Evening star., 1940-09-14
SHOP TALK
News About Builders
And Real Estote
Personalities

A large number of realtors from
Arlington County and Alexandria
are planning to attend the Goth
annual convention of the Virginia
Real Estate Association, to be held
October H. IS and 19 in Richmond.
More than 300 realtors and their
guests are expected to be present
for the sessions to be held at the
Jefferson Hotel.
The major portion of the busi-
ness section of the program will be
given over to a discussion of the
ruling of the Virginia State Bar
that real estate men cannot prepare
the simple forms of lease and sales
contracts. Other tentative features
of the program call for a sales
clinic" and an open forum on new
appraisal methods. George B.
Snead, president of the association,
will preside.
Today is the day for the WASH
ington Building Congress outing at
High Island, summer camp of J.
Reuben Skinker, president of the
organization. The affair is to begin
with luncheon. Later, there are
to be sports activities. Charles
H. Pardoe is chairman of the Out
ing Committee. Assisting him are
Mr.. Skinker, Bruce Branson, Chan
ming Walker, Ralph E. Espey and
Walter c. Brown.
Miss Elizabeth Stuerman, one OF
the assistants in the Office Of Rufus
Lusk, literally was knocked out by
a pile of statistics yesterday. Miss
SHERMAN was working In the office
when 500-pound pile of papers
and books toppled over and a por-
ton of them pinned her against
the wall. She was stunned and
lost consciousness for a moment, but
is expected on tn. job today. Mr..
Lusk, in the course of years. has
accumulated masses of figures |
about District business and the
District government, as we'll as fis-
cal relations.
The District Real Estate Commits |.
sion during the last week issued /
real estate brokers licenses to
Donate BianChi, 729 Eleventh street .
NV: William H Whiting & Co. /
Irving S. Whiting, 1911 K street
NV; Basil c. Linthicum, Wood
ward Building. Salesmens licenses
were issued to Walter NJ Eber-
man. GOT Fifteenth street NV:
Julius GoldStein, 925 New York ave-
nue. NV; Hal j. Gooding, 5729
Georgia avenue NV. and Thomas
w. Jones, 1881 Rhode Island ave-
nue. NE
Applications for real estate .
brokers licenses were received from .
Hawkins -Burcham. Inc. Coz Fifth .
street NV; Joe w. Burcham. 6O2
Fifth street NV: Cyril J. Jones,
Union Trust Building; Jesse E.
White, Investment Building: Fred
erick C. di Zerega, 907 Fifteenth
street NV, and George Thornton
Walker, Shoreham Building
Real estate statesmen applications .
we're received from George V
Thompson, 1417 L street NV: Mrs.
Dixie T. Wright. National Press
Building, Lawrence A. MCDOWELL. !
729 Fifteenth street NV; William
M. Engbretson, 1919 K street NV:
Douglas V. Dunlop. l1l9 Seven
teenth street NV; James Gordon
Bryant. jr.. 1119 Seventeenth street
NV; Delmas c. Stutler. 1906 K |
street NV: Isaac M. Fox, 1889 I .
street NV; Earl L. Warren, Tower
Building, and E. SnoWden Cham
bers, 1888 Fifteenth street NV.
Myron Davy and Frank j.
Murphy, jr., developers of River
Terrace. the Northeast Washington
community, are moving their Office
and celebrating the end of the third
year of their development at the
same time. They are moving head
quarters to large Office above the
new River Terrace Shopping Center
This center, now being completed.
contains six stores. Including the
houses now being built, Mr.. Davy
and Mr. Murphy have erected a
total of 3l9 homes in River Terrace
in three years.
The Washington Real Estate
Boards Membership Committee.
headed by Thornton w. Owen. met
Thursday to consider applications
for membership in the board.
Marking the second anniversary
of its opening, the developers of
Green Acres announced today the
sale OF their 127th low-cost home
in this steadily growing community
in nearby Maryland, adjoining River
road in the country club section.
Started in the fall of 1888 as the
firSt development in the Washing
ton area in which less than $4,000
homes were built under the Federal
Housing Administration 90 per
cent mortgage financing plan, Green