Kenwood Avenue

KENWOOD AVENUE is in Parkside, running south from Walnut Street to Euclid Avenue, two streets east of Haddon Avenue. Homes were built in the 1100, 1200, 1300, and 1400 blocks prior to 1920. The homes in the 1000 block were built in the mid-1950s.

Phil Cohen

Three crates of eggs, 60 pounds of butter and 15 pounds of cheese, all valued at $27.30, were taken from the garage of Nathan Braunstein, 1175 Kenwood avenue, Tuesday night. Braunstein told the police the burglars forced a side door of the garage.

Camden Soldier Credited With Saving Child’s Life in Germany

Three servicemen from this area have been awarded Meritorious Service Unit badges at the Miami, Florida base of the Air Technical Service Command.

They are Sgt. Stanley W. Atherton, son of Mrs. Nettie K. Atherton, 420 Stratford Avenue, Westmont; Cpl. Glenn E. Bedtorff, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Badtorff, and ___ Bernard Fields, whose wife, Evelyn, lives at 1413 Kenwood Avenue.

Pfc. Anthony Smugersky, 30 Monroe Avenue, Crescent Park, is with the 393rd Infantry, 99th Division, in Germany.

Camden Residents and Phila. Visitors Arrested in Parkside Dwelling

Three Camden women and two Temple University students were arrested in a raid on an alleged disorderly house at 1450 Kenwood Avenue last night.

Charged with being proprietress of the place is Mrs. Charlotte Grimes, 48. She is the wife of Elmer Grimes, employed by the city as a custodian at Convention Hall and formerly custodian of the Camden High School athletic field, according to City Prosecutor John H. Reiners, Jr.

The students under arrest gave their names as Sidney Goldberg, 19, of 1400 Mt. Ephraim Avenue, and Herman Katz, 19, of 2601 Wilder Street, Philadelphia.

Welch Leads Raiders

The arrests were made by Police Lieutenant Walter Welch and Detectives Benjamin Simon and Joseph Mardino.

According to Welch, Mrs. Grimes signed a statement in which she said she had resided at 1450 Kenwood Avenue for 27 years, and maintained a disorderly house there for the last seven years. He has had men watching the place for a year, to get evidence on which to base a raid, he said. He declared that only persons recommended by patrons were admitted, and then only after making telephone calls.

Simon, who lives three blocks from the house, and Mardino saw a car with Pennsylvania license plates parked near the place last night, Welch said. They waited until they saw Goldberg and Katz leaving the house, and questioned them. It was on the strength of statements by the two youths that the raid was made, Welch added.

Cases Continued

The five prisoners were taken to police court today. After waiting until 10:05 for Simon and Mardino to appear, Welch asked that the case be continued until tomorrow.

Judge Lewis Liberman set bail for $1000 for Mrs. Grimes; $500 each for the other two women, $200 for Katz and released Goldberg in the custody of his brother, an attorney.

The latter said the two youths were willing to plead guilty to disorderly conduct charges, admitting they had been in the place, but Judge Liberman said he preferred to wait and hear the entire case tomorrow.

In answer to the query by the court as to how the two knew about the existence of the “disorderly house,” Katz said:

Oh, things like that get broadcast around the university.

The Rev. and Mrs. William Donald McLean, Jr., of 1473 Kenwood avenue, are visiting the former’s parents, the Rev. and Mrs. William D. McLean, Sr., in Chicago, Illinois.

His boasts that he could bring political pressure to bear if he was arrested cost Joseph Mrozowski, 49, of 1474 Kenwood Avenue, $10 in police court yesterday. He was arrested by Policeman Ivan Morris at Louis and Chestnut Streets for pulling out of a traffic line.

“If you arrest me I will get Committeeman Henry Knauer or Commissioner Rhone to get me out,” Morris quoted Mrozowski as saying.

Mrozowski admitted that he told Morris he would telephone Knauer but denied mentioning Dr. Rhone’s name.