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Captain Joseph ("Joe") Gould, 48, cigar-mangling peacetime prizefight manager, whose most famed charge was ex-Heavyweight Champion James J. Braddock, went down for the count before an Army general court-martial. He was found guilty, as an Army contract officer, of conspiring to defraud the U.S. of $200,000 on Army contracts, sentenced to three years at hard labor, a $12,000 fine and dismissal from the service. Said one of his associates along "Jacob's Beach," hoary Manhattan rendezvous for the pugilistic trade: "He never should of done it during...
Several weeks later, Reasoner was ordered to Paris. Coldly he was told that his message had been the go-ahead for the advertising posters; that he faced possible court-martial.* Instead, Reasoner's punishment was reassignment-not in the European Theater. Last week, while he was in London awaiting transportation to a new assignment. Reasoner lost $140 in cash, had his kitbag stolen and learned that the dog he left in London had gone off with somebody named Jerry. Said Reasoner: "I'm just an eight-ball...
...officer in charge of that pillbox is the permanent president of the division's court-martial. He has already court-martialed so many for desertion or surrender that he can't very well surrender himself. I can't do anything about...
...months' investigation, Army authorities started a proceeding which had few if any precedents in U.S. judicial history. They accused 43 Negroes of taking part in a lynching bee, charged 40 of them with rioting, three with rioting and murder, got ready to march them before a court-martial. The three charged with murder: Sergeant Arthur J. Hurks, 23, of Houston, Tex., Corporal Luther Larkin, 23, of Helena, Ark., Private William G. Jones, 21, of Decatur...
...been having a few beers at a hotel in Kingsclere, Hampshire, sullenly obeyed, shortly returned with carbines "to deal with the MPs." In the rattle of gunfire that followed, the hotel proprietor's wife, an MP and another soldier were killed. Last week an Army court-martial found nine of the Negroes guilty of murder, sentenced them to hard labor for life. The tenth got ten years at hard labor for being A.W.O.L. Said one of the accused: "We have had no dealings with the law and we are ignorant...