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29th Street runs from the Delaware River south across River Road to the Pavonia railroad yards, then from Pleasant Street to Westfield Avenue and from Federal Street to Clinton Street. It is North 29th Street above Federal and South 29th below.
Joseph Wallace of Merchantville was sentenced to four months in the county jail after pleading guilty to engaging in a lottery, having been arrested by county detectives at Thirty-fourth and Federal streets with numbers slips in his pockets. Judge Clifford A. Baldwin disputed defense attorney Carl Kisselman's claim that Wallace had been in the numbers business only two weeks.
More than 125 Camden county graduates and former students of the University of Pennsylvania last night completed organization of an alumni club and became charter members of the organization, with the rolls held open for an expected 300 additional charter members.
A mixed jury convicted William Dillon, 22, of manslaughter in the death of his brother-in-law Frank Webley following a fight aboard a barge off Twenty-ninth Street. Webley died in West Jersey Hospital on December 13.
Miss Carolina W. Taylor retires from the second grade class room at the Broadway School, where she taught for 35 years, and plans to keep house at 104 Powelton Avenue, Woodlynne.
Judge Clifford A. Baldwin, designated by Thomas S. Gates, president of the university, to head Camden activities in connection with the bicentennial in 1940, presided at the meeting. It took the informality of a smoker, then developed into the serious purpose of bringing the 800 Penn alumni in Camden county into a group that eventually should form one of the largest alumni clubs anywhere in America.
A probe of vice and crime conditions is being conducted in Camden city and county by New Jersey state police on orders of Supreme Court Justice Frank T. Lloyd.
Joseph Hillop, a Philadelphia crook once accused of ratting on his companions in the holdup of the Furhman jewelry store at 444 Broadway, was beaten, strangled and shot and his body dumped beside the old White Horse pike near Ancora.
Arthur "Gyp" Del Duca went on trial before Judge Austin H. Swackhamer on a charge of operating a disorderly house at 674 Fairview Street, raided twice in 24 hours the previous June, once by bandits and once by police.
Investigators believed spontaneous combustion probably caused the explosion in the Public Service purifying plant at Locust and Cherry Streets that killed 14 workmen and burned four others.
Prosecutor Clifford A. Baldwin went to the scene of the fatal explosion at Locust and Cherry Streets and announced an investigation to fix responsibility, "if any."
Prosecutor Clifford A. Baldwin barred spectators and ordered a heavy guard for the Criminal Court trial of alleged racketeer John Doris, charged with shooting Joseph Connors near Broadway and Kaighn avenue on April 28, 1929.