Four Parolees Released by Alabama Pardon Board
The Pardon Parole Board in Alabama granted four paroles last week, including one white convict and three Black inmates. Two prior paroles were revoked and 22 applications were denied. Released were Julian Brady Blackshear for manslaughter, Dempsey Hamilton for grand larceny, Frank Nettles for murder, and Frank Wright for manslaughter.
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Montgomery
Alabama
Board
Julian Brady Blackshear
Dale County
Dempsey Hamilton
Wilcox County
Frank Nettles
Marengo County
Frank Wright
Shelby County
Britain Debates Universal Conscription for Two-Year Duty
Parliament weighs a plan for universal military conscription in the United Kingdom establishing a two year service period. Government officials argue it would strengthen national defense while critics warn of civil liberty impacts.
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Britain
Vladimir Golschmann Catholic in Musical Tastes
Vladimir Golschmann conducts the St Louis Symphony at a Community Concert in the high school auditorium at 8 00 p m He is noted as Catholic in his musical tastes with early Paris studies in piano and violin shaping his conductors style He avoids tempers and communicates with eyes guiding relaxed performances and clear cues despite a high strung demeanor
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Vladimir Golschmann
St. Louis
Peder Moller
Bertholier
Capet
Golschmann
Paris
Lauritz Melchoir
Walter Damrosch
NSLI Will Pay New Dividend to Five Million Veterans
The Veterans Administration announced a new dividend will be paid next year to about five million National Service Life Insurance policyholders, with the first payments in February. Most receive a flat $60, totaling 180 million dollars, plus two prior special dividends. overall NSLI dividends approach four billion dollars across all payments.
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Washington
National Service
Veterans Administration
NSLI
Offhand Talk and Tiny Tales of Christmas Births
A fragment from a column quotes Christmas births in 1906 1913 and 1920 shared by Mrs Ernestina Graham of York Pa. It then shifts to quips about housekeepers and wisdom with exchanges about a baby sitter and a man named Willie and a joke on love and expense.
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Ernestina Graham
York, Pa
Fragmented humor and adages mix in a dated miscellany
A scattered collection of wry lines and anecdotes covers hair humor, sermons, finance, shop talk, aging, and sentiment. The snippets include quips about hair, verses, a swallowed bug, tea kettles, and a Shakespearean jab, with a stray note on rice origins from India.
Little Nancy Tells Off Copy Little Nancy Tells Off Copy
In Spearman Texas seven year old Nancy Ownbey and her brothers rode with their mother when a pickup hit their car. Nancy steadied the wheel, stopped the car and retrieved her mother’s purse. She refused an officer’s request for the purse and driver’s license, then handed the items to her uncle who arrived and verified the license before returning it.
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Spearman
Tex
Amarillo
Nancy Ownbey
Nancy
Jim Steve
Robbie
Robert J. Ownbey
Ownbey
The
Law
the Law
W. R. Hill
Man Refuses Gratitude as Cop Buoyed by Heroic Act
In a brief exchange, Nancy notes that the officer did not receive thanks for his role, while the policeman denies any thanks were given. The dialogue highlights tension over recognition.
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Don Williams
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Deete
P.O
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William Penn
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Indian Ocean
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Junius
Sieuce
Willie
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Arctic
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Lord Dewar
Sue
Helen Black
Rose
Mr. Johnston
Shakespeare
India
Decatur Jaycees
Whos-Fm
Little Nancy
George Perry
Youngstown
Kitchen
Lafayette St
Hill
Bank St
J. D. Manning Co
Fieldcrest
BATES
Martha Washington
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