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Died. Le Grand Parish, 67, retired president of Lima Locomotive Works, one-time associate of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of freight car door locks and improved railway brakes; of a heart attack; in Hackensack...
Zangara arrived in the U. S. in 1923. He worked as a brick mason in Hackensack and Paterson, N. J. He was quiet and solitary, had no police record. But one employer recalled that he harangued fellow-workers against "the rich and powerful'' during lunch hours. In 1929 he was naturalized, later registering as a Republican voter. In 1926 his appendix was removed. Suffering from stomach ulcers he roamed the country restlessly. This chronic complaint evidently warped his reason, excited him to last week...
...Frida Vodegel, who helps her husband run a dachshund kennel in North Hackensack, N. J., did not notice a pile of fresh meat, tied in neat little rolls, lying just inside their fence one morning last week. But the 15 pure-bred dachshunds which she let out for an airing soon scented it. Scurrying on their stubby, crooked legs, they tumbled and fought in their eagerness to snap up the juicy morsels...
...allowed to work in Brandle's territory without being threatened or actually attacked. More than 100 men from Brandle's local with iron bars, baseball bats, etc. attacked six Newark men on the Medical Center job in Jersey City. This same thing happened on a job in Hackensack and a repetition happened again in Bayonne. We have tried every way possible to get adequate support from our general officers and have failed, even to the extent of having our meetings suspended...
...Chicago last week Sears, Roebuck & Co. announced a plan to enter the New York trade area with three $1,000,000 department stores: one in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn, one in Hackensack, N. J., one in-Union City. N. J. The stores are expected to be completed next autumn, will bring Sears, Roebuck's total of retail establishments...