The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-11-23

Items of Interest
From Entire State
Trafficman Edward J. Wrzesinski,
Baltimore, was fined $500 for accept
ing bribe from a motorist, and has
been discharged from the force.
The prosecuting witness, who had
been stopped for failure to obey
traffic signal. said the officer de-
manded $40.
Leonard Lockwood, 40, North
East, Md, was sentenced to Is years
in the Maryland Penitentiary for
second degree murder of his brother
William, SO. Prosecution witness
said the argument was over the in
surance of another brother who had
been killed in action in Europe.
Policeman John T. Uhler, Balti-
more, shot and killed Lawrence
Singletary, colored, in a gun battle
between the two men. Uhler was
attempting to arrest the negro, and
said the negro fired on him before
he shot him.
Col. Beverly Ober, head of the
State police, has announced that
clerks and troopers are now being
trained to operate teletype-writer
system, between the State police
and Acknowledgement agencies of IL
Eastern and New England States.
Col Ober stated that heretofore,
Maryland's police information was
1adioed from Harrisburg, Pa, and
Irelayed to the District of Columbia,
and vice versa, and that if any Sc
cret messages needed to be trans
mitted to patrolmen, long-distance
telephone lines had to be used, be-
cause listeners-in, using low fire.
quency radio sets, could pick up
their broadcasts. Use of the tele-
type system thus will effect a big
saving.
( Federal Judge William c. Cole
man, Baltimore, has ruled that the
Smith-Connally anti-strike law is
constitutional, and that Congress has
the authority to impose the rather
mild" provisions of tie act. 1t was
the first court ruling on the consti-
tutionality of the act.
Because they failed to send in to
the OPA price charts, approximate
~ 10 per cent of Maryland retail
dealers in women's, girls and child
cen's outerwear have been prohib-
tied from further sale of these goods
until the price charts are filed and
receipt acknowledged in writing.
Retailers who defy the order and
continue to sell will be subject to
injunction proceedings.
Attorney Daniel B. Leonard of the
Maryland OPA enforcement div
ision reports that cash settlements
have been made in 81 cases of over
charges on meat and dairy products
in the State. Included in the group
was the Medford Grocery Co., of
Carroll County. which made a
settlement of $525.
Farm agency and organization re
representatives. meeting at the Univer-
;ity of Maryland on November 24-25
will discuss such topics as: 1945 ayr
l marketing and transportation prob
ems, farm labor. feed situation, and
ways to administer the 1945 goals
l EDUCATIONAL campaign.
| The Maryland Crop Reporting
4 e1yice in its October report show.
Rcreases in many of Maryland;
rops. Buckwheat production is es
| mated at 100000 bushels, a three
er cent gain over the 10-year aver
/ &c. Apples were boosted to 1853,
| 10 bushels, or more than double
| '43 crop. The pear crop is estimat
| d at $4,000 bushels compared t.
4 st years 10000. and the swee
4 otato yield is 20 per cent allow
4 43 with an estimated 1,24O,00
/ Ishels. Corn production is indicat
1 at 16.966,000 bushels, A per cen
4 owe last years crop. Egg produc
\ n during October totaled $4,000,
/ > eggs, II per cent more than il
1 'tober 1913.