OPA Extends
Rent Ceilings
WASHINGTON. (/P) — A wide
I
extension of rent ceilings effective
Nov. 1, was announced today by
OPA.
The agency announced that 881
more rental areas with a total'
population of more than 3,500,000
will be brought under rental ceil
ings Friday.
Eighty-one of these areas are
being controlled for the first time
while rent ceilings are being re
stored in the remaining seven.
Government officials said they
had been watching rents through
out the country since the end of
the war and that the housing
shortage “has been becoming more
acute.” They said that action in
many of the areas going under
ceilings next month resulted from
appeals or petitions by local offi
cials. Included in the new ceiling
areas are 23 college towns where
the return of veterans and stu-#
dents aggravated housing short
3ges.
The new areas affected include
several in Washington State: El
lensburg, Grand Coulee Dam dis
trict, Longview-Kelso, and Wen
atchee.
CPA Removes
Glass Controls
WASHINGTON, (/P)_The civil
i a n production administration
stepped up its removal of wartime
controls over industry, ordered
the elimination today of all re
strictions on the manufacture and
design of glass containers.
The agency announced that it is
revoking order L-103 which has
restricted glass bottle and jar
shapes and sizes to the patterns
Colton Exchanges
Close Third Time
NEW YORK, (#*)—The nation’s)
principal cotton exchanges sud- j
denly were slammed shut today
for the third time in less than two
weeks after the price of king cot
ton had tumbled by an extreme of
more than $50 a bale in three
weeks.
The New York cotton exchange
acted swiftly this morning, only a
few minutes before trading was to
open. The New Orleans and Chi
cago exchanges followed immedi
ately. The Dallas, Tex., exchange
refused to close.
Frank J. Knell, president of the i
Dallas exchange, said only that j
“numerous requests have been re
ceived from shipping centers in
the cotton belt, pleading for a
temporary suspension of trading
in cotton futures to allow for an
orderly survey of the spot situa
tion in the South.”
In an apparent move to prevent
panic selling by hard-hit cotton1
producers, the department of ag
riculture in Washington issued a
statement that the cotton crop was
in a “favorable statistical posi
tion.”
The disruption of cotton trading
in the last two weeks has been all
but unprecedented.
On October 8 cotton for delivery
in December was selling at a 26
year high of 39.13 cents a pound.
At the close of trading yesterday
it had hit a low of 29.15 a pound,
a drop of approximately $50 a
500-pound bale.
made in 1942.
Meanwhile, highly placed offi
cials reported that CPA chief
John D. Small soon will revoke
order L-99 which “freezes” cotton
looms to the production of speci
fied minimum amounts of essen
tial fabrics.
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miles.
Others suggested that some con-l
certed effort should be made to-'
ward getting the government to:
participate in an adequate sea
wall to ported the city from fu
ture storms such as the one pres
ently in progress.
When asked for an explanation
of city planning, Chief Sam Huxy
ley, of the Nome Base Fire De
partment, stated: City planning is
the name of the process of correct
ing mistakes of the past and pre
venting mistakes of the future in j
the arrangement of the uses of!
land, distribution of people and
facilities which serve them, all in '
the interest of general welfare.
City planning is, therefore, receiv
ing strong support throughout the
nation in the realization that'
many parts of our cities need re
building as surely as though
bombs of invading enemies had
reduced them to rubble; they need
rebuilding to eliminate the con- i
gestion which has produced ob
solescence, blighted areas, sub
standard and dilapidated housing,
strangulation of traffic, and in
increased governmental costs, the
congestion that breeds fire as well
as crime and delinquency and is
handicapping fire protection.
Another need, Huxley states, is
the comparatively new process of
zoning flood-vulnerable areas
against the erection of new build
ings or the enlarging of old struc
tures except those used for park
and recreational purposes and the
like. Millions of dollars are spent
each year to prevent floods, the
floods continue and bring the
peril of fire to property as well
as the perils of personal illness,
injury and death, and when the
floods subside the senseless occu
pancy of the flood channels con
tinue by dwelings and other struc
tures which in many instances
could be placed elsewhere. He
concluded, relative to city plan
ning and fire prevention, no other
two preventions have a greater
common interest or a more worth
while goal.
Other speakers stated that the
town could not be moved unless
it were done at once, while still
others were skeptical of its ever
being moved from the present sea
side location, in spite of the al
most annual sea encroachments.
Republicans Predominant
In Election Returns In
Second Division
i
Although Democratic candi
dates took the Territorial offices,
only one Democrat from the Sec
ond Division was elected to the
House of Representatives, the Re
publicans taking two Senate and
three House seats. Wm. Munz and
Charles D. Jones were elected to
the Senate and C. Dewey (Andy)
Anderson, Edw. Anderson (Demo.)
W. W. (Chief) Laws and L. E. Ost
to the House.
The compiled unofficial returns
will be found on Page Three.
Unofficial returns for the State- j
hood issue are 726 For and 951
Against.
Unofficial returns for the Blan
ket Ballot are 921 For and 664
Against.
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By bobbing his head in a cer
tain way, the sea gull shows other
gulls the direction of a school of
fish.
Will Nol Give Up
Bomb Making
NEW YORK, </P>—Bernard M.
Earuch says America will not sur
render” the atom bomb ‘‘unless
and until we know that all other
countries are prevented from do
ing the thing we would be giving
up—bomb making.”
The U. S. delegate to the United
Nations ^iomic energy commis
sion also declared at the 50th an
nual New York Herald-Tribune
forum on current affairs last
night:
“Are we the only ones to dis
arm? That way is suicide.”
Baruch’s statement was a reaf
firmation of the American plan
for the atom bomb which envis
ages an atom bomb treaty that
would not be subject to veto
power once it had been signed.
The Russian counter-proposal
asks that veto power remain in
the enforcement of such a treaty.
Many Killed In
Calcutta Riot
CALCUTTA. (JP) — 25 persons
were killed and about 60 were
wounded yesterday in the mount
ing Hindu-Moslem fighting offi
cial announcements said today.
Military headquarters said one
Indian soldier died of stab wounds
and two others were in critical
condition. The soldier, first mili
tary casualties since the outbreak
of communal rioting here last Au
gust, were off duty and without
weapons when a mob overpower
ed and stabbed them, the military
announcement said. Earlier a Ben
gal press advisory committee an
nouncement said the soldiers had
fought until their ammunition
was exhausted.
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and I’ll knock your block off!
Bill—Scram!!
Joe—That’s not the word!
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