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Five days later, in nearby Laurel, Negro Farmhand Howard Wash was found guilty of murdering his white employer. But the jury failed to agree on the punishment. Under Mississippi law, his sentence became life imprisonment...
...little more than a filler for the highly esteemed Lovell squad, which had 19 wins and four losses this year. Lefty Davis, former Eastern League hurler, went the distance for the losers, scattering eight hits except for the second inning when he gave a trio of safeties. Red Sox farmhand Walsh, who was slated to pitch, was saved for an Army league game yesterday and only appeared as a successful pinch hitter in the ninth...
...little more than a week of practice and a single 13-inning defeat behind it, the Varsity is still green and shaky. If rumors reaching Cambridge are true, the Lovell Hospital nine will be a powerful outfit led by a hurler of talent named Walsh, a former Red Sox farmhand...
From New York's truck gardens across the prairie wheat belt to Oregon's berry fields, many a farmer was in the same spot. Defense has begun to drain off the farm labor supply. Since Army wages look better to low-paid farmhands than to industrial workers, more Army volunteers have come from rural districts than any place else. Some have been drafted. More have quit their jobs to work in new aluminum plants at 60? an hour, as carpenters on new Army camps at $7 a day. Many a farmer or potential farmhand...
Married. Sir John William Frederick Fagge, 29, farmhand-baronet of Faver-sham, Kent, England (TIME, April 29); and Ivy Frier, housemaid; in Kent. Sir John's fellow volunteer firemen made an archway of hatchets as the couple left the church...