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Thuridy. March 21, 1957
Beck Passes Up Another Chance To
Tell if He Will Hand Over Records
Washirsj'.on 1 Team- could have the checkbook if it
iters President Dave Beck wanted it.
passed up a chance today to tell Senate investigators produced
at today i session a leamsters
I check for S3, 115 signed by Brew-
the Senate Rackets committee
whether he will hand over his
personal financial records next
Tuesday.
Committee Chairman John L.
McClellan (D-Ark.) said he re
ceived a new telegram from
Beck but "the reservations are
still there" on whether Beck
would surrender his records or
invoke the Fifth Amendment
and refuse to give them up.
"Only he (Beck) can say what
he means," McClellan told news
men. "It is not clear whether he
intends to make his records
vailableOfor committee inspec
tion, or merely mcns to have
them physically present."
Under the law, 9 subpoena
could require Beck to bring his
records to the hcring room. He
has (S)l ready promised to do this
riext Tuesday. But he could not
Mie compelled to hand them over
to the committee if he wished to
invoke the Fifth Amendment
(jhd swear they contained infor
rr(g;ion which might tend to in
rriminate him.
rsonal Finances
fllc(iciian aisciosea bcck s
tr?ram as the committee re
called Frank W. Brewster, West
Coast teamsters boss, for more
questioning on his own personal
finances.
Brewster told reporters the
committee has about all of his
personal books except a check
book for routine household ex
penses. Brewster said the committee
ster. They said the check backed
up a charge that union funds had
been used to buy an automobile
in 1954 for Mary James, Bothell.
Wash. She was described as the
"girl friend'' of Terry McNulty,
a Teamsters Union organizer
who also drove a horse van for
Brewster.
Brewster denied knowledge of
the matter.
Pierre Salinger, a committee
investigator, told of two tele
phone interviews, the most re
cent Wednesday with Miss
James about the auto bought
from the Harry Apple Agency,
Los Angeles, in 1954.
Ckanam Her Story
Salinger said Miss James first
said the auto was a gift from Mc
Nulty. But Wednesday she
changed her story, according to
the investigator, to say she had
paid McNulty $1,800 on the pur
chase price.
McNulty was quoted as telling
a staff investigator he added
the remainder of the purchase
price and turned it over in cash
to the late Gordon Lindsey. then
secretary-treasurer of the Team
sters' Western Conference.
Carmine Bcllino, a committee
staff accountant, said the team
sters' records showed no such I
receipt.
McClellan asked Brewster if
he had any explanation.
News To Him
"I do not," Brewster said, "it
certainly is news to me."
The teamsters' official added
that at that time he signed
checks in blank. But, he added,
"I am not signing them in blank
now."
Asked what the committee
would do if Beck refused to
hand over the records, McClel
lan said:
"We've got lots of subpoena
blanks."
Beck promised Wednesday to
bring his records "without preju
dice to my rights under the Con
stitution and Bill of Rights."
The phrase puzzled McClellan,
but he suspected it included pos
sible use of the Fifth Amend
ment against self-incrimination.
Beck if subpoenaed is re
quired by law to come to the
hearing room with his records.
Elkins-Clark Trial
Slated for April 16
Portland U.R James El
kins, Portland racketeer, and
his employee. Raymond F.
Clark, are slated to go on trial
April 16 to face a nine-count
federal indictment charging wire
tapping.
Judge William East set the
new trial date yesterday after
an attorney for the pair had
pleaded for a delay from the
original date of March 26.
Attorney William J. Crawford
urged the delay on grounds that
he had not had sufficient time
to prepare a defense. He also
said the amount of publicity
given the case through news
media necessitated a delay.
' , v Vic v 4 -1 V. In m
,011.1.1 L.wim ihit mee inp leamsier oniciais louna tnemselves deep m
trouble bcf Senate committee in Washington. James R. Hoffa, vice president of the
unifj. sfurrejintlstl rrrtr, above, faces bribery charges. Frank W. Brewster, right,
(Jd&itted "Tefrrrofiaf" union funds fnr his personal expenses. (International Soundphoto)
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But he can invoke the Fifth
Amendment against handing
them over to the committee if
he feels they would tend to in
criminate him.
Brief Early Questioning
However, should Beck with
hold records on the plea of pos
sible self-incrimination, there
would remain many avenues
still open for committee investi
gation of his personal financial
activities.
President Eisenhower opened
a principal one earlier this week
when he authorized the commit
tee to have access to tax returns
of persons it is investigating.
Regardless of Beck's decision,
the committee does not plan to
question him extensively this
week. It wants to get his records
if possible, question other wit
nesses, gather information about
Beck's financial activities from
other sources and then recall
him.
Syphilis Vaccine
'Real Possibility'
Washington flJ.R) Venereal
disease is increasing throughout
the nation for the first time in
eight years, but a vaccine for
syphilis is "a real possibility,"
the Public Health Service has
told Congress. J
Dr. A. C. Smith, chief of the
service's venereal disease pro
gram, said 266,000 cases of syph
ilis and gonorrhea were reported
last year 55 per cent of them
among teen-agers or young
adults.
He told a house appropriations
subcommittee in testimony taken
Feb. 15 and made public today
that increases were reported "in
all areas of the nation."
Of the 126,219 syphilis cases
reported in 1956, Smith said
New York had 21,061 by far
the largest state total. Next high
est was Ohio with 8,409, fol
lowed by California with 6,647
cases and Florida with 6,469.
Vermont had the lowest total
41 cases followed by Nevada
with 61 and North Dakota with
63.
Of the national total of syph
ilis cases, 48.519 were white peo
ple and 77,700 were non-whites.
WEARING silk hat used
since 1900, James M. Curley.
ex-Massachusetts governor,
is early arrival at Boston's
St. Patrick's Day parade. He
is recovering from abdominal
surgery. (International)
State Selling Short, Goy. Holmes Claims
Portland (U.R) Gov. Robert
D. Holmes declared here last
night that Oregon sells itself
short when it fails to call the
nation's attention to its assets
and needs.
Holmes spoke at a meeting
before the Propeller Club of
Portland and representatives of
Columbia river and Oregon
coast ports.
The governor said abundant
low-cost power and a navigable
channel on the Columbia river
could combine to develop a
great industrial civilization in
Oregon if people would develop
the necessary ports.
He said Oregon was not shar
ing in the defense effort on the
scale that it should. He said ship
building and ship repairing had
disappeared to a large extent
since the last yar.
Amended Indictment Returned for Judge
Hillsboro (U.R) An amended
indictment against Harry M.
Seabold, former county judge,
has been returned by the Wash
ington county grand jury.
The amended indictment
which alleges bribery in con
nection with sales of county tim
ber when Seabold was in office
was received yesterday by Cir
cuit Court Judge Carl A'. Dahl.
It is a modified version of the
indictment returned Nov. 18,
1956.
The original indictment was
returned to the grand jury by
Judge Dahl after defense attor
neys filed a demurrer charging
that the language of the original
indictment was vague and un
clear. Seabold is free on $1000 bail
at present.
Thornton Answers
Reeder's Request
Salem (U.R) Attorney Gener
al Robert Y. Thornton said to
day that the clerk, of the Circuit
Court is required to exact a fee
from a defendant appealing to
the Circuit Court from a justice
or district court in a criminal
case.
j Thornton noted, however, that
I he was not ruling on the ques-
tion of procedure to be follow
ed where the defendant was
without funds.
The opinion was written at
the request, of Jackson County
District Attorney Thomas J.
Reeder.
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