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...news that after 10½ months on his stomach in an electric oven Luby J. Doty, 27, of Memphis, was still alive last week. He had burned his back and legs in a motor car accident. As everyone knows, when one-third or more of a person's body surface is injured by burn or scald,* almost invariably that person dies. Luby J. Doty may be an exception. He had survived the dangerous burns...
...great areas of his body are denuded of the skin and other agencies which help regulate body temperature. A cool breeze chills him. Hence his oven, a hood of sheet steel over his bed. Four big electric bulbs keep him comfortable at 103° F. His head, shoulders and arms are outside his hot box. Thus he can read, play cards, shake hands with visitors. His doctors hope to graft skin on him some day. Last week he cheered himself & his family thus: "They told me a guy is a dead soldier if more than one-third of his body...
...Barcelona last week the bakers struck with the Syndicalists, attempted in one bakery to bake their employer in his own oven. He was rescued just in time...
Over the wall of the old Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet one night last week clambered three long-term prisoners. They had been detailed to early morning duty in the bakery, had overpowered a guard, made a ladder of oven poles, a cable of wire and tin cans. Guards, who had lain in wait for the break for three weeks, flashed floodlights, opened fire with machine guns as the last man swung down the cable. Paralyzed with fear, he hung for a moment in the glare before being swept off, slug-riddled. His two companions were also killed. When...
Power to pardon rests with His Majesty's Home Secretary, at present the Rt. Hon. John Robert Clynes, onetime worker in a cotton mill. One night last week he sat up late, thought about one Olive Catherine Wise. She had put a baby (hers) in an oven (cold) and turned on the gas. She had been sentenced to hang. Were there extenuating circumstances...