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MSec 1 Statesman, Salem, Sunday, April 17, 1955 Strong Sales TAR GASES? or ujvx k. rotLAN urea MA 22 Movie Pictures Story of One of jo- -m'T ar TST your Daily AOhnty Guid JM According to fnt Sfon. SEPT 2J OCT 23 To develop message for Sunday, read words corresponding to numbers rVL6-77-79-8a Omar Pinson of your Zodioc birth sign. Most notorious tonvicts9 Jo tin Jt TAUtut SCOWtt 31 Stont 1 Your 61 Your OCT. 24 LZ 1 MAY 21 NOV.

22 A 1- 8-10-22 Br CONRAD PRANGE 14-10-20-21 ri K23-55-87-89( Mont, and became No. 4 on the FBI list His days of freedom were numbered. 2 Poor 3 Titn 4 To 5 Mokt 6 Engage 7 In 8 Mind 9 Today f254-46 VJJ 32 And 33 Monty 34 Problem 35 Ambition 36 In 37 Takes 38 Second 39 Center 40 Of MMN SAOnTAMUl Following a tip-off from a girl that Pinson is "doing good time." He's apparently settled down and is As a lifer he is eligible to be considered for parole. His only other possibilities for legal freedom are executive clemency (remote in this case) and death. MAY 22 JUNE 22 NOV.

friend Pinson was recognized in Technique COLUMBIA, S. C. (fV-Gordon Chatterton who sells lumber for i couple of western firms unloaded 37.000 board feet from a freight car in a "single day. William L. Boozer said the job usually take three days.

The Boozer lumbei yard had been faced with heavy demurrage charges when Chatter' ton volunteered to do it in one. Local people watched bug-eyed as Chatterton worked and estimated be handled 56 tons of lumber between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. The salesman, a husky graduate of the University of Washington, worked his way through school as a longshoreman. Although he still varies his sales routine by taking on unloading jobs, he says he had not unloaded a car of lumber for four.

months before tackling Boozer's freight, DEC 10 is II Conferences 41 People 4- 711-1-t h72-73-74 12 You i Webb City, in April, 1950. On Aug 28 the hounded fugitive was nailed by a alert special agent who spotted Pinson as the CANCH 62 Woy 63 Wim 64 Finances 65 To 66 Problems 67 Give 63 With 69 Mony 70 Ploce 171 You 72 And 73 Necessary 74 Buying 75 To 76 Priority 77 People 73 Love 79 It 80 Your 81 Social 82 Activity 83 Apparent 84 Career 85 And 86 Sad 87 It 88 Friendship JUNE 23 JULY 23 CAracom JAN. 20 V-ft escapee was going to register a 42 Picture 43 Improves 44 Too 45 May 46 Impulsive 47 Ar 48 Be 49 Ready 50 Newt Jl For 52 Necessity car at the state capitol at Pierre, S. D. 13 Aimed 14 Your 15 Appear 16 Actions 17 Popular 18 Early 19 Hours 20 Today 21 Could 22 Intuitive VM2-15-17-32 60-63-86-90 VJ "Can't Trust Anyone" 4 I uo Staff Writer, The SUtesmin "He was a brutal, vicious criminal and we are not trying to glamorize him in any way.

He is no hero!" Those are the words which open a movie due in Salem this week based on the life -and crimes of one John Omar Pinson. Pinson is an inmate serving a life term in the Oregon State Prison on the eastern edge of Salem. The movie is "Gangbusters." It was made by the same people who produce the well-known radio show of the same name. It tells the unpretty, if interesting, story of a man who shot an Oregon state police officer, get fire to Oregon state prison, escaped from the same prison, was once rumored to have been buried in a lonely grave, and is nnw behind bars aeain. "This living on the run is no good," Pinson was as AQUAMUS I FES.

I JULY 24 AUG. 23 He said that shortly after the escape he had buried the fatally-wounded Pinson in the woods near Kellog, Idaho. Or, rather, at first he said he buried Pinson near Salem, and later changed the site to Idaho. Officers were skeptical. A Spokane, detective was quoted as saying he had positive proof that Pinson was very much alive and up to his old tricks in that area.

Led Police Astray Benson, however, in an effort to prove his story led police through woods and remote areas of the Idaho panhandle and through parts of western Montana in search of the "grave." He finally told weary police he was "confused." When he was returned to the Oregon prison he led local officers on an unsuccessful hunt for a grave near Salem. About this time Pinson made the FBI's 10 most wanted list Several months later he shot his way out of a roadblock at Poison, 23 But S3 May telling officers after his capture. i sl 24 Concentrate 54 Of 3- 4-24 41-47-49 You never stay in one town 25 Be 55 Harmony 167-71-76 more than one night you can VKGO trust anyone you meet" 56 At 57 Solving 53 Come 59 Dealing. 26 On 27 A 28 Personal 29 Stepping AUG. 24 B9 Locking FEB.

20 MAR. 21 SEPT. 22 Pinson was returned to Oregon State On the night of 60 Concerned VU Affairs 30 Welcome nlS.37O8-70i 5- 291 )Good Adrer (J)NtrIl Oct 31, 1951, a group of 20 cons overpowered seven prison guards K75-7fr8a m-36C-84VJ Editor Critical Of Information Agency Tactics NEW YORK (UP)-The United States Information Agency is putting America's "worst foot forward by trying to duplicate the job being done infinitely better by the independent U. S. news agencies," Roy W.

Howard said Saturday. Howard, chairman of the executive comittee of the Scripps Howard newspapers, has just returned from an around-the-world tour that lasted six weeks. Accompanied by his wife and secretary, Howard arrived at noon by Pan American Airways from in a lutile atempt to escape, fin- John Omar Pinson, convicted mur son was singled out by the then warden Virgil OTtfalley as the ringleader in the Halloween night derer bow at the Oregon state penitentiary, whose life story is pictured in the new movie "Gangbusters." caper. This was his third attempt at freedom. "I guess I'm a failure at escaping," Pinson was quoted as saying at a prison discipline committee hearing the next day.

A failure at 34. The word at the prison now is Ann BlytKs Poetic Sermon' The movie hangs as close as possible to the known facts about Pinson's career in crime. However, in some parts of the film version some liberties have been taken, probably in the interests of interest and story. Name Familiar I To anyone who read the local newspapers in years from 1947 to 1951, the name of John Pinion may have been a familiar one. He figured in all sorts of Creates Hollywood Sensation Paris.

By JAMES BACON I of the press. Whatever way we HOLLYWOOD Ann Blvth say it, you lead the way. Don't 4 Ml probably has sung at more religi-1 burlesque man; lead him. You mis hnpfits than anv nther star in have the words all the words. Tirison trouble, including at Publisher Loses Plea For Dismissal And a little Hollywood.

Yet at her most recent You have the truth Howard told reporters the U. S. Point Four program is "one of the most effective good will builders." By contrast however, he said the U. S. Information Service program of the USIA is contributing virtually nothing to U.S.

prestige abroad. "I would be the last one to sug tempted escapes, riots and finally in a successful crash-out. beauty and a lot of love of man. one she talked instead of singing. F.ven while hunted as an Lead him.

Lead not the child of It created a sensation. 4 eseanee he was involved in one God into darkness." In the audience at the time were many of the biggest names in Hol of the most bizarre episodes of Oregon's somewhat lengthy string LAS VEGAS, (UP) gest another congressional inves Joan Crawford is the mother of lywood, plus Los Angeles' Cardinal rJ mid nenal hanDenines. tigation," he said, "but it does a young architect but she may find herself a bit crowded if she Mclntyre. When she finished most of the 1,500 people present asked Federal Judge John R. Ross Saturday denied a motion for a directed judgment of acquittal in the trial of Las, Vegas Sun publisher Herman (Hank) Greenspun.

seem to me this whole USIA program could properly be the subject of investigation by Congress. builds her new house according to for a copy of her talk He was born Omar August Pinson, March 31, 1918, at Jop-lin, Mo. The only son, police records state, of respectable, Written. by Ann and her doctor the plans of her son Christopher As an example of what he had husband, Jim McNulty, the talk This week, Joan showed Chris' was almost a poetic sermon. Her plans to co-workers at Columbia middle-class Barents.

An un Greenspun is accused of having seen, Howard cited one country. sent through the mails 874 copies, which I don't want to name, which delivery of it tfas superb drama, where she is making "The Queen eventful boyhood, spent near Pomerov. Iowa, ended the hard of his newspaper containing a 1 has a claimed literacy of 12 per Let's look at some xcerpts: Bee: The teenager drew up the cent of the population. We have 'In the beginning was the word, plans at boarding school. way in 1936, when he was sent to Iowa State Training School 150 persons working for USIA and the word was with God, and 'The plans are great," Joan there.

About 17 of them I' am told. for house-breaking. the word was And since then said. "Only, the quarters designed a billion, million words have been for me are minute and Chris' quar I 1941 he was sentenced to a brief term in Iowa State Prison spoken. Soft words, hard words, Iters are tremendous because of cold words, warm words.

the giant size soda fountain he column written by him which the government contends was of "indecent" character in that it "tended to incite murder or assin-ation" of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Greenspun's attorneys, in seeking the acquittal, argued that conviction of the publisher would violate his constitutional guarante of free speech and freedom of the press. for auto tampering. He had mar "There are words that sing and counts on having.

are Americans. The man who is running it is an intelligent newspaperman who is trying to do the best job possible in the circumstances. Every day he is deluged with thousands of words from USIA most of it more than 36 hours old which has already been ried and moved to Pasco. where he worked as a lineman jump and skip and dance gay words: Little girl words. And Hollywood may soon help, in a and electrician.

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Golden Go. small way, to keep the price of Virgil T. Golden words with fun in their eyes and things in their pockets and their wheat up. The town long has been But in 1944 he was sentenced Washineton State Prison for hair mussed: Little boy words. adequately and completely covered by the United States news agen responsible for the high price of On this point, Ross observed, with every privilege goes a re Young Words corn burglary and paroled in 1945.

cies. What he tries to do, con sponsibility." There are young words. And Jack Carter, Columbia Pictures wise old words with a glint in sequently, is concentrate mainly on pictures, newsreels and "Newspapers have a great many propmaster, is looking for all the wheat he can find in the filming After a couple of more scrapes with the law Pinson, then 28, found himself in Hood River on the night of April 25, 1947. While their eye. There are words wide- privileges, as well as they should," Gract S.

Golden Ross observed. eyed with wonder, soft as a baby's 0f the Biblical epic "Joseph And Howard said "all three Amer leet, strong as a naoys twining Brethren," Rita Hayworth's "With these privileges, however, trvins to break into a service lingers, mere re warm, vuuuiy i comeback picture. station he engaged in a gun bat newspapers should exercise care ican news agencies are doing a magnificent job of telling America's story, but they are continually handicapped and bedevilled by baoy words. I Thousands of tons will be shown tle with state police officer Del- Ana steei woras; iron woras; eauences demctin Ezvot's mond E. Rondeau, 32.

A bullet in the chest killed uirusung, sunguig, jam-ei wuius; i "seven fat years 1 Phono 4-2257 605 S. Commercial St. FUNERAL SERVICE cruel oiaues 01 wurus aim aweci Rondeau. Pinson fled and a day this giveaway stuff from USIS which has the same value as anything you get for nothing -and that's nothing." words, booming unguent woras; rh n'wht hetnr th jadAmv later was captured by a posse ol and caution so that your privilege and my privilege are not threatened by over-zealous exercise of their privilege." Ross added that the question of freedom of the press was in his opinion "a matter outside this case." He noted in addition that many father, mother words: Words that awards presentation. Bine Crosby officers near Ordinance as he tried to slio out of the area press thetf cheek against yours 0ffered Marlon Brando 100 to one ana noid your nana: inai canaie- odds that Branda would win the aboard a freiffht train.

a i i nn a. I iigni your aarxness: inai raise top acting Oscar. Pinson was tried and convicted HEART! you nxe a cnua again ana noist The bet was not taken. DR. SEMLER Soys: you onto their snouiaers.

o- am. -words are everything mat man xh- movi i of the arguments made by defense attorneys for acquuittal had been ruled upon by the court at two prior hearings at which motions If to, write to Spears Sanitarium and Hospital, Den is; everything he can be-they are way starting a move for indus-eveerything he should not be. They try sponsorship of the academy for dismissal of the indictment are ais wave; iney are ms master awards telecast against the publisher were denied. ver, Colo, for Testimonial Proof of results in arthritis, cancer, polio, epilepsy rheumatic fever, in a world of the mercy ot the One important studio executive word of God man is. at the mercy commented this week: of words.

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