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Convicted Killer Paid
$1,000 for Pardon in
Alabama, Probe Told
By the Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Mar. 13.
■—Testimony linking former Gov.
James E. Folsom to reports of a
$1,000 payoff gave a startling turn
today to an investigation of the
recent wholesale release of con
victs.
The story was told by a State
employe yesterday to a legislative
committee which is looking into
pardon and parole activities dur
ing the closing months of the Fol
som administration.
It also involved Bill Drinkard
and Glen Vinson, appointed ey
Gov. Folsom, who dominated the
Parole Board for 15 *2 months be
fore they went out of office along
with the Governor on January 15.
More than 1.600 paroles and
350 outright pardons were granted
during the time the Folsom ap
pointees controlled the board’s pol
icy. In many instances prisoners
were set free after serving only
a small fraction of their sen
tences.
The witness yesterday was W.
G. Smith, a worker at the State
docks at Mobile. He quoted a
reformed desperado. Ko.v Dicker
son of Mobile, as saying $1,000
was paid for a pardon for a con
victed killer and that the money
was split among Gov. Folsom, Mr.
Drinkard and Mr. Vinson.
Mr. Smith was subpoenaed to
tell what he knew, if anything,
about, the release of Norris E.
Kervin, who had served less than
seven months of a 25-year mur
der sentence when he was par
doned on January 11, four d»ys
before the end of Gov. Folsom’s
term in office.
The witness quoted Dickerson,
a onetime bank robber, who has
been mentioned previously in
testimony about other paroles, as
saying Kervin could get out of
prison for $1,000.
Later. Mr. Smith added. Dick
erson told him the money went
to the Governor and the two
Parole Board members.
Mr. Folsom dismissed the testi
mony as “silly.” Mr. Vinson
would not comment. Mr. Drink
ard w’as reported awray from his
home and could not be reached.
Red China Is Purging
Opposition in Peiping
By the Associated Press
HONG KONG. Mar. 13.—Red
China's purge of opposition ele
ments has reached into the heart
of Communist China itself—;
Peiping.
An official announcement reach
ing here indirectly from Canton
says the Public Security Bureau
of the new China capital recently
arrested a “large group of counter
revolutionaries” among whom were
some who:
1. Burned down 59 trolleys,
“some of them in the tramway i
terminal right in Peiping.’
2. “Repeatedly damaged” the!
25.000-kilowatt generator of the
Peiping power plant.
The announcement indicated;
that persons arrested in the most!
recent roundup probably already!
have fallen before executioners’I
guns.
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References Asked
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ATLANTA, Mar. 13.—1The
following ad was printed to
day in the female help wanted
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“Wanted—A dog sitter for
aged and sick dog. Pay by
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Night Cab Fares Higher
RIO DE JANEIRO.—If you take
a taxi in Rio de Janeiro now be
tween 6 at night and 6 in the
morning you have to pay one
third more than the meter shows,
under a new city ordinance.
Many of the terms used in elec
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“ampere," etc., are named after
the men who discovered their
purposes.
Red Officer Executions
In Stalin Plot Doubted
By tha Associated Press
BERLIN, Mar. 13.—A published
report that 14 Soviet officers had
been executed in the Russian zone
of Germany for plotting against
Prime Minister Stalin was de-'
scribed by Allied and East German
sources today as “highly doubtful.”
Allied intelligence officers said
the report of the executions and
wholesale arrests last month
among Red army garrisons sta
tioned in Germany “is extremely
' unlikely.”
They added that such incidents
i would have reached their in
! formants “by now.” * j
The report (not carried by the
Associated Press' quoted so-called
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19 Are Sentenced in Plot Against Syria's Strong Man
By the Associated Press
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A military court last night sen
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to prison terms ranging from one
to five years for plotting the at
tempted ambush murder of Syria’s
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Former Defense Minister Ahmad
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