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Building Year

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which they wished to open to the
industry.
Rentals increased during the year
for both residential and commercial
space. This rise in rents on apart.
ments, combined with the large in
crease in population due to the &C
tivities of New Deal agencies, was the
primary reason for the amount of
residential construction. The Gov
eminent pay roll in the Capital was
the largest since the World War.
Salaries were increased in private
business. The fear of losing the job
and the fear of depression were spec
ters of much less significance to job
holders than in the five previous
years. All of these worked to give the
real estate business q banner year.
2,031 One Family Permits.
Permits for 203l one-family dwell
ings, with official figures for Decem-
Der not available, were issued during
the year by the Office of Building In
spector John w. Oehmann. This
represents an increase of approxi-
mately 400 over 1885. The valuation
of these dwellings was placed at
s12,631 900.
An even more impressive increase
was shown in apartment construc-
ton. Large multi-family structures
were erected in numbers last year for
the first time since pre-depresSion
days. Permits were issued for $50
apartments and fats, with a housing
capacity of 4,053 families, and a valu-
alton of $1o,02o,100. In 1885 permits
were approved for 434 apartments,
having a capacity of 2,035 families.
Thus, dwelling units for 6,084 families
were erected in the District last year.
Great activity in real estate was not
confined to the District. Record
breaking figures for home construc-
ton were also established in out
lying sections of the metropolitan
area, such as Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties in Maryland. and in
Arlington and Fairfax Counties and
Alexandria City in Virginia. Rising
rents and the need for space In the
city proper forced hundreds Of fam
lilies to build. buy or rent outside the
District. Improved transportation
facilities, and better service for the
home owner in the way Of utilities,
also aided expansion in the suburbs.
Building and loan associations III
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ever. that surrounding territory has
greatly increased in assessable value.
were disputed by Thomas w. Baxter,
supervisor Of assessments. He said
the adjacent land is more valuable
only as property having potentialities
for future sale to the Government.
Baxter said assessments would not be
materially increased on such holdings.
At the start of 1886. the supervisor
said, the countrywide assessable basis
on real and personal property was
sos, 1882. During the year. he said,
this has increased more than $4,000
000-perhaps as much as S2,500, 900.
He backed realtors statements that
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SOUTH BUILDING INDEX
LEADS ALL OTHER AREAS
Solid Agriculture Tone Of Section
Makes Recovery I'M
preSsive.

Building recovery in the South has
advanced farther than in other sec
tions of the country. Noise H. Gold
stein of New Orleans, director of the
American Institute of Architects for
the Gulf States Division. says in a
summary of progress issued by the
institute.
Other sections of the United States
centers of industry are more sensi-
tive to national adversity and recovery
than is the South, which is largely
agricultural and dependent on natural
resources" Mr.. Goldstein points out.
"The index of recovery in the South
at this date is noticeably In advance
of the rest of the country. This may
be attributed to healthy crops and
Government benefits. oil and con-
struction work stimulated by Govern
ment agencies
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1885 was the county's most prosperous
Sixty Miles Of Pipes Laid.

Sixty Miles Of Pipes Laid.
Nearly 60 miles Of water and sewer
pipes were laid by the Suburban Sani-
tary Commission, which also installed
some 1890 connections. According to
Chief Engineer Harry r. Hail. the past
year was the most active for the
commission since pre-depression times
and was one Of the busiest since the
body was formed in 1918.
According to building permits for
the Prince Georges metropolitan area,
last June brought the largest valua-
ton on proposed projects with s248.-
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the District increased their assets ap-
proximately s12,000,000 during the
year, the District Building and Loan
League reports. Almost all Of the in
stitutions were forced to turn away
money. Year end figures showed
total of 107 900 investors in the as
sociations, an increase of $500 over
1895.
These loan institutions made about
5000 loans for home ownership. The
new loans amounted to total of over
$24, 100000. Total assets of the as
sociations at the present time are
estimated at Sill, 100000.
Real estate experts forecast that
further improvement ir the business
will be registered in 1897. They look
for erection of many more apartment
buildings and some office and other
types of commercial construction. 1t
is believed further increase in rate
unlikely. However, great gain in
the amount of idle morey seeking real
estate for investment is anticipated.
The. market is expected to be exceed
ingly healthy, with some increase in
prices.
July Best Month in Year.
Here are the totals for each month
Of 1880, with the December figure
estimated:
January. s1.585.725: February, ST.
080. .7S0; March, s2,112 0s5: April, 81
987 1850; May, s2,570,110; June, s3,597,-
685: July. s3.768,0l0; August, 81, $780,
180; September, s2,s13.l55: October
81 2,061 ,975; November, s2,760,97o, and
December, $2.500,000.
The following table shows the year
by-year value of construction since
1910:
Estimated
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ga. Heaviest month In 1888 was July,
when permits totaled $2oI ,s44.

when permits totaIed S2uI ,b44.
The monthly totals for last year In
the metropolitan area follow: January.
s3I,525: February, s1o2,6so: March.
s14s, ,7s5: April. s24i,545: May. s2o7..
$50; June. s24s,644: July. slS28oo:
August, s2l0.425; September, s244,0oo:
October. $Is0,450: November. ss2,697.
and December. sl75.ooo. Total for the
rural area throughout the year was
s508 ,607, compared with s323,2so IN
1885.
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the President urged the chairman
to expedite the project. Senator
Walsh informed Mr.. Roosevelt
that five sites were under con-
sideration, and the President sug-
gested personal examination to
speed the work.
To Inspect Three Others
The President said he would eX-
press no opinion until after he had
seen the other sites, which are at
Fort Dupont, at top of Pennsyl-
vania Avenue hill Southeast; the
Mclean estate on Wisconsin Ave
nue. and a tract near Walter Reed
Hospital.
1t is understood Senator Walsh
favors the site at Fort Dupont,
partly because the National Park
and Planning Commission is Great
ing a 30O-acre park there.
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HOPE IS GONE
FOR a ABOARD
HUGE AIRL|NER
Navy Plumbs Sea
For Wreckage

U.N.SO.-Al hope OF finding
any survivors of the crash of the
Inflated Pan-American-Grace air
liner, Santa Maria, has been aban-
doned by the Navy, Admiral Will
liam D. Leahy admitted today.
However, naval vessels are still
searching the area.
Bits Of wreckage scattered over
the Caribbean Sea today were the
only traces left Of the big ship
which plunged into the sea Mon
day night 20 miles from Cristobal,
Panama, with IA persons on board.
Naval vessels picked up five
mail bags, the diplomatic pouch
and many small pieces of wreck
age and equipment. The subma-
rine S-46 had the left wing and
engine nacelle alongside yesterday
afternoon, but it sank before it
could be recovered.
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Child CLAIMED.
AS THEIR own
BY K|DNAPERS
Boy Is Surrendered
By Chicago Couple

CHICAGO, Aug. 4 GN.SJ.
After a kidnapping scare which
stirred seven States, the couple
who seized 30-month-old Donald
Horst today surrendered the child
to authorities with a claim he is
their own.
With the parentage of the child
in violent dispute, the amazing
climax Of the supposed ransom
snatch" came when Mr.. and Mrs.
John Regain notified the States
attorneys office they had the
child. The dark-eyed youngster
was unframed.
When they seized the child, the
Regans were assisted by Fred
Ewert, former convict.
Regretted Adoption
Mrs. Lydia Regain told Assistant
States Attorney w. F. Crowley
she was not married at the time
of Donald'S birth, and that she
had permitted the child to be
adopted, but had regretted it i'm
mediately afterward. She said:
tive looked everywhere for
him since. Now that I'm mar
ried 1 can care for him. 1t was
only recently that Ewert told
me where he was.
"JOhn and I knew it would
be hopeless to ask the HOrsts to
give Donald up. SO-we decided
just to take him. We didn't
think Mrs. Horst would raise
such a row about it, knowing
the circumstances of the BIRTH
The kidnapping occurred late
yesterday as Donald was playing
in a sandpile with Mrs. Martha
Horst, 80, who still insists the
child is her own, near his side.
Had $1,000 Ready
Today's denouement came only
after otto Horst had obtained
more than five thousand dollars
in cash to pay the ransom Mrs.
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MISTAKE SLAYER FOUND DEAD IN WOODS
Ranger Sets
Pace in Sd
OF Series
BY LAYTON CARVER

ABOARD COAST GUARD
CHELAN. Aug. 4 G.N.S0.-With
brisk breeze ruffling the sea at
IL miles an hour, the two Amer.
tca'S Cup yachts, Ranger, the
American defender, and En-
deaVour II, Of England, were off
to a rushing start at 11:40 a. m.
&c. S. t., in the third race of the
series today, with the defending
craft slightly in front.
The Englishman, T. o. M. Sop
with. was again outjockeyed by
Harold Vanderbilt, Ranger skipper,
the Endeavor II being left in the
Rangers wake as they See-sawed
for a break near the mark.
Use Extra Sails
Maneuvering for the start, both
broke out quadrilateral jibs to sup
plement mainsail and staysail for
the 15-mile beat to windWard.
Vanderbilt, master of the wheel,
hit the line practically on time,
but Sopwith managed to work En-
edavour into the weather berth.
Both began footing swiftly on
the starboard tack and on virtu-
ally even terms, although Endeav"
our crossed the line IS seconds be-
hind the American yacht. How
ever, by holding the weather berth,
Sopwith was in the tactical posi-
ton of cramping Vanderbilt's
style in a lacking duel.
Tries Port Tack
Within a few minutes, he
brought Endeavour over on the
port tack, Vanderbilt being forced
to follow.
But the better sailor with ad-
mittedly the better boat promptly
asserted himself, sneaking into the
weather berth and pointing
Ranger at a noticeable higher
angle as her sheets caught the
wind. Vanderbilt, in fact, was
in front within five minutes, his
advantage being slight at this
time, but important.
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The President inspected 81
acres running from Foxhall Road
west and south to Conduit Road,
and 272 acres west and north of
the Dalecarlia reservoir. The lat.
ter site touches Conduit Road on
one side and Massachusetts, Ave
nue. on another.
Officials Go Along
Mr.. Roosevelt was accompanied
by the chairmen of the congress
sional Naval Affairs Committees,
Senator David Walsh, of Massa-
chusetts, and Representative Carl
Vinson, of Georgia; Rear Admiral
Perceval Rossitor, Surgeon Gen.
eral Of the Navy, and DR.. Ross
T. McIntire, naval medical officer
attached to the White House.
Today's trip was the outcome
of a conference with Senator
Walsh, Monday, at which time
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Shipping Warned
OF Tropical Gale

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Aug. 4
G.N.SD.-Announcing that a
slight tropical disturbance some
$50 miles off the Florida coast is
increasing in size, the United
States Weather Bureau today
warned all small craft plying be
tween Titusville, Fla, and Cape
HatteraS, N. c., to proceed with
caution. The disturbance, which
originated in the Bahamas, is OF
slight intensity as yet but is at,
tended by squalls over a wide area,
the bureau said.
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SENATE ADOPTS
D.C,TAX REPORT

More than $S,OOO,OOO in new
local taxes were gently laid on the
backs of Washington taxpayers to
day as the Senate without debate
adopted the conference report on
the District tax bill.
Only the Presidents signature
is necessary now to make the
measure law.
HighlightS of the new load:
1. The real estate and tangible
personal property tax is jumped
from $1.5O to S1.75 a hundred,
to raise an estimated 100000
additional toward the $8,00Os-
900 plus total.
2. Business concerns will pay
a gross receipts tax of twO-fifthS
or l per cent, against which
they will be allowed credit for
the amount paid in personal
property taxes. Estimated yield,
$3,1OO,OOO.
3. An automobile weight tax,
to raise an estimated $1,5OO,OOO
for the highway fund.
4. Inheritance and estate
taxes, returnabIe in 1889, to
raise 100000 a year.
S. The intangible property
tax is to be frightened to raise
$25O,0OO more than at present.
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Actress Settles
Suit For $1,000

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Aug. 4
(C.T.P.S.). - Marie Marks, 10,
stage and screen actress, has COM
promised for $4,000 her 100000
damage suit against Cecil Sill
man, Hollywood man-about-town
whom she accused of having in
duced her to go through a mar
riage ceremony with him when he
knew he was not finally divorced
from another woman. Miss Marks
recently obtained annuiment Of
her marriage to Sillman, reputed-
ly the heir to a large fortune.
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Navy PIumbs Sea
For Air Liner Wreck

CRISTOBAL, Canal Zone, Aug
4 G.N.S0.-Belief that swift death
in a shark-infested sea engulfed
the IA persons aboard the Pan
American Grace flying boat Santa
Maria grew today as a 24-hour
search brought no sign Of any
survivor.
An early theory that lightning
crippled the plane as it was near
ing Cristobal en- route from Lima,
Peru, was discounted by E. j.
Brown, manager of the Grace line.
He said:
''No evidence of charred wood
have been found. The wreckage
picked up includes cushions from
inside the plane. 1t is possible
the pilot misjudged his altitude
and struck the water head-On
throwing the passengers into the
Shark-infeSted sea-"
WRECKAGE SOUGHT
Meanwhile, mine-sweeperS of
the United States Navy grappled
to raise the wreckage.
Within a few minutes flying
time from safety. the Santa Maria
was battling a tropical downpour
when she nosed into the waves.
Life Belts Found
Into Cristobal the steamer Lap
wing brought the first remnants
of the plane-life belts, whose
markings identified her beyond
doubt: a Debated rubber life raft,
presence of which indicated the
passengers made some effort to
launch it; q smashed piece of
wing, and two pouches containing
So pieces of mail, postmarked La
Paz, Bolivia.
En- route from Guayaquil, Ecua-
dor, to Cristobal, the flying boat
apparently was flying safely un-
til 1880 p. m. Stephen S. Dunn.
one of the two pilots, sent regular
radio reports until that time, when
a message that he was coming
down on the Atlantic side of the
Isthmus indicated he was in
trouble.
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glove and into Eager's thumb.
Eager could have saved him.
self by dropping the snake, but
feared for the safety of three
pupils who were watching him.
Placing the copperhead back in
its cage, Eager applied two tour
niquets to his left arm and drove
his automobile to police headquar-
tiers where he received an anti
venom injection.
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Brokers' Son Dies
In Airplane Crash

PALM SPRINGS, Cal, Aug. 4
QN.S) Charles A. Graham, jr,
18-year-old son of a wealthy Monte
bello (Cal0 real estate broker, was
dead today after his plane failed
to como out of a power dive and
crashed within 500 feet of the air.
port here. The youth, a student
at Pasadena Junior College. died
at a hospital where he was taken
by rescuers who extricated him
from the Wreckage.
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Eager, in temporary charge of
a cage of reptiles during the abb
sence of the biology instructors,
was cleaning out a screened en-
closure containing six copper
heads and six rattlesnakes.
He picked up a four-foot cop
perhead and was holding it be-
tween his thumb and forefinger
when the reptile slid forward a
few inches and sank his fangs
twice through a heavy leather
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-04
Mine Union Opens
Drive in New York

NEW YORK, Aug. 4 GINS.
John L. Lewis own organization
the United Mine Workers, the big
gest union in America, was invad
ing the metropolitan area today
in a drive to sign up all workers
in gas, coke and by-products
plants.
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CDR. DafOe says she will have
to stay in bed a couple of days,
purely as a precautionary meas
ure. That means she will not
be able to accompany the other
four children to their open air
playground for the rest of the
week.
"The other four are in perfect
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-04
JUDD APPEAL
MADE IN Vain

PHOENIX, AAriz., August A.
The parents of Winnie Ruth Judd,
notorious murderess, appealed to
Governor r. C. Stanford and the
State board Of pardons and pa.
roles today to pardon their daugh.
ter. The request was denied.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-04
Kent Is 'GrOOmed'
AS King of Poland

LONDON, Aug. 4 QN.S).
Polish monarchists, lacking a
nominee for king ever since east
ern Europe started partitioning
their country, today turned to the
Duke of Kent, younger brother of
King George VI of England, as a
prospect.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-04
Billy Rose Is Sued
Over Song Rights

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4 G.N.S).
Billy Rose, famous spectacle pro-
Queer and husband of Actress
Fannie Brice, was named defend
ant today in a SIS 200 damage suit
brought by Frederick D. Bowers,
playwright and composer.
Bowers charged Rose produced
a song routine called Melody
Lane" at the Texas Centennial Elk
position. He said he had refused
to sell that routine to the pro-
Queer
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DEATH CAUSE
IS PUZZLE, NO
BULLET MARKS
Bryant's Body Near
Scene of Crime

Mystery enveloped the mis-
taken identity" murder Of Mrs.
Naomi Black, "a, attractive Ar.
lington County club woman, to-
day when police were unable to
find a bullet wound in the body
of her alleged slayer, found dead
100 yards from the Black home,
TIC South Glebe Rd., Arlington,
Va.
The body Of Ralph H. Bryant,
So. estranged husband of Mrs.
Blacks sister, was found in the
woods by Policeman Jack Ward
IL hours after the young matron
was shot down by bullets appar.
emily intended for her sister, Mrs.
Ethel v. Bryant. Police named
Bryant as the slayer
No bullet marks we're found on
Bryant, Sheriff Howard B. Fields
said after police first reported he
had shot himself through the
head. An autopsy will be per-
formed later today by DR.. w. c.
Welburn. county coroner, to d.
termine the cause of death.
Felled by Two Bullets
Mrs. Black, a prominent mem.
Der of the Washington Golf and
Country Club, was believed to have
aided the slayer's mistake by her
actions. When she recognized
Bryant after answering a knock
at the kitchen door about 9 p. m.
last night, she ran screaming out
of the house, police said in recon-
structing the murder.
She was felled by two pistol
bullets, which ripped through her
chest as she ran toward the front
lawn. One pierced her heart after
tearing through her right hand.
Mrs. Bryant, who had lived with
her sister since she obtained .
partial divorce from her husband
a year ago, told police she was in
the shadow when her husband
mistook Mrs. Black for her in
the dim light of the kitchen.
Two Women Alarmed
Friends, however, said that
Bryant was indignant at Mrs.
Black for harboring his former
wife and that he had been to the
Black home on previous occa-
sions, leaving the two women
alarmed over what he might do.
Mrs. Blacks husband, Jerry w.
Black, a former Marine Corps
lieutenant who is manager of q
Washington wholesale meat COM
pany, was not at home when the
Staying occurred last night.
Police said that Bryant has
been unemployed and was living
in an abandoned garage in Clar.
endon. They were told at his for.
mer Washington address that
Bryant had threatened to kill him.
self. Mrs. Bryant is employed at
Clarendon beauty salon.
picture on Page 81 7
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5 WOMEN HURT
ASH CARS HIT

Five young washington women
we're treated at Casualty Hospital
today for minor injuries received
when the car in which they were
riding was in collision with an
other on the Washington alti-
more Boulevard near Beltsville,
Md.
Those hurt were Louise North
rup, 25, of 4525 West Virginia
Ave. N. W.; Helen Harrington, 80,
of 1914 Seventeenth st. N. w.;
Mary Ingraham, %, of 45O5 Con
duit Rd. N. W.: Claire B. Will
liams, Is, of 1741 Lanier Pl. N.
w., and Mrs. Lottie Naff, 1923
Utah Ave. N. w. driver of one
car.
Maryland police said Mrs. Naff
and Mrs. Arlie M. Day, of Ber-
Wyn, driver OF tne OCner auCOmO-
bile were released after having
been held on technical charges
of reckless driving. A hearing on
the accident has been set for next
Wednesday.
Emergency Hospital physicians
administered treatment for slight
leg decorations to 15-year-old
Louis Fields, of 11O7 Staples St.
N. E., who was knocked from the
bicycle he was riding by an auto.
mobile which struck him as he
entered Logan Circle from Rhode
Island Ave. N. w.
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Hollywood to Get
Huge Radio Studio

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 4 G.N.S0.
National Broadcasting Company
has purchased a city block in the
heart of the film capital where a
huge studio rivalling New York's
Radio City will be built, it was
learned here today.
The present N. B. C. studio on
the outskirts Of Hollywood was
built little more than a year ago
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Naval Hospital Sites
Viewed by President
BY EARL GOODWIN

President Roosevelt inspected two possible sites for the
posed $48O0OOO Naval Hospital today, and will visit three
others he find time from his White House duties
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health. They were a bit dis
appointed this morning because
a heavy rain prevented them
going out in the playground,
but if the weather turns nice,
they'll certainly be there"
Marie, who cut her lip, has been
proudly displaying the tape Dr.
Dafoe put over 1t.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-04
Quint COnvalescent,
But Misses OUTING

CALLANDER, Ontario, Aug. GNS)-Emilie Dionne,
third largest of the quntupe who is suffering from mild
respiratory Infection described today quite GONZALES
cent by the secretary Dr. Alan Roy Dafo qunt physician
The secretary said:
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Cages COpperhead,
Saves Three Lives

EAST HARTFORD, Conn, Aug. 4 QNS) .-Because Gordon
Eager &c., retained his grasp deadly copperhead snake
although had bitten him twice. three young pupils of the
American School for the Deaf possibly owe their lives today
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Funny BIunders Of School Children,
better than the gags Of professional
joke writers collected from school
examination papers. An amusing
page In The American Weekly, with
Sundays Washington Herald.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-04

Funny BIunders Of School Children,
better than the gags of professional
joke writers collected from school
examination papers. An amusing
page in The American Weekly, with
Sundays Washington Herald.