Guilt Pleas Highlight Western Penitentiary Court Session
Wilson Pleads guilty to two armed robbery charges in Eisenberg store hold up and a separate alleyway theft. Howard Black pleads guilty to contributing to delinquency of a minor. sentenced to 11 months to 1 year 10 months in county workhouse, suspended for probation. George Post to be sentenced for auto theft. A numbers salesman case yields deferred sentence. Livermore seeks county jail option. Also noted is first printing of The Star-Spangled Banner in Analectic Magazine under title The Defense of Fort McHenry.
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Western Penitentiary
Wilson
Eisenberg
John €. Forewood
East Lake Road
Clarence Jeniis
Trailey
Howard Black
Allegheny County
Black
Eld
George Post
Bawared J. Meta
Eri
Tour
Entity
Miles B. Kitts
Lloyd Livermore
R. D
North Bush
Kitts
Livermore
West
Gordon Wilson
Smuts Urges Ending War This Year Despite Strikes
South African Prime Minister Dan C. Smuts warns in September that the war must be forced to a conclusion within the year. He says prolongation risks world exhaustion and calls for universal effort at the United Nations to end the conflict, warning that reliance on strikes or consumer leisure will not defeat Germany. He asks Americans to choose between present comfort and the world's future, arguing decisive action is needed now.
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Dan C. Smuts
Saime
United Nations
Germany
British Chancellor of the Exchequer dies in September
A historical classified page poses trivia questions including the death of the British Chancellor of the Exchequer in September, with other prompts about Hawthorne, Ralph A. Bard, Civil War battles, and classic literature.
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Hawthorne
Ralph A. Bard
Bull Run
Dante
Trey
Near Bash
Far East
Lord Byron
International cremniation and a world police code idea
Polish ambassador Jan Ciecharowski favors an international arrangement for world wide enforcement of law, backed by a permanent executive body led by the United States and Britain. He argues Americans and Britons should lead a United Nations World Code, noting both nations cannot act alone and warn against Russia.
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Gether
Jan Ciecharowski
Washington
United State
Coming events cast their shadows: next year election
The piece notes looming election talk in Washington and across the nation with Willkie a visible Republican figure and no strong Democrat rival yet. It argues world war dominates public interest, possibly delaying clear candidates until after winter as voters focus on the war in Europe and Asia rather than domestic ballots.
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Mos
Washington
Nome
Wendell Willkie
Europe
Asia
British trade criticism amid postwar tensions
A fragmented British trade critique questions Allied policy and the empire role as postwar recovery shapes industry. It argues Britain shows opportunistic tendencies in wartime commerce, shifts toward protecting own markets, and risks straining relations with American producers during the global recovery period.
Administration Faces Tough Puzzle How To End War Contracts
Washington debates how to terminate billions in war contracts before the war ends. A Senate subcommittee probes renegotiation as Army Navy and other agencies seek control, while the administration leans toward assigning terminations to the renegotiation body. The Army reports thousands of terminations totaling billions, with industry wary of future leniency.
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Washington
Cortrol
General Accounting Office
Sam
Army
Navy
Congress
Senate
Military Affairs Committee
House
Ways and Means
Shaw
Vill
Joseph M. Dedes
War Department Price Adjustment Board
Maine Commission
War Shipping Administration
The
Treasury
RFC
Greg
Maritime Commission
Foreign Purchasing Commiss Sign
D. R Delafield
Autopsy, postmortem study cited by medical society
Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania discusses postmortem examinations. Autopsies advance medical knowledge and clarify causes of death, though some relatives oppose them. The piece touches on wartime trade, British and American relations, and economic competition influencing postwar recovery.
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Napoleon
Lincoln
John Paul Jones
Samp
Pepys
Siying
Paper clothes hangers save nearly million pounds of metal
Factographs notes that paper clothes hangers have saved about 1.6 million pounds of metal that would have gone into metal augers. It states 250,000 workers are employed in processing and delivering daily products into the United States. A Briton austerity recipe offers a mock canned grapefruit as a test of the austerity program.
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Unite States
Radio Tonight Highlights Many Shows and Guests
A listing of evening programs across BLU MBS NBC and CBS networks. Topics include Talks-BLU Town Meeting on peace without Russia with George V. Denny, Hoovey on America and world peace, plus performances by Panny Brice, Mary Astor, Dinah Shore, Dick Haymes, and Gracie Fields. Also scheduled are Wings to Victory, Coast Guard dance, Lum and Abner, Jan Savitt Band, and Dale Carnegie talks.
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Ampries
Russia
Geo. V. Denny
Overy Sea
Herbert Hoovey
America
NBC
Panny Brice
Aldrich
Bob Crosby
Bing
Joan Davis
Rudy Vallee
Gaergl Moore
Senators Connally
Pephiey
CBS
Mary Astor
Major- Bowes
Dinah Shore
Dick Haymes
Q Street
Coast Guard
Lum
Abner
Jan Savitt
Gracie Fields
Dale Carnegie
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Rein OY
Analectic Magazine
Philadelphia
Yi Cat
Hay
Daily Dozen Tom Medical Society of the
State of
Pennsylvania
Imeephomie Gillapre
Parkerhouse
Lido Club
Florista
Florida
Calif
Clapp
Monts
Mery Ward
Dad
Sister
Brother
Montgomery Ward
North Center
DIAL
Warren
Corrs
Trent
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