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Nancy Rutherford, left, Muriel Ewen and Eva Bennett, members of Gamma Chap
ter, Beta Sigma Phi, stuff March of Dimes envelopes for mailing Jan. 1. The soror
ity women combined a business meeting with the project Tuesday night in the California-Pacific
offices. The stuffing is done annually by members of the sororities
in La Grande.
NATO Tables American-French
Differences In Defense Setup
PARIS i LTD NATO's 15 for
e'gn ministers today shelved for
the moment the French Ameri
can dispute over defense policy
aid adopted a four-point agenda
for next spring's summit meeting
with Russia. Disarmament led the
list.
A NATO spokesman said the
ministers picked the Items they
thought should head the program
for the East-West talks disarma
ment,, Germany and .the linked
Berlin problem. East - West re
lations generally, and aid to un
derdeveloped countries.
The ministers, with Secretary of
State Christian A. Hertcr present
to prepare for this weekend's
western summit talks, not only
studied the topics to be considered
in an East-West meeting but tac-
Local Scout .
Council Plans
For Jamboree
Blue Mountain Council of the
Boy Scouts of America is making
preparations for the ma's con
tingent to the fifth National Jam
boree which will be held on 'he
2.000 acre Reverse. J. Diamond
Ranch at Colorado Springs, Colo..
July 22 to 28.
Gene Hibbert, La Grande, will
be one of the leaders representing
this area with a troop of boys at
the golden jubilee year jamboree.
Doctor Will Go
' Transportation will be provided
to and from the Jamboree and a
doctor will accompany the group
of boys and their scoutmasters.
The trip wi'l include a visit to
Yellowstone National Park and a
s'.op at the mile-high city of Colo
rado, Denver. On the homeward
trip, there will be a tour of Salt
Lake City.
More than 100 scouts from the
Blue Mountain Councill are ex
p:cted to sign up for the event
which will draw 50.000 boys for the
Gulden Jamboree.
FEDERAL CASE AGAINST U.S.
HOODS GOES TO JURY TODAY
NEW YORK (I'PD The fed
eral government's most massive
effort to break the rackets syndi
cate since the days of Al Capone
goes to the jury today in the
trial of 20 accused conspirators
at the notorious Apalachin, N.Y..
meeting of 1957.
U.S. District Judge Irving Kauf
man was to instruct the eight
men and four women jurors be
fore they receive the case.
Prosecutor Mi'ton Wessel wound
up his case Wednesday night
with the cha.ge that the defend
ants were so bound in sibnee
that "grown men cry" rather
than reveal what happened at the
Apalachin home of the late Jo
seph Barbara two years ago.
Most of the defendants have
criminal records ranging from
narcotics and illegal gambling to
white slavery and suspicion of
murder. It is widely believed
that Apalachin was a meeting of
the "board of directois" of the
ENVELOPE STUFFERS
tics the West should employ when
there.
The summit recommendations
were contained in a. report "as
thick as a fist" prepared by west
ern diplomats in a series of Lon
don meetings. Study of the pro
posals took priority today over the
disputes plaguing NATO and re
ports the alliance was only at one
third strength.
Stoh Arms Agreement
The, angry debate over Frp xe's
go-it-alone defense tactics was put
aside while the council suggested
means of netting a worthwhile
arms control agreement out of So
viet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
Defense debate will be resumed
in February or March, informants
said.
The decision to give the Berlin
German question a secondary role
at a summit meeting apparently
was a victory for West German
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and
French President Charles de
Gaulle. They had been cool to the
idea of pinning success in easing
the cold war on the difficult prob
lem Diplomatic sources said only
Presidents Eisenhower and
Charles de Gaulle can hope to set
tle the disputes which threaten
the effectiveness of the Atlantic
pact. '
They expressed hope that talks
between the two chiefs of state
this week end will solve enough
problems to cleaf the way for
unified planning for next year's
summit talks with Russia.
U.S. criticism of French "foot-
Santa In New
Visit Saturday
Santa Claus will make his final
pre-Chrisimas Eve visit to La
Grande youngsters Saturday at 2
p.m.
Santa will arrive on a fire truck
and will b accompanied by the
La Grande High School band.
Stores will remain open until 9
p.m. Friday to accommodate
Christmas shoppers.
rackets to discuss national prob
lems. Charged With Conspiracy
But the federal government
charged them only with conspir
acy to obstruct justice by lying
about what did occur. The offense
carries a maximum penalty of
five years imprisonment.
"We have not, cannot and do
not prove what was going on at
the Apalachin meeting," Wessel
said. "The conspiracy was suc
cessful. "People may ask, 'what kind of
conspiracies can't be beaten by
the federal government, by (he
FBI""
"It is the kind that binds these
people together so tightly in si
lence that grown men cry. They
are bound by bands so strong to
lie that it will take a verdict of
guilty to break those bands."
All the defendants are of Ital
ian descent and there have been
suggestions that moat .w ere mem
dragging" on Western defense
clouded the three-day council
meeting. French resentment
expected to carry over into the
Western summit meeting that
opens Saturday.
French Indignant
The United States also is con
cerned over de Gaulle's refusal to
permit the stockpiling of U.S. nu
clear weapons on French soil or
to participate in coordinated plan
utog fur the air defense-'of Wes
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ern r-urupe.
- The French, on the other hand,
are indignant about the U.S. re
fusul to side with them in last
week's U.N. vote on Algeria. The
United States adhered to its pol
icy of abstaining from a vote on
the issue.
City Dads
Reappoint
Commissions
Thirteen members of standing
commissions and boards were re
appointed last night by the city
commission.
The following reappointments
were approved by the commis
sioners:
Planning commission '4 yearst
Dr. Roy L. Skcen and Lynn An
dcrson.
Library board 14 years) Mrs.
Henry Bates.
Boxing commission (1 year!
Dr. Fred R. Otten, Grant Miller-
ing, E. R. Quinn and Don Rags-
da:e.
Civil service commission (6
years) Walter R. Parker.
Airport commission 4 years)
orman Daniels.
Budget committee 3 years)
A. B. Olson and C. Powell Graham
Coning boaid of adjustment 5
years) J. L. Sinden.
Gas board of examiners '3
years) Rail Jones. Jones
gas installer and his appointment
was maae oy tne city manager
end approved by the commission.
bers of the Mafia, the Sicilian
terrorist society wtiose code is
silence to the death.
Summoned Help
The meeting occurred only
few weeks after racket kingpin
Albert Anastasia was shot to
death in a New York barber's
chair.
State Police Sgt. Edgar Cros-
well was the man who spotted the
gathering of about 60 men driving
gleaming limousines at the hill
top home near the tiny village
After he summoned reinforce
ments and set up road blocks,
Barba-a's "guests'' took off by
foot through the fields and woods.
Not a single defendant testified
in his own defense.
Most of them previously told
grand jury and investigating of
ficers they "just happened" to
drop in on old friend, Barbara.
because they had heard he was
ill.
LA GRANDE, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBtR 17, 1959
Terrible' Touhy
Gunned To Death
On Chicago Street
CHICAGO lUPI '-Roger Touhy.
pint-sized Prohibition era beer
baron who ended a 25-year-prison
term only 23 days ago. was shot
to deuth Wednesday night in a
blast of gangland-style shotgun
fire.
Ttuhy, 61, died in the emergen
cy room of a hospital a utile
more than an hour after two gun
men stalked a"d shot him and u
bodyguaid as they stepiK'd from
car in front of a West Bide
home where Touhy lived.
Touhy's bodyguard was Walter
Miller, 62. a retired police ser
geant who was a star defease
witness al Touhy's kidnaping trial
35 years ago. Doth men collapsed
on the front stoop of the home
of Touhy's sister, Mrs. Ethel
Altsia.
Touhy, who had aged and wast
ed during 25 years behind bars
after conviction for the kidnaping
of John (Jake the Barber Factor,
was shot only in the left leg but
lost his life blood before reaching
a hospital.
Expresses Sorrow
Factor, in perhaps a strange
twist of fate, was in Chicago at
the time Tonhv w " i- 1 dow.
He said lie was line in connec
tion with a libel suit he had fjled
against Touhy.
I'm heartily sorry for what
happened," Factor told United
Press International reporter Rich
ard McCormick in a hotel room
interview early today.
Factor said he first heard of
the shooting while in a nightclub
on Chicago's near North Side with
a travelling companion. Detec
tives obtained a minute-by-minute
account of Factor's stay in Chi
cago. One remained through the
night in Factor s hotel room.
Factor, a convicted swindler
but now a wealthy Beverly Hills,
Calif., real estate dealer, had ac
cused Touhy of libeling him in an
autobiography entitled. "The Stol
en Years," publishes lasfniohth."
The book, written by Chicago
Sun-Times reporter Ray Brennan,
repeated Touhy's claim of 25
years that he was framed 'It the
1933 kidnaping of Factor, then a
Chicago promote".
Brennan, a Chicago newsman
later said in an interview that he
and Touhy had been together un
til 9:30 p.m. Wednesday night
when they both left the Chicago
Press Club.
Token By Surprise
He said they went downstairs
together "and that was the last
time I saw Roger alive."
Brennan sobbed. "Why did I
write that stinkin', lousy book?"
he said. That s what did it.
Miner, who also nad been as
signed to guard Factor for a four
month period during Touhy's
trial, said the two gunmen took
him and Touhy by surprise in the
dark, residential street.
He said tne thugs opened up
from behind with a blast that
sounded like "the Fourth of July,
but I was able to wheel around
and get my pistol empty
Miller was shot in the buttocks
and escaped serious injury. He
said he fired five times at the
gunmen and thought he saw one
stagger from a bullet wound as
they fled up an areaway along
side the house.
Blood .'.pouting from his leg.
Touhy fell only a few feet from
the safety of his sister's home
and never had a chance to fight
back.
Heard Gun Blasts
Patrolman Charles Mueller, one
of the first on the scene after po
lice were notified of the shooting
at 10:09 p.m., said he found Mil
ler and Touhy lying wounded.
"Touhy was so small," Mueller
said. "Miller almost covered
him."
The former gangster, once re
puted to be the only man (eared
by Chicago's former gangster lord
Al Capone. only mumbled on the
way to the hospital in a police
wagon. Police said he appeared
bewildered.
In the hospital's emergency
room, someone asked if Touhy
was a Catholic. Someone replied
"yes" from the back of the room.
But Touhy died before a priest
arrived.
Mrs. Alesia later told police she
was in the kitchen of her home
when she heard the gun blasts
"I looked out the front- door
windows, saw the shattered glass
and two bodies on tHe porch,"
she said. "1 didn't know what
happened."
Mrs. Alexia's husband, a tavern
owner, said he called police.
"He didn't have any enemies,"
Mrs. Alesia said of her brother.
Recall! Gangster Days
me snowing lecaura micagosj
np-ruaring gangsier aavs wncn
murder, usually committed with
shotguns, a win;ion that faded out
i!h the Prohibition era.
And Tmhy's death presented
police with a murder mystery as
baffling as any since the days of
Al Capone.
Police pointed out that the use
of a shotgun indicated Touhy may
have I, ceil shut down in one of
the longest-standing grudges in
gangland history. Modern day Chi
cago gangers have been using
automatic prints instead of shot
guns. However, police admitted the
possibility that the gunmen may
have Ik en connected with Chica
go's current crime syndicate and
may have been hired to prevent
Touhy from muscling in on present-day
rackets.
Touhy, however, had disclaimed
any iiiteiihoi of getting back into
the rackets upon leaving Stale
ville Penitentiary last Nov. 24. He
said he just wanted to fish.
IKE IN IRAN Standing in open car with Shah of Iran, President Eisenhower
waves to cheering crowds during ride from airport to palace in Tehran, Iran. Wel
coming fpcession passed over one and a half miles of Persian carpets past seas
of American flags.
Demos Challenge Administration
On Nuclear Weapons Superiority
WASHINGTON (UPD Two
Democratic Senators today chal
lenged the administration's claim
that the United States leads the
Soviet Union in means of deliver-
City Cancels
Property Lien
La Grande city commissioners
have voted to cancel the lien
against pavement district U8, prop
erty recently deeded back to the
Hendrix Methodist Church.
The action was taken by com
missioners following an investi
gation by City Manager Dave
Slaght. Slaght discussed the mat
ter with church officials and pre
sented his finding to the com
mission.
The property had been sold in a
police sale in September, 1936. but
never recorded. City Attorney
Carl Helm Jr. told the commis
sion that the title and the lien
should have merged when the deed
was transferred to the city in June.
193S. for use as a park.
PD Ordinance
Is Amended
An ordinance amending the
"Police Department Ordinance,
1758, has been passed by La
Grande city commissioners.
The amendment eliminates the
position of desk officers in the
police department and creates
tl.e position of records officer.
The action was taken at the re
quest of Chief of Police Oliver E.
Keevc. The desk officer's job was
vacated by the resignation of
Copt. Arnold C. "Cap" Mycr, vet
eran of 17 years service with
the local police department.
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BEFORE FREEDOM
This is one of more re
cent pictures of Roger
(The Terrible) Touhv,
prohibition era gangster
of the notorious Al Ca
pone days of Chicago,
taken just before his re
lease from prison sever
al weeks ago.
ing nuclear weapons. '"
Sens. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.)
and Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) dis
puted the statement by Defense
Secretary Thomas S. Gates that
this country leads Russia "both
with respect to nuclear weapons
and the means of their delivery."
Gore said that Gates, who gave
the assurance yesterday to the
NATO Council of Ministers in
Paris, seemed "to overlook two
things.''
The Tenncsseean, a member of
the Congressional Atomic Energy
Committee, said in an interview
that these two points were "Rus
THE BATTLE OF
Cold-Blooded Murder Of Yank
Troops By German Panzer Unit
(Editor's note Fifteen
year ago, this week, one of
the greatest battles of military
history was taking place in
a battered forest area along
the German-Belgium border
. of Ardennes. It was called
the Battle of the Bulge and
eventually had one million
men locked In a bloody cam
paign. Observer newsman
Grady Panned fought with
an infantry division through
out the "Bulge" and .today
continues the second of on
anniversary series on the
gredt fight.)
BY GRADY PANNELL
Observer Staff Writer
A tri-cornered area, Eupen,
Malmedy and Stavelot, saw some
o,' the most brutal fighting of the
bisakthrough. Weeks later, the
heaped bodies of American sol
diers, shot by orders of a Panzer
tank colonel, were found by mop
up details. A few survivors sup
plied the tragic prose.
German buzz bombs also add
ed to the confusion of the war.
Thesu low-flying, fiery drone
'plares" often crashed short of
Antwerp and exploded among
milling Americans.
Filth column activity, a device
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Tunisian
is
By
Reviewe
IKE RETURNS TO SCENE
OF GREAT WAR VICTORY
ABOARD U.S.S. ESSEX H'PD
President Eisenhower made u
ti uini hant return to Tunisia to
day, scene of his first great World
War II victory, and with Presi
dent llabib Bourguiba reviewed
with "grave anxiety" the shooting
war in Algeria.
The President spent three hours
and 4? minutes ashore. A cominu
ni(ue issued afterwards said he
and liourguiba reached Hide un
derstanding ill their talks, which
included a discussion of more
American aid lor the new Afiican
republic.
The question of Algeria was an
- t
sia's lead in rocketry" and "the
effectiveness of anti-aircraft weap
ons against planes."
"Both of which operate to Rus
sia's advantage,'' Gore said.
Gore said he was "inclined to
believe that the secretary was
right in his assumption" that this
country is superior to Russia in
stockpile and quality of nuclear
weapons.
"However, that is an opinion.
he said. "Neither he nor anyone
else in the government- has any
exact knowledge of the stockpile
or quality of Soviet nuclear weap
ons." THE BULGE
employed by Germany at the very
outset of World War II, was at its
greatest during the "bulge."
Specialists, schooled in GI slang
and garbed to the last detail as
U.S. soldiers, appeared all along
the front and even sneaked
through some 100 miles to the
rear. These Germans, as American-looking
as one could get, not
only spread confusion and havoc,
but blew up bridges and issued
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LONG LINE OF TROOPS U.S. First Army infantry
advances along snow-covered road in Ardennes Forest
sector to engage German troops in heavy fighting fol
lowing initial Battle of Bulge breakthrough by Von
Runstedt's Panzers.
Fivo Cents
War
President
especially touchy one since the
French already ire annoyed that
the United Stales tailed to support
them in last week's Algerian Re
bate in the United Nations
The Algerian revolt, which
Fiance regards as strictly an in
ternal aflair. also is expected to
come, up in the talks later this
week between Kisenhower and
President Charles de Gaulle of
France.
Kiseuhower went ashore by heli
copter to Tunis, and received a
triumphant welcome on the eighth
stop of his 22.1HH) mile good will
tour.
Heads Toward France
Then he returned to the Des
Moines by helicopter and resumed
his journey toward France and a
western summit conference.
The communique said the two
presidents "concentrated particu-.
larly on the need to continue the
efforts already made fo consoli
date peace and to reduce the
causes of international tension."
They studied the situation cre
ated by the 'difficulties in Algeria,'
and agreed that the lack of a so
lution there is a cause for great,
concern in the world today.
Algeria is one of the sorest spots
in western circles, since France
has the greatest part of its mili
tary forces tied up in battling
rebel forces. This hurts its com
mitments to the NATO alliance.
De Gaulle has offered to let Al
geria decide its own destiny with
in four years after the fighting
ceases.
r'.isenhovyer -also foui.d time to
visit Hit American war cemetery
a Carthage on the outskirts of
Tunis. There are buried the men
who died in freeing North Africa
of Axis domination in 1941-42. It
was a sentimental journey for the '
two presidents who visited there
alone.
Tough Security Step
Police armed with tommy guns
barred the way to any others who
would have followed. The measure
was part-of tough security steps
that including the mass round-up
and jailing or removal of all per
sons who might be considered
anti-Eisenhower.
The President spent half an
hout, at the cemetery, perched on
a cliff with a spectacular view of
the Bay of Tunis and the ruin
of ancient Carthage, the trading
city which flourished in the era
between the civilizations of
Greece and Rome.
There are 2,832 white stones
marking the graves of the Ameri
cans who died in the North Afri
can campaign under Eisenhower's
command. Another 3,274 wall
plaques commemorate those
whose remains never were found.
false orders to desperate Yanks
trying to pull back in some sort
al orderly fashion during the first
week of the campaign.
American Baseball .
Wolfgang was immaculate to a
certain point, however. Although
he was up on his past and present
American history, had cleverly
pilfered the password day by day
and could talk of Rochester, N.Y.,
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