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...crash which killed former Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson and 28 other persons was the second of three air disasters to occur...
STEPHEN H. PATTERSON...
Former Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, who died in an Elizabeth, N.J. air crash last month, always remembered the patrol of five men who volunteered to crawl to his rescue one day in World War I when he was an infantry captain, cut off and trapped in a German-held segment of the Argonne. Last week four of the surviving men - Patrick J. Carroll, N.Y., Peter Finucane, The Bronx, Richard Foy, N.J. and John Duffy, Brooklyn - plus his old orderly, Samuel Silverstein, Camp Gordon, Ga., learned that Judge Patterson had left each of them a token bequest...
...inquiry. Last week the job turned out to be far less heroic in proportions. It called for a special assistant to the Attorney General, with powers only to investigate, leaving prosecution up to Attorney General Howard McGrath. After reportedly being refused by two other eminent lawyers (the late Robert Patterson and former American Bar Association head, Cody Fowler), the chore was accepted by Newbold Morris, a blueblood reformist Republican from Manhattan...
Died. Robert Porter Patterson, 60, World War I hero, lawyer, jurist, onetime (1945-47) U.S. Secretary of War; in a plane crash at Elizabeth, N.J. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...