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The Washington times., 1925-11-28
F|RN|'S SAL { s
TOTAL OVER
$4,000
Petty & Petty Report 40
tivity in Northwest
Real Estate

Joseph a. Petty. Of the firm Of
Petty and Petty. reports the fol
lowing list Of recent real estate
sales totaIling over $225,0O0.
Property at 1226-122s Penn
svIvania avenue northwest, and
1223-I225 ID street northwest. busi-
ness properties, were sold Tor the
Curtis estate to. local investor.
Il. r. Shoemaker representing the
seller.
Andrew Ieffron purchased from
nj. T.. Burton, fifteen-roofn dwelling
at 1911 Third street northeast, giv-
ing in part payment seven room,
seYlli-detached dwelling 82b Allison
street northwest
Alfred Daniels purchased 1446 ~
street northwest, folrteen-roo pom
dwelling which he will remodel Tor
investment purposes.
Charles r.. Galloway sold the dock
property on b. & O. Railroad at.
1864 X street northwest. to q local
investor.
IsreaI Orlove purchased through
the office OF ID. Blum q Company.
modern apartment building at 25S5
Thirty-seventh street northwest.
giving in part payment four six
room dwellings, 3532-48-5O-52 r
street northwest
Elizabeth Marshall purchased q
modern, new bungalow ait 4l3s Lee
Terrace, Lyon Village. Va.
s. H. Thompson sold 38 lots IN
Douglas Park, Virginia, to q local
builder who will develop as a. sub
division for colored purchasers.
Joseph -. Petty sold to Helen
Kaminsky, through Stone e Fair
fax, five-room frame. at 1125
Twenty.fourth street northwest.
u. ". Dey purchased from r. B.
Isreal two six-room frame dwellings,.
931 Florida avenue northwest and
2I22 Ninth street northwest. Rhodes
and Stearns representing purchaser.
francesca LeBianco purchased
from III. b. WEIGH two seven-room
dwellings at 1851 Thirty-second
street northwest.
Charles r. Holden sold. 303 II
The Washington times., 1925-11-28
ANAcosTlA CITIZENS
WANT MORE MEMBERS

The AnacOstia Citizens Associa-
ton will meet al o'clock tonight
In the Masonic Hall, Fourteenth and
TT streets southeast. to plan increas.
Ing the association membership.
Doctor George i'll. Richardson was
elected president OF the Federation
Of Civic Associations at meeting
last night in the District Building.
Other officers chosen are William
III. Lewis, vice president: y IL.
Bowles, executive secretary; III. i.
Brown, recording secretary, ana
Captain II. D. Queen. treasurer.
COMMITTEES chairmen were ap-
pointed as follows: Doctor u j..
Daniels, education; III. w. Woodaon.
legislation; Doctor q. =. Porter, pub
lie Improvement; Doctor A. RI Col
Inns. commercial interests: George
Beason, publicity: r. Menzie, col
lation, and Gecrgs w. Jackson. Gre
dentials.
The Washington times., 1925-11-28
T0lCT VILLAGE DESIGNER REFUSES. TO DUPLICATED
j. s. REAL TORS
OGONVENE
] DEG. Il
Mid-Winter Institute Under
Joint Direction at Evans
ton, Illinois

Men and women from all parts
az the United States are preparing
10 attend the mid-winter real estate
Institute. December 81, 1926. to jan
uary 8. 1926, at Evanston, ILL.,,
nnder the joint auspices Of North
Western University, the Institute
or Research in Land Economies and
public Utilities and the National
association of Real Estate Boards,
recording to reports coming in to
National Association headquarters.
Letters from Florida, Ohio, Ala
Ina, Michigan and other States
Indicate a large attendance at the
institute. which Is an intensive
short course in real estate that has
been offered to give training to
teachers Of real estate courses now
being conducted in more than 200
cities In the country as well as to
the brokers and sother real estate
men who desire more specific knowl-
edge Of the latest methods Of real
estate practice to supplement their
business experience.
Classes Planned
Blake Snyder, editor Of the Real
Estate Handbook, who is associated
nth Douglas L. Ellinman & Co.,
ne, New York city, win have
charge OF classes in real estate fun
damentals, real estate appraisals, in
|Gluding such topics as income as a
est Of value, appraisals OF resi-
licences and apartments, and apprai-
la1 Of lease equities, wiz be covered
~ Arthur J. Mertzke, formerly Sec
rotary Of the Madison, Wis, real
estate board. executive secretary of
the Institute for Research in Land
Economies and Public Utilities. Mr..
Mertzlka conducted similar class
last year for the Madison real estate
board.
Doctor George s. Wehrwein, pro
essor OF economics in Northwest
The Washington times., 1925-11-28

Reports show that in a few of
the cities building workers are max
ing a demand for q five-day week
or a forty-hour instead Of q forty.
four hour a week schedule, with the
demand prevailing largely in the
painters, union. In the few cities
where mechanics are seeking more
pay the contractors are standing
firm for sterilization at present
rates.
In Philadelphia contractors report
a general undercurrent In the trade
for wage increases, but they are not
inclined to grant them. Employ
ment in the building trades has
been brisk.
Chicago Prospects Good
Chicago contractors expect the
building program for 1926 to vary
slightly from the total value of
building construction for 1926, which
is estimated at 1915, 900 900. Con
tractors have abolished paying
bonuses to bricklayers and plas-
terers, which was the custom until
The Washington times., 1925-11-28
GERMAN WAR VETERANS
SCORE LocARNo PAcTS

BERLIN, Nov. 28.-A manifesto
denouncing the ratification Of the
Locarno treaties was issued today
by the Nationalist League Of Ger
man war veterans.
The manifesto asserts that the
treaties are against the German
constitution and declares that the
league will never feel that it is
hound by the treaties.
The Washington times., 1925-11-28

shortages in bricklayers and plas-
terers, which extends all over the
State. Wage scales in Minnesota
cities range from 81 an hour to
$1.12k and $1.25 an hour.
Memphis, Tenn, contractors re-
port that the building outlook for
1926 is good and that they expect
about the same volume of building
as this year. No increases In wages
are contemplated. Labor is, plenti-
full. New Orleans reports that the
city is about caught up with apart
ment house building. There is no
agitation for the five-day week and
the supply Of labor is sufficient.
The Washington times., 1925-11-28
Building Trade Labor
Reported Tranquil

Although the building labor situation in New York city
result of the prevailing controversy between
the Building Trades Unions and the Building Trades En-
ployers Association building labor conditions tranquil
throughout the United States generally according to
completed by S. w Strauss Co. yesterday The outcome
however of the New York situation will be without its
effects elsewhere, the Straus survey points out
The Washington times., 1925-11-28
B. G. Burt Establishes
New Piano Playing
Record

BALTIMORE, Nov. 28.B.
G.. Burt, forty-two, Of James
town, II. X, established what is
claimed to be 4 worlds record
here early this morning By com
tinuousIy playing = piano for
.fifty-two hours and twenty nlin-
utes. He also won q side bet
Of 81, 900.
Camilla Baucia, another COM
tender, dropped ont after play
ing fifty-two hours and fifteen
minutes.
The Washington times., 1925-11-28

street northeast, six room frame
home, to Vincent +. Toomey.
, 1925-02-09
J~LLITERACY

'IIiteracy is not conf ed TO the rural
regions" remarked Mrs. Cora Stewart
OF Frankfort. Ky, in The course Of q talk
at a conference Of The World Association
OF Daily Vacation BioIe Schools at WASH
ingtol- she pointed OUT that IN States
which have hlgh-rated schools there IS
much iIliteracy. For instance, she said
New York has 425, 600 iIIiterates, Massa-
chuset,s 146, 900 and even Washington
the capital Of tie nation, ha, lO.OOO.-Ih
PotAJiHdeI
, 1925-02-09

ter than stick to him. If he was not re-
laling dreams to his New York audience
he is worth having on any college faculty.
The next step will probably be taken by
professional scientists who will want to
put the g phenomenon under labora
tory inspection porto Rico ProgreSS'
, 1925-02-09

Mrs. TelIer--Have you noticed that
Mrs. Nayber? l understand she is over
SIS and yet wnen she goes out in the
evening she looks ike a girl of II
Mrs Sharp Yes, but she has to work
on herself ali day in order to look that
way.
, 1925-02-09
PORTO RICO'S GRIEVANCE
charleston Pos)

k&lldl lCOlOl L OObJ
The least that Congress can properly
do for the Porto Ricans is to give them
the investigation they demand and to
make it a God one. For several years
the Porto Ricans have been making com
plants TO the federal government and,
on the whole, but little attention has been
paid to them. Indeed, President Harding
completely ignored most Of them. This
nation has a heavy responsibility Tor the
little island colony, a part OF which is 10
see that il has a good government. 1t
can hardly be that influenclal citizens OF
The island would be continually making
representations to this government ard
taking the trouble to travel to Washing
ton for that purpose, unless there were
some grounds for their complaints. The
United States has done admirably in lis
administrator of Hawaii and in the Phil
ippiue Islands. too, while there have been
mistakes, tho people have been kept sat
isied, except for those elements that de
sire heir Independence, which desire IS
non necessarily to be construed as a crltl-
cism of administration. In Porto RICO
h.r.u .ltl9ugn i'd is The nearest OF our
III. 10 no. +..,I 10 have made a
90 ot -. Now hat the islanders are
BACK again complaining u, NAL admin
istration a..d begging Congress for an IN
vessgation, the investigation should De
granted them and Congress should go
with sufficient t-horoughness mo the
whole situation to learn Just what the
trouble is and how it can be corrected.
Ibid.
, 1925-02-09
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New Britain herald., 1925-01-08
NOTING \ SURPLUS FOR
 THE NEW HAVEN

That railroading is showing finan- cial improvements is indicated by the report that the New York, New Haven and Hartford line will show a surplus of sS,OOO,OOO during 1924, the exact figures to be known when the auditing department gets through with the figures. It will have been the first surplus showing on the books of the New Haven since 1917.
 But this ss,O0O,oOO surplus will not be a fat morsel for stockholders, as 1t will represent only a return of 1.s per cent on the s157.1l7,000 cap ttal stock of the company. However, 1t indicates that the railroad has turned the corner" toward better times, and Is quite different show ing than the succession of deficits back in 1917.
 But even in 1917 the surplus was not great, having been about s600,- 900 less than in 1924. It did not bring about a dividend payment. The surplus of 1924 likewise is not ex- pected to result in such a payment. The last dividend payment of the road was in 1913. and then was only 1-4 per cent,
 The present management of the railroad is a vast improvement over the Mellon regime and shines through its improvement plans as well as by dint of financial efforts. In the latter realm considerable of outstanding value has been achieved. The refunding of its $2S,000,000 European loan, a bugbear on the horizon for a year, will soon have been completed, more than $l5,O00,- 900 of this sum already having been subscribed.
 Improvements the past year in cluded the electrifiCation of the line between Norwalk and Danbury, which is part of the roads plan for identification of the entire New York division
 This year is to see the expenditure of s3,50O,00o in improvements and equipment an amount larger than the 1924 surplus. But not one cent is evident for new or improved sta tons, which might interest boosters for a better station in New Britain or at Berlin.
New Britain herald., 1925-01-08
25 Fears Ago Today
 From Paper of That Date

Watchman Mccarthy at the Nul- can Iron Works found au empty cash box outside the factory Satur- day morning and notified Secretary Oldershaw, who discovered S25O had been taken from the safe. One of the employees who had taken it, re- turned the money this morning and will not be prosecuted.
 Many cases of pneumonia have been reported in the city, there be- ing about half q dozen in the neighborhOod Of Center street alone.
 Arrangements have been made by the Herald to get the returns from the McGovern-Dixon fight tomorrow evening. An account of the battle will be megaphoned free to all who care to listen,
 The ushers who are 10 offiCiate at the Gcil service met yesterday af- ternoon at the home of William H. Hart.
 George A. Stark has decided not to accept his appointment as sub , stitute hoseman.
 The New York store advcrtises women's mufCs at S1, S1.G9 and I$2.gS; and skirts at $1.S9.
 The Globe Clothing House adver- tiscs mems Woonsockct rubber boots at s275 a pair and chiIdren's spring heel shoes at 45 cents.
New Britain herald., 1925-01-08

now he has resigned to devote his time as viee-communder of the na- tlonal organization.
 The state executive committee has always taken too much power - it could have called a special Saturday afternoon convention and a commander could have been se- lected by the Legionaires them selves, which would have made for better feeling.
 Many American Legion members still remember with irritation how the executive committee a few years ago appointed an adjutant to hll the shoes of Thomas Bannigan, said action having been taken while the state convention of the Legion was In session. The new adjutant could have been selected by the conNen- ton, the same as new commander could have been selected by spe- cial afternoon convention.
 It is questionable practice for any executive committee when 1t takes the stand that the rank and file of I.cgionares don't know who they want for elective offices.
New Britain herald., 1925-01-08
STATES ,AAD SHOWING IN THE ELECTION

The campaign in Connecticut re- gently 10 induce more persons to exercise inc right to vote was a more dismal failure than was al first intimatcd, The final figures just made public indicate only 47 2-3 percent ot Nutmeg voters went to the polls during the Presidential election and less than that per- ccntage bothered about helping to elect Mir Bingham to the Senate.
 The samc story held good through ont the entire New England states in spite Of the fact that a New Eug- land man was running for Presi- dent. A smaller percentage of voters went 10 the polls in New England than in any part of the country eX- ccpt the south, In Massachusetts, where Mir. Coolidge had been gov ernor the percentage of voters was slightly less than in Connecticut,
 Whats the answer? One guess may be as good as another, The people seem to be taking less in- terest in politics constantly. and in view of the special efforts made to ipterest them during the Presiden- tial election 1t is peculiarly signiti- cant that the response was an in tensiAcatlon of political slackerism
 We talk much about democracy, but 62 percent of the people of Connecticut didn't practice it dur ing the Presidential election and a larger percentage didn't practice it when Mr. Bingham was elected senator.
New Britain herald., 1925-01-08

By Dr. Walter E. Iraprock
 In no way is our national waste fitness more evident than Tn the fact that during the great wave or air-bobbing nothing has been done to preserve and utilize the tremen- dous crop of hair which has an- nually gone to waste. It has re- nained for a new company, the Traprock Tress Co.,, Inc, to accom- plish this splendid work.
 Our first task is the assembling of the surplus hair from the thou sands of barber shops to our hair storage warehouse. It comes to us fin bales. Six hundred nimble-fln- gered girls then sort the hair, grad ing it for length, fineness, and color Measuring hairs, particularly TOT fneness, is very exacting work. It then passes to our manufacturing nlants where it Is fabricated lnto the hundreds of useful objects Tor which it is adapted. The skill Of our art and textile departments has
 
 created a new demand for hair- shirts. once much worn but which went out, due to their irritating ef- feet on the skin. The Traprock Tress Go. has perfected a process which absolutely removes the itch and makes these garments ideal,
 Our weaving mill has not neg ,ected the rug-field and we are turn ing out beautiful designs with blonde centers and raven borders titan red runners and sandy bath mats especially suitable for beach, cottages. u.
 Our next step will be to ellmi' nate the middle-man, in this case the barber. and furnish our prod nets /direct to the hair-loving pup ic Our motto is Prom the Heac to You" and persons interested IT decorating their homes with self crown crops are urged 10 commum' oote >direct with the Traproch ,rress Co.,, where the smallest ordel will be receive the best attention Note: Kindly mention the Fur Shou when writing.
New Britain herald., 1925-01-08
MYSTERY MAN IS FOUND TO BE FINN
Identified Before Radio Test
 Could Be Completed

Norfolk, Va, Jan. 8. - Ihe man whose strange dialect had baffled interpreters of the Norfolk immiga- ton office was identified last night by one of his countrymen as a Fin nish naturalist named OXclund, who halls from a village of that name on the northern coast of Finland and claims he was brought to this country on the Russian vessel Riga about two months ago.
 Efforts to determine the mans Identity had led to arrangements for him to talk over the radio from the Reliance station WTAR in the hope that some friend or country man listening In would solve the mystery surrounding him. Before any of the listeners-in could re- port, however he had been identi- fled, for among those attracted 10 the station by the incident was Fred erick Falden. young Finn.
New Britain herald., 1925-01-08
Observations On The Weather

Washington, Jan. S.--Forecast for southern New England: Partly cloudy and slightly colder tonight; Friday fair, moderate to fresh northwest and west winds.
 Forecast for Eestcrn New York: Partly cloudy and slightly colder to- night, Friday fair moderate to fresh and northwest winds.
 Conditions: The disturbance which was central over upper Michi- gan yesterday morning has moved eastward and is now central over Maine. It has caused unsettled weather during the last 24 hours in the Lake region and New England. Pleasant weather prevails this morning in nearly all sections east of the Rocky Mountains. The tenn perature is below normal in the western and central districts.
 Conditions favor for this vicinity fair weather with lower tempera- ture,
New Britain herald., 1925-01-08

The stranger said he had no first name. He was born in Oxekula and was by profession a naturalist and mineralogist, writing and printing books on these subjects in the Fin nish language.
 Several months ago-rhe couldn't remember how many-he made his first trip to Leningrad, once St. Petersburg and later Petrograd. on business in connection with the sale of his books. For the first time in his life he saw ships. He talked with seamen. They told him tales of wonders of nature in strange lands--in America, in Eu.",, at.
 other countries.
 Some of the seamen were on the Russian steamer Riga. They told him their ship was sailing soon for Yokohama by way of Canadian and American ports. They urged him 10 join the crew. He did.
 When the Shii reached an Amerl- can port-he didn't know which one--he went ashore with other members of the crew. He couldn't find his way back to the ship. After wandering about on foot for many days, he was picked up by civilian at Cape Charles two months ago and brought to Norfolk. where he was turned over to the immigration au- thoritics,
 No interpreter could understand him, as he speaks an almost extinct Finnish dialect. But last night, he had someone to talk to-Young Fal- den. He said his wife was in Bos- ton, a city in northern Russia. He has three sons, two of them in Rome. The younger, Ninklu, is an arch aeologist. The third son is in Rhine land, Germany. where he represents Finnish business interests.
New Britain herald., 1925-01-08
rl,o 1.ditorss Gossin sbop

In addition to the Tricky lrleiet series being successfully launcheu readers have taken to 1t llke uuch ,o water - we now begin the regu- lar publication of poems in tongue twister style,
 We made mention of this series few weeks ago, and we now nave enough successfully written ones 'o be able to offer displays ot these noems over another of our counters
 The poems are hard tp expls'n- :. vou must just feel" or 'sense lhe ,tvlo we are after. You will note that we have abolished the com mon idea in reference to the phrase "tongue-twister." The average com cention links it with ailiterauon' Aliiteration is extremely dincui' and not very effective except me chapicalIy. We combine the pasie thought Of tongue-twisters win clever humor.
New Britain herald., 1925-01-08

pensive, because American produc- CTS take advantage of the high luty competing foreign sugar has to pay to get into the country. Why his resolution especially wants to know, doesn't the tariff commission cut this duty down?
 Robinson knows perfectly well that the commission only recom- mends reductions; that the president does or doesn't make the suggested cuts; as he considers best; that the commission already has recommend ed sugar tariff reduction and that President Coolidge has been hold ing the recommendation up for about six months.
 The Robinson resolution is jah at the president.
 Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Incl
New Britain herald., 1925-01-08
ANTI-BUS INJUNCTIONS JRRITATE PUBLIC

Although the public of southern New England wishes to see the New York, New Haven and Hart ford railroad reasonably prosper ous, it does not like these anti-bus line injunctions in which the rail- road is tndulging itself.
 The attitude of the public is that the development of bus riding should not be curtailed by the rail- road, especially as the railroad it. self is willing to operate bus lines to take the place of non-paying branch lines.
 The anti-bus injunctions look too much like harassing competitors in the transportation field, Neither the railroad or any trolley company should be regarded as having a monopoly Of transportation by di- vine right; If bus lines can be oper- ated with profit to the busscs and convenience to the public, why should the public be denied such facilities merely because the rail lines meet with competition there- by?
 If the railroads have right to whine about bus lines today, the old stage coach owners had right to whine about the development of railroad lines in the '30's and '4os' Perhaps they did, and perhaps they tried iniunctions and every other known method to prevent the con- struction of the railroads, but the public was favorable to the con- struction of the rail lines and the stage coaches went the way of the dinosaur.
 Today the public likes the busses because of the better service they usually give. The railroads cannot compete with the busses between points offering light traffic, and are like ostriches placing their heads in the sand when they endeavor to halt the inauguration of bus lines between points where the public through their patronage indicate that they are desirable improve ments over the kind of service the railroads find it advisable 60 s.Vs