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...year ago next week, the blackened bodies of 322 prisoners lay on the lawn of the Ohio State Penitentiary at Columbus. They had been asphyxiated or roasted to death in the nation's most grisly prison holocaust (TIME, April 28). A hundred feet away from the lawn is the institution's death house, where felons are mortally burned in another fashion. To this dread place, last week, two inmates serving long terms for robbery begged to be sent speedily. These two convicts were known as Clinton ("Cotton") Grate and Hugh Gibbons. They confessed to firing the prison...
...were working side by side in a large tractor plant in Kharkov with Robinson, an American Negro, objected to his eating in the same dining room with them. When brought to trial, their fellow-workers found them guilty of race discrimination and sentenced them to two years in prison or expulsion from the country for twelve years...
...Thomaston, Me., 230 inmates yelled and banged their cell-doors from 8 p. m. to 2 a. m. in the rambling old red-brick Maine State prison. Their grievance: They had been limited to two outgoing letters per week because a favorite pastime had been writing letters, sometimes 30 or 40 per man per day, to names obtained from matrimonial agencies...
Newshawks learned that Nathan Leopold-who with Richard Loeb killed small Bobby Franks of Chicago seven years ago-was being transferred from the old prison to the new on the morning of the riot, but was sent back...
Died. Harry M. Kaiser, 71, strict warden of Clinton state prison, abode of New York State's 1,800 most vicious criminals; at Plattsburg, N. Y.; of paralysis caused by overwork. His wards rioted last July, and ever since have threatened new riot...