Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 20, 1959, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextRoger Touhy To Crusade for 'Writ of Innocence' orr Release Editor's neti: Rogir Touhy, beer baroa of Cook county .in th days of Al Capon, has- ipni most of th past 25 yaars in prison for kidnaping and j a i I braak. Now ha is on th threshold of freedom, parol ed from Siateville Prison by the governor and await ing the formalities of his release. Th following dis palch'wrillen by UPI's Chi cago crime reporter, is based on a two-hour inter view that took place at the penitentiary. By ROBERT T. LOUGHRAN ' United Press International Joliet, Ill.-ftTD - The last time that Roger Touhy and I eat at a table together was .more than 25 years ago, the night we were in Judge Mich ael Feinberg's courtroom in Chicago awaiting the verdict that was to send him to prison. Except for a brief period when he went "over the wall' from prison, and for brief ap pearances in court, Touhy has been behind bars ever since. He's still soft-spoken. He still can wear the same size clothes that he wore when he came here. He still doesn't swear. But the years have marked this graying man, and as we sat in the almost church-like stillness of an assistant ward en's office, looking out at the bright November sunshine, Touhy told me why. Prison Time Slow , "Five years in here," he said, "they're like a hundred outside. When I walk out of here, I walk out to liberty . . . when I get out, I want to crusade for what you might call a writ of inocence. There are at least 35 men in this prison who are behind bars because someone wants them there, not because ; they're guilty. I'm going to write to every congressman and sen ator that my money will per mit, to try to get a federal statute, to give a prisoner the righ of scientific methods to prove his innocence Then we began to recall the prohibition era career of Touhy. The kidnaping of John (Jake the Barber) Factor, "a crime which Touhy still de nies. He reached into the frayed pocket of his blue and white striped prison uniform shirt, drew and lighted a cigaret. Wants to Disappear ' "I'm going to disappear,' AIRLINER OF FUTURE - A Mach 3, 80-pas-senger transport like this one has been pro posed by Continental Airlines for 2,000-mile-per-hour service between United States and Hawaii for 1967. Planes, which could cut flight time from Chicago to Hawaii to 2Vi hours and from California to Hawaii an hour and 40 minutes, would supplement rather than replace present supersonic-jets. Cost would be about $13,000,000 each.- t (UPI Telephoto) Hatfield Remains Neutral in Visits of Possible Candidates ; By DICK HUMPHREY" : United Press International ; ' . ., Salem - (UPD - Correspond ; ent travelling with Gov. Nel ; son Rockefeller in' Oregon ' last week could hardly be- lieve Oregon's chief executive ; : Mark Hatfield it really main : .' tabling a role of walking the tightrope of neutrality. : ) But Hatfield's closest asso . I dates swear he has made it ' ' plain to both Rockefeller and I Vice President Richard Nix- on that he won't come out of ? ; "no man's land" until May ! 20 : when Oregonians go to " ! the polls in their presidential ; primary election. ; J ! Writers who saw Hatfield ' ; in action with Nixon Oct. 10 when the vice president was here to dedicate The Dalles dam were certain they saw evidence of sponsorship in Hatfield's hospitality. B u"t they were confounded when similar hosting was offered Rockefeller. It was not possi ble to draw a distinction; Both, got the full treatment, including glowing introduc tions. With Congressman Walter Norblad, Secretary of State Howell Appling and State Treasurer Sig - Unander all publicly . avowed for Nixon, Hatfield sees a possible split coming up along the -lines of the Knowland-Knight fight in California last "year. By maintaining neutrality he hopes to unify? the party in. a peacemaker ' role once the primary is (decided. He will have a . vigorous six weeks scheduled between the May 20 primary and the GOP na tional convention, campaign ing for the Oregon winner- gi PROSPECT PTA Group Meets 5 It FRANCES RING ' - . IPU. Tt- . x-rusyeci, mt rdnut Teacher association executive pTi committee met at the home of j-Mrs. Lewis Love Monday, gNov. 16. Those attending were President Mrs. Otto Bastiani, rf Secretary Mrs. Delene Denny, ETMrs. Mabel .Wayman,. Mrs. Frank Boothby, Mrs. Ray Maurer, Mrs. Lou Rogers, Mrs. Florence Barnes, Mrs. Mabel Hedgpeth and the hostess Mrs. - Love. . .,. There will be a Parent - Teachers meeting Tuesday, Nov. 24. It will be a potluck and will start at 6:30 pjn. at Jjithe community , hall. About 8 p.m. there will be guest speak ,i,ers discussing, the Great De Z cisibns program." Anyone in 2 terested in the subject is urg Jed to attend the meeting. t( Entertainment will be pre- sented by the school chorus, ir Those who cannot be there for JS the potluck are urged . to at- ,tend the meeting later in the ZZ evening. Child care will -be -Ci provided at the high school. V The Prospect Lumber Jacks -" and Jills held a square dance Z' at the community hall Nov. 14. At the discussion meeting after the dance, it was tenta tively decided they would con :jt tinue to have dances the first 1 and third Saturdays each -? month. The next dance will r"beDec. 12. Visiting at the home of Mr. -.. and Mrs. Ray Maurer over the J, week end were Mr. and Mrs. i-'R. H. Shepherd of Silverton, Ore. The Shepherd's had also -.been visiting in California! i Also visiting at, the Maurer home during the week were p Mr. and Mrs. Howard Swart ;.out of Marquam, Ore. -The food sale held by the j , PTA Friday, Nov. 13, was suc X, cessful with every article of j food being sold. Mrs. Alice Conger who un- - ' derwent major surgery recent ly has been moved back to - Prospect and is convalescing . J?'at the home of her daughter, ZMrs. Everett Shaffer. . ; The next Cub Scout pack tjneeting will be Dec. 10. The rthange in the regular time is "due to the fact that the No vember meeting would fall on Thanksgiving and the Decem ber meeting would fall on jrChristmas eve. They decided to combine the two and have it Dec. 10.. The Prospect Lions club is sponsoring a dance at the Community hall Nov. 28, start ing at 9 p.m. Music is being furnished by the Elk Creek Ramblers and the Lions auxil iary will serve dinner during the evening. ' Mr. and. Mrs. Harley Press ley and family have expressed their, appreciation for the many gifts they have received since - their house - burned , re cently. , . . . Mrs. Jack De Rossier re turned Sunday from Senaca, Ore where she and her hus band have been hunting with a larger party. She had good luck and brought back an elk. De Rossier is still hunting. . Harley Pressley, Russell Burge and Jim Holt killed two black bear on Ulrick rd. Sunday;- .-; ' Dennis Scriveh is visiting his grandparents, the Rev. and Mrs. Gordon Hadley of Har bor, Ore. He expects to return home after Thanksgiving. . The magazine subscription selling contest at the high school was won by the fresh man class, which will hold a skating party as the prize. The toy poodle was won by Sandy Burrill for selling the most subscriptions. Judy Ancjreson won the wrist watch. whoever he may be. Gov. ' and Mrs. Hatfield, who have spemlS month's in a small, two bedroom apart ment, are about to move into .the 87-year-old house they re modeled. All of it won't be finished for several weeks but enough is done so that they can move in. . Because he ha become somewhat of a national fig ure, whenever the governor goes east it is a constant round of appointments. . In New York where he received the National Republican club's distinguished service award, he was hosted by the Lt. Gov. Malcom Wilson, the secretary of state, . attorney general, national committee man, state GOP chairman, and Mr. and Mrs. Rodman R o c k e f e Her representing their father. , He ate cranberries for three television stations, went through a nine-man news con ference, did two radio shows, attended a breakfast for the Council for the Advancement of Small Colleges, inspected a juvenile delinquency pro ject, and motored to Spring field, Mass., where he went through another news confer ence before speaking to the National . Municipal League. In his audience was George Gallup, e h a i r m a n of the League's - executive board.' Vice President Nixon and his staff have kept in close touch with Hatfield and his office. - Indications are that Nixon may be visiting : Ore gon within the next , two or three months. He talked with Hatfield in Massachusetts Tuesday. Oregon Sen. Wayne Morse was in Boston the same -. evening the governor was in Springfield. said Touhy.. "I have to go brewmaster with 10 years ex-, a night spot guy back to Cook county because the parole board said so, but as soon as I can go somewhere else, I'm going there and hide. "I'm not going to look, for old friends. They're mostly all dead. "But remember when the county (Cook) was mine and the city was (Al) Capone's? "They keep saying I was an enemy of Capone. I never was, Bob. I had the. county and he had the city. Why, Yd go to Florida and get on his yacht. I'd go. to the Midnight Frolics on 22nd st. and go in there while Al was there." The Midnight Frolics Is gone now. It was a wild life sort of cabaret, and got the front part of its name from the hour ihat it opened each night. It was a Capone hang out. Enters Beer Business "When you first knew me, Bob, I wasn't in the beer busi ness. I was in the auto busi ness," Touhy continued. "Nat Kolb was in the beer business, and he didn't like his partner, I bought him out for $10,000. "Pretty soon, I could put my hands on 10,000 barrels of beer. I had a good brewery in Du Page county, and a 8 MAIL TRIBUNE, Mtdford, Or. Friday, Nov. 20, 1959 Grange Notes Lake Creek Grange At the November meeting of Lake Creek Grange officers were elected. They are master, Bob Gilkey; overseer, Leland Charley; lecturer, Betty Brad- shaw; steward, Merton Brad shaw; assistant steward, Mur ray Bartling; chaplain, Ca mille Gilkey; treasurer, Claus Charley; secretary, Ellyn Charley; gatekeeper, Ernest Hostutler; Ceres, Ozie Burrell; Pomona, Aldine Charley;: Flo ra, F a y e Burrell; executive members, Ira Woolf oik, Carl Riblett, Ernest Burrell; lady assistant steward, Pearl Bar tling. Lecturer Betty Bradshaw presented the program before the Grange, Eleanor Bartling played several piano selec tions, and Mark Fline gave an original commentary on "Birds." Faye Burrell, of the ways and means committee, report ed that the dance parties are proving popular. Another dance will be given on Satur day, Nov. 28. Everyone is in vited to attend the parties. The work-day which was held to put on the new roof on one side of the building was successful. Several men in the community, who are not mem bers, helped. - Bob Gilkey, of the legisla tive committee, reported on the article telling of the pro posed , debate between Sen. Porter and Ambassador McAr thur, on the Red China ques tion. , Refreshments were served by the Leland and Claus Char ley families. . At the Dec. 11 meeting a Christmas party will be held with an exchange of gifts. Men will bring a gift suitable for a man, and women a gift suit able for a woman. The open ing hour of the meeting is 8:30 pan.. . Washington-rOJPD-The office of Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) announced Thursday that R. A. Heintz Construction Company and Rogers Con struction Company, both of Portland, . Ore., have been awarded an Army Engineers contract totaling $3,132,802 for work at Ice Harbor dan. Ashland Girl Said Off Critical List Ashland - Renelle Thomp son is off the critical list. The news of the seven - year - old Ashland girl was told by tier father on his return from Portland this week.. . Renelle underwent open heart surgery two weeks ago at the University of Oregon hospital in Portland. The girl is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roland Thompson, 157 Van Ness ave Ashland. She has been out of the oxygen tent for the past five days and is believed to be making satisfactory progress. She has been able to sit up and be wheeled into the play ground at the hospital. RCA VICTOR PORTABLE The Mork XXVI. Portable A speaker Srereo-Orthophonie Hi-Fi "Victrola" with convenient new "Snap-Off" companion speaker. Powerful 12-watt dual-channel stereo amplifier. Calibrated bass, treble, loudness and balance controls. 4 speed "Floating Action" record changer. 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