Factor Takes Lie Detector
Test in Roger Touhy Death
Chicago - (CPD - John (Jake
the Barber) Factor today un
derwent a voluntary lie test
to prove he didn't have any
thing to do with the shotgun
murder of Roger Touhy, a
man he sent to prison and
later sued for libel.
Police said an hour before
the lie test they had no inter
est in Factor's desire to face
the polygraph because they
cleared him previously of any
connection with the Wednes
day night gangland - style
shooting.
Officer Observes Test
However, a sergeant was
sent to observe the test, held
in a private laboratory.
Police said they don't have
much to work on in trying to
solve the ambush that also
wounded Touhy's bodyguard,
Walter Miller, 62, a retired
police sergeant.
Federal officials said the
assault was carried out by the
Mafia, the notorious interna
tional underworld organiza
tion, to seal Touhy's lips for
ever. There seems to be no short
age of men who could have
ordered the pint-sized prohi
bition era bootleg figure mur
dered. The job could have
been arranged by hoodlums
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from Toughy's roaring 20s
past, or by representatives of
the current crime syndicate.
The police labor unit was
ordered into the investigation
under the assumption that
criminal elements trying to
muscle in on union affairs
might have had a hand in the
shooting.
Touhy was known as a tal
ented organizer and once sold
automobiles to union business
agent. Police thought someone
might have believed Touhy
might have been ready to use
his organizing talents again.
There was hope, but not
much, that Miller might be
able to help in the investiga
tion if he recovers. When po
lice arrived on the scene Wed
nesday night, Miller said he
didn't know who pulled the
trigger.
Miller, a longtime friends
of Touhy and a defense wit
ness at his parole hearings,
was in critical condition, but
showing some improvement.
He had been shot in the legs,
buttocks and back.
Factor, a Chicago promoter
during Touhy's days as a gang
chieftain, was here Wednes
day night in connection with
a $3 million libel suit he had
filed against Touhy for state
ments made in Touhy's auto-
Tax Law Overhaul
Chances Ruled Out
Washington- (UPD -Chairman
Wilbur D. Mills of the house
ways and means committee
today ruled out the possibility
of a major overhaul of tax
laws next year. '
' The Arkansas Democrat
commented as his oommittee
wound up five weeks of hear
ings during which it heard
tax reform proposals from
175 tax experts, economists
and others.
Mills said in a prepared
statement that the hearings
were "exploratory" and the
next step would be for the
staffs of the committee and
the Treasury to sift through
the mountain of suggestions.
biography, "The Stolen
Years."
Police believed Factor's ap
pearance here was only coin
cidental with Touhy s death,
but the wealthy Beverly Hills,
Calif., real estate operator
took a lie test.
He also told Chicago police
he had received a threat on a
postcard in Los Angeles after
filing suit against Touhy. The
card said:
"You goniff, you'll be taken
care of, and I don't mean for
$3 million."
Goniff is a Yiddish word
meaning thief.
Czech Official
Blamed for Salt
Poison Aifempf
Munich, Germany - (UPD - A
Red Czech vice-consul sta
tioned in nearby Austria
masterminded last month's
unsuccessful attempt to poison
employees of Radio Free Eu
rope, the U. S. Army an
nounced today.
"The counter intelligence
corps investigation shows that
Jaroslav Nemec, a vice-consul
of the Czech Consulate in
Salzburg, Austria, on Nov. 16
gave a Communist agent salt
shakers containing atrophine
for placement in the RFE
cafeteria in Munich," the
Army announcement said.
Discovered in Time
A spokesman for the radio
station, which broadcasts to
Czechoslovakia and other
satellite nations, had reported
earlier that the poison-loaded
salt shakers were discovered
just in time.
He said the amount of the
deadly alkaloid contained in
the doctored salt probably
would have been sufficient to
cause at least some deaths
among the 1.200 employees
using the cafeteria.
The Army announcement
said the Red agent sent by
Nemec to plant the salt shak
ers thought they contained
only a "mild laxative."
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IKE GETS HORSE-President Bourguiba, center, of Tunisia,
looks on as President Eisenhower pats the nose of a horse
given him by the Tunisian President on Ike's arrival in
Tunis. (UPI Radiotelephoto)
West Coasf Phone
Reveals Plan for
Improvements
Portland -(UPD- West Coast
Telephone company today un
veiled a 1960 construction
program budget providing
$3,250,000 for improvements
in 27 exchanges in north
w e s t e rn , southeastern and
southwestern Oregon.
. The budget allocates an ad
ditional S334.000 to the com
pany's Camas-Washougal and
Woodland exchanges in
Washington and S372.620 to
the wholly-owned West Coast
subsidiary, Beaver State Tel
ephone company in Lake and
Klamath counties.
20 Complete Programs
The Beaver State program
calls for completion of build
ing programs in Chemult,
Fort Klamath, Chiloquin and
Rocky Point next summer,
and dial conversions at
Chiloquin and Rocky Point.
Nine other projects will use
another $175,000 in Lake
and Klamath counties' long
distance service.
Some $1,206,000 has been
earmarked for the Coos Bay
division which includes a new
central office building in
North Bend. A new central
office in Brookings will cosj
$28,000.
The budget provides for
$365,350 in the La Grande
division and $2,096,440 for
the Beaverton division, not
including Camas, Washougal
and Woodland. The figure
includes work on additional
land and buildings.
Government Calls
Steel Negotiators
Washington -(UPD- The gov
ernment today summoned Un
ion management negotiators
to Washington Monday after
noon to resume talks in the
steel dispute.
Federal Mediation Chief
Joseph F. Finnegan said he
would resume mediation ef
forts Monday in his offices
in the Labor Department.
Bargaining talks under Fin
negan's direction broke off
Dec. 10. He reported then
that no substantial progress
had been made toward a
settlement.
P r e s i dent Eisenhower's
fact-finding board plans to
reopen public hearings an
the dispute the following
Monday, Dec. 28.
Half the states rate the
tourist trade as one of their
three largest sources of in
come. In New Jersey and New
Mexico it ranks first.
Average depth of Lake Erie
is only about 58 feet and be
cause of this shallowness it
is unusually subject to sud
den violent storms.
Any person is competent to
make a will legally with the
exceptions of infants, persons
of unsound minds, and those
legally adjudged to be idiots.
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Stocks Firm Under
Lead of Electronics
New York -(UPD- Stocks
firmed today under the lead
of electronic and special is
sues. Gains in the electronics ran
to nearly 5 in Texas Instru
ments, more than 3 in Ampex,
and moje than 1 each in In
ternational Business Machin
es and Beckman.
Superior of California tack
ed on 17 in the oils where the
majority favored the upside.
Steels backed away some
what after the president of
the steelworkers union advis
ed his negotiators to reject,
the companies' last offer no
matter what it was.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York-fUPD-Dow-Jones
final stock averages: 30 in
dustrials 673.S0. off 1.30; 20
railroads 154.33. off 0.6B; 15
utilities 87.01. off 0.03 and
65 stocks 218.16. off 0.46.
Sales Thursday were about
3.040,000 shares compared
with 3.270.000 shares Wednesday.
Thursday's price on selected
stocks:
Allied Chemical
Alum Co. Am
American can .
117',
1043.
41
American . ...
dmpriran Motors 78
AT&T : 76i,
Anaconda Copper . 6o
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Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel
Boeing Air
Caterpillar Corp.
Chrysler Corp.
Continental Can
Crown Zellerbach
Curtiss Wright .
Dow Chemical
Du Pont
Eastman Kodak
Firestone
73i
. 72
54
30'
34'
. 69.
45H
551,
30 a
99 3a
265
1094
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X iresione
General Electric 93',
Migratory Farm
Wages' Defended
Chicago-OIPD-The American
Farm Bureau federation end
ed its 41st annual convention
Thursday with a defense of
wages paid to migratory farm
laborers.
"Incomes of farm workers
may not be high; neither are
those of farmers," said a res
olution passed by the nation's
biggest farm organization.
But wages of migratory
workers "have increased ap
proximately twice as fast as
the cost of living during the
past 10 years," the resolution
said.
"Virulent and often unin
formed criticism of farm wage
rates has ignored the fact that
such rates in 1959 averaged
47 per cent above the 1947-49
levels."
Moths will eat Americans
out of as much as five billion
dollars worth of clothes and
other woolens this year.
Tel Aviv, economic center
of Israel, started as a planned
city in 1909 ad now has 500,
000 inhabitants.
Finest in foods at special low prices now at Safeway
Powdered Sugar
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Reg. 2 for 31 e
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tangy sweet, lively taste that only truly good grapefruit
has. Just the thing for adding a bright touch to any meal
breakfast, lunch, dinner. We're offering it now at a
special feature price.
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price.
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General Foods ..
General Motors
Georgia Pacific
Lrraham Paige
Greyhound
isuu Oil
Homestake Mining w
Idaho Power
I. B. M
Int. Paper
Johns Manville
Katy
Kennecott Copper .
Lockheed Aircraft
Montana Power Co.
Montgomery Ward
Natl Biscuit
New York Central .
Pac Gas & Elec
Penney, J. C.
Penn RR
Radio Corporation ...
Richfield Oil
Safeway
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Shell
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Socony Mobil Oil
Southern Co
Southern Pacific
Standard California
Standard Indiana
Standard N. J.
Sun Mines
Texas Co.
Texas Gulf Sulfur 181,
Tex Pac Land Trust 19.;
Transamerica 29 t
Trans World Air 18
Tri-Continental 39 'i
Union Carbide 149'i
Union Pacific 30',
United Aircraft 38 lt
United Air Lines 35?,
U.S. Rubber 64 ia
U.S. Steel 99
Youngstown S&T 131 i
Fir Market
Prices Firm
Portland -(UPD- Crow's Lum
ber Market News Service said
today heavy buying in the
past two weeks had resulted
in a sudden firming of the fir
lumber market. Prices were
up $2 to $3 per 1,000 board
feet-
Buying reached a peak in
the week ending Dec. 11 with"
orders on the West Coast
Lumbermen's Assoc i a t i o n
weekly barometer report to
taling 163 million board feet.
This was 47 per cent over pro
duction and the highest week
ly volume of orders reported
to the Association since Au
gust, 1950, Crow's said.
Light production is expected
over the holiday season and
prices traditionally strengthen
at this time. Crow's also said
part of the heavy buying was
due to dealers wanting to buy
for inventory before winter
price advances take place.
Because of the heavy buy
ing, standard and better grade
green two - by - fours have
moved up to the $70 mark for
random assortments with
eight-foot studs at $60 for the
utility and better grades.
These prices represent ad
vances of $2 to $3 per 1,000
over the past 10 days.
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