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museum at Juneau, giving sugges- tions for cases and recording of objects for the new museum at Kodiak. Dr. A. Holmes Johnson, museum committee chairman, re- ported the purchase of the library museum land from Norman Noble was now completed, and that Mr. Noble had been given two weeks to remove his belongings from tn old residence on the property.
 George Cornelius, society presi- dent, announced there would be no meeting of the organization in January. Coffee and cookies were served at the close of the meeting.
Kodiak mirror., 1956-12-15
Artifacts, s,Movies Meeting HighIights

A talk on the digging of arti. sne hishhghts of the program of the Historical Society at the regu- lar monthly meeting "Wednesday, December 5. at the high school.
 Henry Cram told of his and his facts in the Anton Larsen Bay area and two. sets of movies were wife's experience searching cliffs and beaches during the summer on Anton Larsen Bay and showed
Kodiak mirror., 1956-12-15
Bidding Sought On Adak Construction

Bids are being called for con struction of additional communica- tions, aviation and hanger facili- ties at Adak, Alaska. Bids will be received until January g, 1857. Work called for is the construc- tion of a new hanger and shop building;; an operations building and control towers a remote VHF- UHFhReceiyer bdilding and erner- geney power sbnadingss a crash sta tion; additions to existing steam generating facilities: connections and lextensiens to other. utilities; an addition to gafi existing trans hitter building and .accesS roads, hanger apron, parking lots and walks to- serve the prolect
 Specifications and other appli- cable bidding data and information may beobtained or examined on application after December IT to Leo A. Daly Company. Securities Building, Seattle. Washington.
 al z t H s
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About 58 per cent of Alaska's population is under 25 years. of age. In the United States, 41.5 per cent is under 25 years. 9
Kodiak mirror., 1956-12-15

BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL
 WOMENS CLUB Monday Business Meeting-8 pm, Monday Dinner Meeting-7 pm.
 at Island Fountain
 KODIAK 5 CENTRAL LABOR COUNSEL. Meets 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month at 7:30 pm. in the
 Carpenters Hall Timothy Gilmore, President Stuart Nuckols, Financial Sec.
Kodiak mirror., 1956-12-15

UNITED CANNERY WORKERS of Kodiak Island, Kodiak. Alaska. Meets the 3rd Thursday of every month at 8 p. m. at the
 Union Hall
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Michael Hughes,
Chicago Detective

CHICAGO, June % (P.-Mi-
chael ]. Hughes. So, former chief
Of the Chicago police department
and ranked as one of Chicago's
top detectives, died last night
after a brief illness.
Mr.. Hughes was member Of
the police department for SO
years. retiring in 1885. He had
received 81 creditable mentions
for his police work, one of the
highest records ever made in the
department.
Mr.. Hughes advanced to the
rank of captain in 1921 when he
was named chief of detectives, a
job he held for three years. He
served as chief of police, now
Titled commissioner, from May
p, 1927 to August /, 1928.
One of his most brilliant cases
was in 1924 when he led in the
questioning Of Nathan Leopold
and the late Richard Loeb until
the two youths admitted the
murder Of young Bobby Franks
another was the 50 million
Roundout tIl.) mail robbery OF
1924, which he also helped to
solve.
Mr.. Hughes. who came to Chi
Icago from his native Ireland as
a boy Of II. is survived by three
daughters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-22

His novel Henry Broken
was published in 1904, two year:
after the publication of Songs
Iof Childhood" Other works
which brought him to the front
rank of his contemporaries in.
Icluded THE Return" in 1910
which won the Polignac Prize,
THE Listeners and Other
Poems" (1912), Peacock Pie
(1910. Motley and Other
Poems" (191S), and Collected
Poems" in 1920.
He continued a steady produc-
ton Of poems. essays and vol
umes Of stories through his later
years. "A Beginning and Other
Stories" was published in 1855
In 1852 he appeared ,on q
British radio program as one Of
four old wise men and observed
that children are astonishingly
kind to the old.
Catch a good specimen alone
IAN intelligent. imaginative one
in the right mood" he said, "and
you won't pine for other COM
Ipany."
Once started on his literary
career he wrote industriously
producing about 40 volumes OF
poetry and numerous short
stories and novels. His lyrics
ARE considered among the most
beautiful in the English Ian.
Iguage.
His wife. Constance Elfrida
died in l943.
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"A. A. Lilly 70, Led
Family Reunions

CHARLESTON. w. Va. june
~ R.-A. A. Lilly, one-time
State attorney general and
Cousin Abe" to generations Of
West Virginians who attended
his annual family reunions. died
yesterday.
The 78-year-old Republican
party leader died at his apart
ment in the Ruffner Hotel. AS
principal owner. he had lived
there for many years. He had
been in falling health for some
time.
Mr.. Lilly started law practice
at Beckley in 1900. and the fol-
lowing year was elected to the
State House of Delegates from
Raleigh County. He was elected
county prosecutor in 1904, and
won the ONCE OF attorney gen.
eral in the 1912 election.
Mr.. Lilly helped to organize
and served as president Of the
Lilly Family Reunion Associa-
ton. The organization began
holding annual gatherings at
Flat Ton near the paiatc,,
Mercer County line. in 1929. The
events grew in popularity until
thousands attended from all over
the country.
The reunions were abandoned
during World War II and none
has been held in the last few
years.
Surviving are his widow, two
sons and a daughter. ~
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|Iroqi Official Sees
City, Receives Key

Muzahim Mahir, governor Of
the province of Basra, Iraq, to.
day received the key to Wash.
ington during a brief visit.
Robert E. Mclaughlin, pres
ident of the Board of Commits
sioners. presented the symbol
Told that Gov. Mahir is par.
ticularly interested in the adj
ministration of police affairs. the
Commissioner invited him tC
tour the administrative head
quarters of the Metropolitan
Police Department.
The Governor leaves tomor-
row for New York. Basra il
Iraq'S principal port.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-22

The church in which Mrs
Robert E. Lee Mullikin was mar
ried SO years ago today provided
the setting today for her funeral
Mrs. Mullikin, the former Ada
Roberts, died Tuesday at Leland
Memorial Hospital. Riverdale
Md. She was IS. Her husband
who died in l941. was a retired
Pennsylvania Railroad employee
Mrs. Mullikin was born in Cal.
vert County. Md. the daughter
of Richard and Henrietta Nor
sell Roberts. She went to Tow
son Normal School and taught
at the old Collington Md
school. She lived in Collington
for IS years and was active there
in Holy Trinity Episcopal
Church, the church where she
was married and was to be
buried from at 8 pm. Recently
she had been living in Mitche-
Vile, Md.
Survivors are two daughters
Mrs. Henrietta M. Candy, Rogers
Heights, Nd, and Mrs. Robert
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Walter de Ia Mare, Noted
English Poet and Novelist

TWICKENHAM, England
June % (A.-Walter de Ia
Mare. 83, internationally knowr
British poet. died today. He was
stricken only yesterday.
Mr.. de la Mare was one Of
the few members of the Order
of Merit, a nontitle honor re.
served for no more than "a living
persons of special eminence
Queen Elizabeth II named the
poet to the order in 1858.
Mr.. de la Mare was 20 when
he published his first book
Songs of Childhood" 1t started
him on an almost endless series
of poems and stories for chill
dren and their elders. His long
literary life began while he was
a clerk in the London Office OF
the Anglo-American Oil Co.
where he worked for Is years.
Last year he and American
born sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein
we're awarded certificates of
honorary membership in the
American Academy of Arts and
Letters.
The citation to Mr.. de la Mare
said;
Your poems, your short sto-
ries and your novels, but es-
pecially your poems. have now
for half a century been notable
for the delicacy which. SO far
from being inconsistent with
their depth. is indeed an ex-
PLANTATION Of it. Their power with
children and adults alike is a
unique thing in our time"
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YARD DROPS Is FEET,
GEORGIA HOME IMPERILED

ROSSVn4LE. Ga. [P)-A mother walking with her baby
neighbours back yard sink yesterday until it became
gaping cavern Is feet deep.
Il looked up and there lot of dust" said A.
r. Templeton. THE bushes going down. thought
was going crazy"
Equally amazed Willie Morrison when he returned
home from work in wooden mill and what had hap
pened to the ground at the of his new home
Mr. Morrison that his neat trim back yard had be-
huge hole about rs feet in diameter and that many
feet Deep At the bottom could be an underground
filled with water.
Constable Lefty Denton said there may be UNDER
ground lake in the the site of limestone rock
mining operation.
Last night the ground already nearer to
Mr. Morsons house. opening up less than IL
from his back door,
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marriage. She came to Wash.
Iington with her husband. whC
was associated with the Govern.
ment, in 1918.
She was member of the
Clarendon Methodist Church
and the Potomac Rose Society.
Surviving are five children by
Ia former marriage-Miss Mary
E. Lille of the home address, Mrs
Caroline Anadale, ZIG Abingdon
street. Arlington; James Harold
Lille, jackson. Tenn; Richard
Lille, Clearwater. Fla. and
Charles T. Lille, Pittsburgh.
Two sisters. Mrs. w. r. Thomas
and Miss Leone Reid, both Of
Natchez, Miss. also survive.
Services will be held tomorrow
Iat II am. in Gawler's chapel,
1855 Pennsylvania avenue NV.
Entombment will be in Fort
Lincoln mausoleum.
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R. K. Fox, As, Former Navy
EmpIoye and Area Resident

He left the bureau in l947 to
serve as Washington representa-
tive of the Grand Central Air
port Co. of Glendale. Calf, a
position he held until 1851. That
year he took the Burton-R Rodgers
post.
He is survived by his widow,
Juanita Berry Fox; a daughter,
Cheryl Ann: a brother, Mai,
Robert T. Fox of the Marine
Corps. and three sisters, Mrs.
George r. Benz of Lakewood
Calf: Mrs. Marvin Burleson of
Mesa. Ariz., and Mrs. Geoi ge
Frisby of Billings. Mont.
Services were held today in
Cincinnati. Burial will be in
Arlington National Cemetery at
/ pm. Tuesday. The family has
requested that any donations be
given to the heart fund.
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'Ho|IisJ.Nugent,
RetirenentAide

Hollis j. Nugent, 50, a native
lof Alexandria and q resident
there for many years. died Tues
day in Seattle. following an
operation.
Mr.. Nugent was the district
manager of the Railroad Retire.
ment Board in charge of the
Northwest section of the United
States, British Columbia and
Alaska. He worked in the Chi
cago and San Francisco Offices
of the Railroad Retirement
Board before going to the Seattle
headquarters.
Prior to that Mr.. Nugent was
associated with the Alexandria
office Of the Southern Railway
for many years. The son of the
late John j. and Annie v. Nu-
gent. he attended st. Mary's
parochial school in Alexandria,
St. Johns College High School,
and George Washington Uni
versity.
He was member Of st. Mary'S
Catholic Church. He also be-
longed to American Legion Post,
No. "a, in Alexandria and the
Veterans of Foreign Wars. Mr..
Nugent served in the Navy in
World War /. He belonged for
many years to the Old Dominion
Boat Club.
Surviving are his widow, the
former Josephine Blake of Alex
andria, and three siSters-Miss
Eleanor Nugent, Miss Dorothy
Nugent and Mrs. Courtney N.
Godfrey. all of 1912 Orchard
street. Alexandria.
The body viii arrive in Alex
landria Sunday morning. Friends
may call after noon at the De-
maine funeral home, $40 South
washington street, Alexandria.
Requiem mass will be said at
l9:45 am. Monday in st. Mary's
Catholic Church. Burial will be
in Arlington Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-22

Richard K. Fox, As, a former
resident of the Washington area
died of a heart attack in Dayton
Ohio. on Wednesday.
Mr.. Fox, who lived with hi
family in Cincinnati, was assist.
ant to the president of Burton.
Rodgers, Inc, of that city. Tht
firm manufactures training ue.
vices and display equipment
Mr.. Fox was a resident of thi:
area from 1888 to 1851. He came
here soon after graduation from
the University of Montana
Prior to his leaving five years
ago for Ohio, he lived with his
family at 1910 South Edgewood
street. Arlington.
An officer in the Naval Re-
serve. he worked for a number
Of years with the Bureau OF
Aeronautics, Navy Department
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-22
Nth Marine Unit
Cites War Dead

The 4th Marine Division, vet-
Grams of four Pacific Island cam
paigns in World War II, honored
its war dead today in a cere-
mony at the Marine Corps Me-
mortal.
Gen. Frank Hart, former as
sistant division commander.
spoke to former division mem-
bers attending the ninth annual
reunion in Washington this week
END.
I'm action as fierce as any
troops ever saw" Gen. Hart said.
the division suffered the highest
casualty rate Of any Marine divi-
sion, with more than rs per cent
|of its original members lost.
There were 1928 killed and IA
424 wounded.
"Debt Nevre Paid"
ITO those who fell in battle,
our debt is never fully paid" he
said. Their supreme sacrifice
brought our victory"
He said, I'm honoring our
heroic dead, we must respect
and compel respect of our trade
tions for truth, integrity, loyalty
and for our great esprit" These
traits, he added, accounted for
many victories.
About 400 members of the di-
vision association registered at
the Willard Hotel yesterday. This
evening, the veterans win watch
Ia sunset parade at the Marine
Barracks.
Along with sightseeing, the
former leathernecks are ex-
changing "reminiscences with
friends and holding general
business sessions. New associa-
ton officers will be elected to-
morrow and the next reunion
site will be chosen.
Banquet and Dance Slated
The reunion will close with q
banquet and dance tomorrow
night, at which Admiral Richard
IL. Connolly, former Naval
Academy commandant, will
speak.
The division, formed in 1912.
and activated a year later. spent
ri months in the Pacific. It's
four engagements against the
Japanese were at Roi-Namur on
Kwajalein Atoll. then at Saipan
and Tinian in the Marianas Is.
lands and finally at Two lima.
1t won the Presidential Unit
Citation for action at Saipan
and Tinian.
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Bullet Thut Killed Lincoln
Placed on Public Exhibit

The little pellet of lead which
took the life of Abraham Lincoln
went on public exhibit today at
the Armed Forces Institute OF
Pathology.
The bullet, fired from a single
shot Deringer pistol held by
John Wilkes Booth in Ford'S
Theater the night of April IA,
1865. has never been publicly
shown. For years it was among
almost 100 exhibits used in the
trial of the assassination con-
spirators held by the Judge Ad-
vocate Generals Office.
In 1910 the collection was
turned over to the Lincoln Mu-
scum in the Ford Theater Build
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-22
Mrs. MuIIikin, IS, Being Buried
From Church Of Her MARRIAGE

M. Marshall. Laurel, Md; twin
sons, Lee M. Mullikin, Colling-
ton. and Kent r. Mullikin. An
napolis. Of the Equitable Life AS
surance Society Office in WASH
ington: four sisters. Mrs. James
Duke, Calvert County; Mrs. Ho-
val Smith, 1910 Macomb street
NV; Mrs. Augustus Wedder-
burn, 1919 Fern street NV, and
Mrs. William d. Croft. Owings
Mills. Md; three grandchildren
and two great grandchildren.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-22
Dr.. Samuel P. Copen,
Retired Chancellor

BUFFALO, N. Y, June % up
DIR. Samuel Paul Capen, rs, re-
tired chancellor of the Uni.
versity of Buffalo and first di-
rector of the American Council
on Education. died today after 9
long illness.
DR.. Capen, nationally known
authority in the field Of college
and university planning and ad.
ministration. retired from tn,
university here in 1850 after
serving as its head for % years.
He was native of Somerville
Mass, and received his educa.
ton at Tufts, Harvard and thu
University Of Pennsylvania.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-22

ing on Tenth street NV. But
the bullet. medical probe and
a small fragment of Lincoln's
skull were kept from public view
because the National Park Serv-
ice felt their display would not
be in good taste.
However. officials of the medi-
cal museum. hearing of their
availability, requested them for
showing in a Lincoln aSsassina.
ton display on the second floor
of the pathology building at
Ninth street and Independence
avenue NV.
The exhibit will be open this
week end from 9 am. to S pm.
and thereafter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-22
Traffic Unit to Open
Office Here Today

The Institute of Traffic En-
gineers is scheduled to open it,
new national headquarters in the
Professional Engineers Building.
2029 K street NV, with an in
formal open house at 3 pm. to-
day.
The District Commissioners
have proclaimed the day "Traf-
fic Engineers Day" in honor Of
the occasion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-22
DR.. Arthur Christie Dies;
World -Fomed RodioIoqist

DR.. Arthur Carlisle Christie, rs,
one of the worlds foremost radi-
ologists VINO was a resident of
Washington for IS years, died
of stroke in Jacksonville, Fla,
today.
DR.. Christie suffered one stroke
three weeks ago. and second
one last week. He died in Baptist
Memorial Hospital.
His friends here last saw him
in April when he came UP from
Crescent City, Fla, where he
had been living since his retire.
ment, to attend past presidents
night of the District Medical So
|ciety.
Three hundred friends and
colleagues honored the pioneer
Iradiologist with a dinner at the
IShoreham Hotel when he retired
in December, 1852.
thine for Other Things
I'm my whole career I've been
under the control of the disci-
Iplines of science" he told them.
Nov have time for other
things. I'm quite interested in
raising azaleas. And of course
there will be some fishing and
reading and writing
DR.. Christie pursued these in
terests in Florida, friends said.
although he developed cataracts
after his retirement. He con-
ltinued, however, to review medi-
cal literature. and wrote several
papers.
Always a prolific writer, DR..
Christie wrote one of the earliest
books on X-rays, manual on
x-ray technique.
He once said he became al
radiologist by order of the Sur
geon General of the Army" Al
general practitioner, he Joined
the Army Medical Corps in 1906.
and was assigned to the then lit
tie known and dangerous field
OF radiology. One of his hands
bore the scars of early expert
ments with potent rays now used
in the treatment of cancer. Dur
ing World War /, DR.. Christie
served as chief of the division
OF roentgenology of the Army
Medical Corps.
At the wars end he resigned
from the Medical Corps and be-
gan his practice of radiologyI
here with the late DR.. Thomas
A. Grower.
Clinic World Known
The Grower, Christie and
Merritt Pathological Clinic which
grew out of this association, long
directed by DR.. Christie, became
known throughout the world as
standing for the best in the prac-
tice OF medicine and radiology.
The firm with personnel of
about go, including eight part
ners, two medical associates and
10 medical fellows at the time
of DR.. Christie's retirement, is
one of the largest X-ray centers
in the United States.
His distinguished career and
many ,honors Notwithstanding
DR.. Christie liked to think of
himself as a country doctor. /"
He had been one at first. serving
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Dratha

THOMAS. LYDIA A. ofncers and Tru,
Daughters Of p. M N. @
\ Chamber, No. g O. u. o. O
Q. r.; are requested to at,
tend the funeral services o.
dl THOMAS. Funeral on Satur.
A1s day. June %. 1856. at
gg5m IRON the MetroDOlitan a M sI E
SITS NV. Wear ali white.
LENA JONES, c. G. Scribe.
WILLIAMS, ALICE. on Wednesday
June 90, 1856: at her residence, l44l
Sf Mrs 't Rebsocs DoEsey Waiter 's sna
vived BY d host Of other relatives and
friends. The late Mrs. Williams may
Friday, June ~, where services viii viii
be held on Saturday. June 20, at /
pm. lnterment Woodlawn Cemetery
WISE, EDWARD M. JR. On Thursday
versity Hospital, EDWARD M. WISE
Jr., Of $40 South Orme St. Arlington,
Va. husband of Lillian Bender Wise
Clara W. Yates, Mrs. Henry A. Smith
Mrs. Daniel +. Hartnett. and Joel C
Wise. Mr.: Wise rests at the Warner
gia ave, Silver Spring, Md. where
prayers will be said on Saturday, June
Johns Catholic Church, Forest Glen,
Nd. where mass will be offered al
10 am. for the repose Of his soul.
Interment Prospect Hill Cemetery,
private parking facilities for your con-
venience located on Wayne ave. adia-
cent 10 the funeral home)
WISSMAN. EDWARD J. On wednes-
day. June 20. 1856, at the D. c.
Village, Blue Plains. d. c., EDWARD
]. WISSMAN, son of the late Jackson
d. and Christina Wissman. brother
Of the late Henry and John Wissman
and brother in-law Of Mrs. Ruth Wiss-
man OF Collese Park, Md Remains
resting at Hysong's Funeral Home
1900 N st. NV, where services will
be held on Saturday, June %, at l
pm. Interment in st. Johns Church
Cemetery. Beltsville, Md.
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Abraham Acsen, n,
YACHTING Enthusiast

MIAMI, Fla, June 20 (R.-
Abraham Aasen. n, master
mariner and skipper of the
schooner-yacht Atlantic from
1929 to l941 and well-known in
New York yachting circles, died
yesterday at his home.
Survivors include the widow
Harriet; a son. Robert Aasen Of
West Sacramento. Calf; q
brother and three sisters.
Funeral services will be held
here tomorrow, followed by
cremation.
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Mrs. William B. Hays, 86,
Area Resident 40 Years

Mrs. william Burroughs Hays,
So, a resident of the Washington
area almost 40 years. died yes
terday of a heart attack in
Arlington Hospital.
She and her husband, who
died in 1858. lived in Wesley
Heights for many years. In re-
cent years. she lived at 313l
North Pershing drive. Arlington
The former Caroline Thomas
Reid, Mrs. Hayes taught school
briefly in Mississippi before her