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Show THE PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT Military Prison Needs Prisoners Program of Model Institu tion Handicapped. chase of SSA00 worth e talking picture projection machinery was made from this fund. Among the feetures of the prlaon la Ita lighthouse, towering 214 feet shore aea leveL The light la risible 21 nautical miles. This light gives a flash for A of a second, and It la of Is off from 4A seconds. ck Alive 80,000 candle power.Assignment to Aleatraa la considered one of the beat to be had In the army by Ita officers and men, according to 11a Jor Slack. As for the prisoners; well, there's the words of the only lifer on the Island, Joseph Sollwode, "Since 1 have to spend my life somewhere, this la about as good as any prison I'd ever care to be In." The prisoners are dressed In block uniforms and black Bailor caps made from war O. IX material dyed black. The prisoners hare a comBan Francisco, Wanted, 212 prls-o- n plete tailor shop where their dothea era That's what CoL George are repaired and pressed, a shoe MeD. Weeka might advertise about shop, plumbing shop, printing shop, hla model prlaon out In San Frsn-dae- o typewriter repair shop and furniture shops. They also have a launbaj. Ha hasn't enough dry which serves all the poets For Aleatraa, arm disciplinary around the bay. bairacka out on an Island within Pride of the Island Is the furni- Youth Playi Hookey So the elty Umlta of San Francisco, la ture department, where skilled men Others Can Have Food unique for many reaaona: Out of repair antiques and build reproducIta 888 prlaon era onlj one la there tions of the best of Hepplewhlte, Topeka, Kan. When a truant offfor life, only one prisoner has ever Duncan Phyfe, Sheraton and other icer picks up a fourteen-year-ol- d boy for "cutting school" It la not unmade a really successful getaway, typea. and every man works eight hours a The prisoners are allowed to aell usual. But when the boy's reason their products to army and navy Is "I stayed away so my brother and day and four hours on Saturday. slater could have my lunch," It Is It'i a place where there la run- officers. Those In productive capacities unusual. ning hot water and lavatory In Kelaey Petra, the truant every cell, steam heat, shower are allowed $2 a month for their officer. Investigated and found the hatha library, picture show, and work. The balance of what their boys mother and slater and brother every fodllty for the prlsonera Industry brings In goes Into a gen- In need and now he la hunting a Job Under new army regulations a eral welfare fund. A recent pur for the boy. post commander may keep at hla poat guardhouse any prisoner within certain bounda and therefore only the worst cases are sent to Aleatraa Last year the barracks returned 12 men to duty after accomplishing with these prisoners the aim of their Imprisonment, discipline The Island la handicapped In all its activities by the ftet that It has no fresh water, and all water must be hauled by barges from San Fran-dscof modernised forts and Unwomed by la The Island uses 129,000 gal- Republic duo for completion In two yean; lons a day, obtaining the water Arms Cut Discussions. at a cost of $100,000,000. The for from two supply ships. ther of the extensive defense chain An old Spanish fort, the original Parle Whatever arms cuts may, was the late 1L Andre klaginot, Franfortification protecting San or may not, be decided upon at minister of war. cisco, Aleatraa, which became a Geneva, France Is taking It for The great Hadrian wall In Engmilitary prison In 1858, has on duty granted that her present vast land, dating from the time of the under arms only two men at a time, scheme of frontier fortification will Bomans, the great wall of China, although within three minutes 180 not be effected and Is pushing ahead even the World war Hlndenburg persons can be armed to deal with the building of the country's 'great line; were mere straw defenses comany emergency. steel wall. pared with the barrier France has Banking high In Importance In Stretching from the English chan- set up os her protection from forany consideration of the island la nel to the Mediterranean, the chain eign foes; One of the mightiest the kind of food the prisoners get. forts In the chain, at Hackenberg, A sample menu consists of eorn facing Germany, has been deREADY TO STRIKE flakes and milk, fried breakfast bae scribed as a Gibraltar. con, hot cakes, sirup, bread, coffee, Deep down In the earth, the enand butter for breakfast; rice togineers of the French army have mato soup and crackers, fried dug out an underground arsenal, beefsteak, fried onions, mashed pofitted with mechanical appliances; tatoes, brown gravy, lettuce salad, whereby shot and shell can be french dressing, pickled beets, rushed by a system of underground raisin pudding, bread and coffee for railroad to any of the smaller subdinner; baked macaroni and cheese, sidiary posts In the scheme of dedill pickles, doughnuts, bread, and fense. The Hackenberg defends the coffee for snpper. great Industrial area of Meta. Now this menu does not coat There are other big monntalna of . Uncle Sam 84 centa a meal, but 84 steel like the Hackenberg fort, but cents a day I some of them are above ground, And recently they had turkey for like the Hocwald. their Sunday meal at Aleatraa. These and half a dozen other big The Island has an auxiliary garforts keep guard over the 220 miles den over on Angel Island where of frontier from the edge of the fresh vegetables are raised. Keeptiny territory of Luxembourg down ing men busy la the specialty of to the Swiss border. Linked with Colonel Weeks, who attended school the big forts are numerous smaller In San Francisco, served here with pill boxes, or machine-gu-n posts, a company from Vancouver Barsome sunk even In the marshes of racks, Wash, during the lire of the Rhine. 1006; and was attached to the Going along northern France by Presidio during the exposition of road, the traveler passes at regular 2915. But he needs 212 more prisIntervals these mounds of steel, oners to do an the work hed Uke mall or large, peeping from the to have done each with Its gun, or guns, earth, Colonel Weeks and hla adjutant, ready. MaJ. James E. Slack, find that the Cross-fir- e between the forts would General Vassily Constantlnovlch morale of the men la the better, as result In the creation of what, the commander-in-chie- f weU as their appetites; for eight Blucher-Galeof the special far eastern army of French general staff believe, would hours' work The colonel thinks Aleatraa may the U. 8. 8. R, who told a meeting be an Impenetrable barrier In which be beautified by growing of grass of government leaders at Khab- no human thing could live. From the English channel down on the hitherto brown slopes and arovsk that the Bed army Is ready cliffs. The men In the prison agree to strike at any moment at any one to Luxembourg, the defenses are with him and have worked heartily "who dares stretch dirty hands" to- not so Important, being composed nests. mainly of machine-guto carry out hla Ideas; ward Soviet aolL prla-oner- a lFieManWhoBHngs Em o: .J French Border to Have Steel Wall pill-box- man-mad- F, a few years ago; a certain mother down In Texas had been more succcesful In performing the ceremony of "laying on of hands" a ceremony frmlllar to Innumerable moth-o- f Innumerable active; venturesome little boys then thousands of visitors to certain zoological parka In various parts of the United States would never have had the thrill of looking upon the only authentic tiger ever brought to this country, the biggest king cobra evpr captured alive; two of the exceedingly rare Indian rhinoceroses and the tiniest baby elephant (Just two feet and ten Inches at the shoulder) brought across the seas; But lest that statement appear to be too paradoxical let It be explained at once that she was the mother of Frank H. Buck, who as a collector of live animals; reptiles and birds; Is without a peer In the world today. She had discovered her young son bnslly engaged In the capture of a big, angry, bussing rattlesnake near the Buck home on the outskirts of Dallas, Texas; and the "laying on of hands" ceremony was observed forthwith to convince him that there were less dangerous way for a lad of hla years to earn money. (He was collecting rattlesnakes because an old doctor In Minneapolis, Minn who manufactured av"magle snake oil, was In the market for the reptiles). Frank Bnck will tell yon that the ceremony was performed In a most thoroughgoing fashion. But It foiled of Its purpose. For from his earliest childhood wild animals and birds fascinated him and the desire to possess them was his mastering passion. So the mother who tried to shape the destiny of the foremost exponent of the art of "bringing em back alive was due to be foiled from the beginning; When the Buck family moved to Chicago; the boy, no longer able to capture small wild animals and birds as he had done on hla native soil, haunted the Lincoln Park soo and the pet stores in the big city, feasting hla eyes on strange new animals and birds from far-of- f corners of the earth. What money he was able to save he Invested In owning some of these birds paying for one pair. Incidentally, a price ten times as great as he himself could charge when years later he became a collector. When he grew older Frank Bock's hobby took him to 8onth America In search of rare birds. This was followed by a second trip to the southern continent and when he sold hla collection of live birds he found the deal so profitable that he resolved to go In for wholesale bird and animal collecting. And that was the beginning of a unique career. Today Frank Buck can go Into almost any soo In the United States or walk through the menagerie tent of any circus and, looking through the bars of the cages; greet the Inhabitant thereof as an old friend For It was he who brought that Inhabitant from hla native haunts to this place so that the thousands of Americana who have before only heard of the existence of some strange animal can see the animal In the flesh. Obviously a man with such a record has had more than hla share of thrills and narrow escapes from death. Obviously, too, an account of them conld not be told within the space of this article any more than a full account of them could be told In the book "Bring 'Em Back Alive, written by Frank Buck with Edward Anthony and published by Simon and Schuster. But there was apace In that book to ten of the time Frank Bnck found himself Sliding Into a g pit with a tiger which he and his helpers were trying to get out of the pit Into a cage; of the time one of his leopards escaped aboard ship and how he went Into a cabin where the leopard was at bay and roped him; and of the time when a king cobra eaeaped from Ita cage and cornered him In a hut In his . man-eatin- g hollow between Joints; All brought bide exact ly what I had sent him for, a piece ef bamboo about two Inches In diameter. I cut eff a piece about nine lnchee long, leaving the Joint to form the bottom. This gave me a device which I planned to nse as a feeding tube; I sharpened the opening till It came to a point, and, satisfied that I waa on the right track, I proceeded with the next step. "Before this conld be carried out. we had to get our elephant (we practically carried her) to the shack where we had arranged to spend the night I Instructed All to boll some rice In "Fes, I have had more than my share of water. When the rice -- was cooked, I mixed thrills; Frank Bnck will tell you. "Bnt I am some goafs milk with It the result being a to frank to say that these dose calls do not rep- thin but nutritious grneL Then I proceeded ' resent a love of looking death In the eye; I am fill my bamboo with this substance. not that kind of adventurer. I take no unnec- . "This done, All got his shoulder right unessary risks. When a man operates on as big der the elephant's forequarters till she was ala scale as I do he doesn't have to look .for most standing on her back legs. Then I forced trouble. No matter how careful one is, some- the point of the bamboo tube between her tightthing la bound to go wrong when live animals ly dosed Jaws; gradually working It In until 1 and reptiles are handled wholesale. It Is then could tip It up and dnmp the contents down her throat Stubborn to the last she tried to keep that experience counts. And he might add that experience counts In from swallowing, giving in after a few seconds other times than when something goes wrong of gurgling. A second tubeful was prepared and an adventurer each as he Is looks death In and the operation waa repeated, this time the the eye. A big game hunter has to think of task proving less difficult In all, I fed her saving only one life his own. But a man who three tubes of gruel that session. "An hour later I put the obstinate little girl collects wild animals, as Frank Bnck does, has to think of saving hla own life and the animals to bed, covering her up with, some old gunny too. For the biggest king cobra, a giant orang- sacks. The following morning there waa a defig nite Improvement In her condition, some of the utan, an Indian rhinoceros, or a Movable Motor to Boost tiger la utterly valueless to a soo or a circus wobbliness having disappeared. Wo gave her If It Is dead. her breakfast repeating the performance with Seaplane Speed Records the tube. This time It was unnecessary to prop In London. Speeds of 600 miles an animal the counts, keeping too, Experience hour may soon be attained by the alive after It has been captured. Tt may seem her up. A little later In the morning we put her on nse of "movable" engines In racing strange to call Frank Buck a dietitian. But thats exactly what he la and he la an expert a bullock cart and took her back to Domjl, from seaplanes, according to the Inventors of a new type of engine mountIn matters of diet to the most finicky epicures where she was transported, along with my othIn the world. H cant guess how to accustom er specimens to Singapore. We had no trouble ing for aircraft. The mounting la an outgrowth of a wild animal to the change from the food feeding her en route, the bamboo feeding tube which It eats In Its wild state over to civilized working perfectly." experiments connected with the deOne other Item which a wild animal collector He has to know I The capture of some fore; sign and construction of the Britrare wild animal may represent a great outlay needs to have In hla psychological equipment ish Schneider trophy racers which ele- for following his profession Is diplomacy. That lust autumn put up a worlds record of money and time; pins the ment of danger to the collector. Bnt It after Frank Bnck has that Is Shown by the fact that of 407A miles per hour. In experiments the engine Is the beast Is captured, Its captor doesnt know some of his rarest specimens have been obhow to keep It healthy, both physically and tained because of his friendship with oriental mounted on a pivot permitting the Its mentally, the whole investment of time and potentates and his skill In handling the native and engine propeller to be tilted money and the potential value of the animal peoples of the Jungles where he has had to go upward to any desired angle withwhen It Is delivered to the soo or circus may to find his animals. Among these people Frank in a range of nearly 49 degrees Buck Is a great "tuan (chief) and he la that be an entire loss. The fact the engine and propeller In the Malay peninsula and to Indian can be tilted upwards so as to be Typical of some of the dietetic problems to coolies well clear of the water has enabled which Frank Bnck has had to solve waa the rajahs If he hadn't been he would never have the designers to shorten the unease of Bahy Boo, the elephant been permitted to penetrate the forbidden JunIs closed to white men, so hla on one of which he brought back that the wlnga of the dercarriage tripe. So gles of Nepal, which him with those two Indian far as is known there has never been written and bring back airplane almost rests on the water. which now have their homes In the New rhinos In this way their resistance and book of Infont on and Care "The Feeding any zoos. Elephants" So when Frank Buck bought one Fork and Philadelphia weight of the undercarriage have If he hadnt been. It Is doubtful If he would been greatly reduced. from a party of Batiks In Sumatra and It was delivered to him In a weak and have been able to make the remarkable moving which resulted from his last trip to no were condition there wobbling precedents pictures For It was a faithful coolie who Judges English Bad, Orient. the him for to go by In determining what to do to "tuan that a python but His Law Is Good keep from having a dead baby elephant on hla came speeding to tell his was lying near a trail used by a tiger and that at Is hands; Ilere as compound what he Singapore. It: tells d, Conn. happen Bridgeport, Superior Court resulted In an epochal film record of a python-tige- r Those are only three of the times when "My problem had Just begun. I had to get Judge Foster gave himself aero In fignt, the like of which few white men English, but marked himself 100 In Frank Bnck stared death straight In the eyes. some food Into that elephant's belly and withThere were many others. Perhaps the strang- out much loss of time. I sent AU (his native! have ever seen and none has ever before photolaw. graphed. est of all of them was the time a tapir, ordi- assistant) out to scout around for a milk-goCounsel sought to have his JudgFor to cap his career of "bringing 'em hack ments In two civil actions set aside narily the meekest of all animals, tried to crush He brought one back and hurriedly milked It because he used faulty language, him to death with Its six hundred pounds of I tried to pour some milk down the stubborn alive Frank Buck haa lately brought hack a movie record of life In the Jungle; which Is as saying "an ordinarily reasonable weight and all bnt succeeded. Then there was pachyderm's throat but I couldn't get her Jaws of his career as a cob and prudent person." the giant Jungle-ma- open. Once or twice I managed to get them unique as the record Foster de- the time when an orang-utaof Malaya, was Just ready to draw him partly open but. before I could pour the milk lector of wild animals. He also has brought clining to set aside the Judgments back the memory of one of his narrowest esInto a death embrace with his powerful arms down Sh closed' them again. said: from denth the memory of being stalked him to tear and then "This group of words constitutes pieces with his teeth. "I considered live or six different plana for capesa tiger, of tripping and foiling backward awkward, clumsy and Imperfect There was Just one chance to escape alive and feeding that animal, dismissing them an Im- by when the big cat hurled Itself at him and of This young lady of Tenlno, a town south of Seattle; Wash., Is dis- English. In place of these words Frank Buck took It Hea not a professional as practical as fast they popped Into my head. looking up and seeing the striped belly of the playing some of the wooden money there after the local bank dosed. there should be substituted 'reasonboxer, but when the orang came at him with Then I an Idea that I thought waa worth animal paaalng over him. "Fes; It was a rather Printed on thin spruce veneer, It was Issued by the chamber of commerce ably prudent person.' But the only outspread arms; Bnck simply walked In and trying. got The first step was to send All to a close call," said Frank Buck In telling me of to the amount of 25 per cent of each Individual's deposit In the bank. As power the court bus to disturb the gave the Jungle-maan uppercut on the point nearby dump to cut me a length of bamboo. this Incident. "But well, you see me hers; affairs are liquidated the scrip will be taken In and a new scrip for an- verdict Is based on some error of of the Jaw that was as an effective k. a. as was As Is commonly known, a stick of bamboo Is don't youl" other 29 per cent Issued. ever In demonstrated the prise ring. law by the judge or Jury. made up of a series of Joints; the wood being (C hr Wwtm MnrapMMT UbIm.) - n Wooden Money Goes in Western Town IVank Sutk and "Baby Boo" man-eatin- ever-prese- man-eatin- n n half-starve- d, |