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...broad reaches of the Mississippi Delta in Sunflower County is a remarkable state penitentiary. Its name: Parchman Penal Farms. Its record: a net profit...
...seven House libraries; by 11 o'clock Monday morning 86 of them had not been returned. Keyes D. Metcalf, Librarian of the College, has pointed out that in most other colleges a stinging fine awaits such offenders, and he fears that unless the present situation is remedied similar penal measures may replace the lenient black-list process...
...guilty verdict, under U.S. military law, would have meant death or life imprisonment. This is more severe than British sentences, generally, which provide for penal servitude for life, or not less than three years, or imprisonment for not more than two years with or without hard labor. A prominent police official said: "I think Hammond would have got the same verdict from an English jury." The girl's mother did not approve. She muttered: "This is what they call justice, but they let him go free and that casts a reflection on my girl...
Hopeful Forfeit. The Japanese conquest of the Andamans made a great difference to the Japanese, to Britain and to India. The British at New Delhi had to admit that it was conquest by default. The small garrison, the few colonials, civil servants and guards at the Indian penal center in Port Blair had abandoned the Andamans to the Japs. Ready for plucking were the 204 big & little Andamans and the adjoining Nicobar Islands, which curve between Burma's central coast and the northern tip of Sumatra, locking a gateway to the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean...
...December 1 seventeen men and one woman were convicted of conspiracy to advocate the overthrow of the U. S. Government. The case, now on its way to the Supreme Court, has resolved itself into a test of the constitutionality of the Smith Act of 1940, which makes it a penal offense to discuss the over-throw of the government, or to criticize the conduct of the armed forces. Stated in abstract terms, the issue at stake is the right of free speech, and as such sounds almost absurdly simple. But in the concrete terms of the Minneapolis convictions, the issue...