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For two and a half seasons
DOnlin was an actor. Then his
wife died after a brief illness,
and he came back to the Giants,
but not as the Babe Ruth II his
day. He was used as 4 pinch
hitter and soon passed from
view. He had lost all his base.
ball ability and returned to the
stage where he Is still 2 sue
cess to this day.
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sufficient to maintain the factory
of full nronrati1nor ca1no nitu

sufficient to maintain the factory
at full operating capacity
Reports received at the Graham
Paige factory show significant gains
for the new cars in key cities of the
United States.
In indianapolis, retail sales for
the four months of 1923 are more
than seven times the total for the
same period last year, while the
April sales were fifteen times as
great.
Chicago showed a gain of PIG per
cent in retail sales in April, as
compared with that month last
year; Detroit, All per cent; Wash
ington, D. c., $50 per cent; Boston,
221 per cent; Minneapolis, 125 per
cent; Pittsburgh, LOG per cent; San
Francisco, 1O8 per cent.
In addition to Graham-Paige of
Indiana showing an increase of 400
per cent in April of this year in
comparison with April of last year,
which showed record among all
branches and large distributors in
the United States, the Graham
Paige also made a record in Marion
County. The total number of auto
mobiles sold in Marion County dur
ing April as listed by the Indianap-
oils Automobile Trade Association
was 1912, 108 of which were Ora
ham-Paige models, giving the Ora
ham-Paige about 6.6 per cent of
the total automobile business done.
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DESERT ROAD is
PATH TO COAST
Highway to Southern Part
of California Open.

LOS ANGELES, May 9.-The year
round coast-to-coast route, the
southernmost gateway to Southern
California, now is permanently
opened.
Highway engineers, working with
concrete, asphalt, oil and sand, have
conquered that stretch of American
desert lying in southeastern Cali
fornia, which for many years has
presented serious difficulties to
the builder of roads.
A few miles across the Califor-
nia-Arizona State line and west
ward out of Yuma, Ariz., lies a
waste of shifting sand, piled high
in dunes of ever changing size and
shape.
The skill of highway engineers
was called upon for the purpose of
conquering this seven-mile stretch
of ever shifting, constantly moving
desert.
AS the result of their ingenuity
and resourcefulness af permanent
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STUFF TO INTRODUCE
THREE NEW MODELS
Cars of Custom Built, Fully Col
lapsible Type.

The Stutz Motor Car Company
Of America, Inc, announces intro
duction of three new and unusual
models, a sedan and two limousines
of the custom built fully collapsible
type.
Together with its cabriolet-
coupe, these news models place
Stutz in the position of being first
in America to offer SO complete a
line of custom-built collapsible style
bodies.
Coincident with the announce
ment, it is stated that these latest
models will Sc a new low price
range for cars of their type, the
five-paSsenger sedan listing at $4,-
485, the five-passenger limousine at
$4595 and the seven-passenger linn
CUISINE at 1895.
Production is already under way,
and delivery will start in May.
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RISE IN AUTO
PROFITS HITS
Steel FIRMS
20 Per Cent on Capital Is
Earned at Cost to Raw
Material Producers.

CLEVELAND, May 9. Despite
the lower prices on automobiles
last year, motor car company profits
were more than twenty-eight per
cent on the capital investment.
This great margin, however, is
attributed to closer buying of raw
material rather than the factories
of mass production. clever adver-
Using and high pressure selling.
AS result, it is said, the lead
ing steel producers suffered de-
cline in their profits until last year
their margin was only a little over
5 per cent of their capital.
This comparison is brought out
by John w. Hill in a recent article
in the Iron Trade Review pub
lished here.
Steel Producers Lose
Hill complies figures for eleven
leading automobile manufacturers
excluding Ford, whose figures are
not available. and eleven leading
steel producers. Comparing these
he finds that the auto industry has
been making a profit five times as
great as the steel industry
The reason for this difference,
Hill suggests, may be the practice
Of automobile manufacturers to
buy closely and make almost eX-
ceSSixve demands on the furnishers
Of raw materials.
Thus, the profits are taken not
so much from the consumer, for
whom prices have had to be re-
duced, as from the producer.
Hill quotes an eastern banker,
who says:
Frequently when an automobile
producer reduces the price of its car
it expects supplies to cut their prices
in proportion. BY this method the
automobile company protects or in
creases its profits. while the sup
plier, already working at rock bot
tom levels, sometimes holds the
bag"
Prices Lag After Wages
The result is that the steel indus
try is in poor shape, according to
Hill
"Since 1902" he recalls, iron and
steel prices have advanced only
twenty-five per cent, while wages in
the industry have increased $50 per
cent Durgin the same period prices
of general commodities have adj
Vanced seventy-seven per cent"
A little more than a decade ago,
not more than four per cent Of the
steel manufactured went into auto
mobiles. But now, with steel bodies
in general use, the automobile in
dustry is one of the four great con-
Stunning lines of iron and steel, TAX
ing fifteen per cent of finished steel
production in an average year.
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Sparks
Delivering Fire to Fuel
Chamber Was UnCer-
tain in OLD Days.
Eust what is a spark plug?

EuSt what is a spark plug?
- Perhaps you'll understand
the question better when you
realize that the first automobiles
sold in America were not equipped
with spark plugs.
1t sounds odd but it's fact. In
the original one-cylinder, ignition
was accomplished by a "hot-tube"
which had to be pre-heated usually
with a blow torch by the motorist.
his "hot-tube" was one of the
chief causes of uncertainty in
pioneer motoring.
1t was slow in reaching the right
temperature, uncertain in its
functioning, its use fraught with
difficulty and danger to the owner.
The first spark plugs introduced
were surprisingly bad. The plug
that actually did it work was the
rare exception.
In the intervening years of auto
motive progress, spark plugs, like
other component parts of the
automobile, have been developed
gradually and improved TO the end
that they might be dependable,
trouble-free and of lOng-life. AS
a consequence, there are spark
plugs today as nearly perfect as
it is possible for men and ma
chimes to make them.
But the function is the same to-
day as always: to deliver an
igniting spark to charge Of fuel at
precisely the instant when such a
spark is needed to transform the
fuel into power.
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CRAHAM-PAIGE
SETS new TOP
. IN PRODUCTION
1927 Grand Total of 21,881
Cars Reached After
Four Months.

Graham Paige production for
1928 passed 21,831, the total for the
entire year of 1927, on May 2.
The new line of cars sponsored
by the three Graham brothers has,
in its first four months, not only
equalled last years total production
for the former models but has
broken almost every record for pro-
duction and shipping in the eight
cen years history of the factory.
April alone set new alI-tiine records
Tor monthly and weekly production
peaks and for single days ship
mentS.
The April total was 8,275 units.
nearly three times as many as were
built in April, 1927, with it's 1880
cars. The largest month in former
years was May, 1925, with 841 auto
mobiles.
The last day of April Sd the
shipping of 491 cars, exceeding by
eighty-four the previous shipping
Ior one Gay. In a single week,
April 1929, the shipments totaled
2,195 cars-more, than ten per cent
OF the entire 1927 production.
Total production for the first four
months of 1928 was 21,407 nearly
two and a half times the total of
the 1888 cars for the same period
last year. The actual increase for
the first four months was 1884.
The remarkable record in exceed
ing last years total in the first four
months of this year was achieved
despite a delayed start in January.
The line was first announced Jan.
z, and it was not until Jan. 20 that
che 2Ooth Gragham-Paige was built.
Orders on hand for May will be
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brakes to control the
cars flashing action.
A long, smart, extra
rOomy Six available
in four fashionable
body types: the
Coupe, the 4-doOr
Sedan, the Cabriolet
and Deluxe Sedan.
Drive it a day and
you'll drive nothing
else!
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roadway is now provided for the
traffic over the one-year-round
route from coast to- coast.
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S(TANDARDSTX
TIE Greatest Performer
ever sOIdunder $1,000

Don't miss the experience of driving
this remarkable new Six by Dodge
Brothers!
And set your hopes HIGH-for here
is the fastest and finest performer in
the world selling for less than thou
sand dollars. With the fastest aCceler-
alton AT ALL SPEEDS! And the
most astounding power on hills you've
ever experienced.
horsepower to every AZ pounds-an
engine that in all moderation can be
called SENSATIONAL. With the
ruggedest Dodge chassis ever built;
and Midland SteeldrauliC fOur-wheel
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-09
ASKS AUTO TAX REPEAL
Motorists Pay Billion in War Taxes
. to Treasury.

Addressing the Senate Finance
Committee recently, Thomas P.
Henry, president of the American
Automobile Association, said car
owners in this country have paid
more than $1,1OO,OOO,OOO into the
treasury in war taxes. He urges
a complete repeal Of the tax.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-09
Accidents Are Costly

According to an estimate of S. j.
Williams of the National Safety
Council, traffic accidents last year
cost this country more than $780,
600 600.
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PAGE 10
Motor Buses Busy

Motor buses operating In the
United States carry more than two
billion passengers annually In adj
dition to more than three hundred
million school children.
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PLAN SUPER-HIGHWAY
Half of 13-Mile Road to Have no
Grade Crossings.

A Super-highway, thirteen miles
long, planned to extend from the
western end of the new Holland
tunnel under the Hudson River to
Elizabeth, N. j., is under construc-
ton. The eastern half of this high
way will have no grade crossings.
Evening star., 1928-06-16
VISITORS INSPECT :
KENWOOD Project
Many Valuable Pointers Now
Visible at Third
Star Home.

Msny valuable pointers Of interest
TO prospective home builders or owners
are to be seen from day to day at the
third of the series of fcur dcmonstra-
ton houses sponsored by The Star,
which is being erected by the Kennedy
Chamberlin Development Co at the
lin avenue. Kenwood.
Steady progress is being made on
this larg, Southern colonial home. and
each day brings out new features. The
house Is to be completed and ready for
month Of public inspection beginning
September is.
All interested. however. are urged to
visit the house during the course of its
construction to study the building
methods followed. Many important
features now to be seen will be con-
cealed after the finishing work is under
wa. Many visitors already have in
spected the dwelling.
All the brickwork on the main build
ing was completed this week. The
brick employed in the construction Is
designed TO match the old colonial
brick used in the Jeffersonian period.
which were irregular in size and varied
as to color and had smooth tool joint.
One distinctive and artistic feature
of the Kenwood model home is the
broad chimneys. extending well above
the roof on either side of the house.
The house can be reached by driving
out either Wisconsin or Connecticut
avenue and turning left into Bradley
lane and continuing to the Kenwood
section.
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STAR MODEL HOME
CORNER STONE LAID
FoxhaII Village House Has
Steel Girders for Rigid
Construction.

Although somewhat delayed by the
recent rainy weather The Star model
home being erected at 4422 @ street,
in Foxhall Village, now is showing
progress, as the brick foundation walls
are completed, and today the corner
stone of the house will be set in place.
The corner piece will be white lime
stone. with the date. 1923, carved in
fifteenth century English letter on its
face.
as shown by work now in progress,
the house, one of a group Of nine on
the south side of @ street, being erected
by Boss & Phelps. will be of unusually
rigid type, designed to prevent shrink
age that often causes plaster to crack
and to mar the beauty and satisfaction
Of home.
To give added strength to the struc-
ture of the house. two steel columns
are being set on concrete blocks under
the basement floor, and will run to the
upper portions of the building. These
columns will support steel beams run
ming under each of the three floors of
the house, an which in turn will sup
port the ioists.
A feature of the basement will be its
ilillSilcG dppcdldilCe, uue tO tilc ldCl
that smooth. red-face brick we're used
in the foundation walls, with the NOR
tar carefully troweled down in the
name: of an exterior wall finish.
This house, Of the English style, is
the fourth of the series being spon-
sored this year by The Star in CO.
operation with the Home Owners Insti-
tute. 1t will be completed and ready
for a month Of free public inspection
beginning october Is.
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Owning Building Page Washington and Its Suburbs
REAL ESTATE LICENSE LAWS
SEEN AS BAR TO HUGE FRAUDS
Total of Refunds to Victims of Unscrupu-
lous Dealers in Various States Is
Placed at $3,261,91O.

In the 81 States in which real estate
license laws were in operation In 1927,
a total Of 1l3.261 real estate brokers'
licenses and total of l16,625 real
estate salesmen's licenses we're issued.
Licenses were denied to 1895 applicants
on the ground that they were either
not of good reputation, or not compe-
tent to transact a real estate brokers'
business. A total of AZ real estate
licenses were suspended. and a total OF
83 were revoked during the year.
Real estate license laws have been
without exception self sustaining. In
deed while the purpose of the laws is
not the production of revenue but the
protection of the public against un-
trustworthy operators the laws in ac-
tual operation have more than sustained
their costs.
The gross revenue received from the
operation Of real estate license laws
during 1927 was 81 l,418,587.5 SO in the II
States reporting. Operating expendi-
lures for the year were S543 500 81.
leaving net of S874,888.32 as added
to the. State revenue as profit from the
operation of the law. Total amount
over and above administration COS ts
turned over to II States since the
enactment Of license law is S4,9l6,-
760.3l
Proof of Ability Required.
In order that only we'll iniorced and
properly trained real estate brokers and
statesmen may be granted licenses many
Of the States have provisions in their
laws allowing the commission to re-
quire proof Of the candidates ability.
Continued on Eighteenth Page.)
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Over $3.26l ,910 has been refunded to
victims Of unScrupulous real estate
agents through the operation of the
real estate license laws in the l2 States
which have kept records of such re-
funds since the laws went into effect
according to reports of officials ad-
ministering the license laws.
To the figure in question must be
added several hundred thousands of
dollars returned to victimized clients
through the activities OF real estate
commissions in the 10 States which
have kept no statistical records.
Over 10.l47 complaints have been in
vestigated and adjusted by the commits
sions administering real estate license
laws. the reports further show. A total
of S329,930 was returned during the year
1927 alone in the II States where COM
missions kept records of such refunds.
Complaints to the number of 2.234
were adjusted during the year by the
10 real estate commissions which kept
such a numerical record.
Evening star., 1928-06-16
ARCH 5000 YEARS OLD.
Now Believed Builders of Mesopo
tamia Used It Freely.

Ancient Sumerian builders of 5000
years ago now appear to have known
the secret of arch construction, the in
vention of which until comparatively
recent years had been accredited To the
Romans, according to Building Econ
omy.
A few years ago excavators OF the
University Museum OF Philadelphia and
the British Museum, London, found at
Nippur. in Mesopotamia. sewer arch
so crudely built that 1t was regarded
merely as accidental. or, at most, an
Evening star., 1928-06-16
u. S. DAILY STARTS
NEW STRUCTURE
Enlarged Plant for Newspa'
per to Be Ready for 0ccu-
pancy October |.

The United States Daily Publishing
Corporation has started the construc.
ton of 100000 new newspaper
plant on the site of its present home
at Twenty-second and M streets and
on property Immediately to the north
title TO which has Just been acquired
Work Of preparing the present build
ing for remodeling and the construc-
tion Of the new structure TO the north
now Is under way, and the enlarged
plant is to be ready for occupancy
about October /, according to plans
announced today by officials of the
corporation
The United States Daily. which pub
fishes accounts of the activities of the
Federal Government, was founded
here March 4. 1926, by David Law
renee The building project is being
financed through the Office OF q. II.
Selden Co. and the construction is
10 be by the Fred Drew Co.. in CO.
property adjoining the present plant
was acquired from the estate OF Hugh
b. Rowland
Three Story Brick.
The new structure will be three
stories of brick and reinforced con-
crete construction, having a frontage
Of IS feet on NJ street and a depth OF
80 feet on Twenty-second street.
j The building operation practically
twiu treble the amount OF floor space
sapailabIe for the use of the daily. Its
present building occupies 1000 square
feet and on this will be erected third
floor. while at the west and the north
on an area of 1886 square feet will be
lerected a three-story structure con-
forming in design TO the present build
ing. as 1t is to be when remodeled. The
completed project will have total
space on the three floors Of about
$4,000 square feet
The first floor win house business
ofices and lobby on the NJ street side
and on the north win be large press
room, with capacity for two modern
presses and space for an additional one
now contemplated. Adjacent to the
pressroom will be a paper storage
room with capacity for eight carloads
OF newsprint, and the remainder OF
the first floor will be given over to
boilers, elevators and other equipment.
Is Linotype Machines.
On the second floor win be pro-
vision for the circulation department.
mailing rooms, advertising department.
clerical workers and a large mailing
room. equipped with automatic mailing
machines.
The third floor viii house the ex-
ec4itiwe Offices, the news department.
inquiry division, legal department and
tndexers. and the composing room at
the rear or north side Of the building.
where there will br a battery Of 10
linotype machines and other equip
rnent The stereotype room, which viii
be la communication with the press
room, Is on the first floor
The cost Of the construction project.
exclusive Of the cost Of the site and
the present plant, Is estimated at
about 100000.
Evening star., 1928-06-16
LOCAL REAL TORS
T0ATTEND PARLEY
Delegation to National Con-
vention at Louisville Will
Leave This Afternoon.

A score of local realtors will leave
Washington this afternoon to attend
the twenty-flrst annual convention of
the National Association Of Real Estate
Boards, which convenes in Louisville
June 10. A stop-oh in Cincinnati has
been planned by the Washington real
tors. Most of the day is to be devoted
TO sightseeing around Cincinnati as
guests of the Cincinnati Real Estate
Board This trip viii include study
f-4ssahaS-ision and home development
as well as the business property Sec
ton Of the city.
Upon arrival at Louisville the WASH
ingtOn realtors will be housed in the
Kentucky Hotel, the headquarters of
the convention, and week Of intense
activity is planned In addition to the
business sessions the Louisville realtors
have arranged an extensive entertain
ment program which includes a trip
to Mammoth Cave, Lincoln'S birthplace
and Louisyille's famous race track. A
mule race has been planned with one
representative OF each board in attend
ance at the convention as an entry.
Morris Cafritz will represent the WASH
ington board In this entertainment fea-
ture.
List Of Delegates.
The following were in the Washing
ton Real Estate Board party: w. G.
Miller, president OF the local board !:
John A. Petty. executive secretary; MIR.
and Mrs. Earl e. Coss, Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Hessick, Morris Cafritz, Joseph b.
Shapiro. Percy II. Russell, John q.
Graham. H. Clifford Bangs, Mr.. and
Mrs. John l.. Weaver, Clarence r. Dono-
hoe, James A. Donohoe, Kari e. jar
relI, DR.. James If. Sharpe, Fred d.
ZantzangeE. r. Marbury Stamp, Rich
ard p. Wi1itty, Charles p. McCurdy, r..
Bates Warren and Mr.. and Mrs. Theo-
dore M Judd.
Evening star., 1928-06-16

The Washington Real Estate
Board is on record in favor Of
real estate license law for the
District of Columbia. modelled
after the McChesney act spon-
sored by the National Associa-
ton of Real Estate Boards.
which has been taken as basis
of numerous license laws now in
effect in various States.
A bill TO this effect was pre-
sented at the past session Of
Congress, but no action was
taken on the proposed law. The
measure will be carried over to
the next session of the present
Congress.
Evening star., 1928-06-16
INCREASE IN BUILDING.

In 561 cities and towns throughout
the country there was per cent gain
IN building permits issued in May COM
pared with last year. S. w. Etraus yes
terdsy reported
In the group Of Is leading cities the
gain was ie per cent. Substantially
every section Of the country showed
building activities either equal 10 o.
slightly ahead Of last years levels.
Evening star., 1928-06-16

experiment never perfected. Late last
January, AZ Ur. the museum excavators
found arch work of such magnitude as
clearly to settle the question. Here
we're examples of the true arch. the
dome and Of corbel vaulting with baked
bricks. each Of which had stood in
tact for nearly 5000 years.
Evening star., 1928-06-16
Bay Window Decorative Adjunct

The bay window one of the most
typical features of American houses de-
signed without reference To foreign or
period architecture, may be made a
decorative adjunct Of real value. and
offers an excellent method of grouping
several windows together where a con-
centration of light Is desired.
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1914 N ST. NV, The Playhouse-One o.
two room studios, furnished or unfurnlshed
Decatur 2o25 or North 1898. -
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ROOMS AND BoARD-sUBURBAN

nearest resort; 10th st
BUS. swimming pool tennis; beautiful estate
special rates now. Phone Silver Spring /