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Show ExUtah Solon's Extradition Requested on S; L Charge -rtrtt step In tha ax tradition of a formar Utah atata legislator, anreated Sunday m Los Angeles on a Salt Lake City embezzlement charge, waa taken Monday. Pollca Chief U C. Crowther naked .Gov. J. Bracken Lee to re- quest tha ret ura of Chan ton Joetah I String-ham, 49, former executive secretary of the state department of business regulation and public service commissioner. ' His arrest climaxed two-week search throughout the lntermoun-taln lntermoun-taln west. Ha waa charged in an Aug. 27 complaint with embexxle-ment, embexxle-ment, grand larceny and obtaining property under false pretense. W. C. McConabay charged he gave String ham $3000 worth of jewelry on consignment from McConabay Mc-Conabay Jewelry Co, 54 8. Maia. and that he has received back neither Jewelry nor money. Leo SlegeL manager, Capitol Jewelry Co, 30 E. 2nd South, informed in-formed police he gave Stringham $0000 In Jewelry on consignment in May and heard nothing further from the man. Chief Crowther reported he recovered re-covered 3300 of the jewelry in Laa Vegas, Nev, acting on Information he received while attending the Utah Municipal league convention about a week age. Stringham waa la charge of state B and C roada In 1041 and 104X Ha resigned , In 1043 to enter private business. He served several m on tha this year ia two state departments. |