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Wednesday, August 7, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Rackets Committee Calls for Testimony on Hoffa-Dio Link Washington W The Sen ate Rackets Committee called for expert testimony today on the crux of its New York hear ings the charge that James R. Holfa, Teamster Union vice president, used Johnny Dio's un derworld henchmen to rig a union election. Counsel Robert F. Kennedy saidthe committee planned to call 10 witnesses, most of them union officials connected with Dio. That would clear the way for Dio's scheduled appearance Thursday, he said. The witnesses, Kennedy said, would be individuals who play ed a role in the battle for con trol of New York's Joint Council of Teamsters late in 1955. The committe.e previously charged Hoffa obtained Team ster charters for a group of "paper" locals in New York merely to use their votes in that Teamster election. According to committee data, four of the p T ? -tttf: ; REAL COOL DIVE Now here Is a diving board that not only adjusts to any height' at the flick of the hand, but really cools the diver off at the same time. Of course you have to have a helicopter and a pilot for a friend like Larry Lape. Heading for the water in this Woodside, Calif, pool is Ann Ortega. Watching, left, is Thelma MasserdottL Skin-Diving Expedition Searches For Seaport Washington W A skin diving archeological expedition, ' believed to be the first of its kind, plans to dig out an ancient seaport built in the first century before Christ. The expedition, to take place early next year, wil try to ui cover the old Roman port of Caesarea. It now lies off the coast of Israel in the Mediter ranean Sea. The trip will be sponsored here by the American-Israel So ciety, the Smithsonian Institu tion and the government of IsreaL The society's executive direc tor, George L. Cassidy, said that while there have been under explorations before, this is be lieved to be the first in archeol ogy. He said the expedition's im9wil be to recover Biblical relics from the Mediterranean and to explore further the floor of the Sea of Galilee. Preliminary Explorations The group will be headed by the noted industrialist and in ventor, E. A. Link, and hfc wife. The Links, both experienced skin-divers, made a survey of the area last year. They were the first in modern times to define the boundaries of the sunken harbor. Using light d&ng equipment, they es tablished that the ancient Pal estinian port was at least four times the size of the one' that stil exists there. The Links also found some re markably well-preserved relics in other preliminary explora- tions. In recent years, Israeli fishermen havfiCstumbled across ancient objects by the hundreds. These discoveries have prompted trips by amateur div. ers. Such ill-advised expeditions may have destroyed markers to possibly priceless deposits. Also, the object, in order to be pre serv$,($equire expert treatment A Special Ship Both the Links and Smith sonian's naval history curator, Mendel L. Peterson,0 bftieve that through the use of proper J diving gear more important dis- coveries are possible. Other ! archeologists said the artifacts i may shed new light on the early Christian era. The expedition wil use a spe . cUlly built ship and a heavy barge with hoisting gear. The ship is equipped with a power ful water jet which will be used to blow away the sand that pro tects the relics. The American divers wil be accompanied by archeologists ! and personnel from Israel's De-j partment of Antiquities and He-1 brew University. Little is known in modern times about the ancient port. Flavius Josephus, a Jewish his- torian during the Koman era, described it as being "a haven sheltered from the waves of the sea. lie wrote tnai .rung nenw sought such a port "wherein j great fleets might lie in safety." At the inland Sea of Galilee, the historian spoke of a fierce j sea battle between the Romans' and the Jews. Since wood should be preserved in this fresh water lake, the possibil ity of finding Roman galley or biblical fishing boat is good. Escaped Convict Remains at Large Salem (W Andrew Tay lor, 40, a "dangerous" convict who escaped in broad daylight from a Marion county court room here Monday by slugging a guard, was still at large to day. State police and sheriff's dep uties were following leads that the elusive escapee had been seen in a car near Lyons, about 35 miles east of Salem, and that he also had been spotted eating btakfast in a restaurant in Linn county Tuesday morning. Taylor and fellow convict Leo nard Miller, 31, bolted down a fire escape to make their dar ing getaway from the court room where they were await ins a hearing. Miller was recaptured a short while later in a nearby garage, but Taylor apparently slipped through roadblocks and patrols after doubling back towards the downtown Salem area. , BOLT CAME TWICE Beekmantown, N.Y. (IB Farmer Elihu Pierce, one of whose cows was struck dead by lightning near a gate post 48 years ago, used to laugh when tol about it striking twice. Re cently another of his cows was struck dead in the same spot. HERE'S 52 A hfl TIP! n0 f) HAPPY HARRY "Borrow The . . . American Way" LOANS $25 to $1,500 AUTO SALARY FURNITURE For Any Worthwhile Purpoit Payments To Fit Your Budget! American Finance Corp. Phono SPring 2-8886 123 W. Main Medford largely memberless locals were staffed with officers from Dio controlled locals -of the AFL United Auto Workers Union. Gives Vivid Picture Paul Claude, a Brooklyn, N.Y. machine shop owner who said he feared for his children's lives even as he testified, gave the committee a vivid picture Tues day of how one Dio henchman allegedly operated. Claudev a nervous man with a furrowed, balding brow, testi fied that into his shop Paragon Brass Products, Inc. one day in 1954 walked Max Chester, a smallish, soft-spoken man with long, dark eyelashes. Kennedy said Chester also has a long, dark record of nine ar rests and six convictions includ ing a recent labor bribery case involving his friend Dio, whose real name is John Dioguardi. Chester announced he was or ganizing the shop's 15 em ployees, Claude testified, and for $2,000 would grant a con tract the machine shop owner could "live with." Otherwise, the witness related, the contract would increase his costs S12.000 in thre years and run him out of business. K'a of Psychology TTi stair! PrHastiar TnM him hi I S2.000 offer amounted to a gift of $10,000 ' and Claude should be grateful. The nervous witness said the Dio henchman always inquired solicitiously about his family's health and wasn't it a shame how easily his children could be run over by a car? ''He "said how he loved his own children and how danger ous it is for children to play in the streets," Claude testified. "l;was scared to death. It was a kind of psychology, and it worked on me. He never threat ened." Chester, called to the witness stand, involked the Fifth Amendment refusing to tell anything but his name. He re fused even to admit his present abode is a New York jail cell where he awaits sentence along with Dio and Samuel Goldstein, an official of a New York Team sters local. All three were con victed July 25 of exacting mon ey from employers for labor peace. REALLY FATHER'S DAY North Tonawanda, N. Y. (W Father's Day has a special significance for Joseph Volk. 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