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Show Mil RUEF HAS CUE OF PAROLE Supreme Court Directs State Board of Erison Directors to Consider Application. SAX iFRAKCISCO. April 11. By a. decision de-cision today, of the state mipromo court, Abraham Huef, former political bos3 of San Francisco, who la serving' fourteen yeara in tho stato penltontJan' at San Quentln under conviction of having accepted ac-cepted bribes, becomes ellglblo for Immediate Im-mediate parole. Tho decision, howover, although making' it mandatory that his application bo consldorod by tho state bonrd of prltson directors, In no way directs di-rects them to grant it. A persistent campaign In behalf of Huef lias boon waged by Fremont Oldor. managing man-aging editor of tho San. Francisco Bulletin, Bulle-tin, who was ono of the foromout among those to oxposo Iuef and press His prosecution. prose-cution. Although only one of many indicted in-dicted In the notorloua San Francisco graft trials, Ituef alono was convicted, and It has since boen argued in hla be-hulf be-hulf that to keep him In. Jail, while his alleged associates walk free, in an Injustice. In-justice. Since the law establishing parolco wont Into effect the board of prison directors has ruled that no application would bo considered by It until the applicant had sorvod at least one-half of his not term. The court held today that thin regulation Is In violation of the statute and that any prisoner becomes ellglblo to apply for parolo after ho has sorvod onx year. Ruof already has served a little more than throo years. This construction of the statuto also makes eligible John J. McNamara. former for-mer secretary of the International Brotherhood of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers, convicted in Los Angelos of an attempt to dynamite tho plant of the Llewellyn Ironworks. Hla brother, James B. McNamara, who wrecked tho Los Angeles An-geles Times building, with a loss of twcnty-ono lives, was sentenced to Snn Quentln for life and Is not ellglblo for parole. |