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Evening star., 1932-08-06
EXHIBITIONS URGED
FOR MODERNIZATION
Architect Holds Reconditioning of
Existing Buildings Will Aid
Industrial Activity.

Believing that the reconditioning of
existing buildings Will constitute a
major part of the building industry S
activity for some time to come, Benja-
min F. Belts. A l. A, editor of Ameri-
can Architect, urges the establishment
of exhibitions to stimulate public in
terest in modernization work.
"A modernization exhibition should
not be difficult to organize, in COM
munities, large and small, and could be
as modest or elaborate as conditions
warranted. 1t would have widespread
public appeal right now. Building ma
terial manufacturers and dealers, con-
tractors and civic organizations would
doubtless give such exhibitions their CO.
operation and support" he declares.
THE exhibition should demonstrate
what can be done to make obsolete
homes. banks, hotels, apartments and
office buildings usable and again profit
able; how buildings of poor architectural
character can be altered to improve
their appearance ana that Of their
locality; kinds of building improvements
that can be accomplished for specific
amounts of money; exhibits of modern
lied plumbing and heating, etc"
Evening star., 1932-08-06
Two Big Federal Projects Are Nearing Completion
New Public Health Serv-
ice Building Will Be
Ready January l.
COST IS S766,OO0
Botanic Garden Con-
servatory to Be Dedi-
Gated IN Near Future.

1.-TWO of the new Federal building
projects here which we're started
last year, have reached an ad-
vanced stage of construction
which reveals the impressive
changes they are bringing to their sec
tions of the Washington area included
in the Government development.
These are the new home Of the
United States Public Health Service,
being erected on the large site between
Nineteenth and Twentieth streets, Con-
Stitution avenue and G street; and the
modern conservatory for the new Bot
anic Garden, which occupies most Of
the area between Maryland avenue,
First, Second and B streets southwest,
close to the Capitol Grounds.
Completion Due January 1.
The new Public Health Service Build
ing is expected to be completed by next
January l. 1t is being erected by Wills,
Taylor e. Mafera of New York. from
plans drawn by j. H. de Sibour, Wash
ington architect.
This structure is marked by simple
lines which creates an air Of quiet dig
nifty, desired because it is located in
close proximity to the National Acad-
emy of Science and the PanAmerican
Lincoln Memorial.
In proportions this building has been
given the classical Greek feeling and
yet the details bear more the mark of
the modern thought, the architect ex-
plains.
The exterior Of the building is of
marble facing and there are lobbies and
staircaseS of the same material The
windows of this structure are Of alu-
minum material producing a gray tone
which is highlighted to effect portion
of the color scheme.
Frontage of 261 Feet.
The building is to have roof of
terra Gotta tile having somewhat varied
shades OF blush gray in color The
building has a frontage of 261 feet on
the Constitution avenue frontage and a
depth of lat feet. The E street side is
being given a temporary facade and
later when this wing has been added 1t
will have a facade corresponding to
that of the south front.
The SuperStructure OF the Public
Health Service Building has a contract
cost of approximately S766.000, with ad
ditional work yet to be let.
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of the palm house which presents the
dome-like appearance already seen in
the shape of the aluminium roof truSses.
This reaches a height of 88 feet. The
building proper has a frontage of ap-
proximately 300 feet and a depth of 1873
feet.
The conservatory was designed by
Bennett, Parsons g. Frost of Chicago
and it is being erected by the George A
Fuller Co. of New York as general con-
tractors.
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S648.57O In CONSTRUCTION
PROJECTS APPROVED HERE
Last Months Figures Bring Total for Year to
$7,661,865 Col. Oehmsnn's
Report Shows.

- estimated $64857O during the past
| month by Building Inspector John w Oehmann it is
vealed in the July report, just made public
This figure brings the total of private building here for the
first months of this estimated expenditure of
1851 865
that there permits that
month for nefamy dwellings having estimated building
of Also there for three apartments flats
providing accommodations families having otalng
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III 1llld11S1I4S 4AOAAASos
Other comments on the law, which
will create a system of Home Loan
Banks, included the following tele-
grams received by the national realty
organization:
Harry S. Kissell, Springfield Ohio,
immediate past president OF the Ma
tional Association of Real Estate
Boards, chairman OF its Committee on
Home Loan Banks.
AS soon as banks can be put into
operation the new measure will make
possible payment by building and loan
associations of funds to depoSitors. VIII
take a great burden from merchants in
this section of the country. Probably
building and loans will not be able to
pay out without restrictions at first.
Operation of banks should check fore
closures very materially. The Home
Loan Bank as a permanent institution
will encourage home ownership and
stimulate building necessary housing
units, which will be sorely needed in
most cities when depression ends."
Edward A. MacDougall, New York,
chairman of the Housing Commltte OF
the National Association of Real Estate
Boards:
Home Loan Bank bill in my opinion
Is the greatest piece of legislation ever
enacted by Congrss in the interests OF
the home owner Greatest benefit for
the future is in nationalizing mortgage
money so that funds may flow from
that part of the country where avail
able to other parts where they may be
needed for housing. Will be OF great
benefit to the investing public who de-
sire to invest small sums in mortgages
on homes. This need will be met by
the bonds Of the home loan mortgage
banks. Effect in the long run should
be to reduce the rate of interest on
home mortgages"
George D. Robertson, Los Angeles,
member of the Executive Committee
and former vice president National As
sociation of Real Estate Boards:
California is ready for home build
ing campaign. Needs only the impetus
afforded by the Federal Home Loan
Bank to set it in motion. The residen-
tial vacancy factor in this community
remains extremely low, and conStruc-
ton of thousands Of new homes should
start Immediately. New legislation, I
believe, is the most beneficial act for
the home owners Of America that has
ever been enacted"
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SUBSTATION PLANNED
Power Company to Erect Structure

Power Company to Erect STRUCTURE
on Georgia Avenue.
The Potomac Electric Power Co
plans the construction Of a one-StorJ
brick and concrete electric substatior
on a site at 1927 Georgia avenue, plans
for which were filed with the District
building inspector this week with ar
application for permit The cost of the
building is to be about S25,000.
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Young & Oppenheimer. owners and
builders; George T. Santmyers. archi-
tect; to erect two 2-story brick apart
ments, 1903 and 1910 sherwood place
northeast; to cost Sl4500.
William H. Circey, owner. designer
and builder: to erect one 2-story frame
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The conservatory for the new Botanic
Garden is much more nearly completed
and arrangements now are being made
for its dedication. The building has a
cost of $876,000. 1t is Of the monu-
mental type of design. The main front
of the building. facing on Maryland
avenue, is of stone construction and
about 40 feet high. This facade is
pierced by a series Of arched openings
and doorWays.
The exterior wings of the building are
laid out in a series of lecture rooms,
Offices and exhibit quarters. In a
transverse wing is the vaulted ceiling
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Permits for repair. remodeling or
ried a cost estimate totaling $183. 800.
There were plans for four store build
ings costing $4,000.
The cost totals for the first six
months of this year were: January,
81 3O4,725; February. 81 .O15, $40; March,
S1,258 $50; April, S1.O85.145 May. $685.
135. and June 81 ,403 $40.
During the past week permits were
issued for projects having a total esti-
mated cost of $104000. Included in
this list we're plans for eight dwellings
Among the new operations are:
Muhleman & Kayhoe, Inc, owners
and builders; Harry Pringle, designer;
to erect two 2-story brick dwellings,
1915 and 1919 Quesada street; to cost
$4,000
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Owning Building Section Washington and Suburbs
HOME LOAN ACT Is HELD
BIG STEP TO STABILITY
Influence for Better Appraisals
and Uniform Methods.

of
reservoir funds for the dountng of mortgages
dwellings, promise of stability in home hnanc
ing declared by w. Miller of this city, president elect
of the National Association of Real Estate Boards
the President Hoover Mr. Miller
said the greatly encouraging for the
system is organized and administered on broad
basis should be appraisal for home
uniform methods Demonstrated safety
bettered terms and lower costs
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
POLICE RESIST EFFORT STRIKERS ID INVADE
 FRANKLIN COAL MINES

CHRISTOPHER, H., Aug, 26, - Guns blaZed as a force of more than 500 deputy sheriffs repelled the first attempt of approximately 15,000 striking miners from North and Central Illinois to invade Franklin county to close coal mines operating under the new $5 daily wage contract.
 Shotguns, pistols and clubs were used by the deputy sheriffs in the first clash of the long threatened mine war, but the gunfire was di- rected chiefly at the tires of auto mobiles used by the strikers.
 Two miners were shot and slight ly wounded and at least 100 of the invaders were injured by blows from clubs. In the riot, the strik- ers' vanguard of 2,000, deserted about 300 automobiles and trucks, the tires of which had been pierced by bullets and the windshields shattered by clubs.
 Attempting to make nasty re- treat, drivers ran their cars into the ditches or into cornfields of Franklin county. Some women were in the cars. The miners escaped into the fields and woods and be- gan striking back westward to join the main body of the 15,OO0 strik- CTS, who were determined to in wade the mine fields at dawn.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
UNITED FRONT 0F
 EUROPE ON DEBTS SAID
 ID HAVE BEEN BROKEN

PARIS, Aug, 26, The mySter- ious visit of Montague Norman, governor of the Bank of England, to the United States, is the first break in the united front of Eur opean nations on the subject ot war debts.
 Visiting America under an as sumed name and with his move mentS shrouded in mystery, the English financier's mission is to open Anglo-American discussion of war debts, it was said, thus un- dermining the gentlemen's agree ment reached by the former AL lied powers at Lausanne. This agreement provides that annul- ment of German separations be made contingent upon favorable war debt action by America.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
DESCRIBE BEAUTIES 0F ALASKAN TRIP IN
 HOMETOWN PAPER

'The Alaska of reality does not appear as the Alaska of the geo. graphy book" Mrs. Fred Bader of Fremont, Neb., said upon returning home from a trip to the North land. Tt is so much more wonder full and beautiful than mere words or even pictures could ever DOT tray"
 At Seward MT. and Mrs. Bader were met by Miss Maud May, a re- gular summer visitor to Alaska, who took them on an automobile drive. The beautiful scenery and the Jes- SC Lee Home for children, and other attractions, were features of the trip.
 Arriving in Alaska just after the longest day in the year, the Ere monters were able to determine why Alaska is called "the Land of the Midnight Sun." They were able to read at night until a late hour without artificial light. It was ex- plained to the interesting couple that the long days accounted for the phenomenal growth of vegeta- ton.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
MANY PASSENGERS WERE ENDANGERED IN
 COLLISION 0N OCEAN

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug, 26, - Forty passengers who sailed from here last Tuesday were endanger- ed early yesterday when the French passenger and freight ship Wyoming" collided with the cargo boat Peter Helms" in a dense fog off Fort Bragg.
 Among the passengers on the French vessel were Francis Tap pan, University of Southern Cali fornia football star, and All-Amer- ican choice, and his bride, the for mer Betty Moreno, daughter of Antonio Moreno, screen actor.
 Fhe wyoming" commanded by Captain I. David, was enroute to Vancouver, while the, Peter Helms" of the Mccormick Line, was bound for San Francisco from Astoria, under the command of Captain J. Silvia.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
FORE, OLD CROWS!
 SHOTGUN BARRACE

MILDRUA, Australia, Aug. 26, (P) Golfers playing a championship match at Mildura, Victoria, had a shotgun barrage in front of them to chase large focks of crows which had taken to stealing the golf balls.
 When a contestant teed up, the crows gathered at the next green waiting for the ball. This caused the tournament committee to dele gate a caddy for picket duty at ad- vance posts with a shotgun.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
FAMOUS JOCKEY WILL
 HEAD RACING STABLES

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y, Aug. 26, Colonel Maxwell Howard, of Dayton, Ohio, prominent paper manufacturer, plans formation of a new racing stable with Earle Sande in complete charge.
 Sande revealed that he would become trainer and manager for Colonel Howard at the close of the present Saratoga meeting. Buying and selling horses will be entirely in the famous jockeys hands.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
SILK SHIPMENT |S
 ENR0UTE ID NEW YORK

SEATTLE, Aug, 26, The lar gest silk cargo shipped across the Pacific since 1924, arrived on the liner President Cleveland from ports in the Far East.
 The silk shipment, valued at $1,- 752,45O is in 4,494 bales, 513 of which were unloaded at Victoria, B. c.
 The Victoria shipment was to be reloaded on the SS H. F. Alexan- der, for San Francisco, to be re- shipped to New York by water.
 Two special trains of 16 cars each will hurry the Seattle cargo to New York.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
SANDS NEAR sELDOV|A YIELD GOLD VALUES

A fellow working the gravels on the beach between Bluff Point and Anchor Point, across from Seldo- via and about Is miles from that thriving metropolis, is making sat- isfactory recovery of gold.
 With rocker and a tom, this lone-miner on one occasion is said to have taken out $7 in one days cleanup. The values harvested vary greatly. A long-tom is said to be the most suitable method for handling the sand, it is reported.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
OFF FOR OSLO

NEW YORK, Aug, 26, While Colonel Hutchinson and his flying family flew from St. John, N. F., to Anticosti Island in three hours and three minutes, completing the se- cond leg of their flight from New York to London, Clyde Lee and J. Bochkon, who started from Barre, Vt., hopped off from Harbor Grace for Oslo, Norway.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
TURTLE RACES HALT TED
 BY THE AUTHORITIES

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug, 26, - Uninvited guests ruined the opening of the Hollywood Terrapin racing season.
 The unbidden guests were police officers who raided the races and took into custody for questioning, Louis Hirsch, promoter, and Tod Sloan, one time premier jockey, who had acted as judges.
 Police said they believed specta- tors were gambling on the out come of the races.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
LIFE GUARD AND ENVOY
 SWAP BLOWS AT BEACH

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Aug. 26, lPD-Hilmey Bey, Egypt's celebrated Channel swimmer and friend ot Gertrude Ederle, swapped punches with the Austrian Minister to Egypt after the diplomat had been drag ged by police out of boiling surf where it was against police regu- lationS to swim.
 It happened at fashinable Stan ley Bay where Hilmey is beach in spector. The fight was a draw but the Egyptian government apolo- gized.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
BEAT HER OWN FIGURE

NEWARK, N. J., Aug, 26, Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam arrived at 11:30 D. m. Thursday from Los Angeles, making a nonstop hop in 19 hours and four minutes, five minutes less than she had antici- pated. The noted aviatrix was to leave today for her home at Rye, there, to resume her knitting until she figures out another record to break.
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deposits in this area, which pro- duced nearly $2,OOO,OOO between 1910 and 1880, can produce in the next 25 years, under adequate fi- nancial support and skilled tech nical and administrative direction, an amount of gold that will com pare favorably with the $80,000, ,000 production so far yielded by the placer deposits.
 Similarly prospects are bright for new discoveries of gold in the Willow Creek lode district, the Den nison Fork area, and the Mount Eielson district.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
M0Ll|S0N'S WIFE STILL
 DESIRES FLY ATLANTIC

LONDON, Aug, 26, Amy John son. who used to do lot of long distance flying before she married Capt. James Mollison, said she had reconsidered her plan to fly across the Atlantic.
 This, she said, was in deference to the wishes of her husband, who last week made the first East to West flight across the Atlantic, from England to Newfoundland, and who planned to take off today on a return flight.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
HUGE POWER PLANT IN
 RUSSIA |S DEDICATED

KICHKAS, USSR, Aug, 26, - Dnesprostroy, the worlds largest power plant, was dedicated yester- day. This hydroelectric power plant, far exceeding similar un- dertakings and difficulty of accom- plishment, is being completed on the Dnieper river.
 From an installed capacity of 756,000 horsepower, abundant elec- tricity will be available to smelt iron and other metals and to op- crate chemical industries.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
EAST ST. LOUIS
 RETRENCHEs, PAYROLL

EAST ST. LOUIS, H., Aug. 26. (H) This southern Illinois metropolis has been experiencing some of the same troubles as Chicago.
 With funds lacking to meet pay rolls, even after a 10 per cent cut, a payless furlough of one week a month was placed in effect in cer- tain departments.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
TEXAS VISITORS

MT. and Mrs. Joe Kurth and two children, from Texas, are among the round-trip visitors today from the SS Aieutian. They are friends of MT. and Mrs. P. c. McMullen who are entertaining them while here. Mrs. McMullen took the Tex as visitors out to Lawing for the day, a trip which the Kurths' will no doubt greatly enjoy, traversing as it does, the beautiful auto tour over a remarkably fine highway to renowned Kenai lake.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
RECORD Is MADE IN
 PREVENTION 0F FIRES

WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug, 26, = The year 1882 may set an all-time record in efficient prevention of forest fires.
 Up to July 31 of 1881, 1000 acres of national forest land had been burned over.
 This year, in August, only 54,000 acres had been lost. Last year the Federal government spent $888,OOO in fighting fires before August 1. This year it has spent $195,000.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
ATTEMPT FIRE AMERICAN
 CONSULATE FRUSTRATED

SEVILLE, Spain, Aug, 26, -Un- identified persons attempted to burn the American consulate here during the night, but the flames were extinquished before serious damage had been done
 A watchman aroused Richard Ford, the consul, who lives in the building, and assisted by neigh bors, the blaze was put out before more than few hundred dollars damage had been done.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
BLIND GIRL EXPERT TYPIST

PITTSBURG, Kas., Aug. 26, (P)- Totally blind since she was years old, Claudia Gwendolyn Lamb, 6, nevertheless has become an expert typist and a talented player of pi- ano and violin. With a younger sister she plans to enter a college within a year or two and study for a journalistic career.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
HERB GIVEN BETTER
 RATING IN THE BALLOTS

WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 26, - President Hoover slightly improv- ed his position in the latest tabu- lation of ballots in the nation wide presidential poll of all the Hearst newspapers.
 With 80,472 votes canvassed MT. Hoover had 391 more who voted Republican in 1928 now supporting him, than Governor Roosevelt has of the 1928 Democrats.
 Last Tuesday, Governor Roose- welt had 131 more Democrats than Hoover had Republicans.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
ROUND -TRIPPERS

Among the round-trippers on the SS Aleutian, in port today from Seattle are: MT. and Mrs. L. w. Baker, Jean Baker, Mir. and Mrs. L. E. Heppenstall, Joyce Heppen- stall, Elizabeth Johnson, Mrs. E. Johnson, Miss E. M. Mckenzie, Mrs. c. c. Moss, Robert Moss, Mary E. Reed, It. Col. c. L. Sturdevant.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
HORSE SWAPPING REVIVED

PRENTISS, Miss, Aug. 26, (P)- Horse lovers of south Mississippi have moved to revive the Horse Swapping league, an institution that f1ourished 40 years ago. The purpose is to increase interest in horse breeding, which has become dormant with the machine age"
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26

Mrs. M. D. Snodgrass and two daughters, Mary and Margaret, re- turned today from the States after an extended absence. MT. Snod- grass, of the colonization depart ment of the Alaska Railroad, at Anchorage, met the family here.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
PILOT COPE BRINGS 3

First of the Anchorage air "ace" to alight today, was Pilot Lon Cope, of the Pacific International Air ways, who brought three passen- gers from the thriving Cook Inlet City and Center of Everything" Pilot Cope was to return to Anchor age, with full load, this forenoon.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
BASEBALL SCORES
AMERICAN LEAGUE

AMENICIlN LEAUUE New York 4, Cleveland 3. Boston 5, Chicago 4. Washington 8, Detroit 5. Phillies IS, St. Louis 5.
 NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago 9, Brooklyn 3. Phillies 11-6, Pittsburgh 3-5. New York 6, St. Louis 5.
 PACIFIC COAST Missions g, Hollywood '. Portland 8, Oakland 0. San Francisco 10, Los Angeles Z Seattle 13, Sacramento 5.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
FOR CHINESE RELIEF

KAREN, Aug, 26, -Appropria- tions were received from the League of Nations for immediate assistance to the more than 1,OOO,- 900 sufferers from floods which ruined large areas in Manchuria.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
SIX-MILER CLAIMS RECORD

BURLINGTON, N. C., Aug 26, (P) Paul "Hardrock" Simpson bettered the American and worlds profess sional record for the six-mile run here when he covered the distance in 30 minutes, four seconds. He will make application for accept ance of the record.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
RELIEF IN THREE YEARS

LONDON, Aug, 26, Scotland will be able to secure self-govern- ment in three years, according to a prediction by the Scottish na- tionalist party.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26

Leon Urbach, local busness man and president of the Chamber of Commerce, who has been in Cali fornia attending the annual U. s. chamber convention and Olympic Games, returned today, accompa- nied by son Lawrence.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
BAR CONVICT GOODS

WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug, 26, - The American Federation of La bor is campaigning to persuade State legislatures to take advan- tage of the Hawes-Cooper act, per- mitting states to bar the sale of convict-made goods within their borders.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
LIFE IMPRISONMENT

MADRID, Spain, Aug, 26, The death penalty sentence for General Jose San Jurgo, leader of the re- cent Seville revolt, was changed Thursday to life imprisonment
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26
AVALANCHE OF BUYING

NEW YORK, Aug, 26, In the market commodities a navalanche of orders marked Thursday acti- vities. Replenishment of depleted stocks after two years of depres- sion, was given as the reason for the tremendous amount of orders.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26

Wayne Fox, who has been stay ing with his grandparents, MT. and Mrs. Dave Downey, at the Downey & Babcock mine at Nuka bay, will arrive in Seward on the next trip of the MS Rolph III. Wayne will enroll in the Seward high school.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-26

Mrs. T. s. Thomasson and daugh- ters, Phyllis and Inez, arrive in the city Thursday evening from their home in Anchorage for a brief vis- it, returning home today.