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Show CAB DRIVER KILLED IN TBI "M" Fear Another Slain As Missing Car Turns Up. OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 12 CU.R) Climaxing a taxicab "war" that has been in progress prog-ress here several months, one cab driver was shot and killed and another was reported missing today. Al K. Scarborough, nonunion non-union driver for the Yellow Cab company, was slain at an isolated street intersection in West Richmond Rich-mond by two unidentified men who had entered his cab as passengrj. C:ip Is Found Another cab driver, whose name . was not learned, was reported missing miss-ing after his cap and abandoned cab were found on a street corner here. Police feared he had been murdered. Scarborough was to have been the principal witness in the trial of three men charged with beating Itim three months ago and driving his cab into Lake Merritt. More than a. dozen cab drivers have been beaten and 15 cabs have been wrecked since the taxi "war" began several months ago. The trouble began, police said, after the nab company failed to reach an agreement with union chauffeurs and supplanted them with nonunion non-union drivers. |