Evening star. [volume], July 07, 1948, Image 9

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Lawrence Gets Post
As Turnage, III, Takes
Protracted Leave
United States Commissioner
Needham C. Turnage will take a
protracted leave of absence because
of illness, and his duties will be as
sumed by Attorney Cyril S. Law
rence, it w'as announced yesterday.
Mr. Lawrence was appointed oy
a general term session of District
Court justices as an additional
commissioner, Chief Justice Bolitha
J. Laws said.
Mr. Turnage. 60, will enter a vet
erans' hospital at Oteen, N. C., ac
cording to the announcement He
NEEDHAM C. TURNAGE.
CYRIL S. LAWRENCE.
has held the position as commis
sioner here for a quarter of a cen
tury.
Court Offers Regrets.
In a statement, Justice Laws said
the court "is very grateful for the
loyal services of Mr. Turnage. ar.d
regrets very much the unfortunate
illness which requires his protracted
absence from his duties.”
Mr. Lawrence, 45, has been an at
torney here since 192fi, writh the
exception of three years and three:
months prior to December, 1945,
during which time he served with
the Army Air Forces in intelligence i
jand legal work, with the rank of
j major.
He is a former professor of law
at Southeastern University and was
a special assistant to the Attorney
General from 1926 to 1927. He is
now' second vice president of the
District Bar Association.
Lived Here Since Child.
Bom at Rochester, N. Y., Mr.
Lawrence has lived in the District
since childhood. He attended Cor
nell University and was graduated
in law from Georgetown University
in 1925. He lives at the Dorchester
House and has offices in the Securi
ties Building. 729 Fifteenth street
N.W. .
He is a member of the American
Bar Association, the Law Stuoy
Club of the District, the Columbia
Historical Soeietv. the Masonic Or
der and the. Amerran Legio”.
The new commissioner wall be
i sworn in within a few days and will
conduct the work of issuing war
rants and conducting preliminary
hearings for susnected felons in
Mr. Turnage’s offices in the Bank
of Commerce & Savings Building.
Seventh and E streets N.W.
Mr. Turnage, w'ho also is engaged
in the practice of law. plans to
continue work on a textbook con
cerning the work of a United States
commissioner while in the hos
oital.
Best Appeals Life Sentence
BOSTON, July 7 UP).—Robert H.
Best of Sumter, S. C., has appealed
a life sentence for treason in broad
casting Nazi propaganda from Ger
many during the war. Best, former
American newsman, filed notice of
appeal with the Circuit Court of
Appeals yesterday. He was sentenced
June 3<\ by Federal Judge Francis;
J. W. Ford. He was convicted last
April.
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