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Undeterred, Cropley cleared a wire to San Quentin in case a last minute reprieve should be given. Then he walked into the Chambers of the Court, where the Justices were consulting on their opinions, and laid the appeal before the Chief Justice. Never before had such procedure taken place...
...Washington time) Harry Garbutt sank through the trap of the San Quentin gallows. As he mounted the gallows steps he confessed to a guard: "I fired the shot. Of course, I didn't mean...
Deportation Halted. At Washington the Board of Review of the Department of Labor ordered suspended for one year the deportation proceedings (TIME, Feb. 15) against the Mexican General, Francisco Coss, who was recently arrested and imprisoned at San Antonio, Tex., for overstaying his passport in the U. S. General Coss is an enemy of President Calles and a onetime supporter of Huerta. One of his former subordinates was recently deported by the U. S. into Mexico for similar reasons and immediately shot by Calles' troops after what amounted to a mock trial...
Postum-California Packing. In San Francisco last week, stockholders of the California Packing Corp. were agitated. Their directors had met to consider an offer of the Postum Cereal Co., which is frankly out for great expansion, of $185 a share for the packing corporation's stock. The directors were about to submit the offer to the stockholders. Then suddenly and without explanation the Postum people rescinded their offer. Blair & Co. of Manhattan, bankers for California Packing, then intimated that negotiations were definitely...
Mark Requa of San Francisco predicted an oil famine in 1934 if new discoveries and improved methods do not come in. Walter C. Teagle of Standard Oil of New Jersey deprecated any great danger, pointed to new saving methods. Henry L. Doherty, gas expert, maintained oil was being burned wastefully, produced wastefully. His researches show that oil pools should be operated as units to maintain below ground the pressure of gasses dissolved in petroleum, making it more fluid. Much oil is now lost on subterranean sands whence it cannot be extracted because of its viscosity when released from gas pressure...