Daily News from New York, New York • 177

Ll'L ABNER AL CAPP -AN' IT'S ALL YORE. FAULT O' TH'McLARD TRIPLETS IS CMOM NOW DONf PLAV HAN'SOME SAFE SuVzErS- jjjn TMAR'S NOTM1N WRONG WF TMAR'S NOTM1N WRONG W)F aKjYJol MARD TO GlT.1r jti 1 i in-n CI PfL ONLY HUMAN By Sidney Fields Brother Juniper s's Ii4lS1Cl Ed Dros, a big- man with a big zest for living-, supervises the burial of some 160 people a week in Potter's Field. "Most of them are the unlucky kind who are shuffled out before the deal is over." Ed sajs. They're paupers and the unidentified and tin- comes from?" he asks. We get out of the car and stand right on the field.

And he tells you it probably started with Potti-pher's Field, the place bought with Judas' 30 pieces of silver to bury paupers. Potters often came there to collect clay. Our first Potter's Field was at Washington Square in 1823. It was moved later to Fifth and 42d where the library is, then to Fourth and 50th, then to Ward's Island, and finally to Hart Island. "The first burial here was on April 20, 18B9." Ed says, looking over the 31 high acres of Potter's Field.

A woman named Louisa Van Slyke. wanted dead. Interring them is one of Ed's jobs. He's the -warden of Hart Island. 101 acres of very rice real estate in Pelham Bay -which the city uses as a minimum security jail to house from 1,200 to 1300 small time offenders.

Their sentences range from 10 days to two years. "Eight out of 10 keep coming back," say3 Ed, "A lot of them are oldtimers who have outlived She was born at sea and died unbefnended at old Charity Hospital. She was 24." Had Monument Erected Ed had a 30-foot monument put up in the center of the cemetery in 1948. the work being done by the staff and inmates. On one side is the "Pardon me, but you have to jiggle it to get it word, "Peace, on the other a simple cross.

"There's no star because we have no Jewish customers," Ed explains. "The Hebrew Free Burial Society takes care of them. Two Catholic societies started the same thing three years ago. Most- of the time no one really knows what the religion is of those we bury." The records show there are about 5S0.OOO in Potter's Field. When the 31 acres were filled Ed began using the south end of the island.

"The tug brings them in twice a week, Ed says. "We get over 8,000 a year. It's gettingjyery crowded. And we are required to have room for the temporary interment of 2,000 in case of sadden disaster in the New York area." At the south end there is a huge pit We climb down a ladder and Ed pulls aside a big board showing the pine boxes piled one on top of another. Careful records are kept on all of them; the unknown? are always fingerprinted and photographed, so anyone with the right can claim them.

Among the paupers there is an occasional prince. Someone, numbered about 400,000, was named Count Dutar de Benque. said to have been a secret agent for France and Italy, known to have been a Washington gay blade. Story of a Soldier Back in 1942 Ed had to unbury a man who had WORLD AFFAIRS: By Edgar Ansel Mowrer Ed Dros Xot troubled by the dead. IB J's Policy Men their families and their jobs and they soon learn that the best way to spend the cold winter months is to get arrested and come here.

About 30 young timers are assigned to dig the pits used for graves. They get paid oO cents a day, Need Meiv Glasses If President Johnson is the realist people say he is, maybe he had better obtaain glasses for his advisers on which makes them the highest paid inmates on the island. Lowest are the kitchen porters: two cents day. "So we always have an eager waiting list of at been buried for 33 years. His son had hit oil mil foreign affairs.

It is credibly reported that they have look lions and wanted to give his father a private burial least 0 grave diggers. Ed says. He Is a Radio Ham ed around carefully and report- And from the cold records Ed once pieced a moving story of the American soldier doming lull in ed to the boss a foreign affairs." wounded in France in World War and brought On the short drive to Potter's Field at the north end of the island you learn that his daughter is married to a TV executive and has five kids of her back from the door of death by a group of nuns. "After the war he sent them little sums of own: that Ed is a crack radio ham. was once of violence, with a second attempt by Katangans to restore the proa-ferity which Adoula's central government has not been able to preserve, can happen any day.

The Algerian-Moroccan feud slumbers, but is not dead. Somalia, whic.i has just taken arms from the USSR (with ac money." Ed says. "When they stopped they wrote to find out if anything had happened to him. No sailor, served on gasoline convoys during World War II. and quit high tension wire work when his best friend was killed.

He came to the Department answer. They pursued it and learned he had died Forget Japan and Korea, where governments friendly to the U.S. have just won elections that are a setback for their assorted Communists and troublemakers. Let's look at the rest of the world. The situations in Cuba and South Viet Nam are as bad -as ever.

Castro continues to make trouble and the Viet Cong are stepping up their attacks, while penniless and been buried here. They paid to have of Correction in 1325. He 3 as, with Tast energy him brought to France and put him in the cemetery ml ha3 a probing, curious mind. companying claims of their convent. "You know where the name Potter's Field On the drive back to catch the last boat the to be threatened by Ethiopia and 13 threatening to the "Somali" part of Kenya.

visitor asks if Ed is ever troubled by all the dead around him. They never bother U3." Ed savs. The livine talk of the "neutralization" of ao. i nese can t. Viet Nam grows louder.

BY GEORGE: Venezuela Dangerous Venezuela remains dangerous. The Communists, orthodox or Trotzkyites, still have hopes of Cakewalk spreading disorder to seize JOS jIIl jj power or provoke a military DEAR GEORGE: Just how many more so- called "men's" magazines will the market suDDort dictatorship as a prelude to takeover. A Communist Venezuela It has reached the point where I'd just as soon walk could infect half of Latin Our Two Recent Defeats And note our two most recent defeats. Cambodia's unstable prince, Premier Norodom Sihanjuk, has rhi jwn mself wholly on the mercy of P.ed China, accepting aid and "experts." This complicates our saving neighboring South Viet Nam and cou'd spark a new Communist drive in "non-aligned" Laos. And th latest somersault in Iraq brought to power pro-Nasser officers and civilian fanatics who have broken the promising Iraq-Syria tieup in favor of union with Egypt, whose troops are defying the UN in Yemen.

But why go on? If this list "promises a lull on foreign issues," God save us frcm a real storm. into a dressing room full of chorus girls as walk into any newsstand! SHOCKED. Italy has a new Cabinet, but Pietro Nenni has been unable to DEAR SHOCKED: I'd rather. DEAR GEORGE: I am doing a naner on nroa'- commit his coalition party firmly to the new government, still less ress of the American automobile, from the era of the "horseless carriage." Could you tell me when the first basic desiem pro-NATO policy. Turkey's sky is threatening.

In British Guiana, a Communist in the rumble seat began, and where? R. B. DEAR K. Immediately after it wa3 invented. takeover by Cheddi Jagan and his embattled Reds has been post and in that clump of trees on the side road about three miles out of town.

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