Japanese stores take candy off shelves TOKYO (AP) — Hundreds of stores in Japan cleared candy ice cream and biscuits off their shelves after newspapers received identical threats to lace sweets with cyanide, authorities said today. Letters sent to four national newspapers threatened to put the deadly poison in products of Ezaki Glico Co., one of Japan's largest confectioners, said a reporter at the Yomiuri Shimbum newspaper office. Stores in western Japan pulled Glico's goods off its about 600 shelves.