Richmond planet. [volume], April 14, 1928, Image 2

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Chisels of Prize Winning Sculptors
| .; Reveal New Beauties in Limestone1
Prizl " Sronff Grill*
I;. Mans limestone, generally re
garded as a pre-eminent ouildlng
material, demonstrated its adaptabil
ity to a wide range of artistic expres
sion at tne recent great display lr
i Chicago of Indiana artists' work
Three out of four of the sculpture
I lzes went to works created from the
material and honorable mention was
. awarded still another limestone entry
Visitors and Judges who had
•.bought ol limestone as suited best
.0 monumental ouildlng enterprises
’ v.ere surprised and delighted when
tney " examined the entry oi J. E
Jordan, who for twenty years has
executed the artistic ideas of others
t m the mills at Bedford. His stone
gvUl design, executed evenings and
1 Sundays in his garage won the
special 3200 prize given by the Indi- j
LUn“; Company _Ior the best I
creative design in limestone for arch
itectural purposes.
Robert Davidson of Indianapolis t
winner of the prize last year, wbeci
he chiseled into a blue ribbon taker
a piece of stone picked up alongside
a railway track, was barred by tb*
rules from competing for it agait'
this vear Nevertheless, with his
architectural head design, he r«~elvtJ
the Muncie Star's special prize of
$100 for the best pleoe of sculptui*
by an Indiana artist thirty-five year*
old or younger
Seth Beisey of Indianapolis —on the
Mrs. Howard Spaulding. Jr., prize of‘
$300 with a bas-relief fountain figure,
Honorable mention • went to John
Jackson, another Bedford mill worker. (
for his mantel panel, a quaint and‘
whimsical oas-rellef depiction of *
Puritan family about Its flreplao*.
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* DEATHS REPORTED *
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The following is a list of deaths
of colored persons reported to the
Richmond Bureau of Health from
April 3 to April 10, 1928, with the
age and date of death:
Harmon Taylor, age 37 years,
March 31, 200 Petersburg Pike.
James Clarke, age 50 years, March
31, 913 North Thirty-second Street.
John T. Osborne, age 54 years,
April 2, 1019 North Nineteenth
Street.
Robert Jon**, 7 years; April 3,
R. F. D. 46. Box $7. .
Betti* Elizabeth Cunningham. W
years, 32 W. Jackson St.
Lizzie Mosby, age 42 years, April
2, 306 North Twelfth Street.
Fred Robinson, age 6 months, |
April 4. S' East Nineteenth Street.
Amelia James, age 48 years, April
3, 205 West Baker Street.
Obie Jackson, age 38 years, April
3, 1410 Laburnum Avenue.
Martha Hall Wood, age 59 years,
April 3, 508 North Third Street.
Mary Allen, age 75 years, April 5,
1705 North Twenty-eighth Street.
Noah Jefferson, age 48 years,
April 4. 902 North Seventh Street.
Helen A. Cook, age 41 years,
April 5, 1116 Merrit Street.
Ernest Sampson, age 33 years,
April 3, 1416 Ross Street.
Pauline Graham, age 16 years,
April 6, 3404 S Street. I
William Johnson, age 70 years,:
April 5, 1309 North Seventeenth
^Street.
Isham Norrell, age 60 years, April |
5, 525 North First Street.
Ewward Sizer, age 45 years April
4, 1209 St. Paul Street
Lucy Carter, age 68 years, April
6, 212 South Lombardy Street. , * *
Lillian Lightfoot. age 22 rears, I
April 7, 2812 O Street. * I
Joshua West, age 50 years, April!
<5, 1112 North Thirty-first Street.
Hunter Clayton, age 32 years,
April 9, Copper Hill, Va.
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Sarah Duncan, age 69 years,
March 25, Old Folks Home.
Alice Ross, age 52 years, March
24.
Louise Furbush, age 6 years,
March 25, 1100 South Lombardy St.
James White, age 60 years, March
26. 907 N. Seventh St.
Josephine Smith, age 39 years,
March 25, 100 E. Jackson St.
Mary Jane Wyatt, age 53 year*,
March 25, 1715 E. Grace St.
Robert Henderson, age 11 months,
March 27, 2203 W. Moore St.
Harriet Stokes, age 57 years,
March 25, 1122 N. Twenty-fourth
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betitia Williams, age 67 years,
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revisions of Ms Merchant Marine
.ite; (of 1920) by whieh Ooogrem sa
p^sssd Mo Intention of Asislupfng
»* American Merchant Martas ulti
mately to bs owned sad operated by
vcivate citterns of the United States. ”
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rhs ships no matter what happens to
.«y Job."
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America is to have a real merchant
marine successfully operated on a
;«rmanent basis, at least four lm
, port ant legislative steps must be
taken In the Immediate future. To
,day the British, the Italian, the Nor
wegian and the Dutch flags fly over
fourteen-knot and sixteen-knot cargo
vessels in competition with American
steamers that go at best at eleven
knots. We have got to make It pos
sible for our citizens to build some,
of these new ships.
"It has long Deeri known that pri
vate American capital cannot com
jpete it, international trade on an
equal footing with the ships of other
nations unless some manner of aid
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eign "itiiii bn long term contract*
would be of great advantage to pri
vate American ships. The Ocean Mall
Act of 1891 was passed for this pur
pose. but the rates Included therein
are Insufficient to meet modern re
quirements In view of Increased costa
of operation. The effect of new legis
lation along this line, therefore,
would be to bring this twenty-seven
year-old law up to date.
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liberalization cf the terms under
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