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:-(Sre. II) -nr.i Salem, Ore, Fri., Jan. 6, ?6 FBI Investigating Extraordinary Case Of Ferdinand Demara, .Expert Imposter KEY WEST. Fla, -Tlif FHI of ""writing bad chec U. They are Key West hotel shout 10 dayi ro, ,r!or. ho tald he had cashed sa.d Thursday it is looking into hohling up service of the warrant rendering as nr., Benjamin Jonrs five J 10 checks ana was noiainfi and identifying mmxFiU ai a doc- another lor 26. he weird case of Ferdinand Dp- until the FBI determine! whether tiara, aliai Dr. Benjamin Jones, lit wanti Demara. mposter extraordinary. Tolire, investigator Al Albertus Key Vest police are holding the gave these details: S-year-old man for Investigation! A man checked into a swank tor of education from Mass. Folic arrested the man yester day on complaint of the hotel op- Jersey City Pays Final Respects to Hague Lawrence, Fleet Medical Officer Demara told officers- that In 1952 a national magazine (Life) ran an article telling how tie posed as a fleet medical officer in the Cana dian Navy aboard the Destroyer Cayuga during the Korean con flict. During 'that time, Demara removed a wounded man'a lung and extracted a bullet from near a. soldier' heart, the article said. Demara said he had no medical ( 't-is. ." ::r, ' ' ' ' ; r -1 ' 'ill"- '2: ;'.. .,.- J. . ' I, J training but "had read lome " I f - -- ' ' -.-'. if ! books " I '( 'I1 -"io if 'P;Vtit4 T-'l '1! l'ntil last month, he told offi- W K .1T x,tTVV:V iiLSJt ne h8d bffn n assistant ll i'- 3 i! I l' iVt A V !V,ry warden at. Huntiville, Tex., state r j .C f ; I )y ' V' ''v irVU month post, he said, after 0. B. .Sji f V - - ' n'C j Ellis, Texas commissioner of cor- 1' . w ,r t 4 f J I rection-, spotled the mngaiine ar- JiC' J' -' ., , . I tide, recognized "Jones" as De- f t ! L ml. jt fci mmmS. .....v, ... mara and past. Past Catches I'p The heavyset Demara, sporting crewcut, said he reined, his "past had caught up with me and headed for Key West, where he said he-served in the Navy in I. , J J 1942. I J j Demara told polii I I to "commit suicide AW J things." He didn't i , "other things" he 1 0 JERSEY riTY, N.J. Policemen salute as casket containing body of Frank Hague If borne to bears ntside St Aedao'i Church here Thursday. Hague, former mayor of Jersey City, died New Year's Day at the age of SI. Democratic mayor of the city for eigtit successive years, ae was rrgaroea as bst of nation's old-style political bosses. (AP H'lrephoto) Politician Given Homage, Piano Sales Jeer at Funeral Services Reported U Jrncr-v rrrv NJ. ur Frank , former mayors body was lanen Hamie. who was many things to from the Lawrence G. Quinn Fu i. i. hi. unmi a. npral home 8US Bureau indicates mai ae FSSZ? woman waved an Americ.nin'. radio and the increasing ifXX death Thursday as flag and held up a sign mocking, 1 his body was taken to services. c....rri imnHrpil nrrsons some i mink coats, some in work duty with an honor guard of po- clothes-lined the streets as the .funeral. Hague and calling him man. Police chief Michael Cusack, on WASHINGTON UP- The Cen- sus Bureau indicates that despite use bringing greedy music into the home more people man ever are Duying -pianos police he Intended suicide, among other specify what had in mind. Police said Demara had a load ed .38 caliber revolver registered in the name of Benjamin Jones and that his clothes were marked with the name Demara, Officers said their prisoner re ceived a telephone call this morn ing from Houston, Tex. They said they did not know who called De mara or what was discussed. Contaminated Lettuce Seized Comic Artist Leaves Estate To Daughter w -", t'n church, which once rreatnr ol me tun lit uiu v said, manufacturers sold Just ovr litemen and firemen nahed ,nu,on aonan worm 01 pianos across the street, grabbed thei"" was an increase 01 ib per sign and ripped it to pieces as the cent over sales in 1947. crowd cheered. The woman melt- The report said, manufacturers ed into the crowd. , in this country made 154 698 pi- The body was brought from the '". compared with 147.39J in the funeral home shortly before '197. Nearly all. in both years 11 a.m.. preceded by Mrs. Hague! were uprights, and fewer rand and her daughter, Margaret, and "$ were made than in 1947. son, Frank Hague Jr. $56,000 Altar It was taken to St. Aedan's R. WASHINGTON i The Food and Drug Administration FDAi Thursday announced seizure in New York of two carloads of let- During 1934. the Census Bureau, !" saio were comaminaiea wiui me insecuciao endrin. FDA said use of endrin is not permitted on lettuce. The agency said U. S. marshals seized one carload of the lettuce Tuesday nd the other late Wed nesday. , The lettuce was shipped from El Centro, Calif., FDA said. Palooka." left the bulk of an esti mated 2-million-dollar estate to bis 17-year-old daughter, Wendy. Fisher's will. Wed for probate WMfaMdav. left the legal mini mum to bis second wife, Marilyn, whom he married in April, 1954. No child has been born to them. A section of the testament tained this paragraph: This will and the provisions thereof shall not be either wholly or partially revoked or rendered wholly or partially ineffective or otherwise affected by the subse quent birth of a child or children said to be mine." received a $30 .000 altar u a gift from Hague. Sixty firemen and policemen were the honor guard for the body. .Nine motorcycle and 18 mounted officers provided escort to the church. Mayor Bernard Berry, Federal Judge Thomas Meany, former Congress-woman Mary Norton and Rep. T. James Tumulty ( D-NJ ) were among those viewing the body-at the funeral home. Area Crowded The church was filled to capa city with 1.400 persons aeatAl and another. 100 standing in the rear. Outside, others stood in the yard of the .church and some 200 stood Thewido-aa-. left t? M0 in -n the tecW a-ehurctt-ef esa h cash and the income irom one street. third of his estate for the rest of her life the minimum under New York state law. Wendy. Fisher's daughter by his first marriage, receives the income from the remaining two thirds of the estate. The other third reverts to her upon the death of the second MVs. Fisher. We"dv is attending high school and living with Mrs. Catherine Jones, a school teacher In the late cartoonist's home town of Wilkes 'Barre, Pa. Burial for Hague, who died Jan. 1 at the age of 81, was at Holy Name Cemetery. The honorary pallbearers con sisted of six police precinct cap tains. The city is under a month long mourning period for Hague, whose political regime ended in 1947 when it was upset by a group headed by Johnny V. Kenny. TOPCOAT 100 Wools Broken Sizes REALLY FINE TOPCOATSI 20 Discount On Most (oafs - W ATE t REPEUENT DRESS -TOP COATS - Gabardine 1 O OC Broken Sixes from I W 3r ar KAY WOOLEN MILL STORE OPEN ALL DAY SATURDAY 260 S. 12th Across From Willamette Campus British Jet Hits Homes, Four Killed ILCHESTER. England I A British Jet fighter-bomber crashed into a cluster of residential trail ers Thursday and - four persons ,were reported killed, including a woman and her baby. The airplane, a sea venom used by the fleet air arm. plowed through two of the 12 trailers on the site, spewing wreckage. The pilot and observer, the only two in the plane, perished. Trailer residents found the bodies of a young woman and a baby about 3 months old in the wreckage of one trailer. Another woman and a S-months-old baby were taken to Yeovil hospital suf fering shock and bruises, llchester is five miles from Yeovil, a glove manufacturing, and market town in Somerset about 125 miles west of London. COURSE PLANNED NEW YORK un - A special 20 week course to prepare Braillists needed to transcribe books for blind children will be held here. Get Up Nights? Backache? Lumbago, Leg Cramps? Fuffy Eyes? TSCHAEFER'S Diuretic Tonic Sold at Schaefer'f Drag Only SCIIAEFER'S DRUGSTORE Open Dally 7:11 L m. U t p.m. Sundays, I s. n. U t a. m. 13S N. 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