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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1962
Page
7
A taped conversation from 1958 surfaced in Maryland politics as Jack Pollack, a longtime Baltimore Democratic figure, played for reporters. Pollack claimed Tawes accepted $5,000 in exchange for appointing Baltimore judges, while Tawes acknowledged the issue but did not finish his statement.
Tawes said a taped conversation with Jack Pollack was not a recording and that Pollack had threatened him. He claimed any $5,000 if received would have been given to his campaign treasurer. The dispute spills into Maryland primaries for governor and a slate of statewide offices with Mahoney as key Democratic rival.
A Moscow train crash marred the Soviet Union's railway day observance as two packed commuter trains collided. Police reported several deaths before a blackout and area cordons limited inquiries while workers convened at a Kremlin meeting hours earlier.
Communist guerrillas blew up three coaches of a train near Saigon injuring 30, killing none, and apparently capturing six, according to the South Viet Nam government.
Ohio financier emerges as outsider in a wide Democratic fight for statewide offices. The U S Senate contest features Daniel B Brewster challenging Blair Lee III to replace retiring Republican John Marshall Butler. Republicans back former congressmen Frank Small Jr and Edward T Miller for statewide posts and Newton I Steers in the at large race.
Roger S. 38 son of the notorious Touhy faces a federal probation violation in Florida after a November conviction on stolen property. His father, Roger Hoodlum, a Prohibition era gangster, was killed December 16, 1959, 23 days after release from prison for kidnapping. assailants never found.
Rezzie Moffett a 45 year old Black man sent to Chicago by Louisiana segregationists boarded a bus back to New Orleans citing it was a mistake to accept North location help from the White Citizens Council of Greater New Orleans. He arrived May 1 but could not find work in Chicago and left with $3 and a $22.51 ticket aided by Cook County Public Aid Department.
The Winchester Junior Chamber of Commerce sponsors a polio clinic next Friday at 7 30 p m at the Winchester Armory. The Jaycees and the Winchester Health Department urged everyone to get the polio shots as part of the ongoing immunization series.
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