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The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts • 8

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The Boston Globei
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Boston, Massachusetts
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THE BOSTON DAILY GLOBE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1G, 1943 8 Seth T. Crawford Prominent Lawyer of Boston and Randolph Seth Turner Crawford, 57. prominent attorney of Boston and Randolph, died today at the Phillips House of the Massachusetts General Hospital after a brief His NO RATIONING Nor increase in price (25c) as long as present stocks last, but stocks are limited and dealers' supplies low. The Cough and Cold season here; get a bottle of Kemp's Balsam and box of Lane's Tablets from your druggist. ---Adv.

serving with the first Marine division at Guadalcanal. He was decorated for manning a telephone and directing American fire, also for bringing in his company commander while under heavy machine gun attack. Corp. Melnitsky is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Anthony Melnitsky of 55 Wetherell Newton Upper Falls. He enlisted in March, 1941. He was reported wounded on Guadalcanal Dec, 12, 1942, suffering a brok Newton Corporal in U. S. Marines Gets Navy Cross WASHINGTON.

Sept. 16 (AP) Corp. Edward Melnitsky, U. S. M.

C. 24, 55 Wetherell Newton, has been awarded the Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism" while en jaw and a shoulder wound. Melnitsky subsequently recovered in a California hospital. He has two brothers in the service: Sergt. Anthony Melnitsky.

also a marine, who was stationed cn Guadalcanal, and private Walter Melnitsky, who entered the Army in December, 1942. Corp. Melnitsky Is a graduate of Newton High School and was a machinist until he enlisted in the Ma rine Corps in March, 1941. Boston home was at 109 Pinckney Beacon Hill, and his Randolph address was North Main st. He was a native of Randolph, descendant of leaders in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

He was president of the Randolph Savings Bank and headed the board of trustees of the Turner Free Library of Randolph. He maintained law offices at 50 Congress Boston, in association with Robert M. Bowen and Charles C. Blaney. Besides his wife, Mrs.

Sallie (Ward) Crawford, he leaves a daughter, Miss Alice M. T. Crawford; two sons, John and Seth T. Crawford both of whom are in the United States Army. The funeral will be held at 2 p.

m. Saturday with services at Trinity Church, Boston, followed by private burial at Randolph. 01 K. II STEARNS' CO. ft 3r i 1 Schoolgirls' favorite arch -supporting Bring It to COWARD for EXTRA mileage si THURSDAY SEPT.

16 3 it II rJ9''S3 OonT detach coupon "1 (Sir I from Ration Book StSKy. I (iccol on mall orderij 2 v-- a Heroes Day fc 7 THIRD WAR LOAN (Ar I'JOOIO) HOME OF SLAIN ACTOR Here is Castle Hill, motfntain-top home near Hollywood of Gaspar Bacon who died of a stab wound Sunday in a suburb of Los Angeles. i i 1 "WIIV! Edward J. Sheehan MEDFIELD, Sept. 16 Final tribute was paid Edward J.

Sheehan, 60, of 44 Pleasant well-known chain store manager, today when a requiem high mass was celebrated in St. Edward's Church. Rev. Francis Shea, pastor, officiated. Burial was at Vine Lake Cemetery.

Mr. Sheehan died at Rutland State Sanitarium Monday after an illness of six months. He was a native of Franklin and had made his home in Medfield for the past 40 years. He had been a manager of chain stores for the past 25 years in Medway and Medfield. He was a member of St.

Anthony's Court, M. C. O. F. Besides his wife, Mrs.

Abigail (Arguin) Sheehan, he leaves one son, John E. Sheehan, Boston Globe staff photographer; two sisters, Mrs. Bacon Had Premonition of Death Long Before Murder IK if i4 COUNTRY FAIR Continued iromtihe First Page Still the schoolgirls' favorite. The Globe prizes are the largest HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 16 (UP) Three months before he was stabbed to death Gaspar G.

(David) Bacon "masked marvel" of the movies, wrote a brief will in pencil, his attorney disclosed today. Police believed the will indicated that Bacon had a premonition of death long before, he was found murdered by a slayer who apparently left not a single clew behind. ever offered to amateur gardeners This tan calf saddle oxford with re- William Malloy of Frankin and Mrs. Katherine Sheehan of Brookyn, N. Y.

1" i $595 AO-over Ian ti end 12 6.95 claimed rubber soles is correctly made to safeguard, the health of young growing feet. Careful mothers like the Coward arch supporting features and the value of buying a better saddle oxford these shoe-rationed days. in Boston vegetable show history. They are large enough to attract topnotch professional exhibitors, but this show is not for them. Professional exhibitors are politely uninvited.

More than 100 prizes totaling upwards of $2500 in War Bond and War Stamp prizes will be awarded. They range in value from $5 in War Stamps to one prize of a $250 -War Bond. One Eligible Father in 12 to Be Drafted WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (UP) If you are a pre-Pearl Harbor father not yet 38 years old, the chances are 12 to 1 that you won't be called for military service. Ma j.

-Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service director, told the Senate Military Affairs committee today that under present plans one eligible father in every 12 will be inducted. Five Display Classes Nearly one-half of thisnrize mnnov THE is concentrated in the five display classes where 13 War Bond awards ard "Si io ova 30 WEST ST. WWmiw.ii if' yJ- ranging in value from $25 to $250 total $950.

No gardener who has won first prize for a display or collection of vegetables in Horticultural Hall this year can compete in these display classes. Globe Garden Club members who have won display or collection first prizes in previous Horticultural Hall shows this year can, however, compete in the 32 specimen, special and canning classes where War Bond and Stamp prizes ranging in value from $5 to $25 have a total of $1380. The deadline for entries has been extended because additional room for exhibits has been made available at Horticultural Hall. There can be no extension of the time set for judging. Vegetables and canning exhibits must be brought to Horticultural Hall on Friday evening from 6 p.

m. to 9 p. in. or Saturday morning from wsn 10 ft--wtfr Hffz-vf i 1 Are your dollars doing their share for our heroes? You can honor someone you know in the service by buying bonds on American Heroes Day! We don't have to go to the front personally, but we can send our dollars to help the men who are fighting for us. We can make our money buy bullets and bombs to back the attack.

Let's get in and make this our war, too. Buy bonds and honor a fighter you know. Stearns Bond Booths, Inside Both Main Floor Entrances R. H. STEARNS CO.

IAP WUi-lJlioto) s-v- nnssnr rv ii-m I in. lu Jiuuii, iviu.i i wl ijiv wnuam o. cm4 entrants in the big prize money dis yesterday in Los Angeles to aid police investigation of death of his play classes will probably want to set up their exhibits Friday night because of the time involved. The last minute entry of a plate of beans in the specimen classes might still get under the wire at 11:59 Saturday morning. mat jl brother, Gaspar G.

Bacon, Jr. The will left his estate of "more than $10,000" to his widow, Greta Keller Bacon, a former Austrian concert singer. She was taken today to Presbyterian Hospital by her physician who believed the strain of the tragedy might caus epremature arrival of a child she expects this Winter. Atty. Joseph Scott said he knew of no reason why Bacon suddenly decided last June 14 to write a will which said: David G.

G. Bacon, sometimes Will Assist Exhibitors A staff of Globe and Horticultural Hall workers will be on hand at the hall Friday evening and Saturday morning to assist and direct exhibitors. Display class entrants must furnish their own decorations "out unlimited Quantities of white Paper. Cam peat moss, water, tables, horses and benches are available for their use. E)(Q)m The recently added Odds and Ends Class, which was not included in the original Country Fair schedule, may very well be the largest class in the show.

Anything that grows in the ground in response to good treatment, sunlight, water and known as Gaspar Bacon being of sound mind and body, leave all that I have in wordly goods to my wife, Greta Keller Bacon, including all my holdings in the J. Picrpont Morgan Company, the Guarantee Trust Company, Seaman's Institute of Boston, First National Bank of Boston, all cash in the Bank, of America, all real estate, and my house in Woods Hole Bacon belonged to a prominent Boston family. He was the fifth man to play the role of the "Masked Marvel" in a series of screen thrillers, getting the part because the four previous screen heroes had been injured ac cidentally. Last month, associates recalled, when he left the studio he said: "I'd better look out or something will happen to me." I air may be entered in this class. It was created at the insistent demand of Garden Club members who had unusually good luck in raising vegetables.

fruits, and flowers not included in the original schedule. They demanded a chance to show them off and there's no reason why they can't. The difficulties of judging this diversified group are obvious and the judges of this class should be more pitied than blamed. Not the least of the Country Fair's attractions will be the New England championship square dancing and prompting contests which will be conducted by Lawrence V. Loy of the Massachusetts Stale College Extension Service.

Prompters are not as plentiful ns they were in Grandpa's day, but there are still a few left. All of those who can surmount current travel and occupational difficulties will be on hand Saturday afternoon and evening to chant their quaint calls to what promises to be a plentiful supply of dance teams. Each prompter will be asked to call one or more of the four "changes" which he submits. They may bring their own musicians if they so desire, but qualified musicians will be provided to play for prompters not bringing their own orchestras. Prompters not bringing their own (100 Yards from Copley Square) RECENT DEATHS GEORGE 54.

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