Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 67, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1929 — Page 1

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SHIPP HOTLY DENOUNCED IN CIRCUIT COURT Lawyer for Rival Concern Flings Charges at City Man, FINAL HEARING SEPT, 26 School Ventilating Case in Crawfordsviile Brings Heated Arguments. BY BEN STERN Times Stiff f orrespnnd^nt CF A WFORDS VILLE. Ind. July .9—-Alleged “manipulations” of C. C. Shipp, Indianapolis ventilating equipment manufacturer, to obtain contracts for the installation of his product in public buildings, were hotly denounced in Montgomery circuit court, today. Charges that Shipp forces contractors to buy his stuff through his state board at Indianapolis” were made by attorneys seeking a permanent injunction restraining Scott township school trustees from removing fifty-three wall boxes installed by the Lane-Pyke-WerkhofT Company of Lafayette, in a school at New Market in Montgomery: county. The trustees. S. T. Powers. J. D. Rankin and Grant Cave, seek to replace these by Shipp's ventilating equipment, it is alleged. After today's hearing ( Circuit Judge Edgar A. Rice ordered five j temporary restraining order, which j was granted the Lafayette company. ; • T une 29, to continue in effect until j Sept. 26, whfn final hearing will be ; held. By agreement of counsel the court! ill appoint two disinterested yen-' dating engineers to inspect the| See" t school equipment and report o the court. Fvidiirc flying Withheld (Something more than a mere contract is involved here, "* declared • T ohn B. Murphy, attorney for the 1 plaintiff company. “We have evi- I dence in writing over c. C. Shipp's ! signature showing his manipula- j ons. Shipp did ? little too much ; riting in Indiana in the last five or six years and if necessary we • an introduce this in evidence." “He has tampered with contracts j nd contractors all over the state." ! Turphv continued. “One of the iards of the state, for some reason, u not been putting the clamps on j hipp. That board has the power j i approval over all state contracts. "Shipp forces contractors to buy TANARUS, stuff through his state board at Indianapolis. Let's start in Montornery county the end of C. C. and his gang of looters in Indiana. He has come to the end of his rope." The Lafayette firm installed the ventilating system according to specifications, its complaint states, i and still is owed $7,200 for the job. j completed two years ago.

Restraining Order Obtained The temporary restraining order ■xas obtained June 29 a half-hour before the architect, John E. Frost, accepted bids from other contractors on equipment to replace that installed by the Lafayette concern. According to the complaint. Frost caused individual notice to be given the other contractors and did not advertise, as is required by law. Repeating allegations made in the complaint. Murphy, charged that Shipp “fraudulently caused or procured” Frost to employ LeGrande Marvin of Indianapolis, an alleged Shipp employe, to make an inspection of the installation to discredit the work with the trustees and -"bool superintendent of Scott township. Marvin recommended that the wall mxes be removed. Murphy saic. and Frost, in turn, recommended acceptance of the report, causing the ■rustees to take steps to remove the all boxes. The attorney charged Frost copied shipp's own specifications and also u r ged that Frost said a few days a the specifications were intended ,r Shipp's boxes. Shipp Formerly Convicted Murphv told the court ghipp once as convicted for improper business ractlces but was pardoned “by a eifdly Governor." He asked the -ourt. to make sure none cf Shipp s -niployes bo named to make the disinterested investigation" of 'qulpmer* in controversy. The complaint specifically charges Shipp with intending “to interfere with the Lafayette company's businessand to make it difficult for the plaint i£ to secure contracts and emplcyment throughout the stare, not by reason of their inability to perform contracts, but solely and only because of the installation by the t ane-Pyke-Werkhoff company or its subcontractors of wall boxes nor deigned. manufactured or handled by Bhipp. Frost is charged with having ■grossly, wholly a*jd falsely misrepresented the character cf the work." Murphy. Jacob Morgan of Indianapolis and Joseph B Ross of Lafayette, represent • the plaintiffs, while the trustees 1 counsel includes Hubert W Marks of Ladoga a*d Arthur McGaughey of Crawfordsville.

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Editor at Work Learns by Routine Item of Sisters Death in Crash

FATE taking her cue from countless playwrights, short story authors and novelists, today sent news of family misfortune to an Indianapolis newspaperman through the medium of an otherwise routine press dispatch laid upon his desk for preparation for publication. Authors have used the trick so often that it has become almost a tradition among newspapermen to smile and remark: “Yes. but it, never happens." A Tullsen. managing editor of The Indianapolis Times. 2828 North Delaware street, came to his office with a light heart today. Out in St. Vincent's hospital lay a seven and one-half pound daughter, bom Sunday mornine. Mrs. Tullsen was recovering satisfactorily.

Tullsen was receiving the jocular congratulations of his staff when a copy boy laid a brief United Pres'- dispatch, printed in purple capita! letters upon yellow paper, before him together with a mass of other stories which the managing editor was to glance over before handing them to the news editor for editing. Down through the maze of death, disaster and intrigue, lightened here and there by a saving bit of humor, the editor leafed until his attention was arrested by that little purple and yellow dispatch. The date line read “Galva. 111." That is near the home town of the editor. nan ARRESTED by that slender flag the editor started to read: “GALVA, 111., July 29.—Three persons were crushed to death and one passenger on the train dropped dead of heart disease today when an eastbound Chicago, Burlington A- Quincy passenger train struck an automobile at a grade crossing here. “Those killed in the automobile were Edward Temple. 60. a Galesburg banker: his wife Margaret • the editor read more rapidly: he had known these folks for years*, and Miss Dora Tullsen. 52. school teacher of Wetago. 111.” Tullsen flushed slightly and nervously fingered the dispatch. but read on to the end “Finis Farr. 40. a bachelor of Charlevoix. Mich., was so excited by the crash that he dropped dead while standing on a vestibule of the train.” Full force of the tragedy finally struck home and Tullsen wheeled in his chair to hand the dispatch to the news editor with the ejaculation: “My God, that's my sister.” nan HE handed the rest of the sheaf of dispatches to his subordinate, walked across the room to put on his hat and coat, stood irresolute a moment and then returned to give a few simple orders for handling of the days’ grist of news. The few who knew of the tragedy offered aid. The managing editor thanked them and walked out of the # offce toward home. Those who knew went back to their desks, shook their heads as they reflected: “It might have been my sister." and then resumed tasks with pencils or typewriters. A dozen reporters, sub-editors and copyreaders who knew nothing of the iniedent. continued to pound out descriptions of incidents drab, happenings gay.

I ''OR. once again, the novelists ; and short story writers were | proven right—nothing except that j which destroys the mechanical j facilities for printing and distri- | buting ever stops production of a newspaper. ’CHUTE JUMPER AVOIDS WIRES Shafer Slips From Harness to Avoid Electrocution. Claude Shafer, known in balloon j circles as "The Patent Leather Kid,"} today claimed the distinction of being the first parachute jumper forced ! to abandon his “chute" to save hts; life. After an ascension and series of parachute leaps at Riverside amuse- j ment park Sunday. Shafer fell! through several high-tension elec- i trie wires in an alley near ThirtySixth and Clifton street. Recognizing the danger of landing in the wires as he neared the ground in his final •■chute." Shafer unfast- j ened his safety belt and dropped to the ground, narrowly missing the i wires. Hi? parachute caught in the! wires and the metal ring attached I to it spurted flame as it became, charged. Several of the ropes caught j fire. Landing or the ground uninjured. Shafer removed the parachute from i the wires with a pole.

Beer Mugs and Pretzels; Politics and Prohibition Bootlesrgers who reach the ears of presidents, senators who die with huge ca>h bribes in their 'afe deposit vaults, are a part of the battle revealed by Mabel 'A alter W illebrandt in the story of her experiences as assistant United •Mates attorney-general in charge of prohibition. She will write a series of twenty-four articles for The Times, starting Monday. Aug. -3 Her second chapter, ••politics and Enforcement, ’’ will appear in the Aug. 6 issues of The Times.

AIR ENDURANCE PILOT KILLED Crichton Dies. Haughland Hurt in Crash, i Bit T'nitrd Prrttn MINNEAPOLIS. Minn.. July 29. Captain P .L. Crichton, army flier, was killed and Owen Haughland, i his co-pilot, was injured seriously | when their endurance flight plane, ' The Minnesota, crashed on Woldj Chamberlain field here early today. Tine crash came after more than | 155 hours of continuous flying during which the performance of the monoplane’s motor was pronounced ! perfect by field attendants. Crichton piloted the plane to within 300 feet of the field, dropped a note to the ground crew and as he zoomed away the craft faltered, slipped into a. spin and crashed. Members of the refueling crew rushed to the plane and found Captain Crichton, his head badly crushed, dead in the cockpit. Haughland, who was believed to have been l asleep at the time of the crash, was rushed to the Ft. Snelling veterans’ : hospital nearby. During the flight, the fourth en--1 durance attempt which Haughland had made, both Minnesota aviators, had vowed their ability to stay up "until those St. Louis fellows come i clown and then a few hundred hours longer.” Both were in the highest spirits late Sunday when they flew back to Minneapolis after a cruise over Buffalo, Minn., Haughland's home town. Crichton, who.se home is in Minneapolis. took off on the record attempt, on a last-minute plea from Wold-Chamberlain attendants when Thor wa Id Johnson, another Minneapolis pilot, broke with Haughland over financial matters. •BUG CLUB' HEAD HELD j Soap Box Orator Charged With Stabbing Boy. lift J nitt’d Prats CHICAGO. July 26.—The "Bug Club." a group of proletarian phi- : losophers which meets regularly in Washington park to discuss the world’s ills, was without its leader today. Abe Heilbron. furnace sales- ; man and the organization's orator, was in jail, charged with stabbing George T. Donoghue, Jr., son of the superintendent of the south park system, after juvenile hecklers broke up last Friday night’s meeting.

BOARD WILL OPEN BIOS i Million Dollars in School Projects Arc Involved, Bids on approximately $1,000,000 in new school building construction I will be opened Thursday morning at 11 by the board of school commissioners. Among the bids are: Irvington j high school. $600,000. Schools 81. 82 I and additions on Schools 15 and 49. I 5395.000. A school board meeting scheduled | ior Tuesday night is of routine i nature. TAXI DRIVER ARRESTED Injured Man Is Charged With Recklessness. Nursing two fractured rib?. Oscar Curry. 30. taxicab driver, was arrested at his home. 2215 East New York street, today, after his cab collided with an auto driven by Albert iMcQuary. 21, of 1521 Wilcox street, jin the 300 block West Ohio street. I Curry was charged with reckless i driving. NIECE OF WAR HERO DIES Was Descendant of Boston "Tea Party" Participant. NILES. Mich.. July 29.—Mrs. ; Sarah E. B. Smith. 88-year-old grand-niece of George Pollard, ! Revolutionary war hero who is credited with hanng dumped the i first tea into the Boston harbor dtir- ! ing the Boston “tea party." died at I the Fawating hospital here Sunday.

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16 INDICTED FOR TEXTILE STRIKE KILLING i Defendants Charged With ’Conspiracy to Murder’ by Prosecution, MAY SEEK BRiEF DELAY Attorneys Will Seek Change of Venue in Textile Trial, Bp United GASTONIA. N. C.. July 29.—Indictments charging conspiracy to murder were returned by the Gastonia county grand jury today against sixteen men and women in connection with the death of Chief of Police O. F. Aderholt of California. After the Indictments were returned. the court adjourned until 2:3G p. m., when indictments against seven others will be considered. Solicitor Jonn G. Carpenter of Gastonia asked that all the defendants be in court at that time. The jury was drawn by Judge M. V. Barnhill of superior court, and the clerk of the court, after forty persons on the first panel were discharged because of their alleged connection with the textile industry. Judge Barnhill charged the grand jury for twenty minutes emphasizing that it must be fair in its conclusions. He dwelt on conspiracy, with which eight of the defendants were charged and explained the jury's duties. If a capital offense is fotmd, Judge Barnhill told the members of the jury, the jury must return indictments in a body in open court. Not Publicity Trial “This court is not here for publicity or notoriety, nor to work for the pu<ix>se of any one interest,” Judge Barnhill said. At the opening of the court, Judge Barnhill was handed a cablegram from Berlin signed by the Central Committee Red Relief of Germany. The cablegram read: ’ President of the court of justice : We protest in the name of 600.000 workmen against the industrial and mill terrorism and class justice of the textile woi'kers.” Fifteen of the defendants, including three women, have been held in rhe Gastonia county jail without bail since Aderholt died from a wound he received when he led a raid on strike headquarters here on June 7. High Point in Strike Fred Erwin Beal, one of the defendants and a leader of the strikers. addressed a strikers' mass meeting previous to the shooting and was declared to have urged the men to take back their jobs “by force, if necessary.” The remaining eight defendants, all men, were allowed bonds of-$750 each. Aderholt asked, before he died, that none be blamed for his death. The shooting of Aderholt was the high point in the series of disorders that marked the textile strike here. The impending trial was viewed by defense attorneys as rivaling the Scopes trial at Dayton. Tenn.. and the Sacco-'Vanzetti cafee in issues involved. Dr. John Randolph Neal, who led the defense in the former case and. likewise, heads the defense here, described it as “a. test of the right of workers to organize, strike and defend themselves against attack.”

BETTINGJASE READY Dog Race Wagering Trial Opens Tuesday. When Circuit Judge Arthur C. Van Duyn of Hancock county inherits Marion county's legal troubles over the "investment system” of betting at the Indiana Kennel Club, Tuesday attorneys for both sides \yill be "ready to get right at the issue." they said today. Attorneys for track operators said they would confer this afternoon to determine what line of offensive should be taken in presenting their efforts to obtain an injunction to prevent Sheriff George L. Winkler and Police Chief Claude M. Worley from interfering with the wagering. Clinton H. Givan. county attorney. will defend the sheriff's right to arrest promoters and money takers. Prosecutor Judson L. Stark said he will not make up his mind whether he will continue in the case until Tuesday. The promoters lost their injunction rights three weeks ago when Superior Judge James M. Leathers failed to issue a temporary order. It was then the venue change was obtained. WATCH BOAT SPEEDERS Law Specifies Ten-Mile Speed Limit for Crafts. James E. Reagin. chief inspector of the state industrial board, announced today that close check-up is to be made on alleged violations of speed rules by power boat* on Indiana lakes and streams. The law requires the boards not exceed ten miles an hour, after dark and that they be driven with mufflers.

LITTLE RELIEF IN SIGHT FROM TORRID WAVE

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THE melting traffic officer 'above). Clarence Lacefi-eld, Ohio and Delaware streets, declares that Billie Reasner. 2 <below>. has a better answer than he how to combat the torrid temperature and its effect upon a robust human system. The officer is shown sans coat in the new regulation white shirt and tie ordered by Police Chief Claude M. Worley as a. relief measure, while Billie is eating snow. Yes. honest to goodness snow, fed to him by his mother. Mrs. Harold Reasner, 6 South Dearborn street. And the snow? We hate to spoil the illusion, but it came from an ice plant—the Capitol Ice Company. Ice scoring machines make shavings which drop into a box in the form of snow.

Weather Bureau Sees No Break in Conditions for Indiana. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 70 10 a. m 81 7a. m 71 11 a. m 81 8 a. m 77 12 (noon).. 82 9 a. m 79 1 p. m 84 No relief from the heat wave that sent the mercury to 93 degrees, a new seasonal record mark. Sunday, was seen by the weather bureau today. “Generally fair tonight and Tuesday: not much change in temperature,” was the forecast for Indianapolis and the state. “There's no break of any consequence in sight,” said J. H. Arrnington. United States weather bureau chief. “The chances are the temperatures today will just about equal those of Sunday. There have been scattered showers, but their cooling effect has been only temporary.” After sweltering under the hottest temperatures since Sept, 15, 1927. Indianapolis got momentary relief when .02 inches of rain fell at 2:15 this morning. At 4 p. m. Saturday the mercury reached 90.2 degrees to break, by one-tenth of a degree, the season’s previous high mark. Reaching 93 degrees at 2:15 p. m. Sunday, another new mark, the mercury set an average of 84 degrees for the day. Farmers in scattered sections of the state are growing apprehensive for the corn crops which need rain badly. Two weeks ago heavy rains endangered the crops. “Unless they get rain soon in some sections the com will roll and dry up.” Armington said today. Wheat cutting and thrashing has progressed rapidly, however, during the dry weather, he said. Attorney Seriously 111 CRA WFORDSVILLE. Ind.. July 29.—Rdbert W. Williams, attorney, stricken with paralysis, is in a very critical condition. Williams had just returned from a fishing trip to Lake Wawasee when stricken.

™NOFSTRA!N St, Louis Fliers Admit Motor Is Weakening, By United Prees ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 29.—Hoping to fly another week. Dale ißed> Jackson and Forest O'Brine, in the orange monoplane St. Louis Robin | roared on toward the end of the seventeenth day of their recordbreaking flight at Lambert-St. Louis airport. “We know we have a couple get- ; ting weak.”, the fliers said in a note | referring to the cylinders of their j Challenger motor. It was their first , admission the power plant was I weakening. j The fliers made no statement; | when they were notified of the tragic j ; end of their competitor, the Minne- j 1 sota. which crashed a + Minneapolis. BURNS UP THE MESS’ Farmer Fires Own House to Force Wife’s Move. By United Preen MAUSTON. WiSL, July 29.—5. R. Hoover, 67, wealthy retired farmer, ; set his house on fire so his wife would move back to the country j “rather than clean up the mess.” according to his confession to District Attorney Price. WEALTHY YOUTHS DIE B\r 1 niter! Prrm TP AVERSE CITY. Mich.. July 29. --Hope was abandoned today for! the rescue alive of Chandler A. j | Beach and Charles Lyman Trumbull. sons of Chicago millionaires, hurled into Grand Traverse bay when their cat boat capsized Saturday. An airplane and dozens of | small boats searched in vain Sun- j day.

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AUBURN PRISON RIOT IS HALTED BY MACHINE GUNS; 1,700 IN ESCAPE ATTEMPT Two Convicts Are Killed; Only Four Revolted Succeed in Fighting Way Out of Walls to Freedom. BUILDINGS IN PENITENTIARY BURN Furious Fighting Marks Break of Armed Prisoners; Attack Guards and Get Arsenal Keys to Obtain Weapons.

Governor Harry G. Leslie to- j day used the example of the; rioting. Lire, battle and bloodshed of the jail deliveries at Auburn and Clinton prisons in New York to point the moral of his policy of paroling worthy prisoners, which has been much criticised. He believes the criticism to have been unjust and either resulting I i from lack of knowledge of the i background of the cases in point or from political animosity. “Conditions at Auburn prison, as described in news dispatches, quoting Dr. Raymond F. C. Kieb. New York state commissioner of correction. approximate very much those obtaining in the penal institutions cf this state,” Governor Leslie declared. Some Ray of Hope “Increased penalties and new crimes created by legislative enact- , ment have caused our prisons to be overcrowded. When such conditions prevail and there is a considerable minority of lifers, such as i we have at the Indiana state prison ' at Michigan City, the morale is constantly threatened. “If we can offer the worthy long- : ; term or life prisoner some ray or ; hope for parole, this, in my opinion. | ; is the greatest preventive of riot- j | ing and jail breaks. What I am I trying to do is to find that worthy | I man. who has been sufficiently pun- | ished. according to ordinary humane ! standards, and to give him that ' chance that will keep him and | others from becoming absolutely I desperate. | “One of the big problems facing us ■ is that of keeping the prisoners use- j fully employed. Congress passing the act forbidding interstate trade in prison-made goods has created a handicap, but we are going to

solve it. Some Reward Needed “They were not working at the Auburn prison when the jail break occurred: No doubt it was fostered by a small group of hopless men. with nothing to look forward to but years of Imprisonment. Such men prefer death. They are desperate and ever ready to inflame the majority of good prisoners. “There should be some reward for the well-behaved. Since I have been in office we have extended clemency to a prisoner who perhaps prevented just such an occurrence as happened at Auburn. “This is my parole policy and I think if the people understand it they will back me up. As for pardons. I am not considering them. Look back at some other administrations and you will find as many as 1,400 pardons given in the fouryear term."

ARNDT CONCERT BAND TO GIVE CONCERT Program to Be Presented at Fall Creek Boulevard Park. Tlie Arndt concert band, sponsored by the Indianapolis park commissioners. will play the following program at Fall Creek boulevard park Tuesday night at 7:30. “The Picadore,” selections from 'The Fortune Teller." “My Old Kentucky Home," •Hamiltonian.” cornet solo by Frank Kessler, "Stradella.” selections from “11 Trovatore.” “The Blue Danube.' Love s Old Sweet Song.” and “Charge of the Hussars.” from "Naughty Marietta”; “The Stars and Stripes Forever." and “The Star Spangled Banner.” GIANT PLANE CAPSIZES Seven Passengers. Pilot Slightly Injured When Ship Tip? Over. B" t nih •-! Pri ee DENVER. Colo.. July 29.—Seven passengers and the pilot of an air- j plane that was to inaugurate j Denver-Kansas City passenger serv- j ice today wpre slightly injured when j the ship capsized while taking off j for Kansas City. No one was injured seriously. The big 'ship was too heavily loaded, observers said. AGED NOVELIST -DIES Henry Blake Fuller Passes at Home in Chicago. By United Prni> CHICAGO, July 29. Henry Blake Fuller. 73, novelist and poet, is dead at his home here. His last novel, dealing with early days in Chicago, was published in 191®.

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[Hi I niter! Pr< .is AUBURN. X. Y„ July 29. Seventeen hundred convicts, including 1,500 believed by officials to be guiltless, found themselves without even the meager comforts of prison life today because of Sunday's bloody riot in Auburn prison. Their diet, was plenty of bread but Tittle water, as Investigators sought to fasten upon some 200 desperate men the blame for the riot in which two inmates were killed, four wounded and several firemen and guards hurt. Destruction of the institution's kitchen facilities in the fire which destroyed three buildings worth approximately $300,000, and broken water mains, left the prison population without warm food and with very little water, officials stated. Warden Edear S. Jennnings denied that food, conditions prior to the revolt were in any way responsible for the outbreak. Investigation Is Made Major Philip G. Roosa. inspector for the commissioner of corrections, was at the prison today, but made no statement concerning the investigation he is assumed to be making. A conference between Dr. Raymond F. C. Kieb. commissioner of corrections, and Governor Roosevelt, at Dannemora today was understood to be under way. Warden Jennings announced that all but four of the 1,700 prisoners who attempted to battle their way out of their narrow world of walls Sunday had been accounted for. The four men apparently escaped. Dawn found state troopers speeding across the roads in search of the four men. while 400 troopers, national guardsmen and police guarded the smoldering ruins of Auburn prison. The attempted break occurred early Sunday afternoon when the prisoners were assembling for their regular Sunday baseball game. The guards failed to notice a "trusty" slip into the administration building, followed at a short distance by a band of convicts. The trusty leaped at Merle Osborne, a guard on duty inside the administration building, and overpowered him, while the convicts who had followed crept up on Milton Ryther, another guard, and overcame him. Toss Arms to Comrades Keys were seized from the two men and the convicts sprinted to the prison arsenal, opened the tj;m

cases and carried out a supply of firearms and ammonia-gas bombs. Out into the prison yard ran the armed convicts, tossing pistols, rifles and bombs to their fellow prisoners. Bullets flew and the convicts, bearing down with their superior numbers, were winning the skirmish. Then cwo prisoners, who had been I left with Osborne and Rvker in the | administration building, forced the | guards ahead of them and walked j out into the prison yard. Shielding themselves behind the ; guards, the two convicts worked ! their way to the front gate while guards on the v ail withheld fire for fear of hitting Osborne and Ryker. At the gate the convicts hurled bombs at the two guards, temporarily blinding them with a spray of ammonia, and ran through the gate to freedom. Inside, the battle was mounting and out of the melee emerged Warden Jennings as a hero. Warden Prove? Hero

Gripping a pistol in each hand, the warden, who was an officer in the World war. rallied a band of guards and waged a counter-attack against the superior numbers of the convict?. The fury and suddenness of the offensive drove the main body of armed convicts back and they took refuge behind a pile of lumber. Then began guerilla warfare, with guards on the walls sniping at the entrenched prisoners, eventually forcing them to surrender. Bullets failing, other con-icts resorted to torches. Flames climbed the sides of th prison workshops and spread to the main buildings. Calls lor help were sent out: soon state troopers and firemen from the surrounding country were underneath the prison walls. A fire engine was pressed into service as a battering ram: it splintered itself against a section of the wall and caught fire. Convicts waved butcher knivea which they had seized in the kitchen: chair legs served for war club*. Above the ciamor and cries cams the rattle of machine guns, sending bullets spattering into the walla and bodies. %