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Evening star., 1935-07-27
BALTIMORE BUILDING
IS UNDER 1894 FIGURE
Home Construction This Year,
However, Shows Gain Over
Six Months Last Year.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, July 27-Building
operations in Baltimore in the first
six months of the current year reached
a valuation of S4,113,300, a decrease
of se54,O36, as compared with the
corresponding period of 1884, accord
ing to permits issued.
While the term does not compare
favorably with the same period of last
year, the record for the current year
indicated increased activity in in
dustrial construction and home build
ing.
Home construction was represented
by permits for the erection Of 155
dwellings at s607,000, as compared
with SO units of this class of con-
struction valued at s189.000 in the
same period last year.
New improvements. additions and
alterations last month reached a total
of 1887, ,840, as compared with s592, $50
for the same month of 1884, and
s979,68 for May, 1885.
Evening star., 1935-07-27
BUILDING PARLEY
DRAWS D. c. MEN
Three From Capital Among
u. S. Delegation to
Austrian C0nCIave.

Three Washingtonians will be
among the approximately so repre-
sentatives of the s7,000,000,000 saw
ings, building and loan business, who
will compose this country's delegation
to the Fifth International Congress of
Building Societies in Salzburg and
Vienna, Austria, September ! to 5.
Representatives of the District
Building & Loan League at the con-
greSS will be E. C. BaltZ, c. Clinton
James and Carl j. Bergman, presi-
dent of the league. Mr.. James and
Mr.. Bergmann will be accompanied
by their wives. Fourteen States are
represented in the delegation to date,
with Ohio and Kansas vying for the
largest number of delegates. Lieut..
Gov Charles w Thompson of Kansas,
one of the outstanding building and
loan leaders in the State, will be in
the party.
Headed by H. F. Cellarius. Cincin-
natl, secretary treasurer Of the United
States Building and Loan League, who
attended the first international con-
greSS in 1914 when the business repre-
sented only $3.50 100000 in assets,
the group will join the English dele
CATION of some 100 building society
managers en- route.
BOdfiSh TO Speak.
Morton Bodflsh, Chicago, executive
vice president of the United States
league, will address the assembly of
International home financiers in Salz-
burg Another prominent member of
the delegation is Henry S. RoSenthal
Cincinnati, assistant secretary of the
congress.
Discussions at the international
gathering, which is the first Of its
type to be held on the continent, will
compare methods of conducting the
thrift and home financing business
against the various political and
economic backgrounds of European
countries, monarchist England, Nazi
Germany, republican Austria and
France, and the Balkan variations of
these forms of state. Government
subsidies to housing and the efforts
and results of individual enterprise
in the field will come to the fore in
the more general discussions.
Divisional Meetings Planned.
Along with the congress meeting
of sponsors of the professional educa-
tional systems of the home mortgage
business of England and America will
be held, bringing together representa-
tives of the American Savings, Build
ing and Loan Institute and the Build
ing Societies Institute of the British.
A member of the American delegation
will address this divisional meeting on
the purposes and activities of this
country's building and loan educa-
tional and research body.
The American group will stop in
London for three days for special
study of the municipal housing devel-
opments there, and for first-hand
knowledge of the home building re-
vival in Great Britain and TO trace
some of the factors which have brought
that revival and which might be
grated onto the American recovery
in this field.
Besides Kansans, Ohioans and
Washingtonians, the group from this
country includes building and loan
executives from Arkansas, Illinois,
Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri,
New York, Texas and Vermont, and
cooperative bankers from Massachu-
sets and Rhode Island.
Sir Harold Bellman, managing di-
Continued OIL Page Z, Column 81
Evening star., 1935-07-27
FAMILY HOME
BOOM IS REVIVED
WITH IS PERMITS
Weeks Total Only II Less
Than Sum for July
Last Summer.
INCREASE is $50 PCT.
ABOVE PERIOD IN 1894
Valuation of $461 ,461 Is Nearly
Double That of Last Week
in District.

The boom in small home building
which began in the Capital area in
early Spring was resumed during the
past week following a slight slowing
down of activity, and permits for SO
one-family dwellings were issued by
the Office of Building Inspector John
w. Oehmann.
In number the homes for which
permits were issued in the week were
only II less than were approved by
Oehmann's Office during the entire
month of July last year. The increase
over the corresponding week Of 1884
was approximately $50 per cent.
The valuation of all types of build
ing permits issued in the week, in
Guiding new construction, additions,
alterations and repairs, was s461 ,46l.
Continued on Page 3, Column H.
Evening star., 1935-07-27
SILVER STAR HOME
OPENS TOMORROW
FOR PUBLIC VIEW
Attractive Home of French
Provincial Architecture in
BrookdaIe Development.
DWELLING Is FOURTH
IN SERIES OF 1885
Building Is in Lower Price Range
of Houses, With Many Superior
Structure Features.
BY JAMES Y. NEWTON.

A small but attractive home of
French provincial architecture will
be opened to the public tomorrow at
4708 River road as the fourth Silver
Star Home of 1885.
This white house, with graceful,
sweeping lines, is located just over
the District line in Montgomery
County, Md, and is a part OF the
new development, Brookdale, built
by Cooper Lightbown & Sons. 1t will
be open under sponsorship of The
Star for the next 80 days.
The house is sturdily built OF brick
and is set deep on lot IS by 80 feet
in dimensions. 1t contains six rooms,
a bath and a lavatory on the first
door. The selling price-$9, 500
places it in the lower price range of
houses being built about the Capital
today. 1t has been completely and
attractively furnished by Woodward
g. Lothrop.
Endorsed by Experts.
The praise as well as the indorSe-
ment of The Stars Special Commit
tee of housing experts was given this
house. This committee, which gives
rigid examination to all appllca-
tions for the Silver Star award. spoke
highly of the architectural design
and planning of the home and pro-
nounced it one of the best built struc-
lures they have viewed this year.
James S. Taylor of the Federal
Housing Administration and formerly
chief of the Division of Housing of
the Department of Commerce, is
chairman of the committee. Other
members include: Harold E. Doyle,
well-known Capital business man and
president of the Washington Real
Estate Board; Edwin H. RoSengarten,
builder and member of the firm OF
Davis, Wick & Rosengarten; Irwin S.
Porter, recently retired head of the
Washington Chapter of the American
Institute of Architects, and John
Nolen, jr., city planner of the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission.
The committee thought that this
Wdo NCl ou40SA w
serve as model of what should be
built In the lower-cost home field
about the Capital today. They be-
lieved that it represented an ex-
tremely good value.
Structurally Superior.
Structurally, the house is as good
as the average dwelling that is Of
fered at a much higher price. All
footings are of concrete, and the
foundation walls are of hollow tile.
The exterior walls are of brick veneer
over Reynolds metallated Ecod laths,
while the roof is of a high-grade
slate. The first floor has steel bar
joists with concrete slabs. All heat
ing and water pipes, cutters and lead
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column ID
Evening star., 1935-07-27
Silver Star Home
Opens Tomorrow
In BrOOkdale Area

The new Silver Star Home, at
4708 River road, Brookdale,
Montgomery County, Md, which
will be opened to the public to-
morrow, may be reached from
downtown Washington by driving
out Massachusetts, avenue to
Wisconsin, right or north on
Wisconsin avenue to River road
and left slightly less than a mile
on River road to the home.
The dwelling is located about a
block beyond the District line. 1t
will be open for 80 days under
sponsorship of The Star from 10
am. until 9 pm. 1t was built
by Cooper Lightbown' & Sons as
a part of their new subdivision,
Brookdale, and has been COM
pletely furnished by Woodward
& Lothrop.
Evening star., 1935-07-27
186 Pledges Added
In Better Housing
Drive During Week

Workers In the Washington
better housing campaign added
1856 pledges to their total during
the past week, which it was esti-
mated amounted to about $46,-
500 in home modernization work.
The canvassers interviewed $500
home owners in the period.
The figures for the week
brought the total number of
pledges for the entire campaign
to $3.50, and these home own
ers, it was estimated, agreed to
spend a total of 1897, $50 in
repairing, adding to and altering
their homes. Miss Elizabeth
Wheeler, F. H. A. field worker.
stated that 1879 modernization
Leads" were given to contractors
in the past week.
Evening star., 1935-07-27

its resistance to the elements and to
use.
In addition, ratings of the neigh
borhood are made. For example:
Protection against adverse influences,
the facilities of transportation, mainte-
nance of utilities, sanitation, the level
of taxes and special assessments, and
the presence of civic, social and COM
mercial centers, which include the
accessibility Of schools, stores and
community centers.
"A conditional commitment of the
Federal Housing Administration will
be recognized as the hall mark of a
property worth purchasing"
Evening star., 1935-07-27
COAL BIN REPAIR
Warm Months Give Opportunity
to Make It Dustproof.

to Make It Dustproof.
During the warm months, when
the coal supply is either low or ex-
hausted, the coal bin should be re-
paired and made dust proof. A dust
proof door or lift and a new lining
installed over the old walls are ad-
visable. Care should be taken to
close all cracks or openings where
the walls of the bin adjoin the
joists. Ceiling applied to the under
side of the joists assists in preventing
dust from working up through the
floor and side walls of the roof
above the bin.
Evening star., 1935-07-27
Variety of Finishings.

Beamed ceilings may be finished
with paint, enamel, lacquer, varnish
or stain.
Evening star., 1935-07-27
TOMORROW FINAL DAY
AT SILVER STAR HOME
Thousands Visit Cape Cod Co.
lonial Residence Opened Four
Weeks Ago in Wrenwood.

lonial Residence Opened Four
Weeks Ago in Wrenwood.
The third Silver Star Home Of 1885.
located at 1859 Quesada street. Chevy
Chase, will be open to the public for
the final day tomorrow.
Thousands of persons have visited
this attractive Cape Cod Colonial resi-
dence since it was first opened four
weeks ago. 1t was built by Paul T.
Stone, Inc, and is presented by j.
Wesley Buchanan. Hutchison's, Inc.
and John F. Lyon collaborated in the
furnishing and decorating.
The house is a portion of Stones
new subdivision, Wrenwood, located
in the District at the intersection of
Quesada street and Broad Branch
road. The home may be reached via
Connecticut avenue to Chevy Chase
Circle, east on Western avenue half
block to Quesada street and then east
two blocks to Broad Branch road.
The house will be open tomorrow
from 10 am. until 9 pm.
Evening star., 1935-07-27

Continued on Page 8, Column H.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-12-12
HOYES

For the benefit of our many friends
who live in warmer climes, we wish to
mention that we are having plenty of
ice and snow, but fine winter weather.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Arthur Dewitt and
Lou Robert motored to Oakland on
Wednesday for a shopping trip.
Members of the Epworth League
and Sunday school of the local NJ. E.
church are preparing programs to be
given at the church on the night be-
fore Christmas. Mrs. Webb Dewitt
has charge of training the children.
Alvin Fike who unfortunately lost
his eyesight, has entered school for
the blind at Baltimore where he is
being instructed in doing many kinds
of work which will be much satisfac-
ton to him.
The Hoyes Homemakers Club met
on Tuesday evening at the community
house and rendered very beautiful
Christmas program, following the bus
mess session and election of officers
for the coming year. The program con-
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sisted of singing Christmas songs and
the discussion of list of questions
pertaining to Christmas and the eX-
change of gifts which were handed out
by Santa Claus from beneath a lovely
Christmas tree. The program ended
with the serving of refreshments to
the All girls and their mothers. The
evening was greatly enjoyed. The
January meeting will be held at the
home of Mrs. Webb Dewitt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Custer and
Miss Zelda Holiday attended church
services at FriendsviIle Sunday morn
ing, following which they were dinner
guests and spent the afternoon with
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Swanton, Nd.

Swanton, Md.
Dear Santa Claus:-I am real good
girl. I go to school every day. l am
in the seventh grade. AS you have been
so kind to me every year, am not go
ing to ask for toys. Do please bring
me a real nice piano and that will be
all this Christmas. Please don't for
get my two brothers, Howard and
Gerald. Your little girl,
WILDA O'HAVER
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German. Md.

Dear Santa Claus:-I am a little
girl nine years old and l want you to
bring me rubber doll baby, a nice
snow suit, a toy typewriter, Micky
Mouse wrist watch and my little broth
er Eddie wants steam shovel, tri-
cycle, a toy saXaphone, a stream line
train and a nice tree, candy and nuts.
Please bring US anything you think we
would like. Your little friend,
BETTY JEAN SCHAEFFER
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II VIZ ~
BOBBY MILLER
Oakland, Nd

Dear Santa:-I am little girl 5
years old. Mother said l was good
girl. I help her do many things.
For Christmas please bring me a
washing machine like Mammals; a
Shirley Temple doll and buggy to
take her to town in; a set of china
dishes and a table cloth for my little
table you brought me last year.
hope l am not asking for too much.
Many thanks for the presents you gave
last year. Your little girl,
NAOMI JUNE LEWIS.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-12-12
Friendsville, Nc

Dear Old Santa:-I am a little girl
eleven years old and I am in the sixth
grade. My papa has been sick for
over a year. When he was well he
always gave old Santa some money to
buy presents with. I don't know if
he will get to give you any this year,
but if you have the money 1 would
like to have a sled. I will close with
wishing every one a Merry Christmas
and Happy New Year. Your friend,
MILDRED FRIEND.
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Oakland. Dec. Is.

Dear Santa Claus:-I am a girl 10
years of age. For Christmas I would
like to have a set of books for a fifth
grader, with two book ends; also a
set of dominoes; some nuts, oranges
and candy and anything else you wish
to bring me. Your honey,
SARA C. LEWIS.
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Accident. Md. Dec. IL

@AONINNgIIOI -TINIs3
Dear Santa:-I am a little girl four
years old and I am trying very hard to
be good. would like for you to bring
me play house, an iron and nice big
baby doll.
Don't forget the other little boys
and girls. Your little friend,
DOLORES STEPHEN.
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R1aine w Va. Der. 16.

DIeIIIO, " et'J DOO' IU'
Dear Santa Claus:-I am little boy
years old and am in the second grade.
l would like for you to bring me a
pair of high top shoes, cowboy suit, a
gun and an airplane and lots Of nuts
and candy, an orange and don't forget
Sonny Boy and Elizabeth Lewis in
Oakland Yours truly,
EARL COVERS.
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He hopes to answer them all by next
Wednesday
Oakland, Marylan

OdhIdIIl, NIdI J IolIIOI'
Dear Santa Claus:-I am a little boy
three years old. Mamma says l have
been very good too l would like you
to bring me for Christmas a tool box
full of tools, just like my daddy's, a
stock farm, fire truck with siren, a
wagon, musical top, and pair of
white boots.
Little Buddie is one year old. He
wants a red ball, dogie, snow suit, a
fire truck he can ride, some tiny cars,
and a bouncing bronco pony. Don't
forget all my little cousins and grand
ma on the farm. Please trim our tree
and bring, candy, nuts and oranges.
Your little boy,
BOBBY MILLER
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Accident, Md.

Dear Santa Claus;-I am a little
boy years old and in the first grade
Of school. Please bring me pair of
shoes, candy, nuts, oranges, two ever
sharps. Do not forget my little broth
er, father, mother, and all the other
little boys and girls. With love,
GERALD GLASS.
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SWantnn. Nd

Dear Santa:-I am boy ten years
old. l go to school every day and have
never missed a day this winter. l am
in the fifth grade. try to be good, l
help my daddy what can. Now please
bring me a leather coat, nice pair of
gloves, and any kind of a toy you
wish. Don't forget to bring lots of
candy, nuts and oranges.
Your little friend,
HOWARD O'HAVFR.
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Mt. Lake Park, Dec. Is.

Mt. Lake Park, Dec. Is.
Dear Santa Claus:-Please bring me
a rubber doll with a pink dress and
pink underskirt. Walter wants a toy
horn and book I am seven years old.
Don't forget the poor boys and girls.
HELEN MAE MOON.
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Your little boy,
IRWIN G. STEIDING.


DIV dIIJUII, NIU.
Dear Santa am little boy eight
years old. l go to school and like my
teacher real well. l try to learn all I
can and have never missed a day this
year. Now Santa, I like to play lots
so won't you bring me a nice big
train, truck and a gun and anything
more that you can spare. Don't for
get all my little cousins who live in
Oakland. Your little boy,
GERALD O'HAVER.
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Oakland. Md.

Dear Santa Claus;-I am a good lit
tie girl. live upstairs on Oak street.
You won't have any trouble finding my
home, so will you please bring me for
Christmas a baby doll and buggy, a
doll house and set of china dishes,
candy, nuts and oranges. Don't for
get to trim our tree. Wishing you and
Mrs. Santa Claus a merry Christmas.
Your loving pal,
IMOGENE LEWIS.
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Oakland. Dec. 18, 1885.

OaKIanu, DEC. 10, BOO.
Dear Santa Claus:-I am little girl
three years old. Mama says l am a
good little girl. For Christmas I would
like to have a baby doll and a rocking
chair for daddy, who is crippled, and
bring anything else you wish to.
Your friend,
BETTY JANE NAIR.
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SWantOn. Md.

Dear Santa:-I have been a very
good girl. 1 want dress and pair of
pajamas and a brushed wool skirt and
sweater. | am in the third grade in
school. | like my teacher fine. l want
some candy and nuts.
NINA WAGNER.
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IMOGENE LEWIS.
Oakland, Md

Dearest Santa CIaus:-I am a little
girl almost years old. Please bring
me a woody dog that says bow-wow;
rubber doll, and a rocking chair. Also
lots of candy and oranges. Goodbye.
Your little pal,
LOUISE ELLEN LEWIS
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Dear Santa would like for you
to bring me baby doll, a toy laundry
set and a picture book. Don't forget
little sister Dollie and all my little
friends. BETTY MAE FLANAGAN.
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Swanton. Nd

Dear Santa Claus:-We are twin
brothers. We are six years old. We
have tried hard to be good all year.
We are staying with our grandpa in
the country. Santa please bring US
each a coaster sled, some story books,
and a balky mule, candy, nuts and
oranges. Your little boys,
PAUL and PERRY STEIDING
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SMantOn. Md.

0WdnJOn, MD.
Dear Santa Claus:-I have been a
very good girl. want you to bring
me new doll, a doll buggy, some
clothes for my old doll, pajamas, size
5; skirt, sweater, candy and nuts.
And don't forget to bring grandfather
a plug of Browns Mule tobacco. And
don't forget the other children; also
my brothers and sisters.
GERALDINE WAGNER.
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NCIIUUTy, DC. 10.
Dear Santa CIaus:-I am a little
boy, 9 years old, go to school every
day.
Well, Santa, will you please bring
me car van with three little cars on
it and a pair of kid gloves. Now, San
ia, don't forget to stop at my house.
You will find me just as happy this
year as you did last year. And Santa,
please bring me some candy, but don't
let SQUIRT, my dog, eat it as he did last
year. He likes candy, too. Don't forget
my schoolmates.
A happy little friend,
CARROLL EDMUND HARVEY.
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Accident. Md

Dear Santa Claus:-I am little
boy in the fourth grade. Please bring
me some candy, shoes, oranges, apples,
nuts, pencil tablet And don't forget
the other little boys and girls. Do
not forget my father and mother.
EARL GLASS
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oakland, Dec. 10.
Dear Santa Claus:-I am a little girl
7 years old. For Christmas I would
like to have a blue ball, a doll, cabi-
net, set of dishes, with knives and
forks; also a marble game, some nuts,
oranges and candy.
Your friend,
MAXINE LEWIS.
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Oakland, Md

Dear Santa:-I am a little girl 8
years old I would like for you to
bring me a snow suit, a big doll with
long curly hair and some candy, nuts
and oranges.
JUANITA MERSING.
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Dear Santa:-I am a little boy 6
years old. I would like for you to
bring me a bank, wagon, some candy,
oranges and nuts. Goodbye.
CHARLES MERSING.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-12-12

Dear Santa:-I have been good. l
want you to bring me a twin sweater
set and skirt of brushed wool,
book called Betty" a pair of stock
ings, size 8, some hankies, candy, nuts.
Be sure to visit all the children.
OPAL WAGNER.
P. S-Bring my brother something
nice, too.
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Accident. Md.

Accident, Md
Dear Santa Claus:-I am a little boy
three years old. Please, Santa, bring
me some blocks, oranges, apples, candy
and tool set. With love,
DALE GLASS
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Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Rush at Bloom
ing Rose.
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NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS
MEETING

The annual meeting of the Farmers
Union Association and Fire Insurance
Company of Garrett County will be
held at Accident,
DECEMBER 81, 1885,
Beginning at 1000 o'clock. All policy
holders are urged to be present.
R. C. TURNEY, Secretary.
Advertisement 45-2t.
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Oakland. Md

Dear Santa:-I am a good little boy
8 years old. l feed my dog and kitten
every day, and l never scold them
Daddy and Santa liked good boys.
Please bring me a wagon, a ball, tool
set and stock farm, candy, nuts and
oranges. Don't forget to trim our
tree.
Wn,,,, lit+lo L,n,.
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