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Meanwhile, Senate rackets investigation rolled out a mass of evidence that Frank W. Brewster, a top Teamster Union official, applied cash from the union till to a home, racing stable, and costly tailor-made suits. There was evidence, too, that Brewster doubled up on expense accounts...
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...
...Elkins was seeking to expand his illegal operations (he was game for anything except that he "never took a nickel" from a madam) around Portland. He was referred to Seattle Gambler Tom Maloney as a man who could help him by reason of being "a very close friend of [Teamster Boss] Frank Brewster." Gambler Maloney, said Witness Elkins, looked upon the Teamsters as "God or something" and was fond of boasting that "we could eventually take over the whole state of Oregon if we had their backing." Elkins, Maloney and-although they had previously been committed to another candidate...
...Portland, so-called Spinster City of the West, the Oregon Journal last week handled the year's hottest story with spinsterish restraint. While witness after witness testified, before a U.S. Senate committee that Teamsters' Union bosses had plotted with city officials to monopolize Portland's rackets, the Journal (circ. 181,489) primly avoided editorial comment. Though the Journal gave wire-service reports of the hearings heavy play in its news columns, it-made no attempt to report local evidence of Teamster-racketeer relations. Reason: since its opposition daily, S.I. Newhouse's Oregonian (circ. 230,850), first...
...Seattle. Teamster Boss Dave Beck's home town, the contrast in newspaper coverage was even more pronounced. The Seattle Times (circ. 208,224), though long chary of offending Baron Beck, had assigned Pulitzer Prizewinning Reporter Ed Guthman to ferret out the story as soon as it learned of the Oregonian expose last year. Last week it red-bannered the Washington hearings and played local angles to the hilt. Hearst's Post-Intelligencer (circ. 190,789), on the other hand, ran only routine service stories on the Senate investigation. still had not given the story top Page One play...