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Evening star., 1932-04-23
STAR HOME EXHIBIT
CLOSES NEXT WEEK
Public Is Invited to Inspect
Model Residence in
Shepherd Park.

The Silver Star Home at 1912
Mcrningside drive, Shepherd Park,
enters its fourth and last week of
public exhibition under auspices OF
The Star tomorrow Already hundreds
of visitors have passed through this
comfortable, charming house, admir-
ing its many notable features.
Furnished for the period Of its
exhibit :on in a style suitable to the
character Of the house, the dwelling
offers many points of unusual interest,
illustrating modern thought in the
designing, planning, arrangement treat
ment, equipment and furnishing of a
livable home.
The public is invited to inspect the
house during the hours of 10 am. and
9 pm throughout the coming week
TIE house is reached via Sixteenth
street, Alaska avenue and Morning
side drive. 1t is located just south of
Kalmia road. A silver star sign marks
the property.
The house was selected for the
public exhibition and awarded a place
in the 1882 better homes program
sponsored by The Star by a committee
Of specialists in home building fields.
Before a silver star is awarded to a
dwelling 1t first is carefully inspected
and judged by members of this COM
mittee. The purpose is to restrict the
demonstration to those houses which
reveal unusual merit in all phases.
Houses are judged according to their
cost classification and a small dwell
ing is not thrown into competition
with a mansion.
Members of the Silver Star Homes
Committee are James S. Taylor, chief
Of the division of building and housing
of the Department of Commerce; DR..
Louise Stanley, chief of the United
States Bureau of Home Economics;
Frederick " Murphy, F. A. l. A., who
is head Of the school of architecture of
Catholic University; E. H. Rosen-
garten, veteran contractor and past
president of the Washington Building
Trades Employers Association; Gilbert
L. Rodier. past president Of the Wash
ington Chapter of the American
Institute of Architects: J. F. M. Bowie,
president of the Washington Real
Estate Board, and John H. Small Sd,
landscape architect.
Livability, achieved by comfortable
and convenient arrangement, modern
equipment and adequate service facili-
ties cupboard and storage space,
entertainment and recreation facilities
and work space, is an outstanding
characteristic of the house.
Evening star., 1932-04-23

mentS are architecturally far more in
terestipg than the uniform rows of city
houses they replace, but they have very
little effect on the architectural con-
seriousness Of the community They are
chosen by their inhabitants almost
wholly from considerations of location,
cost and luxury Of appointments. re-
gaIdless of whether the are built by
the foremost architects or wholesale by
contracting firms.
On the other hand, business build
ings, such as stores, Offices and thea
tiers, which century ago were of al
most no architectural consequence, have
today assumed prime importance. This
change is due chiefly to the modern
devotion to advertising in all CONNER
cial undertakings, though with this
there enters an element of personal
pride on the part of the merchant own
erS.
THE fact Of esthetic significance in
the modern expression of commercial
architecture is the growing realization
on the part of business men that the
service of expert artists produces COM
menSurate returns In public apprecia-
ton. AS a result, much Of the very
best talent of the country today is en-
gagged in architectural as well as in pic
torial advertising.
In conjunction with this talent a
Continued on Fourth Page.)
Evening star., 1932-04-23
MARCH CONTRACTS
SHOW INCREASE
Federal Awards Total SILL
199,589, Nearly Four
Millions Over February.

Various agencies of the United States
Government awarded contracts during
March for the construction of buildings
having a total cost of $11 1,199, $50, it
is reported currently by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, Department of Labor.
This total is nearly $4,00),000 more
than the value of contracts awarded
during February.
The cost Of all buildings for which
permits were issued last month in 355
cities, having population of $4,000 or
more. was estimated at S45, 800, ,806, an
increase of 10.1 over the total for the
same cities in February.
New non-residential buildings in
creased 30.8 per cent in number and
9.8 per cent in estimated cost Addi-
tions, alterations and repairs increased
2l.6 per cent in number and l per
cent in estimated cost. During March,
1892, $500 family dwelling units were
provided in new buildings This is an
increase of 1871 per cent as compared
with February.
Evening star., 1932-04-23

We are having to adapt our minds
to revolutions in all the exact sciences
even in the foundations of physics
and geometry.
Evening star., 1932-04-23
PRIDE IN STORES APPEARANCE
DEVELOPED IN LAST CENTURY
Report on Hoover's Survey Notes Com
mercial Structures Rise to Place
of Importance.

with view to family possession for
generations, or even for many years, but
for an immediate and often transitory
occupation.
The result is that the former sharp
demarcation between the domestic ar
chitecture of the very wealthy and the
moderately well off no longer exists.
1T is to be expected that the effect
of mobility will extend constantly down
the scale of wealth, with a consequent
tendency to lesSened interest in per-
sonal suburban dwelling. The model
village or the standardized house may
in time replace it. There probably will
result an increase in economy, possibly
an increase in beauty, but also a de-
crease in esthetic responsiveness, for
it is only the selective interest of the
individual that makes for critical ap
probation.
The city apartment building illus
trates this reaction. Modern apart
Evening star., 1932-04-23
Stanley Harris Buys Spring Valley Home
Colonial Farm House
Style Suggested in
Architecture.
CONTAINS 10 ROOMS.
3 BATHS AND GARAGE
Its Design Is Featured by
Proportion and Homelike
Simplicity.

Stanley r. Harris, the former star
second baseman of the Washington
base ball club, later its manager, now
the mentor of the Detroit Tigers, has
purchased the new house at 1882 Hill
brook lane, in Spring Valley, it was
announced today.
The house, containing 10 rooms,
baths and a built-in 2-car garage. is
suggestive of the old Colonial farm
house style of architecture Construct
ed in combination of stone, brick and
frame. its design is featured by pro-
portion and homelike simplicity.
The dominating note is the broad
sweep Of roof, supported in front by
substantial square columns of the front
porch. The roof expanse is relieved
by three dormers which are ornamented
by fiuted pilasters.
The entrance is marked by accented
detail design. At one side of the en-
trance hall are the stairs with widely
spaced large turned balusters. An
arched opening gives a vista Of the
dining room.
Colonial Effect on Ceiling.
From a platform several steps up
there is access to the library placed
over the garage wing At the oppo-
site end of the hall one enters the liv-
ing room. of somewhat square proper
tions Character IS given this room by
paneling the inside wall with vertical
planks with nodded edges after the
manner of the early Colonial In the
center of this wall is the broad brick
fireplace with simple mold and narrow
shelf. The three other walls are pa
pered. making a decorative foil to the
pine wall. The early Colonial effect is
carried out on the ceiling by the aided
beams.
An opening, balancing with the hall
entrance into the living room. gives a
view of the dining room with its dadoed
walls Wall areas are designed for the
effective placement of furniture. French
doors from this room lead to the
garden.
The kitchen and pantry are bright
and cheerful, with their equipment ar
ranged both with an eye to attractive
ness as well as practical utility.
Library Conveniently Placed.
The library, conveniently placed be-
tween the two floors, has a fiagstone
floor, pine walls with recessed book
shelves and convenient cupboards. high
gabled, plaster ceiling, large group of
windows across the end and massive
stone fireplace set in an alcove, off axis
with the room
On the second floor are four COM
modious bed rooms of varied proper
tions, carried out in the Colonial dec
orative note. There are two baths on
this floor. The larger one, adjoining
the master bed room. features a dress
ing table flanked by mirrored door
cupboards
A closed attic stair leads to two more
bed rooms and bath, as well as a
large cedar-lined storage closet
The house was designed and built by
w A. & A. N. Miller and was sold by
Floyd Ctssell
Evening star., 1932-04-23

Applications already have been re-
celved from more than 100 candidates
for appraiser certificates. it is reported
Approved by National Body.
Establishment of an American insti-
tute Of real estate appraisers was ap-
proved officially by the National Realtor
Association at the annual business
meeting, held in st. Louis in January.
The institute is to be organized on
a professional rather than a trade or
business basis, it is stated. 1t will be
authorized to certify that its members
are experienced and competGE. real
estaSe appsHscrg.
Evening star., 1932-04-23

Expenditures Estimated.
Where 100000 was spent on prop
erty improvement in 1881 through cam
paigns of which the body had knowl-
edge. expenditures for modern.zation
through campaigns now in operation
are estimated to approximate $25 5,000,-
900 by June 30.
Additional cities report contemplated
expenditures approXimating $4,000, 600.
In the cities where active home mod
ernizing and unemployment movements
are now being conducted, costs of labor
and materials vary from $25,000 in
some cities to more than $7,000,000 in
others.
Other cities in their reports measure
the extent of repair work in man-hours
or in the number of men being given
permanent jobs.
Specific Examples Cited.
Specific examples of cities waging
1882 campaigns, together with the es-
timated amount as measured by labor
and material expenditures, were cited
as follows:
Duluth, Mimi. $4,000. 900; Carthage,
Mo, 100000 Omaha, Nebr, Sc, 600, 900;
Buffalo, N. Y, $500, 900; Saranac Lake,
N. Y, $4,000; Wilmington. NJ c.,
$4,000 for labor alone; McAllester,
Okla. SIS, 1000; Portland, Greg, S7,000,-
900, and Corvallis, Greg, 100000.
Unusual measures have been taken
in many places in waging home-repair
movements. Beaumont, Tex, was di-
vided into a northern and a southern
army" with a commander in chief,
two commanding generals and Off
GERS" and "privates" numbering approx
1matelv 1900 persons.
More Than $50 Jobs Filled.
Each worker was given a schedule of
prices of over 100 jobs that could be
done around the average home, varying
from the labor and material cost for
lining closet with cedar to painting
dog house.
Within three weeks more than $50
odd jobs were filled and the welfare
bureau was relieved of a heavy burden
OF charity work The latest report to
the national committee said the city
had created 500 permanent jobs by its
system.
The committee expects that in the
ne,ghborhood of 800 cities will be en-
gagged in the home-repair and unem-
ployment campaigns this Spring Dur
ing the Summer, it has found that ac-
tivities slump and do not pick up again
until Fall, when home owners look over
their homes in preparation for Winters
cold.
Evening star., 1932-04-23

Business buildings. stimulated by
lavish use of funds and popular in
terest. have assumed first importance
in American architecture. it is declared,
in the first report on President Hoo
ver's survey of social trends. made pub
lie by the American Institute of Archi-
tects.
Rich Americans are ceasing to build
"palatial' homes and the result may
mean the passing of the individual
suburban dwelling and the rise of the
model village" or a more standardized
house, the report continues.
Government architecture is described
as "esthetically unimportant,' college
architecture tends toward "archaistic
theatricality." and churches. Libraries
and other cultural foundations. it is
predicted, a century hence will rank
as the outstanding architectural relics
of the present time.
The report was prepared by DR.. Lei
ceSter B. Holland chief of the divt-
sion of fine arts of the Library of Con-
gress. who is chairman of the Commit
tee on Preservation of Historic Build
ings of the Institute of Architects.
Rich Peoples Interest Wanes.
"The interest of the most wealthy
citizens in their homesteads is tending
to decrease" says DR.. Holland. This
Is largely due to an increase in mo-
bility Instead of concentrating on a
single establishment, it is becoming the
practice to maintain two or more resi-
dences in different parts of the country
or even in foreign countries.
Usually these are not built or bought
Evening star., 1932-04-23

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Evening star., 1932-04-23
Tax Committee Planned.

To put into most effective use in
each State the facts being accumulated
by the National Association of Real
Estate Boards in relation to specific
and critical present tax problems, the
association has been at work for some
weeks on organization of a new COM
mittee, to be concerned solely with the
tax problem as it relates to State and
local levies
r. L. McKallip of Pittsburgh has
been appointed chairman of the new
committee which will head the drive
for better State taxation. The COM
mittee will be concerned with the i'm
mediate revision problems which States
and cities are facing and the funda-
mental adjustments in tax systems
which in many States will come up for
action at coming sessions Of the State
Legislatures.
The committee will have the backing
Of the extensive research in current tax
questions now being carried on at the
University Of Chicago at the initiative
Of the association. Present State laws
have been analyZed in detail.
Measures under study include: Emer-
Continued on Third Page)
Evening star., 1932-04-23
Realty Company Incorporates.
to The star,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, April 23.-J. Edward
Burroughs, jr, of washington and
Claude Gilbert and Augusta Edel Gil
bert of College Park are the incorpora--
tors Of the College Park Development
Co. of College Park, Md. The company
Is capitalized at $50,000, and under the
charter is authorized to deal in real
estate.
Evening star., 1932-04-23
1000 ACRES BOUGHT
Tract Near Warrenton to Be De-
veloped as Game Preserve.
Especial Dispatch to The Star.

Especial Dispatch to The Star.
| WARRENTON, Va, April 23.-T Hen
Eerson MadduX, Marshall, Va, has
bought a tract Of land known as the
Stevens property, consisting of 5000
acres, in Fauquier County, near Kellys
Ford, and about 1900 acres in Culpeper
County, just across the Rappahannock
River This land is reputed to contain
valuable mineral rights.
The land was bought years ago by c.
Amory Stevens of New York, and upon
his death in 1915 passed to his wife and
daughter. His daughter, Mrs. Kate
Stevens Hofer of New York, negotiated
the sale through her attorneys, L. Ray
mond Rose of New York and r. A Nc
Intyre of Warrenton. Mr.. Maddux was
represented by L. r. Bartenstem OF
Warrenton.
Mr.. Maddux plans to develop approx
mately half of the property into game
preserve. Much of the land Is timber
A part of this property was recently
proposed 10 the State Of Virginia as a
State game preserve.
Evening star., 1932-02-10
STOCKS.
PUBLIC UTILITY
PRESENT STOCK MARKET
is CALLED ARTIFICIAL

NEW YORK, February 10 (SpeciAD
1t is not necessary to confine ones
study to the sugar, copper and rubber
curtailment plans in looking over pres
ent-day artificial markets when such a
good example as the present stock mar
ket is close to hand. Many people in
Wall Street believe that it has been the
artifciality of the market mora than
ANYTHING else which has been RESPONSE
bic for recent declines to abysmally low
levels. In support of this contention
they cite the fact that the call money
rate has been "pegged" at 21a per cent,
short selling on a downScale has been
restricted by the Stock Exchange itself
to curb bear raiding, high premiums
have been charged by brokerage COTE
RE for the loan of stocks held in large
amounts in street, names, and short
logical amount by the threat of queS-
tionnaires and publicity held over thss
head of short sellers. Much of this un-
usual restriction has been brought
.about by fears of the much-advertised
congressional investigation Of the stock
market, but a goodly section Of opinion
in wall Street inclines to the belief
that the Stock Exchange has leaned
back too far in order to accommodate
the surerStitions Of political psuedo-
economists.
Evening star., 1932-02-10
SHORT-SELLING BANS
SOUGHT IN ASSEMBLY

Four amendments to the penal code
have been introduced in the New York
State Legislature at Albany by Senator
Nunan designed to abolish short selling
One bill makes short selling misde-
meanor, and defines short selling as
any sale or agreement for the sale Of
stock which the seller does not actually
own or have under the contract for
purchase.
A second bill forbids a broker from
loaning any securities on which he has
q lien for indebtedness without the
written consent of the customer given
for the particular transaction and stat
ing it." The third bill makes necessary
'at least "A hours notice in writing"
before any broker can sell or hypo-
thecate a customers stock to relieve
the broker from a charge Of felony If
the customer suffers loss from such ac-
tion. The fourth bill demands delivery
by the broker within three days Of the
actual stock purchased for customer
or of a memorandum describing such
purchase which shall include a serial
number of the certificate of stock
and the hours between which the trans
action took place"
Evening star., 1932-02-10
Baltimore Markets
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, Md, February 10
White potatoes, per 100 pounds, 75a
100; sweet potatoes, bushel, 4oaso;
yams, barrel, 75a1.50; beans, bushel,
150a2.50; beets, per crate. 1.50a1.60;
Brussels sprouts, per quart, 10a15; cab
hage, hamper, 75a1.4o; carrots, bushel
l0Oa1.25; cauliflower, crate, l.75al.90;
celery, crate, 15Oa3.75; eggplants, crate
1.5oa275; kale, bushel, 25a4O; onions
Per 100 pounds. 3Ooa4.O 90; peppers
crate, 1.5Oa2.75; spinach, bushel, 50a85;
squash, bushel, 100al.75; tomatoes
crate, 100a300: turnips, hamper, 15a
25: apples. bushel, 75a1.75; grapefruit,
7 box, 1.25a2 SO; oranges, box, 2.00a4 90; ;
strawberries, pint, 12a18.
Dairy Market.
Chickens-Young, 2oa22; Leghorns,
17a18: old hens, 15a20; Leghorns. old,
15a16; ROSTERS, 11a13; ducks. 12a20;
geese, Halt; guinea fowls, pair, 3Oa65;
turkeys, 16a30; pigeons, pair, 20a25.
Eggs-Receipts, SAT cases: nearby
f1rsts, 14l2; Western firsts, 141a.
Butter-Good and fancy, creamery,
21a2412; ladies. 15al6; process, 20a2l /;
store packed, 10all.
Live Stock Market.
Cattle-Receipts, 100 head light sup
ply; market dull.
Steers-Choice to prime, none; good
4.75a575; fair to medium, 4.00a4.75;
plain to fair. 3.50a4.o0; common to
plain, 3O0a35O
Bulls-Good to prime, none; good tc
choice, none; medium to good, 4.00a
4.25: fair to medium, 3.50a4.00; plain
to fair. 325a3.50; common to plain
3OOa325.
Cows-Choice to prime. none; good
to choice, none: medium to good, 375a
400: fair to medium, 3.25a3.75; plair
to fair, 2:5oa3.25; common to plain
1.5oa250.
Heifers-choice to prime, none; good
to choice, 500a5.50; medium to good
4.5Oa5:00; fair to medium, 400a4.50
plain to fair, 300a4.00 common tt
plain 250a300.
Fresh COWS and Springers. 30.00a60 90
Sheep and lambs-Receipts, 400 head
light supply, market steady; sheep, Loo
a30O; lambs, 400a740.
Hogs-Receipts, $500 head: light
supply, market higher; lights, 4.35a4,75
heavies, 4.1oa4.5O; medium, 4.50a4.9
roughs, 2.60a3.5O light pigs, S.7oa4.lO
pigs, 4.00a4.45.
Calves-ReceiptS, so head; light sup.
ply, market steady; calves, 4.00a950.
Hay and Grain.
Wheat-No. red Winter, garlicky
spot, domestic, 60; February delivery
80; March, 81.
Com-No. 2 yellow, spot. domestic,
43a44; cob corn, new. 200a2.10 per bar
rel.
Oats-No. white, domestic, 3A1za35;
No 3, 3312a34.
Rye-Nearby, bag lots, 4Oa45.
Hay-Receipts, 81 tons. General hay
market quiet. Receipts ample CT
timothy, but good mixed hay scarce
and bringing premium. Prices range
from $1,000 to $3.50 per ton, as to
grade and kind Latter figure fol-
choice clover mixed. The poorer grades
of timothy are irregular in price.
Straw-No. wheat, 850a9.00 pei
ton; No. l oats, 9.00al000 per ton.
Evening star., 1932-02-10
WHOLESALE PRICES
SHOW SLIGHT GAIN
Index for Week Ended February 6
Advances Fractional Point.
Movement Analysed.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Wholesale commodity prices moved
up slightly during the week ended Feb
ruary g.
The price index maintained by the
National Fertilizer Association advanced
one fractional point to 637 based on
representing the 1926-28 averages as
100. 1t comprises 476 individual quota
tionS.
OF the fourteen groups constituting
the index two advanced, three declined
and the rest showed no change The
advances were in the groups of foods,
and grains. feeds and live stock, which
are among the most heavily weighted
groups in the index. The declines were
fats and oils, metals and miscellaneous
commodities. and were relatively small
except in fats and oils.
Seventeen commodities showed price
gains during the week which is the
largest number Of advances In several
weeks, while % articles showed reces-
sions. The advances included eggs ham,
flour, potatoes, apples, wheat, hogs,
sheep. tin. cement, brick and burlap.
Among the declines were listed lard,
cotton, cottonseed oil, raw sugar, pea
nuts. corn, rye, cattle, copper, zinc,
structural steel, lumber, coffee, rubber,
hides and paper.
Evening star., 1932-02-10
j. s. TRADE VITAL
TO LIFE OF JAPAN
Economic WeiI-Being of Ma.
ton Fostered by Ameri-
y can Markets.
BY CHAS. p. SHAEFFER,
Associated Press Business Writer.

The United States is much more i'm
portant to the economic life Of Japan
than is Japan to that Of the United
States.
This country is by far Japan's most
important customer, but Japan, as a
market for United States goods. is
surpassed by the United Kingdom,
Canada and Germany and IS pressed
by France and the Russian Soviet.
Whereas the United States absorbs
about 40 per cent of all Japan's ex-
ports, the United States ships slightly
more than per cent of total exports
to Japan, resulting in an excess Of
United States purchases over sales OF
about S50,000,000 annually, or favor
able trade balance to Japan OF Just
that much.
Purchases by this country from ia
pan during the calendar year 1881
amounted to s2O5, ,399 ,343, and were
exceeded only by those from Canada,
from whom we bought goods to the
value of S266,296. .780. During the same
period the United States was selling to
Japan goods valued at only Sl55 1863, ,O45.
Figures by separate commodities on
this foreign trade are not available 1or
the year 1881, but Commerce Depart
ment records compiled up to and in
cluding 1880, show this country IS the
only great market for raw silk, by far
the most important export article OF
Japan. These records show more
than 80 per cent Of this raw silk finds
distribution In the United States, and
are as follows: