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were still there He spoke about sending over
food if they'd run short of it."
Thanks, we have plenty" assured him.
Il was just making for the Inn myself, when
| caught sight of you"
Nothing wrong, hope?" he said casually.
Nothing care to discuss at the moment"
| returned. I'm rather keen to know if
there's any word of the snowplow coming to
open the roads,
The man shook his head mo word of it
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in the snow, and | had given no sign of my
approach But he did not move. Either some
sixth sense had already warned him of my
presence, or else his ears must have been un-
commonly keen, for several moments had
passed before he lowered the field glass and
turned towards me.
Afternoon, stranger" he replied calmly.
Where did you spring from?"
He was short haired man of about
fifty. with heavy, clean-shaven face and
keen grey eyes. Dropping his glasses into
leather case that hung from his shoulder, he
pulled out a tobacco pouch and began to fill
his pipe.
Where did l spring from?" l repeated.
That's just what was going to ask you.
The man gave me a sharp glance, then
smiled. "Roxburghs my name. Not that |
suppose it conveys much to you. I've been
staying down at Falcon Inn, and that con-
founded snow storm at the week END has held
me up. Where on earth do you hang out?'
Falcon Castle" told him.
He gave low whistle. Then the place is
still occupied? thought the old man had
pegged out - old Swinburn, mean
Quite correct He died last Tuesday. My
names Irvine, and I'm his grandson. But
why" enquired. ''are you surprised that the
house is still occuped?"
He lit his pipe before he answered me. "As
a matter of fact" he said slowly, Il was
Just having squint down at the place to see
il there were any signs of life. Macgregor -
he's the man that keeps the Inn - was Won
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THE STORY so FAR

XX THEN Alan Irvine arrived at Falcon
" Castle in the Highlands of Scotland,
he found that strange things had
been happening. Through the death of his
grandfather, Felix Swinburn. Alan had fallen
heir to the place. and he tried to unravel the
mystery of why the old man had been living
like hermit in this lonely house on noun
tainside, with two elderly servants to attend
to him. Also. old Swinburn was supposed 10
have squandered his fortune, and yet for some
time he had been drawing good income from
some strange source
In the midst of a winter storm, Lucille
Paradene arrived at Falcon Castle with a
middle-aged man called MIR Paul. They
appeared surprised at the news of Felix Swim
burns DEATH but they refused to tell Alan the
object of their visit.
That night Mr.. Paul was murdered by an
unknown hand, and by the time dawn broke,
it was found that the body had mysteriously
disappeared. Snow had been falling heavily,
and Falcon Castle was now completely cut off
from the outside world.
During the morning a newcomer paid an
unexpected visit to Alan. This was Mr.. Roger
Barnett, owner of Falcon Lodge small house
near at hand. and he said he had arrived the
previous evening, his object being to rent
Falcon Castle on behalf of friend. Although
Lucille Paradene and Roger Barnett appeared
to be strangers, Alan suspected that they had
met before, and the next night he actually saw
Lucille going secretly through the snow TO
Barnett s house.
Alan decided to keep his own counsel and
closely watch events. On the chance that the
snowplows had cleared the roads as far as the
little inn some miles up the glen, he tried to
make his way along the hillside, hoping to get
in touch with the police and report the mur
der. To his surprise. he came across stranger
VINO was watching Falcon Castle through a
field glass;
Alan, who is the narrator of the story. tells
in his own words what transpired.
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CHAPTER "

~ GOD afternoon
W. As called out to the man,
wondered what would happen.
My footsteps had been silent
Evening star., 1935-09-22

w IHEN Alan Irvine arrived at Falcon
wv Castle in the Highlands of Scotland,
he found that strange things had
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BU|LD|NGSHOWS
INCREASE

The Alexander Hamilton Insti-
tute reports that building con-
tracts during the first quarter
of the year, on the basis of the
F. w. Dodge Corporations fig
ures, showed an increase of 1875
per cent over the same period
year ago and an increase of SIG
per cent over the first quarter of
1888 when building activity was at
the low for the depression.
Building activity. however. is
still far from the volume which
will represent full recovery. This
is shown by the fact that con-
tracts during the first quarter of
this year amounted to only II
per cent of the volume in the
corresponding period of 1928 when
building activity was at the pre-
depression peak.
There is still little indication of
the development of any satisfac-
tory activity in the building field
during the remainder of the year.
This fact is sufficient to restrain
enthusiasm over the general bust
ness outlook, since large volume
of building is necessary for any
pronounced economic recovery.
The cost of building is still too
much of an obstacle. While costs
relative to rents are less burden
some than year ago, as the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-27
HOME REPAIR FINANCE
Burden of Loans Borne
By Savings, Building
And Loan Firms

fitness to do the job. In four
months, beginning with Septem-
Der, our institutions placed $685..
100000 in remodeling loans, and
December was the highest of the
four months. This total COM
pares with S32,7OO,0OO insured
by the Federal Housing Admins
tratiOn, for other types of mod
ernization lenders. At the out
set, then, the associations we're
doing more than half of the
modernizatiOn lending. With the
liberalization of some of the
rules and regulations under Title
1, there will be more substantial
use of the insurance feature by
the associations and therefore a
greater stimulus to their STEP
ping up modernizatiOn activi-
ties"
According to the tabulated re-
suits of the real property inven.
tory, conducted by the Bureau Of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce,
the typical American home is a
dwelling of 10 years old, of wood
or frame construction, containing
five rooms. It is worth between
$4,000 and $4,000.
Ease of Service
Looking at these statistics, Mr..
Bodfish said that the ease with
which building and loan aSsocia-
tions can serve owners of this type
in their remodeling plans will give
them a primary responsibility to
undertake the work. He added:
with most home-owners in
this group the largest single ex-
penditure of their lifetime, their
largest indebtedness has been
incurred in connection with the
home. They have cuStOmarily
gotten that financing from the
building and loan association.
They will be much more inclined
to go there again. furthermore,
the associations are SO familiar
with the type of credit risk be-
ing dealt with here that there
can be no question of their abil.
ity to close such loans more
rapidly and with less red tape
than other lenders now in the
field. This is one more reason
why in their 1885 lending pro.
gram associations are planning
expansion of this type of loans"
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i. S. National Wealth
Shows Increase

The total national wealth of the
United States amounted to 264.4
billion dollars in 1884 as compared
with 1912 billion in 1888 and with
1851 billion in 1882, the low for
the depression, according to the
Alexander Hamilton Institute. The
national wealth in 1884 was thus
1866 per cent higher than in 1882,
but it was 42.6 per cent lower
than the record high of 460.6 bill
lion dollars in 1929.
The peak reached by the ma
tional wealth in 1929 was chiefly
due to credit initiation. This is
indicated by the fact that the
wealth in terms OF dollars was
1855 per cent higher in 1929 than
in 1910 whereas real wealth dur
ing the same period showed an
increase of only 1858 per cent. The
slump in dollar wealth after 1929
was primarily due to the collapse
of the support afforded by credit
which became exhausted in 1929.
Wealth in terms of dollars de-
clined 500 per cent from 1929 to
1892 while real wealth declined
only 29.6 per cent. There would
have been no decline in real
wealth if prices had been permit
ted to decline to level indepen-
dent of the support of credit,
Since prices were maintained
above this level when no credit
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CHICAGO, April Z.-SaVlngS,
building and loan associations will
finance more than half of the
home modernization and repair
work undertaken in 1885 with a
probable disbursal of two to
three hundred million dollars, and
this performance will be in line
with their normal experience over
the past half century.
This was stated here today by
Morton Bodfish, executive vice
president of the United States
Building and Loan League. AS far
back as 1894, he points out, 38 per
cent of the number of loans held
by the association we're made for
remodeling purposes.
Attention was drawn to these
41-year-old statistics by the APP
proach of the anniversary Of the
Federal Governments first publ
cation of figures relating to the
home financing resources in the
nation. On May l, 1894, the
United States Commissioner of
Labor presented to President
Grover Cleveland the results of a
comprehensive survey of the build
ing and loan associations, their
loan portfolios, and other factors
characteristic at that time.
Rules Revised
Complete revision of the regu-
lations under Title I of the hous'
ing act applicable to savings,
building and loan associations,
agreed upon by Federal housing
authorities, and to be announced
in the near future, will make it
possible to insure regular long
term loans of the associations up
to IA months. Associations appre-
ciate the cooperation thus afford
ed by the Housing Administration
and will find their 1885 moderni'
cation lending pushed substan'
TALLY ahead by the change, the
league official said. Mr.. Bodfish
added:
"Thirty-eight per cent of the
number of loans by ASSOCIATIONS
in 1894 had been made for Orlgi-
nal amounts somewhere between
$500 and $500, showing concrete
evidence of the performance of
repair and m d erniZ on
financing by the associations at
this time. 1t is doubtful If there
were then in existence any other
types of lenders, except private
persons, to finance expenditures
for home remodeling which were
part of the property owners
natural procedure. Up until
our recent depression-induced
slump in peoples interest in
their homes, the financing of re-
modelling was always substan-
tial portion of our lending, some
times varying below the SO per
cent characteristic in 1894, but
always taken as matter of
course in the associations re-
sponsibilities for home financ-
ing.
RECORD CITED
performance of the aSSOcia-
tions in the mOdernizatiOn cam
paign up to the first of the year
also demonstrates their natural
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result of a slight rise in rents,
the spread is still too great to per-
NIT profitable building operations
On the basis of 1926 as 100, the
rent index in March was Ct,
whereas the cost of building in
dex was SO.
1t is not likely that much prog
ress will be made toward the
elimination of this spread during
the remainder of the year. A rise
in rents is always a slow process
and the high cost of food will
make it difficult to reduce wage
rates. not only of building labor
but of labor engaged in the man
ufacture of building materials.
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was available for support, there
was a decrease in real wealth.
During the period of deflation,
the decrease in dollar wealth was
overdone and the basis was con-
sequently laid for a rebound. The
development of this rebound &C
counted for most of the recovery
movement during 1888 and 1884.
The use of Government credit was
probably a contributing factor,
but it was evidently not of great
weight.
The rebound in dollar wealth,
however, was not accompanied by
corresponding increase in real
wealth because of the rise in
prices. Real wealth was only IA
per cent higher in 1884 than in
1882 as compared with the in
crease of 1876 per cent in dollar
wealth.
Per capita wealth amounted to
$4,000 in 1884 as compared with
$1,887 in 1888, with $1,817 in
1882, the low for the depression
and with the record high of So,
791 in 1929. Per capita real
wealth in 1884 was at practically
the same level as in 1882 when it
was 31.5 per cent lower than in
1929 and the lowest in the last
quarter of a century. 1t is probable
that the rebound in dollar wealth
has not yet spent its force and a
further rise will be in evidence
| this year.
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Do You Remember?
AnS1UerS to questions on
Dd0e 8:

ANSWERS to questions ON
page g.
Miss Parsons denied she will
marry George Vanderbilt, son
of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt.
DIR. Ferry discovered a new
antitoxin for spinal menin-
gifts, hailed as one of the
most important medical dis
cOveries in many years.
Chancellor Campbell, of
New Jersey, set June 20 as
the date for argument of the
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
appeal.
Mrs. Kimball, wife of
noted radio star, brought suit
for 100000 for alienation of
affections.
Lord Mayor of Dublin Byrne
arrived in Washington and
later reported a visitor had
taken his jewels of office.
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We hear that Jeff" Ford, of the
Lafayette Hotel, is interested in a
hotel proposition in Miami, Fla.
Mr.. Ford has always been a sue
cesSful hotel operator and no doubt
he will enjoy the same pleasure if
he undertakes this new venture.
George Ray and John Machinery
have officially opened the fishing
season by spending the weekend
at Oregon Inlet, N. C. The fish
ing there is said to be excellent, so
the anglers do not have to pur-
chase their catch" before return
ing home.
Building Progresses
Broo'-e Boyer is progressing very
nicely on some building he has
commenced on Sixth Street North
west.
Courses in real estate appraisal
are to be opened at the University
of Chicago by the American Insti-
tute of Real Estate Appraisers of
the National Association of Real
Estate Boards, starting August 5
and extending to August 81. Stu
dents taking this course will find
recreation in tennis, golf, hand.
ball, riding, swimming and many
other sports. 1t is also interesting
to note that women will be adj
mitted to the course.
According to records, New York
bank stocks registered small i'm
provement during the past week.
The aggregate value of Is leading
issues totaled $1,247 ,056,000 on
April 10, as compared with $1,236,-
$4,000 on April r. Along this
line 20 of the leading insurance
company stocks also showed an
improvement of OF per cent,
Realtors to Meet
An important national meeting
Of all realtors engaged in the
handling of servicing of mort
cages will be held at the Congress
Hotel, Chicago, May 3. The meet
ing is called by the mortgage and
finance division of the National
Association of Real Estate Boards
to consider ways and means OF
advancing the business of its
members. All members of the
division and all realtors who han
die or service mortgages as ar
important part of their business
are invited to attend.
Donald McKnew. president Of
D. H. McKnew & Co., has recent
~ returned from Asheville, N. c.
where he attended a meeting OF
the Grove Park Hotel, of which
he is vice president. The hotel
which is beautifully situated, is
said to be enjoying a prosperous
season. This weekend Mr.. Nc
Knew and his family are going tc
his country place on the Wico
mico River.
Merideth Daubin, one of the
smart young business men OF
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Washington, will shortly occupy
his new beautiful home recently
completed in the section of Ken
wood.
Many of the realtors interested
in horses will attend the annual
Gold Cup races to be held at War
renton, Va, May 4.
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Frank to Address
Law Review Guests

Jerome Frank, of the RFC,
will be one of the speakers at
the Columbia Law Review dinner
at the Ambassador Hotel in New
York Tuesday night. Other speak
ers will be Ferdinand Pecora and
Prof. Thomas Reed Powell, of
Harvard Law School,
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New Structures Offer
Buying Public Wide
Choice of STYLE

There appears be letup in the building of small homes
the which the builders receiving in the
dspong of them New operations to be prnging up
all the outlying sections of the city, One local builder has just
closed deal for large of land Massachusetts Avenue
extended and still another buying towards Annapolis
also interesting the style of houses being erected They
run from Colonial old English and naturally this creates
larger demand bv buvinr public,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-27
AAA Assails Shifts
In Butter Prices
International News Service

International News Service
An "abnormal' butter market,
with frequent and violent" price
fluctuations in Chicago and New
York, was assaulted today by A. H.
Lauterbach, chief of the AAA's
dairy section.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-27
US. Bank Gives Aid
To Cotton Exports

NEW ORLEANS, April q
G.N.SO The Expor t-Import
Bank is taking steps to try to help
cotton producers hold their dwin-
ding export market, Charles E.
Stuart, executive vice president of
the bank, told the American Cot
ton Shippers Association today.
The Washington times., 1935-06-21

in the parks every night. If they
don't take care of the veterans,
we'll pitch our tents on the
White House lawn"
Last nights gathering was adj
dressed by Representatives Vito
Marcantonio, of New York, and
Usher Burdick, North Dakota,
both of whom praised the Presi-
dents new drive on the rich"
Both told the bonus army they
favored immediate payment of the
bonus because cit is a back wage
due Americas veterans. They
were cheered at great length.
Mr.. Smith said today that
members of the bonus army are
coming into Washington at the
rate of 100 a day, and that while
many of them are being sent out
to camps by the Transient Blu
reau a good percentage are stay
ing to make the long fight for
the bonus.
A New Yorker, Mr.. Smith is
assisted in his organization work
by former Sergt. H. Lambdon,
known to many veterans as
Chick" from his prominence :
the bonus army of 1882, Mr..
Lambdon is from New Jersey.
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Here to Stay Bonus
Army Asks Action

"We've got about 1900 vet
Grams here from all parts of
the country, a nucleus of the
nationwide bonus army. and
we're going to stay until 1945
if we don't get any action be
fore that"
This statement was made to-
day by former Sergeant David w.
Smith, of New York, commander
of an organization which he says
embraces more than 10000 vet
Grams and which has taken for
itself the name Bonus Army"
Last night Mr.. Smith gathered
about him some 700 of his fol-
lowers now in Washington. He
ted them that the Government is
seeking to break up the bonus
gathering here by sending the
men to CCC and FERA camps in
South Carolina and Florida. To-
day he added:
"But there are plenty of us
who will stay here-until 1945,
if necessary, to demand our
bonus. There are hundreds of
our men-men who fought and
bled for their cOuntry-Sleeping
The Washington times., 1935-06-21
COUNTY GRANTS
BEERPERM|T
AFTER ROW
Mt. Rainier Loses Fight to Ban
First License Since Repeal;
Church Group Defeated

MT. RAINIER. Md. June 81.
ION sale" beer is to flow in Mt.
Rainier.
The town council yesterday lost
its fight before the Prince
Georges Board of License Commits
sioners to keep Carl Klein from
receiving an ION sale" beer license,
the first in town since whisky
was legalized but the second beer
license since 80 per cent beer
came back.
License Approved
The three commissioners, two
of whom come from Mt. Rainier,
approved the license after hearing
extensive arguments from both
sides at the Upper Marlboro hear.
ing rooms.
Bird H. Dolby, town counsel,
was spokesman for a delegation
opposing the license. Harold
Sothoron appeared as counsel for
Klein.
Churches Against 1t
Protests against the license
came from residents. the council,
and a half-dozen church organ
izations, who sought. also, to
eliminate all beer sales in the
town.
The board suspended the license
C. Fillippo Marietta, of Greater
Capitol Heights, for "a hours,
after a hearing. Marietta had
unknowingly violated the liquor
law in selling beer during a pro-
4--bited hour on Sunday and been
flied in police court. Under the
law, the liquor board has author
ity to suspend or revoke licenses
for violations of the law. -
The Washington times., 1935-06-21
VACATION FILLS
FAIRGROUNDS
MARIE 'TRUSLER

District school children released
from their classrooms for the
summer were crowding the city's
Fairgrounds today.
The youngsters have until Sep
TENDER % to enjoy Washington'S
many parks, Fairgrounds and
swimming pools. The wading
pools are not deep enough for
danger, but are plentiful for fun.
Only one additional playground
has been built since last year,
that near the Wentworth School.
All swimming pools under the
jurisdiction of the District author
tiles are so graded as to prevent
children from wading beyond
their depth. They are closely
supervised by swimming experts.
Baseball and handball games
were going in full force today.
The Washington times., 1935-06-21
s GET FREEDOM
IN L|QUORP PLOT

Four men and two women
charged with a liquor conspiracy
involving the alleged sale Of
thousands of dollars worth of
bogus whisky in the District were
freed on directed verdicts in Dis
trict Supreme Court today. The
case has been on trial since June
IL before Justice James M. Proc
tor. It will go to the jury prob
ably late today with but two of
the defendants remaining.
The Government charges that
the defendants, all of New York,
misused revenue stamps in SELL
ing the bogus whisky through
legitimate distributors here. Two
truckloads were seized last No.
vember when the defendants were
arrested and a large quantity
had been distributed before the
alleged violations were discovered,
it is claimed.
Those freed on directed YER
diets were A. C. Wolf, Benjamin
Feinberg, William AbrahamS,
Morris Goldstein, Marcia lobe
and Mrs. Joseph Berl. Joseph
Berl and Oscar Sapossnek are
those whose fate is to be decided
by the jury.
The Washington times., 1935-06-21
5 West Point Men
In Training Here

Five Washington men, who
graduated from West Point Mill
tary Academy this month, have
been enrolled in the Army FL
nance School for a two-week
course in money and property
responsibility, it was announced
today.
They are Second Lieuts. Ralph
E. Haines, of the 3400 block
Quebec st. N. w.; Chrales P.
Walker, of the 5000 block Six
tenth st. N. W.; James L. Frink.
jr., of the $500 block Wisconsin
Ave. N. W.; Robert C. Mcdonald,
jr., of the 1900 block Kilbourne
Pl. N. w., and Stuart G.. Fries,
of the 1900 block Woodley Rd.
N. w.
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1--WE are not Communists. -

1--WE are not Communists"
Morris Weissberg, young Civil
Service Commission attorney and
spokesman for the group of young
dramatists who are presenting
Waiting for Lefty at Pierce Hall
of All Sours' Unitarian Church,
defended the presentation of the
Communist propaganda play to-
day.
Young Weissberg, a temporary
employee, who has been with the
commission since January, was
emphatic in insisting that he and
his colleagues are interested only
in presenting any new and I'm.
usual plays that seem acceptable
for the Washington public. F.
Cites Censorship Vote
Sitting in a cool office, with
eight other quietly working Gov
eminent employees, he appeared
anything but Communistically in
clined as he shuffled examination
papers, and remarked:
"Why, at our last business
meeting we considered q petit.
ton to Congress against a bill
calling for strict censorship of
the stage. What did we do?
We voted the thing down
unanimously.
However, we won't shrink
from producing any plays that
have proven successful, and
even if such productions seem