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Evening star., 1935-11-16
ENGLISH BUILDERS
HOLD TO PAY SCALE
Low Wages Responsible for DIFF.
ferent Costs-Labor Short.
age Claimed.

Building trades employers in Eng
land adhere to the union scale Of
wages. according to the current bulle-
tin Of the Building Trades Employers
Association of New York, which sug-
gests that the wage scale abroad
should be taken into consideration in
any comparison Of large housing prof.
ects there and in this country. There
is constant employment for all the
English building trades, with even a
shortage of labor, the bulletin de-
clares.
Taking the Manchester district as
typical Of all England, the bulletin
notes that current wages are less than
in 1920, being the lowest since that
time. For an average 44-hour week
English building mechanics are paid a
limit Of so cents an hour. Bricklayers
and concrete workers get 38 cents an
hour, joiners and carpenters receive
49 cents an hour and laborers 20
cents.
While conceding that the cost Of
living for the working classes in Eng
land is less than in the United States,
the bulletin declares that the differ
ence is not as great as that between
wages paid building workers here and
in England Building wages in some
sections of this country average about
four times the English, it was esti-
mated
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ington Chapter of the American In
stitute of Architects; F. Eliot Mid
dleton, real estate broker and presi-
dent of the Washington Real Estate
Board; John Nolen, jr., city planner
of the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission, and Edwin H.
Rosengarten, builder, member OF the
firm of Davis, Wick & Rosengarten.
Outstanding structural features Of
the Upton street house include Stran
steel construction of the first and
second floors, which are REINFORCED
with concrete; furred walls, and
aluminium foil insulation of the CELL
ing of the second floor, and copper
piping. There is a lavatory on the
first floor and in the basement. The
second floor contains three bed rooms,
two baths and small room which
could be used either as a den or
nursery. There is a large storage
space in the attic, which space is
reserved in the basement for club
lOOIIl W VIC 1l1llSlLCO O44 W Quiz tlAC
taste of the future owner. The
kitchen Is equipped with the latest
style gas range, while the house Is
heated by a gas-burning furnace.
Central Hall Entrance.
Entrance to the home is made into
a central hall, which opens on the
left into a spacious living room. This
living room is % feet inches deep
and 13 feet in width. 1t has a large
fireplace, a door leading to a side
porch, and windows on three sides.
The dining room to the right of the
entrance hall Is Is feet by IL feet 6
inches in size. The compact kitchen is
directly in rear of the dining room.
The latter room opens on another
large porch which could be used for
Summer dining. There is a small
service porch attached to the main
porch which connects directly with
the kitchen.
The master bed room is directly
above the living room, and is 10 feet
by IA feet in size. This bed room has
a connecting bath and ample closet
space. The second bath is of the up
Evening star., 1935-11-16
BY LAWRENCE CRoLIUs.

If true Winter comfort is desired,
one Of the many humidifying devices
now available for almost every size
home-be 1t a large house or small
apartment-wculdb bear inspection.
Humidity-the moisture content of
the air We breathe-is subject to a
great deal of humor during the Sum-
mer, when usually there is too much,
but when cold weather comes it is
completely overlooked by most every
one. The reason it is overlooked is
probably because there is so little of
it, but for just that reason. something
should be done about moistening up
the parched atmosphere.
In the first place, it will make a
healthier environment, as it prevents
the drying up of delicate membranes
of the nose and throat, thereby pre-
venting colds to a large extent.
Saves Furniture.
It will prevent the drying out OF
furniture and woodwork, which causes
legs to come off Of chairs, cracks to
occur in panels and decoration. and
wide openings between the boards on
floors.
Most interesting Of all to the home
owner trying to cut down operating
expenses is the fact that properly
humidified air will help cut down fuel
costs to a considerable extent. Instead
of having to maintain a temperature
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the air supply is brought into the unit,
filtered, humidifled and forced up into
the house through the floor grille.
Pay for Themselves.
Owners of homes equipped with old
fashioned hot-air plants can very
easily install humidifying mechan-
ism that will give very good results.
An evaporating pan equipped with an
automatic float control will supply
sufficient moisture to take care Of the
entire house using the present sys-
tenn of ducts. These hot-air furnaces
may also be equipped with spray
type unit which will supply filtered,
moistened air with forced circulation.
Most of these devices are low in cost
and will pay for themselves many
times over in increased comfort, as
well as lowered heating costs.
For further information concerning
the products mentioned in this COL
umn, call or write the Home Mod
ernization Editor, Evening Star
Building.
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thousands OF non distressed mort

thousands Of n-distressed mort
cages"
Boom predictions came from many
sources. Delano told the group, along
with word that the Home Loan Bank
system is here to stay, that there
are distinct signs that the (Home
Loan) bank system is at last begin
ming to work constructively rather
than merely as relief agency"
John H. Fahey, chairman of the
Home Loan Bank Board, recounted
"undeniable" evidences Of recovery,
and interest in modern, truly salts
factory housing developing rapidly to
an extent never known before" Nor
ton Bodfish of Chicago, executive Sec
retary Of the league, fatty declared
every fact points to a real estate
boom of major proportions, particu-
larly in residential property" But he
warned that I'VE should not blind
ourselves to the fact that the base
has been laid for a colossal expan-
sion of mortgage credits" and added,
I'VE are building toward another de-
preston, which will seriously affect our
form of Government, if not its perma-
nency, unless we abolish all sorts of
subsidies and preferential treatments,
be they called tariffs, processing taxes
on foodstuffs, 31a per cent interest on
farm mortgages, or what have you.
The tax system of the country, from
start to finish, but particularly as it
affects real estate, needs study and
alteration in the interest Of more
stable and prosperous business condi-
tions,"
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stairs hallway, and conveniently placed
in relation to both Of the other bed
rooms which are to the right of the
hall. The back bed room is II feet 6
inches by IL feet 6 inches in size,
while the front rooms dimensions are
the same. The nursery or den opens
of of the front bed room.
1t has been approximately year
since the first home in Westerleigh was
occupied, and now there are % FAM
lilies living there. The Miller firm has
sold five other homes in the develop
ment, and are putting finishing
touches to a number of others. The
subdivision carries the same rigid re-
strictions as are in effect in both
Spring Valley and Wesley Heights.
The home will be open daily in
the 80 days exhibition period from
10 q m. until 8 pm.
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TREND TO PRIVATE
BUILDING SEEN
Contractors Expect Deficit
In Construction to Be
Released.

Believing the recent steady upward
trend in private construction volume
Is the forerunner Of genuine re-
vival Of major proportions within the
industry, the Associated General Con-
tractors of America will hold their
seventeenth annual convention jan
uary 13, IA and Is, at the Miami
Biltmore Hotel, Miami. Fla, prepared
to give accelerating force to this
trend. Edward J. Harding, managing
director of the association, has an
nounced.
At the same time, he announced
the formal nomination of William A.
Klinger of Sioux City, Iowa. and Ed
ward P. Palmer of New York City, as
president and vice president-at-large,
respectively, to head the general con-
tractors national association in 1896.
succeeding President Nick F. Helmers
OF St Paul and A. w. Merchant of
Providence.
Studies Verify Trend.
"Every recent statistical study
makes it quite apparent" Harding
states, that the volume trend In the
field of private construction has defi-
nitely headed upward, that it may be
expected to continue its upward
trend, and that the trend will be
accelerated"
For the first time in more than
four years, therefore, it is anticipated
that the conventions major attention
will be turned to the encouragement
and acceleration of this pronounced
trend in private construction, rather
than to the field Of publicly financed
work, upon which the industry has
had to rely so heavily during the
depression.
Demand to Be Loosened.
Harding estimates that there Is
an accumulated deficit of at least
eighteen billion dollars in private
construction over the period Of the
last five years, and that the recent
upward trend may be viewed as a
seepage through that must soon break
the dam which has pent up this
demand. He attaches particular sig
nificance to the fact that industrial
construction is setting the pace in
this movement, and believes that
when the dam is broken the wheels
of all industry will again start turn
ing at a sustained rapid pace. Resi-
dental construction, which now is
showing decided pickup, may reach
boom proportions when the dam is
finally broken, Harding states.
The new nominees to head the
contractors association are outstand-
ing figures in the construction in
dustry. Klinger is president of the
William A. Klinger Corp, prominent
Midwestern building contracting firm.
while Palmer is secretary-treasurer of
Senior g. Palmer, engineering con-
tractors who have done extensive
work along the Atlantic Seaboard.
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Washington financial affairs, was
named second vice president Of the
league, and by the customary line Of
succession becomes president in 1887.
Baltz was named to the Office at the
final convention session today. He is
secretary of the Perpetual Building
Association in the Capital, one of the
country's largest institutions of the kind.
and also is vice chairman of the Board
of Directors of the Federal Home
Loan Bank of Winston Salem, which
covers the District of Columbia.
Condemns Rate As Too Low.
Interest rates on loans to home
builders came in for running fire
OF criticism throughout the three-day
convention. At the very start Com
mittee on Home Financing reported
that 'the Federal Housing Admins
tration has been concentrating on a
per cent blanket rate" and it con-
tended that the rate was too low, and
that artificial fixing OF commodity
prices has been condemned as un-
economic; fixing of credit prices is
equally uneconomic"
The fire kept up unabated, although
President Roosevelt, in a message to
the convention, declared 1--WE must
have the courage to lower the costs of
financing" to match American inge-
nuity in home planning and con-
struction.
1T Is economically impossible for
private institutions engaged in the
financing Of homes to compete with
the Federal Government in the field
of housing" the convention COM
planned in formal resolution. Such
competition, plus an asserted tendency
on the part Of the Government "to
attempt to dictate the standards
and terms upon which private enter
prise shall operate" it charged, has
caused individuals to hold up building
plans in the hope of even more favor
able Government terms, and so has
retarded "the normal flow of mortgage
money"
Told Of Money Enough"
There is money enough, if only
those holding it can be weaned away
from q desire for liquidity, Preston
Delano, governor of the Federal Home
Loan Bank System, told the .conven-
ton. He cited estimates that there
are $4,000, ,o0o, 900 now being held. in
demand or semi-demand vaults which
properly belongs in the long-term
mortgage field"
Asking that "a halt be called in
Government activity in the housing
and mortgage field" the convention
asked as well that the Home Owners
Loan Corp. turn over to private en-
terprise as soon as possible "its many
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dwelling Highland
investor by the Thomas FARRELL Co. 1t
built by the Woodsde Construction Co.
2 dwelling
Cathedral Gotwal
transaction made through the Office Phillips Canby
Colony purchased
by Mr. and Phelps builders through
o. Frank S. Phillips. Staff Photos
Evening star., 1935-11-16
Convention

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-05
REP THOMS LED
 FINAL REVOLT.

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AMERICANS TAKE
 ABOUT $3,OOO,OOO

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Industries OF Three \ States ParaLyzed
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commissioner, to Toledo. He ar- ranged conferences which averted immediate walkouts but which failed to effect a lasting truce. Lenders In Dispute Definite decision to call the walkout was made by a union committee of 35, empowered by the membership to act.
 Union leaders offered to "Listen to any reasonable proposal" by the company. Toledo Edison offic- ials proposed plan under which demands for the wage increase would be arbitrated.
 The union refused, but offered counter proposal that the com pany grant workers an immediate five per cent raise, and submit the balance of the 20 per cent to arbi- tration.
 Employees at Wauseon and Defi. ance, larger cities in the affected area, were expected to join the walkout later today.
 Meanwhile, office workers of To- ledo Edison presented demands for cancellation of two 10 percent pay reductions, in addition to de- mands for the same general 20 percent increase asked by operat- ing workers. The office workers union, however, agreed to an ex- tension of time before Joining the walkout. It was understood office workers would be allowed to pass through picket lines.
 Workers Laid Off
 Toledo, O., June 5-(UP)-Ef- feet of the strike of Toledo Ed ison operating employees was felt immediately today by industry. Within an hour after the strike was called, 5000 workers in two big factories had been laid off be- cause dwindling electric current became too weak to operate ma chimes.
 At Electric Auto-Lite company. scene of wild rioting year ago when union employees walked out and later sacked the plant, 4,SO0 employees were laid off.
 Earlier, 1900 had been laid off at the Libbey Glass manufactur- ing company.
 Both plants were closed. Indica- tions were that scbres of smaller factories would be forced to shut down.
 Hundreds of workers from the closed plants swarmed to the To- ledo Edison main generating plant to join strikers on the picket lines.
 The Acme powder plant of To- ledo Edison company was deserted by the night shift of firemen and the day shift failed to appear.
 Office Workers Join
 Toledo, O., June 5-(UP)--One hundred and fifty office workers of Toledo Edison company joined
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were faced with loss of their jobs through shutdown of factories and business establishments relying on electricity for power.
 The strike came after a frantic, fiight-Iong effort on the part or company officials and federal me- diators to obtain some sort of a truce.
 Until 3 a. m. it was hoped the strike could be averted. Then Oliver Myers, union business agent, emerged from conference with company officials, announcing ne had rejected overtures.
 Toledo Edison Company supplies current to 17 cities in Ohio. in- ciuding Toledo, three cities in Mich skan and two in Indiana. It em- ploys approximately 5S0 workers .., First to Feel It s, The $2,0OO,000 Libbey Glass Manufacturing Company was the first major industrial concern to feel the strike. It closed its huge plant at a. m. in anticipation or the walkout, laying off 1,2OO work CTS. H. J. Darrow, works manager, said the strike would cause the company thousands of dollars in molten glass now in process oi manufacture.
 s9i The tie-up struck homes, fac- tories and offices alike.
 Pickets took up stations around the main generating plant a hair hour before the strike became ef- fective, Other pickets were dis patched to outlying plants ana sub-stations.
 N Union leaders said the tie-up would be Gradual. Myers assured factory managers that lines lead- ing to their plants would not be Sfepriyed to current so quickly that huge boilers would cool too sud- denly, endangering lives of work CTS.
 If the strike continues, homes will be powerless tonight in an area populated by a half million people.
 Communities affected included:
 In Northwestern Ohio-Toledo, Maumee, Perrysburg, Defiance, Sylvania, Rossford, Wauseon, Del Ia, Archbold, Fayette, Holland, ot- tawa Hills, West Union, Stryker, Point Place and Genoa.
 Tn Southern Michigan-Erie, I.asa1le and Temperance. .a In Northeastern Indiana-Ham- ilton and Metz.
 ll Controversy between the com pany and its union employees be- came acute last Thursday when operating workers voted 25S to in favor of a strike effective the next night.
 The U. $. Department of Labor sent J. E. o'Connor, conciliation
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Faber To
 Die Friday Morning
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back to the death house from the Cherry Hill section of the prison yesterday after the U. s. Supreme Court had refused to review the case.
 "This is better here than in Cherry Hill." Irving was quoted as saying as he entered death cell No. 2. lover there the food is not so good"
 The brothers have been spending their last days writing letters. reading, and drawing pehcli sketches. Irving said ne oio not realize he had any artistic ability until he entered prison.
 Faber Is StudiOus
 Meanwhile the temperamentai
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fContinued from Page 1.) the outsider, Robin Goodfellow, who finished second, thus winning $73,S00 each, were:
 Lucky Sophie," 2s1 Patchen avenue, Brooklyn.
 Just Another Chance" 6Ol Grand avenue, Brooklyn.
 J. A. Fassick, 47 Park avenue, New York.
 Frank Maguire. s25 Park place. Brooklyn.
 Third Horse Winners
 Holders of tickets on the third horse, Field Trial, were:
 William J. Cunnie, sos W. 14sth street, New York.
 "Foursome," 263 Howard avenue, Grimes Hill, Staten Island. N. Y-
 "Eight. Hard Nuts," Fri Buck Lane, Haverford, Pa.
 In addition, Canadian, signing himself "Slim." held a ticket on Field Trial.
 The Aga Khap's Theft, 100 to 8 in the betting, was fourth. Fair Haven was fifth and Sea Bequest sixth.
 Owner Gets Ovation
 The Aga Khan, Indian potentate whose income is estimated at more than $11,OO0,OO0 was given an ovation as he smilingly led in the popular winner.
 The race is for a purse of about $44,500.
 Bahram is a 3-year-old bay by Blandford- -Friar's daughter. He is unbeaten, this being the seventh victory of his career. There are few in England who do not re- gard him as unbeatable. Bahram is now established as England's greatest three-year-old and many regard him as the great est in the world.
 This was the Aga Khar's second Derby victory. He won in 1880 with Blenheim, sired by the Great Blanford, as was Bahrafn. It was also the second Derby victory for Fred Fox. He won in 1881 on John A. Dewar's Cameronian. Fox is 47 and started riding in 1907. He is lightweight jockey for the king.
 We'll Done He Told Jockey
 After the race, the Aga Khan clapped him on the back and said well done. Thank you, Freddy"
 "Bahram is a good horse and he ran splendidly," Fox said.
 The total value of today's Derby was $54,252, of which the Aga Khan's share was $45,521. He thought less of that, however, than of winning the Derby and achiev- ing his ambition to own an unbeat- en colt in any high-class race.
 q am most delighted to have won, especially as it is the kings jubilee year." he said. Racing is uncertain but Bahram is a good horse and thoroughly justified the public's confidence in him."
 After leading in the winner, the Aga Khan was summoned to the royal box to receive the congratula- tions of the king, who. with the queen and Prince of Wales witness ed the race.
 Sold Half Her Ticket
 Mrs. Hyman, holder of one of the two tickets on Bahram, mother of six children, and a grandmother at 42 said: Mrs Jessie Brown of- fered me s30,000 for half the ticket until this morning when she came by and boosted it to s40,000. My husband said We are not hogs; let them have it. and I did"
 She said she intended booking passage on the Normandie sailing Friday for tour of Europe.
 Mrs. Brown was thrilled" by her good fortune.
 Theodore obcrlc. clerk who held the other ticket on Bahi1m. left hls furnished room Saturday night when he was informed he had drawn c horse. He gave no for. warding address.
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BATTLE FLEET
 { WILL REHEARSE

Aboard the U. s. S. Pennsylvania. with the United states Fleet at Sea-. June 6.-(UP).-The U. 5. feet prepared today for rehear- sal of the gigantic aerial show 1t will stage on entering San Diego harbor June 10. at the concuusion of it's maneuvers.
 Given 6 days respite from the Initiative battle eraciicc which has occupied bp,000 officers and sail. ors under Admiral Joseph A. Reeves since their departure from
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Honolulu, the surface vessels and the d50 airplanes attached to the battle force planned to make iet- ter perfect the parts they will play in their erecting Co the San Diego exn0sltlon.
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they could not follow the trail through the woods.
 State policemen remained in Wolcott until autumn without any valuable information being un- earthed. Rumor after rumor was checked and found groundless. A momentary sensation was caused when State Trooper Patrick O'Toole reported he had fired at Crow in the woods near his shack. but there was not too wide a be- lief that the murderer had been actually seen and fired at.
 In the months since last June. state police have checked up thor oughly on possible refugees where Crow might be in hiding. But hiF whereabouts ln June. 1885, have been ns much mystery as they were in June. 1884.
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the keys would yield any informa- tion of value.
 The statement that the body found was not that of Crow came after lengthy examination at the Anderson Funeral Home on Central avenue this morning by Dr. Platt. Coroner John T. Monzani. and Lieutenant William Schatzman and Trooper Leo Mulcahy of the state police.
 Constable Comes on Body
 While Parsons was gone to make a report of the finding of the body on the shores of tke reservoir in Wolcott last night.
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ARMY SEEKING
 PART OF FUNDS

Washington, June 5.-(UPl.- The army, through it's quartermas- ter general. applied today for $55.- 312,328 from the $4,000. 1000. 900 work relief fund for repair and modernization of camps and forts.
 The project, army officers said. would be almost all self-liquidating. Soldiers are paid living allowances because Of inadequate quarters and excessive cost of maintaining tenn porary barracks.
 The publications included:
 Vermont - Burlington, Fort Ethan Allen, $276,700.
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the strike of operating employees today and established a picket line outside the main offices. The strike was called by Robert Daugherty, president of the office workers union.