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Telephone Flaliifleld g-go-j" PAGE FOUR PLAINFIELD, N. COURIER-NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JANUAKx 31, i Claims Huge Fortune Trial Continues Deaths in Jersey JerseyBriefs Flashes of Life Union City Herman Holmquist, By Attociated Press 9, was killed when his toy wagon coasted down a hill and collided with a brewery truck. Demonstration Against Sales Tax Dwindles To Mere 3,000 (Continued from Page 1) Elizabeth The Rev. Dr. Clarence G.

Reynolds, 74, former pastor of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church here and minister to pa tients in veterans' hospitals, of an. gina pectoris. Summit Webster Comley Hoa2. land, 36, second vicepresident of the Guaranty Company of New York. Survived by his widow, a son and daughter.

on the proposed sales tax before the State Assembly in Trenton. Placards and tickets expressing their opposition to the tax were secured by the delegation" from the Plainfield Retail Trades Division at a protest headquarters which had been established near the Legislature. Representing the merchants were James H. Overman, Samuel Rosen-baum. Nelson T.

Boise, Henry M. Dreier. Foster W. Volk, John K. Nevius, James Miron, Thomas J.

Christenson, O. H. Hewit A. Wallace Zimmerman and William Hlrshorn. The merchants attended the hearing in a body but many other Plalnfielders were present singly.

i ilr i I Oy, Newark A budget, fixing expenditures at $10,411,047.97 of which $827,537.97 Is to be raised by taxation, was adopted for 1934 by the Essex County Board of Freeholders. The allotment for the prosecutor's office was cut from $150,000 to $145,000. Falrchance, Pa. Perhaps this groundhog did it bo he could be sure of having a shadow to see in the event the sun is shining on "Grounds hog Day," which is Friday. Anyway Mrs.

George Carr's pet groundhog emerged from its basement hibernation yesterday, ate a hurried meal and re-hibernated. The tradition is that if the groundhog sees his shadow on "Groundhog Day' he will go back for six more weeks of hibernation, secure in the knowledge that cold weather will last that much longer Punxsutawney, Pa. The three Yingling sisters will match any trio of sisters In total years. Mrs. Mary Yingling Michaels yesterday observed her 102d birthday.

A sister, Martha, who lives In Chicago, Is 100, and the "young-. est" sister, Matilda, of Clearfield County, Pa, Is 90. Total 292 years. Atlantic City The temperature dropped to 7.6 degrees, the coldest Jan. 30 since the establishment of Chicago As the police told it Benjamin Sullivan, 36, put his pan Girl Slightly Hurt In Auto Crash Here the Weather Bureau in 1872.

The normal temperaure. for the day is handling on a high plane. Long Branch Robert L. Gold-Btein of S. Goldstein Sons, cloth-Ing firm, of heart attack in his 45th year.

East OrangeObadiah W. Kitch-ell, 71. retired teacher in the Nor mal School, Plattsburg, N. Edward Sylvester Ferry, former minister of the Methodist Church and founder oj the firm of Edward S. Ferry Son.

New York insurance brokers, in his 76th year after a brief Illness. 32. Given soup in a restaurant, free of charge, he expressed, nis ou- pleasure, and upon being ejected, promptly hurled a bricK tnrougn me plate glass window. At another restaurant he was given soup, hut aemanaea cnicKen, and was arrested as he was about to pick up another brick. Atlantic City The cold weather was fortunately in favor of Mrs.

Catherine Gaven. Ill when fire broke out, In her home, she was rescued by two CWA workers, temporarily Idle oecause the low temperatures had forced them off their jobs. Ithaca, N. Y. The youngest college Instructor on record Is Blaster Tommy who was 20 days old when he took his job at Cornell University, and who today at the age of 60 days Is known as "the Master Tommy Is a baby, loaned to the college of home economics, to teach girls In the "practice house" how to become good mothers.

The "practice house" is an apartment, in which 6 to 12 girls live at a time. Each girl is "mother" to the baby for a week. The girls take this course to qualify for teaching. Newark George W. Jagle 66, for 50 years associated in the paint business with J.

J. Hockenjos Company here, after a 3-months' illness. 8 Estelle Ryan, 4, Jersey City, a passenger in an automobile in a collision Sunday at Leland Avenue and East Seventh Street, suffered injuries to her face and right eye and a bump on the head, her mother informed The Courier-News today. It was first reported she was not injured as she did not stay at Muhlenberg Hospital for treatment. Two other passengers in the car in which the child was riding, Vivian Hipsley and Florence Helmsdor-fer, also suffered minor injuries which were not immediately appar-ents.

Miss Helmsdorfer is walking lame and Vivian Hipsley suffered a bump behind the right ear and scratches on her face and hip. The Jersey City people were riding in a car operated by George Hipsley, that city. Miss Catherine Conradi, 120 West Eighth Street, this city, whose car was in collision with the automobile, escaped injury. nr- 7 groups largely, were directed to demands for government economy before more taxes. They were skeptical that the proposed 2 per cent sales tax would relieve the taxation burden on real estate and viewed it as only an additional license to municipal, county and state officials to spend more.

Robert Gulliver, of the State Building Loan League, expressed the sentiment of the opponents, asserting that "not until an adequate control has been set upand not until every practical opportunity for the elimination of unnecessary expenditures has been exhausted should the state consider new forms of taxation." opponents included the State Taxpayers Association, the New Jersey Building Loan League, municipal Chambers of Commerce, the State Retail Merchants Association, the State Federation of Labor and allied labor groups, the Jersey Pharmaceutical Association and the General Welfare League. The State Eankers Association, until the hearing, was reported favorable to the sales levy but Carl K. Withers, its president, stated that economies in municipal and state costs were advocated before "a more equitable distribution of the tax burden" was considered. S. S.

Kenworthy, secretary of the State League of Municipalities, braving hisses from the crowd, led the proponents of the proposal, declaring the state's taxing system archaic. x1 I Boone, la. With head up and mane flying, a horse named Mattie Patch raced around the track on the Grand Circuit in search of purse money and records. Thirteen years have elapsed since then and Mattie Patch, now 17 years old, today is pulling a coal wagon for her owner. A.

P. Alsin, a farmer. "She can still start a load," he says. Nicholas (Kicky) Delmore Delmore Hears Second Accused OfRaidMurder IS Eaton town Edward Havens, 43, World War veteran and CWA worker, collapsed and d'ed while chopping wood in his own His widow, Florence, and six children survive. Newark Charles F.

Lynch, receiver for the Henry Doherty Silk Company of Clifton, filed report with federal Judge Fake urging that the city of Clifton cut the company's 1932 taxes from $13,533 to $8,620. The plant Is to be sold Mar. 2 at auction under a federal order to meet a mortgage and factors' claim of more than $500,000. Hackensack Police Captain Nicholas Martini, 38, of Norwood, died of a heart attack at his home. Two More Organizations Associated Press Thoto Jen Nelson (above) of Pough-keepsie, N.

claim he i the legitimate ton of Albert Ridley of Fanwood, alain New York real estate operator, tie elo claim he it heir to Ridley' $4,000,000 estate Four Dead, Three Hurt As Trucks Crash While Rushing to Crass Fire Protest Skyway Ruling Trenton (JP) The Elizabeth Camden (JP) Nicholas Delmore, on trial for interfering with a federal officer at the time Prohibition Chamber of Commerce and the Traffic Club of Newark add their PLAINFIELD IEON AND METAL CO. dXB BTTSSEXt. Prop, rard, 15-ST WMbiartoa Avaat XL FUd -3109 or MO0 Dealers In Scrap Iron and Scrap Metals. Rubber. Raps and Paper Stock for sale.

All kinds of Structural Steel and Wiping Rags. Trenton (JP) A small grass fire Asent John Finiello was slain. indirectly cost the lives of four men protest to those of others against last night. Three others are in the Minister's. Story hrcard another man accused of the killing.

Delmore previously was acquitted of it Jersey City's ban of trucks on the Pulaski Skyway to the Holland Tun hospital. The Slackwood Volunteer Fire Sue for $13,000 The Courler-Newa Elizabeth Boreas, Elizabeth Mrs. Hazel M. em-be rt, 1324 Sunnyside Place, Plain-field, asks $10,000 damages and her husband, E. Wayne Rembert, wants $2,500 for loss of services and $500 for a smashed automobile in a Common Pleas Court suit filed here by Newcorn and Newcorn, Plain-field.

The defendants are the Plainfield Taxicab Company. North Avenue, Plainfield, and its driver. Savory Young. nel. Company responded- to an alarm The Traffic Club and the Eliza Robert E.

Young, who accompanied Finiello on the fatal raid at and the truck roared on toward the Brunswick Pike. Toward the inter Strengthens Moye For Ridley Funds New York The claim of Jens beth Chamber filed protests yester day with the State Highway Commission, which has already made clear to protestants that it has bo South Orange David Dodd Chandler, for many years active In state health work, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Joseph Bourquard. He was 79, a former Newark health officer and chairman of the Board of Examiners of Health Officers of the State Department of Health. section another truck, loaded with the Rising Sun Brewery in Elizabeth, N.

in 1930, testified yesterday that Jack Newman did the killing. Newman and Al SUverberg. Plalnfielders Attend A large number of Plainfield jurisdiction over municipal regula merchants and business men yesterday attended the public hearing radio receiving sets, was moving. The trucks collided with a terrific impact. George Combs and Howard Grant were dead before they reached Mc- another suspect in the slaying, are now serving life terms in Minnesota Nelson, Poughkeepsie farmer, to in connection with a gang killing In St.

Paul. tions on the super highway. Both cited the advantage to rapid commercial vehicle movement between New York and Elizabeth, Newark and Kearny the unrestricted use of the highway provided. Kinley Hospital. Fred Turner, his chest crushed, and Walter Penrod, Young said that Newman was holding one pistol against his back at the time he shot Finiello with East Orange George W.

Grimm siate deputy tax commissioner in charge" of beverages, told four Fourth Ward Republican groups meeting here that liquor taxes in the state will be In excess of this year. I' The commission approved award another weapon. to the Utility Construction Com "He had my revolver in hl3 right hand and his own in his left," the his skull fractured, died today. The others, injured, were John Moreton, Wesley Bromikowski and George Hancock. Joseph Gross of Philadelphia, driver of the radio truck owned by the Allied Freight Distributors' Company of Weehawken, was not injured.

officer testified. "He shot Finiello first." Quality Dentistry At Lowest Prices You need not pay high prices for good dental work. My 23 years' experience assures you the highest quality in every branch of dentistry. the millions left by the late Edward Albert Ridley of Fanwood, N. on the ground that he is the slain real estate dealer's son, was somewhat strengthened yesterday by a clergyman's testimony.

Nelson's attorney succeeded in getting an admission from the Rev. Olan M. Norlie, president of the Norwegian Lutheran Statistical Association, that the Rev. Sebastian T. Geelmuyden had completed his theological studies in Norway in 1862, although he was not ordain e-i until 1867.

The legitimacy of Nelson's claims depends largely on his proving the genuineness of the signature on birth and death certificates signed by the Rev. Mr. Geel pany, of New Brunswick, of a contract to construct 3.1 miles of Route 25 between New Brunswick and Adams Station and to Salmon Brothers, of Netcong, of a $59,874 contract for erection of a bridge and approaches at Hamburg mi opflfi Other agents also told the jury Irvingion The town commission adopted a budget of and a tax rate of 3.78. that Newman shot down Finiello and that SHverberg fired at him after he had fallen. over the Susquehanna Railroad.

They are among the seven men indicted with Delmore in the pres Examination Consultation FB.EE ent case, the other five being fugi Truck Hi-Jacked Paterson (JP) The hi-jacking of a truck, carrying $12,000 worth of raw silk, was reported to Paterson police early today by Orrie Van Setters, of Paterson, the driver. tives. Delmore obtained a At last a clean-burning fuel oil! Made so by a new super-refining process. Keeps both burner and furnace clear and clean of carbon and soot because it contains no turn, grit or acid. 'Phone now for ckan'burning Tydol Fuel Oil.

TIDE WATER Oil! COMPABTT Poultrymen to Thm Courier Somervllle Bureau Somervllle Hatcherymen and poultry breeders of Somerset County will meet in the Court House Feb. 7, at 8 p. m. to hear the federal muyden. These purport to be the birth certificate Nelson and the certificate of his mother's death.

rwo Attend Legion Conference, Trenton Comm. Joseph G. Carty and Joseph Wood, chairman of the executive committee, represented Frank I. Donnelly Post, American Legion, at the conference of county and post commanders and adjutants held at State Headquarters, Trenton, on Sunday. Union County ranked fourth in attendance with 19 members present.

The total attendance was about 250. Department Command Trade Names Filed TXe Coorier-Bewa Elizabeth Bumo Elizabeth Trade name business certificate has been filed with County Clerk Nell McLeod, Jr, today by code of fair competition explained. Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 9 A. M. to 8 V.

M. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 9 A. M. to 6 P. IC Saturday, 9 A.

VL to 5 M. DR. W. A. HOFFMAN 833 WEST FRONT STREET Opp.

Oxford Theatre TeL Plfd. 6-1563 e-0181 County Agent Robert W. says -that while many of the Jays Inc. Renovating Place of Business hatcherymen and breeders are the Van Ember gh School of Art, 240 West Front Street, Plainfield. It will be conducted by Marjorle K.

Van ro loosen couch aware of the existence of the code, there also are many who do not understand its provisions or what Is required for compliance! Eznbergh, 171 Sycamore Avenue North Plainfield. McDonougb and er Samuel Spingarn, Union City, McDonough, Plainfield, filed the papers. Another certificate was presented by Miracle fMillinery, 168 East Front Street, Plainfield. The proprietor will be Adolph Knobel, To Discuss Near East The Rev. Dr.

Charles Watson, presided. Date for the Union County membership rally has been fixed for the night of Mar. 3 at Cranford Casino, TELEPHONE DUNELLEJ 0 Jays 149 West Front Street, after ive years of successfully conducting one of the Plainfield's leading ready-to-wear establishments, is now in the midst of renovating their place of business. When completed it will be one of the finest and most modern apparel shops in the state. Special arrangements have been completed for a renovizing sale which starts tomorrow.

Complete details will be found in a full page ad in this issue. president of the Un.versity of with Cranford Post 212 as host. same address. 2-6415 Commander Spingarn and staff will attend. Cairo, Egypt, will speak in Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church auditorium today at 8 p.

m. His topic is "Problems of the Near East." Letters Granted B. L. Holding Burns The Courier JTew Elisabeth Bureau BA; "Gel It at EstiVs" SK! All the "Best Sellers" Both in Fiction and Non-Fiction, are available for either purchase or renting. We handle all kinds-of Books, including Poetry, Religious, Instructive, Standard Masters, and books for children, and young people, as weH as all popular copyrights.

We can also supply promptly any unusual book ESTIL'S, Inc. 205 PARK AVENUE Telephone Plainfield 6-2374 Elizabeth The buildine at 76 Work has been started on the underground railway in Moscow, The Courier-News SomerrUle Bureau Somervllle Letters of administration on the estate of John H. McVey of Franklin Township, who died Jan. 11, were granted yesterday by Surrogate John Zulauf to a niece, Mary V. McCauley of New Brunswick.

The estate Is valued at $11,000.. rX3U Kit Supreme Court Upholds High Bridge Dismissal Trenton (JP) Dismissal of Mrs. Bond Street, this city, was partly burned Sunday night, routing three families, is owned by the Union Building and Loan Association 14 Park Avenue, Plainfield. om London's most crowded borough now is Southwark, with 151 persons an acre. Alice D.

Welder as physical education teacher by the High Bridge Board of Education was sustained by the Supreme Court. The court refused to grant a writ MEN'S, WOMEN'S AND seeking to review concurrence with the dismissal by the State Board of Education. It agreed with the state CHILDREN'S board's finding that Mrs. Welder's dismissal was "in good faith and IP not the result of prejudice or dis crimination. Half Soles Deaths Last Night SEWED WHILE YOU WAIT OR SHOP St.

Louis Edgar L. Bland. 52, general manager of the Peters Shoe Company branch of the International Shoe Company. I if V' 5mtem rrr Pittsburgh Harrv G. Chapman.

51, of Waukegan, Tll vicepresident and general manager of the Cy clone Fence Company of Chlcaco. I (Kite) Fort Dodge. Ia. The Rt. Rev.

Msgr. William Cooke, 66, vicar general of the Sioux City Catholic diocese. Columbus, Francis D. McGee, 31, former baseball player who was with the Washington Senators when TO CHICAGO they won the World Series in 1924. Miami, Fla, Frank Nelson Doubleday.

72, prominent New York Publisher. aoWareYOm nerval nr-v- Awaftiiiriii if i-frrfiViTftirvri- -i Iff xtaftAM i ool No. ic i St. Louis Henry Baetz, 69, inventor who founded the St. Louis Blower and Heating Company.

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See if you already have any of those telltale wrinkles that come from nervousness and, if you have, do something about it. Get enough sleep fresh itir recreation and make Camels your cigarette. For, remember, you can smoke as many Camels as you rant. Their costlier tobaccos never jangle your nerves. London The Rev.

Edward Stuart Talbot, 89. Great Britain's oldest bishop. Ottawa Edwrrd Wilkinson Grange, 57, general manager for Canada of Reuters, Ltd. Cleveland The Rev. Gottlob Fez-zer, 72, editor-in-chief of the German Baptist Publications Society for 32 years.

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