Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-11

men who were found to be aliens. to-
gether with their addresses and places
OF birth, he replied:
James kaveri, birthplace, Hungary,
boy.
Thomas veras. birthplace, Hungary,
residence Keasbey.
Michael Eoldy, birthplace Hungary.
residence G75 Catherine street. Perth
Amboy. lIu was this man, MFR. Rose
said; VINO had been fined for smoking
inside IN gates.)
James Mario SHIFTS. birthplace Ant
werp residence 2t Smith street, Perth
fmboy.
GuSti Letter, birthplace, Hungary.
address, IL. II. ID. 4, Matawan.
Joseph Anon, birthplace Hungary,
residence Washington avenue, Linden.
Cleto HIguero, birthplace, Spain,
residence Morgan.
Ale Suranski, birtbplace. Poland.
49, Henry street. South Amboy.
michaeI Serviftn, birthplace Galicfa,
address L: O. box 10, S~ayreville..
John Ffrlet. birthplace Austria. p.
d. addrcs box 421. SayreviIIe.
All OF these men. he said. gave their
occupation on their missionaries as
Iaborer, with the exception or
SHIFTS and Suranski. who were guards
Mr.. Rose said that he had spoken
TO the chairman of the draft board
about two of these cases where the
birthplace was given as Spain and
Antwerp and asked why they were
classified as alien enemies. The latter,
he claims, replied that they, the two
registrants. had given that as their
cause for seeking exemption and had
sworn to their statements. He said
he believed that in the case of SHIFTS,
the mistake had been an honest one.
Mr.. Rose also produced for the
committee. the names of between forty
and fifty aliens OF countries other than
those with which the United States
a been at W all of whom were
no-declarants n had asked for ex-
emption on the ground that they wera
aliens. These were all sworn to Just
nrior to the explosion at the plant, ana
the chairman OF the draft board told
Mr.. Rose. the latter claims, that he
had Informed the Gillespie Company
or the fact that they were employing
aliens and alien enemies.
Adolnh Greenbaum testified to the
fact that he owned q farm in the vi
cinitv of the plant and that in fire.
duent trips to and from this place ne
had failed to notice but o u guards
a'o~" the C~heeseuuake road, a dis
far"n ~ +H"e~ miles at least.
S~ubstantiation of the statement
made on the previous day to the er-
= ~ no wv C'afCr or Rcd Rank.
an emn1ove of the plant had said that
he had been INFORMED that there
were matches sticking from cases of
= IT which were being carried ahout
the plant severnl davs after the ex-
nlosion was made by Mr.. Slater him
self. who told Of the time he was told
and Of the 'VorkrnCn who told him and
y was nromieed that this workman
and other Witnesses would be r-~-
d"ced from Tho ulnnt today. The
~etotn~""t Slater declares he heard
was "yve've inst FOUND seven matches
wo@"cd IN tho ca eae"
At this point MIR. Gillespie took the
stand. He testified as to his past his
tory and then told of the munitions
works which he is interested in finan-
cially. These include the American
Shell Company of Paterson where, on
a private contract with the govern
ment and at a unit price, the company
manufactures steel projectiles. Second
comes the International Steel and Ord
nance Company of Lowell, Mass,
where complete rounds of French
fuses are made. The third operation
is h International Loading plant AT
Gillespie, N. j., lea Parlin, where
shells are loaded that are mar ssac-
tured in the various other companies
This plant is the same as Nor
BdHr MT. 1lIlcSple Sdlu, IN Inat the
various component parts Of the shells
are shipped to the plant and loaded
there for shipment overseas.
The Runyon Corporation at Run
yon where At and 6-inch shells are
loaded for the II. 8. Government,
shells that are manufactured else
whore and loaded there. is another
of the Gillespie subsidiaries and Mr..
Gillespie said that the Oliver Loading |
Company of Old Bridge was also one
of his interests, where are loaded |
fuses n fuse parts which are made |
at Lowell. This plant also has a con-
tract with the government for loading |
Mr.. Gillespie said hat he
was chairman of the Board OF Direc- |
tors of all these companies and that
they were all operated under the same
government contracts for the manu-
OF shells. The last mem
toned interest was the Evans Engi- |
neering Company whose plant is at
where seventy-five millimeter |
shells are loaded.
At this point Mr.. Gillespie had to
stop and think II there were any other
of his in the manufacturing
line and he replied that he thought
that was all with the exception of a
plant in Jersey City in which he is
Interested.
He said hat he had had no practi-
raj experience with explosives before
his first contract for the Russian gov
signed in 1915.
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