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MONDAY, JANUARY 12, I9S5 Spite Girl Ex-Pittsburgh Flier Killed Fire Engines East Liberty Man Just 'Burned Up An East Liberty man admitted today he called out the fire engines because he was "burned up" at a girl friend. George Lang, 40, told a police magistrate that he sent the fire engines twice to her home just to spite her. The Magistrate, Julius Strba, held Lang of 5726 Ellsworth Avenue, for court on a charge of calling in two false fire alarms. No Smoke In Sight Fire engines pulled up in front of the home of Miss Helen Don-oghue of 7000 Churchland St, East Liberty, twice over the week end. Not a wisp of smoke was in sight either time.

Firemen testified that the first call was received at 6:33 p. m. Saturdayl Fire alarm operators promptly sent out an engine. A false alarm. Yesterday at 2:27 p.

m. another call came in reporting a fire at the house. Again' an engine went out Again no fire. Firemen -Suspicious Firemen became suspicious two false alarms to the same house. So they, stopped in for a talk with Miss Donbghue.

Lang was arrested last night This morning Miss Donoghue told the magistrate that Lang is Ljm mmmtk Danker Given Probation On False Entry Charges Counts Involving $48,479 Embezzlement Dropped at Trial of Indiana, Man An elderly banker, whose concern for the funds of two organi THEY FOUND BODY William B. Snyder, of R. D. 1, Aliquippa, discovered the scratched and mutilated school freshman's body while exercising his dogs. He said only the girl's legs were protruding from the snow which blanketed the isolated dump.

Arrest Is First Break In 1949 Murder Case Police Hope They've Reached End of Trail In Hunt for Brutal 1949 Death Mystery A bare leg protruding from the snow on an isolated slag zations led to embezzlement charges, was placed on probation for Called to LANG He cried "wolf." it type" of man. She said they had "a misunderstanding." She "did not elaborate. Neither tional Bank of Indiana, had pleaded guilty to two counts of false entry involving $48,479 of the bank's funds. Twenty-three charges of embezzlement and two of misap propriation of funds were dropped when he entered his plea." Difficult to Explain Judge Frederick V. Follmer, who-said he was impressed by the character witnesses for the 7 "But what was done here is difficult to explain," he declared.

Lewis pleaded guilty today to making false entries in the accounts of the Industrial Mutual Fire Insurance Co. and the Indiana Firemen's Assn. The amount involved was Lewis was an officer of both the funds, explained. Withdrew. Funds Lewis told the judge that he withdrew money from three accounts when they climbed over the $5000 markr Any money over $5000 he continued, he put in his own safety deposit box.

The reason for the transfer was a benevolent one, he ex plained. As the Federal DeDosit Insur up to just $5000, he said, he didn't want the organizations to suffer any loss if the bank went bankrupt Correction Claimed The 63-year-old banker said that prior to the FBI investigation which led to his arrest in 1951 he put back all the money into the fund accounts. In addition, he said, he substituted new md correct ledger sheets for the two accounts. Ten character witnesses fol lowed Lewis to the stand. All of them testified that he had a good reputation.

nil ii rumr 1f V- 'Vi i i'kii--. five years today in Federal Court Samuel Paul Lewis, former assistant cashier of the First Na dump near Ambridge touched off most puzzling murder mysteries An Aliquippa steelworker made the discovery while exercising Neighbor Held In Slaying Of Girl Police Puzzled For Four Years (Continued from Pag One! the Courthouse corridors in an apparently futile attempt to see her. He told reporters that his wife had met Bankowski "during the elections, before the girl was slain. The night of the slaying, he said, his wife had seen a woman walking between the dump, where the body was found, and the; girl's home. "She told me she didn't know If It was the girl or her mother (Mrs.

Bankowski), he Mid. The Smutkos, who have a 17- year-old son, recently moved into a new home at 789 Fairdale Ave, Harmony Township, a sub urb of Ambridge. State Police arrested Mrs. Smutko at the home while her husband was at work at the Bethlehem Steel Co. plant in Leetsdale.

I was supposed to meet her In town to go to a movie," he said, "but she never showed up. I went home and found a note she'd left for me." The note simply informed him that she would be back, Mr. Smutko said. "They shouldn't pick on an Innocent woman," he said angrily. "They have no reason to hold her.

They can't get the party that killed the girl, so they picked on my wife. I'll make them pay for this." The Bankowskis expressed mock surprise this morning when asked about Mrs. Smutko arrest. "Why, that's the first I've heard about that," Mr. Bankowski said.

He called his wife to the phone, and she said: "They never told anything about it. They never hinted that a woman might be Involved." Bankowski did not attend the Courthouse conference, nor were reporters allowed to see Mrs. Smutko. GIs Offer Blood To Grenade Victim Blast Killed Brother Of Ex-Pittsburgh Boy LAWTON, Jan. 12 (UP) Six soldiers stood by last night to give blood transfusions to a former Pittsburgh boy, critically injured in a rifle grenade ex plosion.

i The condition of Bobby Annis, aee 6. remained "verv erave following' surgery i -to remove larger chunks of the jagged metal. His eight -year-old brother, Jack, was killed by the blast, apparently set off while they were trying to hammer the grenade into a hole in their back yardJbn Saturday. Parents of the boys are Mr, and Mrs. Clarence Madden, who left Pittsburgh's South Side four years ago.

Mr. Madden operates a used car lot here, near Oklahoma City. Police believed the grenade came from the Ft. Sill Military Post north of the city. Neighborhood boys said it was found in a nearby park about two weeks ago by other boys who discarded it in a ditch.

Bobby clung grimly to life through transfusions of rare Type RH-Negative blood from soldiers at nearby Ft Sill. Mrs. Madden is the former Ella Gerhold. The boys are sons by a previous marriage to Oral Annis. Her mother is Mrs.

Katherine Gerhold, who lives with another daughter, Mrs. Anna Mae Peters, at 205 Joseph St, Baldwin Township. 'Atomic Cannoh Set For Inaugural Parade ABERDEEN, Jan. 12 (UP) The 280-millimeter "atom ic' cannon was loaded on special railroad cars today for Wash ington where it will be displayed the inaugural day parade. The.

appearance of the big gun will mark the first time that it has been displayed at a public lunction. In Crash Vet of Korea Dies On Routine Flight A former Pittsburgh Navy flier who went unscratched through 69 missions over Korea crashed to death in a routine training flight yesterday. He was Lt J. G. Petersen, 24, son of the Rev.

and Mrs. Herman W. Petersen, 4341 Schenley Terrace. The official telegram that arrived last night revealed only that the combat veteran was killed "when the USNR trainine plane caught fire, crashed, and exploded. Stationed in Texas Lt Petersen had been stationed at the Corpus Christi, base since his return from, overseas a year ago last May.

The following month, he had been married to a young nurse-in-training. The flyer's body is being returned to the home of Mrs. Lois Petersen, Buffalo, N. Y. Taught Combat Tactics Lieut.

Petersen, although only 24. was an "old" airman. He had received his wings' a year after entering service seven years ago. Recently he was teaching combat tactics to the fledgling pilots. His father is in institutional and hospital work here as a representative of the Lutheran Church Extension Society.

Also surviving are two brothers, Dr. Walter R. Petersen, Champaign, 111., and Daniel Petersen, New York City; three sisters, Mrs. Joan Riener, Lacrosse, and Thea and Barbara, at the parents' home. Union, Company Renew Old Feud Injunction Sought On Airport Job The long-standing feud between the Sprys Electric McKees Rocks, and Local International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, broke out again in Federal Court today.

This time, it involves national defense work. Federal Judge Wallace S. Gourley issued an order to Local 5 to show cause at a hearing on Wednesday why he should not issue an injunction to stop a secondary boycott aimed at the U. S. Army Engineers and the McKees Rocks firm.

NLRB Brings Conrajaint He acted on a complaint brought by Attorneys Walter N. Muldawer and Alvin Lieberman of the National Labor Relations Board. The Sprys company was hired by the engineers to install security lights at the "alert and ready" hangars of the Air Force I uicaiw xuiusDurgn Airport. Sprys uses employes who belong to the United Construction Workers, a part of District 50, United Mine Workers. Sub-Contracts Job For the job, the Sprys company sub-contracted part of the work to three other firms: Dev.

lin Electric Co, M. and M. Electric and Broadway Maintenance Co. They use employes who belong to Local 5, IBEW. Local' 5, according to the complaint, refused to let its men report for work on the job, thus holding up the fulfillment of the contract by the Sprys Co.

Judge Gourley today was ready to issue an immediate restraining order, but the NLRB attorneys said they wanted an opportunity to present witnesses. Hearing Speeded Because the matter is of such grave national importance, Judge Gourley said, he would have a hearing on Wednesday. Any delay in the construction work, he pointed out, would result in extreme danger in the event of a "sneak attack." The purpose of the IBEW boycott, said the complaint, is to coerce the Army Engineers into not doing business with Sprys. Gov. Umstead Sick DURHAM, N.

Jan. 12 Gov. William B. Umstead, who was inaugurated only last week, has suffered a mild heart attack, his MUintnH Banker Admits False Entries Homer City Man's Sentencing Deferred The former president of the Homer City State Bank in Indi- ana County pleaded guilty todw ta malrina falea antriav im rha bank's records. Sentencing of Harold E.

Nes- bitt was deferred by Federal Judge Frederick -V. Follmer to permit him to study testimony of character witnesses. Nesbitt admitted his guilt on four counts of making false entry in the bank's books to cover the illegal expenditure of approx imately $725 of the bank's funds. He explained that he used the money to pay to himself and other bank employes and to go to a country club where he solicited business for the bank. He said he had the authority to pay, bonuses only with the authorization of the board of direc tors and" had neglected to get it Eleven character witnesses, intf Hospital Chief Quits in Row With Trustees Resignation to Be 1 Effective March 11 UNIONTOWN, Pa, Jan.

12 (Special), The administrator of Uniontown Hospital has quit his job because of "too much interference from the Board of Trustees He is Dr. Arthur K. Besley. former assistant superintendent of West Perm Hospital in Pittsburgh. "They (the trustees) may know how to run their own business," Dr.

Besley said today, "but they don't know how to run a hospital." The administrator said ha turned in his resignation Satur day. It becomes effective March 11. Second Shake-up It is the second such shake-up at this town's only hospital in the past two years. Regarding the resignation twa years ago of Jack Farreil after 25 years with the hospital, Dr. Besley commented: "The new Board made it tough for him.

They made it tough for me an untenable situation and they'll make it tough for the next man." Dr. Besley said that "desDite the trustees," in his year and a half with the hospital here he had increased the net worth of the hospital $214,000, from operating, expenses alone. This included paying off a local bank loan of $96,000 which was outstanding when he came, the administrator said. He also pointed out that "effective administration" had raised the number of full-time nurses from 91 to 116. He laid the blame for his quitting at the door of the "four horsemen." "That's what I called these four board members who- were always riding me," explained Dr.

Besley. Qualifies Blast He qualified his heaw blast of criticism with: "They do 'a good iob in manv respects. Their objectives are all right but not their methods. They just don't need a head man as lone as thev are vainer tn run things themselves. The 12-man Board of Trustees today announced that th staff radiologist, Jacob Goldblum, will serve as administrator until a new one is obtained.

C. V. Lee, president of the board, declined to be drawn into the controversy with the departing administrator. "We think very highly of Dr. Besley, with a lot of personal regard.

"However, we (the' trustees! are servants of the people and. naturally, the best, interests of the hospital are paramount" Mr. Lee explained. Boy Burglar Killed by Police PONTIAC, Jan. 12 (UP) Two policemen shot and killed a 10-year-old boy while he was breaking into a restaurant The officers, Patrolmen Harry Dubey and Robert Emery, in sisted they simply were firing over his head to warn him to stop.

But Patrolman Emery's third shot struck the boy in the back. according to a statement at tributed to Mr. Emery by Capt Clark Wheaton, chief of detectives- The boy, James Douglas Brown, was dead on arrival at Pontiac General Hospital. '56 Games Ride to Australia His Big Worry athletes in other events, and when the day ended they had outpointed Russia even by the Communists' own way of scoring. Colonel Wofford said the Rus sian athletes went out of their way to be agreeable during the meet "They were so agreeable that it was obvious they had been told to be that way," ha added.

"The Russians had good horses and they were well cared for. But like us, they showed a lack of experience in international competition." Colonel Wofford said most top riders on the Continent take part in several international meets each summer, while Americans have little chance to test their skill against top horsemen from other nations. Pan-Am. Games The 1954 Pan-American games -a small Olympics will give us a chance to get experience in that line." he said. Colonel Wofford, who retired to a Kansas farm after 25 years in the cavalry, said this is the first time America has sent a civilian equestrian team to the Olympics.

In the past its entries have been Army men on Army mounts. Though he views the passing 'of the cavalry as a blow to America's competitive horsemanship, he hopes a growing civilian interest will fill the breach. He pointed out that while he was its president the U. S. Equestrian Team, an organization of horse-lovers, raised $250,000 to meet the Olympic expense.

"We must encourage the young people to ride," the Colonel said. "If they begin young enough, they'll keep up interest" 5s. MISS HELEN DONOGHUE An alarming situation. did Lang. But he did say that he called in the "alarms because he was mad.

He said he had been drinking. Conant Given Top German Post Harvard President To Be First Envoy NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (UP) President-Elect Eisenhower announced today the appointment of James Bryant Conant, president of Harvard University, to be United States High Commissioner for Germany. Dr. Conant thus will become this country's first ambassador" to the West German Republic when the Allied neace arranpp.

ments aie completed. 'The United States has ratified the German treaty, but Germany has not Mr." Eisenhower said the appointment was made after conferences with John Foster Dulles, incoming Secretary of State: Dr. Conant has been president of Harvard since 1933 and is 59 years old. Dr. Conant will leave for Germany before the end of the month to take up his duties, it was announced at Harvard.

The Harvard Corporation, meeting today, elected Dr. Co- jnant president emeritus xl the college as of Sept 1953, and he will be granted a leave of absence for the balance of the academic or until his successor is named. Dr. Conant served as chairman of the National Defense Re-. search Commission from "1941 to 1946, and had an important role in the development of atomic energy during World War H.

Mr. Eisenhower and Mr. Dulles said in a statement that they believed Dr. Conant is "peculiarly qualified to interpret United States ideals and aspirations to the leaders and people of They said he would make a significant contribution to the development of friendship of Germans with the other free peoples of Western Europe. The High Commissioner's post now is vacant because.

Walter J. Donnelly, a career diplomat, retired on Dec. 31. was the Colonel's 21-year-old son, John E. B.

Wofford. The European riders averaged 30 to 35 years old. But when the results went up, the kids from the States finished third, behind veteran teams from Sweden and Germany. The Rus sians weren't in the running. This underdog victory touched off a new drive by American eluding Indiana County Sherifftance Corp.

insures bank accounts one of the Pittsburgh's district's four years ago next month. son's Candyland where she ate a sundae, her radio playing on the seat beside her. She was alone at the time. She left to visit another friend, Connie Sea-gren who lives about a block from the store, but never arrived there. At the time, it was believed she may have changed her mind and started home over a dark, unlighted road which led from that area to her home and that her killer intercepted her there.

Margaret's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Zigmund Bankowski, of House 53, Economy Village, over looking downtown Ambridge, told police their daughter had never gone oufwith boys. Reports Discounted Reports that she had been seen in a Route 19 tavern with an unidentified man were discounted. "She would never have gone to a place like that," her parents said, jm? Efforts also were made to link her slaying with the unsolved murder two years before of Lois Jean Hope, 16, of Canonsburg.

The two killings were similar in many respects. Lois' body was found in a weed patch along a road near McDonald. She had been killed by a heavy blow on the head. Clothing Ripped Both girls had deep gashes on their foreheads above their eyes and scratches. Lois also had not been criminally attacked.

The clothing of both girls had been ripped and their coats removed. Margaret's blood-soaked pea coat was found 10 feet from her body but the bright red coat which Lois wore was never found. Margaret's death was the fourth unsolved murder involving a young girl. The other two, in addition to Lois, were Julia Ann Fesko, a 22-year-old McKees- port factory worker, shot to death on Labor Day, 1947, and the knife-slaying of Carole Lee Kensinger, of 520 Brushton Dec. 10, 1948.

McKeesport Store Looted by Thieves A McKeesport confectionery store was broken into and robbed early yesterday morning: Officials of Hershkowitz Con fectionery, 308 Market said the thieves, believed to be several youths, took a dozen decks of playing cards, two cartons- of cigarets, some men's socks, smoking pipes and about $16 in cash. Harry Jefferies and County Court Prothonotary A. Carlisle Orr, testified on his behalf. TV 'Dreadful Habit Lord Hawke Says LONDON, Jan. 12 (UP Lord Hawke announced that after try ing out a -television set for 14 days he 'had sent it back.

A dreadful habit" he called it "It amuses people when they should be amusing themselves," he sii "I couldn't get the children away from it. It was corrupting their education." Olympic Horse Team Coach Eyes his dogs, Feb. 6,. 1949. Scooping the snow away, he uncovered the mutilated body of Margaret Bankowski, a 15-year old Ambridge high school fresh man, who had disappeared 11 days before.

Despite the questioning of hun dreds of persons, the offering of $5000 in rewards, and the use of all the latest developments In crime detection, the slayer was never found. No Sex Motive Although they -first thought the to be a sex-slaying, authorities Jater declared the girl been at They were at loss to find a motive for the crime. It was a brutal murder. The slayer had struck the girl repeatedly with a' semi-sharp in strument which crushed her skull. A deep gash ran across her forehead above the eyes and one ear was missing.

Her clothing had. been torn and her blood-soaked coat was found 10 feet away. State Police, Ambridge, and Beaver County authorities joined forces in a hunt for the killer but ran into a stone wall at the end of every lead. Radio Never Found The big clue never turned up. A red plastic portable radio which Margaret was carrying a few hours before she disappeared never was found despite a wide spread search.

Hope that the arrest of the killer was near arose last June when State Police secretly reopened Margaret's grave in the Bankowski family' plot in Economy Cemetery. The authorities never revealed what they found or what they had been looking fori At the time, speculation linked the second autopsy with the sui cide of an Ambridge policeman a short time before. This link was denied by the authorities. Apparently, however, they found something. It was learned that since that time, authorities have been seeking a woman rather than a man.

The arrest of Mrs. Katherine Smutko, 40, of nearby Harmony Township, last Friday in connection with the slaying, bore out this report. Visited Sick Friend On the evening of Jan. 26, Margaret had left home carrying her portable radio to visit a friend, Joan Huston, 15. Joan was sick in bed, however, and she left.

She was next seen in Ander- m.vM. m. A1J WU.TV mVS i-Tl V11V, web of the new Uniform Support Common Pleas Court to cite the Mrs. Lena Coblitz. of 838 North Sheridan East Liberty, says tnat sne and her six-year-old son have received only a few small sums since the $125 a month support order went into effect.

The shoe store manager held a job ki Chicago for a short time after leaving Pittsburgh in 1950, then moved on to Florida. He obtained a divorce there in Dade County, but Florida di vorces are -not recognized in Pennsylvania. His first wife cave Via AiA AnAi'ifA m-S ou uiu uui ctcivc liUlle of either the. divorce or second marriage. JHMT- "wiF-t 44 f-immin turn i FROM NINE TO FIVE Loser of Extradition Battle Faces Contempt Charge First Wife Asks Court to Cite Man Returned From Florida.

Under New Support Laws Trouble continued to nile tin toriav frvr PVlHirv Tart rVkKHt nn Col. Wofford Visiting in City The man who coached Amer ica's Olympic equestrian team dropped into Pittsburgh today with horses on his mind. Already CoL John W. Wofford is thinking ahead tc the 1956 Olympics in Australia. "We have made tentative plans to enter a team," he said, "but it will be an expensive proposition.

We'll have to send our horses to Australia by air. Boat Ride Too Long "If we sent them by boat It would take six months to get them there and put them in shape again." A saber-erect man with a ruddy face and. a cropped mus tache, Colonel Wofford looks every inch the retired cavalry officer that he is. Only incongruous note is his soft almost gentle, Southern accent a heritage from his native South Carolina that a life time of crackling Army orders hasn't changed. He Is here to visit-his sisters, Mrs.

Charles Siviter, 923 Farragut St, and Mrs. Charles Elmers, Dorseyville Road. The 1952 Olympics was a double thrill to Colonel Wofford. Besides coaching America's horses and riders, he saw his son ride in the event that sparked the United States' last minute drive to victory over the Russians. "I was quite pleased," the Colo nel admitted, with all the enthu siasm of a military communique.

Rode in 32- Games Colonel Wofford himself rode in 1932 Olympics at Los Angeles, but the American team didn't win any points. It was different this summer at HensinkL The Americans were trailing the Russians by 24 12 points COL. J. W. WOFFORD Olympic coach at home on a horse.

gr of the first to be caught in the His first wife, Lena, asked o-year-oia iormer Pittsburgh shoe store manaeer for con. tempt. Judge A. Marshall Thompson set the hearing for next Monday. Loser of an extradition battle, Coblitz is in county jail cm abandonment and 1 ee charges.

He was brought from Miami, over the week end, where he was found living with a second wife and new-born twins. Under terms of a bed and' board separation March 10, 1950, he owes $4250 back alimony, his nrsr wue claims. She also is seeking counsel fees and costs of $519- I frJ ITU Lcuse cop I as- the iast day of regular com-1 petition opened. First event completed was the three-day horse competition a grueling test that 'included a five-mile course of jumps and a 22-mile cross country run. America's riders were considered too green to have much chanca.

Senior member of the team Hnw Ho i vm I Ynsrf ma frr eamn I-iaca i lac rrAmr KAr Wump when you're olways asking me to take things out?.