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Show PLEADS GUILTY TO MISUSING THE MAILS PORTLAND. Ore.. Fob. 28. Jesse B, Maxell, president of the Northwestern association, a land promotion concern now Insolvent, pleaded guilty in the federal fed-eral court today to a charge of having used the mails to defraud and was sentenced sen-tenced to serve twelve months In jail. Hazel! was arrested last December after an investigation by federal authorities authori-ties showed that he had made js? f00 through a spurious orchard land scheme Most of Hazell's victims were eastern working people, according to the investigators. |