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Show FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1971 THE DAILY RECORD PAGE EIGHT Book Not Material in Newton Case misting OAKLAND (UP1) A judge has Government Sets Airline Merger Rule The has decided to oppose any mergers among U.S. airlines that would create any new super sized airline, it (UPI) co-found- ed found. Kroninger ruled that he did not accept the theory that the court system was part of the prosecution and therefore responsible for the missing book. .The judge ruled the book was not material evidence and that there was other evidence material to the case" which formed the basis for a third trial. Kroninger said the prosecution admits the book existed and was prepared to enter a facsimile book and pictures of it in the courtroom. Angeleno Named Phi Delta Phi Fraternity Head TORONTO (ACCN) Attorney John W. Shenk, III, of Los Angeles has been elected the president of The International Legal Fraternity of Phi Delta Phi for the term g Shenk succeeds the L. Robert Young, of president, 1971-197- 3. out-goin- Toronto. The election of Shenk was held at the 40th Convention of Phi Delta Phi at the Plaza Hotel in Toronto, Canada. He was elected after serving a term as vice president from 1969 to 1971. He had served as a Province President in 1967. Mail Cigarette Sellers Must List Customers - NEW YORK (UPI) Smokers who purchase cigarettes through the mail from three North Carolina firms to avoid taxes may soon find their names on lists supplied to their taxman. Under an order signed by U.S. District Judge Irving Ben Cooper, the firms were told to close down local unless they submit lists of their customers to tax authorities. The three mail-orde- r firms and foi" individuals named by Judge Cooper were: B. G N. Co., Dunn, N.C., R. E. McCullen; B. H. Tucker and Associates, B. H. Tucker; and E. A. Goodyear, Inc., B. F. Goodyear and William Goodyear, both of Raleigh, N.C. is. Stanley Johnson Named Executive Group Director Sources said the guidelines also indicated the government would oppose mergers between any two airlines which would result in giving the merged airline an unfair size advantage over other competitors in the same markets. The Transportation Department still plans to support the proposed merger of American and Western Air Lines, the sources said. However, it will call for certain restrictions on the merger. Details of the restrictions were not immediately known. Department Douglas Asked To Stay Alioto Fee-Spl- it Alioto-OConnell-Fal- er fee-splitti- in Sen. Harrison A. Williams, Jr., will be a featured guest speaker at a new, revised version of the Course of Study on Pension, Profit Sharing and Other Deferred Compensation Plans, sponsored by the American Chicago Young Lawyers Stress Involvement Law Institute and the American Bar Association, and offered at the Washington, D.C. Hilton October Senator Williams is chairman of 7-- 9. the Labor and Public Welfare Committee, and chairman of its Labor Subcommittee. John E. Chapoton, tax legislative counsel, U.S. Treasury Department, Washington, will also be featured as a guest speaker and faculty panelist. - CHICAGO (ACCN) The Chicago Bar Associations newly created Young Lawyers Section has begun an active campaign to involve the associations young attorneys in professional and community affairs of the city. A mailing to all Chicago Bar Association members under the age of 36, announcing plans for the proposed section activities of the new Younger Lawyers Section and inviting participation in some 19 committee projects was sent out today, according to CBA President Milton H. Gray. This was the first step toward implementing the action of the associations Board of Managers on July 8 which Gray said, authorized the creation of a section within the association. organization Under the chairmanship of David C. Hilliard, 12 project committees will be established: Radio and Television, Legislative Assistance and Evaluation; Discrimination in the Law; Legal Assistance; Environment; Judiciary and Bench-Ba- r Relations; Consumerism and the Law; Criminal Law; Young Lawyers Journal; College and Law School Laison; Moot Court; and Legal Education Programs and Publications. The section, composed of all CBA members under the age of 36, has its own rules, budget and staff, Hilliard New York City Files Petitions - State NEW YORK (UPI) Rep. Bella wearing a Free Abzug, New York button, filed petitions bearing the names of 55,398 persons who want New York City to become D-N.- the nations 51st state. The petitions, if valid, would put the statehood question up to a referendum vote in the November election. Only 45,000 legitimate signatures are needed to make the petition valid. This is the first hurdle in a real movement, Mrs. Abzug said after she and about 40 others presented the petitions to City Clerk Herman Katz. We've got to change the way things are going in the city and statehood is the way to make the change. Katz said it could take up to a month to determine if the petitions are valid, but he said, knowing Mrs. Abzug, I should think they will be all right. Suit SEATTLE (UPI) A motion has been submitted to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas asking for a delay in the civil suit. The motion by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto asked for a stay for the trial pending an appeal in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Trial of the case involving Alioto, former Washington State Attorney General John J. O'Connell and George K. Faler, a former aide to OConnell, is scheduled to begin with jury selection in Vancouver, Wash. Sept. 20. Preliminary matters, including motions related to the admissibility of evidence, are continuing in Seattle before King County Superior Court Judge Donald L. Gaines. Pension Program To Become outlines sportation Department would oppose any proposed merger, the sources said. In Washington PHILADELPHIA (ACCN) criteria size limits for regional airlines. Beyond these, the Tran- Hold ABA-ALll- o ed specific and Canada. Member organizations in turn represent more than 21 million members. are long-await- The guidelines also would limit the size of mergers by regional airlines, the sources said. The Transportation Slates ASAE headquarters Washington, D.C. The 23-pa- ge ruled that a piece of evidence was immaterial in the case was learned. of Black Panther Huey P. The department has prepared a Newton, clearing the way for Newton's third trial on charges of killing an Oakland policeman. Defense Attorney Charles Garry petitioned the court to stay proceedings because a law book carried by Newton on the morning a police officer was killed was lost by a clerk of the District Court. BAL HARBOUR, FLA. (ACCN) -SSuperior Judge Robert Kroninger tanley L. Johnson, CAE, executive denied the petition and ordered director of the Los Angeles County Newton to report Oct. 12 for Bar Association, has been elected to assignment of the case to a trial serve as director of his professional judge. society, the American Society of Garry argued the book was Association Executives. covered with Newtons own blood The announcement was made and was a key defense exhibit. He following a vole of the membership said Newton was reading his rights at the ASAE Annual Convention and from the Book Oct. 28, 1987, when Exposition at the Americana Hotel policeman John Rey stopped him for here. an alleged traffic violation. Johnson has been with the Los Minutes later, Frey was dead and Angeles County Bar Association another officer wounded, and since 1957. He formerly was Newton, shot in the stomach, was associated with the School of Public captired shortly afterwards s a Administration, University of nearby hospital. Southern California. Garry argued that Frey became He is a past president of the incensed when Newton quoted his National Association of Bar rights and shot the Panther, Executives, and he currently is knocking him into isi consciousness. serving as vice president of the Newton was found guilty of Advisory Board, California Museum manslaughter in a 1968 trial, but an of Science and Industry. appellate court overruled the verAs a member of the ASAE Board, dict on a judicial error. The second Johnson will have a role in the trial ended recently in a hung jury. supervision and direction of the During the second trial, the state affairs of the Society. argued that Newton was the ASAE has a membership of 3,800 aggressor and carried a gun and executives who manage leading wrested Frey's gun from him. trade, professional, technical, and Neither weapon has ever been business associations in the United blood-spatter- JOHANNESBURG (UPI) Standard Bank of South Africa has begun paying its colored (mixed its criteria blood), Indian and Chinese emreport outlining for mergers. Part of the document ployees as much as white emindicates the department, after ployees. consultations with the Justice A bank spokesman said the Department, is against any merger decision affected about 200 than would result in an airline much nonwhite employees working in larger than United Air Lines the nonwhite townships and African nations largest carrier already homelands. Transportation Department WASHINGTON South African Bank Pays Employes Alike , id Worldwide Meet on Sea Law Planned SEATTLE (UPI) Agreement is on several to reached be likely at discussed to be important matters on a worldwide conference proposed laws of the sea in 1978, says a member of the U.S. delegation. Several issues will be resolved, Dr. Lee Alverson, director of the Seattle Research Center of the National Fisheries Service, told a news conference. I dont think there is any area of maritime activity that cant come under legislation that may come out of the conference, Alverson said. Almost all maritime activities will be concerned. They included territorial sea limits, freedom of movement in various straits, ocean economical resources, freedom of scientific research and pollution all these matters will be of concern as well as fisheries. Alverson, who just returned from a plenary session in Geneva, Switzerland, where details of the forthcoming conference were discussed, said it was very important to the U.S. that the conference be successful. We need to stabilize the situation, he said. The US. position is an attempt to accommodate the various interests at home and abroad. British High Court's Rug 'Rug-Nappe- d' By Gordon F. Jeseloff LONDON (UPI) If there is in not need does who Britain anyone - a reminder about the nations rising crime rate, it is the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Widgery. But his lordship got a personal reminder and that bastion of British law and order, the Royal Courts of Justice, may never be the same again. Thieves made off with two rolls of carpet belonging to Lord Widgery and while certainly not one of the nations biggest crimes, it may be one of the brashest. There was no great precision timing involved. Nor was there any violence. Just two men with a truck. The two drove up to the courts on the Strand at about 8:80 a.m., walked in, picked up two rolls of cream-colore- d pile carpet waiting to be liad in his lordships chambers, and walked out. A security man challenged the men as they were loading the 'goods into the vehicle, but they ignored him and throve off. The intrusion prevented them from returning for a third roll. official, estimated the carpets value at about f980. He said while the court is on a vacation most of the building is not in use and there is a lot of painting and other work going on. It is difficult to know who has authority to be in some of the offices and who is there without permission, the official said. The theft of the carpets brought to light another recent excursion by the underworld crowd in the home of the opposition. In recent weeks someone made off with an antique mahogany table from the office of the Attorney General, Sir Peter Rawlinson. A court two-mont- h Proposed Air Merger Challenged - WASHINGTON (UPI) The Justice Department has challenged the proposed merger of American and Western Airlines, contending the step would have effects that would outweigh any public benefits. The American-Wester- n merger was one of three endorsed by the anti-competiti- Transportation Department. It said it also supported mergers between Allegheny and Mohawk, and between Delta and Northeast. But the Transportation Agency said it would oppose creation of a super airline. It said in effect it would not approve the creation of a carrier larger than United Airlines, the biggest domestic air carrier. The Justice Department immediately filed a brief with the CAB, asking the board to disapprove the American-Wester- n Richard W. merger. McClaren, chief of the Justice Departments Antitrust Division, said the merger would lead to the loss of effective competition in four specific markets. He identified the markets as Phoenix-Sa- Angeles, and San n Diego, Phoenix-Sa- n Diego-Lo- s Phoenix-Lo- s Francisco, Angeles. Auto Insurance Firms Continue To Run in Red - NEW YORK (UPI) Property and liability insurance businesses continued to run in the red, despite a 13 per cent rise in premium volume to $33 billion last year, according to the Insurance Information Institute. The institute said statutory underwriting results were at a break-eve- n point as compared with a $506 million loss in 1969. Payments of policyholders dividends amounted to $500 million last year, up $50 million from the year before. The institute attributed the slight improvement to a reduction of auto- mobile accidents and general operating efficiencies in 1970. The economic losses from auto accidents last year dropped 1.8 per cent, saving the industry $16.2 million, the first such drop in the 25 the inyears of record-keepinsaid. stitute g, D.C. Approves Curfew Law For Juveniles - The (ACCN) Council has Washington, D.C., City WASHINGTON tentatively approved an ordinance under which youths under 16 years of age could not be on Washington streets between the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 a.m., unless accompanied by an adult. Youths engaged in running in educational, errands of recreational or religious activities would be exempt. Futher, youths between seven and 16 years of age could not be on the streets or in public places during school hours without being able to prove they have been excused, the regulation says. was passed The proposal the City Council. It unanimously by second must have a approval, without change, before taking effect. Police finding a youth in violation of the regulation would send him home or to school. If the juvenile refused the order, he would be taken into custody. The policeman is also to personally notify parents of the violation. Should a youth be found loitering for the second lime in a twelve-mont- h period, the parents could receive a $300 fine or ten days imprisonment. Persons who allow youths into places open to the public also would be subject to penalties. |