Show flis GETS YEAR IN COUNTY JAIL i i r I BETS T MAXIMUM j I PENALTY fO fOI FOR FORI I I EVADING V THE Move We Ve Dismiss Case Says Slacker Swaggering- Swaggering ly Iy as Sentence Is Passed I Can Be Drafted in Year i I Ng NE year the the ar-the the maximum U 0 ONE year penI penalty penalty pen pen- I alty for conviction as a 8 slacker slacker Wil r 1 was the sentence imI imposed imposed im- im I posed upon John 1 V. W nii one oCI of oC Utah's s 's most notorious pacifists Mand I I and general exponents of the policies 7 rJ I I lot of peace neace without victory and con con- I draft evad evader r when he WAS taken Into the federal court today before I 1 Tillman D. D Johnson Johnon II There was nothing particularly dramatic dramatic dra dra- matic about the pronouncement of I sentence on the part of Ju Judge e Johnson who made no no declaration nor did he heI the convicted d slacker lecture on pal pa- pa l I t m. m But nut RUs made mad what hat court I declared was tho the most moat absurd move mote possible on his hla part I Mate Have you ou you any reason to offer the court why sentence should not be Imposed imposed Im Im- posed upon you asked the judge when Hlis RUs was taken from the county count jail Into court Well Vell yes I have Yo said RUs swaggering swaggering swag swag- gering up to the clerks clerk's table I 1 move mo we dismiss the case on the ground the l I whole business Is unconstitutional A few Cew moment later he swaggered fl flout I out of ot the room with the same bravado which has char characterized characterised his hili manner since his tl first t arrest In Suit Salt Lake several several sev sev- eral months neo ago The next days dey Rita Rill will pi P pass s II in III inthe I the Salt Lake county count jail That was the penalty exacted by the court from Crom John Klin nUl who for the last six months has hat been in the limelight I for his vigorous vigorous declamations declamations against the law and his consistent consistent consist consist- ent refusal to register for the selective service I draft and his subsequent re te refusal l-e- l for examination examine examina fugal to appear ph physical I tion when summoned after he ht was walt forcibly forc registered for Cor military service I At the expiration of the convicted cOn mans man's sentence next Christmas R RIi lit will then automatically become available available avail avail- fLU able to the government as IU a soldier and at that time it Is III understood can cnn be drafted drat into military service nil has haR allied himself with various I organisations for Cor the last year or more mort mortI but came into the public tight light shortly after aeter the United States' States declaration of or I war against Germany when he was ns ar arrested arrested arrested ar- ar rested for circulating aile alleged cd seditious literature lie ne was arraigned and released only afterwards afterward for tor I to be arrested shortly shortt calling soldiers paid murderers Later he was wall taken Into custody for re refusal tull 1 to o register was lS registered against his 1 hi will and rt released He lie refused to appear appear ap ap- pear for tor physical examination when called by the local draft board Va was arrested ar arrested ar- ar rested and It was wall on this charge he was wall taken before the federal court D Decem December Cem ber 10 mid and given formal trial lie Ill was found round guilty of ot the charge I b by a Jury which found Cound It necessary to toI deliberate the case ue only three mi minutes ml I At the trial his defense was that the draft law Jaw wu was wa unconstitutional and atul that In that belief he did dill not nol think It advisable for Cor him to register or In any anyway anyway In way to uphold the government In that mea measure ure Rile is ill married and the father of a II small child lie will pass Christmas Inthe In Inthe Inthe the count comity jail where hert he ho linn has l been 11 f cn c confined con con- Ir fined the last w weeks k II awaiting trial Y- Y |