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/ 4 RA0T VICTING TOLIEIN STATE Bodies W|I| Be Placed in Sin- gle Grave on Satur- day. By the Associated Press. LONDON, October 9.—Ancient walls and rafters of Westminster Hall echoed today to the hammers of carpenters preparing the catafalque on which | States. coffins of the 48 victims of the R-101 disaster will lie in state tomorrow. The coffins will be removed tonight from the mortuary chamber, where they have rested, to the hall and will ranged in double column down the cen- ter of the hall, each draped in a na- tional flag and floral tributes ranged around it. Sentinels with reversed arms will stand silently around the cata- falque while the public files past. The vast grave in which the bodies are to be laid side by side in Clrding ton churchyard is within sight of the great hangar. from which the R-101 ‘went on its fateful voyage last Saturday evening. The coffins will not be low- ered in accordance with usual custom, since the grave has a sloping side, down which they will be carried. ‘The Bishop of St. Albans will con- duct the funeral service according to rites of the Church of England. There- after a Roman Catholic priest and Presbyterian pastor will read the serv- ices of their congregations over the les. Saturday's funeral procession from Mrs. Rebecea G. Fields, 100 Years: Old, Was Owner of Montgomery County Sentinel. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md, October 9.— Death last evening closed the century- long career of Mrs. Rebecca G. Fields of Rockville, owner of the Montgomery County Sentinel ‘and oldest woman newspaper publisher in the Since her 100th birthday FeBruary 2, the aged woman has been Iailing gradually and death was due to a worn- out body rather than any organic dis- order. Her life ended peacefully and be | with little pain, with three of her six children gathered at her bedside in the house to which she had come as a bride 80 years ago. The house stands on the southwest corner of Montgomery avenue and Washington street and was a wedding present to her and her hus- band, the late Matthew Fields. Last night her six children, six grandchildren and six great-grandchil- dren gathered in the old home with many friends and talked of the long life that had gone out like a flickering candle, quietly and naturally. Before her marriage Miss Rebecca Beckwith, she was born within 5 miles of Rockville and seldom went farther away from it than Washington. She avolded railroads and, although a branch of the Baltimore & Ohio was laid néar her home 60 years ago, she never was a passenger on its trains. Her rallroad trips have been extremely few, .although she often rode the street United | many years all the help she required was to run the hand press, which is still in use. All her children survive her. Y are Charles W., Henry Clay, John Wal .garet Fields and Mrs. David H. War- field. All live in Rockville and the vi- | cinity. Her grandchildren are Mrs. | William H. West, Mrs. Samuel T. Wim- satt, Mrs, Claude Tschiffely and George P. Fields of Washington, Mrs. William A. Waters of Gaithersburg and Miss Re- becca Fields of Rockville. The funeral will be from St. Mary's Catholic Church at 10 o'¢lock Saturday morning, and interment will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery. Rev. Charle§ O'Hara, pastor, will offictate, PATIENTS GiVEN OUTING Patients at the Naval Hospital went on an outing to Great Falls yesterday arranged by Federal Post 824, Veterans of Foreign Wars, assisted by the auxil- jary. The Independent Cab Operators placed 27 taxis at the disposal of the veterans, who were served with candy and tobacco. ‘Those in charge of arrangements in- cluded John G. Stroble, commander of the post; Mrs. Dorothy Lohman, Mrs. Adelaide M. Grant, Mrs. Rosina Lueb- kert and Harry Walthrop. A1 » THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, OLDEST WOMAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER DIES IN ROCKVILLE CRUSADERS' DRIVE OPENS WEDNESDAY Washington Branch in Head- quarters at Fourteenth and H Streets. The Washington branch of the Cru- | saders, a national organization seeking lace and Albert . J. Fields, Miss Mar- |l © " P imition laws, will in- augurate a_city-wide drive for new members in Washington next Wednes- day. Hcadquuters for the Washington Crusaders have been opened on the ground floor of the Peoples Life Insur- ance Building, Fourteenth and H streets. In announcing the plans for the mem- bership drive, John F. Dryden, execu- tive commander of the local Crusaders, revealed that the principal plank in the organization’s platform is that the control of liquor should be vested in State rather than in National Govern- ment. The Crusaders, he sald, will work to- ward this goal, and beiieve that the most_practical ‘method to accomplish this eg 1. peal of the Vomeld act and the Jones law, 2. Passage by '.he States of laws which will control the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors along lines best suited to the problems of each individual State. 3. Enactment of Federal legislation to protect States which may desire to remain dry from liquor importation. 4. Repeal of the eighteenth amend- ment, which any phn of prohibition reform makes essential Asserting that the crusaders are op- poled to lny return of '.he uloon Mr. h_character of o ommnuons [enen! commit- tee, which, he said, is composed of Gist Blair, Frederic A. Delano, Randall H. Hagner, Prederic D. McKenney, Dr. OCTOBER 9, 1930. away at each other with unusual fervor|and with ' when one of the fighters rushed his| hook, knocked opponent, wound his arms about him, and the force of the rush carried them both out of the ring and down among - e e e Prof. H. H. Tirner, Savillan prof The attac n . H.H. er, n profes- e nstead o e | sor of astronomy-at Oxford, who died his opponent to rise, began_to pummel him while he was down. This aroused | recently at Stockholm, Sweden, re- SPECTATOR WINS BOUT ;oek Out Boxer Who Pummels Other Outside Ring. BRUNSWICK, Me., October 9 (N.A. N.A.).—The main bout of a boxing show M twisting' right (Copyright. 1930, by North Amnlun News- paper Alliance.) r MARINE CORPS ORDERS liam B, Mason, Dr. James F. Mitchell, Dr. Thomas E. Nelll, John L. Newbold, Clarence F. Norment, Joseph P. Tumulty, Maj. Gen. Kenzie ‘Walker and Fred S. Wynn. The following changes are an- nounced: Capt. Gustav F. Bloedel, on report- ing of rellef, detached 1st Brigade, Haiti, to depot of supplies, Philadel- phid, Pa, via first available Govern- ment conveyance. Second Lieut, Randall M. Victory, assigned to duty with the U, 8. 8. Pittsburgh. ‘The following-named officers have been promoted to the grades indicated: Colonel, Raymond B. Sullivan; lieu- tenant colonels, Howard W. Stone and Maurice E. Shearer; majors, Karl I. Buse and Harold 8. Fassett; captains, | Amor L. Sims, Moses J. Gould, Arnold C. Larsen and Willlam F. Brown; first lieutenants, James P. S. Devereux, Martin S. Rahiser, Robert E, Hoga- boom and Adolph Zuber. GOLDENBERG'S SEVENTH AND K STS. $6 White Metal Frames here was won by a spectator. The two pugilists were thumping e YOU TAKE NO RISK Hurry and get it the indignation of a spectator several| quested that his body be used for scien- seats away. The spectator leaned over! tific purposes. 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