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ASHEVILLE CITIZEN, ASHEVILLE N.G Monday. June 30. 1952 lUS.WfATHffl SUHi AU MAP 3 from aircooled T) A1 Deaths, Funerals Mrs. Emma Johnson ards, Bert Dendy and Eugene South' ards, nephews. Gibson was a son of the late Harve and Amanda Guy Gibson and a native and life-long resident of Funeral services for Mrs.

Emma Shipman Johnson, 74, of 37 Warwick Road, who died Saturday night in a hospital here, will be held at Macon County, working as a farmer and carpenter. I p. m. in Etowah Baptist Church. The Rev.

Charles D. White, pastor of Biltmore Methodist Church, He was married to Miss Catherine Tllson on August 17, 1911. and was and the Rev. W. A.

Huneycutt will officiate. Burial will be in Oak a member of the Pine Grove Bap tist Church. Forest Cemetery, Etowah. The body Surviving in addition to his widow are four sons, Raleigh of Cullasajah, Bert of Detroit, Sgt. Willie Gibson of Texarkana, and will he in state in the church for one hour preceding the services.

Pallbearers will be Manuel John-con, Van Johnson, Jack Johnson, Johnny Briggs, Carl Kitlpa trick and Cecil Duncan. Cleta of Springfield. a daugh ter. Mrs. Ralph McCIure of Gneiss; and nine grandchildren.

The body will remain in the home Mrs. Sophronia Payne i Xt -J 97 1 V7 s'w until the hour of the service. Bry Funeral services for Mrs. Sophro ant Funeral Directors Is in charge nia Rhinehardt Pavne, 77, of 67 Ora of the arrangements. Albert Raby Street, who died Friday in an Ashe-ville hospital, will be held at 1:30 p.

m. today. FRANKLIN Funeral services for The Rev. Frank Hopkins and the Rev. Maurice Banks will officiate.

Albert Raby. 71. of the West Mills TmprolU' iqurtl Show. Avcotj lor Art a Burial will be in Ramsey Cem etery, Madison County. James A.

Shuffler oi Denote Wind flow section of Macon County, who died Saturday afternoon in a Sylva hospital wUl be held at 3:30 p. m. Monday in the Cowee Baptist Church, with the Rev. C. C.

Welch, the former pastor, officiating. Assisting will be the Rev. Norman E. Holden and the Rev. George A.

Cloer. Burial will be In the church Funeral services for James A. 60'r Weothtr Condition! At Of Snow tyVrVfl tjh and loot in tnthot cemetery. Pallbearers will be Luther The AP WireehsU Ms. THE UNITED STATES WEATHER BUREAU forecast showers and thundershow-ers today for the Gulf States and the lower Mississippi Valley.

It predicted scattered showers and thundershowers along the Rockies and showera or light rain in the upper Great Lakes region. Continued hot weather was expected in the Southern States and the Central Plains with a cooling trend in tSe lower lakes region. odore, Algie, Cecil and John Raby and Leland Roper, all nephews. Raby was a native and life long Shuffler, 24, oi 56 Vance Street, who was fatally injured In a sawmill accident Friday near Christ School, were conducted in Chapel Hill Baptist Church yesterday. Burial was in the church cemetery.

Mrs. Elvira P. Moss Funeral- services for Mrs. Elvira Pressley Moss. 100, who died Thursday night at the home of a daughter.

Mrs. Elbert Hollified of 122 West Haywood Street, were con. ducted yesterday. Burial was in Long's Chapel Cemetery near resident of Macon County, and was the son of the late Marcus and Patricia Shepherd Raby. He was Weather Report a member or the cowee Baptist Church, a farmer and a member of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics.

Storms Pierce Heat Wave In His first wife, who died, was Miss THE FORECAST Asheville and vicinity: Sunny, hot and humid, with widely scattered afternoon thundershowers. Highest temperature about 93 Lena Fowler of Macon County. His second wife is the former Miss Kansas Tallent also of Macon Some Areas County. DATA FROM OTHER CITIES WASHINGTON, Juna 29. (AP)-Weaher Bureau reports of temperatures and rainfall for the 24 hours ending at p.

Klatlaa PrlKlattea Pr Atlanta 91 69 10174 .00 All. City 79 70 .00 Memphis 100 71 .00 Rirm'ham 95 69 .11 Meridian 97 71 .00 Boston 74 64 T6 Miami MM .00 Buffalo S3 61 40 Montreal 73 64 .11 t'harlotta 66 61 .00 N. Orleans IS 71 .12 Chatta'os-a 96 69 .00 New York 7 61 .00 Chk-alo 96 77 Norfolk 92 76 .00 Cincinnati 9176 .00 PhUaOVI. 92 66 .00 Cleveland 94 73 Phoenix 103 67 .00 Dallas 100 71 00 PitUbunth 93 72 1.00 Denver 92 59 .00 M. 7 54 .29 North and South Carolina: Part Surviving in addition to his widow ly cloudy and continued hot Mon are a daughter by his first marriar2.

day and Tuesday with widely scat By The Associated Press A series of storms hit the na tered afternoon, thundershowers. Mrs. Mary Frady of Hazelwood; three sons by his first marriage, Claude of Greenville, S. C. Everett Horace Hall Horace (Nick) Hall.

37, of 15 Mace Avenue, a life long resident of Asheville, died about 3:15 a. m. yesterday in a hospital. He was a supervisor for Asheville Baking Company. Surviving are ihe widow: three brothers.

Jack oi Asheville, Paul of Asheville. and Harry A. Hall of Asheville: a sister. Mrs. Harley Had-drill of Goodrich.

Mich, and the parents. Mr. and Mrs. R. D.

Hall tion Sunday, piercing in a few areas the blanket of heat that has been suffocating most of the of Franklin RID 4. and Lyle of l. Moines 93 74 .00 Raleish 96 73 Detroit 94 69 .42 Richmond 96 75 .00 Duluth 51 45 .04 SL Louis 105 10 .00 A particularly violent weather Franklin; a son by his second marriage. Furman of Franklin RFD and a daughter by his second marriage. Miss Louise Raby of the ASHEVILLE DATA (June 29.

ISKIi SunriM 3:17 a. m. Sunset 7:50 p. m. TenaaraUira Highest today 90.

One year aco SI. Lowest today 7. One year ago 63. A too. Minimum (UUa day) 57 in 1S37.

Abso. Minimum (thai day 57 in 19J7. Avaraga temperature tor the day 79. Normal 71. Preclpltallea Data Far The Meat splash and spray night and day with your favorite Faberge fragrance APHRODISIA, WOODHUE, TIGRESS, STRAW HAT.

ACT T9 Cologne txiroordinoirt 2 3.S9 S. 13. Galveston 74 .00 S. Antonio 74 70 00 Houston 92 74 IM'i. Krancisco 61 49 .2 Jark'villo 97 77 96 70 .00 Kan.

City 102 62 .00 Seattle CO 52 .02 onslaught caught the Norwalk, area, roaring wind and torrential rain causing an estimated home; a sister, Mrs. Judd Potts of Franklin; and eight grandchildren. Key West 90 DO Tampa 9S 74 .00 KnoivilU 96 71 .00 Waahinf ton 95 69 1.00 Normal 3.93. Greatest amount S.2S In Angeles 75 59 00 Wilming ton 95 75 00 The body win remain in the home! 1943. Least amount 9.91 In 190.

Amount lor tha oast 24 hours ending at 5:00 P. m. Trace. Deficiency lor the month 1.75. Da- The Grim Antarctic until the hour of the service.

Potts Funeral Directors is in charge of arrangements. licieocy lor the year 1.13. Hearty Temperataree Perhaps hot weather makes you a. m. 74 1 p.

m. 73 think it would be nice to live in the 77 3 p. 7t 3 9 9 a. m. 10 a.

m. 11 a. m. 12 Noon 3 p. m.

4 p. m. 3 p. m. Antarctic.

But you'd soon change vour mind if you 90 tried it. The ice- 1 overea coniinen Lata leaainra At A Airport p. m. 17 I 9 p. m.

73 7 p. m. I 10 p. m. 72 p.

m. II I 11 p. m. 71 has a mean tem perature that never rises above aircooled I Ai I ASHEVILLE SKIES By Bstlry R. Fraak (Monday, June 10 1 The Moon at first Quarter 11 a.

I freezing. The plant life is con sets Tuesday 12:19 a. m. Tonithl It forms fined to lichens, 4-y vX" a trianelo wit htha planet. Sslurn.

and the star. Spira. Saurn la to the rifht of the 1 Xrr-ll- 000 damage. Heavy rain helped cool off Milwaukee. Pittsburgh and a wide belt of the sweltering southeast.

At least 169 deaths were blamed on the current hot speU. New Jersey reported 54 deaths, the highest state toll in the nation. It was 99 in parts of Chicago Sunday before a slight breeze cooled off the city a few degrees. Ninety degree weather stuck with Texas and Oklahoma awaited 100 degree temperatures in an unsea-sonal heat wave, with 10 degrees above normal for June. The Norwalk storm downed power lines and left the city without electric power service.

The wind felled about 250 trees. A violent thunderstorm knocked out electrical power in parts of Pittsburgh, but it also brought at least a temporary end to the heat wave there. The temperature, which had been in the high 90s, Jell 27 degrees in an hour. Rains accompanied by high winds and lightning also chased the hot speU that has been hovering over the southeast section of the country. The rain belt ran from the Tuscaloosa-Birmingham area in Alabama across middle and north Georgia and over most algae, mosses an Moon and Spira to tna leu.

lo ma ten a few stands of of Spica. Mara. impoverished grass. There are no land mammals; the only life con Omer L. Williams HENDERSONVTT Omer Lester Williams, 44, of the Valley HU1 community, died Saturday night in a veterans' hospital near Asheville after an illness of three months.

He was a veteran of World War II and wfs employed in a local cleaning buTess up until the time he became Funeral services will be held at 4 p. m. Monday in the Valley Hill Baptist Church, with the Rev. Al-lard Garren and the Rev. Roy Campbell officiating.

Burial will be in Oakdale Cemetery, and Glenn Summey. J. c. Oates, Evans Hamilton. Henry Brookshire Jr, W.

L. Ray, and Clinton Smith will be pallbearers. Graveside rites will bi. conducted by the Hedrick-Rhodes Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Surviving are the widow, Mrs.

Sadie Anders Williams; a son, Larry Lester of Henderson vllle; twe sists of insects a few flies, a microscopic mite, and a variety of wing Mercury Skids In Capital less mosquito. The mosquitoes don't need wings because there's no one WASHINGTON. June 29 UH A thunderstorm broke the back of Washington's heat wave tonight to bite, anywav. Frank Romaine. Solunar Table (Use Eastern Standard Time) June A.M.

P.M. when it dumped 1.05 Inches of rain and some bail on the city In less than 30 minutes. The temperature had been In the -vc-. -r ATI- aassk. Min.

MaJ. Min. MaJ. Date Day 11:40 5:30 5:50 90s shortly before the storm broke 30 Mon. July chUdren by a former marriage, Mrs.

William Jordan of Rockford, HI, about 7:30 p.m. The Weather Bureau reported 6:35 7:30 6:15 12:25 7:05 12:05 12:55 1:45 of northwestern South Carolina. The nun started pushing the mercury upward early Sunday with before-noon recordings of 93 in Chicago and Kansas City. The the temperature skidded down to 69 during the storm, then climbed up to 72. There were no reports 2:15 6:25 8:00 and Paul Williams of Lincoln, the parents.

Mr. and Mrs. C. A. WUliams of Cairo.

I1L; two sisters, Mrs. Kenneth kepner of Cairo. 1 Tue. 2 wed. 3 Thur.

4 Fri. 5 Sat. 6 Sun. 3:10 9:25 of any major damage from the 9:00 3:40 10:00 4:45 11:05 VlC 10:30 11:1 storm. and Mrs.

Charles Burkstaller of Kansa City reading was expected to hit 103 later for a five-yekr record. Charleston. and two brothers. Homer L. of Venice.

and Robert W. of Miami, Okla. Th body win lies In state In the The temperature was in the 70's Showers Hold in Nev York City, but the weather WNC Attorney Dies At 49 MURPHY John Lofton Mason, church from 3 p. m. to 4 p.

m. man warned that a new blast of hot, moist air was moving on the area and would arrive Monday or Temperature Down To 90 Tuesday. Showers and local thunder show i ltS5J4 49-year-old Murphy attorney, died in an Atlanta. hospital at 4:50 p. m.

Saturday following a year's No. 3809 Fine Power Net Elastic with dainty controlling elastic panel. $5. ers occurred early Sunday from New York State and Northern Pennsylvania westward across the Great Lakes area and Into North Scattered thundershowers in the of Asheville. Funeral arrangements, under direction of Morris-Gearing and Black Funeral Home were incomplete last night.

Walter B. Moore Funeral services for Walter Ban Moore. 51. of Weaverville RFD 1, who died in a hospital, were conducted in Long's Chapel Missionary Baptist Church yesterday. Burial was in the church cemetery.

Eugene Henson Funeral services for Carter Eugene Henson. 15, of Sardis Road, who was drowned in a lake on Sardis Road Thursday, were conducted in Bent Creek Baptist Church yesterday. Burial was in Green Hills Cemetery. Mrs. Catherine Marsh Mrs.

Catherine Marsh. 85, former Fairview resident, died Saturday at the heme of her son, Eugene Marsh, in Wheeling. W. Ye. A native of Nebraska.

Mrs. Marsh was the widow of Miles C. Marsh. She lived in the Fairview section most of her life but since her husband's death had made her home in Wheeling. She was a daughter of the late William C.

and Elizabeth McCoy Hankins and a member of the Presbyterian Church. Surviving are three sons. Eugene. F. H.

Marsh of Arlington, and W. A. Marsh of Los Angeles. daughter. Mrs.

H. H. Todd of Pembroke; a sister, Mrs. Richard Goddard of San Fralia. and four grandchildren.

The body will arrive here Wednesday morning for funeral cervices end burial. Arrangements, under direction of Dunn and Groce Funeral Home, were incomplete last night C. A. Pro pes C. A.

Propes. 42. died yesterday 4:30 a. m. in Lubbock.

of heart attack. He had resided at Lubbock for several years. Surviving are the widow: a son. Tommy Propes of Texas; the father. John Edward Propes of Asheville.

and a brother. H. E. propes of Asheville. Funeral services will be held in the chaoel at Dunn and Groce Funeral Home with the Rev.

T. A. Groce officiating. Burial will be In Green Hills Cemetery. Bell Infant Joseph Bell.

Infant son of Mr. nd Mrs. James BeU of 124 An-nandale Avenue, died in a hospital here earlv yesterday morning. Graveside rites will be held In Riverside Cemetery at 10 a. m.

today with the Rev. Joshua Mundell. assistant pastor of St. Lawrence Catholic Church, officiating. Survivintr are the parents: two sisters.

Joanne and Mary Rose: a brother. John David Bell; the paternal grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Comer BeU of Asheville, and the maternal grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs. Edwin OGara of Shamokin, Pa. Brownell-Dunn and Lovin Funeral Home Is in charge of arrangements. Ben E. Gibson FRANKLIN Funeral services for Ben E.

Gibson, 63, of the Gneiss section of Macon County, who was killed In a traffic accident Saturday morning, win be held at 2:30 p. m. Monday in the Gold Min( Baptist Church. The Rer. Frank Reed and the Iter.

BIdon Owens will officiate, and burial will be in the church cemetery. Pallbearers will be Charles Gibson. Edward McCIure, Richard Gibson, all grandsons; Albert South- Asheville area yesterday gave resi ern Minnesota. Also, a few widely dents some respite from the torrid weather of late. scattered showers and thunder showers were reported from the Thomas-Shepherd Funeral Home is In chqrge of the arrangements.

Death Claims Mrs. Aiken, 77 WEAVERVILLE Mrs. Ida Cordelia Aiken, 77, of Asheville RFD 1. (Aiken Road), died in her home at 12:15 a. m.

Sunday following a lingering illness. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p. m. Monday in the Alexander's Chapel Methodist Church, near Weaverville. The Rev.

W. S. After seven consecutive days on Southeast anf Gulf Soast regions, which the temperature climbed to well above 90 degrees the best the mercury was able to do yesterday No. 3824 Smooth Figured Leno Elastic shaped to fit like a second skin. $5.95 was to lust reach that mark.

Storms vesterday caused the thermometer to drop 15 degrees illness. He lived in the Brasstown community near here. Mason was the brother of the late L. L. Mason, a former Cherokee County sheriff, and uncle of L.

L. Mason mayor of Murphy. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Tuesday in Maggie's Chapel Methodist Church at Brassiown He was a member of this church.

Officiating wUl be the Rev. V. A. Smith the Rev. Alonzo Davis, fhe Rev Ham Coffey, and the Rev.

R. Delbert Byrum. Burial will be in the church cemetery. He was a native of Cherokee County, son' of Mrs. Omie Hampton Mason and the late John Richard Mason, members of prominent Cherokee County families.

John T. Lowe Dies At 83 In Lexington from 90 at noon to 75 at 1 p. m. However, by 5 p. m.

the temperature had risen to 89 degrees. Vehaun, the Rev. J. E. B.

Houser The forecast for today is: Sunny. and the Rev. Miles McLean wUl hot and humid with widely scattered afternoo- thundershowers. Highest temperature about 93 officiate, and burial will be in the church cemetery. John Thomas Lowe 83, of Lexington, father of Cabei; Lindsey Lowe of Asheville, died at 2 a.

m. yesterday in a Lexington hospital. Mason graduated from Young Harris High School, Young Harris. Lowe was born in Davidson County September 6, 1868, the son of the late C. F.

and Mary Thompson Lowe. He was an elder in the Ga, near Murphy, in 1925. then Allies Free First Korean Internees went to Washington, D. C. where Presbyterian Church for more than 50 years and a member of Modern he served as supervisor for a training school for, boys.

He received a The body wUl lie in state In the church from 1:30 p. m. to 2:30 p. m. Pallbearers will be Roy Rhymer, Alvin Aiken, Dr.

W. R. Aiken, John Mull, HoweU Aiken, and Charlie Rhymer. Flower girls will be nieces. Surviving are Mrs.

Aiken's husband, Foster Aiken; three sons, Lawrence and Troy Aiken of Asheville RFD 1. and Edward of Way-nesville; and two brothers, W. L. Rhymer, Asheville RFD 1, and J. E.

Rhymer of Leicester. Mrs. Aiken was the daughter of the late Mitchel and Nancy Rhymer, and was a member of the Woodmen and the Junior Order law degree from National Unlver- of United American Mechanics. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Avila Lindsey Lowe of the home; YONGCHON.

Korea. Monday, fa new experience in Ity Law School and sensed In Washington for 20 years with the police department. He came to Murphy in 1946 and opened a law office the following two sons. Commander J. T.

Lowe june 30 tf With Gen. Van Fleet arid high officers of the U. S. Eighth Army to see them off. Jr.

of the Pentagon Building, Washington, D. and Cabell nearly 1,774 long-held South Kore year, practicing until his health Lowe; a daughter, Mrs. Clifford an u.ternees started their journey A. Owens of Cedar Grove, N. J.

and ahr. grandsons. home again free for the first time since they were kidnaped by Alexander's Chapel Methodist Invading Communists. Funeral services will be held In the First Presbyterian Church In The group was the first of about ,000 South Koreans being re Lexington tomorrow at 10 a. Burial will be in the City Church for more than 50 years.

She was a life-long resident of Buncombe County. Honorary pallbearers wiU be Dr. Lawrence Sprinkle and Dr. C. N.

Sprinkle, Dr. Weldon Chandler, Haskett Taylor, Claude Moore, F. I PARTIES 0 I leased from Allied prisoner camps under a recent decision of the United Nations Command. failed approximately a year ago. Mason was a member of the Masonic Lodge In Washington.

He was married to Mrs. Zelma Hurt of Sword's Creek, Va. Surviving in addition to his mother and widow are two daughters, Patsy and Linda; a son, John L. Jr, all of the home: five sisters. Mrs.

Lula Hatchett, Mrs. Edith Evans, Mrs. Ruby Hemphill, and the Misses Verdle and Flossie Mason; and a brother, Clayton, aU of the Brass-town community near here. I vie Funeral Home Is in charge The body will be taken to the Almo every one of the men and home i at 10 a. m.

today and will remain there until taken to the Whatever the activity, a new lightweight "Perma'Lift" Pantie will keep you slim, sleek and comfortable. No bones to poke or pinch just firm, lightweight elastic to mould you beautifully. And your "Per-ma'lift" Pantie can't ride up, stays in place whether you're walking, sitting or bending. These are brand new and so low priced you can afford several. Please come in and try one today.

H. Massey, Everett Penley, Willard Buckner, Merritt Donaldson, B. S. Hensley, Elmer Hensley, Ted Smith, church to lie in state from 9:30 a. m.

Tuesday until time for the i few vomen, were seized in one way or another by the invading Red armies and pressed Into Communist labor forces or support groups Later, when the Reds fell back, they were interned by the advancing Allies. Allen DeBruhl, and friends of the services. family. The family has requested that no West Funeral Home Is in charge flowers be sent but that contri of arrangements. of the arrangements.

buttons may be made instead to an orphanage fund of the donor's choice. Engagement Off ment store in addition to his pioneer work at WOR, one of the GRAZ. Austria (INS) "Well, first stations in the East and now Station WOR Founder Dies AVON. N. June 29 -Edgar Bible School Planned I'll Just have to wait tilt the right man comes along" sighed Maria key station of the Mutual Network.

During his long business career SPRUCE PINE A daily Bible School will open Mon day at Estatoe Presbyterian Church he was associated with John Wana-maker and Company. New York; Bamberger and Sorts, Newark, S. Bamberger, 69, prominent mer chant and one of the founders cf Lewis Memorial Park The Cemetery Beautiful Beaverdam LEWIS FUNERAL HOME DIAL 5M1 I Dengg, 99, and gave back the engagement ring to her 90-year-old fiancee who paid more attention to drinks than to her. Frau Dengg, who has been a widow for 34 years, added: "I shaU never marry a fellow who does not appreciate woman." radio station WOR, died at his N. Hutzler Brothers Depart and continue for two weeks, ac-eording to the Rev.

Charles L. Moffatt, pastor. Miss Nancy Clark, a student at Agnes Scott College. Comets, 2nd Floor Store for Fashions home last night. ment store, Baltimore: and Pack-ard-Bamberger Market, Hacken- Bamberger was associated with Decatur, will be In charge.

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