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4 THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, UL, JaV 12, 1950 OBITUARY Sirs. S. Markowitz Funeral Today Graveside services for Mrs. Laura B. Markowitz, native At- Gunshot Kills L.

M. Markey, Ex-Atlantan Lawrence Morris Markey, 51, MISS BERTHS IANDBU Funeral services for Bertha Lan-dru. of 133 S. Candr Decatur, cha died Monaay. will be held at 10 a.

m. Wednesday at St. Thomas Mora Catholic Church. FaUier Thomas Sheean via of- KENTUCKY BLENDED Facing Jail, Atlantan Kffls Self hrton -V. AieA Vrirfav ftr a'flctate and burial wiil.

ba la Decatur BOURBON WHISKEY KENTUCKY long illness at her residence in New York City, will be held at Mrs. bcth ccokgia logav p. m. Wednesday at Greenwood' Z'Vclt T. Cemeterv who died Monday, via be held at 10:30 la.

m. Wednesday at til chapel of J. Mrs. Markowitz, who was the'Auin runon company. Th Re.

o. c. c-. i Mlljer viil officiate and burial will be former Atlanta newspaper reporter, died Monday night of a STRAIGHT BOURBON gunshot wound at his home in Halifax, Va. Dr.

N. H. Wooding. Halifax WHISKEY 49 GRAIN ue ui c'smuim nuwui, Oakland Cemetery ime Despite pleas of his elderly grandparents and a minister, a County, Va, Coroner, late Tues born an Atlanta, but spent her early life in Birmingham, 21-year-old Brookhaven painter day issued an open verdict in NEUTRAL cmniTP which he said death was from a I "cause not determined. He said Tuesday night fired a automatic rifle through his brain to avoid arrest on minor charges, DeKalb County police said.

his investigation had not revealed sufficient facts to render a ver onniio Listed as Word Ray Wasson. dict of homicide, suicide or acci where she attended public schools. She was a member of the Methodist Church in Birmingham. She moved to New York more than 25 years ago. Surviving, besides her husband, are a brother, Edward J.

Eber-hardt, of Chicago, four sisters. Miss Josephine Eberhardt, Mrs. Viola McGee and Mrs. Vera Simpson, all of Atlanta, and Mrs. alias "Junior House," he was dental Yl pronounced dead upon arrival at Emory University Hospital.

Wasson barricaded himself In Both Dr. Wooding and Commonwealth's Attorney Frank L. Mc-Kinney said their investigation was complete unless "other evidence shows up." Dr. Woodine said the body was Old Sll nnvir the home of his grandparents, Mr. El vn of FAST, fcitory Get thine don quicker durinr shorter work weeks.

Ytm en raly on speedy, alwayt "on tima" tela-trams. Telegraph and be auret WESTERN UNION and Mrs. W. L. House, at 3711 Charles W.

Williams, of Gadsden, Ostanolla Brookhaven, and BRAND shouted threats to kill himself or found in a downstairs hall and and several nieces and neph- NATIONAl DISTIUEKS PRODUCTS CORPOKATtON. NEW YORK. N.Y. ti HOOP that a rifle lay nearby, lews. anyone who attempted to arrest him, PtL H.

C. Rowden and Le- one cartridge fired from it. He said that no one saw what roy Hicks said. V. TRADE IN ALLOWANCE LIBERAL TRADE IN AUQ "I slipped around to the kitchen window and I could ree him sit Funeral and burial services lor tinz at the table with an auto 9 -4 the well-known newspaperman, matic rifle across his magazine writer, author, and war correspondent will be held in Rowden said.

"There just wasn't LU Scottsburg, Va. any means of reaching him." ca Born in Alexandria, Markey The Kev. Hoyt Thomas, a attended John Marshall High Brookhaven minister, pleaded School at Richmond. In 1921 he with Wasson vainly, patrolmen married Helen Turman, of At lanta. said.

His grandfather made one last plea and then returned to the front porch as the waiting police Markey was formerly a reporter heard gunfire. for The Atlanta Journal, Newark, N. Ledger, New York Daily Wasson was slumped forward News, and New York World. In by the kitchen table, Rowden and Hicks related. They said a bullet 1925 he joined the staff of New Yorker magazine, where he LU worked until 1933.

from the rifle blasted through the left side of his head and emerged CiCOXOMD Markey, who had just completed series of articles for Holiday on the right side. ca C.nidtati.a Staff Fhoto Rya ganders OFF TO COLUMBUS Joann Brooks, 11-year-old East "Point girl who lost the sight of her right eye when it was hit by a b.b. gun bullet, left here Tuesday Columbus-bound on her first train trip. Joann's trip on the Man War was given her by the Central of Georgia Railway, and her three-day, expense-paid visit in Columbus was arranged by the Columbus Chamber of Commerce. Atlanta merchants donated her new traveling outfit.

Magazine, had contributed mate Wasson was taken Into custddy at 3:30 p. m. Tuesday, but broke away from police en route to the rial to Redbook, Liberty, and Mc- Call magazines. He also had uC3s patrol car and escaped. been a screen writer for Metro- Ptl.

L. B. Mothershed and A. In 1943. he was an accredited war correspondent with the U.

S. Smith said they received a call to 1739 Cartercay Dr. in Brookhaven and found Wasson and Henry Grady McDaniel fighting in an Navy and served in the Pacific and North African theaters of automobile. war. J.

S. Holmes Dies Here During World War he served The car, driven by McDainel, Appliance Sales a nd Service Co. needs 100 good used refrigerators. To secure these we are offering outstanding trade allowances on any used refrigerator In working condition on the purchase price of any new Hotpoint refrigerator In our stock. with the American Red Cross in had rammed into a parked ma chine, aptrolmen related.

They France. He was a Democrat and was listed in Who's Who in said they placed both men under America. John S. Holmes, 64-year-old re nn i Former POW Killed Here as Car Hits Pole A former World War II medical corps staff sergeant was killed around 6 a. m.

Tuesday when his car struck a utility pole at Constitution and Jonesboro Roads, S. arrest and transferred McDaniel to the police car. Wasson broke tired accountant, of 1540 Olympian Markey is the author of three books, the latest of which will IX! s. died Tuesday at a pri vate hospital after a long illness. come off the presses later this Summer.

His other two works are "The Band Plays Dixie" and Funeral services will be held at 8 niper-stdDip 4 p. m. Thursday at West End away, they said, and dashed into a wooded area shouting: "I'll kill myself before going to jail." After the painter escaped, Mothershed and Smith returned to Decatur and obtained warrants for his arrest for drunk on a pub- "Well Done." Baptist Church, with the Rev. John Waldrop officiating. Burial He moved to Halifax In from New York City where he will be in West View Cemetery.

Born in Coweta County. Mr, had been a free-lance writer. i nignway, resisting arrest ana.E Fulton Coimty pouCe reported. Holmes spent most of his early life Surviving are his wife: a daugh THE WORLD'S MOST CONVENIENT REFRIGERATORS at Newnan where he attended The victim was Charles K. Jack- ter.

Miss Sue Markey; his mother, Mrs. I. G. Markey, of Scottsburg, Rowden and Hicks went to the school. He came to Atlanta about --J son.

20. oi -ito apruigsiae o. 33 years ago. a brother, Marvin Markey, of An accountant at Southern Bell Harrisburg, and a sister, Mrs. and found him barricaded in the E.

Police said the man was pen-kitchen. Jned inside his demolished machine Wasson handed a suicide note -until a wrecker could pull it free. Telephone Company for more than Kate Vaughn, of Scottsburg. LJ EASY TERMS 24 MONTHS TO PAY 46 years, he was a member of W. D.

Luckie Lodge of Masons. ca to his grandfather before shoot A Grady intern pronounced him dead. ana a member of West End Bap 'Buddy' De Sylva tist Church. Relatives said Jackson, a station manager, was held surviving are rus wiier a Mrs. J.

R. McCalla, of and several nieces and Dies in Hollywood ing himself, patrolmen said. They added a second, scrawled on a piece of cardboard, was found near his body. DeKalb Coroner S. D.

Warren launched an investigation. The body was taken to the A. S. Turner Son Funeral Home. nephews.

prisoner by the Germans for eight months before the end of the war. His survivors include his wife and HOLLYWOOD, July 11 (fl5) George "Buddy" de Sylva, 54, not two-year-cld daughter, I an the ed song writer and former produc Kay. tion head Paramount Pictures, died Tuesday at Hollywood Pres C3 A. W. Johnson Dies; Railroader byterian Hospital of a heart ailment.

WinecoffPlans Fulton Police Lt. H. I Duncan and Ptl. A. C.

Adams, quoted a witness as saying the driver lost control of the car while traveling south on Jonesboro Road. The De Sylva had been In ill health since suffering a heart attack A. W. Johnson, retired railroad Moccnrl nc Win f-r crasn followed an early morning nearly five years ago. man, died Tuesday at his residence shower, they added.

He had composed more than at 675 Lawton St, S. W. Funeral services will be held at 500 songs, among them "Avalon," p. m. Wednesday in Montgom California, Here I Come and "Sonny Boy.

They said machine struck the pole broadside, almost wrapping itself around the pole. Early effort to free the man with a hacksaw were unsuccessful. Atlanta Building Code Advisory Committee has approved plans to make the old Winecoff Hotel building a fire safe struc Two years ago the producer be came involved in a sensational ery, at Memory ChapeL i Mr. Johnson came to Atlanta from Louisville, about 10 years ago after his retirement from Louisville Nashville Rail paternity suit and the court or Funeral services will be held at dered him to pay $650 monthly for 2 p. m.

Thursday at Orchard Knob EGS 86 4 Plenty of room for frozen foods Handy new shelres in door Roomy butter conditioner Convenient sliding shelves Big high-humidity drawer the support of his illegitimate son, born to his former secretary, Ma Baptist Church. The Rev. V. Bradley, will officiate and burial will be in Hill Crest road. He was a native of Notasul-ga, Ala.

He was a member of Calvary Methodist Church, and was a Ma rie Ballentine. De Sylva, in addition to writing LU songs, produced dozens or snows ture, but only after George Bond, Committee Chairman, warned that the eyes of every building official in the nation is watching developments. Bond said "we cannot afford to make a mistake in setting up requirements for this structure." In December, 1946, the Winecoff was gutted and 119 persons lost their lives. Peachtree on Peachtree, Incn and films and made several for Surviving are a sister. Mrs." E.

Surviving also are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest K. Jackson; tunes in executive work in mo P. Henderson, of Aiken, S.

two tion pictures. seven sisters, Mrs. J. R. Morrow, Misses Fay and Anne Jackson, Mrs.

Novie Callaway, Mrs. Doris nieces, Mrs. Mary Patterson, of Atlanta, and Mrs. Mary Plant, of East Tallassee, two nephews, A. L.

Patterson, of San Francisco. 309 75 Patterson, Mrs. Mildred Hembree and Mrs. Jimmy Guzzo;" seven new owners of the structure, may build an exterior fire escape in and B. JU Patterson, of At lanta.

brothers, Lloyd, Horace, Frank, Roy, Troy, Dan and Don Jackson; grandmother, Mrs. S. T. Jackson vya-thoui and several nieces and nephews. Josie Jefferson Dies at Residence LU IHlnl II.

R. Butler Dies, ca the recessed south portion of the building and install a sprinkler system throughout or it may construct an enclosed stairway which will empty into the mezzanine floor, under the alternatives allowed by the board. Representatives of the new owners said they do not yet know which would be preferable, but added the company expects to spend in excess of $200,000 in remodeling the structure. T. Wesley Company is the contractor.

Josie Jefferson, 78, of 2231 Howell Mill N. died Retired Engineer Yom Kaow-Too Much Ntcottn Harw.hK SB Smart! Now-Cut Dow Oa Y.nr Keobaa bitalt Without Curbaf Dowa Oa Tuesday at his residence. Harvey Roy Butler, 60, retired Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday at Pleasant Yew Smoking Keaaora! railroad engineer, died Sunday Hill Methodist Church.

The Rev. night at a local hospital of a sud J. E. Cook, the Rev. W.

M. Gard LU den illness. He resided it 2253 ner and the Rev. Cecil Page will officiate and burial will be in East Lake Rd. Funeral services will be held at the churchyard.

2 11 a. m. Wednesday at the chapel ca rn Surviving are his wife: a son, of Henry M. Blanchard Son. The Rev.

L. H. Miller will offi Ralph Xing; a sister, Mrs. Lizzie Gorman, tf Atlanta, and three LESS than i NICOTINE ciate and burial will be in West grandchildren. Keep Sandwiches "JustMadefrcsh! View Cemetery.

IAS 1 Born at Estell Springs, Ala In 1890, Mr. Butler attended schools there. He came to Atlanta more Full 8 CUMC FEET than 38 years ago. Mr. Butler was an engineer en 73 a i AS EXTRAS GALORE rius 5-year pro- i Full-size Refrigerator Never Needs Defrosting 72 of food storage space AT YOUR FINGER TIPS Atlanta ie West Point Railroad for over 40 years.

He was a member of Oakhurst Baptist Church, of the -5. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi neers, and of the Masonic Lodge 23r iccuon pian en a famous Thrift- master refrlgera tor system. at Montgomery. Ala. I Surviving are rus wife; a son.

James H. Butler, of Atlanta; two LU Handy Leftover Rack Butter Condition-er and Shelves in Door Sliding, Adjustable Shelf Roomy Drawers Stain-resisting Porcelain Interior REAL Food Freeaer stores 52 lbs. daughters. Miss Margie Butler, of Atlanta, and Mrs. John E.

Callen, of Sioux City, Iowa; a brother, F. 0 a da E. Butler, of LaGrange; a sister. Mrs. J.

R. O'Brien, of Selma. Ala CALL TODAY I and a grandson, James H. Butler, of Atlanta. Thee Come in to Arthur Murray's Play Opens Today ITS On Your Old Refrigerator For Checker Title PHONE EX.

1325 CH. 4909 now and be all set for parties Don't waste another start your lessons at Arthur Murray's now and be all ready for more gay times and populirirjr LU ca Plavforthe 1950 Georgia Check er chamDionshiD begins at 9:30 LvJ Gm4 HavMattfiaf I iLX use fcSeei the new elfsalfng Ited Paper 1 a. m. Wednesday at the Jonesboro Consolidated School, according to Georgia Checker Association Pres. J.

W. Welsh, of College Far. JTrmrvrnrm The eight finalists, chosen in eliminations held Monday and Aore more popularity It's agrees that learning to dance the Arthur Murray Way is simple and so quick. That's because you start right out dancing at your first lesson. Come in and see for yourself.

Tuesday, include Defending Champion W. Q. Gresham, of Milner; Perry Fain, of Smyrna; Grady Traylor, of LaGrange; Denton Tribble. of Monroe: Webster Skel mm ton, of Atlanta; A. S.

Mitchell, of StfSffaa ftvea iplaf pra. Alluding Graiy A Dwf.Sforw I Ttacfitrs WenttJ We will train jrwi. JIRTHUH MURRAY 101 CARNEGIE WAY JL. 771 1 East Point; R. A- Armstrong, I Macon, and G.

G. Payne, of Warner Robbins..