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Safe crackers using nitroglycerine looted two safes at Neil F. Deighan's Old Mill Inn on Route 25 in Pennsauken township of an estimated $4500 to $5000, after tying up night watchman Otto R. Vohringer.
A June 1939 Camden Courier-Post report on the Municipal Alcohol Beverage Control Board's ruling that even giving away liquor on Sunday breaks the law, in a hearing that reviewed several licensees including the Polish-American Citizens Club.
At a one-day special convention, the New Jersey Licensed Beverage Association under its president, Neil F. Deighan, opposed state-operated liquor stores and asked that A. B. C. Commissioner D. Frederick Burnett be given wider powers to enforce the Fair Trade Act.
Neil F. Deighan of Camden was re-elected president of the New Jersey Licensed Beverage Association for a third term at its Atlantic City convention, which also passed resolutions opposing any return of prohibition.
George and Charles Wiedenmann, lessors of the Old Mill Inn property on the Burlington pike in Pennsauken township, sought to restrain Neil F. Deighan from using the name Old Mill after he moved his business to a new place about two blocks away.
The New Jersey Assembly adopted a supplement to the temporary state beer law permitting Sunday sales after 1 p.m. and bars, while the New Jersey Licensed Beverage Association, through a legislative committee headed by Neil Deighan of Camden, telegraphed every state senator to oppose Senator Emerson L. Richards' proposed permanent bill.