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Beck's Doctor Tells of Being Put on Payroll Tacoma, Wash. - (LTD - Dave Beck's doctor testified at the former Teamster president's income tax evasion trial here Tuesday that he went on the payroll of the Western Con ference of . Teamsters as a "medical adviser" while a debt he owed to Beck was being repaid. Dr. Alexander Grinstein said he was paid $750 per month for 37 months, but that he never kept the money. He said he merely indorsed his pay checks and turned them ever to Beck to repay a note for $26,500, plus $1,250 on another loan he had obtained from Beck. Grinstein said his duties in cluded the setting up of a labor-management health and welfare plan, the first of its kind in the Pacific northwest and one of the first in the country. In Partnership Beck is accused by the gov ernment of evading payment of $240,000 in income taxes during the years 1950-1953. Grinstein said he had been in a partnership with Beck since 1947. This partnership involved real estate deals as well as other transactions. The $26,500 was obtained from Beck, he said, interest free. It involved money he used to purchase stock in the K. and L. Beverages, a beer distributing firm. Grinstein said he owned about 14 per cent of the firm while Beck owned about 35 per cent. Fifty-one per cent was held by Ervin J. Levine of Se attle. Another firm owned by Beck, Levine and Grinstein was the L-G-G Realty, a real STOPPING TRAFFIC on highways south of Buffalo, N. Y., heavy snowfall in winter's first storm causes temporary shortage of foodstuffs in numerous markets. : Anita Ekberg's Automobile Stolen Rome -flJPD- Two bandits stole Anita Ekberg's sleek Mercedes sports car and then used it to stage a holdup, po lice reported Tuesday night. They said the men took the car from in front of Miss Ekberg's home on the Aven tine Hill and headed toward Maccarese on the Mediter ranean coast, 20 miles west of Rome. There they robbed a gaso line station and were last seen heading back toward Rome. MEMPHIS MAYOR DIES Memphis, T e n n. - (CPD - S. Watkins Overton, 64, mayor of Memphis for 16 years, died Tuesday of a heart attack fol lowing throat surgery. estate holding company. Grin stein said he owned about 20 per cent of this firm, while the other two each owned 40 per cent. Vessels Collide In English Channel London-CPD-Two freighters collided in the fog-shrouded English channel today, tear ing the stern off one . and forcing its crew to abandon the ship. All the crewmen were res cued by tugboats and life boats. The steamers were the 11,-156-ton Greek ship King Minos II and the Greek freighter Prodromis II. The stern of the Prodromis II was ripped off by the col lision. The accident occurred in a dense fog, but the usually choppy English channel was calm. A Dungeness Lifeboat Sta tion spokesman said all the crewmen who abandoned ship were picked up by the tugs ATTORNEY DIES Cleveland, Ohio-(CPD-Joseph C. Hostetler,, 73, prominent Cleveland attorney,, died here Tuesday at University hospi tal of a heart attack. I which rushed to the scene. The King Minos was re ported headed for the English coast, helped by several of the tugs that rushed to its rescue. Its bows "were badly smashed in the collision. ; MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or., Wednesday. December S. 1MI S LOTTERY PARTY New York -0JPD- A Republi can Congressman from the Bronx has decided to form a "third party." It will be known as the Government Lottery party, and Rep. Paul A. Fino said he will seek re election as its candidate. For six years, Fino has advocated a national lottery as "a pain less revenue-raising measure which can easily produce 10 billion dollars a year in addi tional revenue." 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