reports will be made on the campaign to date, and work will start on the cleanup drive designed to put Greater Green Bay over the $100,000 hump. “Between now and Monday morning, I am asking all captains to contact every one of their workers and get a final report on what they have done,” Murphy said today. “In the meantime, we are screening all cards upon which no results have been reported, and we’ll hand these out at Monday morning’s meeting for recalls. From the work we have done so far in this cleanup phase of the drive, I am confident that a lot of prospective stock buyers have been overlooked. And I am confident, too, that given a little time we can put this drive over the $100,000 mark.”…Meanwhile, the out-of-town phase of the campaign got off to a lively start at Appleton Wednesday night where an organization was set up to handle the campaign in that area. Included were representatives from Appleton, Neenah, Menasha, Kaukauna, Kimberly, New London, Little Chute, Black Creek, Hortonville, Freedom, Medina and Dale. It was a very enthusiastic gathering. Dan Steinberg assumed the general chairmanship and Harold Sherry will be his vice-chairman. The two will now appoint chairmen in each of the cities and villages and they in turn will line up their workers. Everything will be set for a kickoff dinner Monday night, May 15…Two Green Bay organizations purchased shares of stock today. The Sullivan-Wallen post, American Legion, bought 12 shares and the Traffic club purchased four. Via mail, the Packers received an order for one share of stock from Hudson J. Perow, former Green Bay West fullback. Perow now is a sophomore guard on the University of Arizona eleven…PRO HASH: Packer Head Coach Gene Ronzani leaved Friday for a player trip through the south and southwest. He’ll stop in Milwaukee to address newboys.

DARLING WAS SURE HE HIT GIRL, TRAFFIC OFFICER TELLS JURORS

APR 27 (Green Bay) - Bernard (Boob) Darling told District Attorney Robert J. Parins: “Bob, there’s no question my station wagon struck that girl,” a few hours after Shirley Mae Trout’s body had been found on Mission road in Allouez this morning of Nov. 1, according to testimony at Darling’s trial for negligent homicide in circuit court this morning. The witness was Jules Coppens, country traffic officer, who investigated the accident. He told of finding Darling’s damaged station wagon in his driveway, of seeing what appeared to be bloodspots on the side, and of taking samples of headlight glass, and hair from the hood, also samples of paint. Just as examination of the car was concluded, Coppens said Attorney William Morris came to the door of the home, followed by Darling, and stated that they were just on their way to the District Attorney’s office. It was there that Darling made the statement quoted, Coppens said…STREET UNDER REPAIR: He quoted Darling as stating further that he had had no liquor before the accident, since he had been officiating at football games. Darling told him, he said, that he turned down Mission road to reach his home on Greene street because part of Greene street was under repair. Coppens quoted Darling as saying he “struck someone or something,” turned around and came back past the scene but saw nothing, went home and took “three stiff drinks” because of his nervousness, and then went back to the Union hotel, De Pere, to enlist his friends in the search. He said he thought he had hit a mailbox, Coppens stated. The officer concluded his direct testimony at the noon recess, and was to be cross-examined this afternoon. The only other witness was Chief Clarence Grognet, of the county police, who identified photographs of the scene and car. The first hour was occupied in a view of the scene by the jury, making the trip in a chartered bus…TESTIMONY UNDERWAY: Taking of testimony started Wednesday afternoon. The principal witness was Dr. A.J. Dupont, coroner of Brown county. Dr. Dupont testified that Shirley Mae Trout had died of shock incident to a basal skull fracture, internal injuries and a fractured leg, aggravated by exposure to cold. He placed the time of death at 5 a.m., about five hours after the accident, and about two hours before the body was found. He based this opinion on three factors, he said: the only partial rigidity of the body, the fact that there was only slight lividity, or settling of the blood to the lowest point in the body, and the brightness of the eyeballs. Rigidity, commonly called rigor mortis, usually sets in from two to four hours after death, he said, and would have been hastened by exposure to the cold. Shirley’s body was only partly rigid. Lividity, Dupont stated, also becomes marked from two to four hours after death, and the eyeballs start becoming dull after about the same length of time…TEMPERATURE HAS BEARING: On cross examination, he declared there is little difference in individuals in these respects, although temperature has an important bearing. A post-mortem would have been of little aid in determining the time of death, he said, unless it were known what time the girl ate last, so the extent to which digestion had progressed could be checked. His diagnosis of a basal skull fracture, he said, was based on bleeding from the mouth, nose and right ear. Bleeding from all three of these areas could be caused by almost nothing else, he said. Jules Coppens, county traffic officer, testified to his investigation at the scene of the accident. Neighbors identified the girl throughout snapshots in an envelope near the body, he said…FOUND GLASS FRAGMENTS: Fragments of head light glass were found 65 feet west of the body, which lay in a shallow ditch at the end of what resembled a drag mark, he stated. Coroner Dupont previously had testified that the body bore a rubbing or scraping injury. Coppens’ testimony was interrupted temporarily to hear that of Darwin Hintz, surveyor of Foth and Porath, who identified a map of the accident area which had been prepared from his field data.

$86,300 PACKER STOCK TOTAL; GAIN OF $4,000

APR 28 (Green Bay) - The total amount subscribed in the Packer stock drive in the Greater Green Bay area continues to climb closer and closer to the goal of $100,000. This morning it stood at $86,300, a gain of over $4,000 since Thursday. President Emil R. Fischer of the Packer corporation issued an optimistic statement about the drive today. “Right now, we have a total of $85,000, of which $74,000 is in cash. Gilt-edged pledges make up the rest. There isn’t the slightest doubt that we will reach or go over our $100,000 goal in the Green Bay phase of the drive. Then we will move into the state. Numerous cities already have reported that they will beat generous, self-established quotas. Communities in the Fox river valley, for example, have assured us of solid support. Even at this moment, we are in the best financial position in Packer history. So, as I have said before, let there be no fears or the slightest doubt. The revival program is the real thing. We’re definitely on our way back.”…An intensive weekend of activity is promised by Chairman Max Murphy prior to another meeting of team captains for breakfast Monday morning. Murphy has asked all captains to get a final report from workers by Monday morning. “Then we’ll know exactly where we stand and what we have to do to finish this drive up,” he said. He made it clear that the drive will continue until it goes over the $100,000 mark…Various groups continued to purchase stock today. The latest request for a share came from the International Brotherhood Sulphite and Paper Mills Workers, Local 65. Earlier in the week, the West Side Businessmen’s league bought two shares after each of the 10 teams voted to deduct $5 from their prize money, making a total of $50. Also buying stock were the Green Bay Traffic club and the Sullivan-Wallen post, American Legion, which purchased 12 shares…Packer Head Coach Gene Ronzani cleared his desk today before leaving on a player tour of the south and southwest. The new coach plans to leave Saturday morning for Milwaukee where he’ll address hundreds of Sentinel newsboys at their annual banquet at the Plankington hotel Saturday night. Sunday, he’ll move into Chicago and then into Texas where a large number of rookie prospects and veterans are living. One of his important objectives will be Ray Mallouf, the veteran Chicago Cardinal and New York Giant quarterback. Mallouf, drafted by the Packers last January, may anchor the club’s quarterback staff. Another quarterback in that vicinity is Tobin Rote, the Rice star. Rote is in track and will be unable to sign until after the spring season. Other quarterbacks are Stan Heath, now a deputy policeman in Reno, Nev.; Jug Girard, now playing baseball with Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; and Jack Jacobs, working in Muskogee, Okla. Jacobs played mostly on defense last fall.

CRIME EXPERT TO TESTIFY IN DARLING TRIAL

APR 28 (Green Bay) - Jack Goin, technician of the state crime laboratory in Madison, was expected to be the principal witness this afternoon in the trial of Bernard (Boob) Darling. Darling is being tried in circuit court on two counts of negligent homicide, arising from the death of Shirley Mae Trout, 15, Allouez, on E. Mission road last Halloween night. District Attorney Robert Parings said the state might complete its case late today. At this morning’s session, Undersheriff Rueben Lasee told of taking paint and hair from Darling’s car, glass left in the broken left headlight, other glass picked up at the scene, and smudged patches from Shirley Mae’s coat to the state crime laboratory for analysis. He turned the articles over to Goin, he said…NO STENOGRAPHER AT CONFERENCE: Lasee, who was in the district attorney’s office with County Traffic Officer Jules Coppens when Darling was questioned shortly before noon after the accident, was not asked to corroborate Coppens’ statement that Darling had told District Attorney Robert J. Parins: “Bob, there’s no doubt it was my station wagon that hit that girl.” On cross examination Thursday afternoon, Coppens had been asked why he had not given this quotation earlier at the preliminary hearing. There has been no stenographic record of the conference, it was brought out. Coppens and Charles Trout, father of the victim, were recalled to the stand briefly for further identification of the exhibits. The other witness this morning was Mrs. Marian Thyes, 323 Mission road. She testified she had awakened shortly after midnight Halloween night, had noticed by the kitchen clock that it was 12:10, and had sat in a rocking chair in her darkened living room…CAR WITHOUT LIGHTS: After about two minutes, she said a car without lights came down Mission road at high speed, and as it passed her home, she heard a thud. She looked out an east window, she said, but by that time the car had disappeared down the road. As it passed, she said, she could tell it was either a station wagon or a panel truck. About 15 minutes later, she estimated, a “shiny car”, with lights, came down the same road, turned around in an adjoining driveway, and went back up to Webster avenue. On cross examination, she admitted signing a statement about two weeks ago in which she described the first vehicle as “some sort of a truck”, without mentioning a station wagon. She claimed this this omission was an oversight…COPPENS CROSS EXAMINED: All of Thursday afternoon was taken up with the cross examination of Jules Coppens, county traffic officer who investigated the accident, and who was present when Darling was questioned in the district attorney’s office shortly before noon the next day. Principal points were what happened to a Nash hub cap picked up at the scene – Darling’s station wagon was a Ford – and whether Coppens took pictures. The Nash hub cap, it was brought out, was found by a boy in a field just opposite the scene of the crash, and was turned over to Coppens, who said he turned it into the county traffic department. It was missing at the time of the preliminary examination and has not been found since. Coppens said that he had not taken any pictures of the scene, although he had a camera in the car, but waited for Chief Clarence S. Grognet to take them. Cletus Chadek, defense counsel, read statements from his testimony at the preliminary hearing and coroner’s inquest, indicating that he had taken pictures. The other main topic of questioning was whether Darling had said, at the district attorney’s office, “I hit something” or “I hit someone or something”. Coppens said he believed Darling had said “someone or something”. At the preliminary, Chadek brought out the officer had quoted Darling as saying, “I hit something”….UNCOVER SOME DISCREPANCIES: There also was some discrepancies in Coppens’ account of his own movements, as given in his direct examination, and as given at the preliminary hearing last November. Some of these had to do with alleged bloodstains which Coppens said he had noticed on the left side of the car. Chadek demanded why he had not scraped off the stains, for submission to the state crime laboratory. “If I had, he’d have had to get a new paint job,” Coppens replied. “But you did scrape some paint off the car,” Chadek reminded him, alluding to a statement on direct examination. The audience, which had been small the first two days of the trial, was noticeably larger Thursday afternoon. When laughter greeted one question by Chadek, Judge E.M. Duquaine threatened to clear the courtroom if there was any further demonstration.

PACKER STOCK WORKERS REPORT ON MONDAY

APR 29 (Green Bay) - Packer stock drive officials today were hopeful that the Greater Green Bay campaign goal of $100,000 would be reached, or at least approached, when selling team captains meet at a report breakfast in the Beaumont hotel Monday morning. Today’s total, which didn’t include checks expected in the late mail, rose $270 to $86,570, leaving $13,430 to attain the figure Chairman Max Murphy has set for Green Bay and the area. Murphy said today that he feels Monday morning’s meeting to be productive because a number of salesmen who haven’t reported thus far are expected to turn in their cards…Elsewhere, on the Packer front, Head Coach Gene Ronzani left this noon for Texas and a tour of the southwest. Ronzani’s first stop, however, will be at Milwaukee where he’ll address hundreds of Sentinel newsboys at their annual banquet at the Plankington hotel tonight. Sunday, he’ll move to Chicago and then to Texas where a large number of rookie prospects and veterans are living. One of his prime objectives will be Ray Mallouf, the veteran Chicago Cardinal and New York Giant quarterback. Mallouf, drafted by the Packers last January, may anchor the club’s quarterback staff. Another quarterback in that vicinity is Tobin Rote, the Rice star. Rote is in track and will be unable to sign until after the spring season.

HEADLIGHT GLASS, FRAGMENT OF PAINT FIGURE IN DARLING TRIAL

APR 29 (Green Bay) - A tiny strand of wood, an almost invisible flake of paint, and eight small pieces of broken glass have been used in the prosecution’s attempt to bind the automobile of Bernard (Boob) Darling to the death of Shirley Mae Trout last Halloween night. Lauren J. “Jack”” Goin, microanalyst of the state crime laboratory, testified in circuit court Friday afternoon that the chance of error was less than one in a figure represented by 1, followed by 189 zeros. “The court will not permit such a figure to referred to a possibility,” Judge E.M. Duquaine ruled…UNFOLD LABORATORY METHODS: Cletus Chadek, chief defense counsel for the former Packer who faces two counts of negligent homicide in the Allouez girl’s death, asked on cross examination whether the exhibits could have been tampered with, or become mixed. Goin replied that he had no knowledge of their handling before he received them, but in his belief no error could have occurred after that. In dramatic fashion, Goin unfolded the methods of a modern crime laboratory. One of the techniques used, he said, was devised by himself, and employed for the first time in this case. First, he described the exhibit which had been referred to previously as a hair, taken from the hood of Darling’s automobile, according to County Traffic Officer Jules Coppens. Microscopic examination, Goin testified, identified the “hair” as a tiny strand of blue wool, which matched one of the six shades of wool in the coat Shirley Mae was wearing at the time of her death. It could have come from the coat, he said. He agreed, on cross examination, that it also could have come from another wool garment of identical fabric…PAINT IS IDENTICAL: Then he described how the coat was gone over with a special vacuum cleaner which traps all debris on a filter paper. In this debris, he said, were a tiny crumb of glass, and a tiny flake of paint. The paint, he testified, was “identical in all respects” to the paint scraped from Darling’s car and submitted as a sample. Both were a two-layer paint, he said, with an outer surface of dark green and an undersurface, or priming coat, of rust read, much coarser in texture than the outer coat. It was conceivable, he states, that the two samples might have come from different objects painted the same. Then he produced a small plastic case, in which were eight pieces of glass, fitted together in four pairs. One piece of each pair, he testified, was from glass described to him as picked up at the scene of Shirley’s death. The other piece of each pair was from a sample said to have been taken from the broken headlight on Darling’s car. The broken edges of three of the pairs fitted together like the pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. But the broken edges of the other pair were straight, making a match impossible to determine with certainty. That’s where the new method came in. Metal casts were made from the two broken edges, photographed and the photographs enlarged to show the tiny irregularities and lines of cleavage, indistinguishable to the eye…ENLARGEMENTS ARE SUPERIMPOSE: Then the two enlargements, printed on transparent film, were superimposed over each other. The irregularities, Goin testified, coincided at 189 points, proving beyond possibility of dispute that the two pieces had come from the same source. (Goin told a Press-Gazette reporter during recess that his method in this case is to be the basis of an article in a technical magazine on scientific crime detection. It never before has been applied in this way, he said.) The glass samples, he said, also were submitted to a “density gradient” test. In this test, the fragments are dropped into a tube filled with liquids of varying density. If the fragments all come to rest in the same spot, all are of the same density, and, in all probability, from the same source. Even different sealed beam headlight units from the same batch of glass would vary in density, he told Chadek. In this case, all the sample fragments, including those from the road, those from the headlight, and the crumb from Shirley’s coat, had the same density, he stated. The only exception was one piece of glass, apparently a fragment of a pocket mirror, which sank to the bottom. Chadek’s cross examination dealt with the possibility of one of the fragments of the paint sample getting into the coat before it was gone over with the vacuum cleaner. Goin said that possibility was remote after the exhibits had reached the laboratory…EIGHT MORE WITNESSES: Then Chadek asked whether two adjoining pieces of glass from another headlight, introduced into the two samples, would have matched in the way Goin described. The witness said the edge matching would be the same, although he had previously stated that different headlight units varied in density. Goin occupied the stand for the entire afternoon session. At the night recess, District Attorney Robert J. Parins stated that he had eight more witnesses. The first one called was Edward Forkin, who had been Darling’s companion on the day before the tragedy. It was discovered that Forkin had left the courtroom, and, since it was 4:55, recess was taken until this morning. It was expected that today’s state witnesses would testify to Darling’s movements before and after the accident. Plans were to recess this noon for the weekend, and resume Monday afternoon, since the courtroom will be in use Monday morning for the inauguration of Raymond Rahr as judge of the new civil court.

CAPTAINS PLEDGE ‘MISSING $100,000’ IN PACKER DRIVE; FIGURE NEAR $90,000

MAY 1 (Green Bay) – Captains of the teams working on the Packer stock drive in Greater Green Bay met for breakfast at the Beaumont hotel this morning and pledged to Chairman Max Murphy that they would put the campaign over the $100,000 mark and stage a victory banquet by next week. The figure in the Packer ticket office stood at $88,250 this morning. Murphy said that with what he knew was still on the way in that the drive had actually raised about $90,000. “Now how are we going to get that last $10,000?” he asked, putting it up to the captains for suggestions. Someone did a fast little pencil work and came up with the fact that if each of the 400 drive workers could sell one more share of stock that would be the missing $10,000. And from that developed the spontaneous suggestion from the captains themselves that a victory banquet be staged next week and that the admission price for each worker would be one more share of stock sold. The Packer management came forward and promised a headline attraction for the banquet, and the deal was on. “Let’s not shake our heads about this,” declared Ralph Drum. “We know we can put this over if we just get about it. Let’s finish this up by next week.” Date of the victory banquet will be announced as soon as arrangements can be made, Murphy said. Jug Earp told the Green Bay workers that organized drives are now being set up in Sturgeon Bay, Two Rivers, Manitowoc and the Appleton-Neenah-Menasha areas. The first three are all at work but have not reported in yet, he said, while Appleton will kick off May 15. But he said that final success of the Green Bay drive is all that is needed to capitalize on this enthusiasm in the rest of the state. “They are all waiting to hear that we’ve gone over the top,” he declared. The drive was thrown wide open for this last week’s effort. That is any worker is free to contact anyone in this area. Up to now workers have been concentrating on cards assigned to them at the opening of the drive. In addition, however, there will be a number of callbacks on cards that have not produced thus far.

DARLING TRIAL RESUMING TODAY

MAY 1 (Green Bay) - Trial of Bernard (Boob) Darling, on two counts of negligent homicide resulting from the death of Shirley Mae Trout, 15, near her Allouez home last Halloween night, was to be resumed in the circuit court at 2 o'clock this afternoon. It was recessed at noon Saturday. Most of the Saturday morning testimony was that of Edward W. Forkin, who had spent the day before the accident duck hunting with Darling. All Darling had had to drink that day, Forkin said, was a few cans of beer; probably three. They took the beer, he said, because the hunting shack's water supply had been shut off to prevent freezing...TOOK HIM HOME: Forkin said Darling took him to his home in De Pere about 4:30 in the afternoon. On the way, he said, Darling mentioned a dinner engagement with his wife, and also said he was to pick up his children at a Halloween party in St. Matthew's school. When Forkin stopped at the Union hotel bar on his way to a Rotary meeting, Darling was there, singing with some St. Norbert college students, he said. When he returned from the Rotary meeting, around 8 o'clock, Darling was on the walk in front of the hotel. Forkin testified he had called Mrs. Darling and stated that her husband was on the way home, and became concerned lest Darling's tardy arrival might result in a domestic quarrel. The Darlings had been reconciled only a short time before after a separation, he said, and he did not wish to see a new dispute. He stated he did not know what the separation had been about...ARRANGED TRIP HOME: After remonstrating with Darling about his failure to go home, he arranged with Roy Maternoski, of the Union hotel staff, to have a St. Norbert student accompany Darling home. Maternoski was to follow in his car and bring the student back. Forkin denied that he took this action because he didn't want Darling to drive. He just wanted to be sure Darling got home without further delay, he said. Asked whether he had an opinion whether Darling was under the influence of liquor at the time, he said he had no opinion. Charging that Forkin had become a "hostile witness", District Attorney Robert J. Parins read several excerpts from his testimony at the coroner's inquest and the preliminary hearing. Forkin agreed that his memory at that time was probably better than now, and conceded that the answers then given probably were correct...BARTENDER IS WITNESS: Edward J. Flynn, barman at the Union hotel, testified that he had seen Darling in the bar on Halloween, and estimated that Darling had had about five drinks of whiskey and water while Flynn was present. He also testified that Darling came back, in what he described as a "bedraggled" condition, about 12:30 a.m., and said he "had hit someone or something." Flynn said he assumed Darling meant he had struck someone with his fist, and called Ivan Mataya, the other bartender. The noon recess interrupted Flynn's testimony, and he was expected to resume the stand this afternoon. Judge E.M. Duquaine permitted the eight men and four women on the jury to go to their homes for the weekend, but cautioned them not to discuss the case, and not to read or listen to any discussion of it.