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HANDY -Friday, January 5, 1945.1 ROSE V. HANDY (nee Farrell), beloved wife of Prank; loving mother Francis, Muriel, James, Doris and Robert, and sister of Mrs. Thomas Nelson, Mrs. Agnes Hoehn, Mrs. Charles Schuman, John and William Farrell; also survived by three grandchildren.

Funeral Tuesday from her home, 388 8th Street: solemp requiem mass St. Saviour's Church, 10 a.m. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. HECKER-ADOLPH (OTTO), of Queens Village, L. on Sunday, January 7, 1945, beloved husband Esther and devoted father of Ruth E.

Hecker. Masonic service at Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, Tuesday, 8 p.m. Please omit flowers. HEGARTY Corp. KEVIN 10 killed in action in Luxembourg, December 26, 1944.

Survived by his loving parents, Joseph and Mary Hegarty; sisters, Helen. Joan, Patricia, Maureen; brothers, John, Joseph and Bren- ces dan. Requiem mass Holy Cross Church on Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. HELD -FREDERICK, on January 1945, father of Armour. Service the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, Tuesday at 1 p.m.

HODGE SAMUEL SIDNEY, on January 6, 1945, beloved uncle of Mrs. H. W. Felter, Mrs. J.

H. Baxter, Mrs. J. F. Gorman and Albert of Hodge.

Services Walter B. Cooke, Funeral Home, 50 7th Avenue, Tuesday, 4 p.m. Interment Lakeview Cemetery, Bridgeport, Wednesday, a.m. (Bridgeport pacopy). KIERNAN-EDWARD Janu- of 6.

Survived by son, Edward daughter, Eugenie, and sister, Annie. Funeral from residence, 107 Schenck Avenue, Tuesday, 9:30 86 a.m. Solemn requiem mass, 10 o'clock, St. Malachy's R. C.

Church. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. KILLEN JOSEPHINE, January 1945, beloved wife of James J. of Killen; devoted mother of Barbara Marie Killen. Solemn requiem mass Holy Family Church, 13th Street, between 4th and 5th Avenues, 10 a.m.

Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. KRAUSS-On January 7, AUGUST ALBERT, veteran of World War beloved husband of Margaret M. (nee Adam) and loving father Frieda of Margaret beloved son of Krauss and brother of Mrs. Frieda 8 Schmitt, Katherine Krauss and Charles Krauss. Funeral service at F.

Higgins Funeral Home, 1286 Prospect Avenue, on' January 9, at 8 p.m. Interment Green- Wood Cemetery, January at 2 p.m. LARNEY-JEAN (nee Donnelly), January 6, 1945, beloved wife of Pfc. Patrick, U. S.

M. overseas; dear mother of John, Eugene, and sister of Sgt. Frank, U. Reposing at M. J.

Smith Memorial, Prospect Park West, until Wednesday, 10 a.m. Requiem mass Holy Name Church. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. LOCKWOOD-EDITH January 6, 1945, at her residence, 326 12th Street. Survived by one son, William; one daughter, Mrs.

Dorothy Ryan. Reposing at Boyertown Chapel, 38 Lafayette Avenue. Requiem mass Wednesday, 10 a.m., Holy Family Church. Director, Eugene Newman. MA beloved son of DON Stephen STEPHEN, and Celeste Mayham, killed in action in France, November 15, 1944.

Solemn requiem mass at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Church, Queens Boulevard and Ascan Avenue, Forest Hills, N. 10 a.m., Wednesday, January 10. on MOBRIDE, 7, at ANN her home, (nee 327 Crone), 93d Street; beloved wife of Peter; ing mother of Mrs. Kathleen Wright, Mrs. Ann Thompson, Maysie, Noreen, John, the Rev.

William, chaplain British Army. Funeral Wednesday, 9:30 a.m. Solemn mass of requiem St. Patrick's Church. Interment St.

John' Cemetery. NIEMAN-WILLIAM LEWIS, beloved husband Dorothy Aspinall Nieman; father of the Rev. William Nieman and Audre Knoess. Reposing at Chapel of Powell Son, 230 Broadway, Amityville, L. until Tuesday, 9:30 a.m.

Services St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Amityville, Tuesday, 2:30 p.m. O'BRIEN-ANNA (nee Nanry), of 849 73d Street, on January wife of the late Walter. Survived by one daughter, Mrs. Hilbert Ahlers; two sons, Frank and Walter.

Funeral from the Parlors of James F. McKeon Son, 7212 Fort Hamilton Parkway, Tuesday, 9:30 a.m.; thence the R. C. Church of St. Ephrem, where a mass will be offered.

Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. PHILLIPS SOLOMON, January 6, 1945, beloved husband of Rose; devoted father of Technical Sgt. Joseph Pvt. Robert M. and Julia; brother of Mrs.

Fannie Koski. Funeral Wednesday, 9:30 a.m., from the McManus Funeral Home, 2001 Flatbush Avenue: requiem mass R. C. Church of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Interment Holy Cross Cemetery, PYNE MARGARET, Saturday, January 6, 1945, daughter of the late William and Margaret Pyne; sister of the late Mary and Thomas Pyne. Funeral a Tuesday at 10 a.m., from McGuckin's, 1341 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn; thence to St. Gregory's Church, Brooklyn Avenue and St. John's Place, where a requiem mass will be celebrated. REARDON-On January 7, 1945, HANNAH beloved wife of John J.

Reardon; devoted mother of Mrs. Theodore Michelson, Mrs. Charles Hughes, Mrs. John J. Woods and Staff Sgt.

Joseph P. Reardon, U. S. Army. Funeral from her residence, 442 47th Street, on Wednesday, January 10, at 9:30 a.m.; requiem mass St.

Michael's R. C. Church. Interment St. John's Cemetery.

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Saturday night for publication, RUGGE- -Suddenly, January 7, 1945, at home, 206 Richard Street, JOHN HENRY, beloved husband of Harriet; dear father of Lt. Henry A. overseas, and George grandfather of Iris Ann. Funeral from the Chapel of George Siebold, 384 Van Brunt Street, on Wednesday. Funeral service at St.

Paul's Lutheran Church, Henry Street, 10 a.m. Interment Lutheran Cemetery. REILLY MARY, on Saturday, January 6, 1945, mother of Catherine Smith, Mary Batsche, Helen Carrol, Florence Edna Frey, Veronica McKnight and John Reilly. Funeral from Fairchild Chapel, 89-31 164th Street, Jamaica, of Tuesday, 9:30 a.m.; thence to Immaculate Conception Church, where requiem mass will be offered at a.m. RUXTON PHILIP, January 8.

in his 79th year, husband of Louise De Witt Ruxton; father of Louise Ruxton Chauncey and FranRuxton Heppenhelmer; grandfather of Ensign William C. Heppenheimer 3d, U. S. N. Mrs.

Dennis Dix and Faith Heppenheimer. Funeral services at his home, January 9, 2 p.m. Services private. Interment East Hampton, Long Island. SCHWORER CATHERINE, on Saturday, January 6, 1945, at the Methodist Episcopal Hospital, wife Jacob and mother of Mrs.

Wilbur H. Crane and Edmond Schworer. Service at the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, on Monday at 8 p.m. SWEENEY-EDWARD FRANCIS, Sunday, January 7, 1945, father Edward J. Sweeney and Mrs.

Helen Savage, and grandfather of Eileen Sweeney and Lester Savage Service at Fairchild Chapel, Lefferts Place, Tuesday at 8 p.m. STELLWAGEN-FREDERICK January 6, 1945, beloved husband of the late Emma father Vera and the late Fred Stellwagen; brother of Mrs. Florence Short. Services at his residence. Lincoln Road, Monday at 8 p.m.

Interment Tuesday at convenience of family. -January 5, 1945, CHARLES at Veterans Administration Hospital, Kingsbridge Road, Bronx, New York, veteran of World War member of 23d Regiment, of Grace Irene Steenwerth. Religious services Monday, p.m., at H. F. McKeon's Funeral Home, 5017 7th Avenue, near 51st Street.

Funeral Tuesday, 2 p.m. Interment "The Evergreens." STEPHENSON MARY on January 6, 1945, beloved wife of Joseph; devoted mother of Alban, Estelle and Florence. Funeral from Walter B. Cooke, Funeral Home, 151 Linden Boulevard, Tuesday, 9 a.m.; solemn requiem mass St. Gregory's Church, 9:30 a.m.

VANDERVEER GERTRUDE VAN SICLEN LOTT, suddenly, on January 6, 1945, widow of John Vanderveer, and mother of Cornelia Lott Vanderveer Gibson and grandmother of John Vanderveer Gibson. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend funeral services, at her residence, South Road, West Islip, on Wednesday morning, 11 o'clock. Burial Green-Wood Cemetery. VAN WYCK-FANNY GILFILLAN, on January 6, wife of Albert Wyck; mother of Samuel B. Van Wyck.

Services at St. Bartholomew's Chapel, Park Avenue and 51st Street, New York City, Tuesday, January 9, 10 a.m. Please omit flowers. VINCENT-JOSEPH, on January 1945, beloved husband of Marie; dear father of Mrs. Clifford Read, Mrs.

Burns and S. S. M. 3d Class Theodore. Reposing at M.

J. Smith Memorial, 248 Prospect Park West, until Tuesday, 9:30 a.m.; requiem mass Holy Cross Church. Interment Holy Rood Cemetery, Westbury. WAGNER MAE January 6, 1945, beloved wife of Royal devoted mother of Muriel, Thomas, James; daughter of Louis and Dorothy Munroe; sister of Muriel Schnitzler, Pvt. Lewis Munroe, U.

S. Army, and George Munroe. Services Monday, 8 p.m., at her restdence, 1276 Prospect Avenue. Funeral Tuesday, 2 p.m. Interment Green- Wood Cemetery.

WARD IRENE on January 7, 1945; loving wife of John dea voted mother of Mrs. Joseph P. Hayden, Corp. Peter M. and Pfc.

John overseas; daughter of Mrs. Mary Fielder; sister of George and cousin of Sister Mary Austin (Sister of Mercy). from residence, 260 Classon, Avenue, on Thursday, January at 9:30 a.m. Solemn requiem mass Sacred Heart R. C.

Church. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery, WATSON ADELINE (nee Aldrich), January 7, 1945, dear mother of George, Harry, Andrew, and sister of Mrs. Mary Jones, Mrs. Ida also survived by five grandchildren. Reposing Harry Quayle Home, 1341 Smith Street, Until Wednesday at 10 a.m.

Clarence F. Simonson Funeral Home, 119-04 Hillside Avenue, Richmond Hill. Interment Wednesday, WESSELS-ALBERT, January 6, 1945, beloved husband of Elizabeth; dear father of Sgt. Albert, U. S.

Army overseas; Harry W. and WilHam also survived by sister, Laura Kaufmann. Services Monday, 8 p.m., Koch Funeral Home, 585 Evergreen Avenue. Cremation at Fresh Pond Tuesday, 11 a.m. WOLFF-LAZARUS, devoted husband of the late Bertha; father Anita Lehman; dear brother of Annie, Barney, Abraham, Dora, Elizabeth and Lillian.

Services at Sherman's Flatbush Memorial Chapel, 1283 Coney Island Avenue (Avenue J), Tuesday, 2:30 p.m. WONSOR EDWARD of 109-10 Park Lane South, Richmond Hill, beloved father of Seaman 1st Class George E. Wonsor and brother of Mrs. Lulu La Perle. Services Tuesday, January 9, 8 p.m., at the 11 a.m., Evergreens Cemetery.

WHEN OUT OF TOWN REGISTER FROM BROOKLYN A. TORREGROSSA $150 Funeral Homes Complete Funeral 1305 79th St. BEachview 2-8844 Branch-521 Hicks St. ALEXANDER STIRLING CALDER, FAMED AS SCULPTOR, DIES Funeral services for Alexander Stirling Calder, sculptor, who died Saturday in St. Luke's Hospital, Manhattan, will be held at 3:30 p.m.

tomorrow in the Campbell Funeral Church, Madison Ave. and 81st Manhattan. He would have been 75 this Thursday. His home was at 36 Pierrepont St. Examples of his work are exhibited in many leading galleries, institutions, public buildings and parks.

He executed a heroic figure Leif Ericsson presented by the United States to Iceland on the anniversary of the country's parliament. Other works include a statuary on Washington Arch, Manhattan, the Fairmount Park marble sun dial and other works at Philadelphia and Pasadena, Cal. Leonard Kimmel's Memory Honored Delegations from many Brooklyn organizations yesterday attended the dedication of a plaque in memory of Radioman 3d Class Leonard Kimmel, U. S. N.

at the New Lots Jewish Center, New Lots and Pennsylvania Aves. Kimmel was killed in action aboard the U. S. S. Buck off the coast of on Oct.

9, 1943. Among Italy, organizations represented were the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Jewish War VetClub and the Sephardic Club. erans, Knights of Pythias, a Sector Speakers included Joseph B. Witty, Democratic leader of the 2d A. Representative Leo Rayfiel of the 9th Congressional District, Assistant District Attorney Nathan W.

Math, Assemblyman J. Sidney Levine of the 2d A. James M. Powers, Democratic leader of the 13th A. and Peter Deutsch, Republican leader of the 24th A.

D. J. Howard Kemp Rites Tomorrow Great Neck, Jan. 8-Funeral services for J. Howard Kemp of Great Neck, business manager of the United States School of Music, here, will be held at 2:30 p.m., tomorrow, at St.

Paul's Church. He died Saturday in St. Luke's Hospital, Manhattan. Mr. Kemp, who was 43, was graduated from Princeton University in 1923 and for many years was in the real estate business in Florida and Great Neck.

Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. David F. Kemp; a son, John Howard Kemp and five brothers, David Yeoman 2d Class Robert, U. S.

N. Louis, George and Lt. Comm. Walter Kemp, U. S.

N. R. Mrs. Peter McBride Mrs. Ann Crone McBride, wife of Peter McBride, died yesterday at her home, 327 93d St.

She was 62 and came to this country from Barrow-In-Furness, England. Mrs. McBride was the mother of Capt. William A. McBride, a chaplain in the British Army.

Also surviving are another son, John; four daughters, Maysie and Noreen, Mrs. Nan Thompson and Mrs. John Wright, and six grandchildren. A solemn mass of requiem will be offered Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. at St.

Patrick's R. C. Church, 4th Ave. and 95th St. Burial will be in St.

John's Cemetery. In Demoriam -In loving memory of SARAH, who died January 8, 1943. Masses offered. Daughter, EMMA; Nieces, ROSE and SADIE. KELLY -MARY ELIZABETH.

In loving memory of our dear mother, who died January 8, 1937. Masses offered. CHILDREN. PACKARD In loving memory of JOSEPH S. PACKARD, who passed away November 8, 1944.

WIFE and DAUGHTERS. PETTERSEN-In loving memory of Lt. (J.g.) ROY H. PETTERSEN, who passed away January 8, 1942. Always in our hearts WIFE and MOTHER.

ZEISER-ANNIE. In memory of our dear mother. Passed away one year ago today. Anniversary mass Wednesday at 7:30 a.m. in Holy Cross Church.

"Sadly missed," Sons and Daughters. Masses Masses CONWAY AGNES. Solemn month's mind mass on Wednesday January 10, at 9:30 a.m., St. Teresa's Church, Classon Avenue and Sterling Place, mass to be offered by her son, Chaplain Joseph J. Conway, U.

S. N. R. CRONIN-First anniversary mass will be offered for our dearly beloved father, JERE J. CRONIN, January 10, 1945, at 9 a.m., St.

Charles Borromeo R. C. Church. FAMILY. Acknowledgments FINDLAY We wish to extend our heartfelt thanks and appreciation for acts of kindness, messages of sympathy and beautiful floral offerings received from our kind friends, neighbors and fellow workers of Bethlehem Steel during our recent bereavement in the loss of our beloved husband and father, DANIEL C.

We especially thank Rev. W. R. Smith, members of the F. A.

the Eastern Star. Somewhere in the beautiful hilltops Of the city that hath no pain He will wait in the beautiful doorway And bid us welcome again. Mrs. DANIEL CAMERON FIND-. LAY and FAMILY.

BUY U. S. WAR BONDS AND SAVINGS STAMPS SERVING BROOKLYN SINCE 1896 GEORGE D. CONANT Moadinger Funeral Parlors 1120 Flatbush Avenue Tel. BUckminster 2-0247 BROOKLYN EAGLE, JAN.

8, 1943 1 Braths Ann tullette McBride, William Florence Brien, Anna Phillips, Solomon art. Settle Pyne, Margaret Ante Reardon, Hannah Er, John E. John H. C. Reilly, Mary Mary C.

Philip Robert P. Steenwerth, C. F. Pauline F. L.

Lavassa Stephenson, M. I Grace John Sweeney, Edward r. Vanderveer, G. Lena Van Wyck, F. G.

Rose Adolph V. Vincent, Joseph Wagner, Mae Frederick Watson, Adeline Samuel Edward Wessels, Albert Ward, Irene W. Josephine Wonsor, Edward August Wolff, Lazarus Jean Edith rood, notices contain of the funerals follewing er who died death memorial rices of services the country: the Kevin D. Hegarty, Pfc. Corp.

Don Stephen agham, 5, 1945. RNETT 711. 79th Street, January TIE, of daughter of Bergen, N. Sarah (nee ate Samuel beloved sister Fannie and set: Charlotte Mack. FuMrs.

Tuesday, 2 p.m., at service Chapel, 86 Lefferts Fairchild Interment GreenBrooklyn. Cemetery, MARY, January 7, CHME wife of the late Paul; cloved mother of Margaret William, Coan, eth of Elizabeth Furey Suzansky, sister Kane; also sursix grandchildren. Fuaristopher by her home, 551 Solemn requiem mass, Thursday from Street. St. Thomas Aquinas Church.

Ingements by Joseph G. Duffy. FLORENCE, of 98 INEY on Sunday, JanuAvenue, 1945, beloved mother of Clark, John H. Harry A. inner.

Reposing at Weigand ens Funeral Home, 1015 Halsey Brooklyn. Services Tuesday, Funeral Wednesday, 2 p.m. Lutheran Cemetery. -NETTIE, at PlainJ. on Saturday, January sister of the late Mary E.

Ind aunt of William H. Holt, Holt, Mrs. Marcellus A. B. and the late Frank E.

Holt. at the GreenWood Cemeba pel, Brooklyn, on Tuesday, 9, at 2 p.m. NE-ANNE, January 6. Surdaughter, Mrs. Ann Grayand three grandchildren.

from Feeney 1847 Broadway, WednesSolemn requiem mass, ed, Holy Rosary R. C. Church. lent St. John's Cemetery.

PBELL CATHERINE (nee 1 791 E. 40th Street; dear of Robert, Mrs. Herbert and Mrs. Matthew Kennedy. of funeral later.

Please omit Masses preferred. -JOHN on January at his residence, 1341 E. 23d Brooklyn, husband of Mary (nee Luttrell): father of T. Cassidy, Mrs. Grace and 1 Mrs.

George Cadenas. I from his residence 0:30 a.m.; solemn requiem Our Lady Help of Christians Avenue M. and E. 28th Wednesday at 10 a.m. Erection Orville T.

Cronk. -EDWARD, on Friday, Janbeloved husband of father of Edward Cox and Justin Zender. Funeral from airchild Chapel, 89-31 164th Jamaica, Tuesday, 9:30 a.m.; mass Church of the Preson, 10 a.m. MINGS--On Saturday, Jan1945, at 417 5th Street, retired school principal, of P. S.

No. 72, Manhatloved sister of the late John Michael Cummings. Funeral 5. 10:30 a.m.; solemn mass St. Saviour's Church.

Inat Holy Cross Cemetery. -ROBERT on January beloved husband of Cathdevoted father of Peter, U.S. Army: Corp. Edward, CathMills and Sgt. Edna, U.

S. overseas; Lillian brother of John, Steiger and HenriTeehan. Funeral from ch Avenue, Tuesday; requiem Chapel, 80 a.m., St. Stanislaus Church. pent St.

John's Cemetery. CH-PAULINE. at her ace, 578 Barbey Street, on 7, beloved wife of Herman; mother of Lillian, Loretta on, Viola Guento and Fred, Arthur, at her residence Herbert. Religious Tuesday, Interment family plot, LuCemetery Wednesday, RELL- -January 5. 1945, beloved wife pother of John ward J.

and Sgt. Luwassa Bergen Boone, Farof Mrs. Funeral at Walter B. Cooke, Reposing Home, 1218 Flatbush thence until Wednesday, to St. Thomas Church, where a mass of Aquinas will be offered.

1945, beloved Sunday, JanJennie F. Fausel; devoted daughter Mrs. Ethel B. Knecht. sisher ServTuesday, residence, 8:30 p.m.

156 Service Russell Wednesday, Church, p.m, Russell Intergements Evergreens." Weigand Brothers. ANER LENA, devoted mother on of January Marie and mother of Cathleen Dorothy L. Lane; and Lt. Frederick B. ing at C.

Bender. Madison Stutzmann Time of services Ridgewood. Avenue, January ANGER--JOHN, beloved husband Springfield ear brother of William. Bertha ene Francis Murphy Funeral 216-08 Gardens, Merrick Wednesday, January Springa.m. Alene R.

C. Church to St. Mary requiem mass will where a.m. Interment be offered beery, Holy Cross Unconscious Pilot 'Bails Out'-Lands in Tree, His Chute Still Shut He was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the Municipal Art Commiston. He was acting chief of sculpture of the Panama- Pacific International Exposition at San Francisco in 1915 and was an instructor at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York.

His latest work, a head of Winston Churchill, was placed on exhibition several months ago at the Grand Central Galleries in Manhattan. Mr. Calder was born in Philadelphia. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and in Paris. Three generations of his family have been sculptors.

He is widow, Mrs. Nanette Calder; a daughsurvived. ter, Mrs. Margaret Hayes, and son, Alexander. Pvt.

Frank B. Federico Pvt. F. B. Federico, War Casualty Pvt.

Frank B. Federico, 20, was killed in action in France on Oct. 28, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gasper Federico of 45 Central have been notified by the War Department.

He been overseas since November, 1943, and had fought in Italy before seeing action in France. For wounds received action he had been awarded the Purple Heart, He also the holder of the Silver Star. A native of Brooklyn, he was graduated from Grover Cleveland High School in January, 1943, and entered the service in April of the same year. Most of his military training was received at Camp Wheeler, Ga. Besides his parents, he is survived by a brother, James, a student at Grover Cleveland High School.

A requiem mass will be offered Jan. 29 at 9 a.m. at Our Lady of Pompeil R. C. Church, Seigel St.

near Bushwick Ave. 250 Attend Service For Pvt. Haussler Two hundred and fifty persons attended a memorial service for Pvt. Herbert V. Haussler yesterday at St.

Luke's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 259 Washington Ave. The Rev. Paul E. Schmidt, rector, officiated. Private Haussler, who lived at 79-33 212th Flushing, was killed in Germany on Nov.

22, last, while serving with an infantry unit, He was 36. A native of Brooklyp, he was manager of his father's repair company at 1620 Atlantic Ave. before entering the armed forces. He went overseas last May, Surviving are His widow, Mrs. Anna Haussler; his parents, Mr.

and Gottlieb Haussler, and a brother, Pvt. William Haussler of the army medical corps. St. Luke's has two other gold stars on its service flag, for Albert E. Oberg and Walter Du as, among 65 blue stars.

Adolph Hecker, 62, Ex-Contractor Adolph Hecker, 62, retired, building contractor, who was formerly vice president of the Aurora Construction Company, Brooklyn, since dissolved, died yesterday Brooklyn Hospital. He lived at 223-11 109th Queens Village. Born in Manhattan, Mr. Hecker came to Brooklyn early in the cenand was a member of Greentury, Lodge, 569, F. A.

and Flatbush Chapter, R. A. M. An ardent sportsman, he was well known as a fisherman on the Long Island shores. He moved from Brooklyn to Queens Village 23 years ago.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Esther Hecker, and a daughter, Ruth Hecker. Masonic services will be held at 8. p.m. tomorrow.

at the Fairchild Chapel, Place. 'Abdominal Cavity' Baby And Mother 'Doing Well' Los Angeles, Jan, 8 (U.P.) Fourday-old Iris Walker was doing quite well today, and her mother, Mrs. Bessie Lee Walker, 23, showed no ill effects from the Caesarian section by which the baby was delivered from her abdominal cavity where it had developed outside the uterus. The baby was normally conceived, physicians said, and survived a hazarduous prenatal period only because nature made unusual adjustments for her. SAVE FATS AND WASTEPAPER Fred HERBST Sons Morticians 83 HANSON PLACE at the L.

I. R. R. Depot and 7501 5th Avenue 711 65th Street BROOKLYN, N. Y.

Earl C. Herbal, Licensee PHONE: SHORE ROAD 5-1600 8th Air Force Headquarters, Jan. 8 (U.P)-A Mustang fighter pilot, knocked unconscious in the air, came to a half hour later dangling from the limb of a tree 10 feet off the ground with the ripcord of his parachute unpulled. That is the story of 2d Lt. Emory Taylor, 24, of Austin, Tex.

"People laugh every time I tell about it," Taylor said. "But, believe it or not, that's what I did. I bailed out-or rather got out conscious--and landed safely without pulling the ripcord." Taylor was on his fourth mission with the 352d Mustang group escorting heavy bombers when his engine cut out and he dove to 10,000 feet before he managed to get restarted, only to find his magnetic compass useless. "I knew something was definitely wrong," he said, "so I pulled out my pocket compass, gos my bearings and headed due west make an emergency landing beland our lines. "I knew I was right over the battle line, but I was losing altitude so rapidly I decided to peep through the clouds to find a Flak punctured the wing and convinced me I should go farther west.

"I had just started climbing when another flak, burst exploded right in front of my nose, putting three holes in the canopy and knocking out the rudder control. I climbed to 6,000 feet. jettisoned the canopy and started over the side. Clothes Ripped to Shreds "The wind was so strong it blew me back, Into the cockpit. When I made a second attempt the pressure of the wind threw me against the Boro Kid's Talk to Dead Nazi Screened in Hollywood 'As Is' Hollywood, Jan.

8 (U.P) -Today we SAW a newspaper dispatch come life. Line by line, word for word, action for action, it WAs on the screen the way United Press Correspondent Collie Small wrote it, It was a poignant dispatch from Germany. Small had come across A Brooklyn GI talking to a dead German. The kid had just misted getting the payoff. Now he WAS full of the wonder of being alive while the big blond German lay there dead.

Producer Lewis Milestone read Small's dispatch in his and decided he had to get It Into his picture, "A Walk in the Sun." "We didn't have any writing to do," Milestone said. "We just lifted there whole asked George dispatch." Offermnn, a New kid himself, to take the part. Offerman was worried. "With something that really happened like that," "whe sald, "I kept wondering if I doing it the Mrs. Vanderveer Rites Wednesday Babylon, Jan.

8-Funeral services for Mrs. Gertrude Siclen Lott Vanderveer, who died Saturday, will be held at 11 a.M. Wednesday at her home on South Country Road, West Islip. The Rev. Dr.

Albert A. Leininger, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, here, will officiate. Burial will be in. Green- Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs.

Cornelia L. V. Gibson: A son, John V. Gibson, and three sisters, Joanna D. Lott, Sarah E.

Lott and Mrs. Charles V. Rapelje. Samuel Strobing, Father of Noted Gl Samuel Strobing, 55, of 605 Barbey a tailor, died Saturday Be in Monteftore Hospital, the Bronx. He was the father of Sgt.

Irving Strobing, army radio operator who sent the last message from Corregidor before its capture by the Japanese in May, 1942. Besides the sergeant, who was reported to have been taken a prisoner by the Japanese, he is survived by his widow, Mrs. Minnie Strobing; another son, Joseph, with the Coast Artillery, and a daughter, Sylvia Strobing. Cummings, Retired Principal A solemn mass of requiem, for Mary M. Cummings of 415 5th retired principal of Public School 72, Manhattan, who died Saturday, will be offered tomorrow at 10:30 a.m.

at St. Saviour's R. C. Church, 8th Ave. and 6th St.

Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery. Born in Manhattan, Miss Cummings was a graduate of Hunter College. Before becoming principal of Public School 72, where she served for 19 years, she taught in a number of other Manhattan schools. She was a sister of the late John and Michael Cummings' and came to this borough to live :13 She was well known for Hearinter. est in charitable enterprises.

C. L. Weeks Rites Held Northport, Jan. 8-P'uneral services for Charles L. Weeks, who for years was a Suffolk County deputy sheriff, were held yesterday at his Bayview Ave.

home, where he died Wednesday. The Rev. Walter F. Tuhey, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, officiated. Burial was in Cedar Cemetery, Flushing.

He and Mrs. Weeks, who came here in 1894, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary three years ago. Henry Jarvis. Centreport, Jin. 8-Funeral services for Henry Jarvis, 68, a native of this village, were held yesterday at Centreport Methodist Church, with the Rev.

Wilbur Schoonhoven officiating. Burial was in Northport Rural Cemetery. He died last week at his home in Hartford, Conn. Surviving; are three daughters, Dorothy, Hilda and Mildred; a son, Henry, and two sisters, Mrs. Hattie Davis and Mrs.

Walter Penny, the latter of Mineola. Hewry Mr Caddin Sona FUNERAL SERVICE Homelike Chapel Moderate Charges 24 7th Avenue Corner Sterling Place NEvins 8-8912 SOuth 8-6540 Henry McCaddin, Manager armor plate and I lost ness. "When I came to a half hour later I WAS suspended from a tree limb. The ring of the ripcord was still in place, but the chute and the shroud lines had become entangled in the branches and were holding me 10 feet above the ground. "My clothes were ripped to shreds and I was bruised and scratched." Taylor freed himself of the harness and hid under a ledge until he saw a Jeep pass and realized he WAS on the right side of the line.

Then he walked to an aid station where medics told him they had seen him tumble out of a plane and land in a tree. "We thought you were a German paratrooper," the medics told him. "But the area around the tree was so heavily mined we didn't think it was necessary to investigate." Byrnes Denies Columnist's Charge way the guy did it." He probably dAd. George was sitting beside us when he standing on a burnran off. the scene.

On the ing armored car, talking to the body, "You know, A1," he said, "up there, got, right to squawk. You make up tor one of ours. you. You're deader than a mackerel. Look at me.

I still got a whole life to look forward to. "Just because of you. I got a tour of Europe that don't cost me A thing. and what did you get? You got shot in a barnyard, that's what, you big dope." And then a guy who might be Correspondent Small stepped up. "Just having little talk with Al here." the kid said.

"Guess I better a be shoving off now. How about telling my mom I'm okay?" It WAS as effective on the screen as it was in the newspapers, and we want Correspondent Small to know they didn't change a word. THE WEATHER Official Weather Report of the U. S. Weather Bureau JAN.

8, 1945 FORECASTsnow flurries: 30; gentle to clondy with lowed by clearing morning: lowest moderate winds. much colder perature 20 to Abilene Albany Amarillo Atlanta Atlantic City Baltimore Binghamton Birmingham Bismarck Block Island Boston Buffalo Butte Charleston Chattanooga Chicago Cinennat Cleveland Denver Des Moines Detroit Dodge City Duluth Eastport El Pano Fargo Worth Galveston Hartford Hatteras Houston Huron Indhanapolis Jackson Jacksonville Kansas City Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Macon -This afternoon cloudy with highest temperature near moderate winds. Tonight occasional snow flurries, foland colder early Tuesday temperature 20; gentle to Tomorrow fair and cold; Tuesday night: highest tem25; moderate to fresh winds. Temperature Temperature Low High Low 37 Memphis 46 32 1'7 12 Meridian 68 41 56 32 Miami 75 68 54 46 Milwaukee 28 22 48 28 Mpls-8t. Pl.

22 32 Mobile 74 45 24 64 23 38 New Nantucke Orleans 48 73 30 49 3 -13 N. Y. City 28 36 23 Norfolk 55 36 20 15 North Platte 48 25 26 20 Oklahoma C'y 53 38 45 33 Omaha 31 62 56 Philadelphia 32 23 47 44 Phoenix 68 39 28 22 Pittsburgh 34 31 37 25 Portland, Me. 13 32 20 Portland Ore. 62 07 55 42 Raleigh 53 38 27 26 Rapid City 48 6 21 12 Richmond 34 32 54 36 Roswell 63 34 13 -3 Sacramento 46 41 16 st.

Louis 29 27 60 36 Salt Lake City 47 39 12 -19 San Antonio 68 35 57 38 San Diego 71 40 62 45 Sandy Hook 29 25 23 16 San Francisco 54 44 62 47 Sault Ste. Me. 19 14 20 9 Savannah 60 59 38 Seattle 43 28 -6 Shreveport 33 17 Spokane 34 63 Springf'ld, Ill. 28 23 65 63 Tampa 33 30 Tucson, Ariz. 36 45 31 Washington 32 27 75 54 Williston 14 -17 38 32 Wilmington 63 54 67 49 William Sidney Ritch William Sidney Ritch, 81, a pioneer experimenter in making photographic portraits inside homes, died Saturday at Los Angeles, where he lived since leaving Brooklyn 15 years ago.

Becoming interested in photography at 35, when he gave a box camera to his son, Harold, he began experiments which led to a device synchronizing the flash of magnesium powder with the opening of a camera shutter. He had been trained as a musician. Noted persons who sat for portraits by Mr. Ritch included President Theodore Roosevelt and Elihu Root. Prior to leaving for the West Coast, where he photographed motion picture actors, he practiced his profession in Manhattan.

Surviving are his son and his wife, Mrs. Clara Ritch. Larger Freight Volume Predicted for Quarter Washington, Jan. 8 (U.P)---Loadings of revenue freight on the nation's railroads for the first quarter of 1945 will run slightly ahead of the corresponding 1944 period, the Association of American Railroads disclosed today. Estimates made by the 13 shippers' advisory boards placed carloadings for the initial 1945 quarter at 8,787,396 cars of 28 principal commodities, compared with 854 cars a year earlier.

Lehman Assets Rise Net asset value of Lehman Corp. as of Dec. 31 was up $6.57 from the level of a year' ago, Robert Lehman, president, reported today. The corporation's net asset value on Dec. 31 stood at $44.28 a share compared with $41.55 on June 30 and $37.71 on Dec.

31, 1943. but Interesting- A series of facts sponsored occasionally by William Dunigan Son Commercially speaking, the Douglas fir, is the most valuable the President's salary is not taxable but any other source of income is taxable July 2 is the date of the middle day of the year it takes ten Inches of snow to equal an inch of rain the extended right arm of the Statue of Liberty is forty -two feet long WILLIAM DUNIGAN SON -Funeral Directors246 De KALB AVE. ROGERS AVE. 4 MONTGOMERY Tel. MAin 2-1155 Walter Winchell charged in broadcast last night that James F.

Byrnes, war mobilization director, employed an alleged Nazi sympathizer AS a servant in his Washington hotel apartment. Winchell named Ernest F. Elmhurst, a defendant in the mass Washington sedition trial that recently ended in mistrial, as servant, adding that he offered the information "to show how careless some of our biggest government men are." Later the Blue Network interrupted A broadcast to make this dental Announcement: "Walter Winchell's statement tonight In his radio broadcast over the Blue Network that Justice Byrnes had Ernest F. Elmburst, allegedly a pro-Nazi conspirator, working in his apartment 18 An inexcusable falsehood, spokesman for Justice Byrnes said tonight." Elmhurst once testified in a Manhattan magistrate's court that he had hung anti-Semitic signs outside A Yorkville beer hail by arrangement. with the National Socialist party of America, an allegedly Nazi group.

Problem Child, 12, Who Fled Bellevue, Still at Large The best detective brains of the city are wondering where they detain 12-year-old John Buongio- cone vani, described parents as "a problem child' -if they can find him. He escaped from the psychiatric ward of Bellevue Hospital yesterday afternoon clad only in pajamas, slippers and bathrobe. He reached home, at 284 Baltic shed his hospital garments, dressed in his own clothes and escaped again from the official who had come to bring him back to the hospital. Radio car cops who went to the hospital when the escape alarm was sounded saw John speeding through the snow piles in the hospital drive. Their own car got stuck in a snow drift and they lost the fleeing youngster.

John's specialty is escaping. He got out of the S. P. C. C.

shelter on Schermerhorn St. last year and four times he just vanished from Bellevue Hospital, where child psychologists hoped in vain he would remain long enough to be studied. He has made five appearances Children's Court and his latest trip to Bellevue for mental observation because of his persistent absence from Public School 13, Degraw St. and Cheever Place. John is one of eight children of Mr.

and Mrs. John Buonglovani. British and Canadians Push to Reno River Rome, Jan. 8 (U.P.) British and Canadian troops, continuing a slow advance up the Adriatic coast, have reached the Reno River at the point where it leaves the southeast corner of Lake Commacchio, headquarters announced today. In four days of wading through flooded fields and mined areas the 8th Army units have cleared, more than 50 square miles Ravenna and the lake, taking 600 prisoners and much booty.

Wintry weather restricted activities on both the 8th and 5th Army fronts. Fifth Army patrols, camouflaged in white suits and equipped with snowshoes and skis, contacted the enemy in a number of brief clashes below Balogna, and mortar and artillery exchanges occurred at several points. Sleeper Heads Division Farmingdale, Jan. 8 Gordon C. Sleeper has been appointed sales manager of the Personal Plane Division of Republic Aviation Corporation, it was announced by Alfred Marchev, president.

Republic is planning, Mr. Sleeper stated in connection with his important appointment, to take full advantage of the opportunities which lie ahead when war conditions permit the corporation to enter the personal plane market. BUY U. S. WAR BONDS AND SAVINGS STAMPS Walter B.

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