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Bernard C. McGuire. associate of Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis of Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to violating interstate lottery laws in conducting a Loyal Order of Moose lottery in 1930. He was sentenced to a year in prison. Senior Davis' retrial on similar charges was scheduled to take place this week...
...Death House in Birmingham to await electrocution after an obvious mistrial. In that time the case has been reviewed by the supreme Court of Alabama and finally by the United States Supreme Court. All the latter could do, although if found the trial unfair, was to order retrial in the same court and probably under mach the same conditions...
Debts, The convention enthusiastically applauded Pennsylvania's squat Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, longtime Secretary of Labor now awaiting retrial for his part in a Moose national lottery, when he said that the debtor nations "could in a short time pay their debts without any discomfort to them" if they disarmed. But the convention leaned toward "readjustment...
Mayor Kline faces the penalty of a year in prison, $500 fine and removal from office. Both defendants asked retrial...
...would have appeared to the native as partial as his present decision. But it would have been more just and far-sighted to commute the sentences to a real term of imprisonment; for only thus could he have assured the natives of his impartiality and secured a retrial of the offending Hawaiians. At present, law in Hawaii stands riddled with race prejudice and contempt; to reestablish its prestige will prove a task almost impossible under present conditions of faltering leadership and public indifference...