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Mrs. Eleanor Shaw, 28, a guest at the Hotel Plaza, Fifth and Cooper streets, was taken to Cooper Hospital after an overdose of sleeping tablets; Dr. Herbert Weinberg of 563 Benson Street was the hotel physician.
Despite protests by South Jersey veterans' organizations, government officials closed the Camden branch of the veterans administration in the postoffice building and moved it to the Lyons Hospital at Millington; veterans' groups appealed to Congressman Charles A. Wolverton and met at 308 Broadway to protest.
Pensions for six Camden policemen and 17 firemen took effect January 1, 1933, as proposed salary cuts prompted the requests; Inspector Charles T. Humes refused to withdraw his application.
With the Camden Fire Department spreading across the city, City Council's Fire Committee appointed additional firemen, naming one or two men from each of the twelve wards.
The Fire Committee of Camden City Council appointed a slate of new firemen — among them Martin Carrigan — ahead of the completion of the new fire house at Twelfth and Federal streets.
Meeting at the home of its ailing chairman, Dr. Frank Neall Robinson, the fire committee of Camden City Council recommended sixteen men — Martin Carrigan among them — for appointment to the Fire Department, drawn from wards throughout the city.
City Council's Fire Committee named eighteen new firemen — Martin Carrigan among them — sixteen of whom would not report for duty until the new fire house was ready the following July.