Moving Up Greek army infantry, with mules carrying sup
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to move into position against retreating guerrillas. The at
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MICKEY COHEN'S PHONE TAPPED
L. A. District Attorney Raps
' Police for Secret Recordings
Los Angeles, Aug. 17 (U.R) Dlst. Atty. William E. Simpson yes
terday denounced the police department for keeping secret its
recordings of a nationwide crime syndicate taken from micro
phones hidden in gangster Mick-S
ey Cohen s home.
The reported underworld se
crets were published for the
first time Monday after detec
tives, for almost a year, listened
in on conversations over Cohen's
telephone and in his suburban
Brentwood home.
(The AP quoted Simpson as
angrily demanding a full inr
vestigation of the "foul smell
ing two-year-old mass of cor
ruption and concealment" as
disclosed by the records of Coh
en conversations.
(Said Simpson: "When the
grand jury reconvenes next
month, I'm going to demand
that it Institute searching in
quiry to learn why this matter
has been 'aged in the wood'
more than two years through
two grand juries and not placed
in the hands of the agency (dis
trict attorney's office) required
to prosecute criminal conspira
cy where found.")
Simpson went to the office of
interim Police Chief William A.
Worton to protest.
Worton recently took over as
police chief after C. B. Horrall
retired during a grand jury in
vestigation which resulted in the
Indictment of Horrall and four
other police officers on perjury
charges. Two of the officers
were indicted on charges of tak
ing bribes from callhouse Ma
dam Brenda Allen.
The district attorney wanted
to know why the recordings and
transcripts, involving the under
world, were withheld from coun
ty grand juries which function
ed during 1947, 1948 and 1949.
"This Information appeared to
be evidence of a criminal con
spiracy in the underworld, and
It would have been of consider
able value to law enforcement
agencies," Simpson said
Harry A, Lawson, foreman of
the county grand jury which
indicted the five police officers.
said that the Cohen recordings
would touch off a new inquiry
that will be "all-inclusive." The
Jurors previously investigated
report payoffs Miss Allen made
for police protection.
...
Meanwhile . the whereabouts
of Cohen, the object of an am
bust plot July 20 in which his
chief aide, Edward Neddie) Her
bert was injured fatally, remain
ed a mystery since revelation of
the recordings.
One report was he flew to
New York, but his attorney,
Samuel Rummel, said: "I
imagine he's some place where
he can get a good night's sleep."
A check of major airlines failed
to reveal that Cohen had left on
their planes and he could not
be located in New York.
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Cohen is at liberty on $100,000
bail after being indicted by the
county grand jury on criminal
conspiracy charges. He was in
dicted after a number of his
henchmen were released by po
lice, with out being booked, in
the beating of a radio store
proprietor.
The gambler has been ordered
to appear in court here Oct. 3.
Simpson said he is asking Po
lice Chief William A. Worton
for a complete story of the origi
nal transcript which reportedly
is a record of Cohen s calls to
Cleveland, New York City, Mi
ami, Boston, Chicago, San Fran
cisco and Fresno in connection
with underworld activities.
Worton said he learned just
a week ago that the transcript
of many conversations between
Cohen and his henchmen two
years ago, made possible by
underground wires to Cohen's
home, were in existence. He
said he immediately called in
vice squad Lieut. Rudy Well-
pot, one of the central figures
in the current police depart
ment scandal, for information on
the transcript.
One example of entries in the
transcript contained the fol
lowing attributed to Cohen's
henchman, Mike Howard, and
dated Nov. 26, 1947:
"Mike said the reason the Los
Angeles police department takes
things on the side is because
they don't make enough to live
on. He says if you don't of
fer them a gift, they don't take
it they grab it and tear your
arm off with it."
The Los Angeles Times says
"the material throws a piercing
light on the national as well as
the local activities of Cohen,
generally conceded to be the lo
cal kingpin of the underworld
world."
The material has been re
quested for study by the gover
nor's commission on organized
crime, the newspaper said.
Moose Lodge Elects
Officers for 49-50
San Francisco, Aug. 17 (U.R)
The supreme lodge of the World
Loyal Order of the Moose elect
ed its chief officers for the com
ing year here yesterday. .
They were: Willis E. Donley.
Menominee, Wis., attorney, su
preme governor, replacing Wal
ter Gibson, Oakland, Calif., Oli
ver S. Twist, Philadelphia, jun
ior supreme governor; James M.
Ballard, Seattle, Wash., supreme
prelate; Fred W. Zabel, Aurora,
III., supreme treasurer.
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Hits Shippers
Portland, Aug. 17 Wl West
ern Oregon lumber mills and
grain dealers are beginning to
feel the pinch of a railroad box
car shortage for the first time
this summer.
Similar shortages in the past
two summers have curtailed
lumber operations.
Lumber spokesmen said ship
pers' car orders had been
slashed an average of 30 per
cent the past week. One Polk
county grain elevator manager,
Matt Gillis of the Farmers
Co-op, said he received three
cars last week when he needed
many more.
Southern Pacific railway
Freight Traffic Manager Frank
C. Nelson admitted he couldn't
promise much improvement
right now: "We're in pretty
tough trouble."
He said the shortage devel
oped suddenly, as it has in the
past two years.
No lumber mlils are reported
shut down, but trade sources in
dicated the tight situation might
idle or curtail some operations
in the near future.
The northern railways serving
eastern Oregon, Washington and
the Columbia river had only a
"fairly tgiht" car situation. The
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LAST CALL OF BOYS
Sole GAR Negro Survivor,
105, 'Breaks Training'
Pontiac, Mich., Aug. 17 UR "Uncle Joe" Clovese, 105, sole
Negro survivor of the Grand Army of the Republic, broke a life
long rule today to get "perked up" .for the GAR's final en
campment.
He slept until after sunrise at
the home of his friends.
"A body ain't got no business
in bed after sun-up," he said.
But he "figured as how" he
could relax a bit more when he
learned that one of his GAR
"buddies" went to a hospital to
rest up for the last call of the
boys in blue at Indianapolis Au
gust 28.
Clovese is one of five or six
veterans expected at the final
encampment. There are only
17 survivors..
"I'll be mighty proud to see
the boys again," he said, "even
if it does take breaking in a new
pair of shoes."
The wizened, but fairly spry
ex-drummer boy has been tak
ing a walk in "them durned
shoes" almost every day for
three months to get them in
shape. He figures he's about got
them whipped.
"Sure I'm going to make that
encampment," he said. "Why
some of those other fellows are
older than I am."
The oldest at the convention
is expected to be James A. Hard,
108. Rochester, N.Y. The
"youngster" is Theodore Pen-
land, 100, Portland, Ore.
Uncle Joe, a one-time Louisi
ana slave, walks with a cane.
His vision and hearing still are
fairly good. He spends most of
his time on the front porch, with
his memories of a life that start
ed on a plantation near New Or
leans on January 20, 1844.
He came from a slave family
of IS, outlasting them all includ
ing his wife and three children.
Uncle Joe s. only excess was
cigars. He chain-smoked them
until he was 95. Then a doctor
told him he'd have to give up
smoking.
"The doctor who told me to
quit is dead and gone, but I'm
still here," he said.
He's a great admirer of Joe
Louis, ex-heavyweight cham
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pion, although he thinks the
bomber was a "mite young" to
relinquish the championship
crown.
Although he was the planta
tion owner's "pet," Clovese said
he ran away when he was 18 be
cause "an older fella talked me
into it." At first the army
wouldn't let him join up. he said,
but when he explained that he
wanted to help free his mother
"they gave me a paper to sign."
Uncle Joe served his first
year with the 63rd colored in
fantry as a drummer boy. In
1863, he was transferred to gar
rison guard duty and took part
in the siege of Vicksburg.
We sure did surround them,"
he said. "They ate up all the
cats in town to keep from starv
ing."
He was discharged in 1865.
Ten jears ago Mrs. Valrie
Daniel, a New Orleans neighbor,
started caring for him Last
year he moved here with the
Daniels. She will accompany
him to Indianapolis.
Brennen Announces
Program for Concert
The following program for
the Salem Municipal band con
cert for Thursday night at 8
o'clock in Willson park is an
nounced by Director Maurice
Brennen:
The Liberty Bell March . . Sousa
Marco Polo Overture . Scarmolin
Father of Victory March. Ganne
Headlines Colby
The Fairest of the Fair March
Sousa
Intermission
Colonel Bogey on Parade Alford
Intermezzo . . . Coleridge-Taylor
Hail America Richards
Frenesi Dominguez
Florentiner March Fucik
Some of the white people now
in the Bahamas are descendants
of United States soldiers who
settled there after the American
Revolution.
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Manager Leo Spitzbart an
nounced this week the complete
list of swine and sheep exhibit
ors in the Oregon State Fair
livestock show in Salem, Sep
tember 5 to 11.
The exhibitors in the swine di
visions include: W. J. Wagoner
& Sons, Meridian, Idaho; Roland
Rogers, Independence; Charles
Banks, Banks; Wayne Goode,
Don Bassett, Rose Mae Franke,
L. S. Berry, Marvin Cage, Rich
ard D. Shaeffer, Franke Broth
ers, Arthur Franke, all of Salem;
Homer Zi e 1 i n s k l, Gervais;
George F. Kraus, Ronald Kraus,
Alfred J. Zielinski, Elton L.
Watts, A. A. Nafziger, Lawrence
J. Thomas and Rollen Knight.
all of Silverton; H. G. Andrew,
Sandy; C. E. Spencer, Gresham;
Wendell Willard, Dayton; Leo
nard Forster, Gene Muller and
Lloyd Forster, all of Tangent;
Billy Kenworthy, Hoskins;
F. L. Zielinski, St. Paul; John
A. Kiesau and Folmer M. Roo-
ther, both of Bend; Lyle McKin
ley & Son, Glen R. Hawkins,
both of Shedd; Calvin Mikkel-
son, Glen Kahut, both of Wood-
burn; Henry Wiemers, Boise,
Idaho; Harms Brothers, Canby;
Norman E. Alexander, Prine
ville; Oregon state animal hus
bandry department, Corvallis;
Elmer Stangel, Wilsonville;
Earl Drury, Fall Creek; Harold
Schmidt, Newberg; Arthur
Beardsley, Albany.
The exhibitors in the sheen
divisions include: Ahrens Bro
thers, M. O. Pearson, Karl B.
Wipper, Louis Hennies and Gath
Brothers, all of Turner; Eldon
Riddle, McCalib Brothers, Mar
vin W. Dixon, Kenneth McCrae,
James Riddell, Ed Riddell, Jim-
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Dave Beck Branded
Traitor to Labor
Seattle. Aug. 17 (U.B The Pu-
get sound district council of
AFL lumber and sawmill work
ers branded Dave Beck, execu
tive vice president of the AFL
Teamsters union a "traitor to the
labor movement" yesterday.
The council, at its convention.
adopted a resolution denouncing
Beck as "largely responsible for
breaking" a strike of the Aero
nautical Mechanics' union (Inri
at the Boeing Airplane compa
ny last year.
More than 100 delegates at
tended the convention.
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Tansy Ragworth
Poison Stock All Year
Tansy ragwort, one of Marion
county s serious poison weeds.
is toxic to livestock at all times
of the year, says Ben A. Newell.
The plant, when harvested
with hay may poison stock any
time through the winter. Th
poisons are cumulative, says
Newell, and animals may feed
on tansy for some time befort
developing symptoms.
After symptoms appear, the
animal is usually too far along
to treat. Sick animals often stag
ger from the barn and begin
eating ragwort indicating their
appetite is still good. Poisoned
animals have received various
treatments for tansy ragwort
poisoning but none have proved
successful.
The plant is especially poison
ous to horses and cattle. Tansy
ragwort is in bloom or just set
tling seed over most of Marion
county. Pulling and burning the
plants is the best step left this
year to check spread.
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