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Rock Garden Feature of New Woodcrest Home
G. NJ. w alker Residence
to Contain Other
Unusual Plans.
STUDIO LIVING ROOM
TO HAVE BALCONY
Will Be Z Feet Wide and
Reached by an Open
Stairway.

A RESIDENCE revealing unusual
~ features in its floor plans and
a room arrangements is being
4 \ erected for Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
NJ. Walker on a high wooded
lot on Woodcrest drive in the Country
Club Hills section of Arlington County.
A departure from the more standard
planning of a house of this size is the
large studio living room which has q
balcony across one end of the room.
This balcony is seven feet wide and is
reached by an open stairway from the
end Of the room.
Exposed Roof Trusses.
The living room is finished with ex-
posed roof trusSes. The walls of the
room are to be finished in rough plaster,
which will be painted. The living room
IS placed on level two steps above
that of the outer entrance hall. The
room is 18 feet wide and % feet deep
The entrance hall, by II feet, is
finished in small square panels of pine.
The dining room, measuring 13 feet
6 inches by Is feet, will have a paneled
wainscotting, also of small square pat
tern. Above this will be scenic wall
paper
In addition to the kitchen, by II
feet 6 inches, and breakfast room,
by 7 feet, the first floor has a room
which may be used either as den
or as a guest bed room. Adjoining 1t
is a bath room. This room measures
10 feet 6 inches by IA feet.
Game Room in Basement.
On the second floor are three bed
rooms and two baths. These rooms will
be papered and have painted woodWork.
One measures II feet 6 inches by l3
feet, another IS by IA feet, and the
third, Is feet by Is feet S inches.
In the basement will be a large
game room, equipped with q rustic
fireplace and walls of brick and a cell
ing featured by heavy exposed timbers.
Also in the basement will be maids
room and bath, laundry and tWo-car
garage.
Landscaping treatment Of the grounds.
constituting approximately one-third OF
an acre, will be featured by large
rock garden built into the rear hillside
and a pool. ,.,,,
The house is being erected by William
H. Dawson from plans designed by
A. F. Thelander.
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REALTORS PRESS
HOME LOAN BANKS
Ask Hoover to Call Attention
of Congress to "Great
Need" for Action.

President Hoover has been asked by
the board of directors of the National
Association of Real Estate Boards to
call to the attention of Congress again
the great need" for immediate passage
of the measure for creation of a sys-
TEN of home loan banks, for the re-
discounting of mortgages on houses.
The directors and officers of the as
sociation declare in the statement sent
to the President:
Congress has seen fit to cooperate
with you in most patriotic and non
partisan way to relieve the present
distressing situation by passing great
constructive measures recommended by
you, yet has failed to pass the Federal
Home Loan Bank bill, which is eSpe-
cially intended to relieve the thousands
of home-owners who are losing their
homes by reason of inability to re-
finance.
Every days delay in the passage of
the Federal Hcme Loan Bank bill Is
increasing the number of foreclosures
and bringing distress to additional
thousands Of small home-owners.
Mortgage money for every purpose,
mortgages or furnishing capital for
persons desiring to build homes for
themselves is each day becoming more
difficult to secure"
The measure would set up a dis
count system for institutions making
mortgage loans on urban homes, the
system to be paid for by the institu-
tionS using it.
AS recommended by the subcommit-
tee of the House Banking and Currency
Committee, which held hearings on
the matter, the measure has been
amended to provide that Federal funds
for initial come from the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation.
The Federal funds would be retired
as soon as membership stock subscrip-
tions were sufficient to bring the capi-
talization of the proposed banks to
$3.50, 900 900, it is pointed out.
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received in 1881 S0.1 per cent of their
investment in the properties disposed
OF, while in 1880 the percentage
was 839.
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REINFORCEMENT GROUP
MAPS REPAIRS PROGRAM
Proposals Drafted to Illustrate 'Pound' Wisdom
of Investment Rather Than penny Foolishness
of Putting Off Work Until Prices Soar Again.

appeal suited times" being made to WOO the nome
dollars from the teapot and the mattress
~ and repair and Improvements 1or 1f
of himself, strulatlon Oh
business relief of Unemployment .. ~ boiro
objectiveS OF the washington
carried forward Property Improvement and Business CO.
operation Committee of the District Columbia an ogahzdo VI
business of the National Capital
organization contact with national
operating field endeavor the Presidents con-
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FARM REAL ESTATE
DISPOSALS HIGHER
Number of Sales in 1881 Exceed
Those of Previous Years
by 35 Per Cent.

Disposals of farm real estate of the
Federal Land Banks were greater in
1891 than in any previous year, the
number of sales exceeding those of 1880
by 35 per cent and the amount OBJ
tanned for the farms by 16 per cent,
according to the annual report Of the
this week
The total number Of properties thus
disposed of was 4,232 for a total con-
sideration of $11, 1902 ,235.
The board report attributes the in
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crease in the number Of sales largely
to improved sales organization and
states that the decline in the net
amount received for the properties re-
fleets the trend of agricultural real es-
tate values during the latter part of
1881
With lower prices of agricultural
commodities and an increase in the
amount of real estate acquired by banks
and other institutions dealing in farm
mortgage loans and with such prop
critics potentially if not actually on the
market, decline in prices was almost
inevitable"
The report explains that the banks
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REALTY DATA PROVIDED

New York Branch to Aid Investors
in Securities.
The New York Real Estate Securities
Exchange has established statistical
department, designed to enable investors
to obtain the necessary facts on real
estate securities. it is pointed out by
Truman S. Mersereau, executive secre-
tary. 80
In a statement reviewing the work OF
the exchange since it opened It's doors
December Is, 1929, Mr.. Mersereau points
out that while the exchange in no way
recommends any given security or
Judges its value, its files are open to
investors seeking information on the
properties against which they hold
mortgage bonds or in which they plan
to invest.
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For the first four months of this
year permits were issued for the erec-
tion Of All houses, having an estimated
cost of S2,68l 200, as compared with
first third of 1881.
OF the April total of S1,085,145, the
cost of house construction alone
amounted to S492 $50 fer the 66 pro-
jected dwellings, this being the largest
single class in the list. There were
permits also for six small apartments
costing 5000 and for nine stores
costing $50, 100. Repair and remodel
ing work had a valuation of $238, 1896.
During the past week plans approved
for operations expected to cost $685.
425. Included in this list were per-
mits for 80 private dwellings. Among
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The Washington program is designed
10 illustrate clearly the pound Wis
dom of investment now in needed and
well planned home improvements and
the penny" foolishnesS of waiting un-
til costs of improvements rebound 10
high levels. To this end competent ad-
wise is made available to the individual
property owner.
Fits Into National Plan.
IT is a business proposition beneficial
to the property owner. ,.x
The Washington program, Whlle oil
ferent in some ways, hts INTO the ia
tioral plans for business stimulation IN
connection with property improvement
and moderniZation, 1t is explained Dy
n a Oltwater, chairman OF the Prop
ertv DEVELOPMENT and Business Coop
Grafton Committee. ,,.
TT is for this reason inquiries nave
been coming to the commlttee nun
MANY parts of the country, ne saiu
today. This program aims 10 sum- a
late business, the principle peNls Ilia
as business becomes more active con-
@dance is restored all along the nne'
and with it some social gains "i0A'e
sound economic principles. ,t.o
"Onlv in recent years have manulac-
tuners in the building industry recos-
nized the competition they have from
other industries for the nome owueI
SoIIar " he continued. "On top OF thls
~eaIization they now recognize tnaI un-
der nrrsent conditions a resumption OF
volume of new construction Is pracIl-
ce1iv irnnossible. They conceoe tne
building industry must turn toWalo
habilitation of existing structures, 1.to.
II must strive to serve the nome o"ils. I1;a
and to arouse a desire 10 maAe iiis
home more comfortable, usaoIe anu
valuable.
Order Out of Chaos.
"r.ch manufacturer of construction
o+orials has been directing his own
efforts toward these ends. IheSe eloltS y;
t1aUe heen neither controlled nor ol-
-ected However, under the leadership
-.eoeItlv organized in washington, Or
Iar is hepinning to come out OF cnaos,
tha manufacturers individual enolUS
ere heing co-ordinated and guloeo'
sThis- co-ordinating agency Is G1e
Presidents Conference on Home DunI toi,,
ING and Home Ownership a piHaVr1S 49,
financed enterprise, which Ii"S +toe
o'1Stect of the home and its construc-
81. ey,er assembled. This conferences
taos s recommended that certain OF Is
act;vities tao be carried on in the lnteres'
of the property owner It mas Goppnmittee partittte
1nrlv recommended that its ComHNCes,
~, Reconditioning, Remooehng aiio
Modernizing be continued. -, the
This last was made possible ny sl.e
11nited states Chamber OF Con1mer,ee IT,
tn the interest of business ana ny Sre
Denartment of Commerce in the puonc
interest both working with the manu-
factlIrers of the industry In tne Gu
ordination of three major objectlves.
@The first objective is to stlmula1e q
desire e,' on N the part Of the property W
Gunner to invest wisely few dollars Oh
his home or other structure
Help for Contractors.
"The second objective is to ASSIST Ine
focal contractor, subcontractor ana sup
nlv NV man to become better mercnan-
disers. - .o-relate
the first two and, through the 1aclllIieS
offered by the committee. to make pos
sible a round-table for the use OF tne
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40 Lots to Go at Auction.

Forty residential and business lots in
Highland Park section, located a half
mile east of Falls Church, Va, are to
be sold at auction beginning May IA, it
is announced by the National Realty &
Development Co., Louisville, KY,
through its president, w. B. RoBards,
which will handle the sale.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-10-27
George Plowman

George Plowman,l IA, passed
away about midnight Saturday at
the Pasco hospital after making
a valient fight for life, following
an appendicitis operation, the APP
pendix having ruptured "a hours
before. George was the only
child of Mr.. and Mrs. B. B. Plow-
man. He was born at Minot, N. d.
September IA. 1913. Funeral SER
vices were held Tuesday after
noon at the Mueller chapel, with
Rev. H. F. Hammer, Pastor Of the
English Luthern Church in charge
assisted by Rev. John B. Pennell,
pastor of the Episcopal church.
The entire 40 members of the foot
ball squad attended the funeral
services. The third string, of which
George was a member, were active
pallbearers, Bud Walter, Eugene
Brittian, Johnny Lincoln, Earl
Millican, Willard Helm and Athol
Jonese. Burial was made in River
View Heights Cemetery.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-10-27
TO HEAR ABOUT
THE MEASURES
Finley Folk to Have Open
Meeting Tuesday at
the Grange Hall

Certainly no one should be COM
PEELED to profess ignorance this
year regarding the amendme nts
and initiative measures which will
appear on the ballot this fall with
all the meetings which are being
held to explain them. Up town
there have been several meetings
at which the measures were ex-
planned. Now the lower valley
folk will be given an opportunity
of hearing them discussed.
Tuesday night the Finley
Grange will sponsor special
meeting for the purpose. A speak
er will be selected to tell about
each Of them and the intent.of the
makers of the bills. Following the
discussion the speaker will answer
questions If any, regarding the
various propositions.
After the principal talk, speak
er from each of the principal par
ties will discuss the national plat
forms and candidates. Candidates
for county offices will be invited
to attend and they will be permit
ted to speak in their own behalf.
The public is invited.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-10-27
Fire Destroys Home
of Richland Farmer

Fire, thought to have started
from defective chimney destroy
ed the home of Paul Fishback at
Richland Saturday afternoon.
The fire started while the fam
lily was out in the farm yard. and
made such rapid Roadway that it
was only possible to save radio.
As there was no fire apparatus
to combat the flames, bucket
brigade was organized.
A heavy wind carried flying
brands away from nearby farm
buildings, and saved them from
danger.
The loss of the bungalow and
its contents, which was situated
about a mile northwest Of Rich
land, was placed at 81, 800.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-10-27
FINE DISKIN(s
UNNECESSARY
IN ORCHARDS
Horticulturalist Says Only
Advantage is to Cut Down
Fire Hazard; Value of the
Cover Crop Still There

Now that the fruit harvest is
nearly completed many growers
will begin discing their orchards
within the next few weeks, ac-
cording to L. Z. Claypool, Horti-
culturist at the Irrigation Branch
Experiment Station. at Prosser.
He states that the benefits de-
rived from discing an orchard
cover crop have been over-estimat-
ed and that the majority Of the
growers would propably profit BY
less severe disking. Were it not
for the elimination of the fire
hazard in an orchard by disking,
it might be done away with entire
" without noticeable detrimental
effects.
Banv fruit growers believe that
in order to derive the utmost BEN
eft from their cover crop it must
be disked enough to finely chop
the alfalfa or sweet clover tops to
small pieces and to cover them
with soil. The latter may be bene-
fetal practice, but it is not con-
ducive to the maintenance De the
edsired permanent or semi-per-
manent cover crop since severe
disking greatly reduces the stand
of plants and soon may almost
eliminate the leguminous cover
crop from the orchard, allowing
annual weeds and grasses I'd take
its place.
Much of the heterogeneous plant
food material in the cover crop
tops is dissolved by rain and snow
water and carried into. the soil
where it will be available for
plant growth the next year
whether these tops are covered
with soil or merely allowed to re-
main on top. Claypool suggests
that disking be reduced to min
limum sufficient to destroy the fire
hazard on an alfalfa or first year
sweet clover cover crop.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-10-27
Meredith Woods

A wedding Of interest to the
people Of Kennewick was solemn
lied Sunday at the home of the
brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. +.
A. Meredith in Richland, when
Miss Thelma Meredith and Mr..
Herbert E. Woods were married.
They were attended by the brides
sister, Miss Garnet Meredith and
Lon Winters.
Mrs. Woods is the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Al. Meredith of
Richland and graduate of the
Richland high school and of the
Ellensburg normal, and taught
school for three years before tax
ing up studio work and was en-
ployed in Walla Walla prior to
opening the La Petite Studio here
two years ago.
Mr. Woods is a graduate of the
Kennewick high school with the
class of '24 and has been an en-
ployee Of the Pacific Power and
Light company since and is now
with them in the local department.
The newlyweds returned to Ken
newick following their marriage
and kept it secret until today
when the happy news leaked out.
Mr.. and Mrs. Woods will make
their home at their Studio apart
ment in the Commercial hotel
building.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-10-27
Halloween Party

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members were nos's ~ n~l'Ow-
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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-10-27
REPUBLICAN
TICKET GAINS
THRU DISTRICT
Eastern Washington Shows
Normal Election Tendency;
Big Switch to Hoover is
Feature of Week

Reports to Congressman John
w. Summers from SO precincts in
east Washington make a very
strong showing on the present po-
litical situation.
Eleven out of SS show margin
for Roosevelt and Garner. Two
precincts are tied.
Seventy precincts show a mar
gin for Hoover and Curtis.
Gellatly and Falknor are rum
ming strong in mist precincts and
are keeping pace with Hoover and
Curtis. Hoover shows an over
whelming lea din many precincts.
Senator Jones has an unusually
strong lead in most precincts. His
opponent is strong in few local
tiles. The grand total shows a
commanding lead for Jones. His
ability to serve the state because
of his long experience and high
standing in congress is often men,
toned.
AThe reports are entirely salts
factory so far as my own vote is
concerned said Congressman
Summers.
'sThe large number of voters
who have switched to Hoover dur
ing the past few weeks is perhaps
the outstanding feature of the to-
tai reports"
These reports from towns. and
country were made in most in
stances after careful study Of
local sentiment and are probably
as accurate as can be had at this
time. Many other reports should
come in soon. Take them all in all
they are extremely gratifying.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-10-27
Guards Mascot

Bruce Williams Of Kennewick
has been pledged to the Cougar
Guard chapter of the Intercollegi-
ate Knights at Washington State
College, according to Kenyon Be
ment, president. The organiza-
ton is national underclass serv-
ice honorary.
Williams, freshman in the
school of business administration,
will represent Simpson Hall.
The intercollegiate Knights
usher at Athletic contests, guard
the college mascot at public dem
onstrations and assist in all gem
eral student body activities.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-10-27
THIEVES BREAK
NTO4 PLACES
FOR s BUCKS
Robbers Have Poor Luck;
Bust Open Unlocked Safe
and Get Sc Stamps at the
Dover office

Last night and the night before
forty-four robbers came to my
door
Well, perhaps not A, but maybe
three got busy last night. They
broke into the Dover Lumber Co.
office, the P. p. & L. store house,
the Standard Oil office and the
school house. For their trouble they
got about Ave dollars worth Of
stamps at the Dover office. No
money, no checks-no luck.
Three suspicious oh ara ter s
were observed by the police me-
andering around las might, but
since the police car has been laid
up they were unable to follow the
trio. Anyway, they broke the lock
off the unlocked Dover safe and
took the purple stamps the repub-
lican administration is forcing up
on the public.
The robbers were equipped with
powerful wire cutters, for the
window bars and woven wire fence
were shipped like nobody's bust
ness. No evidence has been Sc
cured, but the grape vine tele-
graph, probably, will soon spread
the word that at last Kennewick
has begun to feel the so-called de-
preston, for no money was OBJ
tanned in the four attempts.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-10-27
Makes Band

Dewitt Mcguire of Kennewick,
will be member of the Washing
ton State college band, according
to the roster announced by Har-
old p. Wheeler, director. Mr.. Ma
guire, freshman in the school of
education, plays the bass.
One hundred and thirty-four
students turned out for band posi-
tions to make one of the largest
band turnouts in the history Of
the college. There are los men in
uniform and 95 in the band prop
er. Last year there were 80 men in
the band proper and 100 including
the drum and bugle corps.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-10-27
SUMMERS TO
HELP FARMERS
Has Voice in Spending
Vast Sums Toward
Agriculture

Congressman John w. Sum-
mers has been summonde to the
Nationel Capital November 18th
by Honorable Joseph w. Byrns of
Tennessee, Chairman of the APP
propriations Committee of the
House of Representatives.
Mr.. Byrns desires the Agricul-
ltural Committee of five members
of which DR.. Summers is the only
member west of Nebraska, to
start on the agricultural appro-
priation bill so the measure may be
presented to Congress by middle
cember and passed by the House
before the holidays.
"The Agricultural Appropria-
ton Committee does not purpose
new legislation. We study the
needs of agriculture conscientious
ly and sympathetically,' says
Representative Summers, "and
cut expenses wherever it can be
done. Economy will be our watch
word. We saved many millions last
year. However, under the requires
ments of existing law our bill pro-
vide funds for every agricultural
college in the United States, for
county agricultural agents, for l.
H club work, for extension work
of all kinds, for the study of pro-
duction of all farm crops, of cat
tie, sheep, hogs, poultry, dairying,
eradication of disease from plants
anad animals, codling moth, Jap
anese beetle, earwig, Mexican
fruit. worm, predatory control,
marketing at home and abroad,
and hundreds of other farm act
ivities.
National forests and the Bur
eau of Public Roads and Federal
aid for roads are administered by
the Secretary of Agriculture and
are provided for in our bill.
"Our Committee spends many
weeks in preparing this bill. Spec
ialists and practical farmers in
every branch of agriculture test
ify before our ommittee. Their
testimony is printed and is known
as the Hearing on the Agricul-
tural Appropriation Bill" Ny
many years experience in farming
in the Mississippi Valley and in
Washington serve me well in con-
sidering the diversified problems
that come before US.
"This is the most interesting
and probably the mist valuable
work I have done since going to
Congress-" says Representative
Summers. Nothing spectacular,
no newspaper headlines, no big
speeches, just lot of hard work
around the committee table, where
much of the real work of con-
gress is done, working out a thous-
and problems for six and a half
million farmers"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-10-27
Discuss Measures

A non-partisan political meet
ing will be held at the high school
gym next Tuesday night. The
meeting will be devoted to dis
cussion of the amendments and
initiatives which will appear on
the ballot.
The meeting is being sponsored
jointly by the Woman's Club and
the Chamber of Commerce and
everyone is invited and there will
be no charge or collections.
The various measures will be
discussed by Judge Driscpll, At
torney Powell and Superintendent
w. G. Hodge.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-10-27
Meeting Called Off

The street meeting of the Hon.
John A. Gellatly, Republican Cand-
idate for Governor which was
planned for Tuesday afternoon
was called off on account of the
death and funeral of George Plow-
man, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. B. B..
Plowman, which were held that
afternoon. It is hoped that Hon.
John A. Gellatly will be able to
return later and talk to the peo-
pie Of Kennewick, according to
C. A. Crawford.