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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-08-24
DISAPPOINTED ANGLERS
TURN BACK FROM SEA.
For First Time in History Boats

For First Time in History Boats
Fail to Put Out for Banks.
For the first time in the history
of the passenger fishing fleet OF
Cape May Harbor, the big boats
failed to put out for the banks on
Sunday because of heavy rain and
rough seas. Over 400 anglers
came down on the fishermen's
special excursion as usual and an
other hundred came by automo-
biles, but none of the veteran cap
tains was willing to risk his life
or the would-be passengers and
their craft. At $50 O'Clock the
excursion cleared for the return
trip to Camden with a disguised
crowd of anglers, many of whom
did not leave their seats in the
train after taking one look at the
water outside.
The storm of the past three
days sent a score of coastwise
vessels, menhaden fishermen and
pleasure craft into Cape May Har-
Dor for shelter, RACED the scores
of tents forming the famous tent
colony on the bathing beach for
years, brought business practical
ly to a standstill and gloom to ev-
cry hotel manager in the resort.
At noon Sunday, however, the sun
broke through the clouds for the
first time in four days.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-08-24
License Revoked
After Accident
Casio Found Guilty of Dri.
wing Car in Reck-
less Manner.

Jarvis Casio, S. Franklin av-
enue, lost his license for year
and was fined $25 by Police Re
corder William B. Stephens last
night in Police Court, after be-
ing arraigned before the Recorder
on complaint of John A. Healy,
following an accident at Adams
avenue, near Fourth street.
Healy declared that Casio was
driving car down Adams avenue
in reckless manner, and that
his car had been struck, although
it was on the right side of the
street
Officers Joseph Conway and
Klein investigated the accident,
and verified Healy's statements.
They stated they found machine
driven by Casio on the left hand
side of the street, where it had
hit the Healy car.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-08-24
Police Visit
Turnpike Place
Raid Gold Field Cabaret
Looking for Man Be-
lieved PrOwler.

Searching for man who is be-
lieved responsible for series OF
robberies which have been COM
mited in the city the past month,
police raided the Gold Field Caba-
ret on the Old Turnpike late Sat
urday night, lined it's patrons
against the wall, and searched for
any concealed weapons after their
failure to find the man they were
looking for in the building.
They met with little success,
however. Despite tips that sever
al of the cabaret patrons were in
the habit of carrying guns without
the usual permit, they found no
weapons in the possession of visit
ors to the cabaret.
The raid took Officers McGnee,
Conway, Lippincott and Baldwin
to the place. Entering, they lined
occupants up, and made a quick
search.
Steps to prevent the carrying OF
guns is being taken by the police.
The cabaret ra:dcd is III the Negro
quarter of TIC city.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-08-24
Double Bill
at Kiiwaniis
Mental Test by Superintend-
ent HOrstick-SOngs
by Carl ZOrn.

Members of the Pleasantville
Kiwanis Club today had a double
treat. Supt. of Schools Simon M.
HOrstick applied the mental test
to members, giving a demonstra-
ton of this test as it is applied
in colleges and elsewhere to de-
termine the fullness of the mind
of man or student. The DEM
onstration was one of great in
terest to all. 1t was follow-up
of previous talk by Supt. Hors-
tick.
The other feature of the day
was the presentation by Carl Zorn
of several vocal numbers. Mr..
Zorn is manager of the music de-
partment of the McCrory store
on the Boardwalk, at New York
avenue.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-08-24
Police Search
for Robber Gang
Hackett Home Entered by
Men Known Connected
With Other Breaks.

A gang that has been breaking
into houses on the Mainland the
past month entered the home of
r. c. Hackett, of Nevada and
Ocean avenues Monday night, and
escaped with revolver, child's
bank and small amount of jew
elry.
One man, whose name was
withheld, was later arrested in
Atlantic City by Sergeant Lewis
Betterton, and brought to head
quarters here for examination,
but police were unable to connect
him with the break, and he was
released.
The police have proof that the
gang which entered Mainland
homes last week are the same
men who entered the Hackett
home. They have been seen at
tempting entries, and identified
as negroes.
Entrance to the Hackett home
was made by means of a pass
key. Members of the family were
away, and the thieves had plenty
of time to ransack the place.
Bureau drawers were thrown ov-
er the room, and closets were
raided. but nothing of any great
value was found.
The number of robberies that
have been reported the past few
weeks have caused the police to
double their vigilance in an at
tempt to break up the gang. Sew
eral times officers have made Wis
it's to the negro sections of the
city, acting on tips that the men
wanted were there, but each trip
has been unsuccessful.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-08-24
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DRY SlEUTHS TRAP
ALCOHOL HOLDER.
Take $500 in Notes and at Once
Cause Arrest of Accused Man.


Cause Arrest of Accused Man.
AS he passed $500 to Prohibition
Inspector William J. Strowhouer,
attached to the Philadelphia Of
flee, William F. O'Connor, Pine
street near Forty-eighth, Philadel-
phia, alleged president of the Ost
Apothecary, Inc, No. $50 North
Rhode Island avenue, Atlantic
City, was placed under arrest by
the sleuth and his aide, Meredith
B. Kerstetter, this afternoon. Ia
ken before U. S. Commissioner
MCGEE, the accused was held I'M
der $4,000 bail for a further hear
ing Thursday.
At the hearing the agents testi-
fled that when they entered the
Ost plant to make an inspection
of the permit held by the drug
company O'Connor gave Strow-
houer $500 in two 500 notes, four
9OU HOltSy Ouc YAO, hNO Pio hoeSo
and six IS notes. After placing
the money in the agents hands he
is alleged to have asked him to
give his fir ma first-class report
of the inspection of the special
denatured alcohol permit held by
the concern. This permit, the ag-
ents say, did not permit them to
retain the alcohol in its raw state.
Kerstetter, witnessing the tran
saction between his partner and
O'Connor, aided by Strowhouer,
placed the man under arrest. Fol
lowing this, they conducted their
investigation and learned that the
alcohol, instead of being mixed
with certain oils and preparations
to be sold and prepared as toilet
waters and its immediate prepara-
lions, was kept in its raw state.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-08-24
Reeves Freed;
Bail is Reduced
Man Accused of Perjury by
Chief NaylOr, Is
Released.
Smathers Reduces Bail
Police Recorder Marshall, of
Mortified, Holds Man Un-
der $4,000 Bond on Two
Charges.

Charles Reeves, arrested and
held for the grand jury on two
charges of perjury, when arraign-
ed before Police Recorder Mar
shall Friday night on complaint of
Chief of Police Belleville Naylor,
OF this city, is free man today,
despite the $4,000 bail demanded
by the Mortified Magistrate.
Reeves was taken to Atlantic
City Saturday morning, where he
had his bail reduced from $4,000
to $1,000 By Judge William Smath-
ers. Under the law, Magistrate
is bound to hold a man accused
OF perjury under $4,000 bail
The bail may be reduced by a
county Judge.
Chief of Police Harper, of the
Mortified department., accompan-
led the man to the resort, and
, -sn the bond was made, released
Linn Reeves had remained in the
Mortified Jail Friday night 1ol
lowing his arrest and hearing. He
had been unable to get bail.
Reeves had Chief of Police Nay
lor, Police Recorder William B
Stephens, and constab BILE, Butler
Boyd, with his landlord, Charles
King, arrested last week. The
former was held under $500 bal
while King was held under $500
bail. They were charged with ma
| licious mischief.
Reeves declared that the police
and Recorder had entered the
house he was renting on the Mil
road and broke up furniture to the
value of 500. He is also report
ed to have said that the house was
| locked, and he and his family
were forced to remain in the
woods all night.
Reeves, unable to get the $40,
600 bail demanded, was forced tt
remain in the Mortified Jail Fri
day night The case was called tC
the attention of Judge Smathers
Saturday morning, and he reduced
the amount of bail
Police Recorder Stephens, Chie1
Naylor, and Boyd all denied hav
| ing entered the Mill road house
rented by Reeves, as that mar
swore when the case was brought
before Magistrate Brown.
They say they drove up to the
house, and We're II ct By Reeves
who agreed to Leave tho building
the next day. Boy1, going up to
the house next morning, had
found that it was apparently emp
ty and reported it as such to King
The landlord had then locked
the building up.
The matter will be threshed out
before the Grand Jury at it's next
session in the fall.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-08-24
Plan Big
Development
Includes Practically All OF
Coast From Bay Head
to Beach Haven.
Bridge Barnegat Inlet
Changes at Island Beach Are
Largest Ever Attempted
in That SectiOn-Cassatt's
Prediction.

Plans are under way to start
one of the biggest development
movements ever attempted in one
year along the New Jersey coast.
This will extend to practically all
of the beach from Bay Head to
Beach Haven.
One of the major projects enter
ing into the plan is the bridging
of the Barnegat Inlet and the des-
ignating of a new highway from
Beach Haven north to the head of
the Barnegat.
Bills to bring about these two
will be introduced in the next leg
islature and those who know say
there is very good chance for
their passage. A corps of engin-
GERS has been busy on Island
Beach and the changes that are to
be made there are said to be the
largest that have ever been at
tempted in that section.
representative of the depart
ment of Conservation and Devel-
opment haFe been inspecting the
section near Barnegat light and a
State park there is now looked on
as probability. A bill providing
for an appropriation for this will
also be introduced in the next leg
| islature.
There will also be built a new
gravel road from Writings on a
straight line to Toms River. This
| will very materially decrease the
distance from Philadelphia to ISL
and Heights and the bridge across
the Barnegat Bay at Seaside
Heights.
The north Jersey resorts up to
now have not kept pace with the
development of those to the south
and the movement in progress is
| one that has long been discussed
but which never reached more
than the talk stage. There have
been rumors of late that the Penn
sylvania Railroad was planning tc
double track it's line between Sea
side Park and Camden and cleo
trify it. The late A. ]. Cassatt
president of the Pennsylvania
predicted this would be done, and
he purchased practically all of the
land south of Seaside Park to Bar
negat Inlet for development pur
poses, but later his estate sold
this.
There has also been a revival OF
the plan to ask the Pennsylvania
Railroad to build branch from
it's Atlantic City main line to
Beach Haven, branching off the
former about at Pomona. 1t is
claimed that this will reduce the
running time of trains so that ii
will be the biggest kind of an as
set to the north Jersey coast and
especially to points south of Sea
side Park. At present there is
much time lost by trains that
must make detour by way of the
Tuckerton Railroad.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-08-24
Three Die as
Car Hits Truck
Aviatrix, Mother of Four,
and Contractor Killed
on Pike Sunday.
Van Had no Lights Claim
Driver Held Under $4,000
Bail on Charge of Man.
slaughter by Police Recor.
der Stephens.

Darkness, rain and a stalled un-
lit truck which had skidded into
a ditch and was being forced
again on the hard cement of the
narrow White Horse pike conspir-
ed Sunday night, and snuffed out
the lives Of three people returning
t. Philadelphia after a joyous hol,
iday in Atlantic City.
A machine in which four per
sons were riding, smashed INTO
the truck, half on and half off the
highway, near Cologne, and Miss
Peggy Lucille Roome, twenty-one,
500 N. 30th street, Camden, avia-
trix and stunt flier,. who had de-
fed death many times far above
the earth; Mrs. May Loeleger,
twenty-six, 1902 Atlantic avenue,
a mother of four children; and 7.
Raymond Richman, forty-five, 139
Wayne terrace, Collingswood, con-
tractor and former airplane manu-
facturer, met with death.
John Loeleger, thirty-one, hus-
band of the dead woman, and driv-
er of the death car, was the only
occupal to escape. He was
thrown c. -ar Of the wreckage.
Rodney Cornelius, thirty-five, of
21st street, near Miffiin, driver of
the truck, was arrested by State
Police, and was held under $4,000
bail on manslaughter charge by
Police Recorder William B. Ste
phens, in the Police Court here.
The four occupants of the
stricken car were taken to the At
lantic City Hospital by party
consisting of Benjamin Ginzberg,
HarrH Ginzberg, Lewis Elkins and
Charles Eisman, Philadelphians,
who We're returning to the Quaker
City. Miss Roome and Richman
were still breathing but were pro-
nounced dead on their arrival at
the Hospital. State police cleared
the highway for the dash to the
resort institution.
The driver of the truck told po-
lice his lights went out when he
was getting his truck back on the
road after skidding into a ditch.
-. - he he was preparing to park until
daylight, he said, the automobile
crashed into the rear.
Loeleger and his wife were out
for a first time in six months, he
told in Atlantic City. They were
worried about the children, and
were anxious to get back home
The road seemed clear ahead, and
it was raining. He was using his
dim lights as traffic towards At
lantic City was heavy.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-08-24
RECKLESS DRIVING
DRAWS STIFF SENTENCE
Man Must Pay 5000 or Serve 80
Days; Wife Faints.

AS sentence for drunken driv-
ing was pronounced yesterday up
on John ]. Brown, SO, of 10 North
Iowa avenue, Atlantic City, his
wife, who had made touching
plea in his defense, tainted in
police court. She had to be re-
vived by court attendants.
Brown pleaded guilty to the
charge, after DR.. ]. c. Beckwith,
police surgeon. had been called
to testify. Patrolman Leon Tho
mas said Brown pursued an er-
ratio course up Atlantic avenue.
Mrs. Brown pleaded for len
iency, saying it was the first time
in nine years of driving that her
husband had got into trouble.
Recorder Joseph A. Corio was
touched by the plea and declared
he would impose a minimum SEN
tence of 5000 fine or thirty days
in Jail and revoke Browns IL
cense for two years.
you had better arrange to sell
the car,"the Recorder told Brown.
With that, Mrs. Brown swooned.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-08-24
Hope to
Avoid Carnival
Directors of Baseball ASSN.
Seek Ways and Means
to Meet Deficit.
Championship Ball Here
Pleasantville's Needs Com
paratively Light to Ena.
BILE Team to Finish Sea-
sOn-Plan Dance.

p AT a meeting of the directors.
OF the Pleasantville Baseall Asso-
citation, last evening, ways and
means to raise funds to meet the
deficit Of the season were dis.
cussed.
There is a sincere desire on the
part OF the officers of the Associa.
ton to avoid, if possible. holding
d carnival or any similar affair
to raise the amount required
which is between $500 and $500
William Clark was appointed
chairman of committee to ar
range for dance.
There are six games to play 10
conclude the season. Pleasant
vile won the championship for
the first half of the season. Ii
seems likely that M Tile viii
win the championship &. the sec
ond half. To determine the
championship for South Jersey
for the season of 1926, it may be
necessary to have series Of
three gmaes between the two
teams. These will be played at
the close of the season, or after
Labor Day.
Pleasantville will go to Mill.
vile for twilight garEe Thurs
day.
Pleasantville has had a cham.
pionship team all the season. A
little better patronage would have
avoided the deficit.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-08-24

The four months which remain
before the best time of the year
comes are just time enough for
Mr.. or Mrs. Or Master and Miss
Ambitious, to win a handsome
Christmas present for some one.
All they have to do is clip the
coupons which are published in
this paper twice week, or get
subscriptions, new or old, or adj
vertising. A four months sub
scription (s1.OO) is worth IS cou-
pons; a six months subscription,
($1.25), is worth 100 coupons; a
years subscription, ($2.5W, is
worth 200 coupons; and classified
advertising, for each twenty-five
cents worth, cash only accepted
brings Is coupons.
Concluded on Page 81
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-08-24
Moretti Victim
Of Fight Jinx
Battle With Tiplitz PostpOn5
ed Four Times in
Ten Days
Russo Brothers Busy

A jinx seems to be following
Gene Moretti.
Four times within the past
week has Gene been slated to
fight a return bout with Joe Tip
litz, who he defeated in the ring
at the Bacharach Ball Park a few
weeks ago.
And four times the battle has
been postponed. Now it looks rs
though the youthful Pleasantville
fighter will not get into the ring
against the veteran ringman.
Gene was matched to meet Tip
.litz at the resort park last Tues
day night. All the bouts were
called off because of rain, and
were to be fought the following
Friday evening.
Once more the skies weeped
and the fans We're sent home with
an invitation to come back Satur-
day night.
But Saturday night it rained
again. The bouts were once more
called off, and the management
decided to put Gene on the lists
for Friday night.
And then Gene was injured
Thursday night when he was hit
in Atlantic City, and suffered in
juries which sent him to the At
lantic City Hospital.
Tony Russo and his brother
Eddie, who seek fame and fortune
in the squared ring, meet oppo'
nents this and next week at the
Bacharach park.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-08-24
TO THE PUBLIC.

We have been engaged II the
business of repairing shoes fer 15
years. This includes all kinds OF
shoes for ladies, men and child
rem. During this time We have
built up a reputation for first
class work. We have the best and
most modern machines and the
men who work on these machines
are experienced and repair shoes
in the finest manner. All leather
we use is of the best grade. We
are able, therefore, to guarantee
satisfaction to our customers and
we solicit your shoe repairing be-
cause we believe we can please
you. Bring in your shoes and we
will show you how we'll We do our
work.
Pleasantville Electric Shoe Re
pair Company, 25 North Main ST.,
G.. N. Fazio, Prop.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-08-24
WHOY is RELEASED
IN PALS DROWNING.
Evidence Fails to Link Him with
Death of Andrew Borack.

Evidence Fails to Link Him with
Death of Andrew Borack.
Lack of evidence to connect
him criminally with the death Of
Andrew Borack, 80 years old, OF
Atlantic City, who was drowned
when he fell from a houseboa' in
the Thoroughfare, July rs, has re-
suited in the release of Lawrence
Whoy. 29, bayman, who had been
held at Mays Landing on man.
slaughter charge.
Whoy had been incarcerated in
the county jail since the death of
Borack, unable to raise the $4,000
bail demanded. Borack WAS
thought to have been knocked in
to the water during a drunken
brawl on Whoy's houseboat.
Just few hours prior to his re-
lease, State police "mugged aud
finger-printed him for the files OF
the county Jail and the police
headquarters at Trenton.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-08-24

FAIR TO START NEXT
WEDNESDAY,
Many Will Attend Seventh Annu-
al Event at Egg Harbor.

al Event at Egg Harbor.
Atlantic County's Annual Exhi-
bition, the eleventh of its series,
is to be held on the paved White
Horse pike in the center OF Egg
Harbor City, commencing Wednes-
day morning, September list, and
continuing both day and night un-
til the stroke of midnight Satur-
day, September 4th. The fair
management promises a colossal
exposition of greater size and
splendor than in former years.
Season tickets, which will admit
a whole family at any time during
the fair, are being sold for $500,
according to General Manager
Vautrinot.
And the fair management in lay
ing out the grounds this year ex-
pect to make it fairyland oil en-
trancing beauty and unforgetable
in the displays both of the field,
the orchard, the poultry yard and
the home circle.
Gorgeous fireworks, enthralllng
stunts by acrobats and entertain
ers, balloon ascensions, nationally
and state prominent speakers with
our beloved Governor addressing
the multitudes on Saturday, Sep
TENDER 4th, will help make up a
program that will please, enter
tain and educate.
Chairman C. F. Wahl, of Allan
tic City, who is at the head of the
entertainment committee, has
some prominent operate stars on
his list who, too, will help please
the multitudeS.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-08-24
HOLD MAN AND WIFE AS
GEM THEFT SUSPECTS.

The arrest IA Sellersville, Pa,
Of Clinton w. Carey, alias Curry,
formerly of Atlantic City, may
lead to the recovery Of 1888
worth of gems reported lost or
stolen by Mrs. Harry P. Sharp,
No 1913 South Metropolitan ave-
nue., about week ago. Carey was
traced through his wife, a former
employee in the Sharp household,
by Detectives Bishop and Gilbert.
His wife was located in Burling-
ton. She is alleged to have ad-
mitted giving the gems to her
husband.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-08-24
SEXES WOMAN'S PROPERTY
UNDER ORDER OF COURT
Fraudulent Conveyance Charged
to Escape Judgment.

Sheriff Cloud has ordered seiz-
ed four properties which had been
conveyed to Laura Bell Adams
by Mrs. Harriet H. Adams, prom
inent society woman, in order to
satisfy Court verdict of $4,000
awarded Mrs. Mary Phillips.
Vice Chancellor Baches, at
Trenton, last week decreed that
Mrs. Adams had committed a
fraud in conveying the proper
ties to her daughter after being
summoned in the damage suit,
which she failed to defend. Sher-
if Cloud was ordered to seize the
properties and advertise them for
sale to satisfy the judgment and
Court costs. The properties are
valued at about 100000. Mrs.
Phillips received injuries on a
broken boardwalk while tenant
of Mrs. Adams.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-08-24
OCEAN CITY CAMP SERVICE
DRAWS LARGE AUDIENCE

Notwithstanding the heavy
rains there was good-sized con
gregation at the Ocean City camp
meeting services in the auditors
um on the camp grounds for the
first Sunday of the camp. Rev
DR.. Thompson H. Mckinney, Phil
adelphia evangelist, is conducting
the meetings, assisted by Rev
John w. Troy, a young evangelist
from Servia. His home is at We.
nonah Lake.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-08-24
STATE POLICE CATCH
RUNAWAY PRISONER
Convict from Richmond, Va, Pen
itentiary nabbed at Mays Landing

Arrested by Trooper Ruggiero,
of the State Police, and held for
two days in the county jail as a
fugitive, Joseph Swanson, thirty
years old, has been returned To
Richmond, Va, to complete his
term in the State Penitentiary
there.
Swanson escaped from the in
stitution July 81, and came back
to New Jersey, his home being in
Beverly. The Virginia author1-
ties sent word to the State police
and after keeping lookout for
the man. nabbed him on the des-
cription given.