Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1935, Page 19

[ S —— LOAN INSURANCE 15 POPULAR HERE D. C. Ranks Third Among States in Applying for F. H. A. Benefits. The District of Columbia stands third among the States of the coun- try in the amount of business applied for under the mutual mortgage insur- ance plan of the Federal Housing Ad- ministration, Acting Administrator Stewart McDonald announced today. The showing of Washington with respect to the success of the mutual mortgage insurance plan was consid- ered little short of “amazing” by F. H. A. officials, in view of the fact that in population the city is only a fraction of the size of such States as New York, Fennsylvania and Illinois, which thowed smaller totals in valuation of applications. California, according to McDonald, leads the country in applications. New | Jersey is the only other State placing ahead of the District. The States | trailing the Capital include Missouri, New York, Ohio, Illinois, Texas, Pennsylvania and Michigan. A total of $10.272933 from all the | Btates was submitted for insurance for the one week ending June 8, Adminis- trator McDonald announced. More than $7.000,000 worth of this was for home mortgages. The greatest number of applications for modernization credit since creation of the national housing act was received June 11, when 3.524 ap- plications, requesting $1,339,659, were filed with the Federal Housing Admin- istration. During the week ending June 3, 9,517 applications were re- ceived totaling $3.609,705. For the four preceding weeks, the number of applications for modernization credits per week averaged 8,780 VIRGINIA HOME SOLD Ernest C. McCarty Purchases Lee Highway Property. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. WARRENTON, Va, June 15.— Ernest C. McCarty, manager of the REAL ES1ATE. the | THE .EVEN Home on Fessenden Street Sold Mr. and Mrs. Deane 8. Stuver have purchased this new home, at 4044 Fessenden street, through the real estate office of Phillips & Canby. ~—Star Staff Photo. especially for a little girl. The wall lm--nue, about a mile and a half past paper is of an off-shade of white with | Chevy Chase Circle to Leland atreet. celicate pink dots. The curtains are | The house is located about a block white ruffied organdy, tied back with | east of Connecticut avenue. | zay bunches of field flowers. The bed- spread is white organdy. There is & tive lowboy serves as the serving table | child's bed of maple, a low maple and over it is hung a floral print. A/chest, and a sawbuck table of the maple sideboard has been placed under | same wood, and & Windsor chair. In the window in the room. An informal | addition there are a number of ac- dining table, also in maple, and lad- | cessories that would appeal to a child. der-back dining chairs complete the | qy. siver Star Home may be o, reached by driving out Connecticut Silver Star (Continued Prom First Page.) Rubber Blades on Fans. There’s no danger of nicked fingers with a new portable electric fan— rubber ribbons, which set at standard pitch when the fan's going, form the blade: Wall Paper Green. The wall paper in the first-floor Congressional Country Club, has pur- | bed room is green with a small yel- | chased from Mrs. A. M. Randolph of Warrenton, the old stone house, with 3 acres of land. on Lee Highway, 7 miles east of - Warrenton. The sale was made by J. Green Carter. o Air Conditioning Latest Type Fans in Homes Will Help Combat Humid nghts. BY LAWRENCE TUCKER. Now that warm weether has defi- nitely made its appezrance, most of us are faced with che problem of keep- ing cool and comfortable for the greeter part of the next four months Obviously, the easiest way tc cope with this condition would be to spend all of one’s time 1n au air-conditioned movie, restaurant or store, bui un- | fortunately the majority of us must | work in uncooled coffices all dav and try to sleep in equaliy uncomfortable | homes at night. | Of course. many of our office build- | nished as & nursery, and planned Ings and other piaces of business are e ped with wtra-modern cooling systems that provide pleasant, 1efresh- ing breezes for the ccmfort of the oc- | cuparts. But afte: sperding the day in an environment of manufactured | weather, we must go home in crowded, stifiing street cars. enter hot stuffy houres and apartments, and wonder wha* in the worid we can do to be comfortable. | Electric rans Help. | In the past we have had to grin and bear it. but nowadays it is no longer necessary to drive about all night searching for cool spots in the parks. Instead, we can make our| homes by far the pleasantest places to be found. The simplest. and best known means of cooling is the ordinary electric fan. The breeze created by these de- Vvices evaporates moisture on the skin, resulting in a definite sensation of coolness. The older type fans are necessarily noisy, and a large blast of &ir directed upon the user sometimes causes colds or other unpleasant re- sulte. The newer styles of common fans, however, are equipped with overlap- ping blades that make them practically noiseless, the resulting air motion is somewhat reduced in velocity, thereby | causing a gentler air current to be ' wafted about. For home or apartment dwellers | desiring the last word in inexpensive | cooling equipment. it is now possible to obtain large blower type fans, con- tained in portable ‘or semi-portable housings, that will move the entire | volume of air in the occupied space in a very few minutes. | Can Be Put Before Window. These fans can be placed in the attic before an open window, drawing the otherwise hot, stagnant contents | of the house up through an open | stair or ceiling register, and dischard- | ing into the outside air. By changing | this air every few minutes, the heat | that usually permeates the entire structure is constantly removed, and 8 pleasant atmosphere is maintained at all times. Apartment occupants can use fans | of this type in the small sizes, and | the constant circulation of air being | drawn in from the hall and forced out of a window will provide that long-desired breeze that we await 50 | hopefully on hot, still nights. Next week we will describe more | elaborate, but still inexpensive meth- | ods of keeping cool this Summer. Sacrifice Price Situated on large lot beautifully laudscaped. Best residential section in northeast Washing. ton. In new home condition. Best of construction. Insulated, screened and weatherstripped. Large living room, dining room, kitchen with Genreal Electric refrigerator. 2 bed rooms and bath, large attic, dry basement, h. w. heat. Near all schools and churches. Excellent trans- portation. I $1,000 156,250 Call Adams 1522 “You win only if you investigate.” |are, Trutype dressing table, |large as the living room, and also low and white figure. There are whit: curtains of a sheer fabric, with tiny vellow design and full ruffle, matching | the bedspread. The rug is hand- hooked wool. The bed is of maple The chest is particularly trick, as the top drawer opens into a desk. There is a black painted Hitchcock chair at the desk. Other pieces in the room and a | pillow-back chair upholstered in yel- low cotton fabric. | The master bed room is a feature | of the second floor. It is nearly as A delightful new i e k home containing six ‘ large rooms, two lovely baths, an elec- tric health kitchen, overlooks the back yard. The paper o built-in garage. is white with a small sprigged design in blue, pink and green. The rug is blue, two-toned. Draperies and bed- spreads match, They have a white background with rose-pink candle- wick dots. The furniture is mahogany and of simple Colonial design. Two beds are placed together with a table on either side. There is a chest, dresser, vanity and a chair covered 9,750.00 ilt of all brick, slate roof, rock-wool insulation, metal weather- stripped, screened. Financed with an F. H. A. Government in- sured loan with a maximum monthly payment of $75, including curtailment, interest, taxes and insurance. Directions: Out Wisconsin Ave. to Leland St. Left to Property. |in blue chintz with a small green |and white figure. | CYRUS KEISER, JR. Room For Little Girl. The other bed room upstairs is fur- | 5211 Wisconsin Ave. SOUTH WOODSIDE PARK Tzwo Tiled Baths—Three Bedrooms— The Conveniences of a Millionaire’s Home And Something a Million Dollars Won’t Always Buy—The Cool Woodlands. and Playgrounds of a 150-Acre Park Within a Stone’s Throw That park in itself is a natural paradise for young and old, with its countless trees, its miles of winding roads, its rippling streams and recreational grounds. And every important detail of this spacious brick and timber home is exactly as you yourself would have planned it, with a place for everybody from baby te granddad. The master bed room is immense—boasts a large closet and communicating dressing room. Two features of additional charm are dining room and living room with three ex- posures and magnificent views in each direction. Kitchen has factory-built cab- inets, double drain board, exhaust fan and other modern equipment, including elec- tric refrigeration. There’s also a wood-paneled basement club room with plenty of sunlight and en- chanting view down a rolling grass carpeted siope. All this, mind you, within five minutes of new $250,000 high school, elementary and parochial schools, three golf clubs, downtown express bus via 16th street, stores and other conveniences. And at a price that our big building operations alone make possible. NO. 8501 DALE DRIVE 7906 Georgia Ave. E. BROOKE LEE, President SHepherd 2400 DIRECTIONS: Turn right from Georgia Avenue at traffic light in Silver Spring, continue om Colesville Pike to Toll House Tavern, Dale Drive and homes in South Woodside Park. even though it has no guard. Looped | UPTURN S NOTED INHOME BUILDING Healthy, Enduring Basis Is Goal Sought, F. H. A. Head Asserts. ‘The principal aim of the home- financing program of the Federal Housing Administration is to bring about an early revival of private home building activity on & healthy, en- during basis,. according to Acting Ad- minigtrator Stewart McDonald, who considers that increases in building during the first months of 1935 in- dicate & “splendid improvement.” The acting administrator pointed to first-quarter increases of 131 per cent over 1934 in the number of fam- ilies housed in new buildings, as shown by building permits for more | than 700 cities. significant that contracts awarded for residential building in April, 1935, were higher than in any other month since 1931. | “We have reached the point at last,” Mr. McDonald said, the pent-up demand ha: pushed open the gates of the abnormally low resi- || dential building of the last four or | five years, which has been inadequate to take care of the needs of in- creasing population or to take the place of old and obsolete structures ' which have been passing out of use.” || Other indications of improvement are mentioned by Mr. McDonald General improvement in the home. financing situation; virtual elimina- tion' of usurious and unsound mort- gage practice by the establishment of the long-term, fully amortized | mortgage, as provided in the mutual mortgage insurance plan of the Fed- eral Housing Administration; the in- stitution of sound methods of s praisal valuation, and the applica- tion of certain elemental etandards in site planning, design and construc- | tion of new buildings | It is the opinion of Mr. McDonald He also considers it || “where | | ING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1935. ; that private capital to a degree has become convinced that residential mortgages, particularly with the pro- tection afforded by the mutual mort- gage insurance plan, offer a unique, fleld for the profitable and secure investment of funds. “Through the activities of 7,900] local Better Housing Campaign Com- REAL ESTATE mittees the American rublic is be- coming more and more ‘housing con- scious,”” Mr. McDonald said. He ap- proximates the nafional housing de- ficiency at mory than a million homes, which ks s as a potential market for batyling and repair stimu- lus in the S:ture, with attendant benefits to the construction industry, | architects, bullding construction and | u;omnds of related lines of human | effort. Forests Cover 250,000 Acres. Forests covering 250,000 acres have been planted by the British Forestry Commission. Siar New English Type Brick Homes With a Great Many Unusual Features 2901-2905 Rittenhouse Street These charming English-type brick homes are beautifully situated in a delightful section of Chevy Chase. Six large rooms, including breakfast room, 2 magnificent baths with detached garage. ‘The con- struction is of the best, with finished attic, slate roof, rock wool insulation, steel sash, landscaped yard with plenty of shrubbery. $11,700 and $12, Better Built by Chas. Sturbitts, See them at once. 700 Open Daily and Sunday cut Ave turn right on Rit out Comn Chase Cire nhouse to 2905 to Cl J. Wesley Buchanan, Inc. 916 15th St. REALTORS ME. 1143 Visit the NEW SILVER STAR HOME 14 East Leland St., Chevy Chase, Md. In “Woodhine” Beautiful Homes” “4 Community of A Distinctive Home-Building Development in A restricted Location Where you can Buy or Build Surrounded by improvements of the better type, this particular section of Chevy Chase, Maryland, lying close to Connecticut Avenue, between Chevy Chase Club and Columbia Country Club, has sensibly restricted appeal to the homeseeker de been selected to develop a community which should ing a moder- ately priced place to live, in an atmosphere of refinement. Fifteen years’ experience in hom -building is reflected in the beautiful homes in “Wood- bine” now nearing completion—two already sold. Allbrick construction, furred walls, 4- inch rock wool insul copper, colored Vermont s copper waterpipes, ation, all metal work 16-0z. roofs of vari- late. Homes complete in every respect with screens, metal weather- strips. General Electric refrigerators and stoves, automatic heat, beautiful hardwood floors. and the particular way in structed. You will appreciate the workmanship which they are con- The charm of this Model Home is not only enhanced by its Early American design, but also by its modern appointments and construce tion features. A RARE VALUE AT $§12,500 Six rooms and two lovely baths (bed room and bath on first floor), screened living porch. Modern Electric Health Kitchen. Master bed room with adjoining large bath with built-in linen chest and dressing table and-many other attractive features make STAR MODEL HOME this a SILVER to be remembered. T o add to the charm of this Silver Star Home it has been furnished and decorated by Woodward & Lothtop in keeping with the :pi_rit of our “Early American” homes. Open for Saturday, 10 Inspection AM.9 PM. Week Days, 2 P.M.-9 PM. To Inspect—Drive out Conn. Ave. to East Leland Street, right one-half block to Model Home. M. B. Swanson Construction Company "Woodbine” Chevy Chase, Md. Phone Wisconsin 2643