Evening Star Newspaper, November 23, 1935, Page 24

B—8 =xs REA L ESTATE BUILDING REVIVAL CALLS ARCATECTS Shortage of Technical Men | Threatens, Says Head of Committee. I A shortage of technical assistants | threatens building and construction, | Lucian E. Smith, chairman of the | Architects’ Emergency Committee of New York, declares in a report to lhe‘ American Institute of Architects. “The increasing number of calls for technical men from architects in nor- | mal private practice indicates that the | long-delayed revival of building ac-| tivity has come,” Mr. Smith says.| “Federal and municipal projects deal- ing with building have unquestion- ably been retarded because of the lack | of proper technical direction, as the | architect only can do this sort of planning. | “Many men have left the ranks of the architectural profession and have gone into other lines of business in- stead of clinging to their ideals and training, which seemed of little prac- tical help to them during the depres- sion. The profession faces a lack of technical assistants during the near future of building activity.” Gets Men and Jobs Together. ‘The committee at present occupies | & unique position in the profession, Mr. Smith points out, because it pos- | sesses a classified registry of archi-| tects, draughtsmen, and technical men | allied with the bulding industry, | which enables it to put the right men | and jobs together without loss of time. Over 4,500 architects and draughts- men have registered with the com- mittee, and 5,300 temporary positions | have been obtained through it. Pri- vate industry has provided 1,200 jobs. Federal and municipal relief agencies 2,800, and the committee, over 1,200 on “made work” projects. | Some of the major projects organ- | jzed by the committee have been ab- | sorbed by relief agencies, including the Land Utilization Survey, the Bronx Occupancy Survey, and the Mayan Models project. The prepara- | tion of a second volume of drawings | of “Great Georgian Houses of Amer- | jca” has been undertaken by the committee. | Executive Committee. The Executive Committee of the Architects’ Emergency Committee in- cludes the following architects Julian Clarence Levi, honorary chairman; Mr. Smith, chairmai Frederick L. Ackerman, vice chai man; Harvey Wiley Corbett, treas- urer; Walter L. Cassin, secretary; Rob- | ert M. Carrere, Wilson C. Ely, Ward 'W. Fenner, Frederick G. Frost, Alfred Geifert, jr., Phillip L. Goodwin, Arthur C. Holden, Gerald A. Holmes, Prancis Y. Joannes, William F. Lamb, Ralph W. Reinhold, Robert F. Schir- | mer, Leonard Schultze, Edgar 1. Wil-| liams and Wakefield Worcester. PAINT INDUSTRY AGAIN | SHOWS HIGHER SALES September Increase Is 49 Per Cent Over Same Month of Last Year. Continuing the upward trend which has been steady during the past nine | months, paint, varnish, and lacquer | sales over the Nation for the month of September showed a 31 per cent| increase over the same month last year. | Total sales for the first nine months | of 1935 showed an 18.6 per cent gain over the same period in 1934. These figures are based on data reported to the Bureau of the Census by 579 identical establishments. Paint, varnish, and lacquer sales to industry during September showed a 49.3 per cent gain over September, 1934. Industrial sales for the first | nine months of 1935 showed a gain of 18.7 over the same period last year. During September, 1935, employment in the paint industry gained 8 per cent over the same month in 1934, while pay rolls showed an 18.1 per cent increase. | HANDBOOK ON REPAIR AND BUILDING HOMES Publication Designed to Solve Problems of Remodeling and Initial Construction. Designed to provide a home owner with a comprehensive and simple guide to repair and remodeling his old home and the man who plans the construction of a new one, “The Home | Owner's Handbook,” a new annual published by Housing Publications, | Inc., will be issued this week. The text of the handbook is sprin- kled with photographs, plans and | drawings, illustrating the solution of | numerous problems of the home, The handbook was prepared by C. B. Smith, a former member of the | staff of the New York Evening World, who has devoted many years to the compilation of data on the subject. | Carranza and | acted as Maj. H. L. Miller, member of the District Boxing Commission, recently purchased this dwelling, located at 4417 Brandywine street, Northwest Park, from the Cafritz Co, builders. Chuck, through the medium: of his uncle, who was one 0. the heads of the line which owned the Altruda III, arranged for his release, He bid fare- well to his friends who made up the Paint Swabbers and Grease Monkeys, and presented Dirk with the foot bell as a souvenir. He boarded a train for Westhampton, where he always spent the Summer with his aged aunt, with whom he had lived since his parents died in childhood. Nancy would be coming home from Europe shortly, aad he looked forward with anticipation to the time he would see her again. For several days Chuck amused himself playing golf, going swimming and sitting around the country club with his friends of the Summer colony. Inwardly he was proud of himself. ‘The hard work aboard the Altruda III had put him in fine condition. He still was a trifie heavier than he v ited to be, but there was time yet to wear off any excess poundage. The light and meaningless chatter of the younger set bored him now. His .nind was set on bigger things. He felt he had a duty to himself. An obligation, to fulfill. And somehow, he had a notion that hard work, real honest-to-goodness labor, would make it easier for him to attai his goal than would say a prescribed course of exercise. After all, he reasoned, foot ball is a tough, Spartan game, and the only way to prepare for it was by rough-and-ready methods. ofle received a letter from Nancy telling him of the glorious time she was. having on the Continent, and that she wouldn’'t be home for two weeks yet. Business engagements would keep her father in Berlin, and | she could not return without her family. (To be continued.) WISCONSIN PIONEERS IN RURAL AREA ZONING e e Regulations Direct Uses of Land for Farming, Recreation —Star Staff Photo. — and Forestry. INSTALLMENT XI. | T WAS not until after the Altruda III had sailed beneath the an- | cient parapets of Moriw Castle and docked in Havana Harbor that the members of the crew really began to appreciate the subtleties of the game. They had told Chuck | that they wouldn't take any money for playing it, because they got as much fun out of it as he did. He tried to impress upon them that he was profiting by their efforts and that they should be rewarded. “Wait till we get to port and we’ll let you buy us a drink.” was the way they put it, and nothing more was said gbout the wage question. Smashing through a line made up of the wild-eyed Dirk, the wiry Craw- ford, the ponderous Leith, sinewy raw-boned Peterson was doing Chuck worlds of good. The | unyielding deck was hardening his body. The soft flesh was turning into muscle. He was getting the | “feel” of the pigskin again. | Not a day passed but they held a scrimmage of 15 to 30 minutes. The technique of the line play was con- stantly improving. Dirk and Craw- ford were pairing up on McCarthy | and giving him a bad beating. He tried to retaliate by getting Toby | to help him do a job on Dirk en | the defense, but to no avail. As soon | as Toby snapped the ball to Rothmire | or Arnold he closed his eyes and | tried to bury his head in the deck like an ostrich. When the sound of | the groaning and grunting partici- pants. as weli as Dirk’s blasphemy, | had died eway, Toby would lift his | cherubic face and come up smiling. Try as he did, Chuck could never teach Toby to watch where he was | passing the ball, when he snapped it back to him. Time and again the “Grease Monkeys,” as Chuck’s team was called, were thrown for a severe | loss of two or three yards by the “Paint Swabbers,” as Dirk’s unit was called, when Toby sent one of his ghost passes rolling along the ground to nowhere. Before the Altruda III tied up at Ingston Chuck had perfected a pass to Corbin, his right tackle, who also end—which could not be stopped. At first Dirk and Crawford complained that the pass wasn't fair, because Chuck ran way back toward the stern before throwing it. He | was virtually out of sight when he let the ball go and it traveled the greater part of the ship's length before it landed in Corbin’s hands. Chuck liked the pass because it called for accuracy and timing. After taking the ball from Toby he would race back about 15 yards and hurl the ball straight for the bow. there just in time to snatch it out of the ether, to the consant amaze- | ment of the Paint Swabbers. The scrimmaging livened up im- mensely the otherwise monotonous life aboard the Altruda III. Painting, First Showin WAVERLEY HILLS,gVIRGINIA 4606 N. 19th STREET AMAZING VALUE $9,750 ms, ually The lovely home pictured has 6 kitchen, serees Hivis nient to all schools, stores, transportation Inspect and see this value. Open and heated daily, Sunday, and evenings: out Lee Highway to Glebe left to 19th Street, them left to Nine sold, two Motor light), turn home, 4606 N. 15th. GRAHAM Road (traffic COMPANY OWNERS—BUILDERS 901 18th St. N.W. ROBERT A. National 2414 Evenings: Clarendon 183-R Alex. 568-J [ water? He | timed the pass so that Corbin reached | || | | | | scraping, painting, xcrlpln(——lhere! seemed no end to it. Chuck's hands| were hard and calloused now. His | | body was solid and void of excess |quick as a cat, jumped aside. flesh. Sometimes in the evening he would think of Sam, of McBrair and of Nancy. He hadn't written her once |in the three weeks she was abroad. muscular Swede ran the remaining 5 She was somewhere in Europe now | with her mother and the old man. He'd probably see her before a letter from him would reach her, he thought. | Another week or 10 days and he'd be back home. The Altruds III, just before starting up the East Coast, learned of stormy weather ahead. The Paint Swabbers and the Grease Monkeys decided to | hold their championship game. It was certain to be a furious struggle, for | the first mate had offered a box of cigars to the winning team. Just be- | fore the ball was put in play Dirk | held up his gnarled hand in a gesture e had won the game, of silence. { “I think we bane had best ban yat | yam pass what Arnold always throws to Corbin for this game. It may be | fair and all yat, but it's no yam good, | and youse 2ll knows it ain't. There‘x‘ not much use of me knocking hell out of McCarthy all the time if some one’s gonna run way up stern where you can't catch him and toss yam ball way | & up out a reach, Ain't fair.” | “For the Lord's sake, you horse- | faced Swede,” said McCarthy, “you're always a whining about somethin’ or other. Why don't you go stick your bloomin’ head in a bucket a bjlge That's where it belongs.” “All right,” interrupted Chuck.| “We’ll call off the pass for this en-| | counter since it’s to be for the cham- pionship of the tub.” | The teams lined up for action. They | | presented & unique picture in melri soiled dungarees. Dirk had a badly | swollen lip, the result of a fracas with | | McCarthy. Carranza's dark eyes were | made more ominous by the fact that | | the left one was blackened beyond all | hope of repair. Toby was bulging out | | all over with his padding. And Jen- | kins wore & long stocking caj to pro- tect his ears from Burke, whe had a | could. i | The battle waxed warm and furious. | | Burr, & big-bened fellow with tremeh- | | dous leg drive, smashed through Ar-| | nold’s line time and again for first | downs. Chuck tried desperately to| | make up the distance loet by reason of weakness in the center of his forward | wall. Toby was virtually useless. With but a few minutes left to play for the honor of the ship’s champion- | ship and the coveted box of Cuban | | A report of a study of rural zoning | | made by C. I. Hendrickson of the Bu- | reau of Agricultural Economics shows that Wiscopsin is the only State which has county rural zoning regulations | designed to regulate the uses of land | | for agricultyre, recreation, and for- | | estry. Some cut-over counties there | have been divided into two districts— | forestry and unrestricted; scme into three—forestry, recreation, and unre- | stricted. stogies, Chuck called a huddle, He told McCarthy to fake a lunge at Burke, sidestep and let the Swede charge through full tilt. Rothmire would then take him out by hurling himself at him from the side. Chuck, who would carry the ball, would hesi- tate and then plunge full force | through the opening left by Dirk. “Let’s go!” yelled Toby, enthusiasti- cally. They lined up. He snapped the ball. McCarthy feinted and side- stepped. Dirk crashed through. Roth.| The Wisconsin program, he finds, 1s mire hurled his body at him, but Dirk, | 8% effort to reduce tax delinquency and | Chuck | the expenses of government in sparsely was tearing through the opening, but | S¢ttled cut-over areas. Similar pro- | Dirk, unable to tackle him, reached |SFams are being projected in Minne- out and grabbed the ball from his sota, New Hampshire, Oregon and the grasp. A great yell went up as the State of Washington. St_udle.s of the use of land, solls, taxaticn, schools, roads, and land ownership, provide the basis for & zoning program. yards to a touchdown and to victory. “We's the champeens,” he shouted. “Where the hell am those cigars?” “Congratulations, Dirk,” said Chuck, | shaking hands with the excited Swede. JERSEY BUILDS HOMES “Nice worl “You bet,” replied Dirk confidently.| BEvidences of a steady increase in | “I ust like be member of one or yam | home construction throughout New | college teams. 1'd do some great play, | Jersey were revealed in the report | heh?” |last week by the New Jersey office | “I'll say,” agreed Chuck, “You'd be | of the Pederal Housing Aqunutrnlxm ) a world beater.” | that 3,955 mertgage applications had | By virtue of scoring the last touch- | been selected for appraisal represent- | down, Dirk was awarded the cigars.|ing a loan value of $20,196,503. Of s0 the honor | this total, approximately $8,500,000 was rightfully his. “Here,” he said as | 'was for loans on new home construc- ne passed then sround indiscrimi- | tion, representing 1,551 applications, nately, “grab yourself a stogie, we was | while 2,404 mortgages, totaling about only playing for fun, so both sides $12,668,000, were for refinancing on dan be in on it. Yese yam tings will ‘ the long-term period existing home be stale by the time we get to port | mortgages. Commitments aggregat- anyway, so take all you want.” ing $6,496,002, it was reported, hnvel When the ship docked at New Yerk, | been made for new construction. OPEN FOR FIRST TIME New Brick Home Just Completed and Ready for Inspection ‘grefiur tonnage than any year since | STEADY GAIN SEEN FOR HOME BUILDING Copper and Brass Association Head Cites Figures of Need. “New construction and moderniza- tion under the better housing program of the Federal Housing Administration is gaining momentum rapidly,” F. 8. Chase, president of the Copper and Brass Research Association announced. “The volume of building this year will far exceed that of 193¢, and I believe that expenditures in this field during 1936 may even double that of 1935. There is every reason to pradict that 1937 will be an even better year than 1936, | “That there is a great housing | shortage in this country is well recog- aized. Some authorities estimate that | 750,000 homes will be necessary during | the next few years. Others, including | Dr. Ernst Kahn, consultant of the| United States Treasury Department, are of the opinion that figure is en- tirely too ccaservative and that more than a million homes are required. “Manufacturers of better building | materials are today selling a far | the depression was first felt mnr.y" years ago. The fabricating mills of | the copper and brass ndustry have increased production and therefore, of | course, increased employment. | “The use of copper for roofing flashings, gutters, and downspouts; | copper and brass pipe and copper tubing for water lines; solid brass sad bronze for hardware and lighting | fixtures; and bronze for insect screens are increasing rapidly in all types of new constructica and for rehabilgia- tion.” . Protects Valuable Stamps. Stamp collectors find that even when mounted in books, their stamps are subject to some change of color owing to the exposure to the air and | are sometimes damaged by rough han- dling by persons examining the speci- mens. For the purpose of protecting them they are now placed in trans- parent tubes before attaching them to the book. REAL ESTATE GEORQGIAN TOWN HOUSES ARE NEAR COMPLETION New Group Located Near Massa- chusetts Avenue and Water- aide Drive. A group of Georgian town houses, attractive in arrangement and design, are nearing completion near the in- tersection of Massachusetts avenue and Waterside drive, the Kass Hous- ing Corp. announced today. ‘The houses are located a few blocks signed o sell in the moderats price | range. Some of the features include: ;\;:rh;nuc rq:m\wuon of old Colonial ays; studio dining rooms high ceiling living rooms; four ;:: rooms and two baths; modern kitche ens, and livable basements, The homes will be completed within the next month. The Shannon & Luchs Co. is listed gs selling agent. — Money “Rains” on Street. KANSAS CITY (#)--Miss Famtus Fagg, theater cashier, threw $250 out the window and fainted. A youth grabbed $200 from the llde'lllky and past Sheridan Circle. They are de- ' fled, leaving $50, which was recavered. Where Can You Dupicatc A 7 ROOM—2 BATH HOME In A Comparable Location At 10,750 5622 Nebraska Ave., Chevy Chase, D. C. An all-brick Colonial on a large corner lot Open Today in this loveliest of select sections. construction Until 9 P. M. e 1 Clati o HEATH HOMF minute. stripped Quality throughout, modern to the House is fully screened, weather- and Large porch. tion room with woad-burning fireplace. B. P. EVANS, INC. 907 15th St, insulated. Slate roof. Furred walls. Beautiful recrea- N 7760 134 Kalorama Road N.W. Corner 1n Kalorama Heights west of Connecticut Avenue ‘The house is located on a magnificent corner lot about 112 ft. by 162 ft. Here is a dwelling representing the finest construction that has ever been the privilege of this office to effer. | habit of biting them whenever he| | Embracing every worth-while medern convenience, in a splendid residential section, where your investment will find ample protection. Priced Unusually Low All brick, two-car garage, three double bed rooms, two beautiful baths, recreation room, oil burner, toilet and laundry in cellar, electric refrigeration, insulated, screened and ventilated. 1326 Taylor St. N.E. CHARLES M. WALLINGSFORD Builder and Owner 1010 Vermont Avenue N.W. THE LAST NEW TS 16 AN “cnm HALH HOW Out 16th St. to Sheri- dan St., right 1 square to 14th St, left to Somerset Place, right to house. HOME TO BE BUILT IN THIS LOVELY NEW 1308 Somerset Pl N.W. Convenient to Rock Creek Park Golf Course OUTSTANDING VALUE AT $11,250 Open Daily and Sunday 'Til 9 P.M. URPRISINGLY low in price for & home of this character, this home is a value that will sell quickly. Other Jacobson- built homes in this group have seld before completion. On the first floor is a large living room, dining room and an all-electric kitchen with breakfast set. The second floor contains three spa- cious bedrooms, two medern baths, ene with giass-deored stall shower. A finished attic will make s fourth bedroom. The house is solidly built of brick, slate reof, furred walls, completely weath. er-stripped. There is a full-sizse basement and a detached garage. District 2126 18 JACOBSON BROS. K ST. NW. GEorgia 9865 First floer: Entrance hall, living room with fireplace, cloak room, lavatory, fibrary with fireplace, dining room, butler’s pantry, kitchen and screened porch. The entire first fHoor is of fire-proof construction. . . . Second floor: Contains 4 large bedraoms, 2 baths, dressing room and large glassed-in sleeping porch and solarium. . . . Third floor: Contains 3 bedrooms, 2 baths and sewing room. . . . Cellar: Contains timished recreation room, wine room, laundry, servants’ lavatory, oil burning boiler. Circulating hot water. s a dwelling suitable for the mos re and comforts of clo Iling with en locat and d at a figure nearly one-half of its reproduction cost. Inspect Saturday afternoen or any time during the doy Sunday Phillips and Canby, Inc. Natl. 4600 Investment Bldg. A Federal-American National Bank & Trust Company Property s, combining on is offere This New Group of Homes on Macomb Street in Wesley Heights Now Open foi' Inspection—deserves your attention! 3 and 4 Bed Rooms; 2 Baths Located in the garden spot of Washington—Miller- built homes in a Miller-controlled community! *13,950 - *15,500 2 Sold-Only 3 Left! Inspect at Once Open daily and Sunday—10 A.M. to 9 P.M. o)