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Alio In (his section Sports Classified Comics, Puzzles Me Ipfitlabelpfna inquirer 27 THURSDAY. JANUARY 4. 1968 Grocer Slain During N. Phila. Holdup A After Attempting to Rout 2 Bandits What Makes Stassen Run? Judge Upholds Subpenas in Extortion Trial City Officials Must Appear in Friedenberg Case By FRANK J.

McDEVITT Of The Inquirer Staff Subpenas for a star-studded feff yys'gy tfmm worn www i i 11: 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 Victim's Wife Had Asked Him 'Not to Be a Hero' By GEORGE J. MURRAY and HOWARD R. KEMBLE Of The Inquirer Staff Charles Tovsky, who began bringing a revolver to his small grocery at 1513 N. 25th st. after it was robbed last Nov.

24, was shot dead there Wednesday when he tried to By ROSE DeWOLF 0 The Inquirer Staff "I do not rule out the 1968 Presidential nomination Harold Edward Stassen THERE is a certain skepticism that prevails when Philadelphia lawyer Harold Stassen talks about running for office. People say: good grief, Harold, why? or simply: again? Harold Stassen used to win elections and hold high office but in the last 25 years he has tried five times to be President, twice to be Pennsylvania Gover ilist of city officials were ruled J' in order Wednesday at the; use tne gun to rout two hold- lun men 'A 1 5 I Tovsky, whose wife, Bertha, had begged him not to try to be! $14,000 extortion trial of jCharles Friedenberg, 51. The subpenas name four as-isistant district attorneys in-f; eluding Martin A. Heckscher, is prosecuting the case a hero, was shot once in the forehead at close range and died instantly. His gun and its holster were found beneath his body.

It had not been fired. nor and once to be Philadelphia Mayor. Eight up. Eight down. Oh well.

Harold Stassen was the first Republican to announce his candidacy for the nomination. George Romney was 1 I 1 I and apparently are aimed at discrediting testimony of Heck-scher's key witness, burglar George F. Bricker. PETITION REJECTED Heckscher's petition to have the subpenas quashed was overruled by Judge James T. Mc- Dermott as jury selection for the trial began Wednesday afternoon.

Judge McDermott told Friedenberg's attorney, Louis A only second. Time magazine gave Stassen just one para-' graph on his announcement un- der the line "But, of course WAS DRAWING GUN Police found the 55-year-old Russian-born grocer kneeling in front of a meat counter with his head resting against a display case. He apparently had come from behind the counter and was drawing the revolver to confront the robbers when one of them fired a bullet into his head just above the right eye. A bread salesman, Robert, Brooks, 27, was carrying bread into the store at 1 P. M.

when 111 VLs. 7- Sen. Everett Dirksen com- mented: "You've got to be kid Lipschitz: 4' ding (whereupon Stassen' telephoned Dirksen to assure him the candidacy was no joke). Harold Stassen is not 1 ROSE DeWOLF Grocer Charles Tovsky, the shooting occurred. He said hp was harkine' into thp store and who was shot to death by a "You are entitled to have all IV the things you request." v' Names on Lipschitz' subpena list include: Assistant District Attorneys Jack M.

Myers, Eugene V. Ales-Jl'sandroni and William H. Wolf, Hi District Attorney's adminis-itrative officer Edward J. Dag-Ill ney; Chief Francis J. Lederer, f'lLt.

Frank Hahn and Detective fji Robert Winchester, District Attorney's detectives; Prison 5 1 Superintendent Edward J. Hen- fell to the floor when he heard! bandit in his store 1 I laughing. He is really running for President. He has hired a public relations firm. He is entered in the Wisconsin Republican primary and he has a campaign staff out there.

"I might enter the New Hampshire primary, too, if Rockefeller doesn't," he says. And he is serious. "I'm going to spend March in Wisconsin covering the State." Good grief, Harold, why? Inquirer Photo by Anthony A. Riccardi, Staff Photographer Bertha Tovsky, distraught widow of shopkeeper Charles Tovsky, victim of holdup slayers, is helped from store at 1513 N. 25th the site of shooting.

i Negro Girl Held For Refusal to Rise for Judges drick; City Controller Paul M. Chalfin, and Deputy City Con- Medical Mystery a shot, but did not see the bandits. The gunmen took nothing. WITNESS SOUGHT A woman customer who was in the store at the time of the killing is still being sought by police. By mid-afternoon, the police had picked up four men for questioning, all of whom fit the general description given by a witness outside the store who saw the bandits leave.

They were later released. A FTER all, Harold Stassen, at 60. is a partner in a -f stroller Irvin J. Good big law firm that deals in international business. Couple's 10th Infant Dies SPECIAL PRIVILEGE? Through such witnesses, Lip-gjlschitz will attempt to show that, Kg in exchange for testimony in Friedenberg and other He is said to make $100,000 a year.

He has a house, in Valley Forge, an apartment in town and a membership at the Union League. For the 10th time in their anguished marriage, Arthur Noe and his wife, Marie, He is a wheel in religious circles. He is a former president of the American Baptist Convention and By CHARLES THOMAS Of The Inquirer Staff A 17-year-old Negro girl was cast, uie uisuici. si, 1,1 '-office has permitted Bricker "ieiJ. uau dlu dil -upay ui1.uxC uw This witness said the gunmen lilive high on the hog vshile Arthur Noe died Tuesday afternoon in a fire rescue ambulance taking him to St.

Christ were between the ages of 20 nominally a Holmesburg Prison jphers Hospital. Uxygen was immat administered en route. butTlflte Out for Pill and 22. One was about 5 feet, 8 arrested Wednesday Federal inches tall, of thin build and 'court when she refused to rise wearing a blue shirt and bluefor tne entrance of three judges Lipschitz charged Bricker the child was dead on arrival. charged car coat.

2 'Considerate' Thugs He was the Noes' 10th child to die in infancy. None lived fljwas given a desk in the 5th pi floor suite of the District office in which to stock kin past the 14th month. "Please, please, we don' 1 I I I 1 I I I 2 ONLY ONE SHOT Both men rushed past the witness onto 25th st. and disappeared into nearby Jefferson st. Brooks said he heard only one shot.

Rob Heart Patient, 60 want to say anything," Noe conducting hearings on a civil rights case against Police Commissioner Frank L. Rizzo. The girl, Robin Tyler of 1538 N. 10th said her show of disrespect was a symbol of her alienation from American life. Held for a time in a detention cell, Miss Tyler was later taken said.

"It's just heartbreak, just hoarthronk A 60-vear-old heart patient, pushed to the floor of his represents the Convention at the National Council of Churches. He just left Wednesday night for an international religious conference on peace in India one of 14 American religious leaders asked to attend. In the private world, Harold Stassen is a Somebody. In the public world, however, he is an oft-told joke. In the public world, if you keep losing, you are expected to step aside gracefully.

Harold Stassen does not see it that way. "A student at Notre Dame asked me: 'How does it happen that you have suffered more defeats than any Republican since Abraham Lincoln and yet you still go They ask that all the time. "And I answer: Lincoln could not rest while there was slavery. I cannot rest while world war continues. That is what political figures do not understand that I am not interested in office for the sake of office.

World peace is what I am interested in. That has been the lifetime focus of my interest. In order to effect world peace, I have to get into the political arena Tovsky was born in Odessa, 1 OVSKJ W3S iliA-m in4 Kniinrl 4ur vl A T- rr ill c- mlaocaH frT 1 The death of the Noes' babies r-Russia, and came to the United 1113 uquux. Lipschitz also requested: Records and vouchers from the District Attorney's office listing "hotels, motels, restaurants and places of amusement where George Bricker was fed and housed or where entertainment was supplied" and a list of "all persons who spoke to him" at those places. i T-i itt nnrn i rt i ht ti 3 ntL-un it- ri -i ruin i i -j i.

lj a medical at the age of nine. He! age oi nine, ne has been since the (changed his name from Jivot-Thomas CIar who t- a i rr? IT Xll U1CU 111 kt 11 KT it arp owner ni' v' to i nvvK in i npn hp i a i u. 1949. Authorities then tentative the Kosher Meat. ir in tne cusioay oi attorney Businessman Oscar Ga skins for a hearing on at 6601 Rutland Lawndale, the He had been operatinj ly listed the reason as a heart! ailment.

But since then the' a contempt of court cnarge next A list of "all nuirhatps the robberv: which occurred for years and pror-Wednesday made for George Bricker" babies have died and sci- io me i. mcKieni. in wmcm his home behind the store. SECOND INCIDENT Northeast Division ence was unaoie to determine why. never Deen roDueu.

i Frank Wheatley said two men A -1 1 It was the second straight day in which the trial had been dis-ruoted bv such an incident. On 'imaaeipma Dusinessmanjrang doorbell at Wallace's NOT AFRAID "From a medical point of; attacked by three masked, home about 6 P. shortly UT can you effect anything if you keep losing? view there's absolutely nothing Mrs. Tovsky told relatives and: Tuesday, a 17-year-old Negro friends who came to console was reorimanded for refus- thugs who invaded his Lowers after the store had closed. I I 1 I Wal- "There is an element of frustration in these things.

But I realize it takes time to overcome Merion townshio aoartment 1 nave 10 see you, air, outside lacp and the names of the purchasers. The nature and amount of all alcoholic beverages consumed by George Bricker while in custody, the sources of such beverages, the names of the purchasers and the locations where they were kept and made available to him. A list of all telephone calls made or received by Bricker and vouchers showing who paid for those calls. at this time," Philadelphia Medical Examiner Joseph W. Spel-man said after an autopsy Wednesday.

"This is no differ- Lace; cuncoua i They bound and beat him and: As Wallace opened the door. at the couple's home at 5149 N. 9th st. Wednesday night that she had pleaded with her husband not to attempt to resist robbers. Tovsky told her he was ing to stand when the judges entered the courtroom.

The girl said her alienation stemmed in part from having been arrested while delivering fnnr! in Mississinni and havins 'fled with an undetermined ent from the findings on theiamount TOOney. and knocked him to the floor. obstacles and build up support." Stassen's platform in the current campaign is to bring peace in Vietnam through "a modernized United Nations," specifically to bring both. North and South Vietnam into the U.N. as members.

He feels a American war drive will solve nothing." "It takes time to overcome obstacles and build "not afraid," she said The victim is Morris Wizel-j Forcing Wallace's hands be-man. 54. a resident of the hi hart hou Vieuan fvinf Tovsky was well known in force(j to watch her com other children." HEAVY BABY Spelman said additional lab- inartmpntv neighborhood of the store, gave I Presidential Bala Cynwyd. Vpts Christmas presents to the chil- in opposing me aetense re un suDDort." There eoes Harold Stassen to whanff his described oralory studies would be madei He was treated at Lankenauj "Please. I've got a heart con- dren of his customers and do- i quests.

Heckscher head against a hard wall again. Harold Stassen is not a fishing in the next several weeks on the! Hosmtal for multmle head cuts dition. Will von nlease let me natea money ueiUWiuUuU them as churches. panions beaten while chained to a wall. The legal action against Rizzo arose out of alleged police brutality against student Black Power demonstrators who laid siege to the School Administration Building on Nov.

17. CHARGES BEATING One of the leaders of the demonstration testified Wednes- it, 1 Each of the witnesses named1 child's tissues in a desperate and bruises, mouth cuts anditake a pill?" Wallace asked, fjiin the subpenas may be chal-iattempt to see what it was that! loss of several teetn- I Wallace's wife entered the fiilenged when called The oues-: v. x. His plight was discovered I room, the detective said, and of whether the prosecutor! Preveated 0M from havmg when an elevator door openedjwas told to get him a glass of a criminal case may take theia family- in the building's lobby at 11 water, which she did. I stand as a defense witness thus There will be no more babies P.M.

and Wrizelman, bleeding! Still sitting on the floor. be met when Hechscher isifor the Noes At the time of Ar-i profusely and bound hand andjlace gulped his pill, swallowed askpH in take tho ctanH r-acr-ir. hiwh icf tmItt collansed onto the floor at, the water and said OK. His discouraged. Harold Stassen is still able to talk about winning and talk about it seriously to people who are so openly skeptical it is painful to see.

"You are entering the Wisconsin primary as a peace candidate. You just want to be a symbol isn't that it?" (Oh, say yes, Harold make life a little easier .) "No," says Harold Stassen. "When I was asked to run in Wisconsin I was skeptical. I didn't think I could win. But peace should win.

I now think there is a possibility. I pulled a surprise upset in the Wisconsin primary 20 years ago. Maybe I'll do it again." Ex-ClothingMaker Killed by Auto A 73-year-old former clothing manufacturer was killed Wednesday morning when he was struck by a car a block from his Overbrook Park home. Max Feldman, of 1537 West End was dead on arrival at Lankenau Hospital after being struck by a car driven by Friedenberg is on trial a sec-Ulrs. Noe underwent a feet of security guard Her- i assailants pushed him face down gjond time on extortion and tomy, which will prevent Goldstein.

iagain and tied his hands be- blackmail charges. Bricker said ture pregnancies I Other guards at that momentjhind his back. Mrs. Wallace was tihe and a Carbon countv, When the baby was born at were searching the building forjforced to lie down next to her assistant District Attorney Joseph's Hospital, he was! the source of screams for help, husband but she was not bound, who later died under mvstprinns1 a "hpaiihxr rhiiri Wnital su-i They apparently had come from Wallace freed himself after I day that a dozen or more policemen beat him while he crouched to the pavement in a "nonviolent" position. The leader, Kenneth M.

Heard, 17, left the witness stand to demonstrate his crouch his head down, his arms and hands up protecting the back of his head. Heard said he was with the student delegation that conferred with Schools Superintendent Mark R. Shedd inside the administration building. circumstances paid Vrieden thorities said. He weighed eight Wizelman as he resisted his the two had left and ran across i berg $4000 in November, 1964, pounds, five and a half ounces, attackers.

'the street to a neighbor, who mmastjand $10,000 in January, 1965 land showed no indication that me victim, soock s-iu cauea ponce. Tj 'one of the three had brandished! in aaaiuon io receipts oi shitu, uivu. ucai 'DEMANDED MONEY Bricker said Friedenberg de-neither had the other nine Pistol and that the other tne store, tne two gunmen Upper Daroy, Delaware county. The accident occurred at Officials io Review I'ofict haw Marinades i7p man oner- tooK siuo irom aiiace wanei. manded the money to keep the dren.

ates several printing and from his wife's purse and7U5 a. jvi. wnen reiumm w-s rmc at 1.117 Rmvm hpr wedding and eneaeement crossing Haverford ave. at A CT LUi Il 5S "ParSi0 HEARTBREAKS the suspects' list in a Carbon' Arthur remained healthy until i 3 TT 1 i 111 ai it Brookhaven rd. ring, police saia.

St. rmintv hnrerlarv alcn i. uuesaay. ne naa a coia out ne aiao Schools Seek to Halt Pupil Transfer Abuse tuuiuj uuigidiy. ai-j a til SiT" SSiSSlS'Spateiiiie Delaware Valley, U.

b. A. i Vi a Kaon t--vj i rrln 4 Vi a a i who had been through the same! convicted in burglaries here ii. i i i School officials said on Wednesday they would take a I 1 1 npi irp rp pnnnnpn tot- inp DRAWINGS, Friendenberg was sketches and en-r ALUMNAE: St. Judah Synagogue; 4S30 N.

11th bv the Bibiena'Alumnae Association will spon-jst. sterner stand in curbing abuses of "designation of VaV. last Anril but ire rescue S(uad- gravings transfers by parents who want their children to attend racial-. wanted a new trial on! Noe, 46, took down the Christ-l 'Sor a basketbaU game between Arts students may register from 9 A. M.

to 5 P. M. Jan. 12 and work on their entries from Jan. 12 to 15.

Prizes total $85. REHEARSALS: The Dela AWARD: Dr. Paul R. Patter- ly sesrecated high schools, i waB mas decorations in his acuve ueirtCCU i0 alumnae and the school's Iprnnndc hp was nnt TwrmittoH mds ueiuiduuus in niS noine: i Parents protested that i Itt 3447 N. American st.

Wednes-jlTSO in Bologna, Italy, and lead-j varsity The Board of Education re 14 son, professor of pediatrics at at! Albany Medical College, will re at 2 P. M. on Jan. school's auditorium voked the transfers of 12 white was racial basis for seckinS: provides him with an alibi. The saving: "We are just try- ers in revolutionary stage de-jin the the transfers.

Violence and District Attorney's office did not mg to kecp ourselvps busy so sign, will be on display fromjCottman and Ditman sts. The Tfrt t-l-r VlO'. i a 4 4l.mn1r rx A OO .1. 4 V. Uiln 4.

rNM r- ii its girls from Germantown High ceive the sixth annual Bernie Wenrich Memorial Award of the Single Adult Social branch of the ware County Choral Society will resume its weekly rehearsals at School to Northeast High School gang-fighting at the petition for the new-after an investigation disclosed were cited by the parents, many, trial, the girls were still living in the of whom said lhe wouId notj they would not! Cystic Fibrosis chapter P. M. Monday in the Upper Eastern Pennsylvania, Dela- Darby Senior High School at ware and Southern New Jersey Lansdowne ave. and School we wont have time to 10 to Feb. 28 at the Phila-: association also will sponsor His 39-year-old wife wouldn't idelphia Museum of Art, the; annual square dance at 9 P.

M. speak of the tragedy. at Fairmount ave. jjan. 20 in the auditorium.

Their heartbreak started with The exhibition not only makes i the death of their one-month-old one of the grand statements of! CONCERT: The Paderewski son, Richard, in 1949. Elizabeth 'the Baroque age, in which the Choral Society will present a died in 1950 at five months. The, high point of European scenog-; concert of traditional Polish and Germantown area and had not; dauhters to 1 Ueadlme allow their daughters to return movea io ine orineasi. at 8:30 P. M.

Sunday at the Holi-Uane, Upper Darby. to the school. i r- Under present rules PUPH Germantown School i rOf I QX raVmenTS day Inn, 13th and Walnut sts. may transfer to a scnool in an aKout was bronchial i raDhv occurred, but also em-iLnglisn Christmas carols at i 37 percent white and; Next Monday, Jan. 15.

1968, is probable cause area in wnicn a reiauve nves xortheast almost entirely white, the due Hat for thp final nav-i pneumonia. Jacaueline died THEATER: The Twilight Players of St. Joseph's College will present the comedy "Pure as the Driven Snow" at 8 P. M. phasizes the family contnou-jP.

m. Sunday at at. Josapnat tion to stajie design the angled; Parish Hall; 124 Cotton if parents sign a form giving' School rfficial saiH thpv nrp'mpn nf iq7 octimatH Fppral! three weeks aftpr hirth in Anril. GENOCIDE: The Philadelphia Ethical Society will start its celebration of the International that relative responsibility for holdins? un actinn nn all Hecma fair aprnrHin7 in Spv. jManayunk.

the education of the pupil. of authority transfers pend-jmour I. Friedman. Internal Rev- 1951. Fourth was Arthur, one month, in 1955.

Probable cause: view. Before Ferdinando Galli Bi-biena (1657-1743), the originator MEDICAL: Dr. Asher Woldow, head of the atheroscle- ever, ine pupu must rcnue a review of the policy. Suchlenue Service District Director tne reiauve iuu nine. 'transfer requests will be scrutin- An amended declaration of, bronchial pneumonia.

Next was of the family's style, stage scen- in the 1967 estimated income tax may Constance, one month, in was executed in rigid and rosis laboratory of the Worn School officials said an in- lzed more carefully vestigauon disclosed that the 12 future, they said. required bv Jan. 15 from of undetermined causes. In 1960 symmetrical fashion. About 1700 en's League for Medical Resear Year of Human Rights at 8 Saturday and Sunday in the BIu-P.

M. Monday when it will pre- ett Theater at 56th st. and Over-sent Judge Meyer L. Casman brook ave. Ticket reservations speaking on genocide at 1906 S.

can be made by calling TR Rittenhouse Square. (8-6000. FENCE: An art contest will! ANNIVERSARY: Mr. and be sponsored by Metropolitan: Mrs. George Berger, of Burnt-Hospital for the best decoration! house Hill Doylestown, of the fence surrounding its newjwill celebrate their 50th anniver-hospital site at 8th and Race on Jan.

9. who have had, Mrs. Noe had a stillbirth. girls who transferred to North-J The school board permits en- taxpayers Ferdinando devised the idea ofich laboratories at Albert Ein- east High School were still liv- rollment in any school in in income or exemp-! Mary Lee died at six months, drawing architectural scenery istein Medical Center, Northern ing with their parents in the city that is not operating at tions during the last quarter of in 1963; Theresa died later that! viewed at a 45-degree slant, an1 Division, will address the Emile Germantown area. Ten other capacity.

However, every high 1967 that cause substantial in-ivear six hours after birth, and innovation which ODened ud the-Zola chapter of the Women's transfers from Germantown areischool in the city is now over-crease or decrease in one's in- Catherine Ellen died in Febru- tiniest stage to undreamed orLeague for Medical Research at space, loftiness and movement. 8:30 P. M. next Tuesday atBeth stiil under investigation. crowded.

I come tax. lary of 1966 at 14 months of age 4.