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Daily News du lieu suivant : New York, New York • 331

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DAILY NEWS; OCTOBER II, 1953 Tops Among World Cufies (EwiBtim (Is fife tkk By DAVID BURK Macon, Oct. 13 (Special). Silver-haired Anjette Lyles listened impassively tonight as Judge Oscar L. Long sentenced her to die in the electric chair Dec. 5 for the arsenic murder of her 9-year-old daughter Marcia.

The voodoo cultist became the first woman in 24 years to be given the death sen tence in Georgia. X. i I St -1 Xcb? 1 The verdict, reached by an all-male jury, was without recommendation of mercy and carried the automatic death sentence for the 33-year-old widow. Foreman Edward M. Wheeler read the verdict at 10:55 P.M.

after the jury had deliberated 1 hour, 31 minutes. The buxom widow was also accused of slaying two husbands and a mother-in-law. A stay of execution until Dec. 12. however, was granted by Long after Anjette's attorneys filed an immediate motion for a hearing on a new trial.

Mother Is Hysterical Anjette was taken back to her fifth-floor cell atop the ljit.b Countv Court House. Her mother, Mrs. Jetta Donovan, who sat be-ide Anjette throughout the seven- Zy Aotled Pre foto Penelope Anne Coelen playing piano during Miss World contest. Anjette Ly les randies are ma tic. London, Oct.

13 (AP). Anne Coelen, a honey-blonde secretary from Durban, South Africa, tonight was crowned Mrs World of 1958. Claudine Oger, 17, student from Paris, won second place. Vinnie Ingemann, 18, dancer from Copenhagen, was third. Nancy Anne Corcoran.

23, a redhead, represented the V. S. A it s4 i i i I Nigh Court Mines Costello 4th Tme Washington, Oct. 13 (NEWS Bureau). The Suprema Court for the fourth time today refused to consider gambler pilot and her attempts to hold his love with voodoo rites and formulas.

At intervals through her often rambling statement, she repeated: -I did not kill my hild. I did not give her poison. I love my child even now that she is dead She was on trial only for Mar-cia's murder, although she ha been indicted for the slaying of her first husband. Ben l.yies her second husband. Joe Neal Oabbert.

and her mother-in-law, Mrs. Julia Young Lyles. Prosecutor Hark T. O'Neal in a crackling closing argument, charged that Anjette murdered Marcia because the girl stood in rrank Costello tax evasion conviction. The New York racketeer had Ms third appeal rejected by the court last June, lie then Bought the way cf the widow's romance reconsideration of that action.

had hallucinations ia erder calm her." The two attorneys spoke after Anjette had left the fctand. Anjette listened to the lawyers arguments calmly. Occasionally, she looked wistfully at the jury and at her mother. Anjette, only person to tala the itness stand fr the defense, testified under a quiik of Georgia law that barred cross-examination and permitted her to speak without being under oath. She talked at length about l-er belief in fortune tellers and their powers.

She said she burned candles at their suggestion and alo used roots she fot from rojt d'rtoi in voodoo formula. "lt may be crazy to telwve in these things, said "but I did then and 1 still do." Child Wanted Lemonade She had nurses stay constantly with Marcia at Parkview Hus. pital. here the girl died lat April 5, she said, because: "I haie never left Marcia alone. St.e would be afraid.

And I couldn't stay with her all the time. I was a widow with two children to support. "Marcia wanted me to brin l.r lemonade from the rettaura' (Anjette's downtown Macon rV, since because she said it would better than Ahe hospi. tal's. But she never drank it.

At the restaurant I squeezed soma lemonade and put stne salt in it. But I did not take the lemonade into the lest room. Several witnesses testified that she did just that and the state Continued me 4. raf. I) and the court refused that request the "immediate surrender of Frank Costello, acting U.

S. Attorney Arthur H. Christy announced yesterday shortly, after the U. S. Supreme Court denied the gambler's petition for a review of his income tax conviction and sentence.

Costello was found guilty in 1951 and served 11 months of a five-year term before his release in bail during several legal Th lata Marcia Ljrle Her mother laughed day trial, was led sobbing hysterically from the courtroom. Anjette, earlier in the day calmly had pieaded for her life and freedom in a dramatic 78-minute statement from the witness stand. She denied the killings, while freely admitting her love affair with an airline un amine yuoi roo ie demanded the death penalty. "Laughed Comfortingly" Defense attorney William K. Buffington sought to -how that the buxom widow was an exemplary mother who "laughed comfortingly when her sirti child IF Sets Ma for 2d Mloon Shot today.

Costello has been free on bond pending the series of appeals from his 1934 conviction for evading $2,000 in federal income taxes. He was sentenced to five years in jail and fined The Supreme Court agreed to review the case of Soviet master spy Rudolf Abel, who was nabbed in New York, convicted there in 1957 and now is serving a 30-year sentence in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. The Supreme Court limited its review to specific questions dealing with the constitutional ban against illegal searches and seizures. The government will more for lly FRANK HOLKMAN Washington. Oct.

13 (Special). The Air Force tonight was reported preparing for apossible second moon shot next month following the voyage of its historic Pioneer rocket nearly 80.000 miles into space. We hope to apply a corrective in the trajectory in flight from the ground, he declared. We believe we have taken necessary precautions and have a system of reaching the area of the moon in flight." The Defense Department originally assigned the Air Force three lunar probes, and the Army two. While the Army and Air Force sied for the next green light, civilian scientists were busy analyzing the data radioed lack by Pioneer, as it flashed through space.

Preliminary calculations indicate that the deadly band of radiation around the earth, discovered by the earlier aatellites, wanes miles out, and space men in lead suits coulJ easily penetrate it-. hich service will get the nod for the next try, however. Tracking scientists reported todav that the Pioneer fell in flames over the South Pacific, northeast of Easter Island, at midnight last night I New York time), after soaring miles out into spac after its launching at Cape Canaveral, Fla at 4:2 A. M. Saturday.

Gen. Jihn B. Medaris, boss of the Army's missile program, said in Chicago today that his team has found a way to put the Jupiter hack on course from the ground, if it veers after Informed sources said the Air Force has made tentative plans to launch another Pioneer the weekend of Nov. 7-3, when the moon again will be closest to the earth. It is rushing modifications in the rocket to avoid another "drift off course like the one that kept the first Pioneer front reaching the mofm's vicinity.

The ArmyVrocket experts predicted, however, that if they had the next chance at the moon shot, their Jupiter rocket vehicle woulJ come closer to the moon than the Pioneer did. T. Keith Glennan, boss of the new National Aeronautics and Space Agency, still wasn't ayin Adams Still On the Job Washington, Oct. 13 (News Bureau). The White House reported today that Sherman Adams still is on the job transferring his duties as the assist ant to the President to Maj.

Gen. Wilton B. Persons, his former deputy. Adams resigned three weeks ago. It is just three weeks to election.

Adams is still oq the payroll. New Bars For Old Ex -convicts and parolees find, when looking for work, that ther have traded prison bars for a new form of punishment -Pa 39 34..

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