Ashes to Ashes

📙 The St. Bemadette's Parents League was formed to save the old, bankrupt parochial school from being replaced by a twenty-story apartment house. The irate protesters had sentiment and Francis P.Omara on their side. Unger Realty had John Putnam Thatcher of Sloan Guaranty Trust, $4 million and the archdiocese of New York behind them. Francis R Omara was a powerful spokesman for his cause-but so was an unknown killer with a butcher's mallet who was determined to have the last word.