The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 16, 1933, Page 7

|l » Royale, ® Island and other penal institutions § & arid, ® ed their own books and newspa- ahis way home or he, Too, ends his CHEE WHIZ ' HERE COMES DAT FLATFOOT AGAIN - HOW'M [ EVER GONNA GRAB MESELF A MEAL IF DESE MUGS KEEP FOLLERIN' ME !t Prisoners, in Batches, Flee F rom D(’ul’.s I.slaml Off S.A.! < ? BRITISH \ < ] o 2y N, W 1 GUIANA 2N TR Devil's Island, where France sends her political prisoners, lies off the morthern coast of Scuth America, as shown on the map. A boat load of typical culprits, under guard, is shown in the photograph. Many of these men have tried lately to escape from the penal colony. By The A Wholezale escapes ted Press) spend their time carving figurss of from Devil's | animals, women and birds out of rdwood. in French Guina have focused the All eke out a bare existence un- attention of the world again on|til de udgment of the the “dry guillotine” so famed in | French courts has been.satisfied tales of fact and fiction. Syndicate Aids Escapes Ever since Major Alfred Drey- scape often has been pictured fus languished through long, lone- as almost impossible, because the ly years, a victim of the amazi g | colony is hemmed In by jungles Count Esterhazy plot, on Devil infosted with snakes and wild ani- Island, fantastic tales have been|mals. However, within a‘ year, woven around this tiny spot, 27| more than 100 of the prisoners miles off the French Guiana coa have fled, presumably through the iv dicate It's Verdant, Not Bleak connivance of a secrel syn Many of them have been mis- I which has aided criminals to make Jeading. Devil's Island is not an't“i’!’ way through jungles or sun-scorched rock nor is n across the Caribbean to the West i e Indies. an impenetrable jungle area. ; 2 % is a verdant dot on the map dom— I“bls ol;nz:cgbego:xeezzrfia\tr:a;erf ed roves of lofty coconut | humber X ?;3;51 e ished in the dangerous jungles. It is one of three islands that S R make up the penal stations in, MRS, RALPH RIES HOSTESS French Guiana. ~The group is ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON known as the “Isles of Salvation” | and include, besides Devil's Island,’ the island of St. Joseph, with its prison hospital, and the Isle of with tiers of tiny stone cells for incorrigibles. Devil’s Island is reserved for po- Jitical prisoners who have been gentenced to life imprisonment. Life there is far less rigorous than at the other convict stations. Colony of Prisoners ' There are no dungeons, barred windows or high walls. The “li- ‘evs” live in small cabins, wear their own clothing and are allow- james Ferguson and Mrs. Mrs. Ralph Ries was hostess on Thursday afternoon at a luncheon and shower for Mrs. Jerry McKin- ley, at which a number of their friends were present. Following the luncheon and pres- entation of the gifts, cards were played until 5 o'clock. Those present in addition to the hostess and honor guest were Mrs. 'Emil Zingler, Miss Mae Fraser, Mrs. Frank Clark, Mrs. A. Lund- strom, Mrs. Edward Sweeney, Mrs. P. Leighton, Helen Hillery, Hazel .0, pers. Although' only about 400 miles north of the equator, sca . SEE THE breezes ccol the atmosphere, mak-'paotest styles in hand bags at the ing it more healthful than many NUGGET SHOP. —adyv. gettlements along the swamp- _ ‘fringed, jungle-clad mainland. | ‘ Virtually the entire foreign pop-: ulation of French Guina i3 made up of men and women who have been convicted of crimes in the . French courts. They are known as “lifers” and may be found in the coast towns and farming and mining regions of the interior. 4 This is because culprits sent to Prench Guina for more than sight years must remain for life. A man sentenced for a lesser period must spend one year in the colony for each year of his sentence beforz he can return to France. Then h2 or his family or friends must pay Built by Dependable Service Our ability to take charge in all circumstances has jus- tified the abiding faith of Junean in’ this institution. Complcte funeral service in homelike surroundings. Chapel. Organ. Private re- tiring room. The Charles W. Carter Mortuary days in the colony. ' Devil's Island itself is not over- populated. In recent years there Bave at times been fewer than a'dozen prisoners there. ‘They are momy spies. ‘Three are aviators. * All Classes i Al professions and trades arz represented among the “liberes,” On the streets of Cayenne, site of one of the colony’s largest pris- *ons, stroll former lawyers, doctors, | engineers, artists and peasants, as well as former habitues of the dlums of Paris and Marseille. Many are Sengalese, Arabs, Hindus, and 1do-Chinese. ! PHONE 136-2 syl foe o mork d Toe Last Serio 1s the | wi i p with the natives; some Copsion, Taputy te small shops. Still others e | | rang with all the sounds of his voice. | She was very hot, because she lived ! stockings, berets, and magenta lips | ,wpnldn‘k believe me." BAH ! THE FINNEGAN KID AIN'T AROUND HERE '™ J1S! WALKIN ME DOGS OFF FER NAWTHIN BOY ! OERE'S A GUY WOT KNOWS How - TO SNORE 1 geous Fortune & t‘:Y’;V?Ps)rs: Ely Ichnncs c'iaro‘!ll_ns A shy young man who was naget- Leigh' has found her cousin, Jim » Fandal. #e tells her a fantastic |\ Wwith .an unlighted cigarette stor ui'l:l’u,imrd as 711';4sbbrmvd bry £ looked out of the window. The Miss ta Riddell, ie is told by Nesta that : " i he stole the famous Van Berg emer- B‘"”‘;QS' ‘_”"’ kept a genteel wool g nd .\'I/mt Elmer Van Berg. Z"Im chop in Mickleham Street, sat prim- worst is that Jim cannot remember v 8i i thetmmedsate paet emecus tnflaghee | 11 eide by side in thelr neat, d0Wdy ne of the flashes shows him | blue serge coats and skirts. They drinking with Van Berg, aid the | wore identical ~tucked musiin blouses with high collars and rolled gold collar-supports, and twin hats lds in Van Berg's hand ! Per- Tians he did ahoot the man, Jirs of dark blue straw with plain black ribbons. The schoolboy next to them was immereed in the latest mystery thriller. The old gentleman with the heard went on filling his pipe. And the young married couple opposite Caroline continued to hold one an- other’s hands. Snails have no charm to unite a carriage full of strangers in a com- mon bond of interest. But no cooner had the stout woman pronounced the name Van Berg than everyone had something to say. “It's & queer thing they don’t seem to catch the man that shot Mr. Van Berg,” she said, and the school- boy emerged from his thriller witha jerk. “They say they’ve got a clue,” he began. “That doesn’t mean very much,” said the old man. He tapped his pipe. “The sort of thing they say to keep the public quiet—like throw- ing a bone to a dog.” The girl with the large blue eyes rolled them at the shy young man and giggled. The stout woman fanned herself. *“I was up at the Hall yesterday—" “Packham Hall?” said both Miss Boringe together, tells Caroline, Caroline refuses to believe #t, and plans to trace down ta’s marrigge record, She leaves Jim in Hale Place, his old home, but closed for the last few years. Chapter 24 ‘TO LONDON AROL! caught the seven- thirty to London. All the time she and Jim were getting into Hale Place, while he was pulling down the blankets and she was saying someone might see her if she came back by day, she was concocting a secret plan. In the end she ran away because she was afraid that he would guess what she meant to do. She thought he would have guessed if ne hadn’t been stupid with fatigue. She thought he was like a man half drugged. That was why he hadn’t guessed; and it was lucky for her, because if he had guessed, he would have tried to stop her, and she meant to go. It was past two o’clock when she came back to the cottage. The gate was unlatched and the door stood wide open as she had left it. IT Patsy Ann had only known! To Patsy there was always a burglar round the next corner. Caroline "undressed and lay down under her great-grandmother broidered quilt, but she did not| slesp. She was too flooded with joy | ” to sleep, Her hands still kept the touch of Jim's hands; her ears still HE stout woman nodded. “Cook’s my brother's second wife's cousin-in-law, and I took her over a couple of pots of honey. Tha shop stuff’s that watered down shg don’t relish it, so-I took her som down the stairs, made tea, and|of mine—never been before wher boiled herself an egg. Then she |they didn't'keep their own bees, an] wrote on the slate, “Gone to town,” | don’t like it. and propped it up against the bowl| “And then to have a murder, o of fruit in the middle of the gate-leg | next door to it, well, she don’t think table; after which she set out to|she'll stay—such an upset, and not walk four miles across the fields to Hinton, where she caught the train. She had the compartment to her self as far as Ledlington, where it filled up. She wondered what she would do if Nesta Riddell were to get in. How dare she say Jim was her hushand? It was the most unbe- lievable, impudent thing. Caroline tripped up over her own word. This wasn't unbelievable, because she had done it. The unbelievable thing was that she should claim a strang- er. But she had claimed a stranger. Had she? If it was unbelievable, then Caroline didn’t believe it. Then he wasn't a stranger. Where did this take her. She had a terrified sense of having betrayed herself and Jim, he pushed the word that had pped her right out of her mind and shut the door on it, She hadn’t got to account for what Nesta Rid- dell had done. She had only to go to the ' Grove Road registry office and see James Riddel’s name in‘# stranger’s writing. That would | She had no time to fall asleep. At six she dressed, went tiptoe heard the shot, she come over that queer she couldn’t have got out of bed, not if it had been the house on fire. “‘Mrs. Rogers,’ she says—that be- ing my name—‘Mrs. Rogers, I give you my solemn identical word, [ Just pulled the clothes over my head and waited to see if I was going to be murdered in ‘my bed. She don't look her right color yet.” “I don’t know hew I should feel in the middle of the night,”.eafd the young married wothan.: r “I know what you'd*do,” sald her husband—"pinch me, same as you'ra doing now.” The girl giggled, and the Miss Borings coughed. “Ah!"” said Mrs. Rodgers. “It isn't everyone that's got someone to pinch. I'm a widow meself, and go’s Mrs. Henry that I've- been telling you about. Her "usband was a p'lice- man, so it doesn’t.put her about having the poli¢e in and out.and alt prove that Nesta was lying, and that | over the place, as you might say— Jim was free. It was the easiest|and maybe she'd got'told:s thing or thing in the world, and she felt|two as she wouldn’t have got told that she couldn’t bear to eee Jim|itif weren't for her Illblnd’l official again until she had the proof that| position.” it was not he who had signed the| Everyone leaned (orwnd a little. register as Nesta Riddell's hushand, | The shy young man burst fato The train jogged along. It stoppéd | speech. s at every station, but after Ledling-{ “DId she tell you whom '-hey sus- ton the compartment was too full to | pected?” take in any more passengers, ' Mrs. Rodgers lhook her head. 8 “Were there ahy' ‘fiuger prints?” aaid the !choolboy ‘"fluy'll get him: if there were,” ° “Ah!” sald Mrs. Rodgers darkly. “Well, I don’t know as I ought to say, but seeing as ' we're al) friends helrte—" She paused, tanning her- self. Caroline caught the inside of her lip between her ‘teeth. Her hands held each other hard. A general mur- HERE was an old woman with & string bag full of vegetablés and an enormous sheaf of cottage flowers—crimson phlox, red and yel- low single dahlias, full-blown cab- bage roses, and clove carnations which scented the whole compart- ment, y: She had a crushed black straw hat on the back of her head, a black Cashmere dress, and a thick black cloth coat. Her face was broad and red under scanty wisps of grey hair. proceed. “Well, it’s something as hasn’t got into the papers—Fcan tall’you that —and everyone in the-house told not to say a word. Phey’d ‘have kep’ them from knowjng it o be they leaf, ‘and as ‘soon as she had got | could, but when there’s a tray and ‘her breath sho began to talk, first | 81asses took for finger prints, there's about the weather, and then about | 80ing to be talk in the servants’ hall the Van Berg case. Three girls em | Whether or no.” the opposite seat, flimeily dressed| “Ah—" said the old man with the slips of things with salmon-colored | beard. Caroline’s grip rsllxed a trifle. went on whispering and giggling to- | She knew this already; it was what gether while she told them how the [|Jim had told her. But then it snails were over-running her garden | meant—it meant he had remem- from one end to the other, and how | bered right! she had set a elug trap—“And I3} (Copyright, 1933, J. B. Lippincott Co.) was to tell you what I caught, Vflfl two miles out of Ledlington and had hurried to catch the train. % She fanned herself with a cabbage Sk W L e g what ehe's used to. Why, when she | it I was to hear'someone being shot , mur encouraged Mrs. Rodgers to | By PAT FRAYNE SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. 16. s hdve gone phht! disappeared in foot- ! the new code of proce for 1933. Tt is par: doxical that while ten yards from | the sidelines the penalty of re- stricted play stops, the field has | alfo been widened. The first impression of the new foofball rule that did away with | the penalty of a “sacrifice play” | at the sidelines was that it would do away with wasting a “down.” Now it appears that it will he| a matter of new football strategy | for the coaches and players, and | will provide more spectacular ad- vances. It “opens” the game up.| It will mean, further that the run to get over the sidelines will be a thing of the past. It is also indicated that the 10 yard strip along the sidelines will bz an alley down which the ball carrier will be trying for gains all the time, Habits to Break For the new rules provides that any ball carrier brdught to the ground closer than 10 yards to the sidelines is theoretically as much out of bounds as though he carrizd the ball out. For if he is ground- ed 1 yard from the actual side- lines or 9 yards from the sidelines the ball is placed 10 yards in for the next play. Coaches who sat in the p: box at Kezar Stadium hcre cently got a glimpse of the work- ing of this rule when the Olym- pic Club played the Marines. They noticed that many times a player might have cut back in and taken a chance at getting a f:w more yards and succeeded. They say that the old habit of going out of bounds so that the ball would not have to be put in | play at the edze of the field as the old rules was going to be the hardest habit to break. TFor ex- perienced players have been so used to going over the sidelinesto protect the next play that they forget they are safe enough if they remain inside the sideline trying for additional yardage, no matter how close to the side they are brought down. Ne More Danger With ' veteran players, the use of the 10 yard “alley” was admit- ted by coaches who saw the rule under operation to be one of the hardest of habits to break. With thz younger players who have worked under the ‘same rules in the prep 'School they expect to ‘have some ' trouble. It may take a year ot s0' of constant drilling ,Si;l elines Va#ish | U n(le} New Grid Rule, Making Game More Spectacular | | to bring about an habitual accepi- | footed before he got out. | losses, or no gain. | cal edge because they were close OIS HUNK O' TIN OUGHTTA FETCH A | COUuPLA & HAMBURGERS - ance of the new conditions. . The sideline run has’ always been a spectacular one, but the player was in danger of losing his team a down if he was brought to earth too close to the sideline. It mcant the sacrificing of a down on the first play in order *to get the ball out 20 yards under the old rule. And even on occasions when a half back tried to get 'a few yards along with the out of bounds play, he sometimes was caught flat As a result, the back would slip around the end of his team more often for | With the defensive team the po- tential tackler had the psychologi- to the line. On several historic occasions they did—when “Harry” Cain of Alabama ran 71 yards to the Bammers' lone touchdown 13ainst St. Mary's last year, and when “Bucky” O'Connor did about the same distance by cutting baek cn Ernie Pinckert, who was fun- ning ‘him to' the sidelines in the S. C-Notre Dams game of 1930. Widens Field Under the new rules such plays will probably be more common—if the ball carriers remember. It means that the potential tackler can't expect to just force the op- posing back out of bounds.’ He will have to cover more territory and expect a cut back. The side line will mean nothing to a play- er who is trying to advance. It is apparent that football wlllw provide a lot more spectacular play | under the new rule than it did under the old one. oo ! Juneau Drug Co. Phonefh:! ! ) Delivery”Service P. O. Substation No. 1 51 \ R R S P S S P S T ™. P G Py S into ‘complete. PHONE 549 Four Hours ... a Few Cents.. . and an Let us tell you how hundreds have modernized an old house +o« with paint! Vlnutomnd Rasmussen Four E“‘ line of Rasmussen Rasmussen & Copp’q’- IDEAL PAINT SHOP If It's Pain: We Have It! 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