House Cleaning At Penitentiary Under Way In Texas
Austin April 4 The Texas penitentiary, long famed for cruelty, is undergoing a complete house cleaning under Gov Dan Moody. Guards accused of mistreatment have been dismissed and a broad shake up is underway since last January as Moody seeks to reform the prison system. Past abuses including stories of men buried alive and repeated electrocution have haunted the institution though investigators in recent years have surfaced new tales of wrongdoing within the pen.
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Henry Yelvington
International News Service
Austin
America
Texas Penitentiary
Huntsville
Dan Moody
Texas
San Antonio
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Legislative Committee
Famous Divines To Lecture at Yale
Distinguished clergymen will lecture at Yale Divinity School during its eighteenth annual convocation in New Haven Connecticut. The event runs April 24 to 27 and features Rev J R P Sclater of Toronto delivering the Lyman Beecher lectures on preaching and Rev William Wallace Fenn of Harvard on The Theology of Nathaniel W Taylor. Rev Reinhold Niebuhr of Detroit will give alumni lectures on The Religion of Successful People.
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International News Service
New Haven
Conn
Yale Divinity School
J. R. P. Sclater
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St. Andrew's Church
Toronto
Canada
Lyman Beecher
William Wallace Fenn
Harvard Divinity School
Nathaniel W. Taylor
Reinhold Niebuhr
Bethel Evangelical Church
Detroit
Festival to Crown Miss Panhandle At Amarillo Event
Scores of babies expected for the prize baby show linked to the First Annual Legion Spring festival running April 11 to 28. The event, under 40 and 8 and Tri-State fair auspices, offers loving cups and bank books as prizes. A final pageant on April 28 will crown Miss Panhandle.
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Arcade D
Amarillo
Groom Plows Field In Wedding Costume
A newlywed farmer in Kendal, after returning from his honeymoon, wore his wedding suit from silk hat to spats and ploughed a field to settle a wager. The field bordered a main road and drew many onlookers as the ploughing finished the farmer changed into muddy clothes and drove his bride to market.
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United Press
Kendal
Married Students Improve College Grades
Huntington reports a Marshall College study of 1135 students finds 103 married, with many married pairs enrolled together. Average grades for married students run 76 percent higher than the rest, and authorities say marriage exerts a sobering influence beneficial to student discipline.
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Huntington
W. VA
Marshall College
Prince of Wales Staff All Getting Married
London reports the Prince of Wales staff gains and losses as marriages reduce bachelors to Brigadier General Trotter, the groom in waiting, now the sole remaining bachelor while others wed. The effect on duties shifts toward home fireside tasks and Trotter attends dances with the Prince.
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London
Walter Peacock
Duchy of Cornwall
York House
Trotter
Discovery of a heartbeat revival hormone shocks surgeons
Vienna April 4. Professor Haberlandt of Innsbruck announced at an Austrian surgeons convention a hormone obtained from hearts of warm and cold blooded animals that revived a heart three days after removal. The finding, described as a breakthrough, could have wide medical implications.
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Vienna
Professor Haberlandt
Innsbruck
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