The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-11-06

Diseases of the circulatory system
took the greatest toll, 619 demises
being attributed to that cause. Sui
c.des totaled 49,
Veteran Keepers Resign
Principal Keeper Joseph S. Hoff, of
the State Prison, has sent to the
Civil Service Commission the retire
ment applications Of George w.
Smith and Frank o. Lozier, veteran
officers at the institution Smith has
served 80 years as a deputy keeper
and Lozier has served "a years.
Dick Test at SkilIman
Invitations have been sent out to
the heads of State institutions to
visit the village for epileptics at
SkilIman, November 3 and 4, to OBJ
serve the application Of the Dick
test for scarlet fever, according to
an announcement from the State De-
partment of Institutions and Agen-
cies. The purpose of the test is to
discover what patients at the village
are susceptible to the disease and
to immunize them.
Review of Veteran Claims
Upwards of 1880 New Jersey vet
Grams of the World War by the Dis
abled American Veterans national or
ganization are hoping that the United
States Veterans Bureau will play
Santa Claus to them.
Several thousand New Jersey men
who were manned or whose health
was impaired while in the service
are affected by the agreement
reached by Director Frank T. Haines,
Of the Veterans Bureau. and Frank
] Erwin of New York, national COM
mander of Disabled American Veter-
ans, whereby an exhaustive review
of more than half a million disal-
lowed claims of former service men
is to be made.
The gigantic task of reopening so
many cases, in fact, already has been
started. At the suggestion of Com
mander Irwin, examination of the
files of the bureau has been started
to revise ratings of all men who
should come within the benefits OF
the Reed-J ohnson bill passed by
Congress last June, which liberalized
the regulations governing the opera
ton of, the Veterans Bureau.
Road Job Examinations
To meet the needs of the Mercer
County Road Department, the Civil
Service Commission has scheduled an
examination to be held November 8,
open to Mercer County residents for
assistant foreman of road repairs. The
job pays from s125 to $145 a month.
An examination for the post OF
junior engineer in the county service
will be held November 10. Success
full candidates also will be eligible to
appointment to the city force. The
salary range is from SIPS to $3.50.
Shields Name off Ballot
The teapot tempest over the print
ing of the name of the Rev. James K.
Shields on official ballots, as can
didate for United States Senator. was
brought to 8 close when Justice Min
turn, of the Supreme Court, reversed
the decision he announced recently
and ordered the county clerk of Hud-
son to eliminate the former super1n-
tendent of the Anti-Saloon League of
New Jersey from both the sample bal
lots and the official ballots.
Immediately following the decision
of Justice Minturn in Jersey City,
Chief Justice Gummere and four asso-
cite justices who were sitting in vari-
Gus court rooms in Newark, gave SIM
liar decisions directing the county
clerks of Essex, Middlesex, Morris
and Somerset counties to omit the
name of Mr. Shields. Similar action
will be taken in Trenton with re-
spect to rules then returnable,
brought against the county clerks of
Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, So
lem, Burlington, Monmouth. Hunter
don and Ocean counties.
The decisions announced almost CO.
incidentally in Hudson and Essex
counties were the result of a general
conference Of the Supreme Court at
which it was agreed the decision of
Justice Minturn that the Rev. MIR.
Shields, had withdrawn from the SEN
ate contest too late to make his les-
ignation effective, had overlooked a
provision Of the law providing that
when the time for filing any official
document pertaining to elections lell
on Sunday, the time should be ex-
tended until the following day.
The only practical difficulty remain
ing is that which may be experienced
by county clerks, who have included
the name of Mr.. Shields as a candi-
date, in having ballots reprinted with.
in the required time. This will af-
feet smaller counties where facilities
for printing are limited.
There are 1859 election districts
in the State, for each of which sep
arate ballot must be printed. The
law requires that sample ballots must
be mailed to each OF more than a
million registered voters in the State
no later than the Wednesday previ-
Gus, and distribution Of the official
ballots is usually well under way
more than ten days before election.
Governor Silzer is listed as a speak
er at the opening session of the an.