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CAPONE LOSES OUTSIDE LINKS AT ALCATRAZ Isolation From Old|; Pals in Crime Complete: VEIL OF SILENCE Orders to Break Contacts With Underworld To Be Carried Out. SAN FRANCISGO, Aug. 22—un —Complete Isolation of Al Capone, former Chicago gang chieftain, and other newly arrived convicts on Alcatraz Island, wes announced to- day by Warden James A. Johnston. ‘The move is to break any possible contact of the prisoners with their former underworld confederates. “They are not even going to have an opportunity to know what goes on outside," Warden Johns fon declared. ‘Those men were sent here because the Government wanta to break thelr contacts with the underworld. That is going to be done.” Cut OF From World. ‘There fen't even a radio on the jslaad, Johnston added, and the prisoners will not be permitted to Fead the newspapers, “The prison is running slong In @ routine way today,” the warden ated, “The new pritoners are be- ing assigned to their duties, but we are not even going to let the outside world know to which duties they have been assigaed.” May Be Shoemaker, Attorney General Homer 8. Cum- mings, who recently inspected the new Federal penitentiary, located on & i2acre rocky island in Ban Francisco bay, emphasized the prison would be e means of seg- \Fegating the more dangerous ‘prisoners, and Johnston declared this idea would be carried out. Tt was intimated that Capone would be put to work at ® shoe maker's bench, the task to which hhe was assigned before bis trans fer with m group of other convicts from the Atlanta Faderal penites- sth han Mr. Toten Mr. Clegg, Mr. Baughman, Chet Clerk ‘ir. Cottey Mr. Cowley, hie, Fdwaras, Mr. Harboe. Keita Lester, hie Quinn Wir Schnaer Me. Tamm, POST GAZETTE PITTSBURGH Pa AUGUST 24 1954