Miscellany: Feb. 24, 1930

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In a West New York, N. J., courtroom, Police Recorder Adam Smith sitting as judge heard detectives charge his son Adam Smith Jr., with violation of the liquor laws, possession of gambling machines, attendance at a stag smoker where there were women entertainers and there was exhibited an obscene film. Father Smith held Son Smith in $1,500 bail to await a grand jury.

In Astoria, L. I., Dr. Francis Candia, hospital interne, answered an ambulance call, found his father Joseph Candia, 49, lying in his shoe shop dead from a heart attack.

Kingsley Clubs

In Manhattan, thirty people banqueted and all of them made speeches. Reason: they were all either hosts of the New York Kingsley Club or guests from the Philadelphia Kingsley Club, both of which organizations are composed of stammerers who like to help themselves by public speechifying. The Philadelphia Kingsley Club was formed some twelve years ago by J. Stanley Smith, stuttering lawyer, who had been unable to get help from schools. It was named for the late great Stammering Charles (Westward Ho!) Kingsley. Friends of Lawyer Smith soon established the New York Kingsley Club which has about 25 members and meets in Christ Church House. Both clubs are devoted exclusively to those whose speech is impeded by nervous conditions, hypersensitivity.