MOST PROGRESSIVE TOWNSHIP SUBURBAN NEWSPAPER JOIN IN THIS AREA RECTCTOSS The Voice of the Raritan Bay District3 VOL. V.—No. 32 FORDS, NEW JERSEY, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1940 PRICE THREE CENTS, Wittkie Responds To Cheers Of 20,000 At Plahshoro REPUBLICAN MASS RALLYFIRST LOCAL DRAFTEES HERE J)V. 4TO GO TO CAMP NOV. 25 Seen Interest In National Combined Clubs Of Second First Township Men To Be Drafted Questionnaires At Rate 01 \ * •. * s t . Outcome Is Expected To ' .• . , > Ward To Gather At School 50 A Day To Be Mailed , Draw Voters To Polls No. 7 Monday Night Starting Next Week 13,855 ARE ELIGIBLE MEETING CONCLUDES 5-DAY TIME LIMIT SET; TO-VOTE IN TOWNSHIP TOWNSHIP CAMPAIGN FOR RETURNING FORMS Tenure Bill Continues To Other Sessions Scheduled Local Advisory Board Will Be Only Subject Of De- For This Evening And Help Registrants To An- bate In Local Picture Tomorrow Night swer 60 Questions FORDS—One of the largest po- FORDS. — Due to the keen WOODBRIDGE—The first New litical rallies ever held here is interest in the presidential elec- Jersey men in the first draft will scheduled to take place at School tion and the large increase in in all likelihood "go to camp No. 1 Monday night, November 4. registration, a record vote is ex- around November 25," Mr. Lewis, The affair is being sponsored by pected to be cast in the Township .of the state offices of the Selective the combined Republican clubs, of on General election day, next Service Division, at Trenton, in- the second ward. Wilson John- Tuesday. The polling places in formed a reporter of this news- the municipality will be open from son, president of the Fords Men's paper. 7 a. ni. to 8 p. m. Republican Club, is chairman. The mass rally election eve will Kurt Baumgarteta Kcinneth Ronalder He also stated it is estimated Exactly 13,885 persons in the that 30,000 men will be drawn rminate the 1940 campaign FORDS.—Selective Service Orders No. 1 and No. 2, drawn Township will be eligible to vote from regions in the country where aich, omitting national and state in Washington at noon Tuesday, were serial numbers existing in Tuesday as compared with 12,841 camp facilities are already, avail- sues, was one of the mildest ever Woodbridge Township. Order No. 1, drawn by President Roose- persons last year—an increase of able. Plans are to have 400,000 . >ndueted in the township. velt, was 158. The number was assigned by the Township Draft 1,044. In 1936, the last presiden- men from all over the United Speakers will include LeRpy Board following the recent registration to Kenneth Ronalder, tial election year, 11,281 Town- States in uniform by February '28. ;tter, candidate for committee- 212 Ford Avenue, Fords. Ronalder, who is 25 years old, is the son ship residents were eligible to Local Board Sorts Numbers vote.: • an from the second ward; John of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Ronalder, of Hopewell, N. J, Married ish,. candidate for justice of three years ago, Ronalder, with his wife, resides in a small bunga- Eugene Bird, secretary of the As far as the local situation is :ace; Clarence R. Davis and Ar- low in upper Ford Avenue. He is employed by General Motors at local draft board said yesterday - Concerned there is very little bal- ur W. Larson, candidates for Linden, They have no children. that the tremendous task of indexi lyhoo. Perhaps this is to be ex- eeholder; Ernest Berger, Chris- Order No. 2. representing Serial No. 192, is held by Kurt ing serial draft numbers In' tKfr pected, for regardless of the out- m Stockel and John VR Strong, Baumgarten, 44S New Brunswick Avenue, Fords. Baumgarten, order which they will be selected ' come of the election the Republi- sembly candidates; Committee- son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Baumgarten, same • address, is 30 years locally for service in the nation's" cans will still be in the majority. an James Schaffrick; Recorder old and is employed by the Perth Amboy Dry Deck Company! first peacetime conscript army, has The only subject that has caus- rthur Brown, Township Attor- Married three years, Mr. and Mrs. Baumgarten are the parents already been started. ed any discussion at all is the Civil sy Leon E. McElroy, Mayor Aug- of a son two months old. The local draft board must noV Service Referendum for Township it- F. Greiner, County and Mu- sort out all serial numbers higher employes. If the referendum is cipal Chairman James S. Wight, than their own figures and fentaa- approved by the voters it will only i ealth Inspector Harold Bailey, ber the remainder in the same pro- affect regular employes. Town- seeutive Board Chairman Frank Alexander To Address Democratic portionate order that they' wefa " ship Treasurer 0. J. Morganson driham and Former' Committee- drawn in Washington. Since twice and Township: Engineer Clarence an Howard Madison. as many serial numbers were - Davis, appointed by resolution, Other important "meetings are Ratty At Village Barn Monday Night drawn as were assigned by the will not come under the Civil Serv- heduled for tonight at Village state's largest draft board, the - ice law. Neither will the tax col- Barn, Hopelawn, and November Annual Pre-Election Meeting To Be Sponsored By order numbers issued locally; win -,- lector, Michael J. Trainer, who A shouting, cheering crowd estimated by State Police at 20,000 jammed the grounds at the 2, Keasbey firehouse. be much closer to the top oJ the has an elective position. William Walker-Gordon Farm at Plainsboro yesterday to greet Wendell L. Willkie, Republican candidate for American-Hungarian Union And Hopelawn Democrats draw .than the, master or4e? num.-. - President. Mr. Willkiej shown above with Robert C. Hendrickson (left) Republican candidate for Allgaier will only be affected in bers announced- in Washington. Governor of New Jersey and United States Senator W. Warren Barbour (right) •was given a one post, that of real estate di- FORDS—Committeeman Charles J. Alexander, Dem- thunderous ovation as he blasted the;presence in this country of the United States diplomatic staff ocratic candidate for re-election to represent the second For example, 158 and 192, tie first" rector. The building Jnspector's busy electioneering .for "Mr. Third Tern* Candidate instead "of attending to our nation's interests JUNIOR WOMEN TO two numbers drawn, are local job does not come under Civil \ in seething Europe." Mr. Willkie made his second appearance in Middlesex County at 11 o'clock ward, will be the principal speaker at a pre-election rally numbers. No other local numbers Service, according to Mr.-McElroy. | this morning, in New Brunswick. Monday night at the Village Barn, Charles and Juliette were drawn until lisa 19th num- Would Not Benefit HOLD BARN DANCE Streets, Hopelawn. The affair is being sponsored by theber, 105. The latter number- does • not remain 19th on the list but Because he is now employed by American-Hungarian Union of Fords, Keasbey and Hope- becomes Order No. 3 for Wood- the State, John Omenhiser, the $5,600 Affair To Be Held Tonight i3ih Annual-Potic&Ball To Feature lawn, and the Hopelawn Demo- bridge Township, for it. was -the relief director, will not benefit if At School No. 7; Next cratic Club. third number drawn On the Town- the Civil Service law is adopted ship list. here. If, at' the beginning of the AIL Star Stage? Radio Attractions FUNDS • Meeting Nov. 22 In addition to Committeeman Alexander, other local, county and ANNUAL DINNER IS year, the State returns the admin- FORDS—Members of the Fords To Start Mailing Forms, istration of relief to the Township,. Affair, Sponsord By Raritan Township Policemen's Shortage Of State Moneys state candidates will' address the After all order numbers have Junior Woman's Club heard an in- meeting. Refreshments and a so- Mr. Omenhiser will be required to Available For Distribu- •eresting talk on "Stage Make-Up" SEASON HIGHLIGHT been listed, questionnaires -b%aring take a Civil Service referendum. Benevolent Association, Te Be Held At Pines Nov. 15 by Miss Arline •Corbett, a member cial hour . will conclude the • eve- both serial and order numbers will Although both Republican and RARITAN TOWNSHIP—Seven all-star stage and ra- tion Is Blamed of the Woodbridge High School mng s program. 16th Annual Event 01 be-mailed to the registrant. These Democratic organizations have an- faculty, at a regular meeting of the Alexander was originally elect- questionnaires will be mailed at nounced that they are decidedly dio attractions will feature the thirteenth annual ball to RARITAN TOWNSHIP—School group Friday night in the local li- ed committeeman. from the second Fords Woman's Club Out- the rate of 50 a day, starting at opposed to Civil Service for Town- be held November 15 at the Pines, Lincoln Highway, under Commissioner John Anderson, brary. ward in 1934. He was re-elected standing Success the beginning of next week. Ac- ship employes, the latter are quiet- the sponsorship of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, secretary of the Township Board The club completed plans for a in 1936 and again in 1938. His cording to Mr. Bird, registrants ly working among their friends to Local No. 75, Raritan Township, according to Officers of Education, Monday night re- barn dance to be held tonight at efforts to effect improvements in FORDS—The sixteenth annual will have five days in which to put it across on election day. School No. 7 beginning at 8:30 the district which he serves, Fords,- dinner, sponsored by the Fords fill out their questionnaires and ported to the board that a "deficit o'clock.