$5,000,000 Damage,
4 Dead in Riot at
Missouri Prison
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., UPI—A
flaming riot at the Missouri State
Penitentiary was quelled Thurs
day after four convicts were
killed, 30 prisoners and three
guards injured and at least eight
prison buildings destroyed or
heavily damaged by fire.
Heavily armed troopers of the
Missouri State Highway Patrol
moved into the foggy, smoke-be
grimed prison yesterday morning.
Within a short time patrol offi
cers reported all the convicts in
troubled B and C Halls were back
in their cells.
Col. Thomas E. Whitecotton, di
rector of corrections, said “it was
the very efficient highway patrol
that got the job done, and I want
to add that the convicts who lost
their lives may have saved hun
dreds of others and the lives of
many citizens.”
The riot, causing damage esti
mated by prison officials as near
$5,000,000, was confined within
walls of the sprawling peniten
tiary located in the city, not far
from the state capitol. None of the
prisoners was believed to have
escaped.
Four New Polio Cases
Reported From Seward
ANCHORAGE, (/Pi—Four new
polio cases were reported Wed
nesday from Seward, bringing
total number of gases from that
area to 64 since July.
Eight other cases, two at Palm
er and six at Anchorage, were
reported by health authorities.
The Anchorage area total since
the first of the year is 122.
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Two Cab Drivers Killed
At Dangerous Curve
On Glenn Highway
ANCHORAGE, (/PI—Two An
chorage cab drivers lost their
lives Wednesday—presumably by
drowning—when their cab left
Glenn Highway near Palmer at
Mile 42 and plunged into a water
filled swamp.
Territorial police said the ve
hicle apparently was headed
toward Anchorage when the driv
er lost control on a dangerous
curve, which exacts a heavy toll
of wrecked vehicles every year.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Forecast Nome: Continued clear
with northerly winds occasionally
reaching 15 mph. Lowest tem
perature expected tonight 20, high
Saturday 38.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: ( High temperature
40, low 22. Max. wind 21 mph.
from the NNE. Sunrise 5:51 a.m.,
sunset 5:55 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 44, low 35. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 57 in 1926,
low 19 in 1908.
Other Stations. 7 a.m. Today
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 27 Snow
Kotzebue 25 Clear
Wales 33 Cloudy
Nome 26 Part cloudy
Unalakleet 29 Clear
Bethel 30 Part cloudy
McGrath 34 Cloudy
AnchoTage 46 Cloudy
Fairbanks 39 Rain
Whitehorse 30 Fog
Edmonton 62 Cloudy
Juneau 54 Cloudy
Ketchikan 56 Cloudy
Seattle 58 Fog
San Francisco 80 Clear
Vandals With Hacksaws
Narrowly Miss Death
From 2.300-Volt Cable
FAIRBANKS, UP)—'Vandals with
a hacksaw came within a few
millimeters of death by electrocu
tion while attempting to cut
through a 2,300-volt electric pow
er cable here.
L. L. (Brick) Glascoe, superin
tendent of the municipal utilities
system telephone department,
said Wednesday a few more
strokes of the saw would have
meant curtains. ,
Tho attempt to remove the ca
ble was made some tiroe Monday
evening, Glascoe said. He said
the vandals earlier succeeded in
cutting and removing about 30
feet of telephone cable and part
of a Civil Aeronautics Adminis
tration control cable, which had
been exposed by action of the
Chena River at the west end of
Weeks Field.
Engineer Winston Spencer
Killed by Dredge Cable
FAIRBANKS,UP)—Winston Spen
cer, widely known Alaska mining
engineer, was fatally injured at
Goodnews Bay on the Seward
Peninsula when a cable fell while
he was standing near a dredge,
according to word received here
Wednesday.
He leaves a widow, Rene, for
merly of Junoau. They lived at
Platinum.
Dr. Ernest Patty, University of
Alaska president, described Spen
cer as one of the outstanding
graduates of the School of Mines.
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