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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-01-11

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Evening star., 1934-01-31
CITIZENS CONTINUE
FIGHT FOR BRIDGE.
Improving of Barney Circle
Also Aim of Southeast
Association.

The Southeast Citizens Association
will continue its fight for construction
of new bridge across Eastern Branch
at Pennsylvania avenue and for i'm
provement of Barney Circle, it was in
dicated at meeting last night at
i Chambers Hall, Eleventh street and
Pennsylvania avenue southeast.
C. G. Degman and other officials who
attended last weeks hearing of the
Congressional District Committees. told
| Of their efforts toward attaining the
bridge and improved circle. as well as
their work to eliminate the smoke
nuisance.
Will Attend Hearing.
Another action taken by the asso-
citation was authorization of its Special
Public Utilities Committee. C. L.
Ritter, Orrin Davy. Mr.. Degman, G. C..
Click and w. J. Carey-to make sug-
gestions for Improvement of transit
service in the Southeast at a hearing
to which they were invited by the new
be held early next month, and the
delegates expect to recommend some
sort of loop service to eliminate long
waits and stopovers.
The organization opened its member
ship drive, to be conducted in con-
junction with the drive of the Fedora
ton of Citizens Associations. with last
nights meeting. Mr.. Click, chairman
of the Membership Committee, said
every home in the Southeast would be
canvaSSed in the drive. and prizes Will
| be offered for the member obtaining
the most members. The campaign
closes April "a.
The organization adopted motion
opposing the proposed raising of the
gasoline tax in the District. Several
members expressed the opinion that
the proposed tax increase is sponsored
by gasoline dealers outside the District
who feel they cannot compete with
District dealers. who have lower tax
Chairmen Selected.
New chairmen were appointed for
several standing committees last night.
the first opportunity since the new
administration, under President Will
liam A. Maio. took office. They in
cluded:
Streets. Alleys and Sidewalks. Paul
r. Donley; Education. Mrs. Morgan
OtterbacK, PARKS ana PuDlc bunolngS,
Thomas V. Schmitt; Public Utilities
MIR. Ritter: Fire and Police. Mr.. Davy;
! Navy Yard, B. G.. Ladd: Employment
t G. E. Echols: Southeast Community
/ Center, Mrs. Joseph Thume; Delegates
to the Federation, Mr.. Ritter and Allan
Davis. and Civic, Vernis Absher.
Three new members Joined the asso-
citation last night. They were Joseph
F. Swain, A. H. Bacas and Mrs. Mary
/ StanSci
At the close of the meeting the en-
tire group went in bus. provided bv
the Potomac Electric Power Co., to the
companys new plant on Buzzards Point
for an inspection trip.
Evening star., 1934-01-31
INSURANCE RATES.
REGULATION URGED.
D. c. Commissioners Request
Code Amendment to
Permit Control.

Enactment Of the bill to amend the
District Code to give the District super
intendent of insurance authority to reg
ulate rates charged for compensation
insurance was urged in statement yes
terday to Chairman King of the Senate
District Committee by the District Com
missioners.
The bill was prepared under the d.
rection of Herbert L. Davis, superin-
tendent Of insurance. and was sent to
Congress at the last session. 1t was
proposed at that time because of the
then pending proposal of companies
handling workmen's compensation in
surance to boost rates by as much as
26 per cent The increase in rates since
has been held in allegiance
Commissioner Hazen in a letter to
Senator King stated: The bill provides
that before the superintendent of insur-
ance shall approve rates he shall satisfy
himself that they are adequate and
reasonable to the groups to which they
respectively apply. At the present time
no control is exercised by the superin-
tendent over rates. Neighboring States,
Evening star., 1934-01-31

such as Virginia and Maryland, have
control over compensation rates.
There Is no valid reason why en-
ployers transacting business wholly in
the Distrist of Columbia should be bur-
dened with excessive premiums growing
out Of industrial accidents in other ju-
risdictions Many unfair practices have
grown up within the District Of Colum-
bia incident to workmen's compensation.
One of the difficulties confronting the
ofi1cials Of the District Is the so-called
minimum rate fixed by the companies,
or their representatives, without any
supervisory control by the officials Of
the District"
The Commissioners suggested one
amendment to the proposed bill, that
to require that any petition for review
shall be filed with the District Supreme
Court within 80 days after the rendition
of an opinion by the superintendent of
insurance.
Evening star., 1934-01-31

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Collects loosen
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keeps it from
"mashing back
Evening star., 1934-01-31
FIRE DESTROYS LUMBER
Pittsburgh Has 5-Alarm Blaze in
Near-Zero Weather.

PITTSBURGH, January 81 (P)-A
spectacular fire not far from Pitts
burgh's downtown district early today
destroyed lumber mill and yard with
the loss of thousands of feet of plank
ing and timbers.
Five alarms were sent in over a half
hour period and all available apparatus
in the downtown section was called to
the scene in an effort to prevent spread
of the flames to nearby homes and
buildings. A big gasoline station nearby
was threatened
Weather near the zero point ham
pered firemen, who battled helplesSly
to save the Dig plant, owned by the
Center Lumber Co Off1cials said it
would be some time before they could
estimate the loss
Evening star., 1934-01-31
LAUNDRIES APPEAL
ON EXCISE ON SOAP
House D. c. Committee Head Gets
Plea of Association of
II Companies.

Chairman Norton Of the House District
Committee has been appealed to on be-
half of an association representing II
laundry plants here, who complain that
under the new excise tax of cents
per pound on soap-making oils and
fats the price of soap probably would be
doubled
These laundries complain that since
the passage of the national industrial
recovery act the price of soap has ad-
vanced from 20 to 25 per cent: since
Evening star., 1934-01-31
PRIMARY LAW PROPOSED
Uniformity in Method of Nominal
ing President Advocated.

A constitutional amendment author
iZing Congress to provide a uniform
system of primary elections for nominal
ton Of candidates for President and
Vice President was introduced yesterday
by Senator steiwer, Republican, of
Oregon.
The amendment would permit Con-
gress to prescribe also the manner of
holding such elections, but the State
Legislatures would name the times and
places and it would be up to the States
to prevent fraud and corrupt prac-
tices."
Evening star., 1934-01-31

the adoption of Q temporary code under
the Presidents Unemployment agree
nent the laundries have increased
wages of employees from 30 to 40 per
cent. and that, due to increases in costs
under various codes. general supplies to
laundries have advanced materially in
price.
The laundries protest that under this
burden serious losses are now being in
Cured by the industry. They main
tain that with the present serious un-
employment situation the laundry in
dustry cannot increase its prices to meet
these increased costs.
Evening star., 1934-01-31
Red Tights Given
To Mayor, Foe of
Unruly Ring Fans
Ry the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, January
31.-A pair of red wrestling tights
were presented yesterday to
Mayor Tom E. MCGEE in honor
OF his 47th birthday anniversary,
four days ago.
A verse accompanying the gift
recounted the mayors efforts to
conflne rough stuff" at wrestling
matches to the ring after a near
riot at a match which the mayor
attended recently.
Evening star., 1934-01-31
NOTE THESE 8 FEATURES:

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efficiency.
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rolls dr> gar.
nents erenl,.
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permits Won
to raise or lOtuer
tub.
F or ho M es
mithon base.
ment drain
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pump NJ small
additional cost.
Evening star., 1934-02-24

to realize that the public simply is not
in the market for building homes be-
cause the cost of construction Is be-
yond the buyers means both as far
as materials and labor are concerned.
The same condition Of out-of-line
building costs prevailed in 1920 and
contributed to the shortage.
Furthermore, the increase in the
wholesale price index Of lumber, the
chief material in moderate priced
homes, as released by the United
States Bureau of Labor Statistics, was
90 per cent from June, 1888. to No
vember. The general commodity level
increased only IL per cent during the
same period. Now we have indica-
tions that a rise in labor costs for
construction may also be in the ofhng.
We certainly cannot expect a build
ing boom to start out Of such COM
bination of circumstances.
Agree on "Some Places"
Practically all economists agree
that there should be residential con-
struction in some places. When you
find the second largest city In the
United States granting permits for
only 1872 new one-family houses in the
first 10 months Of 1888, as compared
with an average of several thousand
a year in normal times, you have to
admit that a shortage Of homes may
not be far away. But there are many
cities where building and loan asso-
Citations have advertised that they
have money to loan home builders
and nobody comes down to the office
and applies. On the other hand, the
Evening star., 1934-02-24
RELIEF HOUSING
FUNDS SHUT OFF
Ickes Not Abandoning Work,
However; General
Manager Named.

After $4s,77l, ,s5s has been allotted
to limited dividend housing corpora
tions out Of the total Of 500, 0,0oo. 900
set aside for that purpose, Secretary
IckeS, public works administrator,
has called a halt on further allot-
ments Of this kind.
Administrator Ickes made the def
mite announcement yesterday that he
will not hereafter entertain applica-
tions Of this sort, since applications
of all kinds still pending before the
P. w. A. total in excess Of $780,
100000 after the original appropria-
ton Of $500 600. 900 has been ap-
portioned and given for selected prof.
ects.
Work Not Abandoned.
The new policy. however. does not
mean that the P. w. A. will end its
encouragement Of low-cost and slum-
clearance projects. In fact, during
the last 10 days particular attention
has been given this work with the
appointment Of Horatio B. Hackett
Of Chicago to be general manager
Of the Public Works Emergency
Housing Corporation.
The housing corporation is func-
tioning under the direction of the
housing division of the Public Works
Administration, Of which Robert D.
Kohn is director.
1t will be among Col. Hackett's
duties to assist In the allotment Of
the unapportloned part Of the $780,
10000 appropriated to his office.
Well Known in Athletics.
The new general manager is a for
mer all-America foot ball player from
West Point and also played base ball
and hockey as a member of the class
of 1904. Since his graduation he has
also gained q reputation as a foot
ball official.
After serving two years in the Army
after his graduation, Col. Hackett re-
signed and entered business, becoming
affiliated with q number Of large and
successful construction companies
When the World War came along,
however, he quit his business to en-
ter the service and was decorated for
conspicuous service.
Since the war he has been a part
ner in Holabird & Root, Chicago ar
chitects.
1t is from that position that he
came to the Public Works Emergency
Housing Corporation.
Evening star., 1934-02-24
BUILDING DECREASE
NOTED IN JANUARY
Bureau of Labor Statistics Re-
ports 1914 Per Cent Drop
in Costs.

There was a decrease of 1914 per
cent in the estimated cost Of build
ings erected in the United States
during January as compared with
the preceding month. according to a
report of the Bureau of Labor sta
tktics covering 1853 cities with pop
ulation Of 10000 or more. At the
same time, the bureau reported that
the number of buildings erected in
creased 1876 per cent.
New residential building. compar-
ing the two periods. dropped 1915 in
value, but gained e.7 in number. The
number of new non-residential build
ings increased 14.6 per cent, while
the value Of these buildings decreased
PAL per cent.
Comparing last month with JAN
uary, 1898, the bureau finds there was
a decrease Of 27.6 per cent in the
number and q decrease Of 1914 per
cent in the estimated cost Of new
residential building. New non-resi-
Dental buildings decreased 12.7 pei
cent in number and COL per cent
in estimated cost.
The bureau reports the total
amount of building construction
both public and private, for which
permits were issued in Washington
during January was sl,s67,520, a fig.
ure which is second only to New
York, whose total is $4.7ls,28l.
Evening star., 1934-02-24

The R-w Realty Co. Inc, Nev
York City. owners; William B. Drum
bull, architect; Christensen Engineer
ing Co., Inc, New York City. build
ers, to make alterations, 1907 r street,
to cost $500.
E. F. Brinkley, agent; L. w. Giles,
architect; C. c. Waters, Capitol
Heights, Nd, builder; to make re-
pairs, 533 Eighth street southeast, to
cost 5000.
American Realty & Improvement
Co., Ine., l424 X street, owners: Geo.
c. Burns, 1924 K street, designer and
builder; to make repairs, 1921 K
street, to cost $500.
Washington Properties, Inc, 1850
Woodley road, owners: C. w. Gosnell.
jr., builder; to make repairs. 3100
Connecticut avenue, to cost $500.
M. F. Brinkley, 533 Eighth street
southeast, owner; L. w. Giles. archi-
tect; C. c. Waters. Capitol Heights.
Nd, builder, to make repairs, TOO
Eighth street southeast, to cost $500.
c. w. Wright, 4314 Cathedral ave-
nue., owner; W. c. and A. N. Miller.
11I9 Seventeenth street. designers and
builders; to make repairs. 4314 Cathe-
dral avenue, to cost $3.50.
Waple g. James. Inc, 1925 Four
teenth street, owners and builders; j.
j. James, designer: to erect brick ad-
dition to garage, 5727 First street, to
cost 5000.
$500 Inclosed Porch.
Millard r. and Mildred M. Peake,
1917 Upshur street northeast, owners;
to inclose porch, 1917 Upshur street
northeast, TO cost 5000.
National Laundry Co.. Inc. 2l-3l
Pierce street, owners; Pringle Con-
struction Co., GOT Fifteenth street,
builders; to make repairs, 81 Pierce
street, to cost $3.50.
j. A. Kaufman, attorney: A.
Eberly's Sons, Inc, 1108 K street.
builders; to make repairs. 3l45 M
street, to cost $50.
S. Anna Lancaster. 1913 South Da-
kota avenue northeast, owner; Allied
Asphalt Products Corp, 912 New York
avenue, builder; to shingle sides of
frame dwelling, 1918 South Dakota
avenue northeast, to cost sl00.
Thomas Mathews. owner; Superior
Construction Co.. 1881 G street, build
ers; to stucco dwelling, 4937 Meade
street northeast, to cost 500.
Wolf Ulman, 56l8 Connecticut ave-
nue.. owner; L. w. Giles, architect; r.
A. Colston, 1138 Queen street north
east, builder; to erect one 1-story
brick addition, 56l8 Connecticut ave-
nue., TO cost Sl00.
]. Jensen. 1913 E street. owner: r.
c. Archer, jr., architect; J. L. Smith.
builder; to make repairs. 1919 E
street, to cost 500.
Evening star., 1934-02-24
BUILDING AND LOAN
GROUP MEETS TUESDAY

The Executive Committee of the
United States Building and Loan
League will meet here Tuesday to re-
view conditions in the thrift and
home financing business in the Unit
ed States Preparations are being
made by the building and loan off,
cials to exert the greatest possible
efforts in the direction of vast ex-
pansion of home credit.
Philip Lieber Of Shreveport, presi-
dent of the league, in issuing the call
for the meeting charged the commit
teemen with the special responsibility
of formulating plans to help the
Federal agencies in their efforts to
make 1894 historically significant as
the year when home financing in
America became the most solid por-
ton of the Nations credit structure. -
The meeting will be attended by
between so and rs building and loan
managers.
Evening star., 1934-02-24
HOME VACANCIES
DECREASE IN i. s.
Return of High Rents May
Result From Trend,
Loan Official Says.

Current decreases in home va
cancies portend a return Of the days
of 1921 when many families were
paving half of their income for rent,
Morton Bodfish, executive vice presi-
dent of the United States Building
and Loan League. told delegates to
the annual North Central Building
and Loan Conference in Chicago this
week.
I'VE already have reports of a more
active market in real estate. better
percentage Of rentals and more sales
Of houses" Bodfish asserted.
Not Building Homes.
I'm spite Of these dangers of higher
rents and shortage, people are not
building homes these days. Most OBJ
servers blame this condition entirely
upon insufficient financing. They fail
Evening star., 1934-02-24
BUILDING
@,89O IN WEEK
Major Items in Permit List
Six Row Houses and
$4,000 Residence.
Private building operations in the

Private building operations in the
Capital for which permits were
awarded at the District Building dur
irlg the last week totaled $06,050 In
value. according to statistics in the
office of Col. John Oehmann. District
building inspector.
Major items included a $50, 900 per-
NIT for the erection of six row houses
on Quackenbos street and a $26, 900
private residence permit.
The larger projects included the
following:
Brown Bros, owsers and builders;
George T. Santmyers, architect; to
erect six 2-story brick dwellings, 518,
$40, 524, 526, $50 and 900 Quackenbos
street. to cost 100000.
Daniel L. Borden, Rochambeau
Apartments, owner; Frederick H.
Brooke, architect; D. M. Marthinson
& Co., 1700 I street, builders; to erect
one 3-story brick dwelling, 29l0
Woodland drive, to cost $28. 1000.
M. B. Swanson, 2761 Brandywine
street, owner and builder; F. G. VIII
cox, designer; to erect one ! II story
brick and frame dwelling, 7416 Alaska
avenue, to cost $4,000.
Two-Story Brick Dwelling.
John w. and Lydia H. Girvin, 618
Lexington place northeast, owners;
Henry Kluckhuhn, 1921 Twentieth
street northeast, designer and build
er; to erect one 2-story brick dwell
ing, 1915 Twentieth street northeast.
to cost $6,645.
Waple g. James, Inc. 1925 Four
teenth street, owners and builders; !;
j, j. James, designer; to erect one
2-story brick dwelling, 81 Milmarson
place, to cost 5000.
Annie Branson, 229 Alabama ave-
nue. southeast, owner; George Bran
son, 2939 Sheridan road southeast
designer and builder: to erect one
2-story frame dwelling, $3.50 Fiji
teenth place southeast, to cost 81 500
w. H. Garrison, owner; ]. A. Cook,
Bond Building. builder; to make re-
pairs, 3734 Northampton street, to
cost 81 500.
New Willard Hotel, owners; E. l.
Bullock, jr., architect; Charles H
Tompkins Co., 1903 K street, build
ers; to make repairs. Fourteenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue, to
cost $1,000.
Aeneas Collins, 2o06 Fourteenth
street, owner; L. w. Giles, architect
L. E. Hutchison, 1916 Fourteenth
street, builder; to erect one 1-story
brick addition, 1904 Fourteenth street,
to cost $500.
Evening star., 1934-02-24
Color a Magician.

Color, cleverly handled, is better
magician than the late Houdini when
it comes to hiding architectural
faults inside and outside the home.
according to Lonore Kent, writing in
Color Magic. "A dark room can be
made brighter, a sunless room warmer,
a dismal room cheerful-all with the
correct use of color" Miss Kent says.
Painted in the proper tints and
tones, bulky houses can be made
trimmer and small houses made to
look larger"
Evening star., 1934-02-24

for bulky supplies, brooms, mops and
vacuum cleaner.
The second floor contains three
bed rooms and two baths. The
smallest bed room is proportioned SO
that twin beds may be placed in 1t.
There are also ample closets, linen
and storage spaces. Over the kitchen
wing is large storage space for
trunks, surplus linens, blankets, etc.
The garage is located so that a
service yard is adjacent to the kitchen
and concealed from the garden in
back Of the house by a wall.
This residence can be built for
approximately $1,000 to $l2 1000. based
on the present-day cost of building
materials, the architect says.
Evening star., 1934-02-24
DAMR0SCH Event.
WILL Be ON n. B. c.
Dean OF American Conduc.
tors to Receive Amcri-
can Education Medal.
r. WALTER DAMROSCH,
\ dean of American conductors

~ r. WALTER DAMROSCH,
dean Of American conductors
and musical counsel Of the
- National Broadcasting Co..
will receive the American
education award, the highest honor
within the gift of those associated
with public education, at the annual
meeting of the department of superin-
tendence Of the National Education
Association at Cleveland Tuesday.
The presentation of a gold medal.
symbol of the honor, and DR..
Damrosch's speech of acceptance will
be broadcast over an N. B. c. net
work from 10 to 1890 pm.
The award was voted to the noted
musician for his children'S concerts
through which, for more than 80
years, he has acquainted the youth of
the Nation with the beauties of good
music. For Is years the concerts
were given for as many children as
could crowd into Carnegie Hall in
New York, but six years ago the
courses were extended to include the
schools in every State through weekly
broadcasts. Today it is estimated that
more than 100000 children hear
each Music Appreciation Hour broad
cast by DR.. Damrosch and his
Symphony Orchestra.
The gold medallion will be pre-
sented to DR.. Damrosch by Stanley
r. Clague, president of the Asso-
ciated Exhibitors Of the National
Education Association. in the presence
of many of the Nations most noted
leaders.
The award last year was given to
Alonzo Stagg. University of Chicago
years medals were presented to Ella
Flagg Young, Los Angeles school
Superintendent; DR.. Albert E. Win
ship, late honorary president of the
National Education Association. and
DR.. j. W. Crabtree, who was one Of
the founders of the N. E. A.
X X **
EILL-INS in English, superimposed
l. from London upon the transmits
sion originating in Brussels. en-
abled American listeners to get fairly
good word picture of the original de-
scription of the funeral of King Albert
Of Belgium as given in French.
The fill-in came via Cecil Searchin-
ger of the Columbia London staff, and
his part of the story went out on both
the N. B. C. and Columbia networks.
X X
MAYOR LA GUARD1A will Off
1vl cially open New York's first
municipal art exhibition in a
broadcast over N. B. C. Tuesday at
1890 pm. Leaders in the art world
also will speak. The musical portion
OF the program will be provided by
the Knickerbocker Little Symphony
Orchestra.
Evening star., 1934-02-24

OF the living room Is the library
with a sunny bay window overlooking
the front lawn. This room has book
shelves on two walls and would be
the informal sitting room of the
house as it would provide for books,
games, radio and easy chairs. The
dining room has three exposures and
is of ample size for all moderate
entertaining.
In the kitchen is provided a con-
tinuous work space along two walls
with the sink built into it. Over this
work space and between the windows
Is a maximum amount of dressers
for china, supplies. etc. On the other
walls of the kitchen are the range
and refrigerator. The closet in the
kitchen would provide storage space
Evening star., 1934-02-24

A description from the air of Wash
ington at night will be broadcast py
WJSV from 6:45 to 7. Arthur God
frey will handle the broadcast while
flying over the city with Capt. Eddie
Rickenbacker in the new plane with
which he made record air run Mon
day from Los Angeles to New York.
Godfreys description will be relayed
by short waves from the plane to
short-wave receiver on the Earle
Building. where wJSv will pick it up.
The 2,342-kilocycle channel will be
used for the broadcast from the plane
to WJSV.
Evening star., 1934-02-24

associations are financing construc-
ton loans where there is demand.
We will have to bring the public into
the market by swinging home con-
struction costs more closely into line
with income If we really expect to
create an effective demand for the
kind of construction wave which will
re-employ the men usually dependent
upon this activity for their livelihood" l."