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PAOE FOUR RfEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOIiT). OREGON. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 17. 1938. DIGNITY PREVAILS WHEN NAVY EYES BIDS ON VESSELS Noon Stroke of Clock Sig nals Opening of Offers Crowd Attends Seek ing Small Supply Orders Dy Preston Orover WABHINQTON. Have you ever seen people bid on 9200,000,000 worth of battleships? The conclusion of this first stage of the drama by which the united States steps out to become the mas ter of her share of the waves Is calm, precise, dignified. Bock of It lies an agony of prep aration, thousands of blue prints drafted and re-drafted, discussions In ship yards, financial houses, in the White House, In technical quarters In the navy, and In committees of the house and senate. When all this is finished, months later a group of the nation's fore most scadogs cluster around the desk of Secretary Bwanson of the navy. His office Is In one of the rattiest buildings in Washington, a concrete labyrinth slung together during the World war to house a swelling navy, j When street buses pass, It quivers like a chicken coop. j However, en acceptable office has been set up for the secretary on the second floor, roomy but far plainer than the quarters of doormen In the newest governmental castles along Constitution and Pennsylvania ave nues. At Stroke of Twelve The bids will be opened at "high noon," says the announcement. An hour before the door to the secre tary's office ts opened, the hallway outside is Jammed with men. Some are hard-bitten shipyard operators. Many are small operators hopeful of an earful that will give them an Inkling of where they can sell an order of Insulation or a few rugs for the officers' quarters on the ships. As the main door opens the crowd rushes forward. A marine stops them He lets In a few at a time to seek places In orderly fashion about the room. Nearly a hundred men, a wo man or two as well, sardine Into the room. There Is a momentary pause. a shuffling of papers as late arriv ing officials receive copies of this snd that. Back at Swanson's desk Is a huge brass clock of seagoing design, but It Is an old grandfather's clock In the center of the room that starts off the party. "Ding," It begins, with the first beat of 13 patient strokes to signal that "high noon" has arrived. The navy Is prompt. At the In stant of the first "ding" Admiral DuBose, naval chief of construction, Is on his feet. The secretary, form erly senator from Virginia, has little part In the final ceremony. The sea fighters take the wheel. They are a trim lot. Seven of ten high rankers In the navy have blue eyes. Must b the viking strain. At 00, Admiral DuBose (blue eyes) Is white haired, erect as a picket pin. Talk In Millions Briefly he explains the terms of the bidding, then opens the first bid offers to build ens ship for 52.H5.. 000. New York Shipbuilding corpor ation will do It for 954,704.000. New port News Shipbuilding comes some where between with a bid on slightly different terms. The navy wanU three built In private yards. It will put another together in Its own yards. Likely each private yard will get a contract for a ship, after some conferences on prices. When the private yards are fin ished with their part of the ship building which Includes building the hull and stuffing It with ma chinery, the navy must take thorn over and load them with $20,000,000 more of guns, armor and fighting gear. When finished, each ship will cost 70,000,000, maybe more. And like our present battleships, they may never fire a shot at an enemy In battle. Afore Movies for Warships LONDON (UP) The Admiralty has placed an order for the Instal lation of talkie apparatus In 100 ships snd shore stations. A com pany operated by the admiralty will see to the programs. About 10,000 films a yir will be shown. Big Day for Grandfather BRECKENHIDGB. Tex. (UP) w. H. Vick, Stephens county farmer, be came a grandfather twlco In one day, and the grandsons were not twins, His son, Floyd, was father of a 7'i pound boy. Another son, John, was father of a 0-pound boy. E CALLED DWELLING Modern Architect Stresses Needs of Family in De signing Houses Uses Curved Lines to Get Sun AP Feature Service NEW YORK William Lescare can get pretty Impatient when people think that glass-brick walls, towed Into a house plan for decoration. make the house "modern." He says there's much mora tn mnH. erntsm than that, and he should know. He's been pioneering modern- lstle architecture since 1029. His own New York home was the first modern istic home In the city. He practically bad to build It, he says, because people had such con fused Ideas about modern architec ture. He put up the "sample" In 1934, Any Old Monday There were times when his first house seemed a mistake. It caused such a rumpus that the Lescazes, husband and wife, had about as much privacy as a traffic cop. But they were sweetly reasonable. They Invited the curious to come back any Monday and they them selves got out on Mondays. They left a man servant to conduct visitors on tours of their much-dlscuced home. The house shows the way Lescaze thinks, and explains his other build ings. When he starts a plan he asks himself, "What kind of people will live here?" The old-fashioned architect, he says, would ssk a client, "What style house do you went?" And If they say Dutch colonial that's what they got whether It had the kind of rooms they needed or not. Brown stone .Transformed Here's how Lescaze goes about It. For his house he had one of those dreary old brownstone houses In the heart of New York to start with. He went after that dreary brown stone. Cleaned out the interior walls on the fourth (top) floor snd made a large living room away from the traffic noises. Built the back wall of the master bedroom (third floor, back) In a flattened "8" shape, and put a four-foot -wide curved window the length of the wall. That lets In maximum sunlight. Lescaze's study Juts out In back on the ground floor. It has a glass-brick celling that pro vider diffused, bright sunlight, good for reading. It's roof provides a sun Jeck. Modern architecture, he contends, mvh "Ym" to life. The Philadelphia bank he designed Is an example. Banks generally look like stone fort resses. Not Lescaze 'a building. That's almost all glass. He convinced his clients that stones can't protect a bsnk half so well as visibility. If the bsnk were held up passersby could see and give the alarm. The Sun and wind Again: Lescaze was one of the ten architects who designed Williams burg, the huge New York housing project that covers 12 blocks. The buildings were to be built parallel to the sidewalks, tike little blocks on a big block. But Lescaze conferred with the weather man and found that the sun shone and wind blew slantwise acrou that part of town. "So," demanded Lescaze, "why can't we put the build ings slantwise so they'll catch all the sun. and all the summer breezes possible?" It was done that way. Lescaze tells people who can afford only small houses that modern arch itecture Is a perfect answer for them. He says modern architecture asks, "What kind of rooms do you need for the things you do at home?" That way you're less likely to have a li brary thrown In it when you never buy books. Lock Def lesf "Jimmying TORONTO. Ont. (UP) A gadget for measuring heads and a lock that cannot be picked or "Jimmied" were two of the inventions exhibited at the International Police Congress here. The pick-proof lock was In vented by a policeman. PROSTATE TROUBLE fTy-'kljBe relieved at onre by herbal remedy, tried and tested .f tV numii. nf v.nrs. 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