Triple electrocutions end lives of three Dallas men
Huntsville reported a triple execution at the state penitentiary as Jesse Mott and the Burkley brothers were put to death for the murder of Katheryn Prince near Dallas. Details describe alleged violence and sensational meals consumed by Mott before death.
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Huntsville
Dallas
Katheryn Prince
Jask
Nogrong
Matt
Sale
Death Row
Burkley Brothers
Pam
Miss Prince
Wace Carver
Carver
Moti
Five Negroes Die for Slayings at Tilly Prison
In Montgomery on February five, five African Americans were executed for killing four men and a "cheating negro sanan." Betinle Foster of Selma was first to die entering the death cell at 19 05 a m. and 45 minutes after the last execution occurred. Nine had originally faced the death penalty that day. two sentences were commuted and one reprieve granted.
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Montgomery
Ann
Betinle Foster
Selma
Tilly
Arkansas Negro Dies in Chair at Prison Farm
In UUKLA Prison Farm Arkansas at dawn today Wessléchooused a negro from Craighead county for the murder of a near woman. Luther Dean Jackson, another negro, sentenced to death in the Hold-Up Slaying of Phillip Winedecker, North Little Rock grocer, received a 10 day stay of execution from Governor Futrell last night.
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Uukla Prison Farm
Ark
Bating Butler
Terrific Refugio Storm Strikes Oil Field, Wrecks Wells
A fierce windstorm swung through Refugio and surrounding oil fields Thursday evening, endangering about 50 workers and sparking a well fire. George Jeffries, a New York oil operator, reported up to six inches of rain and a five mile wide storm path toward the San Antonio river. One worker was injured, and damage estimates await a full check.
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Storry
Foi
Refugio
George Jeffries
New York
Iere
Ascorted
Refapio
San Antonio
Jeffries
Tone
Dash Oi Company
Jeff Ties
Emperor Hears Lecture on Dollar Devastation in Tokyo
In Tokyo on February 9, Finance Minister Sakuraba addressed Emperor Hirohito for an hour on the impact of American dollar devaluation on Japan.
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Tokio
Sakahasi
Emperor Hirohito
Japan
Fateful Heiress Escapes Plane Crash Again
Chicago patent medicine heiress Merry Fahrney Ploke van Bisezner, aged 33, famed for four air crashes and a fatal car incident, survived a recent crash eighteen miles outside Dallas. She and two companions were uninjured as a $510,000 pane aircraft was destroyed. she fled the scene to avoid reporters and traveled to Los Angeles, with details released today.
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Los Angeles
INS
Chicago
Merry Fahrney Ploke
Ine van Bisezner
Dallas
Texas
Posible
Senate votes license bill extends auto registration deadline
The Texas senate approved a free conference report 25 to 2 to extend the time for automobile registration fee payments to March 31 and authorize refunds of penalties since February first. The measure creates April 1 to March 31 as the registration year and validates 1934 plates until March 31, 1935, pending House approval and Governor’s signature.
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Austin
Texas Senate
House of Representatives
Senate
House
Barracks Erection Plans At Camp Stanley and Southton
Thomas Adams, superintendent of the local federal transient bureau, outlined tentative plans to raze 33 wartime structures at Camp Stanley and build barracks at the Besar county farm in Southton using salvaged materials. Fifty men would tear down the buildings starting Monday, the work expected to take about two weeks with crews camped nearby. Materials would be moved to Southton where three barracks would rise for old men tubercular patients and able-bodied men to handle overflow from the Montgomery-I Ward building.
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Thomas Adams
Federal Transient Bureau
Camp Stansley
Besar County
Southton
Adams
Camp Stanley
Themen
Montgomery - I Ward
Adams Srid
Administration moves on veterans benefits amid farm bill push
Washington February 8 1942 an administration compromise on veterans benefits surfaced as Congress prepared to advance major legislation. President Roosevelt announced a plan restoring to peacetime veterans those with service connected disabilities pending an appeal board while other measures moved through Senate and House alongside a rewritten 235000000 general revenue bill. The package also includes sugar quotas favored by the president and a processing tax. Senator Robinson of Arkansas disclosed the new veterans move after meeting with the president.
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Washington
Congress
Robinson
Arkansas
Roosevelt
SUN
Ammerican Legion
Revised tax bill pages and Cuba treaty aims stated
The text notes hopes for output reductions by producers and an aim to negotiate a new Cuba commercial treaty with tariff reductions. Chatrann Doughton of the Ways and Means Committee would introduce immediately the revised general revenue and income tax bill. Changes include repeal of the cent bank check stamp tax from January 1, 1935, lower second class postage rates, and authority for the president to cut the 3 cent first class rate.
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Cuba
Chatrann Doughton
House
Ways and Means
Excavators Guests Plan Dinner for Bend Basket Makers Exhibit Helpers
Members of the Bolemeg tribe plan a dinner and demonstration announced by Mrs. Ellen B. Quillin director of the Witte Memorial Museum for those in the Ble Bend Basket Maker arch eological expedition last summer. The event on Monday February 14 at 7 p.m. will honor twelve excavators from Shimla caves in the Big Bend area who supplied material for the Basket Maker Hall. Major Fletcher Gardner of the Rocheological society will be toastmaster. Notable guests include George C. Martin president of the society and expedition leader. Other honorees listed are John Bross Major Gardner Jack Davenport Jack Specht Harding Black Everett Tehmann Albert Maverick III John Davis John Ray Burton Waters Gustav Bentrop. Reservations through the museum.
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Bolemeg Sth
Ellen
Quillin
Witte
Memorial Musseum
Ble Bend
Arches
Ingen
At & P.m
Southwest Texas Archeological Society
Shimla
Big Bend
Maj
Fletcher Gardner
Rocheological Society
George C. Martin
John &. Bross
Major Gardner
Jack ‘Davenport
Jack. Specht
Harding Black
Everett Tehmann
Albert Maverick III
John Davis
Joh Ray
Burton Waters
Gustav Bentrop
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Seenuid Flour
Miriam A. Ferguson
Tian State Shop
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Payle
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Ubrone
Frost Patel
Bashinn
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