Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 7

Thursday, April 24, 1947. TCATUR HERALD NATION A Change Dewitt Office Hitchhike Death Suspect Guilty Raton, N. April 23 (AP) Day Nursery Gets15-Minufe Coat of Paint Galesburg, April 23 (AP) Clinton, April 23 Administration of rent control in Dewitt county will be transferred from the Champaign area rent control office to the Springfield office, effective April 30, it was announced today. casting Corp. network.

"I was merely adhering to a decision I made before I left America," Stassen said. "Whatever may have to say I want to say ir America." P. Ryan. B.B nw- said Stassen had been offered much time on the air i.ciai Wallace, who spoke over B.B.C. oc his recent visit to London.

April 27, Lane for Creek township unit. April 29, Texas church for Texas community. April 30, Hallsville for Hallsville community. May 1. Farmer City high school for Farmer City teachers unit.

May 23, Waynesville for Waynes-ville community. May 27, Kenney high school for Kenney community. May 28, Wapella high school for Wapella community. May 31 Weldon for Weldon community. Stassen Rejects Speech Offers London.

April 23 (AP) Harold E. Stassen, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, adhered to his decision against any public speeches during his European fact-finding tour today and declined an opportunity to speak over the British Broad Dewitt School Events Listed Clinton, April 23 (Staff) A. W. Dickey, Dewitt county superintendent of schools, today announced the list of commencements to be held in the county this year. The first commencement is to be held Friday in the Birkbeck church for the Harp teachers unit.

Others are: Edward C. Jones, 27, former The Knox county day nursery Retain Dewitt Pastor Dewitt, April 23 The congregations of the Dewitt Methodist church and Rucker chapel extended an invitation to their pastor. Rev. Elmer Kidwell, to remain another year, and he has accepted. Sparks Fined Don R.

Sparks. 24. of 328 Wesl Eldorado street, was fined S9.4C for disorderly conduct. Houston, Texas, insurance salesman, was convicted Tuesday night of first degree murder, for the culvert slaying of Jess V. Larson of Denver, and the district court jury fixed death as his penalty.

Judge Livingston N. Taylor set sentencing for 10 a. m. Friday. It required only 50 minutes for the jury to reject the former para-troop instructor's tearful plea that his life be spared.

The verdict made death mandatory by its failure to recommend clemency. The only witness for the defense. Jones broke down several times during brief testimony. He said he did not know why he killed Larson, paper salesman, last March 5 after Larson gave him a ride from Pueblo, Colo. Jones was arrested in Springfield, 111., three weeks after the slaying.

got a coat of paint today in 15 minutes and nine seconds. As a feature of' the city's annual spring cleanup week 57 painters used eight gallons of white paint while more than 500 persons watched them paint the six-room two-story bungalow. Experts on painting said the unofficial world's record for a house of the same size was two minutes, but it took 100 painters to set the record. Local merchants furnished the paint and the work was done by the members of the Galesburg chapter of the Painters Decorators of America, a contracting group. Prior to the house painting, junior high school students painted a fence in a new version of "Tom Sawyer's" famous episode.

The cleanup week, sponsored by the Galesburg Chamber of Commerce and the Senior Woman's club, also featured a scrubbing of about half a block of a business district street. Warden Lawes, Who Reformed Sing Sing, Dies Garrison. N. April 23 AP) Lewis E. Lawes.

63, the warden vho converted Sing Sing prison from a grim, hard-boiled institution to a world-famous model of progressive penal methods, died today at his home where he had been in retirement six years. In failing health for a year and a half and seriously ill for the past 10 days. Lawes died of a cerebral hemorrhage at his home. 15 miles from the "big house" at Ossining. N.

Y. Lawes began his work at Sing Sing in December 1919. appointed at 37 as warden by the late Gov. Alfred E. Smith.

The youngest man ever to hold the post, he retired voluntarily July 16. 1941. Among his reforms were introduction of football and other athletic events with prison teams competing among themselves and with outsiders, installation of radio and motion picture facilities for convicts, and construction of enlarged and more sanitary cell quarters. Although a bitter foe of capital punishment, he was called upon to officiate at 303 executions. He wrote several books on prison life and made many lecture appearances.

One of his books. "Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing," wasmade into a motion picture. Gebhart-Gushard Has Complete Stocks of Ready-to- Hang Awnings! Don't Wait Until the mad rush begins for Awnings and Curtains be wise and choose yours now we've America's Two best known makes to choose from Wounded March 11, Man Leaves Hospital Tuscola, April 23 (Staff) Marion Ernest has been taken from the Jarman hospital to his home after having been a patient there since March 11. He has been undergoing treatment for bullet wounds of the back received while allegedly resisting arrest. Police attempted to arrest Ernest when he and two companions became engaged in a fracas in a Villa Grove restaurant.

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