Evening Star Newspaper, August 11, 1923, Page 15

REAL ESTATE." SFES CONTINUED : HOUSE SHORTAGE fritz Believes Condition ill Not Be Alleviated for Several Years. Cl AP rvseRen Home production in the District of | Columbia is below normal, according | to Morris Cafritz of the Morris Cafritz | Company, Ine. “In my opinion.” Mr. Cafritz said| in‘a statement, “the home situation| is still normal. In a city of] practically a half million people, if below would require, on a basis of four peo- | ple to a family, practically the produc- | tion of 1,230 new homes. One per cent annually may seem to be very all, but this need has not| Legn supplied in the last few years, and the accumulated surplus of heads | of families who desire to own their hofnes fs still somewhat above normal. . of the high cost of build- ing has been heard in this city for| several years” his statement con-| tinwed. “The continual prediction that | prfces of labor and material ar bound to come down and the would | e resultant shrinkage in the value | of fnew homes now being erected is nof borne out by the facts in the c: i his is, to my mind, al lutely o | sustified, tter proof | being giv fact lhd(i the mech who put their work} intp these homes their labor, knowing well that therci can be no appreciable reduction the price of labor and material for| Any vears to come, if eve The h tory’ of the labor and material situ ion in the United States in years gome by has shown that our mechanic «lass have steadily bettered theircon- | ditjons as to wages and roundings. In yvears gone 4 rare thing to hav even 5 ¢ than the home sur-| liother rent. Today a large percentage ithem own their homes and take | great pride in keeping them in the| very best condition. ex Shortage for Years. “If a survey were made of the build ing operations of the District Would he very easy to ascertain that, | onta basis of 1,250 homes per annum needed for the families who have lost their taste for apartment house liv-| ing and who naturally desire to have imes of their own,” less laff this number of houses have prad 1y one recent year. 9y lieve that if all of the présent program of the builders were carried out for the District of Colum-| Lia that for the nest three to five years the actual shortaie could be! covered “The experienc has shown that ome dissatistied homes any form, thay are willing and | properties districts not_ quite so fashionable as where they have been living in order that they may have| hogies of their own | . miliex Smaller Here. actual fact, in the ma- ! the citles of the United | 500,000 population or over family consists. of from four to five persons. By reason of | gofernment conditions in Washin; n the average number of persc per onsiderably less, therefore s the ratio of the number of heads of families to the populatio: iUt was demonstrated during the war period that if the home buyers of Washington had not been induced ' to purchase homes on the installment | plan thousands and thousands of the petmanent residents of Washington | would have been out on the street when the unparalleled demand came ! for houses at any price, the purchas- ers' being tically un- limited means. == DOLLINGS OFFICIALS RESTRAINED BY COURT Ordered Not to Dispose of Any Property Without Per- mission. t been of the las o ten vears v families with renting and therefore | ready o ibug in Stiftes tha average i | | { 1 i i i | i i Fy the Associated Press COLUMB Ohio., August 11— Hearings on the application for re ceivers for the Phoenix Portland Cement Company of Ohio, and the personal estates of William G. Ben- ham and Dwight Harrison, president and vice president respectively of the | R. L. Dollings Company of Ohio, were terminated abruptly in common pleas court yesterday. i Judge Eastman announced he would | t AMCRTIZATION PLANS Southern Commercial Congress’ Proposal for Reparations and Debt Settlement Favored. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 11.—Dr. Clarence J. Owens, head of the commission of the. Southern Commercial Congress, which has been Investigating condi- tions with a view to betterment trade relations with Europe, has ceived a telegram from the German | foreign office saying that the German | government approved in principle the | commission’s plan for amortization of the inter-allied debt and repara- s, which was presented to Stan- Baldwin, the British premier, Thursday. The German acceptance | was made “without, however, bind- ing the German government to any fixed capital sum of reparation debt and without prejudice to THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO, Steady Lumber Trade Shows Continued U. S. Prosperity New Business Up to Average of Mlay and Above That of June Despite: Last Week’s Although the natipnal lumber trade, as reflected by reports from 398 of |th the larger commercial mills of the|™ country to the National Lumber Man- | ufacturers’ Assoclation here, fell off | slightly last week, new business was | Pr up to the average of May and above | that of June and the first part of |Or | Mins Decline. shipments and orders for lag: week, e corresponding week of 1922 and eele before last, revised, folfow: Corre- 'Preceding sponding {week 1 Last week. week 1 trevised) 398 405 oduction (feet) ipments ders 50,802,205 D.. C water delivery, amounting to 41,785, 854 feet, of which 28,711,909 feet was for domestic cargo delivery and 13,- 073,945 was for export. New busi- ness by rail amounted to 1,601 cars. Thirty-six per cent of the week's lumber shipments moved by water, mounting to 35,635,231 feet, of which 420,016 moved coastwise and inter- coastal, and 10,215,216 overseas. Rail shipments totaled 1,891 cars and logal doliveries 5,583,527 feet. Unfilled do- mestic cargo orders totaled 131,560,140 feet and unfilled export orders 70,839,- 2 feet. Unfilled rail trade orders are 5882 cars (pproximately 117,640,000 feet.) The North Carolina Pine Associa- tion reports for Norfolk, Va., that worders of its member mills ran about the same as the previous week, which more than doubled the week before. For the first time since February orders are receiving shipments, though both orders and shipments for last week were slightly under production. Demand is undoubtedly heavier, but production is being held down by shortage of labor. The Cali- fornia White and Sugar Pine Asso- ciation wired from San Francisco that SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1923. : FOUR MEN FLOGGED BY MASKED BANDS ’Frelh Outbreak of Whippings Stirs Macon, Ga.—First Series Still Unsolved. By the Assoclated Press. BACON, Ga., August 11.—Local au- thorities today had before them a recurrence of masked flogging sprees whiich some months ago attracted considerable attention. Instead of only one man having been whipped Thursday night, as first reported, reports were made that four men_had _been _beaten by masked REAL-ESTATE. bands. R. E. Bobo, provrietor of a| small grocery store, made Fis w i home yesterday after he had been severely flogged and left in the woods He was placed under the care of al physician. Summary treatment also administered to Ollie M. Perry, under fadictment for alleged illicit liquor traffic; Gus Roberts, said to be Perry's friend, and J. B. Goodyear. police were appraised during th No arrests have been made activities of Thursday night. were the officials suc ning down the perpet series of masked months ago. At that time whi were administered to Dr was | Senato chreiber, formerly of Boston: Dr N. Mills, Lynwood L. Bright a oth Mrs. Frederick Pace of New York was taken captive by a mas} €d band in connection with Bright case, but she was not whipped AMERICANS LEAVE MOSCOW MOSCOW, August 11.—United States. William H. King of Utah and Edwin ¥. Ladd of North Dakota and ¥ ive James A. Fres of Wis who e been spend s in this city, left last to the interior. month resen nsin, time gon. S Inspect Our tium A dispatch from London Th \here Is a demand for only 1 percent | cajy Dy O Londont Dy vfithe heads of families for homes it | secretary subm tion of the inter-allied debt aratic disp: pres: r and powe; SIX DEATH TOLL Scalding Steam Victims Women and Girls in Party of Sixty NY are buying back |\comen and 2 | from burng receive Friday night when |a bus carry - | Christian Hera rete napp a stream ir- | poured ov vietir Arzt, Y., w TI | outing: | York w {Youngest of the | elght it} injuri the hospit 1sor J Re of to go. n one- ! the scalding Your man ic three only the mora- " e July. While production declined from | y | the high levels of May and June, it is oMetealt Lgeil in excess of shipments and amorti orders. The general lumber move-| Y Baia ""‘ - ment is larger than at this time last to Premier Baldwin, The 4 : ch added that the premier ex- s O Stue Moat ed_admiration for their careful | Lumbermen Association’s rch into the difficult problem |, 5.000,000 feet and| bemarked StoDr. SORens those of the Southern Pin ssocia- | tion decreased 4% cent, as con T to you, pared with the preceding week all the rting mills | ments were 8% and demanded by German The Owens and of the their plan Ralph comm for P itted ons vear. orde “oast 1s cased ver Bust the ments hiD-| fion business new for!c nearly some | per cent of production last week the Southern - mills the percent s were 85 and 82, respectively fr the West ¢ lls. 43 and Most of the nills ha [ normal productic for and according to that sduction was 105, shipments ders (new business) 80 per IN BUS COLLISION ation on Outing. Comparisons Ax S isties of wn. ACK, Y, Augtit, Htasi] actual production, week 3w prev declined 4 per ¢ production for » ' uring the week > 10 per weel per cent averaxe of unfilled orde sed 4.2 per e operati working tion A West Coast wires norr pr girls have died so far| following figure lumber movement of the figst thirty- | one weeks of 1923 with thosie of 1 Shi 3 J.001.748,) ine Associatid Orders. AR T84 n )rieans that w’(-h»rs ende t less-tha Average ce k. below normal ent. The mil & full time double shift ve Normal. Lumbe from man’ tle 1, odu sixty employes of the 1d skidded into a con- | mixer in such a way that ped off a boiler cock and rele of scald steam, wh the women. The t to succumb w Miss Louis | thirty. of Long Island City, N.| ho died in hospital here »f the women are us conditio said The best place to buy and many your window shades is from an establishment devoted entirely to this necessity - sixty women had e and were returning to New en the accident oceurred. The rty, Miss Jean Reda, st to die from her ftor beini vesterday. Miss ! y-eight. who. like Miss the charity department an Herald, was the next who Tost their lives in m we tta w. er, mineteen: Mrs, Jwn forty-one, and Mrs. A. V. Beek- ol e many sixty-four. | een, was the shortiy tw whs in - Chr, Othe Tothers T Thes a4 wan 830 13th St. N.W. work shad pric ¢ A Bright, Sunny Home Is wonderful—that is, when equipped —VWith the Right Shades We offer you the highest possible best manship es at and factory Get our estimates. es. /o Proprietor. Phone Main 4874 I_— { Au- n'\for sh ent and produc: The s per mill de. are and As- that last week was 20 per business . This Is ONE OF THE FINEST HOMES RS 1603 Varnum Street N.W. 1 The rooms and three An cntirely detached house, situated on al of the house permits a center hall plan. Co conveniences, oak floors throughout, automatic hot-watcr heater. hot heating system. Two-car built-in garage. Trees. flowers and shrubberics of Open for your inspection Sunday from 2 o 'clock to 7 p.m. rge x138 fect. tains 9 entranc baths vater with heat all kinds. e at the side all modern with No-Kot 706 Colorado Building L. E. BREUNINGER & SONS main 6140 enter an order restraining them from disposing of any of their property | until further notice. Decision on the question of appoint- ment of a recelver for the Phoenix, company will be rendered today, he sald. This ruling, it was said, also would ‘involve a decision on the re- quest that the Crane Ohio Ice Cream g the Mykrantz Drug Com- €. Moores, .S. M. Ross and . Mykrantz be designated as par- ndant. i case came un- expectedly. since it had been believed that it would be negessary to hear | mote testimony. Harrison had been ordered to produce records to show the state of his finances. Benham had been requested to bring into court contents of two safety deposit boxes. Neither had done so. Judge Lagtman ordered Harrison to bring to him his financial record: ' Takoma Park Homes $11,000—Eight rooms (5 bed- rooms). 2 baths and 3 sleeping porches. Almost new, modern home. in excellent location. Hot-water heat. So designed that it may be used for two- family house, having separate side entrance. Easy terms, $9,000—One of the best bar- gains offered in extra large home. Living room about 30 feet long. Four' large bed- rooms. Home almost new. All improvements. Garage. Large grounds. £9,500—New 7-room_home, on Chestnut Avenue. This is a very desirable -section. Deep, shady lot. Rooms large, with plenty of closets. Bedroom or library, first floor. Fireplace; oak floors; all improvements. Discount for cash above first mortgage. £10,850—Six-room, California style’ bungaiow, near Walter Reed Hospital. _All modern im- provements. Double garage. $3,000 cash. 1 % 814500 — Very fine S§-room house, with two baths, con- venient to Walter Reed Hos- pital. Could be used con- Veniently by two families. $8,500—S1x - room_ bungalow, on Maple Avenue. Extra large, level lot, with garage. Has all modern improvements, fireplace, etc. Terms. A few smaller homes, 4 and 5 rooms, $5500, $6,700, $6,750, $7,500 and $8,000. Lillie & Hendrick 23 Carroll Ave., Takoma Park Adams 3501 6402 RIDGEWOOD AVE. CHEVY CHASE, MD. If you are seriously contemplating the purchase of a home it will certainly pay you to see this attractive home in Washington’s most charming suburb, situated in a setting of beautiful trees and surrounded by beautiful homes. This house can easily be classed as a bargain. Colonial in style, of center-hall plan, very large living room with open fireplace; French doors to concrete side porch; large dining room, kitchen and pantry. Second floor has four bedrooms and one bath; two-car garage. Price, $13,500 Terms Can Be Arranged OPEN SUNDAY FROM 1 TO 6 P.M. CKEEVER ¢GOS s Eye axitnG = % ervice Main 4752 i s | Roc THE CHASTLETON Sixteenth and R Streets HOTEL APARTMENTS Handsomely Furnished 1, 2, 3, 4 Rooms and Batl By the Week or Month Attractive Special Rates Until September 15th Complete Service Restaurant all the factors governing lumber manufacturing are favorable ROCKEFELLERS RETURN. NEW YORK, August 11.—John D. efeller, jr.: Mrs. Rockefeller and | their four children arrived yesterday on the Berengaria after a flve-week trip through France and England. Mr. Rockefeller, who had not been in Burope before in seventeen years, said he was greatly impressed with the industry and thrift of the French and predicted that France | on be able to pay her debts. - refused to comment on interns tional or business affairs. f 1 Model Bungalow TODAY—TONIGHT And each afternoon and night until 9 = p.m. for ONE WEEK B= = —at— BLAIR” Attractive New Semi-Detached Home Half Square of the St. Alban’s Cathedral Very Best Brick Construction 3712 WOODLEY ROAD N.W Price, $15,000 Sewen large rooms, 2 baths and inclosed breakfast porch; latest design and decorations; hardwood floors; instantaneous hot-water heater; outlets for electric floor lamps and vacuum cleaner throughput; genuine open fire- place with gas heating attachment; built-in garage; spa- cious front porch. VERY ATTRACTIVE TERMS Within One Square Cleveland Park Bus Line Open for Inspection Wm. H. Saunders & Co. Exclusive Agents 1433 K St. NIW. Main 1016-1017 - The Quick Sale Is Proof of Value When you inspect the many features in these small homes at § 231 to 255 11th St. Southeast SAMPLE HOUSE 253 11TH ST. S.E. —you are convinced you have seen nothing to compare with these at the price asked. large rooms, tile bath, ter heat, electric lights, front cement porch., kitchen porch, large sleeping porch, beautiful living room and din- ing room, kitchen with eass piece sink, built-in ice box, and many other extra features. Sold on Easy Terms hot-wa FOR SALE BY Thos. A. Jameson Co. 906 New York Avenue Main 5526 'Ask the Man Who Owns One é&mmmm T T R W g INSPECT SUNDAY |4 Sold-7 Left Detached Elomes Fern Street and on Georgia Avenue at Fern Street '‘HOT-WATER HEAT ELECTRIC LIGHTS STATIONARY TUBS LOTS 45x148 FEET SIX ROOMS TILE BATH OPEN FIREPLACE - HARDWOOD FLOORS You will be delighteil with the extra large rooms and attractive firish of the interior of these homes. There areimany different styles to select from, and you wvill be sure to find one suitable to your individ:aal taste. They repre- sent the biggest valueyin the city today and are selling on exception&)i-low terms. An inspec- tion will convince you. : Representative on pl"rfinises 2PM. to 8PM. s The Realty & Inwestment Corporation jof Wasthington 11 . ) 735 13th St. N.W. Furniture, Rugs, Draperies by MOSES & CO. F St., Washington, D. C. In latest designs and arrangements A cozy home—up-to-the-minute in construction and appointment. Ready to gnove into. Special price—astonishingly low terms of 10% ca Balance monthly like rent. For exhibition -k Drive out 16th St. and Alaska Ave. to Brookville Pike. Hopkins Land Co., Inc. Phone M. 2303 612 lntematia_nal Building 1319 F St e If you want to see A Perfect Home —inspect the Sample Home of This Group—1538 Mass. Ave. S.E. The beauty of Kite designing and construction is that they give the purchaser those commodities and luxuries which are essential to homeyness. Kite Homes meet the highest expectations—even in the minutest detail—and these are the latest Kite Homes. Located in‘the pretty section of Southeast Washing- ton, on— Mass. Ave. and 16th St. (Southeast) s reached—and everyvwhere easily reac % d them. from They are open for inspection day and evening —be as critical as you can—they’ll stand it. Mass. Ave. with .sanitary tile-like finish. High-grade hot-water heating $ ’ system, separate hot-water lfith Street heater. Lverything for comfort $7,950 and convenience. Second floor equipped for sink and gas stove —if you desire to install them. You can arrange terms that will be convenient—and make purchase easy. Built, Owned and For Sale by Harry A. Kite Incorporated Six rooms, tile bath— front porch, kitchen porch and large sleeping porch. Splendid living room and dining room. Kitchen Phone Main 4846 Member Washington Real Estate Board