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The Miami Heraldi
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Accused Of 'Buying' Probe Data Brewster Squirms As Net Tightens No 2 Teamster GableE Attorney 41 1 1 '4' -tNi k- 0-4 11 )414-1-AiWs' 4 4 -et i e)J 1 1 II i eu -1 :11 1 vi--frr-' i'l tt4' It -0 s- 4- -4 -1 1 --Akf: ikt 4 1 4k :1 -A -i 4'' 141 1 A l'' '''s: 14': i t--: T' i t' tit' 't bg 'CI n' 1 1 -'1 )' 00 11 ot 1 I 1 1 i a 42: 'I i iS 'At 4'''':" I Iktlk 44' t'11 1 'W '''''''''l 't 4' I lik A 4 I '14 41 44 -A i I :) 1 1 r' 1 racket investigators Tuesday wove around squirming sweating Frank Brewster West Coast Teamsters Union boss a net of evidence that he spent thousands in union funds on a home and racing stable The chairman of the 11-state West Coast Conference of the nation's biggest union conceded that the picture "isn't good" But he said he is going to pay back every dime As a Senate committee look- lug into alleged labor-industry Cllannel racketeering unfolded the story with the help of checks affidavits and expense vouch- TV ers union money from member utlet dues went into: A S4000 down payment on a home Brewster bought at a 1 lush Palm Springs Calif Channel 6 TV Outlet caused unhIppiness the word didn't reach 5-year-old Celeste Nero who is beginning to think she won't have to store her sled this year Press WireoCoto IT'S SrRINGTIME IN THE ROCKIES Miami and other places but leave it to Milwaukee to look like this with Spring's official arrival today A seven-inch snow blanketed the city Tuesday and If It IT'S Miami Milwa of ficia blank( Indicated 'It Would Be a Black Day' WASHINGTON (INS) James Hon Teamsters Union 2man and Hyman I Fischbach Coral Gables attorney were indicted Tuesday on charges of bribery obstruction of justice and conspiracy The federal grand jury handed down the indictments in connection with charges that Huila attempted to buy secret documents of the special Senate committee investigating labor racketeering The grand Jury began Investigating the case Thursday a few hours after lIoffs was arrested by the FBI last 1Vednesday night Hotta was charged with offering John Cye Cheasty former member of the New York State Crime Commission $18- 000 to get a job with the Senate comMittee investigating labor racketeering and to channel documents to him The hard-boiled union official was picked up by FBI agents in the lobby of a Washington hotel and some of the papers were said to be in his Ben-Gurion Hurls Walkouts Mushroom In Britain 31mr11 In Open War Threat The Federal Communications Commission indicated in Washington Tuesday it may allocate another VHF channel to Greater Miami An FCC spokesman told The Herald's Washington bureau the commission had "issued instructions to its staff looking toward an additional fourth commercial VHF outlet in Miami" No further details were released Press Wirephoto A FRANK LOOK somewhat mixed with a bit of a grimace is given a photographer by singer Frank Sinatra as he arrives to testify before a Los Angeles grand jury Sinatra was to give his version of the famous wrong-door raid directed at Marilyn Monroe Sherman Holds Several 'awards Expenses of some $2000 or more for his Jockey his race horse trainer and the trainer's son a union employe ho exercised Brewster's horses and repairs on his six-horse van The purchase of boxes at six California race tracks-42670 in 1954 and 1955 Much stress was laid on the mystery of what happened to nearly $100000 of the dues of Seattle Local 174 while Brewster was its secretary-treasurer before stepping into his top job with the international trnion Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy said the money supposedly went in and out of a "special fund" of Local 174 but: We have checked and found no such fund exists" Brewster said it did for per haps 13 years Brewster contended the from June 1950 to November 1933 was for cash contributions to local county and state political candidates to nearly anybody who "knocked on the door" LONDON A group of 40 key British unions Tuesday ordered a wave of ''hit and run" strikes beginning Saturday among the nearly three million workers in the nation's metal manufacturing industries Demands for a total walkout of the metal workers were rejected by the parent executive council of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions LOND of 40 ke day orde run" str day arm million metal I tries Demar of the rr jected 1)3 council Shipbuilc Unions The proposed new outlet would be the Channel 6 which the FCC said seseral months ago it was considering for this area JERUSALEM UP) 'Me open threat of a new war emerged Tuesday from Israel's dismay at Gaza Strip and Aqaba Gulf developments since she turned over those battle-won territories to the UN Prime Minister David BenGurion said Israel's army will march against Egypt again if President Gamal Abdel Nasser "tries to block our historic and legal passage into the Gulf of Aqaba" He voiced these views in an interview with a Newsweek Magazine correspondent Curtis Pepper at Tel Aviv "It would be a black day On the moral conscience of the Herald Editor Wins Architects' But the unions announced they would call out workers at selected plants to back demands for a 10 per cent across the board wage But I they IA at rnamis across 1 1 i i I I i I I li i I i 1 1 i I I 1 seleci a crease 1 1 I Pand I I i )( 1 'I i I 1 I I I I 1 i i i Greater Miami already has four VHF (very high frequency) channels-2 4 7 and 10-- and two UHF (ultra high frequency) channels-17 and 23 Of the VHF channels 4 and 7 are already in use and 10 is soon to be Channel 2 is in use for educational TV The two UHF channels are also in commercial use TV officials here said opening of a Channel 6 here would present engineering problems Orlando has a VHF Channel 6 and under FCC rules stations operating on channels Fischbach was accused of hating served as a contact man bet ween Hoffa and Cheasty who was highly praised for going to the cornmittee and the FBI with his story about the union officialCheasty according to the indictment WAS contacted by noire and Fischbach and offered "money and things of value" in exchange for information from the committee I files The indictment said: "It was a part of said conspiracy that the defendants would approach Cheasty and offer to pay him a large sum of money if he would obtain employment by the committee and report and divulge to said defendants information and knowledge as to the matters being inquired into by said committee" Frederic Sherman The Herald's real estate editor was one of Knight Newspapers' writers among the five national winners in the American Inst it ute of Architects fourth annual newspaper awards competition Sherman will receive an AIA Certificate of Merit for his article "Happy Hut that Suits the Scene" published Dec 16 1956 Woman Dies In Car-Truck Collision Kennedy suggested by questioning that some of it might have gone into the pockets of Brewster and a Claude O'Reilly to pay for their personal expenses Brewster denied that An estimated 200000 shipyard workers called out by the same confederation have been on strike since last Saturday The walkout crippled Britain's booming shipbuilding industry The shipyard strikers also are demanding a 10 per cent increase The government took new emergency moves to halt the mushrooming strike movement and avert what threatened to become the nation's worst labor dispute since the 1926 general strike An es yard u'or same ccu On striki The WRY booming The ship demandit crease emlehretengi rnushrooi aye become bor dism eral stril world if we had to move our army to defend our rights" said the 70-year-old Israeli leader "We will do it only as a last resort But if forced we ivill do it and do it effectively" Ben-Gurion implied he hoped for backing from President Eisenhower on the basis of a letter Mr Eisenhower dispatched to him during Israel's early March crisis over the final pullout orders Israelis have generally regarded that letter as a pledge If there is no forthright action by the UN Ben-Gurion said the Eisenhower doctrine "could certainly be used to halt such a little man as Nasser" "In his letter the President stated we would have no regrets if we withdrew" BenGurion said "For me this was more valid than any treaty between nations That was the word not only of the President of the United States hut of an honorable man a friend and a general of armies We do not have cause for regret yet but we definitely have cause to worry" He said that is the reason be sent Foreign Minister Gold a Meir on her latest mission to the United States to make clear to President Eisenhower and to Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold that Israel will insist on ''freedom from terror on the Gaza border and freedom of passage through both the Suez Canal and the (Aqaba) Strait of Tiran" The interview one in a series Ben-Gurion gives to news agencies and news magazines on an alternating went beyond his previous public warnings Ben-Gurion declared March 9 Israel will "turn her rights to free navigation in Aqaba Turn to Page 2-A Col 5 0044 oktrro'''' The Herald's Home Section edited by Sherman was voted the nation's hest newspaper home section last November In a contest conducted by the National Assn of Real Estate Editors The indictment said that as "a further part of said conspiracy" Cheasty after obtaining a "position of trust' with the committee would obtain to "files and memorandum and reports and knowledge" of the committee's "plans and I te ntions" which he would divulge to the defendants Minister of Labor Ian MacLeod called shipbuilding employers representatives to new talk and scheduled other session with engineering employers 1Vednesday Prime Minister Harold Macmillan issued a personal appeal to the nation for settlement of the labor disputes Minist Leod ca plovers new tal other se employe Prime millan is to the Ti the labot Frederic Sherman more national honors A woman was killed Tuesday afternoon when the car in which she was riding collided with a laundry truck at SW 9th Ave and 6th St The victim was Josefina Fernandez Behe ler 36 of 2281 SW -5th St The woman was driving the car a 3-month-old baby and two boys in Ii back at also were sent to Jackson Memorial Hospital for examination although they suffered no apparent injuries The driver of the truck James Alexander Johnston 57 of 1520 NE Miami Ct was not hurt Bergquist special investigator for the police accident bureau said charges may be filed against the carls driver Mrs Estal Huber of Washington for disregarding a st op sign But Mrs Huber insisted to Patrolman Sauls that she stopped at the sign on 9th Avenue before driving into the intevection She was going south The truck was going east The Home Builders Assn of South Florida also awa rded Sherman a Certificate of Merit for his contributions to the building industry last year ierman was one of three persons so honored by the association Sherman was the only Floridian to win an MA award His illustrated article was about a bayfront home in Hey Biscayne Elevator Falls in Jax of like numerical designation But for the most part he must have their transmitters wasn't denying or affirming not less than 220 miles from much of anything He said he each other couldn't offer explanations now that he will have to have time To comply with this regulato think and study and check tion the local observers point that he is having an audit made out a transmitter and antenna 1 to determine how much he owes tower for the proposed Channel 6 would have to be located as the union The labor leader a large far south of Miami as the Homestead area I man with steel blue eyes and grey rey hair pictured him- A tower in this area they 1 self as misrepresented a said would be limited to 5001 misunderstood He said that feet in height because of the this is over I won't nearby Air Force base a dime" average VHF tower stands at "I will absolutely prove to 1000 feet you within 60 days" he said "that this picture will change NIT Strike He Posti)o He asked Chairman John Mc- Clellan Arkansas Democrat ned for a chance to discuss things with him at that time The CLEVELAND The I chairman quickly and tartly Brotherhood of Railroad assured him he would get it Trainmen postponed a strike I The $100000 "special fund" scheduled for 6:30 am got a major share of the comWednesday against the New mittee's attention York Central System and agreed to confer with a medi- Carmen an acator over the dispute countant on the committee Chase brotherhood staff became a witness after vice president said the union a luncheon recess and said he has dropped its plan author- had checked the special fund ized Monday night for a walk- I at the First National Bank First prize winner in newspaper division was Frank Beckman staff writer of The Herald's sister nenspaper The Detroit Free Press Beckman's article "Mecca of Design" described Detroit's architectural progress and on for him a S500 ALA check 2d NY Paper Raises Price NEV YORK (UP) The NewYork Journal-American a Hearst newspaper announced Tuesday that its weekday price will be increased from 5 cents to 10 cents becauseof "sharply increased costs for newsprint wages and all operating expenses" It was the second major New York afternoon newspaper to announce a price increase The New York World-Telegram and Sun a Scripps-Howard paper announced the new 10-cent price Monday 2d I Rais NEV NewYol Ilearst Tuesday will be i to 10 increE wage! It York annot New Sun a nnot price JACKSON-VILLE (UP) An elevator loaded with an estimated 25 men working on the new Duval county courthouse collapsed here Tuesday and at least four men were reported killed The Duval county morgue reported that four bodies "that we know of" were being brought in "They are both white and colored but we haven't identified them yet" a morgue attendant said "they are just now being brought in" An estimated IS persons were injured in the fall of the construction elevator The grand jury listed 24 acts- to support he charges and said the bribery attempt began on or about Feb 12" when Fischbach "placed a telephone call" to Cheasty The indictment then listed a series of meetings involving Fischbach and Cheasty or Hof fa and Cheasty or all three The indictment said that on or about March 12 when Hoffa is alleged to have returned papers and records to Cheasty the union leader remarked that it looked like (Dave) Beck's goose NI as cooked if that is what they have on Beck and at the same time expressed the desire to receive more information of the same character" Beck is president of the giant i Teamsters Union RoliNian Plane Crash Kills 19 Adenauer Retunic BONN Chancellor I Konrad Adenauer returned to Bonn Tuesday suntanned and cheerful after a three-w I vacation in Italy Second prize went to Leonard Buder of The New York Times Certificates of Merit in addition to Sherman's won by Mel Seidenberg of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Richard Miller of The leTelegram Elyria Ohio AIA magazine wrtting awards went to Cranston Jones Time first place Arnold Nicholson of The Saturday Evening in Seattle that there las "no such thing" although the bank honored checks drawn a ainst It and itAtted cashier's checks from the funds Todav's Chuckle In 'Washington Area In out of 3000 trainmen on the NYCs lines between Buffalo and Chicago He said representatives et the carrier and the BRT will try to negotiate their differences with the help of he mediator Frank Switzer The National Railway Mediation Board took jurisdiction in the dispute Tuesday morning averting a strike which would have affected 17000 oth "'g' c' LI a have affected 17000 oth- LA PAZ Bolivia All 19 persons aboard a Bolivian airliner were killed when the plane crashed into an Andes mountain peak a rescue squad reported Tuesday The two-engine DC-3 plane with 16 passengers and a crew of 3 aboard disappeared Monday while flying from Cochabamba to Oruro Lloyd Aereo Bolivian ner of the plane said the wreckage was found in an almost inaccessible mountain region about 100 miles northeast of Cochabamba Don't worry if you start losing your memory Just forget about it The count alleging contends that Hotta and Turn to rage 21 col 4 Asked who could have gotten the money withdrawn by checks Be 'lino said it could have been Brewster or 0 Reilly as they signed the checks Flames Turn to Page 2-A Cut 6 Defense Chief Orders 6414 Jobs Eliminated I 6 sir" said there! A was no indication any of the 14u0-1 nun Breaks Wom a Arm Hay sirength in the field anywhere but is specifically confined to major headquarters involved in administrative and office work 1 i Ppense i I I I 5 I ti 1 i 4 1 i I 1 ber Devilfish Jumps into Boat 4 Feared Dead In Blast Blast went to political candiwould dates er NYC employes in addition 1 Kennedy had pressed Brew-to the trainmen 1 ster about a check on the "speChase said 23 grievances are cial fund" dated Fed 27 1951 at issue and that the railroad! I signed by Brewster and refused to "pursue our 1 1 omeilly wasn't further idencomplaints" tified except that Brewster Where To Find It said he since has died 71- purpose of the check said was 'for politiAmuse 4-7B Harris 6A furds to be spent on can-Anderson SB Horoscope TIC I didates O'Reilly he a i Bell 2A Jumble 9B I was in charge of passi out Bourke 63 Kofoed Ft the morey Burns IC Lawrence 6A Bus Rev 2B My-Go-RA 6A Class 9-2IC MOVieS 73 1 US Asks I 'as Bprald Servit FORT MYERS The story of how a 400-pound leopard ray devilfish jumped into a cruiser in the Gulf of Mexico sni broke 3 w-orrians arm was Tuesday at Lee Tnoriai Hospital where the WASHrNGTON Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson Tuesday ordered a 12 per cent cut in the number of civilians and military people working in defense offices in Greater Washington area He served notice that similar cuts will soon be exended to many headquarters at home and abroad The order specifically tells the Defense Department Army the Navy and the Air Force to eliminate 6414 jobs Li the Washingtnn area within the 12 months starting July 1 The reduction is based upon a military and civilian pay roll of 539S6 in that area more than half of them in the Pentagon at the end of last W5 retar: son 1 cent I ans a ing il Great v7r11e51 ha ebartlic Thf the I Arrny Force LI thi the I The I znilitz of than gon the engine box and the next thing I knew I was in the back of the boat" Apparently tryLng to shake three sucker fish found attached to its underside the devilfish seemed to be leapinz blindly not tryirtit ta attack the boat 'It was a feet tcross" said IIS Carlsenls husband viho saw it coming He ducked and tried to yell a yarning to his wife and four The reduction will be ac complished insofar as possible by normal attrition Defense officials said there is little likelihood that anyone now holding a job will he discharged involuntarily The Defense Department did not estimate the dollar savings of the new manpower economy drive but the Pentagon has an official tabulation giving average annual pay of military and civilian employes as C3703 Thus the drive could achieve a saving of more than S32- 538000 yearly friends fishing with them Sun- day of Punta Rassa The impact of the devilfish broke the ehgine box to kindline and bent the steering column and gear shift Two boats in the sicinity rushed to help' speeding Mrs Carlsen ashore Rnd to the hospital Trapped in the bottom of the boat the big ray thrashed wildly as ropes brolce tour times in efforts to hoist him Onto Punta Rassa Dock Eight rifle bullets were needed to finish him off TACOMA Wash An explosion tore apart a building at a powder works southeast of here Tuesday afternoon a first reports indicated four men were killed The explosion occurred in the facilities of the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp formerly the Columbia Powder Co The site of the sprawling plant behind locked gates is about 10 miles southeast of Tacoma The blast shook windows as far away as downtown Tacoma is miles distant A huge smoke cloud rose over the scene victim is reoox rinz "I never saw it coming-- didn't know what hit me" sail Mrs Fred Carlsen tryinz to gesture with an arm in traction as she toll the story from her hospital bed I Nits sunning myself on Chinch Su Special $1295 HI 4-4533 Comics 22 23C Fenhekamp 6A Considine 63 Quick Qz 22C I BONN Informed Corson 5C Radio-TV P3 sourccs sail Tuesday the Unit-Crane 22C Sports 1-7C I ed Sates has asked West GerCrossword 22C Thompson 22C many t) pay 134 million dollars Editorial 6A Weather 2A in 1937-33 toward support of Financial 7-9D Winchell 7B American troops in this counGoren 93 omeris- 1-6D the same as this year Holywood Kennel Club offers the finest in dog racing Post: 815 Just north of Gulfstream Park on US 1 (Deluxe Clubhouse and free The manpon er economy dril does not affect combat lh drive Loans on Jewelry up to S300 -Halpert's 113 NE 2 Ave- Terrace Patio Ft Lauderdale Serving.

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