Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1937, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY JUNE 9, 1937. GEN, FULLER DIES INNAVALHOSPITAL Former Commandant of Ma- } rine Corps Is Victim of | | Pneumonia. Tull military honors will be ac- eorded Maj. Gen. Ben Hebard Fuller, 67, former commandant of the Marine Corps. when he is buried Friday at the United States Naval Academy Ceme- tery, Annapolis. Gen. Fuller, who had been x'f‘lirPd about three years, died unexpectedly last night at the Naval Hospital here, where he had been ill with pneumonia about two days. Funeral services will be hPld at 3 p.m. Friday at the Naval Academy | Chapel. The general hatl requested to be buried there, where his son, Capt. Ted Fuller, Marine Corps, who was killed overseas during the World | War, also is interred. A veteran of more than 45 year: service, Gen. Fuller became Marine commandant in August, 1930, and was retired in March, 1934 Lived in Virginia, Since his retirement he had made his home at Hamilton, Va, with his wife A daughter, Mrs. Chesney Fordnay, of Lake Bluff, Ill, also survives Born February 27, Rapids, Mich,, Gen, | pointed to the Naval Acddemy from Michigan May 23, 1885, and on grad- uatien was transferred to the Marine | Corps and appointed a second lieu- tenant July 1, 1891. He participated in the Battle of | Navaleta, P. I, October 8, 1899, and was commended by the department for gallant, meritorious and courageous conduct in the Battle of Tientsin, | China, July 13 and 14, 1900. Long Service Record. From 1904 to 1906 he served at the naval station, Honolulu. Territory of Hawaii. In June and July, 1908, he was on detached duty with an expedi- | tionary force organized for service in Panama. and from August of that year until January, 1910, commanded & Marine battalion at Camp Elliott, Canal Zone. From March to June, 1911 he commandad the 3rd Regiment of Marines at Camp Meyer, Guan- tanamo Bay, Cuba From 1 to 1915 he commanded various posts and stations in the United States, and during this period also he completed the field officers’ course at the Army Service Schools, Fort Leavenworth, Kans, and the oourse at the Army War College, | ‘Washington, D. C. Following a tour of duty as fleet marine officer of the United States Atlantic Fleet, from January, 1915, to June, 1916, Fuller | was assigned to the Naval War Col- lege. Newport, R. I, where he suc- cessfully completed the course. In August, 1918, he was assigned to command the 2d Brigade of Ma- rines in the Dominican Republic, re- maining there until October, 1920, He also served on the staff of the military governor of Santo Domingo as secretary of state, interior, police war and navy, from December, 1919, until his detachment from Santo Do- mingo. On Naval War College Staff. | From November, 1620, to July, 1922, | he served on the stafl of the Naval | War College, Newport, R. I, and from July, 1922, to January, 192 commanded the Marine Corps Schoo Quantico, Va. In January, 1924, he assumed command of the 1st Brigade of Marines in the Republic of Haiti, with headquarters at Port-au-Prince, in which capacity he served until December 8, 1925. Following his return to the United Btates from Haiti, Gen. Fuller was as- signed to Marine Corps headquarters as president of the Marine Examining and Retiring Boards, serving in that capacity until July, 1928, when he was appointed assistant to the major general commanding. He received the Spanish campaign medal, the Philippine campaign medal, the China campaign medal, the Victory medal, the expeditiona: medal and the second Nicaragua campaign medal. He was awarded the | presidential medal of merit of Nica- Fagua and the medal of military merit of the Dominican Republic. 1870, at Big Fuller was ap- Half Reptile, Half Blrd The archeopteryx, known to sci- ence only through fossils, was an ani- mal in transition between a reptile and a bird. Texas Floats Airships. Texas gas wells in the Dalias-Fort Worth area supply most of the helium Eas now used in the Navy's dirigible airships. The Foening Ha? ADVERTISENENTS NURSEUNT | ciety General Dies MAJ. GEN. BEN H. FULLER TB0ARD STUDIES BUDGET | Directors of Visiting Society Review Year’s Work at Final Meeting. The Board of Directors of the In- structive Visiting Nurse Soclety con- sidered & tentative budget for 1938 | at its final meeting of the season | yesterday. Miss Gertrude H. Bowling, execu- tive director, described the needs of the organization. Mrs. Emory Scott | Land, chairman of the Nursing Com- | mittee, told the board the staff had | been carrying & heavy burden of | work for this time of year. She re- | ported a total of 14,149 visits to 4,522 patients during the iast month. The board passed resolutions of appreciation to the family of Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, who left the so- | a legacy of $3,000 in memory of her daughter, Mary Hopkins Blag- den, and to the family of Mrs. Bes- sie Ramsay Rogers, who left a me- morial of $2,000 in honor of her husband, Comdr. Franklin Rogers, Navy Medical Corps. Harlan Fiske Stone, president, presided at the board meeting. Others present were Mrs. Charles B. Craw- ford, Mrs. Hutchinson I. Cone, Mrs. John W. Davidge, Joshua Evans, jr.; John Ihider, Mrs. Emory Scott Land, Mrs. William Marbury, Harold N. Marsh, Mrs. Keith Merrill, Hewitt Myers, Miss Elsa M. Peterson, John L. Proctor, Mrs. John M. Stern- hagen, Richard Wilmer, Mrs. Charles F. Wilson, Mrs. John Marvin Wright | and Miss Bowling. !9 Counts Returned Against | $4.500 and $5,000, aggregating $17,000. | allegedly while fighting with Epps and George | CASHIER INDICTED IN DEFALCATION R. A. Sisson, Formerly of Hamilton-Bank. Robert A. Sisson, 30, Hamilton Na- tional Bank assistant cashier, who was arrested April 10 for alleged de- falcation of bank funds, was indicted | today on nine counts, six charging | embezzlement and three making of false entries. Sums covered in the embezzlement | count totaled $6,460.16, while the al-| leged false entries were for $7,500, Shortly after Sisson’s arrest bank officials estimated his defalcations amounted to between $15,000 and $20,000. Pleaded Guilty. Arraigned before United States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage the day he was taken into custody by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, Sisson pleaded guilty and was quoted as saying he used some of the money | to play the stock market and some | to purchase his Bethesda home, where | he lives with his wife and three chil- | dren. He was released under bail. The alleged embezzlements were on September 11, 1934, and August 9, September 4, January 8, February 24 and December 22, 1936. The Govern- ment contends Sisson covered up his defalcations through false entries of loans to bank customers. Charges of assault with a danger- ous weapon and with intent to kill were returned against Willie J. Mc- Lendon, 25, colored, who allegedly fired two shots into the back of Roscoe W. Kirk, 52-year-old taxicab driver. Kirk was taken before the grand jury on a stretcher. Eugene C. Epps, 21, and John Giles, 22, both colored, were indicted on manslaughter charges in connection with the death of Ernell Simmons, also colored. whose skull was fractured March 13 when he fell to the sidewalk, Giles. Others indicted were: Willilam Roy Brown, mnon-support | $5.000 | of wife and minor child; Amos R. Stepney, James Goodman, Robert E. Alexander, George R. Reed, James Anderson and Mose Gary, housebreak- ing and larceny; Raymond Queen, re- celving stolen property; Norman Brax- ton and John E. Parker, joyriding; Marcus Garvey, William Davis, Jack Fulton, Willlam McCoy, Blanche West- wood, Jesse Killebrew and Judson T. [+ Holmes, grand larceny; Allen T. El- liott, John N. Parker, Louis M. Hicks, Jose Coleman and Frank Rogers, rob- bery; James H. Brisbon, violation of liquor taxing act; Wendel F. Harris, assault with a dangerous weapon; Jack Fulton and William McCoy, three-card monte; Willlam Fine and Sally Fine, violation of narcotic laws; Howard D. 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