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...Congress passed a statute making slave-keeping punishable by a $5,000 fine, five years in prison. Not once in 70 years had the law been invoked until three months ago when a Federal Grand Jury at Little Rock, Ark. indicted Paul D. Peacher, Crittenden County cotton planter and former deputy sheriff, for "aiding and abetting in causing persons to be held as slaves...
Last week Planter Peacher, who now serves as city marshal of Earle, went on trial at Jonesboro before Federal Judge John E. Martineau, onetime Arkansas Governor, and a jury of twelve whites. On hand as a special representative of Attorney General Cummings, who was anxious to secure a conviction in the face of complaints from the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union against the usual calibre of Arkansas justice, was Brien McMahon, assistant U. S. attorney general in charge of the criminal division. As Planter Peacher sat sneeringly confident of acquittal, Prosecutor McMahon and his assistants presented the Government...
...Author, Born in Timmonsville, S. C. in 1903, the son of a tobacco planter, Melvin Purvis has had a more exceptional career than he makes out in his book. Slight (127 lb.), wiry, red-haired and superstitious, he studied law at the University of South Carolina, practiced for two years, went to Washington in 1927 seeking a post in the State Department, got one in the Bureau of Investigation. He chased automobile thieves in Texas and worked in Cincinnati and Oklahoma City before the Dillinger case put him in headlines. Unmarried, he collects biographies, has a pet cocker spaniel, shoots...
...main story deals with Thomas Sutpen, an ambitious planter who settled near Jefferson, Miss, in 1833. Another tale deals with Quentin Compson, a Harvard freshman born and raised in Jefferson, who. in 1910, tried to figure out what had lain behind the Sutpen tragedy. A third deals with Rosa Coldfield, Sutpen's sister-in-law, and with Quentin's father, who told Quentin what they knew of the Sutpens. (Still a fourth story can be detected only by readers of The Sound and the Fury.) Thus readers must not only figure out what happened to the Sutpens...
...retired magician I salute a fellow member of the ancient art of magic who performs in India under the name of Subbayah Pullavar and who thoroughly mystified P. T. Plunkett, the tea planter, and Pat Dove, the camera man, as well as the editorial staff of the Illustrated London News...