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...Navy, convicts make submarine nets; make or recondition buoys; repair hundreds of shoes; do laundry. They are making 300,000 Navy pillowcases, 40,000 mattress covers, have turned out 10,000 Navy cafeteria trays and only await metal to turn out 100,000. The prison's furniture shop has made hundreds of night sticks for the California State Guard; the jute mill makes sacking for sandbags, the machine shop repairs Navy valves...
When the Red Cross asked for blood, 700 convicts volunteered, 144 already have donated. Men in the prison tailor shop cut material for Red Cross sewing units. Soon the convicts will begin to reclaim rubber-covered copper wire salvaged and brought back from Pearl Harbor. In a million-dollar, convict-built factory, 1,000 skiff-type commando assault boats will be made if San Quentin's bid is accepted...
...Peacetime laws limiting operation of prison industries have been shelved for the duration, to make possible full use of the 150,000 men in the nation's State prisons...
...French soldiers and whose great-grandfather fought all through the Napoleonic wars. Last week Painter Jean Hélion (who has had 15 one-man shows in the U.S. alone) told as much as he could, without endangering those who helped him, of how he escaped from a Nazi prison camp in Eastern Prussia, crossed some 1,000 miles of Germany, Belgium and Occupied France to Vichy, later sailed...
...Abstract Painter Hélion began to plot his escape. With the aid of a Shell Oil road map he had found, Hélion spent months studying a route to Switzerland. Suddenly he was moved to a camp at Stettin in eastern Germany. There he was made prison interpreter, got himself elected "representative" by the other prisoners. He gained the confidence of the Nazis. Meanwhile he picked up vital facts about the geography of the district. Again he began to plan escape...