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owner and builder: Dana B. Johannes,
jr., o27 Fifteenth street. designer; to
erect one 2-story brick and stone and
cinder block dwelling, e34l Sixteenth
street; to cost $500.
Capital View Realty Co., o25 New
York avenue, owners and builders; w.
Valentine, 1921 Eighteenth street
northeast, designer; to erect one =
story brick and concrete block dwell
ing. 80 Fifty-third place southeast; to
cost $500.
J. B. Strayer. l4l0 H street, owner;
George T. Santmyers, architect; build
er not selected; to erect one 1-story
brick store, 1904 Rhode Island ave-
nue. northeast; to cost $1,000.
Building Laborers' Local, No. a,
629 Pennsylvania avenue, owners w.
E. Cramer, tr., designer: Bahm IL
Wright, Inc, 916 Rhode Island avenue
northeast, builders; to erect brick and
frame addition, SIS New Jersey ave-
nue.; to cost $1,000.
Crosby's Shoe Store, Inc, Ills r
street, owners; Solomon Kaplan, ar
chitect; M. Cladny Construction Co.,
635 F street, builders; to erect mezza-
nine and make repairs, Ills F street;
to cost $4,000.
E. L. Scroggin, 6o6 Central avenue,
Capitol Heights, Nd, owner: H. w.
Burrows, 42l6 Thirty eighth street,
designer and builder: to recet one q
story brick dwelling, 1924 Alabama
avenue southeast; to cost $500.
Alton Place Dwelling.
M. G. Batchelder, owner; w. O.
Bender, 4844 Butterworth place, de-
signer; Robert A. Grahame Co., 90l
Eighteenth street. builder: to erect
one 2-story stone brick and tile DWELL
ing, 1887 Alton place: to cost $4,000.
Edward A. Hyde. 1913 Second place,
owner and builder; Evan j. Conner,
designer; to erect one 2-story brick
and concrete block dwelling, 1890
Twelfth place southeast: to cost
5000.
Adeline Shops, Inc, 1925 F. street.
owners and builders; to make repairs.
1oOl H street northeast; to cost 81, 900,
Edward A. Hyde, 5918 Second place,
owner and builder; Evan J. Conner,
designer; to erect one 2-story brick
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BUILDING UNHURT
BY RISE IN COSTS
Rapid Increase in Prices
May Rocket Activities,
Wenzlick Says.

Rapid rise IN construction costs and
resultant recession IN the national
volume Of home building, such ~
has been experienced in recent
months. will not prevent the expected
long-term rise In building and real
estate activity. according to Roy
Wenzlick, nationally known analyst,
In an article In the current Issue Of
Freehold. publication Of the National
Association Of Real Estate Boards.
WenGlick declared that such 4 de-
pressing element on the realty market
would tend to make the rise In activity
more abrupt, more likely to be ex-
plosive.
Best preventive Of an irrational,
violent movement Of = boom" type.
with its serious economic waste, is Z
continuing factual examination Of the
ASy 1ACAOAA OCGI I"AAlAA4 ASoA Cooo oN
trend, 30 that there may be an un-
derstanding Of their relation to each
other, Freehold comments in an edi-
torial note.
Problems Discussed.
Mr.. Wenzlick, whose organization In
st. Louis made the first long-term sta
tistical study of factors affecting real
estate movement, discusses in the
article some current developments,
evaluates their effect on the long
term trend.
Confusion Of thought in regard to
many Of them" he says, stems from
failure to realize that the real estate
cycle is long cycle, and moves
slowly.
There is no question Of the fact
that rapid rise in construction costs
always acts as a retardment OF build
ing. 1t is one of the factors which
will be primarily responsible for the
height of any boom that comes.
"The higher construction costs 60,
the higher must rents and values on
older properties go before any great
volume Of new building can be done.
Almost all national and international
factors at the present time are basic
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Permits
Continued From First Page.)


on a par with those of Spring and
were slightly ahead of totals for the
corresponding time last year. How
ever, the last week building returned
to the lower levels Of June and July.
Residential Activity.
Residential construction activity
was particularly weak during the last
six days. Only one apartment was
included in the weeks list Of permits,
while erection of 81 one-family dwell
ings was included.
The apartment, an eight-story
structure to be built by Meadovbrook,
Inc, at 2212 I street, will cost s175,-
900. It will be designed by Robert
O. Scholz This was the largest per-
nit issued during the week.
Harry F.. Schneider Of Baltimore
obtained the right to build six dwell
ings in the 1900 block Of Sixteenth
street southeast at . cost of $4,000.
L. w. Giles will design the buildings
More important permits of the week
are as follows:
MeadoWbrook, Inc, Tower Building,
owners and builders; Robert o. Scholz,
designer; to erect one 6-story brick,
concrete and tile apartment building,
22l2 street; to cost $175,oo0.
Six Block Dwellings.
Harry F. Schneider. Baltimore, Md,
owner and builder; L. W. Giles, 442s
Hunt place northeast. designer: to
erect six 2-story brick and block
dwellings. l504-15l4 Sixteenth street
southeast; to cost $4,000 each.
P. J. Grady, 1927 Connecticut ave
nue., owner and builder; Dillon a.
Abel, 1927 Connecticut avenue, de-
signer; to erect two 2-story brick
dwellings, l617-l61o Twenty eighth
place southeast; to cost 5000 each.
w. r. Green. 380s Northampton
street, owner: G. T. 6antmyers. 14l0
H street, designer; Personal Builders.
50l6 Fourth street, builders; to erect
one 2-story brick and concrete block
dwelling, 1928 Albemarle street; to
cost $4,000.
Malcolm Matheson, Wellington, Va,
owner: Edwin Weihe. Arlington, Va,
designer; Malcolm Matheson, jr., Inc,
ALA Tenth street northeast, builders;
to erect one 2-story brick and frame
dwelling, 1903 Dexter street: to cost
$4,000.
Q. T. g. w. A. Carr, Inc, Mills
Building. owners and builders; R. B.
Carr, Mills Building designer; to erect
two 2-story brick and tile dwellings,
S645 and 3e47 Van Ness street; to
cost $4,000 each.
Barnaby Woods Developing Co.,
Bethesda, Nd, owners and builders;
Louis r. Moss, architect; to erect one
2-story brick dwelling, 1863 Thirty
second place; to cost So, 1000.
$4,000 Project.
William D. Sullivan, 2001 Sixteenth
street. owner; Clifton White, designer;
Marvin M. Wire, 306 Madison street,
builder; to erect one 2-story brick and
cinder block dwelling, 30l5 P street;
to cost $1,000.
c. M. Bowles, 2l5 Florida avenue,
owner and builder; r. c. Archer. jr..
designer; to erect one 1-story brick
dwelling, 2e4l Nichols avenue south
east; to cost $4,000.
J. M. Chesser, 50l3 Illinois avenue,
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and concrete block, stucco, frame
dwelling. 1928 Twelfth place south
east; to cost 5000.
Carl A. Martin, 1923 Connecticut
avenue, owner; J. Wilmer Smith, 1859
Park road northwest, designer; Harry
w. Goff, 2 Dupont circle. builder; to
erect one l-story brick addition, 1928
Connecticut avenue; to cost $4,000.
Dupont Estate, It'll Massachusetts,
avenue. owner; T. F. Collier. ll09
Twentieth street northwest, designer
and builder; erect second-story brick
addition, I'LL Massachusetts, avenue;
to cost $4,000
Rapley Theater Co., owners; Hudson
Air Corp, 1927 Penn
sylvania avenue, builders; to install
ventilating fan. 1925 E street; to cost
2,5oo.
Alfred c. Riggs, National Savings
IL Trust Co., trustee, estate of Jane
A. Riggs, owner; e. H. Lindsey. 1927
X street, designer; B. l.. jackson,
Silver Spring, Nd, builder; to make
repairs, 1909 H street; to cost $500.
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ally indationary. including, Of course,
the present situation in France.
Higher building costs mean even
tually higher values on all useful prop
critics now standing. The slower new
building develops the more acute the
shortage Of space will become and the
higher rents and values will go. Even
tually rents and values will get to the
point where new building can be done
ut profit and the real building boom
win develop"
AS to the effect Of our lowered birth
rate and restricted immigration. Mr..
Wenzlick says: while we are nc
longer growing q rapidly as We did
-. tho birth rate OF the present will
not Affect real estate until 20 or 80
years from now"
AZ to real estate In the hands Of
lending institutions, he says: Dump
ing never occurs in q rising market. i"
Evening star., 1937-08-21
BUILDING LOAN
ACCOUNTS JUMP
League Reports $4,000
Additional Investors
During 1886.

Savings, building and loan associ.
atoms opened new investment accounts
for approximately 3l4.000 new persons
during the first half of the year,
which total is 21 ped cent greater than
the number of shareholders added
during the first half of 1886. The
United States Building and Loan
League. source of this estimate, indi-
Gates that simultaneously the number
of accounts closed out for the period
decreased by nearly 10000 or a.
per cent.
This is the first half year in
which the number of closed accounts
has decreased as compared with the
same period the year before" COM
mented Harold T. Donaldson, Lansing,
Mich, president of the league. Thus
the dWindling Of shareholders needs
for their savings and the steady in
crease in public familiarity with the
savings and loan institutions invest
ment qualities are alike, reflected in
this figure"
The months which showed con-
spicuous increases in new shareholders,
as compared with the same months the
previous year, were January, February,
April and May, Mr.. Donaldson said
He was particularly impressed with the
way the new shareholders came into
associations in February this year. This
month is usually considered a slack
one, as reaction from an abnormally
large investment flow in January
March had the feWest new accounts
opened of any Of the first six months,
but from that months low of 42,800
shareholders, the climb each month
has been steady and June brought in
G8255 new accounts.
No figures on the amounts of new
money brought in by this more than
q quarter million new investors were
available from the associations, the
league president said, but he suggested
that the sum was more than enough
to Offset the money paid out to share
holders who closed their accounts.
He also recalled that probably half
OF the new accounts opened are on the
lnstallment basis and provide for
monthly payments into the account,
or at least contemplate periodic addi-
tions to the amount already in. From
this he points out that the upbuilding
OF home financing resources which
will come from this group of new
members has only just begun.
Evening star., 1937-08-21
Automatic Gekers Cut Costs.

IT your furnace gives off heavy black
smoke you are wasting money. Smoke
means incomplete combustion and
costs as much as $40 in every 500
spent for fuel. Automatic coal stokers
eliminate this loss by feeding fuel to
the under side of the fire
Evening star., 1937-08-21

And he adds: "The value Of new
building alone, without the ground,
during an average year in the 20s
Evening star., 1937-09-20
Gen. Beaumont of d. C.. Arriues
To Head Marines IN SHANGHAI
Commander, Veteran Of
Many Campaigns,
Cited 8 Times.
Ev the Associated Press.

Fy the Associated Press.
Arrival of the 9Th Marine Regi-
ment at Shanghai put in command OF
United States land forces there a
veteran of China service who has
smelled the smoke of battle in remote
corners of the earth.
He is Brig. Gen. John C. Beaumont,
whose courtly manner bellies his
dogged determination when there is
q job to be done. He took over the
general command yesterday from Col
Charles B. Price, commanding Of
ficer Of the 4th Marine Regiment,
which was stationed in the Chinese
city before hostilities were begun.
Gen. Beaumont-"Johnny Beau" as
he is known among Marines-went
back to Shanghai just little over a
year after he relinquished the post
as commanding officer of the 4th
Regiment in June, 1886.
Born in Washington, the general is
So years old. has snow-white hair,
bushy black eyebrows and kindly black
eyes.
Johnny Beau" said an associate
here, lis the type of officer who leads,
rather than drives, his men"
AS captain of Marines in 1912 in
Nicaragua he participated in the as
sault and capture of Coyotepe In
1915 he skirmished with rebels in
Haiti.
He wears eight decorations for
meritorious service.
Col. Price, who will continue to
command the 4th Regiment, was born
in Hamburg, Germany. He is SIS years
Evening star., 1937-09-20

week Of the Third Reich's greatest
program of war maneuvers.
Twelve army corps were deployed
with utmost secrecy through the
northern provinces of Mecklenburg
and Pomerania. Promptly at I am.
the war games were launched, with
the army, navy and air force CO.
operating in the defense of the strate-
gic Baltic coast.
The presence of Hitler, together with
the fact that Marshal Werner Won
Blomberg, reichsminister of war, per-
sonally took over supreme command,
indicated the Importance military au-
thorities attached to the maneuvers.
The general staff was believed To-
Gated at Rostock or Warren.
Secrecy Shrouds Games.
All phases of the games-the first
warlike test of the new German Army
after but two years of existence-were
cloaked in deep secrecy. Foreign cor
respondents were barred; traffic was
routed around the area citizens were
cautioned to be on guard against spies.
The large territory covered by the
war games. extending from the Baltic
coast as far south as Central Ger
many and beyond Berlin to the east
and Hamburg to the west, was regard
ed as proof that the air force will play
the dominant role.
Cities in the area will be plunged
into darkness as citizens cooperate
IN air defense maneuvers Household
ers tackled dark paper over the win
dows, and all shutters were repaired
so that not ray of light could find
a chink.
Evening star., 1937-09-20

The Irish Free State has a pure
milk campaign.
Evening star., 1937-09-20
EIGHT COUNTRIES
PLEDGE PEACE AID
Hull, in Radio Symposium,
Joins Plea for Economic
Cooperation.
~ the Associated Press.

LONDON, September 2o.-Spokes-
men Of the United States and seven
other countries pledged themselves
last night to strive for peace through
economic cooperation in a world
where cravings and quarrels threaten
to bring about human catastrophe
at any moment"
On worldwide radio hook-up,
representatives of the United States.
Canada, France, Great Britain, Aus
tria. Czechoslovakia, Belgium and Co.
lombia urged broader international
trade to prevent warfare The SYM
postum was sponsored by the National
Peace Conference.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull,
speaking from New York, said it is
difficult" to talk of peace when
"bombs are exploding and desperate
armies are marching"
He declared, however, that through
enlarged international trade there can
come IAN equilibrium of peaceful
interest more stable than the equi-
librium of matched cannon"
Lucu lOPCS IUT 1Tduc L dCte
British Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden expressed the hope that Brit
ish trade agreement with the United
States, similar to the one between
the United States and Canada, may
be completed before very long"
at has been factor of the greatest
benefit to the world" he said, that
during these critical years the United
States economic policy has been, in
spired by broad-minded conceptions
Of freer trade"
Prime Minister Camille Chautemps
of France, speaking from Blois, de-
clared that some nations suffer
through shortage Of raw materials
and are not in a position to export
goods.
Then it is no wonder, as such
countries seek to expand, that we see
them organizing an aggression We
usually call an invasion" he said.
Austrian Chancellor Kurt Won
Schuschnigg's address was read by a
high Austrian official at Vienna. He
said intensive promotion of interna-
tional trade is necessary for the peace
and existence of smaller states.
I'VE are endeavoring to bring about
an economic agreement" with Yugo-
slavia and Rumania, Prime Minister
Milan Hodza of Czechoslovakia said
IN q broadcast from Praha.
Canada Seeks to Cooperate.
Prime Minister William L. Mac
kenzie King of Canada declared from
Ottawa that means for avoiding in
ternational strife lies along the path
Of trade cooperation. He said Canada
has sought wherever possible" to
cooperate in promoting international
commerce.
Belgium's Premier Paul van iceland
declared his government is supporting
every effort" to bring nations closer
together and lower trade barriers
which the economic crisis. of the early
1905 effected
President Alfonso Alfaro Lopez of
Colombia spoke of the United States
as following a more liberal" trade
policy than many other nations and
said I'VE have passed the painful era
OF IN economic war"
Evening star., 1937-09-20
FOUR HELD IN ATTEMPT
TO STEAL SPANISH SUB
BY the Associated Press.


BORDEAUX, France, September 20.
Police held the captain Of the Span
ish government submarine CA and
three Of his crew in custody today on
charges of attempting to steal an
other undersea craft from the Brest
drydock
The submarine captain, Jose de la
Harras, declined to tell police of his
plans. The other submarine which he
sought was the Spanish governments
ca
The captain of the second craft de-
clared, however, that De la Harras told
him, Il have gone over to the Ma
tionalist tinsurgent) side. Give me
your submarine and I'll give you g.
000, 900 pesetas"
De la Harras and the three others
We're seized as they fed from the CO,
their attempt to obtain the submarine
frustrated by a government seaman.
who shot one of the raiding party that
boarded the CO.
Evening star., 1937-09-20
BERLIN IN UPROAR
IN SHAM AIR RAID
Crowds En- Route to Work
Jam Safety Cellars as
Sirens Shrek.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, September 20.-Air-raid
maneuvers threw Berlin into An up
roar today--the population was driven
into cellars, the propaganda ministry
was burned theoretically to a cinder"
and the Kaiserhof Hotel, opposite the
foreign office, was destroyed"
Warning sirens sounded at 8:19
am, and crowds en- route to work
jammed into the cellars.
Bombers droned overhead 20 min
utes later and were met by fire from
anti-aircraft batteries on roofs Of high
buildings.
A direct chit" was scored on Air
Minister Hermann Goerings new min
istry building, but the thousands in
its cellar were saved"
Goering Directs Relief.
Goering himself directed relief OPP
erations as the fire department. Air
Defense Corps and police ambulances
dashed about. Great clouds of black
smoke shrouded the damaged area"
until the debris and victims" were re-
moved. The raids end was signaled
at 1858 am.
1t was the dramatic opening of the
Evening star., 1937-09-20

Fourteen States have civil service
laws.
Evening star., 1937-09-20

Italy harvested 293, 100000 bushels
of wheat this year.
Evening star., 1937-09-20

old, feet /, and weighs 100 pounds.
eyes, and wears closely-cropped,
black mustache.
His keen sense of humor and ready
wit, which at times is caustic. are
proverbial among his fellow officers.
One OF the most accomplished lin
gusts in the Marine Corps, he speaks
English, French, German and Span
ish with fluency. His ability to speak
Spanish during the Cuban campaign
of 1908 won him the nickname Of
"Spig."
'Spig' is probably as hard-boiled
and as strict disciplinarian as there
is in the Marine Corps" is the way
one fellow officer describes him.
Evening star., 1937-09-20
ASTUR|AN DEFENSE.
REPORTED BROKEN.
Village of Los CaIIejos Is De-
c|ared Captured by Gijon
Attackers.
8y the Associated Press.

HENDAYE, Franco Spanish Bor-
der, September 20-Insurgents driv-
ing toward the governments last
northwest stronghold at Gijon broke
through Asturian defense lines today,
an insurgent communique reported,
and captured the village of Los Gale
jos after heavy fighting
Waves of counter attacking Navar-
rese drove back the Asturian defend
ers, who started the battle with an
infantry drive in the Sella River Sec
tor. 30 miles southeast of Gijon.
The advance brought Gen. Fran
cisco frances forces step nearer
Oviedo, where insurgent officers pre-
dicted the 14-month siege of an in
surgent column would be lifted within
two weeks and that Gijon would fall
soon thereafter.
Insurgents reported two surprise at
tacks marked fighting east of Oviedo
yesterday.
On the nearby Leon Province front
the insurgents moved into two villages,
Evening star., 1937-09-20
ARGENTINES REPEATING
BALLOT FOR PRESIDENT
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Sep
tember 20.-Claiming fraud, radical
party members refused to go to the
polls today as nine of Argentina's IA
provinces voted second time on
their choice OF presidential candidates.
The Complementary elections were
held because number of polling boxes
were found defective after the elec-
ton of September S.
The radical candidate, Marcelo Al
wear, held the lead in the count of
the earlier election, but the uncounted
votes were considered preponderantly
favorable to the conservative coalition
candidate, Roberto Ortiz.
The fact that the radical party
members abstained from voting in
Santa Fe and Buenos Aires provinces
was interpreted as a concession OF
Alyear's defeat.
Evening star., 1937-09-20

Penalasa and Los Fontanales, while
on the Leon-Gijon highway an in
surgent advance guard swept into new
positions moving toward the town of
Lena.
Dispatches from Madrid indicated
that the civil population there, instead
of dwindling in obedience to the gov
ernment's evacuation orders, had in
creased in the last month, putting ad-
ditional strain on food supplies.
Far southwest OF Madrid, govern
ment gains were reported on the Bada-
joz front. where government troops
reached the neighborhood of Granja
de Torrehermosa. pushing from Cor
doba Province into Extremadura.
Evening star., 1937-09-20
PUBLIC AIDS "WAR"

TOXIC, September 30 CP.-The
war of1ce announced yesterday that
public donations to the army since
July 4, when the conflict with China
began, had reached 10000, 900 yen
(s4,s4o, ,ooo).
Army spokesmen said these volun-
tary contributions in a little more
than two months indicated patriotism
was running higher than in any of
Japar1's previous wars.
Records showed the public con-
tributed 2,9l8.oo0 yen during l8
months Of the Sino-Japanese War Of
lSo4-5; STAT 600 yen during ls months
OF the Russo-Japanese War and u.s.
$4,000 yen during the Manchurian
campaigns Of 1878.
Evening star., 1937-09-20
Retired Merchant Ends Life.

LOUISVILLE, KY, September 20
P.-George L. Eddie, so, retired to-
bacco merchant. was found dead in
his home yesterday, a gunshot wound
In the right temple.
Coroner John M. Keaney pronounced
the death suicide. He said Eddie
returned home shortly before noon
after playing golf all morning.
Evening star., 1937-09-20
Cuba Feels Quake.

SANTIAGO. Cuba, September 40
P).-A strong earth shock WAS felt
here yesterday. 1t caused . panic
among residents, but no damage was
reported.
The Washington times., 1937-10-02
MORE ABOUT AMERICA
Let's Have More Ships

A MERICA is at last taking her rghtful place on
n the seas, building up is fitting, both her
Navy and her merchant marine.
Down at Norfolk the great new naval aircraft
carrier Yorktown has been formally placed in COM
mission, a 2Omillion-dollar insurance policy for
tional defense.
And there is happy in the announcement by the
Maritime Commission that a great new liner is to be
o " constructed at Newport News to
W" Deo'"'" replace the old Leviathan, once
81" A''" '"' the pride of the American mer-
chant MARINE outmoded and rusting at anchor
in retirement.
Since the end of the World War we have watched as
England, Germany, France and Italy have built great
Ships fast ships that have set new transatlantic cross
ing records.
We have seen American travellers using these ships,
paying good American dollars toward their construc-
ton and upkeep, rather than travel the Slow out
NODDED American vessels.
Now we are awakening from this long period of
lethargy. Once more American shipyards are hum
ming with activity.
Perhaps it won't be long before the blue ribbon of
Atlantic passenger supremacy will float from United
States vessel.