Record
Hearing
1950-11-15
U.S. Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, printed hearings, Part 10: Nevada and California, via Internet Archive
Kefauver Part 10: testimony of William J. Moore, Nevada Tax Commission, on the race wire in Las Vegas (15 November 1950), pp. 2-12
A member of the Nevada Tax Commission described the hearings behind Nevada's 1949 race-wire law, answered "I think so; yes" when asked whether the service came from Continental Press, and said Connie Hurley had been "the owner of the service" in Las Vegas.
- Date
- 1950-11-15
- Kind
- hearing
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
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- A hearing print of the United States Senate, published by the Government Printing Office. A work of the United States Congress, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The scan is the Internet Archive copy of the Boston Public Library's printed volume.
William J. Moore, an executive of the Hotel Last Frontier and a member of the Nevada Tax Commission, was the first witness at the committee’s Las Vegas session of 15 November 1950 (Part 10, pp. 2-12). Counsel Rudolph Halley took him through the commission’s hearings on the race-wire service law “which became effective July 1, 1949,” begun after a letter from the Clark County district attorney. Moore said he knew little of his own knowledge, but had been told “by numerous operators that Mr. Siegel said who was to get race-book service and who was not to get it.”
Asked by the chairman, “Is it Continental Press that comes in here?” he answered, “I think so; yes.” Senator Tobey told him that Continental officials examined in Washington had said one receiver paid “$6,000 a week.” Moore said Connie Hurley “was the owner of the service. He paid so much money to Continental Press,” charged the other operators, and kept what was left, and he called Hurley “the operator or local representative of the wire service.” He added that Hurley “has no connection with the Continental Press any more,” having ended it when the law was passed.
A digest of the “racing wire situation in Las Vegas” was placed in the record as Exhibit 1; it is on file with the committee and not printed. The whole Las Vegas session, with the other witnesses, is filed separately.
