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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1957)
Brewster Says Charges Linking Him With Rackets 'Fantastic' Washington UR West Coast gress citation for defying an- j He knowi no conspiracy or O teamster boss Frank W. Brew- other Senate committee that ster told the Senate Rackets checked into teamsters activities committee today that charges on grounds it lacked jurisdiction. linkir.f him with hoodlums are j Sayi 'Elkins Lying' absolutely fantastic and com plete? untrue." rsr vas the climax wit ness a the committee's sensa tional ihres-week investigation But he talked today, saying he would not invoke the Fifth Amendment against testimony j that might be self-incriminating. I f resenting a oeiauea oeniai 01 of artiitWs by racketeers and testimony against him and his Tearrtrs Union officials in union, Brewster said it "consists Tortland. j mainly of hearsay, rumor and in-1 He swore in a statement to sidious innuendo," derived most- th committee: I ly from "gangsters and Ramblers i "I have never conspired with : and various other underworld j anyone at any time or place to i characters." engage in any way or control in I Brewster charged that Port- j any manner any racket in the land racketeer James B. Elkins, ! city of Portland or anywhere the committee's star witness, "is j etee. Nor do I know of any of fi-j simply not telling the truth. He cial or employee of the teamsters ; has either manufactured his fan who has." tastic story himself, or someone Brewster, a tail, aislinguisnea : else Has done it lor nim r-oki"g man of 60, is chairman of the powerful 11-state Western Conference of Teamsters. He faces a contempt of Con- Schrunk Called by MultnomahGrandJury o He said he was never closely associated particularly with Seattle gamblers Joseph P. Mc Laughlin and Thomas E. Malo ney. He has been accused by Elkins of sending the two men to Portland to organize gambling and vice following election of District Attorney William M. Langley with teamsters backing. "Of tioc thrp mon TTlWinc Portland 'U.Ri Slajor ..,,,,,,. iva.. Terry D. Schrunk, back less than , never spokpn to any one of thcm a day from Senate hearings into about pomicai activity or racket labor racketeering in Washing-1 cerj activities in Portland," ton, was called to appear before I Brewstcr sajd the Multnomah county grand j D,nie, All Charges Jury investigating vice yester- West Coast teamst-r boss "ay ,, . , . ., , 'made "categorical statements Also called before the jurors j undcr oath.. that; yesterday was City Commission- He know. of no consDirac.v er Stanley Earl, who also was! a recent witness in the Wash ington hearings. The jury presented a written questionnaire yesterday to Cir cuit Judge Charles W. Redding requesting advice. The nature O of the questions was not re vealed. Judge Redding said he wished more time to study the request before acting on it. Witnesses before the jury yes terday included Mr Phyllis Detrick. secretary to Teamster Organizer Clyde Crosby: Mrs. Lulu Miller, foreman of last summer's marathon grand jury vice probing body and Herb Alden, a photographer for the Oregon Journal. o The thermometer at Azizia in Libya registered 136.4 degrees Sept. 13. 1922. on the part of the teamsters or any teamsters official to engage in any racket in Portland or else where "in collaboration with any public official or anyone else." Elkins had charged that teamsters officials and the Seattle gamblers conspired to run Portland's rackets. Molallla Boy Killed When Struck by Car Molalla (U.R) A five-year old boy was killed instantly yes terday when struck by a car in front of his home here. Police identified the child as Gary Anderson, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Anderson. Ray Moran, a Molalla lumber man, was the driver of the car which struck the child, police said. effort by the teamsters to con trol law enforcement in Port land, the state, or to control any city or state official. Howard Morgan, former Democratic state chairman, said the union tried to control law enforcement in the state up to and including the governor. i He never authorized Elkins. Maloney or McLaughlin, direct ly or indirectly, to represent himself or the teamsters. Spring Planting Of Tree Seedlings Starts in District Spring planting of forest tree ' seedlings is now underway in the Applegate district of Rogue River National Forest, and soon will begin in other local ranger districts, according to Supervisor ; J. H. Wood. Plans have been completed to plant 430.000 trees on the national forest during the spring season. Seedling species include Doug las fir. ponderosa pine, sugar pine, Jeffrey pine, and a few ; knobcone pine which are to be set out on an experimental basis in the Applegate. Logged Areas . Tree planting is planned for logged areas when natural re forestation shows evidence of be ing inadequate. In certain types of timber, brush competition, seed source or other factors pre clude establishment of a second forest crop from natural seed fall. Wood said. Seedlings being planted this season were grown in forest serv ice nurseries at Wind River, Wash., Bend, and Mt. Shasta, Calif. In addition to the national for est planting, 50,000 trees will be planted by the forest service on city of Medford watershed lands above Butte Falls, Wood said. The Medford Water com mission has a cooperative forest management plan with the for est service, under which tree planting and other phases of for est operation are conducted. place anyone on the Oregon Li quor Control Commission. Mor gan testified that he heard through an intermediary that Brewster and the late John J. sters or any of their officials to Sweeney, secretary of the West- -He never authorized anyone to engage in any racket. Liquor Commission He knows of no conspiracy or plan on the part of the team- em Conference, were willing to contribute $10,000 last year to the successful campaign of Democratic Gov. Robert Holmes for this favor. Morgan said Holmes spurned the idea. Friday, March IS, 1957 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE THREE West Germans Going Fishing With Radio North Sea and Baltic fishing fleets are being equipped with submarine radio-sounding de- Bonn, Germany (U.R) West German fishermen are going fishing by radio, the Bonn gov ernment's official bulletin re ported today. vices enabling them to spot schools of fish several miles away, the bulletin said. V NOW YOU CAN THE CORRECT MOWING HEIGHT FOR YOUR LAWN in One Second! SELF-PROPELLED mis D!AL-A-ftIATIC MEW r. ROTARY $10 Down $7 Month 1! 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