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Evening star., 1938-06-11
Route for Reaching
Latest Star Home
On Warren Street

The 6th Silver Star Home of
1888. located at 4S53 Warren
street NV, may be reached from
downtown Washington by driving
out Wisconsin avenue to Van Ness
street. Turn west on Van Ness to
Forty-second street and right on
Fory-second to Warren and the
property. Direction signs have
been placed for convenience of
visitors. re d:
Built by the firm Of Cooley
Bros. realtors, the new home will
be shown tomorrow for the first
time. It is French provincial in
architectural style and was de-
signed by Dillon q Abel. 1t has
been completely furnished by the
P.J. Nee Co. T.,
The house will be exhibited for
80 days under sponsorship Of The
Star. Visiting hours are from 10
in the morning until 8 at night.
Evening star., 1938-06-11
OFFER LOW-COST
HOME EENTERPR|SE
AS BUILDER GUIDE
Manufacturers Join to Show
Possibilities of Types
Under SIS, 900.

As proof that good housing can be
provided for low income families
through use Of present-day materials
and methods and without a scientific
overhauling of the established
American home building system, IS
leading manufacturers of building ma
terials and equipment are completing
eight small demonstration homes near
Glen Echo, Md.
The project is one unit of the Ma
tional Small Homes Demonstration
program, which is conducted with CO.
operation of the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration. The F. H. A. has ap-
proved all designs. The sponsoring
firms emphasize they are not entering
the home building business, but merely
(See DEMONSTRATION, Page B-5.)
Evening star., 1938-06-11

(See LOANS, Page B-3.)
Evening star., 1938-06-11

(See DESIGN, Page B-4.)
Evening star., 1938-06-11
12-yEARMAX|MUM
LOANS |NDORSED
Building and Loan League
Committee Files Policy
Recommendations.

Recommending that savings, build
ing and loan associations have an
average maximum loan term of IL
years, with IS or 20 years possible
In exceptional cases, the Committee
on Trends for the United States Build
Ing and Loan League has just pub
hshed and distributed nationally its
S8-page report entitled Mortgage
Lending Policies" E. c. Baltz Of
Washington, president OF the league,
was vice chairman Of the committee,
and G. Clinton James of Columbia
Permanent Building Association is
also member OF the committee. .
The report contains the recon-
mendations made by the committee
before the last league convention.
1t Is now being distributed to 400
association members of the league and
Is acclaimed as the most comprehen-
sive survey Of any phase Of the savings
and loan industry which has been
made in the IS years Of the leagues
existence. q.
More Reports to Come.
The committee will function for
several years to come, inasmuch as
Mortgage Lending Policies" was only
the first Of a series of subjects on
which 1t expects to make full and
definite reports. Other projects In
clude the size of associations and plan
OF operation, trends in accounting,
trends in business development and
supervisory relationships.
Other recommendations contained
In the report include that a so per
cent relationship of amount of the
loan to total property value is still
sound practice and, that q maxi.
mum of around. 10 per cent should
be usual practice. AS to the trends
In income property loans, the COM
mittee recommends that associations
should still consider the single-family
home as their principal lending field.
Where they do make loans on rental
projects, more conservative attitude
toward the loan value to the total
property value and the length Of
loan term should be maintained.
Considered Problem Pressing.
Reasons for first studying the mort
gage lending policies, according to
Mr.. Baltz, were that this problem is
most urgent and pressing. Much en-
phasis is being. placed on the avail
ability of funds to be loaned to the
would-be small home owner, he stated,
ISee TnANS p.oe u-a1
Evening star., 1938-06-11
HOMES BROADCAST
Radio Programs Tell of New
Developments.

Prospective home owners and even
those who just like ''to look" at newly
constructed homes will have an oppor-
tunity to see" Washington,s latest
real estate developments-during de-
scriptive broadcasts Sunday mornings
from 10 to 10:30 over WRC.
The Home Shoppers" programs are
conducted weekly by Frances Witte
and Marvin Beers, sponsored by the
Washington Real Estate Board.
Evening star., 1938-01-30
PAINTING exhibition
AT INTERIOR IS OPEN
Works Are in College Wing Of
Fine Arts Gallery of
the Building.

An exhibition Of oil paintings, COM
pr1sing the college wing Of the fine
arts gallery Of the Interior Depart
ment, will be open today from 2 to
$50 pm. Entrance is through the
Q street entrance Of the new Interior
Department Building, between Eight.
eenth and Nineteenth streets NV.
The exhibit Is on the seventh floor.
The paintings by college students
1rom various parts Of the country
have been on view for two months
and Will remain throughout Febru-
ary. But this is the last Sunday
afternoon it will be open to the public.
Evening star., 1938-01-30

Brazil has reimposed its federal con.
tax on gasoline.
Evening star., 1938-01-30
C|TYACTST0BAR
COALPR|CEF|X|NC
Cleveland Charges Law Vic.
lation to Bituminous
Coal Commission,

Asserting the National Bituminous
Coal Commission has violated the law
in fixing minimum prices for coal, the
city Of Cleveland asked District Court
yesterday for an injunction to prevent
the commission from enforcing its
price-flxing orders. Through Frank o.
Wallene, director Of public utilities for
Cleveland, the city told the court 1t is
faced with the prospect Of paying
$4,000 a year more for its coal as
q result Of the commissions orders.
Mr.. Wallene contended the act Of
1887. creating the commission, re-
quired that hearings be held and find
ings OF fact made before minimum
prices could be fixed. The commission
violated the act in both respects, he
said, thereby depriving the city Of
property without due process of law.
The suit contended the prices fixed
by the commission are excessive and
inequitable, and that coal producers in
the Cleveland area would be willing to
lower their prices for coal sold to the
city II they could be relieved of the
penalties imposed by the act for cut
ting prices. Most of the coal bought
by the city, according to the suit, Is
used in operating the municipal water
works. supplying 100000 persons.
The city did not follow the usual
procedure Of asking for a temporary
restraining order. As a result the
court will not act on the request for
q preliminary injunction until after
the commission files its answer, which
must be submitted within 20 days.
Meanwhile, many soft coal men
agreed that their federally fixed price
structure was threatened by the court
suits now piling up against the COM
mission. At least six producers and
two consumers have asked Federal
courts to suspend some Of the mini
mum prices the commission fixed last
December 16.
Friday the Court of Appeals in New
York City set aside the price schedule
in so far as it affected the Carter Coal
Co., operating in the smokeless field
OF Southern West Virginia.
Veteran coal men said competition
in the industry was 50 keen that even
that one order might upset the whole
price structure.
II the Carter Co. sold its coal
at any price it pleased, competing
operators could not very well stick
to the Government prices without
losing business, they explained.
Evening star., 1938-01-30
PROBLEM Cirl' of D. C.. Police
jailed in Jersey for Wild Ride
Isabelle Messn,er Held
After Pursuing Officer
Is Felled by Car.

Isabelle Messmer. the problem girl
Of the local Police Department, is in
jail again-this time as the unwilling
guest Of authorities at Newark, N. J.
According to the Associated Press,
she was arrested after an 80-mile- AN
hour automobile chase in the course Of
which she was alleged to have knocked
down a policeman with her expensive
roadster. Pending further investiga-
ton, she has been charged with
atrocious assault and battery with in
tent to kill with an automobile, leav-
ing the scene Of an accident and
speeding. .....
She told Newark detectives she
thought Policeman George Eschen-
fielder, who was on duty in plain
clothes, was a bandit when he at
tempted to stop her car. It was not
believed the officer was seriously in
jured.
Isabelle has been arrested here
seven times for minor offenses, serv-
ing one 60-day Jail term fer passing
bad checks. When first arrested here
in 1884 she was dressed as q 10y.
Officers took her into custody when
they noticed black curls around the
edges Of her blond wig.
About % years old. she has used
manV aliases inclNdipo puh,, ro1o
man. Jerry O'Conner, Dorothy Nc
Nally, Joyce Palmer. Joyce Larimore
and Shirley Ann Hoffman,
Evening star., 1938-01-30
Roper Invites d, C.. Man.

J. Howard Mitchell, president of
the Mitchell Hardware Co., 5000 Wis
consin avenue NV, has been invited
by Secretary of Commerce Roper to
be among the representatives of
smaller businesses throughout the
country who will confer with him
Wednesday. Another in this section
to attend the conference will be j. c.
w. Tawes. Crisf1eld, Md.
Evening star., 1938-01-30
DR.. PRICE WILL SPEAK
AT DINNER OF CITIZENS
"Dust Explosion" to Be His Topic
at February Session in
Takoma, D. c.

DR.. d. J. Price. engineer in charge
OF chemical engineering, research
division Of the Department Of Agricul-
ture. will speak at the second annual
dinner Of the Citizens Association of
Takoma. D. c.. Monday. February
z, at $50 pm. in the parish hall Of
Trinity Episcopal Church, Piney
Branch road and Dahlia street. He
will give demonstration of "dust
explosion" which is to be the topic
Of his talk.
President Wallace c. Magathan has
appointed Vice President R. H. Field.
Ter as general chairman of the dinner.
He will be assisted by the following
committee chairmen: Dinner, Mrs.
Norman E. Mc1ndoo; program, Charles
r. Bush, jr.; tickets, DR.. Norman E.
Mc1ndoo; reception, Wallace c. Ma
gathan: publicity, Howard S. Fisk;
decorations, Mrs. William M. Greene.
Evening star., 1938-01-30
PIONEER GRADUATES
CHOOSE OFFICERS
Admiral Reynolds Named Presi.
dent Of First High School Class
at Goth Meeting.

Rear Admiral William +. Reynolds,
Coast Guard, retired, was elected pres
ident Of the first graduating class Of
the pioneer high school in the District
at Its 60th annual meeting 1T the
Cosmos Club last night. He succeeded
George A. Provost.
John B. Espey was elected vice pres
ident and Charles w. Holmes was re-
elected secretary. Others present were
Frank B. Noyes, Cavour o. Bohrer,
John H. A. Fawler and Arthur T..
Middleton.
OF the original 81 in the class. 30
have passed on and II are unaccouuted
for. Their class met In the old Thorn.
son School Building on Twelfth street
NV. between K and L streets, long
since demolished. A few years after
they graduated the Central High
School was established.
Evening star., 1938-01-30
LAST MAN CLUB NAMES
Ed. HARRELL LEADER
Bea1l and Slater Elected Vice
9residents-Covert Chosen
as Secretary.

The Last Man Club held its annual
election Of officers at q recent meeting
in Moose Hall. The meeting marked
tho first anniversary of the clubs
founding.
The new officers are Earl D. Harrell,
president: William r. Beall, first vice
president; Robert Slater, second vice
president; William B. Covert, secre-
tary; Thomas H. Harvey, chaplain;
Lou Mccray, sergeant at arms, and
James w. Shorthand, member Of the
Board Of Governors.
The clubs annual dinner will be
held February is at 1902 Meridian
place NV. The organization is pat
termed after the Last Mans Club or
ganized by a Wisconsin regiment Of
Civil War veterans.
z. Claude Babcock, past national
commander Of the Disabled American
Veterans, was among new member,
enrolled last week.
Evening star., 1938-01-30
JUSTICE COLLEAGUES
GIVE REED A TEAPOT
Silver Dish Is Reproduction Of
One Lost From 13O-Year.
Old Set.

BY the Associated Press.
Justice Department colleagues Of
Stanley Reed completed his silver serv-
ice yesterday at farewell luncheon.
The retiring Solicitor General, who
will take the oath of Office as an asso-
ciate justice of the Supreme Court
tomorrow. is proud of a silver cream
pitcher and sugar bowl once owned
by his great-great grandfather, Gen.
David Chiles, who fought in the War
Of 1912. A matching teapot was lost
some time during the intervening
years.
Attorney General Cummings, on be-
half Of 80 associates. presented to Mr..
Reed teapot specially made to match
the creamer and sugar bowl.
Evening star., 1938-01-30
SMALL BUSINESS"
WILL MEET JONES
R. F. c. Chief to Attend Par.
ley, Arousing Speculation
as to Future Policies.
9y the Associated Press.

8y the Associated Press.
Jesse Jones, chairman Of the Re-
construction Finance Corp, will attend
this weeks conference OF more than
500 small business men here, the Com
merce Department announced yester-
day.
The chief of the Federal lending
agency was invited, officials said, lin
anticipation that the problem Of
financing small companies will be one
important subject discussed"
The announcement resulted in wide
spread speculation that the r. F. c.
may relax its purse strings, which were
frightened early last fall, and invite
new applications for loans from small
business men who can demonstrate
difnculty in obtaining finances else
where.
Railroad Loans Resumed.
The corporation recently resumed
making new loans to railroads and
some other interests.
MIR. Jones did not confirm that he
would offer assistance to small busi-
ness, however. All he would tell re-
porters was:
I'VE have been operating almost
entirely on applications which have
been under consideration for several
months either at Washington or our
80 agencies"
Well-informed persons said the r.
F. c. had been getting few loan appli-
cations Of any kind recently.
Financing Costs Attacked.
Some owners of small business con-
Germs have complained recently they
found the cost of financing relatively
more expensive than large corpora
tions. They pointed out, for instance,
that il a small business owner goes
from New York to Washington to con-
suit with the Securities Commission
and spends $40 train fare, this sum
Is larger percentage of small secur-
ity issue than a like sum spent on q
bond flotation of many millions.
Owners of small concerns will meet
Wednesday and Thursday at the De-
partment of Commerce.
They were invited by Secretary
Roper to discuss current business
problems and present recommenda-
tions to President Roosevelt.
Delegates are coming at their own
expense, department officials said.
Roper Invites d. C. Man.
Evening star., 1938-01-30
PRAYERS FOR CHINA

A plea for Christians all over the
United States to pray for China was
made Friday night at prayer meet
ing in the Y. w. c. A., Seventeenth
and K streets, which was called by
group Of Christian Chinese students.
Mrs. Julia Burkett led in prayer. Five
denominations were represented.
It Is planned to hold similar meet
ings each Friday night, it was an
nounced.
Evening star., 1938-01-30
Reich Film Attendance.

Attendance at motion picture the.
aters In Germany last year totaled
400. 900, 900.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-24
MEXICAN REBELS
 ARE DISTRESSING

San Luis Potosi, Mexico, May "A -(UP) - Rebel followers of Gen. Saturnino Cedillo seemed to be dis persing today and government off, cials asserted that the busted mili- tary commanders revolution had been broken. The uprising appar- ently had degenerated into scat tered guerrilla fighting on minute scale. Bands of "Cedillistas" were operating in the Mountains ill northern San Luis Potosi state and in the Huasteca region. Government troops, aided by airplanes were closing in on them. Cedilla was re- ported to have established head quarters at Montebello, northwest of Ciudad Maiz, from where he broadcast propaganda over his pri- vate radio station. The government said that he had about 300 men with him.
 Reports that Cedillos entire arm ed strength numbered 14,000 men were considered ridiculous. While no official estimate was available, army men asserted that if he were that strong he would not evade a real battle, nor would he divide his men into groups.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-24
By. HARRISON LAROCHE

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Hendaye, May 24-(UP)-The Ma tionalists today rushed reinforce ments to the important bridgehead at Galaguer, on the upper Segre river, where repeated Loyalist as- saults were developing into a major battle on the Catalan front.
 The Spanish Loyalist press agency said the Nationalists also were talk ing precautions to guard their rear as the result of tho uprising of Phalangists in the prison at Pam plona, where many of them were awaiting execution for assaults on Italian forces.
 The revolt, which was fomented two months ago, was climaxed by the arrest of a Nationalist general, Juan Vague, for 8 speech attacking foreign elements on the Nationalist side, the agency said
 Loyalists Attack
 At the Balaguer bridgehead the Loyalists sent tanks along the main road from Artesa De Segre to Bala- guer. Their batteries and planes shelled and bombed Hill 361, one of the highest in the region at the ex- treme point of the bridgehead.
 It was estimated that from 35,000 to 10000 men, one battalion of ma chine gunners, 40 Russian tanks, 30 planes, comprising 60 pursuit planes and 20 bombers, and Is artillery bat teries were hammering at the Ma tionalist lines.
 The Nationalists claimed that they
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-24
Holds New Federal
 Bureau Not Needed
DR. ALE X .

DR. AL E X . ANDER V. D Y E, director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com merce, asserts that his bureau could perform { h e functions which President Roosevelt sug- gests be given a new agency the Bureau of Industrial Eco-
 monies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-24
RESERVOIR HAS
 NOT YET PASSED
(Acme Radiophoto)

Hartford, Conn, May "A - (U.Po -Saugatuck Valley residents used a cemetery site today as a wedge in their fight to restrain the Bridge port Hydraulic Company, from con- demning their property for res ervoir at Weston,
 State Senator J. Kenneth Bradley R., Wcstport, headed a delegation which solicited the aid Of Governor Cross and the State Public Utilities Commission. Bradley asserted the company intended to move remains from a now-used cemetery to new burial ground to prepare for inunda- ton of the valley. The new ceme- tery, they said, was too close to the proposed reservoir and constituted a health menace.
 Several weeks ago a group ot prominent Fairfield County women told the governor they were willing
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-24
PRISON ESCAPE
 IS FRUSTRATED
Alcatraz Convict Dies of WOunds-Guard Also
 May Be Victim

San Francisco, May 24-UP)- Thomas R. Limerick, one of three convicts who attempted to escape yesterday from Alcatraz Island, died today from a wound inflicted by a guard.
 Limerick, serving a life sentence for bank robbery and Kidnapping, was shot through the head when he made a break for freedom with Rufus Franklin and James c. Lucas.
 They slugged Guard R.. c. Cline with a hammer. Cline was taken to the Marine hospital. His condi- ton was critical.
 One Surrendered
 Franklin. serving a life term for murder, was wounded in the shoul- der and Lucas. who gained notoriety through an attack with scissors on Al Capone, surrendered when he saw that he was about to be shot down.
 The name of the guard who shot Limerick and Franklin was not made public.
 The attempted escape was the first at Alcatraz, known as "The Rock, since Ralph Roe and Ted Cole diyed into the water of San Francisco Bay last December. They still are missing.
 Most authorities believe they were swept out to sea and drowned.
 Scene of Attack
 Cline and the three convicts were in the woodwork shop of the fac tory. Cline carried no gun. Interior guards are never armed. The men apparently had been planning their attack for several days. Without warning, they leaped upon Cline and struck him with hammer. He was knocked unconscious.
 The convicts ran to window and pulled themselves to the top of the factory building. There, Warden James Johnston believed, they hoped to find an armed guard from whom they could wrest a weapon.
 But the unidentified guard upset the criminals plans, he opened fire from the wall. Franklin was hit in the shoulder.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-24
NOISY SPECTATORS
 ADJOURN COURT

Judge Edward J. Finn of the court of common pleas was forced to adjourn court momentarily this morning due to the tumultuous noise made by the crowds as prin- cipals in the scandal left the court house.
 The booing started near the steps of the courthouse and spread in that vicinity. The hundreds of per- sons on the opposite corners laugh ed at the proceedings.
 Judge Finn, whose court is direct ly above the scene, said, as the no,se increased, Wed better stop until the noise diminishes."
 William J. Pape, publisher of the Waterbury Republican American was at the scene. He also renewed acquaintances with John G. Purdie, The latter denied having placed dictographs in the publishers fire place.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-24

had turned back the assault and
 were holding the left bank of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-24
BOSTON COLLEGE
 ALUMNI TO MEET
Annual Reunion to Open Commencement Exer=
 ." cises June n

Boston, May 24.-Boston univer- sity graduates from al lparts of New England will return to Boston on Saturday, June II for the tradi- tional Alumni day reunion which will open the 65th annual com- mencement festivities of Boston uni- versity. Baccalaureate services will be held on Sunday, June 12, the formal commencement program on Monday morning, June 13, and the week end will close with the color ful climax of the Pops concert Mon day evening. In making the an- nouncement, Dr. Daniel L. Marsh, president of the university, aid that the alumni Sunset Supper speaker on Saturday will be Bruce Barton, advertising man who at present is congressman from New York City at Washington, D. Q.
 Dr. Cox Speaker
 The commencement speaker will b0 well known administrator in the field of education, Dr. Harvey w. Cox, president of Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. According to Boston University tradition the Baccalau- reate sermon will be delivered by the president of the University. Bacca- laureate will be in Symphony hall. Commencement will be held in the Boston Arena at 10:30 Monday morning. The alumni reunion sum- set supper will climax a day of in- dividual class reunions to be held in and around the city, and an afternoon of sports at the William E. Nickerson Recreation Field, Riv- erside. The supper to be held under a canopy on the football field. will follow reception to be held by alumni for President Marsh and the University deans at the boathouse on the wide veranda overlooking the Charles river. Following the supper. dancing will conclude the evening, also at the boathouse. Russell s. Paddock of Milton, Boston insurance man who is president of the Univer- sity Alumni Association, is in charge of arrangements for alumni day.
 Final Message
 At the Baccalaureate services on Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock all University deans will participate in the academic ceremonies which ar- nually mark this day apart as the occasion upon which the president of the university meets the seniors for the last time as a group to pre- sent to them his final message. At the commencement exercises the fol- lowing morning, he presides over the gathering which annually fills the Boston Arena with friends and rel- atives of the large graduating class. The number of degree recipients numbers about 1900 men and women each June from the Il different Bos- ton university departments. The meeting will be called to order by former governor Frank G. Allen, chairman of the university board of trustees. President Marsh will pre- side and award the degrees.