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SflCTZEN MZDFORD (OREGOK) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. Mirch 13. I9S7 ooks of Teamsters Union 'Falsified EVIundt Charges in Rackets Investigation Washington fU.R) A Senate labor racket! investigator charged today the Teamster Union ' falsified" its books. Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R-S.D), a member of the Rackets Com mittee, pounced on an entry in the books of Teamsters Joint Council 37 which listed payment of a $241.30 hotel bill for Thomas E. Maloney, Portland. The check was listed under ex pense allowances of union offi cers and delegates. Mundt said the books had "ob viously been falsified." Either the books had been "deliberately falsified," he said, or the union was "paying Maloney for his activities in Portland, which I believe to be racketeering activi ties." The committee has heard tes timony that Maloney was one of two Seattle racketeers sent to Portland by union officials to take over vice and gambling. Records Destroyed Mundt voiced his charge dur ing testimony by R. R. (Reg) Mikesell, gecretary-treasur of Teamsters Joint Council 37. Mikesell testified that certain financial records subpoenaed by the committee have "gradually been destroyed" because a union vault was "terribly crowded for space." He said all records avail able have been supplied to the committee. He agreed under questioning that those records are. for the most part, contained in one red-trimmed account bonk. Mikesell, who said he lives in Vancouver, Wash., identified himself as secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 501 there. He said he holds the same position in Joint Council 37. centered in Portland. That city has been the focus of the committee's current Investigation. Mikesell said Maloney, a fat Seattle gambler and friend of West Coast teamster boss Frank W. Brewster, was neither a un ion officer nor a delegate. The records he said that were destroyed would cover the pe riod when Maloney and another Seattle gambler, Joseph P. Mc Laughlin, were in Portland. Questioning or Mikesell by counsel Robert F. Kennedy dis closed that the committee had subpoenaed financial records dating back to Jan. 1, 1954. Mikesell said certain of those records have been destroyed. but he said he thinks records covering the 1937 to 1954 pe riod are still intact. Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) commented that Mike sell, when he became pressed for vault space, started '"destroying from the new' rather than the old records. ""That's a little strange to me," the chairman said. Meanwhile, in Seattle, Team sters President Dave Beck said he was ready to appear prompt ly before the Rackets Commit tee, which is interested in his $160,000 home and in hi sonal finances. The union chief hinted, how ever, that he might take refuge in the Fifth Amendment, if his lawyer so advised. McClellan read off a list of records which the committee had requested. They covered bank statements, checkbooks, canceled checks, journals, ex penditure vouchers, and other records detailing expenditures to various individuals that have figured in the committee's Port land hearings. per-1 The names listed included Brewster, president of the West ern Conference of Teamsters; the late John J. Sweeney, for mer conference secretary; Clyde ZJL .... ,n , ft ys vP- NO COMMENT Dave Beck's son, Dave Jr. (left), keeps a tight grip on his father's coat as he leads the Teamster Union boss toward a waiting auto at airport in Seattle. Returning from a tour of Europe, Beck refused to answer questions on whether he will co-operate with the Senate Rackets Committee which would like to have his per sonal records and first-hand information about Teamster affairs. Ladies Hats Now It the time to buy your Spring hat while style and color assortment It complete. A Real Woolworth Value EACH Spring Flowers Rosas, violets, daisies, asttn. 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While he did not say how much he knows about vice in the nation's capital, Schrunk testi fied solemnly that "I received a call in my Washington hotel . . . soliciting." C. Crosby, Oregon teamsters or ganizer; Multnomah County Dis trict Attorney William E. Lang ley, Portland Mayor Terry D. Schrunk, and others including Maloney and McLaughlin. As McClellan went through the list of subpoenaed docu ments, Mikesell said bank state ments for the period had been destroyed as had canceled checks. He commented that the records could be obtained "from the bank." Finally McClellan had Mike sell identify as "our book of en tries" a wide, black account book trimmed in red. McClellan then asked if the book was noi the only "record, instrument ofi document'' which Mikesell had supplied. The union official said that was correct, except that cer tain audits were also made avail able and the committee was given access to the old records. 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