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...motor southwest from Chicago, when you are almost within sight of Joliet, a big sign appears on the right of the highway: STATEVILLE. Behind it rises a broad, bare hill across whose desolate skyline stretches a wall. Above the wall rise four great, drab cheeseboxes. These are the cell blocks of Illinois' model penitentiary. Here, last week, occurred the first major prison riot of the year...
...days later, with all the Stateville prisoners locked up on bread-&-water (plus one sausage per day), a legislative committee began to investigate the outbreaks. Still smouldering, the inmates of one cell-block staged one last demonstration to interrupt the proceedings. From the walls the legislators watched the men being driven back to their cells...
...Hubert got his undersea idea. Matter of fact it was from his exploring friend Vilhjalmur Stefansson that he derived the thought, while the two were on the Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-18. Were Sir Hubert a charlatan he might aver that the idea popped from an inherited cell of his brain. In 1642 appeared an English book Mathematical Magick in which a "submarine" was intelligently described, its operation suggested with fair sense, and the indication hinted that it could be. used in the "ice and cold-blocked north." Author of Mathematical Magick was John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, ancestor...
...before District Judge Grover Adams to tell the source of his story, Reporter Barr would say only: "I can't betray a confidence." He was fined $100 and went to jail for contempt of court. Telegrams of congratulation, letters, gifts of cigarets, books and magazines poured into his cell. Reporter Barr's lawyer finally persuaded him that his information was not legally "privileged," that he might be kept behind bars indefinitely until he would speak. Then Reporter Barr named his informant-Norman Register, secretary to the district attorney-and was set free. Secretary Register, summoned before the Grand...
...Ismael was one of a group of 28 dervishes, sheiks and others arrested some weeks ago for fomenting insurrection against the Turkish government and later sentenced to death. Leader of the dervishes was 94-year-old Sheik Abdul Hassan, who sat cross-legged on the floor of his prison cell, dressed in an expensive fur-lined overcoat, taking snuff and murmuring "Bismillah!" ("In the name of God!") The night before he was to mount the scaffold at Menemen he quietly died...