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Peck's Purchasing Agent Denies Knowing Union Funds Used To Pay for $35,000 Worth of Luxury Items for Union Head Wednesday, March 27, 1957 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN NEW APPLICATION Portland (U.R) An applica tion for dates from May 17 to July 20 was made yesterday by the Portland Turf association to conduct horse racing at Portland Meadows track here. The appli cation was for the same dates as one filed a week ago but which was returned by the State Rac ing commission because of tech nical faults in the application. Dave Peck Accused Of Giving Organized Labor a 'Block Eye1 dent of a great labor organiza tion should and, if I were in his position, I would resign," the senator said. McNamara was an official of the Pipefitters Union in Detroit before he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1954. Portland Teamster Member Quizzed by Executive Board Portland (U.R) Harry Feder spiel, 62, a Teamster union mem ber who obtained signatures on a petition supporting the Senate Rackets Committee probe, said today he was given the "third degree" by union officers for some three hours last night. Federspiel last Saturday ob tained about 300 signatures on a petition asking removal irom oftice "of any Teamster official found guilty of racketeering or misuse of union funds." He said tihington (U.R) Sen. Pat fJcNgmara, a former union offic ial, :d today Teamsters chief rV(Beck is giving all organized labor "a black eye" by refusing to testify before Sente investi gators. Hp f d if he were in Beck's shoes "I Could resign." .ecusesj f. 'Covering Up' In gn interview with United Pres, the Michigan Democrat accused the burly president of the Teamsteri Union of "cover ing up for Dave Beck on his in come tax troubles and to hell with everyone else." The gravel-voiced senator ad ded he does not think Beck, in subsequent appearances will have a change of heart and start answering questions of Senate in vestigators at which he balked Tuesday. "I think he is going to dis prove the theory that money talks," McNamara quipped. This was an obvious reference to the hundreds of thousands of dollars of union money Beck is accused of misusing. McNamara said a man in Beck's position "is not just j only 10 persons he approached refused to sign. Called to Boaid Meeting Last night, rederspiei said he was called to an executive board meeting to answer charges that he had violated the union con stitution. It was just like getting the third degree," he said later. Fed erspiel said he was asked to sign a statement retracting his pre vious statements and "I told them each time that I would not retract one iota." He had been quoted earlier as saying '!the Teamsters have been operating from the top down too long." He said he got a letter yes terday asking him to attend the executive board meeting because a member of his local, No. lb-; had complained he violated an article of the international con stitution by-laws by his state ments to the press. He said "there were eight or 10 of them there." Nothing baid Proven "They asked where I got my information from, and 1 told them from reading about the Senate committee. They said the committee had proved nothing.'' Lou Cornelius, secretary of local 162, said "Our executive board meetings are usually se cret. If Mr. Federspiel wants to say anything that's up to him." Federspiel, who drives a truck and has been a member of lo cal 162 for 20 years, said he was informed of no further step that might be taken against him. "After they gave up and I left, they all remained in there," he said. speaking for himself" when he is called by the Senate Rackets Committee to testify on his use of union funds. "He is talking for his mem bers and all of organized labor more or less, about 15 million Americans," the senator de clared. But McNamara added that Beck has made clear that "his whole concern is with his own selfish interests." "He has not been acting any thing like what I think the presi- Crosby Surrenders To Receive Indictment Portland (U.R) Clyde C. Crosby, Teamsters Union organ izer in Oregon, Tuesday surren dered himself for service of a secret indictment returned Mon day by the Multnomah County Grand Jury. The indictment alleges that Crosby conspired to commit the felony of extortion in connection with the control of pinball ma chines in the city. Indictments returned earlier against Crosby, a rent witness before the Senate Labor Rackets Committee, charged conspiracy to commit a felony by acceptance of a bribe, accepting a bribe as a public official and false swear ing. Crosby is free on bail. 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Shefferman, Chi cago, admitted to the Senate Rackets Committee that he spent more than S85.000 for Beck and Dave Beck Jr. from 1949 through 1953 for items includ ing 54 worth of golf balls and SI 5 worth of dia rs. Shefferman insisted, however, that he never knew the money came from coffers of the Team sters Union until the income tax people dropped around to study Beck's finances. Shefferman was recalled to the witness chair as the commit tee set out to show the defiant boss of the nation's biggest union that it can prove what he did with some of the $322,000 they claim he took from teamsters treasuries. From Union Funds Beck waited in a chair behind Shefferman to resume his own testimony, which Tuesday con sisted mainly in invoking the Fifth Amendment's protection against self incrimination. Shefferman, a friend of Beck for 20 years, said he is a labor relations consultant for manage ment and operates a firm called Union Merchandizing which he said bought $94,000 worth of goods for Beck, Beck's son, and Norman Gessert, a cousin of Mrs. Dav Beck. The silver-haired Shefferman said he was told later by investi gators that his own records shov $85,000 of th:. came from union funds. He said Beck "'ould call and tell me he'd like to have an ice box, probably, or a washing ma- enme. The order would then be turned over to a secretary with whatever shipping instructions Beck gave, Shefferman said. Shefferman sparred mildly with Committee Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) over just what procurement services he had performed for Beck. Mc Clellan finally tagged him Beck's "purchasing" agent. Audience Kept Laughing Shefferman stressed that he paid for the material with his own money and "I was reim bursed with union funds." Then, at the request of Mc Clellan and committee counsel Robert F. Kennedy, Shefferman began reading through the com mittee's list of sample items "purchased for Dave Beck by Nathan Shefferman with team sters union funds." His expressions of amazement at some of the items listed had the audience in the big hearing room in almost constant laughter. "I don't know where you dug pll this out," he said at one point. "Is it in the records?" Advised that it was all in the records, Shefferman commented with an air of resignation, "Well, if it's there . . . it's there." The committee furnished a list of items which it said Sheffer man bought for Beck and his football playing son with union I funds. Some of the biggest items for Beck were: I Kaiser roofing sheet, $1, ! 432.27; chairs, table, love seats I settee, etc., $1,242.45; one re j naissance rug, $991.19; garden ing. $1,918.15. Purchases listed for Dave Beck Jr. included a chestnut liv ing room suite at $979.50, a $218.99 TV set, and a $250.09 deep freeze. Total purchases for the younger Beck were 592.37, according to the com mittee's list. Nylons Were Okay "Twenty-one pair nylons," Shefferman read early in the list. He said "well," added "uh," and cleared his throat. "I happen to know that Mr. Beck is a moral man," he said earnestly, "and it's perfectly all right." Without waiting for conclu sion of the investigation, the AFL-CIO high command moved swiftly to crack down on Beck for refusing to answer the com mittee's Questions. No sooner had Beck pleaded i the Fifth Amendment Tuesday than AFL-CIO President George I Meany summoned an extraordi ! nary meeting of the 28-member ' Executive Council for Friday to consider the issue. CAT "BUILT-IN' Sysosset, N. Y. (U.R) Mr. and Mrs. Irving Scott couldn't explain the strange noises that escaped from the walls of their new house, but friends told them "Don't worry, new houses make funnv noises." The sounds con tinued and the Scotts contended ; with their problem of insomnia Thursday night, they discovered the wailing was concentrated in the bathroom. Scott pulled the medicine cabinet loose and out i stumbled a weary and hungry Beck Quiz Providing H In Capital Since Army Washington (U.R) The quiz zing of Dave Beck, who rose from laundry truck driver to the biggest wheel in the Teamsters Union, is providing the hottest show on Capitol Hill since the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings. It is taking place in the same arena the cavernous caucus room of the Senate Office Build ing where white marble walls stretch two stories high, camera men cuss each other in the crush and newsmen are packed at press tables like sardines without olive oil. Only the red carpet has been changed. The old one wore out. The taxpayers show up for this one. They were in line 2V4 hours before Tuesday's opening session waiting for seats. There was the big man who wasn't there: Former Sen. James H. Duff (R-Pa.), who recently be came Beck's attorney, but, as he made plain at the time, did not show up to sit with him. In- AFL-CIO Top Brass Criticize Beck for Using 5th Amendment Washington U.R) Several members of the AFL-CIO high co..imand today sharply criti cized Teamster President Dave Beck for loosing a flood of Fifth Amendment pleas rather than answer the questions of Senate investigators. , But most willing to comment said they would wait until the AFL-CIO Executive Council's extraordinary meeting Friday before taking a stand. The council was certain to have before it a demand that it punbh Beck by attempting to break his power as head of the nation's biggest - labor union. That could start a monumental struggle within organized labor. Beck's use of the Fifth Amendment Tuesday before the Senate Rackets Committee ap-1-arently flouted the AFL-CIO Executive Council's code of ethics. The code states that a union official who invokes the Fifth Amendment's protection against self-incrimination is unfit to hold of-ics and should be ousted. Beck voted against the ban when the council passed -it. The council, at Friday's meet ing, is expected to consider two moves: I Recommending ouster of I Beck from the 28-member coun Icil itself. Calling on the Teamsters to I e'ean house by ousting Beck and Other officials or face being : kicked out of the AFL-CIO. Damage Suit Filed Here Totals $10,000 Art Hanshew, 305 North Fir st., Medford, and Frank D. Hat field, White City, are defendants in a $10,000 suit filed this week in circuit court, according to records in the county clerk's of fice. Plaintiff in the case is Ben F. Conley, Williams. Conley charges the defendants with car rying away a D-4 Caterpillar be longing to the plaintiff and con verting and disposing of it to their own use. The Caterpillar, he states, is valued at $3,000, and was used by Conley in connection with Jlogging operations. The plaintiff seeks $5,000 general damages, $5,000 exemplary and punitive damages, plus costs and disburse ments of the legal action. Irving C. Allen, Medford attorney, is representing Conley. ottestShow McCarthy stead Beck was counselled fre quently by Arthur D. Condon, a member of Duff's firm. But Beck seldom let the sena tors forget that one of their for mer colleagues was in his corner. For more than an hour he hauled "Big Jim" Duff's name into near ly every answer, saying Duff ad vised him to invoke the Fifth Amendment, though sometimes he phrased It more elegantly than that. One assiduous reporter figured Beck invoked Duff's name about 100 times. Finally Sen. Pat McNamara (D-Mich.), himself a former union official, announced he was "not at all impressed" by the invo cation of "ex-Senator" Duff and he stressed the "ex." Preschool Clinic Scheduled in Salem Salem The Oregon State school for the deaf in Salem will hold its ninth annual preschool clinic for parents of young deaf and hard - of - hearing children (April 15, 16, and 17, Superinten dent M. B. Clatterbuck has an nounced. The purpose of the clinic is to assist parents in working with their deaf child and to acquaint them with the educational facili ties for the deaf in the state. Parents will have an op portunity to observe classes from the kindergarten level through high school work. Various mem bers of the staff will discuss problems of the deaf and there will be demonstrations and ex hibits by the 4-H groups, Boy Scouts, rhythm band, literary society, pep squad, and Christ ian Endeavor. 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