Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-08

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him last night. said Mr.. Quarles
appeared in fine health and
spirits.
Mr.. Quarles left for home
about IL pm. He was alone
in the house at the time. Mrs.
Quarles is visiting in Chicago.
This morning Mr.. Mason
went to his employers home
to drive him to the NBC stu
dios for an early television
broadcast on the TODAY show.
When Mr.. Quarles failed to APP
pear. the chauffeur went into
the house at 7:55 am.
Finding Mr.. Quarles uncon-
sciouS in bed. Mr.. Mason called
the Secretary's son-in-law, Col.
Stanley c. Lewis, who hurried
to the home. An ATTEMPT was
made to arouse him but he
was pronounced dead about
$3.50 am.
Colleagues recalled that Mr..
Quarles had been working at
a terrific pace and had taken
his first vacation in five years
recently.
When President Eisenhower
named Mr.. Quarles to the post
of Deputy Secretary of Defense
on May /, 1857, the appointee
brought vast experience in
both government and business
to the job.
Mentioned as Secretary
So well had he performed his
tasks as Secretary of the Air
Force and Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Research and
Development that he had been
mentioned as a possible sue
cessor to Mr.. McElroy when the
latter leaves the top Pentagon
post late this year. He fire.
quently had served as Acting
Secretary when Mr.. McElroy
was away.
Mr.. Quarles was a quiet man,
who neither smoked nor drank
but was noted instead for the
long hours he put in at his
desk. He had almost entirely
given up golfing and his read
ing was limited to the docu-
ments he brought home with
him at night.
He was gray-haired and
slender sometimes giving the
impression of being cold and
severe. But his assistants al
ways tried to refute that repu-
tation.
Before coming into the Gov
eminent in 1858, Mr.. Quarles
was an official of the Western
Electric Co. and president of
Sandia Corp, a subsidiary
which operates the Sandia Spe-
cial Weapons Laboratory at
Albuquerque. N. Mex.
Survivors Listed
Mr.. Quarles, who considered
his home to be Englewood, N,
j., is survived by his wife, the
former Mona Cotton, and
three children by a former mar
riage:: Carolyn Anne, Mrs.
Stanley Lewis and Donald Au-
brey Quarles. jr. The present
Mrs. Quarles also has a daugh-
ter by a former marriage, Mrs.
E. F. Dressner, jr.
Mr.. Quarles was born in Van
Buren,, Ark. on July 30, 1894,
the son of Warren and Minnie
Hynes Quarles. His grand
father had been a Confederate
soldier who died in a Union
prison camp. The family plan
tation in Mississippi had been
destroyed in the war, and the
Quarles had moved to Arkansas
where Donald's father was a
dentist.
He entered Yale University in
1912 and majored in mathe-
mates and physics, was elected
to Phi Beta Kappa and re-
ceived a bachelor of arts de-
gree in 1916.
Captain of Artillery
The young man entered the
Army. went through Officer
Candidate School and served in
France and Germany with the
Rainbow Division. He was re-
leased from the service as a
captain of field artillery in 1919.
After World War 1 he went
to work for the Western Electric
Co. in New York, but pursued
his studies with graduate
courses at Columbia University
in 1920 and 1921. His first job
at Western Electric was in the
engineering department where
he specialized in research on
transmission engineering.
During World War II he di-
rected the transmission depart
ment, being in direct charge of
I the Bell Laboratories radar pro-
gram. He also was concerned
with develonment Of tPleViSiOn