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...State Penitentiary at Salt Lake City one dawn last week, hooded and clutching a crucifix after a last-minute shift from Mormonism to Roman Catholicism, Delbert Green was led out into a dirt courtyard, strapped in a chair against a wall. A physician pressed a stethoscope to his heart, then pinned a red target with a yellow bulls-eye over it. Green's executioners stood 26 ft. away across the court, their guns, of which one contained a blank cartridge, poked through slits in the screen that hid their identity. At the Sheriff's signal, they fired...
This week, on June 19, a sombre strip of darkness fled across one side of the earth as the moon passed in front of the sun. Like a crow's shadow, at dawn the eclipse trailed over Athens, leaped the Golden Horn, spanned the Black Sea, darkened Omsk, Tomsk, Kansk, crossed the Khingan Mountains into Northern Manchukuo, the Japan Sea into the Island of Hokkaido, then passed 2,800 mi. out into the Pacific where it spent itself at sundown...
...that each juror be polled. It took three-quarters of an hour. Each juror declared each defendant guilty of every charge against him. Said Judge to Jurors: "I congratulate you on the service you have rendered the people and the righteousness of your verdict." He smiled in the Sabbath dawn. "And now run along...
...lament that Ethiopia has suffered invasion. We, with thousands of people of Great Britain, express the hope that the day will soon dawn when Ethiopia will regain her ancient independence and her rightful Emperor will return and, trusting in God, will continue to lead his people toward light and peace...
...Imploring her audience to "work together to keep the Constitution on the upper level and the American flag floating," she continued: "I wonder how many who draw dividends and love them have written to their Congressmen their views on the present tax law under consideration. . . . Echoing through the rosy dawn of each new day is the still small voice of admonition: 'Work for the night is coming.' Women, the night is here...