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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
OBIT u A RE S

James Walker Memorial hospita
after short illness, will be held
at 3 pm today at the Fourth st,
Advent Christian church. The Rev
H. j. Wilson, pastor of the church.
of which the deceased was mem.
Der, will officiate. Burial will take
place in the family plot at John.
SON S cemetery at Masonborc
Sound
Surviving are her husband, 10.
seph R. Mintz lone son, Linford
W. Piner, of SCOTS Hill; three
brothers, Alonza, Ezekiel. anc
Newton Stokley, all of Wilmington
six daughters, Mrs. Homer A. Mac
Rae of Sunset Park; Mrs. Marian
Bryant, Mrs. Bruce Garner, both
of SCOTS Hill; Mrs. Ray Thomss
of Hampstead; Mrs. B. P. Will stts
of Kirkland and Miss Edith 71intz
of the home; and IL grandchildren
Pallbearers will be H. E. Shep.
hard, B. L. Buck, j. C. Long, J
R. Bell, w. L. Grissom ana ]. F..
Williams.
Mrs. Mintz was born in New
Hanover county August 10, $780,
the daughter of Charles and Eliza
beth Stokley.
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HARRIS HOWARD CRAIG

Funeral services for Harris How
ard Craig, 81, who died in Char
lesion Friday evening, will be held
at the home of his aunt, Miss Eta
Craig, 623 South Sixth street, Mon
day at II am. The Rev. J. F. Her.
bert and the Rev. D. Barcliff will
officiate.
Mr.. Craig, formerly of Whining.
ton, was making his home with his
sister, Mrs. Charles L. Vann, Of
Charleston. He is the eldest sor
of the late Captain Sterling F. ano
Rebecca Craig, who lived in Will
mington. He was lifelong mem.
Der of the Grace Methodist church
Services will be conducted by
the Rev. J. F. Herbert, of Grace
Methodist church, assisted by the
Rev. c. D. Barcliff, of the Fifth
avenue Methodist church.
Mr.. Craig is survived by Mrs.
Vann; one brother, Oliver r. Craig
also of Charleston; and four aunts,
Misses Eta and Carrie Craig, Mrs.
Matte Keen, and Mrs. Louise NAL
lard, all Of Wilmington.
Burial will be in Oakdale GENE
terry with Andrews mortuary in
charge.
Active pallbearers will be Ken
meth Mallard, Julian Mallard, Pearl
McKeithan, c. B. Vann, Frank
Bailey and Walter Keen.
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OELIVERYMEN TO
CONTINUE STRIKE
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r,o strike resulted from failure
.nior and publisher representa-.
- 10 negotiate a new contract
ronlace one which expired June
eo chief issue in the dispute is a
~" demand for the publishers to
atobI Oh a welfare fund for Union
members
PrOtracted
BIRMINGHAM, ALA July Is
,p'-rhe Sunday edition of the Biz
s,irobam News failed to appear for
+bo first time in history today as
walkout of printers kept the
To,vs The Age Herald and The
post from publishing.
The stoppage has left the city
v,itbout publication of daily news
naner nee Thursday.
lack Brock, president of the
r7Tfs local Union, said he believed
+he dispute would be protracted.
News dealers reported their sup
n,ies Of out-of-city papers have
been exhausted each day in three
minutes flat. They said they were
nnable to increase their orders.
A spokesman for the publishers
,oid there were no new develop
roe7ts today.
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ent. Finally, she obtained a posi-:
ton with a funeral director as an
assistant.
One day Mrs. Curry received the
opportunity to attempt her first re-
construction. An ear was needed to
complete the memory picture for a
funeral. She tackled the job. She
said her results were very crude,
but her employer insisted that it
was an excellent reproduction.
Since then she was encouraged
more and more along the Tires OF
reconstruction and plastic surgery.
She realized the possibility to devel-
cp and employ latent artistic tai
ents. She attended embaln1ing
school and qualified fer her EN-
balmer's license. Subsequently, she
attended art school to further her
knowledge and ability as sculp-
terer.; In 1880 she obtained posi-
ton at the New England Institute
of Anatomy and Embalming. She
tor in restorative art in that insti.
still retains the position as instruc.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
Leland Soldier Home
From War In Germany

LELAND, July 15-Pfc. George
H. Skipper, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
E. S. Skipper of Leland, returned
home last week after serving ~
months with the Eigth Infantry Di-
vision in Europe.
Pfc. Skipper participated in the
capture of 316, 1877 prisoners during
ten months combat with the
Eighth Division.
The Golden Arrow Division, as
tae Eighth was called, participated
in the Normandy peterborough, the
capture of Brest and the bitter
fighting in the Hurtgen forest.
Troops of the Eighth were the
first to cross the Roer river,
launching the drive that reached
the Rhine. The division cut the
Rhur pocket in two, finishing its
fighting by crossing the Elbe and
linking with the Russians.
Pfc. Skipper was indicted into
the Army July Is, 1910. After hav'
ing received % months training in
the Medical Corps in the United
States he was ordered overseas.
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BRADLEY LIKELY !
TO SHAKE UP VA
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The question of militarizing the
is already before
the House Veterans committee and
Bradley has asked the group to
postpone any action until he has
a chance to make recommended
tons.
One of the first appointments he
is expected to make is that of Col.
Howard Rrsk, who has won high
praise as head of the Army Air
Force convalescent section. Rusk
presumably will replace DR..
Charles M. Griffith, medical direc-
tor, and might become Surgeon
General if the militarization move
goes through.
Assistant Administrator George 1.
Ijams. in charge of the medical
and domiciliary care, construction,
and supplies.
Harold w. Breining, who is as
sistant administrator in charge Of
fiscal and insurance matters, and
the handling of G. l. loans. He is
believed on the way out because of
wide dissatisfaction with the loan
program and the fact that he is
blamed for the red tape" regula-
tons.
Adelbert D. Hitler, executive as
sistant to the administrator, who
handles personnel matters has
been considered by some as the
man who has been running the
VA. He has been under fire
There is great clamor for more
decentralization of the VA, a n d
Bradley may delegate more author
ity to regional offices. 1t is claimed
they are now "hamstrung" by
Washington.
He may also reinterpret regula-
tons in the G.I. Bill of Rights to
liberalize them and simplify infor-
nation required on pension and
life insurance applications to meet
complaints of delay.
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AMERICA FACING
P0CKETB00K TEST
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tai and $3.50, 900, 900 to the Inter
national Monetary Fund was given
yesterday in minority report by
four Republican members OF the
Senate Banking committee. They
declared the net result of the
present bill is to waste our money
and accomplish nothing"
The majority of the committee
had reported earlier that the pro-
gram adopted by representatives OF
"A nations last summer at Breton
Woods, N. H., will help preserve
peace by making possible an ex-
pansion of international trade"
The report was adopted by a 10
to 4 vote. The minority report was
returned by Senator Taft R-Ohio).
who heads opposition to the pro-
gram, and Senators Millikin (R-
Colo, Butler (R-Neb) and Tho
mas (R-Idaho).
Chairman Wagner D-NY) OF the
Banking committee, who has held
out for blanket, unaltered approval
Of the program, will lead off the
final administrator drive tomor
row.
The asserted purpose of the 49,
100, 900, 900 International Bank is tn
make or guarantee long-ternl loans
for rehabilitation and development.
The $4,000, 000,0 Monetary Fund
is intended to stabilize exchange
and eliminate competitive ex-
change depreciation
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
ENEMY LOSES l2S
SHIPS, % PLANES
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tons were sunk and Is ships total
ling $4,000 tons were damaged.
Among the ships sunk or beached
were six of the train ferries which
bring Hokkaido's war-necessary
coal to Honshu's industries.
Carrier forces lost nine planes
and three air creWmen in the Sat
urday strikes.
Search planes of Fleet Air Wing
One sank or damaged II Japanese
vessels, inflicted extensive dam
age" on an oil refinery, and wreck
ed railroad installations in Saturday
sweeps over a wide area of Korea
and Korean waters, Adm. NlmltZ
said.
Striking as far north as Heiko
and Gensan, the numbering search
craft destroyed a railroad bridge.
damaged another, skip-bomoed
and sealed tunnel exploded three
locomotives and strafed five trains,
damaged several locomotives and
railroad stations, and attacked
dock facilities and round houses.
A net tender was DESTROYED ana
three trawlers damaged by Liberia
tors of Fleet Air Wing 10 in SUM-
day raids off Honshu's southern
coast. the communicate added.
Mai. Gen. Curtis E. Lemays 2lst
Bomber Command reported that
the raids had made this progress
in the destruction of the fuel re-
sources of the japanese war ma
chine:
Koriyama, 10 miles North OF
Tokyo-73 percent of the Koriyama
Chemical Plant Destroyed; 50 per.
|ept of the Hadogaya Chemical
plant destroyed.
Otake, also on the Inland Sea
West of Tokyo-49 percent of the
Otake oil refinery destroyed.
Tokuqama - so percent Of the
roof, 100 percent of the oil storage
tanks and 80 percent of the by
product storage tanks of the Toku
yanna naval oil storage and the
Tokuyama synethtic fuel plants
destroyed; "a percent of the stoi-
age tanks and 80 percent of the
buildings of the Oshima naval oil
storage plant destroyed.
Yokkaichi, Northeast Of Osaka
so percent of the Utsube river oil
refinery destroyed.
Shimotsu, also in the Inland Sea
area-95 percent of the Maruzen
oil refinery destroyed.
Damage to the recently hit
Kawasaki petroleum center in
Tokyo bay has yet to be ascertain
ed.
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tuition. go
Mrs. Curry's original avocation
has developed to such a point that
her efforts are devoted almost en-
tirely to identific alton work, which
may be considered from two points
of view.
She is an authority on methods
for obtaining finger prints from the
dead. She has developed her own
finger print powders and technique.
The process has brought her pro-
fessional fame. The capillary r.dg-
es, which make the design in finger
prints, intrigued her. Her interest
in finger print work was directed
to this field by an inherent curl.
osity. -.
There is still another factor in
favor of getting proper identified.
ton of the mystery woman. Mrs
Curry points out that no person
can live for 30 years without know.
ing someone who eventually will
identify her as missing.
of view.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
BERLIN To RISE
AS TRADE CENTER
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tons have ceased. Gen. Omar
Bradley is expected to leave his
Wiesbaden headquarters by early
August to take. over his new job
as Veteran administrator in Wash
ington.
The American occupation arm
les, Gen. George S. Patton's Third
and 1t. Gen. Wade H. Hai..>' S
Seventh, have established head.
quarters at Munich and Augsburg
respectively. Patton has his ad.
vance headquarters at Bad Tolz
In each of the two regions of the
American zone of occupation there
will be large military government
attachments, one in the eastern
region of Bavaria and the other ir
the Western region, a region whose
geographical boundaries ha ~e not
yet been defined.
Where these detachments will
be stationed permanently has moi
been announced.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
FRAZIER M. WHITE

Frazier Monroe White, "a. died
at his home yesterday after-x .
OF a heart attack He was natITe
of Columbus county, a son of the
late H. L. White and Sarah Ann
Jolly, both of Columbus county.
Surviving are his widow and tive
sons, F. M. White, Jr., and E. Jenk-
ms White, of the U. S. Army in
Belgium; one daughter, Mrs. Pres
ton Hunter of Laurinburg; one
brother, Ell White of Whiteville
one sister, Mrs. Martin Nealy 81
Whiteville land three grand chill
dren.
Funeral arrangements are in
complete.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
u. N. NORRIS

TABOR CITY, July 15.-Funeral
services for U. N. Norris, promin
ent farmer of the East Tabor sec.
ton who died at his home Fri
day morning were held Sunday
at 6 pm, at the Primitive Bap
fist church. The Rev. M. F. West
brook. officiated.
Mr.. Norris is survived by his
widow; four sons, Bill, MILFORD,
Walton and Foster Norris; one
brother, Albert Norris, of Tabor
City; and three sisters, Mrs. Net
tie Williams of Belmont, Mrs. Let
tie Meares of Hallsboro, and Mrs
Narcie Spivey of Tabor City.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
NEGRO LOSES LIFE
IN DICE GAME

In an argumzat during dice
game at seventh AM Dawson
streets at $3.50 pm, last night,
Judge House, Negro, was fatally
shot with, a shot gun, IL shots
penetrating his chest, according to
city police.
Leroy Scott, Negro, As, was ar
rested by police in connection with
shorting, and held Withcu:
bond on charge of first degree
murder.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
JOHN ]. FITZGERALD

Funeral services for Merchant
Seaman John J. Fitzgerald, who
died aboard plane sent to take
him from his tanker, the Reaper,
will be held at his home, 907 No.
Third street, Monday at $3.50 pm.
Thu Rev. C. D. Barcliff will hold
the services. Burial will be in the
Oakdale cemetery with Andrews
mortuary in charge.
Pallbearers will ,e B. Lott, L. B.
August, B. M. Rich, j. R. Math'
ews. A. L. Kelly, Jr., and Herb
Parr.
Survivors, besides the widow, are
a daughter, Mrs. c. L. Hare Of
Wilmington; his mother, Mrs. De-
liza Fitzgerald, of Fall River, Mass,
and two brothers, James and Ed
ward, of the U. S. Army.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
MEETING

MEETING
The regular meeting of the
Senior Fraternity will be held
tonight at the Boys Brigade
summer camp. Members will
meet at the Brigade Club at 6
p. M, where transportation will
be provided.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
RETIRED NEGRO DIES

RETIRED NEGRO DIES
Funeral services for William
r. Moore, Negro, who died at
3 am. Saturday, will be held
at 3 PM, Tuesday at Moore's
Creek Baptist church at Cur
RE. Moore was a retired en-
ploye of the Wilmington post
office.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
MRS. HARRIET MIMI

Funeral services for Mrs. Har-
riett N. Mintz, 81, of Scots Hill,
who died at $40 am. Sunday at
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16

In the early 1865 the Pony Elk
press and the telegraph were ext
ended across central Wyoming.
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WEATHER
Continued from Page One

UasHlNGTON. July 15.-R-Weather
hures,I report of temperature and rain
IN for The "a hours ending 3 p. m. in
me principal cotton growing areas and
.l,oan
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
City Briefs
THIEVES STEAL CHEESE

1nAE vES 01 EAA N0ESE
City police yesterday receiv-
ed a report from E. B. Wright,
who stated that the Ideal Grill
at 1910 North Fourth street
was broken into by cutting a
hole in a screen and breaking a
window pane. The only articles
reported were five pounds of
cheese valued at two dollars.
NEGRO LOSES CHICKENS
Francis Thomas, Negro, of
818 North Seventh street, re-
ported to city police yesterday
that someone had taken IL
grown chickens of "various
breeds and colors" from his
yard.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Russell Wood
left yesterday for FL Paso, Texas,
where they will spend Christmas
with their daughter, Miss Elinor
Wood.
Mr.. and Mrs. Afford Bell OF
North, Va, and Miss Jane Mclean
of New York city, were guests of
DR.. and Mrs. A. MGR. Crouch this
week. Miss Mclean has just re-
turned from Italy where she serv-
ed with OSS. They were en- route
to Florida where they will spend
the winter at Captiva Island.
John L. Marshburn, Jr., has ar
rived to spend the holidays with
his parents. He is a student at
North Carolina State college in Raj
eigh.
Mrs. Margaret K. Fox of Tren-
ton, N. j., is the guest of her
brother in-law and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs. B. T. Hopkins at their home
on North 18th street.
Mrs. H. ,Kornegay and son, Her.
very, of Calypso, were the guests
of DR.. and Mrs. A. MGR. Crouch
this week. 49,.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
Whiteuille Merchants
Rushed ByHolidayBuyers

. :. hundreds of green Christmas
trees in front of grocery, drug and
hardware stores.
Whiteville's help will have one
day for Christmas and that is
Christmas day, announced George
Gold, chairman of the board of
directors of the Whiteville Mer-
chants Association.
Back to Christmas shopping =. !.
well, there is a lot of money in
peoples pockets and they're spend
ing it. Prices are high, quality is
rather low. Postwar products are
arriving to the shelves in a small
quantity and this helps just a lit
tie.
It seems that as for a distribu-
ton Whiteville has about as varied
stocks as some nearby larger
towns. This is probably result
of returning men and women who
normally rush to larger towns, for
the civilian goods they have fought
for, but now have to push, scram'
BILE and fight for over here
including the city.
It's a mad rush! But it looks like
it's going to be Whiteville's mer'
riest Christmas.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
BY JOHN G. WORRELL
Star CORRESPONDENT i.

WIIITEVILLE, Dec. IA - It's a
gala affair around the city of White
vile these fast holiday shopping
days you can hardly get wait
ed on in any of the stores. You
won't be surprised to walk in a
store, especially department stores
and see a counter lacking in much
needed merchandise. One day a
store will receive a shipment of
nylon hose, bedroom slips ers, or
maybe a few mems suits, the next
day, the stocks eliminated.
Whiteville's jewelry gifts seem
to be plentiful and the toys as they
are i. not much of metal J..
but plenty of wood. Everywhere
you turn, even in the newspaper
columns, you are quite aware of
fruits for Christmas. Now don't try
to buy ingredients for your fruit
cake, cause you may be disap-
pointed. Instead buy already
made luscious cake :. there seems
to be plenty for every body.
A lot of men and women are re-
turning from the armed forces,
most will be discharged and home
for Christmas. I guess that must
be the reason people just keep on
buying gifts and preparing for the
biggest Christmas celebration in
years, one store owner said. This
point may be accentuated if you
| try to walk down Madison Street
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
ADJUSTED. FREIGHT
RATE PLACES CITY
IN GOOD POSITION

Removal Of a freight differential
on calcium carbide will enable the
Wilmington port to handle tran
shipment of the chemical on a par
with Charleston, S. c., it was
learned yesterday.
On Nov. 20, H. E. Boyd, man
ager of the Wilmington PORTRAIT
fic association, wrote to j. G..
Kerr, chairman of the Southern
Freight association, asking that a
35-cent rate per 100 pounds, set
through ICC docket 1882 for the
hauling of calcium carbide from
Admission, Ala, to Charleston, for
export, be provided for Whining
ton.
Boyd yesterday was in receipt of
a letter from Kerr stating that the
rate of IS cents on the commodity
had been approved for Wilmington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
Worlds Oldest Christmas Card
He Has

Prang, in business in nearby
Roxbury from 1874 until 1890, was,
Chase said, "a genius in his own
way. He printed Christmas cards
IN "a colors. We do well nowadays
to use five or SIX
England, oddly enough, was
Prang's first market and he was
as successful there as in this coun-
Try. His custom of offering annual
prizes of $4,000 and 81 1000 or de-
signs attracted famous artists.
Inc .Prang cards of 60 and 70
years ago were fringed and FROST
cd and sometimes scented, so that
lucky recipients could use them as
sachets.
christmas cards suffered an ar
tlstlc decline when he. died, Chase
recalled, and were brought back
IN the early 19oO's by two other
Bostonians, Alfred Bartlett and
A. M. Davis.
Among Bartlett's designers were
such great artists in, type design
as Fred Goudy, Bruce Rogers and
w. A. Dwiggins. D,oets Edwin
Markham and Henry Van Dyke
wrote Christmas greetings for Da-
Wis. -,
A publisher who lived to see the
tremendous growth of the Boston
born greeting ard industry is
Chase's colleague, Fred Rust Of
Rust Craft, who came to Boston
from Kansas in 1908.
In the intervals of tracking dowr
old Christmas care designs, Chase
found time to write an authorita.
tive book on the subject, '"'The
Romance of Greeting Cards."
He is frankly critical of. many
OF his own innovations. The large
poster Christmas greetings which
he published 80 years ago, he dub.
bed "a flat failure
His first photograph record,
put on the Christmas market in
1915, practically bankrupted
me-" he said, ''but record col
lectors still poster me for
copies" -.t --
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
by Alice Brooks
By ALICE BROOKS

No baby has too many jackets
and caps! This set, crocheted in
straight pieces, is in white with a
border of pink and blue. Easy to
dc!
Baby set, crocheted in straight
pieces, is easy to block. Pattern
7O10 has directions for set in in
fant's size; stitches.
Send FIFTEEN CENTS in coins
for this pattern to Wilmington Star
News Household Arts Dept, 259 W..
18th St., New York II, N. Y. Print
plainly NAME, ADDRESS and
PATTERN NUMBER.
Send FIFTEEN CENTS more for
our Needlework Book-94 .illustra-
tons of designs; crocheting, knit
ting, embroidery, dolls, other toys,
home decoration. Free Pattern for
two crocheted handbags printed
right in the book.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15

Said Hargrove to loud applause
from the industrialists: cts very
simple. Just put the colonies back
to work as office boys, because a
lot of unmitigated jerks were
holding majors rank while their
work was being done by a private
first class"
No one ought to be encoura ging
employers-whose businesses were
saved by the men in uniform,
colonies as well as pfc's-to take
delight in pushing into a small,
mean job a man who has pro-
crossed in the Army far beyond
his peacetime attachments.
The man who comes out of serv-
ice to take on a job that offers him
less authority, less satisfa ction,
less recognition than he had in
uniform has a tough adjustment
to make.
HE WAS HAPPY BEFORE
And it is a situation he didn't
ask for. He probably was happy
in his job before he had to leave
it. Should he be laughed at because
he got along so well while in serv-
ice that his old job now looks
like small potatoes?
Rather, shouldn't he be helped
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
RERLIN CTS
PLAY SANTA
q, RICHARD KASISCHKE
aP NeWSfeatureS

pTR1JN-Santa will be good to
H.. wives. sweethearts and moth
a.s If Grs stationed in Berlin.
III n mid-November the Christmas
., Oh is going full blast in Berlin's
. .onr army postoffices with tons of
s wv, going out - as well as COM
Ing in
4 American occupation troops
" moraeed to send home nearly 3d.
an0oO0. more than three times as
mich as they received in pay dur
ins 4 month, money is a small OBJ
ject ooo oao
competing for the necessities of life
tbpre is little that money can buy.
The Army post exchanges have gift
shops but purchases there are
limited.
So in his Christmas shopping the
GI has turned to barter. Cigar
cites. food and candy are exchang-
Oh for articles the Germans are
willing to part with. Diamonds
and rings are the prime objects
Of this search. One postal officer
said the Christmas outgo included
much glassware. china, vases and
tinkets obtained from barter shops
and war souvenirs.
But thousands of soldiers are say
ing it with flowers. Transatlantic
radio flower delivery orders have
been running to 500 daily at a mini
mum Of $40 and a maximum of SIS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
BY MARY E. PRIM
Ap Newsfoot ures

BOSTON-Ernest Dudley Chase,
greeting card designer, publisher
and collector for 40 years, has
found the worlds earliest Christ
mas card-maybe.
Published in Albany, N. Y, it
will take the honor away from Eng
land, if he can verify the date, be-
ieved to be 1889.
"An 1912 design by w. M. Egley,
Jr., of London, now holds the rec
ord," said the 67-year-old dean of
American card designers. 'It was
discovered in the British Museum
just before World War II. Up to
then j. C. Horseley's card, pub
ished in 1846, was supposed to be
the first
An executive of Rust Graft
Publishers, where his office walls
bulge with enlarged replicas OF
old Christmas cards, Chase dis
played the treasured find for which
he paid $3.50.