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XJnity The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion; the unity which does not depend upon the multitude is tyranny. Pascal. Classified Ads Obituaries Comics Spofts News SECOND SECTION Radio Programs Telephone Plainfield 6-8000 PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY, TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1948 PAGE NINE Traffic Court Fines 314 r. vj I Gloomy Atmosphere Seen Prevailing at Democrat Conclave By CECIL B. DICKSON Gtmnell AVi' Service Philadelphia Dismal disspirited and disgruntled are Democrat gathered here for their 30th national convention.

The same atmosphere that prevailed at the Republican convention in Chicago in 1932, when it met to renominate Herbert Hoover, exists among the Democrats. It is the dank atmosphere of defeatism. Of many delegates interviewed, not one expressed the conviction that President Truman can defeat Gov. Thomas E. Dewey in the No Top Federal Jobs Vacant Because Aspirants Lacking Gannett AVus Service Washington Scores of high-paying jobs in the federal government are going begging because of the uncertain political future of the Democratic administration.

Even nominees to sub-cabinet positions, as well as controlling boards of independent government agencies and commissions are allergic to accepting interim appointments from the Truman administration. TTjey view these as a "six months notice of dismissal" in view of the demoralized attitude in Democratic ranks, with the prospect that Republicans will take over the White House next year. i A Carole Landis Estate Grows vember elections. They are all pessimistic. A majority is going down the line to nominate Mr.

Truman, but none like it. The Southerners, big city bosses and others are trying to save face but they don't know what to do Bitterness exists among many of Tough Job One White House adviser told GNS: "It's tough finding anyone qualified who wants to take a key government job nowadays." When Congress recessed, the Senate left unconfirmed more than 900 nominations submitted by President Truman. the delegations. Delegates arelricnea wnen cou" af fighting each other. Some of the Property settlement of Truman people even hesitate to her divorce suit against her fourth attend their state party caucuses.

The Republican convention, held here two weeks ago, was stimulat- YOUNGEST DELEGATE to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, 18-year-old Truman Williams, Georgia, refuses to run. Yes sir, he's going to stay where he is. Who wouldn't, with two pretty girls from the welcoming committee waiting to render lip service. They are Mary Torrison, Urbana, I1L, (left) and Jane Wilder. (International) ing; this Democratic meeting is nav; auixea ner signature lasi.

boring. Enthusiastic crowds the dav after she com; candidates and their workers are mitted suicide Wlth an overdose of missing. sleeping pills. Confidence in victory at the Schmidlapp let it be known yes-l oils in November is lacking among terday he is" willing to let the Recalls Early Days Of City 's History Few persons today can boast a Plainfield residency of 75 years. Still fewer can look back through the years and see the Queen City as a one-horse country town, but Alfred Preston White of 405 Plain-field Ave.

is one of the exceptions. Mr. White's story begins in 1856 when his mother was born in the slave state of Virginia. After the termination of the Civil War in 1865, she was given her freedom, but elected to remain at the Stuphen Plantation in Lynchburg until after her marriage to the Plainfielder's father, William H. White.

1 i Fines of $1 each for parking meter violations have been paid by 314 motorists in Plainfield City Court recently. Paying $2 each for contempt of court for failure to answer tickets were John J. Leslie, Englewood; Richard 11 Bozenbury, 1118 E. Seventh Julius Oksendorn, Hillside; Louise Enarson, New Brunswick. Also, John Murscoe, Elizabeth: Sidney Wollenberg, Paterson, and Reuben Cheroff, Union.

Samuel Pollack, Far Roekaway, paid $1 on a contempt charge. Pay $2 Fines of $2 each for parking within 50 feet of stop signs were paid by Francis P. Glazebrook, Red Bank; Phillip Cancellate, 215 Richmond C. S. Townsend, Newark, and Julius Levine, New Brunswick.

Paying $2 each for improper parking were Ashley W. Burner, 1785 Sleepy Hollow Lane; Julius Levine, New Brunswick, and John A. Leotti, Carbondale, Pa. Paying 50 cents each for parking, without lights were Raymond Lyon, Newark; Richard I. Else, 314 E.

Fifth Lester J. HalL Keansburg; Michael Ginda, 233 E. Fifth Edward J. Marski, 433 E. Fifth St.

Also, Roy C. Owens, 217 E. Seventh and Paul Speclor, 539 W. Third who paid two tickets. George L.

Mack, 202 Ashland Bound Brook, paid 50 cents for parking in, an alley. Other Penalties Paying $2 oath for parking in prohibited areas were Constantine J. Conkes, Flemington; Mrs. Gertrude Gross, Cranford; Frank Quagliato, 410 Ridgcvicw Scotch Plains. Also, George Gaggioni, 4 Elm Metuchen; Stanley Zalewski, Harrison; Horace Colemon, 527 W.

Third Lonzo Murray, Cranford; Robert Bartholomew, Cranford. and Walter Kleiner, 128 Berekman St. Fines of $1 each for parking overtime, not at meters, were paid by Joseph T. 'Bozenbury, 124 North Miss Maud Van Bos- kerck, 825 Park E. J.

Slef-fens, 30 Park and James E. Friel 137 Norwood Ave. Howard C. Granger, New Brunswick, paid $2 for blocking a driveway. Frank Veneziano, Brooklyn, paid $2 for improper Waitress to Pay Back Illegal War Benefits Trenton (P) A 23-year-old waitress began saving her tips today to pay back the $350 she admitted getting as the wartime wife of two servicemen.

The waitress, Mrs. Josephine Novice Proctor, was given a one-year suspended sentence in Federal Court yesterday when she pleaded guilty to charges of receiving government dependency allowances for two husbands. The court also ordered her to pay back the money. Jersey Niesi Plans To Aid A-Bomb Victims Camden (P) A 22-year-old American-born Japanese girl is seeking a passport to return to the land of her ancestors where she wants to take a position as a medical laboratory technician with the atomic bomb casualty commission. Aiko Agnes Ida, who lives in Sea-brook Village, near Bridgeton, applied for the passport yesterday in the S.

District Court here. Pays $15 Edward Sharpe, Plainfield paid $15.75 in Plainfield City Court yesterday on a charge of being drunk and disorderly. A 30-day jail sentence was suspended. Sharp was arrested about 1 a.m. Sunday on the complaint of Jess Tutner, 459 W.

Fourth who said Sharpe created a disturbance and broke bottles at the Hollywood Restaurant, 603 W. Fourth St. ASSISTANT NAMED Philadelphia (JP) Alexis I. du Pont, Bayard, of Wilmington. yesterday was named special convention assistant to Roy G.

Baker, president of the Young Democratic Clubs of America. SUMMER IS HERE! WHITE SHOES Cleaned Repaired Stora Opan From 8 A. M. to 7 P. M.

Monday Thru Saturdays Thursday Open Till 9 P. M. Jo-Jloys SHOE REPAIR "Adds Pep To Every Step' 143 WEST FRONT STREET Area Men Get Cash for Ideas Edward C. Pohlmann, East Orange, an inspector for American Type Founders, Elizabeth, was top winner in awards made today to 11 employes. Pohlraann's suggestion brought him S32 60 in cash Albert J.

Miller, 2429 Richleau PL, Scotch Plains, realized $15 in awards. Ten dollars for a useable idea and $5 for the redemption of two suggestion plan certificates previously were presented to him. Max Keller, Box 43, New Market, was awarded $10 for his idea and William C. Force, 7 Rockview North Plainfield, received $10, also by having two of his ideas accepted with each of them bringing $5 awards. Bayard Alcorn, 714 Cleveland Ct.

Plainfield, and John Detlefwn. 55 Paterson Fan-wood, placed themselves into the $10 award category with Alcorn getting $5 as an award for his idea and redeeming two certificates for another $5 and Detlcfsen redeeming four certificates at one time for an additional $10 award. 2 Brothers Held In Attack, Slaying Opelousas. La. (JP) Two brothers were held here today.

Sheriff Clayton Guilbeau said, after ihey confessed they attacked a 21-yoar-old woman and shot to death her male companion. The sheriff said the brothers, identified as Matthew Cook, 23, and Joseph Cook, 24, made almost identical confessions. Both said they had attacked the woman and beaten her escort, Albert Couvil-lion of Melville, but each blamed the other for firing the fatal shots. Guilbeau said the story told by the brothers followed that related to him by the woman. In the woman's account to officers, the sheriff said, she related that she and Couvillion had stopped on a lonely road near Melville Sunday while driving from a dance.

Two men forced them to drive to a wooded lane, the account ran, where they beat Couvillion and attacked her in turn. Couvillion, a retired Navy lieutenant, was shot twice in the back. Physicians who examined the woman expressed the opinion that the had not been physically mo-! lested, but she clung to her story. Loyalty Firing Causes TestingIibue Strike Philadelphia (VP) The huge South Philadelphia plant of the Westinghouse Electric Company was shut down today in a protest strike of 6.000 CIO workers. John Schaefer, president of Local 307 of the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers, said two men were "branded poor security risks' by the Navy and then placed on a forced leave of absence and escorted from the plant." Boy, 13, Discovered Strangled in Home Philadelphia James Duffy 13, was found strangled with a rawhide thong yesterday in the bathroom of his home here.

The boy lived in an apartment with his sister, Joan, 10, and their lather, James Duffy Sr. Detectives said they were not certain as to the circumstances surrounding the strangling of the boy. ROOFING SIDING CUTTERS an 4. Leaders Authorized Barrett AIL KINDS GENERAL CARPENTRY No Job Too Big or Too Small FHA 5 3-Yoar leant JOHN T. DEERING CO.

734 SECOND STREET DUNELLEN Dunellen 3-6983 or 2-6106-M iH3 Los Angeles (--P) The estate of actress Carole Landis will be en- husband, W. Horace Schmidlapp. Schmidlapp had signed the agreement and the actress was to ir A. agreement stand. Attorney Jerry Giesler, who represented Miss Landis in the divorce action, said he would ask the court to approve it- Meantime, the reading of the star's will, scheduled yesterday, was postponed.

Giesler said the only will known to him was one written by Miss Landis in 1944. Earl Carroll Leaves Million Dollar Estate Los Angeles (JP) If the late Beryl Wallace had survived her friend and employer, showman Earl Carroll, she would have inherited most of his estate, estimated at more than $1,000,000. But the will, filed for probate yesterday, provided that if they both died in a "common accident or disaster," her bequest would cancelled. Carroll and Miss allace wer a 1 1 The will also specified that after all bequests are paid, the rest of the funds are to be used to establish a cancer research clinic. Now, funds from her share are to be used to build a memorial tomb for both of them, not to cost more than $50,000.

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of Wash ington. David J. Coldaire, of Massachusetts, on the Maritime Commission. Maritime Commission William E. Willett, of Maryland, to the RFC board.

James Boyd, of Colorado, as director of Bureau of Mines. He has incurred the special enmity of John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers. John M. Houston, former "New Deal" coneressman from Kansas, an the National Labor Relations Board.

Thomas C. Bucftanan of Pennsylvania, also a veteran "New Dealer," on Federal Power Commission. Former Senator James M. Mead of New York turned down the job. Harry Alfred Curtis, of Missouri, on the TV A board.

None of 11 members to the ECA Advisory Board were confirmed, including former Governor Herbert H. Lehman of New York: George Mcany of New York, secre-l tary of the AFL, and Sarah Eland-ing, also of New York. Appointees have not yet been named to other highly-placed positions, such as secretary of labor, and chairman of the RFC. Trumpet Ban Starts Brawl Involving 100 Long Branch (JP) Six men wound up in the Monmouth County Jail with 60-day sentences today after an early-morning tavern brawl involving some 100 persons which police said had started because someone insisted on playing the trumpet. Police Chief Carl Huhn said the would-be trumpeter had been refused permission to play with the band yesterday at the Tally-Ho Tavern and, during the resulting discussion, someone picked up the bass violin and batted him on the head.

That set off a fight which mushroomed into a near-riot, Huhn said, causing what he estimated as thousands of dollars worth of damage to the tavern. Disappointed Suitor Pays $10 for Abuse A $10 fine with 75 cents costs was imposed on Ezekiel Smith, 318 McDowell when he pleaded guilty in Plainfeld City Court yesterday to being a disorderly person. A 60-day jail sentence was suspended. Smith was arrested on the complaint of Mrs. Lilliam Huff, 225 Lee PI.

She said Smith came to her home July 1 to call on her daughter, and when he learned the daughter was not at home, used abusave language to Mrs. Huff. American "Wounded Jerusalem (JP) Chester H. Vincent of Raymond, 111., was wounded yesterday by the burst of a mortar shell in the U. S.

Consulate garden. Vincent is a consulate clerk. Six fragments hit him, one wounding a lung. He was taken to Hadassah HospitaL back for more at Grunlng's the Democrats, in contrast to the Republicans, who felt that any one of a half dozen leading candidates for tho nomination' could be elected. Harmony Sought Even the Truman backers say that the important thing now is to get much harmony as possible restored in the party; that unless dissident forces are brought back into the fold before fall, all will be lost.

Yet, these are delegates who report that Democratic registrations in many doubtful states are up. That is about the only encouraging thing that has been reported. All of the snap has left those who wanted Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Leaders of the anti Truman forces seem not to care whether their party gets a chance to win in November. What they are interested in most is in holding onto what theyl must, is in uuiiiing umu ivuui uirj rrrT At lAcirirf him iifATi3rJi and other prerequisites that go along with political power. Appeared Young Back in 1932, when the Democrats nominated President Roosevelt in Chicago, they appeared young and vigorous. Most of the same Democrats are here now. But 16 years in power has taken much out of them.

They appear aged and exhausted. They move around as though in an advanced stake of senility; as if their world has come to an end. An unhappy lot, they are. They are not happy with each other. LASTS UP TO It's here! New, longer-lasting MoPar Cyclebond Brake Lining for De Soto and Plymouth passenger cars.

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Masterson has been notified by authorities' in Indianapolis that Frank Margretto, 19, of 50 City Alley, wanted here for questioning in the $4,133 Brunswick Sportswear Company payroll robbery on June 30, is in custody there. The police chief immediately dispatched a telegram asking that the youth be held until arrangements can be made for his return. Margretto is still under a three-year probation term for a forgery offense committed in 1945. The payroll robbery resulted in the arrest of three suspected of being accomplices who are now awaiting grand jury action. A 1 fourth is being held charged with I receiving stolen, goods and two more as material witnesses.

They are Nathaniel Currin, 20, of 52 Citv Allev: James ScairDonn. (21, of 41 Brunswick 'Me tuchen; and John Schneider, 21, Piscataway Township; Mrs. Lena O'Rourke, 42, 55 Washington Gerard Erickson, 20, 9 Plainfield Stelton, and Charles Pulitzer, 22, of 25 Washington St. Two Vets Admit Visit To Kilmer in Uniform Trenton (JP) Two Philadelphia war veterans who felt they never had it so good are civilians again today at the insistence-of Federal Judge Phillip Forman. The ex-Gls, Charles A.

Akins, 23, and James Charleston, 28, have begun two-year probation periods for wearing Army uniforms illegally while visiting at Camp Kilmer. They pleaded guilty to the charge yesterday in Federal Court here. Akins had just served a five-month sentence in Middlesex County Jail for gambling near the Army post. A third Philadelphia veteran, James Jones who served a jail term with Akins, is being sought on the uniform charge. GUILD QUITS COUNCIL New York (JP) Spokesmen for the Newspaper Guild of New York (CIO) have announced withdrawal from the Greater New York CIO Council because of the council's refusal to indorse the national CIO's anti-Wallace, pro-Marshall Plan STARTING WEDNESDAY Strand Theatre 4th of July Celebration Movies Soo Yourself and Friends On the Screen PLUS A NEW SCREEN SHOW "STATE OF THE UNION" VACATION LID AM 11 ILL YOU XEED $100.

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6-2820 2821 Bate 2 Monthly up to $300 i of on Excess laic No. 692 Closed Saturdays Guest of Honor When their son, Alfred, was an infant of only six weeks, his par ents brought him to Plainfield. That was in September of 1873. Last week he celebrated his 75th birthday and was guest of honor at a party given by his fellow em ployes at the Magnus Chemical Co. in Garwood.

Employed as office porter in the Magnus offices for four years, Mr. White began his business career in 1891 when he was employed by the Pond Machine Tool Company (later renamed the Niles-Bement-Pond Company) as an apprentice draftsman. Five years later he became a full-fledged draftsman and remained with the company for 29 years, after which it was moved to Ohio. Then followed a period of clerical work for Plainficld's International Motors Corp. plant in W.

Front St. Alfred received his education in a little onfe-room schoolhouse in Clinton Ave. later spending some time -in the Washington and Franklin Schools. He is also an alumnus of the old Stillman High School. When asked if the physical characteristics and the general pursuit of life had changed much in his 75-year vigil in Plainfield, he was quick to respond, "Oh, my, I wish you could have seen Front St.

when I was a little boy! Nickel Bought Things "It looked like the main thoroughfare of a country town. A three-storied building was then considered Plainfield's skyscraper; and in those days, a ton of coal only set you back $7.50, and a pretty fair house on a good street could be purchased for $1,400. And man, what you couldn't get for a. nickel! A person could support a family on four or five dollars a week." But the most outstanding fact about Mr. White concerns the 55 consecutive years he has served as organist and senior choir organizer of the Mt.

Zion AME Church. He started the. choir in 1893 and it is still going strong with two of the original members, Miss Patty Lander and Mrs. Edith Wilson, also still lending their voices in the loft every Sunday morning. At various times during his career, Mr.

White has filled the capacity of Sunday School superintendent, treasurer on the board of trustees, and he is now honorary treasurer of the church along with his organ and choir duties. The famous name of Marion Anderson also pops into Mr. White's life. In 1925, before Miss Anderson had become a high-ranking professional singer, he sponsored through his choir her first Plain- Jf fan ri I'M, Will JtUS Jr riioto by Dick Gaine Alfred P. White field appearance at the Washington School.

Election Official Besides his connection with church activities, Mr. White has been a member of the Plainfield election board, Fifth District of the Third Ward, serving in every election for the past 28 years. He has been a staunch Republican all his life. Noted around the Magnus plant as being one of the better informed men on current affairs, he says his two hobbies are music and the reading of good books. A few friends of long acquaintance gave Mr.

WThite a birthday surprise party Saturday evening at his home. Junius Moseley, pianist, of Elizabeth, played. The affair was arranged by Charles Claye. Sunday evening at Mt. Zion AME church a purse was presented Mr.

White. Two Steel Firms Start New Pricing Plan Pittsburgh new FOB mill pricing plan of Carnegie- Illinois Steel Corporation and the National Tube Company, is in effect today. I A spokesman for the two sub-j sidiaries of U. S. Steel said yester-j day consumers would start paying! actual freight rates from the mills as of midnight last night.

The, company, in the past, quoted prices! from "basing points" scattered! about the country in an effort to equalize the cost of steel products to all U. Sv consumers. A recent Federal Court order, affecting the shipment of cement forced abandonment of the "basing point" plan, the company said. we have accumulated an experience that is to he had only hy the expenditure of inexorahle Time and patience I BAPST-ANDEnSEN, inc. Authorized De Soto Plymouth Dealer PRODUCTS OF CHRYSLER CORP.

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