Dr Gardner Paroled By Commission From Central Prison
An Asheville physician with three prior convictions was released on parole from Central prison. Dr G D Gardner, 595, had been serving five to seven years for manslaughter in the death of patient Mrs Lois Cordell following an abortion procedure in Oct 1946. Gardner was sentenced in Buncombe county in Jan 1947.
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Raleigh
Asheville
Central Prison
G. D. Gardner
Lois Cordell
Gardner
Buncombe County
Weather Forecast Notes A Mix of Showers Tonight
The region expects scattered light showers and not very warm conditions tonight. Partly cloudy skies continue Thursday with cool high and easing winds. Sunrise and sunset times vary. calendar hints indicate late afternoon sun and seasonable warmth potential.
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Paroled Gardner Granted Early Release for Good Conduct
Gardner, imprisoned for drug law violations, received a July 1929 one year and a day sentence and a May 1939 three year term. Parole papers state he will work in Asheville with a nephew in a filling station and oil business. The parole board credited time served and cited age health and a good prison record. Judge Bobbitt approved the parole based on recommendations from Asheville officials including Police Chief Hall and Solicitor McLean.
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Atlanta
Asheville
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Eric Hall
W. K. McLean
Last of 3 Executed in Tokyo War Crimes Hangings
Reports confirm between 0001 and 0035 on December 23 six other war criminals and Tojo were hanged at Sugamo prison. Capt. H. H. Hawkins cited information from Marion P. Echols, MacArthur’s public information officer, with details on the executions.
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International Military Tribunal For
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Kenji Doihara
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Heitaro Kamura
Manchuria
Iwane Matsui
Nanking
Akira Muto
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Pacific
Duggan Death Under Cloud of Foul Play Hints
Duggan high official in state department faced rumors of confidential papers. FBI said it questioned him 10 days earlier, call ed the inquiry routine. Police list his death Monday night at the Institute of International Education as accidental with no struggle evident. The body showed one galosh and missing other items.
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FBI
Welles
State Department
Institute of International Education
Petersburg Man Held For Conover Robbery
Charles W. Brown announced the arrest of Charles Nathaniel Matthews 35 of Petersburg Va charged with the armed robbery of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association in Conover on November 4. Matthews, a former federal inmate, allegedly acted as the lone gunman escaping with $1000.
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Charles W. Brown
FBI
Charles Nathaniel Matthews
First Federal Savings and Loan Association
Conover
Brown
Petersburg
Matthews
Chilean military court convicts 20 in coup plot
In Santiago a Chilean military court convicted 20 men of conspiring to overthrow the government last month. Former President Carlos Ibanez and three others were acquitted.
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Chile
Carlos Ibanez
Halts Aid To Indies Due To UN Restrictions
The article notes Dutch violations of UN limits on military action and explains why the United States must back UN decrees. It also highlights postwar political upheaval across Asia and the intensified struggle of colonial peoples for independence.
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United States
Asia
Moscow Plants Trees on Main Streets
During autumn in Moscow two hundred sixty three thousand trees and one million four hundred thousand shrubs were planted as part of a campaign to make the capital one of the greenest cities in the world with trees lining every street.
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Syrian Govt Bans Life and Newsweek Magazines
Damascus reports the Syrian government bans the American magazines Life and Newsweek for alleged Zionist propaganda.
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Damascus
Life
Newsweek
Sculpture By Tar Heel Goes To Washington
In Lynchburg Virginia on December 22 a North Carolinian Earl Williams of Durham carved a soap model of an automatic pistol and sent it to the FBI museum in Washington. Police Sergeant Charles M. Watts said Williams planned to use the soap gun to escape jail by getting a deputy to open the cell door and steal keys for a breakout with another prisoner.
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Washington
FBI
Charles M. Watts
Earl Williams
Durham
N. C
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Williams
J. R. Ware
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