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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-31
By JOHN SELBY
THE MAGIC OF .LIMPING
JOHN" by Frank Goodwin (Far-
rar & Rinehart; $3.50.


A Texan named Frank Goodwin
has come pretty close to adding
something imperishable Il believe
that is the lit'ry supplement
phrase) to American literature. 1t
is something as truly a part of
America as Tom Sawyer and Huck
Finn, or Whitman's poetic cata-
logues. But it comes from the
Brownsville neighborhood of Tex
as, and hence is almost as Mexi-
can as it is American.
Mr.. Goodwyn's "The Magic of
Limping John" is about a wizard.
Limping John Luna was a fiddler
who wandered among the Span
ish-American villages of the dis
trict playing for weddings, catch
ing wild ponies on occasion, hunt
ing, wenching and otherwise fill
ing what time he did not need for
his tequila bottle. He was big
man and bearded. He had an air,
too, and was wondrously popu-
lar both as fiddler and as man. But
one day he had some bad luck.
With couple of cronies, he got
himself very drunk on the way to
a wedding. He pretended to be
the Devil to brighten a simple
minded inkeeper, and staggered
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-31
MOTHER NOW HAS
4 SONS in ARMY

Harry T. Williams, II, the fourth
son of Mrs. Bessie G.. Williams,
of 210 Brookwood avenue, to enter
the Army, will report for the Ar
my Specialized Training Reserve
program at Clemson College, S.
c., after his 18th birthday.
The youth enlisted in the Air
Corps enlisted reserve on July 10
at Charlotte.
Other sons of Mrs. Williams in
the service are Capt. Charles D.
Williams, who is stationed some
where in France with the Ninth
Air Force Service Command; LIST
Lieut.. James Lee Williams, bonn
bardier-navigator on BIS medi-
UNI bomber, stationed on Corsica;
and rs Ralph C. Williams, who
is stationed with the Transports.
ton Corps in England.
Captain Williams, who has been
overseas since July, 1912, was at
tached to the Eighth Air Force
Service Command before being
transferred to the Ninth. Lieuten-
ant Williams. veteran of Sc mis-
slons over enemy held territory,
has been in Italy and Corsica
since late in January. Technician
Fifth Grade Williams has been in
England since April.
Before entering the service. the
four Williams men were EMPLOYED
IN the freight traffic department
OF the Atlantic Coast Line Rail-
road company.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-31
Medicine Looks Ahead

The high type of thinking that dominates the
ranks of the medical profession is glowingly
Illustrated in the remarks Of DR.. Thompson
Coberth, president of the Oregon State Medical
society, inaugurating the new publication, The
Oregon Physician. He warned that public dis
cussion of medical practice has risen to tor
rental force.
"Voven through every editorial, lay or med
ical, every statement by congressman, every
newspaper account, every letter home from a
doctor in service, is the question as to whether
or not there is to be specialization Of medicine.
1t is limited to no area, or class, or inter-
ested group; it is talked Of everywhere, by
everyone.
This puts behind us forever the time when
we can even think about how pleasant if might
going to be tremendous changes. And If we as
discussed having to do with politics and other
matters.
Smart says Walker is morally beholden to
physicians have love for the greatness Of our
profession and pride in its dignity, we shall
take the leadership in those changes. ..
cit is easy to forget that the public knows
nothing of us except as it encounters us In
illness. 1t never sees the years OF grinding re-
search, the fatigue of conscientious physicians,
the struggles of medical societies with eco
nomic problems. 1t knows only that we can
now provide technical aids beyond the quick
command of the modest purse. It is conscious
only that it needs way to participate in all
these benefits and way to spread the cost
over time and population. -
Oregon Physicians Service, initially financed
by tie Oregon State Medical association, is
working to expand prepaid medical and hos
pital programs. 1t is setting practical ex.
ample Of how to extend the benefits of medical
service
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With Ernie Pyle
SOMEWHERE IN NORMANDY

SOMEWHERE IN NORMANDY
-(by wireless)-It was just be-
ginning dusk when the order came.
A soldier came running up the
pasture and said there was call
for our ordnance evacuation com
pany to pull out some crippled
tanks.
We had been sitting on the grass
and we jumped up and ran down
the slope. Waiting at the gate stood
an M-19 truck and behind it a big
wrecker with a crane.
.~. The day had been warm but
dusk was bringing a chill, as al
ways. One of the soldiers loaned
me his mackinaW.
Soldiers stood atop their big ma
chine with stance of impotence,
like firemen waiting to start. We
pulled out through the hedgeroW
gate onto the main macadam high.
way. 1t was about 10 miles to the
frontlines.
"We should make it before full
darkness" one of the officers
said.
We went through shattered
Carentan and on beyond for miles.
Then we turned off at an angle in
the road. "This is Purple Heart
Corner" the officer said.
Beyond there the roadside sol
diers thinned out. Traffic ceased
altogether. With an increasing tenn
pc, the big guns crashed around
us. Hedges began to make weird
shadows. You peered closely al
sentries in every open hedgegate
just out of nervous alertness.
The smell of death washed past
us in waves as we drove on. There
is nothing worse in war than tine
foul odor of death. There is no
last vestige of dignity in it.
We turned up gravel lane, and
drove slowly. The dusk was deep
ening. A gray stone farmhouse sal
dimly off the road. A little yard
and driveway semicircled in front
of it. Against the front of the
house stood five German soldiers,
facing inward. their hands above
their heads. An American dough-
boy stood in the driveway with a
tommygun pointed at them. We
drove on for about so yards and
stopped. The drivers shut off their
diesel motors.
One officers went into an orchard
to try to find where the tanks
were. In wartime nobody ever
knows where anything it. The rest
of us waited along the road be-
side an old stone barn. Three ieeps
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-31

August LIST and End are two important ami
arsaries in American history-particularly i'm
portant to the worlds mightiest air force, the
AAF.
It was only thirty-five years ago. on August
l., 1907, that the Aeronautical division was or
ganized in the United States Army, and it was
on August 2, 1909 that the Army purchased
from the Wright brothers the first airplane
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-31
Situation Normal

Tearing a leaf from the federal govern
ment's book Cor perhaps the Montgomery Ward
catalog), New York City took over custody of
the swanky stork Club after dispute over
some allegedly delinquent sales taxes.
There wasn't any such stir as the Mont.
gomery-Ward incident aroused, however If the
city should find it necessary to carry out the
Stork Clubs proprietor bodily, onlookers will
simply think that it's another patron who has
taken look at the check and tainted.
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were parked beside it. The dusk
was deeper now.

were parked beside it. The dusk
was deeper now.
Out Of the orchards around us
roared and Numbered our own a.
tillery. An officer lit a cigaret.
A sergeant with rifle slung on
his shoulder walked UP and said,
"You better put that out. sir.
There's snipers all around and
they'll shoot at a cigaret.
The officer crushed the cigaret
in his fingers, not waiting to drop
it to the ground, and said,
Thanks"
'1t's for your own good" the
sergeant said, alphabetically.
The only traffic past us was an
occasional jeep rugged up with a
steel framework above to carry
two stretcher cases. Every few
minutes a jeep would pass with
its patient burdens, slowly and
silently and almost as thought it
was feeling it's way.
Somehow as darkness comes
down in land of great danger you
want things hushed. People begin
to talk in low voices and feet on
jjeep throttles tread less heavily.
An early German plane droned
overhead, passed, turned, Owed
and his white tracers came slant
ing down out of the sky. We
crouched behind stone wall. He
was half mile away, but the mite
is big and bullets can go anywhere
and you are nervous.
An armored car pulled around
us, pulled into a ditch ahead and
shut off its motor. They said it
was there in case the German
night patrols tried to filter
through.
On ahead there were single
rifle shots and the give and take
of machine gun rattles-one fast
and one slow, one German and one
American. You wondered after
each blast if somebody who was
whole moment ago, some utter
stranger, was now lying in sudden
new anguish up there ahead in the
illimitable darkness.
A shell whined that old ia
miliar wall and hit in the orchard
ahead with crash. l moved
quickly around behind the barn,
'You don't like that?" inquired
a soldier out of the dusk.
said, mo, do you?"
And he replied as honestly, sT
sure as hell don't"
A sergeant came up the road
and said, ''You can stay here if
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-31
interpreting
The War .
BY ELTON c. F.v
Associated Press No.

Perfect tino;na ss war Analyst
to be an important elemar +ppean
achievements of the Allies ' j. N tas
mandy, as demonstrated h ta No. Nc
newly-launched British offen W he
A choice of timing, as uau
of the place of action, is "e IL. a
thing that reposes only with SVa ne
side holding the initiative s''D he
One OF the effects of the b,o,,
scale forward lunge of the p e.uaa'
at the center of the front 9 ~
Caumont area will be to a. ne
any contemplated move nv S'' ::
Germans to divert forces, esnec a'
ly armor, to the west. Tbera 'Slal'
Gen Omar Bradley's American :. ~
NOR has slashed the organized d. d.
OF German defenses into rihs sol'
and gone roaring on far into s WI.
areas. '''I
When the American offer,;u.
started, the Nazis were confrsN. '
ed with the necessity of deciS v,''
whether they dared move sa'
strength from the east to deal n';s
the break-through. They were WV, :.
ported to have among other rr;,.
six Panzer divisions in the es,s
with two facing the American ca,
tor in the west.
The British helped the Na,i,
make up their minds by iumnir'
off into an offensive yesterd,S
morning, a move likely to pin Al
German forces in the area fl n.
task of attempting to prevent =,
break-through toward the Sem.
and the approaches to Paris,
The manner in which Brsdls,
is using his arn1or is daring, hn,
pays off. Armored spearheads rov
are thrust forward as much ASH
miles from the point at which n,
attack was launched early lss
week. One of the columns Ian
night was at position barely A
miles from the base of the Gotten.
tin peninsula.
Such use of armor has not been
possible Or attempted since th
early days of the European wa,
when Nazi tanks and motorized in.
fantry raced across Poland and
p.lnsed through France.
1t was the view of the late l,
Gen. Lesley ]. McNair, outstand,
expert on ground warfare, thai
tanks could and should be used N
mass, without direct infantry SUP.
port, only when the enemy's orga
nization of anti-tank defenses hs;
been thrown out of gear. The Am
orleans attained this situation last
week when they called in the
mighty Allied air fleet, both tac
teal and strategic bombers, 10
smash a path through the Nazis
anti-tank system.
Through this soft spot Bradley
poured his tanks which immediate.
ly famed out in columns to ex
plot the break-through. Behind
them rolled the infantry, moppin5
up by-passed strong points, deal.
ing with an enemy tanks still
roaming in the area, forcing Nazi
infantry back through whatever
escape corridors might exist be.
tween the armored columns.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-31
Daily Prayer
FOR HEROIC HEARTS

O Inspirer and SustalneI u ;.
brave spirits, we pray to Thee NJ NJ
kinship with all heroic hears W, Wv
want to live in unity with our o y,
dear ones who are offering WV WV
lives in battle; and with all c.1
ageous men and women every ,l;,,
where who without tal .'..a,
serve Thy great Cause. "l.ia .,s
not from us the grace thai li ,'r n
them strong. Quicken our loyas y.
the great ends that are more ~. I'M
cious han life itself. In our +, W., =,
monplace circumstances hel LINT
to live uncommon lives lisI 4
above all WEAKNESS and sens s,r,
monotony and irritation ana =. ~ .
tration and fear. Enable ~ nd
follow the CLEAN Of patrlotlsn nj
of faith through dark days I'M M
bright. May we ever keep D' nd
us the example of our soldlei :,;,,r.,.
the greater example Of our oa' .arr,
so that. like them, we may s s'ait
our generation by hearts uli0-'
Amen.-W.T.E.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-31
ROBOT BOMBING SCORED

NEW YORK, July 81. : ~ AMI
appeal to the German peOpio AN
their government mot 10 en- r5oot
in the Wanton cruelty VI oirI
bombing or other methods o. % t' b,
ian massacre" has been nl So ls;t
% clergymen and writers VI" n-irDote;t
March signed similar ppros,ag
against the obliteratlon OO areri
policy of the British anu 49,
can governments.
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rs Years Ago
Today
(FROM THE FILES
OF THE STAR-NEWS)
JULY 81, 1919

Secretary of Navy Josephus Dan
iels will speak at the Victoria
theatre at 5 pm. today to mem
bers of the N. C. Press ASSOCIATION
in convention at WrightSvlLt
Beach. The speech to be dellVefH
today would have been made at tn
Oceanic hotel at 1890 this morning
but for the delayed trains On tn
Atlantic Coast Line which up'e
and disarranged all programs i
today's sessions of the editors.
Miss Katherine Taylor has gone
to Philadelphia where she Will l0a
a party of friends for a motor Try
through the New England states
Washington - King Albert al m
Queen Elizabeth of Belgium WV
be guests at the White House aL,
ing their visit to Washington ''
fall.
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Fair Enough

Editors Note.-The Star and the News accept NO
responsibility for the personal views Of Mr. P4gler
and often disagree with them much many Of
his readers. His articles the good purpose Of
making people think.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-31

The use of veneers dates p 3iss
to the earliest days Of civilian
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-31
TOP o. THE MORNING

Because you care, each task VIII be
lighter
Each burden 50 much easier to bear
And each new mornings outlook better,
brighter
And each new day more blest, because
you care
>. And in my heart, I'll always find
II sweeter
To want the higher things, because you
care.
DIR. FRANK CRANE.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-18
RatlonS

Meats, fats, Etc.-Book four red
stamps AS through rs and AS
through L-5 valid indefinitely.
Processed foods-Book four blue
stamps AS through rs and AS
through Is valid indefinitely. Use
OF blue tokens will be discontinued
Oct. /.
Sugar-Book four stamps 80,
81. 80 and SO good for five pounds
each indefinitely. stamp 40 good
for five pounds for home canning
through Feb. %. 1945.
Shoes - Book three airplane
stamps l and good indefinitely.
Gasoline-in northeast and south
east, liza coupons good for three
gallons through Nov. s. Elsewhere,
IRA coupons good for three gal
Ions through Sept. 81 l3-A coupons
in new basic "A" gasoline ration
book good for four gallons each
from Sept. % through Dec. 81 ira
ton unchanged despite change from
three TO four-gallon value). B-3, b.,
CO and Ca coupons good every
where for five gallons.
Fuel oil-Old period four and five
coupons valid throughout current
heating year. New period one cou.
pons also valid now and good
throughout heating year.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-18

rollments at the University. Wolf
and the Observation-Disclosures
club are contracting University Of
ficials and townspeople for a club
room.
Michigan was the fifth UNIVERSE
ty TO seek affiliation with the Wash
ington group. Since the oyertures
from Ann Arbor. 81 other universe
ties have followed suit.
Unlike the American Legion, SER
vice women as we'll as men will be
admitted TO membership in the
American Veterans Of World War
H. A veterans club organized at
George Washington University and
combining with two other local vet
Grams groups, became the nucleus
OF this organization which has a
potential enrolment OF 100000
To date, 81 school and non-school
veterans organizations have re-
quested afflliation with the Wash
ington group.
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PRODUCE
(Wolfs Grocery
SON HOME MOTHER SAYS

Toronto, Sept. 1s-AP- Mrs.
Frances Stata, whose 1S year old
son, Pvt. William Irwin Stata. was
arrested here Thursday on a
charge OF numbering Mrs. Austin
Smith OF Detroit in her summer
cottage at Port Franks. Ont, last
week end, said Thursday that Will
liam was in Toronto on Monday
when Mrs. Smiths body was dis
covered. HE came to the house
ION Euclid Ave. in Central Tor
onto) here about 3 o'clock" she
said. Il was asleep. He told me
he had another 4S CAS- hour leave),
so | told him to get something to
cat in the cupboard. He told me
he was going to see his girl friend.
| went back to sleep and that's the
last time | saw him"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-18

Young as II Is, the American Vet
Grams OF World War II promises 10
be a fighting organization. Mem
bers are already seeking a mel
chant marine bill OF rights. point
ing out that since April !, eight per
cent of the seamen recruited were
! under Is years OF age. Although
we do not intend to include mer-
chant marines in this organization,
ours is an American outfit, and we
will fight for rights for them"
Veterans Of World War II is also
attempting to put teeth into re-
! employment legislation. which so
far has proved to be just so many
words" To accomplish this. the
group is contracting congressman,
who will work with the vets in an
advisory capacity No member of
the organization can run or back a
political Office.
Congressman George G. Sado.
wski. OF Detroit, and William w
Blackney, of Flint, will be invited
to the second meeting OF the Ameri-
can Veterans of World War H.
sheduled for Sept. 20. in Washing
ton. in line with the organizations
policy OF acquainting congressman
with group aims and sincerity.
Colonel lido ]. Vile. formerly
chief OF the Department of Dermd-
tology and Syphilog at the Unit
versity Of Michigan, will be among
six physicians who will conduct
the L. S. Public Health Services
eighth postgraduate course in We
nereal disease control in Hot
Springs, Ark, October 10 to Novem
Der s.
DR.. Vile, since September or
1912 medical director of the USPHS
reserve corps, is chief consultant
on rapid treatment methods for
syphilis. One Of the top-ranking
men in his field, he established
training courses at Ann Arbor and
Detroit for officers preparing TO
practice rapid treatment procedure
in service installations throughout
III country.
The Arkansas training course
will be given TO health officers and
to private physicians cooperating
with state and local health depart /
ment venereal disease control pro
grams.
Harry A. Cunning, chief Of the
milkweed collection campaign to
secure kapok substitute for use
by the armed forces. has a line on
milkweed operations in Michigan.
His milkweed spies tell him "or.
ganization for collection Is com
plete, bags have been distributed,
and the crop looks much bigger
than last years" Picking began
last week.
Three counties, particularly, pro-
mise a rich yield-Petoskey, Che
boygan, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ban Wayne. Though Wayne, more
built up" than Petoskey. has few.
er milkweed plants. the great num-
bers OF school children who have
gone about for this patriotic pick
ing have equalized this deficiency.
Boy Scout executives report an ex-
cellent response from Michigan
troops.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-18
Detroit Cash Grain

WHEAT-No. 2 red. $151.
Mailing BARLEY choice new,
S1.45-l.52; barley needles sI2l.
Vegetables
BEETS-DoZ. bchs. 50-65c.
BROCOLI-No. /, bu. s1.75-225.
CABBAGE-No. l, bu.. $50 Id. bu)
9Oc-s125.
CAULIFLOWER-No. I, doz. $3.50
200.
RED CABBAGE-5O lbs. bu. sl.25.
l.60.
CARRoTS-No. 1. doz. punches,
10000.
POTATOES No. /, bu., s2.00-2,25.
RADISHES-White. No. /. doz.
bchss., $500; red, No. l, doz.
bchs., 1890.
BEANS-Green, No. /, bu.. zS lbs.
$3.00-3.50.
BEANS. Wax-2s-lb. bu.. No. /.
$300.S.50.
CUCUMBERS-bu., s175-2.25.
CORN-5 doz., 60-90c.
DRY ONIONS-50 lbs, $1.75-2.00.
PEPPERS-Green, bu., $1.00-1.25.
SQUASH-Table Queen, bu., 9Oc-
SIPS.
TOMATOES-No 1, bu., 1881.
TURNIPS-No. /, doz. bchs. $l.00.
1.25.
Fruits
APPLES-McIntosh, No. /, $500.
$50 45-lb. bu.; Wealthy, S2.00-2.50
45-lb. bu.
CRABAPPLES--$3. 00.3.50 bu
PEARS - Bartlett, fancy, 1872 bu.;
No. !, $3.00-3.50.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-18
Church Briefs
Christian and Missionary Alliance

Christian and Missionary Alliance
1880 p. m. Wednesday-Midweek
devotional service.
EVangeIlstIc Mission Tabernacle
Tuesday morning $3.50, is Union
Prayer service.
Wednesday night, 1880, Regular
Wesley Prayer Service.
Friday night, 1880, School Of the
Prophets Bible Glass.
Baptist Tabernacle
Wednesday, 7:30 p. m. Prayer
service and Bible study.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-18
Christensen Will
Address Scouters

Daniel Ling, chairman OF the
committee on leadership training,
Of the Washtenaw Livingston Boy
Scout Council has announced that
Wallace Christensen, Field Execu.
tive Of the Detroit Boy Scout Coun-
ell, will be the speaker at the an
nual Waldenwoods meeting to be
held on Wednesday evening. Octo-
Der 4 at $50 p. m. Other features
OF the program include a playlet to
be given by Scouts OF the Bach
School Troop Of Ann Arbor.
The Waldenwoods meeting Is
open to all Scout leaders and their
women.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-18
Livestock
Chicago, Sept. 1S-AP-

chicago, sept. 16-AP-
HOGS: complete clearance early;
good and choice l50-240.lbs. $l4.75:
weights over $40 lbs. and good and
choice sows 400; few medium to
choce 120-l40 lbs. $12.50-14.50:
shippers took 1000.
CATTLE: Scattered supply
$1l.50.16.50, with demand broadcast
for common grades all classes; can
ners, cutters and common bees
cows fairly active $3.50 down; cut.
ter cows $3.50 down; grassy com.
mon heifers $S.00.l0.00; but good
fed heifers very dull; most grass
bulls SS00-10.00: weighty sausage
offerings to $l1.00; fat beef bulls
$10.50-13.00: vealers fully steady at
$15'75 down: stock cattle weak.
SHEEP: Good and choice native
spring lambs s14.25.1450; top
$14,50; common $9.00-10.50; good
shorn yearlings $1,000; two loads
choice shorn Washington ewes,
$500; dull to good shorn native
ewes, S3.O0-5.00; 100 head good and
choice Glib. western feeding lambs
s13.25.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-18
JUST LIKE HOME

Helena, Mont, Sept. 1S-AP- A
saloon owner in western Mon
tana town thought the Italian mer-
chant seamen, on parole from Fort
Missoula to work on a nearby rail-
road, might like some OF their
own music. SO he ordered some
Italian monograph records. The
Italians snapped to attention when
one started on the juke box. Some
one had slipped in "Gioanneza", a
Fascist anthem.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-18
WARNED OF PAR

Dallas, Sept. lS-AP-The 200
odd golfers who planked down their
cash to play in the Texas Victory
Open were warned by Lakewood
Pro Larry Nabholtz that par on
the heightened course would be 4
tough old bird to negotiate with.
They found out the first day that
Larry wasn't talking through his
visor. The initial IS holes Of the
72-hole $4,000 War Bond tourna-
ment found just two fellows able
to best regulation fgures-Byron
Nelson and Harold (Jug) McSpa-
den, who are in a bracket by them
selves when 1t comes to Victories
and cash--l1 tournaments and al
most 100000 between them since
Jan. /. Six titles and S36,500 have
gone to Nelson.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-18
BOYS, LEADER DIES

Detroit, Sept. 1S-AP- Funeral
services were held here Saturday
for Martin f. Ryan, executive sec
rotary OF Detroit's big Brothers of
Boysville" organization which
founded the "Boysville" camp near
Brighton, Mich, to help combat
juvenile delinquency. Ryan, who
was So. died Wednesday night az
ter attending the organization 5
annual meeting.