Trial date set in fatal Price's Distillery shooting
John Richardson, 31, arraigned in circuit court on a first degree murder indictment over the January 29 shooting death of Laura J. Norwood. He pleads not guilty and asks to be heard without a jury. trial scheduled for March 4 or 8 with appointed counsel amid funding concerns. Ambrose Walden pleads guilty to larceny and receiving stolen goods from a daylight liquor-store robbery. multiple other indictments and trials set for March 4 and 5 in the same court.
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Laura J. Norwood
Price
John Richardson
Patrick M. Schnauffer
Richardson
Schnauller
E. Austin James
C. Clifton Wirts
Alton V. Bennett
Bennett
Ellis C. Wachter
Schnauffer
Ambrose E. Walden
E. C. Valentine
Walden
Edwin F. Nikirk
George Blake
Jabor Organizer
California
Henry Fry
James
Traverser
Merr! Tresler
Cook
J. Carlton Cook
Joseph Morningstar
Nikirk
Arden Ladis
Major Wood Killed In Action In April 1942
The War Department notified the family of Major Paul Douglas Wood U.S. Army that he was killed in action in the Philippines on April 7 1942. He was a 1933 West Point graduate and survived by his wife Dorothy, son Paul Douglas Jr Jeanne of Connecticut, his mother Mrs W Wood of Washington D C, his brother Lt Commander Robert Winthrop Wood U S Navy, and numerous county relatives. He was the grandson of Rev M L Culler D D, a Jefferson native.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Douglas Wood
U. S. Army
War
Call Troops To Halt Milan Disturbances
Reuters reports Morocco radio said troops had been called to suppress disturbances at the Fiat works in Milan Hal where workers were demanding peace. The Fiat plant is a key target of RAF raids on northern Italy and vital to war production.
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London
Reuters
Morocco
Fiat
Milan
Hal
Italy
We Need a Swift Home-Front War Team
A father writes from Washington after his 18 year old son departs for the Army. He rails against muddling in war production and food programs, urging the President to appoint a decisive home-front leadership and speed victory to bring boys home. He stresses the cost of delay and the need for clear, unified action from the White House.
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A. Evans
Washington
Virginia
War Production Board
Roosevelt
Nelson
Wickard
McNutt
Army
Navy
Congress
OM Wa UL Ueda
CVU
America
Quotas on Wheat Halted by Wickard War Food Move
Washington February 23 Secretary of Agriculture Wickard suspended AAA marketing quotas on wheat for 1942 and 1943 to ensure adequate wartime supplies for human food and livestock. The action allows overplanting without penalty for 1943, while freeing surplus 1942 wheat from storage for sale or use without the previous penalties. In California, grocers and canners opposed the new food point rationing system and urged simplification. Stock markets rallied moderately in New York with gains in rubbers, rails, and speculations.
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Washington
Victory Garden
OPA
Coe
War Production Board
WPB
Agriculture Department
Secretary of Agriculture
Wickard
AAA
San Francisco
Grocers
California
Office of Price Administration
Push Toward Norovossisk Advances Amid Rail Path Push
Russian troops push down the Krasnodar rail line toward the Black Sea port Norovossisk advancing through Kholmskaya into Akhiyrskaya. The Soviet radio monitor notes the Red Army pressing offensives west of Rostov and near Vorusiniovgrad Krasnoarmeisk in the Danets basin and Kursk area. Trostynets is reported captured, 32 miles south of Sumy, as a railroad path toward another German base at Kunotop.
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London
Krasnodar
Black Sea
Norovossisk
Kholmskaya
Akhiyrskaya
Red Army
Rostov
suuLnnes
Vorusiniovgrad
Krasnoarmeisk
Dansts Basin
Expected reappointment of Paul M. Little as County License Commissioner
Indications today point to the probable retention of Paul M. Little of Thurmont for a term of at least two and probably four years from June 1. Reports say the Democratic State Central committees recommended Little to Governor Cannes and that strong civic, ministerial and citizen support backs his reappointment. Senator Funk indicated readiness to endorse Little when sent to the Senate.
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Paul M. Little
Thurmont
Mr. Little
Herbert B. Cannes
O'Conor
Tanta
Littl
Little
Central Committee
Commissiona
Litt
Richard N. Zacharias
Emmitsburg
John B. Funk
Senate
Funk
City Attorney Edward J. Smith to resign June 1
Edward J. Smith will resign as Frederick city attorney on June 1 to become a Frederick city magistrate at the start of new terms June 3. He will remain city attorney until his magistrate appointment takes effect, while Mayor Lloyd C. Cutler says no immediate successor will be named until after the upcoming municipal election.
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Edward J. Smith
Frederick
Manuel JM. Weinberg
Nr J
Smith
Senate
Ais J
Lloyd C. Cutler
U S Convoy Beats Off Attack By Jap Planes
An Allied convoy south of Guadalcanal repelled a night torpedo attack, shooting down five of eight Japanese torpedo planes. Escorts and destroyers dodged torpedoes in five minutes of fierce fighting as planes illuminated the convoy and anti aircraft fire pinned them to the sea. No ships were hit and the battle ended quickly.
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Guadalcanal
Chicago
Tokyo Radio
London
San Cristobal Island
Guadalacanal
Rennell Island
Planties
Savo Island
Charles A Staley Dies At Dill Avenue Home
Charles Albert Staley 74 retired farmer and business man died at his home 247 Dill avenue at 10 this morning after three years illness. Survived by wife Mollie Snaler Staley a sister Lena B. Sanner Frederick and brothers Grayson H. Staley Baltimore Irving E. Staley Frederick. Body at funeral home 106 East Church Street and will be taken to his home Wednesday morning at 9 30 with funeral Thursday at 2 o'clock. Interment Mt Olivet cemetery. funeral directors R Etenison and Son.
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Charles Albert Staley
Dill Avenas
Joseph E
Clara Angleberger Staley
Frederick
wheTt
Mt. Olivet
R. Etenison and Son
British And American Tanks Hold Rommel Near Thala
Allied forces in central Tunisia repelled Rommel's thrust four miles north of Thala near the Kasserine Gap. British and American tanks and infantry fought amid heavy air support, inflicting casualties and taking some prisoners as they defended the Kremamsa plateau and Tebessa vicinity.
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North Africa
Kasserine Gap
Erwin Rommel
Thala
Tunisia
Kasserine
Kremamsa
Noel Bae More
Rommel
Tedessa
United States
Twelfth Air Force
Boston
London
Reuters
Allied
Kaseerine Gap
Tebes
Japs Bases Bombed and Ecker Will Probate
American bombers struck Japanese bases in the North and South Pacific starting fires at Munda in the Solomon Islands. Liberator B-24s Mitchell B-25s and P-38 escorts returned safely. Vila and Munda targets reported fires and damage. The same issue notes the probate of Albert W. Ecker's will in Thurmont. The will, valued around 20 000, distributes real and personal estate among widow Ida B. Ecker son Frank H. Ecker and five grandchildren, with executors named.
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Washington
North
South Pacific
Munda
Solomon Islands
Navy
United States
North Pacific
Kiska
Vila
Kolombangata
New Georgia Island
Albert W. Ecker
Thurmont
Orphans Court
Frank H. Eckler
Mehrl T. Ecker
Edith
LMS
Nanna N. Fir
Ross C. Firor
Soldiers Help To Harvest Cotton Crop
Army orders authorize troops to assist in Arizona with harvesting the long staple cotton crop. The use of military units as emergency farm labor marks a new wartime labor measure.
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Washington
Arizona
Government to curb pleasure drivers evading price ban
Baltimore February 2 Office of Price Administration attorneys announced steps to enforce the 117 ban on pleasure driving. One measure will involve checking cars on weekends to ensure compliance and deter evasion.
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Baltimore
Office of Price Administration
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Charles €. Johnson
Alfred Jones
Brunswick
Harry E. Phebus
House of Correction
Martin Knode
James Haines
Johnson
Charles W. Marker
William J. Stoner
Thormont
Mr. James
Marker
Major Wood
E. A. Evans
New York
U.S
Torpedo
Charles A. Staley
Dill Ave
Tokyo
Associated Pro
Espiritu
Santo Island
New Hebrides
Finland
Sumner ‘Welles
Russia
A. W. Ecker
Will Filed
Solomons
Wladyslaw Sikorsky
Moscow
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