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Worth While Service BATHER $ulmon Unim PATERSONS FOREMOST NEWSPAPER T. c00.1,r increwinK WKln(ly- fSl ch.n. Iptrii81 The News desire to flat everyone of tta thousand of readers tha bast possible service. If your paper It eot delivered regularly and on time pbnnt Lambert 800 and raport to the Circulation Department. NUMBER 189.

PRICE THREE CENTS PATERSON. N. TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, PAGES 3r rUH WEF.K uci.iv cue is Definitely for IBfOPENSff AY SON IS HELD IN FORELEVATING THE MURDER OF POLICEMEN OF AGED MAN Democrats Institute Fight to Beat State Constitution Changes MERRALOSES Billy Dill for Covernor APPEAL BEFORE -FEDERAL COURT Candidate Budd (her Chance For is Favor KX-PATERSONIANS. Lake Bathers Gmtght Law Trap HAS 1 MORE CHANCE. Secretary of State Fitzpatrick is brought to Paterson to 2 8 TOOK TEST Explain the Situation to County Committeemen and Women Ward Organizations AlltlJZ-d PA iimnl FT5 StftTFT Arranged for Weddin to Be Formed in County Hendrickson Was ('hoked to Death With Heavy Towels Battered Head Reveals Assault.

Eligible For Appointment as Lieutenants Made Today Will Permit Naming of Sergeants. to Legitimatize His Son as Spectre of Death Chair Looms. THh Herded in Their Machines. While Dressing in Cars, and Driven to Justice of the PeacetoBe Fined McAlcee Sounds Warning lursday at Sea Girt, Democratic Party l)raftiniz Motor Head. As the new county chairman of Passaic county.

Gha Duffy served notice last night that he does not intend to permit the grass to grow under his feet. More Than 100 lreenl. ado. Without much ado. Mr.

JJuffy The shores and road sides of Budd Lake will probably 'be deserted by Passaic county bathers for the remainder Tho list of sergeants eligible Favour police today were with for promotion to Hie rank of out tangible cine to solution of lieutenant on the Police Depart- murder of F.dward Hemlricta meiit. a formerly released today seventy-nine years old, up bthe St ntc Civil Service Coni unit! recently a resident of this mission. The twenty-right men city, in his home, at Ski Harri-who participated in The examina 1 son street, Pnssaie, yesterday, lions were being notified by mail Herbert Hendrickson, thirty -twt today of their 1 tears old. son of the dead man. of the summer because the strong arm of John Law reached out on Sunday afternoon and snatched away from motorist-bathers a privilege they were not only granted, but one they paid for.

railed together his county committeemen and women in session nt St. Boniface hall tael night, rnd despite threatening clouds, humidity of the air and the siren-like invitations of a summer night more than one huiidted tinned out for the meeting. Indirn'ions of a dete-tnined fight Trenton, Aug. I'nitol States Circuit Court Judge J. VV.

1 Davis today denied the appeal by Becoming 0 Madman i counsel for Salvatore Merra for a I stay of the death sentence impos- ed on Merra for the, murdered I Theodore Conway, paymaster for With no warning, the bathers 'he Public Service Kailway, in claim, the preservers of the law Newark. at the populr reaort. arrested and Merra, whose ultimate fate If; by the Passaic County Democracy itfd- against (he constitutional amr trial to the Son City, Auk. 2. -jf party of New Jersey Slate Motor Vehicle William L.

DH1 ns ate for K''ernor, in the rs. next year. fact, there remained no la, when it beetma dc-pmvn that on county moves en Sea (Jirt. to pay its rc-. i Governor A.

Harry Mam Frank HtiKue. 1 is akin to Democratic will announce that the Is Dill as its candidate. Dill will he pree- I The list will until one week The releasing Hat now paves promotion of fire meeting of Commission, week from Those slated was questioned all last evening and this morning, and is being held for further examination. Lived In Paterson. Young Hendrickson was bord the Fire and Poll n(J raised in this city and movetfi I This lint expires from here two monlhs aiy vii'h his wife end children and big up their residence igffi not become official from today.

of the lieutenant the way for the sergeenla at the next Thursday to be elevated to i father look ffe Ihe rank of sergeant are Detectives Joseph Hangman. David Simpson Th, was found daaiT and James tirave and Patrol-; hy ms son when the latter returned men James McNeill and James from hla work early laat evening, 8mllh. They will fill Ihe vacancies He was lying on the kit hen Boor I left by the men elevated to the rank a pool of blood with a gaping of lieutenants. wound In the hack of hi head. The following la the rating of five apparently caused by a b'ow fromi of the sergeants on Ihe lieutenants' blunt Instrument, and hia fir ments which would throw governa-torlal election into presidential years by eilendlng the letm of governor lo four year, and the term of State senators and assemblymen to Iwo and one year, respectively, were afforded hy the ccn'entrated manner In which thP eakera 1111(1 away at t.ie pro-osal.

Secretary of Slate Sjieok. Secretary of State Joseph Fitzpatrick wa preaeni at the meeting at the invitatlou of Mr. Duffy, who is the assistant secretary of state. Mr. Filipatrlek delved Into a lurid explanation of the constitutions amendments, serving notice that the taping amendment alone, which will permit municipalities to district their area ao that realdential zones may ke kept inviolate and safe from industrial Invasion, Is the only amendment the Democrats propose.

The other three, which will be voted on September 30, In a special election, are all wrong from the Democratic viewpoint, he Hudson County Day Gov- guest of the lists- Patrick Cl nne, 5k: William Scherer, .37: Stephen Jor-letl, 88. 3 Charles Ptrolo. 8 00: John Hamilton, 86 35 The marks of the other men could not he learned and neck wrapped In thickly knotted and tightly drawn towels. A. strip of cloth from a dish towel was also tied about his left wrist.

County Physician William NorVal, performed an as- Fangs on a semicolon, is scheduled 1o die in the electric chair, State's Prison, at Trenton, Friday. Merra' last change rests with United Slates Supreme Court Justice Brandis. Governor Moore ye, terday denied the application of Merra a lawyer for a 30-dav re- prleye. State Senator Alexander Simpson, counsel for Merra, told reporters today that he has submitted to Justice Brandis, who is at Chatham, a complete record of the trial of Merra and another defendant for the Conway murder "together with other evidence, In his application for review of the decision Federal Court Judge Runyon, denying Merra the privilege of serving a life sentence in states i prison Instead of going to death in the chair. All appeals by Simpson to stale courts and lo Judge Runyon, based upon the contention that a comma instead of a semi-colon separated that part of the Jury's verdict referring lo Merra from the portion convicting Salvatore Kannellt, thel co-defendant, to whom mercy was granted hare failed.

Ranneili is serving a life sentence In the state prison. It was the sente of Judge Davis' decision that the Federal Courts; have no right review, through habeas corpus proceedings, the clsion of a statement in a criminal At the present time there are.topsy on the, body and declared nsHTOt.OMKO USZKTTI three vacancies for lieutenants but that death was the result of atrnn If the eligible list Is favorable two gulatlon adding that the tightness more may be named One will be I with which the towel were drawn assigned to Ihe Traffic Bureau and, about his neck had fractured see Second member of famous murder pair, slated tor death chair In Mom-chueseis. who la reported lo be on the verge of Ineanlty In hi cell. Physician. say.

however, that they have no fear for hi menial condition, MAYOR HK HAfilG (Continued on page 12 fined more than halt a hundred bathers who dressed for swimming I in their automobiles, with curtains drawn down. The ears were park-j ed in a private space for which each motorist paid a flfty-centi parking privilege, They Did It. According to a Patersonian who; was among those seized by the law, and who called the News to sound a warning to others who might visit the place, at 3 o'clock on Sunday- afternoon, several officers rounded up the ears parked In the space and ordered the occupants of the automobiles, to remain where they were until further orders were Issued. Then, treating the motorists as If they were a herd of cattle being led to slaughter, the Patersonian claims, the cars were lined up be-hin a police sergeant who rode astride his two-cylinder motorcycle, and were led to a private house where a justice of the 'peace by the name of Knowlea, conducted court in the Sunday parlor of his home. "Judge Knowles" Is postmaster of Budd Lake, among other things, it was said.

Between forty and fifty of the bathers were fined. The "Judgfi passed sentence of from $5 to 31 on each offender. In many in- stances there were four and five i persons in a family and each was 'fined the same. Frank J. McAlcee, of 73 Grand street, this city, who has been go-; ing to Budd Lake for the past five, 'summers, was fitted 35 and 33 cost i of court.

There was number of I other people from Paterson and Passaic County similarly fined, During the court session "Judge'' Knowles was asked why no warn-jing had been served upon the bathers. The judge, in response I to the question, claimed that there are warning signs along the road. After court, several of the motor-! its set out to find the signs. Their; Investigation revealed, they claim-1 ed, a sign on a tree some 1,000 feet fror the parking plare and i set 50 to 75 feet in from the road I making it almost impossible to! see. There are no signs at the tasking place.

It was said. The bathers convicted and fined in of Ieader of the Democratic party In New Jernev, who in prepared to announce that Motor Vehicle Cttmtnfa-aioner William I. Dill will he drafted a the- party a candidate for as ed Stauw Senator Ed-Cdwaxjd and former Gorin 8. Siller are also ex-be present. While Com-Dill has made no state-in, kind which would in-, be will he a candidate.

lievejL lhat when Mayor ipeaks the commissioner I the lime propitious to on the enbjecl. of the fact that Mayor ntrol Hudson County. I )ne turns in 100,000 malt Democratic candidates, I as vet had the temerity his selection and it expected that thta ibined with the general frith which hie candidacy mt thus far, will per-bn lOtAtthews, the other j. to retrieve hie hat and on ihe sidelines for fu-irence. Mayor Hague, with char-reticence, has made no Announcement about ro eppak ouf on Thum-ias learned here today on est authority that these lilQ winner Dill, it was ex-1 -to this time, planned to hi annonnwement uni i nf the year, but Mayor the second to the defectives bureau There la only one lieutenant at the present time.

The elevation of men to sergeant' posla ha been blocked by the laleneep of the arrival of ihe lieutenants' lie). II will he the last opportunity ot the present administration to nanis aergeanui, as a new list could not be secured eral bone The skull waa fractured, Dr. Norval said Belief that robbery might hsr been the motive for the murder was dismissed when a diamond stickpin valued at 3200. which adorned ih mans tie. nu hern taken.

According lo young HendfU i. sun's story, he rsturned home from Newark, where he Is employed as a year. HOTEL COMPLETES FlILLEH GALLS JUDGE WIFE LIVES ON SIS i bnforn ihe first of the At prees time the following ad mill hand, shortly before I o'clock i dltlona! mtrks In the lieutenant's evening, and upon entering I eligible examination were learned: i11" kitchen pfepsre supper for iergeant John Murphy, 8er- Himself, found the bod of hit 1 scant Philip Hiker, 30.01; Ser- I h' Dio down in a pool yeant Yandethock. er blood, with blood (lowing freely grant Thomaa Stapleton, 91 81; TrolM deep wound in the hack After reviewing the entire record SHE SEEKS SUPPORT SACCO STILL FASTING (Continued on page 17.) I Sergeant Walker, 83.48, and Sri i geant Dunn, 90.01. 4 OFFICERS ELATED Friends of Condemned Men Say Way is Not Being Opened to Send Prisoners to Hospital Rathen Than to the Chair Druggist Oates Named Defendant in Chancery Court Action Brought by Spouse on Behalf of Herself and Daughter He Lives in Comfort, She Charges of hls head.

Young HendrlckarA Immediate! notified-the Passaic police. Police I Chief Richard O. Slobtr. ercofn-! punted by Patrolman Andrew 8up-ko end Detective Captain Charles Monk, who is conducting ihe la-veMlgntion today, responded to tha Icall. House Toasy-Turvey The police found the homa la Bayonne Men Who Attacked ransacked condition, with all i a furniture up turned, virtue rlM to Patersonian Arraigned in Hackensack Court (Continued on Pae Pinned on page 17.) 10 BE OPENED 10 11 Sixty Per Cent, of the Room Used During First Half of the Year Direc-, tors Will Elect Officers on August 10 SET FOR TOMORROW The gratification of the officer somewhat of a "hold-up game," it! another county paper.

Boston. Aug. 2 Weak and sullen, Nicola Sacco entered the seven teenth day of his hunger strike today in State's prison Bartolomeo Vanzettl was eating and his fellow prisoner was being examined by ilie Prison physician, officials In the Charlestown Institution were denying published reports tbs' Vanielti had been placed In straight jacket and was raving later in a padded cell. The condition of Sacco did not appear to alarm Dr. Joseph J.

Mo-laukhlln, the prison doctor, friends and sympathizers of Sacco and Van Announcement Is Made That One-way Street Signs Will Be Collected by Traffic Dept. Some Time Today-Thoroughfare 6 Ft. Wider Now ler in a Humorous 1 as He Describes Tonlane Voyage Cochrane Tossed over Handle Bars When Stand Is Caught in Road Edward Brooks Oates, wealthy local druggist and member of one ot the city's pioneer families, Is netned defendant In a Suit for alimony and support, according to a petition filed In the Chancery court by hls wife, Mrs. Leila Slttes Oates, now of Little Falls. Oates Inherited the drug tiunl ness of hls parents at Main and Hamilton avenue and according to the petition of Kli wlfe, la worth approximately one quarter of a million dollars in real estate and bonds.

a Despite her husband's wealth, Mr. Oate. in her petition, contends that for aeveral year her husband ha hceu giving her but fifteen dollars a week for Ihe support of herself and ibeir daugh ter. Ktbel Oalea. The petition gels forth that they were married on January, 8, 1914, i and that Immediately after the i eremony, Oatea look hi wife to Florida and returned iwo week later, bringing her to Ihe home (of her parent, when he left her.

Since that lime, Mr. Oaten com-i Plains that although she ha re and directors of the Alexander was stated In Hamilton hotel, over the splendid progress made by the hotel, since 'January 1. was expressed at meeting ot the stockholders, yesterday afternoon. jr President James Wilson said that the first half of. 1927 has proven I the best six-month period that the hotel has experienced since It was opened two vpars ago.

He explained that the hotel has been averag- ing close to sixty per cent, of Its occupancy capacity, To make the hotel a success. Mr. Wilson said that it needs an av-! erage of seventy per cent, of il oc- cupancy, and expressed confidence MILK ases (Continued on page t78p' SUPPLY BLAMED IgxtiU- Wincnr, twenty-six year old. of 745 Avenue Sigmund Biel, twenty nine years ohL of 8 Went FIfly-sevenlh street, and Jack Joseph, twenty three year old, of 20 W'et Twenty-aevenlb atreet. all of Ravnnne.

were ar ralgned before Judge Wallace Leyden In the Second Criminal Court In Harkenrk on of atrortoow assault and Ifattery, pending hexring before ihe Grand Jury. The complaints were made James J. Farrell, of 1 7 0 Maryland avenue, of this city, a trainman on Ih Krle Railroad, shorn ihe three-men attacked and brutally beat up Sunday evening whli the train was approaching the Ridgewood station. Farrell made a complaint of mayhem against Wlncof before their trial. Wlncor I alleged to have severely bitten Farrell's left thumb.

Judge Ltvden held Wlncor In default of 31 500 and Biel and Jo seph In 31 090 hall each. The three men were arrested at the Ridgewood stallnn by Patrolman John Keeley. of the Ridge wood police department. They were committed to the county Jail In default Of 35,000 ball each. hen I came, back across rom Oslend.

I saw the Liberty a the mists I was clad to be back I love, and I wa to 'Yankee I waa i 'he home of monarch, he treat land of the free ressive business, said Chrystal Brown, past of Hotary club, lo the of the Paterson Kiwanis non today at the weekly at 'he Alexander Hamti- (Continued on page 17.1 Isolated and Traced to One Dairy Which is Closed Until State Health Officials Analyze Product Paterson is Well Protected Motorcycle Officer Samuel Cochrane la confined In th Paterson Genera) hospital suffering from a fractured arm sustalfied at 11 46 o'clock this morning when he tii thrown fmm JH motorcycle while riding through th Essex atreet tunnel The irrtde happened when the motorcyclfi land dropped while the vehicle wa In motion. The stand caught on the pavement throwing Cothran over the handle-bara. J. The officer wa taken to the hospital where the bone wa set. Detective Simpson and Proto were aaeigned to Investigate (ha accident and found that Cochrane operating the motorcycle lowly when the- accident happened.

0 French War Ace Is Getting Ready for Flight Paterson street will come back into its own tomorrow when the thoroughfare is again scheduled to i be opened io two-way traffic. The Information that the street would be opened to traffic going north and south, instead of south i only, wa received today from the traffic algn department, where it was sUted that some time todav the onvay signs will be removed. This OTtion will bring to a close a battle that has been waged for months by the Paterson stieet businers men. who made many coo- cessions to the city in order to have the thoroughfare reopened to two-way traffic. The new Paterson street is six feet wider than It was a year for three feet of ground has been taken from eah sidewalk, thus af-fbrdlng a wider street for the use of autolsts.

There will be thirty-minute parking ordinance In effect In the street, this slso having been agreed to by the merchants, who lost thousands of dollars because of the one-way ordinance. IX FROM KLIKIt KILLED JCMI PLANE Drew in a (Continued on page 17.) morouB bis-eyperlences while the air route from lzindon, and the effect it him at he crossed the basnet. said that four-necu and eighteen pieces besides a erew of six. 'n 'be airship which he a heina ahout one I Selfridge Field. Auk.

I -Leclalr Schultz. 34. of Los Angeles, former advance man for the round the world flyers, was killed today when his paracutc failed to open after he had Jumped from a burning airplane, 800 feet over th Sehultl was recently assign'd to 1 Field from Washlng'on i to replace Lieut. J. Shade, who (killed at Ottawa.

while es-! corting Colonel Lindbergh New York, Aug. 2 Aviation's longest non-etop flight will be tried! soon hy Captain Rene Fonck, whose attempt to span the AllantL Ocean by airplane met with disaster at i the take-off here last September. The French war see, with Naval i Lieutenant W' Curtin, will starl from Roosevelt leld for Constan-I tinople within a few weeks, it was learned today. instead of the flight he attempted last year, Fonck will try to go, about 5,100 miles. He and the young Nary officer.

who saved bis life hy Jumping from the turning Sikorsky platze last fall, will make the high' In another Cikoreky plane. It Is near- 1 Ing completion in the Sikorsky factory ta Coliege Point. Only the two will go. Fred Plumb Gives More Facts About Submarine "ipd on page 17.1 An epidemic of pgra-lyphold fever. which broke out In the borough ot Hohokus.

one week ago, was declared lo be under control today by Ptc-sident Frank Buckley, of the Board of Health, of that place. rra-typhoid-t not a serious nor as long drawn out a typhoid fever. Patients are. In most cases, able io move about but are farfrom comfortable. Any possibility of an epidemic such a Hohokus has is extremely remote In the city of Paterson, ho-c (use nf the safeguards placed al-out the milk supply by Ihe Board Health, through President Geo.

S. Mitchell. Republican candidate for mayor of Paterson, who led a successful fight to protect Liuilk users of Paterson. The epidemic of Hohokus has been traced to the milk supply we lone farmer, at Saddle River. The nalesis hy the Siate Board of the courtes h( not rTed from lb.

laboratories, at N'ew Brunswick the reporter While driving along Broadway, at North End terrace, in Newark, yesterday, Hans. Mollrr. of 87 Maher avenue, t'ltfton, struck Joseph Wearever. fifty-three, of 205 Bergen street. Newark, with his car.

The Injured man was removed to t. Michael hospital, in h's car. by Mi. Metier. An examination disclosed the Injuries sustained to be a probable skull fracture, fracture of the right leg and scalp cuts.

ernorss Aid to be Sought Ocean Grove Squabble Hollands Boat Was Propelled by Hand, Says Former Pat-ersomarv Meets Man Who Assisted the Inventor on Submersible of Citizens' Association Will. Ask Moore to Help Property Owners Out of Financial Difficulties Samuel Ganelav. of 125 Gov ernor atreet. nustained a fractured: arm this morning when le fell tol the pavement from hie bicycle. The youth confined to the Barnectj Memorial Hospital.

$5,000 RECEIVERSHIP FEE FOR WM. DILL and written them have not been of a reply. Mrs. Ktuxsi- told given sheVcen7.7wro,e a letter to John bwhen IJoFnktit Andrus, so-called millonl, IJtd containing an article on tfi first Holland submarine bust. I can add to my brothers statement additional facts that will aid in clearing up some misconception relations th- submarine.

-nd tf Ortnr tSipp. of the Slpp Machine is Uvtng he could also gi some information regarding its vision: When the boat was first hutll iher ass very little machinery is Mr. Holland was eipertmantiog at that time on a derics to causo he boat to dtv or submerge and ascend in th surface Ta do this, be went inside, close! th inhole, and then tha boat waa Additional information about the Holland submarine wax given today when the Ness received a leiter from Frederic Plumb, of West Reading, Pa who lella about the first Holland boat Some Interest-! ing facts ar cited by Mr. Plumb, adding to the description of the i toat by hi brother. William j.

Plumb of this city, who recently told about the submarine The letter follows; 452 Phfnut Street. West Reading. Pg July 1927 Editor, Paterson Evening News, Dear 8I: Mr brother. William Plumb, has sent copy of tha Paterson Exetung New a July waned. Hohokan prohibiting th 'rovf.

Au 2 Governor will request-il relieve prop-' ln rfn Grove from ntndal embarrassment of the Ocean Meeting Atsoclntion move to recti- '8'' sceordfng to a vud today by Mrs. biuit. president of the Drove. Inc. win be Mh Sklv- Mrs.

Kunst Hiked cs them JAS. W. VAN H0UTEN UNDER PHYSICIANS CARE James Wesley Van Houten. well known carpenter contractor, form erly a resident of Paterson, is seri-! week, eight case ouzly til at hls home. 1 Birchwood treated by Dr.

William road. Glen Rock. The stricken man officer of Hoho- has been ill th put few weeks Investigation, waand Is constantly under phy-leiried etght were drinking "Ulan's care. Th family has been; a v- improvement; I reaaaured by th I Bankruptcy proceeding Involving the Newark Paring ended yesterday when Federal Judge Runyon awarded fee In the receivers and retired them from further service. Hugh W.

Oiiligan and State Mo tor Vrhlclt Commissioner William L. Dill each waa awarded I while Louis J. Beers, their attorney, was allowed 310.000. A lll-jtle more than 340.000 remains for (the payment of creditors, it ar shown. straphanger" of Yonkers.

N. asking him to organlxe a title. mortgage and loan company amooz rale of rawjntt the truatees of the Camp Meetlnz i Within Association. Mr. Andru.

thlr'-years ago. was treasurer of the as social Ion. The New Jersey binhing and In of'pari-typhold hst no ordinance one being "Vmtpson health Upon that all New York. Aug Be-lenbach. former world's light heavyweight champion, has fought bia last battle in the prixe ring The announcement he had decided to hang up hls six-ounce mitten for all lime wa made at today's meeting of the New York Boxing Commission by hla manager.

Dan Hicky. ithown in the paat few days. (Ccntinued on page 1T-) tCoattausd on (Continued on page 12 A.

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