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Grateful for Humbert's Escape.

Continued in Tomorrow's starr
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-30
SUBURBAN HOME
DEMAND GROWS
Apartments Solve Problem in
What May Be Called In
termediate Ring.
BY LEONARD cox, A. 1. A.

One of the important results of an
increasing urban concentration is the
growing demand for suburban apart
ments. These apartments solve a very
real problem in what may be called the
intermediate ring: the circle dividing
the intensely developed urban center
from the more or less open countrywide
exterior zone developed with detached
houses on fairly large plots.
In fact, there are in the immediate
vicinity of New York many sections
now developed with small detached
houses on small plots that would have
been better used for the right sort of
apartments.
Unfortunately the technique of apart
ment planning and design has not kept
pace with the demand, so that, as a
general rule, the promoters of such
houses have had to content themselves
with modification Of strictly urban
types. We are, therefore, constantly
seeing six or more stored buildings on
comparatively restricted lots which
throw out of scale all the surrounding
houses and spoil the domestic character
Of the neighborhood.
Land Cost Is Less.
Land In these localities costs nothing
whatever as compared with city plots
IN congested areas. The apartment
building may certainly, therefore, re-
duce the number Of people to at least
the same concentration as is common
to the single-family development sur
rounding it, particularly in view of the
fact that g building housing 80 families
costs less to build than 80 detached
houses.
There is, for the same reason, no
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justification for building higher than
three or four storiess Even if auto
matte elevators are Used, so that the
climbing of stairs is not considera-
ton, the top-f1oor apartments will be
more desirable from psychological
standpoint if they are near enough the
ground to become a part of, and enjoy,
the landscape gardening and trees
made possible by the larger plots.
Arrangement is Faulty.
The worst fault, however, with many
Of our present buildings of this type is
the interior arrangement. So much
stress has been laid on the economy of
plan necessary in the city apartment
that this idea has been thoughtlessly
carried over into the suburbs and pro-
duced apartments the arrangement OF
which is so different from that of de-
tached house that it is impossible for
many people to lead full and comfort
able existence in them. This should
not be. The same differences in cost
of land and construction that permit
greater unbuilt-on areas and lesser
height also permit a loosening up OF
plan and allow an arrangement OF
rooms more like that of house.
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cent of the purchasers paid cash for
their subdivision lots.
I, The survey indicates that the unim-
proved lot which was bought so readily
formerly is now less in demand, and
the prospective purchaser today re-
Quires that the lot be ready for the con-
struction of a home. The majority of
the lots sold already had installed such
improvements as water, sewer, gas.
pavement, curbs and surfacing, electric
ity and telephone wiring.
The fact that sidewalks are not al
ways required nowadays by the pur-
chaser may be interpreted as develop
ment Of modern landscape architecture,
which in designing the surroundings for
many high-grade residences does not
use sidewalks.
That the home buyer demands a fair
amount Of ground to call his own may
be concluded from the fact that 81 per
cents Of the lots reported on for the
survey are IS feet wide and wider.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-30
INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION
RENEWAL SEEN IN 1880

The year 1880 will see substantial re-
newal of industrial expansion, industrial
property experts predicted at the recent
meeting at st. Louis Of the industrial
property division of the National Asso-
citation of Real Estate Boards.
The past year has seen a decided
tendency nationally in industry toward
mergers, tendency not unlike that of
the late seventies, it was pointed out
by George C. Smith, chairman of the
division. This tendency of industries
to absorb competitors, rather than to
open branch plants, has tended tenn
porarily to lessen industrial extension,
he said.
Reduction of two and o half billions
of dollars In call money for brokers
loans, through the recent stock market
break, he declared, should mean q very
substantial return of funds for the
expansion Of industry.
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CHANGE IN DESIGNS
OF STORES is SEEN
Business Houses Planned to Fit
in With Their Surround
ings.

A great deal Of objection to retail en-
croachment into residence districts is
being overcome by merchants who are
having their buildings designed to At
into the architectural scheme Of the
particular districts in which they are
located, according to Paul j. Vollmar,
vice president Of a securities company
here.
Merchants have found this new type
of store unit to be most powerful ad-
vertising feature that creates good will
in the neighborhood and gives marked
individuality to their location" said
Mr.. Vollmar.
Mortgage men must look at prop
critics from the point of view of what
they will be in 5, 10 or Is years, and
endeavor to judge their future status
in comparison with the newer units OF
far-away periods" he said. This must
be done because the mortgage banker
wants to renew his loans when they
mature and so Should prepare for the
future now"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-30
SUBDIVISION LOT
SALES ANALYzED
Highest Number of Purchas'
erS Found to Be Between
SO and 40 Years Old.

Who buys a subdivision lot? Are the
lots bought for home sites or for specu-
lation? What kind of lots do buyers
want and what prices do they pay, and
finally, how can subdivider best bring
his wares to the attention Of those who
want them?
These are some of the questions
which the National Association of Real
Estate Boards is attempting to answer
market survey, project Of the home
builders and subdividers' division, of
which w. c. Miller of this city has
been elected chairman for the coming
year.
Data was gathered for the survey
from 70 subdivision developers in diff
ferent parts of the country, and it was
found that out Of GOT purchasers 385,
or we'll over half, bought their lots for
or speculative holding. It was found
that 40 per cent of the buyers were
buying their first residential lots. The
remaining go per cent were either buy
ing their second lot or were repurchas-
ing due to having sold or built on their
initial lot.
Rate Of Buying by Age.
It was found that by far the majority
of people buying subdivision lots were
between IS and 40 years of age, while
the very highest number buying were
from SO to 40 years old. Only one per-
son under 81 had bought subdivision
lot and only five sales were made to
purchasers over so years of age.
The majority of those buying were
people who, at the time of purchase, &C.
cupied single-family houses; 81 per cent
were living in apartments and only
per cent were hotel jewellers.
Apparently the most usual way 70
finance the purchase Of a subdivision
lot is by small down payment and by
succeeding monthly payments. From a
report on 636 sales 215 had been made
with down payment Of 10 per cent or
less, 100 had been made with a down
payment Of 20 per cent or less and 80
per cent Of the purchasers who obli-
gated themselves to make inStallment
payments had set themselves to a
monthly rate of from l per cent to
per cent of the purchase price.
1t is interesting to note that ~ per
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-30
BUILDING WAGES
ESTABLISH RECORD
Continuous Rise Since 1922
Puts Scale at Highest
Level in 1929.

Wages in the building trades have
shown an almost steady advance since
1922 and are now at the highest level
on record. With the exception of a
slight recession in 1921 and early in
1922 the rise has been continuous since
1918. The wage index rose from 100
in 1913 to 1875 In 1920, declined to 179
in March, 1922, and then rose to 238,
the present level, the Alexander Hamil-
ton Institute reports.
The rise in wages from 1913 to 1920
was only sufficient to offset the increase
in the cost of living. Since 1922, how
ever. the cost of living has shown little
change and the rise in wages since that
time has furnished building labor. with
a clear gain in purchasing power. The
cost of living index is now only 90 per
cent above the pre-war level, while
building wages are 1873 per cent higher
than before the war.
Building Wages in New York City, Rates
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Per Hour.

Wage rates are not uniform through
out the country. but they have all shown
a substantial gain during recent years.
Building labor in New York is as well
or better paid than in other cities of
the United States. New York is the
only city which pays bricklayers $1.87a
per hour. Bricklayers receive SITS in
st. Louis, which ranks next to New York.
In Charleston, S. c., where building
wages are the lowest in the United
States, bricklayers receive $I.00 per
hour.
Carpenters wages are the same in
New York, Chicago, st. Louis Pitts
burgh and Newark. In these cities car
penters receive $3.50 per hour, the high
est rate in the United States. Carpen-
tiers in Boston. Cincinnati, and Cleve-
land receive $1.37l2; in Buffalo, Denver,
Kansas City, Missouri, New Haven
Philadelphia, Scranton and Washing
ton, $l.25; in indianapolis, 122R; in
Providence, $l.171k; in Detroit, $1.15;
in Portland, Ore, Salt Lake City, San
Francisco, Seattle and Dallas, $1.121a;
in Baltimore and Milwaukee, Sl.10; in
Birmingham, Fall River, Little Rock,
Los Angeles, Louisville, Manchester,
Memphis, Minneapolis, Omaha and St.
Paul, $1.00; in New Orleans and Rich
mond, Va, 90 cents; in Atlanta and
Jacksonville, 80 cents, and in Charles
ton, S. c., so to rs cents.
While the upward trend Of wage rates
has been beneficial to labor it has been
a growing deterrent to construction ex-
pansion. The rise in wages during the
past year has more than Offset down.
ward tendency in prices of building
materials and the combined cost of
labor and materials Is higher now than
. year ago. The high level of wages
has been q considerable factor in pre-
venting the building industry from
weathering more successfully the period
of tight money this year. The fact
should not be overlooked, however, that
steady progress has been, made in in
creasing the output per man by labor
saving machinery such as electric saws,
power HOSTS and mixers for concrete
and mortar. The total labor cost has
consequently increased at a somewhat
slower rate than indicated by the gain
In wage rates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-30
Home Is Leased.

w, Clyde Powell has leased the home
Of DR.. Hugh Meloy, 1925 Sixteenth
street, it is announced by the firm of
Childress, which handled the transac-
ton. The lease is for a term of five
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-03-21
DANFORTH TOWNSHIP

Mr.. and Mrs. G. f. Hendricks at
tended the funeral of Mr.. Hastings in
Glover township Wednesday of last
week
The P. N. c. society will meet at
the home of Albert Swanson Satur-
day evening
Mr.. Soderquist and his three sons,
and Oscar Swanson of Sand Creek, at
tended Sunday school last Sunday.
Edner Erickson of Duluth, drove here
Saturday to spend the weekend with
friends and relatives. He returned
home Monday, and was accompanied
by Joe Peter, who will visit a week at
the home of his sister, Mrs. Emil
EriksOn.
August Hessler of Sand Greek, was
a business caller at the Harvey Bacon
and Gerda Wheeler homes Saturday
There will be an Easter Sunday
school program at the school house
Easter Sunday
T. Kroritz of Duluth, Joe Patrin of
Forest Lake, and Barney Greenspan
of FinlaySOn, all stock buyers, were
business callers i'm this vicinity last
week.
Mrs. w. H. Colloton came home
Tuesday of last week. after spending
the winter with her children at Fart
bault, Minneapolis, and Des Moines,
Iowa.
Sunday school will be held at the
school house next Sunday at 9 O'Clock.
Our teacher, Miss Dorothy Kalk, is
now boarding at the Walter Rydberg
home.
Guy Hendricks unloaded a car of
corn at Sandstone for the farmers
Wednesday and Thursday of last week.
The Ladies' Aid society met We'd
nesday afternoon of last week, with
Mrs. Andrew Olson.
George Rydberg went to Minneapo-
lis Tuesday of last week, and will be
employed there.
A. G. Boo, who now resides with
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Boo, has sold his
stock and rented his farm to Teddy
Rydberg.
Mrs. Emma Swanson had the mis-
fortune to break one of the bones in
her ankle when she fell on the ice
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WASHINGTON LETTER
Continued from Page ~

and George Moses, the active Repub-
lican "die-hards," described by the
late Woodrow Wilson as little
group of wilful men," do? All were
leaders in the Hoover campaign. Will
they remain true to their position on
international affairs or follow the new
leader in the White House? The most
powerful of the Democratic "irrccon-
cilables," Senator Jim Reed Of Mis-
souri,, has retired from public life,
with no successor of like Importance
available. The politics involved may
reach such heights as to submerge
the main issues of the special SEES
sion.
The immigration restriction issue
which slept in the last session is re-
vived in a decision that it is mandi-
tory on the President to proclaim the
national origins immigration quota,
effective July 1. Hoover is opposed
to the proposition and has declared
himself in his campaign addresses
1t is believed that he will recommend
the repeal of this provision of the i'm
migration law in his first message to
Congress. 1t is a subject of vital i'm
pOrtance and raises racial and relig-
iOus discrimination controversies
The Congressional reappOrtionment
bill which failed in the Senate will
be revised at the extra session and
will have the support of the Admin
Str tai cta ni,h
lose a number of their members have
fought the measure for years.
While the opinions of Mr. Hoover
as Secretary of Commerce on ques-
lions of farm relief are generally
known, widespread interest is mani
tested in his utterances as Chief Elk
ecutive. The feeling prevails that the
recommendation of Mr.. Hoover will
not harmOniZe with the fond expec-
tatiOns of the so-called farm organi-
cation leaders. Whether he will be
content to express these opinions at
this time or float along the Congress
sional sentiment is something that will
not be disclosed until his message is de-
livered April Is. There is an under
standing among observers that the Pre-
sident will attempt to win over Con-
gress to his plans at all costs in the
beginning so that he then may play
for popular support when the legi-
slative body and the Chief Executive
are at odds. Congress controls the
appropriations necessary to the full
fillment of Administration schemes,
while the President holds a whip with
the power over patronage. The dis
tribution of political jobs is the life
blood of the Legislators.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-03-21
200 KILLED IN
T0RREON DRIVE
The Revolutionists, Accuse Their
Foes of Campaigning On
United States Soil.

Mexico City-Federal airplanes have
bombed the rebel stronghold of Tor
reon, Coahuila, in preparation for
concerted attack by five armies while
Mexico City headquarters continued to
predict speedy evacuation by General
Gonzalo EscObar. Four persons were
reported killed in the air raids and
French national was wounded. One
bomb exploded close to the American
consulate.
The rebel chieftains at Torreon an
nounced that 200 men were killed in
battle at San Pedro, about 40 miles
east Of the city. They claimed the
capture of 300 federals. Rebel mill.
tary headquarters in Juares said a fed
eral airplane, the pilot shot through
the head, was brought down near Tor
reon.
Several sources at Mexico City and
Monterey received only meager ad.
vices from the front but these indi-
Gated that the federal armies, Of which
General Plutarco Elias Gales is gen.
in from all sides but the north. Gen.
eral Juan A. Almazin, who had ad-
vanced from Monterey was said to be
sparing no effort to cut the only rail-
road between Torreon and Chihuahua,
which would bottle up the rebels com.
pletely.
Bombed from the air and facing the
steady machine-like advance of federal
columns under General P. Elias Gales,
revolutionary forces are evacuating
their stronghold at Torreon, Coabuila.
They retreated 100 miles to the north
through the desolate mountainous area
Of Durango. Torreon was abandoned
as federal cavalry proceeded toward
the city. An aerial attack had terror
lied the populace.
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Henry Ford Coming.
&C" SCHOOL NOTES
Teacher-Lily May Thompson.
EditOrS-FlOrence and Irene Andel

Teacher-Lily May Thompson.
Editors-FlOrence and Irene Ander-
son.
This week is ending our twenty
sixth week of school. The upper
grades are working toward the spring
examinations.
The cooks for the past week were
Florence and Irenes Anderson, and the
dish washers were Hazel Mossberg
and Mildred Hammerquist.
Miss Thompson is now reading the
book The Shepherd of the Hills" for
opening exercises in the afternoon.
Florence Anderson and Virginia
Mossberg were winners of our last
spelling chart
We elected new officers for our
Young Citizens League" and they
are as follows: Edna Anderson, Presi-
dent, and Dorothy Hammerquist, Sec
rotary.
We have a ten dollar order of new
library books to add to our library
Our school is being decorated with
Easter decorations.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-03-21
ROOTS COURT
PLAN APPROVED
U. S. of America Uniquely Fa.
v0red in Geneva Pro-
t0c0l.

Geneva-The first great step for the
entrance of the United States to the
world Of justice has been taken. The
commission of eminent international
Jurists unanimously accepted the fun
damental ideas Of the formula of Eli
hu Root for acceptance of the Amer
lean conditions for membership.
. Other important steps remain. The
American senate must ratify what the
veteran American statesman has done
at Geneva, and more than 40 states
which now belong to the court must
set their seals Of approval on the agree
ment before American adhesion can
become an accomplished fact.
League officials seemed convinced
that there will be no difficulty about
the American senate because the text
of the agreement was cabled to Wash
ington and Mr.. Root, himself, was be-
lieved to have given his final approval
only when he had received advices
from Washington that the text was
agreeable to the government.
The officials did not seem so san
guine as to the 40 other states. The
agreement will be sent to the United
States and to all members of the coun-
Gil of the League of Nations.
Should two-thirds of the states de-
nounce the document which outlines
the American conditions, the United
States would not thereby be driven
from the court. She could stay, but
only as regular member without any
privileged position.
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NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
Continued from Page -

Mimi, has been dramatized by Pro-
fessor Job of Carleton college; the
play has been performed at Mortified
and in the Twin Cities, and now an
nOuncement is made that the Redpath
Lyceum bureau. Chicago, has con-
larger cities of the country: it will
be given six nights a week for seven
months. The cast is to be selected
from among New York actors and ac-
tresseS.
Don't Want 1t.
A Norwegian Lutheran congregation
at Silver Lake, Iowa, recently dis
cussed the pending problem as to
whether the Norwegian Lutheran
church of America is to eliminate the
Norwegian part of its official name.
The congregation, in a strong resolu-
ton, condemned the efforts made to
change the name, and said: I'm case
it is finally decided to take away the
Norwegian part of the name of our
church, it will automatically mean
that our name as a member of the
church will be removed from fine
membership list" - The trend of the
referendum vote, taken in number
of congregations within recent months
seems to be strongly opposed to any
change in the name of the church.
"Det Danske Ugeblad."
Recently AXel H. Andersen, former
editor of Tyler Journal" at Tyler,
Mimi, took over the editorship of
"Ugebladet," Danish paper in Mime
apolis. In sending out his first is
sue, Mr.. Andersen has altered the
name of the paper to 'Det Danske
Ugeblad" C'The Danish Weekly. The
former editor, G. A. Stub, will
have charge of the technical depart
of the paper.
Doctor of Science.
The University of Oxford, England.
has conferred the honorary doctor of
science degree on Oswald Veblen, a
son of the widely known Norwegian
American, A. A. Veblea. (known as the
father of the Bygdelag organizations.
Oswald Veblen is professor at Prince
ton university and has recently been
an exchange professor at Oxford, lee
turing on mathematical subjects. He
is nephew of the most famous of
the Veblens, namely Thorstein Web
len, considering the leading sociol-
ogist of the United States today
Donates PLAQUES.
Carl M. Inner, Swedish sculptor
in Chicago, has donated to the John
Morton Memorial building in Phila
delphia four of his placques, repro
ducing the facial features of John
Ericsson, Jenny Lind, John Hanson
C'first president of the United
States') and Gustaf Hesselius. Mr..
Inner is a native of Smaaland, Swe
den, and has lived in Chicago for
many years. He is a direct descen-
dant of Carl Won Linnous, the botan-
ist who was the first to devise
classification system for plants and
flowers.
Sugar Bowl of U. s.
Bror G. Dahlberg, president of the
Celotex Co., Chicago, and one of the
most widely known Swedish-Ameri
cans, is planning to convert the ever
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-03-21
IS PASSENGERS Perish In Fall.

Newark, N. Thirteen persons
were killed and two seriously injured
in the crash here of trimotored plane
which was beaten to earth bysstrong
winds near Newark airport. The ira
gedy was the greatest in the history
OF heavier-than-air craft in the United
States. Lou Foote, the pilot, and
friend, Belmont Parsons, who sat with
him in the cockpit above the cabin, in
which the Is passengers were crushed,
were the only two members Of the
sightseeing party to escape instant
daafh
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-03-21
is Election eanasters Go on Trial,


Chicago-Fifteen alleged followers
OF City Collector Morris Eller and his
son, Judge Emanuel Filler, went on
trial here before Judge Frank Conner
ford in criminal court on charges OF
kidnapping and assault with intent to
murder in connection with trouble in
the Bloody twentieth" ward during
the April primaries. For 10 of the Is
1t was the second trial within six
months as result of primary day
violence. The IL had been convicted
and fined on a general conspiracy
charge made against Filler followers.
The Ellers, known as Republican
bosses OF the ward, gained separate
trials.