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...Arizona State Prison at Phoenix last week, for murdering a fellow cowboy, Frank Rascon was led into an airtight chamber, executed by cyanide gas. When the corpse was carried out, his widow embraced it, kissed the face and lips. Few hours later Mrs. Frank Rascon was hospitalized, seriously ill with cyanide poisoning...
...North Carolina State Prison at Raleigh last week, Negro Henry Grier, condemned to death for murdering his wife, was led out to say good-by to his prison mates. He jerked away from his guard, raced up two flights to a balcony, plunged down to the concrete 30 ft. below. Two hours later Henry Grier, crushed, bleeding and unconscious, was carried to an electric chair, executed...
...jailbird in drab prison garb only five months ago was Spanish Minister of Labor Juan Lluhi (pronounced Zhoo-i). By last week Madrid elevators had not run for two months and stair-climbers were getting ugly. Abruptly Señor Lluhi settled the elevator operators' strike, by having the elevator owners seized and jailed until they yielded to the operators' demands for higher...
...come. Even Author Romains himself could not or would not say how nearly he had brought his big job to completion. Readers who had watched this literary skyscraper rise from its foundations were still unable to agree whether it actually was to be a skyscraper, a museum, a prison or what. Skeptics still cocked a wary eye at the construction, averred that by the time it was completed the foundations might well give way and that the whole thing might be nothing but a heap of Romains remains. Sympathizers still stoutly declared it to be one of the burgeoning wonders...
...picturesque or exciting exceptions. The Russia they saw has come to be a familiar land to readers of travel books, a country of new cities, new buildings, new plans, of confusion, enthusiasm, inefficiency. Lester Cohen's most refreshing Russian experience was his visit to a model self-governing prison colony at Lubertze. There the prisoners were given vacations, were punished by being expelled. Despite Lester Cohen's enthusiasm for the Soviet Union, he was distressed by the beggars he saw on the streets, encountered many citizens who grumbled at the way things were going...