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MARCH 4-12 '
A Youth Program of Activity,
Adventure and Achievement
Mickey Cohen
Freed by Jury
Los Angeles, March 9 (P)
Mickey Cohen, four ol his
henchmen and two police offi
cers are free today of charges
they conspired to obstruct jus
tice in the famous police "hush
up" case.
A verdict of acquittal was
brought in by a jury of 11 wo
men and one man yesterday.
Spectators, pres u m a b 1 y rela
tives and friends, cheered wild
ly. Acquitted with Cohen were
Jimmy Rist, Ell Lubin, Harold
Mcltzer and Lou Schwartz, and
the two officers, Lt. Clarence
Swan and Sgt. W. S. Wolfe. They
were charged with conspiring to
assault Alfred Pearson, radio
repairman, and of conspiring to
obstruct justice.
Only recently Cohen was freed
of a charge of disturbing the
peace by calling police nasty
names. He has a long record of
arrests but no convictions since
a six-month bookmaking rap
here in 1941. Four years ago he
shot and killed Maxie Shaman
in a dispute over a bet, but
claimed self-defense and was
never prosecuted.
He has been bombed, waylaid
and ambushed by gangsters nu
merous times, but always escap
ed death.
During the trial Swan testi
fied he ordered the release of
the Cohen men because he
thought they were businessmen
who had told him they planned
to picket Pearson's shop. Pear
son last summer foreclosed a
widow's home for an $81 debt
and the Cohen men said that was
why they picketed him. A fight
ensued when Pearson objected
to the picketing.
Younger Generation
Getting Tandyholic'
Portland, March 9 P) The
Oregon State Dental Associa
tion began winding up its con
vention today after hearing a
charge that the younger gener
ation is becoming "candyholic."
That was the term used by
James Robinson, executive sec
rctary of the Southern Califor
nia State Dental association, for
youngsters' tendency to cat sug
ar in gum, candy, soda pop all
day long.
The result, Robinson said, is
bad teeth.
He criticized the oldsters, too,
who "arc going to the dogs. Peo
ple in the United Stales spend
more money for dog food than
they do to keep their mouths
healthy. They spend more an-
-Dually for cosmetics than for all
the medical and dental care in
the country."
Dr. Willard H. Hurley, Port
land, was installed as president
of the association.
Every 'Bottle of
Mayflower
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-Is Laboratory tested)
isuTade A Quality
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Austin Asks
Cut in Troops
Vienna, Austria, March 9 P)
Austria has asked the four oc
cupying powers to reduce their
forces here, pay their own occu
pation costs and give up most
of their rights in this country,
Foreign Minister Karl Gruber
told parliament today.
The foreign minister said a
note listing Austrian proposals
has been sent to Moscow, Lon
don, Paris and Washington. The
proposals envisage reducing the
occupation armies to mere token
forces with little power to inter
fere in Austrian affairs.
The United States already is
paying her own occupation costs.
Austria wants Russia, France
and Britain to do the same.
Most of the proposals obviously
were directed at the Russians
rather than the west.
The Austrians want the four
powers to return housing which
they have requisitioned and to
abolish military courts' juris
diction over Austrian citizens.
Third Worst Year
For Salmon Pack
Astoria, March 9 W) The
Columbia river salmon packing
industry had its third worst year
in history last year, figures re
leased by the Pacific Fisher
men's yearbook indicated today.
Only 178,122 cases of salmon
were packed last year, far be
low the 62-year average of 292,-
334. Only two years 1943 and
1945 were worse.
'The frequent recurrence of
such failures," said packers, '
a source of growing alarm."
Smaller fish runs, winter ice
in the river, longer closed peri
ods, and a 24-day fishermen's
strike were all factors in the low
pack.
1500 Empty Boxcars
End Oregon Shortage
Roscburg, March 9 W) The
Southern Pacific railway assured
Douglas county lumber shippers
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Perfect for 'tween meal snacks.
Good for kids too wheat
for nourishment, the special
honey and sugar coating
for fin- -, plus quick enerlv.
Workers Back
On Railroads
Pittsburgh, March 9 OP) The
nation's railroads recalled thou
sands of furloughed workers to
day as the government removed
most of the schedule curtail
ments ordered during the recent
soft coal strike.
Steel and other affected in
dustries also headed their stall
ed production toward normal,
United Mine Worker members
in virtually all the soft coal
fields were back in the mines
digging needed coal.
The Interstate Commerce
Commission said all restrictions
on freight service by coal-using
railroads will be lifted at 11:59
p.m. (local time) tonight.
Restrictions also were lifted
on passenger service effective at
11:59 p.m. (local time) Friday
for coal-burning railroads hav
ing less than 10 days supply.
Those roads were given per
mission to return passenger serv
ice to 75 percent effective the
night of March 10. Passenger
service on all coal-burning rail
roads was cut 50 percent by an
ICC order issued last month
when the coal shortage became
acute.
The Baltimore and Ohio rail
road ordered 6,161 furloughed
workers back to their jobs to
day.
Statue of Liberty
For Philippines
New York, March 9 VP) Plans
to erect in the Philippines an
eight-and-a-half foot copy of the
Statue of Liberty were an
nounced today by the New York
City office of Brig. Gen. Carlos
P. Romulo, chief of the Philip
pine mission to the United Na
tions.
The statue will be a gift from
the Boy Scouts of America to
the Boy Scouts of the Philip
pines. The Philippines will be the
first independent nation to re
ceive such a statue. The Amer
ican Boy Scouts plan to erect
4,000 similar copies in the Unit
ed States.
Dr. Arthur A. Schuck, chief
scout executive of the Boy Scouts
of America, presented General
Romulo with an Inscribed minia
ture of the statue.
In accepting the model statue,
General Romulo reminded the
presentation committee that he
had been a first class scout and
that his sonB Carlos Llama, Jr,
and Gregorio both attained
Eagle scout rank.
"I am grateful and I am sure
that the Boy Scouts of the Phil
ippines are grateful," he said.
The statue, stamped out of
sheet copper in 47 pieces and
brazed together, will leave San
Francisco on March 25 and will
be erected in Manila sometime
in April.
yesterday the possibility of an
acute spring boxcar shortage
had been averted.
The railroad said 1,500 empty
cars had been delivered to the
Portland division over the past
week-end, another 500 added on
Monday and more were coming
The report was an answer to
warnings by lumbermen's asso
ciations that shortages this
spring might critically hamper
the region's lumber operations.
Puffed Wheat with a honey
flavored coating toasted on. Just
Dour on the milk or cream . . .
and watch the whole family go for
honey of a new cereal!
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It's fun to eat right out of the bag.
And you'll keep on nibbling and
nibbling. Put Post's Sugar Crisp
on your grocery list now!
Oregon Bandit
Dies in Alcatraz
San Francisco, March 9 VP)
Oregon bank robber Lloyd Bark-
doll is dead of a heart attack in
the Alcatraz prison hospital. He
had complained of chest pains
while in the yard, collapsed and
died shortly afterward.
Barkdoll had served a little
more than 12 years of his 147
year sentence in the July, 1937,
John Day, Ore., bank robbery
and the kidnapping of the bank
cashier.
In 1941 he was one of four
life termers thwarted in an es
cape plot. He and the others
seized four guards as hostages,
barricaded themselves in a pri
son cell corner and tried vainly
for three hours to saw through
window. They finally gave up.
Lloyd Barkdoll, prisoner who
died yesterday at Alcatraz, did
time twice in Oregon State peni
tentiary. He was sent up first in
1928 from Coos county and in
1934 from Douglas county, both
times for larceny.
On the bank robbery charges
he served in the federal prisons
at Leavenworth, McNeil's Island
and Alcatraz, being transferred
from one to the other.
Budworm Spraying
Program Mapped
Portland, March 9 ) The
aerial spraying of nearly 1,000,
000 acres of Oregon forests to
control spruce budworm has
been mapped by the federal gov
ernment. The federal government yes
terday called for bids on 550,000
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gallons of DDT-oil mixture. The
state of Oregon earlier had
opened bids on 500,000 gallons.
The state operation will spray
170,000 acres near Kinzua; 130,
000 acres near Ukiah; 100,000
acres near Starkey and La
Grande; 85,000 near Joseph and
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Flora; and 15,000 in two small
units near Springfield and Rose
burg. The federal agencies plan
to spray 310,000 acres near El
gin and Meacham; 80,000 near
Enterprise; 30,000 near the
Warm Springs Indian reserva
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tion; two units of 40,000 acres
each near Oakridge and Santiam
Pass.
Before John Adams wed Abi
gail Smith, her clergyman fa
ther opposed the match with
the text, "My daughter is griev
ously tormented with a devil,"
according to the Encyclopedia
Americana. Adams followed
Washington as president; she be
came a famous writer.
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