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Exhibit No. 41-A, a fold-out tree chart with "Continental Press" at the top and three rows of distributor boxes below, such as Daily Sports News, New Orleans; Nevada Publishing, Las Vegas; and Illinois Sports News, Chicago, each above a box giving a number of subscribers, cities and states.
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Kefauver Part 5, Exhibit 41-A: Continental Press wire service and its distributors, May 1950

A fold-out committee chart with Continental Press at the top and its distributors below, from Boston to Las Vegas, each with a count of subscribers, offered by chief counsel Rudolph Halley on December 18, 1950.

Date
1950-12-18
Kind
hearing
Source
Internet Archive, scan of the printed hearings (Boston Public Library copy)
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Docket
Hearings, S. Res. 202 (81st Cong.), Part 5: Illinois (GPO 1951)
Rights
A work of the United States Congress, printed by the Government Printing Office. Public domain in the United States. 17 U.S.C. § 105. The scan is of a GPO printing; Internet Archive marks it not in copyright.

Exhibit No. 41-A is a fold-out that faces page 1390 of Part 5; the plate slug reads “(Face p. 1390),” where the OCR of the testimony prints “1890.” On December 18, 1950, chief counsel Rudolph Halley offered four charts on the racing wire service; the first, a map of Continental Press telegraph lines, was received as Exhibit 41 and is on file with the committee, not printed (printed page 854). Halley then offered “as exhibit No. 41-A, a chart showing the wire service operated by Continental Press and its distributors as of May 1950.”

The chart has “Continental Press” in a box at the top. Three rows of boxes below name distributors with their cities, among them Daily Sports Digest, Boston; Daily Sports News, New Orleans; Armstrong Daily, New York; Associated Press; Nevada Publishing, Las Vegas; Pioneer News, St. Louis; Howard Sports, Baltimore; Transradio Press, New York; United Press, New York; Illinois Sports News, Chicago, with Midwest, General News and R & H Publishing below it; and Empire Service, Cleveland. Most distributor boxes have a box beneath giving a count of subscribers, cities and states.

This is a hearing exhibit. The names, ranks and relationships printed on it are the labels of a chart prepared for the committee; the chart names companies, not persons, and that a news service or wire company appears on it is the chart’s claim, not a finding about that company. They are not findings of the committee or of a court, and this archive does not copy any of them onto a family page or a person page.

itemKefauver Committee hearings, Part 5: Illinois (1950–1951)Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 5, Illinois: testimony taken from September 1950 to January 1951, including Paul DeLucia, Louis Campagna, Anthony J. Accardo, and Joseph Aiuppa.itemKefauver Part 5, Exhibit 42: Trans-American wire service, March 1947A committee chart dated March 1947 with Trans-American Wire Service and Chicago at its hub and lines to Kansas City, East St. Louis, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Miami, Columbus, Camden and California, offered on December 18, 1950.itemKefauver Part 5, Exhibit 43: chronology of the wire service, July 1945 to January 1946A committee chronology in four columns, wire service, date, important events and scratch sheets, tracing the contest between Continental and a "Mob" wire from July 1945 to January 1946, offered on December 18, 1950.