Evening star., 1934-09-16
STAR PRIZE HOME
ENTRIES POUR IN
Judging to Be Finished Dur
ing Week-NeWs Ar
tiCIeS Planned.
BY G. T. KELLOGG.


Last-minute entries in The Stars
81 900 Better Homes Contest poured
in last night as home owners who
have made improvements to their
properties in an effort to win the cash
prizes completed filling out the entry
booklets. wrote the letters and had
the before latter" photographs
finished before the midnight dead
line.
The entries will be judged this
week, and 1t Is hoped to announce the
winners in next Sundays Star.
Starting next Saturday, The Star
Real Estate Section will print each
week a story and photographs of one
of the prize-winning improvement
projects.
hoped, will continue to carry out the
purpose for which the contest was
intended-and accomplished.
Get Pointers in Articles.
Home owners who are contem-
plating renovization projects may
get pointers from the articles, and,
If sufficiently interested, may visit
the modernized homes pictured in
The Star to learn first-hand from
the owners about the improvements.
1t is hoped, further, that the series
will continue to stimulate interest
In home moderniZation, when II is
seen how much can be, and has been
accomplished right here in Wash
ington.
The campaign for property mod
erniZation which The Stars contest
has fostered during the Summer
months IS being continued by the
Washington Committee under the
Federal Housing Administration. It,
too, seeks to stimulate business in
general through re-employing the
thousands of unemployed men In
the building trades. not only in Wash
ington, but over the entire Nation.
Start Canvass Soon.
The Washington Committee will
move into its headquarters in the
Shoreham Building this week and
will start its house o-house canvass
shortly.
Meanwhile, Federal housing opera
tions were reported to be going
briskly forward on scattered fronts
over the country.
James A. Moffett, Federal Housing
Administrator, said in q New York
radio address that the Governments
huge home modernization drive was
bringing word from building and
supply dealers that their advertise
ments were drawing to 10 times
ne fHAx 4rr-
merly.
Home Loan Bank Board officials
said a Wisconsin court decision should
encourage conversion Of hundreds of
State-chartered building and loan
associations into Federal savings and
loan associations with their loan
able resources expanded because Of
the Treasury's power to buy their
shares.
The Interior Departments Sub
siStence HomeSteads Division pointed
to q, 1000 applications for the 5000 ex-
perimental, self-help homes 1t has
planned or constructed.
Cities Urged to Cooperate.
Placing responsibility for success OF
the modernization and repair cam
paign onto individual communities
and individual citizens, Moffett urged
them to offer their cooperation and
whole-hearted assistance.
BY repaying at q rate OF not less
than one-f1fth of his annual income.
Moffett said, ANY home owner can
borrow for modernization purposes any
amount he needs-from 500 to 50 900
to put his home in tip-top shape"
A decision of a Wisconsin State
Circuit Court. upholding the constitu-
uonality of the legislation, providing
for creation OF Federal savings and
loan associations was described by
Horace Russell, general counsel Of the
Home Loan Bank Board, as:
"One of the most far-reaching de-
cisions yet made affecting an i'm
portant measure of Federal recovery
legislation which has been in dispute" !"
A broad Interpretation of the de.
cision, Russell said, 'is that it win
encourage conversion by hundreds of
" State-chartered associations
throughout the country" into Federal
associations.