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Mr. Cowley .. Mr. Edwards........-. seen wae erere: . Lester. ....-. .--- re “mai, Fer nM GyeSTIN! Bat f Gn of the first persons to be | "Ini beventy years shes fir Schicer ee “Pipe “To the “ene hes wens fF ‘pent to Li ussolinl was AeA meat reer ae bp. Ta cece cee | 4 America’s [| Domizio Torrig: -@rand mai ER c iF Capone, ance Fated “jter of the Masons of Italy. | ftever of Devil's Island and two sere gd b iFrancisco Nitti, nephew of the 4 . ...-. oining sms. nn ‘former premier, who joined him ll ., ocean, Few sights are more hor- ees a ~~ ‘ater, made a sensational escape Tible than the leading and de- is 4g ‘in 1929 along with Cario Ros- parture of the old prison ship wk irs . ‘sei, a Roman professor, and Le Martiniere | from Ta Rochelle, eee) Sa "Emule Luseu, @ decorated war The mostly ne -of SPs bp ath vicious -crlminals Fislous the Army's military ‘ Contradictory “sories are told ; , of fhe treatment af. the prison: ; ers, on ; seems, well ; — Stand eae established that the punishment ile far more mental than - Alfred conviction and subsequent exan- © eration of @ treason Sheree | made history. Some of the elements ef the prison, the soldiers christened it Physical. e mers . hire § + Dreyfus case enter into “the “The Rock.”: their own - living ; story of Benjamin Ullme, only y ' ®ueh it is, 12 acres “of hard three together. They receive 50 recently returned to Paris after : $ atone, standing alone in San cents a day and have the . 49 25 years-in the penal colony. FE "+o Op $3 = Francisco Bay a mile ana a -balf _Uberty. ez of the islands, — " Dilme, # young ensign, ‘stole. qe ; from the mainland. The prison . gome military papers to get % ‘buildings on Alcatraz are as b hete cae funds to satisfy the tastes of an -~ “mnodern as its safeguards, with between the hours of 9:00 p. m. ‘ expensive sweetheart. He -de- ‘even the ceiling of the dining and 6:00 a.m. when they must manded money from the gov- proom equipped with gas. cyl- remain indoors, ernment on the threat of selling {Anders to be used against the Ever over their heads by day the papers to a foreign power. He __ ponviots in the event of an out- is the black smoke and by night was trapped easily and as easily break. i a ie glar © of Gtrorneoli, that and condemned to pena] servitude - 08 amous volcanoes which for life. ‘The currents are strong in the FP. . surrounding waters, rong an ex- ee _ ab that Dilmes Tessouing has been f - i. 1 pert swimmer needs an hour's hes been active Yor more than ‘affected by his prison ordeal. . ~ time to negotiate the mile and 3,000 The Lighter . I The wonder Js that he did not © * @ a half from. the rocky slope to Lghthous ge of the Medi- ‘ go stark mad years ego. From } faq the mainland. on the north i 1908 until 1916 he was a “‘soli- . . | . Mussolini's Lipari islands easternmost Of the islands, tary” on “The Black Rock” f are not prisons in the sense that where it rises grandly to a \falding to no human afd seeing : s@ strofg walls make a prison. height of 3,083 feet. It is one none but his guards. i They are seven volcanic rocks of the wonders of the world, He saved himself from nelf- i "“% off the coast of Sicily, rather something which must be seen, a destruction or violent insanity - _E idyllic placea with vegetation m#uch as the harbor of Rio, the — only by talking to the trees of nu and delightful climate. But they Taj Mahal and sunrise in the “>. Vl the jungle and to the sharks of = are as isolated as the tiny isles Himalayas. ras l the ea. -'& of the South Seas, having no A few weeks ago Strombol! (Copyright. 1944, by xing Features ’ eonnection with the outside 7% Byndica (™iwed—e- a - = world, save the twice-«-month Two mighty thunderciaps er . =, visit of the steamer from Mes- sina. Bignor Arpinati, formerly a member of the chamber of dep- uties and undersecretary of the | interior, there about 700 : other Persons who, by word, deed of. thought. have of- fended against the sacred dic- | tates of fascism. Arpinati is to serve five years theceate “in various circum: * stances he assumed an attitude in contrast-te—diyctions which ‘ghould be folloyed by whomever the honor of belonging, to Pascist party.” warmed the 1,600 inhabitants that the gods of fire were ‘troubled, and for a time those ‘on the mainland, 35 miles away, who had heard the explosions, were fearful leat streams of lava wuld pour down the vineyard- vered slopes, carrying away an, beast and vegetation. Island prisons always bring mind the penal colonies of France and Megico, the one off | ee coast of ch Guiana known as Devil's Keland, the er in the Pacific called The Masyre"Tittre la no qties- Here about these yout these being places of unishment., at ah ela of F | 49 /fo A a