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Show BROWDER CASE JURORSCHOSEH NEW YORK. Jsn. 17 (INS) With a minimum of delay, a federal fed-eral court Jury of one woman and 11 men was selected today to try Earl Browder, general secretary of the American Communist party, on charges of passport fraud. The Jury, waa 'completed Boon after noon, after the government had used only four challenge and the defense nine. Federal Judge Alfred Coxe thereupon dismissed the Jurors for two hours to hear motions by the defense. Browder, who could pass for Adolf Hitler merely by resrrang-Ing resrrang-Ing his neatly combed hair, apparently ap-parently took trial preliminaries as a huge bore. He showed slight Interest when the .first 12 talesmen were seated In the Jury box to be examined a to their possible Interest In-terest la him and his case or their prejudices against the defendant the Communist party or soviet Russia. Rus-sia. He showed no Interest when his counsel, George Gordon Battle, excused two talesmen without die-closing die-closing a reason. Only about 200 spectators could be admitted to the courtroom, but at least twice that number was on hand long before court opened. Browder appeared unworried by the prospect of conviction, although a 10-year prison term and a 14000 On are possible. |