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D. C. Building Permits Totaling $753,397 Issued in Week • Continued From Page B-l.) repairs for elevator, 2301 Georgia avenue N.W.; to cost $12,000. Howard Morders. 6816 Glenbrook road, Bethesda, Md., owner: Ray Sowders, Damascus, Md.. builder; E. J. Muth, Bethesda, Md., archi tect: one 1V» -story brick and cinder block dwelling, 3921 Albemarle street N.W.; to cost $8,700. Minnesota Avenue Store. « Henry Leibel. 1226 South Capitol street, owner; T. J. Casey, 4508 Thir teenth street N.W., builder; one 1-] srorv brick store. 3730 Minnesota! avenue, to cost $7,500. W. R. Claxton. Inc., 404 Twelfth: street S.W.. owner; Otis Elevator: Co.. 810 Twelfth street N.W., builder! and architect: to install electric freight elevator. 404 Twelfth street! N.W., to cost $5,422. E. B. Edwards. 1147 Forty-sixth street S.E.. owner and builder; George T. Santmyers, 2209 L street N.W., architect: one 2-storv brick and cinder block dwelling, 1151 Forty-sixth street S.E., to cost $6,000. Guaranty Development Co., 607 Atlantic street S.E.. owner and builder: Marcus Hallett, 6525 Pineyj Branch road N.W., architect; four 2 story masonry dwellings, 819-21-23-; 25 Yuma street S.E., to cost $6,000 each. Guaranty Development Co., two! 2-story masonry dwellings, 4035-37 Fourth street S.E., to cost $6,000 each. Guaranty Development Co., one; 2-story masonry dwelling, 827 Yuma street. S.E.. to cost $6,000. Guaranty Development Co. two, 2-story masonry dwellings. 643-45 Atlantic street S.E., to cost $6,000 each. Converted Building. Motion Picture Association of America, United States Chamber of Commerce, owner; Lee T. Turner, 3616 ^Fourteenth street N.W., build er? Harry Barrett, architect: convert buildtng into offices, 1600 I street N.W., to cost $6,000. St. Patrick's Properties. 929 F street N.W., owner; Charles J. Cas sidy Co., 1507 Eleventh street N.W., builder and architect, and Tyler, Ketcham & Myers, also architects: general remodeling at 929 F street! N.W., to cost $6,000. Capt. James K. Cockrell. jr„ 3835 Macomb street N.W., owner; Frank S. Phillips, 927 Fifteenth street N.W., builder; Frank G. Beatty, 1401 Woodside parkway, Silver Spring, Md., architect; to erect one 2-story brick and cinder block dwelling, 3831 Macomb street N.W., to cost $5,000. First Aid (Continued From Page B-l.l dentations with “sparkle." Tine “cranks." or joints between the shpets should be rinsed according to the manufacturer's instructions, which you can get. from the dealer who sold you the plasterboard. If you use oil paint, you first will need to apply a glue size. If you use easein nr onr of the other varieties of cold water paint, sizing will be unnecessary. In any case, if the board is in large sheets, it cannot he plastered. It can be painted or papered, after filling the joints in LIST YOUR Property for Sale With HARRY ROD 817 G St. NA. 4525 "BUY PAINT FROM A RELIABLE STORE.., the Right Paint fur the Right Purpose!"" suncjwvm the proper way. Plasterboard lath, measuring 16 by 32 or 16 by 49, inches, can be plastered with two or three coats of plaster. Thickness! of plaster must not be less than % - i inch. Smoke Pipe Trouble. Question: I cannot get my gal vanized smoke pipe to adhere to the hole in the cement chimney. I have used asbestos cement without success and also a mixture of as bestos cement and Portland cement. Both of them crumbled. What should I try next? Answer: Remove all remaining as bestos cement with a wire brush and w'et the old cement with clear water. Then apply a mortar mix ture of one part Portland cement and three parts of clean, coarse sand. Keep this damp for about five days. There should be no heat until the cement has hardened. * * * * Mr. Whitman offers readers leaflets on a variety of subjects concerning home repair work. If you would like to have his leaflet. W-5, on conden sation and eliminating dampness, send f> cents in coin and a stamped, self addressed envelope to Roger C Whit man. care of The Washington Evening Star. P. O. Box 99. Station G. New York 19. N. Y. (Released by The Consolidated News Features. Inc.) Your Home _(Continued From Page B-1.1 attached to one of the walls, you can promptly acquire spacious storeroom. When you run your car into the garage you are using the floor space only to a height of about five feet. If you build a large shelf across the back wall of the garage so that the hood of the car can run under it without trou ble, you will have adequate storage space for trunks, chests, etc. Under the shelf, you can provide; space for wheel-barrow, lawnmower. j roller, or other garden equipment. | The garden tools can be arranged in rows along one of the walls without interferring with the car. You can arrange racks above the car space for storm-sash and screens. You can have narrow shelves for paints and brushes, oil cans and spare equipment. If you will run your car or cars into the garage and note exactly how much space is taken up you can develop the balance to suit your needs. Very often the two-car garage has a very large amount of space above it. In many cases it is large enough to warrant finishing it off to accommodate one or two rooms and a bath. The entrance can be arranged for by means of an outside stairway. This type of living quar ters may be put to good use as a study, a spare room or a guest room. (Released by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Gadgets (Continued From Page B-l.t to many people and to some, it is dangerous. If there is an interior paint job to be done, it is possible to buy liquid which will take away all the paint odor and the bad ef fects of paint when it is mixed with the paint before application. It can be used in enamel and varnish as well as paint and will not have any effects on the paint itself. The cost is small and the method of use is simplicity itself. The cap of the container acts as a measure and the amount required depends on the kind of paint being used, quan tity recommended for the average paint is a teaspoonful to the gallon but in practice this amount can be adjusted to suit the circumstances. If too much deodorant is used, the paint will take on the smell of the liquid but that is not serious be cause, though it soon wears off, the odor is quite pleasant. Gichner Firm Produces Many Building Items Many items vital to building of small homes have been put in mass production in the Washington area by the Fred S. Gichner Iron Works, Inc., the company said today. Included are “T" anchors for tying joists to masonry walls, tie straps for knitting two joists, anchor bolts, lightweight steel stairs and other items. The company said it has large in ventories of high-grade steel. Carnegie Institution Gets Research Grant The Carnegie Institution, Six teenth and P streets N.W., is among 23 institutions and universities throughout the country which are to i receive preliminary grants totaling $320,000 from the American Cancer Society for cancer research projects 1 and study. The sum of $3,950 has been al ; loted to Carnegie Institution, the so ciety announced. EISINGER LOANS * _. * .. _ Long or Short Term FLEXIBLE LOAN PLANS to meet the individual needs of Home Owners & Builders Renewals Not Necessary Low Interest Rates H.L. RUST COMPANY 1001 15th St., N. W. UT National 8100 TABLER, INC. ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OF ITS REAL ESTATE BROKERAGE OFFICES AT 1713 M STREET N.W. ON APRIL 22, 1946 ROBERT Y. TABLER LILI M. PURDY PRESIDENT SEC’Y-TREAS. TELEPHONE RE. 5020 SECLUDED COUNTRY ESTATE a arumanAfl a rAttAuioL Located off Marlboro Pike. 6 miles from District Line. Brand-new brick and stone home consisting of living room (25x20) with fireplace; dining room; kitchen; laundry room; den; 2 bedrooms; bath and ample closet space on first floor. Two bedrooms and bath on 2nd floor; recreation room (25x15) with fireplace; three-car built-in garage, and complete bath in basement. There are two lovely porches which are glass inclosed and' heated for winter and screened for summer. Open stone terrace with fireplace. Situated on side of hill, over-looking small valley, 1,000 ft. off highway. 24 acres of wooded land. T. D. BURGESS 2524 Penna. Ave. S.E. FR. 2802 ’til 9 P.M. German Train Crews And Gangs Conspire To Loot U. S. Supplies By Edward P. Morgan Foreign Correspondent of The Star and the Chicago Daily News PASSAU. Bavaria, April 20.— Black market gangs, conspiring with German train crews, are systemati cally looting American military sup plies in this frontier area, an Army Railway Transportation officer said today. Passau is located at the point of the Danube where the American and Russian zones of Austria con verge with the boundary of the American zone of Germany. Supply trains for the American Army of Occupation in Austria and for troops in Southeast Bavaria pass through here. Black marketers mostly steal food. Occasionally, they go after gasoline. Sentences Far Too Light. "We get three GI guards for each train, but that's not enough,” the Officer said. “When we do catch somebody, the military government usually lets us down by handing him a mild sentence. Recently we nabbed a man in the railway yards with 12 pounds of Army butter. The mili tary government court gave him six years in jail. To a German, a sentence like that is well w|orth the risk. The officer explained that the Army is supposed to make up the trains, but that German crews usu ally manage to space food cars well apart. When trains reach a switch ing point, a single car can easily bei shunted to a siding and pilfered be- j fore the guards, who ride in the i Tyler & Rutherford, Inc. Mortgage Loans Property Management Insurance 1726 H St. N.W. RE. 5245 caboose, can check what Is happen ing. "Almost every single car that passed thrcJugh here is pilfered of something,” he said. U. S. Soldiers Not Involved. American soldiers are rarely in volved in this racket here, he added. "Occasionally, they will swipe shipments of Coco-Cola and for a while, when gas was short, some would pinch that, but most of the thieving now is done by the Ger mans themselves or the D. P.s (dis placed persons),” he explained. “In cidentally, there is very little trouble of any kind here with Russian sol diers.” There is a certain amount of melo drama to this border town. The murder of three American Military Government officers in January—in which black marketers allegedly were involved—is still unsolved. But a bevy of Army counter-intelligence and criminal investigation agents is installed here, still checking clues and current black market operations as well. These agents mess and live in the same hotel as military gov ernment officers, but they are care ful to eat at separate tables and their rooms are on a separate floor. (Copyright, 1946 ) Bulgarian Ex-Premier Taken SALZBURG, Austria, April 19 UP). — Alexander Tsankov, former Bulgarian Premier who is wanted by Bulgaria for execution as a pro Nazi collaborator, has been captured near here, American counterintel ligence officers said today. WANTED HOUSES To Sell or Rent EWMWS >08 N. Capitol St. NA. 6730 Lieutenant J. McKenney Berry, Jr. Has returned from duty with the U. S. Navy and again taken up the practice of Real Estate as a member of the firm of J. McKenney Berry & Son Realtors 1363 Wisconsin Ave. N.W. Ml. 0513—0514 SALES—RENTS—LOANS—INSURANCE U. S. Drops Court Fight | For Bank of Japan Cash By the Associated Press Attorney. General Clark an nounced yesterday the Government has decided to drop the so-called Bank of Japan case pending before the New York State Supreme Court. He said in a statement that this action will result in release of about $17,000,000 for the payment of American creditors of the Yoko hama Specie Bank and permit pay ment in full to American creditors of the bank's New York branch. "BUY PAINT " FROM A RELIABLE ( STORE . . . L(jet the Right Paint For the Right Purpose/” Expert Paint Advice Free > MIITH f Quality Since JRGS i 710 13th St. N.W. k NA. 6386 AN OUTSTANDING VALUE AT $28,500 6408 Beechwood Drive, Chevy Chase, Md. A true Georgian Mickelson-built brick home. A through center hall. Large living room with fireplace opens on to a screened living porch; with brick terrace and outdoor fireplace adioining. De luxe kitchen. 2nd floor has four bedrooms with two baths. Third floor finished heated bedroom ond large ploy room. Two-car detached garage. Owner leaving city. Early possession. OPEN SATURDAY, 2 TO 6—OPEN SUNDAY, 1 TO 6 To Reach/ Out Conn. Ace. to Thornapple Street. ielt on Thornapple St. two blocks to Beechwood Drive, left on Beechwood Drive to house. Mrs. Alexander, Agent on Premises Phone Saturday or Sunday WO. 5757, OL. 1366 w The Dogwood Is Abloom in Wesley Heights and Spring Valley You are cordially invited to view the matchless beauty of native dogwood and awakening Spring in these ex clusive residential communities of the Nation’s Capital. W. C. Ak n4 d A. N . MILLER DEVELOPMENT COMPANY Bvildert and T)n*loi)*rt cf Wetl*u H*'Ch*s nnd Vall'V 4830 Moss. Ave. N.W. ORdwoy 4464 Biggest Sensation In Beach History FIRST OFFERING SUNDAY! BEAUTIFUL LARGE WOODED SITES ON SOUTH RIVER WITH LOVELY VIEW OF CHESAPEAKE BAY 25 MILES FROM D. C. ••••• • —inswx-:-.. . ,* .. .'■V' . .v,. ,.w ... . ansa v.... ... _ DRIVE DOWN SUNDAY—YOU’LL WANT TO STAY • Come down and see this beautiful new beach development—which will be one of Washington’s most outstanding shore communities—where it is a delight to spend a day or a lifetime. Where the great expanse of water and peace and quiet are yours to enjoy. This is nature’s Summer rendevous for rest, recreation and relaxation. HARBOR FACILITIES / Beautiful large wood* This property lias one of the finest harbors in the vicin- / A j •*__ ity of Chesapeake Bav. with excellent flocking facilities. I CQ 51X65 WIXIl Qlr6CX A sturdy wharf J50 feet long, hnilt by the l. S. Navv for I cknPa (ennlaoe nt neo. craft of various sizes is available for the use of propertv 1 5HO»6 TrOTlX<xg6 aX pre SPGRTS IN AN IDEAL SETTING 1 “-el.pment prices. " hite-winged yachts dipping and curtsying nearby; < ■notorcraft landing pleasure parties; fishing, boating. \ ^1 I ■ II ■ swimming; all manner of sports in an ideal setting. I CHILDREN'S PARADISE / Term, INSURE YOUR KIDDIES STRONG HEALTHY BODIES | AND CLEAR ACTIVE MINDS by providing the right I rtlL , . , . . place to obtain Summer sunshine where the salt water l Utlief CleSirSule SlteS breezes temper the air and make It cool and delightful \ __.._. , , and where the kiddies can spend carefree davs of fun 1 PrOpOrtlOnStely PriCSu and frolic. _ ' r N. C. HINES & SONS Selling Agent Leon Ackerman, Sales Manager 426 Investment Bldg. District 7739 . _ EVERYBODY WELCOME .