H ightstown Gazette. 97th YEAR—NUMBER ii HIGHTSTOWN, ilERCER COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1945 PRICE—FIVE CENTS Girl Migrant Man Fatally Hurt CentraiPotatoFarmersFace NEWS OF OUR Gets Jail Term In Auto Crash on Heavy Loss With Favorable ■ MEN«tfWOMEN For Cutting Fray Freehold Road Markets Fast Disappearing IN UNIFORM 30 Stitches Required to Sew Passenger Injured When Cut on Victim’s Neck; Auto Strikes Pole After August Starts Off Where Shipments Reduced to 16 July Left Off— W ith Rain! Frank Perrine in School for Transferred to Pacific 15 Cases Handled in Court Driver Dozes at Wheel Instead of 1200 Carloads Will the month of August be any bet­ Mine Warfare Training Ruby Smith, 18-year-oId migrant Ne- Charles J. Griffiths, 59 years oUl, of ter than July with its rainy and muggy Because of Wet Grounds I’enn Argyl, Pa., died Sunday night in weather July’s total rainfall was over Franklin B. Perrine, 21, motor ma­ Kro, was sentenced to serve 90 days in nine inches. Perhaps there was at least Instead of a weekly shipment of 1,200 chinist’s mate, second class, USNR, the Mercer County jail by Recorder F. St. Francis Hospital, Trenton, of in­ one clear day. The weather observer carloads, potato dealers of New Jersey’s Route 1, Cream Ridge, is at the mine- K. Hampton in Recorder’s Court M on­ juries suffered in an automobile acci­ listed must of the 31 days as rainy or famed potato belt—Middlesex, M ercer craft training center, Little Creek, Va., day night. dent late Saturday afternoon on Route cloudy. The first day of August brought' and Monmouth counties—are shipping lor special schooling in mine warfare. Ruby was charged with slasliing Eliz­ 33 (Freehold road) about four miles a light rain. about 16 carloads of potatoes to market, A. E. White, U.S. weather man at A veteran of 19 months aboard a abeth Smiley Saturday night. The fra­ from Higiitstown. W . H. (Jordon, vice president of Cham­ minesweeper in the European-African- the Trenton station, explains it in this cas occurred on Dawes Court. Police Griffith sustained a multiple fracture berlin & Barclay Company, one the Middle Eastern Theater, he entered the w ay: largest dealers in the East, disclosed of the pelvis, chest injuries, and suf­ Navy in June, 1912, took basic training said tiiat the Smiley woman had been In m id-July a series of stationary Saturday. weather fronts reached the eastern part at Newport, R. I., and attended the cut on the side of her head and neck fered from shock. H e was a passenger “Farmers who have planted potatoes of the country. They settled along the diesel engineering schools at Norfolk, and that Dr. Haggerty at St. Francis in a car operated by Amandus Gregor, are going to suffer a lot, but just how Atlantic Coast, sort of became stag­ Va., and Cleveland, Ohio. Hospital took about 30 stitches to sew much we will not be able to tell until 60, of Bangor, Pa. State Police re­ nated. And since they took up their His wife is the former Mary Eleanore up a seven-inch cut. rain subsides and they begin digging on ported the party was enroute from the stand in this area there has been no M ohr of Cranbury. He is the son of A t the trial Ruby plead not guilty a large scale,” Gordon said. shore to Trenton when Gregor fell air movement strong enough to push Mrs. Charles Albright of Hightstown. and denied being implicated in the af­ them on. It’ll take a sizeable “cool air He declared that the almost constant fray. asleep at the wheel. The auto struck a pole. mass” to do the job. White said he sees rain this season has caused rot and has F.n«. David Turp Training Window Smaahod The victims were taken to St. Francis no evidence of any “cool air mass” in blighted the vines. Farmers haVe been A plate glass window at W est’s Tav­ Hospital, Trenton, in the First Aid the offing. kept out of their fields except during For Duty Aboard Destroyer ern on Mercer street was smashed Squad ambulance. Gregor suffered short daily dry spells and then they are when an unknown person threw a bot­ abrasions of the right knee and elbow. only able to dig in the dry potato areas, Ens. David H. Turp, USNR, recently tle through it late Saturday night. Another passenger, William France, 58, Unexcelled Plant Gordon added. reported to the officers’ school, Norfolk, Plnjrinf Cards also of Bangor, was treated at the hos­ With potato shipments reduced to only a fraction of what they should Va., to train for duties aboard a de­ Four Negro migrants were each fined pital for forehead and chest abrasions. have been during the last two weeks, stroyer of the Atlantic Fleet. $3 and costs on their pleas of guilty to Both were released. Trooper John Du- Loading Deadly the charge of playing cards for money busky investigated. Gregor was fined the favorable market for the New Jer­ Son of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Turp, sey farmer is rapidly disappearing. 314 South Main street, he has a brother, FRANKLIN L. REID. SM /c Saturday night in an alley oflf Rogers $10 when arraigned Saturday night on Priecs Sore to Fall Ernest 19, who is a seaman, first class, avenue. a careless driving charge before Justice Bombs for Japs Franklin E. Reid, Sl/c,son of Mr. and In the two-hour session in Recorder’s Gordon said prices are sure to fall in the ’Navy. H e' attended the Univer­ of the Peace Schoenly at Dayton. The Mrs. Frank Reid. 147 Franklin street, court some 15 cases were handled. John accident occurred at 5 o.m. State Police with the arrival of potatoes from other sity of Virginia. The Cranbury plant of Unexcelled Henry Coley, according to the testi­ said Gregor would be summoned to ap­ eastern areas 'W’hich means that farm­ after making eight trips across the A t­ Manufacturing Company is loading one mony, had been a frequent visitor in pear Saturday before a magistrate on a ers in the New Jersey potato belt arc lantic and being awarded the American of the deadliest firebombs in use over Tabler Preparing for Duty court, was fined $15 and costs and one charge of death by an automobile. going to suffer a heavy loss. Usually Theater ribbon and the European-Af- Japan, it was revealed today by Col. day in the local jail. He was up on MUhap at Robblmvillc the New Jersey farmers begin to dig Lester W . Hurd, commanding the New their potatoes shortly after July 4. Aboard Torpedo Boat rican-Middle Eastern Theater ribbon charge of fighting with his wife. In another accident in which a car York District of Chemical Warfare This year, weather conditions inter­ with a star, has been transferred to the Another migrant received a $3 fine overturned on Route 25 near Robbins- Richard E. Tabler, 20, fireman, first and costs for interfering with a woman. Service. fered with the normal digging and in Pacific. He has been three times to viil, George Hamilton, 57, of 2012 The Middlesex County plant, espe­ class, USN, son of Mrs. Eva Deitzel of The woman produced a car registration the last two weeks digging almost came South Clinton avenue, Trenton, suf­ cially adapted to this work, is turning 138 South Main street, Hightstown, is Africa, four times to England and once card issued in her name. He claimed to a standstill while the bare potato fered fractures of several ribs and in­ out thousands of the fanieil M-69 jel­ in training at Newport, R, L., preparing to Scotland. part ownership in the auto. markets were gradually disappearing ternal injuries. He was removed to St. lied gasoline incendiary bombs. At the for duty aboard a motor torpedo boat A Cranbury white man received a $3 from view. Francis Hospital, Trenton. same time Col. Hurd revealed that the Gordon said the farmers will not be tender soon to be commissioned. Milton Patterson Taken by fine for creating a disturbance in the Bertram Powers, 24, same address, ])lant’s operations were hampered by a able to determine their actual loss until A student at Hightstown High School, tavern operated by Pistacchio and Gio- the driver, was not injured. He was shortage of labor. they begin digging in the low spots in Tabler was 'employed by the Hights­ vannetti on Mercer street. The only Army in Latest Draft Call arraigned before Washington Town­ The M-69 bomb is a six-pound missle their potato fields. He said farmers other white to appear in court w'as on town Rug Co'. He enlisted in the Navy ship Recorder William H. Glackin at loaded with three pounds of ^soline have not as yet reported potato rot in February, 1942. Hu has had nine The following men were accepted by a motor vehicle violation. He was fined Windsor and fined $10 on a charge of thickened to a jelly by a special for­ which is caused by too much rain. months’ overseas duty aboard the UbS the A rm y on July 24, according to L o­ $1 and $1 costs. careless driving. The investigation was mula. Dropped from B-2^s. these All other migrants who were before Bayfield, and at shore stations in the cal Board 1 of Princeton: made by Troopers John Sweei and John bombs are clustered in 1300-lb.