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Richmond Times-Dispatch from Richmond, Virginia • 4

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Four Richmond TimefrDispatch: Thursday May 6 1937 4 Is People Claims Hike to Honduras Cost Less Than $20 CINCINNATI (ff) John Moore grocer of near-by Loveland Ohio had a swell coat of suntan stones i from a Mayan temple a supply of Honduran cigarettes and $113 yesterday to prove he said that can hitch-hike to Central America and back in two weeks on $20" Near Country Club A very handsome home of seven spacious rooms three tile baths oil heat maid's room and bath Beauiful acre lot with many line trees Two-car garage This is an unusual bargain at only S13-500 SrV or call 3b' DoJ-son 2-8303 LAKE A DUDLEY INC ONE ACRE LOT VESTIIAtlPTON Beautiful rolling ground large shade trees and stream on one side Let us show you the attractive view from this home site Call Mr Hughes 3-2841 Huhlemaa Kayhoe ixc Swim for Shore Ends in Death at Goal NEW YORK (ff) Four New York policemen vainly risked their lives in the icy waters off Quarantine early yesterday In an effort to save Tom Coratello 38-year-old sailor stowaway who leaped off the liner President Monroe Coratello was dead when the police took him to the Staten Island Hospital His vain effort to swim the 1500 feet to shore in the frigid water caused his death phy- $5000 A 6-room brick home West End heat double garage MR hawthokm: Carneal Sons INC 12 51 tx St In a Beautiful Setting MODERN BUNGALOW IN NORTH GINTER PARK BRICK WITH 2-CAR BRICK GARAGE This Is an unusual taliie in ilii- market anil slimilil hr srru nun-nut delay hy all hfimr-rrkri dr-irmg the ter lr-t at an jtlmtise price Has 6 well-arranged rimin-: a lirdruuin rail large rnnusn fur double bed and full suite nl lumlture tilr hath with mmier dining riMini opening on Mverurd-ln ldc Nr inMiern kmlien with tile drains and walls I looml attlr-il hnrnn rlnirlr -I automatic hut-natrr heater Newly papered and In perfect eomit-tlnn 8 TIIOM I 3-731 NUNLEMAN 8 KAYHOE Inc IAlusr Agents New home at 4309 Augusta Avenue built by Matt Will and offered for sale by Ralph Dudley realtor MONEY to LOAN ON BEAL ESTATE In Sum to Prompt Service Reasonable Charges BLAKE DUDLEY Inc REALTORS WEST EXD A 7-Room Brick Home for $4250 LAIXG Gaimal Sons ixc 12 3f 9th St 2-S354 If You Want an II A LOAN rius QUICK EFFICIENT SERVICE Flux LOW COST See WALTER DURHAM Inc 16 8th Street Dial 2-0177 TWO GOOD BUYS $4250 EACH HIGH LAYD PARK Brick Heme beyond the Boulevard Six rooms bath furnace room hot-water heat and hardwood floors Close to transportation school stores etc Price 84250 K1LT310RE Six-room frame home with bath furnace room hot-water heat hardwood floors electricity Well located and close to school and transportation Attractively papered and painted New shades and screened Price 84250 Call Mr Dudley or Mr KiieMer LAKE A DUDLEY Ine 2-8303 In a Luxurious Setting With Lovely Shade Front and Rear Mowers shrubs fruit trees and benutiful lawn all unite to make this property outstanding GINTER PARK OVER AN ACRE OF OROI'M $12500 Beautiful clapboard home thoroughly modern with 8 rooms 2 tile baths lavatory and den This price la for a quick sale to settle an estate The property originally sold for 833500 Call 2-1833 RALPH II DURLEY Realtor 201 Richmond Trust Building Real Estate Henrico Leads In Numbers Of Permits Henrico County led Richmond in the number of new structures built during the first four months of this year but the value of the city's construction was greater than that of the county accord Ing to a survey completed this week by the Richmond Builders' Exchange In Richmond the number of permits for new structures authorized between January 1 and April 30 totaled 212 with an estimated value of $1072461 while In Henrico County permits Issued during the same period numbered 259 and were valued at $989326 according to the survey Repair Work Booming Richmond however piled up a tremendous lead over the county in the number of repair and alterations permits Issued during the first four months of this year The city building Inspector Issued a total of 414 repair and alteration permits during this period valued at $413861 while Henrico County Issued only 46 permits of this type which were valued at $20783 The building continued to lead this during the early part of (this week according to the semlweekly construction bulletin Issued yesterday by the exchange Richmond Issued a permit for only one dwelling while permits for 12 new structures were Issued in Henrico County List of Permits The building permit in Richmond was: Sullivan frame dwelling 2104 Gordon Avenue $4000: Bangle contractor Permits Issued in Henrico County Included: A Heirholzcr brick dwelling and service station Broad Street Road $2500 owner contractor Glen Allen Goodman two brick dwellings Lorraine Avenue $3500 each owner contractor 3312 Garland Avenue Mrs Addle Black frame dwelling Charles City Road $400 Black Roxbury Va contractor Dumproy Dew frame garage St Road $150 John Dicks Son contractor Eugene West brick dwelling Aracoma Avenue $5500 owner contractor Dr Florence Owens brick dwelling Edgehill Road $9000 Leonard contractor Scott brick dwelling Broad Street Road $3000 owner contractor Glen Allen Dunnavant frame dwelling Parkside Avenue $2700 owner contractor Dumbarton Frank Crovo brick dwelling Edgewood Avenue $6000 Kimbrough Jr contractor A McClammy metal garage Monticello Avenue $100 owner contractor 17 South Third Street Franklin Holding Corporation two brick dwellings Henri Road $9500 total Childress contractor Purcell brick and frame dwelling Seddon Road $3500 owner contractor 1610 Park Avenue Washingtonian Renamed Head of Grocers NEW ORLEANS (ff) United States Wholesale Association yesterday re-elected McLaurin of Washington as president for the twenty-ninth consecutive year Mr McLaurin was a leader in the fight that resulted in passage of the' Robinson-Patman act Intended to preserve fair practices for independent merchants German Study Cotton Barter NEW YORK George Hirschfeld a member of the Chamber for Industry and Trade of Bremen Germany is ai living today to study possibilities of developing business under the barter arrangement recently made effective by which American cotton Is exchanged for German merchandise This Windsor Farms Home at Greatly Reduced Price Eliznlicthnn Cottage Arranged In excellent taste with 3 bed-rrnm 3 bvha 2 servant's rooms and bath double garage attached This home is in a beautiful gro-e of oaks and will please you Call TOM WHITE OUT DOMINION M0RTGA6E CORPORATION EXTERMINATING This new bungalow recently completed in the Bellevue section is offered for sale by Williams of Old Dominion Mortgage Corporation Rats Roaches Ants Red Rugs Fleas Vermin FUMIGATING Buildings of all kinds Furniture fumigated in special vault at our plunt QDUDUDDDIinDODg '2 Ntw 6 Room Bungalow 2 In Bellavno Saetion Brick with many mac cm features in'-ludtrs inlaid I 22 linoleum in an ultra mod- ern kitchen: electric range laundry tubs: servant' 22 let copper gut- ter ard dn r-pout metal cos'prr rrecri- weather- nrpi roof Terms 1 are I I II nil I I1MS Old Ccminicn Mtg Cop 2 IQ llwl I Main i SUODaOOODOUDOS The Old Reliable Firm OTTO ORKIX President Serving the Richmond rubllc 29 Yean! Thursday arid Exterminating Cont ract Service That rot rets Tour Property Against Pests For An Entire Year! IaJ HBClQizOQiiBa Mary Nolan Jailed For Debt Then Freed NEW YORK (ff! Mary Nolan who as Imogene Wilson was the toast of Broadway a few years ago was released from the prison ward of Bellevue Hospital yesterday when she agreed to pay a five-year-old dress bill out of her irregular earnings as a cabaret entertainer The $405 bill would have been small change in in the days when the late Florenz Mary Nolan Ziegfeld called her the fairest flower that bloomed in his "Follies" when she rode about in limousines attended by playboy millionaires But when City Marshal Abe Adisky found her in a shabby $7-a-week furnished room on the outer fringe of tin bright light district last night she pleaded she was ill and Adisky took her to the city Jail where she developed convulsions She was sent first to the hospital 6 Scores in Court NEW YORK (ff) With the ot Abraham Lincoln as her attorney Mrs Elizabeth O'Hare 50 Bohemia-born Brooklyn medium won a dismissal in Yorkville Court yesterday on charges of disorderly conduct Spectators in the dingy East Side courtroom craned their necks and squinted hard in an attempt to locate the of the Great Emancipator who Mrs said was conducting the case through her mediumship But all they heard was the thick guttural accent of Mrs O'Hare protesting to Magistrate Henry Curran that she did not create a disturbance in Times Square The disorderly conduct charge was brought by Joseph Dunninger New York mentalist and chairman of the Universal Council for Psychic Research who accused Mrs O'Hare of carrying a banner inscribed: is a challenge of Conan Doyle the spirit against Joseph Dunninger the liar" Dunninger also complained that the white-haired spiritualist distributed 10000 pamphlets con-tainging derogatory remarks about him and questioning his prowess as a and you have a permit for a Judge Curran asked a the medium replied was just a the judge informed her "Even a sandwich man is a parade" Asked about calling Dunninger a liar Mrs explained glibly: me That was the spirit of Conan Doyle calling him a Judge Curran shook his head so much in the psychic world we don't understand I wouldn't care to discuss this any more Case Flushed with triumph the medium disclosed her belief that Abraham Lincoln will be reincarnated and become attorney of the whole United At the same time she said the one-time Indian will be reincarnated and become President of the United States The departed redskin she said is now attending an where he has been studying since 1915 Declines Plea at Bar When Audience Leaves NEW YORK David Mac Levy is 62 and blind but a man who likes an audience So brought up in General Sessions Court Tuesday for sentence as a fourth offender he inquired about the number of spectators when asked If he had anything to say before being sentenced are the last man to be his lawyer Hyman Dickman told him all the spectators have to hell with Quoth MacLevy want an audience or say nothing at all Let's have the sentence" Judge Donellan let him have If 15 years to life Seven-Story Plunge Breaks Arm and Leg MONTGOMERY ALA Earl Rice 21-year-old electrical worker fell from a sign atop a seven-year hotel plunged through the skylight of an adjoining building and onto a restaurant kitchen table late yesterday and survived Physicians said preliminary examinations revealed he suffered a broken elbow a broken leg lacerations Rice was working on an electric sign at the time he lost his footing Westmoreland Place 115950 An unusual value for this desirable home In an established neighborhood Situated on a landscaped lot 100x190 with nice shrubbery 4 bedrooms: 2 baths oil heat: electric refrigeration 2-car brick garage flOLSAN a NASH lie 22 9th St Phone 3-7058 sicians said According to officers on the President Monroe Coratello stowed away at Marseilles France and was discovered when the ship was halfway home He was put to work in the crew As the ship neared New York the crew told him fantastic tales of a long prison sentence and Coratello decided to try to swim for shore A resident of Rosebank Staten Island where the quarantine station is situated heard faint cries coming through the early morning darkness and called police Patrolman Leonard Berk and Henry Fabisenski found a leaky rowboat Using their hands in lieu of oars they shoved off to where Coratello was struggling in the water By this time Sergeant George Neary and Patrolman Charles Gabel arrived They dove In and swam toward Coratello Then the boat upset The combined efforts of the four swimming policemen brought Coratello ashore He died from exposure while en route to the hospital The maximum punishment for him would have been three or four days in jail Daughter Wins Co-ed Fight BATON ROUGE LA Echoes of the old Senator Huey Long anti-Long political battles sounded in a campus election at Louis' ma State University yesterday Rose Long 20 daughter of the late Louisiana senator won the co-ed vice-presidency of the student body from Miss Katherine Cross 19 daughter of Bolling A Cross Baton Rouge attorney who sided with the anti Long faction in State politics during Long's life time The two coeds juniors and pretty waged a spirited campaign with sound trucks parades and mass meetings reminiscent of famous campaigns even including distribution of circulars which talked about the skunks" party the said they stood for continuation of safe and sound administration" The charged the with slinging" and offered a platform calling for planks from one proposing better seats at football games to the signing of orchestras for college dances Miss Long a few days ago won the presidency of the Association of Women Students in a narrow margin over Miss Ruth Dyer in a second primary Miss Cross ran third in the first primary and was dropped out there She is secretary of the Associated Students and was elected 'Pan-Hellenic queen Banker Leaves Fund For Blind Veterans HACKENSACK The late John Sage of Ridgewood New York banker left $300000 for the use of British soldiers and sailors who were blinded in the World War it was disclosed yesterday The will probate of which was contested by some relatives who received nothing of the $425000 estate specified the $300000 should be left in the care of the Lord Provost of Glasgow Scotland for distribution to institutions Sage was bom in Scotland Sarah Sage of Long Branch a sister Robert Sage of New York City a brother and Dorothy Rottmayer of New York City a niece who received nothing filed a with the Bergen County Orphans Court that Sage was incompetent to draw a will Other relatives including Alfred Sage a brother who received $40000 upheld the will Other bequests Included $42000 to the widow Mrs Dorothy Sage $10000 to the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital $1000 to the Jersey City Cemetery $40000 to Miss Jennie Miller $6000 to Alice Worden of Troy and $2000 to Edith Rue of Jersey City Florida Centenarian Getting Fan Mail TAMPA FLA (ff) Somebody is going to have to do something about Grandma fan mail Hillsborough oldest citizen now 109 came to town last week from her little farm got her first State pension check for $750 went shopping and got her name and her picture in the papers Ever since the county welfare office has been flooded with letters for the centenarian Some want her picture Others ask for the secret of her age and good health One overly asks why she prefers a corncob pipe One also named Weeks ascribed her old age to splendid treatment you must have received from your husband who was also a weeks" A Kansas farm woman toasted her health with spring which is also Grandma Weeks favorite beverage The letters are being formarded to Mrs Weeks at her home near Lithia Fla to provide her with reading in the long summer shares without par value of Securities Corporation General Richmond Va Chandler president Decreasing its actually issued and outstanding capital atock by retiring 20005 shares 87 series preferred and 989 shares 86 series preferred Hun-ton Williams Anderson Gay Moore attorneys city Certificate of authority Holly Style Stores Inc a New York corporation Principal office in Virginia Richmond Henry 8 Raab agent in cnarge of business Maximum capital 200 shares without par value To deal in women's clothing KossoVe ft Lelbowits attorneys 519 Eighth Avenue New York City Phelps Dodge Copper Fays 45c NEW YORK Phelps Dodge Corporation one of the leading domestic producers of copper announced a dividend of 45 cents a share on Its capital stofck payable June 10 to holders of record May 19 Three months ago a dividend of 35 cents was declared To Seek Ban's Retention ROANOKE (ff) A resolution asking continuance of the Sunday ban on beer will be proposed at the semiannual convention of the Roanoke-Botetourt Bi-County here today it was learned yesterday Hupp Firm Cuts Loss NEW YORK Hupp Motor Car Corporation reported a net loss for the first quarter of $137-725 against net loss of $265965 In the like period of 1936 Dial'537lr01 tS HOpiMag) Legal Record Marriage Licensee John William Turner and Clara McCormack Deaths Jack Bardin Overman 87 Stuart Ircle Hospital Mra Marv Pre leaner 44 Johnaton- WllUa Hospital Charles Kulp 81 Virginia Home for Incurables Building Permits Qeorge Grandls brick dwelling 03 Wythe Avenue 87000 Goodwin two brick dweU-s 1721 Blair Street 85000 Hendricks brick dwelling D2 Ferncllffe Road: 85000 Two Bankruptcy Picas Filed Two petitions In voluntary bank-rutpey were filed yesterday In United States District Court here Arthur Walker elevator operative listed liabilities of 829588 and no assets Enls A Sweeney blank-book finisher listed liabilities of 8109909 and assets of 853980 Charters Charter amendment and certificate of authority issued by the State Corporation Commission yesterday follows: Charter South Hill Lumber Co Inc South Hill Va Maximum capital 825000 Fred Watkins president South Hill Va To buy sell own and exchange merchantable standing timber and do a lumber manufacturing buainaas Hodges Dortch attorneys South Hill Va Certificate of decrease Certificate of decrease of actually issued and outstanding capital atock and decrease of capital represented by differs too Handcrafted Clothes 3 HOME OWNERSHIP FIGURE In the long run it is the most economical and insures the future security and happiness of your family New financing methods' have eased the burden of cost until now it is possible for every thrifty American to own his own home Youll never see your exact no two men are built alike To bring all men properfitting clothes Kuppenheimer has developed 127 different proportions Regardless of your height or weight get your perfect comfortable size in Kuppenheimer clothea Consult Your Realtor He Knows the Best Values KUPPENHEIMER Gooid Home Valdes Are Advertised Every Sunday in the $3975 to $S975 OTHER SUITS AT 82500 AND UP acobs Levy 795 EAST BROAD STREET nrnnimnnnftnmiimnnrmmr i.

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