Springville Herald | 1936-03-26 | Page 13 | [First Edition], Prison Band Starts Strike

Prison Band Starts Strike JOLIET, 111., March 25 Ul.I!) Music - members of the Joliet prison band refused to eat today until they are released re-leased from solitary confinement confine-ment and permitted to toot their instruments. The 40 bandsmen were placed ' in solitary Monday after blasting out a "musi-; "musi-; cal" Bronx cheer when they 'vre denied a customary special spe-cial luncheon after broadcasting broadcast-ing a regular Sunday concert. con-cert. When' guards brought bread and water they spilled it over the floor and announced an-nounced their hunger strike. Warden George Sehring i scorned the demands. "If they won't eat we'll put them in the quarry tomorrow and let them swing picks on empty stomachs. Then maybe they'll toot a different tune." Blonds, because their scalp and hair textures are finer, lose their hair' more rapidly than either brunets or redheads, although they have doube or treble the 1 I amount of hairs possessed by either of the latter.