Deaths Of Islands People

Mr. George M. Taggart

Mr. George M. Taggart, a former economics adviser on the High Com missioner’s staff of the United States Trust Territory, died at his home in the Virgin Islands in July. He was 64.

Mr. Taggart spent more than 20 years in the Pacific. During World War II he was a commander in the United States Navy and went ashore with the First Marine Division in the invasion of Saipan.

He led a varied career, including movie-making in Alaska and the South Pacific, and diving for pearls in French Polynesia.

An accomplished sailor, he is mentioned in numerous yachting books.

In the mid-1930’5, with two other Americans, Richard Maury and Russell Dickenson, he sailed almost

around the world in the five-t schooner Cimba.

The three men pooled their sources for the trip and had doze of adventures and misadventures a three-year trip which includ many stops in the South Pacific, p ticularly French Polynesia.

The 35 ft Cimba, with the thi young men aboard, finished up on Fiji reef, where she was dragg off unscathed, and sold. Mr. Mai wrote a book about the trip, cal] The Saga of Cimba.

Mr. J. M. Cook Mr. James M. Cook, who died the Guam Naval Hospital early October following a short illness, h been Director of Transportation the United States Trust Territc since 1962.

He is survived by his wife Doni