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PAGE THIRTY -ONE THE DAILY HOME NEWS, NEW BRUNSWICK, N. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1940. Metuchen It is estimated that business use of passenger can exceeded 140,000,000 miles in 1939. Falrchild today produces 14 training planes weekly, as com- pared to two commercial planes I weekly a year ago. fl On the George Washington Bridge in New York, castbound traffic is given instructions as to Claire Trevor Star In Princeton Play Lack of Adequate Coaching Blamed for Poor Grid Season rBiirCQIO TODAY: "One Night in the Tropic' 'and, Dead End Kid in "Give Us Win" the proper turnoff to take by means of a radio robot.

BROOK THEATRE Bound Brook LAST DAT GKNE A I TRY In "RIDF, TENDERFOOT. RIDE" Alio "MEN AGAINST THE SKT" RICHARD DIX Resident Says Charge of Non-cooperation Unfair to the Members of Team Courage of Squad Praised SAL, SUN. f'OH. and TUES. Continuous Sat.

Sun. needs a supervising principal as head of the system to coordinate all school business and school ac- LOADED WnH DYNAMITE 1 s.m Tirj.x COMES THIS MIGHTY SEA DRAMA GREATER COLONY SAYBEV1LLE TODA ONLY Benefit performance uiidrr tha am-nlraa of (he American Cltifrn Club. Inc. All talking I'oluh picture TAJKMMCA O.SK ARONM (The Myttery of 1ia llrinkat Plm THREE STOOGE COMEDY Show Slarta at 1 Ml) V. M.

ON SCREBN' KflUTE nOCKHE All American ith PAT O'BRIEN GALE PAGE THAN "ATITTTMV ON THE BOUNTY" hi LOUDECK A. and Orch. JM CONTINUOUS SHOWS' ISliiiiiMiaiSSSXir9t JOHN FORD'S Production of EUGENE ONEILfa HOW THRU THURSDAY Continuous Sat, and Sun. Alice FAYE Surprising hmt triumph "AUitnlr'i Rgtim Belly GR ABLE METUCHEN, Dec. 6.

Charges that members of the local football team were "not cooperative" and showed a lack of school spirit, made by members of the Board of Education at a regular meeting this week, were attacked by William M. Thompson of 68 Eggert avenue in a letter to Sherwood H. Mundy, president of the school board, yeterday. Thompson maintained that lack of an adequate coaching and training staiT, rather than lack of cooperation and spirit on the part of team members responsible for the team's poor showing this year. The need of a supervising principal to coordinate all school business and school activities was also cited by Thompson.

His letter follows: "In the first place, you are wrong when you assume that because a team did not win most of the games it made a poor showing. Anyone who followed the team and watched the games could not help but admire the pluck, courage and sporstman-ship displayed ly our boys in the face of the odds that confronted them. I am sure that the players would not be so unfair as to blame their defeats on the Board of Education or the coaching setup. "Your remarks and those of Charles Bacha really remove the blame from the players and prove conclusively that the team did not have adequate coaching and training. Did they have any training rules to observe, if so, what should a coach do when a boy does not report for practice or breaks training rules? "Last year under the direction of Philip Seitzer and with the help of two men from Rutgers there was a fine spirit on the team, the boys were properly conditioned and their injuries were given proper attention.

They also had respect for their leaders. "The impression your remarks create in the public mind concerning the boys attending dances and parties before games is wrong. I happen to know! True the senior play was held the night before last game of the season and some of the players took part. Do you blame the boys for that or should we say that it was an oversight on the part of the administration? "No, the boys are not to blame for 'the poor Contrast what we are giving them in the school here with what some of their opponents get I am thinking of Highland Park, Leonardo, Scotch Plains, Pumson and others. Let's give our boys a lift rather than a shove! "In 'my 18 years in Metuchen I have tried to be helpful rather than critical and I do not wish to be critical now.

I know what it is to serve on the board and I appreciate the time and effort you men are giving, but let's look at facts. Mr. Seitzer who handled the team for years was overworked with numerous other duties. He was relieved of responsibility for the team this year. Someone had to do the coaching and the vacancy was filled much the same as any other extra curricular activity would be.

It is to be re gretted if the coaches were un justly criticized. They are not paid for coaching and were not hired as coaches. "I am sure that you know what the answer is to this and other vexing problems in the school system in Metuchen. We have been trying to operate the schools for nearly three years without a responsible directing head. No organization, however small, can operate without a boss.

Metuchen JOHN THOMAS IAN WAYNE MITCHELL- HUNTER BARRY FITZGERALD WILFRID LAWSON JOHN QUALEN MILDRED NAIWICK Argvntin Way' girl moT torchy. mot daultngt IACK 0AKIE You knew what big laugh hit hm iut md. don't you 1 TALK ON BRAILLE GIVEN YESTERDAY Borough League Hears Interesting Talk by Madeline Loomis METUCHEN, Dec. 6 An interesting and informative program was presented at a regular meeting of the Borough Improvement League yesterday afternoon in the League House, Middlesex avenue, wheu Miss Madeline Loomis, outstanding authority on the teaching of Braille, addressed the club. Miss Loomis, an instructor of Braille reading and writing at Teachers' Colli ge, Columbia University, spoke on "Books without Print, the Story of Braille." Announcement of final plans for the second annual concert of the Westfield Glee Club, sponsored by the League, was made by Mrs.

Harry J. White, scholar ship chairman. The concert will be presented in Van Kirk auditorium, Franklin school, Monday evening, December 16, at 8:15. The chorus 25 boy sopranos will return again in addition to the larger Glee Club under the direction of Frank H. Scherer.

Scherer is director of the Mont-ciair Glee Club and the Glee Club of the Oranges. The soloist for the evening will be Harold Wright The committee in charge of arrangements and tickets, under the chairmanship of Mrs. White, includes: Mrs. Maxwell A. Denecke, Mrs.

Stacy Hills, Mrs. Arthur K. Hillpot, Mrs. John D. Whitman, Mrs.

Samuel Dover, Mrs. Edward Hitter, Mrs. Irving Demarest, Mrs. John Rolfe, Mrs. Norman Morris, Mrs.

S. Howells, Mrs. S. E. Mayo, Mrs.

A. E. Burroughs, Mrs. Yurii E. Lebedeff, Mrs.

Virgil Williams, Mrs. Frank Weh-mann, Mrs. Nels Gerfulson, Mrs. Virgil J. Owens, Mrs.

Samuel C. Schenck Mrs. Harmon Sortore and Mrs. Arthur Turner. The music for the afternoon was furnished by a trio which included Mrs.

Lloyd Young, Mrs. Frank Riddle and Mrs. Clifford Wester, who sang "The Old Re frain' by Fritz Kreisler and "Pirate Dreams" by Charles Haerter. The next regular meeting of the club will be held in the League House on December 19 and will be in charge of Mrs. Virgil P.

Owens. This will be the Christmas program and at that time there will be special music by the choral group. Kolarians Hear Talk By International Head A transcribed message given by Armando Pereira of Brazil, new president of Rotary International, was featured at a regular dinner meeting of the local Rotary Club last night at the Oak Hills Manor, Plainfield road. The program also Included the showing of motion pictures describing parks throughout this country. Dr.

Carlyle Morris, program chairman, was in charge. A short business session was conducted by Lester W. Smith, president of the club. Cars Damaged In Crash On Icy Highway Cars driven by LeRoy W. Hill-man of 20 North Thomas street and Ray Trimmer of 903 East Seventh street, Plainfield, were damaged in a crash shortly before noon yesterday on Plain-field road, near St.

Joseph's chool. The car driven by Trimmer skidded on the ice-covered pavement and was struck in the side by the Hillman car. Sergeant Enos J. Fouratt investigated the accident. No complaints were made.

Court Team to Open Home League Season The Metuchen Y. M. C. A. basketball team will open its home season in the State Basketball League with a game on the ifrose CLAIRE TREVOR SAT.

By BELLA SAM LEVENE CLAIRE TREVOR Combining satiric characterizations and comic situations, Bella and Samuel Spewack, authors of the hilarious "Boy Meets Girl," have turned their hands to a new farce, "Out West It's Different," which will have its world premiere under the managerial aegis of Max Gordon at the McCarter Theatre tomorrow evening. Max Gordon has invested the play with some of Broadway's outstanding mimics including Claire Trevor, Sam Levene, Kee nan Wynn, Charles DeSheim, Martin Blaine, Katherine Bard, John Adair, Do. a Merande, John Shellie, William Sands, Erix Dan-ton, Rex Williams, Arthur and Morton Havel and Bill Ross. Ac tor Levene and co-author Sam Spewack have collaborated In di recting the comedy. The settings come from the competent atelier of Donald Oenslager.

Next Saturday, December 14, Flight to the West," newest play by Elmer Rice, author of "Street Scene," "Counsellor-at-Law" and other succeses, will be presented at Princeton. Betty Field, recent ly returned from Hollywood, is featured in the new play. "Flight to the West," is a pro duction of the Playwrights' Company and is scheduled to open in New York in early January fol lowing a week's engagement in wasnington. Mr. nice, it win De recalled, was one of the founders of the successful Playwrights' Company, and it was he who staged Robert E.

Sherwood's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," which was the play that initiated the long list of successes that has since distinguished this organization of dramatists. Others comprising the group, in addition to Rice, are Maxwell Anderson, S. N. Behr-man and Robert E. Sherwood.

To decrease the danger of sparks by providing a ground for static electricity when filling the gasoline tanks of planes, a synthetic rubber gasoline hose nozzle recently was developed. local court this evening at 8 o'clock. The local five will meet in the Rahway Metuchen lost its opening league encounter to the Plainfield last Saturday evening in a game played at Plainfield. In a preliminary game tonight at 8 o'clock, the Metuchen Eagles trict calls to be used to locate will meet the Rahway Jay Vee team. fires In the borough will be made on the fire alarm, starting at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.

The new code of calls for various districts of the borough will be placed in effect next week if found satisfactory. Trojan Club Plan Christmas Party Arrangements for the annual Christmas party of the Trojans Sporting Club, scheduled for Saturday evening, December 21, were announced at a meeting of the club on Wednesday evening at the home of Major George J. Giger of Lake avenue. fvAY vvoRto miMititt I THE NEW tivities, to supervise instruction and to see that the school dollar is wisely spent. In the past three years the per pupil cost has in creased, even though we are saving the salary of a supervising principal.

"These things are in no sense a reflection on the High School Principal or the Principal of the Elementary School. They are both trying conscientiously to do an impossible job. In the entire State of New Jersey there is not a school district comparable to Metuchen that does not have a supervising principal. "When we realize this need in Metuchen there will be a decided improvement in all school activities as well as our athletic program." PENSION IS DENIED WIDOW OF POLICEMAN NEWARK, Dec. 6 WVAn Essex County Grand Jury has refused the plea of Mrs.

Margaret Pearson of Kearny, who was acquitted of a phnrcfo nf mncrffli. in (Vio fatal 1 shooting of her patrolman-hus band, Wilhelm W. Pearson, in 1938, that she be granted a $1,000 annual pension from the Kearny police and firemen's pension fund. The case was argued yesterday before Circuit Court Judge Joseph L. Smith as an appeal from a denial by Kearny officials.

The jury deliberated an hour and a half before reaching a verdict. WILL RECEIVE BIDS FOR SHORE HIGHWAY TRENTON, Dec. 6 JP Bids for the paving of a relocated alignment of Route 4 between Cheese-quake and Browntown, Middlesex County, will be taken December 27, state highway Commissioner Sterner said today. The paving, Sterner said, was the final link in the new Route 4 "express highway" making south Jersey resorts more acsessible. Half the construction cost, he added, would be paid by the Federal government, which has approved work plans.

The job will include building two overhead bridges to lessen danger of accidents at grade. One of the structures will carry Route 4 over Route S-28, and at Cheesequake, Route 4 southbound will be carried over Route 4 northbound. PARK THEATRE HIGHLAND PARK Tel. 1078 TODAY and SATURDAY RONALD COLMAN GINGER ROGERS "LUCKY PARTNERS" Associate Feature "xMen Against the Sky" with RICHARD DIX and UENDIE BARRIE REQUEST FEATURE Tonite Only GEORGE RAFT In "Spawn of the North" THEATRE SOUTH RIVER TODAY and TOMORROW rf Sni Ii DURBifi mm r4 I Yr Crime Doesn't Pay "BUYER BEWARE" "LONDON (AN TAKL IT" Artual Bombing of London NKWS CARTOON RID AY NITF. SAT MATINEE JUNIOR G-MEN" SlNDAl and MONDAY "SLIGHTLY TEMPTED" AND "EAST OK THE RIVER" Every MONDAY OPERA HOUSE CONTINUOUS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY 'TONY EXPRESS" in Technicolor OUT- THRILLS NOW PLAYING 0 A.ft 7 5i I cUtkes kors" madt star of stars! MIRIAM i I 'Jii U'v.

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