800 Prisoners Riot
After $500,000 Fire
In Wash. State Pen
WALLA WALLA, Wash., UP) —
Eight hundred state penitentiary
inmates followed a half-million
dollar prison fire Wednesday night
with cell-wrecking disorders that
were stopped after guards thrice
sprayed their quarters with tear
gas.
The outbreak apparently was
kept to a minimum by prompt
action of guards who herded pris
oners quickly into their cells when
14 inmates began acting up at
evening meal time. Dishes were
thrown and chairs smashed as a
group of “young but tough” men
began misbehaving.
This occurred about two hours
after an unexplained fire roared
through the institution’s metals
plant, destroying it and over one
million license plates destined for
use on Washington State automo
biles in 1954.
Damage from the fire was esti
mated by Deputy Warden A1 Rem
bolt at a half-million dollars. No
disorders accompanied the blaze
which started after the plant had
been closed down for the evening.
Officials were prepared, how
ever, for unrest and acted quickly
when the diningroom melee broke
out. Back in their cells, the men
apparently became annoyed, Rem
bolt said, because the prison’s
ventilation system failed when
the fire burned out part of the
power circuits.
Soon the convicts began hurling
materials and abuse out the barred
doors of their cells.
Mattresses were set afire and
tossed out windows which had
been broken with fists or articles
ripped from cell walls. Lavatories
were broken from their supports
and smashed. Disorders grew
more violent until they reached
their peak about 8 p.m. in four
wings.
Eighty guards and 30 police
entered the cell blocks, filling the
cells with tear gas. Cursing and
shouting taunts, the inmates con
tinued their depredations through
a second vo'lley of tear gas'.
They quieted down after a third
treatment and guards started
moving from cell to cell, cleaning
up the mess as best they could
and getting the convicts bedded
down for the night.
More Women Try Suicide
Than Men—But Men Do
Better Job of Trying
ROME, —A world congress on
figures was told today that more
women try to commit suicide than
men—but the men do a better
job of trying.
At least, that’s the situation in
Rome.
After a 10-year study of' self
destroyers and would-be’s in the
Eternal City, Prof. Alessandro Le
her of Rome University reported
to the 28th annual meeting of the
International Institute of Statis
tics:
Of every 100,000 of each sex,
an average of 10.77 men and 6.78
women kill themselves annually.
But of every 100,000—again of
each sex—an average 50.06 fe
males and 55.59 males try.
Leher also noted slightly more
— 0.72 percent — single suicides
than marrieds. And six times as
many widows and widowers end
it all as do wives and husbands.
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Juneau “Independent”
Under New Management
The Juneau Independent, week
ly newspaper which last week
completed its first year of publi
cation, is under new management
as a result of reorganization of
the owner corporation, News, Inc.
George Sundborg, for many
years general manager of the Al
aska Development Board, has be
cohne a director of News, Inc., and
managing editor of The Indepen
dent.
Jack E. McFarland, one of the
founders of The Independent, will
continue as editor. The interests
of Jack B. Gucker and Erv Jensen,
who with McFarland launched the
newspaper a year ago, have been
acquired by the new Owners.
The new owners announced
plans of developing The Indepen
dent as an all-Alaska weekly,
published at the capital and with
circulation throughout the terri
tory.
Opium, henbane, peppermint
and castor oil were used as medi
cine in ancient Egypt.
MOSSEDEGH, IN JAIL,
ON HUNGER STRIKE
NEW YORK, Wl—The New York
Times said Thursday that Iran’s
ex - premier Mohammed Mossa
degh is hunger striking in his
jail cell near Tehran.
The Times said Mossedegh also
demands to see a lawyer about
drawing up a will.
Robert €. Doty, the Times cor
respondent in Tehran, quoted an
“exceptionally well-qualified gov
ernment source” as saying Mossa
degh made the threat after he
was transferred from an undis
closed prison to the Saltanatabad
army barracks near the Iranian
capital. He reported Mossadegh
protested the transfer, demanded
that his captors “kill me now”
and then announced his intention
to refuse food.
The highly emotional old leader,
who is in his 70s, faces charges of
rebellion against the Shah. On
August 16 Mossadegh ignored a
royal decree ousting him as Pre
mier. Three days later a pro-Roy
alist uprising toppled Mossadegh.
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