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Evening star., 1937-04-10
Home Competition Announced
Viii, Prizes Totaling $1,000
Sponsored by Clay Products Institute.
Contractors, Realtors and
Architects Eligible.

With a view to making a Nation
wide survey of the latest improve
ments and ideas in the use of brick
and building tile for home consttuc-
ton. the Structural Clay Products
Institute of this city has announced
a home competition with prizes ag-
gregating $4,000.
The purpose is to disseminate to
the building public the latest ideas
evolved since 1928, looking to increased
beauty and utility in the construc-
ton of fireproof homes. With a 76
per cent increase in the use of burned
clay products last year, the building
boom is showing a definite trend to-
ward homes of greater durability and
lessened upkeep cost.
Building contractors, realtors, archi-
tects, designers, craftsmen and engi-
neers are eligible to enter the compe-
tition, which relates specially to mod
erate-coSt homes built with structural
clay products. Details of the compe-
tition, being sent out by the institute
on request, cover houses OF one, one
and half and two story buildings of
clay masonry, brick or clay tile, and
their combinations. Two sizes OF
homes are contemplated, those not ex-
ceeding five rooms and one bath, en-
Evening star., 1937-04-10
WARNING ISSUED
ON ''BOOM" TREND
Elimination of Such Psy.
choIogy From Building
Industry Urqed.

The elimination of tendencies toward
boom psychology in the home building
industry and home financing business
of the United States was urged today
by Preston Delano, governor of the
Federal Home Loan Bank System.
The Nation needs a steady and
progressive expansion of housing IA
cilities, entirely separated from any
thoughts of new booms-and de-
preSsions," he said His suggestion
was made as reports were received
from all parts of the country indi-
eating this year would set new home
building records.
The Federal Home Loan Bank
System, created in 1882 as a mortgage
credit reservoir for home financing
institutions, has developed a sound,
national program which strengthens
and encourages home-oWnership struc-
ture. This system naturally is vitality
interested in a safe and sane and we'll
ordered development in this field
Unfortunately, there has been an
increase in spoken and printed COM
ments about the new upward trend
in home building, in which reference
is made to another boom. The press
is playing its part in pointing out the
fallacy of boom psychology, but the
newspapers and magazines can do
even more along this line by con-
stantly stressing the need of perma-
nence and steadines in home building.
Presidents Of the II regional Fed
eral home loan banks report the de-
mand for home financing is running
anywhere from so per cent to 400 per
cent greater than it was year ago.
They have just returned to their dis
tricts from Washington where they
tSee BUILDING, Page ca
Evening star., 1937-04-10
REALTORS OFFER
WIDE DISCUSSION
AT CONFERENCE
Delegates of D. C. and Seven
States to Meet May 14-15
in New York City.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
PRESIDENT WILL SPEAK
Luncheon of Regional Officers to
Be Feature-Speciahzed Boards
to Confer Earlier.

Realtors Of seven States and the
District, together with national leaders
in every real estate field, will meet in
New York City May IA and IS to de-
velop the widest possible interchange
of ideas and information as to needs
OF the industry in the present transit
ton period, and to establish sound and
effective real estate policies.
The meeting will be the first Central
Atlantic regional convention of the
National Association of Real Estate
Boards. The region includes in addi-
ton to the District, New York. Penn
sylvania, New Jersey Delaware Mary
land, Virginia and West Virginia. Tbs
national association and the various
State groups of the region are engaged
IN planning the convention, which will
be held at the Biltmore Hotel. Morton
j. Luchs, vice president of the WASH
ington Real Estate Board, is a member
OF the Convention Committee.
Every one interested in real estate
(See CONFERENCE, Page CO.
Evening star., 1937-04-10

lSee CONTEST, Page C-llD
Evening star., 1937-04-10

phasis being placed on small houses
not to exceed $4,000 cubic feet in VOL
ume, and larger houses of five to seven
rooms and one or two baths, but not
exceeding 1000 cubic feet in volume.
Great improvement Noted.
In the last decade home building, as
practically all other construction, has
undergone great improvement. Archi-
tects are predicting, and illustrating
their predictions by drawings, that up
to-date construction today calls for as
many improvements over 10 years ago
as building in the last decade showed
over that of the gay COS. Home build
ing has moved on as rapidly as has
any other construction activity. In
fact, in brick home construction there
has been almost a revolution.
Where several years ago plain brick
tSee CONTEST, Page C-lI)
Evening star., 1937-04-10

PRESS BUILDING CORP.
EARNINGS ANNOUNCED
Interest Rate of Sol Per Cent
Realized on 8 Per Cent First
Mortgage Bonds.

The National Press Building Corp
in Washington earned at the rate of
S0l per cent on its present out
standing s6,l56,000 of per cent first
mortgage bonds, reporting income, be-
fore interest and depreciation, for the
year 1885 Of S475, 1928, according TO an
operating study Of the property issued
by Amott, Baker & Co, Inc, of New
York. This compares with income of
s429,167 in 1885, which was at the
rate of 6.97 per cent, and 1884 1858, or
625 per cent, for 1884.
Real estate taxes have been paid to
date on the building, which has been
assessed for 1887 at S5.83O084. Under
a plan Of reorganization consummated
late in 1885 bondholders received new
first mortgage bonds, par for par, plus
stock representing in the aggregate
17l2 per cent of the preferred and "a
per cent of the common.
Evening star., 1937-04-10

izing this are installing modern light
ing and fixtures in properties under
their management. Private homes
also should be adequately lighted
Evening star., 1937-04-10
THREE HOMES SOLD
Falls Church Real Estate Convey
Special Dispatch to The Star

dIIVCb 12H II UUHCVU.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
FALLS CHURCH, Va, April 10
Sale Of three houses and lots are in
cluded in the recent real estate con-
veyances made in and around the
town of Falls Church.
A. J. Lexington. trustee. has con-
veyed house and lot in Buffalo
Park to Julia A. Smith and a house
and lot in HillWood to Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Leon Magee of Pottstown, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert l.. Dove. jr.. have
sold house and lot in Greenway
Downs to William McCollum.
Evening star., 1937-04-10
Effective Lighting Pays.

Well-lighted Offices are more readily
and advantageously rented Owners
and operators of Office buildings real
Evening star., 1937-09-02

Bennett roomed. told ofIicers the youth
came in last night At II O'Clock. stayed
In his room for q short while and
then went out again. When she arose
this morning, she said, she found
that BENEFITS bed had not been slept
In and that he had taken all his
clothing and other possessions from
the house
Questioned at the hospital this
morning. Bennett told investigators
he knew nothing Of what he did last
night, nor could he recall details of
his past life. lie was able only to
tell officers his name and the address
OF his rooming house and that he
was an employe of the Takoma Health
Food Co., at 148 Carroll avenue, Ia
koma Park.
1t was said at Bennett's place of
employment this morning that he
reported for work at am. and left
almost Immediately on an errand to
the Northeast Market in Washington.
He was driving his own machine.
Evening star., 1937-09-02
MNALY IS HELD
ON DRUG CHARGE
One of Trio on Probation in At
tempted Moore kidnapping De-
tanned in $1,000 Bond.

Lawrence E. McNally. 30, one of
three men on five-year probation for
the attempted kidnapping of the late
Tom Moore four years ago, was held
under $4,000 bond for the grand jury
TO-DAY by United States Commissioner
Needham C. Turnage on a charge Of
possessing narcotics
McNally, who lives in the 400 block
OF G place, was arrested yesterday by
Detective Sergt. c. E. Mansfield of the
narcotics squad and Federal agents.
Another of the three men involved
in the attempted kidnapping, John N.
for the grand jury under $5O, 900 bond
Tabler of Arlington County, was held
in Police Court yesterday in connec-
ton with the shooting Friday of John
Hitter, a witness scheduled to appear
before the grand jury in liquor con-
Spiracy case.
Hitter is in serious condition at
Gallinger Hospital.
Evening star., 1937-09-02
POLICE BOYS CAMP
TO BE ENLARGED
Fourteen More Bungalows Will Be
Erected, Board of Managers
Announces,

Plans for enlarging the Police Boys
Club camp at Scotland, Nd, by ap-
proximately 100 per cent were an
nounced today following meeting
of the clubs Board Of Managers at
the camp yesterday.
The meeting was part Of the boards
annual inspection trip during which
members visited many of the cabins,
take part in some of the sports and
share with the boys the evening meal,
which consists principally of fresh
vegetables raised in the camp garden.
Under plans disclosed by Morris
Cafritz, vice president of the club.
IA more bungalows accommodating
liz boys, are to be erected for next
year, and a large house, which was
built nearly 100 years ago on the pres
ent camp site is to be renovated and
converted into an administration
building and medical clinic.
Besides Cafritz, those who visited
the camp yesterday were Supt. of
Police Ernest W. Brown, James E.
Collifiower, president Of the club; Ray
F. Garrity, second vice president;
Harry Veiner, Ben Ourisman, Louis
P. Payne, Maj. Robert A. Mcclure and
L, Gordon Leech.
Evening star., 1937-09-02
MANY CITIES APPLY
FOR HOUSING AID
P. W. A. Division May Form
Nucleus Of Slum-Clear.
ance Work.
Ey the Associated Press.


Ofhcials OF the Public Works Ad-
ministration's Housing Division said
today many municipalities have ap-
piled already for Federal aid to low
cost housing and lum-clearance prof.
ects under the new Wagner-Steagall
program.
The Wagner-steagal bill, signed
today by President Roosevelt, pro-
vides Federal loans and grants for
projects intended to provide dwell
ings for low-inoome families.
Officials expressed q belief that the
P. w. A. Housing Division would
form the nucleus OF the new United
States Housing Authority, set up by
the Wagner-Steagall act to handle
$526, 100000 financing of new dwell
ings In the next three years.
Whether four housing projects
erected by the Resettlement Admin
htration, which was disbanded yes
terday. will be transferred to the
new authority was still unknown IN
ofncial circles.
Evening star., 1937-09-02
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HYDE PARK, N. Y, September a.
The text Of President Roosevelt's 5
statement on the signing Of the sugar
bill follows:
The problem before me raised by the
enactment Of HR 7667-the so-called
sugar bills that the bill, intended
primarily TO benefit the many thou
sands of farmers who produce beets
and sugar cane and those who. at the
place Of production, refine the raw
material into sugar, has been seriously
impaired in its value by the Inclusion
Of a provision intended to legalize q
virtual monopoly in the hands OF q
small group Of seaboard refinery. :.
am primarily concerned with the
interests Of the domestic beet and
cane growers and of the cane growers
In the islands which are under the
American nag and the cane growers
Of some Of our close neighbors, such
as Cuba.
Quotas Equitable.
So far as all Of these growers, do
mestic and insular. are concerned, the
system Of quotas provided in the bill
Is, on the whole, equitable. From this,
the most important objective of the
Dill. have no reason to disagree.
The sole difficulty relates to a little
group Of seaboard refiners who. un-
fortunately, for many years we're able
to Join forces with domestic producers
IN the maintenance OF a continuing
and powerful lobby in the National
Capitol and elsewhere This lobby has
cost the stockholders Of these refining
companies millions Of dollars and 1t
has been wholly unnecessary so far rs
protection of the domestic beet and
cane producers has been concerned.
1t is with great regret, therefore,
that find that the Congress has ac-
corded a status quo continuation Of
this seaboard refinery monopoly for
two and q half years to come. The bill
in this respect gives only one raw of
hope-for 1t provides that this refln-
ing monopoly shall terminate on
March l, 1910, whereas the beet and
cane producers quota is extended to
December 81, 1910.
Receives Assurances,
Since the passage Of the bill, I
have been given the following as
surances by Senators representing the
great majority OF continental suear
producers:
Evening star., 1937-09-02
"GREAT REYNARD"
DIES OF AP0PLExY
Famous Ventriloquist Of 90s Elk.
pires at Marion, Ohio, Home.
Was 66 Years Old.

BY the Associated Press.
MARION, Ohio, September Ed
ward F. Sharpless, 66, who for more
than 20 years was an internationally
famous ventriloquist known as THE
Great Reynard," died at his home to-
day Of apoplexy.
A headliner in practically every
American theater of the 9Os, Sharp
less became internationally known
when he toured Canada and the
British Isles. For three months he
starred at the Hippodrome in Lon
don.
At the height Of his fame, he toured
with Orpheum and Keith road shows
for more than four years, was with
The Great Lafayette" for a year
Primrose & Dockstader" a year and
the shows that starred Jim Corbett as
worlds heavyweight boxing champion
Evening star., 1937-09-02
JEWISH NEW YEAR
CEREMONIES NEAR
More Tasks Face Israel Now
Than in 19 Centuries,
Says Rabbi Metz.

As Washington Jewry prepared foI
its New Year celebration Sunday
Monday and Tuesday In 10 Washing
ton synagogues, Rabbi Solomon Metz
Of the Adas Israel Synagogue an
nounced in a letter posted yesterday
that Perhaps never since the de-
structlon Of the second temple. nearly
10 centuries ago, has Israel been
called upon to face so many tasks
as in our generation"
Different from the merry-makine
Of the Christian New Year, Rosh
Hashanah, the Jewish holiday, is q
time Of meditation snd reflection on
both temporal and spiritual subjects
Addresses on world problems affect
ing Jewry will feature the Rosh
Hashanah services.
Rabbi Metz announced he would
speak on the subject, AT the
Threshold Of Destiny" at services
Monday at 1890 am. and Tuesday
at the same hour will speak on "A
Challenge to Youth"
Az S-NEAoAlAA6 11AS1ldudu, H6O.
bi Metz said:
The first 10 days of the Hebrew
New Year, beginning with Rosh
Hashanah, when the Shofar, or rams
horn, is sounded during the morning
services, and ending with the fast
OF atonement, Yom Kippur, are OBJ
served as the 10 days of penitence. -
The Shofar is reminder and call,
he said, to our "hate-driven, skeptical,
dislllusioned and confused world that
men and nations must seek salvation
not in materialistic might, but in
humanity's purified heat. faith in
God and the pursuit of individual and
social Righteousness
Reform Jewish temples will cele-
brate their New Year Sunday evening
and Monday, while the orthodox syna-
gogues will continue the observance
through Tuesday.
Evening star., 1937-09-02
CROSSING DEATH
LAUNCHESP PROBE
States Attorney Sees "0b-
vious" Traffic Hazard on
Defense Highway.
3, 4 staf Correspondent OF The Star.

BS Stan Correspondent OF The Star.
HYATTSVILLE, Md, September
Full investigation OF the accident
in which Clarence L. Joneston, 43-
year-old ambulance driver for the
Bladensburg rescue squad, lost his
life yesterday when his automobile
crashed into the side Of fast B. d. o.
freight train on the Defense High
way, will be made at an inquest to
be held in the Police Court room
here at pm. September 9.
In calling the inquest at the re-
quest Of H. L. Leonard, president
Of the Prince Georges County rescue
squad, States Attorney Alan Bowie
said he intended Ito go to the limit
on this thing in an effort to correct
an obvious traffic haz d."
Leonard said members of the rescue
squad are making every effort to
bring out all angles of the case, not
only to determine who was at fault
in the Joneston death, but to show
how the crossing might cause other
accidents. He called attention to the
sons have met death at he crossing
within the past few years.
At the time of the accident Joneston
was hurrying in his private car from
his home. at Guy avenue, Hyatts-
Vile, to the fire house on the Defense
Highway to answer an alarm that
a woman was dying. Fellow members
OF the squad, waiting for him at the
fire house, heard the crash and rushed
to the scene block away to find
Joneston lying about Is feet from his
demolished car.
The crossing is guarded by watch
man who is on duty ~ hours q day.
Leonard and members of his squad
spent yesterday taking pictures and
measurements around the crossing
for presentation at the inquest.
He called attention to the fact that
the crossing, only single track but
one carrying the entire freight trafi1c
load between Potomac yards and Bal
timore and points West, is diflcult to
see as a motorist approaches it. Like
the railroad tracks. the Defense High
way also must carry heavy trafnc
load. This is the road which leads
to many Of Maryland's most fire.
quented shore resorts amid often is
jammed with motorists returning to
Washington on week ends.
Funeral services for Joneston, with
members Of both the Rescue Squad
and the Bladensburg Volunteer Fire
Department attending, will be held
At the Gasch funeral home in Hyatts-
vile at pm. Saturday.
Evening star., 1937-09-02

Willard Bennett. 20 years old, Of
Takoma Park, Md, lies in the Wash
ingtou Sanitarium and Hospital this
afternoon, robbed of his memory by
an auto crash In Prince Georges
County early today.
The young man, suffering from 4
wound over the left eye. II unable to
furnish hospital officials or police
with any details Of his past. or to tell
them how the accident happened.
He was able only to furnish au-
thorities with his name.
Bennett was found in his wrecked
machine on Agar road, near Hyatts-
vile. shortly after o'clock this morn
ing and was taken to the Takoma Park
institution by = Silver Spring truck
driver.
The automobile, ofncers said,
plunged Oh the left side Of the road,
ploughed through q ditch and crashed
into q tree.
Mrs. Sadie R. Town Of los Lincoln
avenue, Takoma Park. with whom
Evening star., 1937-09-02
BLAST
GU0N MOUNTAIN
Miners Resist Advance of
insurgents Despite Sur.
render Reports.
BY the Associated Press.

HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish from
tier, September 2-Asturian dyna-
miters blew up q mountain of the
Guerra range today. plunging mass
OF rock, dirt and debris in the path
Of Spanish insurgent forces advancing
against Gijon.
Despite border reports of negotia-
tions for the surrender of Gijon to
the insurgents, the Asturian miners
fought bitterly against Insurgent Gen.
eralissimo Francisco Frances army.
which Is steadily pressing them back
to the borders Of their own province.
Border advices said the commander
OF an insurgent brigade marching
westward toward the Biscayan port
had entered conversations with par
lamentary deputies Of the government
provinces
Francois drive to dominate the
north coast started q year ago with
the fall OF Irun and San Sebastian.
Pushing westward, his forces con-
quered Basque Bilboa on June 10.
Santander, last important stronghold,
surrendered August IS
Insurgents Push Westward.
Insurgents pushed westward today
along the Bay Of Biscay toward
Giton against what their communioue
termed slight" government resistance.
The Madrid-Valencia government,
heavy loser in Generalissimo Francisco
Frances northern campaign, reported
near-victory, however. on another
front more than 200 miles away. It's
forces were invading Belchite, an In
surgent stronghold on the Aragon
front, through gusts of machine-gu
1ire and under heavy aerial lombard
ment.
The insurgents Bscayan advance,
designed to wipe out the last vestige
Of government control on the north
ern coast, was reported by the Franco
communique to have brought easy
Occupation OF Colimbres and other
villages near the border of Oviedo
Province, the old principanty OF AS
turias.
A second column driving northward
from Potes was reported to have
reached the vicinity OF Caldas, also
near the provincial boundary. The
Franco high command said jubilant
residents of the towns in the path
of the march Of Gijon erected tri-
umphal arches for the insurgent
legionnaires.
Prisoners captured yesterday in
cluded an entire government battalion
Of l,o19 men.
= Aragon Fighting Eases.
The insurgent communique said
fighting on the Aragon front was
diminishing in intensity. with Frances
men continuing toward their objectives
both north and south of Zaragoza. in
the Spanish Northeast, the principal
base threatened by the Madrid -Valen-
cia troops when they started their
offensive last week.
A report last night from the Valen-
cia defense ministry, however, told a
different story-asserting the railway
station at Belchite. about 20 miles
south Of zaragoza. had been captured
after a day Of fierce combat.
Conflicting interpretations OF re-
newed fighting on the southern front
in the Posoblanco sector came from
government and insurgent sources.
Evening star., 1937-09-02
Roosevelt's Sugar Statement
President, in Signing Bill, Sees "Unholy alliance"
OF Growers and Sedboard Refinery
Monopoly Doomed.

l. That their primary interest in
sugar legislation Is to afford pro-
lection to the growers of sugar beets
and sugar cane in all domestic sugar
producing areas of the United States
and when the sugar act Of 1887 comes
up for renewal they will endeavor
to deal with the question of re-
fined sugar quotas in q separate
measure
2. That they recognize the fact
that Hawaii and Puerto Rico and
the Virgin Islands are integral parts
Of the United States and should not
be Disseminated against.
). That when the refined sugar
quotas for Hawaii, Puerto Rico and
the Virgin Islands are terminated
they will endeavor to enact legisla-
ton providing that minimum labor
standards in sugar refineries in these
on shore areas shall not be lower
than the minimum standards in re-
flneries on the mainland.
4. That in future legislation they
will see to it that the American house,
wife IS protected adequately.
Secs "Gentlemen's Agreement"
have received similar assurances
from responsible leaders of the House
Of Representatives In view Of these
assurances, therefore, am approving
the bill with what amounts to .
gentlemen's agreement that the un-
holy alliance between the cane and
beet growers on the one hand and
the seaboard refining monopoly on
the other. has been terminated by
the growers
That means that hereafter, the
refiners' lobby should expect no help
from the domestic growers. That is
at least definite step in the right
direction.
I hope that the next session Of
the Congress will consider repeating
or shortening the clause which con-
tinues the refining monopoly to March
l, 1910; but, even II Congress does
not then act, the end of the monopoly
Is definitely in sight and I sincerely
trust that nothing will be done by
the domestic growers OF beets and
cane to perpetuate 1t.
The monopoly costs the American
housewife millions of dollars every
year and am just as concerned for
her as am for the farmers them
selves.
Evening star., 1937-09-02
AMBASSADOR LEAVES

Cuban Envoy Goes to South Bos-
ton for Tobacco Festival.
Cuban Ambassador Martinez Fra2a
left bp automobile today for South
Boston, Va, to attend the tobacco
festival there
In his party were Dr. Vincente
Valdes Rodriguez, counsellor of the
Cuban Embassy; Roberta Mendoza,
first secretary. and Military Attache
Maj. Felipe Munilla. Mrs. Munilla and
their son. Others were Misses Tete
Suarex and Patricia Mancia.
The Ambassador expects to return
to WashinRton Monday.