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Evening star., 1936-07-25
SHORT-TERM LOAN |
FAVORED BY BANKS
Long, Term Mortgages Used
Only by Limited
Group.

Analyzing the status OF mortgages
transferred to the Home Owners
Loan Corp, the Federal Home Loan
Bank Board reports that Of all the
financial institutions which had held
the mortgages prior to the transfer, as
a rule, only the savings. building and
loan associations had employed the
long-term monthly repayment type OF
home loan.
The other loans taken over, repre-
senting those from banks, insurance
and mortgage companies and 1ndivid-
uals, were mainly from six months to
five years in duration and thus, for
the borrower, subject to the risk and
expense of frequent renewal.
The report states that the H. o. L. G.
loans for nearly three-fourths OF the
/ 900 900 home owner borrowers repre-
sent substitution of long-term credit
for burdensorne short-term mortgages
maturing in full.
These loans run up to Is years and
are payable through monthly INSTALL
ments of principal and interest oy
which the unpaid balance Is constant
ly reduced. The interest rate is
per cent. This method, it Is stated
has spurred the adoption Of long-term
monthly repayment loans by private
home financing institutions of al
types throughout the country and has
encouraged a downward tendency In
home mortgage interest rates.
The board also reports that up to
and including June 80 the outstanding
advances by the IL district banks OF
the Home Loan Bank system to their
member thrift and home financing in
stitutions throughout the country ag-
gregated sl18.5s6,838. In June a
total of $l1,560,38l in new credits
flowed to the member institutions
For the week ended June 81 alone ST.
500, ,288 was advanced to members. the
largest amount for any week in the
past two years.
These district banks represent the
cities Of Chicago. Boston, Cincinnati
| Des Moines, New York, Pittsburgh
Indianapolis, Los Angeles. Portland
Topeka, Little Rock and Winston
Salem. Cincinnati led with the high.
est volume of credits outstanding or
June 80 with $20,576,290, followed
closely by Chicago. New York anc
Pittsburgh.
Evening star., 1936-07-25
F. HI. A. Plan
Continued From First Page.)

(COnC1nUed From First Page.)
Is particularly liked, as 1t protects the
builders and the financial institu-
tions holding mortgages and elimi-
mates costly second-mortgage financing.
Statesmen in that city likewise show a
favorable attitude, approve the month
ly payment plan-'like rent"-and en-
phasize the benefits derived from not
paying the bonuses and renewal fees
on second mortgages.
Finances Only F. H. A. Projects.
Long Island developments have re-
Gently become centers of Housing Ad-
ministration insured financing. Since
February, 1885, one large concern has
financed operative builder projects ex-
clusively under the Housing Admins
tration'S plan. In one instance, 80
commitments were issued to this con-
Germ at one time by the Jamaica Office
Of the Housing Administration.
In Philadelphia builders expressed
themselves as very much pleased" with
the Housing Administrators plan.
Efforts are being made to sell homes
by calling attention to the Housing
Administrations insured mortgage
system, and cooperation is being ac-
corded Housing Administration super
visorS who are inspecting homes in
that section.
Baltimore developers stated that
nearly every one in position to put
up the required 20 per cent down pay
ment prefers the insured-morgage sys-
tenn to other forms of financing, as
this plan makes monthly payments
easier on moderate income.
Buffalo operative builders have ex-
pressed pleasure with the cooperation
extended them by Federal Housing
Administration officials and classify
themselves as being in accord with
the insured mortgage monthly pay
nlent plan.
Plan Termed standard"
District of Columbia operative build
ers stated they recommended the plan
to home buyers as a standard
financing method"
In Cincinnati favorable comment
was ELECTED, even though the plan
had been utilized by a certain builder
on only one occasion, most of his
transactions being for cash.
Milwaukee builders said they were
interested in selling homes under
the Federal Housing Administrators
plan and no other, as it is a clean
cash deal"
In San Francisco an opinion was
expressed that the Federal Housing
Administration should expedite tech
nical work for cases where the
builder and realtor were interested
Seattle builders reported that they
had made practice Of recommend
ing the Federal Housing Administra-
tons plan in their advertising.
Evening star., 1936-07-25

pen, too. It comes in pieces so to
80 yards long, but for a nominal
extra charge the company will cut It
for you as you specify.
If you have already bought avn
ings, investigate the colorless fire.
fighter treatment made by the people
who handle the processed cloth.
They claim it will go on woven,
striped or figured awning fabrics
without materially altering the orig
inal colors. The effect will be the
same as if you had the flreproof
cloth. If you drop a lighted cigarette
on it there will be a char where the
fire actually touched the fabric. On
ordinary canvas the smoldering fire
will spread in creeping circle Of de-
struction, ready to burst into actual
flames at any moment.
The treated cloth is more durable
than untreated, too, for the chemicals
used add to its strength. It will out
last canvas Of the same grade and
weight which has not been made fire.
safe.
Evening star., 1936-07-25

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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-02-28
But Always High

The wages of sin are never agreed
on beforehand.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-02-28

about him, as a man that has only
just walked. Then he took his seat on
bench by the side of the door and a
servant brought out tankard and
set it down by his side.
One thing, at least, was now clear
If / would have news of Eiy cousin,
should have to do more than observe.
If / could find the good wife and hear
what she had to tell. The danger, of
course, was that / should encounter
some servant. / could trust the farm
er's wife, but If Pharaoh had given
them orders, could not trust the serv-
ants to disobey. Still, something would
have to be done. i had not come there
to watch Bugle enjoying his ale.
1t was eight o'clock and the light
was beginning to fail when heard the
sigh of the Rolls on the road of ap-
proach.
A moment later the car swept over
the bridge, and Bugle laid down his
pipe and got to his feet.
1 saw that Dewdrop was driving
and that Pharaoh sat by his side.
Pharaoh stayed but two minutes.
For that time he spoke to Bugle, who
listened with evident interest to what
he said. Then he nodded to Dewdrop,
who instantly let in his clutch. Bugle
stood watching till Pharaoh was out
of sight, then he turned on his heel and
went into the house.
And that was all.
AS l made my way back to the foot
bridge, l tried my best to believe that
the visit which l had just witnessed
was Pharaohs evening call. He had
been out securing the country for news
of my lady and me and was now re-
turning to Yorick with empty hands.
1t was no doubt his practice to visit
Plumage like this, to see that Rush
told. And yet -.
Pharaoh's manner had been urgent.
He had not wasted moment and the
Rolls had not carried much dust. He
might have been setting out, and not
coming in-setting out on some sudden
quest.
decided one thing out of hand. That
was to learn, if l could, what Pharaoh
had said.
If this was of any Importance, Bugle
was pretty sure to discuss it with
Rush, and if could hear them talking,
az once before
heard the sound of car. This
seemed to come from the farm. 1 heard
the engine started and as I stood still,
listening, 1 heard her move off in low
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-02-28
By
Dornford Yates
Copyright by Minton, Balch & Co.
WNU Service.
SYNOPSIS

John Spencer and his cousin, Geonrey
Bohun. are vacationing in Austria.
Godfrey is a gifted portrait painter but
prefers to paint landscapes. While
strolling in the forest, John hears Eng
Ush voices. and decides to investigate.
From cover he finds four men burylng
a man in green livery who, evidently,
had been murdered. Pharaoh is the
leader of the gang; the others are
Dewdrop. Rush and Bugle. Unfortu-
nately. John makes himself known TO
the assassins by dropping letter with
his name and address. He tells Geofrey
and his chauffeur, Barley, of his ad-
venture Godfrey, realizing that johns
life is in danger, declares he must van
ish Spencer discovers that the livery
of the murdered man corresponds to
the livery of the servants of Yorick
castle. and tells Countess Helena, mis-
tress of the castle, what he had seen.
With Godfrey and Barley, John starts
for Annabel, a nearby village. They
encounter Pharaoh. In making their
getaway they exchange shots with the
gang, without serious result. They ar
rive at Plumage farm, on the Yor1ck
estate, where Lady Helena had request
ed John and his cousin to meet her.
She reveals to them that her father
had converted his immense fortune into
gold ana hidden II away III d Seciet
vault in the castle. Knowing that his
son, Valentine, Helena's brother, was
incapable of controlling the fortune, ne
had revealed it to Helena alone just
before his death. In some manner the
news leaked out and Pharaoh is after
the treasure They planned that Geof-
frey and Barley would go to Salzburg
to watch for Pharaoh, while John was
to remain at Plumage, patrolling the
roads about Yorick from dusk to dawn.
Several nights go by without important
incident. John visits Yorick castle and
finds that Helena's brother, Count Val
entine, is there and with him, on most
friendly terms is Pharaoh, as Captain
flaming. Hearing that John is stopping
at Plumage, Pharaoh speaks to Dew
drop. John suspects plot. AS dinner
is announced, Helena and John make
their escape, pursued by Pharaoh's men,
encountering many difficulties during
the night. They run out of gas. Finally
they arrive at a forester's cottage,
where they find refuge. Freda, their
hostess, gets petrol for their car and
then goes to Salzburg to get word to
Godfrey. John finds their car gone.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-02-28

gear. Bugle or Rush was withdrawing
their car from the coach-house and
driving her on to the apron, ready for
use.
At this I swore under my breath, for
If Bugle and Rush were about to 60
off on some errand, my object must be
defeated and most of my labor be lost
might be able to speak with the farm
er's wife, but that she would have news
of my cousin was none too sure, and,
indeed, since had seen Pharaoh,
could see health in nothing at all but
in sharing his underlings' counsels as
soon as ever 1 could.
FASTENED OH desperately. 80.
From the verge of the meadows I re-
garded the back of the house. The
light, have said, was failing, but dusk
would not come in for another half
hour. Two minutes later was fiat
against the trunk of lime that was
standing 70 feet from the window Of
what had been my bedroom four days
before.
Now to enter the house was easy, for
all the windows were open and none
of the shutters were shut. Still to en-
ter a lions den may be easy enough
had no desire to climb into an
occupied room. Then the sight of my
sponge on window-still logged my
wits.
One of the lower windows belonged
to the primitive bathroom which Geof-
frey and had used, and since this was
sure to be empty at this time of day,
here was as safe an entry as the faint
est of hearts could desire.
l whipped from the lime to the win
dow and swung myself over the sill.
made bold to open my door, which
gave to the hall.
AS did so another door was opened
the door of the sitting-room.
"An' shut the shutters" growled
Rush. "Can you understand that?
Funny, you fool. funny"
The man-seryant answered some
thing and closed the door. Then he
set his tray on q table that stood In the
hall and stepped to and opened the
door Immediately opposite mine.
His intention was plain: he was GO
ing to close the shutters of every room.
In flash / was at my window and
was pulling to its shutters and shut
ting the twilight out.
no De COET1NU-Dl
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-02-28
Y Wanna Rassle?
Let Jack Curley
Tell Y the Tricks

Let Jack Curley, the famed promoter,
tell you some things you ought to kno,o
about the ancient pastime. Mr.. Curley
says:
TOR every hold there Is a counter.
Leverage, and not brute strength,
wins falls.
Accounts of contests, great and
small, are preserved for us in poetry
and legend. The great Homer idoIized
the game.
Wrestling dates back to $500 q. C..
Even among the most ancient nations,
wrestling was as we'll understood,
with its various holds and breaks, as
it is at the present day.
Again. going back to Homer, we
can quote him mentioning the famous
encounter between Ajax and Ulysses.
Ajax was the incarnation of all ply
steal power in man; Ulysses, the pos
SCISSOR of every art and vile.
The written history of wrestling,
however, antedates the legendary tales
of Homer and the much sung siege of
Troy. In the land of Egypt we find in
ancient temples evidence that wres-
thing was perfected art many thou
sand years before Christ.
Not far from the bank of the Nile,
in the temple tombs of BENZ Hassan,
wrestlers are depicted In every hold
known today.
Three hundred and eighty-six posi-
tons are cleverly cut into the sides OF
Tomb XVII of BENZ Hassan, and Tomb
XVI contains another $50 positions.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-02-28
Blood Donors Unsought in
Russia; Life Fluid Canned

In Russia, hospitals are dispensing
with the need Of summoning volun-
tary blood donor when cases of ur-
gent blood TRANSMISSION arise. Instead,
the patient is given dose of this
vital effusion out of a tin! Supplies
Of blood of all grades are stocked in
glass containers, kept under refrig.
GRAFTON. Ruthless analysis ensures
the purity of each can, so there is no
danger, as in the case of direct
man-to-man transfusions, of noxious
germs being transferred in the
process.
Doctors in outlying districts requir-
ing a TRANSMISSION have now only to
communicate the specific qualities of
their patients blood to hospital,
and tin of the same caliber is dis
patched Immediately. In winter,
some consignments have been landed
over snow-bound areas by parachute.
Tit Bits.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-02-28
Pierri Takes Third Strike
in Promoting the Turks

Undaunted, Pierri sailed forth for
another Turk, and this time came with
another giant, Nouralah. Strange as
1t may seem, Pierri again put his trust
into American managers, and once
more Billy Brady signed the Turk
under his management. And still an
other trip for Antonio and again an
other Turk. This time It was Jai All
pronounced Hall Alali), and this time
not Brady but Martin Julian won the
affection Of the invader, and for the
third time Pierri was without his
champion.
All these Turks were great wrestlers.
On his hOme-bound trip in 1898 Yous-
souf was passenger ON the Inflated
French liner, La Bourgogne, and lost
his life in the disaster.
A legendary story gained circula-
tion that the Turk wore a belt around
his body, with all his money in $50 gold
pieces. The story is no doubt fable,
because no American managers would
have permitted Youssouf to get away
with so much weight in gold.
Did you know that wrestling was
the favorite indulgence Of the Father
of Our Country, George Washington?
President Lincoln also made grap-
pIing his favorite sport and met all
corners In the exercise room.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-02-28
Remember When O'Leary
Walked 100 Miles at Is?

When Dan O'Leary celebrated his
seventy-eishth birthday by walking 100
miles in % hours and 43 minutes at
the Cubs park in Chicago In 1897
When ice skating was so popular
throughout the land and there had to
be some rules for governing COMPETE
ton in the sport? So-that was In
18e5-the code of rules used at trot.
ting horse meetings was made to ap-
ply, with very few changes, to Ice
skating. And soon came to be the code
governing ice skating competition
throughout most of the world.
When National league umpires were
for the first time granted salaries?
That was in 1888, seven years after
the league was organized.
When Jim o'Rourke caught his last
bie-time ball game? That was on oeto-
Der 2, 1904. Jim caught "Iron Man"
McGinnity and made hit while the
Giants were winning their hundredth
game of the season and taking the
pennant away from the Cubs.
Jim was then ffty-two years old.
He had been playing professional base
ball for 81 years, mostly as an out
fielder. He had not become a catcher
until few seasons previously, when
he had bought Connecticut League
club and found that he had no back
stop on the roster.
r INES from an overcrowded note
IL book:
One of the most profitable of all
turf investments was made by John A.
Drake. Thirty-five years or so ago that
eminent. and departed sportsman paid
$1,000 for an aged horse named Royal
Flush. He then campaigned the thor
oughbred in England, and in one sea-
son, with the expert assistance of Bet
a-Million Gates won more than a mil
lion dollars in bets.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-02-28
More Than 100 Styles
of Modern Wrestling

There are today more than a hun
dred known styles of wrestling. OF
which catch-as- catch-can is mostly
prevalent in America, Graeco- Roman
style in Europe, Judo and Souma style
in Japan and collar-and- elbow in Ire
land.
In the old Roman amphitheaters the
contests were to the DEATH The gam
blers were seldom accused of fixing
things.
The immortal Shakespeare was a
wrestling fan. Note Orlando's contest
with Dukes wrestler in las You
Like It."
The most famous match in all his
tory was between Henry Viii and
Francis at the meeting of the
Cloth of Gold In 1920. At that time
the French and English kings were
the foremost monarchs in the world.
In India, China and Japan wrestling
has been practiced almost uninter-
ruptedIy for thousands of years. Reg
ular contests are carried on at Toxic
in ring surrounded with two circles
of thirty-six bags of earth. A bow
and bowsprine formerly were given
as the prize.
The time to throw a man is when
he is moving or exerting his strength
In the same direction as that In which
you desire to throw him. The force of
the aggressor is then applied along the
line of least resistance
Wrestlers come and go in cycles.
Just before the turn of the century,
Youssouf, the Terrible Turk, was the
Juror. He was an immense-sized gladi-
ator. Yet had hard time downing
little fellow named Ernst Roeber.
Youssouf was brought here from the
sultan of Turkey to impress the world
with the strength of his regiment of
athletes. Antonio Pierri. Greek,
brought him here, but was relieved of
him by Billy Brady.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-02-28

no YOU remember way back when:'
- A tall, thick-shouldered man
used to stride to the plate at the old
Polo Grounds and the boys In the
hIeachers would start chanting:
"Buck! Buck! Buck!
Hit 'er over the fence
Just for luck"
That was Buck Ewing, one OF the
alI-time greats among the catchers and
possibly as hard hitter as Babe Ruth.
In 1888 the Giants were playing the
ST. Louis Browns for the world cham
pionship, had lost the first game and
were trailing, 8 to o, In the ninth In
ming of the second one.
There were three men on base. Buck
came to bat. The bleachers roared
their refrain. 1t was plea, a demand,
a battle call. Bucks bat was almost
twice as big as those used nowadays.
He swung it Justify.
The ball sailed far over the center
fielder's head, seemed still to be ris-
ing when it passed over the tally-hos
parked close to the fence.
That blow won the game and broke
the Browns, who put up only pale
struggle while the Giants were romp-
ing away with the rest Of the series.
Around town there still are old
timers who insist manfully that 1t was
the longest and hardest hit ball ever
produced in championship game.
When-in one season-John L. Sui
Ivan stopped so opponents in the first
round? And when Bob Fitzsimmons,
in a so-called world championship af-
fair against Peter Maher at Langtry,
Texas, knocked out the Irish giant In
thirty seconds of the first round?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-02-28
Recalling Famous Race
Between Turf Royalties

When the "King of the Turf"-that
was Ray S, the great stallion owned
by the Fleischmans of Cincinnati-met
the "Queen of the Turf"-that was 70
Tambien, the fleet little mare owned
by Chris Smith of chicago7 =.
There were two races, both of them
on the beautiful old st. Louis Fair
Grounds course. Hundreds of thou
sands of dollars were bet each time,
while eminent sportsmen GRATED that
the honor of their great cities was at
stake.
In the first race-the Club Members
at mile and quarter-they galloped
down the stretch hell for leather. They
came under the wire nose and nose.
No man really knows who won. The
judges said "Ray S." Possibly they
were correct, because Monk Overton,
the little black man who rode him, was
a magnificent finisher. The crowd said
"Yo Tambien" and arguments were
loud and long, while more hundreds
of thousands were bet for the Memo
rial Handicap.
This time Kentucky Bill and Brown
Dick, The famous negro trainers who
loved the little mare, combined their
talents. Perhaps they thought they
had been jinxed the first time out. Pos
sibIy :hey thought that Johnny Mooney,
the very good Chicago jockey, had been
outridden.
They decided to match jockey with
jockey, jinx with jinx. They engaged
frankie Jordan. "When you get to the
head Of the stretch just hurry along
home" was all the instructions they
gave him.
Perhaps 1t was the greater skill of
the new rider that did it. More likely
the great-hearted mare just could not
brook another defeat. No one really
knows now but
This time as the horses reached the
wire Brown Dick and Kentucky Bill
were dancing exuItant jigs, crossing
and increasing gnarled fingers.
Out there on the track the little
mare was running as she never had
run before while, crouched on her
withers, Frank Jordan grinned and
looked back through crossed eyes at
the horse which this time could not
keep up.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-02-28
Black-Draught Relief
Prompt and Refreshing

It's a good idea that so many peo-
pie have-to keep Black-Draught
handy so they can take dose for
prompt relief at the first sign of
constipation.
Mr.. Sherman Sneed, of Evansville,
Tenn, writes: Il take Black-Draught
for constipation which causes head
ache, a bad, tired feeling and for
biliousness, bad taste in the mouth
and sluggish feeling. Black-Draught,
taken about two nights, clears up
this trouble and / get all right"
Men and women like Black Draught so
well because of the refreshing relief it
brings in constipation troubles.