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...Pass in District 19 for the use of a non-existent "Research and Information" committee. The money was transferred to 23 retired miners, who cashed the checks and kicked the money back to Pass. Through a District 19 field agent named Bill Prater, he contacted another retired miner, Silous Huddleston. Huddleston enlisted his son-in-law, Paul Gilly, who rounded up the other members of the murder crew...
Sprague assembled some 100 witnesses, including two convicted triggermen: a house painter named Paul Gilly, 42, and a Cleveland drifter, Claude Vealey, 30. Their fee for the murder was $15,000. Gilly told the jury that he was hired for the job by his father-in-law. Silous Huddleston, who in turn, testified Gilly, was hired by union officials. Gilly was told that an official involved was Boyle. The murder plan was simple: "Kill 'em and leave no witnesses...
...substance is restricted to certain medical centers that are still investigating its efficacy and safety. But those who have used chymopapain for slipped discs have uniformly reported good results. For example, at Massachusetts General Hospital, which recently opened a clinic to treat back problems, Drs. James Huddleston and Robert Boyd have injected chymopapain into 250 slipped-disc sufferers over the past 2% years. In three-fourths of the cases, they report, both the rupture and the pain were relieved...
...Washington, D.C., Treasury Secretary George P. Shultz admitted that the U.S. had been "burned" and added: "If we are burned the first time, why, maybe they did it. But if we get burned twice, that is our fault, and we shouldn't have that happen." Senator Walter Huddleston of Kentucky announced even worse treacheries. Now that wheat has reached record heights, he said, there were reports (denied by the Agriculture Department) that the Russians were reselling their $1.63 American wheat to others at the current price of $4.65. So much for the heirs of the Yankee peddler...
...Sprague, the first assistant district attorney in Philadelphia, got Vealey to confess and then won convictions of Martin and Gilly. But Sprague was determined to find out who had organized the murders. He got Gilly's wife to implicate her father, a minor U.M.W. official named Silous Huddleston. Huddleston in turn said that the plot had been conceived in Washington, and that his boss in the scheme had been Albert Pass, a member of the U.M.W.'s international executive board...