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PAGE TWELVE MEDFORD, MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1943 OF EVERYONE ELSE BIOFF TESTIFIES Extortionist Says Film Prod ucers Were Afraid of Him and He Afraid of Police. New York, Oct. 21. (U.R) Everyone was afraid of every body else at the beginning of the big shakedbwn of the mo tion picture industry, William Bioff testified today under cross examination in the trial of eight alleged associates for extortion. "The producers were afraid of me, and I was afraid of their talking to the police," Bioff said In describing the 193S meeting between the International Alli ance of Theatrical Stage Em ployes and representatives of the movie industry. Prior to the meeting, Bioff said, he, acting as personal representative for George E. Browne, convicted president of the union, had ap proached Nicholas Schenck, pre sident of Loew's . Inc., with a demand for "two or three mil lion dollars." Stits Old Customer Through . negotiations with Leo Stitz, representative of RKO-i-a man Bioff said he was glad to do business with because "he was an old customer" it was agreed that four large motion picture companies would pay the union $50,000 each and that each of two smaller com panies would contribute $25,000. - Asked by Defense Attorney James D. C. Murray if he had told the ' movie representatives not to talk, Bioff replied, "they couldn't afford to talk." "Didn't you know you were playing the orle of an extor tionist?" "Well, not an extortionist," Bioff replied, "Just getting money." - "You knew that wag extor tion." "I found that out later." "You knew they were victims of a shakedown." ' "Well, something like that," Bioff said. "I thought the stock holders would be the victims." "Didn't you know the prod ucer's might be afraid of bribery prosecutions," Murray asked. "No, they didn't tell me any thing like that." Furniture Demanded Bioff said further that the smaller companies had paid them no money and that when he was living in California he had called Stitz and asked him to buy him some household furnishings through the studio. He said Stitz had gotten him $5,000 worth of draperies, glass ware and other household goods , and that he had never had any intention of paying for them. He laughingly explained that the charges still were on RKO's books and he expected to be sued for them, but "that doesn't bother me." - - An Illinois state alienist. Dr. Harry Hoffman, has listened to Bioff I testimony, it was re- . vealed today after a conference of prosecution and defense coun sel In the chambers of Judge John Bright GTS SAYS SALLY New York, Oct. 21. (U.B Sally Rand tdoay saved a war harried government from hav ing to make a ticklish decision by announcing that she would go to North Africa to entertain troops only as a "fully clothed trouper." That stand put an end of a controversy developing in the War department, the FBI and USO over her application to go abroad as an "entertainer," classification unspecified. ' "If anyone had asked me I would have told them that never, never, for the sake of my four brothers would I fan dance under military. Jurisdic tion," Miss Rand said. "Even if generals and colonels asked me I wouldn't go fan-dancing through military reservations. I can Just hear the snide letters blue-nose mothers would write about .their poor boys not only being subjected to the horrors of the war but also to a nussy. CROSS BETWEEN BUTTER, CHEESE Madison, Wis.. Oct. 21 U.R A new dairy product designed lo ease me demand for butter will be placed on the market this week in the heart of the butter producing country. -xne new product called "dyne" which looks and tartes like a cross between butter and cheese, will be placed on sale In Madison markets to test its popularity, said Dr. K. G. Week- el of the University of Wisconsin Agriculture degartment, devel oper of "dyne." "If the product proves dodu- lar, it will be distributed nation ally," he said. "Its price has not been deter mined, but it probably will range from 20 to 23 cents a pound." The Wisconsin Alumni Re search Foundation ha; a patent pending on the product and will share in the commercial returns on the product, he said. - Weckel said the product con. tains 26 per cent butterfat, 17 per cent milk solids and added vitamins A and D. "When mixed with butter it will make the butter go further," ne said, "and in that way will partly relieve the shortage." Dyne also can be used as a spread for bread and in cooking vegetables, he said, but it is not fatty enough for use in frying. It will keep for three weeks when placed in a refrigerator. he said. WILLIAM A. WHITE Rochester. Minn.. Oct. 21 (U.R) Mayo clinic physicians re ported today that William Allen White, editor of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette, was in good condition "although not com pletely out of danger" after an abdominal operation. White, who is 75, was on the operating table for nearly two hours yesterday and was under an anesthetic until early today. Mrs. White and their son, William L were at his bedside. BRITISH SEA LORD DIES AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS London, Oct. 21 (U.R) Adm. Sir Dudley Pound, who directed Britain's battle fleets as first sea lord and navat chief of staff from the outbreak of the war until a sudden illness forced his retirement two weeks ago, died today. Sir Dudley, who had spent 52 of his 66 years in the Royal navy, was stricken late in Au gust, a few days after his return with Prime Minister Winston Churchill from the Allied con ferences in Washington and Quebec. HOLLYWOOD SEQUEL ; Hollywood, Oct. 21 (U.R) Film Actress Dorothy Garland, sister of Judy Garland, today sought a divorce from Orchestra Leader Bobby Sherwood, charg ing cruelty. 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