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Show COURT DENIES FALrSAPPEAL WASHINGTON. July 11. (L'.PI Firmer Secretary of Interior Albert Al-bert B. Fall must go to Jail or obtain ob-tain clemency from President Hoover. Justice Jennings Bailey in District Dis-trict of Columbia supreme court today to-day denied a motion to suspend the iged man's sentence for bribery. Bailey said the question of suspension sus-pension was one for the executive branch of the government "and not I'or this court to determine." He intimated that suspension would be tantamount to permanent release re-lease from the penalty assessed against him. Might Serve In Texas Bailey acknowledged Fall's claim of illness, attested by a. report re-port of army physicians who examined ex-amined him at El Paso. But instead in-stead of finding it sufficient grounds to suspend the sentence, Bailey suggested Fall might be confined con-fined in Texas instead of Washington. Washing-ton. He said that he would entertain enter-tain a motion Monday to revise the sentence in such a way as to make possible the serving of the prison term in some more satisfactory climate. cli-mate. Such a revision of the sentence would require making Fall's prison pris-on term one year and one day instead in-stead of one year. That would bring him under federal . parole laws, attorneys said, enabling him to apply for parole in four months. Under a year sentence served in the District of Columbia jail he would have to serve at least ten months, they said. |