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; Arven TD-359 (Rev. 7-16-63) in-Desert Spa Bar, Executive Tesities mat BY: ‘ROBERT’ RAWITCH _ a oi Faas Stott Writer . “4 kK ‘Salt! Lake City business ¢ execu- ‘ave testified Tuesday that Singer Frank Sinatra shoved him in the chest and three of the éinger's asso ciates beat him up invthe restroom of a Palm Spring: ocktail lounge in May, 1973. ~ Frank Wein ‘who is suing Si friends and the Trinidad Hotel cocktail: lounge for "$2.5 million, was the first witness in the suit being heard by a three-man, ‘three-woman federal court jury, Neither Sinatra, nor thé other two codefendzvhts, Jilly Ri and Jerry S, WE at the trial rt of U.S. Dist. Judge Man- uel Real. Sinatra has given two depositions in which he has denied striking Weinstock or ordering his associates to do so. Under questioning from his attorney, Marvin Lewis, Wein- stock, 36, said he and his wife had _ Zone to the cocktail lounge May 5, ° 1973, with his sister and brother-in- Taesr and « thind ceonls | enW Gull a Gh COM pe. _, Sinatra entered the lounge with a pany of a dozen or so. and: sat near einstock's table, — . Weinstock . testified that: an unidentified man from Sinatra's ta- ble cane over and repeatedly made threats against him. However, Real would not allow Weinstock to state what the threats were, ruling that St would be inadmissible hearsay evidence. . In his opening ‘statement to the -Jury, Lewis had stated that the uni- -dentified. man had told Weinstock, "When the lady foes to the bath- -room, you beat it or you're dead.” Weinstock told ‘the ¢ourt he did “not understand the man's statément ‘and disregarded it until Weinstock's wite~gat. up. to go to the restroom ‘and three or four. men from sMatra's (Mount Clipping in Space Below) ~~ (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) LOS ANGELES, CA. a LOS ANGELES TIMES Date: 9/11/ Ti Edition: Wednesday Final Author: Robert Rawi teh Edit: William F. Thoma title: FRANK SINATRA Character: or en 2 ao) ra VLildssliication: PTs f 7 of Submitting Office: Los Angele