Sugar Thief Sentenced in Cake Shop Theft
Avie Spaulding, 26, was sentenced by Judge Allen Bargar in City Court to six months in Monroe County Penitentiary and a $150 fine after pleading guilty to stealing a 100 lb sack of sugar from the Cake Shop. Restitution for $500 worth of merchandise was dropped. An OPA inquiry into sugar and shortening purchases by a local doughnut maker was noted as possible. Spaulding claimed he sold much of the stolen goods on the black market.
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Gamestown
Avie
Charlex F. Spaulding
Monroe Anuuity
Allen
Bargarin
Spor
Spaulding
OPA
Ufacturer
Buffalo
Thelourt
Conneaut Lake Girl Dies From Self Inflicted Wound
Miss Jessie Shellito nearly 18 died at City Hospital after a gunshot wound to the abdomen fired at her home near Conneautake. She shot herself in the afternoon while alone in her second floor room. Parents Mr and Mrs Poyti F Shellito were downstairs when the shot was heard.
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Meadville
Jessie Shellito
City Hospital
Conneautake
County Post War Plans Set On State Forms
County plans for postwar building and jobs were outlined by County Engineer Wiliam Supplee. State Planning Commission forms will list 24 urgent and not urgent projects for a six year program to employ returning service members and wartime workers, including courthouse elevator work, voting machine housing, courtroom safety improvements, county home repairs, and a new county prison.
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Enis County
Wiliam
Supplee
State—Planning—Commission
Harrisburg
S Ite
Prson
Thomas H. Schaper
Two Convicts Beat and Rob Couple Near Prison
Two escaped convicts Elmer Lane Mc ford and Marshall Wittman beat and robbed Mr and Mrs Mahlon Relfsnyder in their Reading Pennsylvania home near Berks County Prison. They bound the couple to a kitchen chair and fled in Relfsnyder’s car with two revolvers and ammunition. State Police hunted them nearby after they reportedly hid in the Reifsynder residence.
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Reading
Mahlon Relfsnyder
Berks
Relfsynder
Elmer Lane Mc
Erie workers to get pay raise in 1944 budget
Erie officials announced a planned $10 monthly raise for all city salaried employees and a five cent per hour increase for hourly workers. Finance Director Joseph Martin cited a $70 million surplus in the 1944 Public Affairs budget as enabling the boost, pending legal review by City Solicitor Edward Murphy and labor representatives. Union leaders Charles Bates and Jack Martin spoke for drivers and police, respectively.
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Erie
Joseph @. Martin
Martin
Department of Public Affairs
Edward Murphy
Charles Bates
American Federation of Labor
Jack Martin
Fraternal Order of Police
Seek Volunteer Worker Linked to Club Robbery
Detectives seek a handyman who worked at the Sieben burger Club on French Street for questioning in the early Monday safe robbery that netted 2476.72 in cash and 15 in checks. A man who claimed to work for nothing was admitted and observed in all areas, possibly serving as the layout man for the gang that looted the club between 3 and 6:10 a.m. Sunday.
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Siebenbuerger Club
French Street
Yeager
Sven
Yeas
Fire department seeks monthly raise for all city employees
Director Martin notes a monthly surplus accumulating in the department of public affairs under Mayor Barber due to inability to maintain police manpower at the 1944 budget maximum. The fire department had requested a Nat 30 dollar per month increase for all city employees a month ago.
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Martin
Charles R. Barber
Hold Two for Court On Criminal Charges
Erie Aug 24 Two men were held to county court yesterday by Alderman William Heisler. Joseph Bouchard 22 pled guilty to theft of jewelry valued at about 3180 from Miss Reva Halfown’s apartment. He was held without bail. Stanley Stock 33 faced aggravated assault and battery charges and was ordered to 30 days in jail or pay a 10 fine plus costs. burglary charges tied to a cafe theft of $40 were continued.
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Erie
William Heisler
Joseph, Bouchard
Reva Halfown
Erle
Stanley Stock
Joseph Tarakowski
Heisler
Stock
Stovkismn
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Draw Opa
Conneaut Lake
Axperts
Thomas Motor Co
Port of Embarkation Post Office
Armed Services
Heiman’s Jewelers
Iverie Club
Wilcox Grocery
East Main Street
Scott Towels
Earth
Mat
Titusville
Edwin L. Drake
Itusville
Tide Water Associated Oil Company
Pennsylvania
Tide Water Associated
New York
Tulsa
San Francisco
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