Senate Hearings Open in Investigation
Of Reported ‘Gangster Practices’ by
Oregon Teamster Union Officials
WASHINGTON, UR — A Senate
committee heard testimony yes
terday that a college classmate of
Dave Beck Jr., son of the team
sters’ union international presi
dent, borrowed $30,000 of union
funds to open a Seattle tavern.
Robert Kennedy, counsel for
the special Senate committee in
vestigating alleged racketeering in
labor and industry, said the com
mittee has an affidavit from Sam
Bassett, general counsel for the
Teamsters Union on the West
Coast, saying the loan was ar
ranged by Beck senior.
The Teamsters international
president is now in Europe, but
has said he will be back in late
March and available for commit
tee testimony.
Before the story of his loan,
there was testimony from two
Portland, Ore., newspapermen
that a gangster-union combina
tion “tried to take over our city
government.”
The newsmen were Wallace
Turner and William Lambert, re
porters for the Portland Ore
gonian.
Their series of stories on al
leged connections between hood
lums and officials of the Team
sters Union in Portland won them
•the 1956 Hey wood Broun award
of the American Newspaper
Guild.
Sen. McClellart (D-Ark), chair
man of a special Senate commit
tee established to make the in
quiry into alleged gangster infil
tration of labor organizations and
industry, promised the committee
19 Cases of Marine Corps
> Mistreatment of Recruits
At California Base
SAN DIEGO, Calif., UR — Dur
ing the past nine months 19 drill
instructors at the San Diego Ma
rine Corps Recruit Depot have
been convicted of mistreating
recruits.
A Corps spokesman issued the
figures Monday night in response
to a query.
He said punishment in these
cases was rendered by either
courts martial or commanding
officers.
Mistreatment did not in all
cases mean that instructors struck
a recruit. The spokesman said
some were charged with oppress
ing recruits by ordering them to
do additional calisthenics.
In none of the 19 cases was any
recruit hospitalized, the Corps
noted.
revelations would be “stupen
dous.”
McClellan’s statement opening
the hearings, expected to run a
year or more, said committee in
vestigators already have leads on
alleged illegal or improper prac
tices iin some 29 cities.
Robert F. Kennedy, committee
counsel, said the initial phase of
the hearings would touch on af
fairs in Spokane, Wash., as well
as Portland.
Turner and Lambert read pre
pared statements relating what
they called a “conspiracy” be
tween Portland officials, Team
sters Union officials and “gang
sters” to establish organized
gambling and prostitution in
Portland.
They named the Portland Dis
trict Attorney, William M. Lang
ley, Clyde C. Crosby, internation
al organizer for the Teamsters
union; and James B. Elkins, a
Portland “racketeer,” as among
those involved and said they have
been indicted in connection with
the “conspiracy.” |
Turner said Elkins, “who will
identify himself to you as a rack
eteer,” provided the two reporters
with original leads.
Turner also said that while he
abhored the rackets Elkins had
operated, he felt that what Elkins
“has done i during the past year
•toward wiping out a criminal con
spiracy, I believe to have been
in the public interest.”
In running down their story,
Turner said, “time and time again
we have been visited -in secret
places by honorable working men
who complained of their inability
to take action to stop the im
proper activities of their union
leaders.
“Without exception, they were
in terrible fear that their visits
to us might become known to
their union bosses.
“The fear of retaliation is one
of the most potent weapons to
silence criticism from within the
Teamsters Union in the Pacific
Northwest. That fear pervades
the organization.”
PRESIDENT NAMES CHILSON
FOR UNDERSECRETARY POST
WASHINGTON, OP — President
Eisenhower yesterday nominated
Olin H. Chilson of Colorado, to
be Under Sceretary of the In
terior. Chilson now is an assistant
secretary.
The nomination is subject to
Senate approval.
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Sgt. Hoyle Farm
Home Looted
By Wash. Vandals
SEATTLE, 'ff) — Thieves took
fixtures — even the front door—
from an unoccupied farm house at
Duvall near here belonging to
Army Sgt. 1/e Warren G Hoyle,
now on duty in Nome, (with ACS)
Hoyle wrote a letter to the
King County Sheriff’s office say
ing the thefts were discovered re
cently when his brother visited
the farm.
Besides the front door, loot in
cluded the bathtub, most of the
plumbing, a pump from the well
and electrical wires leading from
the bam to the house.
Ban on Newspaper
Photos Upheld in
Supreme Court
WASHINGTON, W> — The Su
preme Court let stand Monday
the contempt convictions of seven
western Pennsylvania newspaper
men for taking pictures of a mur
der trial defendant.
The seven took the pictures to
test legality of a picture ban by
the Westmoreland County Court
at Greensburg, Pa.
Judge Edward G. Bauer of the
county court issued the photo ban
at the trial of John W. Wable,
who was convicted as the slayer
of a truck driver on the Pennsyl
vania Turnike. Wable was exe
cuted Sept. 26, 1955.
Wable was photographed in a
corridor outside the courtroom
while court was not in session, The .
seven newspapermen were sen
tenced to jail and fined. The
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
later affirmed their contempt con-j
victions, but threw out the jail J
sentences. They asked the Su-1
preme Court to review the case,.
but the court declined.
The refusal to act was an- j
nounced in a brief order which
gave ino reason.
Pictures of Wable were pub
lished by the Pittsburgh Post
Gazette and the Greensburg Trib
une-Review.
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