here from 1,275 to 2,075 family units. Appearing before the real estate board. Mayor Hargrove Bellamy re quested the members of the board l0 consider petitioning the govern mem to make the additional homes of permanent rather than of pre fabricated. demountable construc tion as 475 of the already complet ed units in Lake Village are made. "The government has already built 50,000 demountable homes in (be nation and is contemplating building 50,000 mores,” the mayor said. "Tin i's a lot of homes to he torn flown after the war is over.” •■From tlte long range point of view, it seems to me that homes ef permanent construction would be more of an asset to the people that will li'e in them and more of an afser to Wilmington than demount able homes that may or may not be torn down when the war is over." The board took the mayor's re quest under consideration, and will report on its action soon. Selection of a site for the new project of S00 homes is pending final action by the Public Hous ing authority on the request but it was pointed out at the meeting that it would be advisable to locate the project as near the shipyard as pos sible ip order to meet transports ti„n problems brought on by the tire rationing. Officials of the housing authority present at the meeting emphasized the fact that the project was still in the request stage and that the Public Housing authority might grant the request in part or in whole or deny it altogether. In an effort to provide a tempor ary solution to the daily increas ing problem of housing new ship yard workers, the defense housing committee of the New Hanover de fense council has issued an urgent request to all home-owners here to list their vacant rooms with the Homes Registration and Billeting office in the postoffice. Sixty-three additional rooms wort listed with the office Wednesday in response to the request. Transportation Of War Workers Is Big Problem BY DAVID J. WILKIE Wide World Automotive Editor DETROIT, April 2 — Whether the motorist who drives chiefly for his own comfort and diversion will he able to get tires for his auto mobile when the present ones wear out is becoming daily less impor tant, growing in seriousness, on the other hand, is the problem of providing transportation for hun dreds of thousands of arms factory workers as the production program swings, into high gear. That s the view of most of the men whose job it suddenly has become to get the maximum of war implement output in the short est possible time from factories that formerly made the automo bile and the tires for the average individual. The man in the street, these ex perts indicate, is only beginning to realize exactly what the all-out war weapon production program of the former automobile industry involves in men, machines and ma terials and what it contemplates in full delivery. The car and tire manufacturers have been the most ardent advo cates of the importance of the au tomobile in the every-day economy of the nation ar.d they have stressed repeatedly the part it will have in the transportation of arms factory workers At the same time most cf them admit that close to 50 per cent of current passenger vehicle use is not important to the cmmmnn Disclaiming any desire *t'o ser monize about individual apathy to ward the war, oi.e authority close to the top of the war production program as it affects the automo bile industry says that something more than tire and gasoline ra tioning may be necessary to in sure the fullest psychological as well as material participation in the war effort. Could that be interpreted as sug gesting a possible future appeal to motorists to turn over to the government automobile tires they do not actually need? “Figure it out for yourself,’’ he replied. “The possibility of requi sitioning privately owned passen ger vehicles was mentioned in some official discussions a few weeks ago; it wasn’t as fantastic, con sidered in the light of a possibly long drawn out war, as it may have sounded at the time. "Anyway, if our tires or our car would aid in winning the war, you wouldn’t hesitate about turn ing them in, would you?’’ Under the schedule laid out for the converted plants of the ruto mobile industry, production of war implements by next December will be approximately three times the peak volume attained in last year's k e a r and truck output. Even that tremendous total, how ever, is not the ultimate goal of the former car and truck manu facturers. The men currently converting the car industry’s productive ca pacity to arms manufacturing see men, machines and materials as a continuing problem in the pro duction job ahead. At preseni something like 125.000 automobile factory workers are waiting to be recalled to the plants. Indications are that all (will be re-employed by the end of June. By the year-end, it has been au thoritatively estimated, at least half a million new workers will be on the industry payrolls. These workers, say the experts, cannot be classified as ’’average-’ motorists but their transportation to and from the factories will be a major problem. It will not be simplified, either, by the fact that perhaps a quarter of a million au tomobiles will be forced off the highways this year by tire ex haustion. The Detroit area never has had much more than was needed in the way of transportation facili ties, and there is no present indi cation that they can be expanded sufficiently and rapidly enough to meet the requirements of a sud denly expanded working popula tion. In some quarters the suggestion has been advanced that a shortage of buses—or tires for those that might be made available in an emergency—will necessitate a re striction on normal civilian use of public transportation. The thought may seem some what fanciful at this time, yet it has been suggested that the aver age housewife seeking transporta tion to downtown shopping cen ters in many arms production areas may find a bus ride avail able at only certain specified hours. All this, say the arms factory heads, emphasizes how relatively unimportant will become the mat ter of tires for the motorists en gaged in anything other than war implement production. —-v Only leclaimed rubber will be used in such products as bathing suits. erasers. garden hose, combs, golf bads, tennis bans, heels, household aprons. Goods will receive larger quantities of operating and maintenance mate rials, under terms of an amended priorities order. Total of goods which may now be acquired is now three times that shipped dur ing ihe -base period of April 1 to Sept 30. 1941. 4 =Wahl’s . _ ryrt a n toaster _ _ (BEAUTIFULLY GAY SUITS $9-98 The finest selection before Master of the most unusual and beautiful suits to be seen, priced for immediate sale. Wahl’s will alter any suit you buy free of charge. * NAVY and PASTEL COATS 95-98 ’S* $7*98 if:..; \ These are the coats that are just chock full of style and value. Made to sell for $14.98 and up. They will thrill you with their fine lines. jf | STUNNING " SKIRTS $2-9» l’laids and pastel colors that are so very, very pretty and that fit so beautiful ly. All sizes. SEDUCTIVE DRESSES *2-911 ' Large prints, small prints, pastels, navy and every fabric to be seen in the dress market to day. D'on’t miss these values when shopping for that Easter dress you so want to have. Instead of one, buy two and save. £ t t EASTER SHOES *1H al >2“ The prettiest and most comfortable ar ray of shoes that will be a fitting fin ish for that Easter otufit you are going to wear. FREE Alterations Guaranteed VALUES FOOD HOARDING IS DECREASING Voluntary Rationing Is Help ing Firms To Combat Some Public Hysteria By TRUDI McCULLOUGH NEW YORK, April 2—(Wide World)—This man is dangerous. This man is legion. He operates from coast to coast; he is a wartime food hoarder. He is the man who helped clean out several retailers’ shelves of their sugar supply by storing up 1,000 pounds in 100-pound bags be fore Pearl Harbor. His kin is the woman who went to her regular grocer to buy $00 worth of sugar and said she would never buy again from him when he only gave her two pounds. His neighbor is the family of five, each of whom went to a dif ferent grocer and bought a full quota of sugar. Or the man who has his home cellar stacked high with crates of canned goods. But this man and his companion hoarders are not as dangerous as they once were. Hoarding was at its height right after Pearl Harbor. In the last month and a half, food dispensers say, hoarding has diminished. The downward move is expected to in crease: the more patriotic citizens become, the less hoarding there will be. “The American public as a whole,” the dispensers say, “is to be complimented on not storing up heavily. It is the individual cases that are bad.” A picture of the hoarder's op posite is painted by the manager of a New York food market. He was called by one of his regular customers when sugar hoarding was at its worst. She had 40 pounds of sugar stored up and said if the manager thought she was being unpatriotic she would seil back to him as much as he wanted to buy. The manager knows his “ac counts” personally. He kne\v this one had eight members in her family and did a lot of cooking He told her to keep the sugar, but not to come back for any more until she had run out. Another favorable sign: More and more housewives are avoiding waste of food. The demand for recipes on how to turn leftovers into tasty dishes is on the increase And store clerks note many evi dences of persons buying carefully and moderately. At one time, many persons talked openly of buying surplus food supplies. You hear less of that now. Two things make a hoarder hoard—fear of price increase and fear of being unable to get the supplies he wants in the future But price ceilings already have been placed on the wholesale prices of sugar, canned fruits and vegetables. Other ceilings will be imposed as they are needed. Retail prices are still lagging be hind wholesale prices, as they should. As to shortages, Paul S. Willis, president of the Associated Gro cery Manufacturers says: “This year basic crops and dairy industries have the largest acre age and production ever. Manu facturers are operating on the big gest scale in history and the visi ble food supply is the greatest in the history of the world.” This abundance is for use both at home and abroad, but this abundance and the fact that America is the most self sufficient nation in the world—a surplus pro ducing nation—are the reasons food dispensers believe that short ages can remain more of a word than an actuality if the consumers behave. Although the food industry will not be depleted, officials are not so foolish as to say it will not be seriously affected as time goes on. Yet even m the case of sugar, one food expert believes “there will be more of it before there is less” and the present voluntary ration may be increased slightly Restrictions on sugar import quotas can always be abolished and sugar can be released for other consumption by using more grain for alcoho. “If people won’t get panicky there’s plenty for everybody,” of ficials advise “It’s as simple as that.” Another simple thing about shortage scares that apparently is not generally recognized by the public is the tneory of “move ment” on which food supply works. Food production, like any other production, is geared to a sched ule. Movement of products from one coast or spot to another takes time. A run on a retail store for sugar which depletes its shelves on a given day does not mean a shortage; the train will come in again. Because many consumers do not realize this, they are hoarding. They want today what they still can get tomorrow'. They want canned goods, canned soups, canned milk, baby foods, dehydrated products, sugar. Because they want it today, wholesalers and retailers have had to take preventive measures. Some of the food markets have dealt with the problem in two ways: » By pamphlets and posters they indoctrinated their managers and customers againsr hoarding. Second, they carefully cherk managers’ incoming orders: if the order is extraordinarily large, ihe increased proportion is withheld until investigated In turn, the managers keep a check on their customers’ pur chase of certain desired commodi ties. Some managers keep sugar ac count lists and remind a customer who seems to be hoarding that rhe bought so much last week and suggest that she wait until it is used up. Particularly easy prey for hoaraers are department stores and big markets where the custo mers arc not known to the clerks. There is little way of telling whether the consumer who buys a certain amount of earned goods one day doesn't come back fo r another ioad the next. But many big department stores have instituted their own lists for restricted buving. Vegetable shortening, pineapple juice, sugar are on the list at one store. Cans of st-ained baby foods are limned 24 to a customer. Sac charine is limited to one bottle of 1,000 tablets to a cuslomer. Measures taken from the pack agers’ and suppliers’ end can be seen in the case of one big firm Its district manageis are in formed of the amount of supplies available: the managers regulate their sales to their respective job bers by giving tnem a proportion of the average quantity which the jobber has purchased over a given period. Against the ultimate need fcr substitutes, preparations are being made. Research laboratories of some firms are testing new recipes which, printed on boxes of their products, will stress cnocoiate in stead of coconut pastries made with molasses instead of sugar 4 -V Men who formerly made car pets are returning to their looms to manufacture cotton duck and blankets for the armed services. Fifty per cent, curtailment of vir gin woo! resulted in their displace ment in the carret industry. 4 LET'S GET TOUGH ABOUT THIS WAR We didn’t ask for it. It was shoved down our throats. We’re all darned mad, so let’s get tough about it! Let’s serve, work, give , * , with all the fighting fury that is our heritage as Americans. Say it again: “Let’s get tough.” R BIV defense stamps tiwl DEFENSE BONDS LlWii BULBS EA. High quality .... American made "1000” hr. bulbs. 15, 25, 40. 50, 60, and 75 - watt sizes! j Limit (i to a customer CORN BROOM 39c All corn broom sewn 4 times. Strong-, I o n g wearing. 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