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Faced with the need for providing 75.000 homes, with a labour force still only half its and acute shritage of bricks, slates, glass and other essential materials, the British Govern- ment aided by the local au- thorities, and the architects, is yet trying to play its housing programme both practically and aesthetically.

The ribbon-building indulged in after World War I is not to be repeated. and every effort is bring inade in the bombed areas and cn new estates to design What fa calle a. Neighbourhood Unit, containing its own shops, community centre,

and also for their attendanes at the funeral and the beauti-school, Ful Moral tributes sent.

DEATH

ALDERTON—On Sunday, Jan.

12. 1917. at 4, Benton-St., || Hadleigh, Suffolk, Kathleen, i beloved wife 1 Howland Maitland Alderton, bf the London Mission, Hongkong.

AMERICA'S HOPES

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By JOHN LITTLEFIELD

temporaiy dwellings, and the fullest employment of occupied houses, by voluntary sharing.

As the Royal Institute of British Architects points out in its "Building Now Exhibi- lion, Britain REL the first country to erect a pre-fabricat- ed building the famous Cry- stal Palace, made in 23 days and put up in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1861. Though intended to last only six months, this huge building, te-erected at Sydenham when the exhibition-closed, flourished for $5 years until "it WIN burned down in 1936,

Today, many types of pre- fabrication are being used ir Miny London boroughs have Britain, mostly. for temporary schemes ready to go into opera-buildings. However, the Minis- tion the moment men and ter of Health, Aneurin Bevan materials are available. On a has asked the larger towns and dities to place contracts at once for the British- Iron, and Steel Federation type of Bermanent pre-fabricated house. Made by the British Iron and Steel In- 9% acre estate in Becher Street, dustry to n standard design, the Kensington, the local council is house has a steel framework, j In erect 302 dwellings, giving and the upper part of ils és‹ ¡

and ternal cladding is of painted 186 persons per a density of 32.5 homes

acre. There steel sheets, It comprises a will be 20 houses of six rooms working kitchen, dining recess, ; for the larger families up to living room,

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imal fast air you gave me wasn't any good!".

ONRUSH OF THE CISSY AGE?

After the party comes tho clearing up. And after the 1940-45 party, the Army Is crearing up the English coun-

ryside.

Tank ditches, 30 or 40 feet wide and deep, miles and mass- 29 of barbed wire, unsightly pill- joxes, slit-trenches and weapon. its water-logged in winter and messy in summer, marred tho cenuties of the countryside and meded farmers in their vital task,

On the coasts of Kent and Sussex and to a lesser extent elsewhere, hundreds of thou- sands of defence pastę remain g ed abandoned, while inland training areas with similar blemishes fell into disuse. The Army set about clearing them, using all the troops available in Britain, including the Polish Resettlement Corps..

On the South Downs, at Storrington, near Worthing, I went to see No. 74 Mechanical Platoon at work. Behind them; was evidence of.what they had done---miles of fank-ditches

sight persons; in four-mom fuci store and shed. The plBARCLAY ON BRIDGE filled in by giant D7 bulldozers,

flats for families of five, 24 in system is a simple pre-1 larger four room flats which; fabricated one contained in a will accommodate six, 96 three duet inside the building to pře- rem flats for four persons and vent frozen pipes. Delivery of 18 one-room flats for single the house will start this month

uple. These will be contain or next. ed in three-storey blocks.

Social Amenities"

and

By Shepard Barclay "The Authority on Authorities” ~

SAVING LENGTH VITAL

A hite spot card may be mere important than an ace of Dow

over

leaving a white-brown scar for nature to heal over with green. Other bulldozers were busy clearing barbed wire. The drill is to push the wire into a round mass, then dig a great hole with the bulldozer, push Heating Facilities

with the K. He cleared out the the wire in and cover it The London County Council

club A with a lead to the K, with earth, making sure that There will also be eight-two-storey houses is of the

and the diamond 4 eliminated it is buried deeply enough not terry-blocks-comprising-64. cavity-wall-type, catering-for-

his last stapper there. Obliged to come to the surface to hurt ree-room flats for four per- the larger family group. It has

to get his game before grazing cattle or wandering Setty and 32 two-room flats for a total floor агса of 1.050 l behind him, but because of. The buildings, planned in square feet, with, on the ground king when you are defending asing, the lead, since, the dia- levers.

against an opponent's

One of the headaches of the the constitutional provision that a north-south direction to re- floor, parlour-living room

Noj mohds were set up against him. If you he scored three clubs. West had job is the problem af, the pill- Congressional "elections be held ceive both morning and after spacious kitchen, opening on to Trump game contract.

discarding two discards to make, first boxes, grey and ugly and com- up against a every two years and Presidential noon sun, will be separated by a well-lighted hail containing are

his es-picking the heart 4 and then-prising Fometimes more than elections every four. Yet he could grassed and tree-planted court-space for a perambulator. Heat problem us he runs

usually wanting fn retain his heart 400 tans of concrete. Many of not act as though he were a Re- yards. Ry raising the mid- ing is provided by a back-to-tablish winners, it is publican President. He had to re- ction of the two eight-storey back fire which warms both vital for you to hold protection heners plus a diamond to lend them have been blown up with

The against the longest suit which to East-made the fatal toss of an

minor explosion like by a floor-and-a-half | living-room and kitchen. member that he is still the lender blicks

Eilini experiment, but blow- of the Democratic Party and to abave normal ground level, am first floor is reached by a the declarer has his own his spade 7.

Declarer followed with his ing up pilboxes in this case remember, too, that this party is ple height is provided below for straight staircase leading to a band or the dummy. In such a

finesse means a lot of tact and care---- social centre, with a tenants' well-lighted landing, and there situation, it may be wiser to, spade A, the spade J deeply divided. He must not say club room in the front block, is a bed-room ace-mmodation throw off a top card in a shor- and the spade K, which drop- tact in dealing with people who anything which would exaggerate and a nursery play-rcom, with a for six people.

ter suit in order to keep from ped the Q and set up the 9 for complain that the blast has its divisions or cause any more of nuk bar in the rear block. All The Airey House, which the setting up the declarer's long game trick. If West had not done their ceilinga no good and its diverse elements to be slaugh- the flats have private balconies, Government finds particularly one. ed off by politically inept pro and utility rooms with laundry suitable for rural districts, is posals.

appliances are provided in the being produced at many centres!

throughout Britain. It three-storey blocks.

Camden Town. St. Pancras, bodies a system of frame con-

of! vibrated reinforced S. Q 10 8 77 and could cot say.

It is to the similar plans, while near-coun- pre-cast

trg estates Rt Letchworth, concrete weather panels, has a H. AK 4 President's credit thar there

is two D. 8€ 53 Longhton and other places on pitched er flat roof, should have been so much which the fringe of London are de storeys high with

bedrooms. C. 12 subordinated party profit to the signed to include open spaces, living room, kitchen and dining national interest, which demanded tices, playing fields. At Letch recess. The Orlit house is party harmony, and so much worth the proposed estate of rather more, spacious, though of which was challenging to both | 2,000 houses is based on a syɛ

the same two-storey, three-bed- frame is parties and even affronted deep- tem of distributive and residen- | roomed variety. Its

concrete distributive made from pre-cast rooted national prejudices in the tial roads. The interest of the wider responsibility ads become parkways and units, and cavity walls provide which America bears to the world. contain trees, undergrowth and thermal insulation.

roughly-kept grass. The resi- These are a few examples of The President asked particularly, dential reads become garden the kind of post-war home the that the immigration gates should choses and are staggered to British are getting. They have) Pass 3 NT the opened more widely to dis-avoid through traffic and wind more labour-saving

placed persons. "I do not feel that funnels.

than many of their tenanta What a minimum für a so- ̈HA ̃Q J the United States has done its

558-acre site Oi the

at have ever known before, and called "zors No Trump" bid part." This request has imme. Loughton, Essex,

the most of them conform to the by South, who surely lacked D. QJ 9 5 where diately caused controversy.

housewife's require enough to go the rest of the C. K 10 9 So London County Council plans a average

permanent inents. She prefers a house to way after North 190k him to many Americans appear strange scheme, with same

pre-fabricated sicel houses, a flat, likes two storeys better 2-No Trimps. But he rated the

These considerations set the bundarjes of the President's

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thrown off that spade 7, South care that no hikers or cattle eculd never have made his should get into the danger game. On that trick, he could area. At Storrington three huge have discarded either his dia- pillboxes have been flattened. mond or else the heart A or K1 but two others will stay put and thus beaten the contract because they are too near to and a main road, to because he would have headed houses

off the fourth spade trick. He be blown up. · then would have finished with The Sappers at Storrington the last three tricks after South like the job. They are outdoors had only eight, instead of the and they are wel clad against fast two after South had nine, all kinds of weather. They live

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They have not found buried treasure yet, in excavations, but they fcand plenty of rabbits. Ap- parently rabbits are extremdy stupid animals at times. Try to stalk them, and a slight sound will set them scurrying off" to the safety of their bur- rows, but catch them in their

further ideas of the subject of safety.

ly enough to combine strong sym Loughton Hall, a mansion with than one, and is not really hap- weak defensive play of his op-| pathy with Europe's uprooted

by without a bit of garden. six acres of gardens and

Ponents 113 worth about victims of war and political

Nevertheless Britain is still trick to him. In that he proved paddock of 7 acres, will re- change with strong repugnance to mait--as a community centre. reing on traditional brick- right, though he also needed a admit them as neighbours and an There will also be schools, built houses for its main pro- bit of other luck,stou, for his vulnerable.} equally strong insistence that the shops, churches, refreshment grarume, but by adding pre-contract,

After West overca.ls South's hars in Palestine and elsewhere houses and a cinema.

fabricated types. Other

which Bac West led the diamond 3 to 1-Diamond with 1-Heart, what] burrows and they have no should he raised. An equal bal LC.C. plans include cottage other types of materials and do the A and South wad the 7 then should North do? ance of ideas on this subject estates at Chislehurst, Kent, not need bricklayers, it is hop- would be a welcome contribution and Chessington, Surrey. Oned to increase the total numer to a world problem.

the former they will build 3,500 2 bouges during this phase of humes on 195 acres, on the lat-acute shortage.

VISIT TO MOSCOW

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cottages on 800 acres. ter between 6,000 and 7,000 Much remains to be done, At Har- und it will be some time before row they are erecting 1,114 housing ceases to be a problem.

of which But a good start

prefabricated houses

has

been.

It is to he hoped-and can be believed that the highly suc 502 will be permanent, semi- made, and the drive will in- cessful visit of Field-Marshal detached

three-bedroomed cronse as labour and materials Montgomery to Moscow par buildings.

become available. Meanwhile tends something more than

critics would do well to remem- Voluntary Sharing set scene of reciprocal greetings

ber that no houses were built These are the big schemes. in Britain between September between victorious soldiers. Meanwhile, the daily drive to 1939 and summer 1945; that of Though the invitation originat-provide immediate, homes goes' the 1939 total ed in the comradeship of victory on. Britain's nation-wide plan heuses, 200,000 were destroyed of 13,000,000 it was extended by Marshal ncludes the building, of perman-by enemy action, 250,000 were, Stalin at the Potsdam Confer-cnt houses (mostly of the three seriously damaged, and 4,000,- ence-much has happened since: hedrcomed variety, the erection 000 alightly damaged. and it was as C.LGS. of the of temporary houses of the single-storey, "two-bedroomed post-war British Army rather type); the repairing, and adapt- than as the former head of the ing ef existing buildings and

Mufti Wanted Bombing Of Jerusalem

Nuernberg, Jan. 24.

Digging into the Downs to make burial holes for barbed wire, the bulldozers often un-

· cover rabbit warrens. Sometimes. the blades catch the rabbits, but more often the rabbit just ecwers in his hole, or what is left of it, too terrified to move or to think of the famous stated to have been a request by the Mufti of Bairnsfather caption "If you' Jerusalem to bomb Jerusalem in 1943. Reich knows a better ole, go to it." Marshal Herman Goering rejected the idea as The Sappers say the Downland

bonnies are very tasty. dangerous from a propaganda viewpoint. closed the discussions within against Telaviv

The documenta which dia... Mufti suggested bomb attacks the Luftwaffe were brought to lens, in order to hit at Pales

and Jerusa- Nuemberg for possible use in fine Jews and through American War Crimes trials: attacks to Impress the Arab

The Luftwaffe contemplated world as

of. propa- for a lime, some air attacks' ganda."

German Air Force files revealed today what was

n' means

Buch

Release I.R.A. Men Appeal

اردو

Belfast, Jan. 22. Fifteen Nationalist, and La-

British Army of Liberation that the requisitioning of empty Strong Note particularly around Nov, 2. followed such suggestions. The titster have sent telegrams to the

the Field-Marshal made the houses the conversion, where journey--He-lind already been practicable, of war-time but

at pains to examine on the spot ments and hostels for use as the military arcangements. of the US.A. and Canada, and it ap-|

From Italy.

the-

en Palestine, the records show, "Up to this time we never bour of Parliament in 1945, when the world Zionist decision on the proposed at British Home Secretary urging meeting was held in Joru tack against Telaviv has been release of „members of the Irish I salem,

referred to the Reichsmarshal Republican Army sentenced for T“As an act of demonstration and on July 17. (1948) he re- outrages in

England

during pre-war agitation. London, Jan. 21.. Incidental to the Zionist Con- jected such a proposition.” The Italian role to the Big gress, an attack on one of the The Reich Secretary, Himm-j The outrages consisted mainly pears that he was given a simi- at supposedly exclusive military Four: powers saying that the military objects on the coast ler's top Police Bureau, also station cloakrooms,

of planting

"suitcase bombs" in lar chance

to examine Russian arrangements with the United Italian peace treaty, especially in might also be contemplated, was interested in the anti-Jew- The appeal for remission training

of establishments and States. There, is, of course, its territarial clauses hits at the Luftwaffe Operations Staffish demonstration, it was in-their

sentences follown the methods so far as "four days nothing of the kind in the sense Italian national spirit" has been wrote.,

dicated from the files. This liberation of all political internees were sufficient to do so,

of any collaboration directed received in London and is being

"An attack on the building agency reported to the Luft in Ulster last year and the He has himself declarede that against anyone else. For the studied, it was authoritatively in which the Congress will waffe about the Zionists' meet Christmas rofesso of fourteen

learned today. he went to Moscow

as a rest, the very warm welcome The note in short but strongly meet cannot enter into the ing in evident agreement with young men sentenced for posses soldier," and it is unnecessary to given to Lord Montgomery is worded. It is confirmed that it question, as the place where the proposed bombing-Asso-ion of firearms-Retuer. attribute to his pisit any more particularly welcome as a fur- demands the principle of the the, gathering will be held is clated Presas. political importance than attach ther sign, the more concilin treaty revision on the basis of not known. An attack for the ed to a sumilar visit by. Lord tory spirit, evinced by Russia' at

could anke of demonstration that the chief perlaps be considered 'for the Wavell ten years ago, Neverthe recent international conferences. ease for bilateral negotiation Jewish Agency, the office build- less, the thought may be allowed it show also that the Russian would be between Italy and ing of the highest Zionist Ad-rived back in England today after Eisenhower. United States Chief to occur that the visit should do leaders appreciate the contribu¡ Yugoslavia ove Venezia Giulia,ministrative body,"

mething to calm those (include tion made by their Allies to: and the Trieste question.

Talks between Italian and

bilateral

Flexer

ing a few suspiciously minded, Victory, just as we appreciate Yugoslav repreagntatives started members of the House of Com and have always appreciated Inst November but reached no mons) who have professed alarm" theirs..

concrete resalteater.

The document continued:

Muftt's Idea "Repeatedly, the Grand

VADUKE BACKWA

-EISENHOWER ILL

Washington, Jan. 21. fat i London, Jan.“28; The War Department announe- The Duke of Gloucester, ared today that General Dwight D.

two and a half years as Gov- of Staff and Allied commander on ernor-General of Australis, The D-Day, is suffering from, diges- first to greet him at the London tive trouble. This morning ha zirpore was his sister-in-law, the entered hospital ter observation. Duchess of Kent.Reuters

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