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...John M. Alcorn of Pontiac, Illinois and Pontiac High; Weld Hall...
...Camp Shelby, Miss., the U.S. Army inducted in a body a twelve-piece Negro "sweet-swing" band from Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College. Its members had volunteered to play as a regimental band. Said Band Director Frank M. Christmas (on leave of absence as Alcorn's dean of men): "The people of Mississippi have given us an education, and we want to do something in return...
State's Attorney Hugh Mead Alcorn, the man who helped send famed Murderer Gerald Chapman to the gallows, was called in. Hayes & Co. were arraigned by a Grand Jury in 1938 on a blanket charge of conspiracy to loot Waterbury of better than $1,000,000. Last week a jury of Connecticut laborers, farmers and housewives, after a trial that had lasted nearly eight months (TIME, Dec. 26), finally cogitated the conduct of Hayes & Co. Eager crowds, including Cinemactress Rosalind Russell (home from Hollywood on vacation), packed in and around the courtroom to hear the verdict: "Guilty." Tears filled...
...setback galling to a political boss-his hand-picked Waterbury comptroller, Daniel J. Leary, lost an election to Republican Sherwood L. Rowland by 33 votes. Republican Comptroller Rowland took a good look at the accounts of the eight-year Hayes regime, called in State's Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn. Attorney Alcorn took another look, called in a grand jury...
...Virginia *Byrd Page 1142 of 1742 84,000 23,000 Wisconsin Callahan Chapple 81 of 2914 3081 3068 * +R. LaFollette 5094 *Incumbent * **Farmer-Labor * +Progressive CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR STATE DEMOCRAT REPUBLICAN California Sinclair Merriam 1675 of 10721 168,481 189,535 Connecticut *Cross Alcorn 81 of 169 231,525 129,881 Idaho Ross Stephan 103, of 792 5544 5083 Iowa Herring Turner 223 of 2453 31,217 27,246 Kansas Ketchum Landon 442 of 2691 36854 41,463 Maryland *Ritchie Nice 61 of 1,375 12,189 11,623 Minnesota * **Olson Nelson...