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When the G-men and their prisoners arrived in San Francisco, Thompson was taken immediately to Alcatraz, began serving his long-overdue sentence. Steinberg was held for extradition to New York. The others were all charged with aiding the fugitives. The capture of Steinberg and Thompson reduces the number of missing U.S. Communists to five. Of the top leaders who have gone underground, two-National Organization Secretary Harry Winston and Illinois Chairman Gilbert Green-are still missing...
Morton Sobell, the atom spy who was convicted along with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (now in Sing Sing under death sentence), was transferred from the Atlanta penitentiary to serve his 30-year sentence in the "maximum security" of Alcatraz...
...Francisco, Warden Edwin Swope brought up a housing problem of another sort. The average cost of rooming & boarding an inmate of Alcatraz, he announced, is now $8 a day-more than twice the rate of other federal prisons, and about the same as a single room in a good San Francisco hotel...
Hidden Assets. By taking on such jobs, the 104-year-old Mosler Safe Co. has become the world's largest safemaker. It built the huge vaults at Fort Knox, designed the complex system of precision locks which close the cell blocks of Alcatraz Prison. So many Tokyo banks installed Mosler's vaults that when the U.S. Army was searching for hidden hoards of Japanese gold and securities, Mosler could give them all the detailed floor plans they needed as well as shrewd hints where to look...
Died. Irving Wexler, 63, alias Waxey Gordon, onetime (1905) pickpocket who advanced through stickups, slugging, dope-peddling and murder into big-time racketeering; of a heart attack; on Alcatraz. During Prohibition, paunchy, bullet-headed Waxey muscled into a string of New Jersey breweries, cleaned up a profit of $4,555,537 in 1931-32, but paid only $2,615.76 in income tax (for which U.S. District Attorney Tom Dewey put him away for seven years in 1933). In the underworld of Al Capone, Legs Diamond and Dutch Schultz, Waxey luxuriated in a life of $10 silk underwear and shiny Lincolns...