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Evening star., 1933-01-07
IMPROVEMENT SEEN
IN OFFICE SITUATION
Head of Building Owners and
Managers Group Terms
Contraction Ended.

Belief that 1888 will see improved
conditions in the office building situa-
ton is held by William E Malm, Cleve-
land, president of the National Associ-
alton of Building Owners and Man
ayers, who finds indication that office
space contraction has about run its
course. He cites also the limited
amount of new construction in this
class Of building during the past two
years.
Recession in construction of new
office building space is illustrated graph
icaly in reports Of the F.. w. Dodge
Corporation, covering 81 States. show
ing that the cost of such projects under
way in November, 1929 aggregated S69,-
$4,000, whereas the figure for Novem-
ber, 1882, was S73O 400.
The October survey of rental condi-
tions conducted by the National Asso-
citation OF Building Owners and Man
ayers revealed an average occupancy of
1872 per cent in the United States and
Canada" Mr.. Malm continued. al
though this is far from normal, it shows
that the commercial building industry
has borne up we'll during a period when
number Of major industries have
been operating at less than so per cent
Of capacity
Office building income should reflect
promptly an improvement in general
conditions. 1t is most improbable that
such an Improvement viii be offset by
the sudden marketing Of any large
amount OF new space in the near fu-
ture."
Evening star., 1933-01-07

ernment bureaus was denounced by Mr.
La Beaume as a process which must
lead inevitably to stereotyped, If not
mediocre, results"
The argument for designing of Gov
eminent buildings by Government
architects. Mr. La Beaume pointed out,
is that the cost of their service is
somewhat less than the cost involved
in employment of architects outside
the bureau. He questions this econ
omy," declaring that the differential is
not great, even using Government
figures.
Furthermore, he argues, Governments
overhead costs are not so susceptible
to change in the volume of the load,
and many Government employees are
carried on the pay rolls through slack
periods"
Also, he argues, 1T is in the adoption
If modern methods Of specification, ma
terialS and processes of construction
that savings would accrue. Bureaus
become rigid in their methods and can
not easily, nor are they obliged to, take
into consideration current building
economies with which the private prae-
titioner is forced to reckon"
Evening star., 1933-01-07
GRADUAL UPTURN
IN 19}3FORECAST
Building and Loan League
Head Cites Increase in
Associations Reserves.

The outlook for the new year is for
a gradual improvement in general
conditions, according to Ward B. Whit
lock, Springfield, H., president of the
United States Building and Loan
League.
Convinced the work of the building
and loan associations will contribute
to the stability of the financial struc-
ture and to improvement of residential
real estate in 1888. Mr.. Whitlock cited
the following points:
That reserves of the association have
been increased during the last year,
indicating increased safety, of interest
to investors. Reserves as of November
had an estimated total Of $213,092 900
as compared with Sl86, 78l 500 on jan
Cary 81, 1882.
That the building and loan asSocia-
tions of the country would continue to
pay dividends to members during 1888
as they did during the last three years
Of the depression
That there undoubtedly would be an
increase in the amount of mortgage
loans because of the access of the asso-
Citations to the funds of the Federal
Home Loan Banks.
That there was to be expected an ac-
celerated inflow of new money from in
vestors in the associations, this predic-
ton being based on reports of similar
increases during the last three months
by representative associations.
Such increases in investment funds
are not expected to take on the pro-
portions of those in 1928 and 1929, but
the outlook for increased employment
in 1888 promises opportunity for in
creased saving of money by the average
person, Mr.. Whitlock declared.
Evening star., 1933-01-07
STRAYER COLLEGE
TO MOVE MARCH |
New Quarters Are Leased
in Homer Building for
10-Year Period.

Strayer College, housed for the past
IL years in the building at 719-723
Thirteenth street, has leased spacious
new quarters in the Homer Building
Thirteenth and F streets, which the in
stitution will occupy March /, it was
announced today.
The college has leased for a period
Of 10 years the south half of both the
third and fourth floors of the Homer
Building providing a total of more
than 10000 square feet of space The
property is leased from S. Kann Sons
Co., owners, through the agency Of Carl
G.. Rosinski, realtOr. The consideration
was not disclosed.
The Builders Exchange Building
now occupied by the Strayer College and
other tenants, i9 to be RACED about
March l and the site is to be used as
parking lot it is reported The prop
erty, owned by the Stilscn- -Hutchins
estate, is to be leased for term of five
years to an out-of-town organization
through negotiations handled by Mr.
Rosinski and Alexander c. Robeson,
Charles H. Merillat and Thomas Morton
Cuttings, trustees for the owners and
Harvey A. Jacobs. who reprees nted the
tenant. The property is to be improved
extensively, including the laying of a
concrete covering.
The college Offices in the Homer
Building, according to present plans
will be located On the Thirteenth street
side Of the third fioor, and an audi
torium with seating capacity of 500
is to be provided on the same floor.
The college was established here in
location of the school was at Eleventh
and F streets, where it remained until
1909 when larger quarters were provided
in the old Masonic Temple at Ninth and
F streets. The institution moved to
72l Thirteenth street in 1921.
Evening star., 1933-01-07
RECOVERY FORESEEN
BY HOME FINANCIERS
Building and Loan Officials Voice
Optimism in Farley With
President-E Elect.

Othcials Of the building and loan bus
mess of the country, in a recent con-
terence with President-elect Roosevelt
at Albany on the subject of home
financing, voiced confidence in general
business recovery, according to word re-
celved here from the United States
6ulldlng and Loan League.
The group also predicted an increas-
Ing high standard of living for the gen.
eral public, declaring that such a devel-
opment would place more and more
emphasis on the solid satisfaction de-
rived from families living in their own
homes among convenienceS now avail
able to but comparatively few.
The group included Ward B. Whit
lock, Springfield, Ill, president of the
league; 7. Triedlander Houston, Tex
league vice president and chairman cf
The Advisory Committee on State Leg
lslation; Peter Cantline, civic leader
and attorney for a Newburgh. N. Y.
building and loan association, and Nor
ton Bodfish member of the Federal
Home Loan Bank Board, who is on
leave of absence from his post as execu-
tive manager Of the league.
Evening star., 1933-01-07

The University Of Tennessee extern
SION live stock specialists advise farmers
that hog losing weight should never
be butchered
Evening star., 1933-01-07
PLANS FOR S41S,815
BUILDING APPROVED
Total Includes AZ Private
Dwellings at Estimated
Cost of 5000.

Specifications for the erection in the
District of 40 private dwellings having
a total estimated cost of $298,600 were
approved during the past month by Col
John w. Oehmann, building inspector
The total for all classes of work was
estimated at $4l3,315, which brought
the volume for 1898 to a figure of SILL
30l $50. This total was slightly higher
then the estimate carried in the unoffi-
cial computation published last week in
The Star. in which the December vol
ume was estimated at $4,000 Permits
issued in the last several days of the
year, not known when the December to-
tai was estimated, accounted for the
increase of S18815.
SSS,515 in Repair Work.
Repair and modernization work dur
ing December accounted for $88,515 of
the total for the month.
The largest amount Of the work was
planned for the northwest section of
the District, the cost of such work being
estimated at $685. Projects for the
northeast section had a cost of S25, SOC:
southeast, $15,550. There were no per-
mitS for the southwest section.
OF the permits for the 20 dwellings
approved during December &c were for
detached dwellings and 16 for row
houses.
S55,625 in Building o. KID.
Projects having a total estimated
construction cost of S55.625 were ap-
proved by the District during the past
week. Permits were issued for the fol-
lowing:
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. own
erS and designers: Martin Bros, build
ers; to erect one 1-story concrete, brick
and steel public garage, 1901 South
Capitol street; to cost $40.000.
Mrs. Grace o. Lowry, owner; Evan J.
Conner designer; Sears, Roebuck g. Co.
builders: to erect one 2-story brick and
tile dwelling, 1928 Thirty fourth street;
to cost $6,500.
Lillian Elliott Armstrong. owner: V.
T. H. Bien, designer; Armstrong &
Bien, builders; to erect one 1-Story
brick dwelling, 1922 Bunker Hill road
northeast; to cost $4,000
Caldwell Hall, Catholic University of
America, owners; R. P. Whitty Co,
Inc. builders; to make repairs, Michigan
avenue northwest; to cost S3,225.
Evening star., 1933-01-07
HOUSE PLANS FILED

Plans for the erection of a two-Story
frame dwelling at 5lO4 Forty-f fourth
street have been filed with the Dis
trict government by L. T. Rouleau as
owner and builder.
Mr.. Rcuieau this week also applied
for permits for the construction of two
2-story brick dwellings at 5102 and
5l06 Forty-fourth street.
The construction cost of the three
projected houses was estimated to total
approximately $4,000.
Evening star., 1933-01-07
BUYS RENOVATED HOMES
Realty Concern Has Contracts for
More Than 200 Here.

The Washington Housing Corpora
ton, a new real estate concern recently
incorporated under the laws Of the
State of Delaware. has contracts for the
purchase Of more than 200 reconditioned
District dwelling properties, it was an
nounced today by officers OF The CON-
pany.
The firm expects to take title to these
properties IN the next few days. The
purchase price of the properties, it is
stated, has been provided for by deeds
of trust notes on which will be applied
the entire net income of the properties.
The plan Of operation of the new COM
pany is the purchase of reconditioned
dwellings, rented to families in the
lower income clasSifications.
Frank T. Fuller, Washington attorney.
is president OF the corporation: Herbert
A. Simon, vice president, and Airline
Richardson, secretary
Evening star., 1933-01-07
Follows Extensive Research.

The proposed action grows from dis
cuSsion of the tax situation of real es-
tate which has been a major concern of
the association, of State real estate as
soclations and of local real estate boards
for a number of years. 1t follows ex-
tensiVe research carried on at the Uni
versity Of Chicago for the past two years
at the inltiative Of the association cover
ing the actual working of various new
forms Of State taxation and of tax bud
getting and control
Henry G. Zander, Chicago, past pres
ident of the association and vice chair
man Of the board Of the Home Loan Bank
of Evanston, will discuss the home loan
bank system in an address before the
mortgage and finance division of the
association at the Washington meeting.
He is expected to go into the organiza-
ton problems of the new system, the
safeguards which it is creating for its
securities, upon which its eventual
capital supply will depend, and its i'm
portant relation to the future financing
of home ownership.
Evening star., 1933-01-07
10 TW0-ST0RY FLATS
BUILDING PLANS FILED
Total Construction Cost of Work
Is Estimated at 100000
by Firm.

Plans for the erection of 10 tWo-story
fats in the 1900 block of Second street
northeast were filed with the District
Building Inspection Department this
week by the Harvard Terrace Develop
ment Corporation. The total construc-
ton cost Of the work was estimated at
100000
Permits were sought for the erection
Of two 2-story brick and concrete block
flats at l901-1911 Second street north
east, to cost $4,000 each, and for two
others of similar type at 1909 to 1919
Second street northeast.
In addition to these, applications were
filed for six other 2-Story flats to be
erected in the block. at total estimated
cost of $4,000. The Shapiro Construc-
tion Co. is listed as the builder.
Evening star., 1933-01-07
BUILDING INDUSTRY FIGHTS
TO END FEDERAL DESIGNING
Architects Expect Other Branches of Construction
Business to Unite to Get Legislation Against
Office i'm Treasury

CONCERTED campaign to take the Government of the
work of designing public buildings will be
by the entire building industry according to Louis Beaume
St Louis chairman of the Public Works Committee of the
American Institute of Architects.
elements the construction industry
supervising
supervisory body
the of better architecture and greater
Mr. Beaume declared organized architects through
will reform of the the
in Of buildings
Evening star., 1933-01-07
BUILDING MATERIALS OFF
Wholesale Cost Drops Slightly at
Close of 1882.

The wholesale cost of building ma
terials dipped slightly as the year of
1882 came to close, according to COM
putations by the United States Bureau
of Labor Statistics.
The index for the week ended De-
cember 81 was 708, as compared with
10 9 for December "a. but was above the
levels for the three preceding weeks.
The index numbers are based on aver
age prices Of 1926 as 100 in the scale.
The cost of house furnishing goods
remained steady at 73.5 for the four
weeks ended December 81, l per cent
above the level of December 3.
Evening star., 1933-01-07
ENTERS BUILDING FIELD
Consolidated Construction Co. to
Specialize in RemodeIing.

The Consolidated Construction Co,
recently incorporated, enters the build
ing field here and will specialize in
remodeling and restoration of old resi-
dences and other buildings, according
TO an announcement today by William
II. Smith, managing director and head
OF the new company.
Mr.. Smith several years ago was man
aeer OF the modernization department
OF the Sears, Roebuck g. Co. home con-
struction division in Washington and
resigned from that post to organize the
Consolidated Construction Co.
Evening star., 1933-01-07

mental effectiveness and actually and
appreci2bly to aid in the relief of real
estate"
The proposals are designed to be of
use to State real estate associations and
local real estate groups for presentation
to State Legislatures, A Of which are to
meet in regular session during this
year, most of them in January.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
5000 ATTEND WIFE CHARGES
BYRD PICNIC DEATH THREAT

Charging her husband threat
ened her with death and burning,
Mrs. Edna Aldridge, who operates
a grocery store at East Riverdale,
yesterday filed in Prince Georges
Circuit Court a petition for a
limited divorce from Elliott Aid.
ridge.
They have been married for Is
years, she says in her petition, and
have two children, Harry and
May Aldridge, both of age.
He also broke the middle fin
ger on her left hand during a
fight Tuesday, she says, and she
had to leave home then because
of his threats.
She asks. with the limited di-
vorce, that the court enjoin her
husband from entering the store
which she is running to provide
for her support. She is represented
by Walter L. Green and John K.
Keane, lawyers.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
AARON SAP|RO
HEARING SET

ALBANY, N. Y, Aug. 26 GIN.
SO.-Gov. Herbert H. Lehman
has set next Wednesday for q
hearing on the new application
of Illinois authorities for the ex-
tradition of Aaron Sapiro, New
York lawyer, indicted a second
time in Chicago for alleged con-
spiracy in the laundry racket.
Last week after a hearing the
Governor denied the first request
of the Illinois authorities for
Sapiro's eXtradition because the
latter had proved he was not in
the State on May 80, the date
charged in the first indictment.
Yesterday the Governor received
word that a superseding indict-
ment had been returned by the
Cook county Grand Jury against
the New York attorney, and that
the date of the alleged conspiracy
had been fixed as May 18.
At the first hearing before the
Governor, Sapiro admitted he had
been in Chicago from May IL to
May 10.
Sapiro was indicted along with
AL Capone and others in connec-
ton with the laundry racket.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
ROADSTER CUTS
SPEED MARKS

Every official worlds record for
sustained high speed was shat
tered by Abe jenkins at Salt Lake
City when the auto driver sped
around a circular course on the
Great Salt Lake Desert near
Salduro for a full day and night,
part of the time in gales and rain.
He averaged 118 miles an
hour throughout his total Of
5000 miles. The run was timed
and sanctioned by contest board
officials of the American Auto
mobile Association.
In establishing this mark, Jen-
kins demolished at least 35 Off
cial American class records, and
at least IS official worlds class
and unlimited records for dis
tances of 200 miles and upward.
Jenkins drove a special Pierce
Arrow roadster stripped of fend-
ers, top and windshield, and
geared with a special rear axle.
His top speed was 1881 miles an
hour.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
Corinne Griffith Opens National

The announcement that the
National Theater will open their
winter season of the drama with
a return engagement of Noel
Coward's audacious comedy, DE
sign For Living" should be well
come news to those theatergoers
who were unable to secure seats
for this attraction when it played
here last year, when, due to the
limited engagement of one week
and the limited capacity of the
theater many prospective ticket
seekers were disappointed.
Beginning Monday, September
II, for one week only, Mr.. Cow
ards play will be offered with
Corinne Griffith in the stellar
role, originally portray by
Lynne Fontaine. In support of
The Washington times., 1933-08-26

Miss Griffith we are promised q
metropolitan cast and production.
This will mark Miss Griffith'S-a
famed star of the stage and
screen-first appearance on the
dramatic stage in Washington.
Following Miss Grififth's en-
gagement in Design For Liv-
ing" Helen Menken in a revival
of Austin Strong'S Seventh
Heaven" originally produced by
John Golden with Miss Menken
in the role of Diane. which she
created, will be seen.
Then for the week of Septem-
ber Is lovers of the drama will
have the opportunity of witness
ing one of the most talked of
and most successful plays of the
past New York season, Criminal
At Large" starring Bert Lytell.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
CAROLS "AIice' L.
To Play Here

The twelfth and final festival
program Of the present summer
season at the National Sylvan
Theater, at the Washington Mon.
ument, directed jointly by the
Community Center Department
and the National Capital Parks
office of the Interior Department,
will take place Wednesday eve
ming, September 6; and unless
present plans go suddenly awry,
will be a tabloid version of Alice
in Wonderland" arranged for out
of-doors presentation by Bess Da-
Wis Schreiner, and presented un'
der the direction of Dennis E. Con
nell, for the Community Center
Department.
This world-famous story - de-
cidedly in the public mind at the
moment-will be acted by we'll
known and popular players of the
Capital City, drawn from a num-
ber of prominent dramatic groups.
Brief "bits" in this production Will
be chosen from the wealth OF ma
terial in Lewis Carroll's Alice IN
wonderland" and Through the
Looking Glass" with but few
spoken lines, much pantomime,
music, and some dancing.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26

'Keene. Harry Carey and Kathleen
Burk.
..s sEcQ. rs. Silver Spring, ., Md;1Mo9day. on Y
Robinson and Mary Astor;. Charlie
Chase comedy; novelty. Tuesday, John
Barrymore and Diana WynWard in
talk. Wednesday, Slim summerville
and Zasu Pitts in "Out All Night:
variety; screen song. Thursday, Pat
O'Brien and Betty Compson in "Desti-
nation Unknown"; comedy, news reel;
Leslie Howard in Secrets: variety;
screen souvenirs; whispering Shadow"
"secrets," With Mary Pickford and
Leslie Howard, and Rusty Rides
Alone" with Tim Mccoy: Lost spe-
cial." No. 10: matinee, l p. m.
STATE, Bethesda, Md. 49, Monday and
Tuesday international House." with
Peggy Hopkins Joyce; news; comedy.
Wednesday, pleasure Cruise" with Ro-
land Young; comedy; news. Thursday,
Warner Baxter in II Loved You Wednes-
day; comedy. Friday. Made on Broad
way" with Robert Montgomery and
Madge Evans; comedy Saturday, double
feature, Below the Sea-" with Ralph
Bellamy, and Smoke Lightning" with
George O'Brien; comedy; matinee. 1880.
SYLVAN - sunday and Monday, Lee
Tracy and Madge Evans in The Nui-
sance": variety; traveltalk. Tuesday and
Wednesday, THE Working Man." with
George Arlss and Bette Davis; comedy;
cartoon. Thursday. Perfect Understand
ing," with Gloria Swanson and Laurence
Olivier; Walter Winchell comedy; sport
novelty. Friday, Rome Express" Esther
Ralston and Conrad Veidt; comedy; Lost
Special" No. S. Saturday, double fea-
ture, Lucky Devils" with Bill Boyd and
Dorothy Wilson; Tom Keene in son of
the Border; whispering Shadow" No.
z: cartoon; matinee, 1 p. m.
STRAND, DeanwOOd. d. C.-sunday
and Monday: Rusty Rides Alone" I"
with Tim Mccoy and Barbara Weeks;
Song of the Eagle" with Charles
Bickford. Mary Brian and Richard
Arlen. Tuesday: MALAY Nights" with
John Mack Brown, Dorothy Burgess
and Ralph Ince. Wednesday and
Thursday: Barbara stanwyck in "Baby
Face" Friday: "Big Chance" Sat
urday: Constance Bennett in Our
Betters'; Jack Hoxie and Betty Boyd
in Gun Law"
TAKOMA - Sunday and Monday, Fay
Wray and Gene Raymond in Ann Car
ver's Profession" Tuesday and Wednes-
day, Warner Baxter in II Loved You
Wednesday," Thursday and Friday, Ed
mund Lowe and Nancy Carroll in II
Love That Man" Saturday, James Dunn
in Girl in 419," and Ken Maynard in
Drum Taps"
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
Ad Code Bans Fake
Scientific Claims

The advertising code submitted
yesterday to the National Recov-
cry Administration provides elimi-
nation of false ballyhoo" from
advertising columns of newspapers
and magazines.
Although misleading and false
advertising are banned by law, the
code contains specific language to
this effect. 1t adds:
misunderstanding advertising,
including claims insufficiently
supported by accepted author
ity, or that diStOrt the true
meaning or application Of a
statement made by professional
or scientific authority cOnSti-
tutes an unfair practice"
The Washington times., 1933-08-26

WINCHESTER, Va, Aug. 25.
Over 5000 fruit growers through
out the East are attending the
annual picnic rendered by Sena-
tor Harry Flood Byrd at his beau
tifui estate, Rosemont, near Win
chester.
Senator John G. Townsend, jr.,
Of Delaware, who was to have ap-
peared on the speakers program,
was unable to come, due to heavy
storm damage in Delaware. Many
railroad freight agents, steamship
representatives, as well as foreign
apple exporters, are attending the
all-day outing.
Inspection of the orchards will
be made in the morning, with an
old-faShioned picnic dinner at
noon. Well-known speakers and
apple growers will make addresses
in the afternoon.