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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-12-30
THE BUM

A man rushed excitedly into
the smoking car of a train. "A
lady has just tainted in the next
car" he cried. Has anybody got
any whiskey?'
Immediately veral TASKS
were brought out. He seized the
nearest one. tilted it back, took a
drink. and returned it. saying,
Thanks a lot. It always did
make me sick to see a lady
faint"
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-12-30
Old ReliabIes

I'm thinking Of applying for
a job in the weather bureau"
what qualifications have
your"
ION, I'VE a couple of pretty
reliable corns.'
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Samuel Hughes,
Retired RuiIwuy
Express Agent

Samuel Walter Hughes, 81,
a retired Railway Express
Agency agent, died Monday at
Sibley Hospital after a long
illness.
A master Mason of the Hi
ram Masonic Lodge. Walter
Hughes played semi-pro base
ball in Havre de Grace in the
'20s and was very active in
the old Terminal Y League
here in the District as a pitcher
and first baseman.
A native of Wilmington, Del,
Mr.. Hughes was with the Rail-
way Express Agency Al years
before his retirement last year.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Vir-
lie Hughes, of the home ad-
dress, 1641 Trinidad avenue
NE; his mother, Mrs. Lidie
Hughes, and a sister, Mrs.
Greta Clary. both of 1925 @
street NE, and a brother, Earl
E. Hughes of 4403 Third street
Sc.
Services will be at IL m. to-
morrow at Lees Funeral Home,
Fourth and Massachusetts ave-
nue. NE. and burial will be in
Angel Hill Cemetery in Havre
de Grace.
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Mrs. Luubuch
Widow of General

Mrs. Katherine Hague Lau-
bach, widow of Brig. Gen. How
ard L. Laubach, USA. died
Sunday at the Waverly Santa
rum in Rockville, Md, after
an extended illness.
A native of jefferson, Tex,
she was the daughter of Judge
and Mrs. James Price Hague,
She was educated here at Visi-
tation Convent, and after grad
uation, returned to Texas
where she married Gen. Lau-
bach in 1895. Gen. Laubach
who served II years with the
23d Infantry. died here in
1850.
Mrs. Laubach was active in
the Colonial Danes of America
the Order of the First Crusade
the Colonial Order of the
Crown and the National So
ciety Of Magma Carta Danes.
She leaves a daughter, Mrs
Farragut F. Hall Of 1403 Thir-
tieth street NV; a brother
James Hague of Los Angeles
Calf; five sisters, Mrs. Flora
Wilson Of Los Angeles, Mrs
Jesse Elliott of Jacksonville
Fla, and Mrs. James r. Hill
Miss Clara Hague and Mrs
Lillian Corcoran, all of El Paso
Tex. and a granddaughter.
Services were to be held to-
day at Fort Myer Chapel, with
burial in Arlington Cemetery.
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Embassy Maid
Yoked, Bites Thief

A Turkish Embassy maid was
yoked and robbed of her pocket
book containing $50 while she
was waiting for a cab early to-
day in the 1900 block of Har-
ward street NV.
Miss Gemma Pozza. 81. listed
as living at the Embassy, told
police four young men came up
behind her on the rain-swept
street and snatched her pocket
book after one of them covered
her mouth with his hand.
The men were described as
colored, between 18 and %
years of age. all wearing light
colored clothing. Two of them
were about 5 feet 9 inches tall;
the other two about 6 feet, and
one of them should have teeth
marks on his hand, police said.
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Tenant Gets Apology
For Negro Ban at Party

house Friday night by Mrs.
Frances Honeycutt, manager,
and told they could not go to
Miss Quisenberry's apartment.
The students are here on a
60-day visit sponsored by the
State Department ito give
them a favorable impression of
America"
The apologies were sent to
Miss QuiSenberry through the
African American Institute,
where she works as an editorial
assistant.
Miss Quisenberry said the
Friday night party invitation
list included several white
couples. two Howard University
students and another American
Negro couple.
Several of the Negro couples
already had arrived when Mrs.
Honeycutt came to the apart
ment and said they would have
to leave. Miss Quisenberry said.
Mrs. Honeycutt declined to
make any comment.
The State Department, which
was called into the case, has
expressed its regrets about the
incident.
Evening star., 1960-08-10
London Bell, 79, Dies;
Lumber, Coal Developer

the University of Virginia Law
School, he was a member of the
Raven Society.
He was a member of the
American and Virginia Bar
Associations and a member of
the bar of the Supreme Court.
A writer and genealogist, he
wrote several books on the his
tory and genealogy of South
side, Va.
He leaves his wife. Mary
Walden Bell of Falls Church;
a daughter, Mrs. Walter w.
Jeffers. of Plandome, N. Y.
and three sons, John w. and
James H.. of Falls Church, and
William L., of Arlington. He
also leaves a brother and a
sister, DR.. Haney Bell and Mrs.
Charles Guthrie of Petersburg,
Va, and another brother, Ber-
nard Bell of Bradenton, Fla.
Funeral services were to be
at 3 pm. today at Arlington
Funeral Home, 1901 N. Fairfax
drive, Arlington. Burial will be
in Columbus, Ohio.
Evening star., 1960-08-10

Armed Services Committee. told
a reporter. AN intensive in
vestigation still is under way"
Senator Russell has been IN
close contact with top Defense
Department officials VINO have
been investigating the disap-
pearance of Bernon F.. Mitch
ell. 81, of Eureka, Calf, and
William H. Martin, 90. of FL
lenSburg, Wash, former math-
ematicians for the top-secret
security agency.
The Senator said the inquiry
disclosed that Mitchell and
Martin. close friends who had
served together in the, Navy,
visited Mexico and Cuba last
fall without telling intelligence
officials here about it or check
ing in with United States En-
bassy officials.
This year in late June the
two said they planned to visit
their families on a vacation
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Airline Rides Charged
In Blossom Fete Swap

The Civil Aeronautics Board
has accused the German air.
line, Lufthansa, of illegally
trading transportation to a
committee of the Washington
Board of Trade in return for
advertising in connection with
the 1859 Cherry Blossom Festi-
val.
A spokesman for the board
of trade said yesterday that the
committee and the airline had
paid each other checks for the
same amount. He said he did
not recall the amount of the
checks.
He added that the airline
had obtained advertising space
in the festival program last
year for its check.
He also said the board of
Evening star., 1960-08-10

Landon C. Bell, 79. pronii-
nent figure in the development
of the Southern Appalachian
lumber and coal industries, died
Monday at Arlington Hospital
after a long illness.
Mr.. Bell, general counsel and
secretary of the WIN. Ritter
Lumber Co. until his retirement
in l945, helped organize the
Hardwood Manufacturers IN
stitute and drew up its charter
and by laws.
AS chairman of the Forestry
Committee of the hardwood in
stitute, he was a leader in the
fight for servation OF
forests.
An organizer of the Southern
Coal Producers Association. he
fought for the Southern Appa-
lachian coal fields right to COM
pete in national markets.
A native of Lunen bur G
County virginia.. he attended
Milligan College in Tennessee
and received his B.A. and MA
degrees there. A graduate Of
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Hostile Murtiuns?
z Suggest Rocket
Should Find Out

SEATTLE, Aug. 10 (AP).-
The first rocket to Mars should
be equipped to reveal whether
the planet has any hostile in
habitants. Two California SCI
entists suggested today.
They said the rocket also
should send back word on the
nature of the Martian canals
and the planets two moons.
Wells A. Webb. research
chemist for Hexcel Products.
Irc.. of Berkeley, and DR..
james A. Harder, University Of
California. presented a paper
to the West Coast meeting Of
the American Astronomical
Society.
There's enough evidence of
past or present intelligent life
on Mars. they said, so that the
first rocket should be equipped
to detect any possible inter
ference or destruction as the
result of the actions of intelli-
gent beings" ."
One way to reveal intercept
ton or destruction of a Mars
probe. the scientists suggested,
would be to install a proximity
detector that would show ap-
proach of a nearby object by
variations in radio signals.
Whether Marian canals and
satellites are artificial, the re-
searchers said, might be deter
mined by transmission Of tele-
vision pictures from the rocket
probe.
Evening star., 1960-08-10

but went to Mexico. The last
record of them was at a hotel
in Havana, Cuba. Pentagon
officials last Friday said it was
assumed they had gone behind
the Iron Curtain.
Although the work of the
two men did not involve the
top secret codes and intel
ligence Of THIS Nation, they
were highly trusted and es-
teemcd employees" Senator
Russell said. Its difficult to
confine the knowledge of such
persons to their own duties.'
Senator Russell said the in
veStigation of the missing en-
ployes was being pushed by
investigators of the Defense
Department, the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation. the Gen.
tral Intelligence Agency, and
the National Security Agency.
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Samuel A. DuvuI,
EXT ak Official

Samuel A. Duval, 70, of 1921
Fulton street NV, a retired
member of the Intelligence Unit
of the Internal Revenue Serv-
ice, died Monday after a heart
attack.
A native of Baltimore he
served with the 26th Infantry
lst Division during World War
I where he won the Purple
Heart with citations.
He leaves sister, Mrs. Charles
H. White, of 481 Park ave-
nue., Baltimore, and a stepson
William B. Fleharty, l440 Rock
Creek Ford road.
Services will be held at the
Church of the Ascension, Mas
sachusetts avenue and Thirty
ninth street, NV. tomorrow al
10 am. and burial will be al
Oak Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Cathedral Rites Held
For David B. Korrick

Commissioner Robert E. Nc
Laughlin, newly-named Engi-
neer Commissioner Col. Fred
erick j. Clarke, and Mr.. Kar-
rick's successor, Mark Sullivan,
jr.
Across from them, in the
south transept, sat members of
the diplomatic corps, headed
by DR.. Jose R. Chiriboga,
Ambassador from Ecuador. DR..
Enrique Sanchez Barona,
Ecuadorian Minister Consul,
and their staff.
Representing President Eli
senhower was David B. Kendall,
special counsel to the President.
Work Is Praised
The service started with a
violin prelude played by Mrs.
Virginia. de Brassis, Mrs. Kar-
rick's sister.
After the opening prayer, a
hymn, recitation of the Apos-
ties Greed and the Lords
Prayer, Mr.. Marshall read his
prayer of eulogy. He charac-
terized Mr.. Karrick's life as
one in which "all tasks were
faithfully and honorably dis
charged"
Mr.. Karrick's body will be
transferred today from Wash
ington to Stockbridge, Mass,
where graveside services will be
held at II am. Friday in Che
Stockbridge Cemetery. Mr..
Karrick was a native of Bos-
ton.
Evening star., 1960-08-10

trade committee had bought by
check two round-trip tickets to
Europe on the airline as prizes
for the winners of a color photo
contest held in connection with
the festival.
Federal law prohibits the air.
lines from giving free rides,
rebates or price reductions to
individuals, directly or indirect
ly. Foreign lines operating into
United States cities are subject
to the law.
Lufthansa was one of three
foreign airlines accused by the
CAB charging less than speci-
fed fares in exchange for pro-
motional plugs from various
organizations or persons. The
airlines have Is days to answer
the complaints.
Evening star., 1960-08-10

A white tenant threatened
with eviction for inviting four
African Negro students to her
apartment has received an
apology and been assured that
she can entertain whom she
pleases.
The attorneys for the owners
of the Chateau Thierry Apart
ments. 1920 S street NV, also
rescinded the order evicting
Miss Gayle Quisenberry, 80,
from her apartment.
The four African students,
one from Ghana and three
from Somalia. were stopped in
the lobby Of the apartment
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Bride Wearing SIocks
Arouses Judicial Ire

NEW YORK. Aug. 10 (AP.-
A bride came to traffic court
yesterday wearing flesh-colored
slacks that fit her form but
not the dignity of the court,
in the magistrates opinion.
He elected her and issued
some advice to her husband.
Mrs. Irving Rabinowitz, a
a secretary, had come to pay
a $40 speeding fine for her boss.
Magistrate Edward Caiazzo
took one look at her attire and
refused to let her pay the fine.
He told her she was not
dressed in a manner in keeping
with the majesty of the law,
refused to let her pay the fine
and directed her to return to-
morrow more decorouSly clad.
/She meekly tried to explain
that she hadn't expected to
be in court that day. This
argument failed to sway Mag
istrate Caiazzo. however.
Just as she left the court
room in walked her husband.
He learned the story and paid
the fine himself.
But before he left the mag
istrate asked him why he al
lowed his wife to go to a court
room in such attire.
Judge, I'm only married
three weeks" said Mr.. Rabin-
owitz.
The judge replied:
You'd better start clamp
ing down on her."
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Bakery. Union
Ordered to
Reinstute 4
BY the Associated Press

Federal Judge George Hart,
jr., yesterday ordered the Bak-
Iery and Confectionery Workers
International Union to REIN
state four officials who were
ousted during an insurrection
against union President James
G. Cross.
Judge Hart set September
Is for a hearing on requests
for financial accounting from
Mr.. Cross and for a referendum
leading to a new election of
officers.
Attorneys for. an anti-Cross
faction of the union said they
will ask then for consolidation
Of a 81 million damage suit
| filed against Mr.. Cross and the
union by the four ousted Of
ficials. -
The four officials, leaders of
the anti-Cross group, are
Henry Alvino of Pittsburgh
and Max Kralstein of New
York City, who were, interna-
tional vice presidents; George
Seibold of Buffalo, N. Y, and
Peter Sullivan of Brooklyn,
N. Y. All four were information
al representatives before their
custer last month.
Judge Hart also enjoined the
union against taking any re-
taliatory action against the op-
position pending settlement of
the case.
Union attorneys argued that
Mr. Alvino and Mr. Kralstein,
who were suspended pending a
hearing. had not exhausted
remedies available to them in
union proceedings and should
not be permitted to come into
court before having done so.
They asserted the firing of
Mr.. Seibold and Mr.. Sullivan
as representatives was part of
an economy movement necessi-
tated by loss of about half the
unions former membership,
estimated at 100000.
The union was expelled from
the AFL-CIO sometime ago on
charges it was corruptly DOM
mated. The labor federation
backed a new union which re-
portedly took about half of the
expelled unions membership.
Evening star., 1960-08-10

to the executive committee of
the Chamber.
He was a charter member of
the Martinsburg Rotary Club
and a past president and on
June l had been named its
secretary.
Throughout his life he was
interested IN young people. He
was a former scoutmaSter and
held the Silver Beaver Award.
He was a member of the
Official Board and a trustee Of
Trinity Methodist Church here.
Mr.. Sperow leaves his wife,
the former Lillian Henrietta
Sites.
Services were to be held at
the Brown Funeral Home here
today. with burial in RoSedale
Cemetery here.
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Wilson P. Sperow, 20,
Educator, Civic Leader

MARTINSBURG. w. VA.
Aug. 10 (SpeciaD Wilson
Porterfield Sperow, 10, who was
prominent in educational. bus
iness and civic circles in this
area for many years. died in
Kings Daughters Hospital here
Monday.
He had been hospitalized
sirce July %. Death was at
tributed to a heart complica-
ton.
Mr.. Sperow was secretary
manager of the Chamber Of
Commerce here for six years.
He retired June /.
He was graduated from
Shepherd College at Shepherds
town in 1910. He attended his
50th class reunion this year
and qualified for the Emeritus
Club" He also was graduated
from Dickinson College at Car
Isle, Pa. He held ABB. and MA.
degrees. He was a member of
Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
Mr.. Sperow taught at Mar
tinsburg High School before he
went into the service in World
War 1. After the war he was
employed for a period at Old
National Bank. Later he re-
turned to the teaching field as
principal of Bunker Hill High
School in the county. From
there he went to Boonsboro
Md High School as super
vising principal for five years.
Afterwards he was for % years
supervising principal at Wood
land Junior High School in
HagerStoWn. Md.
He came to the Chamber of
Commerce post here in 1858.
On retirement, he was named
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Mrs. Randall Hogner, Widow
Of Realty Firms Founder +

Mrs. Marguerite Cotton Hag-
ner, widow of Randall H. Hag-
ner, founder of the Washington
real estate firm bearing his
name, died last night at her
home, 1918 Twenty fourth
street NV, after a brief ILL
ness.
Mrs. Hagner was the daugh-
ter of Francis Cotton, Foreign
Service officer around the turn
of the century. Her husband
died in 1887. Both families
have lived in Washington for
several generations.
After completing her educa-
ton in France and Switzer-
land. Mrs. Hagner made her
debut here in the early 1900s
and was married soon after
wards.
She was active in several
social and charitable en-
deavors, serving on the boards
of Children's Hospital and the
Children's Convalescent Home.
She belonged to the Sulgrave
and Chevy Chase Clubs and
was a lifelong member of st.
Johns Episcopal Church on
Lafayette Square.
Mrs. Hagner leaves two
daughters, Mrs. F. Moran Nc
Conihe and Mrs. Eugene Mar
tin, both of Potomac, Md; two
sons, Alexander B. Hagner,
Mclean, Va, owner Of a real
estate investment counseling
firm here, and Randall H.
Hagner, jr., president of his
fathers firm, and 16 grand
children.
Services will be at 2::3O pm.
tomorrow in St. Johns Epis-
copal Church, with burial in
Oak Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1960-08-10
DR.. R. S. Cushmun,
Author, Retired
Methodist Bishop

HERKIMER. N. Y, Aug. 10
(AP). - The Rev. DR.. Ralph
Spaulding Cushman, 80, an
author and retired bishop Of
the Methodist Church. died to-
day of a heart attack suffered
yesterday while otorin g
through nearby Richfield d
Springs.
Bishop CuShman, a resident
of Raleigh, N. c., was on a
vacation trip to Vermont with
his wife and son, the Rev. Rob-
ert E. CuShman, dean of the
Duke University Divinity School
in Raleigh. =
Bishop Cushman was bishop
of the st. Paul-Minneapolis
area from 1889 to 1851, when he
retired. Previously, he served
as bishop of the Denver (ColoD
area.
Among his best known books
are The Message of Steward
ship" Dealing Squarely with
God" and Spiritual Hilltops."
Bishop CuShman was born
November IL, 1879. in Poultney,
VT, the descendant of a long
line of congregational ministers.
He was president OF the class
Of 1902 at Wesleyan University
in Middletown, Conn, and SUBJ
sequently studied at the Uni
versity of Edinburgh and at
the American Seminary in
London.
Bishop CuShman, a summer
resident of Geneva for the past
80 years, was president of the
Anti-Saloon League and its
successor, the Temperance
League of America, from 1889
to 1948.
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Fairbanks Daughter
Will Marry Briton

LONDON. Aug. 10 CAP) -
Actor Douglas Fairbanks. jr.,
today announced the engage
ment Of his 20-year-old daugh-
ter Daphne to Nigel David
Weston. "a, son of a British
ship owner.
Miss Fairbanks went to fin
fishing schools in Switzerland,
Paris and New York.
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Ruul Castro Likens
Khrushchev to Cubun

NEW YORK, Aug. 10 tAPD
The text of an interview given
by Raul Castro. Cuba's armed
forces chief. to Cuban newsmen
on his return from Moscow be-
came available here today. At
one point, Mai. Castro gives
this estimate of Soviet Premier
KhruShchev:
"Khrushchev is not like he
appears in photographs. He is
more like a Cuban than pictures
indicate"
Evening star., 1960-08-10
james S. Carson,
Latin Specialist

CLOSTER. N. j., Aug. 10
CAP James S. Carson. 85. a
specialist in Latin American af-
fairs for nearly so years. died
at his home yesterday after a
long illness.
Mr.. Carson's interest in lands
south of the border began in the
years before World War I. when
he rode with Pancho Villa in
Mexico as a foreign correspond
ent for the Associated Press.
Evening star., 1960-08-10
R. Paul Higgins

HOUSTON, Tex, Aug. 10
(AP) R. Paul Higgins, 68, a
vice president of the Gulf Oil
Corp. from 1852 until his re-
tirement in 1859, died yesterday.
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Russell Sees Red Aid
By Missing NSA Pair
BY the Associated Press

Senator Russell Democrat of Georgia. said today that two
missing employees of the National Security Agency now
behind the Iron Curtain" and may be able to aid Soviet
intelligence forces.
There is doubt in my mind that they behind
the Iron Curtain Senator Russell chairman Of the Senate
Evening star., 1960-08-10
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Evening star., 1960-08-10

Some 900 mournerS today
paid their last respects to for
mer District Commissioner
David B. Karrick in Episcopal
services at Washington Ma
tional Cathedral.
The Rev. Malcolm Marshall,
rector of St. Margaret's Church,
Mr.. Karrick's church. con-
Quoted the simple, 25-minute
ceremony for the late Com
missioner. who died Saturday,
two weeks after being sworn
in as Ambassador to Ecuador.
Assisting Rev. Marshall was
the Rev. Robert A, George, a
Cathedral canon.
The Commissioners widow,
Mrs. Elizabeth de BlasSis Kar-
rick, her two children, Lisa. Is,
and David, jr., 16, sat quietly
through the service in the front
row of the nave facing the
crossing where rested Mr.. Kar-
rick's coffin. covered by a pur-
pie pail with gold Jerusalem
Crosses.
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Officials Attend

Near them sat the late Com
missioner's brother, JAMES L.
Karrick, his wife, and other
family members.
The official group of honor
ary pallbearers, seated in the
north transept, was headed by
Smyrna times., 1960-06-16
Joseph Simpson
Given Az Award

The agricultural committee of
the Smyrna Grange, Howard C.
Deakyne, Harold McGrath, and
Carlton Blendt, Jr., was in
charge of the Philadelphia Dairy
Council, in recognition of the
observance of June as Dairy
Month. Miss Muncell presented
a puppet show and movie on
Better Nutrition Through Use
of Milk" The grangers discuss
ed plans for day trips by the
group during the summer. JOS
eph Simpson was announced as
winner of the Grange award for
highest scholastic average ir
agriculture, which was present
ed at high school awards as
sembly by Harold c. Deakyne
The committee appointed tt
make plans for summer activi
ties of the grange includes Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Short, Mrs
Townsend Vaughn, and Mrs
James Fleming. Mrs. William
Minner, Jr. will attend the lee
turers' conference at State Col
lege, Pennsylvania, June 21-2a