Court Tells How Jury Is Selected In Frederick County
The Frederick County Circuit Court opened its September term with Associate Judge Patrick M. Schnauffer outlining how juries are chosen. Foreman John N. Franklin led the 21 member grand jury as 81 witnesses were summoned and 22 more scheduled. petit jurors were excused until October 7. The process uses 200 names from 26 election districts, 25 from Frederick city, and selections drawn to form 48 jurors, then a 22 member panel is chosen for the opening day.
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Frederick County
Court House
Patrick M. Schnauffer
Schnauffer
John N. Franklin
Emmitsburg
Welty W. Grussiickie
John T. Fogle
Charles F. Firer
Albert E. King
G. Wesley Duble
Charles E. Murphy
Alfred Hayes
Ray F. Steele
Harvey I. Leatherman
Harry J. Leatherman
Donald Hildebrand
Samuel Stroud
Raymond L. Bennett
John C. Sanger
Charles A. Shorb
Ray Co. Gladhill
Walter V. Pittinger
Paul A. Dinterman
Reno L. Eldridge
John Klein
Andrew Annan
Edward Noonan
Petit Jury
Clyde L. Harshman
A. J. Ellin
Baker
Wilbur C. LeGore
Daniel D. Wilson
Harry F. Wickham
Frederick
State of
Mary-land
Frederick City
Circuit Court
New York Barbers Hit by Citywide Strike Action
Barber shop managers and owners in Manhattan faced a wage dispute as their assistants and manicurists joined a strike. Early reports show little disruption with some customers waiting for service due to reduced staff, while about 40 other strikes were active citywide.
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New York
Manhattan
End Of Truck Strike Near End Of Impasse
Prospects for a settlement in the New York truck strike brightened as two large firms offered the union a 7.40 weekly pay rise and shorter hours. Union locals 80 282 and 816 weigh the proposal while Mayor O Dwyer’s advisory committee notes the Master Truckmen of America seeks separate talks. Only Local 807 must ratify any deal.
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New York
New York City
William O'Dwyer
H. C. Bohack Company, Inc
Daniels and
Local 807
Final Action Due This Week At Episcopal General Convention
Philadelphia Sep 16 The Protestant Episcopal Church resumes its 55th triennial convention with three final actions pending before Friday. A presiding bishop will be elected to succeed Henry St. George Tucker, taking office Jan 1. Final action on marriage and divorce revisions and on a merger with the Presbyterian Church in the U S A are pending. The House of Bishops approved a remarriage change for divorced members and sent it to the Deputies. deputies rejected immediate parish referendum on the merger.
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Philadelphia
Protestant Episcopal Church
Henry St. George Tucker
Presbyterian Church
House of Bishops
House of Deputies
Cumberland strike ends as workers vote to return
Cumberland IL workers reach settlement in the Cumberland Under Garment Co strike with about 55 ILGWU members voting to return to work. Maurice Milberg says operations resume tomorrow. Separately Ralph Beard of the United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers reports his local accepts the company's five disputed contract proposals.
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Cumberland
Willie Kaufman
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
AFL
Maurice Milberg
Ralph C. Beard
Kelly-Springfield Tire Company
CIO United Rubber
Meat Shortage Sweeps U.S. Tables Widely
Fresh meat virtually vanished from markets across the nation as shoppers turned to poultry and fish. Prices surged with cheese at a record high and restaurants stockpiled while doctors warned of health risks for patients lacking meat. In cities like St Louis Milwaukee Pittsburgh New York Baltimore supply gaps hit households hard.
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Associated Press
St. Louis
Milwaukee
Pittsburgh
New England
New York City
Baltimore
Ford Cars Up Six Percent Across Major Lines
Washington reports that OPA approved immediate retail ceiling price hikes averaging six percent for Ford Mercury and Lincoln passenger cars. The revised hardship pricing formula takes effect now and is available to manufacturers in a current loss position. The Ford increase remains in effect until March 15, 1947, unless extended or modified.
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Washington
OPA
Ford
Mercury
Lincoln
Fireman On Jury and Truck Routine At Court House
Citizens Truck Company was well represented at the Court House this morning as the September term of Circuit Court opened. Ray F. Steele, regular driver, was summoned as a juror and his tillerman Alton E. Shaff joined him. The ladder truck parked behind the Court House, with plans for Steele to leave the grand jury if an alarm sounded. Steele was excused later, and the truck returned to the fire house pending driver arrangements while the jury is in session.
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Fhe Citizens Truck Company
Court House
Ray F. Steele
Hame Alton E. Shaff
Steele
Jon
Shaff
Grand Jury
Divorces rise to record share of marriages in 1945
Washington reports that the nation's courts issued divorces totaling about one third of marriages in 1945, new divorce record at 23.5 percent higher than 1944, the prior peak year.
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Washington
Paratrooper Killed in Jump On Way Home
Paratrooper Gordon Laman aged 18 from Eagle Rock California died during a 1500 foot delayed jump at the Flying Tiger Air Circus in Bowling Green Ohio. The chute did not open as the group of about 2000 spectators watched. He was ten days out of a parachute regiment and en route home after discharge at Fort Benning Georgia.
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Bowling Green
Gordon Laman
Eagle Rock
Calif
Fort Benning
Weekend Auto Accidents Here Weekend Auto Accidents Here
Several minor city crashes occurred over the weekend per police. Patricia Sprankle was struck by a backing car at Church and Market and treated at Frederick City Hospital. Driver Albert C Gray faced charges of operating without a license with $145 collateral. Additional fender benders occurred on Seventh and Bentz streets and near Square Corner with no injuries or charges. Vernon Crummitt was arrested for operating under the influence with a $1000 bond. Minor damage reported in other collisions on North Market Street. no injuries.
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Patricia Sprankle
West Fifth Street
Church
Market Streets
Frederick City Hospital
Arnold Simmons
Albert C. Gray
Cumberland County
Charles W. Kalb
West South Street
Seventh Street
Elmer W. Jackson
Baltimore
Bentz
West Seventh Street
Bentz Street
John B. Hart
West Fourth Street
William Hipkins
Sjamsville
Marshall Murray
Hart
Square
North Market Street
Earl M. Oden
Frederick
George W. Becraft
Washington
Watt Lacy Lee
Guamanians Protests Over Tweed Escalate In Guam
A 100 strong Guamanian protest led by a Catholic priest booed Navy Lt. George Ray Tweed in Guam on Sept 16. They cited his wartime actions as causing civil deaths and Tweed tore a sign questioning his conduct while he accepted a gift car from a grateful local. Also reported was the dismissal of City Policeman Nelson Cockrell for conduct unbecoming an officer after a mayoral hearing, and Athens Tenn police say two men admitted firing shots at Clyde Rogers home to disrupt his political ambitions.
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Guam
Navy
George Ray Tweed
Tweed
San Diego
Calif
Antonio Artero
Oscar Calvo
Robinson Crusoe Usn
Father Duenas
Calro
Nelson Cockrell
Lloyd C. Culler
Cockrell
Athens
Tenn
Kennedy
Etowah, Tenn
McMinn County
Clyde Rogers Ias
Strike Of NMU May Be Intensified
The nation's longest shipping strike could widen as NMU threats to halt port work and mobilize thousands of pickets in New York push the dispute. Talks collapsed when operators refused a broader settlement tying NMU demands to west coast unions. Curran labeled the action a lockout and urged government intervention to secure wage increases matching those won by AFL and other unions.
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Associated Press
Tottake Itime
New York
National Maritime Union
C10
NMU
Atlantic
Gulf
Jesaph Curran
Marine Cooks and Stewards Union
CSO
Marine Firemen's Union
Committers For Maritime Unity
CIO
AFL
Uffiong
AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific
Seafarers International Union
Curran
Trurman
APL Maritime
Former Goering aide captured by FBI in Detroit case
Rudolph Joseph Soelch a former bodyguard of Herman Goering identified as living under false name in Detroit with Mrs Joan McBride 42 aiding his escape from a California POW camp six months ago The McBrides James arrested in Bristol Pa face charges of aiding an enemy while Soelch and Mrs McBride could face up to eleven years in prison and fines up to 10000 dollars
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Detroit
Rudolph Joseph Soelch
Herman Goering
FBI
California
Robert A. Goerin
Joan McBride
Spelch
Guerin
McBride
James
Bristol
Soelch
Camp Haan
Riverside
Calif
McBrides
Snelch
Hitler Youth
North Africa
Tunisia
Prussia
United States
Temperature swings and Bevin backs plan for Palestine
Anomercury outlook warned of a wide temperature swing as thermometers rose from 34 to 80s after a frosty night. London reports Foreign Secretary Bevin calling the British American federalization plan for Hazy Land workable, hinting at a possible final solution.
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London
Ernest Bevin
Palestine Conference Today
Hazy Land
Connally Urges Truly Free Trieste as Peace Symbol
U S Senator Tom Connally told the Italian Jewish, and European officials that Trieste must be a genuine, independent state not a satellite of Italy or Yugoslavia. He warned against concessions and urged all nations to honor the Trieste agreements for world peace.
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Paris
Tom Connally
V. M. Morotov
U. S. Lenate
Halian Political Commission
Triveste
Italy
Yugoslavia
Tily
Wallace
Trieste
Molotov
Edvard Kardelj
Kardelj
Mediterranean Sea
Connally
Europe
Danzig
Sarajevo
Bosnia
United States
Britain
Mediterranean
Final Selections Of Candidates Are Made In Washington
Washington on September 16 reports Democrats meet to finalize tickets for Senator Governor and Representative at large in Connecticut while a Virginia Seventh District subunit nominates a candidate for Rep. A Willis Robertson. Bowles pushes for Connecticut Governor amid McMahon plans for Senate.
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Washington
Connecticut
Virginia
Willis Ropertson
Senate
OPA
Chester Bowles
Brien McMahon
Bowles
Thomas Hart
Rioting Resumes in Bombay as Violent clashes kill and injure
In Bombay on September 16, renewed communal rioting left one officer dead and eight injured, pushing two week totals to 258 dead and 790 injured. Authorities report ongoing violence with widespread chaos and casualties across the city.
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Bombay
Onrper Fr Zon
Mackenzie's Column on British cabinet discipline
DeWitt Mackengil notes British cabinet practice binds ministers to collective policy. A minister cannot make independent statements without cabinet approval, and failure to back the Prime Minister or cabinet leads to resignation. Parliament can oust ministers if policies go wrong.
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Dewitt Mackengil
Wallace
England
Downing Street
Eign Office
Truman
Britain
Manda
Voltaire
Meo
Atran
Red lines in China tighten as Nanking pursues Yenan isolation
Government troops push deep wedges into the Yenan Kalgan line aiming to isolate the two Red cities while peace talks stall. Communist spokesman WangPing-Nah signals possible losses but vows no political settlement without an unconditional cease-fire from Chiang Kai-Shek.
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Nanking
Yenan-Kalgan
Wang Ping-Nah
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang
Kalgan
Chahar
Yenan
Wasdivi
Linfen
Yangku
Shansi
Kalgdn
Burglar Reported by Meafield Caretaker After Night Noise
Meadville Pennsylvania September 16 William Hughes caretaker of the Elks Club awoke to a scratching noise he thought a mouse. He struck with a club and then turned on lights discovering a burglar attempting to climb out a window with ten dollars from Hughess billfold.
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Meadville
William Hughes
The
Elks
Hughes
Wallet recovered after mislaid cash hidden in compartment
Danville resident Bill Ingram was joyous when his lost wallet was returned after it had $28 missing two bills. A hidden compartment held $220 that went unnoticed. A postal employee who found the wallet dropped it into a mailbox, returning the purse. Ingram donated $10 to the postal workers picnic fund.
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Danville
Bill Ingram
Ingram
Wallace Stands By His Speech Sparks White House Clash
Secretary Wallace declares he stands by his New York speech on foreign policy as Truman repudiates his views. Commerce aides report talks with the White House and potential talks with the President. State Department officials urge Wallace to clear future policy speeches, fearing a growing rift over foreign policy.
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Washington
Wallace
New York
Truman
U. S
Commerce Department
White House
State Department
Clayton
Byrnes
Hit
Charles G. Ross
Secretary of Commerce
Committee To Decide On Political Probes
The House Campaign Expenditures committee may decide today whether to probe the Missouri Democratic primary where Truman backed Axtell defeated Rep. Slaughter. Jerome Walsh asks for an inquiry into spending by rivals in Missouri Fifth District. A Connecticut case into CIO PAC activities is also likely for review.
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Washington
House Campaign Expenditures Committee
Whethrer
Missouri
Truman
End Axtell
Roger D. Slaughter
Jerome Walsh
Slaughter
Missourian
Connecticut
CIO
Priest
D-Tenn
National Association of Manufacturers
Nations To Be Asked To Aid Refugee Program
Lake Success New York September 16 The American delegation urged full UN financial support for the International Refugee Organization as Russia and others balk at the plan The draft constitution and budget cover some 830 000 refugees in displaced persons camps in Europe and would transition from UNRRA next year
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Europe
UNRRA
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New York Barbers
P. E. Church
Garment Workers
U.S
Ford Cars
Jewish Agency
Efecutive
Goering Caught
James McConaughy
Wesleyan University
Jerusalem
Palestine
Nolice
Sarafana
Mackenzie
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