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Sacramento, Calif.
Sirs:
... To be more exact, a dogie is a calf whose mama has died and whose papa has run off with another cow.
Tammany's Ahearn
'"SPLENDID YOUR ACCOUNT OF NEW YORK CITY POLITICAL SITUATION [TIME OCT. 23] BEST I HAVE READ EX-SENATOR EDWARD J AHEARN HAS NOT ALONE YOUTH AND VITALITY BUT COUPLED WITH SHREWD POLITICAL ACUMEN TO RESURRECT AND) REHABILITATE TAMMANY HE WAS BORN AND BRED INTO POLITICS
MARTIN RUBIN
New York City
Biggest Western Bank
TIME USUALLY IS CORRECT IN ITS
STATEMENTS BUT WE HAVE CLASSICAL AUTHORITY THAT EVEN JOVE NODS OCCASIONALLY STOP TIME NODDED IN ISSUE OF OCTOBER 23 WHEN ON PAGE 49 IT STATED CONTINENTAL ILLINOIS WITH $630,000,000 IN DEPOSITS IS THE LARGEST BANK WEST OF MANHATTAN STOP BANK OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRUST AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION WITH HEAD OFFICE IN SANFRANCISCO WITH ITS $767,000,000 OF DEPOSITS AS OF JUNE 30 1933 IS THE LARGEST BANK.
WEST OF MANHATTAN AND IS FOURTH
LARGEST BANK IN UNITED STATES STOP NO CALIFORNIAN COULD ALLOW YOUR STATEMENT TO PASS WITHOUT CORRECTION.
WILL C. WOOD
Oakland, Calif.
Alcatraz Swim
Sirs:
In TIME for Oct. 23 under the title Crime, 'Hardest Jail." the following statement is made: "Its" rocky sides rising sheer as a battleship, swept by tidal currents too strong for any man to swim, a little island called Alcatraz dots the broad expanse of San Francisco Bay."
Perhaps the currents are too strong for men to swim, but they fail to have that effect on women. Within the past three weeks, three young San Francisco girls have negotiated the distance between Alcatraz Island and the mainland.
Miss Doris McLeod, on Thursday, Oct. 19, swam from the shore to the island and then around it. She started from pier 45 on the embarcadero, bucked the tide all the way out and half the way back and landed at the South End Rowing Club in two hours flat.
Gloria Scigliano swam from the shore to the island on the same day: time, 57 minutes. Miss Anastasia Scott, daughter of an Army sergeant stationed on the island, negotiated the distance in 47 minutes earlier in the week. In line with efforts of criminals who might attempt this means of escape, she started from the island. The feat was also accomplished by one Mabel Green as far back as 1923. . . .
MARTIN W. HALEY
San Francisco, Calif.
Sirs: ,
There has been a loud squawk out here by the "More Holy than Thou" crowd against the adoption of this prison for the purpose of housing these intractable Federal thugs. While I cannot imagine any community inviting this "attraction" into its midst I do think that these protests are out of order. Convicted criminals must be imprisoned somewhere. I his somewhere must necessarily be in the proximity of some community. If the Government wants to use Alcatraz let the people of the San Francisco Bay area accept it just as citizens we accept unpleasant taxes, jury duty and compulsory military duty in wartime. This prison problem is one phase of our national crime problem and according to last reports San Francisco is still an integral part of the good old U. S. A. So let's accept cheerfully the burdens as well as the benefits of our citizenship.
H. W. SPENCER