Roger 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,'
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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
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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.
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perience. I dealt in beer. I
didn't deal in whisky. J wasn't
"When I got into trouble
(he meant the Factor kidnap
ing) I had $500,000 in proper
ty and money but ndw I'm
lucky to have $35,000 to put
kgether.
'Tve got a little patent on
a sporting article. I'm going
to start a little business. Tve
had two kids in the univers
ity, one went to Florida and
one to Stetson. They're in the
construction business. My
furniture's in Florida in stor
age and Td like to go
there,' somewhere where I
could get lost."
He looked out the window
again. There were tears in hii
eyes.
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