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Evening star., 1935-04-06
HOME BORROWERS
OF WIDE RANGE
laborers and Executives on
List, With Incomes From
$500 to $4,000.

People who have been getting home
leans from savings. building and loan
associations since this time last year
range in occupation all the way from
day laborers to executive officials of
big companies, and their annual in
come runs the gamut from $500 a
year to $4,000 and upward
This report Of the widely diversified
scope of the associations financing
services comes from the United States
Building and Loan League, which has
made Investigations to determine, dur
ing its survey of the associations max
ing loans, what groups of people, in
what general means of livelihood, will
make the best prospects for their
Spring and Summer campaign for
more loan applicants.
Morton Bodfsh, executive vice pres
ident of the league, as an indication
that the laboring classes, the skilled
tradesmen and the merchant and
storekeeper groups are doing the
greater part of the borrowing, says
that in this case the economic wis
dom formerly accorded largely to
the people with high incomes Is
shown to be shifting.
Wherever one of these loans was
for buying. building or repairing a
home, the borrower was showing such
sound economic sense by going into
the market during the past year,
while real estate values are COM
paratively low, that he must be dis
tinctly applauded." said the league
official. Besides that, he was help
ing along with recovery to a very
distinct degree. using private capital
for the sound credit purposes for
which 1t Is intended"
The average annual income of the
borrowers from the associations dur
ing this period is s2.025. Laborers
and unskilled tradesmen constitute
1872 per cent of the group; skilled
tradesmen, 16.5 per cent; merchants,
Evening star., 1935-04-06
Creation of Wine Cellars.

Repeal Of the eighteenth amend
ment and the general trend toward
modernization of home space that
for years has been unused has re-
suited in widespread interest In the
creation of basement wine cellars,
the Federal Housing Administration
Is advised.
Evening star., 1935-04-06
New Construction
Shows Big Gain
In Newport News
By the Associated Press.


NEWPORT NEWS, Va. April
6.-The value of new construc-
tion work undertaken in Newport
News during the first three
months Of this year exceeds the
value Of all new building work
done in 1884, it was noted today
in reports made public at the Of
flee of the Municipal Department
Of Public Works.
Sixty building permits for new
structures were issued in the first
quarter of 1895. having an aggre-
gate value of 1892 ,G82. compared
with a total of 1877 permits with a
value of $112,576 for all of 1884.
Evening star., 1935-04-06

lis per cent. Clerks come next in
order, accounting for 926 per cent
of last years loans; statesmen got
7.34 per cent of the loans, while
housewives and professional men re-
ceived about equal percentages Of
the total, ST.
Evening star., 1935-04-06
Fresh Burst of Activity.
New Pressure Valve.

A new drain-and-relief valve for
domestic water heater tanks has an
indicator handle which is set to relieve
pressure at any desired point, turns
full open to drain, can then be reset.
Evening star., 1935-04-06
Tin Production Gains.

More than 24l 900 tons of tin plate
were produced in Germany in the
last year.
Evening star., 1935-03-14

Mcmillan wasted no pity ON Staun-
toms white lips and colorless face. He
continued with his disclosure. Irene
gets into her maroon roadster the
minute you leave, goes down to Eds
Office, picks him up and they stay
away for several days.
They come back when they get
good and ready. Eds wife Is grievins
herself to death.
For instance, they stayed at the
Abby Arms from the I'd to the 7th.
Go investigate 1t yourself. II you don't
believe me. You were in London, then,
weren't you?"
Staunton's answer was slow In com.
ing. Finally. YES" he said.
And last month they stayed ut the
Washington Inn from the l4th to the
goth. You had gone West. hadn't you?"
YES" Staunton's voice was infinite
ly weary.
There you are" said Mcmillan with
fiat flnality. Whats to be done
about it?"
Both men were silent for q time.
Presently Mcmillan stirred impa-
tiently.
With difficulty Staunton brought his
gaze back from the distant, tiny,
white-sailed boats he had been watch
ing. Tell your sons WIFE" he said,
mot to worry. Irene won't marry your
son. 1t isn't generally known. but
Irene is already married. Unhappily
SO, I'm afraid. Her husband isn't the
kind who will ever divorce her, espe-
cially after learning about this. He
will deal with her, yes; but differently,
imagine. He is not the type to re-
linquish her. rather he will probably
Well-I don't know just what he will
do; I don't know what he could do.
but am sure he will not divorce her"
Mcmillan shifted uncomfortably. "I
understand, Staunton. how you're feel
ing" A note of apology had crept into
his voice. "It's tough, I know. I've
been worried, too. You had to be told.
though"
He rose to 60, but halted as Staun-
ton said, "Wait-I suppose I am
fool to say anything further. but feel
that I should tell you one thing. I
tried to tell you at the beginning"
He fell silent for a moment.
Il have no daughter. married late
In life-a young woman. Her name Is
Irene"
tCopyrisht. l935)
Evening star., 1935-03-14


steps to where he sat.
"A Mr.. Hugh Mcmillan to see you.
sir, said Gibbs, and waited.
Staunton turned lazily. Never
heard of the man. Did he say what
he wanted?"
mo. sir, he wouldn't state. sir, ex-
cept that it was imperative.
Staunton waved a hand. SHOW
him out here, then"
Gibbs retraced his steps to the
house but returned almost Immediate
ly, followed by large, horid man. He
placed a chair for him and quietly
left.
"Staunton," began Mcmillan por-
tentously. II came here this morning
to ask-to demand-that you put q
stop to what's going on"
Staunton sat forward, an expression
of amazed incredulity on his face. He
started to call Gibbs, hesitated mo-
ment, then thought better of it.
Mcmillan was saying, Listen, please,
to what I have to say. I know all
about you. How you live. Your bus
mess activities. And what your move
ments are I've made inquiries. But
what's more to the point, know all
about your daughter"
The amazement on Staunton's face
had given place to anger. Half rising
from his chair, he exclaimed, But
I"
Mcmillan waved him back "1'm
fully aware there's every possibility you
know nothing about it all. Fathers.
as a rule, are the last to know what
their children are up to.
Just the same, whether it's a shock
or not, you should be told"
He leaned forward. Your daughter -
he said impressively, has been having
an affair with my son Ed for months. "
But Mr.. Mcmillan" Staunton
began.
Mcmillan did not let him continue.
"It's like this" he went on. my son
Is happily married-was, that is-until
your daughter began chasing him.
calling him up and meeting him Sc
cretly. And what makes it worse, he
has two of the cutest little children
you ever set eyes on.
Now he has asked his wife to di-
vorce him. Gone clean out of his
mind. Wants to marry your Irene.
Willing to throw away his whole fu-
ture, break up his home and break his
wife's heart in the bargainl"
Staunton tried again to speak, but
Evening star., 1935-03-14
CORONER'S JURIES
TO ABANDON TRIPS
Prince Georges Commissioners
Order Change in Practice
and Reduces Fees.
By stan Correspondent Of The Star.

By Stan Correspondent Of The star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, March
determination Of the practice Of
taking coroner's juries into Washing
ton to view bodies has been ordered
by the Prince Georges County Com
misstoners on recommendation OF
their attorney, M. Hampton Magruder.
At the sayne time the commissioners
proclaimed that IN the future Jurors
win be paid only 81 and coroners
only S..
It has been the practice to allow
the jurors IS when they went into
Washington and 81 every time they
held o session. In many cases the
jury was unable to reach a verdict at
one sitting.
In an opinion furnished the COM
misisoners, Mr.. Magruder declared
there Is no basis in the law for paying
Jurors more than 81 regardless Of how
many sessions are held.
He further said there Is no authority
for taking the jury out Of the county
to view body. as 1t has no jurisdic-
ton in Washington. II, as frequently
Evening star., 1935-03-14

Mcmillan silenced
him with q gesture.
Wait till I'm
through" he said
mo use for you to
question or deny it.
I've got the facts
all right. ! wouldn't
be such o fool as to
come to you about
this unless ! knew
what I was talking
about, would II"
Il suppose not"
Staunton agreed In
q tired voice.
WELL" resumed
MCMILLAN with o
relentless thor.
oughness, "I'll give
you the benefit of
the doubt. It's my
belief that she's
been putting 1t over
on you. because
well--the dates Of
her escapades coin.
eide with your
b u IS trips.
Thatic uyhv %
Evening star., 1935-03-14
Twins Born 120 Miles Apart.

Twins-but born 100 miles apart
Such is the record Of the baby boys
Of Mrs. William. Ellis Of Ivanhoe,
New South Wales. After one child
had been born Mrs. Ellis became very
LII. Accompanied by a nurse, she was
rushed 100 miles in a police car to
Wilcannia Hospital. where her sec.
ond baby was born.
Evening star., 1935-03-14
FIRE GROUPS TO MEET
AT CAPITOL HEIGHTS
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

9pCtinA 1toPbtSh w 4hw SssAs
CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Nd, March
IA special meeting Of members of
the Capitol Heights Volunteer Fire
Department and its auxiliary will be
held tonight to discuss the advisability
Of placing the fire department under
the control of the mayor and council,
1t was disclosed last night.
Most Of the flremen have expressed
themselves as opposed to giving the
mayor and council control of the de-
partment. They believe II some rear
rangement Of the notes on the fire
Evening star., 1935-03-14

Francis, "a; Miss Annie Moon, 80;
Miss DorcaS Moon, 80; Miss Eliza
Moon, 80, and Miss Fanny Moon, 10.
They are the daughters Of the late
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Moon. who
were West of England cloth workers.
All the sisters were born in q small
cottage on the outskirts of the town.
Evening star., 1935-03-14
1OHN & ia u NJ
j TON had been

sitting in a
comfortable chair
on his lawn, gazing
idly out to sea be-
fore it happened.
He was feeling
deeply contented at
the moment. Life
had not dealt bad
1y with him, he
thought. He was
past middle age,
his health was
good and he had
kept himself f1t.
Then, too, money
continued to roll
into the various
Staunton interests.
His t ou 6 h t s
touched dreamily
here and there and
1t was without pre-
monition that he
contemplated Gibbs
making his way
from the house,
Evening star., 1935-03-14
Sisters Age 582 Years.

Seven sisters, the oldest 88 and the
youngest 79, met for a birthday party
in a small cottage at Trowbridge,
England. Their ages total 582 years.
They are Mrs. Mary Fisher, SO; Mrs.
Sarah Hibberd, 81; Mrs. Martha
Evening star., 1935-03-14

happens, persons are wounded or In
jured in Prince Georges and die In
Washington, arrangements will have
to be made to bring the body back into
the county to be viewed, attorney
Magruder explained.
Evening star., 1935-03-14

house can be made 50 they can be
paid monthly instead Of yearly the
firemen will be able to meet all obli-
cations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-26

waste Of these two fuels would furnish light
and warmth to all the 100000 relief fam
lies. He advocated the Thomas bill to give
permanent authority to the government in
staying the waste Of these essential but perish
able stores Of industrial power.
Coal is plentiful. but it. too, must be mined
scientifically. The National Resources Board
reports an annual average waste Of IS per
cent in American mining operations. compared
with to 10 per cent in western Europe. The
Gufey coal bill would create a national coal
reserve and gradually eliminate surplus and
wasteful mining.
The drought, dust storms and other after
maths of forest-razing are lobbying for ade-
quate timber laws. The states and the CCC
are planting trees and fireproofing public
lands. The government is pledged to add
134OOOOOO acres to its national forests. The
Lumber Code Authority is trying to enforce
new logging rules. A national forest policy
seems, at last, to be emerging. The President
has said he will ask for special legislation
covering long-term timber exploitation.
In the nick Of time the New Deal bestirred
itself to save our basic resource, the land The
new Taylor grazing act adds 100000 acres
Of public domain to the governments regula-
tory jurisdiction. Some of the annual loss Of
s400,00OOOO IN soil destruction will be pre-
vented under the work relief program that
earmarks $35O,OOO,0oO for erosion control, re-
forestGtion and similar measures.
Most neglected is wild life conservation SO
far neither the Administration nor Congress
has done much to cooperate with the bio
logical surveys plans for saving the vanishing
game in woods ard streams
President Roosevelt is right in singing out
for special laws industries that exploit the
natural resources. The nations very life de-
ponds on husbanding planning and wisely US
ing these stored treasures of The people.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-26
CONFIDENCE IN HITLER

EUROPEAN politics is never easy for an
American to understand, and the under
standing is made a good deal harder by our
habit of classifying the rulers of Europe as
good men and villains.
We see man like Hitler, for instance, we
add up the insanities of JeW-baiting and con-
centration camps which he has given Ger
many and we assume offhand that he is
dark and unholy scoundrel.
And then, when we see GERMANY giving
him almost Unanimous support and cheering
him with wholehearted fervor we can not
understand it; and we take it for granted that
the Germans have wilfully and perversely de-
luded themselves.
1t would be better if we should take the
trouble to realize that Hitler's immense popu-
larity with his people is perfectly natural
thing with an entirely logical explanation.
Milton Bronner, veteran European cores
pendent, points out that Hitler is above everv-
thing else the man who has enabled Germany
to forget the humiliations of a lost war and
disastrous peace
For 10 years. he remarks, Germans lived
IN sort of nightmare. The glorious war that
they were to have won so easily had been lost.
Instead Of a victorious peace, with a triumphal
march down the Champs Elysees, there was
Versailles, with the German delegates forced
to sign on the dotted line like SO MANY GRIM
inalS
After that, Germans saw allied armies on
the Rhine. They saw French troops in the
Ruhr. When Germany wanted anything her
statesmen had to go to London or Paris. not
as equals, but as suppliants
Always it was the Germans who were sum-
nloned to foreign cities to be told what the
vctors had decided on Even when GERMANY
was released from certain treaty obligations.
the release came not as matter of right, but
as a boon.
Hitler simply put an end to all that. He
thrilled his countrymen by announcing that
they would have army, navy and aerial forces
as they saw fit and not as some foreign powers
decided
He made the foreign statesmen come to
Berlin to confer. Under Hitler, Germany
ceased to De a suppliant for favors: instead.
foreign powers were begging her to help pre-
serve peace.
A change Of this kind, coming suddenly, does
something to the national morale. AS Bronner
points out, Hitler has enabled the Germans to
stop feeling like interiors. Consequently they
idolize him-and small wonder!
We can not hope to have an INTELLIGENT
viewpoint on European affairs unless we first
understand that Germany follows Hitler for
the most natural human reasons imaginable.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-26
ODDS ON YOUR LIFE

ODDs of $500 to are pretty long-more
- than long enough to satisfy the ordinary
gambler But when it is your life which is
being gambled, no odds can be too long.
Experts of the National Safety Council.
having studied American traffic death figures.
have discovered that those are the odds in
favor of your surviving the hazards of auto
mobile traffic during the coming year. You
have one chance in $500 of being killed; you
have one chance in 100 of being injured
The odds seem comfortable enough, if you
are disposed to treat your continued earthly
existence as a gamble. But if you like secur-
ity, they aren't really so very good.
Upward of $4,000 Americans, many of them
in Marion County, are going to find that those
odds aren't any good at all, before 1885 is
over
The one comfort is that, by remembering
always to drive with extreme care, you can
make the odds substantially longer in your
own case.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-26
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
They have a right to know whether they are
eventually to enter the Union or to go it
alone on their own resources.
HUMAN RIGHTS ABOVE ALL

CECRETARY HAROLD NJ. ICKES smacked
- the nail on the head when he told news
paper editors in New York that the great
guarantee Of a free press, free speech. and the
right Of peaceable assembly are just about the
most vital portions of our Constitution.
I'VE might give up all the rest of our Con-
stitution, If occasion required, and yet have
sure anchorage for the mooring of our good
ship America, if these rights remained to us
unimpaired," he said
There is much sense in that statement. In
the last analysis, our government is secure
as long as the democratic processes go on I'M
interrupted and they can not be interrupted
as long as those three rights are maintained
intact.
Save them and you save all; limit them
and you are apt to find before long that you
have lost all the rest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-26
A SUCKER GETS WISE

TINE Senate Munitions Committee has
evinced curiosity about the wartime
correspondence that took place between GER
tain United States banking houses and the
various allied commissions which attended to
purchase of munitions in this country.
Some of the committee members feel that
if this correspondence were made public
Americans would get some valuable knowl-
edge about the prelude to their entrance into
the World War.
The British government doesn't think the
idea is so hot. The British ambassador has
protested informally to our State Department.
and Stanley Baldwin has remarked that the
inquiry might revive "a long-since obsolete
controversy" and have a bad effect on the
present international situation.
All that may be true; yet the American
public is coming more and more to feel that
some one sold it a gold brick in 1917, and it's
desire to know more about the transaction is
only natural.
If glance at this correspondence would be
enlightening-as it we'll might-the committee
ought to go ahead
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-26
LOYALTY OF LUDLOW is
DOUBTED BY READER
BY Edward Barker.

BY Edward Barker.
Open letter to Congressman Lud-
low:
That was a deserved rebuke which
the Indianapolis Times editorial adj
ministered to you Tuesday, April %.
To me also, you appear the
strangest mixture of Liberal and
Tory, regular "Mr. Facing Two
Ways'-"Good God, not bad devil"
critic, a friends of both sides; good
example of what the prophet had in
mind when he said Because We are
neither hot nor cold, 1 will SpeW you
out of my mouth" man of strange
contradictions; man who processes
to be friendly to President Roose-
welt while regularly giving comfort
to those political enemies of his who
are seeking to dig a pit for him
those partisans who constantly eX-
aggerate and distort every effort of
his at relief from the effects of Re-
publican mistakes.
Wearing beard is no evidence of
wisdom, and the phrase "our beard
less young men" lin the cabinet) is
a smart-alec metaphor that has
neither point nor sense, for the rea-
son that they are neither telling the
business men what to do, nor how to
do it-for the good reason that
Congress authorized all their acts,
both as to manner and method
I have long been doubtful as to
your Democracy and of your pro-
fessed affection for our beloved
President.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-26
FRIDAY. APRIL IS. 1885.
THE GUN THAT FAILED

NTHETHER the Indiana legislators meet
w in special session this year or hold a
regular meeting two years hence, there is one
job cut out for them.
That Is revision of the present Indiana
school loan act which, as It stands, does not
provide any penalty for the county official
who violates its provisions.
A case in point which stands before the
taxpayers Of Marion county is that Charles
A. Crossart, County Auditor violated the law
but still he will not have to make amends
Prosecutor Herbert NJ. Spencer discovered
the lack Of a penalty provision in the statute
Without the penalty, the act merely repre-
sents the state of Indiana pulling a gun out
Of its pocket that has had the firing pin re-
moved
Under the law, no county official can lend
school funds on real estate for more than
half the amount of the assessed valuation
Despite the fact that Mr.. Grossart says the
assessed valuations we're higher, the books IN
the assessors Office show otherwise.
Perhaps Mr.. Grossart, having held his post
as county auditor for some time, was aware
that there was no provision in the law which
could call MS TURN dIJeS 4eAlOlA4S IAAC AA4OAAOJ
to Mark R. Gray Indianapolis Commercial
publisher.
Ferhaps Mr. Grossart actually did think
the lots had greater value, although this seems
rather out of order because he, himself, hand
ed the deeds to the property to Mr.. Gray sew
enteen DAYS before the loan was granted.
As it stands now, Mr.. Grossart has COM
n,tted acts. while holding office through the
voting representation of the people OF Marion
County. that must be classed as unethical' but
not punishable
Such laws should be revised or wiped oil
the books. AS they are now, they merely are
waste of space in the statutes.
Many other matters of this type may be
brought forward in the next few weeks ana II
would be we'll for the legislators Of the state
TO catalog these legal loopholes and make sure
they do not exist any longer.