Newsday Obits February 1955

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Harry L. Hawkins, vice president and business manager of the Philadelphia Bulletin, with which he had been associated for 34 years, died yesterday. He was 59 years old. His death followed closely that of his wife, the former Jessie Loretta Cutlip, who died Dec 8. They had been married since 1919. Hawkins was nationally known in the advertising field and was active in the civil and business life of this city for many years. He had served in various capacities for the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, the Community Chest and the United Fund. In 1948, Hawkins headed a committee on advertising agencies for the American Newspaper Publishers Association. He was president of the Better Business Bureau of Philalephia, Inc; a director of the Chamber of Commerce of Greater Philadelphia,and a past president of the Poor Richard Club. It was as head of the last named group that he presented its Gold Medal of achievement to General of the Army Dwight D Eisenhower on Jan 18, 1948. The Philadelphia Club of Advertising Women gave him its Man of the Month Award in April, 1952. He was cited for his continuing work with that group. In recognition of his work at Pennsylvania State University, where he gave an annual lecture, he was named an honorary member of Alpha Delta Sigma, advertising fraternity. Hawkins was elected to the executive board of the Sales Manager Association of Philadelphia in 1945 and the board of trustees of the Burcan of Municipal Research in 1951. He also was a member of the board of trustees of the Methodist Hospital and a member of the Philadelphia Country Club.

Washington (UP) Ira H. Hayes, tragic Indian hero of the Iwo Jima flag raising, was buried on a snow-covered hill in Arlington National Cemetery yesterday near the massive war memorial commemoration his hour of glory. High government officials joined ex-Marine privates in pay homage to the 32 year old Pima Indian who spent 23 months in the Pacific in World War II, but found the problems of postwar civilian life too much to face. Hayes died from excessive drinking and overexposure in freezing weather near his home on the Indian reservation at Bapchule, Ariz. Hayes made history with four Marine buddies and a Navy man when they planted the American flag atop Mount Suribachi 10 years ago this month. He was buried not far from the giant Iwo Jima memorial immortalizing the scene caught by photographer Joe Rosenthal. Attending the simple Protestant services were Interior Secretary Douglas McKay whose department manages Indian affairs; Gen. Lemuel C. Sheperd, Marine Corps commandant; Indian Commissioner Glenn L Emmons and other military and Interior officials.

Westhampton Beach-Miss Mary J Hickey, former deputy chief probation officer of the Family Court in Brooklyn, died Tuesday,. Since her retirement some years ago, she had lived here with her sister, Miss Agnes A Hicky, th only immediate survivor. Miss Hicky was born in Brooklyn, a daughter of the late Patrick V Heckey, on-time foreign editor of the old World in New York, and brother of the late Leo J Hicky, who was United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York at his death in 1937. She studied at St. Mary't Academy, South Bend, Ind., and the Visitation Academy in Brooklyn, and was a charter member of the Alumna Association of the Latter school. She had served on the board of directors of the Brooklyn Nay Yard Boys Club, of which her brother was president.

Stewart Manor--A volunteer fireman died yesterday a few hours after he was thrown from a fire truck racing to a brush fire. The victim was Edward Jackson, 65, of 117 Carlton Terrace, the first chief of the Stewart Manor Fire Department and husband of the village clerk. Jackson was thrown from the back of the truck when it stopped short to avoid hitting another vehicle at 11:23 am on Tulip Ave., 60 feet west of Carlton Terrace. His skull was fractured. He died at 1:25 pm at Meadowbrook Hospital without regaining consiousness. Firemen's services will be held for Jackson at Dalton's Funeral Home, Floral Park, at 8:30 pm tomorrow, a Solemn Requires Mass will be offered at St. Ann's Church, Stewart Manor, at 10 am Thursday. Internment will follow at Holy Rood Cemetery, Westbury. Jackson, a retired telephone company executive, had lived in Stewart Manor for 28 years. He was a charter member of the fire department, served as its first chief in 1927 and at the time of his death was treasurer of the Exempt Fireman's Association. His wife, Catherine, has been village clerk since Stewart Manor was incorporated in 1927. Jackson is also survived by a daughter, Mrs. Madeling J Niosi of Minneapolis, Minn., a son, Edward W Jackson of Stewart Manor, four grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. Beatrice Jackson of Plattsburg, NY  (February 1, 1955)

*Johnson-Mary B, on January 31, 1955 of 222 Grand Ave., Freeport, LI. Beloved wife of the late A.S. Johnson; mother of S Fred, Clement B, Paul L, Herman P, Charles W and Adelma E Johnson, Mrs. Florence J Ramsey and Mrs. Elfrida J Phelps; sister of Mrs. George W Frutchey and Mrs. John Hill; also survived by 17 grandchildren and15 great-grandchildren. Funeral services at the parlors of Chester A Fulton & Sons, Inc., 49 West Merrick Rd, Freeport, LI, Wednesday, Feb 2, at 2pm. Internment Greenfield Cemetery, Hempstead

Larchmont, NY (UP)--George Kenney, 58, night city editor of the New York Daily News, died yesterday in his home. Born on New York's lower East Side near the home of Al Smith, Kenney began his newspaper career with the New Bedford, NJ Home News after serving in the National Guard and in the Navy during WW I. He joined the News in 1926 after covering the Halls-Mills murder trial for the News and for several years was on the paper's sports staff, specializing in baseball. He was named night city editor in 1938. (February 1, 1955)

Essex, Conn. (AP) William E Lundgren, 63, prominent international yachtsman and New York insurance broker, died after a heart attack at his home yesterday. Lundgren, whose father, Charles Lundgren, was assistant dentist to the King of Sweden, moved to this Long Island Sound front town last September. He previously had lived in New York City and Sea Cliff. He was an executive of Lundgren & Morse Insurance Brokers in New York City until his recent retirement. He was graduated from Cornell University. Lundgren, who never married, is survived by a brother, Charles Lundgren Jr. of New Milford, and several nieces and nephews. (February 1, 1955)

Great Neck-Paul R McChampbell, vice president and director of the I.B. Kleinert Rubber Company, who had been in charge of the College Point, Queens, factory, died here yesterday in his home at 35 Wensley Drive. His age was 58. He was born in Crawfordville, Ind, and graduated from Wabash College. He served as a captain with the 104th Infantry, Twenty-sixth Division. American Expeditionary Forces, during World War I. He participated in all the division's major battles in France, winning several citations. After the war he was with the United States Rubber and Hunter Div. Jiln Companies before joining the Kleinett organization as an assistant chemist 30 years ago. He was named a director in 1941 and a vice president six years later. Active in civic affairs here, he had served as the major of Russell Gardens. He took a prominent part in local war work in World War II. He had lived here for 20 years. Mr. McCampbell leaves his wife, the former Catherine Hunter; a son, John Hunter McChampbell, and tow sisters, Mrs. Pearl Ziegner and Mrs. Ralph Edwards.

$$McLaughlin-Jim, Diamond Jim Dies in Cove, Glen Cove-Jim McLaughlin's fight withe the millionaire Morgan is over. The picturesque fisherman died yesterday of a stroke at the age of 76. For 30 years McLaughlin, sometimes known as "Diamond Jim," had successfully fought off the efforts of Junius S. Morgan to banish Jim's little fishing shack and bait store at the foot of Dosoris Lane, adjacent to Morgan's mansion. McLaughlin claimed he had squatters rights. He and his father before him had run the bait station since long befor Glen Cove was chartered in 1938. Morgan had claimed Jim had no right to operate on the public street. McLaughlin was stricken at 11am as he left St Patrick's Church here. He died at 5:55pm at North County Community Hospital. (Fbruary 7, 1955)

New York-Julius Miller, 75, former State Supreme Court justice and former Borough President to Manhattan, died yesterday at his home, 22 E 88th St. He retired from the bench in 1950 after serving for 20 years. He was found dead in bed at 9 am by his wife, Diane. The family said he apperently died in his sleep. Int the course of Miller's long-public career which began in 1919, his greatest single accomplishment-one that he enjoyed harking back to as the years went by-was the construction of the West Side elevated highway along the Hudson River. As Brought President, he fought for the project against powerful opposition (it was on the calendar of the Board of Estimate 152 times) and finally had the satisfaction of turning the firs shovelful of earth on the much-needed arterial project at Canal and West Sts. on May 24, 1929. The concrete and steel viaduct, the first of the nation's elevated expressways, was subsequently named the Julius Miller Elevated Highway. It was the late Mayor James J. Walker, originally a foe of Mr. Miller on the highway project, who later insisted graciously, after he saw its worth, that it be named for Miller. As Brough President from 1921 to 1930, Miller a Democrat, was instrumental in changing the face of Manhattan. He built the ramp connecting upper and lower Park Ave. through the New York Central Building; widened all the avenues in Manhattan and built the center strip on Park Ave; adopted the plan for the East River Drive viaduct from 155th St to 165th Sts, and initiated the move to tear down the Sixth Ave. "El" and convert the avenues into a major artery. An active, restless man, Miller kept on thinking about Manhattan's traffic problems after his retirement from the Supreme Court at the mandatory age of 70. A month ago in an interview he predicted that the island's traffic snarl would get worse. He suggested a trans-Manhattan vehicular tunnel under 38th St, and another such tunnel running the length of Manhattan under First or Second Avenues. As a judge, Miller achieved the distinction of never having been reversed by an appellate court on any of the cases in equity where he decided suits without a jury. This was believed to be unique among New York jurists. (February 4, 1955)

New Bedford, Mass (AP) Former Mayor and State Senator Edward C. Peirce, 59, paroled last week after serving 20 months of a four years sentence for conspiracy, died of cancer yesterday in a nursing home. The long-time storm center of Democratic politics in New Bedford had been operated on at the Norfolk Prison Colony Hospital. In 1953, while he was mayor, Peirce was convicted on two counts of gambling in New Bedford and was sentenced to two consecutive two-year jail terms. Trial Judge Daniel D. O'Brien specified that Peirce serve his sentence in the Norfolk County Jail in Dedham, New Bedford is in adjacent Bristol County. Peirce announced that he would continue to fill the office of mayor from his jail cell, but the state legislature halted the plan by authorizing the city council to name an acting mayor to fill Peirce's term. Peirce also ran for reelection, conducting his 1953 campaign from his jail cell. He got 2,000 votes in the preliminary elections, not enough to qualify his entry in the two-candidate runoff. A native of New Bedford, Peirce began his career at a $4 a week office boy. At the age of 30 he had amassed a million dollar fortune in the cottonbrokerage business. Eleven years later, he was on the WPA relief rolls. After several unsuccessful attempts, her was elected to the state senate in 1944 and served four two-year terms before he was elected mayor of New Bedford in 1951. While a cotton broker, Peirce was indicted on 40 counts of larceny by juggling cotton, sales and his political life, he had operated a florist shop. He leaves his widow, Alma; a daughter, Mrs. Estelle Wheeler of New Bedford, his mother, Mrs. Estelle Peirce of Dartmough, a sister Miss Helen J Peirce, a Smith College Professor, and two grandchildren  (February 1, 1955)

Greenport-Mrs. Prudence Piccozzi, a long time resident here, died yesterday in her home at 444 Fifth Ave. she would have been 81 tomorrow. Mrs. Piccozzi, the widow of Angelo Piccozzi, was born in Italy and had lived here for 61 years. She is survived by four sons, Peter of Floral Park, John of Shelter Island and August and Joseph of Greenport; four daughters, Mrs. Nickolas Marulli, of New Rochelle, Mrs. Virgil Chilli of Massachusetts and Mrs. Nicholas Mazzaffero and Mrs. Austin Carbone, both Greenport; a sister, Mrs. Angelo Corrozzo of Greenport, and 20 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren and on great-great-grandchild.

Jamesport-Dr. Rudolph Rapp, 69, retired former superintendent of several city hospitals in New York, died Monday. Dr. Rapp was a hospital superintendent in New York from, 1923 until 1945, being in charge of Harlem Hospital, Lincoln Hospital, Greenpoint Hospital, Brooklyn, and the city's cancer institute on Welfare Island. A native of Austria, he came to this country when he was 11. He was graduated in 1903 from the Long Island Hospital Medial School and served his internship at St. Mark's Hospital. For a time he was superintendent of the Grafton State School for Epileptics, at Grafton, ND. He had made his home here for the last 15 months. (February 2, 1955)

Paramus, NJ-(AP) Anthony C Spadola, musician and orchestra conductor who appeared with numerous Broadway celebrities in the 1920s, died Sunday at Bergen Pines Hospital at the age of 73. Spadola, a native of New York City, who lived in Hackensack, had been in the entertainment feild for 60 years. (February 2, 1955)

Ridgewood, NJ, (AP) A federal tax expert who taught the subject at Columbia University was struck and killed by an Erie Railroad Train last night a few hours after he was charge with dodging payment of his own federal income taxes. The body of John Scott Stella, 41 was found about 300 yards west of the station here, Stella, a practicing attorney and employee of the large New York accounting firm of Arthur Young & Co., was charged in a federal information in New York, yesterday with failing to file taxes on $56,000 in earning for 1951, 1952, and 1953. He was scheduled to appear for trial in federal court Feb. 10. Stella is survived by his wife and two sons, 9 and 14 years old

Somerville, NJ (AP) Raymond C Stryker, forman of the jury which cleared Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall of murder charges in the worked famous Hall-Mills slaying case, died yesterday in a nursing home in nearby Hillsborough Township. The jury sat for a month-long sensational trial in November 1926, to hear the state's case against Mrs. Hall and tow brothers, Henry and Willie Stevens. They were accused of plotting the lover's lane deaths of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall, 41 year-old New Brunswick clergyman, and attractive Mrs. Elanor Mills, 34, choir singer and wife of the church sexton, four years before. All were declared innocent after a five-hour jury deliberation. The case never has been solved. Stryker, president of the South Bound Brook Fire Company, was 72. He was also a former council man of South Bound Brook. Survivors included his widow, Nora; a son, Raymond E; and three grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Friday morning from the Taggart-Chamberlain Funeral Home in South Bound Brook. (February 2, 1955)

*Tomlinson-John T., of 27 Squirrel Hill Rd., Roslyn Heights. Beloved husband of Marguerite; dear father of  Donald. Masonic and religious services at the Lewis Funeral Home, 154 Mineola Ave., Roslyn Heights, at 8:30pm Tuesday, Feb. 1. Interment 3pm Wednesday, Roslyn Cemetery (February 1, 1955)

Freeport-A Solemn Mass of Requiem will be offered Saturday at 10am in Holy Redeemer Church for James Ward, 91, who died yesterday of injuries received in an auto accident last month. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Ward, a native of Ireland, had lived in the United States since his teens and on Long Island for the past two decades. Until his retirement 25 years ago he had conducted his own furniture moving firm. He is survived by two sons, James and Thomas Ward, and three daughters, Mrs. Joseph Baker, Mrs. Lawrence Pinto, and Mrs. Anthony Sistl, 14 grandchildren and 17 great-grand children.

* Ward-James, F on Wednesday, February 2, 1955. Devoted father of Mrs. Sarah Baker, Thomas P, Mrs. Elizabeth Pinto, Mrs. Grace Sistl and James H Ward. Dear brother of Mrs. Brigid Colins , Mrs. Annie King and Mrs. Rose Foster. Also surviving are 14 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren Reposing at the Catholic Chapel, 2100 Bellmore Avenue, Bellmore, LI (Wilson Avenue entrance) Requiem Mass at Our Holy Redeemer RC Church, South Ocean Avenue, Freeport,  LI on Saturday, February 3, at 10am. Interment at Calvary Cemetery under the direction of John J Michalek, Bellmore Funeral Home

Lake Charles, LA-Dr. Herbert B Wilcox, 80 former director th the New York Academy of Medicine, died here yesterday while visiting a son, Jarvis G. Wilcox. A native of Brooklyn, Dr. Wilcox was educated at Yale University and the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he received his medical degree in 1902. He interned at St. Luke's Hospital and served as attending physician at the Vanderbilt Clinic from 1904-1907. Dr. Wilcox was directory of Bellevue Hospital from 1920 until 1925 having served as attending physician of the children's medical division of Bellevue from 1902 until 1920. He left Bellevue to become director of Babies Hospital, and the following year was appointed Carpenter Professor of the children's diseases at Columbia, a position he held until his retirement a few years ago. He was a member of the American Pediatric Society, the Academy of Medicine, St. Luke's Alumni Association, the Public Health Commission, and was a director of the American Child Health Association. Dr. Wilcox was director of the New York Academy of Medicine from 1936 until 1946. He was the author of numerous articles, chiefly on pediatrics, in various medical journals. (February 2, 1955)

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