Historical Articles - page 3

01/14/1930 | New York Evening Journal
Prohibition

Prohibition helps business, specifically the treatment of Alcoholism

01/14/1930 | New York Evening Journal
Corruption

Atlantic City is wrought with crime and corruption

01/01/1930 | American Issue
Prohibition

Arrest of the Colonial Inn proprietor

| New York Evening Journal
Women's Experiences

Young girls bought and sold as slaves, exposed to physical abuse

| New York Evening Journal
Atlantic City Crime

Grand Jury to investigate criminal acts occuring in Atlantic City

01/14/1930 | New York Evening Journal
Women's Experiences

Story of a young girl who is forced to work in Atlantic City

04/24/1929 | Trenton Times?
Prohibition

Details penalties for men arrested for alcohol related violations

04/24/1929 | Trenton Times?
Reform

Sanford Bates will lead a reorganization of the Federal Prison System

01/13/1930 | Newark News
Prohibition

Partial transcript of the Law Enforcement Commission's preliminary report

01/13/1930 | Newark News
Prohibition

Details recommendations of Hoover's Law Enforcement Commission

01/13/1930 | Newark News
Prohibition

Editorial suggesting more definative stands on Prohibition enforcement

04/13/1905 | Newark News?
Prohibition

Describes appropriations for Prohibition enforcement

04/13/1905
Prohibition

Complete text of the Law Enforcement Commission's preliminary report

05/01/1929 | Trenton Times
Prohibition

Rum imports are descreasing due to both government efforts and illegal domestic production

05/03/1929 | Newark Ledger
Prohibition

Jersey City garage raided yielding alcohol

01/14/1930 | Atlantic City Press
Prohibition

National Prohibition Administrator Dr. James Doran describes the benefits of prohibition law

01/14/1930 | Newark News
Prohibition

Details Law Enforcement Commission's recommendation that states must take more responsibility for prohibition enforcement

01/14/1930 | Newark News?
Prohibition

Measure introduced to transfer prohibition enforcement from the Treasury Department to the Justice Department

01/14/1930 | Newark News?
Prohibition

James Doran says that Americans who do not like the Federal Government should go to Canada

01/13/1930 | Newark News?
Prohibition

Political Cartoons describing futile efforts of government to enforce prohibition and prevalence of foreign alcohol in America

01/14/1930 | Jersey Journal
Construction

Federal funds earmarked for Hoboken Post Office and other construction projects in New Jersey

01/14/1930 | Jersey Journal
Prohibition

Editorial suggesting largest issue with prohibition is lack of public support

01/15/1930 | Trenton Times
Prohibition

West New York "alcohol cooking plant" raid yields production equipment and leads to one arrest

01/15/1930 | Atlantic City Press
Bankruptcy

Law proposed that a discharge in bankruptcy would not release the debtor from alimony, taxes, or liabilities for obtaining property

01/15/1930 | New York Evening Journal
Women's Experiences

Story of husband's imprisonment from trying to free his enslaved wife

01/16/1930 | New York Evening Journal
Prohibition

Details separate attempts in House and Senate to repeal Prohibition ammendment

01/16/1930 | New York Evening Journal
Prohibition

Picture showing Al Capone walking with five other men in Atlantic City

01/01/1930 | New York Evening Journal
Women's Experiences

Describes how kidnapped girl was abducted and forced into "white slavery"

01/01/1930 | New York Evening Journal
Atlantic City Crime

Describes the mafia run drug trade and the involvement of corrupt politicians and police, as well as white slaves

01/16/1930 | Newark Ledger
Prohibition

Describes the work related trip of New Jersey Prohibition Administrator William Calhoun and provides more details on West New York Raid

01/16/1930 | Trenton Times
Trenton Post Office

Notes US Attorney Forman's efforts to find land for a new post office (in Trenton?)

01/16/1930 | Newark News
Prohibition

Three men arrested for continuing to violate prohibition laws at their establishments

01/16/1930 | Newark News
Prohibition

Congressman propose to eliminate prohibition

01/16/1930 | New York Evening Journal
Women's Experiences

Woman's story showing the power and influence of crime bosses

01/16/1930 | Newark News
Prohibition

James K. Shield, President of the New Jersey League proposss individual municipalties should pass prohibition laws

01/17/1930 | New York Evening Journal
Prohibition

Notes that Supreme Court Justice Campbell's instructions to leading politicians and the civil service of Atlantic City were largely being ignored

01/17/1930 | New York Evening Journal
Law

District Attorney Tuttle desires a Federal law protecting against "illegal premiums and extortions by bail bond runners"

01/17/1930 | Trenton Times
Prohibition

G. Rowland Monroe, in a speech to the New Jersey Anti-saloon League suggests that prohibition needs to become more of a local issue

01/17/1930 | Trenton Times
Trenton Post Office

States that District Attorney Phillip Forman has finished meeting with land holders in regards to selecting a site for the new post office

01/17/1930 | Trenton Times
Prohibition

US Attorney Forman filed padlock proceedings against an alledged saloon viewable from the Federal Building

01/20/1930 | New York Evening Journal
Prohibition

Prevalency of gambling opportunities in Atlantic City is causing numerous foreclosers and other societal ills while organized crime prospers

01/20/1930 | New York Evening Journal
Prohibition

Explains the threefold reasoning for the New York Evening Journal's expose of Atlantic City's corruption

01/17/1930 | Atlantic City Press
Crime

The previous evenings New York Evening Journal stated that the airport was being used to further the drug smuggling ring in Atlantic City

01/18/1930 | The New York Times?
Prohibition

Cabinet aide proposes that any Federal official who consumes any alcohol would be discharged

01/18/1930 | Jersey Journal
Prohibition

US Attorney Forman files suit against eight alledged saloons

01/18/1930 | Jersey Journal
Prohibition

Federal Judge William Clark will only allow padlocked establishments to reopen when they can prove the legality of their business practices

01/16/1930 | Jersey Journal
Prohibition

Lists alledged salooons to be padlocked and repeats above assertion of Judge Clark in regards to those establishments

01/19/1930 | The New York Times
Law

American Law Institute proposition to make state criminal procedure more uniform

01/19/1930
Prohibition

Arrest of Prohibition advocate

01/17/1930 | Camden Courier
Prohibition

Failure to shut off beer in Camden

01/18/1930 | Camden Courier
Prohibition

Camden Brewery raided (editorial)

01/20/1930 | Trenton Times
Prohibition

Embezzler sentenced by Judge Fake

01/20/1930 | Trenton Times
Trenton Post Office

Commisioner Swan discusses land of present Post Office

01/23/1930 | Camden Courier
Court

Two court terms will be held in Camden and the power of the clerk has been expanded

01/17/1928
Prohibition

Picture showing future Prohibition agents how the (Prohibition) law functions

01/17/1928
Prohibition

Lauds the work of former District Attorney Walter G. Winnie and his successor James W. McCarthy

01/24/1930 | Newark News
Prohibition

Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran announces an agreement in regards to the padlock situation

01/24/1930 | Trenton Times
Prohibition

Trenton leaders discusses reporting all "speakeasies" found to prohibition authorities

01/24/1930 | New York Evening Journal
Crime

Story of Mae Manson, which describes her life as a white slave and her experiences on election day

01/25/1930 | Newark News
Prohibition

Several individuals were arrested and alcohol production equipment was seized and destroyed

01/25/1930 | Newark News
Prohibition

Police in Hackensack emptied 97 barrels of beer seized from a 67 year old man into the Hackensack River

01/25/1930 | Camden Courier
Prohibition

US District attorney Phillip Forman initiates padlock proceedings against five saloons

01/25/1930 | Newark News
Prohibition

The Newark Fire Department will supervise the destruction of stills after prohibition agents had been responsible for several fires

05/02/1929 | Trenton Times
Prohibition

According to Mrs. Willebrandt, attorneys should use discretion when applying the Jones Law

05/08/1929 | Trenton Star Gazette
Prohibition

Forman files a bill for padlock proceedings against a saloon in Trenton

05/18/1929 | Ledger
Bankruptcy

Judge Clark recommends changes to bankruptcy proceedings, most notably suggesting stricter laws

05/03/1929 | W.S. Daily
Prohibition

Mrs. Willebrandt states that penalties of the Jones Law were designed to punish violations of the Prohibition Act involving commercialism (Contains Text of Letter)

05/11/1929
Prohibition

Judge Fake signs orders to padlock 25 speakeasies in 21 minutes

11/17/1928 | Trenton Times
Prohibition

Judge McCarthy notes that prohibition could be enforced if local authorities had a will to do so

05/15/1929 | Trenton Times
Election

All officers of the Trenton chapter of the Federal Business Assocation were reelected

05/18/1929 | Ledger
Court

Clemente De Macchi found guilty of conspiracy to defraud

05/15/1929 | Ledger
Prohibition

Forest Hart asks for and recieves a jail cell while waiting indictement from a grand jury

05/17/1929 | Ledger
Prohibition

Several men arrested for possession of alcohol

05/21/1929
Prohibition

Judge Fake imposes fines ranging from $150 to $500 on prohibition violators

05/23/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

James Doran discussed New Jersey's unsatisfactory beer situation with Edwin Ross, regional prohibition administrator of New Jersey

05/11/1929 | Ledger
Prohibition

Judge Fake signs orders to padlock 25 speakeasies in 21 minutes

05/20/1929 | Trenton Times
Prohibition

Some administration members feel that prohibition enforcement and prosecution should remain seperated because both are of critical importance

05/22/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Three experienced Prohibition agents were transferred to Ohio and a fourth was fired after failing to pass the Civil Service Exam

05/22/1929
Crime

One of three men charged with the sale and possession of narcotics alleges that a narcotics officer knocked out two of his teeth

05/13/1929 | Trenton Times
Law

Irving P. Parson was disbarred after he was "indicted and convicted of passing fradulent checks"

05/23/1929 | Newark News
Crime

Three men are convincted of the sale and possession of narcotics

05/24/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Judge Fake signs orders to padlock 16 establishments guilty of selling alcohol

05/24/1929 | Ledger
Prohibition

Three men were arrested on charges of transportation and possession of alcohol

05/24/1929 | Ledger
Crime

Judge Fake will sentence three men guilty of the sale and possession of narcotics on 5/27

05/25/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

The return of Edwin Ross from Washington is marked by seizure of a truck filled with beer and two other raids

05/27/1929 | Newark News
Sentencing

Judge Fake sentences three men guilty of the sale and possession of heroin to five years in prison

10/13/1928 | Trenton Times
Prohibition

Fifteen prohibition agents fail to pass the civil service examination

07/26/1928
Prohibition

Circuit Court of Appeals rules that the smell of alcohol is not grounds for conducting a raid

05/28/1929 | Trenton Times
Prohibition

Assistant Attorney General Willebrandt resigns in order to take another position

05/30/1929 | Ledger
Prohibition

Federal Agents raid Johnny Yauch's café yielding seven arrests and large quantities of alcohol

05/31/1929 | New York Evening Journal
Prohibition

Changes will occur in the prohibition prosecution and enforcement following the resignation of Mrs. Willebrandt

05/29/1929 | Newark News
Conference

Federal Judge Clark will travel to Geneva to participate in a narcotics forum with other members of the League of Nations

06/01/1929 | Ledger
Prohibition

Raid on West Paterson wildcat plant (brewery) suggests shortage of beer in Northern New Jersey

06/02/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

(Second half of the article only - indistinguishable)?

06/03/1929 | Ledger
Prohibition

Nationwide the first six months of 1928 versus the last six of 1927 had more cases, less convictions, and fewer fines

06/03/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

New Jersey did not follow the crime trend of the first six months of 1928 versus the last six of 1927 for the nation

06/04/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Saloons are having difficulty finding beer to serve their patrons because of increased efforts by Prohibition agents

06/03/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Several individuals were fined or placed on probation for their role in embelzement schemes or alcohol related crimes

06/04/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Federal Grand Jury hears the first three cases in New Jersey tried under the Jones Act

06/05/1929 | Ledger
Prohibition

Dr. Doran notes that much "near beer" is still being sold in New Jersey, but improvements have been made, and will continue to be made

06/05/1929 | Trenton Times
Prohibition

Dr. Doran notes that many customers are paying "real beer" prices for "near bear" and Dr. Poulson blamed the "beer situation" on the Federal Judges

06/07/1929 | Trenton Times
Resignation

Assistant Attorney General John Marshall has resigned effective immediately

| Ledger
Prohibition

Picture showing Captain Ross greeting Dr. Doran upon his arrival

| Ledger
Prohibition

Dr. Doran comments that Government agents will begin to aid local authorities with prohibition enforcement and that significant progress has been made

06/05/1929 | Ledger
Prohibition

Reverand Poulson places the blame for prohibition enforcement troubles in New Jersey on the laxness of the Federal Judges

06/05/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson condemns the transfer of prohibition enforcement from the Treasury to the Justice Department as a wet move to weaken prohibition

06/05/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Reverand Poulson places the blame for prohibition enforcement troubles in New Jersey on the laxness of the Federal Judges

06/12/1929 | Newark News
Appointment

William B. Knight, the apparent frontrunner to succeed Judge Bodine is no longer considered a candidate, as such Charles A. Wolverton has emerged as the favorite

06/19/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Many saloon propertiors are not succumbing to padlock order, but instead are merely shifting their business to another location

06/10/1929 | Newark News
Counterfeiting

Judge Fake sentenced John Friscia to three years in Federal prison after the defendant pleaded guilty to counterfeiting

06/12/1929
Appointment

William B. Knight, the apparent frontrunner to succeed Judge Bodine is no longer considered a viable candidate, but Charles A. Wolverton has emerged as a darkhorse

06/13/1929 | Newark News
Appeal

Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the ruling handed down by the District Court in the case of Charles H. Quig, ruling a new trial to be held

06/13/1929 | Newark News
Appointment

William B. Knight withdraws his candidacy to succeed Judge Bodine on the District Court, with Benjamin F. Havens now considered a favorite

06/21/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Ten new agents are appointed to the staff of prohibition administrator Captain Ross, bringing the total number of agents to 60

06/18/1929 | Trenton Times
Appointment

Philip Forman is now considered a viable candidate to succeed Judge Bodine

06/25/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

John Sheehan, indicted in New York on charges of conspiracy to violate the national prohibition law, appeared before Judge Fake after writs of certioral and habeas corpus were filed

06/21/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Judge Fake signs orders to padlock 20 establishments alledgedly guilty of selling alcohol

06/25/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Peter Pollack did not appear in court to face a 10 count indictement leading Judge Fake to declare his $5,000 bond forfeited

06/22/1929 | Trenton Times
Prohibition

405 padlock lock proceedings have been started in New Jersey since the start of the year

06/26/1929 | New York Evening Journal
Sentencing

H. Ely Goldsmith was sentenced to two years in Federal prison for victimizing immigrants and decieving the government

06/26/1929 | Newark News
Conference

Judge Clark returned from the League of Nations reporting the gravity of the drug situation and the need for action

06/27/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Judge Runyon signs orders to padlock 13 establishments alledgedly guilty of selling alcohol

06/26/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Judge Fake fines Arthur Lozano for transportation and possession of alcohol and presides over the first day of trial for IRS employee Russell H. Assay, charged with accepting a payment

07/02/1929 | Newark News
Sentencing

Judge Fake sentences Edward Dunn to three years probation for concealing and receiving stolen cars at his garage

07/02/1929 | Ledger
Sentencing

Judge Fake grants Edward Dunn lighter sentence because of the Judge's connection to Dunn's family

07/02/1929 | Jersey Journal
Prohibition

Prohibition agents find that a padlocked restaurant was still producing alcohol through the back of the establishment

07/02/1929 | Ledger
Prohibition

Julius Schlinghofer explains to Judge Fake why he was arrested with six gallons of moonshine in his car

07/02/1929 | Jersey Journal
Sentencing

Judge Fake grants Edward Dunn lighter sentence because of the Judge's connection to Dunn's family

07/04/1929
Trenton Post Office

Washington will likely grant Philip Forman permission to condemn the PA Freight Station and other properties to build the new Trenton Post Office

07/02/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

United States Commissioner Epstein arraigned two prohibition agents charged with transporting alcohol

07/09/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Judges Fake and Runyon sign orders to padlock 52 establishments alledgedly guilty of selling alcohol

07/02/1929 | Trenton Times
Prohibition

Two prohibition agents arrested on charges of transporting alcohol on Long Island

07/02/1929
Resignation

Several more of US Attorney Ameli's staff scheduled to leave, adding to a list including two Assistant US Attorneys

07/06/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Next week, 88 saloons will be padlocked by Judge Clark

07/12/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Judge Runyon affirms the legality of a search and seizure without a warrant when the defendant grants permission to enter

07/13/1929 | Newark News
Crime

Statistics on the number of court cases and the amount of fines

07/10/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Judge Fake signs orders to padlock 52 more establishments and Philip Forman vows to continue finding more

07/10/1929 | Newark News
Sentencing

Judge Meekins refused to grant probation to two men in prison for conspiring to conceal assets in bankruptcy

01/08/1929
Prohibition

Prohibition administrators and local authorities will try to devise means of closer cooperation

02/08/1929
Government

Solicitor General William D. Mitchell describes the framework of the Justice Department

03/19/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Captain Ross reports that more arrests are being made and more alcohol being seized by prohibition forces in New Jersey

07/13/1929 | Trenton Times
Court Statistics

Philip Forman files his annual fiscal report showing more fines and business than the year before

07/15/1929 | Newark News
Sentencing

Several court decisions passed down on different cases

07/17/1929 | Trenton Times
Appointment

Former State Senator John B. Avis now appears as the front runner to succeed Judge Bodine

07/16/1929
Prohibition

Judge Fake sentences three repeat offenders of the National Prohibition Act to three years in jail and $11,100 in fines

07/17/1929 | Newark News
Appointment

John Avis's name will apparentely head the list of candidates to replace Judge Bodine pending discussions between Senators Edge and Kean

07/18/1929 | Newark News
Sentencing

Orie Mann was sentenced to only 30 days in jail for passing a counterfeit $20 bill

07/17/1929 | Newark News
Crime

Former US Agents Mason Stelle and Samuel E. Verniero were indicted on charges of attempted extortion

07/19/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Director Brennan criticizes Judge Simandl's representation of two clients in Federal Court

07/18/1929 | Jersey Journal
Sentencing

Orie Mann was sentenced to only 30 days in jail for passing a counterfeit $20 bill

07/20/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Irivington police raid the home of Joseph Petrick finding alcohol and alcohol production materials

07/22/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Judge Runyon ordered the release of 9 sailors charged with smuggling after a writ of habeas corpus hearing

07/25/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Twelve men indicted on conspiracy to violate the National Prohibition Laws are expected to change their pleas to guilty

07/22/1929 | Newark News
Crime

Police discovered an pipe shop, arrested twenty men, and seized small quanities of opium and paraphernalia

07/25/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Harry Kurschner faces a contempt of court charge after agents found alcohol in his padlocked building

07/19/1929 | W.S. Daily
Law

Circuit Court of Appeals rules that US Commissioner has no authority to dispose of property seized in enforcement of prohibition

03/19/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Small time offenders of the prohibition law will no longer be tried in Federal Court but instead in county court

07/27/1929 | Newark News
Crime

Federal authorities take a renewed interest in the New Jersey Bankers Securities situation in regard to possible mail fraud

07/30/1929 | Newark News
Sentencing

Judge Fake sentences two men guilty of counterfeiting to eighteen years in prison

07/30/1929 | Newark News
Sentencing

Judge Fake sentences Dr. Samuel Campbell to five years in prison for selling illegal narcotics

07/30/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Judge Clark signs orders to padlock 63 establishments alledgedly guilty of selling alcohol

08/01/1929
Grand Jury

Philip Forman denies claims that a Federal Grand Jury will travel to New York Bay to inspect debris in the water

07/30/1929 | Newark News
Grand Jury

Federal Grand Jury meets about the Passaic Banking situation, but takes no action

07/31/1929 | Newark News
Court

Morris A. Kinstler's fraud trial resumes

08/02/1929 | Newark News
Court

Morris A. Kinstler's fraud trial was adjourned again because of missing financial information

03/01/1929 | Trenton Times
Laws

Jones bill passed by Congress sets maximum penalty of five years in prison or $10,000 fine for violation of prohibition

03/01/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Judges Fake and Runyon sign orders to padlock 53 establishments alledgedly guilty of selling alcohol

08/17/1929 | Observer
Prohibition

Federal agent raids Hoboken home, arrests two, and discovers equipment to produce alcohol

08/06/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Judge Fake levies $16,895 in fines as 74 plead guilty to violating prohibition

08/01/1929
Crime

Editorial discussing the inequities of rich versus poor defendents in reference to Clarke banking scandal

08/05/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Judge Fake levied $8,450 in fines and finished 157 cases by noon

08/17/1929 | Newark News
Immigration

Circuit of Appeals will decide whether Italian man can remain in America with the rest of his naturalized family

08/14/1929 | Newark News
Court Statistics

US Attorney Charles H. Tuttle issues his annual report, noting his office made over $1,000,000

08/16/1929 | Newark News
Grand Jury

Philip Forman states that the Federal Grand Jury will inspect the Passaic River if it is within Federal jurisdiction

08/21/1929 | Newark News
Grand Jury

Federal Grand Jury inspects the Port of Newark and the New York City Harbor in order gather firsthand information on the extent of polluion

08/21/1929 | Newark News
Grand Jury

Federal Grand Jury recommends that an increased emphasis should be placed on arresting the "higher-ups" of prohibition violators

08/22/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Acting Deputy Commissioner of Prohibition William J. Calhoun is conducting an investigation at the New Jersey Prohibition Headquarters

08/21/1929 | Ledger
Grand Jury

Picture showing Federal Grand Jury inspecting pollution in the Port of Newark and New York harbor

08/21/1929 | New York Herald Tribune
Prohibition

Federal Grand Jury criticizes methods of prohibition agents, noting that the "Higher-ups" seem to escape prosecution

08/22/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Colonial Inn and Hoboken Place owners face contempt of court charges after allegedly violating padlock injunctions

08/22/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Federal Grand Jury indicts twelve men that allegedly operated five large distillery plants in Southern Jersey

08/23/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Prohibition Agents raid a beer plant in Trenton, arrest 7, and secure 125 barrels of beer

08/24/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Details the history of New Jersey prohibition administrators

08/22/1929 | Newark News
Grand Jury

Grand Jury will present their views on Newark Bay and New York Harbor on 9/24/29, which appear to be only mildly critical

08/23/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Captain Edwin Ross will be replaced as Prohibition administrator of New Jersey soon after September 5

08/24/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Reverand Poulson charged Captain Ross's ouster as "outrageous" and blamed state/local politics for the Prohibition problems in New Jersey

08/23/1929 | Newark News
Construction

In order to construct the new Newark Post Office, the Government will acquire the necessary land in six months by either purchase or condemnation

08/23/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Captain Edwin Ross will be replaced as Prohibition administrator of New Jersey soon after September 5, William Calhoun assumes power in the meantime

03/06/1929 | Newark News
Law

Judge Bodine again condemns the practice of defense attorneys and the district attorneys office for unnecessary plea agreements

03/06/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Judge Bodine expresses surprise that Maine was still having difficulty enforcing prohibition

03/16/1929 | Trenton Times
Reversal

Court of Appeals reverses decision in Noxon Product case

08/23/1929 | Newark News
Resignation

Reverend Poulson leaves his post as superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of New Jersey to become a pastor

08/24/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

William J. Calhoun is already fighting the beer industry by staging a raid and planning to revoke permits

09/04/1929 | Trenton Times
Appointment

John B. Avis is expected to succeed Judge Bodine pending formal appointment by President Hoover

09/04/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Federal Grand Jury will investigate the alledged disapperance of numerous cases of rum

09/05/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Federal Grand Jury decides that no evidence exists to suggest that any rum had disappeared

09/05/1929 | Ledger
Appointment

John B. Avis is expected to be appointed to succeed Judge Bodine shortly

09/06/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

James Doran removes Captian Ross as prohibition administrator where interim administrator Calhoun will continue to serve

09/05/1929 | Newark News
Prohibition

Captain Ross returns from his vacation and still remains as head of the prohibition administration