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By
WASHING
swiftly today
of Jimmy Hof i
to plant a spy
The cocky,
would fight "u
I 1 ON, March 14 (il 2 )—The government moved
with a grand jury investigation—in the case
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.' Teamsters Union bigshot accused of a plot
'n the midst of the Senate's racket probers.
dapper Hoffa, asserting innocence, said he
til I am cleared."
DA R
fuses
To Answer
Questioning
WASHINGTON, March 14 (A))
—Poker-laceCt William Langley,
district attorney of Portland, Ore.,
took the Fifth Amendment before
the Senate committee investiga
ing rackets today and refused to
testify about gambling and pros
titution in his bailiwick.
He listened to tape recordings
of what purported to be conversa
tions between him and a pair of
gamblers bu t refused to say
whether he recognized his own
voice.
Declines to Answer
He also declined—on grounds of
possible self-incrimination—to ex-1
plain a $5OO check drawn in his
name by the Western Conference,
of Teamsters in 1954.
The tape recordings, made se
cretly by a third gambler who
thought he was being double
crossed, quoted Langley as saying
it was "all right" to run card
games, handbooks, pinball ma
chines and punchboards.
Changes Mind
They also quoted him as saying
9 want my eighty-five hundred"
and, then saying a few seconds
later: "You guys can have the
eighty-five hundred."
It was the 11th day of the Sen
ate committee's investigation of
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rand Jury
But his senatorial accusers
seemed satisfied they had the
goods on him and could send him
to prison on charges of an 518,000
bribery scheme. They said the
scheme was designed to obtain
advance tips on what the Senate
investigators were up to.
Maximum Punishment
The maximum possible punish
ment on conviction of bribery, is
three years on each count and a
fine of three times the amount of
the bribe.
The grand jury began looking
into the case this afternoon, and
Dist. Atty. Oliver Gasch said it
would meet again tomorrow.
The jury mot under unusually
secret circumstances with doors
to several connecting rooms
locked.
Counterspy Was Key
However it was learned that
lawyer John Cye Cheasty, key
witness, appeared before the jury.
He is the man who, the govern
ment says, skillfully acted a dou
ble role—ostensibly a spy for Hof
fa but really working with the
Gasch was asked whether any
witnesses were being subpoenaed
from Detroit, Hoffa's headquarters
city. He said he wouldn't be sur
prised if that were true.
The charges were presented to
the grand jury by James W.
Knapp, of the Department of Jus
tice's Criminal Division and by
Edward P. Troxell, principal as
sistant 'U.S. District Attorney.
alleged links between public offi
cials in Portland, high-ranking
members of the Teamsters Union
there and the underworld.
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