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Evening star., 1935-09-28

known variety Of the Fall fruiting
group but many other varieties will
occasionally bear some fruit in favor
able growing seasons.
Strangely enough, the popular Con-
cord grape was discovered as q chance
seeding, the parentage Of which will
never be known. Yet tor Q hundred
years or 50 this variety has been the
most important grape in Northern
United States and promises to hold
this POSITION for q long time. Home
gardeners and commercial growers
alike have found the Concord q most
desirable variety. vigorous and pro-
ductive. Some home gardeners In
this area have tried the California
type grapes but with only limited
success. The Concord, containing q
large part of native grape ancestry,
thrives where the California or really
European types fail.
w. II. Youngman Of the Takoma
Horticultural Club urges members to
spray their roses with bordeaux mix
ture or lime sulphur to prevent defo.
liation during the last weeks of the
growing season. Defoliation weakens
the plants so that they are Ill equipped
to Withstand the Winter cold and in
addition prevents q crop of late Au-
tumn bloom. The sprays also con-
troll mildew which is rampant on GER
tain roses, hlacs and zinnias.
Flower lovers are reminded of the
Fall horticultural show Of the Wood
ridge Garden Club, to be held Mon
day evening, September 80. In the
auditorium Of the Sherwood Presby-
terian Shurch Sunday school, Twenty
second and Rhode Island avenue
northeast.
Evening star., 1935-09-28
SUBURBAN VALUES
PROVE STEADIEST
In.City Sections Decline in Last
Five Years, Says N. G.
Thalheimer.

A typical condition in most popula-
tion centers in the last five years has
been the gradual decline of residen-
tial values in in-city sections, while
suburban residential values remained
stationary or showed actual increases
In property values, Morton G. Thai
heimer, president of the Virginia Real
Estate Association. told the Alexan-
dria- Arlington Fairfax Real Estate
Board at the first Fall dinner meet
ing, held at the Washington Golf and
Country Club.
An important factor in creating this
condition, the speaker pointed out, has
been the rapid modernization of sub
urban areas to serve the convenience
and comfort of the city resident, such
rs the construction of broad, modern
highways. better school facilities, and
the establishment in suburban coun-
ties Of the school bus system. An
other contributing factor, Thalheimer
stated, has been the constant growth
OF heavy traffic, with its danger to
children and noisy confusion, on many
Of the more important in-town resi-
Dental streets.
+ Otto Hallowell of Norfolk, secretary
tf the State association, also addressed
the meeting on association problems.
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INFERIOR BUILDING
: SUPPLY CHARGED
+. H. A. Inspectors Told of
Wood Shipments Unfit
for Mortgage Jobs.

The vigilance Of architectural in
tpectors charged with the RESPONSE
bility of checking building materials
% be used in homes constructed on
mortgages insured by the Federal
Housing Administration today won
the praise of the Ohio Association of
Retail Lumber Dealers and OF the
National Retail Lumber Dealers As
sociation.
Commentator of the strict scrutiny
which architectural inspectors main
tain on buildings under construction
grew out of discovery by an inspector
In an Ohio city of shipment Of green
and poorly graded hemlock lumber,
contrary to specifications.
Follows Complaints.
Inasmuch as responsible associations
and dealers long have been combat
ting such conditions in the construc-
tion industry, the lumber group was
moved to voice its approval in letters
to the Housing Administration.
While inspectors remain constantly
alert for such deviations from speci-
ncations, comparatively few attempts
have been made to use other than
stipulated materials. Housing officials
point out that the construction in
dustry Is actually striving for higher
standards and attempts to establish
Federal supervision of certain con-
struction projects has met with the
whole-hearted appreciation Of builders
generally. The few, they say, who
have resorted to subterfuge have found
that the system does not pay.
The Technical Division of the Fed
eral Housing Administration, which
Is responsible for the maintenance of
standards in construction, trains
architectural inspectors for the task
OF seeing that such standards are en-
forced in construction financed under
Federal Housing insured mortgages.
Some Materials Held Poor.
The lumber dealers association
called attention of the Federal Hous-
ing Administration to the fact that
at the present time there is tendency
on the part of certain direct-shipping
mills and catalogue houses to flood the
market with lumber and stock mill
work which is altogether unsuitable
for construction. 1t pointed out that
80 long as the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration maintains such strict
supervision there is little likelihood
that such poor materials will be very
widely used.
The Technical Division recently
noted the case of Philadelphia op-
erative builder who attempted con-
struction of house on an insured
mortgage by ignoring certain specifi-
cations. In this case Federal inspec-
tors discovered the error and threat
ened to reject the mortgage commit
n1ent unless inferior materials were
thrown out. This builder, incidentally.
finally followed the approved specifi-
cations to the letter and later built a
group Of homes financed under in
sured mortgages.
Evening star., 1935-09-28

FORMERLY THE ESTATE OF AN INTERNATION-
ALLY KNOWN MAN IN SANDY SPRING
COMMUNITY, THE GARDEN SPOT OF MONT
GOMERY COUNTY, MD.
Offered considerably less than real value to close
estate. Main dwelling Is rooms, baths. additional
houses and all necessary farm buildings Wonderful
lawns gardens and great shade trees 235 of rich
soil, including wooded and fruit trees. Priced to
sell at only s65, 900. Further information from E. c.
Thomas, National $500 or Adams 9121.
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becomes Q question just how to pro-
eeed. On the whole, there Is no
plant more beautiful than . tree and
1t serves nicely to supply shade In
Midsummer. One could not consci-
entiously urge the cutting Of trees, but
II there are several trees . wise Sc
lection may be made, 80 as to open
up the canopy to permit more sun
light to reach the soil and to lessen
the draft on water and nutrients.
One rarely sees crab grass in the
part Of the lawn shaded by trees, and
this is . worthwhile compensation.
For most home gardeners . COM
promise plan, which retains both trees
and flowers. Is most acceptable. Tulips,
narcissus, hyacinths, snowdrops and
other bulbous plants which bloom in
early Spring and lie dormant In Sum.
mer do very nicely under partial shade.
All told. one can develop q very sat
tfaetory garden beneath scattered
trees.
Disbudding Chrysanthemums.
THE large howered chrysanthemums
that come from the greenhouse
are grown one bloom to . plant. This
disbudding, accompanied by intensive
feeding with manure water and other
nutrients, results In the magnificent
blooms. The practice can be trans
ferred to the open garden with some-
what similar results except that the
same varieties cannot be used because
Of . lack of hardness needed to sur
vive the Winter. As . matter Of fact,
there Is . home gardener in one Of
the local suburbs who actually grows
outdoor types one flower to q plant
and produces beautiful flowers. Such
culture requires constant attention
from the time individual plants are
set In rows In the Spring until bloom
ing. There must be q wire trellis pro-
vided to support the stems. Each side
shoot that appears must be pinched
out and the plants must be sprayed
with bordeaux mixture At repeated in
tervals to hold the leaves all the way
up and down the stem. Yet the re-
suits reward the grower.
The chrysanthemum IS dependent on
short days to reach Towering, and, II
the plants are covered with black cloth
for few hours day from August on
ward, they may be hastened into bloom
many days ahead of normal. Some
growers provide q cover of cheese cloth
in late October to lessen the chance
Of injury from killing frosts. The
chrysanthemum really deserves more
careful handling by home gardeners
and would reward them handsomely
for greater care.
Garden Notes.
A CONTRIBUTOR to one Of the well
known home garden papers states
that he had converted q hedge of
common lilac into q most attractive
display by grating in scions from fine
new varieties obtained from his
friends gardens. This seems a promis-
ing suggestion, but . bit out OF sea-
son because grating Is done usually
in the early Spring. Some of the new
French lilacs are marvelously beau
tiful and would be an asset in any
garden.
Some varieties Of red raspberries
fruit ut the end of the new shoots in
late Autumn. Such fru:ting does not
amount to q great deal commercially
but Is desirable in the home garden.
st. Regis or Ranere is perhaps the best
Evening star., 1935-09-28

July. A smaller proportion Of loans
was made for mortgage refinancins
in August than in any previous month.
The total amount of loans made BY
the esl reporting Federal associations
in August was practically 2la times
the volume loaned by these same as
Sociations in January, 1885. More
than $50 Federal associations have
now been chartered, operating in Il
different States.
Evening star., 1935-09-28
N MONDAY evening DR.. Whit
man Cross 81 Chevy Chase.
one of the best known anna
teur rose growers in the

~ MONDAY evening DR.. Whit
man Cross 81 Chevy Chase,
one of the best known anna
teur rose growers in the
country, addressed the Takoma Hor-
ticultural Club on rose varieties grow
ing in his own gardens and as OBJ
served at the recent meeting of the
American Rose Society at Rochester,
N. Y, and at other exhibitions. Many
of the roses discussed are so new
as not yet to be distributed to the
general public. Among promising
roses mentioned were Rochester, En-
pire State and Carlton, all with an
infusion of polyantha ancestry, which
should give them added vigor and
lesser susceptibility to disease. DR.
Cross told of Danish family of
rose breeders that has made q deter
mined effort to incorporate polyan-
tina blood into a whole new race of
garden roses and prophesied that the
time would come when garden roses
would be much easier to grow than
at present.
Attention was called to a climbing
sport of Gloria Mundi, polyantha,
known as Princess Van Orange, which
is very hardy and Of striking color.
The climbing sports of the hybrid tea
group did not withstand the destruc-
tive cold of the last two Winters and
offer but little hope of real value A
new Wichurtiana climber, Doubloons,
Of clear yellow. was said to be we'll
worthy of consideration by rose grow
ers. The variety Blaze. supposedly an
ever-blooming rose of the Pauls Scar
let type, was believed to have been
badly mixed with Paul Scarlet, thus
offering an explanation for the fail
ure OF many supposedly Blaze plants
to bloom more than once q year In
many local gardens.
Cross exhibited some Of the seed.
lings originated by himself and one, q
Evening star., 1935-09-28
HOME OWNERS AIDED
Nicaragua Encourages Natives
to Build.

Nicaragua has set out to make every
native family q home owner. Legisis-
tion was passed recently providing
the head Of every family who Is q
workman with a plot 4s feet wide and
s6 feet long II he agrees to improve
the property with home within a
year. II he has not sufficient funds
to finance the construction he MAJ
apply to the national bank. which
will furnish him with the capital. II
he Is worthy Of the trust.
Evening star., 1935-09-28
EQUIPMENT SALES BIG
Five States Order $500, 900 Worth
Of Store Needs.

Sales Of store equipment and store
fronts totaling 100000 in five States
were reported to the Federal Housing
Administration. by the American Store
Equipment Co. of New York within a
few weeks after the extended modern
ization credit plan went into effect.
Ira Copeland. president of the COM
pany, stated that business amounting
to $115,000 was obtained in New
York; $12,500 in Connecticut; 2,50t
In st. Louis; $14,500 in Cincinnati
Ohio: $37,5o0 in Toledo. Ohio: $4,000
In Detroit, Mich, and numerous
smaller orders.
Evening star., 1935-09-28

Spacious Rooms :.
Wood-Burning Fireplaees
Large Closets
Variegated Slate Roofs
Efficiency Kitchens.
Daylight Rooms
Tiled Baths
Built-in Garages
Copper Cutters
>Artistically Finished
Spacious Wooded Lots
Fine Construetion
Evening star., 1935-09-28
HOME LOANS INCREASE
TT PER CENT IN AUGUST
Greater Residential Building Re.
hected in Mortgages Made for
New Construction.

In August new home mortgage loans
totaling $9.464, 600 were made by SOL
reporting Federal savings and loan
associations, an increase of ~ per
cent over loans made by the same as
sociations in July. Funds disbursed
for the building or purchase of homes
represented SO per cent Of all loans
made in August. compared with 48 per
cent in July.
Rejecting greater residential build
Ing activity, new construction loans
reached q new high level in August,
increasing % per cent In amount over
Evening star., 1935-09-28
Candle That Never Melts.

A candle that never drips, fades or
melts Is the latest in table decorations.
It's made Of light metal, in pastel
shades, uses lighter fluid for fuel.
Evening star., 1935-03-13

Mrs. E. M. White, includes Mrs. VIII
Hutchins, Miss Anne McColm, Miss
Lillian McColm, Mrs. Estelle Phillips,
Mrs. Julie Gill, Mrs. Elns Wells. Miss
Leonore Baker, Miss Louise Moore
and Samuel Nicholson.
Mrs. Inglas Sard, chairman, ana
members of the civic division Of the
Metropolitan Committee, met yester-
day at the orchestra's headquarters
in the Carlton Hotel to discuss plans
for the campaign.
Among those present in addition to
Mrs. Sard were Mrs. Lee p. Warren,
vice chairman; Mrs. Armistead Peter,
Mrs. Walter Nash, Mrs. Joseph Evard,
Mrs. Thomas Kinkaid. Mrs. e. Beh-
rend, Mrs. M. Stevens, Mrs. J. =.
Wycoff, Nine. F. Garcia, Mrs. E. K.
Finkenstadt, Mrs. Walter Gawler,
Mrs. Hamilton Claibourne and Mrs.
william M. Dunn.
Evening star., 1935-03-13

in the District is now 50, instead Of
% years. The decrease in childhood
deaths has been brought about by the
introduction of modern serums and
anti-toxins into medicine, and the
use of pure water and pasteurized
milk.
According to DR.. Cummings, the
only diseases which has not been
eliminated Is tuberculosis. In these
cases an earlier diagnosis Is needed,
as we'll as more adequate hospitals
and q larger nursing staff.
10 v. Morgan, well known Wash
ington attorney, gave Q short talk on
District jobs for District residents. He
favored q civil service system by
which every position except those de-
manding highly technical knowledge
should be filled by Washington resi-
dents. He also advocated the right
to vote in the District.
Evening star., 1935-03-13
COLLEGE GRADUATES
TURN TO SLEUTHING
Field of Scientific Exploration
Takes Group That Once
Tried Bond Selling.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 13.-In the
boom years before 1929 many . college
graduates fancy lightly and almost
mechanically turned to thoughts Of
bond selling.
Nov they are scientific sleuths.
The young man who went into .
hum drum role in the business world
several years ago Is invading the
field Of scientific exploration, +. Tru-
bee Davidson, president Of the Amer
Evening star., 1935-03-13
vITAMIN r PROVIDES TIP
ON PREVENTION OF COLD
Workers Handling Derivatives of
Linseed Oil Prove Free
Of Sickness.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associsted Press.
CHICAGO, March 13-Science
holds out some hope that the "com-
mon cold" may be conquered by the
use Of vitanin r.
Miss Mildred Oncken, physiological
chemist, tells about 1t in the current
issue Of the Illinois Medical Journal.
In . laboratory with personnel of
SO persons common colds have been
prevalent In all departments but one,"
her srticle says. "The exception was
the one handling inolenic and Iinoleic
Evening star., 1935-03-13
D, C. HEALTH OFFICE
ADVANCES OUTLINED
Cathedral Heights Cleveland Park
Citizens Hear Address by
DR.. J. G. Cummings.

The advances made by the Dis
trict Health Department in the last
rs years were outlined before the
Cathedral Heights Cleveland Park
Citizens Association last night by DR..
James Gordon Cummings, chief of
the Bureau of Preventable Diseases.
Infant mortality has been reduced
to such an extent, DR.. Cummings
stated, that the average span of life
Evening star., 1935-03-13
BL0NDS TURN RED.HEAD

HOLLYWOOD. Calf, March 10
RJ.-Blond Dixie Lee CMrs. Bins
Crosby in private life) became a red
head today, and says she is going to
remain one.
The actress supplanted June Knight
In the film "Red-heads on Parade"
and had to have her treSses dyed.
Meanwhile, the well-authenticated
trend in the studios is away from
blonds and toward titians, so she IL
determined to continue O red-head.
Until the style changes again."
she laughed.
Evening star., 1935-03-13
TEACHERS ORGANIZE
TO HELP SYMPHONY
Central High School Instructors
Seek Larger Share for Music
in Children's Lives.

DESTROYS that symphonic music play
. greater part in the lives of Wash
ington children than it has in the
past, Central High School teachers
have organized a unit to take part
ia the National Symphony Orchestra's
Today drive for 100000 sustaining
fund, which starts Friday.
The teachers group, headed by
Evening star., 1935-03-13

lean Museum of Natural History, said
today.
He is traversing the ends Of the
world and prying into natures vast
lock-box Of secrets. Furthermore. Da-
wilson said, he Is heartily welcome,
for scientific shopping is a never-end-
ing, almost depression-proof Job.
Evening star., 1935-03-13

acids (derivatives Of linseed oil, CEN
tanning vitamin p. Workers In this
department did not develop a single
cold, although before working In this
department they had as many colds
as the others"
Evening star., 1935-03-13
Girl Tourists Cut Havana.

COLUMBIA, Mo-, March 10 R.-
Eliminating Q scheduled visit to Hav-
ana from their itinerary because Of
the Cuban revolution, 96 Stephens
College girls left yesterday on a Is
day educational tour Of Central
America.
Evening star., 1935-03-13

Pigs Killed in Epidemic:
An epidemic of hoof- f-snd-mouth dis
ease has caused the killing Of $50 pigs
In Glasgow, Scotland.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-04
The Right Spirit

The announcement in last nights Wa terbury Democrat that Community Chest drive would in all likelihood be started in this city year from now seems to be step in the right direction. It must have been apparent for good many years now, particularly since the years of the depression have cut into the an nual budgets of our several charities ana civic organizations, that one united eff fort be far more successful than the SeV- eral that have and still are being con- ducted at regular intervals.
 Other communities, just as highly ln- dustrialized as Waterbury, have found that the Community Chest plan works out successfully once it has been properly explained and the beneficial results. demonstrated to the public. That 1t should be attractive to those of us III Waterbury who today support the Sev- eral movements which annually come before us for financial aid goes without question. We honestly believe that in time the several groups that will be re- cipients of Community Chest aid will re- ceive more than they can get from their own individual efforts.
 The coming year might be profitably spent by those who are interested III es- tablishing the Community Chest in Wa terbury in carefully eXpounding it's ad- vantages. There is whole year to do this and we know that every facility will be made available to bring home to the pub lie the facts as they exist with regard to installation of a Community Chest and its continued successful operation here. When people realize that they are not go- ing to be peStered with series of finan- cial drives, but will simply have one a year, they are going to respond 100 per cent better than they do today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-04
Final Entanglement

You might notice that rather import ant date in the history of American gov ernment was recorded the other day when the Nebraska legislature adjourned. Un- less special session is called during the next year, that marked the last meeting of Nebraska's traditional two-houSe legiS- lature. When the regular meeting time rolls around in 1887, new, compact, one-chamber body of 43 members will convene.
 It is noteworthy, too, that the closing hours of the two-house legislature were Snarled up by deadlock in the confer ence committee over important legislation which had passed the two houses in vary ing forms. It is precisely such angles as that = opening the way to all kinds of political phenagling - which the new system will make impossible. Nebraska is taking great step toward more eff cient, democratic state government. How long will it be before other states have intelligence enough to follow her example?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-04
Amusing

The Waterbury Republican ran true to form this morning in it's two leading editorials sour. The first was an anus ing bit of balderdash trying to minimize Mayor Hayes and his administrations fine showing in reducing the tax rate and restoring five percent of city employees pay cut. Lack of appreciation, or failure, to give credit for either of these things, as we said above, can only be attributed to an acute case of acidosiS, in all probability the result of the recent city election.
 The second bit of amusement was af- forded by the same papers condemnation and then conformation of Mayor Thomas J. Spellacy, who took office in Hartford yesterday. That Tom Spellacy will be just as able to manage the city govern ment of Hartford as his predecessors there is no doubt. That because he has been elected to public office is no more reason for thinking that he has to sprout wings in the future than he may have worn horns in the past.
 MT. Spellacy is an astute politician and deserves credit for it. We have no doubt but what he will continue to be one and needs no probation from gratuitous republican press around the state. They are left-handed compliments. And as for the Waterbury Republicans admonitory advice, if Tom Spellacy doesn't stand head and heels over the numerous humpty dumpties that paper has SUD- ported in it's day, we are indeed sadly misinformed. That's the answer, they all know it, but hate to admit it. As we said above, it's amusing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-04
Place For Britons

The Right Rev. A. F. Wilmington In- graham, Bishop of London, is sad and worried when he looks at the unemployed millions in English cities and thinks of the vast open spaces of the outlying empire. When he was in Australia, he says, the governor of New South Wales told him that if the Japanese had been against Britain in the last war, "they could have taken Sydney and Melbourne in five minutes" In another war, while England's back was turned, the Japs might think of it, or feel like it.
 He shows the absurdity of Australia having only 6,500,000 people, and Canada only little more than 1O,000000, when each has room and resources for 100000 900. He wants to use "some of the money supporting the unemployed in Britain, or lying around idle in financial reservoirs, , for peopling the British Empire with Britons. Little, crowded Britain will have to do that if she wants to hold her empire together. AS for us, our empire and our future are at home.