The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-11-13
NEW JERSEY
STATE NE VS.

I A delegation of girl students from
the Glassboro Normal School inspect
ed the Gloucester detention house of
the Bureau of immigration.
The employees of the John M. Rog-
ers works, Gloucester City, watched
the launching Of another of the rum
chaser fleet. The boat had trial
trip on the upper Delaware.
Completed returns from Hudson
county showed that John w. Davis
had plurality Of more than 10000
and that Mayor Donnelly, candidate
for United States senator, had topped
Senator Edge by nearly $4,000.
Justice Samuel Kalisch in charging
the Union county grand jury in Eliza
beth told the jurors they might be
| called on to investigate the situation
at the Bayway plant of the Standard
Oil Company, where five men died and
more than 80 were driven temporarily
insane by tetraethyl lead poisoning.
Albert Reynolds, twenty years
old, son of George Reynolds, New
ark real estate broker, was found dead
in the front seat of his fathers sedan
in garage next their home, AS Mt.
Prospect avenue, Newark. After an
investigation the police reported the
case as suicide. Two notes written
on the back of business cards bore
out this conclusion.
Addressing the annual convention
of the New Jersey Congress of Parent
/ Teacher Associations a. H 1ddon Hall
at Atlantic City, Mrs. Charles r. Ba-
con of Haddonfleld, chairman Of the
committee on better moving picture
films advocated cleaner screen plays
as safe uard against The hayward
ness of youth.
John Locher, real estate and insur-
ance broker, has disappeared from
Hackensack. A warrant has been is
! sued for his ar . by Recorder Will
| liam Delorenso, charging him with
embezzlement The complaint was
made by the Zurich General Assistant
Accident Insurance Company The
/ shortage Is about $4,000
Parents should insist on law en-
| forcement instead of Sinking their
duties as good citizens, rmer Judge
| Harold B. Wells of Burlington county
! told members of the New Jersey Con-
gress Of Mothers and Parent-Teacher
Association at the banquet opening
| the twenty-fourth annual convention
/ of that organization in Atlantic City
Edmund Buck1nan, forty-nine years
old, was arrested at Mantua and taken
to the county Jail at Woodbury., where
/ he is held without hail a charge
| preferred by a young woman, who
! says she has been kept almost a pris-
/ oner by Buchanan. The case is being
! investigated by the authorities. Mrs.
] McCracken, a neighbor, supports the
/ young woman in her statement, while
Buchanan denies the charges. The
| girl was taken from home In Phila-
delphia in 1918 and has led a fright
I full life ever since, according to her
( story.
Charged with tapping gas main to
/ obtain fuel to maintain stills in a
house on Newport avenue, Ventnor,
Charles Rosengart alleged moon
sinner. was convicted in criminal
| court at Mays Landing. County po-
lice raided the establishment and
found it fully equipped to produce
moonshine The man was caught on
two subsequent occasions, following
| fires in houses he used for the same
! purpose. Additional indictments will
be pressed before sentence is passed.
Another boat of the feet of Is rum
chasers being built at the plant of the
John M. Rodgers Company in Glou-
cester City was launched.
| John Stokes, a Hackensack high
! school rooter, thought if all was fair
| in love and war most anything might
| be fair In football, too. John was
! charged with firing toy cannon into
the face of Philip Port of the Ruther-
| ford team as he tackled Hackensack
player and prevented a touchdown.
| Ports face was burned to blister,
his eyes being spared only by
! seeming miracle and the police bare
| IL saved Stokes from a lynching
"A man who drives an automobile
while drunk is as bad as man who
/ fires revolver into a crowd" assert
ed Acting Police Judge Bertman in
| Camden in sentencing William E. Ma
1 ker, thirty-seven years old, of Pensau-
ken to 80 days in jail as result of
charge of driving while intoxicated
Maker was arrested at Seventh and
Federal streets after he had run into
car driven by Harry ]. Belz. Maker
! said he had imbibed some Italian wine
and that it went to his head"
Judge Shay in Camden ordered a
new trial for Philip Straley. twenty
! two years old, of Waterford who was
convicted recently of attacking Flea
nor Jones, who declared she was fif-
/ teen years old at the time, March 7,
! 1928 Counsel for the young man
showed by records that the girl was
born in Scranton, Pa, on March Z,
1906, and that she was therefore near
ly seventeen years old when the alleg-
ed attack occurred. Straley, who had
charge of the post office and store at