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• Plans have been accepted for the new Catholic Lyceum Association Building, to be erected at Broadway and Federal streets, by the members of the Church of the Immaculate Conception. Work on the building will be commenced about May 1.

ST. MARY'S ALUMNI MAY HOP TOMORROW A May Hop under the auspices of St. Mary's School Alumni will be held tomorrow evening in the Catholic Lyceum, Broadway and Federal street. Gray & Coogan's Orchestra will furnish the music and the young folks anticipate a most successful affair.

BASEBALL IS POPULAR IN JAPAN, SAYS MICKEY

A's Speakers at School Exercises Here —Courier-Post Photo Two members of the Philadelphia Athletics, Mickey Cochrane, great catcher, and Ed Rommel, veteran pitcher, spoke at the annual field day exercises of Camden Catholic High School in Catholic Lyceum yesterday. Cochrane decried the loss of popularity baseball is receiving among the younger generation while Rommel told of his experiences on the diamond. Rommel appears on the left above with Cochrane next and Elmer Hertzler, head athletic coach at Catholic High on the right.

Two members of the Philadelphia Athletics, Mickey Cochrane, great catcher, and Ed Rommel, veteran pitcher, spoke at the annual field day exercises of Camden Catholic High School in Catholic Lyceum yesterday. Cochrane decried the loss of popularity baseball is receiving among the younger generation while Rommel told of his experiences on the diamond. Rommel appears on the left above with Cochrane next and Elmer Hertzler, head athletic coach at Catholic High on the right.

Sport Moving to East States A's Star Catcher at Catholic High Exercises ROMMEL ALSO SPEAKS By DON E. BASENFELDER The amazing rise of baseball as a national sport in Japan and its almost as rapidly decline in America, was pointed to yesterday by Gordon S. (Mickey) Cochrane, Mackman catcher who spoke at the Camden Catholic High School field day exercises. Cochrane blamed the lack of favor of American youth to baseball on the fact that "they would rather ride around in automobiles and rest comfortably than play the diamond sport."

Three sport captains for next year's Green and White teams were elected at the conclusion of the exercises, held in the Catholic Lyceum. Ed Cuneo, veteran centre, was picked to captain the Catholic High basketball quintet next season. He will succeed Bill Ackerman. Walter Pawella, regular catcher for the past two years, was selected to lead the 'varsity baseball tossers in 1933, taking the post now held by Tom McCurdy, an outfielder. Miss Alda Aspers was named by the letter winners of the girls' basketball sextet to lead the fair sex in action next winter. Sixty-one individual awards for athletic and scholastic activities and two team prizes were made during the exercises. Cochrane who was one of a number of big league players who barnstormed in Japan last Fall, predicted the coming of professional major league baseball to the Orient within a few years.

"In America today the general tendency of our youth is to get away from sports," Cochrane told the 900 boys and girls of the high school student body. "It's a bad practice to depend upon mind and body development from the seat of an automobile. Japan Baseball Minded "The situation in Japan is just the reverse. Everybody exercises. There are few if any automobiles except in the larger cities. So the minds of the young are not affected by that luxury. "Men and boys—and even old women play baseball in Japan. From morning to night it is the one topic of their conversation so interested are the Japs. "In a half hour's ride from Yokohama to Tokio after our arrival in Japan, we saw no less than 60 baseball games being played. "Considering the size of Japan and the need for using every available piece of ground for food production, the grounds upon which the baseball diamonds are located certainly are valuable to the Japs. "I don't know whether baseball

equipment is any cheaper in the Orient than it is here, but I saw boys of seven, eight and nine years attired in uniforms and playing with good gloves and bats. "At present Japan has its baseball competition centered in several college leagues, but it is only a matter of a few years before they will have their own major professional leagues. "In our first game in Japan we drew 65,000 spectators, many of whom waited hours in order to insure obtaining a seat. When we finished our barnstorming trip, more than 450,000 fans had seen us in action," added Cochrane. Players Never Like to Lose Although Cochrane did not directly comment upon the chances of the Mackmen to again cop the American League flag this season, he said that the A's were "in there trying every day to win every game." "We're either good or we're pitiful," Cochrane smilingly told his audience," but we hate to lose just as much as some of the fans we hear at Shibe Park after we drop a game."

Edwin A. Rommel, veteran knuckle ball pitcher of the A's, who accompanied Cochrane, also spoke. "A ball player never likes to lose," Rommel said, "and when he is beaten he feels just as bad as the closest team follower." Rommel told his listeners that "success only comes to those players who work in harmony with their coach and teammates and do not try

to carry the burden single-handed." After short talks by Elmer Hertzler and Joseph Barry, athletic coaches at Camden Catholic High, Rev. James C. Foley, athletic director of the school, and the Rt. Rev. Monsignor W. J. FitzGerald, the various athletic and scholastic awards were presented.

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350 AT CATHOLIC HI READY TO PRESENT 'COUNTESS MARITZA' Operetta to Be Given To-night, Tomorrow and Friday Nights in Auditorium ALL PRINCIPALS SENIORS Three hundred and fifty Camden Catholic High School students will appear tonight in "Countess Maritza" which will be repeated tomorrow and Friday nights in the Lyceum auditorium at the school. Margaret Biermann, of 126 Paris avenue, Audubon, will portray the title role in Emerich Kalman's gypsy operetta. "Count Tassilo," the male lead, will be played by Joseph Blake. All principals are seniors. The operetta is presented by the senior class assisted by sophomores and juniors who perform in the choruses. "Lisa," Tassilo's sister is played by Jane Wimmers and Phoebe Klause portrays "Manya," a gypsy girl in love with the hero. Anthony Lubrant is "General Prince Populesco," one of "Martiza's" many suitors while "Baron Koloman Zupan," much puzzled as to his own identity, is impersonated by Robert Southwick. Joseph Dougherty plays the role of "Nepomuk," a lawyer, and Thomas Lazarick is "Lazlo," a gypsy chief. Peter Calzonetti is "Tcheko," servant to "Maritza" while Elaine O'Brien portrays the hero's aunt and Marion Stanton plays the heroine's maid. Charles Shaw is "Zingo," an adventurer; John Duffy is "Lieutenant Carol," and John Madison is "Captain Stefan," a friend of "Tassilo." The play consists of a prologue and three acts. The scene of the prologue is a room in Chateau Endrody, Hungary. Countess Martiza's garden is the background for the first scene in the first act while the second scene takes place in the chateau three months later. Acts Two and Three are in the drawing room of the countess' chateau. The development of the story of the operetta is enriched by colorful and graceful dance numbers in which all of the students participate. The players have been under the professional direction of Daniel Hogan, of Philadelphia, and Caroline Littlefield of the Philadelphia Ballet Company.

"Lisa," Tassilo's sister is played by Jane Wimmers and Phoebe Klause portrays "Manya," a gypsy girl in love with the hero. Anthony Lubrant is "General Prince Populesco," one of "Martiza's" many suitors while "Baron Koloman Zupan," much puzzled as to his own identity, is impersonated by Robert Southwick. Joseph Dougherty plays the role of "Nepomuk," a lawyer, and Thomas Lazarick is "Lazlo," a gypsy chief. Peter Calzonetti is "Tcheko," servant to "Maritza" while Elaine O'Brien portrays the hero's aunt and Marion Stanton plays the heroine's maid. Charles Shaw is "Zingo," an adventurer; John Duffy is "Lieutenant Carol," and John Madison is "Captain Stefan," a friend of "Tassilo." The play consists of a prologue and three acts. The scene of the prologue is a room in Chateau Endrody, Hungary. Countess Martiza's garden is the background for the first scene in the first act while the second scene takes place in the chateau three months later. Acts Two and Three are in the drawing room of the countess' chateau. The development of the story of the operetta is enriched by colorful and graceful dance numbers in which all of the students participate. The players have been under the professional direction of Daniel Hogan, of Philadelphia, and Caroline Littlefield of the Philadelphia Ballet Company.

The students in the dancing groups are: Senior Girls Bernice Albinson, Dorothy Arnold, Eileen Barb, Claire Barr, Ruth Bourquin, Elizabeth Balbreski, Florence Beil, Elizabeth Bodine, Kathryn Burke, Caronline Costanzo, Elizabeth Czubik, Frances Curran, Marie Costino, Wanda Chomiczewski, Helen Clark, Mildred Di Maio, Mary Devereaux, Joseph Dmochowski, Adele Driscoll, Winifred DelDuca, Catherine Doherty, Margaret Edel, Agnes Fedak, Valeria Fiderko, Helen Fewer, Anne Frederick, Kathryn Giblin, Stella Glembacki, Mary Grimley, Margaret Gushue, Marie Gruber, Ellen Grogan, Elizabeth Glowinswi, Anna Genovese, Frances Gorman, Edith Hewitt, Dorothy Hoover, Mildred Hankins, Mary Herrmann, Anita Jimenez, Mary Jackson, Rosemary Kelly, Adelaide Kennedy, Mary Klock, Frances Kemmerle, Agnes Lafferty, Eva Lipka, Anne Leach, Mary Mulligan, Eleanor Marcotte, Catherine Moore, Helen Mazak, Mary Myers, Rita Maloney, Mary Miskey, Dorothy Master, Marie Myers, Katherine Noone, Elizabeth Ormsby, Elaine O'Brien, Helen O'Connor, Eleanor O'Connor, Helen Peyton, Patricia Rushton, Fay Ryan, Dorothy Shaw, Florence Skokowski, Angela Saponaro, Diana Saponaro, Carmen Sariego, Elizabeth Sasse, Rita Thomason, Catherine Wallace, Anna Whittaker, Rose Walter. Junior Girls Catherine Auld, Doris Aumet, Catherine Bauer, Barbara Beal, Helen Comeau, Evelyn Cox, Anna May Cunningham, Elizabeth Carr, Margaret Clark, Jeannette Ciechanowski, Mary Davis, Alice Deegan, Jane Dickinson, Marcella Davis, Ruth Edwards, Marie Forchetti, Bernadine Fynes, Joan Fleming, Doris Forebaugh, Marie Fredericks, Marian Flaherty, Rose Gifford, Carolyn Goff, Catherine Gotlieb, Agnes Hafer, Anne Homan, Rita Hopkins, Lucille Hale, Edith Johnson, Mary Kenney, Eleanor Kinkler, Catherine Lafferty, Caroline Lawmaster, Dolores Lane, Teresa McCready, Helen McHugh, Margaret McSwiggan, Catherine Manning, Dorothy Miller, Mary Murphy, Lillian Mahoney, Frances Martin, Catherine Mullen, Isabelle Munkascy, Dorthy Mazur, Helen Mullen, Helen O'Brien, Frances O'Toole, Mary Prendergast, Elizabeth Quirk, Margaret Rider, Eleanor Schick, Mary Schneider, Mary Shillen, Catherine Welsh, Marie Widmeir, Helen Wells, Mary Young.

Sophomore Girls Bernice Bradley, June Blake, Vera Curtis, Kathryn De Largy, Margaret Duggins, Jean Fanning, Rita Fanelli, Mildred Giberson, Helena Grimley, Ruth Gore, Mary Gilligan, Nancy Hartman, Kathryn Joseph, Carlene Koch, Marie Klarich, Mary Love, Mary Larkin, Dorothy Love, Nedra McHugh, Rita McMahon, Vernoica McFadden, Margaret McGrath, Mary McHugh, Margaret McNulty, Veronica McCooley, Virginia Master, Lary Myers, Ursula Mecca, Margaret Mullen, Elizabeth Muller, Edith Murphy, Margaret Noone, Nancy Ormsby, Jean Packer, Una Reardon, Frances Schullein, Rose Schneider, Marie Seese, Catherine Tiedken, Elizabeth Welsh. Senior Boys John Anderson, Edward Bosch, Edward Byerley, John Crean, John Cox, Edward Cunningham, George Devereaux, William Dickinson, Francis Dougherty, Lawrence Dondero, Frank Donegan, Joseph Driscoll, John Dougherty, John Deeney, David Deegan, William Driscoll, Eugene Fidell, Francis Fidell, Domonic Forchetti, Michael Gross, Lloyd Hayney, Francis Hoffbauer, Edward Hasemen, John Halbe, John Higgins, John Lawmaster, Edward Kilgariff, William Kries, John McGrath, John Mihaich, Rocco Marrocia, Verga Meyer, William O'Hara, James O'Neill, John Stauts, Leo Schramm, Leonard Urban, James Ward, Joseph Wyzkowski, James Whalen. Junior Boys Philip Anthony, Norwal Beeson, James Carroll, John Ciechon, Vincent Dildine, Edward Gale, George Gross, Edward Hallahan, John Houwen, Francis Jablonski, James Kelly, Thomas Kelley, Thomas Kennedy, John Mogck, Charles Morris, Frederick Rauscher, Quintin Thompson, Victor Tiedeken, Vincent Wright, Joseph Wilson.

In Operetta Cast PHOEBE KLAUSE ANTHONY LUBRANT Miss Klause portrays "Man-ya," a gypsy maid, hopelessly in love with "Count Tassilo," hero of "Countess Maritza," the operetta to be presented by Camden Catholic High School tonight, tomorrow and Friday nights. Lubrant does some sinister acting as "General Prince Populesco," unsuccessful suitor of the heroine, "Countess Maritza."

PHOEBE KLAUSE ANTHONY LUBRANT Miss Klause portrays "Man-ya," a gypsy maid, hopelessly in love with "Count Tassilo," hero of "Countess Maritza," the operetta to be presented by Camden Catholic High School tonight, tomorrow and Friday nights. Lubrant does some sinister acting as "General Prince Populesco," unsuccessful suitor of the heroine, "Countess Maritza."

Catholic High Nips Merchantville as Camden Upsets 'Colls'

2 Fouls by Jack M'Graw Give Irish, 42-41, Win as Blakermen Cop, 39 to 33 Barrymen Stage Great Uphill Fight to Turn in Thrilling Victory DIVERSIO AND QUICK STAR FOR PURPLE AND GOLDS By JAMES FOODY Camden High and Camden Catholic came through with stunning victories in a bargain-day bill at Convention Hall last night. The Purple and Gold passers, in the throes of an eleven game losing streak, put on a sterling exhibition from the opening whistle to surprise Collingswood, leading contenders for the Camden-Suburban League championship, by 39-33, in the nightcap. In the earlier tilt, Joe Barry's scrappy basketmen pieced out a thrilling 42-41 nod over Merchantville in a hair-raising tiff. Both games were loaded with tingling moments and had a crowd of 1900 on their feet throughout. While it was a heart-breaker for Merchantville to lose, the "Irish" deserve plenty of credit for they were forced to stage one of the toughest uphill fights witnessed here for some time. McGraw's Fouls Decide And it remained for young Jack "Muggsie" McGraw to come through when the chips were down. Only 54 seconds of the game remained and the "Merchants" were leading 41-40 when Jack stepped on the 15-foot mark to calmly sink a brace of penalty casts to give the Barrymen a hard earned victory and to also send the Green and White followers into wild demonstration. During the major portion of the game, the "Irish" were forced to play without the services of their star center, Bob Olesiewicz, who in the first five minutes of the game had three personal fouls inflicted upon him. He was then removed from the game by Coach Barry and Tom Kenney, who replaced him, did nobly in a substitute role. "Ossie" did get back into the game in the second quarter, but left it for good shortly after the third session opened, but his loss only made the locals fight that much harder to finally gain the victory. Not once during the first half did Catholic hold the lead, the "Merchants" going into the third period on the long end of a 26-17 count. But when they resumed action the "Irish" started percolating and drew within two points of the "Merchants" at 32-30. Caridi Puts Irish Ahead McGraw knotted the count with a field goal and Caridi followed with another two-pointer to put Catholic out in front for the first time. McGraw added a foul to make the count 35-32. Merchantville then started a scoring spree with Joe Heckers sinking a pair of double-deckers and Bob Emerson one to give Bob Elder's charges a 38-35 margin. Caridi droped in a free throw, but Heckers again found the cords for a two-pointer and Fetterman His Goals Decide JACK McGRAW Camden Catholic High forward who dropped in a pair of foul goals in the last minute of play to give the "Irish" a 42-41 win over Merchantville last night. added a foul for Merchantville's final point of the fracas. With only about two minutes to go Catholic began its winning spree when Kenney caged a field goal and Schmid duplicated to make the count read 41-40. At this point with only 54 seconds remaining, McGraw was fouled in the act of shooting and made good both tosses to clinch the battle in Catholic's favor. McGraw paced the attack for Catholic with 11 points on four field goals and three penalty casts, while Schmid was a close second with nine counters. Emerson, Howard Straub and Heckers sparkled on the offense for Merchantville, the former pacing his mates with 14 points on six field goals and two free throws. Camden Shows Hustle Camden, showing more hustle and following the ball all night, jumped into the van in the first period—12-10—and held a slight bulge throughout. Ben Marks' dribblers, however, were always within shooting distance, but couldn't make the grade. It was only the third triumph of the season for Arthur "Hutzy" Blaker's "recruits." Camden led at 14-11 at the end of the first period, then fell back in the next chapter to finish on the short end of a 9-7 count. They rallied in the two closing semesters, outscoring the suburbanites by 8-4 and 10-9. Richard Quick, a freshman, played one of the best games witnessed at the Civic Center hall this year. Dick was scrapping for the (Continued on Page Sixteen)

(Continued from Page Fifteen) "onion" from the outset and the slim youngster's courage instilled a ray of hope into the other players' hearts, making them a tough club to beat down. Elton Wells, Ray Patton, Nate Klein and Dom Di Servio were the other staunch performers. Joe Martin and Lou Walls, who left the contest via the personal foul route, rounded out the winning team's players. Di Servio Tops Scorers Di Servio, with three double-deckers and four fouls, topped the scoring barrage, while Quick arched in four fancy field goals for

eight markers. Patton, acting captain tabbed seven points, flipping in three two-timers and one foul conversion. Three long shots from the center of the court that found the target were Wells' contribution. The invaders' big threat was Walt Motson, well-built center. He made eight-out-of-a-possible-ten free shots and countered thrice from under the basket on action heaves. Walt Wilberham was runner-up as far as Collingswood's point-making was concerned, bucketing a brace of floor and foul throws.

MERCHANTVILLE Fld Fl FT P Fett'man.f 0 2 2 2 Heckers.f. 4 2 3 10 Sleeth,c.... 1 2 3 4 Straub,g... 5 1 1 11 Emerson,g 6 2 5 14 Crane,f.... 0 0 1 0 CAM. CATHOLIC Fld Fl FT P Caridi,f.. 1 1 2 3 McGraw.f 4 3 4 11 Olesi'icz.c 1 4 4 6 Puc'ski.g. 1 1 2 3 Ack'm'n,g 2 0 1 4 Kenney,c. 3 0 1 6 Franks,g. 0 0 0 0 Schmid,g. 4 1 1 9 Heigh,f... 0 0 0 0 Totals...16 9 15 41 Totals...16 10 15 42 Score by periods: Merchantville ....... 14 12 6 9—41 Cam. Catholic ....... 4 13 13 12—42 Referee—Lawson. Umpire—Juliana.

COLLINGSWOOD Fld Fl FT P Ross, f... 1 3 8 5 Metzger, f 1 2 3 4 Motson, c. 3 8 10 14 Wilb'm, g 2 2 4 6 Crane, g. 1 0 0 2 Mumma, g 1 0 0 2 Ehret, f.. 0 0 0 0 Ritter, f.. 0 0 1 0 Beck, g.. 0 0 0 0 CAMDEN Fld Fl FT P Quick, f. 4 0 0 8 Patton, f 3 1 1 7 Martin, c 0 2 2 2 Wells, g. 3 0 0 6 Klein, g. 2 2 3 6 Walls, c. 0 0 1 0 SiS'vio, c 3 4 5 10 Totals.. 9 15 26 33 Totals.. 15 9 12 39 Score by periods: Collingswood ....... 11 9 4 9—33 Camden ............. 14 7 8 10—39 Referee—Juliana. Umpire—Lawson.

His Goals Decide

JACK McGRAW Camden Catholic High forward who dropped in a pair of foul goals in the last minute of play to give the “Irish” a 42-41 win over Merchantville last night.

‘COUNTESS MARITZA’ PLEASES AUDIENCE Catholic High School Operetta Will Be Repeated Tonight Those who witnessed the performance of the operetta, “Countess Maritza,” by students of Camden Catholic High School Wednesday night, were still talking about its excellence yesterday. It was repeated last night and will be presented tonight. To say the performance was entertaining would be putting it mildly. The acting ability displayed by Margaret Biermann and Joseph Blake in the leading roles was more than enough to assure the audience, which packed the Lyceum auditorium, of a pleasant evening. Blake, at first appeared a trifle nervous, but before the end of the first act, he had overcome it, and from that point on, displayed ability that was nothing short of perfect. Miss Biermann’s enactment of the title role was unapproachable throughout. Charles Shaw and Anthony Lubrant delighted the audience from curtain with their never-ending bits of comedy and eccentricities. Phoebe Klause, whose singing and acting were equally well done, portrayed the role of the gypsy girl to perfection. Jane Wimmers, as a young countess, captivated the audience with her pleasing personality, as did Robert Southwick, characterized as a baron. John Duffy, Thomas Lazarick, John Madison, Peter Calzonetti and Elaine O’Brien in the supporting cast also deserve much credit for the fine manner in which they portrayed their roles. The entire cast and chorus was attired in elaborate costumes which made an impressive sight. The scenery and lighting effects were of the finest and formed a perfect background for the costumes. Specialty dance numbers and group dancing were other features. The operetta was under the personal direction of Daniel Hogan, of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Caroline Littlefield, of the Philadelphia Ballet Company. C. A. K. RED CROSS ASKS HALT IN BOMBING CIVILIANS Geneva, Feb. 24. — The international committee of the Red Cross today issued an urgent appeal to both Insurgents and Loyalists in Spain to refrain from bombing civilians and all non-military objectives. The committee urged immediate consideration of a reciprocal agreement to this end. In School Operetta MARGARET BIERMAN JANE WIMMERS Miss Bierman plays the title role in the operetta, “Countess Maritza,” presented by students of Camden Catholic High School while Miss Wimmers is “Lisa,” sister of the hero, “Tassilo.” The operetta was presented in the Lyceum auditorium at the school, Broadway and Federal street, Wednesday night and last night and will be again shown tonight.

Charles Shaw and Anthony Lubrant delighted the audience from curtain with their never-ending bits of comedy and eccentricities. Phoebe Klause, whose singing and acting were equally well done, portrayed the role of the gypsy girl to perfection. Jane Wimmers, as a young countess, captivated the audience with her pleasing personality, as did Robert Southwick, characterized as a baron. John Duffy, Thomas Lazarick, John Madison, Peter Calzonetti and Elaine O’Brien in the supporting cast also deserve much credit for the fine manner in which they portrayed their roles. The entire cast and chorus was attired in elaborate costumes which made an impressive sight. The scenery and lighting effects were of the finest and formed a perfect background for the costumes. Specialty dance numbers and group dancing were other features. The operetta was under the personal direction of Daniel Hogan, of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Caroline Littlefield, of the Philadelphia Ballet Company. C. A. K.

In School Operetta

MARGARET BIERMAN JANE WIMMERS

Miss Bierman plays the title role in the operetta, “Countess Maritza,” presented by students of Camden Catholic High School while Miss Wimmers is “Lisa,” sister of the hero, “Tassilo.” The operetta was presented in the Lyceum auditorium at the school, Broadway and Federal street, Wednesday night and last night and will be again shown tonight.

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Camden Man Found Shot to Death in Bellmawr Gas Hose Leads Into His Car; Held Weapon By J. HERBERT PHILLIPS Leonard Buffetta, 32, of 604 Point street, a checker for a Camden supermarket, was found dead at dawn today in an isolated field near Timber creek in Bellmawr. Police Chief James Garrity, of Bellmawr, listed the death as suicide. According to Patrolman George Dott's roport to Garrity, the motor of the car was still running when he found it at 6.30 a. m. The interior of the car was filled with monoxide gas, still pouring through a strip of garden hose, attached to the exhaust pipe. Weighted Accelerator “To make certain he'd do a good job of it,” said Garrity, “Buffetta had weighted down the foot accelerator with a lug wrench. There was still half a tank full of gasoline in the 17-gallon tank, when Dott discovered the car.” Dott said on his rounds at 5 a. m., the car had not been in the field, some 200 yards up the narrow lane from Creek road. Coroner Robert J. Blake, who examined the body, said he would order a post-mortem to determine whether Buffetta died from suffocation or bled to death from the self-inflicted wound. Revolver in Hand And in the right temple of the body, slouched on the rear seat of the auto, was a bullet from a .32 calibre revolver in the right hand of the dead man. Under his left hand was the hose. Within half an hour, Garrity learned that Buffetta at 6.30 p. m., Friday was embroiled in an argument with Bernadette Eshelman, 17, of 181 Lawnside avenue, Collingswood. Police reported the girl accused Buffetta of brutally beating her, before she fled from his car, abandoning her unopened pay envelope issued that afternoon from another supermarket, where she, too, is employed as a checker. Snapshot in Purse The girl's name was drawn into the case when police found her handbag, containing a few dollars in cash, the unopened pay envelope, bearing the name Eshelman, and a figure indicating the envelope contained $30.80; and a snapshot of two girls, one of them, possibly Bernadette, Garrity said. The body of Buffetta lay in the morgue of the West Jersey hospital. His bloodstained car was parked in the hospital yard, held for examination by Camden county detectives. Garrity, after interviewing the 17-year-old Eshelman girl at her home, said she was in a highly nervous state. “The girl told me Buffetta beat her up.” Garrity reported. “Her eye was blackened and she had other bruises. “She told me she left Buffetta's car in Westmont, after he had picked her up at work, and Buffetta drove on, with her handbag. Calls Her Brother “The girl called her home and hysterically told her brother what had happened. “The brother drove to Westmont, put his sister in his car, and took her home.” Here the stories of Collingswood police and Garrity differ slightly. Patrolman Kenneth Crane, on the desk of the Collingswood police station, told the Courier-Post he had heard the girl's “family tried to locate the man” Friday night, after they heard Berndatte's story. Had ‘Family Conference’ Garrity said the girl insisted today a “family conference” had decided that Buffetta would be questioned by the Eshelmans “tomorrow” . . . that is, today. Edwin Eshelman, the father, works nights, Garrity said, and is not due home until 2 o'clock on Saturday mornings. Bellmawr's police chief said he would turn over further investigation of Buffetta's background to county authorities. Garrity, however, added that the Eshelman girl admitted she had been meeting the older man for “some time” after he finished work in Camden, and she was through for the day at the (Continued on Page 2—Column 4) Body (Continued from Page One) counter of the Collingswood supermarket, where she works. First Date, Girl Says Bernadette a few hours after police talked with her, consented to a telephone interview with the Courier-Post. “I first met Leonard when I was a sophomore at high school in Camden, two years ago. His sister, Ann, and I were friends,” she said. “Chief Garrity says I had been meeting this older man for a long time . . . or met him several times. I had no chance or desire to meet him. I had no romantic interest in him. I just regarded him as a friend, because he acted nice to me. “He came around to the store where I work a lot of times but yesterday (Friday) was the first time I'd ever been out with him. ‘Going to Take Me Home’ “If this story is going to get into the papers, it should be correct. I'd never had a date with him before. I'd never been out with him alone before,” insisted the girl, who graduated from Camden Catholic High school last June. “Where were you going last night?” Bernadette was asked. “Where was he going to take you last night?” “He was just going to take me home,” the girl responded. War II Veteran According to a sister of Buffetta, Louise, 24, Leonard, who would have been 33 years old in September, was a veteran of War II, having served in the Army from 1941 to 1946. Unmarried, Buffetta had not been known by his family to be romantically involved with anyone, his sister said. Louise told the Courier-Post she was mystified by the police discovery of a gun in the car. Although Leonard had been in combat areas of the Pacific theatre during War II, for more than three years, he had never owned a gun, his sister said, nor were any weapons ever kept at the Buffetta home. Got Calls From Girl Buffetta lived with his parents, at the Point street address, his sister, Louise and another sister, Ann, 17. Ann, about the same age as the Eshelman girl, was a friend of the Collingswood girl, Louise declared. Others in the Buffetta family are two married brothers, Theodore, 36, and Enrico, a year or so older than Leonard. A younger brother, Columbus, is single but lives away from home. The married sisters of the dead man are Mary and Gloria, whose husbands' names were not revealed by Louise. “He was very, very happy at home,” sobbed the sister. “I can't understand why he would do a thing like this. He had no romances . . . though he did get telephone calls now and again from a girl.” Leonard's father, Louis, works in an auto plant in Chester, Pa., where he learned of the tragedy and started for home. The mother, Florence, was reported near collapse. Mrs. Edwin Eshelman, mother of the girl, told the Courier-Post her daughter was a graduate of the Camden Catholic High school. Bernadette, her mother said, is also one of a large family; with three sisters and three brothers.