Teamster Official Brands As Lies
Testimony Linking Him with Harriman
WASHINGTON, UP) — Robert
<Barney) Baker denied Thursday
testimony he left his former wife
with a brqg that Gov. Averell
Harriman of New York would
find him another, and he then
would be safe from the law.
“An absolute lie! I'm not kid
ding," the ponderous Baker, a top
lieutenant to Teamster President
James R. Hof fa, roared.
The allegation had come from
Mrs. Mollie Baker, his former
wife, in t estimony earlier this
week to the Senate Rackets Com
mittee.
Baker’s present wife is the
daughter of Jake More, former
Iowa Democratic National Com
mitteeman.
He denounced as a forgery the
autograph on a photograph of
Harriman which Mrs. Mollie
Baker said her former husband
left behind and which, she said,
was signed “To my dearst friend,
Barney.”
“i might have wrote it myself,”
Baker protested when quizzed
about it by Sen. Irving M. Ives
It-NY), \yhom Harriman had de
hated in the 1050 gubernatorial
election campaign.
“I’m a ham — I drop names,”
Baker said, his voice rising.
Baker also denied as untrue
Mrs. Maker’s testimony that he
and Harriman were friendly
enough to call each other by their
first names—at Harriman’s sug
gestion — and that Baker had
been a frequent visitor to Harri
man’s home.
Mrs. Mollie Raker said her
marriage to Baker broke up over
his attentions to a Miami blonde
who had been convicted of slay
ing another boy friend.
Baker swore to the senators
that he didn’t use Teamster’s
money to support the blonde in
luxury in 1955. He said he could
n’t remember exactly where he
did get the money.
CAA Disclaims Any
Responsibility For
April 21 Air Crash
WASHINGTON, — Civil
Aeronautics Administrator James
T. Pyle denies his agency is part
ly to blame for an air collision
which took 49 lives near Las
Vegas last April 21.
The CAB said Tuesday that
CAA and the Air Force must
share some of the responsibility
for the accident involving a
United Airlines DC-7 and a jet
trainer plane.
Pyle contended the CAA could
n’t take the necessary measures
to control airspace in the area
because military and commercial
users would not make sufficient
voluntary concessions.
He voiced the hope the new
Federal Aviation Agency would
help resolve such problems.
TEMPTATION
BOSTON, W) — For different
reasons, two judges oppose the
opening of a saloon close to the
city prison and courthouse on
Beacon Hill.
Chief Justice Elijah Adlow of
Municipal Court told the licens
ing board yesterday he didn’t
want temptation placed in the*
path of the 20 to 50 men re
leased each morning after a
night’s confinement for drinking.
Chief Justice Paul C. Reardon
of Superior Court snid other's
might also be tempted—the 200
to 300 jurors who serve the
courts.
The Jicensing board decided to
think about it a while.
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No Polio Reported In
Chicago During August
CHICAGO, 141 — For the first
time in more than 25 years, not
a single case of polio has been
reported in Chicago by mid-Aug
ust and hyilth officials credit the
city’s extensive program of Salic
vaccine inoculations.
Nearly 5,400,000 Salk shots
have been administered by the
city board of health and private
physicians since April, 1955.
JUST LIKE THAT
SAUNA, Kan., 141 — Johnny
Thomas and Gary Forshee, em
ployes of a Sallna tire company,
were changing a tire on an earth
moving machine north of Chap
man when a helicopter set down
near them.
The pilot walked over and said:
“Got a match?”
He got u light for his cigarette,
then took to the air again.
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