Record
Hearing
1950-12-18
U.S. Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, printed hearings, Part 5: Illinois, via Internet Archive
Kefauver Part 5, Exhibits 41, 41-A, 42 and 44: wire-service charts and the witnesses the committee could not serve (December 1950)
Counsel offered a map of Continental's telegraph lines, charts of the Continental and Trans-America networks, and a list of wire-service witnesses the committee had been unable to serve, among them the head of a Miami wire service.
- Date
- 1950-12-18
- 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.
On 18 December 1950 counsel Rudolph Halley offered four charts (Part 5, pp. 853-854). Exhibit 41 is a map of the United States that “has outlined on it the telegraph lines operated by Continental Press”; it is on file with the committee and not printed. Exhibit 41-A is “a chart showing the wire service operated by Continental Press and its distributors as of May 1950.” Exhibit 42 is a chart of the Trans-American Wire Service “as of March 1947.” The fourth is the chronology filed as Exhibit 43. Exhibits 41-A and 42 are printed as chart pages facing p. 1390, which the OCR cannot read, and they are not transcribed here.
Exhibit 44, “Wire Service—Missing Witnesses” (appendix p. 1394), lists witnesses “whom the committee has been unable to serve, and who have not appeared in response to the committee’s request.” Counsel said each was an employee of Continental Press or of “one of the distributors or subdistributors of the wire service which originates in Continental Press.” The list includes a former president of Trans-America, the “boss of wigwag crews,” partners in two Chicago distributors, and “William G. (Butsy) O’Brien,” described as the head of Intra-State News, a Miami wire service, who was “ordered to cut off wire service to S. & G. Syndicate, according to Western Union.”
Being on the list means only that the committee could not serve the person. The exhibit makes no finding about anyone.
