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Perse, ot toe ‘ t a . + . +2) Zhe legendary punishments and hardships of Devil's Island Pale that newspapers are censored only vy Gate insignificance when compared with the dreaded “silence” treat- of their crime stories, but this does 1g eae at Alcatraz. (Aver) The famous French Penal Colony. . T1-.® beon, but it's a long time be- eye penetrates, everything. The let e yped "oti ‘tween ayllables—forever eaves slightest bit of metal on any person alters are : subjected to the heaw i} {]-dxopping upon silence. - ~tonvict, visitor or guard—is re- jest of restrictions, being unable, ii Whe place is practically im- ‘vealed by the ringing of a bell. first, to visit a convict during the fi from within and with- ‘Files, jimmies, ete., therefore, might opening four months of his incar sae * Full well may jt be called © ag well be ieft with the rest of the ceration second, unab ‘the Devil's. Island of America. '. trinkets back on the bureauathome. - visit him Stan except an nd j:: Heeapef. it is to laugh. One A screen of barbed wire entangie- signed by the Attorney-General of ‘Tight ag well try to gimiet hig ments extends to the shore. the United States! « Way out of a metal coffin. It ia Over the cells and the dining room An intolerable wind almost always : § TE 3 3 z s H * hang clusters of gas bombs that can lo across But the rip-tide ia be released at the slightest outcry. isla. The wind often causee sent death. Is this enough? Frankly, it and dust storma, capable of making , doesn’t seem to be, for the few visi- the exercise yard something of a t . Maury Cralle, the old- tors an inmate is permitted must horror in its own right. Its pos- : time commandant who learned of talk to him through a bullet-proof, sible that fog will close in, _; 7? @ Plat for a general break among | porous glass partition. Not. a pretty picture? Neither “1 ,* the seldier-convicts. At a given It is the very hopelessness of was Poe's buried-alive motif in the 1! signals they were to plunge into ‘their position at Alcatraz that leaves Cask of Amontillado, but, at that, {4 the gaa as one man and. take the prisoners so vulnerable in the there was always an antidote for tag: thelr chanees. | '. matter of being held to stern ac Poe. It was strictly nightmare stuff “ S "14, ‘The Colonel viewed the situa-:. count. Their cells, it is said, are ‘from whieh the reader could wake to ; nee top, with objective interest. He strictly one-man boxes, four feet by welcome relief. At Alcatras, they . ‘sk’ " even’ professed to be s eight, and as bare as a slab of wake only to terrible reality. Tae, about it when he called the pike marble. No radios at Alcatraz; no ‘ :. Pegi ters before him, _ ~. pietures, even, or ornaments. is living on top of Telegraph Hill “-"{F41) “Qe ahead,” said he, encourag- Everything is solid steel—a steel - from which she is nightly trying to ace Angly. “Pick your time when you baain, steel berth, three steel hooks dgnal the ex-emperor of the under- f° Practice a while. I won't notify , A man may read until the lights. time, the officials are not 90 reticent. ao _{, the police in San Frangisen.” No-' ‘ out hour, but only a book from the They characterize the story as ee nas Of course, Alcatraz has modern newspaper. The authorities claim doubt, their statement is well taken, spe) N° yo Copycat, LOOK, King Features fiyndiaate, las, - i 2 i 1 1 ‘ vf . Oe Tee fa.7 , . i r i ' ie ’ ' 4 p sda "3 eee ge - = ar, ei, : . mae itn, or - i sedi 4 ' SO eg awe 7" i 4 i oe ‘ flu ' iB: itd . Coie ym wont W ‘ 1 ’ i