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9 SIXTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, August S 1957 Roger Touhy Will Find Changed Times If He Gets Prison Release Chicago W If Roger Touhy makes good on his latest bid for freedom, he'll come back to a world with a different set of tags from the ones that were pinned to the era he helped to name. Roger is the son of an honest policeman, James Touhy. His brothers Jimmy, John, and Joe Touhy died in the gunfire of Chicago's beer wars. When Roger was a page one fijure. the decades were the "Roaring Twenties," and the "Turbulent Thirties." Roger helped make them noisy. Touhys Battle Capone He had help in the clamor that sounded through the streets of lusty old Chicago at the time. It came from such characters as: Scarface Al Capone, who won millions while the Touhy gang was coining thousands in the lu crative bootleg trade of the sin ful, ginful twenties. Matt Kolb, Touhy's beer-run ning partner, and James (Red) Barker, a Capone minion, who met violent ends in a decade marked by more than 500 gang land murders. A half-dozen or more labor leaders who fell at the hands of underworld assassins when the Capone mob challenged the Touhys for control of fat union treasuries. Roger's was a name to be feared in the era that produced such characters as Johnny Tor rio. Pretty Boy Floyd, Frank (The Enforcer) Nitti, Basil (The Owl) Banghart and a young up start named John Dillinger. It was an era when speakeas ies blossomed like geraniums, bullets spoke louder than bal lots and "taken for a ride" be came part of the language. Roger Touhy, a dapper dandy with a quiet voice and nerves of steel, had no conviction on his record until he was put away in 1934 for the kidnaping of swind- Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Cannon Falls. Minn. Confessed wife-biller Kenneth Miller, as he knelt over his wife's fresh grave and wpt softly: "I met her just five years ago today. Six months later we were married and now she is dead." . Washington Ceylones envoy lo the United States R. S. Guna wardene about Maxwell H. Gluck, President Eisenhower's new ambassador to Ceylon: "He is anxious lo meet as many people as possible, even hum ble villagers. I was struck by his unassuming ways and his earnest ness to promote good relations between our two countries." O Washington President Eisenhower's tribute to former Sen. Walter F. George .-Ga.): "He served his country and the free world for many years with distinction and integrity. He was ah itstanding American and a fine gentleman who will be greatly missed." Washington Vice President Richard M. Nixon on Republican prospects for capturing Congress in the 1958 off-year elections: "The chances for electing the House, I think, are excellent. In the Senate it is a quite lough fight." I i Brainerd, Minn. Ira Rollins Aamodt, 10,who served as trig ger man in a pact with his two brothers and killed their father be cause he was displeased at therway they planted some corn: "We decided then that we'd' do away with him the first chance we got." - ler John (Jake the Barber) Fac tor. And he wept when the pris on barber shaved off his curly hair. The collapse of the Touhy crowd began in July, 1933, when Roger and three cohorts were arrested near Elkhorn, Wis. In the car were pistols, adhesive tape and rope that spelled "kid napers" to police. They were indicted for the separate kidnapings of William Hamm Jr., a Stf Paul, Minn., brewer, and Factor, a fabulous Chicago swindler who was evad ing efforts of British investors to have him returned to England for trial in an alleged $7,500,000 swindle. The gang was acquitted in their trjal on charges of abduct ing Hamm. The first trial on charges of kidnaping Factor for a $70,000 ransom ended in a hung jury. In a second trial they were found guilty in Febraury, 1934, and sentenced to 99 years in prison. In 1942 Roger Touhy, Bang hart and five other convicts es caped from Stateville Peniten tiary. Except for two slain by police bullets, all were recap tured within a few weeks. New 199-year sentences were imposed on Touhy and Banghart for aid ing a fellow escapee. Actor Arraigned on Drunk Driving Charge Hollywood flPI Actor Al len Jenkins, 57, today was to be arraigned on a drunk driving charge resulting from a traffic accident in the Malibu movie resort colony. Jenkins was arrested Satur day after his pickup truck hit a car as he drove out of a drive way near the Malibu pier. Jen kins was not injured but the driver of the car, Fitz Falken stein, Los Angeles, was treated for minor injuries at Malibu Emergency hospital. The actor was taken to county jail where he was booked on the charge. He was released on $263 bail. P M v rwTfc LEAVING HOME WITH MAN who hired her for modeling assignment, Judy Van Horn Dull, 19, mother of year-old daughter is sought by Hollywood police. (International) Retirement Problem Getting Study From Researchers in Iowa Iowa City, Iowa, Aug 2 IIP Iowa researchers have been look ing for a way to substitute the lunch box for the rocking chair. They've got nothing against rockers. It's only that they think older folks would be happier if they spent some of the late years working instead of rocking. The problem has special signi ficance in Iowa because tne state has a higher proportion of residents over 63 than any other state. 'The nation has 4,500 persons over 100, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and 424 or about 10 per cent of them live in Iowa. How Standard helps your tax dollars buy 3 miles of superhighway for the cost of 2 f - $i,'0r. Jt I I ' v s "J" jjJf -? -r 1 1 Progress Jn ! IVm! means ... ' i The researchers have been try ing to explain that phenomenon But no luck so far. Proper Setting The new study is under the supervision of the University of I Iowa's Institute of Gerontology ana nas a proper setting. Dr. Woodrow W. Morris, who heads the institute, drives a "mo del A" Ford and works in one of the oldest buildings on the campus. The outward trappings belie the youthful Morris' "up-to-date" outlook toward his problems. Morris said people "don't plan for retirement." People "don't want to get old and don't want to retire" so they make no pro visions, he said. "My father was one of those who didn't plan," he said. "He was a teacher in MifhiVan when he was told he would have to retire," Morris said. "He just didn't know what to. do with himself the first vear of his tp- tirement but he was saved when there was a shortage of teachers. The school board offered him another chance to teach." Signs Another Contract "That was 10 years ago, and he just recently siened anothpr year's contract to teach mathe matics, Morris said. It's relatively easier for teach ers and professional men tn faco retirement because they can taper off" with lighter teaching loads and curtailed professional practices, Morris said. "However, it's not easy for the factory workers who are just let out of the ioh af fi5 anrt have nothing else to fall back on, he said. , "We cling to the idea of youth in the face of studies which hnw older workers have less absen teeism and accidents," he said. "As the country's population grows oldar, industry will be forced to revalue its ideals and will probably come to the point where it will retire people only when they can't keep up produc tion," Morris said. "Industry just has to realize that some people are old at 50 while others are alert and fully capable at 75," he said. a I Asphali can tatt billions of dollars cm Ac il J0O0 miles of superhighways the 0 U.S.1-iU build in the next IS years Heavy Duty Asphalt Costs 20 to 50 Less Than Other Pavements. This means extra miles of superhighways for your tax debars . . . smoother, more enjoyable miles, too. Safe, skid- resistanPasghalt cuts down headlight and sunljght glare, makes lane markers easy to see anytime. Tsl hp ring you more mileS of superroads faster and at lowest st, Standard operates nine asphalt-refineries across the nation. Our scientists work with highway engineers on improved con struction and low-cost maintenance methods that can make asphalt highways even better and stronger after years of service. over 50,000 miles of new and improved highways by 1970 'Through Standard's vholly owned subsidiary, American Bitumuls and Asphalt Company STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA plan ahead to serve you better Nevada Nuclear Explosion Delayed Las Vegas OP) The Atomic Energy commission early today postponed for at least 24 hours firing of its "nominal yield" "Stokes" nuclear device from a balloon 1,500 feet above the Nevada Proving grounds. Scientists said surface winds were too strong to launch the helium-filled balloon that car ries the nuclear devicei The test was rescheduled for 5:25 a.m. (PDT) Tuesday. However, the AEC said that it would decide this afternoon whether to go ahead with the "Stokes" test or detonate anoth er device, dubbed "Shasta," at 4:45 a.m. Tuesday. The "Shasta" shot from a 500-foot steel tower was ready to go last week but has been delayed because of weather conditions. California Vacation Planned by Nixon Washington W Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon said to day he plans to spend a two week vacation in his native Cali fornia as soon as Congress ad journs. Nixon said he has not decided on exact locations but probably will spend one week in northern California and another in the southern part of the state. No exact dates have been set pend ing more definite prospects for congressional adjournment. Godfrey Lands Smoking Plane San Francisco (IPl Arthur Godfrey gave an unscheduled show Sunday as he approached San Francisco International air port at the controls of his own plane. "A fire or suspected fire has broken out aboard my DC-3,'' he radioed the control tower. Jack Oldroyd, in charge of the tower and a Godfrey fan, pushed a button sending eight pieces of fire equipment to their stations. The Coast Guard fire engine and ambulance and Un ited Air Lines private emer gency force also got set for ac tion. Godfrey landed his plane without incident. Mechanics found a transformer in the ra dio equipment had burned out causing it to smoke. After removing the transfor mer, the TV and radio star re sumed his flight to Seattle from San Diego, using a standby radio set. Navy Asks More Funds; For Earth Satellite Washington iff) The Navy has asked for Senate for an ad ditional $34,200,000 to launch the U.S. earth satellite sometime next year. The request was part of an overall 110 million dollars budg et for the project, a highlight of the International Geophysical Year. Capt. Alfred B. Metsger, depu ty and assistant chief of naval research, said the 21 Vz pound sattelite will be launched from the Air Force Test Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. 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