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Evening star., 1936-05-30
RECKLESS DRIVING.

RECKLESS DRIVING.
Virgil Rector Brannon, I'LL Mon
tello avenue northeast, $25.
SECOND-OFFENSE SPEEDING.
Phillip J. Kearns. 1907 Kenilworth
avenue northeast, SIS.
Wilson j. Smith, 1922 L street, SIS
FIRST-OFFENSE SPEEDING.
Inez E. Onley, 63s Acker street
northeast, SIS.
GRATIS H. Parrish, La Fayette
Hotel, $40.
John Conrad. Virginia, $40.
Edward B. Lockett, 1885 Thirty
seventh street, $40.
Robert Higginbotham. $50 Gresham
place. $40.
Raleigh H. Diamond, 23ls F street,
$40.
William r. Broderick, 2os K street
$40.
Maurice Shapiro. 1889 Upshur
street, $40.
James s. Brown, 7ss Morton street
$40.
Francis s. Walker. 7s4s McGill
terrace. $40.
Thomas D. Williamson, 1911 r
street southeast, IS.
Leon Taishoff. '227 Concord ave-
nue., IS.
+ James T. Mills. 1904 Sixth street,
IS.
Evening star., 1936-05-30
HOME FACTORIES
PLAN IS DEBATED
Lower Costs Found Desir.
able, but Mass Produc-
ton Is Opposed.
srecial Dispatch to The sta-.

NEW YORK, May 30-Presldent
Roosevelt's recent remarks about the
need for factory production of houses
by automobile methods has created q
great deal OF comment among builders
and building material producers, ac-
cording to Joseph B. Mason, Eastern
editor, the American Builder.
Most building men agree that lower
home costs are desirable" Mason said,
"but they vigorously deny that the
approach to the problem is the same
as in the automobile industry. It may
be comparatively easy to build house
In o factory. The problem that has
stumped all prefabricated house
makers thus far Is getting the house
delivered and erected economically
out on some distant hillside.
THE New Deal has done q great
deal for the home building industry
and through the introduction Of the
F. H. A. single-mortgage system has
laid the basis for great revival,
which is already getting under way.
Most building men. while appreciating
this fact. nevertheless feel that the
Presidents statement has harmful
effect on home building. Continued
publicity given to prefabricated houses
Is q constant cause of trouble and mis-
understanding to builders. The public
Is led to believe that just around the
corner is some sweeping new develop
ment that will provide twice as much
house for half the money. Such an
expectation is out of the question.
The building industry is too great,
widely diversified and slow moving to
make such rapid changes. Houses
are too closely associated with long
established living habits to change
quickly.
Builders Holding Back.
$50 the result of constant talk
about revolutionary new building
methods that will cut the cost OF a
house in two is largely negative one,
causing people who might otherwise
build to hold back.
Publicity and comment given to
prefabricated houses is far greater
lIldu LIlclI ucfCiOPLliCAI JuoVAuCo' SA
the l25, 900 housing units provided in
the entire United States last year, in
cluding rural as well as city homes,
less than one-half of per cent might
even by a stretch of the imagination
be described as prefabrieated or fac
tory built A vigorous new home build
ing program has gotten under way in
1885, and yet, in spite of five years
of constant publicity and promotion,
there are practically no prefabricated
houses being sold.
Informed building men feel that a
gradual trend toward greater prefab-
rication of home parts. retaining ira
ditional styles, is taking place. This
Is a movement that will probably con-
tinue so that eventually wall, roof
and floor sections and many other
parts of the house may be built in
factories or small local shops. Win
dows are now delivered to the job
ready for installation. Plumbing and
heating equipment has been simplified
and delivered to the job in more
quickly and easily installed complete
units. Large sections of plywood
! wallboard and composition materials
Evening star., 1936-05-30

Total U. S. 1896, $4,000 s34S,3sl 900
From these figures it is apparent
that building activity in the year just
past was greatest in the Southern
Middle Western and Western portions
of the country and that activity mas
apparently Jagged in the New England
states. Residential building is lead
ing practically every other line OF IN
dustrial activity at the present time.
Figures on Sales and Rents.
Real Estate Analysis, Inc, OF 81.
Louis. which has collected figures
week by week in 25 major United
States cities, reports the following
figures for sales. rents. building ma
terial prices and new home building:
Per cent Of
1925 level.
Jan. l, Jan. !,
1886. 1885.
s.,ss $40 46.1
Rents-single family 78.o oo.o
Rents-apartment ------ o8O Dug
Building material prices 86.l 05.O
New home building 81
Evening star., 1936-05-30
Office Chair Is Handy.

Once chairs embodying O new tilt
ing ana swiveling mechanism which
is squeaklesS springless are now on
the market They're said to have easier
action, better balance, to need no
luhricattng. ---s....,
Evening star., 1936-05-30

odissef Eliades. 1920 Eighteenth
street, IS.
Helen Scudder, Maryland. IS.
Champe D. 3. Thornton, 1892
Massachusetts, avenue, IS.
Jay I. Eisen, 63s Lamont street, IS.
Samuel w. Clark, Virginia, IS.
James A. Havenner, Maryland, IS.
Lafayette Vance. 328 K street
southwest, IS.
James M. Graves. Friendship Sta
ton. IS.
Clyde B. Atcheson, jr., 1929 s street,
S..
Roland F. Hayden, $3.50 Wisconsin
avenue, IS.
PERMITS SUSPENDED.
Herman Z. Ford, 23l0 Z street
northeast, IS days.
George A. Frediani, 1909 N street,
Is days.
Frederic L. Frost, 252s 4 street, 30
days.
Emmett r. Gibson, Fortner Apart
ments, 80 days.
Jerome J. Gottlieb. 3ls3 Porter
street, Is days.
Howard r. Grayson. 5l3 Alabama
avenue southeast, 80 days.
Deyerele D. Long, a New York ave-
nue., 80 days.
Bernhardt w. Poole. 1915 street
northeast. Is days.
Evening star., 1936-05-30
Doors in Bright Colors.

Doors painted in bright colors seem
to be coming into favor. A blue door
with white or cream woodwork makes
an inviting entranceway.
Evening star., 1936-05-30
radiation can be used with this heater,
and the cost is surprisingly low.

Friends are forgiven debts in the
$l,6s8,oo0 will of F. H. Houlder, ship.
owner Of London.
Evening star., 1936-02-09

conscious of her black eyes. always laughing
and mischievous, looking down at him. In the
twilight her face was perfect white oval.
framed by mass of unruly dark locks She
was lovely. He thought: l must break her of
waiting for me like this at the .u,,al It'll
brand her as it brands all the heifer dudes who
wait for the boys, so he said:
"Wal, Sister, did you bring the liquor"
In the twilight he saw her figure stiffen and
then he heard her voice.
II know what you mean.' she said land
YOU know shouldn't be here if there were =
other dudes around"
And Slim knew what she said was true, so
he said no more.
When the pinto moved restlessly. Sandra
got down and opened the gate. She walked be-
side Slim as he rode into the saddle shed.
Then while he loosened the girths and took
off the saddle. she freed the little mare OF her
bridle. Sandra watched Slim closely as she
hung the bride on the saddle horn; presently
she said: You're all in. Are you worrying
about something, Slim9"
He put his arm around her waist and to-
gether they walked out into the corral. He
chuckled bitterly: "Oh, there's nothin' to
worry about except that the cows are droppin'
their calves early and there's blizzard
comm on
"Is that where you've been?" she asked.
He nodded They had strayed further
than figured they would"
"And where are they now1"
1.-The small herd is upstream about three
miles. They'll be all right there, when the snow
comes. Therell be shelter under the cliffs. But
with the big herd, it's not so good. The calves
we're all in and l couldn't get em on their
feet"
"And where's the big herd?"
Slim sighed II got 'em back as far as the
pasture. There was nothing more could do,
50 thought I'd come on in.'
"Will it snow tonight"
Slim tilted back his head and looked up at
the sky. II can't be sure. If it does -"
She said, Those calves will be rested, and
Evening star., 1936-02-09
by CHARLES BROMFIELD
Go West, young @'oman! The %ee story
gfa girl tendeyfoot s0ho Aisc0vered
that oealM oUas handicap

smell snow in the air. Ahead, a light twinkled
and moved along against the corral walls.
and Slim recognized the outline of one of the
boys carrying lantern to the barn to milk
the cows.
Quickening the little pinto's pace, he rode
up a narrow gully leading from the stream
and soon reached the gates of the corral. AS
soon as he heard her voice, Slim recognized
the figure seated upon the top rail Of the gate.
1t was Sandra waiting for him.
Hello, Sourpuss," she said.
He caught the laugh in her voice and for
moment was tempted to swing her down from
the gate and give her bear hug. Then he re-
membered she couldn't know that he had been
in the saddle for forty-eight hours.
Hello yourself" he said.
Slim brought his horse to a stop and sat
looking up at the girl in the vague twilight.
In her blue jeans and leather windbreaker her
figure was trim and neat, like boys. He
knew that she was smiling at him, her full red
lips curved in slightly derisive smile He was
Evening star., 1936-02-09

ready to travel tomorrow. I'd like to go with
you and drive them in"
You Can if they're still alive"
How many are there9"
counted forty nine"
"And are they all new?"
He chuckled softly at the way she put it.
"None of them are over three weeks DID,"
What are you going to do?"
I'm going to try to stay awake until the
boys get back Then I'm goin to sleep. One
of them can watch the weather for me. If it
starts to snow. we'll ride out and try to drive
the cattle in Well save as many of the calves
as we can"
Watching him closely, Sandra saw his whole
body suddenly 60 slack He was done in. He
had to have sleep, so she said: ''Im going
now will you kiss me good night2" He stopped
and kissed her. "Slim," she said
In her voice Slim sensed new note Her
tone was pleading, almost desperate.
"Yes?"
She took hold of his arm. "Slim, is it always
going to be this way?"
This way?"
Always IIlcclLlS LCIC at tiiC NOiA0i, 90 IL
there were something sinful in our being to-
gether. Always parting just at the time
should be with you, helping you. Oh, it's all
wrong
He drew her to him. II know it" he said.
"And it doesn't make sense. We've got to do
something about it. Listen, Sandy, forget it
for tonight I'll figure some way out. Don't
worry"
Slim went to the bunkhouse. Entering. he
lighted the big oil lamp suspended from the
ceiling and set about getting his supper. He'd
drink lot of black coffee so he'd be sure to
keep awake until the boys got back. He put
the blackened pot on the wood range and built
up the fire. Then he looked in the cupboard
and found pot of cold beans. He'd eat the
beans, he decided. He wasn't going to mess
around with any cooking.
Seated at the table few minutes later,
Slim thought about himself and Sandra. No,
they couldn't 60 on this way. A city girl and
Evening star., 1936-02-09

~LIM MCkESSON knOtted his relnS ana
dropped the loop over the neck of his
pinto. Then he eased the ache in his
~ thighs and back by curling his leg
over the saddle horn He had been riding
steadily for two days and nights, and now he
was ready to trust his horse to get him out of
the steep arroyo
He listened DULY to the clatter of the little
mares hoofs on the rocks and kept telling him
self that he didn't care - all the worry in the
world wouldn't get those calves back to cor
rails before the storm broke. BY driving them
in as far as they could travel, he knew that he
had done all he could. and now when he
reached the ranch, he was going straight to
the bunkhouse and sleep.
Reaching the main stream, the little pinto
instinctively turned north along the rocky
bank in the direction of the ranch buildings
All day the sky had been leaden and overcast
and now Slim could see the posts of the cor
rails rising stark and black against the grey
sky. 1t would soon be dark and Slim could
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-22
Sensational Young Californian
Catches Casting Crown
By Richard w. Emery

BASKETBALL weighs pound and quar-
~ ter. A football weighs 14la ounces; base-
ball, ounces. Even golf ball weighs above
the ounce and one-half mark But the little in
significant brass-tipped plug which the bait
caster calls his heaviest ammunition-that lit
tie fyweight torpedo weighs only fve-eighths of
an ounce.
That's the heaviest the bait caster ever sends
whipping through space from the tip of FIVE
ounce fishing rod Then there comes the three
eighths plug. and less than that the wet-fies
and dry-flies which weigh practically nothing.
What on earth is a bait caster? Well he is
a fisherman gone somewhat eccentric on the
subject of tossing a baited line, or a lure, to
hungry bass or trout. He belongs to the inter-
national brotherhood of fly and bait casters
dizzy bunch which had its start back in the
middle ages in jolly old England
The fish were biting that day and the lords
decided that in order to pop hooks down right
on trouts nose, at distance, they must have
target practice. The lords had no trout reels.
They carried fishing rods with long lines but
kept the loose line in basket tied around the
waist All in row, with handle-bar mustaches
waving gayly. the lords practiced casting and
they became wonderful fishermen. The news fl
tered to America in due time, when there WAS
America and Americans began casting too.
They used reels, however, to give the game a
native touch The sport grew until it became
an event of the Olympic Games SO far as the
English and the Americans concerned.
One of the most outstanding bait casters in
America is a 16-year-old native of Wyoming
and present Californian who recently has been
hailed As the sensation of the West. He's
champ who learned from champ. Already he
has faced the nations best in three national
tournaments and came out in glory.
They call him Dick Thorn but his full name
is Carroll Richard Thorn Jr. The senior Thorn
used to take Dick fishing in the Rockies when
the family lived at Sheridan, Wyoming. Be-
tween banking hours the chances were always
good that father and son were trouting along
the Tongue River in the Big Horn Mountains,
with young Thorn straddling rock at the
streams edge riding on his dads shoulders
In his tender years he became a master of
gnat-swatting in the shade of mighty pines, and
of coping with such kindred hazards as deer
flies, mosquitoes wet feet, and fishing lines
tangled in thickets.
from watching his fathers deft whipping of
trout flies the champ-to-be must have
learned aplenty, because in later years he took
to casting as naturally as pollywog takes to
in mud puddles At seven years the
destined youngster went to California with his
folks and began catching perch and smelt in
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-22
Ocean-typical start of big sport

the Pacific Ocean-typical start of big sport
ing career
MY fishing tackle then was simple" young
Thorn said recently while tacking up a
string of ribbons won at Portland, Oregon.
MY fishing rod was palm branch with all
the green leaves stripped off. My line was
piece of old trout line I cut from dads reel.
For hook just trimmed the feathers from one
of his trout flies. My sinker was big iron
washer A bunch of us kids used to climb out
on the rocks of a breakwater and fish all day.
ut was good fishing, too The perch and the
snelt never got tired of biting"
From that inelegant stage Dick graduated to
pier fishing, ocean barge fishing and live-bat
boat fishing. where tuna were the catch. If fate
hadn't stepped in, he might have developed into
a big-time fisherman and chased marlin and
sharks over the seven seas
Fate, in his case, was combination of Dicks
dad and former national champion quarter
ounce and haf-ounce caster, artist named
Dave Under Between spells of fishing, carving
model airplanes, learning how to swim and ride
breakers, exploring the California coastline by
bicycle and tinkering with camera, Dick chose
to visit the clubhouse and 126-foot casting pool
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-22
What's A Bait Caster7 Slightly Eccentric Fisherman!

adjusts line and reel, takes couple of practice
steps and then lets fly the -eighths-ounce
plug or if he is a hardy soul it may even be a
three -eghths-ounce plug. Sixty seventy, eighty
feet it Skins. dropping into the 30-nch ring of
aluminium tubing while the gallery cheers.
It was in the casting of fve-eighths-ounce
plug that Dick Thorn first smashed into the
lmelight at national tourney. That was in
1884 in st. Louis, when he was ID. The club at
Long Reach, California, sent him there. He
emerged from the tournament wearing the Jun
ior National Championship and he brought the
crown home. He spent the winter thrashing the
air with lighter rods, casting plugs at tea keA
ties, straw hats and tomato can. On Sunda
he went out to the casting pool and trimmed
the club members.
IA /HEN the 1885 National tournament
w opened at Milwaukee, he had passed his
18th birthday and had thus been graduated
from the junior division. Among those present
were oldsters who could cast a trout fly through
knothole at 20 yards-or at least they looked
that way to Dick as he stood there like sap
ling in grove of skyscraping cedars.
What followed was like terrible storm in
the forest. When the uproar over. all the
odsters were down but a handful, and Dick
had tied for fifth place Having accomplished a
miracle of the modern sports world, he went
home, not joyously but i'll gloom. 1t would be
whole year till another national meet
Last winter he again practiced He toed as
hard over casting his little plugs as if they'd
been window weights. On week-ends he matched
prowess with such masters Dave Linder and
Ben Robson, who is present Olympic champion
He won the clubs all-around championship.
Sandwiching his casting between slices of
high school chemistry geology, astronomy, Eng
lish and photography, he persevered and hardly
had enough time left to go fishing. The school
term ended and he spent few weeks gettinA
polished up for the big double tournament -
Portland, Ore, where Western and NationaI
championships were to be decided
The great day of departure dawned North
ward sped the Thorn family. At Westmoreland
Park in Portland the fishermen and casters
were thick gnats on trout fisherman's
neck. They all over the park There
weren't just rings to cast at; there were bells,
too The judge was wading in hp-boots, wear
ing the dry-f1y and wet-fy events were run off
After lunch the distance men came out. 1t went
on like that for three days, busy period for
the young Californian.
Now Dick is back home with a new crown
At only 16 years of age he is the champion
caster of fve-eghths- s-ounce and three-eighths-
ounce bait, for accuracy, in all the West He
has the National Associations gold creel
awarded for high average score. Three ribbons
which he in the National meet he has
slowed away carefully in his war-bag along
with newspaper clippings announcing next
years national tournament at Buffalo, N Y. The
oldsters are watching this youngster from the
Pacific Coast. They say he's world beater in
the making.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-22


pion, Aided by Dave Linder, Former
National Champ, Shows How It's Done.
of the towns Fly and Bait Casting Club which
Linder had organized 1t was fun to watch his
dad and Linder tossing feathers and bits of
wood impossible distances, and it all interested
the champ-to-be Linder took him in tow one
day.
Here, son." said the former champ caster
you try it once
Dick got everything all set. He held the rod
IN both hands because just one hand didn't
seem enough.
ut looked easy" he recalled of that first at
tempt. Il let out the five-eighths- plug on
yard of line and l gave her heave.
boy, that plug went two miles if it went an
inch! 1t was one of the best swings I ever gave.
The trouble was that got backlash right off
The reel tangled up like sparrow's nest
"Mr Linder just pulled out pocket knife
and cut away the mess. You can't do anything
else with this fine silk
The young champ parked his 1876 pounds on
the edge of a table and unwound few feet
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-22

of cobweb from 2OOO-yard spool. He snapped
off few bits
you see," he said seriously, 'it's finer than
sewing silk It doesn't carry any weight, in
casting. 1t just floats out, tracing the plug
That's where casting has branched away
from actual fishing. You couldn't possibly fish
with such thread. Right here, you see, 1t be-
comes sport all by itself. Back in that first
! attempt got interested in casting and
$780, I've been at it ever since. It's fun. Just
smsms try 1t once; you'll what mean!"
s8SM8WSSss That first attempt in 1881, long
ss~ time ago if you're only 16 now! Dick
started with bass rod. Compared to the
straws which big-tme casters use, a bass rod
Is a sort of telephone pole. Dick swung the old
bass rod until he could cast plug sinker across
a vacant lot without hanging himself, assoing
trees or drilling neat holes in window panes
For two years wouldn't try any other kind
of casting" he said. 81 wouldn't go into any of
the other events, where l would have to use a
lighter rod. In contests of the club and the Ma
tional Association of Scientific Angling Clubs
all l could do was enter the accuracy events"
Now here, for moment, let it be stated that
only the uninitiated could scoff at this sport of
pitching peanut-szed pellets with fishing
pole" at a target 80 feet away and no bigger
than laundry basket. Such pitching requires
baseball pitchers eye, blacksmith's wrist,
the perfection of timing exempfed in Swiss
clock, and more practice than any lazy man
would dare to shake stick at.
caster marksman customarily takes his
stand on the tournament grounds with the
breeze, if any, blowing his hair out over his
nose like an awning If the breeze should turn
about and blow fair upon the nose, the caster
might as well tuck away his trout rods and take
the nearest trolley for home. Casting against
breeze will drive anybody to despair--even a
fisherman, who by tradition is the outstanding
example of human optimism.
Mo live
while the plug speeds like humming bird
bound for Australia
But given fair breeze at his back and ST.
lent gallery, a typical caster assumes his stand,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-10
OAR. Group Meets
 In Windsor To-day

The annual meeting of the Ells- worth Memorial association which is open to all Connecticut members of the Daughters of American Rev. olution, is being held at the Ells- worth homestead, Windsor, today, at 1 o'clock.
 Among the events scheduled will be a memorial service for Mrs. Charles Bissell, one of the Connec- ticut society's most beloved and most active members who died last month in Washington. A board meeting will be held and will be followed by basket lunch. Milicent Porter chapter will be represented by Mrs. Lewis c. Merrill, regent, Mrs. Robert s. Walker, Mrs. Sam liel J. Marsh, Mrs. David P. Gaines, Mrs. Adrian Mulloy and Mrs. Fred- erick c. MarggraR.
 The fall meeting of the Connec- ticut society will be held on Friday, oct. 16, in West Hartford with the Sarah Hooker chapter as hostess.
 Mrs. Frederick P. Latimer, state regent, on behalf of the state Bo- ciety, presented Q sword to Cadet Fred J. 6heiber ct the commence. ment exercises at the Coast Guard academy in New London on Mon- day. A sword is given each year by the society 10 the cadet at the academy holding the best rating in conduct throughout the year.