Evening star., 1947-03-21

projects built in the last three years
today bore the Washington Board OF
Trades accolade for meritorious
design.
Winners Of the boards biennial
architectural awards were an
nounced at general membership
meeting last night at which Repre-
sentative Walter, Democrat, OF
Pennsylvania assailed the $6,000,-
100000 in portal pay suits filed
against American industry as
short sighted" and threat to a
stable period of employment and
prosperity"
The winning buildings were
chosen from among "a entries con-
structed in the last three years
Certificates were presented to the
owners, builders and architects OF
each of the projects.
The awards, fires presented in
1918, are designed to encourage
Identification of the Capital. Owing
to the war, no awards were made
last year.
More Directors Authorized.
At last nights meeting, the board
also acted to increase the number
of elected directors from 80 to 36
to increase the number of directors
elected each year from 10 to IL,
except that on April Is new directors
will be elected, and to boost the
number of immediate living past
presidents who are ex officio direc-
tors from two to seven.
Action on a proposal for the ap-
pointment by the board president
of a nominating committee of five
members was postponed until the
October general membership meet
ing.
Pointing out he believed the dan
ger of unemployment was involved
in portal pay claims throughout
the country, Representative Walter
exclaimed:
How tragic it would be if an
employer newly embarked on a
peacetime enterprise should sud-
denly find himself obliged to wipe
out his entire capital through the
payment of the large sums claimed
in these suits-claims for activities
such as walking on the employers
premises to and from the employees
place of work, punching the time
clock, and changing his clothes
Would Outlaw Suits.
Mr.. Walter declared such activity
had never been understood before
to be work and warned that suits
involving this type of claim disturb
industry in a critical transitional
period"
Emphasizing he believed Congress
should act to outlaw such suits, Mr.
Walter said:
THE stake of our great Nation in
world affairs is too great to permit
any condition to exist that would
to the smallest degree, tend to Gre
ate instability and chaos at time
when we must be strong and GER
| tain"
Prior to Mr.. Walters address, q
motion picture of the life of Alex
ander Graham Bell was shown.
! In the ceremony during which ar.
chitectural awards were presented
Thomas J. Locraft, chairman Of
the Committee on Architecture anc
Architectural Awards, read the CT.
i tations, and Brig. Gen. Gordon r
Young, District Engineer Commits
sioner, made the presentations.
Winning Structures.
Winning structures, together with
the names of the owners, builders
and architects, and the text o1
the citations, were as follows:
! l. Remodeled building, 1125 Fiji
teenth street NV: owner, May.
flower Motors, Inc: builders, Brooks
Bros, Inc; architect, Schreier
Patterson & Worland; citation
Achievement of pleasant CONNER
cial character through good selection
of materials, careful study of de-
tails, and simple, frank scheme OF
design
2. Remodeled building, BIB Four
teenth street NV; owner, William
Hahn & Co.: builder, M. Cladney
Construction Co, architect. William
NJ. Denton. jr; citation: Original
Iity and inviting aspect obtained by
an open front design which adds
interest and color to the street OF
shops. and a fresh handling of glass
and metal
| 3. Restoration of Decatur House
H street and Jackson place NV;
owner, Mrs. Truxtun Beale: builder
Russell T. Woodfeld; architect
Thomas T. Waterman; citation: "A
worthy restoration of a house of i'm
portant historic significance with
sympathetic research into the orig
inal design by Benjamin Latrobe. y
4. Remodeled residence, 7107 Mar
ion lane, Bethesda, Md: owner. Mrs
Marion w. Veazey; builder, G. H