Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trouble has been brewing at Dartmoor Prison for weeks. Long-term convicts are kept there, hollow-eyed men in grey, their uniforms patterned with the Broad Arrow of King George.* They did not like their food, they did not like their cells, and they had heard tales of bloody, partly successful prison riots in the U. S. In Exeter and Plymouth, police chiefs were warned to be ready. Householders living on the moor were enrolled as special constables. Early last week Home Secretary Sir Herbert Samuel visited the prison to inspect conditions for himself...
...dawn on Sunday the prison siren hooted across the moor. Convicts had broken into the warden's office and attempted to steal the keys. Every man in Princetown, the little village under the prison walls, was given a rifle and posted near the jail. The central cell block roared up in flames, the clock tower fell. Guards with riot guns stood on ladders and popped at every cropped head that showed above the parapet...
...During the War of 1812 Dartmoor Prison held some 2,000 U. S. sailors impressed from merchant and naval ships who preferred prison rather than serving against the U. S. They too had no sugar on their porridge. On April 6, 1815 they struck. Guards killed six. In memory of them is a stained glass window in the prison chapel...
Adam Had Two Sons finds good Actor Paul Kelly (Bad Girl) in bad company. He and his brother have escaped from a California prison to Panama. There they fall in love with one Teresa (Raquel Torres, one of the cinema's Mexican girls). Follows some shooting, a flight by boat, fraternal sacrifice and, after two hours, the blessed surcease of a final curtain...
...energetic was Hearst's evening Journal. It tried to engineer a last-minute visit of Helen Walsh, the girl friend, to the death house; it assigned seven reporters and photographers to the story and ballyhooed it with a radio broadcast by the city editor. Other newsmen at the prison called the proceedings ''The Journal's execution...