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Show Hines To Appeal His Conviction NEW YORK, Feb. 27 iV.V.) James J. Hines, Tammany's tough" est and most powerful district leader, prepared his appeal from a jury verdict branding him the political fixer of a gang of criminals crim-inals today while his prosecutor was being goomed as a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1940. New York Republicans, who almost al-most elected District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, the 37-year old racket-buster, governor last year, were jubilant over his success in convicting Hines, who, it has been said in New York for years, was "too well wired to ever be convicted." Their leaders said pri- vately that New York's 37 votes in the 1940 nominating convention almost certainly would be pledged pledg-ed to Dewey. Free on $20,000 bail pending his sentencing on March 13 He could get as much as 27 years in Sing Sing Hines and his attorney at-torney seemed confident of a new trial. Stryker claimed his client was "stone broke," said he didn't know where the money, for the appeal would come from, but predicted pre-dicted Hines would not Sj end even one day in jail. |