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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. She asked custody
of their daughter Judith Gale,
five, and reasonable support for
herself and the child. She said
there was no community prop
erty. .
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