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The Seaforth News, 1960-01-21, Page 7Rassiv,14 other nations sign Antarctica peace treaty, , Rogerrouhy, paroled prohibition era gangstaly shot down nt Chicago. msµ" •aa���' L•.::4111, Atlantic storm lashes coastal fume for five days, takes scores. of lives, ike arrives in Paris SK tied of peace tour; West proposes summit meeting in April or May; Russia agrees EC y Senate sub- committee opens investigationOf drug industty. Airliner hits mounta n at Montoursvills, •Pa.; one of 25 pessengers survives. DEC3;ti,i N.Y, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller decides not to try for Republican presidential nomination. Heavy snows hit fast b't 4 Coast,and Ws q white Christmas - there. l ivu9- Walter Williams, 111, last Civil War yetergn, dies, Finish For A Real Tough Guy "It was the first time I can ever, remember crying." This was tough, gruff Ray Brennan's reaction to a gang kill- ing_ that gave him the juiciest exclusive of his long, headline - spattered career as an ace Chlea- go> crime reporter — a story that was splashed under Brennan's by-line in The New York Post and New York Journal -Ameri- can (in special, separate ver- sions obtained by long-distance y,w phone interviews) and was wide- ly quoted by the Associated Press. The story was Brennan's inti- mate account of the last hours of Roger( The Terrible) Touhy, the paroled mobster who was gunned down last month by two unidentified assassins. And 52 - year -old Ray Brennan of The Chicago Sun -Times had the ex- clusive because he had left Tou- hy only a half hour before the slaying — after chatting and drinking with this one time boot- legger in the wood -paneled lounge of the Chicago Press Club. (Brennan had Scotch, Touhy had two beers.) In his by-lined piece, Brennan related that Touhy had come to the club to talk about promotion of the recently published book ("The Stolen Years,") which Brennan helped him prepare. "$e was very happy about every- thing," Brennansaid, recapping the three hours in the Press Club. "He was almost jubilant. One crack he made was: 'After all this, maybe I'll have enough to buy myself a place to live down in Florida now that the book's selling'." It was the kind of inside track on a big story that would glad- den the heart Of any newsman, But hard-bitten Ray Brennan wept, because Roger Touhy was his friend. And in a measure, Brennan felt responsible for Touhy's death. Still red -eyed and taut two days later, the reporter ground out one filter-tipped cigarette after another with his stubby, nicotine -stained fingers as he sat in a bare -walled con- ference room just off . The Sun- -Times city room and told a Newsweek reporter: "Roger Would still be alive now if it weren't for the blank, blank book — there's no ques- tion about that. It told too much about his enemies. He was killed by hired killers for the outfit .. a loose confederation of 'the mob' and the Mafia. This was a lesson killing. It was an example kill- ing, to show that no one defies the mob and gets away with it" In the book, Touhy insisted he had been framed -by the Capone gang on charges of kidnapping Jake (The Barber) Factor — the crime for which he spent 25 years in prison. And Brennan US believed this implicitly; he has believed it ever since he first got to know Touhy in 1934, as A 26 -year-old AP correspondent at the kidnap trial, In the years since then, Bren- nan has covered all the major crime stories, often with, the kind oi' "front page" dash attributed WORLD CHAMP — Australia's Jack Branham flashes a victory smile after the Sebring. Fla.. Grand Prix for autos. He failed to win the race, but piled up enough points to win the inter• h-a'tiona'I driving championship for 1959. tc Chicago reporters. He won his reportorial spurs by tying up the long-distance phone lines from Crown Point, Ind., in 1933 to scoop the country on John Dil- linger's toy -pistol jail break. Af- ter moving over to The Chicago Times (now The Sun -Times) in 1939, he wangled an exclusive hospital interview with a gang - shooting victim by smuggling a bottle of beer to the hoodlum's bedside. While Brennan has sometimes written emotionally of the crimes he covered, he has rarely shown much sympathy for the the crim- inals. But Touhy's case was dif- ferent because of Brennan's be- lief in the former mobster's inno- cence. "Roger was tough, but not really vicious," Brennan said last month. "There was no more rea- son to kill that poor old b than to kill your grandmother." Brennan had no fear that he himself might be a -marked man for Touhy's killers„•("They've ac- complished' their purpose," he said.) But he was equally sure that the investigation of Touhy's death would reach a dead end. "There's no possibility they will • ever catch• the real killers," he' said bitterly. "As a reporter, work every angle. But I'm not vain enough to think any one- man crusade is going to do any good." —From NEWSWEEK DRAWBACK The Navy serial number of Cmdr. Donald C. Richards is, simply, 123456. "It's no trouble to remember," said Richards, who is stationed at the Millington Navy base in Memphis, Tenn., "but just try to cash. a check in a strange bank with a number like that." Who says movies aren't edu- cational? Some Of those late movies are old enough to pass as history lessons. DEOEi 9 FederaISoilrt convicts 20 pparticipants in 1957 Apo lachln, N.Y„ gangland canyent(on. Bursting dam floods Riviera town, killing hundreds. 55 milmonkey es into space, recovers him alive, ./ 'i • Great Riot At French Races Thousands of sports - loving Frenchmen went to the famous Longchanlps race -course looking forwardto a pleasant Sunday afternoon's racing, None of them 'imagined that within a few hours he would be caught up in , -a howling mob that was ;Le : injure three hundred racecoolrse offici- als, plunder thousands of dollars, and wreck the racecourse—all" ' because of a "ghost race" the crowd thought should not have been run! This "turn -up for the book" one of the most sensational in racing history — happened in October, 1906. At first there was nothing to show that the pro- gramme would, be completed other than normally. The new- fangled starting gate apparatus was working well, and the large crowd were making their way happily between their vantage points and the hundreds of little wooden huts dotted about the course that served as offices of the pari-mutuel system, forerun- ners of the Tote booths that are now so familiar a part of the English racing scene. Then came the chief event of - the programme, a free handicap in which, ironically, the favou- rite was a horse named Storm. Ten runners went to the post. Whether the starter, still un- familiar with the apparatus, made a mistake and pressed a - button accidentally or whether something went wrong with the starting gate machinery was never discovered. What Was cer- tain was that only half the field was ready as the tapes suddenly flew up. Storm, the favourite, was among those left at the post. A couple of jockeys who had got away saw' what had happen- ed, pulled up, and returned to the start, but the remainder went on, and by now it was too late to recall them. Isolated in his box by the•win- ning post, the judge knew no- thing of what had happened at the other end of the track, and wheys three horses galloped past the finishing post he had no op- tion but to declare that. Mon- seiur. Perichon had won the race by two lengths from Mlle. Marg- uerite, with Bethsaider third, The fact that all three were out- siders, at respective prices of 119-10, 10-1, and 100-8, was no --;_concern of his. Nor did it natter to him officially that there was .no sign of the favourite, even if privately he wondered what had happened to it. As there was no objection from other jockeys as to the way the three placed horses had run, the result was in order from his point of view, and the formal declaration of placings was made. It was then that the storm broke. A crowd surged round the judge's box demanding that the race be declared void, Others , made their way towards the weighing -in enclosure and the offices of the pari-mutuel organ- ization, demanding the return of their stake money. Police and troops, wlio were always stationed at the meetings, . tried to stop them, but one of the mob seized a chair and be-. ' gan using it as a weapon to fight his way past. Immediately, doze ns more chairs were grabbed and the po- lice and soldiers found them- selves helpless to check the ad- vance, Fencing was torn down to provide fresh clubs for the angry mob, as they smashed all. the windows in reach. In the enclosures screaming women racegoers and their es- corts, who were taking no part in the outbreak, were roughly handled if they could not get out of the way in time, and then the mob turned to the betting booths out on the course. The clerks working in them had already taken the precaution of locking themselves in, but that did not help them, Some booths were overturned, others set on fire, As each clerk was forced out the crowd surround- ing him made for the tin box in which he was carrying his after- noon's takings. A few managed to escape, but most Were trampl- ed clown as scores of hands grab- bed at the boxes and tipped the money into the air, In a few minutes upwards of $60,000 was tossed away. Most of it probably found its way into the pockets of the rioters, for only a few coins were ever dis- covered, Fires were now burn- ing where the betting booths had been. Although the troops were armed, they were powerless without using their weapons, and there were notenough of them to cope with the frenzied rioters. The police made scores of ar- rests, but nearly every time they captured a man the crowd snatched' him back again. Reinforcements were called up, but they were a long time arriv- ing, and in the meantime the fire brigades were put out of action as soon as they reached the scene. The mob cut the traces of the horses, which stampeded, injur- ing several people, and the hoses were slashed to ribbons. The , winning post and railings had long since been turned into fire- wood, and a cab driver who ar- rived expecting to pick up a fare found instilad,that his horse was set free and his. vehicle- tipped on to a bonfire. The chief of police then ap- peared and ordered his men and the troops to charge, but quickly accepted defeat when the rioters retaliated by clubbing them with anything handy. Some even tried to set fire to the soldiers' tunics! So, as it was clearly impossible to restore order, he gave instruc- tions instead to protect the stands and office buildings as far as possible. Fortunately the horses taking part in the programme had been spirited safely away, as the riot- ers made short work of the stables when they reached them, At last, more than two hours after the rioting.began, military reinforcements arrived, five hun- dred men fully armed and ready for anything. Their commander lined them up with the survivors of the troops already there — several of whom had been badly hurt in the clashes with the crowd—and ordered them to advance where the mob was Tibetans rebel G against Chinese; Dalai Lama flees to India. !I' Tutu' i it Til a Typhoon Vera engulfs Japan, killing over4,000; �!'rf !�!FI!ilfaii ;Uiil St. Lawrence Seaway opens to traffic i NbitE i1>R �lil: `!il till Cranberry - cancer scare fails to dampen Thanksgiving. l lliJti � �lil';(�I%l op Nixon arrives in Mos- cow o open U.S. exhibition Russian rocket photographs hidden side of moon. li! JUNE Sweden's Ingemar Johansson wins world heavyweight crown. SEPTEMBER Khrushchev visits America. 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