Lebanon Daily News from Lebanon, Pennsylvania • Page 1

9- GOOD EVENING PVortt. Lebanon Daily Times. THE WEATHtt Fwlr rooJtr. fair ffftl 80th 206. Copy, Two Year, 1'ublishod Kvtnlng Except Sunday.

LEBANON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1933 Ijtbanen. IV id mtltrr at offl-- under Act uf AUirli 3. 24 CENT1 Early this afternoon nearly one; than 62,000 teachers, thousand teachers, supervisors, su- arid principals in State perlntendents and principals of city This afternoon county gupe.rlnten- and rural schools in the counties of dents met In the school audl- Lebanon, Dauphin, Adams. Bedford, torium with the speaker of the after-' Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton, Lan- noon being E. W.

Butterfleld. com-! caster, Perry and York met in mlasioner of education of Lebanon High school auditorium in cut. He spoke on the topic, "School i the seventh annual session of tlits'Dull and Life Bright." I southern convention district of tho Pennsylvania State Education Association. The convention is a two-day affair. Se.ssions started at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon.

Other sessions will be held this evening, Saturday mom- LEBANON QUIET AS BEER TRUCKS RUMBLE IN CITY Music was furnished by the Leba-' non High school band under the Ai- 1 i rection of Arthur Loser. The band given a dinner in the high school Vivfnr, XT 'cafeteria and enjoyed a short after Virtually INlO and afternoon. The convention represents only teachers from the southern district of Pennsylvania, There are more dinner talk by Mayor John K. K. Schropp.

I Ten of the band members were awarded Lebanon High school peu- (Contlnued on Page Seventeen) TELLS POLICE OF TRIPLE MURDER INGMNDRAPIDS Educator Admits Strangling Woman and Son to Death PUT BABY IN OVEN Tries to End His Own Life by Inhaling Gas Fumes Grand Rapids, on a hospital cot, a 43 year old school principal, Henry B. Bedford, today admitted to officials that he strangled to death Mrs. Mattie Sue Bengert, 28. and her son, Carl, 8, placed her 3 months old ben in a gas-filled oven where he died, and then attempted to end his own life by inhaling gas. "I guess I went mad," Prosecutor Bartel Jonkman said Bedford told him.

Bodies' of IVfrs. Bengert and the two children were found yesterday by her husband, Carl, as he returned to the home hoping to effect a reconciliation with his wife. He said hp had left the house Tuesday after a quarrel brought about by Bedford's presence in the home. He Junior high school principals from foundI Bedford, unconscious, Allentown, Bethlehem, HarrJsburg in the gas-filled kitchen. Revived in a hospital.

Bedford a first said and neadln wer guests today of believed he had been poisoned Prof. C. A. Boyer, Henry Houck eating lunch and that he (Junior High school, and Prof tSr 8 ee Beng erts 00k Zimm Harding Junior High Today, however, Prosecutor Jonk-! 8ch o1 at a conference held in said Bedford confessed that he nection with the seventh annual "'The'aTmmint'VeVreBent's the state Or of In a ftw became incensed when Mrs. Bengert, Southern District Pennsylvania Edu-'tax on Lebanon's bonded Indebted-! 1Mt ances restaurant and store keep- t-- ore dlTCCt.

UQt jk'tSst of them are supplied After Thirteen Yean Beer Sweeps Sweet Adeline From Bier York, By DALE HARRISON. (IP). Adeline arose today from J.H.S.PRINCIPAIS IN CONFERENCE AT HENRY HOUCK Annual Convention of Southern Dist Penna. Education Asso. IT OWES STATE $4,498.65 TAX Will Make Effort to to Cover Amount Mayor John K.

R. Schropp's and city council's plans to pull the city out the financial hole and entanglements it had been in when the present governing body took over the tion Here as Lager i Is Legalized MOVESJ5LOWLY No Disorder Noted in State as Beverage Is Welcomed Back I Lebanon city and county, tionally a part of the beer loving Dutch belt of Pennsylvania, sur- prised Itself this morning, when three-point-two as "good beer" as distinguished from near-beer as provided for under the now obsolete Volstead law, became a law-abiding beverage with- out even a passing Instead of a noisy and bibulous celebration, the New Beer's Day thn came at 12:01 was given virtually, no welcome at. all. The first beer truck arrived in city at 2 o'clock, according to city policemen who were on duty. Instead of a waiting crowd the driver met a peacefully cn gU Cl illllg UUU LUUft.

t1 liltl i tit feuiding reins in 1932, received, an- leB and apathetio. public. Later i other severs set-back this morning when the city received a bill from jthe state M- during the night other trucks arrived In the city. Most of these unloaded thBir orders at warehouses you go back to my husband." "I convention in this today and tomorrow. got a piece of cord," the At cloclt th 's morning the prosecutor Bedford as say-! Principals registered at the Henry ness for the 19i31 year.

It muat i 1)O be paid before May 6 to avoid man month. This is not, however, the only bUl i i TT it T-r-f i Ajjiaiou vi, LI rr ci tuc vlJ 1 Id Ing, "and wound around her neck Houck Junior High sc-bool, and then of tnig tbe clty must nay I OTYi-iTi n.l*r ,7 11 feature far concerned, whole that the until she was dead. Then I came ent approximately an hour namontll Another State tax bi'l i 11 and disinterest of tbe public 'visitation and observation of Henry on the cU 8 oonded indebtedness today. Contrary to the ex- i. that were inspired by thirteen yeara of hullabaloo regarding personal privilege (or its lack), (Continued on Past Twenty-four) FARMERS ATTEN1) MEETING AT MYERSTOWN South Lebanon, Bethel, Annviile townships, and Cornwall, Jonestown, Houck building and classes.

for 1930 was received several weeks IV J3 Following the observation period, a go. That bill amounts to the principals attended the following. 77 and mU Bt be paid on or before i assembly program at the Houck I the twenty-fourth day of this month buHding: avoid tbe same amount of interest Greetings, Cyril Scbaeffer, student charges. president; song by school; announce-' The amount of both bills is ments, principal, Mr. Boyer; orcheb- $4,498.65.

tra selections, combined orchestra Mayor Schropp stated this morn- lAIverstown and Cleon a hnrnnoW consistin of Henry Houck and in.g that to raise the amount to and Cleon a Boroughs, I Hardlng orchestras; trumpet solo. cover this unforseen influx of un- 1 Frederick Hube.r; historic fashion i paid, old bills, a specia.l effort will New her bier. She was the same old girl; a bit off key In spots, with everyone wanting to carry the tenor; but just as sweet and adenoidal as whun she folded her arms across her breast 13 years ago and nallod It a day. As a selection In the upper register of r-inKB! sha was a bit ragged; but then, she never pretended to art. Surprising, too, how mony people rememborod her.

Thoy rested unaccustomed elbows ugalust new-varnished bars, Bfoke a fow "prosits" ODO to the other, exchangod glancos of undnrstuntllng and then with only their long idle Inntincts to servo tho baton, thwy burst, forth in unison: "Sweet Adeline." The lady Bounded about the samp in .3.2 time an In the before antUsellnm. Kho came back with vigor mid verve tha- astonished some of the experts who felt that perhaps had loat her kick. Once more, as before, served tho great breaker-down of social strata. Austere gentlemen in ImnroculatR tnonkoy Milts were observed with their arms about the shoulders of sturdy truck drivers squeezing the ultimate ounce of harmony out of thai last "-ll-i-l-n-p." Nor was Sweet Adeline approached in any rolsterous spirit After years her enthusiasts were treating her with solemn respect Tholr faces were storn. The climbed to their harmony bighpolntg with caution if not awe.

preposition "of" continued to be matter of dispute. When it came to the Idol o-f," the second tenors found tnemunlves for the high harmony which should have h-on t.hr. firs! tenors' prerogative; and the consequent collapse of the meiody had of utter tragedy. The number of bassoes was, an In the old days, pitifully small Thpre were enough buns voices. It wasn't Dial.

The trouble and always bus been, thot the bassocs seem never able to ivsiRt urge to go-to-town with the tenors. There were frequent exchanges of frowns as Die singers fioi, to express to other their disgust with 'notea which, despite the most valiant efforts, smote the But Sweet Adeline, with a 8.2 waistline, came mulling ngihl to the very dawn, still queen of Uio hey-hey PROTESTS RESOUND INU.S. AS BEER RETURN Midnight Is Signal Trucks to Rush Deliveries N.Y. PAR AD Cases of Amber Sent to White For President (By The Associated PtMk.) Tho thump of bUM coiintlew kegs drummed beverage back to the A today. Lawful 3.2 per esfit fi in territory populated by Americans aft 19 the District of Columbia more than 13 years old.

Jubilee and Jollity 1 spread nmong friends of Its foes voiced crl warning. Five minutes at midnight, big with foBtoons, rumbled to entrance of Hi two President. Mr. retired, has Indicated the beer to friends. -On Broadway, New Iraded behind a NAVY GROUP HOLDING AKRON PROBE pu tho committee.

Rep- i there no heavy demand for beer te that it is available to everybody. Here and there a that some other commlt- should Investigate the ratal I drinking The i metropolis refused 6 u. m. but by 1 and to get (Continued on Seventeen) tlle Investigation. braled.

In speakwutles, whert His abortion thai, Vln- i tumbled before the competftf of fhe Naval committee would tomers toasted (with TMUK rr ssr.KiSa'sr^.Kiss i' 1 ship and Moody E. metal- i was disputed by Vinson 1 i i McClintlc said that if the Navul fvvere represented Thursday evening, first annual meeting of the Fu- lure Farmers' Association of Leba-j i review, and orchestra selections. County, held at the Myerstown I Member committee iigh 's-chool building. i cnar ee of assembly program Prof. Lloyd Lebo, county super-! wer Mabel felly, borne eno- lintendent of schools, was in charge nomlCB teaoner Ml8s Mar the program, which included Eng ish teachpr atld Mi cs Idemonstrations.

addresses and mu guidance teacher. The home fsical numbers. economics department sponsored the i maturing The speakers were Prof. Harry i assembly program. I M.

C. Moyer. Prof. F. A visitation and observatioa Aumiller and Prof.

J. P. Skewis. The Jonestown chapter gave an 'demonstration of home ATTENDS MEEHXG OF CHEMISTS economics and farming. Linwood Light, of Annviile, and! City Che-mist Lee D.

Rutter is fark King, of lorfa, gave i spending a day in Bethlehem at-I )rval Klopp. of Schaefferstown. i tending a meeting of State barter- i presented several piano solos, while iologists and city chemists, jug band from iona also present- quet and business meeting Bd musical numbers. I held this evening. be to have the public pay their taxes this month.

If this can be done city will bp prevented from making a loan, which also carry intercut AWAIT AirrrAMC AC DTT1 7l re th Committee Icommittee made the AW All UUltUMh Of BILL thelr version of what occurred In tho FOR G.S. HOSPITAL are J25.000 May 1. (Continued on Page Twenty-four) fCor.tir.ucd 01 Pace Thirteen) 1 I JOHN HEISEY OPENS UP NEW FRUIT STAND TODAY John Heisey, of Bomberger's Restaurant, Eighth and Scull streets. A. ban-'-opened the fruit stand today at his will be restaurant, and is ready for busi- Officials and friends of the Rood wouldjsumarli.au hospital are awaitini eager interest outcome of two srtafe bills action by the Legislature and of vort-h of bonds Governor Pinchot, ou Representative Sehropp Allies Horst's bill, making an propriation of 140,700 for tbe Good inquiry the Akron crash "will whitewashod like tho committee whitewashed the Shenaudoab disaster." (Continued on i'i ELKSPUNTOIMSTAIL (LEBANON BUSINESS MEN NEW OFFICERS TONIGHT Mayor Members of Lebanon Lodge, No.

HOLD MEEITNG THURSDAY TWO CO. COJ AREH1ATTHER Samaritan hospital for tbe next bien- 631, Benevolent and Protective Or-i A good attendance County payrolls and muilfrx continued at a still today while two of thft of tbe Board of Count" CommlJttw ers remained their In was recorded condition of illness. William 1 tbe monthly meeting of tho Leb- jSwanger. president of the board, The matter is of more than 1D cuelr ianoti BuBlnesiimen'a AsHociatlon, on! reported as about the Mine, dinary concern for the reason in8itallatkm meeting evening. Routine matters I tn9 doctor adamant the Legislature is quibbling over a evening.

The regular time would occupjod the a i teIlt OB of tbp I he not leave bed general appropriation bill which'have been on Wednesday of this ing the present woek at leaaU. provide, for a budget of $13,000,000 week, but tbe session was postponed: A a ther 6tD less than the Governor's own uador a special dispeDHati 1 ln timates for economy, and because R( eral interesting readings, and house observed today Miss Margaret Shalley in piano tan es He ls board, was reported in excellent mi dltlon, considering tho cirtau the special bills for hospital (support. provide for of appropria pr Htlon for appendicitis, but ADMINISTRATION'S FARM AID BEL NOW UP FOR SENATE CONSIDERATION lesiauranr. ana 1s reaav for busi- ior 01 appropna-. nf the retirement of on a seal, of approximately 1 lh Whkh I for the I Already Has Voted Approval of Bill Limiting Working Hours A P1UX-ESS action Walter Kreuger Aook seemed a bit strange.

HP picker! up a hammer and Herman Bomberger, the fruit i percent In advance of previous stand business has been conducted (grants. by Charles Speicher, and has been I The Good Samaritan bill is based taken over by Mr. Heisey, who has on approximately this schedule of boen conducting the restaurant busi- advance, the previous allowance ness since the retirement of Bom-'having been in the neighborhood of berger and Son. Mr. Heisey will give i $35.000 for the biennium.

both the fruit stand and the rostau-i Tn money Is not only needed rant his own personal and efficient i hore but elsewhere throughout the attention. stale because of the free service accorded palien.ts which In more prosperous times would be cheerfully paid for. At the present time thn patients are to pay for tbe tion of "the lodge ana club affairs, joyed, and it will continue evening. After tbe lodge session there will be a vaudeville program and luncheon. 0 this ordeal.

HOPE FADES FOR LEGISLATURE TO FILM OF FIRST AID WORK TO BE SHOWN TO FIREMEN FINISH JOB BY ADJOURNMENT 110 WILLIAM REICH REPORTS OVERLAND CAR STOLEN; service rendered. Fire Chief John Zimmerman announced today that five hundred feet of film showing first aid work as to the Philadelphia Pulice Department will be shown in BREAKS OWN Reich, krouhl troubles a-fter having His ld? WR? rhar tllp bicago i eva ted lines for dam- vmrn in hours to ,30 819 Union last that his Overland touring car. bearing Hrpnsn number UA7S2 was stol- claiming a fellow workman ion last night from in front of his i dropped tbe hammer on his boad. borne. A of Th ml -e Judge who heard the story; robbery was broadcast through The administrations farm relief cxcllse Kreuper, this time.

Utate by local police program was set to stay before thel psnata until a final vote. Leaders evident, opposi- -rtlWIITDC Dfr' A I I A no this would come before OLD TIMERS RECALL GLITTERING BARS Wednesday. Then tbe House i on it. Sponsored by Senator Black the bill limiting labor In When thp stroke of txrftlrs sound- Many tb" quTlos in industries to five days ed the death knell of Volstead and six hours a day was ap- beer and iogal and roved by the Senate last night, of what the now adver- 30. tise as "good-beer," every restanr- RECORD CROWD EXPECTED ATPLL4SANTHUJLP.TA llarrisburg, AND BRASS RAILS AS BEER RETURNS A large attendance jg 'at the meeting of tho Pieawnt Hili Parent Teachers' Association Mnn- o'clock.

(day evening at o'clock in CIA: Donaghmoro building. Atkins, attorney, hag been the speaker of the evening. A program being arranged for tbe mwt- ilng includes entertainment by pupiln the fifth and sitth grades. Tho end of the the "long dry spell" brought a touch Liberty fire ball, Monday night, dur-j or Borrow to Anthony Kaniiliare. inj; the meeting of the depart- Hin heart set 1111 setting thr: first first teams.

The pictures bottln of legal from the brow- havf hren obtained by Dr. Horace'ery In his neighborhood. follow-' 1 10sl powerful in MPSPR. head of the city the first case sold to rnsUmr-' I'" lilif nummoned this first aid teams. Ail firemnn'ant of Anthony ifo got hwvp hern asked to attend.

The the coveted first, bottle. it will convene at lips and it. It Extra Session Loams a Opposing Factions Continue Battles fro-in a the leglslatui plunging il CHANCELLOR HITLER GIVES OUT PRICE GERMANY HAS PAID FOR ITS "REBIRTH" to rpsf dilemma an fr xt Governor veto awaits a scrifn of major W1U whii-h Rlfd vainly through four etc of lirpnsoR. names of and hote'i proprietors, It was to HOURS. leaders would not predict President Roosevelt's attitude, but did expect the to be hanged In the HOUSP to raise thing limit to ,16 hours.

Kobin- of ArkanMi, A by the Senate to ROOWTVlt. As ix llknly to bp much dls- SUOTOflMNEYFIREAT HOME OF PHILIP GINGRICH Demo- ant. grocery storo or Individual cession on such mflttprs during the zen was at iibprty to sell brow, ntxt days or some Informa-j although bftforo the prohibition tion la given herewith to set at rent! No damage was canned whm amendment was a license was argnmnvs on ihp subjo'-t. on the hornr and such ilrsnsps were When prohibition mad" the conn- fJinitrich, 22nd and by thp courts only on proof try dry thp.rp was but dls- Mrecti. caught fire at 9:55 o'clock oi good ti 'ory In roiinty.

Hombprgpr 'bin morning. The I'nlon fireman rhan'-ollor of NBr.l-cnntrollod rxprutivr Adolf Hitler placed the prlre nf a7; chrlstlanR. in She rooH.nwhii», "rwblrfh" at 330 fln havo grted to wipn out all of slain. 40,000 persons wounded and Juwlsh rellRlon In ('hrlstinn from commerrla! life. He declared outright to a.n audl- of cabinet members, diplomats and nnwdpapor last i today should Aakn ki PW or curpd how to H-'Mnrin and the plight thp thrlr rjuor.

fllnr-A everybody appar- and to knowi of rl.v. ftf fUHwrtni Carfe Ings and a govprnnif-nt "ruiturc IAX" was sppn today aa a further movn of UIP church. What course tha Hitler xoveru- mpnt will take In regard to led to to powpr. churoh may hlthprto a talk this wppfc end brtwrpn but today It manh-ithp and Vicp Chancellor Franx novwn- Von in Home. (A Aw prlnti truth," doplarwd.

Von and A rlrlnil Nail tficUttnmhlp will I Hermann Hltlmr cab- Adtninistration ipiders opponents that chanpes arc madf. juiph tmn as the- Talhcit hill, the Sd'rling pcnnoniy nMfl Mm hfinkinc Ami barfwMi ffirtps. tho hilU tkd tkl lifrr ronfrnl liili will be in trip oiuviitive officp. The governor warned Ifcl fBllurp to meet his demands the will into ImmedUie eitm without pay. April 13 tentatively Ml Kil "1 (CnntlntiMt 'in Expert Watch MM HcMfffe, 111.