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Evening star., 1948-06-14
Ibernon 5. Prentice,
Banker, Tennis Star,
Dies al Hot Springs
Nv the Assoeiotsd Press

HOT SPRINGS, Va, June a.
Funeral services for Bernon Smell
don Prentice. 66, New York banker
and sportsman who died here Sat-
urday, will be held at noon tomor-
row at st. Bartholomew's Church.
New York.
Mr.. Prentice, who died at the
Homestead. was chairman IN 1882
and 1888 of the American Davis
Gun Committee and nonplaying
captain of the team.
An ardent lawn tennis fan. Mr..
Prentice held the singles champion
ship of the Seabright IN. Jo Ten
mis- and Cricket Club for Is con.
secutive years 1902 1920 and dur
ing that period won total OF so
titles at that club and at the nearby
Rumson Country Club.
Decorated for War Work.
In World War I Mr.. Prentice was
deputy commissioner Of the Amer
ican Red Gross in Europe and in
1918 organized the ambulance serv-
ice on the Italian front. He re-
ceiveds decorations from Italy and
France for his war services.
Through his brother-in-law, Lin
coin Ellsworth, the exporer, Mr..
Prentice became interested in avia-
ton and exploration and served as
chairman OF the Amundsen-E ELS
worth polar flight of 1925 and OF
the Amundsen flight over the North
Pole in 1926.
He donated the Prentice Cup for
the international tennis matches
between combined OxfUd-Cam-
bridge and Harvard-Yale teams,
which was competed for twelve
times until the recent war inter-
rupted. Last month he announced
the competition would be renewed
in July, probably on the turf courts
Of the Newport Casino.
State COP Treasurer.
From 1926 to 1881 he was treasurer
of the New Jersey State Republican
Committee.
Surviving are his widow. his sec
ond wife, who was Mrs. Josephine
Burton McIlvaine McFadden, widow
of George McFadden Of Philadel-
phia, at their marriage in 1885; a
daughter, Mrs. C. Frederick Nelson
of Rumson, N. j.. by his first wife,
Mrs. Clare Ellsworth Prentice, who
died in 1929, and two sisters, Mrs.
Reeve Schley of Far Hills, N. j., and
Mrs. Prentice Hoagland. also Of Far
Hills. His only son, Sheldon Ellis
worth Prentice, was killed in action
in the Pacific on March 10, l945.
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finish the game after the attack, his
family said, but his friends insisted
he 90 to the hospital. He died there
about IS minutes later. His nome
was at 1880 Rhode Island ave-
nue. NE.
Began rs Messenger.
Mr.. Bailey had worked for the
District Government for 80 years.
He began as a messenger when he
was Is after graduating from Rock
vile High School. Later he be-
came a clerk and for eight years
he was assistant superintendent
of licenses. After the retirement OF
Wade H. Coombs, in September.
1912, Mr.. Bailey was made super
intendent.
He also was a member Of the
Hack Inspectors Board, the D. G.
Board for Revelations and Restora-
tions of Permits and the District
License Board.
Mr.. Bailey was born in Rockville
and attended night school at Stray
er's College. He lived in Hyatts-
Vile from 1918 until he married
the former Mary Beckett of Lam
ham, Md, in 1882, and came to
Washington to live.
Funeral Wednesday.
Golfing was. Mr.. Baileys hobby
and he usually scored in the 70s.
He had played in various amateur
tournaments at the club, his family
said.
Besides his widow, he is survived
by his father, Edward E. Bailey, ST.,
of University Park. Nd, a re-
tired chief telegrapher at Union
Station; a brother, Charles Bailey,
of Cheverly, Md, with the cable
division of the Potomac Electric
Power Co.; and three sisters, Mrs.
Rosalind Waters and Mrs. Emily
Bullock, both of University Park,
and Mrs. Dolly Sheriff, Atlanta. Ga.
Funeral services will be held at
II am. Wednesday at the First
Methodist Church of Hyattsville.
Burial will be in Fort Lincoln
Cemetery.
The license bureau at the Mu-
nicipal Center will be closed
Wednesday. and employees will at
tend Mr.. Bailey's funeral. it was
announced.
Evening star., 1948-06-14
New 100000 Center
Is Dedicated Here
BY Salvation Army

Dedicatory services for the Saliva
tion Army's new 100000 Social
Service Center were held yesterday
in the chapel of the building, First
and F streets NV.
The structure provides sleeping
facilities for 100 persons, and con-
tains several therapy workshops.
The Salvation Army is now con-
Quoting a campaign here to raise
$3.50 900. Most of the money donated
will be used to construct other new
buildings in the Washington area.
Col. w. w. Bouterse, divisional
commander of the Salvation Army,
presided at yesterdays ceremony.
Other speakers included Represent
ative Monroney, Democrat, Of Okla
homa; 1t. Commissioner A. e.
Chesham, territorial commander.
Southern territory, and Frederick H.
P. Siddons, vice president Of the
Washington Board of Trade.
Leksons to Head Center. -
Brig. Arne Lekson and Mrs. LEX
son will be in charge OF the new
center.
The building, which consists OF
an addition to an original unit built
in 1885, contains so rooms, five
dormitories and a new dining room.
in addition to the workshops.
Brig. Lekson said that when con-
templated improvements are COM
pleted, the structure will accommo-
date 225 men.
The Civitan Club will inspect the
structure after a luncheon there at
1890 pm. tomorrow.
The director of the center said
the "only purpose" of the institu-
ton was to rehabilitate men who
have had a bad break in life"
To Repair Broken Articles.
I'VE are not interested in those
looking for just handout." he said
But through the facilities of our
workshops, we are trying to give
determined and sincere men q
chance to get new start"
In the workshops, broken and
discarded articles will be repaired
and then sold in the Army's Social
Service Stores.
Old newspapers collected by the
Army also will be baled and sent
to mills from the center.
Evening star., 1948-06-14
Col. Frederick Crawford,
.Ex-Executive Of PEA Dies
By the Assoeioisd Press

MOBILE, Ala. June 14.-Col.
Frederick r. Crawford. 46, former
executive vice president of Penn
sylvania Central Airlines, died at
the family home here yesterday.
He was a native of McKeesport,
Pa
During World War II. Col Craw-
ford was executive offlcer to the
commanding general OF Brookley
Air Force Base. Later he was in
charge of the Bell bomber plant at
Marietta, Ga.
After leaving the service in 1s45.
Col. Crawford moved to Mobile.
Funeral services will be held in
Pittsburgh Thursday with burial
at McKeesport.
Evening star., 1948-06-14
Dr.. Otto Morburg Dies;
Noted NeuroIogist
By the Assoeiotsd Press

NEW YORK, June 14.-Dr. Otto
Marburg, "a, clinical professor OF
neurology at Columbia University
and international authority on
nervous diseases, died yesterday.
Author of more than 200 books
and papers on neurology, he was
expelled from his native Austria
by the Nazis in 1898 and came to
the United States, where he be-
came a citizen.
DR.. Marburg was vice president
of the International Neurological
Congress, a member Of the New
York Academy of Medicine and the
Academy OF Sciences of France.
Evening star., 1948-06-14
Fishermon's Drowning !.
lin River Ruled Accident

Deputy Coroner Richard M. Ros-
enberg has issued a certificate of
accidental drowning in the death
of Wilbur Ferguson, SO, colored,
913 Sixth street NE. in George
town Channel near F1etcher,s Boat
House.
Police said Mr.. Ferguson, father
of seven children, slipped and sank
into IL feet of water Saturday
while he was fishing with his wife,
Alberta. The body was retrieved
by harbor police and worked over
for an hour by a fire rescue squad
Evening star., 1948-06-14
Two Movie Stunt Flyers
Killed in PIune Crash
BY the Assoeioted Press

BAKERSFIELD, Calf. June IA
Veterans OF hundreds of stunt
flights for the movies, Frank Clark,
so, and Mark Owen, 81, were killed
Saturday when their light plane
crashed en- route to Kernville.
Their former Army trainer de-
veloped motor trouble during a
climb and crashed on Dutch Flats,
near Isabelle.
Mr.. Clark and Mr.. Owen had
done stunt flying in such films as
"Hells Angels" and Wings
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I'm Mrnturfat11

BROWN. JAMES E. In loving remem-
hrance OF our dear husband and father,
JAMES E. BROWN. who departed this life
two years ago today. June IA. 1916.
Our hearts still ache with sadness,
Our eyes shed many tears;
At the end of two sad years.
WIFE AND SON, ELlzABETF AND
JANIS BROWN, Jf.
Evening star., 1948-06-14

fering a heart
a t tack while
playing golf at
t he Prin c e
Ge eorges Golf
and Coun t ry
Club.
Mr.. Bailey was
stricken at 80
am. on t h e
ninth hole at the
club while golf
ing with Ber-.
trand Sheehy,
Noble wills n
and VILLA m
Tahaferro. Mr..
Railev wanted to
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several months
illness.
Mr.. M C N e i'll
came here in
1896. He lived
at 1919 Chevy
Chase boulevard,
c Wy Chase,
Md. He served
first as a Coast
a n d Geodetic
Survey librarian.
-Four years later
he transferred to
the Agriculture
Department Ii
brary.
Evening star., 1948-06-14
Edward {. Bailey, Jr.,
Stricken on Golf
Course, Dies at Al

Edward Ernest Bailey, jr.. ~.
District superintendent of licenses
since 1912, died yesterday at Prince
Georges Hospital shortly after suf-
Evening star., 1948-06-14
Arms Caches Found in Italy

ROME, June IA fP.-Hauls OF
hidden munitions were. made by
police today in two Northern Italian
zones. They were at Porretta Terme
in Bologna Provipce-a Communist
stronghold-and in Northern No.
Vara.
Evening star., 1948-06-14
John N. McNei|I Dies;
War College Librarian

John Milton McNeill, 46. a libra
rian at the National War College
for the last year, died yesterday at
George Washington University after
Evening star., 1948-06-14
Uarn uf Uhanka

GEPPos, ABRAHAM. The sons. daugh.
ters and family of the late ABRAHAM
ciation and gratitude to the many, friends
for their expressions of sympathy ana
kindness in the recent passing OF our pc
loved father and friend, MI. Abraham
Ceppos THE FAMILY.
Evening star., 1948-06-14
Dr.. H. P. De Forest Dies
Finqerprint Pioneer
BY the Assoeiotsd Prsss

NEW YORK, June l4.-Dr. Henry
Pelouze De Forest, 80. who claimed
establishment of the first fingerprint
file in this country, died yesterday,
DR.. De Forest, surgeon and per-
sonal identification expert, long ad-
vocated fingerprinting for every citi-
zen. He took the first ofi1cial finger
print for New York City in 1902. He
was a native of Fulton, N. Y.
Evening star., 1948-06-14

PUEBLO COLO.-TEN-DAY-O OLD BABY FOUND ON CREEK
BANK-Nurse Betty Austin holds 1o-dayold baby found on
20 hours after fash flood hit the
body its mother Mrs Sam Cingen found AZ miles
downstream Hospital officials said the baby apparently uf
fered no the flood 20 hours without food
ra hail and the cold night followed by eight hours
In the hot sum- -AP Wirephoto
Evening star., 1948-06-14

Russia has reduced the prices of
bicycles 20 per cent.
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the damages
Evening star., 1948-04-12
Allen to Speak on Iron

Assistant Secretary of State
George v. Allen viii speak on the
Background in Iran" at the meet
ing of the Overseas Writers at 1890
pm. Wednesday in the Willard
Hotel
Evening star., 1948-04-12

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Evening star., 1948-04-12
Trial on Charge Of Looting
Hod Carriers Union Put Off

The trial Of 10 person on charges
of conspiracy to loot the hod car
riers' union was postponed today
until Wednesday.
Justice Alexander Holtzof in Dis
trict Court ordered the postpone
ment because of. the absence due to
illness of Attorney Austin F. Can
field, who represents four of the
defendants.
The defendants include Joseph
v. Moreschi, international president
of the AFL Hod Carriers, Building
and Common Laborers Union; eight
other persons identified with the
union, and Mrs. Dorothy Bond
Kelly.
Mrs. Kelly is the wife of Larry
Kelly, one-time treasurer of the
Building Committee of the unions
Local No. "a. He has been missing
mysteriously since before the in
dictment was returned in March,
Evening star., 1948-04-12
Ten Deaf Mutes
Fined for Noisy
Gard Game
BY the AssoeIosed Press

NEW YORK, April 12.-Ten deaf
mutes accused of loud and bolster
Gus conduct while playing cards
each paid 81 fine Saturday over the
protests Of a reluctant Brooklyn
Judge.
After they insisted on pleading
guilty to making q racket while
playing blackjack, Magistrate Fran
els X. Giaccone wrote them note
asking: How could you make any
noise?"
One of the prisoners demonstrated
by banging and juggling a courtroom
table.
Reluctantly the magistrate fined
them 81 apiece. Then. with q
puzzled expression, he asked the
courtroom at large:
Who am I to insist they do not
have equal rights with other card
players who draw the attention o1
the police? But for the life Of me
I cannot see if they are deaf how
they can hear any noise they say
they made"
Iran estimates 1t produced 4,40C
tons OF dried apricots last year.
Evening star., 1948-04-12
Palestine Protest Meeting
|Af Arena 10 Hear TAYLOR

Senator Taylor, Democrat of Idaho,
viii address Palestine protest
meeting Thursday at 4:30 at Tur-
ner's Arena.
The meeting will be a gathering OF
delegates of national pilgrimage"
to Washington sponsored by the
United Committee to Save the jew
ish State and the United Nations.
Several thousand delegates are ex-
pected to come here to call on Presi-
dent Truman and members of Con-
gress.
The group Is protesting what it
calls the bipartisan betrayal of
the Jewish state" the recent with
drawal by the United States of its
approval Of the partition of Pales-
tine.
Senator Taylor is expected to run
for Vice President on the third
party ticket headed by Henry A.
Wallace.
Evening star., 1948-04-12
$4,000 Line Trouble SiIences
|McC Curthy, Interrupts Benny

sound from the auditorium. From
that point 1t vanished.
Line trouble also briefly blacked
out the Jack Benny program
Benny was of the air for two anc
one-half minutes when trouble de-
veloped between Palm Springs
Calf, where the program orig
mated, and Hollywood.
Another line trouble casualty was
the Elmo Roper program, a public
opinion poll analysis. The first q
seconds were lost on the Columbia
Broadcastins System network yes.
terday afternoon because of diff
culties on line to New York from
New Orleans, where the program
originated.
Commenting on the Edgar Ber-
gen blackout, an NBC spokesman
said in New York that when an
entire program is lost the cast is
paid and the network makes a
rebate to the sponsor.
Evening star., 1948-04-12
BY the A.soeio,ed Press

HOLLYWOOD, April Charlie
McCarthy's radio program last
night was just a dummy run"
Comedian Edgar Bergen put the
usual impudent words in Charles
mouth and the quips came out all
right, but q Nation wide National
Broadcasting Co. audience didn't
hear them.
An unexplained slipup in telephone
line relay connections turned the
SIS. 900 show into just another re-
hearsal for Bergen and his troupe
and half-hour Of piano music for
listeners.
The program originated-or was
supposed to-at Claremont, Is
miles east of here. NBC said its
program engineer checked cables
from the stage to the jackbox and
that the microphones were carrying
Evening star., 1948-04-12
Fishing Boat Returns
with 7 Of Crew Slain
" the A,,oc;ut,d Pres,

SAN DIEGO, Calf, April H.
The Anna &, known in the tuna
feet as jinx boat, docked yester-
day with two corpses-instead OF
fish--in the cold storage hold.
FBI agents said Capt. Harold w.
Hansen, 40, told them:
Luis zamora, 80. q Mexican ma
tional. ran amok with a galley
knife. Zamora stabbed his friend,
Carlos Asin, 28, OF Mexican descent,
but a United States citizen and
war hero Of the italian campaign.
As Mr.. Asin bled to death on
deck, zamora stabbed Capt. Hansen
In the back with q harpoon and re-
peatedly clubbed him.
Capt. Hansen ordered crewmen to
kill Zamora with q .12-gauge shot
gun. Lawrence w. (Tex) Salzer, IS,
did.
Zamora would have killed all Of
u.s. Capt. Hansen told FBI agents.
Evening star., 1948-04-12

Coventry, England, is considering
city control of gravestones.
Evening star., 1948-04-12
Two Jap Women, IA Men
Deny Killing U. 5. Flyer
BY the Assoeioted Press


YOKOHAMA, April 1.-TWO
women and ID men, including 1t.
Gen. seiji Nozaki, pleaded not
guilty today to participating in the
wartime mob murder of captured
American flyer.
They are accused of beating and
torturing I'd 1t. John v. Seaman, jr.
Louisville, KY. His Psi Mustang
crashed In Chiba Prefecture, adjoin-
ing Tokyo, June 23, 1945.
Defendants Tauko Ishihara, 80,
and Wakako Hagihara are the sec
ond and third Japnese women to be
tried for war crimes. The first, Shi-
xuko Tsutsui, Is on trial with 20
men for the vivisection Staying of
eight B-29 crewmen.
Prosecutors told the United States
Sth Army tribunal that Miss Ishi-
hara beat 1t. Seaman violently,
and Miss Hagihara used wooden
clogs to assault the captive when he
was turned over to q mob.
Evening star., 1948-04-12
Management Society to Meet

The management of industry in
European recovery will be discussed
at a dinner meeting of the Wash
ington chapter of the Society for
the Advancement of Management at
$50 pm. Thursday at the YWCA
Seventeenth and K streets NV
Walter Hill, assistant loan director
of the World Bank, will speak.
Evening star., 1948-04-12

1914. Justice Holtzof today grant,
led Government motion for q
severance in the case of Kelly.
Kelly, one-time treasurer OF the
sea on freighter carrying war
supplies to the southwest Pacific
and Is said to have been buried in
New Guinea. The Merchant Ma
lrine serial number taken from the
dead mans body, however, was not
Keliy's.
Evening star., 1948-04-12
Southerners Denounce Bid
To'Trumon's Bondwooon'

ATLANTA. April II R.-South-
ern Democratic chieftains met to-
day to chart their fight against
President Truman's civil rights
program.
They quickly denounced q res
olution by the Midwest Democratic
Conference, calling on them to Jump
aboard the Truman for President"
bandwagon.
william P. Baskin. South Caro-
lima Democratic chairman, who
called the parley, wanted to know:
Where did they find that band
wagon?" "F3
10. Emmerich Of McComb, Miss.
representing Herbert Holmes, Mis-
sissippi party chairman, said: 1--WE
would be highly uncomfortable on
that ,bandwagon, even II 1t existed. "
Evening star., 1948-04-12
c. U. to Sponsor JeweIry.
SiIversmithinq Contest

A handmade silversmithing and
jewelry competition for washington
amateurs and students has been an
nounced by the art department of
Catholic University.
Entries, which must be designed
and executed by the contestants,
will be due by May 20 at the Salve
Regina Building at the university
Prizes UP to $40 will be offered.
Evening star., 1948-04-12
ADVERTISEMENT. A

Iran estimates 1t produced 4,40C
tons of dried apricots last year.
Evening star., 1948-04-12
Democrats in Midwest
Back Truman, Invite
Southerners' Support
sy Mo As,oejc,sd Press

DIES MONIES. Iowa, April 12.-
Directors Of the Democratic Mid
west Conference today settled
comfortably on the "Truman-for-
President" bandwagon and invited
Southern Democrats to Jump aboard,
too.
Ths directors sent the Southern
Democratic Conference at Atlanta,
Ca. meeting today and tomorrow,
q resolution calling on the South
erners to pledge themselves ito ac-
cept the result and unite behind our
platform and candidates for the
good of our country and party"
It was one of seven resolutions
adopted by the directors at q meet
ng here yesterday. The same reso-
luton pledged Midwest Republicans
% the same program.
The party's Southern leadership
.as been objecting to President
irumans nomination mainly be-
.auss Of his civil rights program.
Leaders Back Truman.
In another resolution the Mid
west party leaders declared them
selves Fundamentally behind the
President" The resolution also as
serted I'VE believe that for the good
of the Nation he must be elected
President in November, along with
a Democratic Congress which will
put into effect our party's sound
program to preserve our economic
good health at home and keep us
on the road to lasting peace in the
world"
Other resolutions adopted by con-
ference directors included a rec
ommendation to the administration
that the next Secretary of Agri-
culture be o Midwest man, well in
formed on agricultural problems,
and one urging Midwest Democrats
to resolve all differences within
the conference and vote as a bloc
at the Democratic National Con-
vention."
Eight States Represented.
Directors attending the confer
ence from eight States included
national committeeman and COM
mitteewomen, State chairman and
others from Kansas, Minnesota,
Nebraska, North and South Dakota,
Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa.
Other members of the 13-State
conference - Colorado, Missouri,
Montana, wyoming and Oklahoma
were not represented.
In reports from each State rep
resented board members expressed
belief their States either would poll
larger Democratic votes this year
than in 1914, or they had good
chances Of winning.
Evening star., 1948-04-12

The killings occurred q week ago
Oh the Mexican coast. Since then,
the Anna K. had roamed to sea to
escape Mexican coast guard ship
sent to investigate.
The FBI said no charges would be
filed,
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-09-10
EDITORIAL NOTES

No matter whom who
interested his community state and country ought
and vote in the primary election September L.
Thirty thousand black South caonans the st Of their
race to be allowed in the primaries three decades
ballots in the recent elections On minister Of the gospel who tried TO
vote seriously beaten Remember when Minnesota for
men ana women who believe IN uphodng the you hasten
the day when freedom Of franchise viii reign throughout the state
Robert Rusrk syndcaed eoumnst thought Il was shame for
Wallace to associate openly with his Negro the south
Probably Mr. RuArk prefers the
on quite freely that section daylight demonstration by
manat he considers Negro fellow Americans ~ 10 share his
society
remember correctly. Jesus
be seen in the company of the lowies, of his fcowmen
Most Negroes always talking the advan
ages of life Dixie seldom return deah ole southland
TO visit and hrag about up north
Some sincere friends always afraid Negroes will
by lighting too much They probably don't
that black Crspus fought Boston
Commons and died for freedom Of the colonies Negroes been
dying right many ye America was founded nurtured and
developed by who fought for the things they wanted and the
liberty they sought
The shortes, o is hard
These young swaSser noou even
dance with their hats be their desires
for freedom but they look like b. Young
dance with such characters need their heads examined
They get on the Rondo
and Olson Highway buses and loudly eae all the bus what
etc
"hch brings To the necessity OF October the
day for the School Amendment Minneapolis
should mark that day the calendar Money needed the
Mill City Schools and the people will express
will by voting for the amendment
Expanding job opportunities for Twin City Negroes
expanded individual responsibility Making doing
full days work. keeping down absentecSm proper conduct
dress: cheerfuness cooperation
makes for continued expansion Of Job opportunity
News dispatches that tho tension modern
living are increasing the waGGnG Of Jaws chewing Well
that's not the t. We know plenty Of folks who have had
practically nothing their minds waggng public
chewing Wrgleys product enough do full
days work And those chewing peppers
wrackng those civilized folk who within
confines Of their homes.