Grand Jury Returns Indictment Accusing Beck of Tax Evasion; Ike Recalls Mideast Ambassador

TACOMA, Wash., May 2--Dave Beck, the onetime laundry driver who built a personal fortune in his rise to the presidency of one of the biggest labor unions, was charged here today with income tax evasion.

A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against the Teamsters' Union chief after it was reconvened quietly to hear the case.

The first count charged him with failure to report $88,828 of 1950 income on which additional taxes of $54,420 should have been paid. The second count accuses Beck of assisting in preparation of a false tax return for the Teamsters' Joint Council No. 28 Building Assn., in Seattle, in the same year.

It alleged that the Joint Council Building Assn. had expended $16,718 for building payments and alterations when it "had in truth expended a substantially lesser sum." Judge George H. Boldt ordered a bench warrant issued immediately for the 63-year-old union leaders' arrest. He set bond at $5,000.

Ike Alters Mid-East Plans

WASHINGTON, May 2--President Eisenhower today gave up on Egypt, Syria and Jordan as participants at this time in his military-economic plan for combatting Middle East communism.

The President called home his special ambassador, James P. Richards, choosing not to have him mark time waiting for invitations to visit these three Arab countries.

Psychiatrist Examines Klemms

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 2--A psychiatrist said today he would recommend to District Court tomorrow that Gloria and Maria Klemm, 18-year-old indentical twins be committed to a mental hospital for further psychiatric examination.

Dr. John J. Slattery of the Cambridge City Hospital staff, examined the girls today. Official sources said the girls remained incoherent for the fourth day.