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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1957)
Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, March' 13, 1957 THE CAPITAL" JOURNAL Section 2 Page 7 m Vice President and Mrs. Richard Nixon re keeping strange company on their Af rican trip. The touring couple find them selves in a devil of a spot during a visit to . the Libcrian countryside. Underneath those awesome outfits are Goa devil dan- cers Goa being he number one top devil in Liberian tradition. The Nixon smile ap--parently placated the spirits. The Vice President and his wife reached Ethiopia safely yesterday on the extensive African tour. (AP Wircphoto) Jail Prisoners Riot, Then Try Hunger Strike SAN JOSE, Calif. UP) The 125 prisoners in (he main tank of the Santa Clara County jail went on a hunger strike today, eight hours after sheriff's deputies armed with night sticks broke up a pitched battle among prisoners in the tank. Doors were opened this mornine to let the prisoners file into the mess hall, but they stayed in their cell. Sheriff Melvin Hawley said the men would be given another chance when the call for lunch is issued. At least six of the prisoners nursed minor cuts and bruises received in Monday night's fight ing which the sheriff blamed nn "lack of segregation and terrible overcrowding in the 87-ycar-old jail. He said the fight and the hunger strike was "no surprise". "This is the usual result when you have grievances over these conditions," he said. Another sheriff's office source said the trouble .Monday night and this morning was triggered by a group of young prisoners of Mexi can descent who were "running the big tank and had older prisoners cowed by threats of violence." The fight broke out in the 80 by 50-foot tank at about midnight among prisoners armed with sticks, lengths of wire, a brick wrapped in cloth and, according to one report, a knife. About 10 prisoners were Involved. The others set up a howling din heard a block a;iy. .Jailers issued a riot call and Deputies and San Jose police rushed to the nail. Po lice stood by while the deputies broke up the fighting. About 13 prisoners believed responsible for the friction were removed from the tank. A new jail is under construction to relieve the overcrowding at the present jail, which Sheriff Hawley said was built in 1870 lo house fib prisoners and now has as many as 200. Satchmoh Wife Tells Hoiv She Taught Ghana Leader to Dance JLONDON UP)-The wife of hot trumpet man Louis "Satchmo1 Armstrong told today how she taught Ghana Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah how to waltz so he could dance with the Duchess of Kent. The duchess was in Accra repre senting her niece, Queen Elizabeth, at Ghana's independence celebra tions. Mrs. Armstrong was there representing her husband, who rocked the country on a recent tour. . "We were in the Prime Minis ter's house at lunchtime the day Detore the big ball, Mrs. Arm strong said before she left for the United states. "The P.M. says 'I've got to dance with the duchess tonight and I don t know how to dance What am I going to do?' "So I said, 'It's all right, Man, I'll teach you to dance.' And I did." She passed up the hot beat of Pendleton Man Jailed on Auto Deaths Charge PENDLETON (UP) Melvin Baker, 31, Pendleton, was arrest ed last night by sheriff's depu ties on a charge of manslaughter In connection with an accident March 5 in which two persons were killed. Baker was driver of the car in which 56-year-old Louise Badroads and 73-year-old .Johnson Chapman were fatally injured. Baker was jailed in Umatilla county jail in lieu of J-VMX) bail set at his arraignment this morn ing. The fatal accident occurred near Adams, Ore. Swedes Give Spv 10 Years STOCKHOLM if - Bedros Zar laryan. a Turkish-Armenian engi neer, today was sentenced to 10 years at hard labor on charges of "grand espionage" for Soviet Riusia. The 32-year-old engineer will be deported alter serving h i s penalty. Zartaryan denied all charges against him. and claimed he had been exposed to "mental torture" by the Swedish security police. During police hearings he ad milted delivering a secret blue print of a Swedish defense estab lishment to a Soviet embassy official. The liltle city of .JereJ de la Frnntrra. Spain. i a free loader' paradie on fiesta days. On such occasions ck of free sherry are on street corners for the public to help themselvM. ' her husband's jazz for something a bit more sedate. "I taught him the foxtrot and the waltz because we didn't know which one they would play," Mrs. Armstrong said. "I hear the P.M. did very well. He caught on to that onc-two-thrce." Elkins' Trial Set March 26 PORTLAND UP) Trial for James B. Elkins on federal wire tapping charges has been set for March 26 in Federal Court. District Judge William East said he would preside over the trial of Elkins who has been the star wit ness before a Senate committee investigating vice in Portland. Elkins and his lieutenant, Ray mond Clark; will be tried jointly on charges returned in a federal indictment. The indictment lists nine counts of wire tapping violations against each man and each could be sen tenced to one year in jail on each count, plus a $10,000 fine on each count. Elkins and Clark are accused of recording and divulging the contents of telephone conversa tions "without the authority of the senders. FFA Selects Speech Champ LA GRANDE Ml Adin Hester, Canby High School student, won the public speaking contest at the opening of the Oregon Future Farmers of America convention here. His topic, "Atoms for Agricul ture," dealt with the use of atom ic elements in agricultural re search. Ed Manary, Sheridan, was sec ond. 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