Chessman Granted Chance to Appeal Death Sentence
SAN FRANCISCO A condemned convict author Daryl Chessman won a new appeal option when Chief Judge William Denman granted a certificate of probable cause to appeal the January 31 decision by District Judge Louis E. Goodman denying habeas corpus. Chessman, convicted in May 1948 for kidnapping and sexual offenses, has exhausted state appeals and pressed U.S. courts while writing two books including Cell 2455 Death Row.
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San Francisco
Daryl Chessman
William Denman
U.S. Court of Appeals
Chessman
Dist
Louis E. Goodman
Goodman
Denman
Los Angeles
San Quentine
U.S. Supreme Court
Army Officers Receive Aeronautical Army Aviator Badges
Department of the Army announces transfers and awards across Forts Devens Governors Island Dix Fort Bliss Fort Sill Rucker and Leg Horn Italy. Several captains first lieutenants are awarded the Army Aviator Badge and aeronautical designation for prior or future aviation duties. Notable listed names include Alfred J. Wover Philip H. Conner Frederick Gadwell Charles Mackey Elwyn Kernstock William Mace George Nagata Austin Veatch Bidwell Owens Donald Becker James Eadie John Louis Charles Miller Robert Spear Jere Spence William Bayliss William Avery William Strawn Theodore Knowling and others.
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Department of the Army
Washington, D.C
Alfred J. Wover
Ft Devens
Governors Island
Philip H. Conner
the Arty
GM Sch
Ft Skil
Ft Dix
Frederick A. Gadwell
McChord A&b
Charles Mackey
Herbert W. Condor
Ft Knox
Ingie
Asg
Ft Lewis
Daniel W. Hickey
West Point
Elwyn N. Kernstock
Ravenna Arsenal
Apco
Ohio
William E. Mace
Sill
George M. Nagata
Ft Bliss
Miles D. Jones
Ft Rucker
Austin K. Veatch Jr
Bidwell A. Owens
Donald L. Becker
James A. Eadie
John J. Louis
Charles C. Miller
Robert W. Spear
Jere’ C. Spence
William R. Bayliss
Sam Houston
William H. Avery Jr
Mississippi Southern College Tao Ft Dix
William M. Strawn Jr
Leghorn
Italy
Theodore L. Knowling Jr
Stu
Army
Robert E. Allen
Evert M. Misener
Ford A. Elliott
Richard D. McCrary
Executions Drop Again During 1955
The Federal Prisons Bureau reports 1955 continued a trend of fewer civil executions. Total 82 in 1955, down from earlier decades, with California leading at nine and including the only woman executed that year. Mississippi New Jersey New York Pennsylvania followed with seven or eight each.
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Washington
Federal Prisons Bureau
California
Mississippi
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Ten Girls Ill From Potent Potion During Club Initiation
In Kansas City Central High School the Aristonian Literary Society held initiation ceremonies where ten girls drank a bitter solution symbolizing sweetness and bitterness. Improper dilution caused illness. one girl hospitalized overnight, others recovering.
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Kansas City
Aristonian Literary Society
Central High School
Alaska's Matanuska Valley farmers find new life in 1930s plan
The 1935 US government program moved 202 Midwestern farm families to Alaska to claim 40 acre plots in Matanuska Valley near Palmer. They faced harsh climate and 30 year loans at 3 percent. For many, the gamble paid off as the valley became a breadbasket, transforming Palmer into a growing frontier town with services and commerce.
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Palmer
Alaska
U. S
Matanuska Valley
Anchorage
North Pole
Paul Nelson
Oconto
Wis
Michigan
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Matansuka
Erness
Nelson
Norma
Bodenburg Butte
Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corp
ARRC
Housing Officials Split On 56 Building Prospects
Federal housing officials disagree on 1956 new home starts with Albert Cole predicting 1,300,000, McAllister estimating 1,100,000, while Fannie Mae chief Baughman cites tight mortgage funds for six months. House Appropriations heard testimony as Widnall introduced a broad housing bill expanding federal backing for improvements, elderly housing, slum clearance, and 35,000 new public units annually.
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Washington
Albert M Cole
Walter W. McAllister
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
Widnall
Fuqua Seeks Release Ahead of Writ Hearings Today
District Judge Toby Morris weighs release for George Fuqua at a 3 p.m. hearing as he faces two armed robbery counts tied to bootlegging hijackings near Lawton. Fuqua, 33, turned himself in after a long effort to avoid extradition from Texas, with habeas writs filed by Oklahoma City attorney Dave Tant.
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Toby Morris
George Fuqua
Fuqua
Oklahoma
Texas
Marvin E. Cameron
Dave Tant
Oklahoma City
Lawton
Tant
Orville Lindsay Chambless
Chambless
Comanche County
Criminal Court of Appeals
Amarillo
Texas Criminal Court of Appeals
Oral Ridgeway
Ridgeway
Everett Ray Hale
Herbert Carter
Jay Cox
A. H. Potts Jr
Manville Redman
Clarence M. Burgess
John Doe
E. D. Weaver
Wayne Tisdel
Weaver
Tisdel
U.S. 277
Oklaho
Charles Ozman
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Jimmy Coyle
Burbank
Calif
Jimmy
J. Stanley Baughman
The
Federal National Mortgage Assn
House Appropriations Committee
U.S
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Lee
Bendix Phuomatic
Halsey
Cache Road
Bonifield
W. C. Bonnell
Ratner
Young Men’s
Dupont
Helsinki Nyton
Dan River
P.m
C Avenue
Eddie Kouri
Bill Smith
Bill Clai
Agency
Oton
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