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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-28
BRITISH SEE MOVE
TO INTIMIDATE U. S,
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a clause of the pre-war Russian
German non-aggression treaty.
If this was not done, unofficial
sources said, the clause of the new
treaty %purporting to preserve the
political status quo of each of the
signatories as regards Russia, was
Zip service only to the Russian
German pact and "the agree
ment turns the anti-comintern pact
into a military alliance"
At the same time these Russian
commentators acknowledged the
possibility that the alliance was
presented to Moscow prior to sig
nature and Stain agreed to it."
But they held that this was I'M
likely in view Of the fact that the
pact had not been announced in
Moscow up to mid-evening at least.
They felt that Germany is riding
so high she feels she needs no ap-
proval, saw Italy's rubber stamp"
If Russia actually agreed, they
said, it would be Gin line with her
policy of let the world fight and we
will pick up the postwar pieces"
This policy, they indicated, might
be behind rumors of a proposed non
aggression agreement between the
U. S. S. r. and Japan which would
be designed to protect Russia from
war in Asia as the Russian-German
accord is supposed to do in Europe.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-28
SPAIN HALLS new
g. POWER PACT
Says Rome-B Berlin
Tokyo Axis Places U. 5.
In Ticklish Position

MADRID, Sept. 27.-REThe
snanish press jubilantly hailed the
new Rome-B erlin-T Tokyo Axis TO-
night as placing the United States
in a ticklish position and as "wrest-
ing the liberty of movement from
the Yankee government"
1.-THE United States faces a al.
lemma," one influential newspaper
said. She must give up her plans
and void English hopes or inter
vene immediately in the wal with
out waiting for completion OF her
grand rearmament program" =.
/. .,Don't forget the. Philippines,
commented the highly-placed
newspaper Informaciones. "A new
order will be imposed there by
japan. Yankee domination has
been unable to root out OF tina,
Malayan archipelago what ouI
forefathers sowed to last forever
Although Spain failed to play
the star role in today's Berlir
drama as had been predicted, II
appeared nevertheless that she
was drawing closer to the Axis
and might soon make an oper
declaration of her position.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-28
COAST ARTILLERY
BEGINS TRAINING
Rasic instruction In Military
Courtesy And Drilling
Will Be Emphasized

FORT MOULTR1E, Sept. 81
Training of the 252nd Coast Artil-
lery began yesterday after a brief
period of re-adjustment OF former
National Guardsmen to military
life.
Basic instruction in military
courtesy and infantry drilling will
be emphasized before the troops
are sent to the rifle and pistol
ranges.
About 300 motor vehicles have
moved into the reservation. About
200 of these, representing a capital
investment of $3.50, 900, are tn e
regular equipment Of the oversee
discharge and replacement depot
of the 10th Coast Artillery.
Projects now under construction
here include new office space at a
cost of $23, 900. A 5000, 900 appro-
priation for repairs to be made
as result of damages wrought by
the recent hurricane is included
in the supplemental deficiency bill
now pending before the House IN
Washington. The oversee DIS
charge and replacement depot will
receive $35, 200, and $4,000 will
60 for the fort.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-28
HOBO MAY FURNISH
CLUE TO MYSTERY
OF TRAIN WRECK
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Continued ErOm rage Ouc)
said he had been sought SINCE.
He stuffed a false wreck warning
under the ticket office of the Sea-
board in Winter Haven, Fla.
Pearson was taken first to the
city Jail and then to the county
Jail, while other railroads which
had received similar warnings sent
special agents to question him,
Poole revealed.
The officer said that the hobo
was examined Wednesday by L. J.
Murphy, police captain for the B.
and o. railroad.
Pearson told Murphy, the detec'
tive said, that coax Stick was
hiding out in hobo jungles at Alex
andria, Va, preparing to wreck
the Chesapeake and Ohio 'The
Sportsman Thursday.
The train was not wrecked.
Poole said Pearson's record with
the FBI showed that since 1896
he has been arrested and sentenc-
ed or released on vagrancy
charges at Washington, Los Ange-
les, Pittsfield, Mass, Richmond,
Va, Stanford, Conn.,, and Orlando,
Fla,
The hobo related, Poole said,
that he had served time in reform
school, asylums and Sing Sing;
last worked regularly in 1880 and
since then had migrated east and
west, north and south, each year. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-28
RUSSIA SILENT

Up to tonight, Soviet Russia had
made no announcement Of the pact
to her people.
But these were, in substance, the
authoritative comments from else.
v here:
Washington: 1t is "a situation
which has long existed in Effect
Secretary of State Hull.
Tokyo: Japan will not enter the
European war or attack anyone,
but something may come up which
will call for 'momentous decision"
Rome: The United States had bet.
ter keep out Of the Giving spaces
of the three signatories and, more.
over, refrain from using Britain's
Far Eastern bases like Singapore.
London: The pact is the most mo.
mentous development since the pre-.
war Russian.German pact, intended
to "intimidate" the United States,
divert her attention to the Far East
and curb her aid to Britain.
Spain: It means the United States
must "renounce" plans to Inter
vene'' against any Of the three pact
signers. It brings Spain closer to
the Axis.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-28
CITY PLANNING To
SEEK TERMINAL LOAN
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the RFC for the loan for the con.
struction of public terminals on CITY
property adjoining on the west by
property leased by the city to the
Taylor-Colquitt creosoting company
and that the port commission re.
main in control of and responsible
for the preparation of legal, engineer.
ing and financial data in connection
with such APPLICATION and be charg.
ed with the duty of the presenta.
ton of such application and the as.
sembling of such support as may be
obtained in order to bring about fay.
orable action on such application.
In the letter Of transmittal HOgue
said that members of the legal staff
of the RFC had given a delegation
discussing the matter warm coOp
Grafton and that officials said the
RFC was in a position to finance
the project provided it could be
shown to be self-liquidating.
Wade's recommendation pointed
out tI,at the bonds should be self
liquidating and would not involve
the issuance of general Obligation
bonds on the part of the city.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-28
MRS. ADA C. LAssITER

Funeral services. for Mrs. Ada
C. Lassiter, n, of 1910 Nun street.
who died in a local hospital We'd
nesday night after an illness of FIVE
weeks, were held yesterday morn
ing at 10 O'Clock from the Yopp
funeral home by the Rev. R. L.
Jerome and the Rev. A. j. Barton.
Pallbearers were: 'Active-R.
H. Smith, G. c. Malpass, William
Anglin, R. H. Youngblood, R. N.
Getty and c. w. Boyette; honor
ary:-Dr. H. A. Codington, DR.. A.
H. Elliot, M'Kean Maffitt, G. T.
Morgan, j. B. Edwards, Edgar
Wells, E. R. Clark and Paul Grey.
Mrs. Lassiter is survived by her
husband, W. E. Lassiter; two sons,
L. 1. Lassiter, of Wilmington, and
Wray c. Lassiter, of Jackson; one
brother, J. H. Claiming, of New
SONS, Va, and three grandchildren.
Mrs. Lassiter made her home
with her son here. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-28
Reu. Lee Will Preach
At Sixth Street Church

The Rev. James R. Lee, pastor,
will preach on the subject, ''Hu-
man Government Weighed in the
Balances OF Gods Word" at the
8 o'clock services Sunday night
at the Sixth Street Advent Chris
tain church, in continuation Of a
sermon series which began last
Sunday night. ,
truly we are witnessing a
world wide change in the affairs
OF government. This is of especial
interest to us who expect the i'm
mediate establishment of Gods
government upon the earth, and
tne everlasting adjustment OF
bondage and fear and war;" the
Rev. MI. Lee said, 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-28
N PREPAREDNESS
PROGRAM OUTLINED
Continued From Page One9

state university in America to ad-
init students, President Graham
pictured in detail the role of the
university, a child Of the Ameri-
can revolution, in the nations de-
tense program.
The United States cannot longer
pretend to be isolated, he said, de-
claring the world crisis "makes
imperative immediate organization
for total defense Of the very free
dom and democracy the university
was founded to serve"
President Graham first cited spe-
cial programs of research, ROTC
training, aviation, a n d physical
training being undertaken by the
consolidated university.
He then described a four-fold
general program embracing the
best possible university in the de.
velopment of the total personality
and skill Of each student. the de-
tense of the freedom of the uni
versity to study and publish. as
part Of the defense Of the freedom
Of the nations, the advancement
Of democracy for all the people
as basic to total defense Of de-
mocracy, and the provision of lead
ership for the organization of peace
in the world"
Spacious Memorial hall, where
the opening program was held, was
filled to capacity. Many stood in
the aisles in the gallery, and many
others were turned away. 1t was
the first time oldtimers could re-
call folk being turned away at the
opening exercises for lack of space.
Many citizens from nearby towns
joined the audience of faculty, stu
dents and townspeople.
Administrative Dean r. B. House
presided, and Harry F. Conner, sec
rotary of the university YIN. C. A.
conducted the devotionals. i
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-28
MRS. ETA M. RACKLEY

Funeral services for Mrs. Eta
Mae Rackley, &c.,. Of 3l8 South
Sixth street who died Thursday
morning, were held yesterday aft
ernoon at 3 o'clock from Fifth
Avenue Methodist church by the
Rev. c. D. Barclift. Interment was
in Bellevue cemetery.
She is survived by her husband,
I. B. Rackley, a daughter, Miss
Gwendolyn Jane Rackley, a son
Byron Rackley, and her mother,
Mrs. Laura Mccartney, all of Will
mington, and three brothers, j. N.
McCartney, of Washington, D. c.;
E. F. Mccartney, of W~aterville,
Ohio and Walter Mccartney, of
Savannah, Ga.
Active pallbearers were: w. r.
Dosher, Clarence Davis, Charlie
Davis, Lewis Davis, Gilmer White
and H. B. Register.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-28
LONDON GUNS FIGHT
HEAVY NAZI RAID
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occasional column of oily smoke
from a crippled craft.
Before noontime, three mighty,
separate thrusts had bc made
at London. In the first of these
alone, no less than 120 German
planes took part. The southeast
and southwest coasts were heavily
attacked; in the southwest a for
nation of 60 bombers assaulted a
single town.
British fighters sought to block
the airlanes all along the southern
coast and British bombers, at the
very height of the days action,
went out across the Channel to
pour explosives again upon the
Nazi gun emplacements and ports
on the French side.
It was only n more assign
ment in a commission that now
never really ends: to smash up
the Nazi springboards to invasion
as fast as they can be built or re-
paired.
Last night and earlier today the
Royal Air force, riding now-fa-
miliar aerial routes, attacked the
German naval base at Kiel, leav-
ing great flames spanning it on
both sides, the air ministry said,
and reported a belief that two
ships had been hit.
Aside from this, the French
coast was left alamo in many &C.
tons, and British bomb flashes
were declared to have risen even
above the glare of Nazi search
lights.
Other targets heavily hit, the
British said, were a new aqueduct
and the lock gates in the bort
mund-Ems canal, a vital communi-
cation from the industrial Ruhr to
the North Sea, and the Autobahn
thigh speed motor road west OF
Andermunde. !
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-28
WardsA 3.
Superior Court
Waive Preliminary Examina-
lions In Insurance Fraud
Case At Whiteville

wHITEvILLE, Sept. 27.-Waiv.
ing preliminary examination, four
persons were bound to Columbus
superior court this morning under
bonds Of $4,000 apiece OF charges
of per~petrating an Insurance fraud
which allegedly netted $4,000.
They were Willie Flowers Ward,
his wife, r. B. Simmons and W.
Chess Ward.
They are slated to be tried at the
term Of Columbus superior court
opening in Whiteville Oct. Z.
The state alleges that on May II
last Willie Flowers Ward, r. B,
Simmons and w. Chess Ward went
fishing at Little River inlet and that
r. b. Simmons and W. Chess Ward
returned to report that Willie Flow
ers Ward had fallen from a boat
and drowned.
Four weeks later, the state al
leges, an insurance company paid
the widow" Of the deceased $43,'
900. Last week Willie Flowers Ward
was found living in Tallahassee, Fla,
where he had moved from Triton.
Ca. after operating a pool parlor
in the latter town for some time
under the name Of r. L. Wade.
He and his wife had both confessed
their part in the fraud, District
Solicitor David Sinclair has an
nounced.
Sensational developments were
limited at today's hearing when Soil
citor Sinclair, said that there might
be many persons implicated In
the alleged insurance swindle thar
are now under arrest. Some others
are likely to be implicated before
we are through" said the solicitor.
Willie F. Wards bond was reduc
ed from $4,000 to $4,000 when he
and Mrs. Ward released $21,00t
which was on deposit in banks ir
this immediate vicinity as follows
IS, 900 in The Morris Plan Bank al
Wilmington; $3,015.2S III the Wac
camaw Bank and Trust company, 81
Tabor City; $500 in the Bank o.
Elizabethtown; $4,000 in the PEG
PIES Saving Bank and Trust conf
pany in Wilmington; $1,000 in thu
Wilmington Savings and Trust com
pany, and $97.47 in the Tabor City
Bank on deposit in the name O.
| Mrs. Ward as administrative.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-28
CLAIM THEY
ARE NOT GOING
TO ENTER THE Wan
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'0n''nued From Page One,
which preceded the sipnin.
new horsepower pact by a d., w. ~'
an embargo on scrap iron, nm,
Japan's most needed sinews Of W.
Nation Not Excited ''''
Announcement of the pact ,,,,.,
to stir nationwide excitement. S.r.
papers went on the streets rt.'
extras but the japanese ppb,, wig
them in silence. "'
The press did not share tho ~.
full views officially proclsim.s Peace
declared the United States rou
definitely allied herself with p... na'
and China and one newsnana~ '''aln
influential Asahi, asserted NE
ese-American clash nov ss. Japan
evitable." ~S IN
Asahi compared the two r,.,.
as "a Japan Determines IN auUn'
a sphere of self-sufficiencv O'SA
United States equally d~eternir nau a
NEEDLE in affairs on the orss s' 70
of a vast ocean with every s,s aue
means short of war" "''aie
Posters, printed both in lana.
and English, appeared near tba r-'s
ed States embassy declaring r ,na'
won't permit Britain or The 1 raY'l
States to interfere in East Asia" '''D
Suma refrained from Comma,
the fifth article of the Rome ps,,n
Tokyo pact which states it t.s
bearing on existing commitment, ~
the signatories with the Soviet rr,.a
with whom Japan loas has h.,s
at odds.
Asked if the treaty would h =,
piled to Russia if she attacked ,n
one of the sienatories, he rerl.s,
the treaty neither is delimitaa :,
any one country nor does # pv,sr.
any one country. The article is c,sa,
as it stands"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-28
SAYS PACT
WARNING TO u. S.
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~ OUItxkluCu FULL 06O OAAS
cor offered any interference" with
what any of the three powers con-
siders its own concerns.
The new accord, it was said here
plainly and authoritatively, was in
tended to warn the United States
to stay out of the European and
: Chinese-Japanese war to stay out
t Europe, Asia, and Africa-all
of which the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo
!. front expects to dominate.
The first immediate and specific
intention of the alliance, competent
sources added, was to keep the
: United States from allying itself
with Britain or attempting to use
ANY British bases in the Pacific,
such as Singapore.
= Virginia ayda, n of the most
authoritative Fascist press spokes-
man, declared 'the e treaty
threatens no one" But then he
went on
ut only warns those few adven-
turous or deluded persons who still
are toying with plans more or less
real for intervention in favor of
Britain.
1T also warns those American
circles who, feeling themselves
protected by Roosevelt's favor, are
outlining, at least in their speech
es and publications, plans for in
PREVENTION in a war which does not
concern and cannot t u h the
Americas, and for interference in
vital regions of Italy and ermany
which do not think, on their part,
of entering the vital zones ard re-
gions of the Americas.
-. Let these circles know that
their folly would find them ex-
posed on two fronts of land and
sea to a war of two entire con-
tinents and would expose them to
the ruinous loss Of all the position
which the work of their people has
won in their continent and h e
world"
ermany and Italy, he added,
have sufficient military means to
be present on all world continents
and seas which were chosen by
England and its friends for the
last diversions and last attempts at
resistance. It only remains for the
world to recognize the irresistible,
powerful march of the new his
tory"
{ Then, he concluded that ALI
possibilities Of new attempts and
alliances are now forbidden" to
Britain. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-28
RICHARD GRIFFIN

WHITEVILLE, Sept. 27-Funeral
services for Richard Griffin, 80,
we're conducted this afternoon at
3 o'clock at the Porter Swamp
Baptist church near Cerro Gordo.
The Rev. William Calder, pastor of
the church, had charge. Burial
followed in the church cemetery.
MIR. Griffin died yesterday in the
Columbus County hospital where
he had been a patient for sometime.
Surviving are his widow, two
daughters, Misses Avis and Clara
Griffin, and one brother, Clayton
Griffin. all of near Cerro Gordo.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-28
BRADHAM IS HELD
In HATCHER CASE
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ty superior court opening Monday,
October %, Sheriff Brown said.
The coroner's jury was composed
of B. J. Farrior, Harvey Blake, J.
T. Wells, c. J.. Bradshaw, Jr., A.
L. Ives, and j. L. Harrell.
Sheriff Brown said Bradham was
the operator of the Curve-Inn fill
ing station, a mile south of Bur-
gaw, where the alteration in which
Hatcher was shot took place.
-Four eye witnesses to the shoot
ing testified.
Hatcher and others had engaged
in an alteration at the filing sta
ton on Saturday night, Sept. q,
and Bradham had ordered Hatcher
to leave, Sheriff Brown said. Hatch
er was standing in the door, get
ting ready to depart, when he was
shot In the back in an argument
that ensued, Sheriff Brown said.
died two days later in the
Wilmington hospital.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-28
SPEAKS

Before a pale, grey-clad Hitler and
a full panoply Of state in the IA
niliar setting Of Axis diplomacy, the
gilded hall of ambassadors in the
new Berlin chancellery, Ribbentrop
said:
This pact is not directed
against any other people but ex-
clusively against those meters to
war and irresponsible elements In
the rest Of the world who are striv-
ing for a further frightening out
Of the widening scope Of this wal.
I'm setting this aim for the pact,
the three powers, both during their
negotiations and in the pact itself
r able to state to their great sat
isfaction that these new arrange
ments in nowise affect relations
either already existing or in pro.
cess Of formation between them
selves and Russia.
1.-The pact which has been signed
is a military alliance between three
Of the mightiest states on earth.
It is to erv toward bringing about
a just order both within the Euro
pean sphere and also in the greater
Asiatic space. Above all, 1t is to
help to bring peace to the world as
quickly as possible.
Every state which meets this
bloc with the intention of helping
restore peaceful relations between
peoples is welcomed uprightly and
gratefully and will be invited to CO.
operate In the political and economic
Reorganization. Any state, should it
harbor the intention Of mixing in
the final phase Of the solution Of
these problems in Europe or Eastern
Asia or attacking one state sigma.
tory to this t~hree-power pact will
have to take on the entire concen
trated might. of three nations with
more than ESQ, 900. 900 Inhabitants.
This means that this pact will,
In any case. help re-establish peace
or war;"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-28
r II. &.

Mrs. H. G.. Webster, IS, of 907
Chestnut street, died at James Walk
err Memorial hospital Thursday aft
ernoon at 5 o'clock after an illness
of two weeks.
Funeral services will be held from
the Lumberton funeral home at
Lumberton, Sunday afternoon at
o'clock, with the Rev. G. L. Pridgen
officiating. Interment will follow in
the Carlisle cemetery at Lumberton.
She is survived by her husband;
three daughters, Mrs. E. G. Dobson,
Mrs. W. e. Paderick and Miss Vivian
Webster, of Wilmington; six sons,
H. G. Jr., Rufus, Joe, John, Julian
and Daniel Webster, of Wilmington;
her mother, Mrs. Matte Bennett, of
Lumberton; one sister, Mrs. ]. B.
Marshburn, of Wilmington; tw o
brothers, R. H. and Eugene Nye, of
Lumberton.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-28
JULIAN BESTEIRO

MADRID, Sept. 27-RH Julian
Besteiro, 7o-year.old socialist lead
II and last head Of the Spanish re-
publican government, died tonight
in prison at carmona, sevilla pro.
vince.
Besteiro had been in prison since
Sept. 4, 1889, when he began serv.
ing a 3o-year sentence imposed BY
a military tribunal which convict
ed him OF helping prolong the Span
ish Civil War -
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-28
WILLIAM r. O

William Rhodes Story, III, died
at Sis o'clock yesterday afternoon
at his home at W~rightsville Sound
after a short illness.
Mr.. Story is survived by his
widow, Mrs. katherine Ozburn; two
DAUGHTERS, Mrs. C. F. Theobald, Of
Wrightsville Sound; Mrs. Katherine
Anally, of Decatur, Ga; and n
sister, Mrs. ]. c. Hogan, OF Thom-
son, Ga.
The funeral cortege will leave
late this afternoon on the A. c. l..
train for Atlanta, Ga. Funeral serv-
ices will be held at 2 O'Clock to-
morrow afternoon the Fat
terson chapel in Atlanta, with the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-28
MRS. MARY E. PHELPS

SUPPLY, Sept. 27-Funeral serv-
ices for Mrs. Mary E. Phelps,
"a, who died here at 1925 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Sci
lers, after a short illness, were
held at 2:3O o'clock Wednesday
afternoon from the graveside in
Prospect cemetery in Supply.
Mrs. Phelps is survived by three
sons, James George, and Robert
Phelps; three daughters, Mrs.
Elizabeth Sellers, Mrs. Mollie Car
roll, and Mrs. Rosie Clemmons; 80
grandchildren, and several great
grandchildren.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-28
w. ID. ANDERSON

William D. Anderson, of Leland,
who died Wednesday, will be bur-
led in Bellevue cemetery Sunday
after funeral services to be held
at 2 o'clock from the Yopp funeral
home.
Active pallbearers will be: John
Anderson, Wilbur Anderson, Clyde
Anderson, Kenneth Anderson, Rob-
ert Anderson and Devine Anderson.
Honorary pallbearers will be: D.
G. Ellis, Kenneth Dresser, H. T.
King, Earnest B~urguman, Dawson
Jones, Douglas Cooke, Charlie
Skipper, Dan Willetts, E.. E. BogHe,
D. L. Ganey, E. A. Ganey, DR.. E.
c. Anderson, G.. S.. Hollis, H.. P.
Lewis, O.. W. Perry, Neil Hines, L.
D. Marks, Joe Mintz and John
Hand.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-28
r MARY A. PAGE

CLINTON, Sept. 27.-Mrs. Mary
Ann Page, 81, died at the Highsmith
hospital in Fayetteville Wednesday
night at 10 o'clock following an ILL.,
ness of about 10 days.
Funeral services were held from
noon. Interment was in the church
cemetery.
She is survived by her husband.
Percy Page; two sisters, Mrs. Isiah
McPhail and Mrs. J. R. Page; one
brother, w, F. Matthews.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-28
PEGGY FREEMAN

CHADBOURN, Sept. 81. - Peggy
Freeman, 15-month-old daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Freeman, died at
the home of Mrs. Cornelia Herring
at Bladenboro yesterday afternoon at
4:30 o'clsck.
Funeral services were held from
the home this afternoon at 8
o'clock. Interment was in the Marsh
Baptist church cemetery, near st.
Pauls.
She is survived by her parents.