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...Official Message. Thus, Elkins said, he had heard Maloney. McLaughlin and Langley plotting to have Teamsters' Oregon Representative Clyde Crosby go to Republican Mayor Fred Peterson to urge the ouster of a police chief who had refused to cooperate. Said Elkins: "They were trying to figure a way or something that the mayor could hang his hat on to remove the chief of police. It didn't occur to them that [the mayor] might be honest, or not go along with them...
...that point, Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy introduced into the record an affidavit from former Mayor Peterson. Clyde Crosby, said Mayor Peterson, had indeed come to him trying to get rid of Police Chief J. Bardell Purcell. Said Peterson: "Sometime in December of 1955, Clyde Crosby came to my office and stated that he had an official message, and 'I have to give it to you. Brewster, Sweeney [the late John Sweeney was secretary-treasurer of the West Coast Teamsters] and I have talked this over, and I have been instructed to tell you that if Purcell continues...
...combination had some ambitious ideas, among them a scheme to take over the operation of Portland punch-boards for a profit of at least $100,000 a year. Part of the plan, said Elkins, called for Clyde Crosby, the Teamsters' Oregon representative, to persuade the Portland city council to legalize the possession of punchboards. Also, the Teamsters' label of approval would be placed on all the punchboards owned by an Elkins henchman-and places using other punchboards would be picketed by the Teamsters so as to cut off their "beer and bread" deliveries...
...talked a little more and he got red in the face, and he said, 'If you bother my two boys, if you embarrass my two boys, you will find yourself wading across Lake Washington with a pair of concrete boots.' " The two boys: Teamsters' Organizer Clyde Crosby and Multnomah County District Attorney Bill Langley (who is still in office although under indictment for malfeasance in office...
...likewise at the Clyde...