The Daily News from Lebanon, Pennsylvania • 1

GOOD EVENING Yarn should love your neighbor but remember It Impos-Ible la love hha as much he lores hlmnrlf. THE WEATHER KaMrnt Penna. Partly cloudy today and tonight. Tuesday araltered aftrrmxm showers followed by and The Lebanon Daily Times mm 77th YEAR No. 219 LEBANON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1949.

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rpd- v-Ji-V-''' VP Aj Daily NEWS Phots. Sunday is a happy day for Mrs. Lucy Whitcraft and her two cons, since it Is the one day In the week when she is able to give them the rare and companionship they lack during the rest of the week. Mrs. -Whitcraft is seeking to have her sons adopted because she cannot support them aud still give them the care they need.

Dally NEWS Photo. A baby tornado which ripped through the western end of Hummelstown last night tore the whole side of the building off the home of Richard Dobson. The house, owned by Mary E. Bright bill, was of sturdy brick construction. Although the intense winds demolished the side of the house, sheet music on the piano in the first floor room on the left was undisturbed.

Damage to the farm home shown here and to the barn and other buildings amounted; to more jhanf 30,000. i (Other storm photos on pages7 and 16.) 1 Forrest al Ends life En leap From fflospiial ed a car and put the city fire alarm system out of commission, and created havoc at Palmyra and elsewhere in the With the first onslaught of the storm came a few minutes of hail, vivid flashes of lightning and terrifying peals of thunder, accompanied by a high velocity wind which swirled around some of the city streets In such fashion-that It seemed to come from different directions at the same time. The worst damage in the city Itself was noted at 628 Lehman Street where a third-floor gable-end of the home of Leroy Turby was jolted out by lightning and the corner window sash and bricks crashed in street below, where it landed on and crushed a 1939 Studebaker automobile and by mere chance missed killing its owner, Robert Bennett a next-door neighbor. Bennett was unable to park the car entirely in front of his own home, at 626 Lehman Street, and parked it partly in front of the Turby home. When the storm came on Ben nett donned his coat and hat with the intention of putting the machine in the garage but thought better of it when he saw the hall falling, in the swirling wind and decided to let the ma chine stand out.

He had carcely closed the iron', door when the ctash came htf looked out to see the car ewp'etely crushed. The Sailing bricks carried away the city fire alarm wwe and also took some electrics light wires to the ground with a consequent interruption of service in the neighborhood. The roadway was blocked for a time with ronce-man William H. Shaffer directing traffic. He fixed the car loss at 1700.

There no ore nome me Tnrhir home when the ooit The Maretta Kelnard Beautv Shon occuDies the first floor the occupy the sec. find floor, and a horsemaid oc cupies the third floor. It was stated that strangely enough, the In side of the 3rd floor was undam aged, and even the curtains were hmterlnr in Dlace after the gable- end had been jolted to the ground by the lighting olt. On the first oor. however, tht, Beaaiy Shop snow window was shattered, in the cltv the hail cellets con tinned only a few minutes, and melted as am ss they fellThe violent wind died iown in about twenty micutti, but the rolling thunder continued for consider ablr mora than and hour after th ntnrm first broko.

4 Although the storm on Sunday (Continued oa Pag Slxtoea) Mayor Unmasks Men In Ku Klux Klan Garb SOPERTON, TodayP) Mayor Jim Peterson of this little South Georgia turpentine town may act as judge and jury at the trial of three robed un masked Saturday nignt. Peterson, serving his ninth term, said he received a call Sat urday night that men in Ku Klux Klan outfits were wandering the streets. Several women were frightened, he said. Tbe mayor rushed out, yanked the masks off three men and had them tossed in jail. Two other hooded figures ran when pollce- (Ctmtlnnd oa Pago Siatooa) SIGN CONSTITUTION lAP) The Wt frm7i for establishment of a Wpt negotiations with the Weeteza work, which gives me no time at all to devote to them, even when I am at home.

Tbey are growing like Topsy, not being reared the way all children should be." "I can't attord decent clothing and foyd and no recreation or pleasure for, them at all. I love my sons too much to see them live this way. I want them to grow up to be good, honest citizens, not Juvenile delinquents. That is why I must give them up. They need a mother who can devote plenty of time to them, and a father for a companion." Mrs.

Whitcraft says of her two (Continued on Pago Ponrtooa) Firemen At School Simulate Rescues From Burning Bldg. With oil and house fires burn. ing amid dramatic backgrounds Lebanon city and county firemen, from the chiefs and assistant chiefs down to new, raw recruits, were given instruction 'in fire fighting on Sunday. It was the second day of the tire school sponsored by the Lebanon County Fire -Chiefs Yesterday's classes opened at 8 o'clock in the morning at the Harrison School building, Seventh and Maple Streets, Independent Borough, and study was not completed until 4.40 in the afternoon. The house was built on a vacant lot at Spruce and Water Streets, opposite the Keystone Macaroni plant and not far (Contlnntfl oa Par Toartooa) MECHANIC BADLY BURNED LX GAS TANK EXPLOSION PHILADELPHIA, Today (INS) Louis Peterson, 46, wa burned severely today when an underground gasoline tank exploded in a Kensington coal yard.

Hundreds of residents were startled by the roar. Peterson, a mechanic, was adjusting the pump handle when static electricity apparently set off the blast in the 500-gallon tank. vised list of the dead showed 21 were killed at Cape Girardeau, five at Wood River, eight at Shelburn, two at Terra Haute, one at Clay City, four at Palestine, 111., one at Bessvllle, one at Ca-bool, one at Somerset, and one at Clarksville, Mo. Authorities said the death toli from tbe twisters which struck Saturday and Sunday probably-would increase when comunica- tions were restored with isolated communities. Damage was estimated at more than "several millions of dollars" by authorities who surveyed debris piled high by the suddea storms.

One official, put the dam age at iB.ooo.uoo. Red Cross authorities said many persons were still missing in the tornado-struck areas and' added that broken communication-lines impeded an accurate count of casualties.1 Dangerous flood conditions were caused by the heavy rains and thunderstorms that accompanied the sudden twisters. Health authorities in more than a doen towns and hamlets struck by the fierce, whirling winds that cut huge swaths of death and emergency measures 'to conserve dwindling drinking water- supplies. Heavy rains polluted the water. Cape Girardeau, hardest hit (Continued oa Pago Zltvtn) Myerstown Home Bought For $10,000 Carl J.

and Olga A. Ambrosia, of Myerstown, have taken title to the dwelling and lot at 30.4 North College Street, Myerstown, from Harry L. and Jennie D. Lehman, Myerstown, for a consideration of around 10,000 as revealed by revenue stamps attached to tha deed filed for record at the Courthouse today along with the fol lowing other realty transfers: Homer E. and Arlene E.

Don- mover to Joseph S. Wolf, plot situated in South Lebanon Township, on the south side of Ridge Avenue. Up to $1,000. Lebanon County Trust Com pany to Charles M. and Vandella (Coattantd os Pago Blztten) Savings Bond Buyer Helps Himself And His Country By CHARLES E.

SPEXCER, JR. Chairman of the Board, The First National Bank of Boston, Mass. WASHINGTON. Today (INS) Rarely is the individual able to erve himself his country best at the same time but the regular purchase of United States Savings Bonds offers such an opportunity. A share- of ownership in the United States of America goes ith each purchase, making all persons just a little more thoughtful about the benefits we all en joy in this land of ours.

Ton will also be helping your government by spreading ownership and promoting stability of the public debt. So Seize Stations The anti-communist city government bad asked Westers authorities for the right to send their own police into railway installations and stations la Western sectors, with the backing cf American, British and French authorities. The strikers numbering about 11,000 had beea clamoring for Western intervention. Brig. Gea.

Frank L. Howley of the United States eaiied the commandants Into session to discuss the city government's plea and aspects of what be called an "la-tolerable situation." Most troable spots wers laaa- A desperate 30-year-old mother appealing to "some nice couple" to adopt her two little boys beer ufe she is unable to give them hat she thinks- children need cst security and The story Tevealed in the letter '-irned in to the NEWS today by Lucy Whitcraft reveals a lure 'of, a mother, who loves, her two sons, Tommie, aged five, and r.endall, six, enough to give them up in order that they might have the full-time care of, an- adopted mother and the attention of a father. The latter is something they have never known, since Graduates Hear Sermons At H.S. Baccalaureates Members of seven 1949 graduating classes of Lebanon County hle-h rh inls attended baccalaur- reate services in their various communities yesterday, preliminary to the annual commencement exercises to be held throughout the county this week. Seniors from the high schools cf Annvllle, My-erstown.

South Lebanon Jonestown, Fredericksburg, Schaefferstown and Richland heard the baccalaureate addresses delivered by pastors of county churches. Baccalaureate services for the graduating class at Cornwall High School are to be held next Sunday, (Continued os Pago Ponrtooa) Sir Knights And Ladies Attend Church Service Sir Knights of Hermit Commander K. T. and ladies of the auxiliary, in goodly numbers at-. tended the annual Ascension Day services held last evening in St Mark's Evangelical and Reformed Church.

The Templars assembled outside tho church where they wtrs Joined by the women folks as then proceeded into the the ehurch where a specially re-tered section was set aside for treir occupancy. The church pastor, Rev. Dr. Henry J. Herber, based.

his sermon on topic "New Men for New Age." taken from John 1:7, "yon must be born again." Dr. Herber brought out three important phases of his sermon: "Carry the cross, willingness to lire for tile general welfare based on the Golden Rule, and seek ye first Kingdom of God." The Kea's Chorus sang "The Jot of the and the church iholr offered an anthem that Stand la the Hons of the -crd." Dr. H. V. Blyler 925 Cumberland St.

Office Closed their own father deserted them before Tommie was born. There is 15 months' difference in the boys' ages. "I have tried hard to make a home for them," the mother wrote, "but I realize now that it hasn't been a home at all, not even a poor are living in two rooms In a. The, children, have no place to play except on the sidewalks, and if playing indoors, must be kept quiet. I can get no one to tend them' while 1 work without paying much, much more than 1 can afford.

I work in a factory and do all my own house- To Hold Hobby Fair At Mount Gretna -e LANCASTER, Today (ff) Pennsylvanlans will have a chance to see the fruit of hobbies on display this summer. The Pennsylvania State Guild of Craftsmen will conduct a fair at Mt. Gretna, a resort community near. Lebanon, August 6, 6 and 7. Craft work done by the State Guild will be shown at that time.

The fair will be held "at Chat-auqua Community House in Mt Gretna. Officials of the State Guild said it will be the first such display ever attempted in the State and they hope to make the fair an annual attraction. The group at their annual meet- (Conttnmfl oa 9g TonrtMB) Lebanon Youths Are Accused In Hershey. Robberies Two Lebanon youths, one a fifteen-year-old Juvenile, were arrested and a third escaped, when State Police' snrprised alleged burglars who were said to have started ransacking homes In the vicinity of rara and Areba Avenues in Hershey on Saturday night State Policemen William Hen-nings and James Porter of the Hershey nabbed the lookout A short time later they arrested the second, a 15-year-old youth, at his Lebanon home. Hennings said the burglars were in the home of James Mor- (Comtlimtd Faf roarteam) Flour and Feed Mills Closed Day Thursday, May 26th, 1949 KR EIDER MILLS I.

L. HERR GCRXET ft. BRAXDT flato Glass STAGER'S 8ctfu Eest FIcce To Buy A USED CAR 'SSL1 I Hummelstown Hit Sunday Evening By Damaging Storm HUMMELSTOWN, May- 23 A severe electric storm accompanied by high winds and lashing rains cut a swath about a quarter mile wide and several miles long across the western limits of the borough of Hummelstown. The storm which 1 started approximately at 7 p. m.

Sunday evening felled utility poles and lines leaving the borough without electric power or telephone Ohurch services which were in progress were carried through by candle light. Damage in the borough proper was slight, but property damage (Continues oa Pago Six) Posse Beats Wilderness in Search Of Little Boy INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Today (JP) Two and a half year old Larry Conners of South International Falls was believed lost today in wild brush and swamp lands near. About 200 men searched a wildnerness area about a mile and a half long and three quarters of a mile wide without finding a trace of the boy. The area was described as "bear country." Larry, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Wil-bert Conners, was last seen about 4 p. m. Sunday. He was playing in the yard with a neigbbor'i dog while his father worked on the family automobile. Conners said he believed the boy wandered off with the dog, which later returned.

Attempts to have the dog lead aearcheri to Larry failed. i Reject Plea Bail BERLIN, Today. JP) The three Western military commanders rejected today a petition from the West Berlin city government to seize strike-bound elevat ed railway stations is the city. The strike against the Soviet- appointed management of the railways, now in its- third day, was marked by a weekend of bloody rioting in which Soviet-controlled police used guns against mobs of strikers and their sympathizers. The decision of the military commanders of the United States.

Britain and France in effect re affirmed the property rights of the Rassian-controlled railway system. The rights were established la 114 by a four-power agree-BenL WASHINGTON. Today. (INS) The widow of James V. Forrestal flew Into Washington from Paris today to make funeral arrangements for the former defense secretary who took his own life early Sunday.

Mrs. Forrestal, accompanied by their oldest son, Michael, 21, arrived on the White House plane Independence at 7:46 a.m. EDT and immediately was whisked away from the National airport. She was visiting Michael in Paris when the news was broken that Forrestal had killed himself In a 13-story plunge from the Bethesda. Naval Hospital.

Mrs. Forrestal was surrounded by 60 troops when she landed and newsmen were not allowed to Two Arrests Made Result Of Crackup Of Stolen Auto The alleged driver of a stolen car and his companion, who fled the scene following an early Saturday morning crackup involving another car on a township road a quarter-mile south of Buffalo Springs," were both arrested 'by State Police later In he day, it was announced by State Policeman Charles Wall of the Lebanon substation today. The pair, Roy Henry Krall, 25, Lebanon Route 8, and Leroy J. Clay, 19, Lebanon Route 3, were arrested by State Police and both charged with larceny of a motor vehicle before Alderman Nathan Sundel. Krall was com- (Conttnn oa Pago roar) Carrier Turns Off Course To Aid Man Stricken Hi WASHINGTON.

Today TV The carrier Philippine Sea, home- bound from tbe Mediterranean, tamed off its course Sunday to go to the aid of a man stricken Ul aboard another vtssel. The (1-year-old victim. James Morgan of Brookline. was transferred from the Marine Slasher to the carrier and given a blood transfusion. The avy reported his condition was good.

Morgan, a retired gardener, was enroute to his native Ireland. He suffered from peptie ulcers and his condition became worse when the Maria Slasher was 600 mile at ms. I talk to her. Pictures-were taken at a distance. Wearing dark glasses and a gray suit, she was met by a large group including her other son, Peter, 18.

Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, retiring Navy Secretary Sullivan, former Army Secretary and Mrs. Royall and Mrs. Lovett, wife of the former Undersecretary of State. Funeral arrangements were expected, to be announced soon. The United States government entered a period of mourning over Forrestal 's tragic end.

Official flags were placed at half-staff throughout the world on order from President Truman who was shocked and deeply grieved. Continnd oa Par Ponrtatn) West Powers Firm On Objectives As Paris Talks Start PARIS, Today INS) The Foreign Ministers of the United States, Great Britain and France opened a vital conference with Soviet Russia today, firmly united on a platform of German, and European reconstruction. As Secretary of StateDean Acheson met with his European colleagues in the former Anna Gould's fabulous "Pink Palace" on tne Avenue Foch promptly at 11 a. m. EDT, the following objectives of the Western Allies were made clear: 1 Insistence upon extension of genuine democratic freedoms to Soviet-controlled Eastern sone (Contlnatd oa Pago va) Newmansfown Company Wins Fire Parade Prize The Newmanstowa Fire Company was awarded first prire of $75 for having the most number of non-nniformed firemen from out of Berks County, in line of parade at Rehrersbarg on Saturday afternoon, when the Keystone Fire Company housed its new 500-gallon Reo Barton American Pamper.

More thin 2,900 firemen from four connties took part in the parade preceding the bousing ceremony and dedication of the new pumper by Judge Forrest R. Shanaman. of Berks County. Thirty-three fire companies and 11 musical organization took part In thi parade, EiflEE RIews WEST GERMAN STATES BONN, Germany. Today constitution was proclaimed the basic law for 45,000,000 Germans today.

The formal signing by 11 etateg was completed just as the four-power Council of Foreiirn Minister in Pans an attempt to work out a German settlement The constitution is expected to strengthen the hand of the West in the Paris talks. The signing sets the stare German government by mid-July. The signing took place in Bonn Normal School, where the constitution wes drafted. First to sign the document was Dr" Konrad Adenauer, 70, president of the 65-man convention which drafted the constitution in eight months of Allies. CCoatteaat a Page 1 1.