Tlie News Pf All the Township 16 Pages W a Y Sports* Page 5
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
7!S3^.f.~.~WV"7?!3i!!!£T«WJ^ Tlie News pf All 16 Pages Way The Township Sports* Page 5 VOL. VII, N. 34 WOODBRIDGE, N. J./FRIDAY, OCTOBER SO, 1925 PRICE THREE CENTS roftui «**»' DEMOCRATS' ATTACK FALLS FLAT AS t MEMORANDUM OF CREDIT NO- Activities Of Fake Linen, Peddler BLUM'S ATTORNEY ADMITS BLUM'S .]t| ISSUED BY CHARGE WAS WRONG The jjj||^3ir Company" Ended By Call On Police Chief (EDITORIAL) * . 4O RECTOR STREET Man Confesses To Misrepresenting Source of Supply But Pleads Mr. George Blum, ousted road supervisor, last night brought He Called Muslin "Linon" Not Linen; to a climax his campaign of misguided political gass- IN FAVOR OF TOWNSHIP OF WOODBRIDGE Had Real Linen Sample TOWNSHIP CLERK ing. Working hand in glove with the Democratic organization ADDRESS and its newspaper, Mr. Blum had spent the past two weeks in WOODBRIDGE H J 7/24/25 Antone Salemi, an Italian mer- Salemi's activities here in the past NEW YORK._ _192 chant of New York, would never have few days are thought to have resulted industriously hurling at the heads of the Republican adminis- rung the doorbell of the Murphy in several houswives purchasing an tration any muddy missiles that his ingenious attorney or his home on Amboy avenue and attempt- inferior grade of cotton goods for ed to sell Mrs. Murphy linen had he linen. There is no way of checking Democratic collaborators handed him. His aim was, of course, AS PER THE FOLLOWING DETAILS known that Mr. Murphy is chief of up on "the number of people who to wreak revenge on the Township Committee, that voted to police of Woodbridge and that the made purchases from him but Mrs. I. DESCRIPTION police had for two days been search- T. Spencer gave the police the infor- oust him after he ha'd for two months refused to carry out any ing high and low for an alleged linen mation that resulted in his arrest. of the-duties of his1 office. To obtain this end he has not only vendor. Salemi was taken into cus- It seems that Salemi, who gave his "been willing to align himself with political powers that always INVOICE 6/22 AUTO 60 tody by Officer George Keating and was arraigned before Recorder Ash- age as 32 and his address as 64 4th before had been to him anathema, but he has delivered himself TARVJA X 1181 SALS 16 6AI 18896 street, New York City, carries with ley on the specific charge of selling him a sample of very fine linen. He of statements that he has not nor cannot prove and which are .without a license. He paid a fine of INVOICE 6/23 l» AUTO 105 $25. in preference to a sentence of tells at least some of his prospective easily refuted. purchasers that this linen was "smug- TARVIA X 1200 SALS 16 GAL 192 30 30 days in the county workhouse. gled from England by his unele." Tuesday night, at a Democratic meeting in Port Eeading Mr. He offers it for sale at a price that Blum set off what was in last week's issue of that party's paper INVOICE 6/27 AUTO 9 is said to be reasonable for linen of TARVIA X 12 06 SALS. 16 GA the grade of his sample. Mrs. Spen- loudly press agented as his heavy artillery. It consisted of a 192 36 Crash Ii Rail Sends cer agreed to buy a piece of the ^'revelation" discovered by Blum in his examination of township goods and went upstairs to get the 573 money. After Salemi had gone she bills, that the township had paid twice for the same shipment 3 To-The Hospital found that instead of linen the of road oil. But Mr. Blum, as has been his failing throughout peddler had left muslin. It is sup- FACSIMILE OF PROOF THAT SILENCED DEMOCRATS' BIG GUN LAST NIGHT Aged Man Remains Uncon- posed that he made the substitution his campaign of bitterness, found later that he had again de- Although the Democrats had expected that their meeting last night would be made scious For Day But Is Now when Mrs. Spencer went to get the money. Salemi yesterday agreed to - livered himself of a charge THAT IS WRONG. By refraining sensational by a repetition of a charge made By Mr. Blum at Port Reading,- Tuesday night, the Recovering from repeating his charge at the Woodbridge meeting last night take back the muslin and refund the charge was not repeated. Nelson Knapp, aged 55, of East money. he indirectly acknowledged that he had been wrong. But, as in On Tuesday night Mr. Blum told a Port Reading audience that the Township Commit- Orange, was taken in an unconscious Salemi was very adroit in his ex- another case to be cited later, he lacked the moral courage or tee had paid twice for the same consignment of Tarvia X. He did not repeat the charge last condition to Rahway Hospital, Sat- planation of the affair. He said that urday afternoon to be treated for in- he did not tell any one that the mate- the sportsmanship to come out and openly declare that his night because his attorney had found out that he was wrong. jjuries sustained when his ear crashed rial he was selling was linen. "I charge had been unfounded. The facts of the case are: The township purchased three tank truckloads of Tarvia. inti o a" machinhi e thatht hat hdd skiddekiddd told them it was linon," he said. across the road in front of him. Asked why he represented his good<? A quantity of tarvia was bought by the township through The Barrett people submitted a bill direct to the Township but before they had received a Besides Mr. Knapp, Mrs. Daisy as something that had been smuggled the Barrett Company's agent in this territory. Payment for this check the jobber representing them in this district called their attention to the fact that the Knapp, aged 26; and Walter-Knapp, he explained that he did so because "they won't buy it unless I do." road oil was sent direct to the company but it was found out order had been submitted through him and asked the Barrett concern to bill him for the "They like me to tell them that so I that the payment should have been made to the agent. Conse- material. This the Barrett concern did but at about the same time the Township sent its check j and Messenger treated the younger say my uncle smuggled it." quently the Barrett people refunded the Township's payment covering the bill. The Barrett Company immediately refunded the money thus paid and asked and Immediately after paying his fine knee. Mrs. Knapp had a deep gash Salemi asked where he could apply to them and the Township sent a check to the agent. Certainly that it be sent instead to the jobber. : in her neck as well as cuts and for a peddler's license for Wood- this is nothing to get excited about, but Mr. Blum thought he Thus two checks were sent out for the same purchase BUT one was refunded to thebruises about the face. The older bridge. He was shown the quickest Mr. Knapp remained unconscious for way to leave town and Recorder Ash- saw in it an indication of dishonest dealing. township. It was something that happens every day in almost every concern doing business. several hours, but his condition is ley told him that if he appeared here Mr. Blum's mistake arose from the fact that he and his attorney, in their investigation, over- now believed to be much improved. again he would impose a jail sentence As proof of what we will charitably call Mr. Blum's error, The accident happened in the rain- on him. there is here published a photographic reproduction of thelooked the fact that one of .the payments had been refunded. V > storm. A car driven by a man named refund slip that was sent by the Tarvia people to the Township. Smith, of Metuchen, skidded on the High" School Alumni To slippery highway between Menlo Park Mr. Blum's whole bitter diatribe against his former party, First Woodbridge Volunteer In Hold Reception Tonight and Iselin, veering across the road Judge Dmof aa Speaks actuated by a petty desire to repay with injury what he regards directly in the path of Knapp's Car. Both machines were damaged. as an-injury; to himself, has been conducted with a regard for Civil War Dead In 85th Tear The Alumni Association will hold a Officer George Balint went imme- T§ Repiibllcans Tonigtt neither truth nor propriety. At the time of his ousting he Augustine H. Flood, one of thewas a irtember of New York 5th Vol- reception tonight at the high school. diately to the scene of the accident and supervised the removal of the made the charge that'the road department had spent $43,000 town's oldest residents and the first unteers, Duryea's Zouaves. This will be the first affair of its Hudson County Man Has Woodbridge volunteer in the Union Mr. Flood is survived by his widow, kind to be conducted by the associa- injured to the hospital. He ordered of the $60,000 road fund Jpy the end of February. This was Army during the Civil War, died at ^ranees Dally; five daughters, Mrs. tion since it was revived some months Smith to remain until he had time to Caused Amazement In Ex- immediately proven false bv the publishing of a financial state- his home in Prospect avenue at 7:30 S.