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
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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.
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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. His
wife presented him with the
couple's third set of twins on
that day in 1957.
Norwich, Conn. (tH An ef
ficiency expert complained that
City Hall is kept too clean. He
reported that there's too much,
washing, waxing and polishing,
and recommended that janitors
devote more time to other duties.
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