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A Circuit Court jury awarded $33,000 against the Scott-Powell Dairies to two boys hurt in a 1929 truck collision in Gloucester, among them William Kennedy Jr. of 1503 Collings Road, Fairview; former state policeman Anton Olsen won $8743.95 in a separate suit.
Joseph "Polack Joe" Devon, who shot and killed Joseph Cimini of Philadelphia in the Sixth Ward Republican Club at 908 Broadway, entered a plea of not guilty to a manslaughter charge before Judge Samuel M. Shay.
Although still technically charged with murder in the Sixth Ward Republican Club slaying, Joseph ("Polack Joe") Devon was released from the Camden county jail under $2,500 bail fixed by Assistant Prosecutor Joseph Varbalow, without Judge Samuel M. Shay or Prosecutor Ethan P. Wescott being consulted.
Thomas Atkins of Oaklyn, driver of the automobile that struck and killed Mrs. Emma Scholl, 67, of 694 Tulip Street at Ninth Street and Morgan Boulevard, was held for the grand jury on a technical charge of manslaughter by Judge Bertman in traffic court.