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' H ightstown Gazette. V O L U M E X C HIGHTSTOWN, MERCER COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 1938 N U M B E R ts Standards Down SECOND OFFENSE AS TIPSY DRIVER Miss Edna Ralph Factional Fight Police Seek Florida Hightstown, 3-1, A three months’ sentence in the Mer cer County jail was given James W. Honor Guest at Among Democrats T u esd ay Night Starin, of 325 Monmouth Street, Tren Negro For Murder ton, by Recorder William H. Glackin in Lodge Rebeption On Primary Day Defeat SecMid in Row for Locals—Belt Washington Township RecordePs Court Rogers an<i J&miesoa-KatzenbacK Wednesday morning. Sons andl of Liberty Affair Out 8 Scattered Hits to 3 for Tren Will Again BatBe tor Su NEGRESS KILLED ton Nine—Benefit Game for Stanley Starin was arraigned on charges of Held in Fellowship Hall Monday operating an automobile on the Rob- Night for State Associate Secrataury. premacy — Two Cajwiidate* for Re Hutchinson September IL publican Nomination for Sheriff. Third Negro Escapes Enraged Man. binsville-Allentown road near Robbins- Hightstown Council, No, 46, Sons and Although held to three safeties, two yille Tuesday evening while under' the The campaigning for votes at the singles and a homer, the Trenton Daughters of Libe^'ty. tendered a recep Slayer Eludes Police- Early Morning influence of liquor. He was arrested tion to Miss Edna M. Ralph, state as primary election, Setpember 20, is now Standards defeated Hightstown, 3-1, in by 'frooper Delph and examined by Dr. sociate secretary, in Fellowship Hall, underway. Last Thursday was the last Shooting on KatonaFarm in Plainsboro a Lincoln Twilight loop game Tuesday William L. Wilbur. Police said that Presbyterian Church, Monday evening. day for filing petitions. Drawings for night on Lincoln Field. This loss is this was Starin’s second offense. His Township. A large attendance of members and places on the ballots were held Fri -an the second consecutive defeat for the driver’s license w as permanently re day afternoon. voked. tate and national officers from all parts A Florid^ Negro potato picker ran locals in this league. They have five The Democrats have two sets of can Geneva Bound victories and three losses. of the state were present to greet the amuck on the John Kapona farm, honor guest and express their best didates for sheriff, assemblymen and Cranbury-Plainsboro road, early Satur The Davisonmen slapped Cari Mundt wishes. freeholders. Tnis is a scrap between day morning killing a Negress and seri for eight bingles, but they were able Two Make Safe The hall was beautifully decorated the Rogers and the Jamieson-Katzen- ously wounding her husband. Another to push on ly o n e run across home. bach factions. Negro was threatened but managed to This tally was scored in the fourth in Landing While with flags, palms and baskets of cut flowers. 4 There are five candidates for the escape from the madman’s onslaught. ning which saw four singles hit, and Republican nominations for members Bertha Robinson, 30, of Chapel two errors committed. All told, seven Plane C rashes The state and national officers were of the Assembly, with three to be Street. Norfolk, Va., was instantly men were left on the bases by the escorted to the platform by the guide Pilot anc) Patsenger Bail Out of Ten- chosen. W. Clifford Case and Wallace killed when a blast from John Dean’s ’Towners in the six innings played. and color bearers and welcomed by the shotpn riddled her abdomen. Her hus Year-Old Plane at Central Jeraey chairman of the evening, Mrs. Luella S. Hunt are seeking the nomination for % John Campbell, first up for Hights Airport Sunday Afternoon. sheriff. Leonard A. Plant and John band, William Robinson, 33, is in town, smacked a two-bagger to right- L. Ralph. 0. Gretton, incumbents, a re without Princeton hospital in a serious condi Miss Ralph was presented with three opposition for nomination for freehold tion from wounds in the left arm and field which went for nought. The next A pilot and his passenger escaped in ♦ a. three hitters grounded out with jury when they bailed out of a ten- large beautiful baskets of flowers, one ers. ’ side. "Soupy” dying on second. In Stand year-old plane Sunday afternoon at of which was tied with silver ribbon Besides the county and municipality State police reported that Dean, 52- ard’s half of the first two men were Central Jersey Airport. and to each ribbon with money attached candidates the voters will vote for can year-old Negro "drifter" of South Bay, to each ribbon from members of the Fla., fled after the shooting and was walked, but “Whizzer” Becker tight Harry Chioffe, 28, of Dunellen, ac didates for U. S. Senator and Con-, ened up to prevent any scoring. He Council and friends with another gift gressman. being sought by police of the entire companied by Edmund Rosenberg, a of money from the Council. Hazel eastern coast. made Griggs pop to Lovett and fanned prospective buyer of the plane, which For United States Senator the can Walsh after Coffey was out on a sacri Davison then brought in a wagon, beau The shooting took place in a "To is owned by Paul Slicker, of Newark, didates are: W. Warren Barbour, bacco Road" setting on the farm of fice hit tifully decorated and filled with gifts was demonstrating the plane. from friends. George 0. Pullen and Dan Coskey on John Katona at Scott's Corner in In the second Trenton came to life The aciedent happened when Pilot the Republican ticket; William H. J. Iflainsboro Township at 1 o’clock Sat as they garnered two runs on a base on Mrs. Ralph responded and thanked Ely will be unopposed at the Demo Chioffe was stunting. The ship failed all for the hociors that had been be urday morning. balls and a passed ball spaced between to come out of a violent snap-roll and cratic primary. The Robinsons lived in one of four two hits. After Sabo walked, he went stowed upon her. This was followed collapsed at a height of 2,500 feet. The by addresses of the state and national For Congressman from the fourth chicken coops occupied by Negro pota to second on the pitcher’s balk. From occupants bailed out and floated to safe district, D. Lane Powers, incumbent, to pickers who are brought from the there he scored on Micharski’s single, officers and the following program of landings on a field. The plane landed music: unopposed for the Republican nomina Mrs. Mary G. Roebling, south each year, while Dean lived as which the first baseman should have with a terrific crash that reduced it to tion. Richard J. Hughes and John A. their next-door neighbor. Will Lock trapped. The following two batsmen Vocal solos, "Magic of Your Eyes," Daley seek the Democratic nomination. president, Trenton Trust Company, ett, 37-year-old Negro, roomed with "At Dawning," "Indian Dawn," a a d flied out. Davison, th e keystone Stat^ Aviator Director Gill Robb who sailed for Europe on Wednesday, Dean and it was he who escaped meet "Land of the Sky Blue Waters," by Mercer County candidates are as fol guardsman, then watched a ball which Wilson investigated the accident. lows : will attend th e League of Nations ing a fate similar to Mrs. Robiason’s, he ought to have caught, float over his Mrs. Leon A. Babcock, accompanied “I found the ship had failed struc Republican— sessions as Americaa representative Demanded Payment of Debt head, tallying Micharski, who was on by Miss Edith Erving. The Robinsons had loaned Dean $1 turally, following attempted acrobatics," Instrumental solos, "Sweet Eveaing Assembly—Aaron Kessler, Mario H. of th e International Federation of second because of a passed ball. Wilson said, "The tower right wing and after several days had elapsed be Denelsbeck banged out a hit through Star,” followed by an encore, by Mark Volpe, Michael J. Huley, Ailyne M. Women Lawyers. T h e Federation gan asking the man for it rather fre- spars failed after an attempted snap- Freeman, George J. Burch. third to start the ill-fated fourth. Mor roll at excessive speed. The ship was W. Swetland. "Perfect Day," by Mark will send delegates from 30 nations. I quently. Shortly after midnight Friday ris forced him out at second, “Streaky" W. Swetland, Sr., and Mark W. Swet Freeholders—Leonard A. Plant, John Later visits to Denmark, England, i night the two went to Dean’s hovel old and when the pilot tried to bring land, Jr. They were both accompanied succeeded in stealing second as Michar it dut of the snap-roll into a shal 0. Gretton. France, Norway and Sweden are jand again deinaiuled the money b u t ski dropped the ball in the play to by Miss Carol Swetland. Sheriff—W. Clifford Case, Wallace S. 1 were driven back by a series of curses, low dive, it gave way.” planned. Mrs. Roebling, also is a j They retired. trap the runner. He then trotted Wilson said the plane’s license had Refreshments of home-made cake and Hunt, Stephen A. Kearns. homeward when Dennis rapped a ice cream were then served by Leila member of the New Jersey Unem ; Some minutes later Mrs. Robinson expired some time ago and that the Coroners—Silas R. Bray, John Tack- heard Dean calling to her from outside grounder, good for a safety, to the Witt and her committee and a social acs, Carl A.