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Alabama's State Prison at Wetumpka opened a beauty parlor to improve morale, teach trades to women prisoners. Last week there was a riot among the 300 women (210 of them Negroes) when one was told she couldn't have her nails manicured. When the screaming and scratching ended, Warden J. Curtis Weldon Sr. gave five white women prisoners their choice of seven lashes apiece or loss of prison privileges for 60 days. They chose the flogging, which the warden administered himself. Alabama's Governor Dixon promptly fired the warden...
...become a musician. He had written Stampede in G Minor, a jazz tune which sold well on an Okeh record; stood to get an orchestra arranger's job if freed. Convict Brewer, who had killed his wife during a quarrel, lost his speech because of a prison neurosis. Negro Richard Wright, author of Native Son (the story of a Negro killer), became interested in Musician Brewer. So did Jazz Pundit John Hammond and Band Leader Count Basie, who recorded Stampede and offered the prisoner a job. Last week Brewer had his speech back, said...
...good, little-publicized job the Y.M.C.A. did in World War I was its work with prisoners of war. World War II has given the Y another big job in this field, and last week Director Tracy Strong clippered back from Europe with the first report of how the work is going. High spot of his news: People who have worked with war prisoners in both wars agree that conditions in the prison camps are better in 1941 than they were...
Thirty-nine neutral Y secretaries are visiting prison camps in ten countries, find the churches in all of them more cooperative than last time. Most highly organized are the French and British officers' camps in Nazi Germany, with facilities for cricket and football, theatricals, and educational courses as varied as the curriculum of "any small college...
...from a city beleaguered by the Japanese. Amid a multitude of jabbering Japanese, sheet-iron tanks and other M.G.M. props, versatile Captain Gable, singlehanded, routs the invaders. Having exhausted the possibilities of the summer's foremost cinematic absurdity, Bombay swiftly rewards its wounded hero and dispatches him to prison (to pay the Hays office for his crimes), neglecting, in its closing haste, to salve the injured feelings of the Japanese...