Dave Beck Given Until Noon Wed. to
Produce Personal Records for Senate
Investigation Into Union Racketeering
By NORMAN WALKER
WASHINGTON, W» — Chair
man McClellan (D-Ark.) today
gave teamsters union president
Dave Beck until noon Wednesday
to decide whether to turn over his
personal financial records to the
Senate Rackets Committee.
McClellan said he wanted to
know by then “one way or an
other” whether Beck will comply
with the committee’s request —
its second — for voluntary sur
render of the teamster chief’s fi
nancial records for 1949 through
1955.
The deadline for compliance by
Beck would be noon, Wednesday,
Seattle time. Beck makes his home
there.
Beck had sent McClellan a mes
sage he wanted to confer with
his newly retained attorney, for
mer Republican Sen. James H.
Duff of Pennsylvania, in Seattle
Tuesday night. He said he then
would let McClellan know “im
mediately thereafter” the deci
sion reached at that conference.
McClellan told newsmen he
would go along with Beck just one
more time. He said Beck had
offered some time ago to “co
operate” with the committee and
McClellan said he felt the way
Beck could do that was to comply
with the request for data.
A similar request for Beck’s
records went out nearly a month
ago.
There have been allegations that
union funds were used to pay some
of Beck’s personal expenses.
Late in Friday’s hearing the
committee produced several checks
amounting to more than $14,000
and said the teamsters money
went to Nathan W. Shefferman,
Chicago labor relations consultant
to employers. The committee said
he once served in that capacity
for Sears, Roebuck & Co.
The checks were signed in 1951
and 1952 by Beck and by Frank
Brewster, chairman of the 11
state Western conference of
teamsters.
Brewster, on the witness stand,
said he didn’t know why the
money was paid. However, he said
Beck used to pay Schefferman
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[ to make speeches to teamsters
| union groups as “a labor-manage
ment authority.”
No further explanation of the
alleged payments to Shefferman
was offered at the hearing. But
Robert Kennedy, committee coun
sel, said Later hearings will deal
with what happened to the union
money.
Also in recess for the weekend
was a federal grand jury probing
bribery changes against teamsters
union vice president James R.
Hoffa. He is free on $25,000 bond
on charges he paid a New York
attorney to get hired by the Sen
ate committee and then to feed
him committee secrets.
The grand jury has heard from
the attorney, John Cye Cheasty,
and Hoffa’s red-haired secretary,
Mrs. Dorothy P. Dobrescu, as well
as from Kennedy and a number
of FBI agents. The panel will meet
again Monday to hear more wit
nesses in secret and decide on
whether to return any indict
ments. U. S. Atty. Oliver Gasch
said the grand jury’s decision
probably won’t be announced for
a few days.
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Passage of Tax Relief and Insurance
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OSAKA, Japan, Iff) — Shigetaro
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., UP) — As
semblyman Leverett D. House is
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ture and proud of the Imperial
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79 colleagues yesterday to show
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JUNEAU, UP) — A bill which
would give up to 10 years of tax
relief to firms making major in
dustrial and hotel investments in
Alaska was passed 21-3 by the
Territorial House last week.
The tax relief would be in the
form of forgiveness of both ter
ritorial and local income and busi
ness license taxes. It passed after
a warning by an Anchorage Dem
ocrat — wavs and means chairman
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The Territorial Insurance Code
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committee to 55 pages.
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insurance business operations in
the territory, and is regarded as
one of the major pieces of legis
lation expected from the 1957 law
making session.
One of the most controversial
bills before the Senate faded away
on Friday.
John Butrovich (R-Fairbanks!
got unanimous consent when he
moved to withdraw his bill seeking
a 3 per cent territory-wide sales
tax. The bill has been just barely
alive in committee for five weeks.
Another sales tax bill, for a 3
per cent levy for three years —
remains on the books in the House.
But it’s been locked up in com
mittee since introduction in the
lower chamber a week ago.
The House bill, which would
give 2 per cent rebates to muni
cipalities, is regarded as having a
chance of passing if it is needed
to balance the territorial budget.
A bill that would require all life
insurance companies doing busi
ness in Alaska to invest 40 per
cent of their premium collections
in the territory was approved by
the Senate.
The 40 per cent figure would
apply only to premiums collected
i within the territoiy. The vote on
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i as a requirement that 75 per cent
of the premiums be invested — !
was 10-5, with one member ab- i
sent. The bill now goes to the1
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