Notorious Murder Inc Leader Drucker Held in Delaware
Jacob Drucker, 38, longtime figure in Murder Inc, described as Sullivan County NY’s top hit man, was held in a Delaware workhouse on $25,000 bail. FBI and NY police accuse him of three murders and fugitive arrest charges. He waived extradition to face New York murder charges.
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Wilmington
Del
Jacob Drucker
Sullivan County
N. Y
New York
Margenimne
Fang
Delaware
New York State
Drucker
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Edgemoor Gardens
New York City
FBI
Louis
Lepke) Buchalter
Justice Personius Seeks Extra Albany Grand Jury
Gov Dewey orders a special grand jury panel for a legislative inquiry in Albany with Justice Ely W Personius presiding at an extra term starting Jan 18. Albany sheriff to name six prospective jurors to report and Delaney’s replacement Hiram C Todd named prosecutor. Selection of a second grand jury to probe Albany County crime resumes Jan 3 after a recess.
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Albany
Orrin G. Judd
Hiram C. Todd
New York City
Dewey
Todd
John T. Delaney
Ely W. Personius
Elmira
State Supreme Court
Albany County
Personius
Democratic Organization
Delaney
Drucker’s Barn Grave Ties Dutch Schultz Foe to Slayings
New York dispatch reports Jack Drucker, claimed Murder Inc. triggerman from Brooklyn, under arrest in Wilmington, wanted in Sullivan County for the murders of Walter Sage Irving Ashkenas and Hyman Yuran. The body of Dutch Schultz foe Charles Sherman was found buried beneath a barn floor near Drucker’s Monticello farm ten days after Schultz’s Newark killing. Ashkenas Sage and Yuran had prior killings tied to the gang. Drucker’s own record dates to 1928 with multiple arrests.
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New York
Jack Drucker
Brooklyn
Murder! Inc
Wilmington
Del
Sullivan County
Walter Sage
Irving Ashkenas
Hyman Yuran
Charles
Chink) Sherman
Dutch Schultz
Drucker
Monticello
Schultz
Newark
N. J
Ashkenas
Brooklyn Gang
Loch Sheldrake
N. Y
Sage
Swan Lake
Liberty
Yuran
Rucker
New York City
Unlimited Salt Supply For American Use In 1944
New York December 28 The salt supply remains ample for U S demand of 3 5 million tons of evaporated salt in 1944 says E H Pendleton vice president Worcester Salt Co Per capita consumption has risen from 97 to over 150 pounds annually in 30 years Pendleton notes salt is essential for rayon plastics sulpha drugs and many products worldwide supply estimated at 525 000 cubic miles plus oceans
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New York
E. H. Pendleton
Worcester Salt Company
U.S
Pendleton
Rations of Sugar For Homes to Be Unchanged to April 1
Washington reports the Office of Price Administration will keep sugar rations steady for households until April 1. Sugar Stamp No. 30 in War Ration Book Four becomes valid Jan 16 and allows five pounds over two and a half months through March. Stamp No. 29 expires Jan 15. hotels, restaurants, and most industrial users also see unchanged or adjusted allowances as the bonus period ends December 31.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
McCormick Declines Illinois Presidential Primary Bid
Col Robert R. McCormick publisher of the Chicago Tribune refuses to have his name entered in Illinois in the preferential presidential primary. Republican leaders said he communicated he would quit his Tribune duties if his name were used. He urged his name not be placed on the ballot.
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Col. McCormick
Berve
United States
Illinois
The
Tribune
Four British and four American war workers tour U.S. factories
Boston December 28. Eight workers four American and four British will visit American production centers to meet regional War Production Board officials and inspect plants before heading to Buffalo. The American delegation recently returned from Britain's military installations and wartime plants. The mission aims to share production ideas and techniques between the two nations labor management production drive committees. American workers include Joseph Smith Detroit Chrysler steamfitter Hugh Mahoney Bethlehem Steel Pennsylvania Stanley Oczy ski Lockheed Burbank tool planner and Otto Butler Monsanto East St Louis machinist foreman.
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Boston
Amercan
War Production Board
Buffalo
Britain
WPE
Joseph Smith
Chrysler Corporation
Detroit
Hugh T. Mahoney
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Bethlehem, Pa
Stanley Ocvszyk
Lockheed Aircraft Company
Burbank
Calif
Otto Butler
Tito Forces Rout Nazis In Croatia News Bulleting
Tito reports Partisans strike deep in Croatia defeating German columns near Glamoc and Livno while advancing near Zagreb. In eastern Bosnia they clash with Chetniks, rout them with heavy losses as guerrilla groups derail trains and blow bridges near Velik Goritza and Zagreb corridor.
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London
Tirce
Croatia
Josip Broz
Nouth
Livno- Duvno
Bosnia
Glamoc
Livno
Broz
Tito
Kladanz
Zivinizar
Zagreb
Turopolje
Velik-Goritza
I Zagreb
Dugo Seloh
Draja I Mihailovic
Novo Selo
Cairo
Moscow
Serbia
December Milk Price Seen At 3.50 In Six States
New York December forecast by Dr. C. O. Blanford predicts a uniform farm price of 3.50 per hundredweight for milk delivered to plants in six states under Abea. New York area receipts are estimated near 358 million pounds with production about 404.7 million pounds last December, yielding roughly 13 million dollars for dairy farm income in the pool before January 25, 1944.
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New York
Blanford
New York Metropolitan
New Gresney
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Vermont
Connecticut
War Food Administration
WFA
Cornell University
Australian war correspondents killed in Cape Gloucester crash
Melbourne report says Brydon Taves United Press bureau manager and Pending Arthur Raynor Australian wary correspondent died when their plane crashed while covering American landings at Cape Gloucester New Britain. Ian Morrison London Times and Haydon Lennard Australian Broadcasting Corp correspondent injured in the crash.
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Melbourne
Brydon Taves
United Press
Arthur Raynor
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Ian Morrison
London Times
Haydon Lennard
Australian Broadcasting Commission
Taves
Australia
Diana Parnham
Raynor
Melbourne Herald
Sydney Sun
London Daily
Brydon Aves
Buenos Aires duel leads to suspension of four newspapers
In Buenos Aires on December 28, President Ramirez suspended four daily papers for garbled renditions of a presidential press office communique about a duel between Gen Armando Verdaguer and ex Judge Julio Moreno. The papers El Mundo Cabildo Critica and Noticias Graficas were halted for 48 hours after the press office denied notice to cease reporting.
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Buenos Aires
Ramirez Today
Armando Verdaguer
Julio Moreno
Verdaguer
Moreno
el Mundo
Cabildo
Critica
Noticias Graficas
Poace
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Rlease
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Fathan Rifkin
SUL
Atlantic
Gears Torney
East Five
Myrc
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