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...Bridgehouse Prison, Powell's grilling filled a half-dozen notebooks. Japanese, who take for granted their own correspondents are spies, refused to believe he was not one. In Cell No. 5, a 12-by-18-ft. cage with six-inch bars, he was dumped among 40 prisoners-consumptives, lepers, syphilitics, even a few Japanese. Eaten alive by lice, they tried to keep warm by crowding five or six together under one filthy blanket. Rations were rice, occasionally embellished by fish heads and seaweed. Forbidden to talk to each other, the prisoners were compelled to sit on the floor...
...Powell's finger infected, a Jap doctor sheared the whole skin away without anesthetic. When his feet swelled painfully, the Jap doctor laughed and a Jap nurse futilely painted them with iodine. Removed to Kiangwan prison, he was put in solitary confinement in a 5-by-10-ft. cell. His weight had dropped from 160 to 80 Ib. When he could no longer walk on his twice-swollen feet, he was sent to Shanghai General Hospital under military guard, there had his toes amputated...
...stern warning to potential U.S. traitors. Up for sentence came Max Stephan, a naturalized German, owner of a small restaurant. Short, pudgy Max Stephan had been convicted of aiding Nazi Oberlentnant Hans Peter Krug, fugitive from a Canadian prison camp, in an attempt to escape to Mexico. In his cell he had boasted: "A victorious Germany will not leave Stephan in jail." His sentence: death by hanging...
Company. In Miami, Fla., from his jail cell, Joseph N. Smith saw a man breaking into a parked car, got him arrested...
...months he has been in a tiny padded cell, this frail little man with glittering eyes and a gentle smile-five hours a day, four days a week. He is not crazy, just listening. The man is Hungary's eminent composer and music scholar, Bela Bartok (Piano Concertos, Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion Instruments, MikroKosmos). The cell is a phonograph-listening room at Columbia University. He is listening to some 2,500 double-sided aluminum phonograph discs on which is impressed the largest recorded collection of Yugoslav folk songs ever made...