Lebanon Daily News (Newspaper) - March 4, 1953, Lebanon, Pennsylvania GOOD EVENING Some people M stubborn they wont even agree with the food they eat YEAR No 151 Prem Copy rivt Except Sunday ond The Lebanon Daily Times PMM cloudy windy aat colder and snow Hurries in the mountains Low 28 to 34 LEBANON WEDNESDAY MARCH 4 1953 CM c th Act of MardiT First Degree Murder Verdict Is Sought By State As Harold Donough Trial Opens Courtroom Crowded 24 PAGES FIVE CENTS Death Tense For Murder Case The State this morning asked a Criminal Court jury of six men and six women to return a verdict of first degree murder with a recommendation for life imprisonment as the murder trial of Harold Groy Donough opened before a crowded and tense court room District Attorney William H Egli told the jury panel which includes two men alternates that Donough killed Mrs Irene Carpenter Krochell in Stratford Hotel room 15 last November with malice There are only two people who could tell us what happened in that said Egli One he said was Mrs Krochell Donough He outlined own statement of the November 7 incident to the jury As the jury was completed this morning Don ough was asked to rise and face the panel The jurors rose and the indictment charging murder was read Donough stared ahead displaying no outward emotion He was dressed in a powder blue smt maroon necktie yellow socks and brown shoes Egli told the jury that Donough and Mrs Krochell entered a taproom near the Stratford Hotel on the night of November 6 1952 and after drinking there the couple went to the hotel Mrs Krochell got the key to her room and Donough registered and took the room across the hall number 17 Egli said Donough told the two were intimate and when Donough made repeated advances on her Mrs Krochell resisted There was a said Egli and Mrs Krochell fell away from him Donough said after she fell he believed she was dead and dragged her body onto the roof outside the window arid dropped her to the ground He said he she was Egli told the jury but in fact she was alive The body was discovered at 9 lying in the courtyard Mrs Krochell died November 10 in Good Samaritan Postpone Eight Cases Eight other cases listed for the March term of Criminal Court have been postponed because of the murder trial Egli announced today Only one case charging Edwin Friend 525 North Twelfth Street with drunken driving and failing to reveal his identity at the scene of an accident will be tried The selection of the Donough jury of six women six men and two alternates took three hours Ten jurors were selected yesterday afternoon and the remaining jurors were chosen this morning As each juror was called Deputy Prothonotary Robert O Boyer swore them You do solemnly swear that you will well and true answer make to all such questions touching your tions as a The jurors all Boyer continued Juror look upon the prisoner Prisoner look upon the juror challenge or no challenge Continued on Ten German Teacher Given Warm Welcome To City Matthias Massing German exchange teacher visiting schools began his stay here last night with the familiar speech of his homeland reaching his ears before he had stepped off the train Massing who will be the guest of the district until late this month was greeted the conversation of two baggage clerks at the Reading station who spoke the common Penn sylvania Dutch dialect It was a pleasant and heartwarming experience for the German teacher now in this country on a nonimmigrant visa It was his first contact with the character of citi zens and gave him a feeling of warmth and neighborliness that is only one of the wonderful experi he puts has en joyed since he came to America in September He was greeted at the station by Miss Edith R Rapp elementary has already had several years ex as an elementary teacher in his native Germany His resi dence is in the French Zone of Western Germany in an industrial city of about population Weissenthurm And it isnt very hard to get the modest goodnatured youth to u reside here wilh Miss Rapps brother and law Mr and Mrs Warren G K Rapp 206 Cumberland Street The German teacher system acquainted at Washington College Democracy In Action The schools here are demo cratic from the first grades on up Continued nn ROKs Win Savage Battle For Hill SEOUL Korea Ko rean infantrymen recaptured a strategic height southeast of Kum song tonight hurling Chinese Com munist troops off the crest in the climax of a hand to hand battle that lasted nearly 24 The battle for the advance position on the eastcentral front erupted when two Red assault forces hit the outpost The fighting raged all night with the gradually giving ground to the Reds despite support from tanks Liter N were called in to bomb and Vishinsky Backs Pole for Lies Job UNITED NATIONS N Y UP Y Vishinsky said flatly today his choice for a new sec to the United Na was Polish Minister Skrzeszewski The Russian foreign a t BJ s n t interpreted by diplomats opening bid in negotiations for a successor to Secretary General Clow said early island in the indicated would demand one or more concessions Mn exchange for en Harold Groy Donough is shown above as he appeared in Criminal Court yesterday to plead not Mrs Irene Krochell This drawing made by Lebanon DaUy T 4 s Jlss shows Donough as he stood before deputy Rob ert O Boyer who read the formal charge before the beginning erf the first Lebanon County trial since Annual Red Cross Fund Drive Opens Goal Is Volunteer workers for the 1953 und campaign of the Lebanon Chapter American R e d r mercan e aio ross gathered last night in the ness sPirit vigilance AMf WTt 1 f Hilt if t UT fft Acquit Cleona Man In Auto Death Of Crossing Watchman Peter Miller 63 of 17 Morning side Avenue Cleona was pro not guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Joseph Guare concentrator plant employe by a Criminal Court ten men and one woman yesterday afternoon The jury deliberated two hours before acquitting the Cleona man who testified that his car struck Guare while traveling west on Leh man Street on a dark and rainy night January 9 The jury which originally in cluded 11 men and one woman was reduced in strength by the sudden of Ross Boger xMt Gretna It was agreed between counsel on Pace Well Known Candy Vendor Admitted To Hospital The condition of John M Chreso 77 of 650 Federal widely cnown street vendor of candy and other confections was called fair today in Good Samaritan Hospital where he is being treat ed for a slight cerebral accident Chreso was taken to the hospital n the First Aid and Safety Patrol unit ambulance of rire department yesterday from lis home His illness first became plumbing firm em ployee who was working in the Building where lives heard rim call out from behind the locked door to his apartment Police were notified and a party ed by Lieutenant Roy Kirst came to the apartment Chreso was un able to reach the door and Lt i r s t entered the apartment hrough a window Chreso was found near the door in a semi conscious condition and with a aceration on his forehead presum ably received in a fall while trying to reach the door Lenten Guideposts Personal Messages of Inspiration and Faith THE TRUE ROAD TO GREATNESS By Chase Walker It was bedlam Thunderous boos and angry hisses from the Brazilian audience swept toward the Italian conductor a last minute substitute as he took his place in the pit After a futile attempt to start the music panic grabbed the musicians and they fled behind the curtain The audience was enraged because the substitute conductor had replaced one of their own countrymen It all started several days before when the opera company received a had press in Rio papers after their first performance In a public statement the Brazilian con ductor blamed the singers then quit Loyal friends decided to hiss the rest of the touring Italian company right out of town A Last Hope It looked as if they had succeeded as a frantic confer ence was held behind the curtain Directors turned toward their cellist a youth by the name of Arturo Tos canini Just out of school he had impressed them with his ability and knowledge of scores He was their last hope Once again the musicians took their places Then a slim adolescent figure shot from behind the curtain and into the on Two MODERN KHAN COPENHAGEN Today INS Danish newspaper Informa tion said Soviet Stalins Today a modern Khan is AUTO SEAT COVERS STAGERS fr W Cumb Dial ATTENTION Pest Meeting Night Mar X t Raymond Waltz 59 Hoover Dies In VA Hospital World War One veteran Raymond C Gush Waltz 127 North Tenth Street died at p m Tuesday in the Lebanon Veterans Adminis tration Hospital where he had been a patient for the past six weeks He was 59 years of age His came after a lengthy illness A plumber for the Reading Company for the past 33 years he had worked until two weeks before last Christmas A native of Lebanon he was a son of the late Glentworth and Emma Howard Waltz Through his interest in his native city and its affairs he won wide popularity and enjoyed the friendship of a large number of associates In his earlier Sir Hearings Due lues HARRISBURG ber legislative committee now plans to begin public hearings next Tuesday on the No 1 problem facing the 1953 General Assembly to cut state government costs and reduce the new tax load The hearings expected to take a month with the possibility of some night sessions are designed to bring out in detail the recom of the states Little Hoover Committee which said that through efficiency and econ omy a year could be saved eventually in governmental operations Gov John S Fine told the Legis LATE NEWS Womens Fashion Supplement Pages Ladies its a Spring dedicated to you bursting with new lines brilliant with radiant new shades budding with fashions becoming to ness fashions that achieve new heights in versatility and flattery Read about it in todays fash ion section designed for you by the following merchants of Leb anon Arnolds Boot Shop Bennetch Shoe Store The Bon 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suffered a sudden brain hemorrhage affect ing vital areas of the as a result of which he developed a paralysis of the right legand the right arm with loss of conscious ness and It said he was having trouble breathing and that his pulse beat at 120 a minute was completely The same bulletin was repeated without change at noon 4 The government statement ex pressed confidence that our party and the whole Soviet in these difficult days display the greatest unity staunch m nam ixi uic Church for kickoff dinner The signed as JOSEF STALIN Salvation Army Drive Tops Obal i Contributed Army annual cam for funds in Lebanon has been a smashing it was revealed today by A Fee man local treasurer forthe organ j reported that a has been contributed which more than the goal of 500 the city general chairman report city and county will strive co lect the that is Lebanon goal this year Last years goal was an included fund collects for the hurricanes tha lad ravished the southwestern part of the country at that time Speaker for the kickoff dinner was Alexander Bolden Red Cross field director at Indiantown Gap who stressed what Red Cross is doing for servicemen both state nn Twentytwo Hue Lights To Replace Red At Police Call Points Lebanon city streets will soon et a new color Blue lights will soon be installed t the thirteen points in the down own section where the police de maintains signal lights to the attention of foot patrol man when police headquarters vants a patrolman to call in The thirteen stations are now marked by red lights which can be on from the headquarters The red lights will be by blue lights because he department feels that the old ed lights are sometimes taken or the traffic stoplights by motor sts The blue lights were delivered o City Electrician John Gilbert oday and will be installed as soon is possible Continued Union Sold for A Union Township farm i Palmyra house and two tracts if land in Kutztown north of My changed hands recently to three of seven deeds record at the Courthouse oday The farm was transferred for a consideration from Frank nd Goldie Brenner Union Town iip to Howard and Katheryne L eller Jonestown 2 Two tracts of land on the west ide of Main Street in Kutztown ere conveyed from Leah E Alt ouse Jackson Township to Ed ar S and Priscilla C Tobias UK Woman 58 injured When truck By Boys Bike Mrs Martha E Frysinger 58 of 24 North Eighth Street was ad mitted to Good Samaritan Hospital or observation shortly after 10 clock with possible in uries from being struck by a at the entrance of the Reading railroad station Police said the rider of the Sen Duff To Speak Good Government Dinner Senator James H Duff has ac an invitation to speak here 7 at the second annual Good Government Dinner sponsor d by the Junior Chamber of Com The event is held by the Jay ees to give special recognition to city or county employee or of cial for outstanding service to the Selection prominent local employee or official is arrowed down to six candidates or the honor Three candidates have been amed by County Commissioners nd three by City Council A group f independent judges will make ic final selection Receiving the honor last year as City Clerk George Biely Rep Walter Mumma was he guest speaker Man Space layout For Home And Builders Show The Show Committee of the Leb non County Home and Builders Exchange met last the Trause Hardware building to plan pace layout for the second annual Home and Builders Show at Sunset April 14 to 18 Apportionment of space for par exhibits was discussed The show features latest develop ments in the building and furnish ng of modern homes Attending last nights meeting were George Krause president of tie Exchange Claude Ralph Beaver and Herbert Gill man was Dennis Adams 16 of 114 Guilford Street According to the report of Patrolman William T Stockton the boy said that his glasses were dimmed by rain and that he did not see Mrs Frysinger He admitted the report said that he did not have a light on his bicycle but said that he was stay ing in alleys as much as possible on his way home Mrs Frysinger reported pain in the lower leg and hip She was given Xray examinations which will he interpreted today The police report said that Mrs Frysinger who was taken to the hospital in a taxicab had asked at the hospital that no charges be placed against the boy Lebanon Woman Hurl In Fredericksburg Crash Mrs Mary Carpenter 48 of 412 Jones received body bruises in a automobile accident at North Center and Walnut Streets Fredericksburg at yesterday state police said today Mrs Carpenter driving west on Walnut Street was thrown from her car into a ditch when her car collided with that driven North on Center Street by John Howard Kel ler 24 Fredericksburg according to of Pfc Lloyd W Lein that of the Indiantown Gap tion Police said that Carpenter did not require and she would see her phy Keller was uninjured Dam age to Mrs Carpenters cir was estimated at and to Kel lers car at No charges were preferred VAN FLEET WOULD STRETCH DRAFT TERM WASHINGTON Today Gen James A Van Fleet recommended today a six or extension of current draft service in order to prepare Ameri can troops better for Korean combat duty The general also told Congress that a major offensive to break what he down of our own in Korea would not broaden the war He said a military victory must be won lo save Asia from communism In discussing the need for keeping draftees in service for 30 vor 36 months Van Fleet declared that the present replacement system is not working out satisfactorily in Korea in numbers ami Oldest Veteran ighting For His Life ROCHESTER CUP James A Hard the nations old est veteran fought on today in the toughest battle of his 111 years one for his life A spokesman at General Hospi said old campaigners con dition following his righi leg improved slightly during the night His condition listed as fair early this morning leg amputated two days ago to relieve a circulatory deficiency Since then in constant pain despite tht ad of drugi the ttl Mid Senate Splits On Yalta Pact Issue ad ministration found itself in the middle of a bruising Senate fight over President anti enslavement resolution today It looked like just an argument over words But below the surface was the controversy over the Yalta agreement which has raged for years between the major political parties Senate Republican Leader Rob ert A Taft told newsmen I dont see why Democrats should oppose the GOP amendment add ed to the Presidents draft resolu tion Tuesday Senate Democratic leader Lyn Van Fleet To Tel Korea Victory Plan WASHINGTON Dewey Short called Gen Jamm Van Fleet before the House Armed Services Committee with let his hair down in advising Congress how to win the war in Korea I told him to the the Missouri Republican reported I said we wanted him to as the whole and po The only limitation is na tional His appearance before the HOUM military tt a of tonal stopt M ranged lor Van Fleet in tlw wake
