The Richland county grand jury for 1944 was sworn in at 10:15 yesterday morning at the courthouse with Gilbert T. Newman, a holdover grand juror, named as foreman.

Other grand jurors are H. T. Jacobs, C. B. Pursley, J. D. Abney, Tom Branham, D. G. Eillison, Jr., A. D. Bennett, E. T. Kirkland, A. C. Ballentine, George M. Eargle, Willis C. Johnson, N. H. Free, Ebbie Bradham, J. D. Leitner, W. E. McNulty, Jr., C. T. Davis, T. P. Campbell and N. A. Papadeas.

Shortly before noon yesterday, the court found it nessary to draw a new venire of petty jurymen.

The original panel includes J. C. Webb, Vance Phillips, Joe Corder, Jr., R. V. Tucker, L. B. Mauldin, Ernest R. Thompson, William M. Williams, H. A. Walters, C. B. Hawkins, E. E. Lucas, Thomas H. Daniel, E. B. Wingard, Alster B. Broome, John I. Findlay, W. M. Campbell, B. B. Armstrong, Boykin Branham, J. G. Cash, L. J. Lever, R. W. Wallace, R. R. Hodge, W. T. Davis, J. L. McLaughlin, H. L. McCaston, G. W. Lathrop, C. L. Christmus, Charles S. Petty, L. B. Nelson, Harry Corbett Fanning, R. W. Helms, J. F. Freeman, Roy Hornsby, H. B. Epling, G. S. Bradshaw, David Willis Coward. Of that panel, 22 were present yesterday, the remainder being in the armed services or having moved from here.

The additional veniremen are: Jack Pearlstine, G. R. Rembert, William M. Gardener, Henry C. Thomas, Robert S. LaFaye, E. V. Mulliken, Elbert Chastine, William M. Jenkins, LeRoy Slice, H. Wayne Shannon, S. W. Stuckey, L. P. Goza, P. H. Atkinson, Burr D. Hughes, W. C. Richburg, A. B. Lowry, R. C. Parke, Earl Cooper, Fraser T. Dial, A. T. Hughes, T. E. Plate, J. A. Norton, Marion A. Park, W. C. Sanders, Wilson Turnipseed, Jesse E. Ballentine, Colt T. Hendley, B. R. Lindley and C. B. Harvey.