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GOOD EVENING Figures just'revealed show there are types of insects, not husbands. and The Lebanon Daily Times THE WEATHER Central Penna. Cloudv with numerous thunderstorms tonight, 60. Friday mostly sunny and cooler 84th YEAR No. 227 LEBANON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 31, 1956 Entered second cUji matter at the of Lebanon.

under tbe Act of March 8, 1879. 36 PAGES FIVE CENTS ore Than 130 Die In BIG STEP, LITTLE STEP Uniformed Cub Scouts and seasoned National Guardsmen provided one of many contrasts as scores of community units paraded to honor the war dead in Memorial Day Exercises. Thousands watched the morning parade as it traveled city streets to Soldiers Block at Mt. Lebanon Cemetery. Doily NEWS Photos.

Above, trim marchers of Battery 690th AAA (AW) Battalion step out under command of Capt. Paul Heilman, center foreground. Below, Cubs of Pack 8, Trinity'Lutheran Church, form marching unit under the direction of Ronald Slouch, right, Explorer Post 46, a former member of the pack. U.N. Halis Truce Team Operations In South Korea.

PANMUNJQM, Korea U. N. Command today wings of the four-nation commission supervising the Korean armistice, charging the Communists have used it as a blind for an buildup of arms in North Korea. Commission members were ordered to halt their operations in South Korea and pull back into the neutral zone. Britain disclosed the 16 nations making up the U.

which is headed by the United States, have -turned down a new proposal from. Red China for a conference to unite Korea and withdraw foreign A British note dispatched (Continued on Pago Two) Reporters Find Phila. Folks Gullible Givers PHILADELPHIA, (UP) People in the City of Sro- thei-ly Love are so charitable they even drop money in containers labeled "Heroin Fund for Addicts" and "National Society of Twinkletoed Children," a Philadelphia newspaper disclosed today. The newspaper, with full approval of the'pdlice department, sent a team of reporters to 65 homes on a "test run" through various, parts of the city to solicit for obviously nonexistent charities. The reporters and a blonde showgirl also passed the containers among several hundred pedestrians in City Hall courtyard and at a busy street intersection.

to 3righfbill Widow Seeks To Recover Accounts. Preliminary legal moves were aired today Court in a suit brought by the widow of Miles A. Brightbill. Lebanon industrialist, to recover a stock broker account as estate assets. Mrs.

Stephanie Brightbill, 114 East Chestnut brought the suit against BrightbiU's daughter by'a former marriage, Mrs. Kathryn A. Eoeshore, 204 South The account, held jointly by Brightbill and his was valued at $136,427.34 at the time he died Sept. 7, 1953. Attorneys for the widow argued that she had the legal right to elect to treat the joint account as part of the estate granted to her under his will.

Attorneys Bocshore gued that the widow could not take the account as part of the estate without rejecting other provisions of the will: Judge -A. Harry Ehrgood was asked.fto'•-rule on objections by the estate that s. Boeshore's answer to the complaint was "vague and The defense asked the court to rule against Mrs. Brightbill on the issue of her election to treat the account disposition of the estate. The judge took the arguments briefs under advisement 'for later decision.

PLACE A WAMT.AD DIAI 2-5611 Report Burglary At Hibshman Garage State Sales Tax funds estimated at and $50 were stolen in a burglary at the Hibshman Garage, 701 East Cumberland Street, between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, it was reported today at City Hall. Police Chief Lloyd Wolfe said entrance to the garage was gained by unlatching a rear window after a small hole had been broken in the pane. The money, he reported, was kept in a cigar box inside" a cold steel' cabinet type safe. Police reported the safe was jimmied with a screw driver. The intruders didn't ransack the garage nor did they touch several vending machines on the premises.

County Gets Preview Of Summer Today Lebanon County had a preview of summer today as above-normal temperatures and humidity caused discomfort. The temperature at noon was 85 and rising. Thunderstorms heading eastward promised more pleasant conditions tonight arid Friday. Tomorrow will be clear and cool, according to the official forecast. Memorial Day weather was geV- erally agreeable to the thousands who went on outings.

The afternoon temperature hit 80 degrees and although there was. a brief the sun came out and dried things off; pretty well. night's low, was 58 degrees and the average for the day was 69 one ahove normal. wai ,09 Tuesday's weather: high, 72; low 52. Not one person objected to the collection and a few said they were unable to contribute only because they, were unemployed.

Donations ranging from a dime to a dollar were dropped in the con- The' cans were labeled 'American Communist Refugee Fund," "Nazi Society," "Heroin Fund for and "National Society for Twinkletoed Children." The newspaperj' which turned proceeds over to the American lancer Society, said the experiment was' undertaken to show how lasily money is taken from the public by fraudulent solicitors. The containers were the same size as those used for legitimate collections, but their labels were deliberately fraudulent. One can bore a picture of a hammer and sickle, another had a swastika, the third depicted the forearm of a 'drug addict and the fourth displayed a drawing of human feet Tin which the toes were pointed outward. One 'woman contributor glanced at the container held toward her and asked: "What's the matter with the children?" "They're twinkletoed," she was told. The then dropped a handful of coins in the slot of the can.

TODAY in iHe NEWS Amusements 3 Classified 34, 35 Comics 32, 3C Sports 1M Obituaries i 3 Women's Pages 19, 2 AUTO PAINTING 'ZSth ft W. Ctmtb. Sti a 2-36H SURETY STORM WINDOWS Cumberland CLOSED vFRIDAV Due To Funeral tff Mrs. Margaret Rndegeair 10 In State Lose Lives; 7 On Roads, Three By Drowning BT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS a time for -revering the war dead. and na- ion's first.

summer commemorated throughout Pennsylvania yesterday with traditional (spiritual services, parades and outings; "And in the wake of the heavy flow of highway traffic bringing persons to their 'holiday destinations came'a greater number of automobile accidents that left seven dead. Three others lost their lives by drowning and two in other types of accidents, making the holiday period toll (6 p.m. Tuesday until midnight last night) an even dozen. Hundreds of thousands participated in the holiday at flower-scented military cemeteries, in churches, in public squares and in the homes to which the departed veteran never returned. Others attended parades in which some of the nation's military might was displayed.

For others it M'as the first of many summer outings in picnics, at amusement parks or at baseball games. More than 63,000 attended games in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Intermittent rain spoiled the fun for some and contributed, in part to the numerous highway acci- 16 Are Hurt In Teen-Age Race Riot On Boa! 'Nightmare' Of Flashing Knives And Frighf Ends Holiday Outing -BUFFALO, N.Y., holiday outing ended in a voyage of terror for passengers on a Lake Erie amusement park vessel last night as teenagers rioted aboard the ship. Reporters aboard the crowded Canadians for the trip from Crystal Beach amusement park in Ontario to this city described it as a of flashing knives and sobbing frightened" passengers. Rioting aboard the Cana- diana flared up after a of disorders by white and youths at the amusement park.

CpL.J. E. Legate of the Ontario provincial police at'Crystal Beach was quoted by the Buffalo Courier- Express as saying the disorders were "strictly racial." But F. L. Hall, general mana ger of the amusement park, said the disturbance there was "not a race riot." Six persons were treated for injuries at hospitals in Buffalo anc Fort Erie, Onh, and at least 10 others were treated for minor in juries at a first aid station at the park'.

Provincial police arrested nine Buffalo youths- at the beach. Five were Negroes and four The Negro youths were chargec with unlawful assembly and tht whites with creating a disturbance were released under $500 bai each. authorities took -three Negro teen-agers into custody when' the Canadiana docked here shortly: before 13, p.m. Police said -no charges were placed against them immediately. It was not known what set-off the disturbances at the beach.

An (Continued on Pate Six) Berserk Man Captured In Bullet-Riddled Chase NEW YORK, (UP) A wealthy Baltimore businessman went berserk in a cream-yellow Cadillac Wednesday, leading police on a 95-mile per hour chase in which 16 shots were fired before Memorial Day traffic trapped him. Five policemen narrowly escaped being run down, two ars were struck and the Cadillac's rear window was shot out. The businessman, Joseph Fisher, 39, was arrested bare- chested and grinning behind dark glasses on a New Jersey super-highways Traffic Record One Of Safest In-Many Years Highway Deaths Much Police said before Fisher's capture he had double parked, triple parked, driven without a license, 'escaped "from police, dented a police car fender, run through red speeded through the Lincoln Tunnel to New Jersey without paying the toll and speeded in New Jersey. A police surgeon at the Fort Lee, N.J., police station said he found Fisher of "unsound mind" and "incoherent in his speech." In Baltimore, his wife Mildred said her husband had recently been released from a psychiatric institution and disappeared last Sunday. "He's not a well boy," Mrs Fisher said.

The chase began at noon Wednesday when Fisher's conspicuous car was found parked in the middle of the street outside the Sherry Netherlands Hotel. The doorman at the Sherry Netherlands said Fisher Bad been panhandling and received from a patron who left the hotel. Fisher was arrested. He drove to a midtown police station accompanied by the officer, locked up his car and gave police the keys. When police messaged Balti- Joseph Fisher more for more information, Fish- er'asked if he could get his jacket from his car.

An officer accompanied him but Fisher bolted, took duplicate keys from his pocket, got in the car and drove off. He nearly ran down a patrolman and banged a detective's car. Alert ness Of Policeman Leads To Capture Man The alertness of Luke E. Kerr yesterday morning resulted in the apprehension of a Shenandoah man who from the Danville State Hospital on Sunday. Cpl.

Kerr said he was patrolling alone in a police cruiser llth and Maple Streets about 6:40 p.m. when he noticed a man coming out of a field and acting Henry B. Named New South Lebanon Assessor The county commissioners today appointed a new assessor in South Township and awarded a contract for microfilming of coun- records in the recorder's office. Henry. B.

Risser, 711 Smith was named to-fill a vacancy as assessor in caus- dents. The list of dead: Arlington Thomas, Philadelphia was fatally injured by an automobile near his home Wednesday night. 'Police said' the car'failed-to stop at the scene. John 27, a laborer, was arrested later in connection with the death. Herbert Campbell, 71, of East Smithfield, Bradford County died of burns suffered in the kitchen home yesterday.

Her 'husband said she was burned by, kerosene that fell in a jar from a and ignited. Sonya Lebet, 18, Williamsport, died of injuries' suffered Wednesday when a car was a passenger went over an embankment and turned over in The driver of the car, Fred Harris, Wiiiiamspor-t, was injured Carl of Upper St. Clair Twp. was killed Wednesday in a two car crash, on Route 19, nine miles south of Pittsburgh. (Continued tn tt.it in suspicious manner.

He said he accosted the man and questioned him. The man identified himself a's' Ronald Klingerman, 22, of Shenandoah, --and a farmer by occupation. He told Cpl. Kerr he was enroute to the home of an aunt on Brandywine Street. The police oficer said he left Klingerman go but'started to trai him.

When Klingerman discovered he was being followed, he started to run, according to report. Cpl. Kerr radioed for assistance and' Klingerman was headed ofl and apprehended near 12th and Mifflin Streets. Klingerman was committed to the County Jail to await the arriva of Danville Hospital authorities. If.

Wagner Has Extra Interest In Car Theft Police Lt. George T. Wagner has more than a professional interest in the solving of an auto theft reported to City Hall last night. The theft occurred from in front of 710 between 7 and 9:45 p.m., while the owner was away. The car, a 1947 Plymouth 2-door sedan is green in color and bears license plate H30Y6.

"Its owner is Lt. George T. Wagner, 710 Chestnut Street. What Service Do Yon Offer? The sure way to let people know what you have to offer them is in the "Who's Who for Service" columns of the DaUy NEWS Classified. For less than $12.00 a month you can have a daily reminder that you repair, renew or remake.

Remember that the Daily. NEWS goes into more than 21,000 homes each day and each home represents someone that may nee'd now or in the future. Call 2-5611 Today! Ask For Classified ed by Bayler. resignation of Russell L. Daniel's Lawyers Say Conviction Will Be Appealed Risser, manager of Keystone Fruit Lebanon, is now retired.

He will finish the unex- pired term of Bayler, which ends January, 1958. Accepted was a $3,711 sole bid on microfilming, submitted by Se- curitext Harrisburg. Under the specifications, the firm will microfilm 127 dockets in the recorder's office, provide film strips, files and reading machines for use in the chief assessor's office, and supply the county with original rolls of the record The action was taken'by the commissioners to assure deposit of essential records in storage safe from fire and destruction and to make assessment office practices more efficient. County bills and salaries totaling $23,759.98 were approved for payment. The bills included an $11,050 payment for half the cost of 15 new automatic voting machines received this year.

Paid from the Liquid Fuels Tax Fund was a total of $631.03 for asphalting of the County Home Road by the South Lebanon Township supervisors. Leader Clearing Desk in Preparation For Vacation HARRISBURG (UP) Gov. George M. Leader today turned to the task of clearing his desk of legislation by week's end so he can leave Monday for a month's vacation to Israel, Greece, Italy, France, London, Switzerland and Ireland. The governor indicated he might act today, on the teacher pay bill single question mark in the lot.

The teacher pay give 60,000 public school teachers $100 bonus, and $400 in increments over a three-year period- is the No. 1 undecided question. The governor has given no firm indication whether he would sign or veto it. If he vetoes it, he will blame the veto on legislative failure to raise enough tax revenues to pay for the school 'appropriation. Tied to the teacher bill is the No.

2 undecided bill to double legislators' salaries, and give a hefty increase to judges, cabinet officers and future governors. A guilty verdict returned by a New York General Sessions courl Tuesday afternoon will not halt the fight to sa've Thomas G. Daniel from a possible 20-year prison 'his attorneys announced today. An appeal from the verdict re turned in the manslaughter trial t.y. 20-year-old Jacqueline Smith, this city, will be filed, Atty David Seigal told newsmen today In the meantime the convictec boy friend of the local girl went to New York to make good a a designer, is confined to New Yorl City Prison pending sentencing June 22 was set as the date for th pronouncing of sentencing by Judg Mitchell Schweitzer after Danie was found guilty.

The guilty verdict was returnee by jury of 10 men and two wo men after only one hour and 3 minutes of deliberation. The charge stemmed from a bungled abortion performed in Daniel's apartmen on Christmas Eve. Daniel, a 24-year-old harnes salesman, took the verdict impas sively. He stood erect, with his lef hand clasping his right wrist, the jury returned its verdict. The victim's father, Cbesto: Smith, 41, of 2419 Guilford Street was on hand for the jury verdict He slipped quietly from a side en trance of the courtroom.

In the district attorney's office Smith declined on the case other than to say: "I think the -New York polio (Continued on Page Two) Leader indicated he hopes to clear his' desk of all reminders, of the harassing 17-month legislative session before he leaves with Mrs. Mary Jane Leader and their oldest son, Michael, 11, by air for Israel on Monday. Lower Than Predictions DfSafetfCouncil By TLVITED PRESS Motorists turned in one of the safest Memorial Day traf- "ic records in years today. But he final death count was still about 20 above that of a normal Wednesday in May. A United Press count from p.

m. EOT Tuesday until midnight Wednesday night showed 88 traffic deaths across the country. Warm wekther contributed 0.23 drownings. There were four deaths in plane crashes and 17 in miscellaneous accidents. The holiday death was 132.

National Safety Council congratulated the nation's Drivers, Jut warned they are still heading for the bloodiest year on the'high- ways on record. All-Time Mark April traffic toll'was 2,960, an all-time high for the month, the council The death count of 11,550 for the first four months ef 1956 is also an all-time 'record, and at this rate, a shameful record of 42,000 deaths will be' set by the end of the year, the council The -council had predicted 110 Memorial Day traffic de at h's ouncil President Ned H. Dear- Dorn was happy to admit the estimate was too high, and the-final count would probably be under, 100 persons. a normalWednesday in May an average of 70 persons are killed traffic On the last one-day Memorial Day holiday, in 1952, 82 persons died' in traffic smashups. California had the worst record Juring the one-day pos't- "ng traffic deaths.

There were' seven in -Pennsylvania and Illinois, five in Washington, and -four in Michigan, Ohio and Texas. No Traffic Fatalities In 16 states and the District of Columbia there were no traffic fatalities. The deathless states'in- cluded populous New York. The fact that the holiday fell on a weekday -during a week end probably held down' the death rate. So.did the all-out en- (Condnued on Two) Three Local Residents Slightly Hurt In Mishap Three local residents were slightly injured at 1:15 o'clock Wednesday morning when the car in-which they riding was involved in a mishap neat Sand Beach, about six milesinorth of-Hershey.

Treated at Hershey Hospital and discharged were: Joseph E. Ogurcak, 27, of 226 East Mifflin Street, driver of the car, who suffered a laceration of the lip; Mary Wenrich, 18, of 1808 Center Street, who suffered a laceration of the left leg and contusions of the forehead, and Joanna Nies, 19, of 57 North 14th Street, who suffered a laceration of the tongue. State Trooper Raymond J. Stima, of the Hershey State Police Barracks, said the car struck a tree after failing to negotiate a curve. The mishap occurred on a township road.

Crewman Is Killed In Passenger Train Crash PARKERSBURG, W. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's 11-car National Limited passenger ti-ain was wrecked near here early today when the diesel locomotive struck a boulder and plunged into a creek. One crewman was killed and another was reported missing. Three other crew members and one passenger were injured but none seriously enough to require hospitalization. Six cars were derailed but all except a mail car remained upright.

engineer, Grafton, Jo- W. The body of the seph C. Riley, G3, was recovered from the engine by wreck crews. Missing was the fireman, Paul R. Hooten, Grafton.

Chief Clerk H. E. Proudfoot said at the Grafton division headquarters the wreck occurred at 3:22 a.m. EOT on a treacherous stretch of track along Bond Creek at Cormvallis, Ritchie County, about 31 miles east of here. He said the train was made up of a mail car, four a combination baggage and passenger Pullman cars and a diner.

occupied dining car, four coaches' and the mail car were derailed. Proudfoot said the train, en- route from Washington, D.C., to St. Louis, carried an estimated 40 coach passengers. The number of PuHman passengers was not determined immediately. He described the scene as a hazardous 104-mile stretch of track consisting of numerous curves and bridges and 22 tunnels, running from Grafton to Parkersburg.

However there has never been a passenger due to accidents in the area, he said. Proudfoot said Pullman coaches were being returned to Grafton ahd would re-routed along 0 lines from Clarksburg, W. via Brooklyn Junction, 1952 Buick Super Convertible One Owner Only $995 Wagner Son Palmyra -Phone 8-9201 .1 i.