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TOUGHEST OF TOUGH GO THERE DETROIT FREE PRESS Wednesday. Aug. 20. 1947 3 Plaintiff in Atom Suit Dies at 31 Alcatraz Prison Brands the Cell Block as Its Own Alcatraz ACCOUNTANCY CLASSES BLOOM FIELD, N. Dorothy L.

Burns, 31, died at her home, nine months after she filed a $200,000 suit charging that she encased in concrete (a favorite trick is to damage these properties), a small washbowl, and a tiny shelf. ABOUT 20 OF the men were making the noise. Four were in solitary confinement, in utter darkness behind solid steel doors through which not a glimmer of barred windows. Somehow, a sort of Black Hole of Calcutta had been anticipated, a gloomy dungeon, damp and dark, where men huddled in their cells, snarling at their captors. Only in this last particular was anticipation realized.

THE HALLS OF the cell block echoed to the profane yells of the BY WILLARD EDWARDS Free Press-Chicago Tribune Wire ALCATRAZ ISLAND It was not until near the end of my stay on Alcatraz Island that I was permitted to enter Block of the prison. This section of the penitentiary is to Alcatraz what Alcatraz is to the other 26 Federal institutions in the Federal Bureau of Prisons network. Here the ultimate in vicious criminality is found. Here, without question, are confined the most depraved individuals in the suffered radioactive poisoning. Her petition stated that she had worked on atomic research at the Westinghouse Electric Corp.

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CAdillac 5136. light could pass. division here. row arrested in Texas for another crime, and escaped after five months. Captured after a week in hiding, he broke out of the Texas prison within two months.

IN 1943, the comparatively minor crime of transporting a stolen car across a state line brought him under Federal law. He was sent to a Federal prison, nearly killed an officer and escaped. He eluded pursuit for several months but was eventually apprehended and Federal authorities lost no time in sending him to Alcatraz. Tomorrow: How Alcatraz keeps its Inmates busy at useful works. Harrison B.

Martland, Essex County chief medical examiner, said an autopsy report attributed the death to "delayed chemical pneumonitis" which he described as a new form of occupational disease. United States. These men are never permitted to leave their cells except for exercise in the yard twice a week under heavily armed guards. Their food is brought to them. THERE HERE 28 this day, approximately 11 per cent of the total prison popula-Ko.

2 tion of 248. This per-of a centage never rises Series much above 10 per cent. Almost all of them had escaped more than once from other prisons. They had been found unfit to associate with their fellow beings even at Alcatraz, which houses the most violent element found in 19,000 criminals in the Federal prisons of the land. THEY HERE NOT to be trusted for one moment outside a cell lest they kill or maim one of their fellow inmates or instigate disorder among them.

They could not be permitted to shutter was opened and a tiny portion of food shoved in. THIS "RESTRICTED diet" so-called did not appear to this observer much of an improvement of the old bread and water routine. The prisoners get just enough of ordinary food to whet their hunger. THE CASE HISTORY of a typical inmate of Block was examined. It began with a ludicrous incident a holdup by a 14-year-old boy with a toy pistol.

Then came the old story of reform school, discharge, a more serious crime, and a reformatory. There was also the customary background poverty and squalor and divorced parents. Warden Johnston pointed to another typical characteristic the frequency of paroles for this man during his youthful days'. Each time the parole had been violated and the crimes grew in violence. WHEN HE WAS 30, the inmate staged his first successful escape from a state prison in Colorado.

He was captured and later paroled. -In 1941, he was convicted of a spectacular train robbery and sentenced to 20 years. He escaped after a year, was this fall. The administrator of her ,1 At A be substituted as estate will plaintiff. INSTITUTE 120 Madison Detroit 2 B.

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Johnston fires up at the suggestion sometimes made that the Alcatraz regime may drive men crazy. His studies show, on the contrary, he said, that the rigorous schedule produces less mental disorder than the milder procedures in other Federal prisons. It was with some trepidation that I accompanied a square-jawed lieutenant to the section of the prison known as Block. We passed through a series of steel gates whose opening: and BE POPULAR THIS SUMMER Soldier Convicted of 'Prank' Slaying of Two Chinese NANKING (IP) A United States Army court-martial convicted Cpl. Frank Aldrich, of Whitting, of the "prank" slaying of two Chinese.

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2. Polio in Berlin BERLIN The City Health Department is combatting an outbreak of infantile which to date has involved 110 cases and 15 deaths. ML Associated Prp? Wirephoto SOLITARY CONFINEMENT CELLS AT ALCATRAZ Most violent criminals are imprisoned here men quartered in three tiers of closing could be accomplished only jby a combination of electrical con-j trols and hand-operated kevs 2 for Rafes a. ARE NOW IN EFFECT We came then to a solid There was no furniture whatever in these cells, merely a hole in the concrete floor for toilet facilities. The inmates could hear no sound but that which they might make themselves.

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Thone R. 48fi.t. ludios are. air-conditioned. THROUGH A NARROW, dowed slot in this door, an officer and cells facing the tall windows.

Obscenity tinged every shouted observation. A guard dishing out portions of the evening meal on trays was the butt of much indecency, The howls suggested an obvious parallel feeding time at the zoo. Because Block is the newest section of the prison, it contains the largest cells on the i5land. Only the barest essentials are permitted these prisoners, however: A cot with blanket, a toilet iTt 1 1 mTiTi 1 1 iimiifnii it 1 1 1 Ti iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii' ARTHUR MURRAY peered at the lieutenant and his companion, and at a signal of reassurance unlocked the ponderous gate and swung it open. We entered a large and well-lighted chamber.

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