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Evening star., 1936-01-11
Home Modernization
New Device Eliminates Spread Through House
of Unpleasant Smells From
Cooking.

adequate illumination to an other
wise poorly lighted spot.
Glass is coming into its own in
house construction and moderniza-
ton. and before very long we should
see entire dwellings built of trans
lucent glass blocks.
The manufacturers Of these struc-
:ural glass units point out that in
stead of depending upon a relatively
small number of inefficient windows
for light and ventilation, the house
Of the future will be built with at
least one entire wall of glass bricks
A wall of this material will not only
admit great zeal more light, but
will help to prevent air infiltration
losses. Also, because of their low heat
conductivity, they will reduce the
effect of solar radiation. For ventila-
ton the modern house will depend
upon properly filtered and condi-
toned air from a central plant,
thereby eliminating the opening of
windows and the resulting dirt and
dust
The use of glass brick construc-
ton will also enable the home owner
to enjoy the full benefits of prop
erly humidified air. At present it
is impossible to provide adequate
humidifcation at the time when it
is needed most due to condensation
on ordinary glass windows. The new
glass walls provide a partial vacuum
which acts as an extremely efficient
insulator.
Questions which readers may wish
to ask concerning products described
in this column should be sent to the
Home Modernization Editor. The
Evening Star.
Evening star., 1936-01-11
HOME EXHIBITION
!. PROPS FINISHED
Five Educational Units Will
Be Used in Displays in
Various Cities.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. January ia
hundred workmen with hammers and
saws and paint brushes are nearing
the end of a unique Job which has
occupied their time night and day for
the last month and a half, the con-
struction Of five units of educational
exhibit material to be presented by the
Federal Housing Administration at a
series of National Home Shows to be
held throughout the country during
the Winter and early Spring.
The first OF the units was prepared
in time for the opening of the Ma
tional Home Show IN Baltimore on
January T. The second was COM
pleted for shipment to Americas Ex-
position in San Diego, Cahf., reopen
ing on January IS. The other units
we're being put in readiness for Ma
tional Home Shows in other cities, in
cluding Houston on January 18 and
Miami on January Is.
ss..g History Is Made.
The construction of the exhibition
material constituted one of the largest
Jobs of its kind in the history of the
preparation of displays for eXpositions
and similar events. The contract
went, after competitive bidding, to
Gardner Displays, Inc, OF this city.
To do the job it was necessary to rent
q three-story factory building in addi-
ton to the regular quarters. There
was difficulty in finding qualified men
to do the work and this necessitated
the available force working long hours
overtime to complete the units with
in the specified time. Supply houses
throughout the East and Middle West
had to be called on in order to obtain
SUFFICIENT raw materials.
Each exhibition unit requires two
5o-foot railroad cars for its trans
portation, and they are packed to
the roofs. For the units, obvi-
ously 10 railroad cars are required
Each piece of material is Grated, and
there are 63 crates to unit.
Material Adjustable.
The material is adjustable and
may be set up in any large building
It includes automatic devices graph
ically illustrating the advantages OF
home repair and modernization and
home acquisition under the national
housing act, hanging and entrance
pieces of all descriptions, and u me-
chanical talking towers" almost 20
feet high, The towers, which are a
special feature Of the exhibit, al
ternately play suitable music and talk
in q conversational tone, on the SUBJ
ject Of better housing.
All the National Home Shows
where the educational material will
be presented are being put on locally
usually by real estate boards. The
Federal Housing Administration has
no part in the shows, other than to
lend the exhibits for the show period
the local sponsors paying the freight.
Altogether, it is part Of the cur
rent. Nationwide movement for bet
ter housing in America.
Evening star., 1936-01-11
Natives of Asia Made Oils.

In 1000 B. c., the natives of Asia
manufactured pitches and oils from
the gum or resin Of trees which grew
on the shores of the Mediterranean
Sea. Here they cooked the gum in pots,
over which they hung fleecy sheep
skins to catch the rising vapors OF oil
distilled out of the resin. This oil was
recovered by wringing out the feeces.
One of the uses of this oil was as a
solvent for the age-enduring mummy
VarniSh.
Evening star., 1936-01-11

materially felt in demand for more
space in homes, in stores, in Offices
and in factories. 1t will first effect an
advance in rents and then when rents
reach normal will be the signal for
the new building in large volume.
Evening star., 1936-01-11
Auditorium Project Studied.

A subcommittee of the Washington
Board of Trade is engaged in COM
prehensive study of the problem Of
providing an auditorium suitable to the
needs of the Nations Capital. G..
Melvin Sharpe Is chairman.
Evening star., 1936-01-11
New York Builders Cheered.

Brokers and builders in the New
York suburban area are practically
unanimous in predicting that the COM
ing year will witness far more activity
in private home construction than the
present year.
Evening star., 1936-01-11
Auxiliary Heat Desirable.

Some auxiliary heat in a bathroom
is a most desirable thing to have: an
electric wall heater or a gas heater
are practical and adequate.
The Washington times., 1936-11-23
MORE TO JOIN
SHIP STRIKE

NEW YORK, Nov. % UN.SO'
Leaders of the maritime strike in
Atlantic and Gulf ports expected
to gain 1000 adherents today by
walkouts of members of two addi-
tional unions.
Members of the Marine Engi-
neers Beneficial Association and
the Masters, Mates and Pilots AS
sociation were scheduled to go out
at noon to join the outlaw strike
of insurgent members of the In
ternational Seamen'S Union.
Joseph Curran, strike leader,
hailed this as giving fresh impetus
to the strike here, but the move
was minimized by r. j. Baker
president of the American Steam
ship Owners Association. Baker
said:
"TheSe two strikes will have
little effect on the movement Of
East Coast vessels in foreign or
cOastwise service.
Both of these unions are in.
vOIved in the strike on the
Pacific Coast, and beyond the
SO intercOaStaI vessels which
are held in Atlantic and Gulf
ports under company orders on
account of the West Coast walk
out, they have not sufficient
strength on the Eastern Sea-
board to affect the movement
of shipping"
Nearly so ships, Baker said, left
New York during the weekend.
The Washington times., 1936-11-23
POLICE SEEK SIX
M|SS|NGHERE

Six persons, reported missing
from their homes over the week
end, were being sought today by
police.
III and at times subjected to loss
of memory, Miss Carrie M. Roach,
35, was reported missing from her
home at 2039 New Hampshire Ave.
N. w. She left to go to Eighteenth
Street and Columbia Road North
west, yesterday, her sister, Miss
Hariette Roach, told police.
Fourteen-year-old Barbara Wal
lace was reported missing from st.
Mildered's Academy at Laurel, Md,
by her mother, Mrs. Lillian Wal
lace, of 2019 R st. N. w.
Believed to be headed for Mil
waukee, Charles Aft 20, his rela'
tives told police, left his home at
718 Eighth st. S. E., over the week
end.
Mrs. Delphis Harris, %, was the
object of city-wide police search
on the request of her husband,
Matt H. Harris, $50 Third st. N. w.
Eighteen-year-old Elizabeth Ruff
ner, who left her home, 5202 Ninth
st. N. W., Saturday to take a
walk" was another in the police
missing list. At the request of her
father, George I. Chadwick, secre
tary of the Carlisle CPa0 Chamber
of Commerce, 16-year-old Ann
Chadwick. missing from her Penn
sylvania home since last Wednes
day, was being sought in this city
by police.
The Washington times., 1936-11-23
RUSSELL QUIZ
NEAR CLIMAX

LOS ANGELES. Nov. % Q.N.S0.
The Reid Russell death mystery
was at the showdown stage today
with it's internationally famous
principals gathering for a final
questioning while authorities
awaited reports from laboratories
checking blood stains, bullet holes
and a rusty-barreled 80 caliber
pistol.
While the inevitable climax was
in prospect, investigators were re-
ported veering back to the original
theory, that the 28-year-old auto
mobile salesman blew out his
brains because he was in desperate
financial straits.
Gouverneur Morris, famous
novelist, told authorities that Rus
sell threatened to "end it all" while
visiting them some days before his
body was found in a garden swing,
an automatic pistol clutched in
his right hand.
Morris wife, Ruth, corroborated
that statement and so did beau
tiful Lila Lee, the film actress and
her 12-year-old son, Jimmy Kirk
wood, guests at the Morris home
last September IS when the body
was found. All were to be queS-
toned today.
Revelation that Russell had ex-
tremely pressing financial obliga-
tions was made in the investigation
during the weekend as several
promising "leads" pointing toward
the murder theory, blew up.
One of them was the discovery
that a Manhattan Beach man,
reported missing, is working at a
New Jersey dairy.
The Washington times., 1936-11-23
International News Service

PostmaSters start delivery TO-
morrow of $4,000, 900 cards to en-
ployers, for distribution among
their employees as their Identified
ton cards for participation in
Federal old-age benefits.
This is the second phase of the
stupendous program to provide
old-age monthly payments, start
ing in 1912 to all eligibles reaching
the age of IS years. The first
phase was the distribution of the
employers identification number
cars. All of the employe identi-
fication cards must be returned
by December S.
John G.. Winant, chairman of
the Social Security Board, will ex-
plain the pension plan over the
radio tonight.
Tremendous Job
The distribution and collection
of the more than 100000 en-
ployes' Identification mum b r
cards constitute one of the big
gest jobs the Postoffice Depart.
ment ever has undertaken, the
handling of 100000 pieces of
mail in 81 days.
The employees application cards
will provide the permanent records
of the Social Security Board and
the Internal Revenue Service for
payment of the old-age benefits
when they begin to come due after
Jan. /, 1912.
Without such registry, no per
The Washington times., 1936-11-23
British to Forbid Own Ships
Carrying Arms to Spain
By KINGSBURY SMITH

LONDON, Nov. % QN.S0.-De-
termined to preserve its own neu-
trality regardless of foreign par
ticipation in the Spanish civil war,
Great Britain today moved to pre-
vent British vessels from carrying
arms for either side in Spain.
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
told the House OF Commons the
government intends to seek imme-
diate legislation to prohibit such
shipments.
Such legislation would have the
effect of making Britain's embargo
on arms shipments to Spain air
tight, as any export of British
arms or ammunition is already
forbidden.
Protect Shipping
Meanwhile Britain decided to
strengthen her naval forces off
the Spanish coast to protect Brit.
ish merchant shipping.
AS leading members Of the
cabinet met in their second emerg-
ency session in two days, the
admiralty made plans to reinforce
British warships already off
Spain, and fighting craft in the
Mediterranean we're ordered to
stand by with full steam up to
speed for Spain on a moments
notice.
Clash Is Feared
Grave fears were felt in govern
ment quarters that a serious naval
incident might occur in Spanish
waters, especially in view of re.
ports from Gibraltar that the
loyalist fleet is about to sail from
Malaga to challenge the insurgent
ships in the strait.
Since the loyaliSt fleet is the
The Washington times., 1936-11-23
Rose NJ. MOriCe
ElOpeS With
BrOUne

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. % G.NSO.
Speed in the saddle is what A. H.
S. "Tony" Browne, scion of a
prominent British family, learned
as a member of the famous Ben
gal Lancers in India, but he dem
onstrated to Hollywood today that
he also is speedy in affairs of the
heart.
Following a whirlwind romance
with Maxine Jennings, R-K-O star
let, that resulted in the announce
ment of their betrothal last April,
Browne surprised his friends by
marrying Rose Mona Morice, for
mer San Francisco society girl, in
an early morning Las Vegas air
plane elopement.
The couple met only q week ago.
The Washington times., 1936-11-23
Security Cards Read y
For 26.OOO.OOO

Hson who might become eligible to
the benefits may obtain the pay
ments when such person would
become eligible.
The Social Security Board, by
radio, screen and press releases,
has issued warnings of the i'm
portance to the workers of filling
out these cards.
Any person entitled to benefits
under the act may secure identl-
fication cards at their local post
offices, if they are not distributed
by the employers.
Return of Cards
The cards may be returned
through the employer, by filing
with the secretary of local unions,
by handing to the postman, by
depoSiting in any postal mail box,
or by personal return to the local
postoffice. No postage is needed.
Starting with Jan. l, 1912, all
persons eligible-all persons who
reach the age of IS years after
Jan. l, 1937-will be entitled to
old-age monthly benefit payments,
which will range from $40 a
month to $85. If the employe has
not earned a minimum of $4,000
in the five years between Jan. ]
next and 1912, a lump sum pay
ment will be made. The amount
of the monthly pension depends
upon the persons earnings, ex
cept that no tax is collected, nor
is any benefit payment based, en-
any salary over $4,000 year.
The Washington times., 1936-11-23

superior, authorities here thought
Italian and German ships might
precipitate an international Incl
dent as an excuse to assist the in
surgentS.
The British destroyer Garland
is now at Barcelona, and the Gal
liant is on her way from MarsellleS
to Barcelona to help evacuate
British citizens.
There was partial confirmation
here of Madrid'S charge that for
eign submarines torpedoed the
loyalist cruiser Miguel De Ger
vante in Cartagena harbor.
The Washington times., 1936-11-23
LONE AIRPLANE
BOMBS CITY
AT DAWN
Insurgents RetaIiate
For Loss of Ground
Near River
By THOMAS A. LOAYZA

MADRID, Nov. % Q.N.S).
Surging across the Manzanares
River, west of the city, loyalist
troops today successfully staged a
surprise counter-attack on insurg-
ent emplacements in the Casa de
Campo sector.
After a series of minor advances
which reduced the inSurgent foot
hold in the northwestern portion
of the capital proper, the govern
ment announced that "our opera
tions are maintaining a favorable
course"
Madrid, a communique said,
"faces the day with confidence, as
the result of successes in several
sectors"
In the first air raid over the
capital in three days, single in
surgent plane swooped down at
6 a. M, dropping seven big bombs.
One dropped into the courtyard
of the war ministry, another dug
a pit in Barquillo street, and
third killed boy in Bilbao Square.
The others fell in the northern
quarter of the city.
Ship TorpedOed
The sortie into the Casa de
Campo resulted in the burning Of
insurgent buildings at Casa que
mada. Loyalists also recaptured
Casa Velazquez, the French stu
dents center in University City,
although it had been nearly
burned to the ground.
Coincident with its claims OF
victory on the war front, the Ma
drid government launched grave
charges of actual foreign partlcl-
patton in the war.
A committee said:
cat 9 o'clock this morning,
several Observation-Disclosures to
belong to a foreign fleet, since
the insurgents do not possess
any-attacked the ships Of our
squadron at the entrance to the
port of Cartagena.
"A torpedo struck and dam
aged the cruiser Miguel de Ger
vantes. Other tOrpedOeS were
launched by the submarines
against the cruiser Mendez
Nunez, but caused no damage"
German submarines. it was
semi-officially alleged, had re-
Gently been sighted in Spanish
waters, although the government
refused to link the torpedoing di-
rectly to the Reich fleet.
Italy Accused
The charge that the Island of
Majorca is "a virtual Italian pos
session" and being used as the
base for insurgent attacks on
Catalonia was made in a semi
official statement issued at Va
lencia, where the cabinet is max
ing its headquarters. The state
ment follows:
"The insurgents at present
have some 10000 men of the
reguldE army OA Luc ISAduu dHU
are organizing Fascist volunteer
forces as fast as they can. They
now have $4,000 recruits whom
they enrolled under threats of
imprisonment and execution.
"TheSe volunteers are being
given military instruction by
Italians. Their chief is the
Italian Count ROsSi. The Ma
jOrcan troops are fitted out with
the most modern arms, all pro-
vided by MussOlini. Italian ships
go to the island twice a week
to stock it with provisions and
war materials.
"The harbOr always has IA
italian tri-mOtOred SeaplaneS and
three Italian deStrOyers stand
ing ready.
"Italy has provided the rebels
with tanks, airplaneS, officers,
and soldiers, in the hope Of de-
strOying Spain and thus convert
ing her provisional possession of
MaiOrca into a definite colony"
The Washington times., 1936-11-23
Dutch Join Currency
Sterilization PdCt

AMSTERDAM. Nov. % GN.S).
The Dutch government today de-
cided to join the currency stabili-
zation agreement recently reached
among Britain, France, and the
United States at the time the
French franc was devalued.
The Washington times., 1936-11-23
MADRID FACES
STARVATION
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interference with British ship
ping as long as the insurgents
have not been recognized as
belligerents.
In Madrid, new aerial attack
that caused considerable damage
hastened mass evacuation of the
civilian population, now reported
facing famine as we'll as death
or injury from inSurgent shells.
The Washington times., 1936-11-23

REGISTRATION OF the 26OOOOOO workers in the United
States who within the terms of the Social Security
act being centralized in Baltimore The photograph at
top left shows group of girls putting data into code form
on cards which permits of compact method Of filing
the number of accounts At the right poster
which being put display in every post office in the
country. At left bottom one of the workers. Florence
Neville checking information There 1900 employed in
the Baltimore offices which established in that city
because of the overcrowded condition in Washington Ir
ternational News Photos
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-14
WILL
SELL TAX LOTS
UNDER PROGRAM

Calexico city council is embarked
upon plan to put tax delinquent
property back on the tax rolls, the
plan differing somewhat from that
being carried forward by the Ell Cen
tro council.
The city of Calexico wants to buy
the tax deeds to 81 lots from the
county and district and resell them.
Richard Emerson, Calexico city
clerk, appeared before the board Of
supervisors Monday and asked the
board to set a price upon the lots.
Chairman Ike Schlatter was ap-
pointed a committee of one to ap-
praise the lots and recommend a
fair price.
No building restrictions are con
tanned in the proposition underway
in the border city.
Emerson presented the board with
a map showing the location of the
81 lots and the unpaid taxes and
penalties against them. Schlatter
is to report at the supervisors meet
ing next Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-14
TURNS DOWN
LEHMKE CANDIDACY

board of directors assured ques-
TONERS the convention would not
endorse Lemke or any other pres
idential candidate. The imme-
diate objective of O.AR.P. were
authoritatively stated as follows:
|. Win control of or a balance
of power in the house of repre-
SentativeS.
2. Enact the Townsend plan for
$500 -a-month pensions for all per-
sons of so or more years.
3. Write the Townsend Plan into
the United States Constitution.
The Rev. Charles E. Coughlin,
leader of the national union for
social justice arrived yesterday a
few minutes before DR.. Town
send. But the priest said he came
to confer with congressional dis
trict officers of the N.U,S.J. organ
ization.
Claiming 13 states as assured for
Lemke. father C0ughlin predicted
the presidential election would
be thrown into the house for de-
cision by failure of any candidate
to obtain more than half the
votes in the electoral college.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-14
DAIRY PLANS
HERE START
CONTROVERSY
Outside Market For
VaIey'Product
Considered

Controversy arising over
the plan for obtaining out
side markets for Imperial
Valley dairy products was
heard in widely divergent
quarters Tuesday after the plan
was placed before the board of SUI
pervisors at meeting Monday.
= Supervisors expressed an interest
and a willingness to do what they
can to help valley dairymen obtain
good price for their products but
several said it would be good idea
to line up the dairymen in their
own behalf.
The attractive picture painted by
DR.. Louis Stricklin, former manager
of the California Milk Producers
association. and a committee from
the county farm bureau and the
Ell Centro chamber of commerce did
not meet with the approval of E.
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Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-14

G.. Eddy, assessor of San Diego
county, delivered an address against
the single tax and in favor of re-
tanning the sales tax.
Through efforts of the farm bu-
reau, an excise tax was placed on
all foreign oils imported into this
copntry. The oils, which are used
in the manufacture of paint, pro
vided competition to flax growers
and announcement of the tax was
received with enthusiasm.
Among those who attended from
Imperial Valley were: Earl v. C.
Northrup, George Winwright, How
ard Farnsworth, G. M. Lott. G. o.
Hoober, Miss Florence Glenn, Mrs.
James Southworth, Mrs. Evan T.
Hewes, Mrs. C. o. Hoober, Mrs.
Northrup and others.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-14

CLEVELAND, July ID UP
Organized opposition developed to-
day within the Townsend Old Age
Pension Plan inner circle to en-
dorsement of any third party pres
idential candidate by the OA.RP.
national convention, which opens
here tomorrow.
But DR.. Francis E. Townsend,
co-founder of old age revolving
pension, Inc, arrived and left
open an avenue by which Rep
William Lemke, union party pres
idential candidate, could seek pen
sion plan support by unqualified
endorsement of O.A.RP.
Townsend refused, however, to
endorse Lemke. He said he would
be bound by whatever action the
convention might take and prom
ised, if no third party candidate
were endorsed, to vote next No
vember for Gov. Alf M. Landon,
the Republican presidential nom
inee.
THAT would be taking the less
er of two evils, as between Roose-
velt and Republicans" Townsend
explained.
Members of the pension plan
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-14
FOOD PRICES.
HOLD LEVEL.
Ell Centre Grocers
Foresee Rise
On Way

Housewives of Imperial
V a y may anticipate a
steep upward rise in prices
of food stuffs grown in the
middlewest drought are
with the increase due to reach
this section about the middle of
September.
While the prices of bread and
of commodities grown in the mid
dlewest remain unchanged today,
the bread prices especially may
follow the upward trend indicated
in the coast areas. A check of
Ell Centro grocery stores and bak-
cries revealed the prices the same
as in effect in recent weeks.
James c. Cox of the Cox Broth
erS market declared the store has
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Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-14
MOB TRAILS
HUNTED Man
Guard Called After
Negro Attacks
Woman

ANNISTON, Ala, July
IA. (UP) wo national
guard companies and more
than 500 farmers with every
conceivable weapon, f ro m
shotguns to hoes, began a new
search through so square miles of
swamp today for a Negro who at
tackled Mrs. Josephine Hill, Is
year-old white farm woman, and
shot a poSSeman who cornered
him.
Military and civil authorities
took precautions to prevent the
mob of angry farm men and boys
from lynching the Negro should
he be captured. Chief Deputy
Sheriff Norman Summers trans
ferred another Negro accused Of
an attack on a white girl to Birm-
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