When Teamsters President Dave Beck appeared before the McClellan Committee last March, he took the Fifth Amendment on questions about his misuse of union funds, shrilly boasted that he would prove his innocence in a court of law. He will soon have his chance: last week in Tacoma, Wash. a federal grand jury charged Beck* with evading $184,000 in income taxes for 1951, 1952, 1953. Added to the $56,000 for 1950 charged in another indictment last May. this makes Beck's tab $240,000.
After word of the new indictment reached turnip-shaped Dave Beck in Los Angeles, where he was meeting...
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