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The Arizona post., 1955-04-01
State Department Mum
On Egypt's Demand

WASHINGTON (JTA) The State Department de-
comment report from Cairo revealing that Egypt
the Negev to the Arabs prere
auiste Egyptian cooperation with the Western powers
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AirIines Study
Fure-HikePIeo
BY the Associated Press

The scheduled airlines indi-
Gated today they may have to
ask for a general increase in
passenger fares soon.
The. possibility was expressed
by Earl D. johnson, retiring
president of the Air Transport
Association, to which most of the
airlines belong.
Mr.. johnson noted that the
average domestic airline tickets
today cost only 81 per cent more
than in 1899, while the average
price of an international ticket
is 24.2 per cent less than in 1899.
He added, in the associations
statistical report, that the cost
OF supplies and equipment is
three to four times more than it
was in 1889, the wage level is %
times higher. and Federal in
come taxes levied on the airlines
are "a times what they were in
1899.
THE question must be faced
by both management and Gov
eminent as to whether some in
crease in fare levels will be neces-
sary to permit the industry to
continue expanding its useful
ness to the public" Mr.. johnson
said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-07
Attorney to Test
Validity of SOC
Fee Requirement

A Washington attorney, barred
from practice in Municipal Court
because he refused to pay a So
cent registration fee, expects
to carry the matter next week
into Federal Court.
Philip w. Austin yesterday was
barred by Judge Edward A.
Beard, who also agreed to post
pone a rent suit trial pending
the test of the regulation in the
U. S. District Court for the Dis
trict of Columbia.
The Municipal Court registra-
ton fee was put into effect in
January, 1852. All attorneys who
wish to practice in the Police
Court must pay the fee.
MIR. Autin, who says he has
tried cases before nearly all of
the Municipal Court judges
since the fee was put into effect,
previously had been barred from
practicing in the courtrooms by
Judge Almond Scott and Judge
Frank H. Myers because of fail
ure to comply with the rule.
Judge Beard yesterday de-
clared that his order amounts to
"a friendly test" of the validity
of the rule,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-07

Herbert c. Plummer, director
of the General Services Admins
tration's Once of Public Infor-
nation and Reports, died early
today at his home, 5243 Forty
second street NV.
He was 81. He had been Ill for
several months.
Mr.. Plummer was widely known
among Government workers. He
had formerly been a writer for
the Associated Press.
Born in Clarksville, Tenn, he
was educated at Emory Univer-
sity, Atlanta. In November,
1921. he Joined the AP staff in
Atlanta as a telegraph editor
Bureau Chief
Later he was AP bureau chief
at Baton Rouge. La, and then
managing editor of the Baton
Rouge State Times Advocate. In
November, 1928, he came to
Washington as an AP staff men,
Der. For eight years he wrote
a daily feature and political col
umn. He then spent two years
as a member of the AP staff COW
ering Congress.
He entered Government serv-
ice in 1899 as a writer for the
Office of Government Reports,
When the Office of War 1nfor-
nation was created he became
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Mrs. Susan Brooks,
.Loudoun Native

PURCELLVILLE, Va, May 7.
Mrs. Susan jeanette Dekalb
Brooks, 80, widow of Samuel w,
Brooks, prominent resident of
Loudoun County, died yesterday
at Loudoun Hospital. Leesburg,
after an illness of two months,
A lifelong resident of Loudoun
County, she was a member OF
New Jerusalem Lutheran Church
and was formerly active in a
church auxiliary here. Her hus-
band died in 1943.
She is survived by son, DR.,
S. Carroll Brooks, Winchester;
two daughters, Mrs. R. E. Can
non, Purcellville, and Mrs. Grace
Brooks Popkins, Leesburg; four
grandchildren, DR.. James W.
Brooks. Richmond; Samuel C,
Brooks. jr., University of Wis
consin; Mrs. Robert E. Hicks,
Atlanta, Ga, and Samuel F,
PopkinS, Alexandria, Va.
Funeral services will be held
at II am. at the New Jerusalem
Lutheran Church. Lovettsville,
and will be conducted by Rev
Michael Kretsinger. Rev. William
A. Wade and Rev. John B.
Shinberger. Burial will be in
Lovettsville Union Cemetery.
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Bishop Oman Named
SibIey Bourd Chairman

G. Bromley Oman, Methodist
bishop of Washington, yesterday
was named chairman of the
Board Of Directors Of Sibley Hos
pital.
Other directors chosen were
DR.. Albert Shirley, minister Of
the Mount Vernon Place Method
list Church; william E. Schooley,
vice president of the American
Security and Trust Co.; Mrs.
l.. E. Smoot, Sibley nurse grad
uate; Bradshaw Mintner, promi-
nent Methodist layman.
Also DR.. Theodore H. Palm
quist, newly designated min
lister Of the Foundry Methodist
Church; Robert Anderson, as
sistant Secretary of Defense and
Philip Edwards. superintendent
Of the Washington East District
Of the Methodist Church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-07
Steel Concrete Shelters
Only A-Bomb Defense

move civilians from q bombed
city.
Very clear was the need for
protection In homes from flying
glass and other debris. Even In
homes that withstood the awful
blast, mannequins. draperies and
walls were riddled or pitted by
slivers Of glass. and floors we're
covered with a carpet Of glass
pellets.
Shelters, or possibly ducking
into some protected corner. could
answer this threat. Two homes
had special boxes or traps filled
with plastic material to catch
debris or missiles for more
careful studies of their speed,
impact and danger.
While a shelter may stand up
under the hammering fist of an
atomic blast, this is no assur-
ance that human beings would
come through unframed from
the physical effects Of blast or
pressure. The experiments with
animals were designed to obtain
vital information on this point
of the biological effects of blast
within shelters. It will take
some months for these studies to
be completed.
mice survived the blast in shell
tiers, both surface and under
ground, from 1850 to also feet.
r. L. Corsbie, director of civil
effects tests for the Atomic
Energy Commission, said "a
hours later. II doubt that any
were killed"
Civil defense heads were en-
couraged by the fact that two
concrete block-type houses with
stood the blast at the seven
eighth-of- mile point. Only
their windows and doors failed
to hold.
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THE SAD BALLAD
OF KEFAUVER:
NO DAVY IN 81

BOSTON up. - Mayor
John B. Hynes says that If
the Davy Crockett song had
been current during the 1852
Democratic National Con-
vention "they couldn't have
stopped the Kefauver forces"
Senator Kefauver, Demo-
crat, Of Tennessee, the same
State Davy came from. had
Mr.. Hynes' support in the
convention.
Il was with the coonskin
brigade, as you know" Mr..
Hynes recalled yesterday.
I'VE were going pretty good
for two ballots and then we
got swamped under. / can
see now how we could have
won. If the Davy Crockett
song was in vogue they
couldn't have stopped U.s."
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Avoid Teaching Of Religion
In Public Schools, Jews Urge

ligion, whenever intrinsic to the
lesson at hand, should be in
Guided in the teaching of his
tory, the social studies, litera-
ture. art and other subjects.
S. If discussion of religious
doctrine arises in the classroom,
the teacher should refer the chill
dren to home, church or syna-
gogue for interpretations.
The declaration pointed out
that its study of the issue re-
suited in two conclusions. One
was that the maintenance and
furtherance of religion are re-
sponsibilities of the church, the
synagogue and the home, and
not of the public school," The
other was that "the time, facili-
ties, funds and personnel of our
schools must not be used for re-
ligious purposes"
Federal aid to education
should be limited to "tax-sup-
ported, publicly controlled ele-
mentary and secondary Schools"
the statement asserted. But it
added that free lunches and
medical and dental services
should be available to all chill
dren at public expense" provided
the program has public super
vision and control"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-07
Potenotre Left Assets
OF S3.5 Million in D. G.

Raymond Patenotre, multi
millionaire, who died in Paris in
June, 1851. at the age of 81. left
assets in the District valued at
$3.5 million in addition to prop
erty he owned elsewhere, accord
ing to papers filed here yester-
day.
A Washington attorney. Ellis
worth c. Alvord, petitioned the
U. S. District Court for the Dis
trict of Columbia to name an
ancillary administrator for prop
erty Mr.. Patenotre owned here.
The petition asked the court to
do this to enable Mr.. Alvord to
carry out a contract he says
he made with Mr.. Patenotre for
the purchase of some stock. 1t
also would allow Mr.. Alvord to
collect about 100000 from the
Patenotre estate which he says
is due him.
Mr.. Patenotre's assets in the
District consisted of stock he
owned IN the Hekor Investment
Holding Co., Ltd, a Canadian
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Herbert PIummer Dies at 81;
Head of GSA Information

chief Of its general news desk
and then general news editor.
He joined the War Assets Ad-
ministration in 1945. He served
first as special assistant to the
director of information and later
as director Of the information
division.
Director in 1851.
When GSA was created in
1949 he became deputy director
of the Office of information. In
1851 he was named director, the
post he held until his death.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Fannye 10 Plummer; a son, Jo-
seph Plummer: a daughter, Miss
Judy Plummer: his father, C. B.
Plummer of Clarksville, and a
sister and three brothers Of
Nashville.
Joseph Plummer, who was in
Munich on tour with a theat-
rical group. returned to Wash
ington when his father became
i'll.
The body is at Gawler's fu-
neral home. Funeral services will
be held at 1890 am. Monday
at the Shrine Of the Blessed
Sacrament. Western avenue and
Quesada street, Chevy Chase.
Burial will be in st. Mary's Cath
olic Cemetery,
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R. J. Finnegan,
Editor

CHICAGO. May Z (P. -
Richard j. Finnegan, 10, con-
sulting editor of the Chicago Sum-
Times, died last night.
He had entered Evanston
Hospital April 7 after a heart
attack in his Office.
Mr.. Finnegan, whose Chicago
newspaper career covered more
than SIS years, rose from news
boy-reporter, delivering papers
carrying his own stories, to editor
and publisher.
He was editor and publisher
of the old Chicago Times before
the 1948 merger which created
the Sun-TimeS. He then became
editor and executive vice presi-
dent of the Sum- Times. He held
that position until 1850, when he
became consulting editor.
In earlier days he was on the
stats of the old Chicago Chron-
icle, the Chicago Inter Ocean and
the Chicago Daily journal. He
was president of the City News
Bureau. a cooperative Chicago
news gathering organization,
from 1889 to 1851.
Mr.. Finnegan was active in
many welfare and charitable or
plantations
He was born in Chicago Sep
TENDER S, 1884, the son of Rich
ard j. and Ella Biggs Finnegan.
Mr.. Finnegan is survived by
his widow; two daughters, Mrs.
Lucille Loarie of suburban Deer
field and Mrs. Ruth j. Corcoran
OF Huntington, N. Y; a son.
Richard A. Finnegan of Chicago,
two brothers. Judge Philip Finne-
gan Of the United States Court
OF Appeals in Chicago, and John
Flnnegan, passenger agent for
the Pennsylvania Railroad in
New York; a sister, Eleanor
Finnegan of Chicago, and II
grandchildren,
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A Jewish organization today
advocated a five-point program
to strengthen church and State
separation in the public schools
and to keep public education
free from sectarian strift.
The principles were stated in
a declaration made public by
the American Jewish Committee.
It was signed by Irving M.
Engel, president of the COM
mittee, and former Federal
Judge Simon H. Rifkind, both
of New York.
The organizations executive
board meets today and tomor-
row at the Shoreman Hotel.
The five guide-posts urged in
the statement we're:
/. The public schools should
maintain complete impartiality
in the realm of religion.
2. Teachers should not un-
dertake religious instruction in
the schools.
3. Children of every shade of
religious opinion should enjoy
complete equality in the class
room. Moreover, youngsters with
no formal religious training, as
well as those who do not accept
religious viewpoints, must stand
as equals of their religiously-
educated, observing schoolmates.
4. Pertinent references to re-
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Hit Mrnturtaitt
MONTGOMERY. rrIEN W At

MONTGOMERY. ELLEN W. A tribute of
love and devotion to the memory Of
our dear mother and grandmother.
ELLEN w. MONTGOMERY. who de-
parted this life Ave years ago today,
MAY z, 1880
More and more each day We miss her.
Friends may think the wound is
But they little know the sorrow
Lying within our hearts concealed
CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN.
sABBs, MARION Z. In loving memory
eternal rest fve years ago today, May
Your memory will always linger in
SEWELL, ANNIE ELIZA. In loving MEM
DRY Of my Dear mother, ANNIE ELIZA
SEWELL, who departed this life nine
years ago today, May z, 1915.
My heart still aches with sadness,
My eyes still NIL with tears;
Only God knows how / miss you
After the passing of nine years.
YOUR DEVOTED DAUGHTER. EMMA
THOMAS, ROBERT, sR. In memory Of
our beloved husband and father. ROB-
ERT THOMAS, ST., who departed this
life May z. 1853.
The years seems 80 long without you
We miss you so much, so sleep
And take your well-earned rest beneath
the lofty pines,
Sleep and rest until we meet again
TIE FAMILY.
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organization, according to the
papers filed in the Register of
Wills Office at the court here.
Mr.. Alvord is a vice president
Of the company.
According to court papers. Mr..
Patenotre's will was filed in
France several years ago. Under
its terms a former wife and his
widow, two daughters and two
sons are beneficiaries 1t was said.
All except one daughter live in
Paris. according to the papers
filed here. She is Eleanor Pate
notre du Roure, of New York
City.
The petition here in behalf of
Mr.. Alvord was filed by Attor-
ney o. r. MCGUIRE, jr.
Mr.. Patenotre was a grandson
of the late James EMERSON, ST.,
who was generally credited with
the success of the Philadelphia
Inquirer. He was a son of Jules
Patenotre. former French Am
bassador to the United States.
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Mrs. }. S. Cheyney, eocher
And Wife of Bank Official

Mrs. Jesse S. Cheyney, 40. for
mer Washington school teacher
and wife of an American Secur-
ity g. Trust Co. officer, died
Thursday at Garfield Hospital.
Mrs. Cheyney, who lived at 4466
Arlington boulevard, Arlington,
was a native of that city. She
attended the Old Central High
School in the District and was
graduated from the Wilson
Teachers College in 1927.
She entered the District school
system shortly after her gradual
ton and taught first grade at the
Ketcham Elementary School I'M
til 1912. when she retired from
full-time work. Since then she
has served as a substitute teacher.
Mr.. Cheyney Is assistant trust
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Husband Battles
Man After Wife
Escapes Yoker

An angered husband chased
and fought a man charged with
attempting to yoke and rob his
wife this morning as she re-
turned home from work.
Police said Mrs. Patricia Weber,
81, of 1884 Twelfth street NV.
had her key in the door at 2:15
O'Clock when a colored man
grabbed her. She screamed and
he ran.
Police said her husband, Kurt.
80, heard the scream and pur-
sued the assailant. At Twelfth
and M streets NV. he grabbed
the assailant and was hit on
the head.
At that point second precinct
Pvts. Henry S. Hef1in and George
Caleb arrived to break up the
fight. They charged James E.
Reid. %. colored, of the 1900
block of Tenth street NV. with
attempted robbery and assault.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-07
Polish Club to Meet

The Polish Club of Washing
ton will meet in commemoration
of the 164th anniversary of Po-
lands May 3 Constitution at
1880 pm. May IA in the Shera-
ton Park Hotel. The Star yes
terday incorrectly listed the
meeting for tonight. Represen-
tative Ray J. Madden. Demo-
crat, of Indiana, and Oskar
Halecki of Fordham University
will speak.
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DEATHS REPORTED
tFrom D. c Health DEPARTMENT.

Mary Blake IS, AIT 18th st. ne.
Hattie l. Weaver 81. Baltimore.
Lewanna wilkins, SO. 1851 Crescent pl.
NV
Victor watkins SO. 400 Cathedral ave.
NV.
Katherine p. Phillips. SO, Washington.
John p. Gardiner, so, 2130 18th st. Sc.
MarVaret L. Brooks. "a. 515 Sheridan
Annie r. BraShears. -. 1910 columbia
sophte 3. Herr. 70. Fails Church, Va.
Woude A. Thompson. ~, 2115 Pennsyl-
Gertrude Parker. 10. 1889 Savannah ter.
Michael a Hedderman, so. b215 Con-
necttcut ave. NV.
Leona AuSuster. IT.. 80, 4422 New Hamp-
Roaer a. slundon, SO, 2215 Pennsylva-
Ernest R, Doyle. 81. Alexandria. Va.
Trysue Skoehund. 81, Vienna, Va.
MAY NJ. Hartman. 50, '26 1ryinEton st.
Elsie {. Lambert. 50. l3is H st. ne.
Anna 2; Nuttall. 80, 1922 Greene 81. NV.
o esns ss chspa an 81 l@s l bt II T..
Lulu Mason. &c. Forestyiile, Md
Thomas Simmons. 20, $685. Drake pl. Sc.
James shelton. 6s; 1879 18th st. NV,
LawIenss Payne. ss. ! Fsnton St, ne;
Net Sss' B. Esyne. 02 Il. Mariana NV
Charlotte J. warner. A., 1872 sth at. NV.
Mildred stewart. 30. 17l3 coreoran st..
william L. Rhodes. Is. so27 East cspi.
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Chevy Chase Boy, 10,
Wins in Spelling Bee

Roger Mehle, an eighth grade
Georgetown Prep student, came
up with the correct spelling of
the word accordion" last night
and took top honors in the
Washington Daily News 10th
annual spelling bee.
Roger. 10. the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Kenneth Frank of 1879
Hesketh street. Chevy Chase,
Md, won a $500 savings bond
and a 24-volume set of the En-
clclopaedia Britannica. He will
represent Washington in a ma
tional spelling bee at the Com
merce Department auditorium
May l9.
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Mrs. Evelyn EneeI,
Long D. Resident

Mrs. Evelyn S. Engel, n, a
former longtime resident of
Washington. died yesterday in
st. Petersburg, Fla, after a long
illness.
Mrs. Engel and her husband,
Carl R. Engel, a retired postal
inspector. had moved to Florida
after living here for 40 years.
A native of Grand Rapids,
Mich, she came to Washington
soon after her marriage. She
was a member of the Eastern
Star.
Besides her husband, she is
survived by a son, Carl S. Engel,
and two grandchildren, OF 1921
Central avenue NE.
Services will be held Monday
in st. Petersburg.
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Mrs. Hunt, Wife
OF Texas Gilman

ROCHESTER, Mimi. May Z
(P.-Mrs. LYDIA Bunker Hunt, 66,
wife of H. L. Hunt, Dallas CTexD
Gilman, died last night after a
short illness. Mr.. Hunt is re-
ported to be one of the worlds
richest men.
She was flown to Rochester
from Dallas Monday for special
treatment after suffering a
stroke several days before.
Mr.. Hunt, two daughters, Mrs.
Lloyd B. Sands and Mrs. A. G.
Hill, and four sons, Hassie, Mel
son, William Herbert and Lamar.
all accompanied Mrs. Hunt here.
Mrs. Hunt, a native of Lake
Village, Ark. was a graduate of
Maddox Preparatory School for
Girls in Little Rock. She also
attended Potter College at
Bowling Green, KY.
She was a member OF the Board
OF Trustees of the Mary Baldwin
College, Staunton, Va.
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investment officer for the Amer
lean Security & Trust Co.
Surviving are her husband, a
daughter, Miss Elizabeth R.
Cheyney, IL; three brothers, w.
Radford of Fairfax, Va; I. Ward,
and Harry Boswell, both of 7
South Pershing drive. Arlington;
three sisters, Mrs. Virginia B.
Finks, 2 Glendale avenue, Alex
andria; Mrs. Sadie Kephart. 1873
Patrick Henry drive, Arlington,
and Miss Elsie Boswell of the
South Pershing drive address.
Funeral services were to be
held at 3 pm. today at the Mount
Olivet Methodist Church, Six
tenth street and North Glebe
road. Arlington. Burial was to
be in the Columbia Gardens
Cemetery,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-07
Col. Otey Warren,
Veteran of 7 Wars

WILMINGTON, Del, May 7
(P.-Col. Otey Y. Warren. SO,
chief of maintenance and repair
for. the United States Transport
tation Corps during World War
II and captain in the field artil-
lery in France during World
War I, died last night In the
Delaware Hospital.
Since May, 1858, Col. Warren
had been president of Pussy &
Jones Corp. of Wilmington.
He was business consultant for
the Todd Shipyards and the
Puget Sound Bridge g. Dredging
Co. of Seattle, Wash, and just
before coming to Wilmington he
was in business in New York.
He was born in Hinton, w. Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-07

SURVIVAL CITY, New, May Z
R.-Man-made steel. concrete
and earth shelters may be the
only solid defensive answer to
mans most terrifying weapons.
atomic and thermonuclear
bombs.
That appears today to be the
foremost tangible result of OPP
Grafton Cue, the major civil de-
Tense test, and allied military ex-
periments in Thursdays power
full atomic shot.
Two dogs In a concrete bath
room shelter lived through the
blast which leveled the rest of
one house seven-eights Of a mile
from ground zero Thursday.
Mannequins in shelters in an
other shredded house were un-
affected.
And the commander Of Task
Force Razor, the tank group
which rode out the blast in SIS
tanks at 3,100 yards, said they
might have been twice as close
without danger.
II believe we could move
them in to 1000 yards, and some
of our people say 1900" 1t. Col
John G. Wheelock of Saginaw
Mich, declared.
Fifteen hundred yards is
closer than was the first row of
houses in Operation Cue.
Moreover, scores of test dogs,
rats. rabbits, guinea pigs and
Some of the weapons the mill
tary uses may prove useful in
helping civilians survive.
Army tank experts have Sug-
gested that tanks and the other
big, track-laying vehicles like
armored personnel carriers,
would he valuable in helDinp re
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Landmark Burns

PHILADELPHIA, May 7 (P.
One of the city's best-known
landmarks, the socalled Japa-
nese pagoda in Paramount Park,
was destroyed by fire last night.
The cause was not determined.
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lnurilin1

RICH, ROSE. The .unveilinE Of q. monu-
ment in memory Of ROSE RICH. beloved
wife Of BENJAMIN Rich and mother
Of Irv Rich and Mrs. Arthur D.
schaher. will take place at IL am.
Sunday. Nav is, 1883, at the Adas
Israel Cemetery. Relatives and friends
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-07

BUNDY. FL0RENcE. The family Of the
late FLORENCE BUNDY takes this
means OF th1nkinE our many frienos FOR
the beautiful horai designs. cards and
acts Of service rendered to Us during
cur recent bereavement
JAMES a. BUNDY AND WALTER B.