Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...board, the special Senate committee headed by Arkansas Democrat John McClellan continued hammering together its case against U.S. labor racketeering. As in the first week of its Washington hearings (TIME, March 11), the McClellan committee centered its attention on the activities of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in Portland, Ore., and again the star witness was Portland Racketeer James B. Elkins. Last week Elkins-and some corroborating witnesses-told how Teamsters' representatives, stymied in their original efforts to open the city to vice, simply took over the municipal government...
Elkins had testified that he had entered into a Portland vice partnership with Seattle Gamblers Tom Maloney and Joe McLaughlin and that they were acting as the rackets' representatives of their good friend, West Coast Teamsters' Boss Frank Brewster. Elkins said he had given Maloney and McLaughlin $20,000 in eight months as their cut of the operation, but they had nonetheless decided he was holding out. For his part, Elkins thought he was being doublecrossed by Maloney and McLaughlin-and he had done something about it. He had wired their hotel rooms and made tape recordings...
...Portland policemen standing outside the club during the raid said they had seen Bennett and Schrunk conferring. Then, they said, Bennett walked across the street and "put something down" behind a telephone pole. A few minutes later Schrunk went over to the same pole and "picked up a package." Still another witness, who had been hanging around the club seeking a job as bartender that night, said that what Schrunk picked up was a Manila envelope...
...Bottom. Pallid, tight-lipped Terry Schrunk, who was elected mayor of Portland in 1956 with the Teamsters' help, came to the McClellan committee's hearing room filled with indignation. "I am Astounded and amazed," he cried, "that a committee of the U.S. Senate is being used, without any knowledge on the part of you gentlemen certainly, for political purposes...
WASHINGTON, March 14--Poker-faced William Langley, district attorney of Portland, Ore., took the Fifth Amendment before the Senate committee investigating rackets today and refused to testify about gambling and prostitution in his bailiwick...