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The Philadelphia Inquirer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Page 38

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a cd THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, SUNDAY MORNING. JULY 8, 1956 runken Driving Suspect Father's Auto Backed in Drive Held 2d Time in Two Weeks I "ft If n. i ti i i I (t A drunken-driving suspect whose car endangered two women pedestrians Friday night was found yesterday to have been free on bail in connection with another drunken driving charge less than two weeks ago. The accused motorist, John E. 32, of Wallace st, near 38th, vSs first picked up June 23n the campaign against drunken driving.

He was freed in $500 bail by Magistrate Vincent J. Dean pending action by the grand Jury. I Since there had been no court fion, he also was free to operate fys car, and allegedly was drunk again when Park Guard Edmund -IJngard saw him turn off Roosevelt Blvd. into a service station near Whitaker ave. and just miss the tjjvo women who were walking by.

ACTS BROUGHT OUT The fact that he had piled up one drunken driving charge on top of another was brought out yesterday when he was arraigned before Magistrate Harry J. Ellick at Park Qiiard Headquarters, 44th st. and Jarkside ave. This time Eley was Held In $2500 bail to await action by file grand jury. A West Philadelphia motorist Was the first snared last night In the city-wide net in the continued police war on drunken drivers after crashed into another car at 43d and Chestnut sts.

Si OTHERS CAUGHT "David Scott, 46, of Brandywine it. near 37th, was being pursued by Patrolmen Domenic Oenerachi and Donald Lappe as he allegedly szig-zagged eastward on Chestnut st. at 6 P. M. when his car struck the rear of another, operated by Harry A.

Genias, of Market st. near 42d Scott was pronounced drunk at the 55th and Pine sts. station. rNinety minutes later, Patrolmen John Morris, and Earnest ePndle- toh followed an automobile north on 23d t. from cnestnut ana halted it at Arch.

The driver, iden- tiged as Winfield R. Hummel, 43, Lycoming st. near Hunting Park was pronounced drunk at the 20th and Buttonwood sts. station and held on charges ot drunken and reckless driving. Io09 BOND SET At the 26th arid York sts.

station, Jlagistrate Elias Myers fixed $500 as the bond for Frank Bianco, 50, tf Haddonfield, N. who was rrested the night before at 11th and Norris sts. Bail of $1000 was fixed, however, for Vernon Diggs, of Norris st. near 21st, who was arrested the same night at 18th st. and Susquehanna ave.

'WSr A. i From lW Ofd friends were but to greet former President Harry S. Truman as he returned 0 Independence, yesterday after European trip. Greeting him at railroad station are David Lloyd (left), secretary of Truman Library, and Tom Evans, an old friend. 2 Car Thefts, And Crash Jail Driver Frank Wenner, 31, of 16th st.

near Mount Vernon, languished in a cell at Lancaster County Prison yesterday while police of three counties were compiling an amazing list of charges against him. Wenner, according to his story to police, stole a station wagon, owned by Richard Champion, 527 East Vineland, N. sometime after 1 A. M. from a service station at Broad and Wallace sts.

PICKS UP 2 YOUTHS He headed west and along the Lincoln highway picked up two 16-year-old hitchhikers, John Lexie and Jerry Umbel, both ot Browns ville, Fayette county. Going through Bridgeport, Just east of Lancaster, Wenner failed to make a curve, crashed into the front of a dwelling and demolish ed the porch. The two youths were General HosDital. I UP Tipsy Charge Boy, 13, Captures Chess Laurels Bobby Fischer, 13, of 560 L'ncoln place, Brooklyn, last night won the U. S.

Junior Chess championship, conducted at the Franklin Mercantile Chess Club, 1616 Locust st. Bobby, youngest player in the fnm-no mdtit anrl tho vminoptf irt h5cf tn der 21 fn no from 13 States and Canada. He is ia memDef oi tne Manna ttan oness Club and has been playing cness homa City, July 16 through 28. Charles Hentn, of Chicago, and Arthur Feuerstein, of New York, were in a tie for second place with scores' of 8-2, followed by Sydney Geller, of Philadelphia, with 7-3: Two Bandits Beat, Rob Shoe Clerk A clerk in a North Philadelphia shoe store was beaten with a revolver last night by two robbers who fled with $250. Samuel Saboff, 48, of 5814.

Warrington said the men entered the store at 1011 Columbia ave. shortly after 9 P. They forced him into a rear room, where one of them drew a revolver and struck him on the head. SabofI was treated at St. Luke's and Chil dren Medical center.

Two motorists were held in $500niured and taken to the Lancaster Wenner had no" more than a few'sUlce he 8 vea" old- "eaLd cuts when he crawled out of the he expected to compete in the U. S. wreckage. Across the street "ness lournameni ai usia Kills Baby Girl Continued From First Page summer home her 41-year-old father, unaware of her presence, backed from the attached garage. The child, attended by a nearby doctor, died shortly afterward of internal injuries.

WRECKAGE SCATTERED The collision near Oxford scattered wreckage of the two autos for a distance of 75 feet along V. S. Route 1. State police said Shields was westbound in an area where fog clung close to the highway when he swerved to the left and rammed the station wagon. Two other Reese children are in critical condition in CoatesvilleJ Hospital.

They are Shirley, 6, and Charles, 5. Papers found In the station wagon by police indicated Mrs. Reese had been arrested Friday in North Carolina on a charge of driving without a license and that Williams had been fined for permitting her to drive the car. GETTYSBURG ACCIDENT In the Gettysburg accident, police said the Agnew family was re turning from Norfolk when the car hit the abutment. Another son of Mrs.

Agnew, Robert E. Weaver, 19, of Dallas RD 1 was admitted to Gettysburg Hospital with multiple cuts and bruises and fractured ribs A daughter Wilma May Weaver, 4, was not injured. Robert Weaver, the driver of the cap, told investigators he apparently fell asleep- at the wheel and struck the bridge. The car was demolished. MOTORCYCLISTS HURT Two Hatboro motorcyclists were injured at noon yesterday In a collision with an automobile on the old Lincoln Highway at Wood-bourne Bucks county.

William J. Reigle, 21, suffered a brain concussion and possible internal injuries and was admitted, unconscious, to the Lower Bucks County Hospital. Richard Holton, 43, was admitted to the same hospital with a possible concussion. The driver of the auto, Ralph Endt, 52, of Lynwood, was uninjured. AUTO HITS POLE An Akron, man was detained at West Jersey Hospital, Camden, with a broken hip received when a car was forced off the road at Blenheim, Gloucester township, and hit a pole.

Leo Riegler, 48, the injured man, was riding with Peter J. Saunders, 53, of 33 James road, Hatboro, Pa. Police issued a careless driving summons to William B. Temple, 63, of Runnemede. Temple said a third I car had forced him against Saun ders' vehicle.

2 Held in $1500 In Drugs Case A Hahnemann Hospital bookkeeper and the friend for whom she procured samples of drugs that are considered dangerous, according to detectives of Capt. Clarence J. Ferguson's special investigating squad, were held in $1500 bail each for the grand jury yesterday when they were arraigned in Central Police Court before Magistrate Earl Lane. The bookkeeper, Miss Feme Kidd, 40, of Germantown ave. near Tioga, collapsed and had to be carried out.

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Gossert, of Waynesboro, who, with a party of fishermen, was headed for the Chesapeake Bay when they came on the accident. HALTED IN COATESVILLE Wenner took off in Gossert's car. State police were notified and Wen ner was halted in Coatesville. He was returned to Lancaster, where State Trooper Edward Hermesky charged him with car theft and drunken driving. Justice of the Peace Charles Martin jailed Wen ner in default of $1500 bail.

Wenner still has to face reckless driving charges in Lancaster and Chester counties, theft of the station wagon, assault and battery on the two boys. He volunteered further information that he al ready was awaiting trial in Phila delphia for another car theft when he started out on escapade. yesterday's bail each by Magistrate ite J. Amos I Harris at the Front and Westmoreland sts. station.

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