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Shephard's smile dissolved when a liquor dealer gave him one curled-lip glance in the New Brunswick, NJ. police station and told the cops, "That's the guy." A dozen other merchants nodded their heads positively. The detectives brought in Betty Lester, the buxom widow he had been sparking, and accused them both of passing bad checks through the length & breadth of New Jersey. At the trial, 16 witnesses testified in their behalf, but the liquor dealer was coldly positive:' Cliff Shephard and Betty Lester were sentenced to nine months in the county workhouse. That...
Into Western Union's local office at Bridgeton, NJ. seven weeks ago walked Nelson Stamler, New Jersey's deputy attorney general. He had not come to send a telegram, but to arrest Office Manager Charles Frake, 39. The charge: operating a horse-betting establishment. Records seized by Stamler showed that in one year Frake's office had handled the transmission of $300,000 worth of horse bets by telegraphed money orders to out-of-state bookmakers...
That was enough to make an effective strike. Creole, the Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) subsidiary that produces almost half Venezuela's oil, reported output down 75% and closed its 300,000-barrel-a-day pipeline south of Lake Maracaibo for fear of sabotage. Shell Oil was reported to be closed down even tighter than Creole. The stoppage was just as tough on the government: its revenues, derived mainly from oil royalties, fell off sharply...
...biggest single investor of all was the oil industry. It had spent some $450 million in the last year developing the Middle East and other areas. Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) alone had invested $1 billion in foreign areas since war's end, planned to spend more millions this year...
...judges in rubber overshoes shuffled carefully out onto the ice rink of the Empire Stadium at Wembley, England last week, to confirm what a crowd of 8,000 already knew: that Dick Button of Englewood, NJ. was the best figure skater in the world...