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ALLEN, FIRST WOMAN ON JURISPRUDENCE COURT BENCH, SPEAKS SUNDAY

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Famous as the first woman in the world to sit in a court of general jurisprudence, Justice Florence E. Allen, of the Supreme Court of Ohio, will speak Sunday evening on "Adventures in Understanding," at the Ford Hall Forum, Boston.

The distinguished justice, who was recently appointed to the bench in Ohio, also holds the honor of being the first of her sex to preside over a first degree murder trial, and to pronounce the death sentence.

In commenting on the question Justice Allen says, "While I believe that capital punishment is a confession by society that it does not know what to do with the criminal, still, if 'either a man or a woman were properly convicted under our present laws, I should have no hesitation about imposing the death sentence. In this case, where I did pronounce such a sentence, I had no alternative, for the jury did not recommend clemency."

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