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Show UNION KILLERS HUNTSPEEDED MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, Nov. 19 (INS) Fearing the threat of a union blood purge in the Twin Cities might too soon become a reality, three law enforcing agencies combined com-bined here today In a hunt for the assassins of Patrick J. Corcoran. As boss of the powerful Teamsters' Team-sters' Joint council, Corcoran belonged be-longed to the hierarchy that ruled organized labor in this strongly unionized territory. i Shot down from ambush near his home late Wednesday night, he was believed to have been the first of five marked for the violent end that was predicted for at least one of them by a newspaper columnist last week. Gives Name 1 Cedric Adams, the newspaperman, told police the intended victim he had mentioned on the word of an underworld tipster, was William Brown, president of the General Drivers' union. B Given this first Inkling that Cor- II coran was not the only one slated E to die. police soon after received reports from a variety of sources swelling the total. The wives of two labor leaders said they had received anonymous threats against their husbands and associates, while Alderman A. G.I Bastis said he had learned from a secret source that beside Brown and Corcoran, the Dunn brothers, Vincent, Grant and Miles, organizers organ-izers for the drivers' union, made up the death list of five. Police Puzzled Despite this apparently urgent need for haste before othera met Corcoran'a fate, police of both Minneapolis Min-neapolis and St. Paul, together with state's Investigators remained frankly puzzled at where to begin their investigation. Even the promise of an $11,000 reward for the capture f the slayers slay-ers had failed to bring any tangible clue to their identities. S hours after af-ter the body of the 45-year-old Teamsters' council secretary was found crumpled in the snow. The description of the killers, who were dressed alike in dark and nondescript non-descript clothes, indicated to detectives de-tectives they were professionals imported im-ported for the job. I |