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Show BROWDER GETS 4 YEARS, $2000 Convicted on 2 Counts Over Passports NEW YORK, Jan. 22 tff-Earl Browder, American communist leader, was convicted todsy on both counts of a federal indictment indict-ment charging use of passport obtained ob-tained by a false statement and was sentenced to two years and fined $1000 on each count. "The verdict of the jury was the only possible one that could have been returned," Judge Alfred Al-fred C. Coxe said. Browdrr's counsel, George Gordon Gor-don Battle, moved for delay in motions, but Judge Coxe told him he preferred to dispose of the case at once. He then passed sentence. Judge Coxe ordered the sentences sen-tences to run consecutively. That means Browder must serve four yesrs. The maximum penalty could have been 10 years and fines of $4000. |