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Alcatraz, gloomy fortress on an island in San Francisco Bay is the Federal Government's stronghold for hardened offenders. At Alcatraz trouble started last week when 23 prisoners refused to leave their cells to work. One hundred of the 280 inmates went on strike. When Warden James A. Johnston went to the prison mess-hall during inspection, Convict Burton Phillips, serving a life term for kidnapping, jumped on the 63-year-old warden from behind. Before guards could help him, Warden Johnston had been knocked down and savagely beaten...
Tattnall State Prison, brand new "Alcatraz of the Piney Woods" was designed to stop Georgia chain-gang and prison-camp escapes, which have embarrassed Georgia's Governor Eureth Dickinson Rivers. Last week, the Governor of Georgia was embarrassed again. Six of "escape proof" Tattnalls first tenants coolly sawed through their bars, wriggled through a trap door. Three of the six then clambered over a barbed wire fence, scampered off into the pine woods...
...Newark, N. J. a file of shackled prisoners on their way from courthouse to jail passed the Second Ward, Fourth District polling place. "Hey, wait!" shouted the head man in the file, "this is where I vote." He was hustled off to prison...
...Oviedo last week, and Miguel Aranda, now a general, was still its commander, but there was plenty of food in the shell marked shops, the soldiers had plenty of munitions. To reporters Commander Aranda explained his methods of keeping the populace loyal: "We put about 700 men in prison.* Others, mostly young fellows, slipped off and joined the Reds. But the majority remained with us. We put them to work...
...Also in prison last week, not in Rightist Spain, but in France, lodged barrel-chested Major Julian Troncoso, Commandant of Irún, Franco agent on the French-Spanish border. Arrested for alleged connection with the subnapping episode fortnight ago (TIME, Sept. 27), and the terrorist activities of a Rightist French secret society, Les Cagoulards (the Hooded Men) Major Troncoso boasted that Franco would retaliate with arrests of French consuls in his territory. Franco threatened the San Sebastián French consul with arrest, then capitulated, was reported to have booted out Major Troncoso as his Irún agent...