Two Escape From State Reformatory
The Roxbury State Reformatory reported two escapes yesterday around 6 15 p m. Prisoners Joseph Hargett 15 of Baltimore serving three years for burglary and George Stine 18 of Baltimore serving three years for larceny escaped. Hargett is six feet tall and 150 pounds while Stine is five feet eight inches and 140 pounds and Stine has several tattoo marks.
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Roxbury
Joseph Hargett
Baltimore
George Stine
Hargett
Stine
Sugar Rationing Rushed As Canning Coupons Go Out
The local Rationing Board reports heavy demand for canning sugar with many applicants still awaiting five pound coupons. Samuel L. King Sr. says coupons are mailed by date, requires signing, and attaching spare sugar stamp No. 13. Eight pounds per person is the season limit as stores show shortages but expect improvement.
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Samuel L. King
King
Spectacular Fire Guts Elizabeth Street Plant Site
A dramatic blaze occurred at the former Station plant on Elizabeth Street after a steel drum containing paint dope exploded. The not-very-damaging fire sent smoke high, with an audible blast heard blocks away. Night watchman Edgar Rod Ernest Rodrick reported the drum had sat in wreckage over winter and spring. Firefighters battled the flames for over an hour.
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Elizabeth Street
Edgar G. Roderick
Board of Appeal to Study Cases in Western Maryland
The Western Maryland Selective Service Board of Appeal will meet today at Hagerstown City Hall to review appeals from registrants classified poorly by local boards in seven Western Maryland counties. A large docket is expected though exact case counts are not given.
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Western Maryland Selective Service Board of Appeal
Hagerstown City Hall
Western Maryland
Appeal Board
Board Appeal Process Outlined For Registrants
The text explains how decisions by the board are returned to local boards and then notified to registrants. It lists the five member appeal board with names and professions: Ralph C. Beard labor, Dr Ralph E. Shipley medicine, Leonard Burns agriculture, W Chanton McSherry law, and Thomas W Pane bern industry. It also notes 1944 farm equipment sales totaling over 1 067 billion dollars, up from 636 million in 1943 and 517 million in 1929.
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Appeal Board
Ralph C. Beard
Cumberland
Ralph E. Shipley
Savage
Leonard Burns
Olney
Wchnton McSherry
Frederick
Thomas W. Panebern
Hagerstown
Release On Writ Of Habeas Corpus For Walter McKinley
Walter McKinley, jailed six months in the House of Correction for contributing to the delinquency of minors, was granted a petition for a writ of habeas corpus by Judge Joseph D. Mish in Circuit Court yesterday afternoon. He claimed he testified in a juvenile court delinquency case before Magistrate Harvey M. Miler and was subsequently charged again.
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Walter McKinley
House of Correction
Joseph D. Mish
McKinley
Harvey M. Miler
Defendant Sentenced After Inadequate Defense Time
The defendant faced sentencing after insufficient time to prepare a proper defense. Attorney D Angle Wolfinger represented him, and he has already served two months of the sentence.
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D. Angle Wolfinger
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Sutton
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