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Draths

WATERMAN, ELIZABETH r. On Tues
s asS A ksnaas n Il dsS s,.a 81 her rssdenc
EII2BE Te w VA sssMdf b sloVsd M Mffs
Of Arthur J. Waterman, daughter OF
Mrs; Rufus Parks Of Nova Scotia and
land. Tenn; Mrs. Fred r'i Hrms ST e'e Of
Montreal, Mrs Albert Sutton Of Nova
Scotia. Walton Parks. Stewart Parks
Of Nova Scotia and Arnold Parks Of
Hines Co. Funeral Home. 2s0i i4th
st. NV, on Thursday. April 10. at .
pm; parking facilities. Interment
par tlibVI;o Cemetery. In lieu Of flowers.
Heart Fund.
WESSFLIUs, WALTER. Suddenly. on
Wednesday. April IS. 1856, at $3.50
l4th st, NV, WAITER WESsELIUS.
beloved husband of Kathryn Wesselius.
Seaeo. Ill; and brother Of Mrs Ralph
Wesselius Of Chicago. H.; Gerald Wes-
s seiils OF Of i 6 Japan, and John Wes-
cal! at the s. H Hines CO. Funeral
at Fort Myer Chapel, Fort Myer. Va.
on triaa si;ns April -; at am Inter,
April is. 1855. Charles IL wilson
beloved husband of the late Louise
Wilson He is survived by two step
uduEutcIs. MIS-. NOV IuSDy ana MRS.
to call at the Richie Bros' Funeral funeral
Home, Upper Marlboro, Md, where flu
neral services will be held on Thursday.
April 10. at 10 am. with the Rev.
Y ss5'i' D'asi5 cs$s s5stas
Marlboro. Md Is
WOOD. EDWARD. Suddenly, on sun
Rockville, Nd. EDWARD WOOD, be.
loved husband Of the late Cora Wood,
father of Mrs. Lucille Allen, Mrs.
Bernice W. Coleman Mrs. Margaret
Liverpool, George. William and Oscar
Wood. Also surviving are twenty three
grandchildren, thirteen great-grand-
children and a host Of other relatives
AA p1Ido 49, v friends Una may cal a. ths
Funeral on Thursday, April 10, at :
pm. at the Jerusalem Church. Rock
vile. Md. Rev. w. E. Williams officiat-
ing. Interment Haiti Cemetery. Is
ZEIDLER, ELMIRA E.. On Saturday,
April IA, 1856, at her home. 1908
E IMiRA Z zEipLER Ever mo sRReins e. Ms Ms,
Allan Newberry. Mrs. Edna M. Weidler
and Sommers A. and Creston A. Smith:
sister of Mrs. Mercy Rhue. Mrs Marie
Weber and Steve Bear. Mrs. zeidler
rests at the Warner E. Humphrey Flu
neral Home, s434 Georsia ave. Silver
held on Thursday. April 10. at 5
pm Interment Cedar Lawn Gene
facilities for your convenience located
on Wayne ave, adjacent to the funeral
home.) 10
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Ition when she retired from the
Government in 1854.
A native of Augusta, Wis, and
"a 1912 graduate of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin, Miss Halbert
began her career with the In
dustrial Commission of Wiscon-
sin. Later she did cost-of- living
and minimum wage studies for
the Minimum Wage Commission
of California. For six years she
was director of employment for
women Of the Los Angeles branch
of the State Employment Serv-
ice.
Miss Halbert came to WASH
Iington in 1922. She was with
the Coal Commission and then
in 1923 she began 10 years of
work with Better Houses in
America. an educational organi-
cation financed by the Rookie
Teller Foundation. She directed
research and housing demon
stration activities of the agency.
In 1888 she was loaned to the
Presidents Conference on Home
Building and Home Ownership.
Miss Halbert was housing con-
Isultant to the bsista e
Homestead Division of the In
terror Department and later
housing specialist of the man.
agement division of the Resettle-
Iment Administration. After the
United States Housing Authority
was created, she served there as
rent relations counselor, home
economist and housing facilities
officer.
During World War II she SUI
perviSed the design of lowcost
furniture and home furnishings
for emergency housing. She also
initiated and directed studies in
this field.
Miss Halbert took an active
part in the White House confer
ences Of 1910, and 1850. She was
a member of the Interdepart-
mental, Committee on Children
and Youth and made a special
study for the committee on the
relation of housing to child well
fare. She had written books and
ARTICLES on her field.
She was a member of the
American Association of Univer-
Sity Women, the American
Home Economics Association and
and the National Housing Con-
ference.
Survivors are two brothers,
Charles A. Halbert. Madison,
Wis; Samuel w. Halbert of Call
Iifornia. and a sister, Mrs. Ber-
nard Brady, Milwaukee.
Services will be held tomor-
row afternoon in Madison.
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Ernest M. Whitesmith,
UniversuIist Minister

LINESVILLE. Pa. April IS up.
The Rev. Ernest M. White.
smith. 81, a retired Universalist
Church minister. died yesterday
in this Western Pennsylvania
town.
Mr.. WhiteSmith was former
State superintendent of the Uni
Iversalist Church in Georgia. He
had been organizer and State
Secretary for Washington State
Grange and served in the WASH
lngton State Legislature. He
also was editorial writer and
news commentator for several
West Coast newspapers and ra-
dio stations.
He had held paStorates at
Calais. Me-; Danver, Mass; Eu-
gene, Greg; Pomona, Calf;
Rochester. Mimi, and Linesville.
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DR.. 81, Dies;
Authority on Measure

DR.. Henry L. Curtis. 81, inter-
national authority of absolute
electrical measurements, died
yesterday at Emergency Hospital.
DR.. Curtis, 6816 Delaware
street. Chevy Chase, Md, retired
from the Bureau of Standards in
1916. He was chief of the Blu
reau's Inductance and Capaci-
lance Section, a part of the cleo
tricity division. There he super
vised the maintenance and con-
tinued development OF the ma
tional standards of reference for
determining the two basic cleo
trical quantities, inductance and
capacitance.
Because of his work on the
measurement of current and re-
sistance in absolute units, he was
bureau representative at the In
ternational Electrical Congress in
Paris in 1882.
Noted for Research
He also inaugurated funda-
mental researches on the prop
critics of dielectrics. During
World Wars l and II he directed
extensive programs in balliStic
research for the Navy.
Even though he was retired,
DR.. Curtis continued his aSsocia-
ton with the bureau. going to
his desk almost daily. He was
author of several papers in bal
listics and articles in scientific
publications.
Long concerned with science
education, DR.. Curtis wrote on
this subject. In 1907, the year
he Joined the Bureau of Stand
ards, he served as chairman of
the committee which arranged
a system of courses at the grad
uate level at the bureau-the
first such courses in Government.
Since retiring, DR.. Curtis
founded The Fossils, a group of
retired Government workers
which meet weekly for fellow
ship and for discussions and
make trips to historical places.
Born on Michigan Farm
DR.. Curtis was born on a farm
near Lansing. Mich. and edu-
Gated at the University of Michi-
gan He was physics instruc-
tor and later assistant profess
Sor at Michigan Agricultural
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Miss Blanche |. Hu|bert,
Pioneer in Housing Research

Miss Blanche Lodema Helbert
a pioneer in housing research,
facilities and management, died
at midnight Monday in Madison,
Wis. where she was visiting her
brother. She lived at 2816 o
street NV.
Miss Halbert spent a life
time helping to improve living
and working conditions in the
United States. She was director
of the housing facilities branch
of the management division of
the Public Housing Administra-
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came i'll after two falls a year
ago.
Besides Mrs. Hastings, she is
survived by three sons, Jack,
Paterson, N. j., a Spanish-Amer-
lean War veteran; John, Boston;
Charles j.. Pleasanton, Calf;
six grandchildren and two great
grandchildren.
Services will be held at 2 pm.
tomorrow at the Huntemann flu
neral home, 5732 Georgia avenue
NV. Burial will be in Fort Lin
coin Cemetery.
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FUNERAL TOMORROW
Services for William Miller
Collier, 88, former diplo-
mat, who was president of
George Washington Uni
versity from 1918 to 1921,
will be held tomorrow in
Montclair, N. ]. He died
Sunday in West Caldwell,
N. j., two days after a visit
to GNU, where he viewed
his portrait, a Photographic
copy of which appears
above. Mr.. Collier was for
mer Ambassador to Chile
and Minister to Spain
Star Staff Photo.
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Richurd E. QuiIIun

CARMEL, N. Y, April 18 up.
Richard E. Quillan. 48, former
manager of Fred Warnings Shaw
nee Inn in Pennsylvania, was
found dead of a heart attack
here Monday, the day after he
arrived to become manager Of
the Carmel Country Club.
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of cheese from spelling each year
in the United States.
DR.. Deuel. was born in St. Paul
and was graduated from Garlic
ton College, receiving his doc
torate from Yale University. His
widow, Grace, survives.
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and five Observation-Disclosures.
Funeral arrangements are be-
ing handled by the James T.
Ryan funeral home, BIT Penn
sylvania avenue Sc.
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Anurtltng

RoNEs, STELLA. There will be an I'M
of i nr h ol monument e 70 ne RpSemmeTy
on Sunday. april 90. 1856, at 10 am.
a. the, Beth Sholom Cemetery Greater
Capitol Heiehts. Md. Friends and rela-
THE RoNEs AND GOLDBERG FAM
LIES ~
RuBENSTEIN, IRVING. dwelling on
Sunday, April -, 1856, at pm. at
Church. Va. 90
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Garn uf Chunks

WILLS, ROSSlE. For the kind attention
and expressive floral tributes bestowed
by conSoling friends and relatives dur
ing our bereavement we extend pro-
found thanks.
BEREAVED FAMILY OF RossIE
WILLS. Is
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In Mrntnriaiit
HAHN. NAOMI MORGENsTEIN. In mem
DRY of NAOMI MORGENSTEIN HAHN
who passed AWAY Anril LIZ lQAA

nAhN, N k,ul. MU,hn1EMSsrElN: IN mem
who passed away April Is 1914.
They say time heals all sorrow
And helps us to forget,
But time SO far has only proved
How much we y %ifs her FA yNssiv
@emory Of ' my deyotsd Sister, IN c !39HTlRs
ERNIE v. HOLLAND. who departed
THIS NE two years ago today, April
Someone remembers. someone cares:
Your name Is, whispered in my prayers.
4 smile tear, a thought sincere,
How often l wished you we're here
YOUR LONELY SISTER. CLARA.
There IS a link death cannot sever.
Love, and memories last forever;
You will live forever in our hearts
Ni EEeiHE SgNE Rr, SoN GILBERT AND
MARTIN. ROSA E. Sacred TO the mem.
9 9ry Of our dear sister. ROSA 9. MAR
today. April is. 1855. ." wars $50
She lived as God wished and always
could tind time to be patient, UNDER
standing and Kind.
hT Lours SIA PEtE Mary EMMA H AwlILI T4nhsS
AND vIcToRIA W. DIsIiMAN.
MOORE, AGNES CECILIA. A tribute OF
love and devotion 10 our dearly beloved
daughteI, sister and niece. AGNES
CECILIA MOORE, who departed this
life one wear ago today April s. 1855
In lie VIC loved you dearly,
IN death we do the same
HER LOVING FAMILY AND DEVOTED
FRIEND JAY KNIGHT.
JOHN T. In sad but loving
remem6rance oi my dear husband
JOHN T. ROBINSON who entered into
eternal rest one year ago today April
Is, 1883
a year has passed since that sad day
When the one loved was called away
God took him home II was His will
But in my heart he liyeth still
DEVOTED WIFE, MAGGIE ROBINSON
TURNER, ROBERT RUSSELL AND
MARY VIRGINIA. In loving memory
Of my loved ones. Mother. MhRY
VIRGINIA TURNER, Who passed away
four years ago. April Is. 1859 anu
brother. ROBERT RUSSELL TURNER
who died March 20. l946.
Rest in the Masters care.
WINSTON.
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FUNERAL DIRECTOR
FUNERAL DESIGN

GEO c. SHAFFER, INC.
Expressive Flora Tributes Moderate
prices Opcn daily sun HOLIDAYS Phone
aiGhts 900 i4th 81 NV Ma s-oiO6
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PHILIP NJ. KLUTzNIcK,
President, B'nai Birth.

WHUNINB IIIINI T1IN1 NTVFuEvs
CHERNER, JOSEPH. The officers, Board
the United Jewish Appeal OF Greater
Washington extend deepest sympathy
ana condolences TO the family and
loved ones Of JOSEPH cHERNER.. whose
5000 works OF kindness and gem
erosity. -
LEOPOLD FREUDBERG,
General Chairman.
LOUIS Z. SPIEGLER,
Executive Director 10
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He remained free on bond pend
ling appeal.
Russell was convicted on May
81. by a jury of refusing to an
Iswer three questions in Novem-
Der, 1854. when he appeared be-
fore a subcommittee of the House
Un-American Activities Commit
ltee.
Sentence was imposed by visit.
ing Judge A. Sherman Christen.
son, Of Utah, who presided at the
trial. The Judge then allowed
Russell to remain free on bono
pending appeal.
The questions Russell had re-
fused to answer concerned
whether a certain Communist
Party organizer had encouraged
him to join the party: also
whether Russell knew Of q Com
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was so good.
I'm not sure where the author
missed the beat. but it may have
been in his inability to create
a believable character in the
homeless waif who inherits 1.-THE
Magic Horn" and in his in
sistence in making a heavy out
of the club owner.
Young Sal Mineo seemed far
too intense as the orphan and
only Ralph Meeker-of the ac-
tors - appeared to dig the
elementary fact that the dia-
logue was purely intended to
accompany the music like a tap
ping foot.
The musicians played it fairly
straight and shrugged away their
lines as if they were contami-
mated. Jimmy Mcfarland, the
musician with the latest part,
was excellent as the trumpeter
who had to replace the departed
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vealed. The dumbfounded ex-
perts included Jay Royen (WRC)
Bob Adams (WTOP), Milt Grant
and Duncan Miller (WTTG)
artist James v. Cupoli, and the
easily bamboozled head judge,
me (She1l be on Milt's
Featurama, too, as soon as the
newsreels Of the various events
can be edited and processed.)
Tommy Dorsey will reveal his
fall plans via a cross-country
phone hookup today. ellis
brother Jimmy'S plans too, of
course.)
This reporter has been in
vited to discuss the subject of
Elvis Presley, among other items,
on the Jerry and Jimma radio
show (WMAL) Friday morn
ing. :. More about the Strongs,
who are heading for their fourth
anniversary, in an .upcoming
column.
Danny Thomas show, which
leaves the air June 26, is set to
return September 10 at 8 pm.
Richard tMedic) Boone is
excited about his Thursday night
Lux Video Theater assignment
in "A House of His Own" :. He
wires: Il think the most i'm
Iportant thing about the show is
the mature kind Of writing we've
been looking for in TV."
! The Bethesda Chevy Chase
chapter of the American Associa-
ton of University Women will
present certificates of merit to-
day to representatives Of the
four local stations for the fol-
lowing outstanding programs:
Channel 4: Meet the Press, Hall
of Fame. and Romper Room:
Channel 5: Georgetown Forum
and Teen Talk; Channel z: Voice
of Firestone. Disneyland and
This Is the Story; Channel g.:
You Are There. See 1t Now,
Omnibus, Captain Kangaroo and
Ask 1t Basket. 1t is most in
'triguing to note. by the by, that
the people who rated Omnibus
highest were adults and TEEN
AYERS.
The American ReSearch
Bureau releases its ratings of
the top 10 programs of the past
season (and if you want to draw
comparisons between this list
and the one above, go right
ahead: /, $4,000 Question: 2,
Sullivan 8, Lucy: 4, Groucho;
5, Disneyland; 6, I've Got a
Secret; 7. Gobel: 5, Como; 8, Hit
Parade; 10, December Bride.
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.3O-Doy Jail Term
Given in Contempt
of Congress Case

Norton A. Russell, 80, chief
engineer of a Yellow Springs
(Ohio) manufacturing company,
was sentenced yesterday at the
U. S. District Court for the Dis
trict of Columbia to serve a 30
day jail sentence and pay a $500
fine for contempt of Congress.
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genius and it's my bunch that
Meeker, q most observant actor
patterned his perform n e
loosely after McPartland's.
The others in the grand CONDO
were Peanuts Hucko, BuzZy
Drootin, Milton Hinton, and Vic
Dickinson, and, as the saying
goes, I could have danced all
night.
WRONG THINKING: TIL e
producers of 1.-THE $4,000 Chal-
lenge" must not be reading their
mail very closely. What most
fans object to in the quiz pro-
cedure of the Sunday show
CWTOP-9) is the requirement
that forces contestants who have
successfully We'd at the $4,000
level to return and answer an
other question at that mark.
The idea of breaking the tie"
and establishing the champ is
fine-but why should it be at the
expense of the contestants?
I thought Bill would miss Sum
day, incidentally. when he was
asked to identify seven repro
auctions of various objects of
art. When the bright-eyed art
expert visited Laurel during the
season to ride a horse whose
name I'd rather forget, he told
me that he considered himself
lucky that the questions had
been primarily about paintings
and not sculpture, the graphics.
or artifacts. He did all right
Sunday, so I guess he was being
modest.
HOLIDAY: The Max Lehman
musical version Of Elmer Rice's
Grand Tour" Saturday, WRC-
A., failed to inspire any huzzas
in our department :. The critic
who sits across the desk from me
deposeS that he hasn't seen act
ing to compare since the last
time he covered a very amateur
theatrical.
y NR%
On the Run:
Check Art Lambs show this
week (WTTG-5) for a guest ap-
pearance by a girl who has to be
the youngest Washington area
beauty contest winner ever
Bette Sue Plummer, IA. of Upper
Marlboro, Md. She was selected
Miss Rose Haven at the Chesa-
peake Bay Clubs gala opening
Saturday and the audible gasps
in the clubhouse were from the
judges when her age was re-
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I45-MiIe Hike for $l00

PADUCAH. Ky. Up. = Joe
Richard Nance. a farmer, walked
IS miles from Murray to Paducah
in 9 hours and so minutes Of
fered 500 for repeat perform
|ance. he walked the same route
again and broke his own record.
The time. 8 hours and IS
minutes.
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Imunist group in Yellow Springs
lin 1945 or 1916.
Russell was prosecuted by As
lsiStant United States Attorney
William Hitz.
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TN jazz Fontosy
Misses the Beat
Rx BERNIE HARRISON

The Magic right about the "Alcoa
fantasy Sunday night tWRcD the entirely distn
gushed Ruby Brah and his associates and only
wish thered of it and considerably less story
ct wasn't that the story bad it that the music
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to Sitka to see her father, Dave Lewis, who is in Mt. Edgecumbe hospital.
 Mrs. Congleton, worked on The Sentinel as a girl here. Later she went to the ketchikan News as a linotype operator and in more recent years, was a linotype opera tor on the Seattle Times where she met and married Mir. Congleton.
 Now, however, Mrs. CongIeton is attending the University of Wash ington where she is studying dress designing and upon completion of her course will be employed by Magnin's in Seattle in that capa- city.
 While here, she was a dinner guest ot her aunt, Mrs. TilIie Ham mer and visited her brothers, Bill, Lawrence and Kenneth Lewis.
 Mrs. Congleton reported that her sister and husband, Mir. and Mrs. William F. Jay" Byrd also Live in Seattle and are we'll and both busy Jay, former Wrangell Sentfn- el printer and linotype operator, is foreman in a Seattle print shop and Mrs. Byrd (Aida) is working for Ford Motor Company in Seattle
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SENIOR CLASS TO SHOW FILM AT SCHOOL

Walt Disney's Beaver Valley, {" true life adventure film. has been obtained by the Senior class and will be shown to the public at the high school April 3 and at s p. m, in the study hall. Admission is D. 50, and 25 cents. Beaver Valley" will be followed by a full length technicolor film. Ten TaIl Men" Both are rated excellent films, the student reported.
 Tickets can be obtained from any member of the Senior class or pur- chased at the door. Proceeds will be used by the class for its 1956 graduating program.
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JIMMIE SCHWARTZ ATTENDING COLLEGE IN INDIANA

Announcement from Tri-Sta,e College at Angola, Indiana, reports that James L. Schwartz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Schwartz or "rangell. is attending that school as student in commerce. Upou completing the course, the news re- lease said. Schwartz will be a cane- idate for Bachelor of Science de- see
 About a year ago, young Jim mic and Miss Shirley Rehberg. on the nursing staH at Bishop Rowe hospital. were married and last fall went to Indiana to live.
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WRANGELL GIRL MARRIED IN MEDFORD

Mr and Mrs. Ora Phillips or Wrangeu, announce the marriage of their daughter, Darien. to Nr. Donald w. Moody at the Pilgrim Holiness church in Medford. Ore. March 14.
 The former Miss Phillips will De remembered as one of Wrangell's Can-Can girls in the towns famous Stikine Stampede show She was also noted here as an outstanding swimmer and diver.
 Following the double ring cere- mony. a wedding dinner for the bridal party was held at the home of MT. and Mrs. Joe Fosser. old friends of the family Mr. FosSer gave the bride in marriage. UnTF c NY TT IN THE CH7N~TI W INT
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 IN ALASKA Founded in 1902

Published every Friday at Wmn- gell, Alaska by Lew NJ. Williams, Winifred E. Williams and L. M. Williams, Jr.
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YOU SAW IT IN THE SENTINEL