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Evening star., 1932-02-06
BUILDING RESEARCH
WORK PROGRESSES
Architects Unit Carries on in
Anticipation of Pros
perity's Return.

Research in the science of building Is
being promoted by the structural serv-
ice department of the American Insti-
tute of Architects, in the anticipation
that return Of prosperity will give rise
to a public need for greater knowledge
of architecture, 1t is stated In the an
nual report of F. Leo Smith, technical
secretary Of the department.
Standards, codes ana recommended
practice relating to building materials,
DEVICES equipment and methods OF con-
struction are being prepared IN cor
operation with representatives OF the
Department Of Commerce, the Ameri-
can Standards Association, the Ameri-
can Society for Testing Materials, the
National Fire Protection Association
and other groups.
Elevator Code Revised.
Completion of a revised elevator code
Is reported by Sullivan w. Jones OF
New York, fellow of the institute and
chairman of a committee Of the Ameri-
can Standards Association on safety
code for elevators, dumbwaiters and
eScalators.
A sectional committee, functioning I'M
der the procedure Of the Standards As
ISOLATION, began preparation for a
safety code for elevators in 1928. The
project was sponsored by the United
States Bureau of Standards, the
American Society Of Mechanical Engi-
neers and the American Institute of
Architects.
1t has been planned that the revised
code, published in 1881, be made the
basis of specifications for all elevator
installations, it is reported. To facill-
tate such use of the code, the commit
tee has undertaken preparation OF
standard specification for elevators.
Soundproof Partitions.
Soundproof partitions are another
field of architectural research. The
acoustic laboratory Of the Bureau OF
Evening star., 1932-02-06

Standards has made sound transmission
measurements on a set Of wall panels.
These panels were built with instruc-
tions to use workmanship such as ordl-
narily would be employed in a con-
struction job. The test panels were
built into an opening in one wall OF
room especially constructed so that the
other walls were as nearly soundproof
as possible The source of sound was q
lound speaker located in this room and
caused to rotate continuously to break
up the interference pattern.
The intensity Of the sound was
measured on each side Of the wall
within and without the room in which
the source of sound was located, and
the results were calculated from the
indicated difference in intensity.
Prof. Charles M. Gay of the School
of Fine Arts, University Of Pennsylvania,
has been appointed to represent the in
stitute on new committee Of the
American Society for resting Materials.
This committee will foster research to
promote knowledge OF properties and
Evening star., 1932-02-06

VERY prospective builder is inter-
l. ested in planning some special
features peculiar to his own
IL comfort and the beauty Of the
preation
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rated architecturally as neither good
nor bad by jury of members Of the
Washington Chapter, American Insti-
tute of Architects, serving voluntarily.
Plans approved were for dwelling
for 6238 Thirty-third street, designed
by O. L. Edwards for Paul T. Stone,
Inc; five dwellings for 5200-5208 Kan
sas avenue, designed by George T..
Santmyers for c. w. williams; dwelling
for 1909 Wade road southeast, designed
by Albert Zinkle for William z. Bowie,
and lodge for lS49-l855 Ninth street,
designed by A. I. Cassell for the Hall
Association, G. V. o. o. F., of the Dis
trict of Columbia, Inc.
Mrs. Arthur Brown Of Sapcote Eng
land, has lived in the same house 80
years and has % grandchildren and
great grandchildren.
Evening star., 1932-02-06
PRICE INDEX RISES
Wholesale Cost of Building Mate
rails Slightly Higher.

The index number of wholesale
prices for building materials stood at
14.9 for the week ended January 23,
as compared with TAT for the week
ended January 16, the Bureau Of La
Dor Statistics, Department of Labor,
reported today.
The index number for 784 different
commodities, weighted according to the
Importance Of each article was 67.6,
as compared with GIG for the preced-
ing week The index numbers are
based on the average prices in 1925 as
100, showing a slight decrease for the
group as whole.
During the week, the index for
housefurnishing goods remained steady
at 1877, while the index for fuel and
lighting increased from 67.8 to SO.
Evening star., 1932-02-06

1t would be difficult to get more
economical hall space In this shape of
house. Every room can be reached
from it and both baths. A door is
located in the hall so that the owner
can close one bath of from the rest,
making it private. Three bed rooms
have cross-ventilation, and one suall
one, with light from only one side, looks
out over the garden.
The composition Of the house as a
whole makes for unity. If built as
shown, it should have beauty and
rhythm desired by people Of taste.
The size Of the lot. If the house is
placed the long way, should not be
smaller than so by 100 feet. But if
placed the narrow way, with the living
room end facing the street, the house
could be built on lot SO by l30 feet.
Evening star., 1932-02-06
AGENCY SETS RECORD

An unusual record has been attained
by local mortgage loan correspondent
of large national life insurance COM
pany, according to information received
this week by the Washington Real Es-
tate Board.
E. Quincy Smith, Inc, holds record
as mortgage loan correspondent of a
large insurance company, unequaled by
any other correspondent in the country,
it is announced by John A. Petty, sec
retary Of the local realty board
On December 81, 1881, this company
reported for the eleventh consecutive
year no overdue interest payments on
the mortgages made by the insurance
company in the metropolitan area of
Washington, which total approximately
SIS 0O0,0 900
Evening star., 1932-02-06
new HOME DESIGNS
ARE GIVEN APPROVAL
Advisory Council Holds Seven
Projects Meet Standards Which
Should Be Maintained.

The designs for seven new dwellings
and a lodge building were approved at
recent meeting of the Architects Ad-
visory Council as meeting standards
which should be maintained for pri-
vate buildings in the neighborhood.
Plans for five other projects were
Evening star., 1932-02-06
ELECT NEW REALTORS
Two Members Added to Real Estate
Board.

Two additional members were added
To the roster of the Washington Real
Estate Board by action Of its board Of
directors this week when B. H. Gruver
and William J. Callahan were elected
to active membership.
Mr. Gruver, with Offices at 926
Fifteenth street. has been prominently
identified in the home building field
In Washington for many years.
Mr.. Callahan. with Offices at 1927
I street, likewise has been identified
in real estate circles for many years.
having at one time been associated
with the ONCE Of William H. Saunders
g. Co., and also the Office of William
S. Phillips.
Evening star., 1932-02-06

tests Of mortars for unit masonry and
development of methods of tests and
specifications for such mortars.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-05
LONDON SOCIETY
WOMAN DENIES
Staying LOVER
pv FREDERICK OESCHNER

. LONDON, jury s., = Mrs. Elvlra
Dolores Barney, attractive member
of Londons younger set, deried in
< broken voice on The witness stand
today that she had murdered her
lover Michael Scott Stephen.
Mrs. Barney, dressed in black and
deathly pale, was on the witness
stand for an hour and IS minutes
at her trial for murder in Old
Bailey today. -,
She declared she did not shoot
Stephen.
II never wanted to shoot him;
there was no one was fonder oil,
she cried
After her testimony, she returned
to her place in the prisoners COCK
and the defense case was COM
pleted. Sir Percival Clarke, prose-
cutor. began his address to the jury.
The divorced wife Of James Ster-
ling Barney, American radio singer,
faces a sentence to be hanged by
the neck until dead" if convicted on
the charges against her.
The trial was adjourned unit. to-
morrow after Sir Percival had fin"
ished his address to the jury IN one
of England's swiftest murder trials
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-05
ACCUSED FORCER
CHANGES PLEA IN
SUPERIOR COURT

Jurors called to duty in Judge
A. c. Finney's department of the
superior court this morning re-
ceived welcome surprise when
Lee Gardner withdrew plea of not
guilty to forgery and entered plea
of guilty, after which Judge Finney
dismissed the jurors until Septem-
ber IL, or until they are called.
Coincident with his plea of
guilty, Gardner entered an appli-
cation for probation, which will be
heard next Friday.
His was the last criminal case
set for trial this week. Others had
pleaded guilty or received justice
court sentences on reduced charges.
Robert Kloss and Jack Williams,
charged with being accessories after
the fact of a murder, are the only
ones whose cases still are pending
1t is probable both will be ar
raigned before Judge Finney late
this week, and their pleas entered.
They were tried with Joe Hatfield
for the alleged murder of v. Gomez.
Hatfield was found guilty Of man
slaughter, and the others were
found not guilty.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-05
MA AND WHAT-A-MAN' COME
TOPARTING IN MARITAL PATH

HERMOSA BEACH, Calf, July
S. U.P)-The romance of Minnie
Ma" Kennedy end "What-A-Man"
Guy Edward Hudson blew up today
with a loud Fourth of July bang,
and verbal pyrotechnics which
echoed through their Love nest"
cottage by the sea.
The mother of Aimee Semple Nc
Pherson Hutton, Angelus Temple
evangelist and wife Of Iron Man"
David l.. Hutton, made an 1nde-
pendence day speech of her own in
no uncertain terms. She revealed a
rift which may end their much
publicized marriage Of year.
81 am cutting loose" said MA"
determinedly.
"I am getting out from under.
And I want it understood that I
am not responsible for bills or
other obligations he has incurred" !"
"What-A-Maff' thundered into
the cottage. He had rushed from
his beach hotel to present his side
of the case.
You can say for me that If
there is any separation or divorce
in this family it is not because I
want it," he doomed. "All I want
is chance to work. Imagine a
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-05

woman letting man go down
town to the streets Of Los Angeles
to look for work without a dime In
his pockets"
"As I was saying" continued
Ma, Il have good wishes for Mr..
Hudson and will do anything can
to start him on his way to wher-
eever he wants to go, or where he
feels that he will be successful"
Hudson interrupted again. 81
only want chance to work at my
profession" he said. 'I am Sales
man. I could get into good line
downtown or in the east, but I can't
do it broke"
MA" refused to say whether she
contemplated divorce, or whether
she had consulted an attorney with
that purpose. Hudson asserted an
attorney had approached him on
the subject.
Ma" and her "What-A-Man"
were married in Las Vegas, New,
after difficulties had beset their
romance, and Hudson had obtained
divorce. Following a short per-
iod of evangelical work In Las
Vegas, they appeared on the stage
in vaudeville act which was sud-
denly abandoned.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-05
Bonus Marchers
In Tennessee

NASHVILLE, Tenn, July S. (U.H-
Lack of food, gasoline and sun
shine held back 800 members of a
California bonus eXpeditionHy
force today from proceeding tp
Washington.
An orderly tented city sprang up
on the muddy Playground here as
the rain-drenched contingent en-
camped for the night, its supplies
exhaused.
A caravan of trucks and auto
mobiles arrived hsBe in the rain
Monday from Memphis. Other
members of the army had taken
freight trains out Of Memphis for
Washington.
The army faced a new problem
today. A sound car containing loud
speakers used in vaudeville shows
along the route was temporarily
disabled by rains. Entertainment
programs have netted the aSny
sufficient funds to be moved from
city to city.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-05
HOLIDAY GIVES
PERFECT DAY.
TO Ell CENTRIC

Except for the noise of desultory
firecrackers and the sight of an oc-
casional sky rocket breaking high
above head, Ell Centros Fourth of
July was like one of those ball
games a pitcher dreams of-no
hits, no runs. no errors.
Fire Chief Tom Reams reported
no runs--not one fire in Ell Centre
during the Glorious Fourth.
The Ell Centre hospital reported
no hits-not one child or admit in
jured during the course of annual
celebrations.
The Ell Centro police department
reported no errors-not one man
or woman arrested for drunkenness.
Fireworks we're not scarce, but
under careful parental supervision
the precocious children of Ell Gen.
tro escaped the usual Fourth of
July burns, and lived today to re-
joice at a safe and sane Fourth.
AS for the fire and police de-
partments, it was a really bore
some day, for attaches of each
momentarily expected a break in
the tedium of quiet day, and saw
the day end without so much as
a disturbance. ~ %"
To add to the perfection, those
who remained in the valley report
delightful weather. Although hot
during the middle of the day it
cooled off in the late afternoon
and was not in the least uncom-
Portable.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-05
YOUTH KILLED in "
AUTO ACCIDENT ON
ROAD TO SEELEY

Donald Edwin Bartholomew, IT,
son of Mrs. Ethel Clark of Ell Gen.
tro. was killed, and three others
were injured in an automobile &C
cident shortly after noon yesterday
five miles south of Seeley on the
Seeley to Calexico highway, as they
were driving towards Seeley to get
some ice.
The Injured youths were Ernest
Wagner, IT, Coney Bruison, 20, and
Don Wagner, 9. They will recover,
since their injuries were of a super
ficial nature.
Bartholomew died at the Calexico
hospital without having regained
consciousness. He was rushed there
by M. Williams, S. Morales and H.
M. Hixon, who passed the scene
shortly after the accident. Louis
Mitchell, state highway patrol
man, Investigated the ACCIDENT.
According to Mitchell's report,
Bruison, who was driving, appar-
emily swerved the sports roadster
sharply after its wheels ran off the
pavement on the right hand side
of the road The car shot across
to the left side of the highway,
striking sand there and overturn-
ing.
The boys had been at a ranch
near the M. Signal store, and were
going to a store south Of Seeley for
ice. Failure to slow down when the
wheels left the pavement was
blamed for the accident.
Bartholomew was in the front
seat of the car with the driver,
while Don and Ernest Wagner were
in the rumble seat. Bartholomew
was crushed beneath he car as it
turned over the first time.
The body is at Arf1old's funeral
home at Calexico. No funeral ar
rangements had been made today.
Bartholomew is survived by his
mother, a sister, Dorothy, of San
Diego, and brother, Russell, of
FL Centro.
Bartholomew was born in Penn
sylvania. He attended Wilson
school at Ell Centro, and recently
had beer employed at the Firestone
service stores here.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-05
Session
Hinted By Smell

WASHINGTON, July 5. UH -
Indications Of presidential veto
increased today as the revised
Wagner-Garner bill proposing ex-
Fenditure of S2,1oo, 100000 to relieve
unemployment was ready for sub
mission to house and senate.
Republican Leader Smell OF the
house gave assurance, however, that
some sort of relief measure would
be approved and signed. If the
President vetoes the Wagner
Garner bill and congress adjeurns,
Smell said. Hoover will can us back
in session within "a hours to pass
a relief measure"
Smell spoke after returning with
Hoover from a holiday weekend at
the presidential camp on the
Rapidan. He ppofeesed to be un-
certain whether the President
would veto the Democratic pro-
gram, but his declaration regarding
The possibility of a special session
was taken as sNpng indication
that the measure is still unaccep-
able to Hoover.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-05
STORMS SWEEP
MIDWEST WITH
Loss OF LIFE

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, July 5. U.H
Violent storms swept sections of
the midwest last night and today,
causing eight deaths, injury to an
undetermined number, and property
damage that ran into the hundreds
of thousands of dollars.
Three persons perished in a tor
nado that tore across rich farming
country near Washington, Kan.
Two motorists were drowned and
a pedestrian, blinded by the rain,
was killed by an automobile near
Kansas City.
A tornado overlook a family of
four as they ran to a storm cellar
near Hubbsll, Neb., killing the
mother.
A man was drowned at Topeka,
Kan, attempting to rescue his dog
from flood swollen creek.
Washington's two schools were
destroyed, the Episcopal and Pres<
byterian churches and city hall
were damaged, the courthouse was
partially demolished, and about rs
homes were damaged.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-05
POLICE BATTLE
HUNGRY WORKERS
SEEKING RELIEF

CHICAGO, July 5. U.P)-Poliee
reserves battlad with 200 hungry
steel workers who sought to storm
a relief depot In Kensington today.
The men, out Of work and with
hungry families, gathered In front
of the relief station at SO West
10eth street, not far from the Pull
man works, and shouted: I'VE want
bread and meat"
The two policemen on duty sent
in calls for aid 1t. Garrett Coan
dispatched a detachment of police
men and motorcycle officers. When
the mob pushed the poNee hack
and started peltlng bricks through
the windows of the station, a call
to downtown stations brought five
squads Of police in automobiles and
large detachment of motorcycle
police.
The augmented police detachment
drove Nhe mon back and order was
restored.
Lawrence Bahno, 4P, was arrested.
Police charged that he threw a
brick through a window.
Miss Alice Haines. In &arge of
the relief depot, said the supply of
food had been exhausted and that
no funds were available to buy
more.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-05
PASSENGERS ON
STRANDED ship
SAVED BY GUARD

SANTA MONICA, Calf, July 5.
U.P-Eighteen persons were res
cued early today from the ground
ed yacht Virginia, of Long Beach,
after they had drifted in the fog
without food since Sunday. The
rescue took place at Trancas Beach,
four miles north of Point Dune,
and "a miles north of here.
The yacht, skippered by H. M.
Walker, was chartered Saturday to
take the party TO Santa Cruz Is
land. Saturday night they became
lost in the fog and ran out of fuel.
All day Sunday and Monday the
craft drifted helplessly until it
grounded on a reef off Trancas
Beach last night.
E. H. Carroll, captain of the coun-
ty lifeguards, and Guards Warren,
Miller, Kozel and Ranney, using a
light surf boat, worked through the
night bringing the exhausted and
frightened passengers ashore.
Those rescued were Mr.. and Mrs.
G. R. Hauser, A. E. Coppleman, Mr..
and Mrs. F. Reynolds, Los Angeles;
j. B. Henley, and S. F.. Henley,
Hemet; Ruth Dickinson, Miss Sue
Greer, Miss Alice Raice, D. Frazier,
Mrs. Maude Parish, Mr.. and Mrs.
E. L. Kurshnic, F. w. Heathcote,
Los Angeles, three other unidenti-
fled persons and a dog.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-05
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HOOVER LIKENED
TO ARNOLD AT
DRY GATHERING

INDIANAPOLIS, July S. W.P) -
Prohibition party delegates gathered
today for their national convention
with the denunciation of President
Herbert Hoover as "the most con-
spicuous turncoat since Benedict
Arnold"
DR.. D. Leigh Colvin, national
committeeman, denounced the
President in Cadle tabernacle last
night and said Sen. William E.
Borah of Idaho would poll
100000 votes if he chose to run
for president on the prohibition
party ticket. He would not say,
however, what encouragement, if
any, Borah gave him at their con-
ference in Washington last week.
'gThe Republican wet plank
means that Hoover, who approved
it and whose close associates and
appointees drafted it and whose ad-
visors promoted it in their con-
vention, Is the most conspicuous
turncoat since Benedict Arnold"
Colvin said. -Four years ago he
received an unprecedented ma
jority because he stood for the
maintenance and enforcement OF
the eighteenth amendment. Now
he stands merely for the enforce
ment of that which his party Is
not committed to maintain. He
has failed in performing his presi-
dental oath to preserve, defend
and protect the constitution.
Colvin charged that tie two
major parties have catered to the
wet voters, but finally came to
make alliances with them"
. Both majer political parties
have continued half wet and half
dry Oolvin said. We need re-
alignment IN American politics. We
face the problem Of making Amer
ican government achieve rule for
the best interests of the country.
We have established prohibition and
have made it almost unrepealaDle. !"
DR.. Clinton N. Howard, Rochester,
N. Y, was named temporary chair
man of the convention.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-05
VETERANS CLING
TOCAANCE THAT
SENATE MAY ACT
Capital Gathering Will
Remain Encamped Un-
til Bonus Paid.

WASHINGTON, July 5. W.H =
The hungry regiments of the bonus
expeditionary forces moved on the
capitol today in the hope that the
presence of $1,000 men would cause
the senate to vote for immediate
payment of the bonus.
Walter w. Waters, their COM
mander, was in New York City,
with an airplane in which he hoped
to bring back provisions to feed an
army whise supplies are desperately
low.
Most of the veterans who
marched out of their camps this
morning were on short rations and
those who were fortunate enough
to get their breakfast had only
corn meal, beans and watery
coffee. Mile after mile of them
paraded through the streets, held
into line by their own military po-
lice who swung clubs and sticks
as outward signs of their authority.
The strange army broke ranks
when it reached the capitol and
congregated around Harold Foulk-
rod, their legislative representative.
DO you want me to make a real
speech or patriotic speech?"
Foulkrod shouted.
"a real one" his comrades
replied.
"All right, how many of you are
going to vote for Hoover?p
There were loud boos.
Men carrying signs reading:
We're Here to Stay Until We Get
Our Bonus" and "The Bonus Ard
We Don't Mean Maybe moved
restlessly through the crowd.
Foulkrod went on with his speech,
shouting phrases that have become
threadbare with use in the five
weeks the veterans have been en-
camped here. Dogs, wearing
Barking for the Bonus" signs
scampered up and down the cap
ital steps. One veteran and his
wife pushed a baby carriage con-
tanning smiling infant who waved
a rattle. A banner on the carriage
read: Our Next President" A
Wisconsin unit waved a standard
that said: Milwaukee, the Beer
City,"
Even the veterans themselves
seem to realize they were fighting
for a lost cause. The senate re-
jected the Patman bonus bill after
it had passed the house.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-05
ACCIDENTS OVER
HOLIDAY CAUSE
BIG DEATH TOLL
BY United Press

America resumed its workaday
tasks today after weekend In
dependence day celebration that
left heavy toll Of death.
Several disasters and scores of
isolated accidents brought a toll of
more than 300 fatalities and hun
dreds of injured
A tornado struck a Kansas town
at the height of a celebration and
took three lives. Six youths were
blown to bits in Butte, Mont. Eight
drowned in capsized excursion
launch in Oregon. Ten were shot
to death in flaming Kentucky
feuds. A dozen died in Texas
floods.
Autos took their usual toll.
Deaths by drowning were not far
behind. Fireworks injured many
but killed few.
Most spectacular of the tragedies
occurred at Butte, Mont. Six
youths, copper miners' sons, died
when a case of dynamite caps with
which they planned to celebrate the
Fourth exploded. They were liter
ally blown to bits in the Meader-
vile baseball park where they had
taken the explosives.
A tornado struck Washington,
Kan, cutting a swath through the
little farming community only a
few hundred feet from where an
independence day program was be-
ing held. $500,000 damage was done
and three persons we're killed.
Gunplay persisted in Kentucky
mountain regions throughout the
holiday. Shootings and killings
were reported almost hourly In
isolated regions. Several of the
affrays occurred at Harlan, KY.
where for months miners have
been engaged in bitter strife.
Drownings took heavy toll ir
Texas where areas south of An
tonic were flooded. Record break
ing rains turned normally dry bed
rivers into raging torrents. Dis
trictS were still isolated and dam
age was estimated at 81 100000. The
Red Cross was called on for relief