Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 56, Decatur, Adams County, 7 March 1957 — Page 7

THURSDAY. MARCH t, 1957

Probers Told Os SSOO Pay-Off To Ex-Sheriff Gambler Refuses To Testify, Contempt Citation Ordered WASHINGTON (UP) — Senate investigators were told today that a Portland, Ore., gambler gave a SSOO pay-off to Sheriff—now Mayor —Terry D. Schrunk. They slapped an immediate contempt citation on the gambler for refusing to testify on the incident. % a In rapid - fire developments before the special committee investigating labor - management racketeering: —Self-confessed racketeer James B. Elkins testified that Clifford O. (Jimmy) Bennett, his partner in Portland’s 8212 £lub, reported that he made the SSOO payment to Schrunk when the sheriff threatened to arrest all club customers on a raid. . — Bennett,, in one of the most

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stubborn refusals seen recently before a congressional committee, refused to answer all questions about the incident. Resolving itself into an immediate open-door "executive” session, the committee voted to cite him for contempt of Congress by a W roll call vote. —Then three witnesses to the incident at the club testified they saw something pass between Schrunk and Bennett. Two city policemen and an unemployed bartender said they saw Bennett talk with Schrunk, re-enter the club, return and place something behind a telephone pole across the street. Schrunk, they said, retrieved what was placed there. Bennett Says Utile Elkins testified that his bookkeeper told him after the raid that SSOO was missing from the $1,500 regularly advanced as “bankroll” for the club’s gambling operations. He said he does not believe Bennett pocketed the money. Bennett, a slick-haired youngish man, told the committee little other than that he now lives in Great Falls, Mont. He did not even state the grounds for his refusal to testify, although Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark) referred to the constitutional protection of the Fifth Amendment. Elkins’ story of the raid was corroborated in some respects by Mrs. Virginia Jenkins, the witness

who followed Bennett. Mrs. Jenkins said she is now a “bartender” in Contact, Nev. Mrs. Jenkins said she formerly was the hat-check-girl at the 8212 Club. She said the sheriff’s raid came without warning while afterhours gambling was in progress at the club. Lie Teat Given Elkins said “the raid was “stirred up” by Thomas E. Maloney, a Seattle gambler who has figured in previous testimony as a crony of Teamster Union officials who

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One Man Is Killed As Plane Crashes Two From Indiana Injured Wednesday GRANT PARK, 111. (UP) — George A. Stevens, Sherman Oaks, Calif., was killed and three men, including two Hoosiers, were in- \

jured Wednesday night when a light plane crashed in a corn field four miles east of here. Injured and taken to St. James Hospital in Chicago Heights were Vernon E. Hux, Terre Haute, Ind., pilot of the plane; Gail Hawley, also of Terre Haute; and Herman A. Rensing, Santa Maria, Calif. The plane apparently was attempting an emergency landing when it plowed into a fence on the Henry Bohl farm and was demolished. It did not burn. Bohl told state police one of the

injured men managed to get to his,home to seek aid. The Riper Tri-Pacer plane was owned by the Turner Aviation Corp. It was chartered when an earlier scheduled flight was missed by the California men, state police said. Appraisers Named For Right Os Way Robert H. Heller, Gerald Strickler, and Harry Essex were named

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appraisers today for the purchase of the right of way land for Indiana Michigan lines into Decatur. Alex Campbell, well-known Fort Wayne attorney, represented the power company in the negotiations with the Adams circuit court. The line will run two and three-quarters of a mile from the southwest edge of Root township along a gravel road to the city limits. Work will procede on the line as soon as the final right of way settlements are made.