in a fisherman's suspicion berserk yesterday, Barbara Fishermen's 61 FAITH BACON First Fan Dancer in Hotel Leap Faith Bacon, self-styled originator of the fan dance and kin of several generations of prom(inent Oaklanders, leaped from a Chicago hotel window today. She is reported near death in a hospital after what police describe as a suicide try made because she could not find a job, press dispatches from Chicago report. The dancer was the toast of Chicago World's Fair in 1934 carried on a running battle with Sally Rand over who originated the fan dance. ZIEGFELD GIRL Miss Bacon always said that she began the feathered routine while a member of Earl Carroll's Vanities of 1930. This was a year before she was glorified by the late Florenz Ziegfeld as his most beautiful show girl in "'The Follies of 1931." Miss Bacon appeared here in 1938 and combined business with a visit with her uncles, the late AP Wirephete* FAITH BACON As She Looked in 1936 Thomas P. and Robert Bacon of Oakland. At one time the disclosed she was a great granddaughter of the late Henry D. Bacon, founder of the old Page- Bacon Bank in San Francisco and donor 'of the site for Oakland's Madison Park and a library. and art gallery at the University of California. Henry D. Bacon was offered the portfolio of tary of State in President Lincoln's first cabinet, Miss Bacon said. KIN LIVED HERE Her grandfather Frank Page Bacon, was owner of the Bacon Block in Oakland. He died in 1928. Miss Bacon is the daughter of Frank Page Bacon Jr. of Pennsylvania, Her father never lived in Oakland. According to the "press reports, the once beautiful Miss slim blonde during her heydey - had spent three Continued Page A, Col. 8 in a a
