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Evening star., 1935-03-27
STEAMSHIPS,

"SUNSHINE" Cruises
To the West Indies or Bermuda. Book
thru your local agent or Cunard White
Star Ltd. 1904 K st NV Wash. d c.
WEST INDIES CARIBBEAN GUEST
Fleet. 10 to ls days. Sll5 and UP. United
Fruit Co. Pier 3. NJ r., tel Whitehall
4-lsSO. or 332 5th Ave, tel. Lack. 4-667S.
Evening star., 1935-03-27
Patients to Be Entertained.

Inmates Of Gallinger Hospital will
Comforter Boys Band, the concert be-
ginning at S pm. The boys will give
a concert Tuesday at the District Jail.
Evening star., 1935-03-27
THE RIVER BEARS NUTS.
.HE water chestnut, favorite
Chinese delicacy, Is beginning

The RIVER BEARS NUTS.
THE water chestnut, favorite
Chinese delicacy, is beginning
to clog Potomac tributaries.
L This queer nut vine grew In
America about 50,000.000 years
ago, emigrated to Asia, and came
back as an aquarium plant at the
start Of the present century. The
shells of its horned nuts are swept
up the Potomac and deposited around
the Speedway at high tides. The
stems, 6 to 10 feet long, are anchored
"a the mud and interfere with fishing.
Oxon Run Is one badly affected
stream.
The water chestnut may eventually
change the map of the country. 1t
also may be a food asset. Although
of an entirely different family, 1t
tastes like real chestnut.
HUNGER IN THE NAVY.
4 TALE of mighty hunger has ar
n rived at the Navy Department.
The story originated In the
enlisted mems barracks of VS. Squad
ron 2B and is vouched for by no one
in authority at the department. 1t
follows, as sent to the department:
Evening star., 1935-03-27
U. S. PRAISED FOR POLICY
.OF HELPING NICARAGUA
Charge d'Afaires Describes New
Political and Economic Era
In Republic.

Improved internal conditions that
followed the withdrawal of American
Marines from Nicaragua after the
1893 presidential elections-have started
that republic on a wiser political phi
losophy and great strides toward eco
stability are being made.
This new era in Nicaragua was
Evening star., 1935-03-27

CAFE PATRONS IN PRINT.
DATRONS of a well-known cafe near
/ Du Pont Circle will be the main
characters in q new novel Of
Washington now being written by Isa
Glenn, famous novelist who has lived
here for the past four years. The
book, as yet untitled, will be pano-
rama of Washington life as it passes
in and out Of the doors of the cafe.
of which Miss Glenn is regular
patron. The method will be similar
to that used by Miss Glenn in her
successful Transport, wherein she
told the stories Of passengers on an
Army transport across the Pacific.
Meanwhile. Miss Glenn gives an
other picture Of life in the Capital
in a novel just published: The Little
Candles Beam" 1t is a story about
Washington,s "cave dwellers."
POLITICAL NOTE.
n ITCHIE is still very much on the
Il map in Maryland.
Although Gov. Ritchie retired
to private life on January 9 and with
few exceptions has not figured in the
news since, Prince Georges County
residents lat least the Democratic
portion of the population) are proud
of the fact his name will be perpet-
uated by a town within its borders.
The town of Ritchie is little
crossroads community on the Chesa-
peake Beach Railroad. not far from
Forestville and the Marlboro Pike. 1t
Evening star., 1935-03-27

"The squadron Is working hard
these days and VS-2 appetites are
increasing proportionately. One man
says he reached down the table and
took a slice of bread off a plate. BY
the time he got the slice to his
mouth, there was gravy on 1t and
some one had taken three bites out
of it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-20

Residences Lead in Appraisals.
Seventy-six per cent Of all mort
cages selected for appraisal in the
New York City district cover new resi-
dence construction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-20

Railway Building Gains.
Railway. N. j., shows q 20 per cent
increase In building permits for June
over the same month last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-20
1853 MORE UNDERMINING
JOB PLEDGES Received
Total Of 5,403 Promises Work
Valued at $1,35O,750 to Be
Performed.

Workers In the Washington Better
Housing Campaign added 15e pledges
to the total during the last week in
the city-wide home modernization
canvass.
1t was estimated by Miss Elizabeth
Wheeler, F. H. A. field worker, that
the new pledges promised to carry
out $37 500 in work.
The weeks figures brought the total
pledges for the entire campaign to
5,403, and the valuation Of the work
they have agreed to have done to
$3.50, $50.
Miss Wheeler stated 191 leads" I'M
covered by the campaign workers were
given out to contractors during the
week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-20
NEWARK BUILDING UP

The squirt in Newark, N. j., building
is reflected in the monthly report of
the city's buildings department. Last
month 213 permits were issued for a
total of $250,533, against 1875 permits
in 1894 for $115,899. Alterations and
additions in residential buildings num-
bered so for 37,100 worth of work,
while for non-residential repairs %
permits were granted for changes
costing $52,285.
Fourteen new private garages were
built, costing $S,l83 in Newarl; last
month. To this was added five stores
and mercantile buildings, for which
$4,000 was expended, and one church
for an outlay of $4,000. New home
construction required the expenditure
Of $75, 500 and 81 families were ac-
commodated in the buildings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-20

Frank Simpson Building Corp, Chevy
Chase, Md, builder; to erect one 2
story brick-and- frame addition, 1925
Cathedral avenue; to cost $500.
Phil Bobys, 725 Seventh street,
owner; M. Cladey Construction Co.,
4707 Kansas avenue, builder; repairs.
725 Seventh street; to cost $1,400.
John Sampogna, GIT Irving street,
owner; L. w. Giles, architect; A.
August, Beaver Heights, Md, builder;
to erect one 2-story brick addition, GIT
Irving street; to cost 81 500.
Biron Bros, Inc, 1918 Ninth street,
owner and builder; to excavate base
ment for janitor's quarters, 245-249
Oglethorpe street; to cost 1000.
j. F. McDonough, It'll Rhode Island
avenue, owner and builder; E. B.
Corning, architect; to erect one 4-story
brick addition, It'll Rhode Island ave-
nue.; to cost $4,000.
Mrs. ]. H. Peacock, 1241 Good Hope
road southeast, owner; James H.
Grant, architect; Skinker & Garrett,
1719 I street, builders; to erect one
1-story brick addition, 124l Good
Hope road southeast; to cost $4,000
Andrew J. Brown, owner; William
Henning, 1925 Park place southeast,
designer and builder; to erect brick
addition, 2211 Fairlawn avenue south
east; to cost $1,000.
Maj. L. H. Mitchell, 2219 California
street, owner; to erect brick garage,
2657 Woodley road; to cost $500.
Children's Country Home, owner; ;
H. A. McQuary, 1901 Twelfth street,
designer and builder; to erect one
history cinder-block addition, 1871
Bunker Hill road northeast; to cost
$500.
DR.. George T. Walker, 1922 Sherman
avenue, owner; r. C. Archer, jr.,
architect; C.. Piper, builder; to erect
brick addition, 1921 Sherman avenue;
to cost $700.
Washington Properties, Inc, owner
and builder; Porter & Locke, archi-
tects; remodel transformer room,
Wardman Park Hotel; to cost $500.
Herbert D. Tribby, 1406 G street,
owner and builder; to make repairs,
2611 Adams Mill road; to cost $3.50.
Mrs. Mabel Willebrant, owner; P. S.
Dove, Gil Thirteenth street, builder;
to make repairs, TAB Park road; to
cost 5000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-20
NEW HOUS|NGLAW
URGEDFOR STATES
81 Governors Challenged to
Call Legislatures for
Specific Action.

The Governors of 81 States were
today urged by the National Public
Housing Conference, through its sec
rotary, Miss Helen Alfred, to call spe-
cial sessions of State Legislatures for
the purpose Of securing adoption Of
municipal housing authority bills.
The Governors were challenged to
place their States ION the list Of pro-
gressive States prepared to take hand
in promoting the substitution Of homes
Of modern standard for the present
insanitary and WORKOUT dwellings in
which, 1t Is estimated, one-third Of the
population Of your State are obliged to
exist" The progressive States" re-
ferred to were reported IN the letter to
be Alabama, California, Colorado,
Delaware, Illinois, Kentucky, Michi-
gan, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey,
New York, North Carolina, Ohio,
Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennes-
see and West Virginia.
It was stated in the letter that the
lack Of specific power to create local
housing authorities, through which
local programs Of SUM clearance and
low-rent housing might be carried out,
is most unfortunate at this time.
'sThis denial of statutory powers to
your cities to clear their substandard
areas is especially regrettable at this
time, in view of the recent decision Of
the sixth district United States Cir
cult Court Of Appeals, declaring 1t to
be impossible, constitutionally, for the
Federal Government to condemn land
for slum clearance and low-rent nous
ing projects. This decision would
seem to place q direct responsibility
on local housing bodies to develop such
programs.
ut may be necessary to establish
housing as q public purpose in your
State, as well, SO that land may be &C
quired by condemnation when neces-
sary, and it seems imperative that the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-20
BALTIMORE RECORD
SET BY TAX SALES
924 Properties Taken Over for
Non-payment in Last
Year and a Half.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, July 2o.-During the
past year and q half Baltimore City
has acquired 924 properties for nom
payment of taxes, which Is three
quarters as many as were taken ever
in the past SO years.
The city takes over properties at
sales only when bids are lower than
the figure in the liens involved, and
the owners have the right to reclaim
the property by paying back taxes
within the year.
With the number Of tax-sale prop
critics increasing at a rapid rate mu-
nicipal officials are hoping that within
the near future test case can be
taken to the Court of Appeals and a
decision obtained axing the rights Of
a purchaser during the period the
original owner can pay his taxes and
redeem his property.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-20

step-the granting Of
power to create local housing bodies,
be taken at the earliest possible date. /"
The officers of the National Public
Housing Conference are Mary Kings
bury Simkhovitch, president; Eustace
Seligman, treasurer; Helen Alfred
secretary, and the following vice presi-
dents: Edith Abbott, Irving Brant,
Rabbi Edward L. Israel, Harry w.
Ladder, Edouard G. Lindeman, Bishop
Francis j. Mcconnell, John Nolen,
Rev. John O'Grady, Cornelia Bryce
Pinchot, ]. w. Williams and Edith
Elmer Wood. The address Of the con-
ference Offices Is liz East Nineteenth
street, New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-20
ASSESSED. VALUE
OF PROPERTY UP
$21 800 Increase Is Shown
in Prince william
This Year.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to the STAR
MANASSAS, Va, July 20.-Ref1ect-
ing the improved heal estate condi-
lions in other Northe-n Virginia coun-
ties, the assessed valuation OF land
and improvements in Prince william
County shows all increase Of SCI 1890
for the current tax year over the
preceding year, the annual land re-
capitulation for the county just COM
pleted in the Office of r. M. Weir.
commissioner of the revenue. dis
closes.
Although approximately 1000 acres
were dropped from the land books
for the present tax year, covering
land that has been taken over Nv the
Federal Government for large re-
Mobilization camp near Joplin and
which consequently becomes non-as-
sessable, land and its improvements
carry a total assessed valuation OF
$4,13O, 4ss for the 1896 tax year, while
for 1884, the total assessed valuation
was $4,109,1 89.
S5,952.63 Increase in 1885.
Land owners Will likewise pay
SIS 1852. SO more In rsses for 1885 than
for 1884 the total land tax aggregat-
ing $60,04331 il 1884, and $65 "a
for this year. The change resulted
from an increase in tax rates in GER
tain districts and towns.
Real estate Improvements are as
sesSed at 5000 ,405. ard land itself at
$2,088, 693, with an additional assess
ment of $3.50 for mineral lands not
under development.
Total assessed valuations and the
taxes scheduled to he paid in the
several districts and towns are as
follows:
Brentsville district, valuation, $685.
$50; tax, $10,712.93; Coles district,
valuation, $305,955: tax, $4,283.37;
Dumfries district, valuation, $322, 685 ;
tax, S5,16296; Gainesville district,
valuation, $697,2 tax, $11,156.72;
Manassas district, valuation, 1902 1856;
tax, $12,846.17; Occoquan district, val
uation, $2s6,135; tax $5,007.38, and
mineral land valuation, 1880 and
tax, $24.3Z.
Figures for Towns.
For towns, the figures are: Town
of Haymarket, valuation, $47,855; tax
S765 SO; town of Manassas, valuation
$676, 765; tax, s1o.828 "a; town of Oc-
coquan, valuation, $59,150; tax
81, 035.1 and town OF Ouantico. valu-
alton, $260,815; tax. $4,173.04.
The county Is ASSESSED with 214,-
279. acres of land, exclusive OF lots
not carried ON the commissioner
books as acreage.
Building operations throughout the
county are now on the incline, Com
missioner Weir states, with much &C.
tivity noticeable in the vicinity Of
Lake Jackson AMI Quartico and alone
the Richmond Washington Highway
| in general.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-20
HOME UNDERMINING UP

Home modernization under the
stimulus Of the recently liberalized
regulations Of the Federal Housing
Administration has taken a decided
Jump In New Jersey.
Recent reports received at the ONCE
Of Thomas e. Colleton, State r. H. A.
director, show that modernization
loans totaling s240, 400 were made by
Jersey banks in one week recently.
This is at the rate Of $40, 900 q day,
and it is an increase Of $4,000 q day
over the best previous weekly report.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-20
Two Homes Opened Today.

Two new homes are being opened
today by the j. c. Weldon Co., at
1855 and 1859 Massachusetts, avenue.
The dwellings were built by Jeffress-
Dyer. Inc, and designed by E. Burton
Corning. Each has been decorated
by Mrs. Ethel Pilsen Warren and
contains an electric kitchen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-20
BRONX DRIVE SUCCEEDS
4,376 Buildings to Be Modern
lied at Cost of 1899, 161.

Report to the Federal housing ad-
ministrator indicate that 4,376 build
ing in the Bronx, New York City, are
to be modernized at an estimated cost
of $1,899,161. The information is
based on pledges signed by property
owners during a house-to-house can
vass made under the supervision of
the F. H. A. The canvassers covered
30,404 buildings. 1t is understood
that a canvass is to be made OF each
of the other boroughs of the greater
city to find out the extent of possible
modernization in that city.
Evening star., 1935-08-08
ARMY ORDERS.

Cousins, Maj. Ralph P, Air Corps,
Office chief, National Guard Bureau
here, detailed as member of Evaluat-
ing Board, to meet at Wright Field,
Dayton, Ohio.
Lynd, Mai. William E., Air Corps,
Office of the chief of Air Corps, here,
detailed as member of Evaluating
Board, to meet at Wright Field, Day.
ton, Ohio.
NAVY ORDERS.
Bureau of Navigation.
Van Auken, Capt. Wilbur r., de-
tached command U. S. S. Oklahoma
about November /; to Naval Exam
lining Board, Navy Department, Wash
1ngton, D. c.
Medical Corps.
Bacon, Comdr Sankey, detached
Navy Yard, Boston, Mass; continue
treatment Naval Hospital, Washing
ton, D. c.
Gross, Lieut.. g. 81 detached Naval
Hospital, Washington, D. c., about
August 80: to instruction, Naval Med
ical School, Washington, D. c.
Supply Corps.
Sorrell, Lieut.. Comdr. Thomas L. IS.
c., detached Naval Operating Base,
Norfolk. Va, in September; to Norfolk
Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Va.
Warrant Officers.
Conboy, Gunner Charles E., de-
tached Naval Air Station, Anacostia,
D. c., in August; to Asiatic Station.
Evening star., 1935-08-08
POST AND ROGERS
LAND IN ALASKA
Disagree on Plans, but
Weather Takes Hand and
Wiley Goes Fishing.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
JUNEAU, Alaska, August 8.-Wiley
Post and Will Rogers mildly disagreed
today over plans for resuming their
flight over Alaska in Posts new red
pontoon-equipped monoplane.
Post, the round-the-world flyer,
yearned for fishing with light tackle.
Rogers, the cowboy philosopher.
urged a quick takeoff for Nome, so
he could "lasso a reindeer"
Inasmuch as weather forecasts were
unfavorable, Rogers said he would
compromise and "let Wiley do his
fishing"
The two, flying in the plane Post
has announced he will use in a flight
to Moscow, arrived here yesterday
from Seattle, trip they made in
8 hours and is minutes.
To Visit Joe Crosson.
1t was learned from Post that he
considered visiting for a short time
with Joe CroSson, an aviator with
whom the round-the-Wo flyer be-
came acquainted during the Alaskan
parts of his flights in the Summers
of 1881 and 1893.
Rogers, making his first trip to
Alaska. studied with interest a map
of the territory and finally said:
Il guess Wiley and nell have to
flip coin to see where we go next.
Wiley'S the very best man on this
trip. He fills the gas tank and then
we're off"
Post said he had come to Juneau
to see CroSson, with whom he hunted
game in the interior last year. I'VE
are going to stay here" he said,
until we get ready to take off for
somewhere"
Post in Shirt Sleeves.
Post was in his shirt sleeves when
he stepped from the plane, but Rogers
wore a top coat over a gray suit and
shivered. He said the trip was de-
lightful.
1T was cold in the plane, but warm
In the motor room," Rogers said.
I'VE were flying over Ketchikan,"
Rogers said, 'and I told Wiley
thought that was nice looking place.
He said he knew a better one and so
we kept coming.
Hes been to Alaska so often he
knows his way around-kind of an
old settler up here
After pushing through throng at
the airport the two were taken to the
home of Gov. John w. Troy, where
they were entertained at banquet.
Mrs. Post, who had been expected
to accompany her husband and Rogers,
remained in Seattle. Whether she
would come north by boat to join her
husband on flight over Siberia to
Moscow could not be learned.
Evening star., 1935-08-08

Commissioner George e. Allen, works
progress administrator. The delega-
ton represented II A. F. G. E. lodges,
1t was said.
The groups are interested in ex-
tension of civil service by non-com-
petitive examinations to workers in
emergency agencies and the setting
up of a central transfer agency. Ha-
worth informed the delegation the
matter would be considered.
Evening star., 1935-08-08

DR.. Hunsaker formerly was vice
president of the Goodyear Zeppelin
Corp. in Akron, Ohio, and during the
World War was in charge of the de-
sign of all naval aircraft as COM
mander in the Construction Corps.
He assisted in the establishment of the
Bureau of Aeronautics in the Navy
Department and was one Of its orig
inal members.
Evening star., 1935-08-08
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY.
Meeting, Psi Lambda Tau Sorority,
Raleigh Hotel, $50 pm.
Meeting. American Legion. District
Department, Mayflower Hotel, pm.
Bridge and bingo party, Govern
ment Workers Council, Alva Belmont
House, 144 B street northeast, 8 pm.
Excursion, Americanization School
Association, steamer Potomac, leav-
ing from Seventh and Water streets
southwest at $50 pm.
Evening star., 1935-08-08
BOY SUES FOR $4,000

6ldmeS SIreeI Sdr 1ol boSS VI AtS
in Accident.
The Capital Transit Co. was sued
for $4,000 in District Supreme Court
yesterday by 14-year-old James E,
Pollen, jr, who allegedly lost his left
leg when run down by street car
at Thirty y-fourth and o streets last
March IA.
Pollen, who lives at 1926 Prospect
avenue, told the court he was riding
a bicycle when struck by the street
car The suit was filed through Attor-
neys Elmer E. Cunmins and William
P. Walsh.
Evening star., 1935-08-08
Collars in Slot Machine.

Mems collars in an sizes are dis
pensed by a new slot machine in
Berlin.
Evening star., 1935-08-08

Meeting, Alliance Club, Hamilton
Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting. Postal Telegraph, Ham,
ilton Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Capital Council, Royal
Arcanum, $50 H street, pm.
TOMORROW.
Luncheon, Reciprocity Club, La
Fayette Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Trade Executives Asso-
citation, La Fayette Hotel, 1890 pm.
Meeting, American Legion, District
Department, Mayflower Hotel, pm.
Evening star., 1935-08-08
FORMER SENATOR DIES
Judge Nathan P. Bryan Expires
in Florida.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, August 8 Up.
Nathan P. Bryan, So, presiding Judge
Of the United States Circuit Court Of
Appeals, fifth judicial district, died
yesterday.
He formerly was a United States
Senator from Florida.
He became i'll late Tuesday and was
taken to a hospital, where he failed to
respond to treatment.
Evening star., 1935-08-08
TRANSFER ADVOCATES
CONFER WITH HAW0RTH
Endorsement of Civil Service
Status to Be Given Con-
sideration.

Endorsement Of their two-point pro-
gram was sought yesterday by joint
delegation Of the Interlodge Commit
tee on Government Personnel Trans
fer and the Federation of social
Workers in a conference with Ross
Haworth, administrative assistant to
Evening star., 1935-08-08

Bootleggers Driven Out.
European bootleggers are being
driven out of South Africa.
Evening star., 1935-08-08
GIVEN AIRCRAFT POST
DR.. Hunsaker Technical Adviser
of Corporation.

UA OUI PUIdLIUus
EAST HARTFORD, Conn, August
8 R.-Dr. Jerome c. Hunsaker, head
of the aeronautical and mechanical
engineering departments at Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, has
joined the United Aircraft Manufac-
turing Corp. as technical adviser.
The appointment was announced by
Donald L. Brown, president of the
United Aircraft Corp.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-06

test. The n. A. A. G. P. telegram
to Washington read:
National Association Ad-
yancement Of Colored People is
advised plight of evicted share
troopers and tenant farmers in
Arkansas desperate with likeli-
hood of outbreak of violence i'm
minent. Contest Of these people
with plantation owners being ag-
gravated by local administrators
Of relief in Arkansas. Thousands
are reported unable to secure ade-
quate relief from local admins
traitors who are under influence
of big plantation owners. We
urge strongly that FERA send
administrators into territory to
supersede local officials and ad-
minister direct relief impartially.
Unless this is done at once every
indication points to bloody out
break. All our information from
several sources in Arkansas in
sists that federal action alone can
prevent starvation and blood
she'd"