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...used by the Spaniards as a harbor fortification. In its sandstone bowels are deep dungeons and underground passages. For years the War Department has used it as a military prison. Last week the island was transferred to the Department of Justice. Attorney General Cummings announced that its 600-cell jail would become the home of the nation's worst criminals. The plan is to move the more intractable kidnappers, murderers, thieves and racketeers out of Federal penitentiaries and isolate them on Alcatraz "so that their evil influences may not be extended to other prisoners." They will not be subjected...
...looks out of a hundred advertisements, his every discretion and impertinence is read by all who have letters, and related to all who have not. On every metropolitan daily we support a corps of gossips whose function it is to invade the offices, the houses, the motor cars, the jail cells of the prominent and of the unvirtuous, and to record all for the delectation of the multitude. For one reader of the small boxes on Bitler's foreign policy and the mechanics of his dispensation there are a thousand glutted in the gore of Stasefurt hardware dealers and privy...
Word came that afternoon from Haverstraw, N. Y., 30 mi. up the Hudson, that a freighter had run aground in the mud and that the captain and six of the crew had fled. Customs officials hurried to Haverstraw, found the rest of the "Texas Ranger's" crew in jail for vagrancy. The officials boarded the boat. In the hold they found 25,000 cases of Canadian whiskey worth more than $1,000,000. The vessel had been cleverly disguised to resemble the Texas Ranger even down to the funnel paint and the insignia...
...only for reasons of state. Disputes will be settled by a Reich Press Court, the judges to be appointed by Dr. Goebbels. Ended is the peculiar German system under which each newspaper had a so-called "responsible editor"-usually the office bum-who stood ready to go to jail for mistakes or libels committed by the staff. From now on every German journalist is legally responsible to and must uphold the State...
...officers ran up a flag of truce. As they marched out, laid down their arms and prepared to surrender, the soldiers suddenly opened fire, shot ten defenseless officers dead in their tracks. Thirty more dead officers were found in the hotel. While the living were roughly carted off to jail, their civilian sympathizers on housetops fired into the ranks of the soldier-captors, killed 20. Soon after the officers were imprisoned, the crack of rifle squads sounded grimly from behind the walls. Until late evening guerrilla warfare continued between automobile loads of soldiers and civilians. Estimated day's toll...