The Clarksville Times (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, January 24, 1947 Page: 9 of 16
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There Is No Such Thing as a Parole In
Texas, But Thousands Have Been
Released From Penitentiary on One
There is No such HThlng as a Pa- i was headed by this puzzler:
By PHIL NORTH In | "What Is the legal location of
Btar-Telegram , the Board of Pardons and Paroles?'"
The State of Texas, when It pa- ! • • •
roles a man from one of Its prisons. Four Paths to Freedom
escorts the convict to the gate and Briefly, there are four ways for a
then turns its back on him and
the good or evil he may do in so-
ciety.
The paroled convict is not given
civilian clothes. He is not furnish-
ed transportation to the county in
which he expects to reside. Nor is
he given any money with which to
w procure food clothing or trans-
portation.
The parolee — although properly
convict to be freed before expira-
tion of his sentence without break-
ing out of prison.
First Is the emergency reprieve
or furlough, usually limited to 10
or 15 days, which theoretically can
be granted a man the day after he
enters the penitentiary under Ufe
sentence.
Next is the reprieve, usually for
six months or a year with exten-
peaking there is no such thing as. slons contingent on good behavior,
"parole' In Texas — Is given only which theoretically brings the ln-
hls freedom and instructions to re- j dividual's case Op for review on
port to a county parole board, cont- - the date the reprieve expires. This
U. S. Capital To
Rise Where Nathan
Hale Was Hanged
By CARLE HODGE
AP Newsfeatures Writer
j New York, — The J7 acres of
I slaughter houses and other than
I structures where the United Na-
tions will build their world capital
{on Manhattan’s East Side has flg-
| “fed in the making of history many
! times slnee the Dutch bought that
land from the Indians.
Known as Turtle Bay, from a
, lost inlet of the East River, the
section lies between Kips Bay on
i the south, where Peter Stuyves-
ant farmed his famous Bowery, and
| Beckman Hill to the north, site of
a Colonial homestead and now a
fashionable residential neighbor-
hood.
In the very heart of the six
blocks given to the United Nation*
by John D. Rockefeller, a famed
American spy was executed by the
British.
As he stood before their hang-
man, he shouted, "I only regret
that I have but one life to lose for
my country."
A lading plaque imbedded in a
dingy slaughter house wall now
marks the spot where Nathan Hale
died.
Immigrant* knew the Turtle Bay
section well, In the early 1900‘s
they crowded by the thousand*
around It* abattoir gates to pay a
nickel a glass for animal blood,
which they regarded highly as med-
icine.
History first exploded in Turtle
Bay during the Revolution. Dar-
ing American guerrillas, who nam-
, ed themselves the Liberty Boy*
blew up a British arms dump there.
I They hastily piled up breatworka
: but they were broken by broadsides
l from His Majesty’s men-of-war
bubbuig at anchor out in the river. | a British munitions warehouse had
After the bloody Battle of Long stood hemmed In by woodlands.
Island, bedragled Contlnantal sol- | rn July. 1863. the city's disastrous
dlers retreated through Turtle Bay. | aril War draft rtott first flared
Gen. Washington attempted to end : two blocks away when an aVigry
the rout across Mid-Manhattan. By mob set afire a draft board office
the time the retreat reached the | But after that final spun of row-
present site of the New York Pub- | dtriess, Turtle Bay lapsed into the
Uc Library at Fifth Ave. and 42nd i struuggle to earn dally bread.
8t. Washington tamed the mob by ■ The Immigrants came with their
caning some of the officers. The glasses and nickels, and thq curi-
arniy then retired to Harlem 1 us to the abbatolrs to watch bell-
Helghts. where Columbia University wether sheep lead other sheep,
now stands, on the following day : Judas-like. from pens Into the
decisively turned back the British.!^la lighter rooms.
Early in the last century when Costly apartment houses sprang
New York still centered farther | up on the south and to the north—
down the island. Turtle Bay was but Turtle Bay went poor and un-
split into sprawling country estates I kept, its onlv distinguishing land-
of the local gentry, among them mark a great green dome like that
Horace Greeley, who edited the of a southern courthouse, atop a
Tribune and admonished young ; building In Abattoir Row.
m«i to "go west." The fate of the drab little neigh-
But by 1850 the neighborhood i borhood which has rested with the
had become an industrial slum. A
man that year showed a "manure
plant" on the ground — lit the foot
of today's East 45th street — where
Dutch, the English and the Ameri-
cans now rests with the world itself.
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Waldrrp Ins. Agency. Phene Ml.
posed of men who serve in their
spare time voluntarily and without
pay. '
The Jaw enforcement agencies in
the area to which the man goes are
informed that he has been released,
but police chiefs no longer are sur-
prised when the photograph of a
man listed as in prison is identified
by the victim of a major crime —
often the notification of release of
even a "dangerous" convict is not
mailed out until 30 days after the
man leaves prison.
* * *
Board Is Uncertain
So losely organized are the laws
governing paroles — non-existent
—and pardons in Texas that in
1944 the three-mart Board of Par-
~dons and Paroles, which set free
w 4.220 persons that year, itself was
not certain as to what legislation
covers its activities.
The states auditor's office, in a
report covering activities of the
board for seven years, on Aug. 31,
1944, plaintively told the attorney
general:
"There have been a number of
acts passed by the Legislature, as
well as the constitutional amend-
ment in 1936. We have read the
following but .can not clearly see
the answer to these questions, and
we find that the members of the
board are also somewhat uncertain
as to Just what laws cover their
activities. . . .*'
The list of questions, which even
the men who are empowered to
Ire? any convict except those un-
der death sentence couldn't answer.
can be — and has been — granted
within a few days or months after
a man enters prison under long
sentence.
Then there is the conditional
pardon which, strictly speaking, Is
to be granted only after a man has
served one-third of his sentence—
with "good time" for good behavior
a man can complete a five-year sen-
tence in less than one year.
• • •
Last Comes Pardon.
(The conditional pardon and re-
prieve usually are referred to as
''parole'' irt Texas.)
Finally there is the pardon —
full and complete — which in theo-
ry may be granted a man the day
after he starts serving a life sen-
tence, and which frees the indivi-
dual from any responsibility to his
parole board.
Those are the ways to get out of
prison in Texas, and some convicts
have given up escaping in favor of
asking for clemency. Police officers
don't like to talk about Walter
Henry LeMay of Fort Worth.
LeMay first went to the Texas
penitentiary in April, 1929. Between
that time and 1941 he was sent to
prison in Texas and Oklahoma six
different times under sentences to-
taling 30 years. In 1943, he was
imprisoned for Ufe as a habitual
criminal Yet, on Oct. Jl, 1945, he
was given a reprieve despite his
long record and two escapes from
the Texas penitentiary. Both his
escapes ended in recapture, but his
latest 15-day reprieve stretched In-
to freedom.
“Rolling Icebox”
Alnninum, Glass
To Speed Foods
^Washington, — A revolutionary
type of railroad refrigerator car has
taken to the rails. The car, built of
aluminum and glass In the McComb,
Miss., shops of the Illnois Central
Railroad, is "cradled on springs that
would do credit to a baby buggy.”
Oflcials of the Association of
American Railroads here said the
car, "a rolUng Ice box buUt of alum-
inum and glass,’’ will be capable of
speeding across the country at "bet-
ter than a mile a minute." In ad-
dition, the car is expected to pro-
vide temperatures low enough for
efficient transportation of deep-
freeze foods.
The car was built by the Illinois
Central acording to plans formu-
lated by the Refrigerator Car Com-
mittee of the United Fresh Fruit
and Vegetable Association. It is
part of an experimental program
originated by the Fruit Growers
Express Company and its associated
companies, the Western Fruit Ex-
press and the BurUngton Refrigcr-
M_«tor Express
Improvements in design were de-
jS veloped by the Fruit, Growers F.x-
II press Company In Its car-testing
(H laboratory at Alexandria, Va.
■ "Aluminum alloy was used in the
. I entire side superstructure of the
JU ear, Including side sheets, side posts,
j 9 side sills, and side plates, as well
■ as for the ends, roof, running
I boards, hatch frames, hatch covers,
1 power hand-brake housing, brake
I step, bunker pans, and parts of the
I installation of the alr-circulating
1 fans,” a Joint announcement by the
I Fruit Growers Express and the 111-
I inoia Central said.
I “A* a result of thU wide use of
f aluminum alloy, the car weighs onlv
■ 50,800 pounds, or approximately
ton* less than the conventlon-
frlgerator cars now in use.”
t Illinois Central offices in Chl-
said the car had their glass
and used forced air cir-
By using collapsible bulk-
it will double in service as
with added space for ordi-
»erchandlse boxcar purposes,
be heated as well as cooled,
aaaa in trucking when load-
unloading the car, the top
door thresholds are flush
top of the floor racks.”
Growers Express said,
added convenience la
electric lights with double
uses of the bowl type,
are set flush In the car
and are wired for outside
wttb ordinary plug-in J
Manager of the Fruit
Company, said speed
riding was obtained
of such things as
Rs. improved bols-
and roller Journal bear-
in see-
Cinderella Goes
In For Labor On
German Ruins
By DANIEL DE LUCE
AP Newsfeatures
Berlin. — The princess, a coarse
broom In her elegant hands, swept
out the coaches at the railway sta-
tion. The erudite professor carried
bricks. The great actor, with no
one to applaud him, herded sheep.
Thus Berlin society has gone
topsy-turvy since denazification
started transforming the upper
crust of the Third Reich into cal-
lused day laborers.
At 20 district offices in this city,
Oerman civilian labor authorities
carry out Allied directives by con-
verting the silken elite of yesteryear
into obscure, hard-working citizens.
How They Take It
Heinz Techert, former concentra-
tion camp Inmate, leafed through
his files and said prominent Nazis
complained less than their small-
bore brethern In taking new men-
ial Jobs.
Princess Victoria Cecllle von Hes-
sen. for example, quietly reported
to the railroad office where Techert
had told her she could find employ-
ment as a “work-woman.”
Norbert Schultze. composer of
“Lill Marlene” and "Bombs on Eng-
land,” took up hedge-trimming as
a eardner
Prof. Max Kloss, international
figure In electrical research, sign-
ed on In the building trades..
Countess Slgrld von Rex was en-
rolled as a housemaid.
'Jew Sues*’ Tends Sheep
Werner Krauss, star of the Nazl-
era movie " Jew 8uess," went in
for sheep-herding.
_ For muscular labor, former Nazis
average 90 pfennigs an hour (9
cents), but if it's heavy enough,
they get the first category of food-
ration card Just like any other per-
son at the same task. A class 1 card
provides for nearly 1-4 pound of
meat dally, as compared to 1-8
pound on class 2 cards
If a Nad malinger*, he is liable
to trial In a German court. But no
noteworthy name has appeared
yet. To prevent alibi*, the city ha*
all Nazis medically examined to
determine If they are physically fit
to stand hard labor.
"It usually takes two or three
hours to convince a Nasi, when he
comes In here to the labor offloe,
that he's through with Ms former
profession, or business, or art,” stid
Techert.
"When they leave, they’re talk-
ing very meekly. But I’m certain
thalr real attitude la different. To
me, they’re all wolves in sheeps
fur'"
Techert produced a Berlin news-
paper clipping to show the other
side of the picture in denazifica-
tion. It reported a purge of Berlin
■t agencies. To fill
Drove 40 Miles
To Reach Point
10 Miles Away
J. O. Ford of Woodland said he
drove forty miles to reach Detroit
one day last week. Detroit is ten
mile* from Woodland. HI* thirty-
mile detour through Paris was oc-
casioned by road conditions along
the route normally traveled. Many
people in northwest Red River
county have to go thirty miles out
of the way to reach Clarksville when
the weather is bad. Few take the
trouble to make the long Jaunt, but
do their trading in Lamar county.
Hundreds of balm of Red River
county cotton were ginned In Lamar
last season.
The Woodland area is scheduled
to receive the next farm to market
road project from Detroit. This con-
( fall. '
j however, when
1 weather, state
i reach out into
tlon of the county.
| Rod conditions
> difficult in many
county during rainy
cO’ nty Is not able to
! weather roads and
I do in maintaining the
| service.
BRITISH FLIER SETS
AIR SPEED RECORD
London, — Squadron
A. Waterton flew a
Gloster Meteor Mark IV I
to London In twenty
eleven seconds, setting an '
world air speed record
miles an hour.
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Congratulations
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Nr. Henry Ford, n
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On Your Action Which Reduced the Price of
Ford Cars as Much as $50.00
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THIS IS ANOTHER
■ FORD FIRSTS
Ford is the First to Reduce Prices
And Increase Value! Ii|pl
For many years, the public has grown to expect More from Ford and AGAIN Ford has COME
THROUGH with BIGGER VALUE and LOWER PRICES
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THE RED RIVER MOTOR COMPANY—local Ford Dealership operated by Randy Osburn
—is PROUD to represent the Fords in this territory and is proud that the Osburn family has been
in the Ford business in Northeast Texas for more than twenty-three years.
• •
WE INVITE THE PUBLIC
To come in and learn more about the $50.00 redu ction which has been made in new Fords that
now—as always—lead in VALUE.
Red River Motor
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Your FORD Dealer
West Main Street
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