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...judge was identified as gaunt, greying Judge Raulston Schoolfield, 51, unsuccessful 1954 candidate for governor against Frank Clement and currently president of two separate Tennessee segregation societies. Six years ago 13 teamsters, including Chattanooga Local 515's President Glenn W. Smith and Secretary-Treasurer Hubert L. Boling, were indicted for dynamiting and arson during organizing drives. The 13 came for arraignment before Judge Schoolfield, who carefully studied the evidence against them and decided it was "good." In fact, testified former Court Officer James W. West, Judge Schoolfield "seemed enthused" at the prospect-possibly because earlier the Teamsters Union...
...think even the committee was prepared for the shocking pattern of viciousness, lawlessness and disregard for the laws of the land to which many witnesses have testified here." Sample testimony: Nashville Teamsters negotiated contracts with pile-driving fists; Knoxville Teamsters dynamited truckers who refused to bargain without NLRB elections; Chattanooga Teamsters bombed, burned and escaped the consequences by passing $20.000 in bribes that, by strong inference, influenced the decision of the county judge trying the case...
Freehanded. In Chattanooga, Convicted Forger Hubert C. Warren, 28, was discharged from the Hamilton County workhouse after he handed guards a jail release that he had forged...
Born in Blacksburg, S.C. into a farming family of Scots-Irish-German origin, he was educated at the McCallie School in Chattanooga, at North Carolina's old Trinity College (now Duke University) and at M.I.T. ('26), where he got a degree in business and engineering administration and made Phi Beta Kappa. After graduation he stayed on to work for M.I.T.'s Technology Review, was made editor in 1930, spent the next nine years picking up a general know-how of the whole spectrum of science and engineering, developing a facility for tight organization and clear, candid self...
...next year will start building biggest U.S. steam generating unit. Located 45 miles southwest of Chattanooga, the $86 million generator will have capacity...