William Dudley Pelley, leader of the Silver Shirts who was paroled yesterday after serving about half of a fifteen-year wartime sedition sentence, may be imprisoned in North Carolina where a two-year prison sentence is still hanging over him, it was learned here today.
Pelley was convicted in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1935 of violating state laws governing securities dealings. The judgment was affirmed in 1942 by the North Carolina Supreme Court, but the state made no effort to invoke the sentence then because Pelley was under indictment in Indiana where he was subsequently sentenced by a Federal District Court. He served his sentence in the Terre Haute Penitentiary.
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