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."
We Give
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iirst National Assembly of the new French Fifth Repub
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integration with metropolitan France leading almost
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