J$ Ik MARRIAGE SERIES See Page, 4 4p, Li Latest Deadline in the State Daitir OS COOLER AND SHOWERS w VOL. LXII, No. 138 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1952 SIXPAGES Ji CKSO RIOT QUELLED; 0 * E I TE DE D * * * * * * * * * It i -a- anr ".-t. OUTSIDE 'POWDERKEG' BLOCK 15 Rioters Jeer at guard held hostage by ringleaders -Daily-iRoger ±?etmle STATE POLICE COMMISSIONER DON LEONARD ENTERS YARD AFTER SHOOTING Two wounded inmates watch the mopping-up operations inside the blocks -Dally-Roger Reinke NEW GYMNASIUM GUTTED BY FLAMES Firemen tried in vain to stem the $2,000,000 holocaust which swept much of the prison * * « * * CLC Hits'Irregularity' Of Proceedings in Probe Charging "irregularity of pro- ceedings" in the University's in- vestigation of the McPhaul dinner, the Civil Liberties Committee last night issued a formal letter of protest to the "campus commun- S "Tbe entire air of mystery and vagueness surrounding the' hear- ings was hardly conducive to get- ting the facts clear and the inter- pretation of the rule more lucid," the letter said. CLO CHARGED both a faculty- student investigating committee, and the Joint Judiciary Council, now considering charges against 14 students known to be at the dinner, with "intimidation of in- dividual students." "Students were given the im- pression that whatever they said (before the fact-finding group) would be held in strict confi- Marital Series dence,". the statement continued. "Yet a ... report of these pro- ceedings was prepared and dis- tributed to the Joint Judiciary The CLC did "not challenge the University's prerogative to investi- gate what occurs on the campus" and felt "the circumstances (sur- rounding the dinner) Merited in- vestigation." But it felt "the per- haps inadvertent effect of this investigation is an addition to the present-day University and na- tional pattern of political con- formity." Also rapped in the statement was "an inconsistent use of an ambiguous rule." Judiciary Set For Decision Joint Judiciary Council will probably conclude their recom- mendations to the University sub- committee on discipline no later than tomorrow night. A meeting is tentatively sched- uled for tonight-but whether it is actually held depends on wheth- er stenographers can complete typing up the transcripts of the previous meetings in time. If the meeting is postponed till tomorrow night, any disciplinary action taken will probably not be- come known till Thursday, when the discipline sub-committee has an opportunity to approve it. Otherwise, the results may be- come public tomorrow., Cripps Dies A fter Years Of Ill Health ZURICH --R)-- Sir Stafford Cripps, a long-time Socialist statesman and frail but powerful "Mr. Austerity" of Britain's Labor- ite post-war campaign for eco- nomic recovery, died yesterday. The end came in his 63rd year, in a Zurich clinic, after years of physical suffering and many months of acute illness. * * * On SaleToday Approximately 1,100 tickets will be thrown on the open market to- day with the opening of the 3-day sale of Marriage Lecture Series tickets. They will be sold from 10 a.m. to noon and from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. today, tomorrow and Thursday in the Union, the League, the Ad- ministration Bldg. and Lane Hall. The $1.50 price will cover the four lectures. The first lecture will be deliv- ered on May 5 on the topic, "The Anatomy and Psychology of Re- production," by Dr. Allan C. Barnes. He will also speak May 6 on "The Medical Basis for Sane Sex Practice." Prof. Ernest G. Osborne will give the third talk May 13 on the topic, "Psychological Factors in Marriage." The concluding lec- l ure will be given May 20 by Dr. Evelyn M. Duvall on the subject, "How to Get Married and Stay Married." Assistant Dean of Students Ivan W. Parker, chairman of the Series, urged all students to bring their ID cards when purchasing tickets. He said tickets would not be sold for separate lectures. ickets on Sale For Michigras f- World News By The Associated Press Senate Snubs Truman... WASHINGTON-The Senate, rejecting a last-minute appeal by President Truman, voted 44 to 31 yesterday to ban the use of any money in a 960 million dollar appropriations bill to carry out Tru- man's seizure of the steel industry. Except as a gesture of disapproval, the vote probably will have no practical effect. None of the money in the bill was spe- cifically requested for or needed for the steel seizure. Nevertheless, it marked something of a victory for Republican critics who have been denouncing Truman as a "Dictator" and "Us- urper" ever since the President ordered seizure of the strike-threaten- ed industry on April 8. NY, Penn. Primaries Today . . NEW YORK-Two big but relatively unexciting state primaries will hold the political spotlight today when New York and- Pennsyl- vania voters cast their ballots for 156 Republican and 154 Democratic delegates to the National Presidential Nominating Conventions. New York names 96 Republican and 94 Democratic delegates. Pennsylvania names 60 in each camp. The hitch is that both parties in both states will send their dele- gates to the Chicago conventions in July without instructions on what candidate to support. * * * * He just Keeps Rollin'. KANSAS CITY-Missouri Valley dike crews strained to hold their own yesterday in a battle of flood and mud,' and seemed to be winning at several critical places. * * * * 'No Attack Planned'-Gruenther NEW YORK-Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther pledged yesterday that the free Allies in Europe have never even discussed, let alone planned, an attack on the Communist world. * * * .~ A-Bomb Blast Planned... ATOM BOMB SITE, NEV.-An atomic bomb, one of the two most powerful ever to be detonated within the United States, will burst today at a record altitude of 3,000 to 3,500 feet above a battlefield where soldiers and weapons are deployed. Queen Juliana Leavesw , . DETROIT-Queen Juliana of the Netherlands bade farewell to the United States yesterday following a three weeks good will tour. Senior Notice Today is the last day for graduating seniors to order ; commencement announcements, booklets and personal cards. Orders are being taken from 3 to 5 p.m. in the lobby of the < Administration Building. Rioters Cite Negligence, .brutalities By BOB KEITH Daily City Editor JACKSON-Complaints of bru- tality, negligent health care and bad management stood behind yesterday's explosive Southern Michigan Prison riot, reporters learned in a series of dramatic interviews with uprising inmates. Rioters were glad to have someone to hear their grievan- ces, and there was an indication from prison officials that sev- eral had some merit. Seven spe- cific charges were made by riot ringleaders in, Block 15. Sex deviates are not segregated. Beatings by guards with keys and key rings and iron chains are common, and prisoners are placed in dungeons for trifling rule in- fractions. The cell block has poor venti- lation. Inmates are sent into disciplin- ary cells on the testimony of other convicts. The counselor system is poor and psychiatric examinations inade- quate. Medical treatment is inade- quate. Epileptics and tubercular pa- tients are mixed with other in- mates. * * IN REPLY, Vernon B. Fox, as- sistant deputy warden in charge of individual treatment, said "some changes will no doubt be made." Fox admitted that an "occasion- al guard" has struck inmates with keys and other instruments, even though warned against it. "But we do everything indour power to prevent it," Fox said. He expected to see the prison's counseling program improved See RIOTERS, Page 2 A 1i" ' -^r News noto SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS * * * The gaunt six-footer had lain in a hospital bed here for four months under treatment for a spinal infection called spondylitis. Poor health hid caused him to resign as Britain's chancellor of the exchequer in October, 1950, while' the Labor Party which he had served energetically for many years was still in power. Prisonersg Still Hold 11_Hostage State Troopers Force Majority Of Convicts Back to Cell Blocks By ZANDER HOLLANDER and SID KLAUS Special To The Daily JACKSON-Violence swept. Southern Michigan Prison for the second straight days yesterday leaving one convict dead, and ten persons wounded before state troopers and prison guards forced most of the convicts back to their cells. Eleven guards were still being held hostage by some of Michigan's most dangerous criminals in detention block 15-known to the 6,500 convicts here as "The Hole." Last night the defiant men in "15," led by robber and kidnapper Earl Ward, yelled down: "We are warning you again. If anybody is hurt, we'll cut off one of the 'screws' heads and throw it out to you!" STATE POLICE Commissioner Don Leonard, on the scene direct- ing police operations since early morning, put the damage from fAre and deliberate destruction to this world's largest prison at more tjaan $2,000,000. The dead prisoner, 35 year old Darwin Millage, was the victim of a trooper slug late in the morning when guards cleared the prison yard to bring in a fire truck. Four prisoners, two guards and two troopers were wounded later as more than 60 state policemen, pointing submachine guns. and hurling tear-gas, drove the milling mob back to the cell blocks. A THIN BLUE LINE of troopers had edged diagonally across the huge yard until the rioters were backed against the prison's north wall. Then, as toughs flung knives and *clubs at the advancing officers, an unidentified guard fired into the crowd, wounding three. One trooper was knocked unconscious with a baseball bat but got up moments later and stayed on duty. Others were slashed by flying glass and debris. The fourth convict was shot several times. when authorities moved in on the mental cell blocks, 11 and 12, shortly before 7 p.m. * * * * ALMOST EVERY building within the 57 acre prison suffered damage in the melee, with the laundry, library, chapel, greenhouse, gymnasium, tailor shop, jute mill, barber shop and commissary gutted by fire. Windows were smashed in most cell blocks, mattresses and most combustibles burned and kitchen equipment ripped from the floor and hurled into the yard. Nearly every knife and meat cleaver was missing when troopers recaptured the dining unit and officials feared that a resultant reign * * * of stabbings and terror last "for ten years." They believed that many of the criminals had already buried the weapons in the ard e "for later use." < 'Early this morning four squads .." 'of eight troopers each were still patrolling the prison while 125 guards remained at vantage points on the walls. Two squads of troop- ers stood by as reserves. "Powderkeg" Block 15 was bathed in floodlights as Warden Julian N. Frisbie tackled the most dangerous situation left-negotia- tions for release of the hostage guards. * * * FAMILIES OF the captured 11 waited fearfully in the prison's administrative office for word of BLASTS CONFORMITY: Vassar Head Criticizes Fears of Americans Americans seem to be wavering in their faith that the truth may be discovered by freedom of in- quiry and freedom of discussion, Sarah Blanding, president of Vas- sar College told 91 Phi Beta Kap- pa initiates last night. Addressing the annual initiation dinner of the national scholastic society, Miss Blanding said, "When we ought to be fearing fear itself, we are fearing ideas, reason and freedom." 4iAr n* * ha .,m*t emergency every citizen has a right to inquire, to express an opinion and even to disagree with public policy." ARGUING that only through a free intercourse of ideas can a democratic society survive, Miss Blanding cited the "sense of free- dom and dignity which the pos- session of a belief in the power of man's reason can give to every man." American society does not at- tempt to tell a Shostakovitch SDA, YD, YP Meet Tonight Minnie Schwinger, Democratic National Committee woman from C::yx ., ':' 'R$.'.' ......