Palisadian., 1925-11-13
State and County
News in Brief
Special. for The Palisadian

number of persons out in the woods
throughout the county in search of the
elusive cottontails. There was plenty
of noise in some sections, but few rab-
bits shot.
Captain Anton Heinen, former Ger
man air4plane pilot and dirigible ex-
pert was held for $1,000 bail on Mon
day, after his auto had run over and
killed a street car motorman at Mt.
Holly Captain Heinen piloted the
Zeppelin-now the Los Angeles--on
its trip from Germany.
e. Morgan Barradale, secretary OF
the New York and New Jersey Tun-
mel Commission, announced early this
week that the Holland vehicular tun-
mel will be ready for use by Novem-
ber. 1926, and that it will be able to
accommodate more vehicles than are
handled at the present time by all the
ferries between New York and New
Jersey.
AT the request of her parents, Miss
Helen Burns, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Peter e. Burns, of 16 Walnut street,
Bloomfield, broke her engagement to
marry William e. Jackson, a contrac-
tor of Montclair, and said to have col
ored blood in his veins. Burns, who
is a graduate of Columbia, declared
himself as "colored' when the pair
applied for license at the New York
marriage bureau, which caused many
menacing threats to be made in his
bone community.
Acting upon instructions of Cover
nor Silzer, Attorney General Katzen-
bach will shortly challenge before the
courts the constitutionality of an act
passed by the last Legislature exempt
ing from taxation all personal prop
erty held in warehouses within the
state. The Governor declared that
the amount of property which year by
year escapes from taxation on one
pretext or another was steadily in
Creasing, and cause for genuine
alarm. He added that the act leads to
law which grants special privileges
leads generally to law evasion.
The body of the man which was
found hanging in a Bergen County
woods near Alpine last week has been
identified as that of Charles r. Boyd,
80 years of age, of 302 Central avenue,
Union City. Identification was made
by the father, Frank o. Boyd, through
hridgework in the lower jaw of the
skeleton. Boyd had been missing
since July g. although his family had
not reported his disappearance. He
had apparently ended his life with a
crudely constructed moose improvised
from his garments, and had hung him.
self ON the branch of a tree. Marks
in his hat and clothes assisted in iden-
tification of the body.
United States Postmaster General
New has announced an advance
Christmas present for mail carriers
and most other postal employees in an
order issued this week, and which de-
clared that no deliveries of ordinary
mail would be made on Christmas day.
From midnight December "a to mid
night December 25 all postal opera
dions will be suspended except the
maintenance of special delivery, and
the "relaying" of mails so that they
will be ready when normal delivery is
resumed To make possible the
Christmas shut down, the mail early"
campaign has been launched already
with renewed vigor.
Acting upon the recommendation OF
County Road Superintendent j. Ernest
Thier, the Board of Freeholders have
authorized the purchase of two new
snow plows which will be delivered in
time to assist in the removal of snow
from the county roads this winter.
The official tabulation of the 226
election districts in Bergen County
gave Whitney, Republican candidate
for Governor, 11,495 majority over A.
Harry Moore, his Democratic oppo-
nent. The, vote was Whitney, 45,002;
Moore, 33,507.
The story is now going the rounds
of the county that former Judge Cor
nelius Doremus, an avowed 'ibone dry"
and known as we'll as banker, was
dropped by the Anti-Saloon League
after he had refused to give them what
was practically blank check for
their support, which they afterward
threw to Whitney when he announced
his candidacy, even though he had
twice voted against the Eighteenth
amendment.
Governor George N. Silzer, who will
relinqrmsh the office to Commissioner
A. Harry Moore ON January 10, has
announced that he will sail for Europe
along with Mrs. Silzer the following
week for long vacation. Mr.. and
Mrs. Silzer expect to tour the Mediter-
ranean and be gone from home about
three months. This will be the third
European trip the Silzers have made.
The town of Leonia was the first in
the county to take official action pro-
testing against the operation of one
man cars by the Public Service rail-
way, the Board of Council having
passed a resolution which will be for
warded to the Public Utilities Com
mission. The resolution calls atten-
tion to the frequent distraction of the
motorman from operation and con-
troll of the car by the necessity of
making change, answering questions
of passengers, counting fares, making
records, throwing switches, etc, and
ending with clause praying for re-
lief ON the grounds that such multi
tudinous duties do not make for safe
operation of cars.