New Trials Expected For Lawson And Associates
In Baltimore on December 19 jurors found former Police Commissioner William P. Lawson and three business associates guilty of conspiracy to defraud customers of a brokerage firm. Lawson faces up to ten years. Frank Mueller Frederick A. Mueller and Vincent L. Clisham received mercy recommendations for their lesser involvement.
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Frederick A. Mueller
Vincent L. Clisham
Securities Exchange Commission
Figures In Multi Million Drug Firm Scandal Unfold
The case centers on McKesson and Robbins drug firm with head F Donald Coster identified as Philip Musica. George Vernard known as Arthur Musica held on 100 900 bail on securities law charges. Julian I Thompson and George Dietrich are named officers amid a federal investigation and attempted reorganization.
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Arthur Musica
Coster
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Philip Musica
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John J. Bennett
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McKesson and Robbins
F. Donald Coster
Lawson firm tied to securities case defrauding investors
The Distillers' Certificates Corporation affiliate of William F P Lawson Co. faced a long trial with jurors sequestered and guarded while Deputy State's Attorney Maynard argued a blind pool scheme abused early stockholders to pay dividends from later investors. Lawson, once police commissioner, resigned after SEC civil charges. criminal charges followed civil actions. Defense motions to dismiss jurors were denied as Judge Ulman ruled on coercion concerns.
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Clisham
William H. Maynard
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Harry W. Nice
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SEC
Ulman
Leonard Weinberg
Tobacco quotas vote shocks crop control program
Washington reports a clouded farmer stance toward the New Deal farm program after tobacco marketing quotas failed in 14 states. Cotton quotas passed, but two thirds of growers did not support marketing controls, sparking debate over the future of production control and farm price policy. Officers were elected at Coliseum Amusement Company.
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Associated Press
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Roth
Administration
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Agricultural Adjusts
Burley
Coliseum Amusement Company,, Inc
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James P. Raney
Anna Is. Raney
Eugene Raney
Film Stars Henry Wilcoxon and Joan Woodbury Wed
Henry Wilcoxon and Joan Woodbury tied the knot in Hollywood on the bride’s 22nd birthday with many film colony friends in attendance. Guy Rotz was sentenced to sixty days in county jail after his larceny conviction by Magistrate C E Heard.
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Henry Wilcoxon
Joan Woodbury
Film Colony
Guy Rotz
C. E. Heard
Washington County
George Febrey Suffered Severe Injuries in Three Accidents
Deputy Leister Isanogle on the trail after three Saturday crashes. George Febrey, 78, of St. James, lost a mangled hand when hit by a car driven by Harry Palmer near Hagerstown. Febrey was taken to Washington County Hospital. Palmer said glare blinded him. Other crashes involved Matilda Dukes near Greencastle and Charles McLaughlin near Chambersburg, with a Dukes vehicle going over a bank into a flower pot at Holsinger’s home. A third collision occurred between J A Beckley near Funkstown and Wilbur St Slick on the Cearfoss Greencastle pike.
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St. James
Harry S. Palmer
Fairplay
Sharpsburg Pike
Hagerstown
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Washington County Hospital
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Greencastle
Charles H. McLaughlin
Chambersburg
Cearfoss
Greencastle Pike
Dukes
Holsinger
J. A. Beckley
Funkstown
Wilbur St. Slick
Pennsylvania Avenue
Crash on Middleburg Pike Ties City to Bellevue Drive Way
Deputy Isanogle reports a collision on the Middleburg pike near the county home when Slick passed another car and turned sharply into Bellevue drive way. Slick’s car flipped while Beckley’s vehicle went over a bank and hit a wire fence. Both cars crowded the same direction.
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Isanogle
Slick
Bellevue
Beckley
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