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Al Capone — Part 34
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ALCATRAZ RIOTATCATRAZ RIO
TOLD;CAPONE -LEADERS PUT .
CALLED ‘RAT’ IN DUNGEON Fo SSS fs;
=. Leaders in ‘3 Days PRY "ypeom hoax,
= or
eves of the
: ’ ' gautineers and threatened with 0
“ of Madness - prison death for their refusal to a
(Gopyright, 1934, Untversal Services.) yar ee ie Gun" oe - his
. AN. FRANCISCO, Fe #.—Thy two associates in the kidnaping
1 Bailey and Albert L. Bates.
happened during Alcatras pris- FLOOD CELLE
on’s “three days of madness eating continued in the cells
and the truth about what is stillafter the strikers were locked in.
jhappening on the federal “Devil'g# Suard, Joseph Gimpson, was
—roe Inland” 1 vil ugged. Prisoners attempted to
a : a” was learned today ood thelr cells by opening plumb-
nace Universal Service despite effo g outlets, .
governmnent officials to Even in the Alcatraz dun
; and its aftermath the mu rebellion was carried forward with
First disclosure of the inside® hunger strike.
story of the January 20 mutiny 494 in the dungeon, a battle
showed it was far more serious {8 still being fought. Forced
than the wall of official secrecy f g is being resorted to in an
had permitted the world outaide ifort to “break” two leaders of
to Enow. Lue DWIny, WiHITSEKEr 80a VW.
Through the amazing episode of Lucas.
the revolt walked these captaing Whitaker and Lucas, with
of crime: (Chase, Schmidt and Wailey, were
As leaders in the mutiny—John, M¢ e dungeon after other
Paul Chase, former Sausalito) mutiny leaders capitulated and
bootlegger and garage man who. Sereed to return to work.
ao” became a lieutenant of (Baby! The five organized a hunger
aN 8 , Pace") Nelson and was convicted/Strike, throwing even their bread
‘of Killing a G-man: Harmon 2nd water to the floor of thetr
‘Waley, convicted kidnaper of g-‘cells.” On first resort to forced
~old George Weyerhauser; feeding through a tube, Chase,
dwig (“Dutch”) Schmidt, gun-gSchmidt and Waley abandoned
from the Roger Touhy gangs resistance,
d involved in the John Fac’ FORCED TO TAKE FOOD.
dnaping, and Norman T, Whit Whitaker and Lucas have main-
aker, “The Fox,” convicted withd! tained their refusal to eat, Liquid
‘food is being forced down their
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