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South Michigan
Prisoners Riot
Compiled by PAT GILDEA
Emerald Assistant Wire Editor
(A I’) A riot by about 2,2(X) convicts in Southern Michigan
I'ri.'ion in Jackson, Midi., ’I uesday evening is reported by au
thorities to be under physical control but the situation is des
( ribed as tense.
One convict was injured in the rioting, the third outbreak
since April. The prisoner suffered a scalp wound, when struck
by a thrown object, as the rioting started in the prison mess
hall.
With the rallying cry,
‘■'I here'.-, salt in the* coffee,” the
•onvict.s broke out of the dining
oom through the kitchen, pick
ing *.i|> potential weapons such
as knives, cleavers and pipes.
This fry was the same that
set off April’s costly riot in the
tjiwalled penitentiary, the lar
gest of its kind.
Guards firing shotguns in the
air, drove the convicts into their
fell blocks where they milled a
round shouting and setting fire to
clothing and mattresses.
Within two hours, authorities
raid the prisoners had been re
turned tf> the cell blocks.
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Sniper Ridge
Battle Rages
<sP) Hed infantry stabs and the
h-rivy artillery fire kept Sniper
Ridge on Pinpoint Hill, in a tur
inoiKIuesday night, it was report
> if from the Korean front.
The With day of consecutive
battle showed no ground had
changed hands. The massed fire
of \liicd war planes, tanks and
artillery is pounding a Chinese
ISed troop build up on the north
ern end of Sniper KUlge.
In the air, U.S. Navy pilots shot
down two Russian made jet fight
ers and have damaged a third off
the east of Korea, yesterday. One
1.8. plane was hit but returned
safely to its carrier.
Israel Searches
For President
IJP) Professor Albert Einstein
has declined any offer of the presi
dency of Israel, the offic<*“of Prime
Minister David Ben-Gurion in Je
rusalem reported Tuesday night.
The Einstein message, relayed
through the Israeli ambassador
in Washington, said that he was
moved by the proposal but that
he was not suited for such an of
fice. His work was in the scien
tific field, not human relations,
he said.
Einstein is connected with the
Institute for Advanced Study at
Princeton, New Jersey. He is 73
years old.
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French Defeat
Rebel Forces
l/P) French Union troops de
feated ir>,000 Communist-led Viet
rninli troops in a battle at Chan
Mong, 60 miles northwest of
Hanoi, Indochina, Tuesday.
The Vietminh forces were led
into battle by the French, who
used their tanks, to advantage.
The French reported they kill
ed at least 400 and wounded
many more in the five hour bat
tle.
The Vietminh troops were at
. tempting to restore supply lines
with Red China that had been
- broken by French thrusts north
west of Hanoi.
This battle capped a three-week
' campaign by the French.
House of Commons
Votes on Trucks
i/P) B r i t a i n's nationalized
trucking industry will return to
private ownership, according to
the vote in the House of Commons,
Tuesday.
Prime Minister Winston
Churchill's Conservative govern
ment has won the key step in the
House toward the enactment of
tliis proposal. The vote was 808
to 282. The normal Conservative
margin in the 625 - member
House is only 16 seats. ’
The trucking legislation is the
first specific roll-back by the Con
servatives of the Socialist meas
ures passed by the previous Labor
government. The Conservatives
have promised they will also de
nationalize the iron and steel in
dustry.
Mystery Develops
On Danish Report
l/P) An international mystery
developed Monday night about new
American air bases in Greenland.
In Copenhagen, Danish govern
ment informants said the United
States will build two or three
brand new bases, putting our war
planes closer to Moscow, and also
re-open and rebuild two other
Greenland bases used in the last
war.
The Associated Press checked
with the state department in
Washington and there a spokes
man -aid the Copenhagen report
was news to him. At tiie United
Nations, the Danish foreign min
ister said this also was news to
him, and, furthermore, he thought
that US already had sufficient
bases in Greenland.
Back in Copenhagen, the acting
chief of Denmark’s Greenland de
partment, Finn Neilsen. said there
would be an official announcement
of the new bases plan either to
morrow or the day after and added
that the foreign minister has been
away for some weeks and it was
possible he did not know about the
airangements made by the Danish
defense and Greenland ministries.
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Trusnan Receives
Oregon Turkey
(7P> Befoie Eisenhower showed
up at the White House Tuesday,
President Truman met with a dele
gation of poultry and egg men
who presented a choice turkey to
the President. It’s a 35-pound bird
. . . a tom turkey brought all the
way from Oregon—glive. With the
bird, Truman got a bag of fresh
cranberries . . . all this for his last
Thanksgiving in the White House.
TanheT Holds Retreat
Members of the Panhellenic ex
ecutive and house presidents held
a retreat last Saturday at the
country home of Carolyn Silva.
Mrs. Golda P. Wickh'am, director
of women’s affairs, attended the
meeting at which general plans for
this year were presented.
Soph Beard?
Start Budding
This Weekend
Sophomore men can begin culti
vating their beards this weekend
for the Sophomore Whiskerino
Dec. 0, stated Ron Ricketts and
Don Gartrell, Whiskerino beard
growth co-chairmen. ■
The beard growth contest offi
cially opens Monday, when check
ing for violation of beard growth
rules begins. During the two week
period before the sophomore-spon
sored all-campus dance, sophomore
men will put away their razors.
Judging of the beard winner at
the dance will be “purely on orig
inality” Ricketts said. Complete
rules for the contest are to be an
nounced later this week, he said.
Makeup, Retake Photos
Will Be Token Today
Living organizations to have
Oregana makeup and retake
pictures taken today are Delta
Zeta, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa
Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa
Gamma, l*hi Sigma Kappa, Pi
Kappa Alpha, Pi Kappa Phi,
Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Sigma
Alpha Mu.
Library to Be Closed Two
The library will remain open
fluring the following hours during
the Thanksgiving vacation: Wed
nesday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Fri- j
P
Days Next Week
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 9*
a.m. to 12 noon. The library will
remain closed Thursday and Sun
day next week.
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