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Arkansas' Governor Parnell went to French Lick, Ind. last week to attend the Governors' Conference. That left Lieutenant Governor Lawrence Wilson in charge of the State with all the powers and privileges of a chief executive. One of his first official acts was to pardon his brother Fred, convicted last March of grand larceny and awaiting formal sentence of four years in jail...
Lawrence and Fred are the sons of Mrs. Leon Wilson, 63, who lives on a large farm near Stephens, Ark. Brother Fred's conviction filled his mother with shame and anguish. Last week Brother Lawrence declared that he had "no apologies to offer" for Brother Fred's pardon, that he had issued it largely because of his "grief-stricken mother." Two days later he went to a raspberry festival at Wynne where he told merrymakers: "You people of Cross County are all my friends and don't hesitate to call on me for help. Remember...
Germans are executed with axe and chopping block by a brawny man bedight in evening clothes and black gloves. Seemingly Peter Kuerten's neck cannot escape the axe. But the Düsseldorf Court, unwilling to take the smallest chance of the nine death sentences being set aside by pardon or reprieve, wound up by sentencing the prisoner to toil 15 years at hard labor if not executed, deprived him of all his rights as a German citizen, ordered him to pay all the costs of his trial?one of the most expensive in German criminal history...
...polite about it as they are about everything in Japan. There, if one man knocks an- other down accidentally they both apologize. They did the same on the field so there was much time out for bowing and telling one's opponent go Men Nasai, ("I beg your pardon"). But there is very little of that...
...inflame the malcontents still further came news that British Justice had hanged last week at Lahore that murder-guilty patriot, Bhagat Singh.† Declaring that the pact with Viceroy Lord Irwin should not have been signed because it did not pardon Bhagat Singh, opponents of St. Gandhi went among the 6,000 delegates shouting...