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Smyrna times., 1927-09-07
TOWNSEND
Items of Personal and Social Interest
Cleaned About the Neighborhood

Townsend, Sept 6.-The Firemen's
running in full force attracting con-
siderable interest.
The huckleberry crop proved a bet
ter paying proposition the past season
than has been the case for several
years. There were more pickers and
the price realized was II cents per
quart. 1t was customary for a good
picker to gather two crates of theb er-
ries in a single day, making a good
wage in gathering the fruit, while the
thrifty housewife was eager to can
the fruit and was amply repaid for
her trouble at this price. The aver
age yield as brought in by the pickers
at Colt station was 80 crates per day,
while other places in what is known as
exceptionally productive centers of the
huckleberry trade, reported quite as
good results. The berries were usual
ly sold out completely in three hours
after brought tot he towns.
Stanley Townsend, Assistant Treas
urer of. the Townsend Trust Company
has resigned that position to accept a
similar one with the Peoples National
Bank, Middletown. Miss Bebecca
Bramble has been appointed to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation.
The county engineers Office is re-
pairing the dikes on the road to the
Rocks. This wash is large one and
will require vast amount of gravel
Smyrna times., 1927-09-07
DOWNS CHAPEL
Benefit Entertainment for the Downs
Chapel NJ. P. Church, to be Given

Downs Chapel, Sept. IA benefit
entertainment following the excellent
program given last week will be pre-
sented in the big Chautauqua tent un-
der auspices of Downs Chapel NJ. P.
Church, two miles west of Kenton on
the State Road, Friday evening, next.
The Capital City Comedy Company,
Of Dover has been secured to present
the program for the evening. This
company is composed of Messrs. Nc
Afee and Dempsey the well known
song and dance artists and black fac
ed comedians, Messrs. oJseph P. Hos
kins and Edward J. Scanlon, Jr., vo-
calists of local and radio fame, slim
jim" Hollowell, the boy with the mu
sical feet, and Merritt Carly, piano
soloist and accompanist.
Smyrna times., 1927-09-07

coupe.-Miss Anna Attix has been Wis
iting her aunt Mrs. John Carl in Will
mington.-Mrs. Ellingsworth is visit
ing her daughter, Mrs. j. George
Knots.
Smyrna times., 1927-09-07
BLACKBIRD

Items of Personal and Social Interest
Cleaned About the Neighborhood
Blackbird, September 6.-Dr. James
E. S. Bell and son Edgar, of Hazleton,
Smyrna times., 1927-09-07

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Evening star., 1927-05-29

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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-22

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Nov. 81 P-
Accompanied by sharp and sometimes
acrimonious debate, the American
program for participation and prepara-
ton for the 1923 Olymuic games took
definite shape today so far as it lis
controlled by the American Athletic
union, in annual convention here.
The principal Olympic decisions con-
sisted of paving the way for selection
of laws on Robertson of the University
of Pennsylvania as head coach of the
American track and field team that
will go to Amsterdam, Holland, next
July and in awarding sectional or ma
tional Olympic tryoutS, which in the
cases of track and field sports, box
ing, wrestling and gymnastics, will be
combined with the 1923 national
championships.
The convention also approved 1875
record performances, which included
81 in track and field and "a in SWIM
ming, and lifted the suspension of
Harold G. Cutbill Boston clergyman
and erstwhile flying parson" who was
banned in 1923 for receiving alleged
excessive expense money.
Three OF the major olympic try
out ''plums" we're awarded to Boston,
including the final track and field
trials, to be held in Harvard stadium
July and 7, the amateur boxing
tryouts, probably in May, and the
marathon trial, to be held in conjunc-
ton with the annual Boston A. A.
grind on April 10. in each case the
national championships as well az
Olympic tests will be involved.
The award of two of these events
to the New England city-boxing and
marathon-develope the most spirited
controversy of the opening days ses-
sions, attended by delegates and ath-
letic officials from all parts Of the
country.
Baltimore, through its A. A. U. rep
resentative, Charles L. Ornstein, ap-
piled for the C.ympic marathon try
out with the idea of holding it sep
arate1y and late in May over the
Laurel to- Baltimore course. The COM
mittee approval, by divided vote,
was given this application, but when
the issue reached the floor of the con-
vention, Richard NJ Walsh of Boston
and Herman OberFubessing of New
York, led fight which resulted in a
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-22
AMERICAN PROGRAM FOR 1928
OLYMPIC GAMES TAKING FORM

decision to combine the Olympic test
with the Boston classic on April 49,
Dispute over awarding the boxing
tryouts and championships again to
Boston came after disclosure by the
chairman of the national boxing COM
mittee, William H. Cuddy, of Boston,
of friction among athletic officials in
the New England city and report OF
sharp falling off in the gate receipts
of the 1927 national tournament as
compared with former years
The final track and field tryoutS at
Boston w'Il be preceded by 10 sectional
preliminale ees, to be held on or before
June % in the following locations:
New York, Dallas, Detroit, Cincinnati,
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland,
Ore, Lawrence, Kans., or Iowa City,
Atlanta or Birmingham and Denver.
In addiEon, such cellege champion
ships as the intercollegiate A. A. A. A.
in the east will be recognized as sec
tional trials qualifying the best men
for the finals.
The expected return of the national
collegiate A. A. to the Olympic fold will
accord similar recognition to it's 1928
championships, usually held in Chi
cago.
Detroit put in bid for She final
track and field tryouts, accompanied
by cash guarantee of $25,OO0, but 1T
was turned down in Bostons favor
because Of the advantage of an east
ern location, inasmuch as the Ameri-
can Olympic team is scheduled to sail
from New York on the President
Roosevelt on July II.
The choice of Robertson to become
head track and field coach, already
decided on by the executive committee,
is expected to be ratified by the con-
Vention tomorrow and passed on to
the Olympic committee in the form of
a recommendation Since the Olympic
organization is controlled by the A. A..
u, however, the action here has the
effect of being final.
RobertSon's corps of assistants will
be selected from about score of
nominees, including: Walter Christie,
California; Dean Cromwell, Southern
California; Robert L. (Dink) Temple
ton, Stanford; Boyd Comstock, Los
Angeles A. c.; Henry Schultz, Neb-
raska; George Bresnahan, Iowa; Steve
Farrell, Michigan; Harry Hillman,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-22
ARMY and NAVY
MEET SATURDAY
IN GRID GAME

NEW YORK, Nov. 81 R-With
the ancient rivalry of Yale and Har-
ward settled for another season, east
ern football turned today to other
climaxes on the 1927 calendar.
The clash of the service elevens--
Army and Navy--before another
mammoth crowd at the Polo Grounds
Saturday is, balanced by the battles
of Penn and Cornell, Columbia and
Syracuse, Brown and Colgate, Wash
ington and jefferson and West
Virginia, and Pittsburgh and Penn
State in time honored Thanksgiving
Day duels. New York university adds
the prime intersectional touch to the
day in a quarrel with Nebraska at
Lincoln.
While many of the major elevens
rested today from the "breathers'
that generally, marked last Saturday,
others settled right down to work
for the final contests of the year.
With Big John Lutz back at guard
and Martin Brill, star halfback, re-
covering from "a knee hurt, Coach
Lou Young of Penn has announced
his squad is in the best condition
of the season.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-22

Dartmouth; Johnny Magee, Bowdoin;
Eddie Farrell Harvard; Tom Keane,
syracuse; Mike Butler, Detroit; Harry
Gill, Illinois; Bart Sullivan, Holy
Gross; George Littlefield, Wisconsin;
Bill Kennedy, East Port Chester, Conn,
as marathon trainer; William Hay
ward. oregon Mike Ryan, Colby, and
Frank Kanaly, Maine.
In addition to those already listed
these awards of championship or
OLYMPIC trial GYentS we're approved
for 1928; Senior mems indoor track and
field championship, New York, in
March; national women'S outdoor
track and field championship, Chicago,
June or July at Soldier field; women S
Olympic track and field tryouts, New
York, week after nationals; national
Io-mile run, Connecticut association
Junior cross country, Cincinnati; sem
ior cross country, New York; national
gymnastics and Olympic trials, New
York, May; national wrestling and
OLYMPIC trials, Grand Rapids, Mich
June or July; national mems senior
indoor swimming and Olympic water
polo trials, Chicago; national senior
women's indoor swimming, Buffalo, N
Y; mems senior outdoor swimming
and Olympic diving trials, San Fran
cisco, June; mems senior long dis
tance swimming, ST. Louis; mems
team swimming, Washington, d. c.;
mems Olympic tryoutS and nationa
diving championships, Detroit; wom-
ems Olympic tryouts, New York.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-22

have disbanded, while the gridiron en-
thusiasts of the middle west turned
their attention to the Notre Dame
Southern California game here Sat-
urday, the first intersectional strug-
gle in which a California team has
invaded this section SO late in the
season
The triumph of the Illini tits fall
was one of the dramatic surprises OF
football. Loss of their greatest stars
of last year caused them to be count
ed out by the sideline experts, when
Jake Lanum and Frosty Peters fail
ed to return to school, Several play
ers who might have gained stardom
were sacrificed to make successful
season for the team instead of an all
American player out of one or two.
The Risman big ten trophy, award
ed the conference winner under the
Dickinson rating system, was presented
to the Illinois team today at a special
convocation of the university
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-22

it will be just for tI~ encouragement
of sport.
Jett is in fine trim. The dope sheet
indicates that he has trained to a
hair trigger condition and the battle
should be fast and full of ginger.
Battling Hicks is nimble man on
his feet and moves his head and body
out of the way while he works his
brains. The pair look to be well
matched. Hicks is a conner and If
Jett stops him the proceeding will be
worth paying to see,
Tickets are on sale at the post ex-
change at camp and may be secured
there There will be reserved seats
and the ring side positions and gen.
eral admission SO that theife is a
choice of vantage points. The curtain
raisers will be dragged out at 7:30
o'clock.
Parson Pace of Company A of the
twentyfifth will put on the 1nittens
with Tubby Shelby in special event
for fat men, This is expected to fea-
ture the science of body blows
Spike Riley will fight Bear Cat Rob-
inson at $50 and 1856 pounds, respec-
lively. These men are veterans Of the
ring and will play to their audience.
Speed Ball Rogers will face Kid Lee
across the arena. Local fans are bet
ting that he won't face him long, but
Speed Ball says he will stay with him.
Kid Lee has appeared on good box
ing cards before and carrys a mean
wallop and is hard to connect with.
The semi final will show Kid White of
Douglas waltzing into Jack Beaver
from the coast. Beaver weights 148
pounds against 140 for White. Both
men are known here and the fans ex-
pect this battle to go some distance.
The card looks good and as it Is the
first fistic event staged in this district
for long time the fans are edging in
for the paste boards and reaching
down for some loose change to place
on their favorite mitt singers.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-22
VOLUNTARYNON- suit TERMINATES
KEARNS SUIT AGAINST DEMPSEY

smell like altar of roses"
Lengthy argument followed the
making of this motion, counsel for
Dempsey charging that Sager had
made his charges, unsupported by
affidavits, solely for the newspapers,
and that Kearns never had the
case brought to trial, but hoped by
keeping it hanging over Dempsey's
head to force him to make settle
mellt cut of court.
Driscoll asserted that Dempsey
never would settle, even if it could
be done for one cent. Another de-
fense lawyer questioned Sagers re-
mark that he had 25 years of service
at the bar and Sager rose in anger,
tears glistening on his cheeks, TO de-
fend his reputation
At this point Judge Runyon plainly
indicated he intended to declare a
mistrial, not because he believed there
had been any guilt but because
"theSe charges having been made, the
finger of suspicion would inevitably
be pointed in some quarters at the
jury and even at the court"
Sager FASTENED to assure the judge
ne naQ not III any way lnCeLQ0Q 10
convey the impression he believed
the court had connived with plain
tiff attorneys to provide time for the
plaintiff to influence the verdict, but
had aimed his charges entirely at
the defense. The judge then ordered
the alternative of voluntary nom
suit, and both sides accepted, Sager
stipulating that it be understood such
acceptance did not in any way affect
the case, merely the trial.
The Dempsey -Kearns contract was
made in 1923 in accordance with the
regulations OF the New York state
boxing commission. The next year
Dempsey, who had recently. married
Estelle Taylor, movie actress, and
Kearns severed business connections.
Kearns alleged, however, that the
contract still held and that under It's
terms he was due one third of all
Dempsey made. Dempsey held that
the contract never had been anything
but a scrap of paper, to satisfy the
boxing commission, and was termin-
able at will. The case has been
buffeted from court to court and
actually came to trial for the first
time last week in the civil side OF
the United States district court here.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-22
ILLINOIS v | N S
BIG TEN CROWN
WITH NO STARS

CHICAGO, Nov. lP)-4The tf'star-
less" football team of Illinois tonight
reaped the reward of the victorious
1927 season at the annual football
banquet closing their training period.
Coach Robert @. szuppKe called them
the best bunch of fellows he had ever
had among the many good squads he
had coached at Illinois in Is, years.
western conference championship at
Champaign, the University of Mime
sofa team gloried in their decisive VIC
tory. over Michigan and declined, IN
the words of President Lotus D. Coff-
man, to see any tie existing in the
title situation because Minnesota was
also unbeaten.
Other conference football squads
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-22
BLOODY BATTLE
COMING AT CAMP
PLOT REVEALS

Fight fans are likely to get an eye
full on Thursday night at the Camp
Jones service club when, under the
auspices of 1t. Luongo. the camp ath-
letic officer, a high class boxing card
will be staged for the benefit of the
camp athletic fund.
The card features WhiriWind Jett
of Douglas at $50 pounds in the ring
for the main event with Battling Hicks
of Nogales, five pounds heavier than
Jett These boys are fighters. Jett
has long record for K. Os. He has
made many good boy kiss the canvas
in the first round, and says that if he
lets the fight Thursday go any further
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-22

NEWARK, N. j., Nov. 81 CP-One
of a pair of Jacks called the other
a knave today, and the ensuing up
roar completely obliterated, at least
for the time being, the $333,393,33
damage suit against Jack Dempsey,
former heavyweight champion, by
Jack Kearns, his erstWl1ile manager,
for breach of contract.
After counsel for Kearns had
charged Dempsey and his lawyers
with deliberately framing" the court,
and Tex Rickard, boxing promoter,
with having boasted that he had the
case ''in the bag" both sides agreed
to end the trial in voluntary
non-suit," a polite form of mistrial
carrying no connotations of guilt
Counsel for Kearns announced the
case would be brought to trial again
as soon as possible, but Dempsey's
lawyers intimated legal obstacles
would be found in the path OF such
action and chuckled Kearns had ur1"
Intentionally got himself "up Salt
creek without paddle" and would
have a hard time getting back into
the legal stream.
Today's session of the trial was
brief. but it was one of the most
dramatic court scenes of the year.
It began late, the judge being delayed,
but once under way it sizzled with
speed. 1t was marked by shouts,
threats, taunts, tears and TRADES.
Several times physical conflict was
narrowly averted. aaE
The trial had been put over to
today from the middle of last week.
after jury selection and opening state
mentS had been completed on the
statement of Arthur DriScoll, chief
counsel for Dempsey, that he was
suffering from grippe. The adjourn
ment was made over objection Of
Kearns.
When court opened, Arthur Sager,
chief counsel for Kearns, requested
the jury be sent from the room and
when they had filed out, said: what
I have to say, your honor, is against
the wishes of my client, the plain
tiff KearnS, but we, his lawyers, have
overruled him.
Last week this case, was adjourned
after Mr. DriScoll had delivered a
most energetic opening address He
pleaded Sickness, though he was to
all appearance in the most robust
health. The adjournment was granted
over our protest and our subsequent
demand that a juror be withdrawn
and a mistrial was refused
IT now charge that since that time
the defendant Dempsey has been
travelling about the state trumping
up public sentiment for HIMSELF ne
has appeared at political meetings
and mas talked over the tair.s I
charge his attorney with most un-
ethical action in arranging this post
ponement. charge his spiritual adj
visor, George L. Rickard, with having
openly boasted that he had the trial
in the bag"
AT this point the court was thrown
into an uproar by Richards jumping
to his feet and shouting: You're a
contemplate liar!e' Rickard was
pulled back into his chair as Sager
continued.
"Your honor" Sager said, "1 move
for withdrawal OF a juror ard de-
claration of a mistrial because if
this trial is not halted such scandal
will develop because of the actions
of this defendant, these lawyers and
this George L. Rickard, whose sinister
shadow has been cast over this court
room, that by comparison the actions
of the Burns jury shadowing de-
tectives in the Fall Sinclair trial will
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-22
ASK APPRovAL OF SALE

PHOENIX, aNoV.y2l tP)--ApprOVal Of
an agreement involving $26,50O be-
tween the Mountain States Telephone
and Telegraph company and the l. A.
Van Dyke telephone service of Miami,
for the sale and transfer of the prop
erty of the Van Dyke company to the
Mountain States company is asked in
a joint application filed by both COM
panies with the Arizona corporation
commission today.
The Pleasantville press., 1927-01-14

tanning of pontoon bridge for the
period OF nine months for the sum OF
Thirty-Six Thousand Dollars tS36.000)
and the sum of Nine Hundred Fifty
Dollars ($950.00) per week thereafter
so long as said pontoon bridge may be
required; said pontoon bridge to be
erected and maintained for the pur-
pose OF assisting in the building of the
main bridge and as u detour for trav-
el during the period of construction OF
the main bridge.
NOW. THEREFORE,, BE 1T RE-
SOLVED by the Board of Chosen
Freeholders of the County of Atlantic
that this Board does hereby latify
and confirm the action of the Board
of Chosen Freeliolders of the County
of Atlantic, as provided in the Iesolu-
ton above retited as having been
passed on the 29th day of December,
1926. and does hereby authorize the
issue, execution and sale of said bonds
as in said resolution provided.
The foregoing resolution was adopt
ed by the Board of Chosen Freehold :
crs of the County of Atlantic on the
3rd day of January, 1927. Permanent
bonds authorized thereby will be is
sued and delivered after the 2Sth day
of February. 1927, and any suit, action
said resolution must be taken within
twenty (20) days after the publication
of this notice.
f. w. WILLETTS,
Prs fee. s696. Clerk.
The Pleasantville press., 1927-01-14

aoos ,erebv determine and declare
goes uoes ucIeny Iel'5i,;,, p,atters.
the ioiloWlli5 dI'at 1,e ,sefulness is thirty
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improvements OF lhe 1ouiII 10" Lti,,.eo " next
lantic computed upon ny ,;cIns IN tbc
preceding assesSea 9ta "a Ets,ifa Sor.fion I2 Chap
ter 252 of the Laws Oh I9io 70 @-'1'
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Atlantic. computed in the manner pro,
vided in Section, IL of the M3reSald ..lt
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by this resolution TO be ISSUED Is Fi'-
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The Pleasantville press., 1927-01-14
@o Much Efficiency
By E.JGCs!SSs:s0Rah

why, she never knew; but she pre-
sumed that he stored personal papers
there. She had never taken the least
interest in the contents of the
drawer.
But so long as it was open. she
decided to make an examination.
Pulling it all the way out, she cx.
plored the contents. On top of a
pile of papers. she found fat
leatherbound book. 1t took but a
glance to identify it as diary. and
the writing on it's pages was in the
familiar hand of II. Hedge.
Nothing Is more wickedly fascinat-
ing than to read somebody else's
diary, in the original. and to realize
that you are probably the first in
truder. Constance's conscience
tugged gently at her elbow. but she
ignored it's reminder. although she
was conscious Of it. Curiosity, one
The Pleasantville press., 1927-01-14

.Ic,,e of registration as TO principal on
lv. or upon surrender of all the cou-
mons may be fully registered as to
both principal and interest, and that
they lie sold upon sealed proposals at
ter due advertisement according to
law. and that no more bonds shall be
sold than win produce the sum equal
to Five Hundred Eighty-two Thous-
and Dollars (s5S2, ,00o-00l and an addl,
Dollars Isl 900. 00). That they recite
that they arc issued pursuant to Chap
ter 252 OF the Laws of 1916. and tho
various amendments Thereon ana sup
plcments thereto, and that me prS0o pSo
ceeds are to be used 10 uelray tnu
cost OF rtcolls.rHetr5 t,.i.isr ,,,!,,,oi,tp In
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The Pleasantville press., 1927-01-14

Public notice is hereby given that
the Township Committee of Egg Har-
Dor Township County of Atlantic and
Seventh day of March, 1927, at 7.30
o'clock, in the evening, Egg Harbor
Township, New Jersey, at which time
and place they win consider the final
passage of the following ordinance:
AN ORDINANCE to vacate certain
streets. avenues, highways or por-
tions thereof, situate in the Town
ship of Egg Harbor Township. in the
County of Atlantic and State of New
Jersey.
Be 1t Ordained by the Township
Committee of the Township of Egg
lfarbor Township, State OF New Jer-
Sey:
/. That all streets. avenues, high
ways or portions thereof in the town
ship of Egg Harbor Township with
the exception of such portion of We