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imiil Ifl fP A LOCAL WEATHER Showers and thunderstorm tonight and tomorrow; cooler tomor-rovr afternoon and night; moderate, winds, mostly southerly. Min. temperature for 24 hours .57 Temperature at 12 noon 86 The Paper Thar Is Read In The Home Complete Associated Press Wire News Service 28 PAGES TWO SECTIONS PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY, EDITION June 3. 1S84. Satab ished May 10 1..

ffeJEstablishcd October 8. 1891 Spendi ing of $253,510 Couple Is Married 53 Years By City Up to May 1 United Corp. Hookup With Morgan's Firm Revealed to Probers Howard Testifies Unit Holds interest in Companies Doing 22 Pet. of Nation's Electric, Gas Business Public Service Included Shown by Deardorff Preservation of Life and Property Still Heaviest Item-Debt Service Approximates Streets and Sewers Cost Shift Due June 1 Disbursements of the city to May 1 amounted to 67, according to a statement prepared by Ross R. Deardorff supervisor of municipal finances.

Appropriations for year amounted to $1,244,410.82, leaving an unexpended Unce of $990,900.15. Disbursements for the preservation of life and property, for the first four months of 1933, amounted to $118,562.28. police Department salaries and wages amounted to $46,122.55. rnr maintenance and repairs expenditures were $2,22.43. Washington (IF) Testimony that the United whose books are kept in the office of J.

P. Morgan and Company, holds an interest in utility operating companies that do a large percentage of the gas and electric business of the nation was given today to Senate investigators. George Howard, president of the United a utilities stock holding concern testified as to its organization in which it acquired stock in various utilities at $12,000,000 less than market value from the Morgan banking partnership and in turn the huge bank obtained a controlling interest in the Mr. nn A hfw All, owt i hrated the 53rd anniversary Roosevelt Decides U. S.

Should Repeal Gold Standard Law Washington (JP) President Roosevelt has decided that the United States should go off the gold standard by statute. He today requested Chairman Steagall of the House Banking Committee to introduce a resolution to place the United States off the standard by law. The Alabama Democrat conferred with the President at Relinquishes Post After seven years as president of the Historical Society of Plain-field and North Plain field, Howard M. Canoune, above, last night resigned that position and was elected vice president. Dudley Quits Relief Berth For Politics The Coarier-Nswi Elizabeth Bureau ElizabethCol.

John H. M. Dudley, deputy director In charge of administration work in the emergency relief system of Union County, today announced his resignation from that post. The resignation fs effective June 1. He was former acting relief director in Plainfield.

Colonel Dudley said: Tt has been deemed necessary that no man running for elective office should hold executive office in the emergency relief organization." He has served 20 days less than 1 year. Colonel Dudley was nominated at the Primary Election the Republicans as a candidate for the Board of Freeholders, 1-year term. He will re-engage in architectural work pending the result of the November election. Means Sentenced Washington (JP) Gaston B. Means and Norman T.

Whitaker were sentenced today to serve jail sentences of two years each for conspiracy to defraud Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean of $35,000 in a Lindbergh baby hoax. Decoration Day Specials. Dresses in pastal shades and beautiful organdie frocks. Jean-Dor Frocks, 208 E.

Front opp. Strand Theater. Adv. 26 I -MX Mfi New President Henry W. Elson, historian, author, teacher and lecturer, sue ceeds Howard M.

Canoune as president of the Historical Society of Plainfield and North Plainfield. Elson Succeeds H. M. Canoune In Presidency Howard M. Canoune retired as president of the Historical Society of Plainfield and North Plainfield at the annual meeting last evening after filling the office for seven years.

He was chosen first vicepresident to succeed Dr. Henry W. Elson, who was elevated to the presidency. Other officers were re-elected. They are: Second Vicepresident, A.

Van Doren Honeyman; secretary, Mrs. Edward V. French; treasurer, Mrs. Frank Dexter Bennett. Miss Augusta W.

Berrien and Charles S. Cook were elected trustees of the society. The five officers and Orra S. Rogers were reelected trustees. The officers are elected by the trustees, who are chosen by the members for 3-year terms.

Dr. Elson and A. Clinton Wilmer-ding spoke in the highest terms of Mr. Canoune and the way he had filled the presidency. He was urged to continue in the office but declined.

In spite of the depression and the loss of a number of members the society closed the year in excellent financial shape, Mr. Canoune stated today. Join" the merry party. Beer Stube opening Satuiday, Winter's Grove Restaurant, Bonnie Burn Road, Scotch Plains; orchestra music for dancing; entertainers. Adv.

26 FJNAL Roosevelt Plan Imperiled by TaxRevelation Revolt Against Higher Tax When Wealthiest Pay None Thunders Around Capitol Hill Washington (JP) Congressional revolt against Imposing higher income taxes when some of the country's wealthier men have been paying none, imperiled today the Roosevelt public works program and spurred hasty plugging of tax law holes. The revelation of the Morgan in quiry, especially that the partners of the celebrated banking firm paid no income tax during the two hardest years of the depression, poured a stream of protests from back home upon a Congress. The pressure reached its highest tensity in the House which had up for passage before nightfall, the public works-industrial control bill carrying a new schedule of high income taxes. The tax protest was mingled with a block of opposition to suspending anti-trust laws-necessary to the industrial program for combinations to boost prices, cut production and raise wages promising the measure the stiffest opposition yet faced by a Roosevelt bilL The party leaders had to work their hardest but were confident of victory after hastily deciding to amend the bill to prevent holders of securities, such as the Morgan partners, from carrying over part of a year's losses to cancel the income tax they would otherwise pay the next year. The reaction already had hastened Senate passage of the Glass bank reform bill, a measure which will strip J.

P. Morgan and Company of much of its power by the tight limits it puts on private banking houses. In both houses too had burst out speeches demanding the resignations of Secretary Woodin of the Treasury, of Norman H. Davis, the ambassador-at-large managing the European end of Roosevelt foreign policy, and of Dean Acheron, undersecretary of the Treasury. The names of Woodin and Davis were among the many on the Morgan favored lists of men sold stocks below the public price, and Acheson's name has also figured in the in quiry because of his previous busi- nes affiliations.

Davis was a borrower from Morgan. -The Administration appeared resolved to ride out this tide, deter mined to keep its valued officials, and it stood pat on the new high income taxes to finance the public works bond issue. Tennis Courts Open Tonight Two of the old Park Club tennis courts in Washington Avenue will be opened for public play this eve ning, Recreation Director Roy O. Schlenter announced today. The third Park Club court will be ready about the middle of next week and the Emerson School courts as well, Mr.

Schlenter said. New backstops have been erected at the Maxson School courts and the Park Club courts. The Maxson courts, Mr. Schlenter asserts, present a better playing surface than the excellent courts of the Westfield Tennis Club. A covered drainage ditch has been constructed at the Maxson courts.

Mr. Schlenter says that with a charge of 10 cents an hour per player this year more players have used the courts so far than used them to this date last year when they were free. He has received only three objections to the charge, he said. There were two telephone calls and one letter. When the season first opened the courts were open to use without charge from 8 until 11 a.

m. The free period has been changed to 3 to 5 p. m. until school vacation begins, when it will be shifted back to the morning hours. There will be no free period on the International Motor Company and Park Club courts, however.

MARIE PARIS ALL GIRL REVUE NEW SENSATION AT OXFORD A company of twenty girls in one of the best stage shows of the year will be seen at the Oxford tonight through Sunday. Twenty gorgeous beauties with the Musical Sweethearts, an all girl band of soloists. A song and dance A laughing Adv. 26 Free Study of Stars (On the Screen) Study of celestial space3 and especially of the stars as a cure for "the blues' has been recommended by Dr. Robert G.

Aitken, director of Lick Observatory. To lick the blues that seems to be a correct observation. Though uncertain about celestial spaces, we guarantee that th Btars can be studied any matinee or evening except Saturdays and holidays at the Oxford, Paramount or Strand theater to your heart's content by yourself and any one other person you wish to invite and the tickets will not cost you a penny if you find your name in a specially written ad among The Courier-News' classified ads. If you do, call at this office for two complimentary tickets. FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1933 in; TT7 i.

i rr rsi ljlgiun Jll tt wno CtrlC- of their wedding this week. a part of President Roosevelt's emergency relief program." In addition, Steagall said the law would make it unnecessary for President Roosevelt to devaluate the gold dollar under the inflation provisions of the farm relief act. Steagall termed the measure one of the greatest steps toward stabilizing money tn the United States. All legal money under this act, he asserted, would meet all obligations payable in gold. Chairman Fletcher of the Senate Banking Committee wiU introduce an identical resolution in the Senate.

Early hearings will be held and Steagall expects action to come in both Congressional branches next weelc Drama Tourney Closes Tonight With 2 Plays 'Senior Contest Gets Good Start When Three Dramas Are Presented In High School The Senior Little Theater Drama Tournament opened with a bang last evening when three senior groups staged three dramas, all good selections and presented in such fashion as to create keen competition and a warning to the final two groups taking the boards tonight at the high school. The Congregational Players raised the curtain with "Mariposa Bung," a drama on pirate life by Eric Forbes Boyd. Harriet Hubbard directed and the cast included Gilbert Ball, Doris Prudhon, Wilbur Hogg, Robert Gregg and William Prudhon. The Negro History Club was second on the program, presenting a drama based upon plantation life of the South and written by John Matheus. The play was directed by Mrs.

Carmen Pois Steele. In this number appeared Mrs. Viola Fox of Dunellen, a new member of the group who presented a brilliant performance as Granny. The full cast included Russel Carpenter, Mrs. Charles T.

Barnes, William Powell and Mrs. Fox. The first half of the senior tournament closed with a presentation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Sire de Maletroit's Door," a drama of vengeance in the 15th century. The play was directed by Dorothy Jroth and the cast comprised Dorothy Troth, Harriet Hubbard, Wallace H. McKay, Mitchell Trabilsy, Kath-erine Smith, Daphne Doane and Paul H.

Troth Jr. Tonight the Proscenium Players, winners of the Little Theater Trophy last year, when it was first entered in competition, and the High School Dramatic Club will bring the tournament to a close. This is the ninth annual tourney staged by the Recreation Commission. Judges for the tournament are Jack Marco, Effingham Pinto and Charlotte Grauert. No decision was given last evening, the judges withholding their reports until tonight RYAN Of, SHIELDS OUT Auteuil, France (JP) Elizabeth Ryan, former Californian, and her French partner, Mme.

Rene Ma-thieu, today advanced "io the final round of women's doubles in the French hard court tennis championships, defeating Josane Sigart, Belgium, and Margaret Scriven, England, 7-5, 6-2. Frank Shields, former U. S. Davis cup player, and Daniel Prenn, German champion, were eliminated in a quarterfinal match of men's doubles by the Australian youngsters, Adrian Quist and Vivian McGrath, S-6. 4-6, 6-1.

6-3. THREE CENTS United Corporation. Answers Readily Submitting readily to questions by Ferdinand Pecora; the committee counsel, Howard painstakingly told how three 'days after the United Corp. was formed, it obtained from Morgan such stock in Mohawk, Hudson Power; the United Gas Improvement Company und Public Service of New Jersey. In turn, the United Corp.

was authorized to issue a total capital stock of 13,000,000 shares consisting of 1,000,000 first preferred, 2,000,000 preference shares and 10,000,000 common. His words being followed closely -by J. P. Morgan and other of tho Morgan partners, Howard told the crowded room ho first preferred had been issued, but 600,000 of the $3 preference stock had been issued and also 800,000 shares of common, all being taken by Morgan. The firm also received 714,000 option warrants entitling it to buy that number of common stock shares at $27.50 a share.

"Each share had one vote," Howard said. had control?" Pecora asked. P. Morgan and Howard returned, while Senators behind the long committee table leaned over to hear. Howard said the 800,000 shares of common stock gave control without the exercise of the option warrants for common stock.

Pecora asked who the executive (Please Turn to Page 15) Society Flier Weds Mrs. Aline Rhonie, Hofheimer Heiress; New York (JP) Mrs. Aline Rhonie, 23, an artist, of Long Acre Farm, Mountain Boulevard, War-renville, N. and Reginald Lang-home Brooks, aviator and nephew, of Lady Astor, were married yesterday by Deputy Clerk Philip A. Hines in the Municipal ChapeL Brooks was critically injured last fall when his plane hit a telegraph, pole while he was flying upside down at the aviation Country Club, Hicksville, L.

I. Mrs. Rhonie was divorced from her first husband in Nevada Oct. 22, 1930. She was born in York, the daughter of the late Arthur Hofheimer.

The bride is a prominent aviatrix. She owns her cwn plane and holds a transport pilots' license. She also is known as a horsewoman. Mr. and Mrs.

Brooks are not planning a wedding trip. They expect to make their home at 360 East Fmy-fifth Street, N. Y. C. The bride was formerly the wife of L.

Richard Bamberger, a broker of New York City. They were divorced in Washoe County, Nev, in 1930, whereupon Mrs. Bamberger changed her name to Aline Rhonie, taking her own middle name for surname. She attended the Dalton School in New York. Wedding Gift Movies of the wedding, taken by F.

R. Mortimer. Boise's, EL Front 20 St. Adv. The program opened with the entire band playing" the march, "Columbian, Clarence J.

Andrews, director of music in the Plainfield High School, conducting, followed by Plainfielders rendering "Fond Hearts," a serenade, Mr. Andrews directing. The balance of the program was as follows: "The Royalist," overture, directed by Virgil Bork of Roselle; "Roses and Orchids," waltz, and "Loyalty," march, directed by Herman Toplansky of Elizabeth; "Mooning," serenade, and "Royal Hussars' march. Jack VanBrederode of Cranford, con ducting. "The Royal Emblem," overture, directed by John T.

Nicholson ot Union; A clarinet ensemble, "Tempo di Ballo," arranged by Arthur H. Brandenburg of Elizabeth, and. "Fidelity," march, directed by Mr. Brandenburg; "Morning Tears," serenade, and "Apollo," march, Joseph Schaedel of Summit, conducting. "Belle Isle," waltz, directed by Herman Meir of Scotch Plains; "Homestretch," gallop, directed by Theodore S.

Hoops of Roselle Park; "Friendship," mazur-ka, and "Centaur," march, directed by A. Dwight Brown of Plainfield; "The Buglers," overture, William Warner of Westfield, conducting, The program closed with the entirt band playing "The Star-Spangled Banner." Nurses School Graduates 24; omas Capacity Gathering Sees Honors Awarded Leighton Calkins and Rev. Moment Speak Diplomas and school pins were presented to 24 young women and prize awards uade at the 38th. anniversary and graduation exercises of the Training School for Nurses, Muhlenberg Hospital, last night in Crescent Avenue Presbvterian Church House. The auditorium was filled to more than capacity by parents and friends of the graduates and hospital, when the seniors, pupil nurses, medical and nursing staffs ai-d members of the Board of Governors and Ladies Auxiliary entered.

The processional was led by Leighton Calkins, president of the Board of Governors, and Miss Marie Louis, superintendent of the hospital, and other officials. Miss Winifred Whitney and her staff accompanied the pupil nurses. After invocation by the Rev. Robert B. Rock, assistant minister of the Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church, Mr.

Calkins on behalf of the Board of Governors gave an address of welcome. "The hospital was opened 52 years ago, on Dec. 1, 1881, in a small frame building in West Third Street, called Muhlenberg Place," said Mr. Calkins. "It was built and equipped for $7,000.

From that day to this the doors of the hospital have never been closed to those in need of its services, of whatever creed, color or nationality. In that fir small building we were lighted with kerosene lamps. Water was pumped by hand from a well behind. In the first year of operation only 40 patients were treated. We n' ft take care of 5,000 patients an nually in the wards and private rooms and including the out-services we treat 24,000 patients a year.

"In every department we are equipped for the best medical care that can be provided. And through all the years we have had no other purpose than to serve to the limit of our capacity and skill. No patient has ever been refused because of inability to pay. Reviews Advances "You know, in the early days, hos- pitals were crude. They were places of last resort for people without homes or with home unsuited for people seriously ill.

Nobody went to a hospital who could afford to stay out. Hospitals were dreaded. In the minds of most people it was almost as bad as going to the poor house. It was not so much that hospitals were poorly run, for that day and generation. We just hadn't gotten used to them.

We shrank from the very idea. "There has been a tremendous change in the character of hospitals in the last half century. The advance in medical science, and in sanitation, too, has been such that today hospitals no longer are (Please Turn to Page 16.) City Council Meets Today At the city clerk's office early this afternoon it was stated that one more application for a temporary beverage license was expected before evening. In case the application is received it be presented for action at an adjourned session of the Common Council this evening, it was further stated. The adjourned session was arranged primarily to pass upon emergency relief matters.

An answer is expected from the State Emergency Relief Administration in regard to a question of financing which has been pending most cf the month. On it depends whether sewer construction will be continued on anything like the present scale after June 1. The question of temporary beverage licenses will probably come up at a meeting of the Finance Committee preceding the meeting of the Council. Up until noon today the city clerk's office had not received a copy of the act vt-hich is said to provide that municipalities cannot charge an additional fee for licenses issued for the period from May 25 to July 1. The city has already issued 36 renewals and 27 new licenses for that period at $20 each.

A new licensing arrangement may be necessary in connection with 27 new licenses. Convalescent -Recovering from an attack of apoplexy, Charles S. Sminck of 515 West Seventh Street, is expected home soon from Bridgeport, Conn. Mr. Sminck was stricken a month ago and has been confined since then to a Bridgeport hospital.

Memorial Day Plants, Evergreens for the cemetery plot. The Garden Market See adv. page 25. Adv. 26 In Today's Courier-News American Lefrion Notes 10 Classified Ads.

Comics Ptr 8 Cross-Word Pnssls 84 Diet and Health 83 Dorothy Dix aa Editorial Historic aold Posts Obituary 87 Pattern Service 22 Badio 17 Serial Story 23 Sports -l-19 Sunday School Lessons 18 Women's Pages GetDipl j. Fire Department Costs Fire Department salaries and wages amounted to $42,618.19 and maintenance and repairs to $2,513.08. The new emergency suuiiu. uutu tost pension fund Fire and police payments totaled 000. For the signal system fire, police and traffic expenditures amounted to $3,139.74.

For fire Mdrant service the expenditure Ms $16,647.79. For traffic lights road markings there was ex pended $2S8. For streets, highways and sewers disbursements amounted to The Streets and Sewers Department cost $19,155.48 and street lighting cost $17,313.15. The city paid $2,969.56 toward operation of tie joint sewage disposal plant, and Shade Tree Commission expenses amounted to $1,324.69. Debt service disbursements were almost as much as for streets, highways and sewers, totaling $40,358.13.

Itterest payments on general bonds amounted to $13,412.50, on improvement and assessment notes to and on emergency relief notes to $1,488.79. School bonds me paid in the sum of $4,000 and general bonds in the sum of $7,000. For health, charities and courts 'he city paid out $15,583.84. Board (Health expenditures were dog pound expenditures $434.63 md Poor Department expenditures 3433. Muhlenberg Hospital was Kid $4,758.75 of its $10,000 approbation and the Charity Organiza-ion Society received $250 of its $500 Hmropriation for combatting tuber-tSwsa.

City Court expenditures Em(OToted to $1,380.67. Tax Costs "For the assessment and collection of taxes expenditures were J14.159.49. The total is made up as follows: Tax Department, Board of Assessors, Department of Finance, interest on tax notes, discount on 1933 taxes, $112.96. Administrative and executive expenditures amounted to $6,299.44. For salaries and wages payments were $4,857.71.

Office expenses and (Please Turn to Page 16) Dropped onlloneymoou, Scotch Plains Druggist Is Given Divorce Decree Newark Advisory Master Doug-tl Herr yesterday granted a decree of divorce to Earl T. Mielke, druggist of Park Avenue, Scotch Plains, who contended his wife made him return home alone after a 10-day honeymoon in Canada. His wife, Mrs. Nina Mielke, New York, did not contest the action. According to Mielke's mother, ho also testified, Mielke's wife was Eussian-born and had admitted to her that she had married merely to obtain citizenship papers.

They were married in August. 1930. KATHERINE HEPBURN IX "CHRISTOPHER STRONG" PREVIEW PARAMOUNT TONIGHT The Paramount will have another those big show values tonight. Attend before 9:00 and see the pre-tow plus Mae West in "She Done Him Wrong." Adv. 26 On the eve of his departure as President of the Central Railroad New Jersey, R0y B.

White of 955 wder Avenue, was given a tes-ial dlner by 400 officials and mployes of the company last night. affair held in the Newark Elks Club. wJ duties president of iveni Uni0n Telegraph and "brilliant ltor ite was born in Illinois in in l9oo entered railroad service aent ffWgraph operator and and tr Indianapolis, Decatur thereafp Raill-oad. Shortly teher became train dis" tonanlr, ihe Cincinnati. Hamil-la fayton Railroad Company, and nhii16611 to tne Baltimore ent Railrad as superintend-by stL 111 He advanced step in 1926 he was elected EailrL president the Central yai va of New Jersey, later that becomins- it, rrPirfnt A ft was presented to Mr.

White sa trir3 Jersey Central associates in of ther admiration and "Fi-reciation of his friendship. Street 917 West Seventh Sirecto man the board 0f the ISJ acted as toastmaster and Shrlver included George M. taltiT Benior vicepresident of the more and Ohio Railroad. F. E.

Associates in Give the White House. Later he called newspapermen to his office and read a copy of the resolution which he said "declares the United States is off the gold standard by statute. Tt repeals the 'Gold Standard Steagall said. Adding that under the resolution, no bonds, no obligations of the federal government and no obligations of any form would have to be paid in gold or gold currency upon the enactment of the measure. He said it would be possible for the foreign debtors to pay the United States their war debts in any legal money.

"This bill frees the United States from the obstacles and handicaps of the gold standard," he declared. "It is an administration bill and N. Y. Stirred To New War On Gangsters Killing Staged Even as O'Brien Calls Police Heads to Demand Stif er Enforcement I New York (JP) Racket bosses grown so bold that they send their killers forth to do battle under Broadway's bright lights stirred New York to a new drive on gangs today. Mayor John P.

O'Brien called In the police commissioner and the five district attorneys in the city, and demanded more backbone in enforcing the law. Even as he spoke, racketmen were riding another foe to death. Unlike Wednesday night's battle of Broadway, when two women and one man fell before "bullets big enough to kill an the latest killing occurred in the byways of Brooklyn. John Friscia, linked by police with the rich slot-machine racket, was done to death in an automobile, and flung into the street. He was described as a pal of George Kennedy, shot to death Tuesday night with Kitty O'Brien, a showgirl, in a Long Island apartment.

Strife in the slot-machine racket was blamed for this shooting, too, and detectives surmised Friscia died because he knew who committed the murders. Detectives are proceeding on the theory that fight was another episode in the enmity between Dutch Schultz, fugitive beer boss from the Bronx, and Waxey Gordon, who ruled the outlaw beer trade over much of New Jersey until federal men caught him recently on a charge of dodging income taxes on a millionaire's wealth. Detectives from Elizabeth, N. came here to investigate a belief the Broadway shooting was connected with the killing at an Elizabeth hotel of Waxey Gordon's lieutenants, Max Hassel and Max Greenberg. Plainfield on Watch Police departments of the metropolitan area, including Plainfield, have been asked to watch hospitals in their territory for the two men who escaped Wednesday night from Broadway gunmen.

Floersch-Reed Miss Ruth Reed of the Monday Afternoon Club tomorrow will become the bride of Peter Floersch, proprietor of the Park Hotel and for many years associated with the hotel business in Plainfield. The marriage will take place at 7 p. m. in the hotel, the Rev. E.

Vicars Stevenson, rector of Grace Episcopal Church, officiating. Only the immediate families will be present. Cold Beer, $2 per case; 6 bottles 50c plus 2c deposit. Central Jersey Distributing 309 Arlington Ave. Plainfield 6-S434 Adv.

26 Jersey Central Testimonial to Write More than 1,000 Hear Concert By 300 County School Artists Williamson, president of the New York Central Lines, Goldthwaite H. Dorr and Franklin W. Fort, all directors of the company; also C. H. Stein, assistant to the president, R.

W. Brown, vicepresident and general manager, and Col. W. V. Shipley passenger traffic manager.

Among the guests was Mr. White's father, J. M. White of Baltimore, Md. One special feature of the dinner was the use of a locomotive bell in place of a gavel.

At the close of the dinner the bell was presented to Mr. White as a memento. Hands In Resignation Mr. White resigned yesterday as president of the Central Railroad of New Jersey. He assumes the presidency of the Western Union Telegraph Company June 1.

He will continue with the railroad the rest of this month. Nothing was done at yesterday's meeting of the directors of the Jersey Central in reference to Mr. White's successor. The position probably will not be filled until the Reading Company has received a decision from the Interstate Commission and the Federal District Court on an application to remove its controlling interest in Jersey Central stock-from a trusteeship. If the application is granted, C.

IL Ewing, president of the Reading, is expected to become head of the line. Mountainside In a setting ideal for the occasion, the annual festival presented by a composite band of over 300 high school pupils, was heard by more than 1,000 persons at Echo Lake Park last evening. Instrumental music supervisors of the county conducted the band in the program numbers, players being from schools in Cranford, Plainfield, Linden, Garwood, Hillside, Roselle, Summit, Scotch Plains, Rahway, Union, Plainfield, Springfield, Elizabeth, Westfield and Roselle Park. The program was made possible through the interest and inspiration of Dr. A.

L. Johnson, county superintendent of schools, and the Union County superintendents and supervising principals, co-operating with the Union County Music Teachers' Association, of which Miss K. Elizabeth Ingalls of West-field, is president. The Music Teachers' Association Committee in charge of the event consisted of William H. Warner of Westfield, chairman; A.

Dwight Brown, Arthur H. Brandenburg, John T. Nicholson, and Ruth IC Swetland. The committee from the Supervising Principals' Association was made up of Frederic W. Cook, chairman; D.

A. Howell, I. T. Chapman, E. F.

Smith, A. G. Woodfield, Warren Halsey, John R. Dougall and John R. Patterson..