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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-12

company against some 200 Chip
pewas who staged an uprising
on Bear Island, in Leech Lake,
MINI.
He won the Silver Star for his
gallantry.
Col. Ross is a graduate of
Central High School and George
town University. His father, the
late John Wesley Ross, was a
District Commissioner from 1890
to his death in 1902. He was
president Of the Board of Com
missioners from 1893 to 1898.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-12
Ship undermining Bill
Sent to White House
BY the Associated Press

Congress sent to the White
House yesterday a bill authoriz-
ing $25 million for repairing and
undermining ships from the re-
serve fleet.
Adoption Of a conference re-
port by the Senate completed
legislative action.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-12

Indian battle
In the United
States.
He is Ten
ney Ross. SO,
Of 2915 Con-
necticut av-
enue NV.
The parade
will be at 4
pm. at Fort
Myer.
In 1898, Col.
Ross, then a
second lieu
tenant, led a
Sd Infantry
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-12
Timber Fire Loss

SEATTLE. Fires destroy more
than 460 million cubic feet Of
timber in the United States every
year, most Of the fires caused by
human careleSSneSs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-12
Parade Will Honor
Hero Of Indian War

The Sd Infantry Regiment will
parade Sunday in honor Of a
retired colonel who was in the
regiment when it fought the last
Evening star., 1954-12-03
Crippled SkU Confident About kotre Dame Came
lin, Lose o. Droy.
By LEWIS r. ATcHlsoN

WHEN THE FIELD PARADEs for the first running Of the
$250OOadded John Campbell Memorial Handicap at Bowie
tomorrow, the horses will be carrying much weight as
bespcacled pleasant but thoroughly gentleman
Evening star., 1954-12-03
BowI-Bound Navy Tokins 1t Easy
Notre Dame, Army Dominate
Middies' AN-Opponent Team,
By the Assoeiafed Press

ANNAPOLIS. Md, Dec. s.
Notre Dame, one of two teams
to beat Navy this year, and Army
shared all but two positions on
Navy's all-opponent football
team announced today.
Notre Dame, which won a close
60 contest in the mud from
the scrappy Tars, placed four
linemen and Quarterback Ralph
Guglielmi. The Middies rated
two of Army's backs as the best
they faced this year and chose
two other Cadets in the line.
Navy defeated Army, 27-20, in
their regular season windup.
The other two positions went
to Lou Palatella, Pittsburgh
tackle, and Bill Tarr, Stanford
back. Navy lost to Pitt, 21-l9,
and defeated Stanford. $50.
The only unanimous choice in
the balloting was Dick Syzman-
ski, Notre Dame center.
The Middies passed > over
highly rated Don Holleder of
Army to place his opposite, Cadet
Art johnson, at end with Dan
Shannon of Notre Dame.
Tackles included Sam Palumbo
of Notre Dame and Palatella.
Ray Lemek of Notre Dame and
Ralph Chesnauskas of Army
were chosen all-opponent guards.
Army F'ullback Pat Uebel and
Halfback Tommy Bell were
named in the |backf1eld with
Guglielmi and Tarr.
Evening star., 1954-12-03

physical and mental courage
were magnificent. Don and I
used to spend a few afternoons
each fall helping with the
coaching at Georgia Military
Academy, some 20 miles from
Atlanta.
One evening, in 1908, while
putting the sports pages to bed,
I happened across a story from
Shreveport. La. about a pitch
ing freak who had made a bet
that he could drink two bottles
of bourbon, bolt down a whole
turkey and win a double header.
His name was Bugs" Raymond.
AS an unofficial scout for the
Atlanta club. told Abner Pow
ell, the owner. about Raymond
and persuaded Alb to buy him.
He reported next spring. I hap
pened, by rare chance, to be
standing at the bar having q
free lunch before starting for
the ball park. Some one slapped
me on the back and said, What
about a drink, pal?"
I recognized Raymond, then
% years old. I bought him q
drink. He asked for another. u
Continued on Page CO, Col. SD
Evening star., 1954-12-03
Bowie Feature Won
By Joe's JEANNE
Without 'Censure'

Oblivious to yesterdays hap
penings on Capitol Hill, where
the Senate voted to censure
Senator Joe Mccarthy, Alan T.
Clarke's Joe's JEANNE. q 2-year-
old filly named for the Sena-
tors wife, scored q tWo-length
victory at Bowie In the featured
Valenciennes Purse and re-
turned a SIS mutuel.
Joe's JEANNE ran the six fur
longs in .1:12 in front-running
style for her second straight
triumph, beating Wise Swiv. the
second choice, across the wire.
Clarke. neighbor and friend
of McCarthy's. also named jean
ME G. for the Senator's wife.
The fillies are full sisters to
Senator Joe, who was named
for Mccarthy himself. Clarke
bred. owns and trains all three
horses.
Bill Lester was astride the
filly when she won yesterday.
Peignoir trailed Wise Swiv in
third place.
Evening star., 1954-12-03
College Cage
Elite Continue
Winning Ways
By the Associated Press

Names familiar to college bas-
ketball fans when tournament
picking time rolls around ap-
peared prominently on the win
ming side today.
There was, Western Kentucky,
the Nations eight-ranked team
last year, champion of the Ohio
Valley and fourth in the Ma
tional Invitation Tournament.
Also 10th-ranked Oklahoma
A&M, kingpin of the Missouri
Valley and Niagara's Purple
Eagles, third in the NIT.
Alongside them were such an
nually potent powers as Illinois
and DePaul.
Win, With Ease.
All won with comparative
ease. Western Kentucky downed
Gustavus Adolphus, 90-79. The
Oklahoma Aggies turned back
Howard Payne, 81-44, with sec
ond-stringers playing much Of
the game. Niagara had no
trouble with Buffalo State, 81
go. DePaul romped over Kala-
tSee BASKETBALL, Page C-2.)
Evening star., 1954-12-03
Waivers Pose Very Big IF
Dodgers Reported Out to Sell
Cox to Baltimore or Cleveland

Post ana Catcher Il. g. Bailey
Of the Reds and Second Base
man Junior Gillian and a Sec
ond : line pitcher from the
Dodgers.
Only a matter of $25, 900 stood
between the Western League
and the st. Louis Cardinals
from concluding pact that
would transfer the Redbirds'
Columbus American Association
franchise to Omaha.
Western League Cuts Demand.
In a secret meeting with St.
Louis representatives yesterday
the Western League reduced it's
demand for damages on the
release Of Omaha from $100, 900
to 100000. The Cards countered
with an offer Of $35,0OO.
A delay in the negotiations
was requested by the Western
League until its president, Sem
ator johnson of Colorado, re-
turned from Washington and
the Mccarthy hearings. The
Senator was expected to arrive
here some time today.
1--WE gave the Western League
our offer" " said Dick Meyer. gen.
eral manager of the Cardinals,
land while they didn't accept it,
neither did they reject it. I have
every reason to believe we'll come
to an agreement very shortly.
AL our negotiations up to now
have been very amicable."
Trautman Delays.
Trautman was to have named
the arbitration board TO settle
the Denver dispute yesterday but
he held of hoping the American
(See BASEBALL, Page C-2.)
Evening star., 1954-12-03
By GrontIond Rice

From 1902 through the World
Series of 1905, between the
Giants and Philadelphia, I wrote
for the Atlanta Journal. Start
ing under its erstwhile editor,
John S. Cohen. at $12.50 a week,
my job was to write the entire
sports page.
During those days, the great
from Broadway would make one
night stands throughout the
cities of the South, with such
marquee'd names as John Drew,
Richard Mansfield, the Barry
mores. ct al, all putting in their
licks for the culture of the Con-
federacy. The theater beat was
handed to me. I can't tell you
how many nights a young writer
from Indiana squat, heavy
set ex-athlete from DePauw Uni
versity named Don Marquis
and I had two-on-the-aisle as
theater critics for the old Jour-
nal.
This was the same Don Mar
quis who later went to New York
to make his fame with the Sun
and the Tribune. who tickled the
world with such stories as "The
Old Soak" Captain Peter
Fltzruse" "Mehitabel" and
"Archie the Cockroach." He was
a flrebrand and genius.
Ate on Dime a Day.
In those days we shared a fiat
for SO week and \once tried
living on 10 cents a day-the
cost Of a huge mince pie for
breakfast, guaranteed to induce
acute 24-hour indigestion for
two I bequeath this gem to
Gaylord Hauser as my contribu-
uon toward the American diet.
How Marquis could write! An
unaffected genius, at times he
was a black brooder, but his
Evening star., 1954-12-03
Injuries Chief Worry
To AII-Stars on Eve
OF 81. Johns Game
Probable Starting Lineups.

The public school all-stars
were scheduled for a light work.
out this afternoon at the West
ern High stadium as Coach Zu
Stewart of Anacostia hoped to
use the final moments to drill
more f1nesse into his 80 charges
and nurse several injuries in
preparation for the football
game with st. Johns tomorrow
in Griffith Stadium.
District Commissioner Renah
Camalier will throw out the
ball tomorrow for the 1880 pm.
kickoff.
Stewart put his all-high club
through a scrimmage In yester-
days near-freezing temperatures
with the result that Frank Sui
Ivan, guard from Dunbar, re-
injured his right knee. It was
the fifth serious injury suffered
by the squad.
Previously, Fullbacks Bob
Dornes and Max Disharoon, both.
Of Anacostia, were hurt. Dornes
received a possibly chipped bone
in the shoulder and Disharoon
a wrenched arm. Guard Nor
man Garrison Of Anacostia and
Tackle Leland Phillips of Wilson
both are out Of the game be-
cause Of leg injuries.
Sullivan Key Man.
The injuries and the fact that
many of the players from Divi-
sion II teams have reported late
for the workouts are the only
disturbing notes to Stewart and
his staff.
Sullivan, for instance, is a key
man in Stewards plans. IF Sui
livan's knee improves well be
in fine shape on defense" Stew
art said. Hes terrific in there
and he can spare Juliano
Charlie Juliano, Anacostia1 for
offensive duty"
Stewart naturally believes he
has the edge on st. Johns In
depth and said he couldn't be-
lieve that Joe Gallagher. john
MES coach, would use the two
platoon system. HE just doesn't
tf ----------------------l Iss
(See HIGH SCHOOLS, re. C-3.)
Evening star., 1954-12-03
Expect $4,000
AT Cotton Bowl
For r'54 Windup
Two Top Books Out,
But Mustangs Hope
To Avenge '53 Rout
By the Assoeiased Press

DALLAS, Dec. 3. Southern
Methodist's Mustangs - loaded
with injuries and memories OF
past meetings with Notre Dame
were a crippled but confident
football team as they finished
preparations for tomorrow's ma
tionally televised game with the
irish.
(The game will be seen in
Washington over WMAL-TV,
Channel Z. beginning at 2:55
pm. It win be broadcast here
by WOLF
The Mustangs, second-place
finishers in this years Southwest
Conference race, meet the peren-
nial kings Of the Nations inde-
pendents in what Texas fans are
beginning to regard as almost
another Cotton Bowl game.
It's one of three contests that
always pack the 75,0O0-seat~s sta
dium. Others are the Texas
Oklahoma rivalry and the New
Years Day Cotton Bowl classic.
It's also the seasons last major
game in the Southwest.
Two Top Backs Out.
SMU will enter the game minus
two of its top four backs, Quar-
terback Duane Mutt and Half
back Don McIlhenny. Mutt,
leader in passing, punting and
ball-carrying for the Mustangs,
went out of the Texas Christian
game last week with a broken
collarbone. McIlhenny was one
OF the better runners and defen-
sive men until a kidney injury
took him out a month ago.
Coach Chalmer Woodland had
the team behind locked gates
most of the week, grooming John
Roach, a junior. as Nuts re-
placement.
But while the team had its
physical troubles, morale has
been high spot. The Mustangs
remember well the 40-14 humili-
alton they suffered at the hands
Of Notre Dame last year before
a national television audience.
This year, with the game again
(see IRISH-SMU, Page C-3.)
Evening star., 1954-12-03
By the Asseciafed Press

HOUSTON. Tex. Dec. s.
Talk Of new major league player
trades, including sale Of Billy
Cox, veteran Brooklyn third
baseman, for $4,000 either to
Baltimore or Cleveland, over
shadowed the minor league con-
vention as it came to a close to-
day.
In two developments of i'm
portance to the minors, G9naha
was expected to officially become
q member Of the American As
sociation and a flve-man arbi-
tration board was to be named
by George Trautman, minor
league president, to settle dam
ages due the Western League for
draft Of its Denver territory.
On the player end, the Associ-
ated Press learned that the
Dodgers are set to sell Cox if
they can get waivers. E. j. (Buz-
zie) Bavasi, Brooklyn vice presi-
dent, also has asked for q couple
OF minor league farmhands.
Waivers Current Hitch.
The inter-league transaction.
In all likelihood, will be con-
summated at the major league
meetings in New York next
week. The only current hitch
Is Brooklyn's inability to get
waivers. It is believed, however,
that because of the fancy figure,
the Dodgers will receive gentle
man waivers" on Cox.
The Dodgers and Cincinnati
Reds also were getting closer
to completing a player trade
that would involve Outfielder
Jimmy Greengrass or Wally
Evening star., 1954-12-03
Custer Of Pool
SoughfbyRanls, ,
|. A. Paper Says
Players Seek Tolk
With Owner; Coach
Coils Fears 'Loufer'
BY the Asseeiated Press

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3.-sev-
eral key members Of the Los
Angeles Rams have asked q meet
ing with Dan Reeves. club presi-
dent, to air grievances against
Coach Hampton Pool. the Times
said today.
The story did not identify the
players making the request, but
quoted a veteran star" as say
ing:
IF Pool stays, there are going
to be some very good players
who won't be back next year.
All we want to. do is win the
championship. but we've gotten
to the point where we don't
think we can do it with Hamp
Pool"
Movie Session Described.
The Times account said the
players sought a meeting with
Reeves after Pool "blew up" at
a players meeting while review
ing the movies Of the Rams a.
13 defeat Sunday at the hands
of the Chicago Bears. That de-
feat. left the Los Angeles club
tied for third in the National
Football Leagues Western Divi-
sion. The story continued:
Pool called Tom Fears a
loafer' and accused him of lack
of effort on a particular play
although the great end caught
seven passes for 1874 yards dur
ing the game and had a touch
down run called back.
"Fullback Dan fowler, Line
backer Bobby Griffin and Tackle
Bobby Cross, among others, were
singled out for sharp criticism,
and there was a blanket excori-
alton of the squad for it's losing
performance.
Colts Game on TV.
"Pool heatedly warned his men
that the next two games-with
Baltimore (here tomorrow and
Green Bay, will have a direct
bearing on (1) who'll be on the
Rams payroll next year and
90 how much they'll get"
(The Colts-Rams game will
be televised in Washington
over WTTG, Channel 5, at
5 p.m.)
Early this week Reeves reaf-
f1rn1ed his confidence in Pool
and said he would coach the
Rams in 1QSS
Evening star., 1954-12-03
Jack Bigheod Out for Year
Due to ShouIded Injury

LOS ANGELS, Dec. 3 (R.-
The Baltimore Colts today an
nounced the loss for the season
OF their star rookie end, Jack
Bighead.
Bighead, an Indian from Pep
perdine College here, suffered a
shoulder separation going up to
catch a pass in practice yester-
day and will undergo surgery.
He and Dan Edwards were the
Colts leading pass catchers. The
rookie weighs 215 and stands
6-foot-3.
Evening star., 1954-12-03
.---AP Wirephoto.
Special Dispoieh 10 The Star

ANNAPOLIS, Dec. 3.-An
amazing air of relaxation and
good will has descended on the
football scene at Navy. Accord
ing to the pattern followed by
most boWl-bound football teams,
this is the wrong time for it.
The Christmas spirit of good
cheer is for children and adults
not concerned with football.
Bowl games are serious business
calling for a rugged training
schedule and a measure of dis
cipline.
The Navy football squad never
(See NAVY, Page C-2.)
Evening star., 1954-12-03

(See NAVY, Page C-2.)
Evening star., 1954-12-03

thinks they should lug mile and one
eighth to keep them fairly well punched
at the finish.
John Turner, jr. who once worked as a
clerk for the late Jack Campbell, assigned
the weights. He pored over past perform
ance charts, read the footnotes on each
race, weighed track conditions jockeys
abilities and reports of latest workouts
carefully before deciding how much to pack
on each horse. If, by some miracle, he
correctly doped the potential of the dozen
expected to run, it would be record
breaking 12-horse dead heat. Mr. Turner
could retire on bis laurelS and snend the
Evening star., 1954-12-03
The Tumult and the Shouting
Rice Meets Don Morouiis.
Bugs Raymond and Cobb

This Is the second OF "a
articles from Grantland Rice's
autobiography, "The Tumutt
and the Shouting" The for
nler dean of American sports
iOriters finished his memoirs
shortly before his dedth.l
Evening star., 1954-04-26
Woo Asian People,
Gen. Romu|o Urqes

Gen. Carlos Romulo, Filipino
war hero and former president of
the United Nations General AS
sembly, yesterday called on our
country to make friends with
the peoples of Asia in order to
forestall Russian plans for world
conquest.
1.-THE safety of the free world
is centered in Asia" Gen.
Romulo declared at communion
breakfast of the John Carroll
Society of Washington in the
Mayflower Hotel. II plead with
the American people to turn your
eyes to Asia. That is where you
need friends"
The speaker, personal repre-
sentative of the President of the
Philippines to the United States,
asserted the West could win the
friendship of all Asiatics by prac-
ticing the golden rule with it's
insistence upon the dignity of
the individual.
John L. Sullivan, former Sec
retary OF the Navy and president
of the society, introduced Gen.
Romulo.
More than 400 members were
at the breakfast, which followed
communion mass at st. Mat
thew'S Cathedral.
The Very Rev. Msgr. Philip
M. Hannah, chancellor of the
Washington Archdiocese. also
spoke.
Evening star., 1954-04-26
Draths

WALTON. TIMOTHY. On Thursday.
& fffMoTHx MAfT6S aYss y 90 SSss 'S 2ysr:
Ron RI STSsr eaisnd ~ nrs e .n4a Ms psS. RSS
Jack. and Henderson Walton: uncle Of
Shields. The late Mr.. Walton may be
viewed at the Stewart Funeral Home
S,nara, 80 n St. .s, ne, after 4 pm on Tuesday;
IS, at Vermont Avenue Baptist Church
1880 Vermont ave. NV. at / pm.
Interment Arlington National Cemetery.
wARTHEN. MAURICE A. tBUDDY).
Suddenly on Monday. April 30 1854,
at his residence. 3l03 18th st. NV.
beloved 2ss S.sI husband nd, Of Catherine Connolly
of Baltimore, Md Services at the S. H
Hines Co. Funeral Home. 290I 14th
S.. NV. on Wednesday. April 2S. at
10th SC. and Park. rd. NV. where the
holy sacrifice of the mass will be Of
fered at q am. for the repose of his
soul. Interment Cedar Hill Cemetery.
WHITE. THOMAS J. On Sunday. April
ri TaoMAs s54 S WH1AE Arlington 81 1e5 b0iHss No4ss
husband of Ruth Clymer White. father
White. Friends may call at the Ives
Funeral Home. 2S47 Wilson blvd, Ar
lington. Va, until II noon on Wed
endon Methodist Church. 5th and North
will be held at $50 pm. Interment
National Memorial Park. ~
Evening star., 1954-04-26
Dudley Cafes, 66,
Former NRA Official
BY the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, April 26.-Dud-
ley Gates, 66, former vice presi-
dent of the Commercial Invest
ment Trust Corp, died Saturday
Mr.. Gates attracted national
attention in 1888 while serving
as an unpaid assistant admin
istrator for industry in the Ma
tional Recovery Administration
in Washington.
He split with Gen. Hugh S.
johnson, NRA chief and per-
sonal friend. particularly over
the administrators interpreta-
tion of collective bargaining sec
tions of the law.
Mr.. Gates contended the law
was being used to foster the
American Feoeration of Labor's
form of trade unionism, and
urged setting UP a new labor or
ganization as q better way to
represent workers.
In 1917 Mr.. Gates served in
Washington as secretary of the
Capital Issues Committee of the
Treasury, the group that di-
rected the aow of capital dur
ing World War l. In 1919 he
became assistant director of the
war risk insurance hoard.
He later took a post with
Marsh & McLennon, Inc. Chi
cago insurance brokers, and took
temporary leave in 1888 to ac-
cept the NRA job.
Evening star., 1954-04-26
Strickland Gillian
|Dies;;Wrote '0ffAgin,
On Agin, Finnigin'

Strickland Gillian, humorist
and after-dinner. speaker who
was best known for his "Of
agin. on agin. gone ae.n Firni-
gin" verse, died yesterday at
Physicians Hospital, Warrenton,
Va. He was "a.
He had been in hospitals since
1850. when he suffered a broken
hip. For % years before that.
he had lived at the Shoreham
Hotel.
Mr.. Gillian, who was known
as "Strick," dashed off six STAN
zas of doggerel in 1897 that had
been rattling around in my head
and I had put it on paper so
I could get some work done.
Clear the vacuum. so to speak, "
he once said while telling how
he came to write the Finnigin
poem.
At that time, Mr.. Gillian was
the entire staff of the Richmond
QndD Palladium, a newspaper
whose circulation was 800.
Story of Railroader.
The verse was the story of a
railroader who had been criti-
cized for the long reports he
made of train wrecks. So after a
Evening star., 1954-04-26

Swords and Roses" 1929. "The
Party Dress" 1920, The Lime
stone Tree" G93D. Sheridan"
G93D, Berlin" d932) and
Tropical Winter 1889.
Mr.. Hergesheimer wrote a long
novel in about 80 days. He said
he had to watch himself to keep
from doing too many of them.
Spurning the typewriter, he
scrawled out his manuscripts in
longhand - harder work than
ditch digging" And often he
would rewrite stories as many
as 20 times and parts of them 100
times.
Style Was Precise.
His style was precise and dis
tinguished in a modest, compact
way. His public could live with
his ability to dip into the past
and produce authentic pictures
OF the old South, for example.
At the end of his active ca
reer, he once said he was "sick
OF novels. including my own and
said he was going to look for a
newspaper columnist's Job.
But on another day he called
writer's the most fortunate of
men"
I'VE express ourselves" he
said. That's the trouble with
most of the people in the world,
the reason they're so unhappy.
They know they have fine minds,
but they can't make anybody else
think so. They can't express
them. We can"
For the past 10 years Mr..
Hergesheimer and his wife had
lived at Stone Harbor.
Private funeral services will be
held Wednesday. Burial will be
in Oakland - Cemetery, West
Chester.
Evening star., 1954-04-26
5000 Workers Out
AT WooIen Co. Mills
BY the Associofed Pres.

BOSTON. April 26.-Protesting
a management-proposed wage
cut of 2l12 cents an hour, ap-
proximately 5000 textile workers
remained away from their Jobs
today in eight American Woolen
Co. mills.
Both management and the
CLOS Textile Workers Union of
America said they were ready to
resume negotiations.
PlcketS patrolled at the eight
mills, and none of the employees
attempted to pass through the
lines.
The work agreements expired
March Is and had been ex-
tended several times up to mid
night Friday, when the contract
talks broke off abruptly.
The company insisted during
negotiations it needs the 21l,
cents wage relief to keep operat-
ing The union objected to this
contention.
The company wants a basic
hourly wage of $1.05 instead of
the present 1.26l z, plus a 5 cents
coSt-of-living premium. Fringe
benefits, such as vacation pay
and retirement funds, amount to
another Il cents.
Employees are on strike at Mills
IN plymouth and Lawrence.
Mass; Fairfield. Skowhegan and
Old Town in Maine; Norwich.
Conn; Enfield, N. H., and Wi
nooSki, VT.
Evening star., 1954-04-26
Mrs. Mary Blair; Dowry
Was Her Weiqht in Gold
BY the Associofed Prsss

CHICAGO. April 26.-Mrs.
Mary Barbour Blair. SO. who was
literally worth her weight in gold
to a Chicago coal company ex-
ecutive she married in 1900,
died yesterday in a convalescent
home.
Her Boston millionaire father,
Edmund D. Barbour. gave her
as a dowry her weight in gold
when she married Frank P. Blair.
She weighed 1872 pounds. and
at the gold price prevailing.
her dowry amounted to $32.558.
She and Mr.. Blair were di-
vorced in 1915 and she sued
to recover her dowry. Mr.. Blair,
president of the Shoak Greek
Coal Co.. died in 1923.
Mrs. Blair had lived alone in
a hotel Tor many years before
her death.