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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$19 Silk Shirts,
Golf Balls Among
Items Mentioned
Washington .R Teamsters
boss Dave Beck's personal pur
chasing agent swore today he
did not know the union paid for
the $85,000 worth of luxury
items, including $19 silk shirts,
which he bought for Beck.
Nathan W. 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.
Parents are asked to bring
their deaf or hard- of- hearing
child with them and living ac
commodations will be furnished
by the school during the clinic
without cost to the parents.
Anyone who is interested in
attending should contact their
local county health department
or write directly to M. B. Clat-
jterbuck, superintendent, Oregon
state school for the deaf, Salem.
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