'Dead' For Fly© Years,
Soldier Asks Fpr Status
New York.—First Army head
quarters yesterday said a former
missing soldier, officially dead
for five years, walked into an
army recruiting station in New
York and asked about his status.
Colonel William B. Force said
a fingerprint test agreed with
the man's identification of him
self as Anthony V. Martino of
Waterbury, Conn., ■where his
wife and two children still lire.
. Martino was listed as missing
hi combat in France, in "1944,
and then as presumed dead.
Force said Martino walked in
to a recruiting station at 39
Whitehall Street about three
weeks ago, and said he recalled
being'sent to a hospital and then
a replacement depot in France in
the Summer of 1944.
The next thing he remember
ed, Martino was quoted as say
ing, was walking down a street
in Brooklyn In December, 1944.
Force said he did not know
whether Martino gave any reason
for falling to Identify himself
previously to the army or to his
wife.
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Miss Irene Hoskins, the first
missionary sent by the Home
Missions Council to help teach
the Navajo Indians of the South
western States to read and write,
has enlisted for the summer the
assistance of college - student
Miss Jane Barclay who in 1947
accompanied the party of Dr.
Frank C. Laubach to the Near
East. Miss Barclay is an artist,
and her job is to design the pic
tures for the charts from which
the first phonetic writing is
learned. Miss Hoskins, who goes
from home to home with her
teaching, sees in literacy "for the
Navajo a doorway to the im
provement of health and social
relations; an avenue for escape
from poverty; a means of becom
ing an intelligent and informed
citizen of our democracy; a door,
to acceptance and understanding
of Christianity."
Under the leadership of Miss
Margaret Crofoot, of the Board
of Education of the Presbyterian
Church in the U. S. A., twelve
college-age young Presbyterians
will give their summer to set-vice
as ward attendants at the Phila
delphia State Hospital—the first
such group in the newly formed
"Institutional Service Unit" ask
ed for by the Church's young
people. The group will have prac
! tical training toward their col
lege work as pre-med students,
social work and psychology ma
jors, and trainees for vocations
within the church, including the
ministry.
Miss Margaret Barnes, Amer
ican missionary, is the secretary
of the North China Christian
Rural Service Union which car
ries on its ministry despite chang
ing political conditions in the
nation. The present program of
the Union which extends from
the churches into the country
side, Includes crop betterment,
digging of irrigation wells, en
couraging cooperatives, establish
ing local libraries, vocational
training, and educating both men
and women for richer family and
home life.
Honoring the first president of
the Woman's Society of Christian
Service of the Methodist Church,
Grace L. Bragg Hall, a new dor
mitory for Scarritt College, Nash
ville, Tenn.,' will soon be erected
at a cost of $250,000. Mrs. Bragg
is a resident of St. Louis, Mo.
She recently retired from the So
ciety's presidency after eight
years of service.
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Children Drowned
When Boat Overturns
Raleigh, May 30.—Two chil
dren drowned in a small pond
when a boat capsized Sunday on
a farm pond about five miles
northwest of Wendell.
Victims of the tragedy were
Proctor Hocutt, 10, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Newman Hocutt of
near Wendell, and Jackie Wood,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Warren
Wood of Route 8, Raleigh.
Wake County Coroner I. M.
Cheek said the children were a
mong a party of eight riding on
a pond on the J. C. Watson farm
when the accident occurred.
Death Of Onslow
Man Listed Suicide
Jacksonville, May 80.—John
Ernest Shields, 39, Southport na
tive, Bhot an<^ killed himself at
his home near Jacksonville this
morning, Onslow Coroner Talbert
Jones ^reported.
The coroner said Shields used
a .22 caliber rifle, pulling It with
a stick as he lay cross the bed at
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In another room was his wife
and a visitor.
Shields, a farmer and formerly
a prison guard, lived atikatt
miles /from Jacksonville vmT~
Richland* highway.