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...Whereas Gerald Chapman was convicted in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York of robbery of mail matter and placing the life of a mail carrier in jeopardy, and was sentenced Aug. 23, 1922, to imprisonment for twenty-five years in the United States penitentiary at Atlanta...
...therefore, be it known that I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America, in consideration of the premises, divers other good and sufficient reasons me thereunto moving, do hereby commute the sentence of the said Gerald Chapman to the term of imprisonment already served...
Thus did the President commute the punishment of Gerald Chapman, mail robber, so that Gerald Chapman, murderer, might be hanged by the State of Connecticut. Mr. Chapman refused the commutation and denounced it as an abuse of clemency power. His lawyers will seek in the courts to establish his right to finish his 25-year sentence in the Federal penitentiary from which he escaped. If they succeed, his hanging will have to wait...
Asia. Speak of digging in Asia and you think of Roy Chapman Andrews. After another year on the uncivilized side of the Gobi Desert, he is on his way back to the American Museum of Natural History with plunder from Mongolian beds where "the fossils were so thick they almost interlaced." Paleontologist Andrews shares the view of many a scientist that Mid-Asia was the birthplace and distribution centre of mammalia. His chief finds: many more fossil dinosaur eggs (two years ago he fetched several dozen); several baluchitherium (early rhinoceros) skulls; an unknown two-horned fossil, seemingly a primitive giraffe...
...scheduled to speak have argued in University debates D. W. Chapman '27, President of the Debating Council, Barrett Williams '28, and F. W. Lorenzen '28, will uphold the affirmative side of the question, while A. F. Reel '28, Kenneth White '27, and E. G. Wesson 1L, will argue for the negative...