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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
MARKET FORESIGHT
REALTY ESSENTIAL
Knowing Public Demand
Solves Stability, Says
Statistics Authority.

Keeping a hand on the pulse of pub
lie demand, especially in the building
field, is the true solution of business
stability in the opinion of Thomas s.
Holden, vice president, in charge of
statistics, F. w. Dodge Corporation. In
a statement announcing the Inaugural
ton of a new statistical reSeorch serv-
ice to register these pulsations, Mr.
Holden pointed out that the tentacles
of the building industry reach out into
100000 to 100000 yearly con-
sumption of building commodities
The vast group OF construction in
duStrieS upholds a yearly pay roll of
5000 100000 to $4,000, 900 900 and
when fully employed gives occupation
directly to 100000 workers.
Foresight is Needed.
Both the encouragement of depres-
sion and the undue exhilaration of
boom years would be avoided to the
great good of all the people If business
men could determine ahead of time
where markets will exist for manufac-
tured goods whether those goods be in
dustrial buildings, housing or washing
machines" Mr.. Holden said.
The building industry is the basis of
prosperity. Good times in the build
ing industry mean good times in many
allied and in many totally unrelated in
dustrieS. The working man who earns
his living at a building trade spreads
his wages into commodity markets
covering every item from stockings to
automobiles.
"Of course, the bathtub manufac-
turer who would go ahead at full ca
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
REALTY FINANCING
GAINS IN FEBRUARY
Rise in New First Mortgage Sc
curity Offerings Is 16
Per Cent.

Increased activity in the financing of
residential properties was reflected by
Is per cent. rise in the volume of new
first mortgage real estate security Offer
ings in February, according to the
monthly investment review of Nelson,
Hunt g. Co.
New real estate bond and stock is
sues publicly offered by leading invest
ment houses in February totaled s10.-
166, 600, as compared with $8.737 900 in
January. OF this amount there was
81 ,O32 900 in stock financing on COM
merciSl projects. OF the 19 bond and
note isues there were 9 of the collateral
trust type. totalirg SIS 81 $50, or about
50 per cent Of hte total financing for
the month
THE indications are that the volume
Of realty financing in February" the
firm states, will represent close to a
normal monthly figure for the year of
1881. At this slackening pace the real
estate security market will have the OPP
portunity of adjusting itself to a mere
sound basis, which in the end will be
most beneficial to all the various ele-
Enents concerned. particularly the hold
ers of securities on completed buildings,
which are now beginning to benefit by
the curtailed building operations of the
last 10 months"
Total realty financing through stock
and bond issues for the first two months
of this year now aggregates s18905, $50,
a decline Of about IS per cent from the
total of $53,345,5 500 in the same period
of 1880.
In February New York City again
took its place in the lead by reporting
the largest volume of new financing,
with a total of four issues aggregating
$2,668, TOO. Detroit was in second place
with total of $4,000. 900 and Baltimore
was third with 1000, 900, st. Louis
fourth with s675,000 with other cities
trailing in the order named: Kansas
City, Cincinnati, New Orleans and Chi
cago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14

to encourage young men in this field
to benefit by the development of
the science of valuation" which the
Kniskern committee believes such an
organization will bring about
The claSSifcatfons, other than the
junior memberships, would include
fellows" who would be not less
than 40 years of age and who must
have been engaged in the "active. re-
sponsible practice" of this profession
for not less than 10 years. Members"
must have attained the age of 35 years,
have been in the appraisal business for
at least years and be able to prove
their knowledge and ability" to appraise
properties in 200 population cities
There would be also an associate men,
bership" for men less than IS years
who would have to demonstrate their
ability to evaluate properties in cities
and towns of not less than $4,000 popu-
lation.
The admission standards to such an
organization would have the effect of
certifying real estate appraisers, would
very soon give the members of such an
organization a favorable public identifi-
cation and in time would create more
uniformity in the finding of realty
values through the inevitable standard
ization of procedure which would follow
the establishment Of such a society,""
according TO Mr.. Kniskern.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
COWARDIN CHAPEL
NEARS COMPLETION
Work Being Rushed SO Struc-
ture May Be in Service
on Founders Day.

The new Cowardin Chapel of st.
Williams at Georgetown College, do
mated in memory of Rev. william Rey-
holds Cowardin, S. j., former student
and professor at the college, is rapidly
nearing completion. This chapel, below
which is stone crypt of unusual archi-
tectural design, Is part Of the recently
erected Copley Hall. The dormitory
was occupied last month and work is
being rushed so that the chapel may
be placed in service by Founders day,
March 25.
The Cowardin Chapel is designed in
collegiate Gothic style, rich in color
contrast and symbolism. 1t is 80 feet
wide and 81 feet long, with a seating
capacity of nearly 300 persons. The
chapel was built as a place of worship
for the student residents of the dormi-
tory, Georgetown having another, Dahl
gren Chapel, in its quadrangle, which is
used by the general student body.
Altar of Limestone.
The altar is under the sanctuary
arch, which forms the base for the
semi-circular apse, and is of limestone,
simple but strong in character. 1t con-
sistS of table without reredoS sur
mounted by a metal tabernacle. The
floor of the sanctuary. like the entrance
step, is of Roman Travertine blocks,
the main floor of the chapel being of
mosaic tile, rich in color and pattern.
The chapel has stained glass win
dows on either side, executed in delicate
tracery stone. The peWs are plain but
harmonic with the dark English oak
beamed ceiling without columns. This
same wood treatment has been carried
around the walls with wainscoting ex
tending up to the window sills. The
upper walls and the panels between the
ceiling beams are plastered in hand
finished monaStic style.
The general character of the interior,
designed by Emile G. Perrott of Phila-
delphia, has been kept similar in style
to the old chapeis of Europe.
Stone Crypt Impressive.
An impressive part of Copley Hall
Is the stone crypt of medieval archi-
lecture, situated beneath Cowardin
Chapel. Its simplicity is its principal
feature There are great stone arches
above a variegated slated floor. These
arches. of ancient and peculiar design,
support the entire chapel floor above.
The main entrance to the chapel
and crypt is from the road that leads
to the Jesuit cemetery in the college
grounds, hence the crypt can also be
regarded as a mortuary chapel. Above
the entrance is the seal of the Society
of Jesus in stone. The exterior of the
chapel and crypt is Ct brick, since it Is
in the rear of the dormitory building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14

pacity turning out bathtubs in face of
slump in hotel and other residential
building and gain in church build
ing would be lacking In foresight to
say the least. There are few bathtubs
In the average church building But
that is an extreme example Trends
are seldom so clearly indicated.
Likewise a builder would not insist
on constructing many new high-rental
apartment houses If he had definite
knowledge that there was a very poor
market for that class of housing &C
commodations.
Problem for Executives.
I'm these uncertain days the ques-
ton of what will tomorrow's market
be-what will next years market be-
confronts every executive. To be able
to foretell increased or decreased de-
mand, both nationally and sectionally,
is important. The realtor- builder must
know whether the people in his town
will absorb given number of small
houses, If he builds them-just as the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14

Asia was known as Asu, the Land Of
the Rising Sun, by the ancients.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
Baltimore Building Figures.

Construction projects in Baltimore
having an estimated total cost Of $2,-
757,4 sO were approved during the past
month by the Baltimore Bureau of
Buildings. The total for January was
represented by 95 dwellings valued at
$448, 900, the highest total for this class
in any month since last October.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
Ely Proceeds to Guatemala.

VERA CRUZ, Mexico, March IA up.
William r. Ely, American representa-
tive to the Inter-American Convention
at Panama. arrived at Tejeria Thursday
by airplane and continued to Tapa-
chula, in the state of Chiapas, to spend
the night.
Today he will proceed to Guatemala.
Travelling with him are Clingen Peel,
Wayne Park and William Corthay. rep
rssentatives of Southeast Texas inter-
eSts financing the flight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
U. D. c. Building to Cost $3.50 GOO

The United Daughters of the Con-
federacy, through its board on plans for
a home for needy women, have let con-
to cost $350,000. 1t will be of lime
stone exterior. Lee, Smith & Van Der
WORT Of Richmond are the architects
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
REAR SPACES CHARMING
Front Porch and Garden Gradually
Losing Favor.

The day of the front porch and the
front garden has passed because of I'M
endurable street confusion, and other
recreational features must replace them,
asserts Earl H. Reed, jr., of Chicago.
IF our homes are to be truly recre-
ative," says Mr.. Reed, "we must def
nitely retire in the outdoor seasons to
the more secluded shelter of open ter
race, covered porch, garden house or
lawn bench located in the long neglected
but charming side of rear spaces in our
grounds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
Importance of Space.

Owen Biddle, writer, made this point:
I'm fixing the size of door for the
front of house, it is better to make it
rather too large than too small, as few
things will make house look meaner
than a contracted front door,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14

baker must know whether there win be
enough accumulated appetite to con-
sumo 10 dozen or hundred dozen
buns.
Coordination between the various
factors Of the construction industry,
between such factors as architectural,
financing agencies, realty men and con-
struction firms is badly needed. Acct
rate information does much to produce
a co-ordinated viewpoint. 1t tends to
discourage the builder about to under
take unneeded construction. 1t points
out weak spots and encourages him to
find opportunities for needed projects.
financial institutions will be en-
abled to follow these building trends,
the reflection of which will be felt in
the potential profits behind securities
which become their special concern,
whether commodity or real estate Sc
curities."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14

Canada was founded originally by fur
traders and at one time supplied prac-
tically the entire civilized world with
furS
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-23
WINDOW SHOW
WILL Be Held
Fashion Display VIII Usher
In Spring Season In
Brownsville

Crowds. pretty windows $500.
new styles 49,. music 49,. girls. -.
and everything will greet hundreds
OF window shoppers Friday night
n downtown Brownsville. The big
occasion is the Spring window
Fashion display by the stores OK
this city. Three loving cups will be
offered the stores having the best
window displays, that is, three first
prizes IN three groups.
Windows will be yelled until seven
thirty o'clock Friday night al which
time all displays will be thrown
open to the inspection OF the Judges.
A band will serenade each window
going from store to store. The Judges
are composed of five business men
not entered In the contest. Live
models in the windows arc optional
with the store. and IL Is understood
that quite a number will display
their merchandise BY using them.
Everything new for the home
wearing apparel. for men. women
and children, and the coming style.
IN every line will be on display. ...
SO tell your friends and your neigh.
bors and plan now on being NJ
town for the biggest fashion even
ever held in the Valley.
The judges will adjudge the win
dows according TO the following
five points; 1-Neatness. 2-Artistil
Arrangement. 3-Lighting. 4-Time.
illness, 5-Originality.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-23
SCHROEDER SITS
IN DEATH CHAIR
Blonde Gunwoman Calm As
Pays for Grimes
With Death
BY l.. n.

ROCKVIEW PENTTENTIARY.
Bellefonte. Pa, Feb. 23-tPD- Calm
and collected. Irene Schroeder and
Walter Glenn Dague went 10 their
deaths in the electric chair at
Rockview Penitentiary today lust
after break OF dawn.
The state claimed OF them the
supreme price for the killing OF a
guardian Of its highways.
The woman went to the chair
first. at 7 a. m. One contact was
made and she was pronounced
dead at 7:05.
Dague was placed In the chair
at 7:08 and five minutes later was
dead.
Mrs. Schroeder's face was pale,
almost CHASTITY. except for a slight
OF Of rouge on either cheek, as She
was brought into the death cham
Der. Her eyes were open until she
was seated in the big chair. then
she closed them and kept them
closed until the death hood was
placed over her head.
Dague ann in with steady stride
and as he sat down in the chair.
gazed left and right at the witness
es. Then the hood was adjusted and
the electric contact was made while
the prison chaplain still was Of
fering up a prayer for the con-
demned.
Neither Of the slayers spoke. nor
was any word spoken 70 them.
The woman who once welded a
gun with her gunman lover in
merciless bloodshed. was as IN
flinching at her doom as ever she
had been during her days OF ban
oitry and subsequent flight and
fight for life.
Iron Irene they termed her m
her trial. Iron Irene" She was
until the end. The spirit that bore
her up when the Jury in the Law
renee county courts pronounced
ceath as her sentence. held with
her as she walked into the grim
chamber OF death here and sur
rendered her life for the life of
Corporal Brady Pau If the state
highway patrol, on December 81,
1929.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-23
HOOVER MAKES
NEED SURVEY
President Seeks to Find
Number Of Vets Who
Are IN Distress
ST. LOUIS LIVESTOCK

WASHINGTON. Feb. % -,P-
President Hoover. preparatory to We
toing the veterans loan bill, Is hav-
ing ar inquiry made throughout
the country TO ascertain the degree
and number Of veterans IN distress.
AT the White House today, it was
said various federal agencies are
making queries 70 ascertain also
how effective the legislation would
be as a relief measure.
Under the bill the ex-soldier
would be able TO borrow up to 81
per cent Of the face value OF his
adjusted compensation certificate.
The measure is to be vetoed be-
tween now and Thursday. Efforts
are to be made In Congress to over
ride the veto at once.
Taking $1,000 as the average val
lie Of the certificates. the president
was said already to have ascertain
ed there are 10000 veterans who
would be able TO borrow $4,000. OOC
or $50 apiece. If they had received
no advance already on their GER
tificates.
In the group having certificates
ranging from $3.50 to $1,000. there
are 100000 veterans who-if they had
not previously borrowed-would be
able to get SIT 500. 900 or sl37 each
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-23
NOTES TALKS TO
MINNESOTANS
All Officers Of Association
Are Reelected Sunday
AT Meeting

10y 2A14A
HARLINGEN. Feb. 23.-Speaking
before the annual gathering of for
mer Minnesotans here Sunday, Paul
a. Notes OF the Port Isabel Co.
lauded the native state OF the mai
ority OF his audience. calling at
tention to the remarkable lack OF
illiteracy TO be found in the Goph-
er state. :
According TO the records OF the
war department gathered during
the World War, less than one fourth
o. one per cent Of the population
OF Minnesota is ~illiterate.' the
speaker stated.
Stringent and well enforced COM
pulsory school attendance laws
we're given credit for the fine show
ing Of the state by Mr.. Notes.
A short talk on Texas was given
by w. r. Curtis OF San Benito.
All officers OF 60 association we're
reelected by the more than 200
present, including j. A. White. Los
FreSnos. president; Mrs. Fl. a..
Taber. San Benito. vice-president:
Mrs. Lou Palmer, San Benito. sec
rotary and Mrs. Will BaSsett, san
Benito, treasurer.
The 1882 meeting OF the former
Minnesotans will be held az Fair
park, the association voted yester-
day.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-23
LITTLE CHANCE
FOR new ISSUES
Congress Faces Clean : Up
Period--MuscIe Shoals
Bill First

WASHINGTON, FEB. 23.-tPl-
The senate today approved the
compromise Muscle Shoals bill,
completing congressional action.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23-Hl-
With an eye on the clock ticking
off its brief remaining time con-
greSs today entered a cleanup Pc
Rod. The two houses worked on
finishing touches for legislation far
advanced toward a place on the
statute books. but for fresh issues
there was little chance.
Muscle Shoals, first on the list.
came before the senate today for
approval of the conference report
already adopted BY the house. The
compromise resolution was slated
for easy passage late today or to-
morrow. Disapproval by the presi-
dent had been forecast freely be-
cause OF the plans extensive gov
eminent operation features.
Right after that the veterans
loan bill Is looked for, back from
the White House, accompanied BY
a veto message in which the legis-
iators expect Mr. Hoover will make
his most determined stand TO over
come their resolve TO enact 1t.
Two OF the eleven big appropria-
ton bills. the one carrying the
navy's money for the next fiscal
year and a deficiency measure To
pay for emergency legislation en-
acted. still are TO be passed. But
plenty OF time for them remains.
In all there are eight and a half
legislative days ahead. Night ses-
Sions will be added when necessary
and sometimes congress puts in
some working hours on its last Sun
day.
Two measures OF wide scope had
a doubtful fate today. The oil
embargo bill. designed to protect
the American petroleum producer
and the bill for starting the navy's
London treaty construction program
faced some severe opposition and
congressional leaders were skept-
ical about their passage. Immigra-
ton restriction may fare better as
the house intends to pass this week
the jenkins bill cutting foreign
influx by 90 per cent. and the SEN
ate immigration committee Is ready
70 rush II 70 the senate floor.
The amended Wagner bill for an
expanded employment service was
before the house today. with some
controversy III sight about its con-
tents since II vas changed at Sec
rotary Doak's recommendation.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-23
REFUSED TO
ASK CLEMENCY
Attorney Reveals Letter
From Gunwoman And
Bandit Lover

BELLEFONTE. Pa. Feb. 23-Fj
Disclosure that Irene Schroeder
and walter Glenn Dague had ask
ed their counsel not to take steps
to obtain a further stay Of sent
ence. because we do not want life
Imprisonment now" was contained
in a letter written BY Dague and
made public by the Rev. Fl. o. Tea
garden today.
Dague revealed himself in the
letter as a man who had Spurned
a call to "consecrate my life to the
service OF God" back in October.
1917.
In his letter dated February %
Dague wrote to the Rev. MI. Tea
garden. He said that ne had the
call from God 70 ~consecrate my
life TO his service at a time when
the minister was in the pulpit al
his church in Dallas. w. Va.
Dague recalled that the minister
had asked II there was "a young
man here who will c~onsecretate
himself TO God
God is calling, and he does not
answer" Dague quoted Mr.. Tea
garden as saying. That man will
sink to the depths of hell"
He could not have known that
I was that young man. Dague
wrote.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-23
Wet PROPOSAL
TO Be FOUGHT
Dry Demos Reused To
Fever Heat Over
Raskob Intent

WASHINGTON. Feb. 73.-LP-
Whatever intentions Chairman
Raskob may or may not have in
regard to lining up the democra-
tic national committee on the wet
side or the prohibition fence. dry
members of the group are set for
an aggressive try at squelching any
such plan.
The committee will meet here
March 5. at the chairman's call.
Future policies he announced will
form a topic for discussion. Rumors
have been current a resolution IS
being framed TO push this steering
group of the party off the prohibi-
ton fence. The rumors have not
been denied.
Some OF the dry democrats on
Capitol Hill have been reused 70
n fever heat Of activity. Yesterday
Senator Morrison OF North Carolina
baby member Of the senate but no
newcomer to national politics. as
serted his group had sufficient
TO defeat any vet resolution. He l.
North Cardinals national commit
teeman. Other democratic leaders in
congress are trying 70 head OFF the
issue by having the rumored reso-
luton shelved now.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-23
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-23
Married Life" Not
Worth While
Blames Wives Nerves

Weak nerves. said New Yorkdoc-
tor recently. "in my estimation wreck
more happily married lives than any
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Besides making the sweetest DISPOSE
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-23
Silence Wins
Bridge Games

CHICAGO. Feb. 23-F- Silence
from friend husband and lots Of
IL, may win bridge games.
Mrs. Trtdie Pennish. crowned as
champion woman bridge player oil
the Chicago area last night. gave
the tip to q curious reporter.
Does friend husband ever crit
ize your plays?" she was asked.
Absolutely not" she replied
He'd no more tell me how to play
bridge than I'd tell him how to run
his law business"
And there may be something Il
II for Robert w. Halpin. the man
champion, said the same thing
about his better half.
She" he said, Just sits by
silently"