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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1946
Page
16
New York trading shows stocks continuing a downturn, with Boeing and Union Carbide among notable losses and some gains limited. Investors weigh a tentative recovery attempt against ongoing uncertainty as volume remains light and the market closes near session lows.
A slate of property transfers across Malden and Charleston Districts includes lots and blocks in Wiley Addn Dougan Heights and St Albans, with parcels exchanged between Wetmer to Beane and Holley Bowter Addns. Other deeds involve Pant, Ledseme, Aretz, Hilt, and various 108 East DunbarAddn lots. Also noted are transfers in Brisben Walker Adda and Woodward Woods Adda. Washington June reports treasury receipts and expenditures, and Pittsburgh and New York markets show crop and commodity pricing amid broader postwar signals.
A 1941 Gazette item reports pigeons occupying derelict New York structures, breaching windows to enter the space, and even furnishing and renting rooms to humans in upper stories. The note, with Winchellian tone, contrasts this with California wrens and jokes about a bootleg milk cow in Cir City.
Fairmont state college began a campaign asking residents to provide quarters for an expected influx of summer session students. Only two rooms were available in the city as volunteers welcomed the newcomers. An earlier 1901 incident in Warren, Ohio involved a man arrested for speeding a car at 40 miles per hour.
Grand and petit jurors for the dune term of the district federal court were announced by district clerk Homer W. Hanna. Judge Ben Moore will preside as jurors report mid June with grand jurors on June 18 at 1 03 p m and petit jurors on June 24 at 9 a m. The list names numerous jurors from Bluefield Caretta Welch Stephenson and others with entries across several towns including Fanrock and Powhatan.
Harry Lee Booth 22 of 1338 Wilson St was arrested on parole violation and will be returned to prison for the remainder of a 2 half year term. Booth was sentenced April 11 1944 in Chicago for motor vehicle theft and later moved to Milan Michigan federal prison from which he was paroled Jan 3 this year. Officers say since release Booth forged checks totaling 366 dollars.
John L. Morgan and John Leon Morgan, both 40 from South Charleston, pleaded guilty to attempted rape of an 11 year old girl with Judge Cyrus W. Hall deferring sentence to Sept 21. Morgan faced charges of attempted rape and sodomy. S H Welch, 58, from South Charleston pleaded guilty to assault and battery, fined 100 dollars and placed on probation for two years. The indictment also listed malicious wounding of Fred Welling of Dun nbar by blows with a black jack. Matilda Paul, 40, of St Albans faced receiving and concealing stolen goods, pleaded guilty to petit larceny and was placed on probation for two years.
The county court appointed Reese London as constable in the Washington district on Justice Harry G. Thayer's recommendation. Reese previously served as a constable in Paris during the Nazi era and succeeds Harry A. Taylor who resigned amid a related dispute. The court noted Reese’s Washington district tenure and clarified residency as Loudon district.
The piece contrasts British and American unionism, noting British unions are legally responsible and morally superior, while American labor is portrayed as more prone to insults and political favors. It asks if a British workers’ shakedown or Elliott Roosevelt style loan schemes could occur without criminal proceedings.
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