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Show NEGRO ATTORNEY SEEKS JACK JOHNSON'S RELEASE I TOPBKA, Kan. Nov. 1 ! Ellsha Iscott, a negro attorney of Topeka. left last night for Washington to ask the federal pardon board for the re-I re-I lease of Jack Johnson, former heavy-I heavy-I weight pugilist champion, from the ! federal pt nltonliary at Leavenworth. K:i nsas. Johnson has served two months of a sentence of a year and a day for violation of the Mann act. lie- also was fined $1,000 Scott said that i Johnson would pay the fine at once, if a pardon was granted. |