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0 MSec. 1)-Capital Journal, Salem, Orr., Mon.t Feb. 21, 1955 Prison Riot Leads Check Of Massachusetts System By LEONARD P. GIHLIN BOSTON URA month after four desperate convicts handed over their guru at slate prison and freed five guards held hostage 3' days, Massachusetts is starting to take a new look at its penal sys tem. But progress Is slow. The people, speaking through the voice of the Suffolk County trun I Jury, have called 'or a "thoroush investigation" at the antiquated, often-condemned. 150-year-old Bas tille, soon to be abandoned. LAST CHANCE To Swap Your lies! Final Week National Tit Cleaning Month Special 15'.. 1 Bring in any number of wearable tics. Exchange each for an- other you like (or keep your own if you chose). 1 You pay only the cost of dry cleaning. SiIT0.E Dry Cleaning Makes them look Brand New PEACOCK CLEANERS 485 Center Ph. 3-5992 "Good Clothei Deserve Peacock Cleaning" In particular, the grand Jury wants to know "how the convicts . . . were able to get guns, ammu nition and contraband."." Three separate inquiries are under way by the Department of Correction, Atty. Gen. George Finsold and a committee of four experts appointed by Gov. Chris tian A, litTter. The grand jury hinted it mit'ht make a fourth. And in the Slate I IIou.se of Representatives there I have been proposals for still an other. ! So far no agency has made public its findings. Standing by watching develop ments U the seven -m;m commit tee which prsun('ed the convicts to give up. This was composted of the two prison chaplains, the pris on doctor and four men from out side selected by the convicts them selves. These four were Erwin D. Can ham, editor of the newspaper Christian Science Monitor; the Gives special kind of 'comforting warmth' for KIDS' COLDS to relieve coughs and loosen oon frstlon in nose, throat, large bron dual tubes. Stalnleut Mid'MUSTEROLE Rev. John J. Grant, associate ed itor ol The Pilot, weekly news paper of the Catholic archdiocese of Boston: Sumner Babcock, Drerident of the Boston Bar Assn.: and Governor's Councillor Patrick J. McDonough. The committee promised the convicts to work for Denal improve' snents so thai men facing long sentences and those the rebels lace amount virtually to life terms can have some hope for ultimate release. The revolt the 17th disturb ance at the prison in two years began shortly after 2 am. Tues- ( i.y, Jan. 13. Two convicts broke out of cells in the isolated Cherry Hill block, surprised two guards and locked llhem ip, then released 18 other convicts from their .ells, including the other two ringjeaders. Bent on escape, the four fash ioned a ladder out of lumber scraps held together wilh leader belts and wire. It proved inadequate. But as the convicts moveci about the pris on yard in the dark another guard making rounds came close and was taken prisoner. Still the escape went undetected until officers in the prison rotun da sent two guards to Cherry Hill to check why the others had not reported. These two also were am bushed. Unwilling to admit the ladder's failute hat1 killed their chance to escape, the convicts held on, airily demanding i car to take them through the pates as state troopers villi riot guns ringed the cell block. -The armed stand haDDilv bloodless through the restraint of Warden John J. O'Brien's "wait tl.em out" policy went on for 84 hours until the committee of teven negotiated a surrender. With the revolt over, Atty. Gen. Fingold pressed for indict ment of the four rebels (a new law makes holding a guard hostage punishable by 20 ye3rs imprison ment! but the grand jury put off action until March 7, possibly agreeing with Superior Court Judge Paul U. Kirk that there is no ru-h. Meanwhile Ihe governor's inquiry committee, headed by President Nils Y. Wessell of Tufts College, is ready to get rolling on a study of me actual conditions in our state correctional ins' .tutions, together with recommendations ,for im provement of our penal system." Since the January siege, the gray old Charlestown pile with its 580 inmates has been quiet. The new thrce-million-c'oHar maximum security nrison at Norfolk, author ized in is almost ready and Correction Commissioner E. Law rence Spurr says the transfer of Uie convicts will begin April 1. 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WASHINGTON ( Backers of the proposed federal Hells Canyon Dam plan to ask Congress this week, probably Wednesday, t o authorize the controversial Snake j Kiver project. At least 25 senators and four representatives are expected to sponsor legislation to authorize the Reclamation Bureau to build the big dam in the deepest river can-1 yon on the continent, which forms J the Idaho-Oregon border. i A Senate bill will be introduced! by Sen. Morse ID-Ore) and co-l sponsored ' by other senators ad vocating the project. In the house, where co-sponsorship is against the rule, identical bills are expected! to be offered by Heps. Pfost tu Idahol, Green ID-Orel, Magnuson (D-Wash) and Metcalf (D'.Mont). The group of public power pro ponents plans to press tor early committee hearings in the hope of gelling a bill through Congress before the Federal Power Com mission acts on applicants for private power dam licenses cov ering Hells Canyon. The Idaho Power Co. Is seeking FPC permission to build a dam near the proposed federal site and two others in the Hells Canyon reach of the Snake, a Columbia River tributary. Idaho Power's applications and testimony taken during a one-year bearing on them now are being studied by FPC Examiner William J. Costello. - The examiner hopes to write In May his opinion on whether the licenses should be granted or the canyon should be reserved for a federal dam. FPC Chairman J. K. Kuykendall recently was quoted that-the commission may finally decide the issue in late July or August at the earliest. Bills were introduced In both houses of Congress during the past session, but they never were I laVpn im bv committees. This year, with the Democrats in control, the public power mem bers of Congress hope to get ac tion on the bills. They feel the chances will be good, especially in the Senate wilh 26 of the 86 members listed as sponsors of the bill. 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