High School Seniors
Steal $13,000 From Man
Who Hid Cash in Tree
LEBANON, Pa., (#)—Two high
school seniors, one of them sched
uled to be valedictorian of the
graduating class, were held today
on charges of stealing more than
$13,000 from a Lebanon nursery
man who hid his cash in a tree.
Dist. Atty. L. E. Meyer identi
fied the youths as Cleland Hos
tetter and Richard Hoke, both 17.
Meyer said Hostetter had been
named to deliver the valedictory
address Wednesday for his grad
uating class.
Meyer said $5,200 of the money
was recovered with approximately
$8,000 still unaccounted for.
John Lenker, county detective,
and Pfc. William J. Anselmi, of
the state police, said the money
was taken from a tin can in a tree
on the nursery lot belongiig to
Warren W. Wentz, Lebanon.
The youths, Meyer said, report
ed they learned of the hidden
money from some younger boys
who came across it while hunting
with air rifles.
MEMORIAL WREATHS
AT CAVOTA'S STORE
Child Commits Suicide
While Father Is in Jail
On Burglary Charge
BANNING, Calif., (#)—Nine
year-old Roger Deason Jr., whose
father is in jail awaiting sentence
on a burglary charge, committed
suicide Monday night, police said.
Police reported the child pulled
the trigger of a-.12-gauge shotgun
with a string. His mother, who
had been away, found the body in
a bedroom.
Officers said they found a large
ly incoherent note in which the
boy indicated dependence over his
father’s plight. Deason Sr., 27, a
plasterer, was arrested in April.
He will be sentenced May 27.
Deputies said they would try to
arrange for Deason to leave jail to
attend his son’s services.
69 Weekend Deaths
TORONTO, UP)—Canada today
counted 69 violent deaths from its
first long weekend of the summer
season.
A Canadian press survey for the
period between 6 p.m. last Friday
and midnight Monday showed
drownings and traffic accidents
each claimed 28 lives and 3 per
sons died in fires.
Bodies of U.S. Students
Found on British Mountain
EDINBURGH, Scotland UP)—The
bodies of two American students
missing since Sunday were found
yesterday in a snow-filled gully
on Ben Nevis, Britain’s highest
mountain.
The students were Frederick'C.
Hadeen, 21, of Pasadena, Calif.,
and Bert Woodburn, 21, San Ga
briel, Calif. Both were students
at Edinburgh University.
Members of a Royal Air Force
mountain rescue squad who found
them said both appeared to have
died quickly from severe injuries
suffered in falls.
They set out Sunday morning to
do some climbing on the 4,406-foot
peak.
TREASURY CHECK BOUNCES
LOS ANGELES, UP)—It was
something of a blow when the
U.S. Government’s treasury check
bounced.
Edward Saver said he got the
$37.50 check as a refund of a de
posit he had made with his bid for
some war surplus goods. He just
sent the check to his bank to be
added to his account.
But the bank promptly sent it
back Monday. Seems somebody in
the Treasury Department had ne
glected to sign it.
Evangelist Billy Graham
Is Duke’s Platform Guest
EINBURGH, Scotland, LP)—Am
erican Evangelist Billy Graham
listened yesterday while the Duke
of Hamilton pleaded with laymen
to give clergymen more assistance
in church leadership. Graham was
on the platform at the General
Assembly of the Church of Scot
land as a guest of the duke.
The duke, who is lord high
commissioner of the general as
sembly, said that laymen don’t
speak up often enough.
Monster Forest Fires
Rage in Nova Scotia
HALIFAX, N.S. UP)—Forest fires
crackled today at the edge of the
main residential district of the
Atlantic coast community of Liv
erpool. Another major blaze raged
in the Tantallon area, 15 miles
west of Halifax.
Firefighters said damp air that
moved in Monday had helped to
bring all other blazes in Nova
Scotia under control.
In northern Ontario dying wind
and rising humidity helped slow
monster fires which have black
ened more than 100,000 acres of
timber. Weary foresters and vol
unteers counted heavily on scat
tered showers forecast for today.
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Manufacturer Says
He Spent $6,700
For Cash Payoffs
WASHINGTON 13—A New York
garment manufacturer testified
yesterday he spent $6,699.94 in
cash payoffs and gifts to govern
ment employes involved in three
contracts he carried out for the
armed forces in 1952 and 1953.
Leon M. Levy, a partner in
Bonita Originals, Inc., gave the
testimony to the Senate Investi
gations subcommittee on the basis
of notes he kept in his native Ar
abic language. He came to this ■
country from Lebanon in boyhood.
Levy said most of the money
went to:’
Maj. Eric C. Farnell, former
chief of the clothing branch of the
Army Quartermaster Corps in
New York;
David Pollack, former head of
the cost price analysis section of
the Armed Services Textile and
Apparel Procurement Agency (the
ASTAPA) in New York (Pollack
now holds the same post in the
quartermaster depot in Philadel
phia);
Mrs. Mella Hort, former AST
APA contract Administrator in
New York;
Joseph G. Porreca, former chief
of inspectors for ASTAPA and
now a New York feather dealer.
In addition, Levy said he auth
orized payment of cash and a $285
doctor bill for Capt. Raymond
Wool, who had charge of one
Army contract.
Levy told the committee he
knew it was wrong to make these
payoffs but turned over the money
to a business agent for the firm,
Marvin Rubin, in the belief he
would be ruined financially unless
the government people were “tak
en care of.”
Rubin previously has acknowl
edged getting a home freezer for
Porreca and a coat for Mrs. Hort
but has denied any improper pay
offs.
TUESDAY BASEBALL
National League
Philadelphia 6, New York 2
Pittsburgh 15, Brooklyn 1
American League
Washington 3, New York 2
Baltimore 6, Boston 1
Chicago 4, Cleveland 1
Detroit 9, Kansas City 6 *”
Pacific Coast League
Hollywood 3, Seattle 1
San Francisco 8, Portland 2
Oakland 7-7, Sacramento 3-2
San Diego 6, Los Angeles 1
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