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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes tuesday Jon Montreal convict i riot bum is fear v l -. A " a. I. Ost of prison 1 ies 30 Hurt Montreal of the army took control of St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary after 1.100 Rio Ting prisoners destroyed most of theold maximum Security prison by flrv1 sunday night officials said there was one death in the rioting despite earlier reports that at least six had been killed. Twenty seven prisoners we re wounded three of them seriously and three guards were Hurt. The body of a prisoner was found in the prison Hospital fed eral commissioner of Penitenti Aries Allen j. Macleod told news men. Victim of Bullet he said the Man was wounded by Rise fire and either was take nor walked to the prison Hospital where he died More than 200 steel helmeted troops in full Battle dress joined the hard pressed guards and drove the convicts at Bayonet Point along inside Walls and Corners of the prison ending a six hour  of the 15 buildings inside the prison compound were burned nearly to the ground. At Midnight the main building housing cell lacks and the administration offices were still afire. Firemen fro four cities badly hampered by Lack of water were fighting Des  of the prisoners succeeded in escaping. The convicts a num Ber of them armed began rioting shortly after  guards were unable to bring them under control Quebec provincial police then Canadian mounted police and finally army troops joined in the Battle As fire men fought the blazes. Officers said that during the Peak of the riot some of the prisoners tried unsuccessfully to form pyramids to scale the 40-foot prison  convicts fought with stones knives homemade guns and Molo Tov cocktails jars filled with gasoline and set afire by a rag  guards fired Tato groups of the prisoner trying to Force them into Corners and buildings where they could be confined the wounded Lay unattended oven the grounds As the outnumbered guards could t risk helping them. At least 10 of the convicts were shot when they refused to getaway from a Crane whose Boom they were trying to move to a Wall. Some were burned when caught Between two blazing build Ings. They had refused to move when guards yelled at them to get out. When prison staff members tried to fight the fires i he convict snatched knives from the prison Kitchen and slashed the hoses. Police sealed off the St. Vincent de Paul Community urea and closed a Bridge which connects it with Montreal Island to All but Emer gency emf he. The riot described As Well organized began in the Kitchen. The prisoners stormed out of the Kitchen and through the Library and psychiatric Section. S confined by guards they quickly set fire to the buildings. Warden i Michael Lecorre said he was unable to estimate the damage accurately but that he thought it would run Between $2 million and $3 million. About two thirds of the prison ers were Back under shelter of some kind for tha night. The remainder were herded against a prison Wall to spend the night out doors because no buildings were available to House them. Ringleaders of the riot were weeded out. Prison officials said they had not been Able to determine the  the riot. Cooling off Europe s first warm spell of the year brings out the ice or cent salesmen and publicity men. Herewith danish actress Vivi Bach. Keystone storms tornadoes Trail Eastern . Heat wave United Tress International Hurricane Force winds and a least one Tornado erupted along the Edge of a Cool front bringing heat wave Relief to half of the nation. The easter the Violen weather degraded a train triggered Flash floods and caused a number of injuries. At least a dozen persons were Hurt in thunderstorms which Rake Iowa. A number of persons were general s son killed by Viets i Washington a on of the two american army officers killed in a communist ambush in South Viet Nam was the son of the army War College s Comman Dant the army has identified him As 1st it Wulliam of. Train Iii a year old graduate of West Point his father is maj Gen William of train who Heads the War col lege at Carlisle Barracks a. Gen train served As usage pfc comp troller from May 1959 to june i960. The other american. Killed in the 7ambush two Days ago was Cam Walter a Mccarthy of Columbia so actor Robinson a j u h w 1 has heart attack Kenya Cap film Star Edward g. Robinson had Aheart attack Foo the Early hour monday morning and is seriously ill in Arusha Hospital in. North Ern  is with1 a company making the Filin Sammy going South. Units of the company Are can Ped at 6.000 feet up a 15,000 f opt High Mountain near it Kilimanjaro. It is understood Robinson suffered a heart attack a few hours aft the Oamer doctor left by Road for Nairobi nearly 200 Miles away. Of cadets due in Berlin for briefing berlins a a Squadron of 122 us. Air Force cadets will arrive Here from Uppsala Sweden wednesday for a three Day briefing on the Berlin situation. The Squadron one of three from the air Force Academy s Junior class touring Europe this summer will land at Tempe hot Airport Al 12 45 ., a air Force spokes Man said. The group. Identified As so b2, will stay at the Berlin Hilton. The cadets will be by Leafeo by officials of Tempelhof and of the us Berlin brigade. They will tour East and West Berlin Friday. The cadets left the air Force Academy june 7. They earlier visited London the Raf College at Cranwell and several parts of Sweden including Stockholm. The Squadron leaves Berlin at 10 30 . Saturday on a tour of Ferstenfeld Bruck Wiesbaden and Span Dahlem Germany. They will reach Mcguire air Force base.., july l army withdraws murder charge Munich a so As a result of findings of a . Army sanity Board convened at the 2nd Gen eral Hospital at Lan Stuhl the murder charge against sp5 Larry m. Jackson 25, of co a. 242nd pm in will a withdrawn the army said. Jackson was. Charged with Mur Der in the april 8 death of Ger Traud Renate Stecher. 25. In a Munich hotel room. After tests and observation the sanity Board found that Jackson was suffering from a chronic brain disease which was diagnosed Asen Cepha Litis. Jackson will be returned to the United states throw Job  ical channels where his Eft a will be referred to an appropriate Board. Injured it a trailer court near Chester minn., die . Weathe Bureau reported. A Tornado swooped from the Squall line at Rochester minn., damaging a Light plane at the air port uni flattening it least two barns. A number of cattle were reported killed when a barn overturned on them it Eyota. Minn Power pole3were knocked Down and Trees up rooted at Roch Ster. Several other funnel Clouds were seen in the air Over Southwest Minnesota but they failed to touch Down. Homes damaged earlier the weather Bureau re ported a Tornado at Lake Charles,la., which damaged the Homes in one Block. Near Waverly Iowa wind gusts blew two Illinois Central rat i Road boxcars from the tracks dragging nine other cars of the freight train from the rails there were no in juries. A dec Oran Iowa couple was injured when a tree Imp foil across their car. Five persons were injured at Oelwein Iowa where the main hangar of the Airport was demolished and another hangar dam ged. Along with eight planes. Nea Oelwein a moving Auto was picked up from the Roadway carried 100 feet and dropped Back Down. Four persons were Hurt one seriously in the Waterloo Iowa area when a thunderstorm smashed windows and caused Power fail ures. Broken windows. Damaged roofs downed tree limbs and snapped Utility lines were reported at Ames. Iowa. Near Poland Iowa a barn was blown Down killing some of the livestock inside. Chicago was seared earlier by 95 degree heat a degree Short of the record for the Date. More than 200 persons suffered heat prostration at a religious revival meeting in soldiers Field. It was warmer in Chicago than in Jackson miss. Ten persons were overcome by 32-degree heat while watching a Parade at Elizabeth . Oas outside Algiers spurns truce Call continued from pay 1 their reactions to the secret army s truce Call and a speech sunday by Chawki Moste Fai. A moslem Mem Ber of the ruling provisional executive. In,.whieh. He announced general amnesty for europeans Marty europeans spent the night outside the recently reopened air Algeria ticket and reservation office in Algiers waiting to Fly Backoo France. Some said they were just taking Normal summer vacation and would Fly Back if things were All right of the end of the summer. But some still Sun dark Day ahead. In Tunis the algerian nationalist government in exile appeared split Over the truce agreement wit the Oas. Vice Premier Mohammed be Bella told newsmen i have never agreed to negotiations with the handful of criminal adventurers to the Oas. Furthermore the Al Gerian provisional government at the end of May categorically rejected the idea of any negotiations with this gang. This is proved bythe minutes of the  workers return to f105 Plant Farmingdale. , a production workers at Republic aviation corp s big Plant Here monday obeyed an injunction in returned to work. President Kennedy invoked the Taft Hartley act Friday to end a 2-month strike at Republic. He said he acted because re Public was the Only supplier of the f105 .fighter-bomber., urgently needed by . Forces in Southeast Asia. Weather delays a test Honolulu a Adverse weather conditions monday postponed for 24 hours a scheduled High Altitude nuclear explosion above Johnston Island in the Paci fic joint task Force 8 announced. Of to review a. Vote suit continued from Page to Sinclair refining co. For volume damages from officials of the Cio Oil workers Union because work stoppage at a refinery East Chicago in alleged Violal of a no strike clause in a contract. This Case involving interpretation of the Taft a act marked the first opinion the court s newest Justice a r. While. Set aside 5-2, the Content conviction of Frank Grumman fort Lee ., who refused answer some questions asked the House committee on ten Ai ican activities in a 1957 invest Tion of communist infiltration the communications Industry. 1 majority cited the court s May 21 holding in other contempt cases that the grand jury indictment must identify the subject under inquiry by the congressional com Muttee. Right suit foil refused to hear an Appeal  e. Williams a negro writ sought damages under the Clit rights act of 1875 from an ale Andrin va., restaurant he said owned him service. The lower court dismissed his suit on grounds the net did not apply to private Infra state racial discrimination refused to consider a can let that its june 11, 1961, rec lion Flap ring state use of he frilly seized evidence can be used to free 9 person imprisoned before that Date the court acted in a Brief order with no opinion. The Appeal a filed by Marshall Broughton convicted Jan. 7, 1934, in new York City on narcotics charges. The a f Ellale division affirmed the conviction on March 22, t955. He was sentenced to a jail term of from i7 to 12 years. Accidents kill 2 servicemen two soldiers died in Germany one in a drowning and one in Art automobile Accident in which Art other Soldier was seriously injured. A 43-.vear-Otl Soldier assigned to the 56th arty was killed and an other injured saturday at Salz Wooge Germany when the automobile in which they were Riding ran off the Road and smashed into a tree the army said. Killed was sgt Stanley , the Driver of Tacoma Wash. He is survived by his widow a 13-year-old son. And a daughter 10. Passenger injured seriously injured was a Pas Senger 1st it Thomas e. Dyson of the same unit. He was evacuated to the army Hospital at Muench  body of s sgt Peter a Berg bom 53, assigned to the 9th try 24th inf div. Was found saturday in a canal at Augsburg Germany by germans who were cleaning and draining it the army said. Bergbom is survived by his widow and daughter in Columbus a. Most yes Alex stores will close thursday s most air Force Exchange Alex and european Exchange system yes. Facilities will be closed thursday Corpus Christl  is a Holiday to most parts of Germany Italy and Spain. Banking establishments of the american express and the Chase Manhattan Bank will be  he at Wiesbaden Ger Many announced that All Alex retail stores in Italy and Germany will be closed while snack bars and delicatessens wll remain open. The latter facilities however will be on shortened Holiday schedules. Alex officials said that the drugstore and beverage shop at wies Baden s main shopping Center willbe open from ii . To 7 pjn., while the pickup Point Barber and Beauty shops at the traffic Center of the Rhine main air base near Frankfurt will remain open from 8 . To 2  The Nuernberg yes he Sald most pcs throughout Germany will be closed and that snack bars an delicatessens will open on Short i cried Holiday schedules. All pcs snack bars and other so facilities in France As Well As la Berlin Brem Erlven Ansbach j Bayreuth dind Lach Coburg it Langen Hof. Lite Shell. Schwalbach Zirn corf and Nuernberg will Nln Tain Normal operating hours. And Tahr  for  
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