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1951-01-25

U.S. Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, printed hearings, Part 8: Louisiana, via Internet Archive

Kefauver Part 8: testimony of J. E. Regan, Western Union, on Continental Press terminals in New Orleans (25 January 1951), pp. 67-77

Western Union's New Orleans representative testified that "there are three terminal points for Continental Press in the New Orleans area," one near the Fair Grounds that worked only during the race meet, and that the Daily Sports News's leased circuits were signed for by the Fogartys.

Date
1951-01-25
Kind
hearing
Source
U.S. Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, printed hearings, Part 8: Louisiana, via Internet Archive
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Rights
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.

J. E. Regan appeared in New Orleans on 25 January 1951 for Western Union, in answer to a subpoena to the company (Part 8, pp. 67-77; pp. 67-72 were read). Questioned by counsel Downey Rice, he explained the 8-A ticker, “a regular ticker that is used in quoting all commodities,” the Morse circuits worked by key, and the difference between equipped and unequipped lines.

He testified that “at this time, there are three terminal points for Continental Press in the New Orleans area”: one in New Orleans and one in Gretna, whose receivers he could not name, and a third “in the vicinity of the Fair Grounds” race track, where “that place is in operation only during the Fair Grounds meet.” Asked about the Daily Sports News, he read from a company telegram: “The applications for the leased circuits of the Daily Sports News are signed by J. E. Fogarty and in some cases J. J. Fogarty.” The telegram is Exhibit 8 (appendix p. 428). Counsel then showed him a Western Union bill to the Daily Sports News for private wires to towns in Louisiana and Mississippi; the bill was not read for this page.

The street addresses of the drops are in the testimony. They are lessees’ addresses and are not copied here. The contempt report on John J. Fogarty is filed separately.

itemKefauver Committee hearings, Part 8: Louisiana (1951)Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 8, Louisiana: sessions in New Orleans and Washington, January to February 1951.itemSenate Report 123: proceedings against John J. Fogarty (1951)Senate Report No. 123, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against John J. Fogarty, who refused to answer questions and to produce records. The report accompanies S. Res. 81 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.