Gambling Boss Shot Mickey Cohen, Hollywood gambler
(above) is shown at the Hollywood, Calif., receiving hospital
where he was taken after gangsters shot him and three others
of his party as they were leaving a Sunset strip cafe.
Dr. C. D. Dickey shown with Mickey, said his condition was
serious. (AP Wirephoto)
Marion and Polk County
Draft Boards Will Merge
In a merger of draft boards throughout Oergon the Marion and
Polk county boards will be joined.
Hans Hofstetter, chairman of the Marion county board, was
informed Wednesday that a clerk for the Polk county board to
succeed the clerk now resigning will not be appointed, and that
Mrs. Fern Beakev of Salem . .
clerk of the Marion county
board, will do that work for
both' boards.
The mergers are because of a
40 per cent cut in the budget.
In Portland Col. Francis W.
Mason, deputy selective service
director, said personnel and of
fice hours also would be re
duced. The budget cut was
from $207,000 to $90,000.
Columbia, Washington and
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Clackamas boards will He
grouped with the Multnomah
boards; Linn county merges with
the Benton board: Coos and Cur
ry with Douglas; Josephine with
Jackson; and Union, Wallowa
and Malheur with the Baker
county board.
Hofstetter said he understood
the four-member personnel of
the boards for Marion and Polk
would continue and that they
would hold separate meetings,
HERE EARLY
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Polio Cases
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Washington, July 21 W) An
other increase in infantile paral
ysis cases was reported by the
U.S. public health service today.
For the week ended July 16,
there were 1,013 new cases re
ported for the nation, compared
with 684 the previous week.
This is a 49 per cent increase
compared with the 43 per cent
increase reported last week over
the week preceding.
This brought to 4,895 the total
for the whole year through July
16, compared with 3,601 dur
ing the same period last year
an increase of approximately
1200 cases.
The largest increases were re
ported from:
New York: 72 cases this past
week, compared to 16 the week
before, with 61 of them being in
New York City: Indiana, 52
against 14; Illinois, 55 against
19; and California, 83 against 58
but use only one clerk. Ed. B
Hamilton is chairman of the
Polk county board.
He said the Marion county
board is meetinc two nights a
month for classifications only.
No drafting is being done at
present. Men register on their
18th birthdays and are subject
to draft until thev are 26. Reg
istrations are at the rate of
three or four a day. and like
wise about as many are reach
ing their 26th year, all of which
requires clerical work. Mar
riages and college affiliation
make differences in classifica
tion of registered men.
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'THE SHOW MUST GO
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Dallas, Tex., July U.R A sputtering comedienne today laugh
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Nanette Fabray became hys-
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Bloomer Girl," had to be call
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A fly flew into Patricia
Bright's mouth on the same
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was doing an imitation of Kath
erine Hepburn singing "Don't
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"I just went 'pooft!' and it
went out," Miss Bright said.
Broadway was sympathetic
but somewhat shocked that bugs
in her bosom should have forced
singer Nanette Fabray to break
the show world's code, "The
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Entertainers along the main
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Miss Fabray said a childhood
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paniment. After efforts to chase
the dog offstage had failed, she
gathered the animal in her arms
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muzzle.
The comic team of Peter Lind
Hayes and Mary Healy said their
worst brush with the unexpect
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sacks over their heads. Miss
Healy thought it was a joke and
tried to keep the show going
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a machine gun at the ceiling and
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"The show ended as of then,"
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But for sheer aplomb in time
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