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McCloy Voices Faith
(n British Solution
Of Financial Crisis
' John J. McCloy, World Bank
president, today discounted the
gloomier reports of the British
financial crisis and voiced faith in
Britain's ability to solve her prob
lem.
i Discussing arrangements for the
fcecond annual meeting or the
WorlcT Bank in London, September
il. Mr. McCloy told reporters he had
"heard nothing” of any current
British application for a World
Bank loan.
While not discounting the finan
cial problem facing the British, Mr.
McCloy said he was not convinced
Britain was “going to pot.”
Unwise to "Write Off” British.
Asked by newsmen to give the
brighter side of the British picture
as he sees it, Mr. McCloy said:
“Well, in the first place, they are
Sturdy people. They have good
business sense. Their internal
budget situation is good. And they
are aware of their problems and are
beginning to analyze them realis
tically.
“History indicates it is unwise to
write off the British people too
quickly."
Reporters asked Mr. McClay if he
thought questions of a World Bank
loan to Britain would come up at
the London sessions of the bank and
its Board of Governors. When he
said he did not know, questions
turned to^possibilities of loans for
modern equipment of British fac
toriot a nr- «
Mr. McCloy replied that while the
World Bank was not set up to make
“general” loans, those for equip
ment for reconstruction and rede
velopment “certainly would be, iur
lsdictionally, the type of loans we
could look at.”
British Cabinet Drafts
New Austerity Program
LONDON, Aug. 26 OP).—Britain's
cabinet holding its second “crisis”
meeting in eight days, yesterday
drafted a new austerity program
which is expected to be announced
later this week by Prime Minister
Attlee.
Mr. Attlee and other ministers
Interrupted their vacations for the
four-hour meeting, which reliable
informants said was called to dis
cuss emergency plans for curtailed
food rations, increased hours for
minefs and reactions to Britain's
•udden sterling “freeze” last week.
Silent cabinet ministers waved to
crowds of curious spectators as they
left No. 10 Downing street, but
brushed aside questions about the
meeting that brought top Labor
Party jeaders together. There was
speculation that Parliament might
be called into special session.
The British Press Association re
ported that a “new austerity plan”
would be announced from the prime
minister's office later this week.
This was an apparent move to lay
the crms program before next
week’s' annual convention of the
Trades Union Congress, a powerful
force in the ruling Labor Party.
Presence of Food Minister John
Strachey at the cabinet meeting
-wu-msa «&• an indication that thg
n«W.fOC4i|l^loning program would
be mawlffibwn shortly. Mr. Stra
chey does not hold formal cabinet
rank, and does not attend policy
making cabinet sessions unless food
supplies are under discussion.
BelgluifI Premier Calls *
For Elimination of Veto
By the Associated Press
PARIS, Aug. 26—Paul Henri
Spaak, Belgium’s Premier and For
eign Minister, called yesterday for
an amendment to the United Na
tions Charter eliminating the veto
power of the “Big Five.”
Mr. Spaak, one of the authors of
the charter and president of the
first U. N.'General Assembly last
year, declared in a statement to the
European edition of the New York
Herald Tribune that all nations, big
and small, “must learn to trim their
sovereignty and accept world law.”
“I must declare that my own con
viction today is firm,” he said. “The
United, Nations will never be able
to accomplish their job If the veto
rule is not abolished.”
Weather Report
District of Columbia—Sunny with
highest temperature about 90 this
afternoon followed by scattered
thundershowers late this afternoon
or evening. Lowest about 70 to-1
night. Tomorrow mostly cloudy and j
cooler.
Virginia—Partly cloudy with scat
tered thundershowers this afternoon
or evening and mostly in southern;
half of State tomorrow. Cooler
north half of State tomorrow.
Maryland — Scattered thunder
showers this evening followed by
mostly cloudy and cooler late to
night and tomorrow.
Wind velocity, 3 miles per hour;
direction, south.
District Medical Society ragweed
pollen count for 24 hours ending
9:30 ani.. August 26—27 grains per
cubic yard of air.
River Report.
* (From United States Engineers.)
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers Ferry
and muddy at Great Falls; Shenandoah
clear at Harpers Ferry.
Hnmlditr.
Yesterday, percent. Today. Per Cent. I
Moon _66 Midnight _79!
4 p.m. _ 47 8 a m _SO
jp.n. _ 65 1:30 p.m. _54
Record Temperatures This Year,
Highest, 96. on August 14.
Lowest. 7, on February 5.
ni(u auk mm ui ka«v or» "•
High. 90 at 1:10 P.m.
Low, 73 at 6:49 a m
Tide Tables.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
‘Today. * Tomorrow.
High _ 4:46 a.m. 5:42 a.m.:
Low __11:5fi a.m. 12.49 a.m.
High _ 5:17 p.m. 6:15 p.m. j
Low _12:01 p.m. 12:54 p.m.
The San and Mean.
Rise*. Sets.
Sun. today - 6:31 7:48
Sun- tomorrow_ 6:32 / :47
Moon, today _ 6:10 p.m. 1.2/ a.m.
Automobile lights must be turned on
tne-half hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation m inches in ths
Capital (current month to date):
Month.
January -
February -
March -
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jh& --
August -
September --
October --
Hoy ember - ——
December --
Temperatures in Variens
High Low.
Albuquerque 84 57 M.ami^ §6
/ New Orleans 91
New York-. 92
Norfolk 91
Oklahoma C. 95
Omaha_74
Phoenix _ __105
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Tampa. __—T 93
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Chiang Units Reported
taking UNRRA Goods
By the Associated Press
PEIPING, China, Aug. 26— Har
lan Cleveland. China UNRRA direc
tor. said today that government
forces which captured Szepingkai
from Chinese Communists had sub
sequently commandeered a ware
house full of UNRRA relief supplies,
and had sold or parcelled out the
entire consignment.
Mr. Cleveland said he had written
a formal protest to the Nationalist
chief of staff, Chen Cheng, by-pass
ing the usual UNRRA channels "be
cause I felt so strongly about it.”
UNRRA supplies are intended for
distribution among the needy, not
to armies.
Mr. Cleveland told interviewers he
had not received a -reply to his
note, which he sent 10 d^fs ago.
He added that he was proceeding
jto Mukden, Manchuria, in a few
(days to seek further details of the
incident Szepingkai, a key rail
point, is between Mukden and
Changchun, the Manchurian capital.
He said the warehouse contained
principally food and clothing, at
least a part of which were used by
the Nationalist troops.
The supplies probably cannot be
recovered. Mr. Cleveland explained,
but he said he felt the stiffness of
his note to Chen Cheng should
guarantee that it "will not happen
again."
Judge Hits Navy in Holding
Man Without Prosecution
By the Associoted Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26.—The
Navy, which held a man in the brig
at Treasure Island here more than
two mouths and ibep released him
yithout prosecution, wag crjfgcized
sharply by a Federal judge yester
day.
“You have been treated in a man
ner this court or no other court
would approve,-’ Judge Miabael J,
Kochi;'-told Norman Reed F%h, jir,
ol Jatnaica, Long Island. '
Judge Roche told Mr. Fish to
notify the court if he had any furth
er difficulty with the Navy In his
wish to return to civlian life.
Mr. Fish was released last week
end by the Navy, which ruled
against prosecuting him in con
nection with the disappearance of
two typewriters at Camp Shoe
maker. Tne Navy action came after
Mr. Fish sought a writ of habeas
corpus The veteran contended he
no longer was a Navy man and that
the Navy lacked jurisdiction. Judge
Roche dismissed the petition for the
writ yesterday.
Assistant United States Attorney
Joseph Karesh told the court that
Mr. Fish was being given an honor
able discharge immediately.
Harvard Settles Suit
Over Loss of Fainting
By the Associated Press
BOSTON, Aug. 26—An out-of
court settlement has been reached
In the $100,000 suit of Mrs. Jean
Humtt uarnngion oi wesicnester,
Pa., against Harvard University for
losing a painting—"Descent From
the Cross”—described by the plain
tiff as a Reubens masterpiece.
Suffolk Superior Court papers did
not disclose the amount involved in
the settlement recorded yesterday.
The painting has been recovered
since Mrs. Darlington, a first cousin
of former Ambassador William C.
Bullitt, filed the suit.
The painting was found in the
home of a Boston carpenter who re
ported it was given to him for work
he had done for a Back Bay art gal
lery after he found it in a rubbish
heap.
Legion Delegate Killed
In Fall at Roslyn, N. Y.
By the Associated Press
ROSLYN, N. Y.. Aug. 26.—Frank
Huthnance, 39, of Macon, Ga., a
delegate to, the American Legion
convention, was killed early today
when he fell from a second-floor
window in the home of friends here,
police reported.
Nassau County Detective Charles
Wesser said Mr. Huthnance, who
had been staying at the home of
James O'Neil at 9 Intervale avenue
here. Apparently got out of bed to
get a breath of air and fell through
a screen that was held in place only
by. a few light nails.
The body was found on the lawn
by a maid this morning.
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ment1' with the United States pro
posal on the ground that any such
action would infringe Bulgarian
sovereignty. In London, a Foreign
Office spokesman said a British ap
peal also had been rejected by
Russia.
Tfte American note charged that
the Soviet chairman of the ACC in
Bulgaria "disregarded” Russian ob
ligations under the Yalta agreement
in refusing to consult with his Amer
ican and British colleagues in the
Petkov case.
In its reply yesterday, the Soviet
government declared that the ACC
in Bulgaria has no right to review
judicial matters decided by Bul
garian courts or to give the Bul
garian government any directives
whatever in such matters.
Text of Note Released.
‘The text of the American note de
livered to the Soviet Foreign Office
by Mr. Smith Saturday follows:
“My Government has instructed
me to bring to your attention, as a
matter of urgency, the importance
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ment and wbrld public opinion at
taches to the ■ case of Mr. Nikola
Petrov, the opposition leader in the
Bulgarian parliament who was re
cently sentenced to death in Bul
garia.
“My Government has instructed
me to inform you that it cannot ac
cept the position taken by the Soviet
chairman of the Allied Control Com
mission in Bulgaria to ,the effect
that it was not possible for the Com
mission to inteffere in Mr. Petkov’s
case on the allegation that it is
purely an internal Bulgarian affair.
“It is the firm belief of my gov
ernment that the sentencing to
death of the duly-elected leader of
the Bulgarian opposition is a most
grave matter,1 Which if carried out
will jeopardize the establishment of
* .representative dempcratic^govern
m*»t. in Bulgaria. >
“The establishment of such a rep-*
resentati'ya demapratic government
in Bulgaria and 'either countries was
the primary objective of the dec
laration on liberated Europe,
fo by the United States, United
Kingdom, and the Soviet Union at
Yalta.
"Therefore, by government is of
the opinion that the Soviet chair
man of the Allied Control Comipis
sion in Bulgaria disregarded the
obligations assumed by the Soviet 1
in iVwt Velio orM>flomonl
when he refused to consult with the
United States and British represen-;
tatives in Bulgaria in order to reach1
concerted policies in regard to the
case of Nikola Petkov.
Immediate Talks Asked.
“In view of the inability of the
United States and United Kingdom
representatives in Bulgaria to
reach a concerted polictf with their
Soviet colleague in regard to this
case, the world-wide interest which
this case has received, and particu
larly the obligations assumed by the
United States, the United Kingdom
and the Soviet Union in the Decla
ration on Liberated Europe, my
government requests that immediate
consultations take place at a gov
ernmental level among tfie three
Yalta powers in order that they
may reach concerted policies in re
gard to the matter.
“The United States representative
in Sofia also has emphasized to the
Bulgarian government the impor
tance which the United States Gov
ernment attaches to this case, and
has informed the Bulgarian govern
ment that pending agreement of the
three powers the United States Gov
ernment expects that the sentence
passed on Mr. Petkov will not be exe
cuted. It is hoped that the Soviet
government will make similar rep
resentations to the Bulgarian gov
ernment.
“I should appreciate receiving an
urgent reply indicating the Soviet
government's consent to the three
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government."
Text of Soviet Reply.
The text of the Soviet reply fol
lows :
"It is impossible to agree with the
cppraisal contained in your note
of the acts of the deput president
of the Allied Contfol Commission
who refused consideration of the
proposition brought up by Maj. Gen.
(Walter) Robertson (United States
representative! and Col. Greene
(British repj^sentative) to the ef
fect that the Bulgarian government
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be directed to delay execution of the
sentence in the matter of Nikola
Petkov until such time as the ACC
£puld consider the matter.
“Such a statement of the question
is incorrect and inadmissable, since
the Control Commission in Bulgaria
has no right to review judicial mat
ters decided by Bulgarian court or
to give the Bulgarian government
any directives whatever in such
matters. Such acts by the Control
Commission would constitute inter
ference in Bulgarian internal affairs
and would be direct infringement
of the state sovereignty of Bul
garia.
“As regards the proposition of the
government of the United States of
America, which w'as contained in
your note, immediately to begin gov
ernmental consultations between the
three powers which took part in the
Yalta Conference in order to work
out concerted policy regarding the
matter of Nikola Petkov, the So
viet government, for the rearfjns set
forth above, does not see any pos
~ t nritVi inrliootoH
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proposal. The Soviet government
has an attitude of full resDect and
confidence toward the Bulgarian
court set up by the Bulgarian peo
ple as a guardian of justice.”
Posse Seeking Man, 39,
As Kidnaper of Girl, 15
By the Associated Press
CENTREVILLE, Md„ Aug. 26.—
State police today questioned a 15
year-old farm girl and led a posse
in an intensive search through the
woods near here for a 39-year-old
colored man charged with kidnap
ing after the couple disappeared
August 6.
Named in the kidnap warrant was
Cornelius Ellsworth Whiting, de
scribed as a native of Virginia and
a former resident of New York. He
had been working as a tenant
farmer on the same place where the
girls father,is, employed in a Sim
ilar capacity#^ >. ■' '1
Sheriff Oscar W, Tarr of Talbot
County saki the girt was “thin and
in a filthy oondition and appar
ently had b«>i living jpods
sinc^vher dlfeppearanfe"' Be"'said
there were no marks on Her body. !
Talbbt County authorities said at
the time the kidnap warrant was
sworn out against Whiting that
the couple planned to elope.
Spreckels and Wife Pay
Fines on Drunk Charge
By tho Associated Pros*
LOS ANGELES. Aug. 26.—Drunk
charges against John D. Spreckels
[II, 36-year-olds sugar family scion,
and his wife, Lou Dell Spreckels, 37,
have been settled with fines.
He paid $15 rather than go to jail
for three days. She paid $10 instead
Df serving two days.
The socialites were arrested Sat
urday night by officers who reported
they were trading punches in the |
middle of a boulevard. They spent i
the rest of the night in separate jails:
before making bail.
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'Explosive Experts' Called
By Defense in Overell Case
By the Associated Press ,
SANTA ANA, Calif., Aug. 26
Counsel for Louise Overell, 18-year
old heiress to her parents' $550,000
estate, and her fiance, George Gol
lum, were committed today to prov
ing that it was physically impossible
for them to have murdered Mr. and
Mrs. Walter E. Overell, as the State
alleges.
S. B. Kaufman, Gollum’s attorney,
told the jury the defense would pre
sent “explosive experts" whose testi
mony would show “beyond the shad
ow of a doubt” that the household
alarm clock the State claims was
used to set off an explosion aboard
the Overell yacht the night of March
15 actually could not have timed the
blast.
Mr. Kaufman said the defense
experts would testify that the State's
version of how Louise's parents
came to their death was entirely
erroneous, ne reasonea uiai Mr.
Overell himself was responsible, ac
cidentally or otherwise, for the blast
of what the State contends were
175 sticks of dynamite purchased
the day before by Gollum from a
Chatsworth (Calif.) powder maga
zine.
Miss Overall's lawyer, Otto Jacobs,
told the jury in a brief opening
statement that she had no motive
to kill her parents.
Hungarian Antired Leader
Is Injured by Communists
By the Associated Press
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Aug. 26.—
Zoltan Pfeiffer, leader of the Hun
garian Independence Party and a
foe of communism, was severely in
jured yesterday at Csongrad by per
sons described by the party as
"Communist hoodlums."
They broke up a party political
i any aim went l iuuct niut
pumps and clubs.
sons were injured so severely they
had to be taken away in ambu
lances and an undetermined number
of others were beaten.
, Pfeiffer suffered concussion and
bruises. His friends said today he
was "half dead” and still uncon
scious.
Minister of the Interior Laszlo
Rajk, a leading Communist, said
the fight started because Pfeiffer
pasted his own campaign posters
over the posters of "coalition par
ties” and that he "struck a worker”
who asked about it.
Vatican Fire Burns Food
VATICAN CITY. Aug. 26 WP).—A
fire broke out in a Vatican ware
house today and the fuccl News
Service said several to as of food
were destroyed. A thick pall of
smoke spread over the area before
firemen brought the blaze under
control.
Bulgarian Parliament
Gets Bill to Dissolve
Petkov Agrarian Party
By tha Associated Brass
SOFIA, Bulgaria. Aug. 26>-A bill
to dissolve the Agrarian Party," chief
opposition to the Communist-domi
nated Fatherland Front government,
was introduced today in Parliament.
The party is headed by Nikola Pet
kov, now under sentence of death on
charges of plotting against the gov
ernment.
(A British Foreign Office
spokesman, commenting on re
ports that the Bulgarian Agrari
ans would be outlawed, said “It
would seem to be a good example
of the ‘Gleichschaltung’ (forcing
into line) technique, of which
there have been several examples
in Germany since 1933.”)
The bill, which also would abolish
the Agrarian youth organization,
would deprive the Agrarians of their
remaining seats in the Parliament.
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and probable passage tomorrow.
Have 64 Parliament Seats. '
The Agrarians now have 64 seats
in Parliament. They elected 90
members in the October, 1946, elec
tions in which the Fatherland
Front coalition seated 366. The op
position Lulchev Socialists elected
nine members.
A group of Agrarians were de
prived of their parliamentary seats
recently by the National Assembly
on grounds that they had filed their
resignations with Mr. Petkov. The
Agrarians denied they had resigned
but were expelled on the basis of
that charge.
Parliament last night approved
unanimously the Bulgarian peace
treaty drafted at Paris, although
both government and opposition
speakers called it “hard and un
just.”
Coups Declared Organized.
The bill dissolving the Agrarian
Party said the party and its sections
had “turned into an organized center
of all Fascist and reactionary
forces in the country.”
It charged that the party “organ
ized coups d’etat for overthrowing
the people’s authority legally estab
lished in the country, and under
took terroristic sabotage and diver
sionary activity with the purpose of
provoking disorders.”
“Through the Party organ Narodno
Zemedelski Zname (Mr. Petkov's;
newspaper) were created neats rui
espionage activity in the service of
foreign countries hostile against the
Fatherland Front, which were timed
to undermine national independence,
state sovereignty and state security,”
the bill said.
The measure provides that party
p^operty be confiscated.
$70,000,000 Reparations.
The treaty assesses Bulgaria $70,
000,000 in reparations—$45,000,000 to
Greece and $25,000,00 to Yugoslavia.
She loses no territory by the treaty,
despite earnest Greek demands at
the peace table, but her armed forces
are limited to 65.000 men, warships
totaling 7,250 tons and 90 airplanes.
Russia is required to withdraw
her occupation troops from Bul
garia 90 days after ratification, but
Russia has notf yet ratified the
treaty.
Speakers complained during de
bate on the treaty that it was un
fair in not recognizing Bulgaria's
status as a ‘‘co-belligerent” against
Germany, in imposing heavy repara
tions and in failing to recognize
Bulgaria’s claim to Western Thrace
and an outlet through Greece to j
the Aegean Sea.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Aug 26
MP).—The presidium of the Yugoslav
National Assembly yesterday ratified
the peace treaties with Italyf Bul
garia and Hungary.
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Priest Killed Near Rome
Found to Be Car Victim
By the Associated Press
ROME. Aug. 26.—A Roman Cath
olic priest was found dead on the
Via Appia near Rome early today.
Police first reported he was mur
derech but announced later that in
vestigation showed he was killed by
a motor car or truck:
The victim was identified as the!
Rev. Nicola Lazzarevich. a Pole, be
tween 40 and 50 years old. Papers
in the Polish language were found
on the body.
Although there was a large wound
in the foreheal, police said con
tusions on the back, shoulders and
hands established that the priest had
been struck by a vehicle and dragged
for some distance before he fell. I
Baby Safe as Prowler
Beats, Chokes Nurse
By th« Associated Press
CHICAGO, Aug. 26— Police in
suburban Highland Park today j
credited a 26-year-old, 120-pound
nurse with thwarting the possible
abduction of a three-month-old j
girl by a prowler who invaded the
home of James H Moses, advertising
executive.
The nurse, Mrs. Else Magrethe
Gerland. a widow, was chocked and
beaten by a tall, muscular man after
she started to search the house for
the baby when she found she was
missing from her nursery.
Police said they had been sum
moned to the Moses home by Mrs.
Gerland, who was semiconscious on
a bedroom floor when they arrived.
The baby Laurie Ann Moses, was
found unharmed and sleeping in a
living room chair.
Mrs. Gerland was alone in the
house with the baby when the prowl
er entered. Serg't. William True
said that Mrs. Gerland related that
she attempted to fight with tfte in- j
truder but she was hit on the head
nuu wu me jn*». Miit oaiu lit it
moved her bandana brassiere and
wound it around her throat, tighten
ing it into a hard knot. She told
police he removed two rings from
her fingers before he fled. Mr.
Moses, his wife, Joan and their other
daughter, Lynn, 3, were on their
way home by train from Charlevoix,
Mich., when the attack occurred
yesterday.
War Brides MusTPay
Own Passage in Future
By th« Associated Press
The Army told war brides overseas
today that in the future they must
pay their ow>n expenses journeying
to the United States to join their
husbahds.
Only those brides who already
have signified their intention of
doing so may be brought to this
country through Army facilities, a
War Department announcement
said.
The Army said the program to
transport about 1.260 war brides and
children remaining in Great Britain
is moving slowly. v
Berlin Polio Epidemic Grows
BERLIN, Aug. 26 (TP).—City health
authorities ordered closing of swim
ming pools and schools in two dis
tricts of the Russian sector today as
Berlin's infantile paralysis outbreak,
spread with 14 new cases, bringing
the total to 227. Four additional fa
talities lifted the death toll to 31.
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Justice 6. L. Browning,
Virginia High Court
Jurist, Dies at 80
By th« Associated Press
RICHMOND. Va., Aug. 26.—
Justice George L. Browning. 80,
member of the Virginia Supreme
Court.of Appeals and former mem
ber of ^he House of Delegates, died
today in a Richmond hospital where
he recently underwent a major
operatioin. He had been in ill health
for some time.
Funeral services will be conducted
at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at St. Thomas’
Episcopal Church. Orange, with
burial in the Graham Cemetery.
A member of the State's highest
tribunal since February 19, 1930,
Justice Browning has fourth rank
ing in seniority among the court's
seven justices. He was serving his
cprnnri 19-vppr t/>rm nc a mpmhpr nf
the court, having been re-elected
for the new' term by the General
Assembly in 1940.
Wife Died in 1940.
The white-haired Justice Brown
ing embodied many of the physical
:haracteristics of the traditional
"Old Virginia” jurist.
His wife. Mrs. Evelyn Byrd Hill
Browning, died in 1940.
In his 17 years on the Supreme
Court, Justice Browning wrote 299
opinions, covering virtually every
phase of law. Few of his opinions
exceeded four or five pages.
Justice Browning was born April
3, 1867, son of John Armistead
Browning and Mary Lewis Willis
Browning of Rappahannock County.
He w’as educated at the University
of Virginia and Georgetown Uni
versity, and his appointment to the
Supreme Court followed a quarter
of a century of law practice in Mad
ison and Orange Counties.
Justice Browning was a member
of the Virginia Military Institute
Board of Visitors for three terms.
He was a 32d degree Mason. • ■
His home at Orange was known
as the Old Manse.
Justice Browning is survived by
three sons, Armistead Willis Brown
ing. Chadds Ford, Pa.; Dr. George
L. Browning II, Boston, and Francis
ri. Browning, seaiora, uei.; a slop
daughter, a stepson and several
grandchildren.
Sister Mary Helen,
Baltimore Nun, Dies
By th« Anociot*d Pr«s»
BALTIMORE. Aug. J6.—Sister
Mary Helen Ryan, 66, a native of
Graiton, W. Va., and an executive
for many years in institutions con
ducted by the Catholic Sisters of
Mercy, died in Mercy Hospital here
last night.
Sister Helen had been seriously ill
for seven weeks, but until the time
she collapsed at a meeting at the
mother house of the order she had
been the active head of the accident
and social service departments at
Mercy Hospital,
She entered the religious order
in 1915 and served as superintendent
of Mercy Hospital from 1930 to 1936.
In 1925 she was named a member
of the Maryland State Board of
Examiners for Nurses, the first
member of a religious order ever to
bold such a position. She served as
secretary-treasurer of the board
from 1937 to 1941.
She is survived by a brother,
James M. Ryan, Cumberland, and
i sister, Mrs. Margaret M. Moran,
Baltimore.__