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Show WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1971 PAGE SIX in Court - In what is NEW YORK (ACCN) believed to be a first for a judicial proceeding in this state, a television record of an alleged crime was shown in court here recently. The television tape was played over three TV sets before Slate Supreme Court Justice Gerald B. Culkin at a pretrial hearing as to the admissibility of evidence in the prosecution of Howard Fields, 43. Fields is accused of possessing more than $1 million in stolen and checks and forged payroll securities. He is a former dir. c lor of training and employment for the Haryou program in New York, and a former director of a program at Camp Kilmer, N.J. The television record was made with a hidden camera on the premises of the conference room of the Morgan-Guarant- y ist ar Company in Manhattan on i.. ..ight of Oct. 8, 1969, according to Manhattan Asst. Dist. Atty. Frank Rodgers. It showed Fields and two agents of the District Attorney's office an undercover police officer and an accountant who masqueraded as a anti-pover- U.S.-fund- Italian Outcry Hits Courts on U.S. Actor Case Film. TV ty anti-pover- ed dishonest ty banker allegedly the disposition of the securities, which the firm depicted on a desk in the room. Fields, 43, was arrested 14 days after the film was made, assertedly with stolen checks and securities in his possession. discussing - Chicago, Springfield, Mass., and New York's John F. by June 30. Kennedy Airport Before the end of the year said General Blount, security force members would be assigned to more than 100 postal installations throughout the country. he said, the force would By mid-197contain about 5,000 officers. In a report for the fiscal year ended last June 30, the Postal Service said last summer that arrests by postal inspectors had climbed 15 per cent over the previous fiscal year and convictions has increased by 12.5 per cent. The new security force, Blount said, will be responsible for controlling access, maintaining order, (preventing mail thefts, safeguarding customers and employes and 5, basic security buildings operated by Postal providing trial. one-da- y The first action of the actor after being acquitted was to visit the grave of his wive, Actress Caroline Lobravico, who died in a prison hospital last October while awaiting trial on the same charges. Berger was allowed to see her once in handcuffs and he refused to attend her funeral in the same for Ser- vice. He said William J. Cotter, the chief postal inspector, will direct the training and administration of the security force. Cotter said he is seeking candidates having civilian or military recruiting, manner. Italian politicians and newspapers alike demanded a quick reform of the 1954 drug laws under which the Bergers were arrested and imprisoned after a police raid on their home turned up one Messaggero. Prosecutor of twenty-eight- h Francesco chesiello conceded the law, was originally intended to illicit trafficking, not drug Jiad become an instrument Mar- - which crush users, of in- - - most important piece of bankruptcy law since 1938, according to Treister. The act now allows the bankruptcy court to not only issue a dischargeability order, but also to determine the dischargeability of any particular debt, Treister said. This is a change from the previous rule wherein the bankruptcy court could only make such detercirin "unusual minations cumstances." The dischargeability of a debt prior to the bankruptcy proceeding Vital Waterway and workshops designed to resolve many of the vital and timely ad- ministrative, organizational and has been industry inaugurated by The Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. Questionnaires have been mailed to more than 75 major producers of plastics materials, with each company being' asked to report production and sales figures for each resin produced and plastics Father, Daughter Become Brothers - of January, 1971. financial problems impacting directly on larger law firms today. Conference topics for the first day include: Time Management, Financial Evaluation and New Billing Problems; the Evolving Role of Office Administrators; and Are you Ready for Paralegal Personnel? I . The program for the second day cover: Interaction of Firm Management in Setting Objectives will and Productivity Automatic Typewriters tating Systems; Standards; and Dic- Computer Ap- plications; and Profit Distribution. The program is designed to be of interest to firms with 12 to over 100 lawyers. The conference is particularly designed for the senior and managing and partners assisting lawyers, administrators their and for office these of organizations. information is Registration available from Daniel J. Cantor, Secretary, Conference of American Legal Executives, 028 Suburban Station Building, Philadelphia, Pa. 19103. the DAILY RECORD Subscribe? Today Telephone 487-065- 1 - A federal CINCINNATI (UPI) State the of Ohio ordered has judge to temporarily halt enforcement of laws restricting women's working conditions at six General Electric Company plants. General Electric sought the y injunction, claiming it was caught in the middle of the state laws and 10-da- federal equal employment regulations. It was granted by Judge David S. Porter, March 31. GE attorney J. Mack Swigert said if the company complied with the state statutes it would be subject to civil rights suits from some 3,000 women working at the six plants. He said GE relies heavily on federal contracts and such suits jeopardize the firm's ability to get the government work. Swigert said GE was "in the position of a football bounced between contending forces." The specific portions of the state law in question are those which ease When pruning branches, never get your head below your work. Unit Wants CAB Air Luggage Loss Crackdown WASHINGTON (UPI) The Civil eronautics Board's Consumer Advisory Committee has urged the Board to force the airlines to make a stricter accounting of baggage complaints, "An extremely serious problem" in the industry. Reuben B. Robertson, chairman of the Committee, urged CAB Chair man Secor D. Browne to issue a proposed rule setting new standards for the airlines on baggage complaints. Robertson, an associate of consumer advocate Ralph Nader, told Browne in a letter that 200,000 airline consumers had their baggage "lost, stolen, damaged, seriously delayed or tampered with" in 1969. "Despite the magnitude and seriousness of the baggage problem to consumers, the Board does not appear to have taken adequate steps to ameliorate it or even to ascertain the true extent, depth and sources of the problem," Robertson said. Under the present system, the airlines report baggage complaints to the Civil Aeronautics Board, but each airline determines for itself what constitutes a baggage complaint. Robertson urged the board to set new standards which would require the airlines to report baggage complaints under headings such as theft, pilferage and mishandling. Robertson said the airlines should also be required to state how they settled claims, and what proportion of claims were outstanding, and the amounts paid by the airline insurance companies. Suit Asks Dissent Files Be Destroyed Chamber Of Commerce Elects Twelve U.S. ACLU Notable representatives from major law firms across the United States and Canada have been selected to lead discussion panels - Clamp a week or nine hours a day. - NEW YORK (ACCN) A major statistical program for the U.S. and job and working more than 48 hours CHICAGO (ACCN) Firm management and new approaches to improving attorney productivity and profitability are the central themes of the Conference of American Legal Executives for larger law firms to be held April 29 and 30 at the Continental Plaza Hotel here. Tariff Reports GE In prohibit women employes from lifting more than 25 pounds on the Hold Meeting Plastic Group Data Aiding sold. In addition, a breakdown of sales by end use has been requested. The program is designed to conform with the U.S. Tariff Commission's monthly statistical program, with minor modifications to expand reporting coverage. All producers of plastics raw materials, regardless of size and whether or not currently members of SPI. are being urged to support and participate in this program. Second Phase SAN DIEGO (ACCN) A father The initiation of the program and daughter team was initiated into represents the second phase of the the local chapter of Phi Alpha Delta, Society's efforts to develop the most international law fraternity, at the meaningful, accurate and timely fraternity's district conclave here, statistics obtainable on the plastics April 3 and 4.. industry. Last year, through its Sherry Eckhardt was graduated Committee on Statistics, SPI made a magna cum laude in 1970 from the number of recommendations to the University of San Diego School of .Tariff Commission to assist it in Law. She is now in private practice "improving its definitions as well as with her father, Thomas Eckhardt. sales and use classifications. Many The initiation of the two will be the of these proposals were first of its kind for any legal and introduced into the accepted governfraternity, said James Veach, ment's monthly statistical program, justice of the USD chfptpr of PAD. bopi"".ing with the reporting month And Law Has Large Law Firm Executives to The Malacca Strait is (ACCN) .he longest sea channel in the world. Lying between the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra, it stretches 500 miles to connect the South China and Andaman Seas, and is the main ocean route linking Europe and the Middle East with the Asiatic Pacific lands. It is dominated by the great port of Singapore. Democrat bloc in the Chamber of Deputies, was supported by deputies from several other parties. The case began last August when 30 policemen, raided the Berger villa south of Naples, searched its 14 rooms and arrested nine persons after finding the marijuana in a silver cigarette case. Berger denied the cigarette case was his, but police charged him with possessing, using and permitting others to take drugs in his home. Berger's wife, an actress born in New York City, died last October at the age of 39 in a prison hospital after undergoing an emergency operation. Women's Lib has hitherto been restricted to state courts. The dischargeability order was an affirmative defense and if not raised by the debtor in the federal bankruptcy proceeding, it was lost by default. The new act allows the federal, court in making its own delermination to set aside several types of prior judgments against the debtor. Treister voiced one concern over the act, the phrase that any right to trial by jury, if such right exists, was not changed by the act. The concern arises from the prospect of thousands of small litigation actions clogging the federal court calendars. The phrase was included in the act in order to secure political support for it in the Senate, Treister said. However, he added, there is no right to jury trial on the question of dischargeability and there usually is not much question on the facts of the cases. Hence, he discounted the possibility of an avalanche of court cases. An end debtors of to the harassment by their creditors, a more simplified system of determining the dischargeability of debts and an increase in the power of bankruptcy referees were some of the features of the 1970 Bankruptcy Act lauded by Los Angeles attorney George Treister before the local Lawyers Club, Wednesday recently. The act, which was "sneaked LOS ANGELES (ACCN) Take frequent rests justice find persecution. into the work. sevePoliticians, led by Flavio Orlandi Space a large project over said the Berger case seemed like ral weekends, not just one. When putting tools down, place something from a Kafka nightmare and called for an overhaul of the them where they can't be tripped law. Orlandi, leader of the Social over. Turn points and edges down. Court mves Breather: New Bankruptcy Aids For Debtors police experience. They must meet high physical standards and be at least 21, except in the case of honorably discharged members of the armed forces who may be younger. ) and unbelievable of what is nightmarish example with law. Italian wrong The trial.. Has condemned once and for all the absurd Ilalian law, said the Rome newspaper, II "absurd," is the WASHINGTON (UPI) Tht to halt the government, trying mail of rate thefts, ansurging nounced April B creation of a postal security force to protect its major postal facilities. The U.S. Postal Service said the police-typ- e force was started with a pilot project in Philadelphia in 1969 and would be expanded to six cities San Francisco, Los Angeles Postmaster a in through" after 15 years of attempts to get legislation through Congress, Postal Service To Curb Thefts Oakland, an ounce oi marijuana. Berger told Italian newsmen at his villa in the Amalfi coast resort of Praiano thai he was saddened most of all by the death of his wife. But he said he intended to remain in Italy. It is a country I love very much, nc matter what has happened, he said. "I wouldn't know how to live anywhere else." Italians condemned his case as an SALERNO, ITALY (UPI) -Italians have expressed outrage over the case of American actor William Berger who spent nearly on eight months in jail awaiting trial was and then acquitted drug charges SAFETY: - - PHILADELPHIA (UPI) The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal court today to order the destruction of 18,000 police department "intelligence files" on political dissidents. The suit against the police department was filed in U.S. District Court on behalf of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), the Philadelphia Resistance, an anti-dra- ft group and six individuals. The ACLU said the suit was prompted by a television network documentary on police surveillance last June, in which a police department spokesman said authorities kept files on 18,000 persons and organizations. The suit contends the police gather political and information about personal dissident persons and groups." The "comprehensive information is not connected with criminal offenses or arrests, the suit said. "The police do not regularly compile dossiers or photograph citizens at public assemblies of demonstrations held by citizen groups whose political views are consonant with those of government officials, or whose views are considered to be "orthodox' of the suit said.' The suit also asked the court for an injunction prohibiting the police from "compiling intelligence files, dossiers and photographs" of peaceful demonstrators and from divulging such information to other law enforcement agencies and the public. WASHINGTON (UPI) The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has announced election of 12 new members to its board of directors none for full two-yeterms and three to fill unexpired terms. The board, acting for the Chamber's national membership of more than five million, directs policy in dealing with problems facing the business community. Elected to two-yeterms were: Thomas B. Curtis, vice president and general counsel of Encylopedia Britannica Inc. of Chicago; Dr. Alfred M. Fulton, a partner in the ar ar Billings Clinic, Billings, Mont.; Daniel L. Goldy, president of In ternational Systems & ConlroU Corp., Houston; Harry Heltzer, chairman of the board and chief Executive officer of the 3M Co., St. Paul ; William C. Rasberry, owner of Crestview Woods, Shreveport, La.; Charles T. Stewart, vice president and general counsel and director of public affairs of the J.C. Penney Co., Inc., New York City; Robert T. Thompson, Atlanta attorney; and Roger C. Wilkins, chairman and chief executive officer of Travelers Insurance Co., Hartford; and William J. Steinmetz, vice president and treasurer, American Can Co., Greenwich, Conn. Elected to fill unexpired terms ol one year: J. D. Anderson, president of Guarantee Mutual Life Co., Omaha; Cleo W. Blackburn, president of the Board For Fundamental Education of Indianapolis; and Simon Ramo, vice chairman of the board of directors and chairman of thf executive committee of TRW Inc. Redondo Beach, Calif. |
