Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1920 — NO HOLIDAY PARDON FOR DEBS [ARTICLE]

NO HOLIDAY PARDON FOR DEBS

Determination Against Release of Socialist Is Reiterated at White House. Washington, Dec. 25. —White House officials were unable to say whether or not President Wilson would grant any Christmas pardons, bat they did say that die chief executive had reiterated his determination not to free Eugene V. Debs, who 1* serving a ten year sentence in the fedora! peniten- 1 tlary at Atlanta for violation of the espionage law.