Palisadian., 1925-10-30

Following an animated debate, the
American Federation of Labor in con-
vention at Atlantic City voted against
the formation of an independent labor
party. The consensus of opinion ex-
pressed was that the best interests
of labor could be served now by sup
porting those candidates friendly to
labor. President Green declared the
proposal to be impracticable, adding
that when America changed from an
agricultural nation to a semi-indus-
trial country it might be wise then
to consider the proposition.
Senator Walter E. Edge will speak
on behalf of Senator Whitney at Ell
glewood on Thursday evening, Octo-
Der 20, having accepted an invitation
extended by Daniel E. Pomeroy of
the State Committee.
The first annual dinner to be given
by the Ridgewood unit of the New
Jersey Woman's Republican Club will
be held on Monday evening, October
26, at the Alexander Hamilton Hotel
Paterson. Members are urged to in
vlte their husbands and friends to
hear Senator Whitney, who has given
his assurance that he will come in
for brief address. Judge Wells of
Bordentown is also slated to address
the gathering.
l-Asbury Park at the coming election
Will vote on proposal to erect a
/ $1,500,000 convention hall, a proposal
which has been advocated for the
past fifteen years.
Suspension of the anti-smoke ordi-
nances to permit the use of soft coal
during the anthracite strike will be
permitted in cities and towns in
northern New Jersey, following SINH
lar action taken by New York City.
Newark was the first place to adopt
! such an expedient, other cities and
towns rapidly following in her wake.
Dix w. Noel, New York lawyer,
and father of Harrison W. Noel, the
twenty-year old youth who is to go on
trial in Newark on Monday for the
murder of negro chauffeur, has
notified Assistant Prosecutor j. Vic
tor D'Aloia of Essex County that he
would not engage counsel to defend
his son. Apprised of the fact, Judge
Edwin c. Caffrey in the Court of
Oyer and Terminer assigned William
A. Wachenfeld, a former assistant
prosecutor of Essex County, to act
for the defendant. Merritt Lane. who
acted for the youth in the preliminary
hearings, Withdrew from the case
after announcing that in his opinion
Noel was too insane to be tried.
-Englewood and Hackensack will
play the deciding game on Sunday at
Or1tani Field in the latter town to
decide the baseball championship of
the county, each side having won
two games apiece, with one tied. The
game last Sunday resulted in a de-
clsive win for Hackensack, though
both sides were loaded" with big
league players, and are expected to
again present galaxy of stars for
the final game.
The Bergen County Council of Par
ent-Teacher Associations will hold
their semi-annual meeting on Thurs
day, October 29, in the Bogert Memo
rial Church, Fort Lee road, Bogota,
at $50 a. m.
With but one registry district miss
ing, the registration of Bergen Coun-
ty, as given out by the County Board
of Elections, is 125,7S2, an increase
of S,451 over 1924, presidential year.
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon
has taken strong exception to the sug-
gestion of Senator Walter E. Edge
that incomes up to $4,000 be exempt
from taxation. He states that the
sole result of such change would be
en- enormous loss of revenue to the
government without a single compen-
sating advantage.
Mayor Griffin of Hoboken, former
Democratic leader of that city, has re-
turned from a trip to the tropics but
little improved in health. He is said
to be resting in a sanitarium in New
York.
Felix Fuld of Newark was elected
president of the State Young Mems
Hebrew Association at their annual
convention held last week at Pater-
son.
ID. Frese Of Lyndhurst, who left his
home last week on a pleasure trip to
the South, is one of the survivors of
the illfated Comanche, although he
sustained four broken ribs. He is
said to be convalescing nicely in a
Jacksonville hospital.
How near the Delaware River Cam
den-Philadelphia bridge is to compile
tion is indicated by the latest balance
sheet of the joint commission, which
shows that only about S4,250, 900 of
the more than $36,000,00O appropri-
ated for the bridge has been unap-
pied.
Mrs. Lillian E. Feickert, president
of the New Jersey State Women's
Republican Club, broke into the lime
light again on Monday when she de-
livered a campaign address to the
Park Ridge unit. Interviewed by re-
porters present, Mrs. Feickert refused
to discuss her marital difficulties.
-Bergan County lodges captured two
of the four silk flags presented at the
annual convention of the Junior Or
der of American Mechanics, held last
week at Trenton. They were Over
peck Council No. 314, of Ridgefeld