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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-15
JULY BUILDING
CONTRACTS JUMP
Dodge Corporation Reports
Increase in New England
and Middle Atlantic States.

Moving slightly against an established
seasonal trend. several sections Of the
country produced higher construction
contract awards in July than In June.
F. w Dodge Corporation finds that the
New England, Upstate New York, Mid
die Atlantic, Pittsburgh and Chicago
territories are included in this category.
Despite decline in the total valua-
ton Of such contracts in the 81 States
east of the Rockies. these large areas
registered a ''go-ahead'' over June in
July when they would normally be ex-
pected to drop behind June. The total
for July was $285. 9e7 800, and was di-
vided among the three major construc-
ton classes as follows: $ll6,265, 500 in
public works and utilities. sos .839 500
in non-residentisl building, and $685.
892 500 in residential building.
In the advancing territories the lead
was largest in the Middle Atlantic terri
tory, including the District Of Columbia,
Maryland and Virginia, where July's
SAC, 464 500 compared favorably with
June's S32.128,8 BOO Only a slight ad-
vance was shown in Upstate New York,
with $14,296.000 for July, comparing
with $14024, 900 for June. New Eng
land showed a gain Of about IS, 900 900
in its $2s. 1855 800 July total. The region
around Chicago registered $34. GOT, 500
in July and $28, 1872 200 in June. Ex-
actly S96 900 was the advance Of the
Pittsburgh territory, as included in its
$50, 700 for the month just ended.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-15
EXECUTIVES TO MEET

National Real Estate Board Group
to Gather in Chicago.
The Executive Committee Of the Ma
tional Association Of Real Estate
Boards will meet in Chicago August
rs. The members OF this committee
art: Harry 8. KisSell, president Of
the association, Springfield, Ohio;
George d. Robertson, Los Angeles
Calf; Robert S. Jemison, jr, Birming-
ham, Ala Walter S. Schmidt, Cincin-
natl. Ohio: Stephen w. Sleeper. Bos-
ton, Mass; Henry @. Zander. Chicago;
James B. Fisher, Brooklyn, N Y,
Leonard p Reaunne, Detroit, Mich.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-15
BUILDING LOAN DELEGATES
CITE GROWTH in BUSINESS
Home Finance Plan Aids Millions of Purchasers
World Congress Is Told at Session in
Philadelphia

LONE experts sides of the Atlantic attending
Building Societies Building
Philadelphia this reported
business in recent
in the United States loo
the the purchase or
homes such organizations have membership otang
100000, it reported.
Attending the international Congress which was held IN con
convention Of United
League 500 delegates from widely scattered countries
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-15
Real Estate Sold
By Classified Ads
AS Early as l72l
Owners 200 Years Ago
Used Same Methods
in Vogue Today.

AS early as 1721 gentlemen in pow
dered wigs put together, with their quill
pens, some very good real estate CLASH
fed ads and inserted them in the vari-
Gus gazettes and journals Of the time,
the National Association of Real Estate
Boards reports.
Although most Of the towns had
street numbers, many Of the early real
estate advertisements designated the To-
cation of the properties by mentioning
other well known property or places
near the one to be sold.
Thus an advertisement that ran in
the New England Courant from Noyem-
Der 26 to December 3, 1922, read:
"A Brick House near the Swing
Bridge. adjoining to Mr.. Primm's, the
Gunsmith; 25-Foot Front facting Mr..
Coney's; the Estate Of the Late Pilgrim
deceased. To be sold by
Christopher Kelly, Administrator on
said Estate"
Again:
The Maryland Gazette February II,
1923: "On Wednesday, the 18th Of this
Instant. will be exposed to sale to the
best bidder a new House, situate near
Severn Ferry, in the city Of Annapolis
built by Thomas Watson, Carpenter. and
the Lot wherein it stands BY William
Laintry, Executor Of the said Watson.
The newspapers showed their reader
interest" by inserting such advertise
ments as this one appearing in the
Maryland Gazette on March II. 1928:
ANY Person having a Plantation TO
dispose of within q few miles of An
we'll situated with Wood, may
apply to the Printer of this Paper, who
viii give Information where he may
find Purchaser for said Plantation"
A very long advertisement appearing
in the same paper on March 81, 1929,
signed George Platter" has after the
signature the following postscript:
IN. B. The Subscriber is inclinable
to Lease out the said Manor into sew
eral Tenements, or Plantations OF so or
100 Acres each for Term Of Years, or
for Lives; and will give great Encour-
agement to any Persons that shall apply
TO him for that Purpose"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-15

Among plans filed this week with APP
plications for permits were those pro
viding for the construction of brick
snd-stone Office and animal-housing
building and garage for the Washing
ton Animal Rescue League at Four-and-
a-half street and Maryland avenue
southwest. to cost $40, 900.
Projects approved during the past
week, exclusive of Government opera
tions. included the following:
Cafritz Construction Co. owners and
builders: A. L. Aubinoe, designer: to
erect eleven 2-story brick dwellings,
5000 to 5000 Fourth street; to cost ST.
600.
G. B, Mullin Co, Inc. owners and
builders; George T. Santmyers; archi-
tect; to erect one 3-story brick, tile and
concrete apartment, 4O25 Thirteenth
street; to cost $4,000.
Francis B. Silsbee, owner: Chevy
Chase Construction Co., builders to
erect one 2-Story brick and tile dwell
ing, 1920 Quebec street; to cost $50, 600
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-15

The Silver Star Homes on the north
side of Volta place west of Forty
fourth street, in Foxall, now open to
the public under auspices Of The Star,
as part of its better homes demon
strstion, will remain on exhibition IN
this program for one more week.
The public of Greater washington
is invited to visit the houses today and
during the ensuing week from 9 am.
to 10 pm, and make an inspection Of
the modern ideas OF housing design,
plan, community layout, landscaping
arrangement of rooms, equipment and
decoration available there.
Marked BY Silver Star.
The property may be reached by
driving out Q street and Reservoir road
then south on Forty-fourth street TO
Volta place and west to the houses.
which are marked by a Silver Star
Home sign.
The houses. Of modern English archi-
tectural motif, are an illustration OF
modern treatment OF attached houses
with a group designed as a unit. yet
giving each residence an individuality
in outline. The houses are of a conbi-
nation Of two and three story dwell
ings, a variety Of use OF brick, stone
and some stucco with half timbering
being employed in their construction
The houses were built by Waverly Tay-
Tor. Inc.
The houses were approved for the
demonstration by the Silver Star Homes
Committee, which is in charge Of the
current homes demonstration, an out
growth of the former Star Model
Home series
Members of Committee.
Members OF this committee are
James S. Taylor, chief OF the Division
OF Building and Housing, Bureau of
Standards, Department OF Commerce;
DR. Louise Stanley, chief of the Bureau
OF Home Economies. Department Of
Agriculture Gilbert Rodier past presi-
dent of the Washington Chapter,
American Institute OF Architects: Ar
thur Carr, president OF the Washington
Real Estate Board, Miss Harlean James,
executive secretary Of the American
Civic Association. John H Small Sd,
Washington landscape architect: Wav-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-15
FOXALL SILVER STAR HOMES
MAY BE VIEWED BY PUBLIC
Homes of Modern English Architectural
Motif Will Remain Open for
One More Week.

erly Taylor, architect and operative
builder, and Rufus S. Lusk, realty
statistician, who has had years Of ex-
perience in model home demonstrations
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-15
WORK SOON TO START
ON OIL BUILDING
Standard of New Jersey Announces
Construction to Be Begun
This Week.

Actual construction work on the pro-
posed Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey
building on Constitution avenue between
Second and Third streets is expected TO
be started within a week, 1t was an
nounced today.
Armed with an excavation permit,
issued blythe District building inspector
in advance Of the building permit, the
contractors, James Stewart &, Co. Of
New York. have been engaged in exca-
waiting for the foundations for several
weeks, Fifteen buildings which stood
on the site of the building have been
RACED preparatory to work on the struc-
ture.
A corner stone-laying ceremony has
been tentatively planned by the concern.
it is understood. but definite plans have
not yet been completed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-15
NEW BOLIVIAN ENVOY
LIVES IN STAR HOME
Model House in Wesley Heights
Was Bought by Luis Abelli
EARLY This Year.

Luis o. AbeIli newly appointed Bo-
liyian Minister TO the United States
was the purchaser early this year Of
The Star model home. at Forth-fourth
and GARFIELD streets, in Wesley Heights
The dwelling was erected by w. c. 81 A
N. Miller builders. and had been on
display as one Of this newspapers ex-
hibit homes of the 1880 season.
Senior Ahelli was named this week TO
succeed Minister Dia1 de Medina, who
was appointed adviser to the foreign
once OF his government. The new Min
lister has been residing in his Wesley
Heights home here for several months.
He has been unoficially representing his
chief executive in financial matters here
during the past two months.
Senior Abelli's home, at 1880 Forty
fourth street, is an English-type dwell
ing Of commodious proportions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-15
Restores Seventeenth Century Farm House
Philip H. Frohman, Local
Architect, Purchases
Gibson Island Property.
BUILDING PROBABLY
CONSTRUCTED IN 1873
Vaults Believed to Have
Been Used to Hide Contra
band Slaves, Discovered.

A seventeenth century farm house
located atop q high peak on Gibson
Island, Chesapeake Bay Is being re-
stored to the form Of its original quaint
style Of architecture by its recent pur-
chaser, Philip Hubert FTohman, local
architect and designer of the Washing
ton Cathedral
The historical property is said to
date back to the year 1867. at which
time 1t was said TO have been granted
by the crown to Thomas Homewood
Mr.. Frohman discovered that the old
est part of the building was probably
constructed about 1875 Another wing
he says, was added about the time of
Charles IL
Infinite detail is being devoted TO the
rebuilding OF the old farm house with
the end to creating, as near as possible,
a reproduction of the original structure
as 1t stood more than 200 years ago.
In the course Of the rebuilding work
examples of the carpentering methods
Of the seventeenth century have been
unearthed. It was discovered that the
timbers are hand hewn and the joints
nortised in and fastened with long iron
spikes. The foundations and masonry
work were in some cases 4 feet thick. To
reproduce the style embodied In the old
uCbulEy bAlAAG bAA6AA OANAA~
narily would be necessary in modern
times is being devoted to the work. To
some extent the old methods Of con-
struction are being followed
Tradition has carried down legendary
tales Of the house, aSsociating 1t with
activities of another day The discoy-
cry Of vaults and underground passages
revived stories that they once were used
to hide contrsband slaves brought in
by slave runners.
The main section Of the house has
approximately Is rooms and seven
baths When completed it will have a
laundry. two maids rooms and a three
car garage. Its location permits a vista
Of Chesapeake Bay and the Magothy
River.
The home was purchased from Stone
81 Fairfax. Inc, Of this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-15
Owning and Building Washington and Suburbs
S5OO.OOO APARTMENT HEADS
CITY BUILDING PERMIT LIST
Structure to Be Erected on Connecticut Avenue
Will Contain III Suites-Row of Houses
to Cost $4,000.

PPRovAL of plans building s72s
Connecticut of
building projects passed by Col John w Oehmann
trict building inspector, during the The all
for which plans were approved estimated 1851 $50
apartment project which will be
Co. will be FIVE stories in height and will contain 1T
individual apartments according
building which will
tcu and SedgwCk designed
architect.
Another large operation
story brick dwellings by the Cafz
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-15
Chile Has New War Minister.

SANTIAGO. Chile, August IS Up
Gen Carlos Saez. minister of war, re-
signed yesterday and Gen. Enrique
Bravo. who took part in the uprising
against the administration of former
President Carlos Ibanez in Conception
in 1890 was named to succeed him
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-15

LContinued on Second Page 5
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-15

Wire Construction Co, Inc. owners
and builders; c, R. Wire designer; to
erect FIVE 2-story brick dwellings, 302 70
30S Madison street and 56l4 Third
street. to cost SIS. 900.
Mortgage Guarantee Co, owners
George Bensel. builder. TO make repairs,
l7l7 Twentieth street; TO cost 500, 600.
Everett S. Beau. jr owner designer
and builder: to erect two 2-Story brick
Continued on Second Page1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-15
RECREATION COST SEEN
More Than $3s, 600, 900 Spent Las
Year. According to Report.

More than $4,000, o00--an amount
exceeding by approximately $4,000 900
any previous report-EaS spent for rec
reation in 1880. according to the Ma
tional Recreation Association.
Nearly one-third of the total amount
was spent for land, buildings and I'm
provements in the $50 cities covered
by the association survey.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-08
WOMAN ENDS LIFE
BY INHALING GAS
Daughter Finds Mrs. Louise Rior-
don, 4S, Unconscious-Had Been
Ill Four Years.

Apparently depressed by Ill health
Mrs. Marie Louise Riordon. 4S years old,
of l343 Kenyon street, went to her bed
room Wednesday and ended her life by
inhalng Illuminating gas. Coroner j.
Ramsay hewitt signed q certificate OF
suicide.
Miss Marie Riordon, q daughter, found
her mother lying unconscious on the
second floor OF their home when she
returned from her work at the Bureau
OF Internal Revenue. Gas was moving
from two open jets nearby.
Police and the Fire Rescue Squad
were called and firemen endeavored to
revive her, but their efforts were in vain.
The family physician, DR.. l.. B. Norris
OF $500 Fourteenth street, pronounced
her dead.
Mrs. Riordon was the wife of Joseph
Allen Riordon, general manager of the
Norfolk g. Washington Steamship Co.
who told police that she had been Ill
four years.
Mrs. Riordon was alone at the time
of her act, q colored maid employed in
the houSeho having the afternoon on.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-08

gram presented under the clubs aus
pices this year. The repertoire will in
clude choral music by the worlds great
composers, such as the organization
possessed last year In winning the
National intercollegiate Glee Club
championship.
The programs first group will be
comprised OF an old Dutch folk Song.
"Prayer of Thanksgiving; "Lol How
a Rose Fer Blooming" by PraetoriuS.
the fifteenth century master of eccle-
siastical music. and Wagner's stirring
Pilgrims Chorus" from "TannhauSer. ="
Baritone solos by Henry Nestcr will
make up the second group Other
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-08
CAPITAL MAS0NS PLAN
TRIP TO ALEXANDRIA
Master Degree to Be Conferred on
Four Candidates In New Wash
ington Memorial.

BarrLsters Lodge, No 4s. F. A. A. M,
Is planning q trip to Alexandria Satur-
day afternoon and evening. when, III
the presence of a distinguished group
of Masonic leaders the Master Mason's
degree will be conferred on four candi-
dates OF the lodge in the George Wash
ington Masonic National Memorial
Headed by Howard Il. Jones, wor-
Shipful master, the LODGE members will
go TO the old Alexandria Washington
Lodge room to view the relics of George
Washington. the Mason. have dinner
at the George Mason Hotel. and then
go In q body TO the memorial.
Among the special guests will be
Col. G. Fred Cook, grand master Of
MssOns IN the District of Columbia;
James Il. Gibbs, past grand master;
J. Claude KEEPER. past grand master
and grand secretary: officers OF the
three lodges in Alexandria, and officers
of the Grand Lodge of Virginia.
This will be the first time that any
Blue Lodge of the District of Column
bia will confer a degree in the Wash
ington Memorial, which is. of course,
in the Jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge
of Virginia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-08
OHIO CADETS PLAN
STRIKE ON DRILLING
Weekly ReVew at University Next
Wednesday Set as Time
for Demonstration.

BY the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May s.-The
weekly parade drill and review next
Wednesday will be the signal for a
strike OF several hundred Ohio State
University students against military
training.
The zero hour was set at q mass
meeting on the campus yesterday amid
cheers and jeers and few scufles.
After the student corps paraded be-
fore President Emeritus w. 0. Thomp-
son leaders of the proposed "mutiny"
gathered their followers and demanded
that military training be optional In
stead Of compulsory.
The movement, however, did not gain
full sympathy. A Sroup of uniformed
students stood by TO jeer, and there
were scuffles when candidates for
Bucket and Dipper," campus honorary
organization, shouldered through the
crowd to distract attention from the
speakers. School oficials made no
statement,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-08
rum RING EXPOSE
FATAL TO TWO MEN
Million Dollar Plane Boat
RaiI-Motor Syndicate
Smashed in South.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
JACKSON. Miss. May S.--The death
toll in week Of rum warfare In MIS-
SiSsippi stood at two today, while Fed
eral officers In this State. Louisiana and
Michigan were rounding up three or
four score persons indicted here as the
aftermath OF q million dollar airplane-
boat -rail-motor liquor smuggling sym
dictate recently uncovered in New or
leans.
Wales Land. 27, was shot to death
by three Federal raiders on his farm,
in Northeast Mississippi, yesterday Tor
allegedly resisting arrest. Last week
Federal Dry Agent H. L. Verett was
slain from ambush In the southern part
OF the State
The officers said Land was killed in
q field. They carried his body to his
home and LETT it, made brief report
to the sheriff and went on to Aberdeen.
carrying with them small group OF
persons they mad arrested.
score Under Arrest.
score VI men are already under
arrest in connection with the big syn
dictate through which Canadian dis
tilleries are alleged 30 have cleared large
quantities OF liquor through the Gull
of Mexico to inland points. Others be-
ing sought 1t was indicated, may run
the total to y hundred
Among those indicted for conspiracy
in airplane bootleg operations are James
w. Kukla Of Muskegon, Mich. and
Jack Matchmaker. alias Jack Miller
OF Grand Rapids, Mich, arrested last
November when q plane they we're oc-
cupying and which contained liquor
made o forced landing In Mississippi
The indictments were returned here Sc
cretly Wednesday.
Federal agents today were seeking two
other persons In Michigan on fugitive
warrants and at least three In New Or
leans for the same venture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-08

TUNE IN ROY ATwELES TIDE WATER
Inn 6:3O 10 6:45 p. NJ Eastern Daylight
Saving Time every Monday, Wed.
nesday and Friday .. Columbia Network.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-08
WINS DARTMOUTH HONOR
Robert Coltman. Sd, Awarded Sc
nior Scholarship.

Word Was received here OF the Selec-
lion Of Robert Coltman, Sd, 20 years
old, OF 3&45 Mount Pleasant street, to
receive q senior fellowship at Dart
mouth College.
Announcement OF the award to Colt
man and I'VE others was made by En-
nest Martin Hopkins. Dartmouth presi-
dent. During the tenure CT their fell
iowsnips the six upper clssSmen will be
given the privilege of studying in any
manner they choose and VIII not be re-
CURED to attend classes or take exami-
nations. Their tuition will. be paid
through the terms Of the feIlowships.
Coltman, a graduate OF Central High
School. is a son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Coltman, jr.
In England only 3s per cent of the
population have telephones. the pro-
portion in America being four times as
great.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-08
------------e -
WAR BOOKS LISTED
Compilation Designed to Help Stu
dents of History.

Publication by the Public Library OF
an annotated book list, The World
War u9i4-lole) and its Aftermath, -
was announced today by DIR. George r.
Bowerman, librarian. The list was
compiled by Iva A. Swift. readers adj
wiser in history.
that this selection from the mass of
war literature will prove useful both to
the new generation who earnestly want
to know what 1t was all about and to
the older lay group who desire an I'M
biased Judgment OF the conflict which
only the years can give"
Copies may be obtained free of charge
at the central building or any branch
library. Copies viii be mailed 10 those
inclosing cents in stamps with their
request.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-08
Why TydO1
saSOIimeS Are
30 I % % Gum Free

4. SELECTED CRCDES
Crudes selected for their cleanliness
are "multi-fractiOnated" by super
refining equipment costing mil.
lions. Each crude gets the exact
degree of refining it requires.
.. "GUNG-TAPPRD''
In towering fractiOnatiOn stills of
the most advanced type, Hi-fest
TYDoL is refined TO gum-free purity.
The gum-carrying gasoline is drawn
of for rehabilitation long before the
refining process lie completed.
s.. GCM.FRRR BLENDING
Tide Waters exclusive, secret blend
of gum.free gaAolines creates the
super-pOwer, highest, anti.knock
qualities of Hi.test TYDoL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-08

GUM sticks valves. GUM clogs feed lines.
GUM forms hard carbon. GUM distorts piston
rings. GUM steals horsepower. GUM is the
repair mans best friend.
You will find GUM in improperly or hastily
refined gasOlines.
ButyOur motor will never be injured by Hi-test
TYDOL. not in a hundred thousand miles!
For Hi-test TYDOL is 99i8Sst6 gum.free!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-08
A
Good
Reason
Why!
E n t o no o ] o g Y
needn't be for col
lege professors only

A WE are all interested
in the little creatures
from field and forest
what they do-how they live
so there is no reason in the
world why we shouldn't en-
Joy that interest minus all the
so technical" intricacieS of a
professors vocabulary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-08
VARIED MUSIC PLANNED
BY G. w. u. GLEE CLUBS

Concert at Mayhower Hotel Tomor-
row Night to Include Mixed
Choruses and Solo Numbers.
A wide variety OF selections will be
included among the offerings of the
George Washington University Glee
Club In a concert tonight at S:45 in the
MayfioWer Hotel
The concert will be the first full pro-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-08
TRAIN COOLED BY AIR

D. q ". TO 1nauSufate summer
Feature on the Columbian.
An entirely air cooled and air puri-
ned train will be placed in service
on the Baltimore 81 Ohio Railway
about May 20, an innovation in rail
transportation. A hot-weather spe-
cialty, the train to be equipped with
the cooling and purifying mechanism
Is "the Columbian" running between
New York. Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington, both East and West bound.
The new apparatus will not only
regulate the temperature OF the air,
but also controls the humidity and
cleans the air OF all particles Of dust,
cindeTS and smoke An automatic
therlnostat controls the temperature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-08

groups will include songs by mixed
choruses and individual offerings by
the mems and women's clubs. The