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Evening star., 1935-11-02

pancy, rental and financial factors
will be a feverishly rapid increase IN
building, sharp upturn in building
costs and a building boom that would
inevitably be followed by an equally
sharp drop later on. In the opinion
Of Grimm, the Federal Government
can help to even out this cycle by
stimulating a supply of homes early
next year before the housing shortage
becomes excessively acute. BY exert
ing other controls within the province
of Government, a more orderly in
crease in building will thus be made
possible with greater assurance Of
quality construction and minimum
Of oversupply, or of Ill advised, poorly
planned work.
Treasury Influence Emphasized.
"The Treasury Department is in a
position to exert a powerful influence
on the building program through the
various housing divisions, the r. F. c.,
the Home Loan Bank System and,
recently Of supreme Importance, the
new real estate mortgage discount
features of the banking act Of 1885.
An enormous expansion of building
credit can be assured. At the same
time ample control exists to prevent
excessive use of credit.
1t was pointed out by Peter Grimm
that use of Federal credit in connec-
ton with housing and home building
must be kept in close relationship
with the needs of the country and
the financial structure of the Gov.
ernment. 1t is his hope to promote
the coordination of all the housing
activities Of the Government and
insure their close cooperation with
private financial institutions in a way
that will aid private construction to
the utmost.
"A well-known economist. when
asked recently about the discussed
building boom ahead. said: If cheap
money and plentiful supply of it
can make building boom. We will
have one
Mortgage Funds Factor.
Most building authorities agree
that If an ample supply Of long-term
mortgage funds at increasingly lower
interest rates is made available resi-
dental construction is bound to forge
rapidly ahead. Probably the task Of
greatest Importance, therefore. by
Assistant Secretary Grimm and his
Treasury associates is the building up
of confidence of banks and lending
institutions in the security of mort
gage loans for residential work and
the advantages to these institutions
of liberalizing credit to the utmost
extent.
The potential credit for home
Evening star., 1935-11-02
New Roofing Of Iron.

A new cast-iron roofing Is offered
for industrial buildings. 1t consists of
two main units, standard plate
3-16-inch thick, 50 inches long, "a
inches wide, and semi-cylindrical
cap plate. Durability, no maintenance
are among advantages claimed.
Evening star., 1935-11-02
Paints in Pastel Tints.

New water paints on the market
can be obtained in beautiful pastel
tints. Mixing with cold water is all
that is required to prepare these dry
powder products for use. Water paints
dry in less than an hour.
Evening star., 1935-11-02
ENGINEERS WILL SLICE
BUILDING AND MOVE IT
Los Angeles skyscraper to Un-
dergo Delicate Operation
to Widen Street.


One of the most delicate engineer
ing jobs undertaken in this country
Is to be accomplished at Los Angeles
in connection with widening there
Of Olive street.
Instead of slicing five feet of the
Olive street frontage of the CONNER
cial Exchange at the corner Of Eighth
street, engineers have decided to cut
a strip across the middle of the build
ing and then roll the skyscraper back
When the city authorities sent out
orders that Olive street was to be
widened the owners Of the CONNER
cial Exchange called in engineers and
together went into the question OF
what should be done.
Evening star., 1935-11-02
Boom

Continued From First Page)
Evening star., 1935-01-27
UTILITY REGULATION
DATA OF D. C. SOUGHT
Chairman of District Commission
Is Invited by New York Legis-
lative Committee.

Riley e. Elgen. chairman Of the
District Public Utilities Commission,
has been invited to present data on
regulatory machinery used here to
a committee of the New York Legis-
lature, which is studying utility mat
ters.
Particular interest has been ex-
pressed in the Washington plan of
adjusting electric light rates here, 1t
Is said. This is done under q con-
sent decree of District Supreme Court
by which rates are adjusted annually,
portions of excess profits above Z per
cent being set aside for rate reduc-
tions.
The annual power-rate adjustment
Is to be considered this week by the
Public Utilities Commission 1t Is
expected Mr.. Elgen will go to Albany
to discuss District utility regulation
some time this week, if local business
permits.
The average electric power rates
of the country vary from 5 to SIS
cents per kilewatt as compared with
an average of 2.47 for the District,
according to recent studies.
Others interested in power rates
have expressed interest in the Wash
ington plan, officials say. Among
these is an official of the Detroit ad-
miniStration,
Evening star., 1935-01-27
KERMESS INCLUDES
MANY ATTRACTIONS
"0ld Heidelberg" Club One of
Side Lights of Event to
Begin Saturday.

A number of attractions, including
night club, "Old Heidelberg" with
music, dancing and floor show by
professional entertainers, will be Of
fered each night at the Knights Of
Columbia Kermess, which opens next
Saturday and continues through the
following Saturday at the club home,
9l5 Tenth street.
The opening night will be known as
Archbishop Curley night, with all
members of. the order as special
guests. Each of the following nights
will be designated with q distinctive
bearing on Christopher Columbus.
The posters submitted in the recent
contest conducted by the Kermess
Committee, which were on display at
the willard Hotel and the Knights Of
Columbus Hall, have been moved to
the show windows of the old Barber &
Ross Building, Eleventh and q streets.
First prize was won by Betty Fast of
the National School Of Fine and Ap-
piled Arts. BeliSario Cantreras of
Eastern High School won second hon.
ors, while third place was awarded to
A. Brown Hurt, also of the National
School of Fine and Applied Arts.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
STRIDES REVEALED
| IN BANK REVIVAL
Reserve Board Shows
Fewer Than 200 Not L.
cenSed to Reopen.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Long strides toward the rehabilita-
stion of Americas banking structure
since the crisis In March. 1888. were
reported yesterday In the monthly
bulletin of the Federal Reserve Board.
Due to Federal activities, the board
reported that the number Of unh-
censed banks, or banks which had not
obtained licenses to reopen, had been
reduced from more than $500 to less
than 200 at the end Of last December.
$l,202, 100000 Investments.
At that time, the board said, the
Government, acting through the r.
F.. c., had authorized investments in
the capital structure Of about 6,6s4
banks In an aggregate amount Of ST.
202, 2,000, 900.
Bank suspensions In 1884 were re-
ported fewer than in any similar Pc
riod since 1920. The years failures
comprised Sc institutions with depos-
its Of $37, 600, 900. Only one Of these,
with deposits Of only $4,000, was q
member Of the Federal Reserve Sys-
TEN.
Included in the figures, however,
were eight other banks with insured
deposits.
Preliminary reports to the board
showed that 920 banks which were
not licensed to operate on an unre-
stricted basis were placed In nquida-
ton or receivership during the year.
Deposits involved amounted to $647,-
000, 900. These included 396 national
banks with deposits of $402, ,000, COO,
% State member banks with deposits
of $40,000,000 and sol banks, not
members of the Federal Reserve Sys-
TEN, with deposits Of $205, 900, 900.
100 Not Restored.
On April IL, 1888, the height Of the
banking crisis, total Of 4,2l5 banks
with deposits OF $4,000, 600, 900 had
not been given license to operate on
a 100 per cent basis. OF these. 1,108
were national banks with deposits Of
$l,8l9, 900, 900 and l48 were State
member banks with deposits Of $84l,-
600 900. All but 100 banks had been
restored to either an active status or
placed in receiverShip for liquidation
by the end Of last December.
Six of the banks remaining unli-
censed were national banks with de-
posits of S6,800,00 -Four were State
member banks with deposits Of $780,
600; and $50 State non-member banks
WITH deposits of $4,000, 900.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
ARMED PAIR ROBS
3 CHAIN STORES
Two Escape in Coupe After
HoId-UpS on 18th, 17th,
and O Streets.

Three chain groceries were robbed
IN quick succession last night by two
colored bandits who escaped in a
light coupe bearing Maryland tags.
The pair first robbed store at
1923 Eighteenth street managed by
Wesley Vandercook, 1892 Clifton
street. Producing guns, the bandits
emptied the cash registers and then
demanded to know If any of the
clerks had an automobile outside. All
denied they owned cars, and one
bandit said:
I'm going to search you for per-
mits and shoot the man who has
one!" The pair fed, however, with
out attempting search. They ap-
parently had feared pursuit.
Many customers were in the Sec
ond chain grocery at Seventeenth
and r streets when the bandits ar
rived. They emptied the cash reg
isters and departed in their coupe.
The manager, Thomas Brown, 68l5
Eighth street, told police he did not
know how much money was taken.
The bandits then went to grocery
at 1400 o street, where they trained
guns on the manager, Lawrence Pen
dleton, 1843 Monroe street northeast,
and scooped up the contents of two
cash registers.
All managers denied they knew how
much had been taken.
The coupe was reported to have
Maryland tags and police set up a
watch on roads leading from the
District, but the robbers eluded them.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
CHEVY CHASE GIRL
WEDS CHAUFFEUR
ACCUSED BY MOTHER
(continued From First Page.)

(Continued From First Page)
Mrs. Cooke that Scarlet, who entered
her husbands employ three months
ago, had disappeared from home with
her two daughters and had taken
with him $1,000 worth Of jewelry she
had entrusted to him to take to a
ieweler for cleaning.
She said Scarlet never appeared at
the shop with the jewels, which in
cluded three diamond and platinum
rings, an amber necklace and cameo
pin.
Mrs. Cooke, who lives at los West
Bradley lane, told police earlier in the
day that she feared her daughters
had been abducted and made a verbal
offer of $1,000 reward for Scarletts
arrest and the safe return of her
daughters.
Her fears were dissipated and the
reward was withdrawn early last night
when telegram, which gave no inti-
nation Of the marriage. but assured
relatives that everything is alright"
was received from the two girls.
Police Had Started Search.
It had been wired from Raleigh,
N. c., and said:
Decided to go south. Everything
is all right. Please do not worry. See
you soon. Love-"
The wire was received several hours
after a general radio alarm broadcast
by Washington police started city
wide search.
1t was learned, shortly after the re-
ceipt of the wire, that the girls had
parked one Of the cars in a downtown
Washington garage Friday night.
Cooke is the 78-year-old heir OF
wealthy New York minister. Jane
studied until last year at the National
Cathedral School for Girls while her
sister is a graduate of Holy Cross
Academy.
Young Scarlet was an outstanding
athlete at the Salisbury, N. c., High
School, from which he was graduated
in 1888. He was a star halfback on
the foot ball team and was a main
stay of the track and field squad. He
went to Washington several months
ago to seek employment.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
US. URGED TOBUY
GAME RESERVES
Cotton Man Suggests TAX
ing Over $500, 900 Sub
p.
marginal Farms.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A plan for the Government to buy
Up 100000 spbmarginal farms and
develop them as game reserves and
reforestation projects was advanced
here yesterday by j. s. Wannamaker
of st. Matthews, S. c., president Of
the American Cotton Association.
Under the plan, unemployed farm
ers would be placed on the lands and
given a IS to 20 year option to pur-
chase them with proceeds from hunt
ing and fishing charges that would be
made.
Farmers JObless.
Wannamaker estimated 40 per cent
of Southern farmers were unemployed
because of crop reduction programs,
and said his plan would help to
remedy this situation and at the same
time remove millions Of acres Of poor
lands from cultivation. thus minimiz-
ing the necessity for compulsory
control.
Counties and States also would be
given an opportunity to buy the land
from the Government after it had
been stocked with game and fish or
reforested by the Government.
Confers With Officials.
Wannamaker conferred with of
ficials in the forestry. fisheries and
game divisions Of the Government
here, quoting F. E. Silcox, head Of
the Forestry Service, and Charles E.
jackson, assistant fisheries commits
sioner. as warmly receiving the sug-
gestions. He also saw Senator Smith
of South Carolina
Wannamaker said he believed his
plan could be worked out without ad-
ditional legislation by co-ordinating
various submarginal land agencies in
the Government He said money for
the program could come from the
$4.880, ,000,0 900 relief fund.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
liberal SECURITY
| VIEW OBE HEARD
0Id-Age Pension Level Held
Too Low by Many-Some
to Oppose Plans.
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
Recognizing strong sentiment for
I liberalization of the administration S
security program, House leaders yes
terday announced that those who seek
changes would be given chance to
air their views formally this week.
| Speaker Byrns said at press con-
ference yesterday there was "consid-
cradle sentiment" for an increase in
| funds carried in the measure, although
| he did not know how widespread the
feeling was.
Many House members, like those of
/ the Senate, have criticized the old-age
| pension features of the bill, holding
| the proposed $50 month was not
enough.
Immediately after the Speaker S
| conference, Chairman Doughton,
Democrat, of North Carolina. of the
House Ways and Means Committee,
| in a formal statement said the hear
! ings-which began Monday-had pro-
| greSSed far enough that the Ways and
Means Committee expects to be able
to call witnesses other than those
representing the administration next
Wednesday,"
40 Outsiders Seek Hearing.
More than 40 persons or firms out
side the administration have asked to
appear. 1t was generally understood
! most OF those were opposed to some
phase Of the bill, although they did
! not so specify in their requests for a
hearing.
What one objection might be was
brought out yesterday while Kather-
| inc Lenroot, head of the Labor De-
partment's Children's Bureau, was
testifying before the Ways and Means
| group. She said she had heard of
fears that under the measure the
Government might force physicians
to work for fixed fees. She added
thereswas no foundation for that fear
Miss Lenroot estimated that al
though S25,000.000 would be enough
to pay the Federal Governments
share of aid to the mothers of faith
| erless children next year, but added:
THE total amount that ought to
60 into this, If there is adequate aid,
is around $120,000,000 a year."
Asks Third as u. S. Share.
OF that, she said, the Federal Gov
ernment should supply third.
To show the need for the expansion
| of work, she pointed out that infant
mortality increased the first six
months of 1894, and that the United
States has one Of the highest mater
nifty death rates in the world.
A move also developed in the COM
mittee to supply material for House
members who choose to support the
administration old-age pension bill in
preference to the Townsend $780,
a-month plan.
Representative Knutson, Republic
an, of Minnesota, asked Douglas
Brown, professor of economics at
Princeton, and an advisor of the
Presidents Committee on Economic
Security, what he thought of the
Townsend plan.
Other committee members assumed
that Brown was speaking for the ad-
ministration when he replied that it
was both illuSionary and dangerous.
1t would, he added, break down the
economic system.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
IRISH POLITICIANS
HAILED BY FARLEY
Pride in Race Is Declared
Reason for CeIt Interest
in Public Office.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 26.-The
Irish are politicians in every land"
Postmaster General James A. Farley
asserted tonight, because there never
was IAN Irishman who denied he was
descended from king"
Denied sovereignty and nationality
in their own home, Farley continued,
the Irish have always devoted their
talents to the establishment and pro-
lection of every nation to which they
have given their loyalty"
The Postmaster General addressed
| the American Irish Historical Society
at its thirty y-seVenth annual dinner.
THE Irish people who were most
denied the right Of nationality" he
declared, were those who have most
helped others to achieve nationality.
- The Irish were like slaves who
fought to make others free, or poor
men who worked that others might be
rich
IF we search for the profound rea-
son why they who were nationless be-
came the nation makers, think it
must be found in the lofty conception
they have of their ancestry. Has it
ever struck you that other races are
content to have their origin traced
back to a monkey in tree, but the
Irish proudly insist on tracing their
ancestry to a king on throne? .
Don't blame men Of Irish blood
| throughout our land for being poll
ticians. Blame the long line of Kel-
leyS and Burkes and SheaS before
them whose lives were bound up with
America. Blame the Celts whose
names are found in the role Of the
Minute Men who fought at Lexing-
| ton and Concord and who were found
among the ColoniStS."
Evening star., 1935-01-27
Peak Scaled Again.

The second known ascent of Cam
yon Peak, a mountain in the Bitter
Root Range, Montana, was made by
a group of the Montana Mountaineers
last Summer.
Evening star., 1935-01-27

Hauptmann UnShaken.
Hauptmann, in cell No. / Of the
county jail behind the, court house,
was reported tonight to be unshaken
by his first taste of cross-examination
He had spent most Of yesterday on
the stand when Wilentz began hts at
tack, interspersing his demands for
the complete truth from Hauptmann
with questions bearing on the prison.
er's old German police record and his
illegal entry into the United States.
Hauptmann was tired, apparently,
and it was WilentzS manner in many
Evening star., 1935-01-27
KILLING OF SWEETHEART
is CHARGED TO MAN, a.
Coroner's Jury Asks Probe of
Death First Blamed on
Fall From Car.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GREENSBURG, Pa, January 90
After months of investigation. William
Leatherman, -. was Jailed today on
a charge of murder in the death Of
his sweetheart, Viola Dennis, %, on
q lonely road last August.
Miss Dennis death had been at
tributed to a fall from Leathermans
automobile, but q coroner'sT jury recon-
NEEDED ON September ~ that the case
be investigated by District Attorney
Richard D. Laird.
. The jury found that death had been
caused by shock, fractured skull
and q broken neck.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
CRIPPLED MAN SUICIDE

HoPKINSvLLE, KY. January rs
B.-Telling his wife he could stand
conditions no longer, w. A. Ray. As
-year-old cripple who had been on re-
lief here for several years, hanged
himself In his almost bare one-room
home near here today. Coroner w.
j. lie resumed a verdict of suicide.
Relief headquarters recalled Ray
had come there with q shotgun two
years age demanding more aid.
Evening star., 1935-01-27

respects, rather than his questions,
which reused the prisoner.
He is vulnerable, very vulnerable.
Wait until we really iget started, +"
Wilentz said.
Wilentz put his face close to
Hauptmann's and shouted in the best
traditions of prosecutors. Afterward
Hauptnann commented:
''It seems the attorney general was
trying to get me excited, Az can
say is that he will havefto tfy a lot
harder. I am on to that, because I
have been told how prosecution
lawyers act. 1t lust won't work. It's
no use.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
INK PLANT FOREMAN
SOUGHT FOR PRlNTERY
Civil Service Examinations In
clude Those for Dredge Engine
man and Shipfitter

The Civil Service Commission will
hold an examination to fill the post Of
foreman of the ink-making plant,
Government Printing Office. for which
applications will be received until
February IA, it was announced yes
terday. The base pay is $4,000 annu-
ally.
Tests also were announced for
dredge engineman, Engineer Depart
ment. S135 to SITS monthly, and
shipfitter. Portsmouth, Va, Navy
Yard, n to 81 cents an hour. The
former examination will be open until
February and the latter until Feb
ruary 18.
All base wages are subject to a Statu-
tory cut.
Details are available at the COM
mission, Seventh and F streets.
Evening star., 1935-01-27

oner's dreadful testimony, and has
seldom been seen to raise her eyes.
She is a modern prototype Of the
crones who knitted at the foot of the
guillotine, as the heads dropped into
the basket. She has not dropped a
stitch to date Hauptmann may burn
or Hauptmann may go free, or Haupt-
mann may confess, but she will finish
that sweater, come what may, and
then maybe somebody will tell her
what it was all about.
The strange hiatus, which has been
anything but a lull, is almost ended,
and we wait restlessly and half-fear-
fully for the next installment Of this
blood-curdling story ito be continued
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
Jap Politeness Dropped.

Because passengers ignore the signs
please refrain from smoking" in cars
of electric trains in Toxic, the Japa-
nese ministry of railways win sub
stitute others reading mo smoking. I"
Violators who ignore personal warn
ings win be subject 30 q tine Of 50.
Smoking viii be permitted on railway
trains as before
Evening star., 1935-08-03
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

TWO ROOMS. KITCHEN AND BATH. COM
| pIetely furnished. $40 month. 1920 S ST..
nv Phone North 0272
Evening star., 1935-08-03
MEMORIAL TO SETTLERS
IS FAVORABLY REPORTED

The House Library Committee yes
terday favorably reported the joint
resolution introduced by Chairman
Norton of the House District Com
mittee authorizing the erection OF q
memorial to the early settlers whose
land grants embraced the site OF the
Federal city.
This measure would direct the Sec
retary of Interior to grant commits
sions for the erection on public
grounds in Washington of such me-
moriel of simple and artistic form and
desigl by the National Society OF the
Daughters of the American Colonists,
One of the objects of this corpora
ton is the erection of memorials to
historic persons, sites or events OF
the Colonial period in the various
States of the Union. The bill provides
that the site chosen and the design
of the memorial must have the ap-
proval of the National Commission Of
Fine Arts and no expense to the Gov
ernment will entail.
Evening star., 1935-08-03

SECOND FLOOR. ? LOVELY ROOMS AND
beautifully equipped kitchen with gas re-
frigerator practically private bath; gas,
phona Gpnrpia k0T2
Evening star., 1935-08-03

sUBLET ONE MONTHLY. RIM. 2 BED
rms, dinette. kitchenette. bath; completeiy
furnished. Sedswick Gardens. Clev. Sl9s. 4'
2O6 UPSHUR ST. NV. BY SOLDIERS
Home-Ftrst floor: living room. dining
room. sleeping porch. kitchen and bath. -
$50 9th ST. N.E--3-RooM APT. FUR
Evening star., 1935-08-03

ENGINEER, third class, with license. Ad-
6resS Rox 1Sl-V Star Of1ce