Show City Attorney Ordered to File Specific Charges Against Thacker The powers that be iii Salt Lake City's civic governmental and legal lIfe fe Monday marshaled their forces on n all phases of an investigation into nto alleged extralegal activities of the he public safety department department but but immediate tangible results on anything anything any- any thing liing were not forthcoming Developments included 1 A conference between City Attorney Attorney At- At torney orney Fisher Harris and County Attorney Harold Wallace after which the two men announced they would confer with Third district court ourt judges be before Core taking any any Kind of f action 1 2 The rhe civil service commis commission lon 1 4 gave the city attorneys attorney's office one week in which to file specific charges against F F. A. A Thacker dismIssed dismissed dismissed dis dis- missed police captain Mr Thacker's Thacker's Thack Thack- ers er's attorneys were vere then given an add additional i t Ion a I week for written written written writ writ- ten reply to the charges after which the commission will set date for a public hearing 3 Officers of the Salt Lake MinIsterial Ministerial Min Mm- association were scheduled to meet with Commissioner William Murdoch and Mr Harris during the afternoon to to discuss the kind of a aman aman aman man needed as chief of police and possibly the kind needed for mayor may may- or 4 4 A mass meeting for crystallization crystalli of ot public sentiment on the merits of ot a grand jury probe into alleged extralegal activities of ot the public safety department was set tentatively for Tuesday night 5 The city's mayoralty situation remained unchanged but a break appeared imminent After a a. conference at which Mr Wallace Vallace was to consider evidence gathered by Mr Harris and form conclusions as to possible filing of criminal complaints in connection with an alleged payoff link between the police and the underworld the two men issued a joint statement I which said We have had a preliminary dis discussion dis I cuss ion on the matter and inasmuch inasmuch inas inas- i much as both of us will vill probably meet with the district judges this I week and the ultimate decision rests e ts S' S with them and not with either of us we c can ca'n n say little lilUe as to results of ot our conversation The district judge is a committing committing com com- corn com magistrate He not only has has the power to call calla v a grand jury but also the power to issue a complaint complaint com corn plaint if the evidence warrants it The county attorney does not issue a he merely has authority to indorse it for a warrant of arrest The district attorney and the attorney general have the same power of Indorsement At a meeting of the civil service Co Continued on Page Two Column 1 1 S t THACKER CAS ACTION On Continued from Page age Out One commission In city co coat chambers the city attorneys attorney's was given until February 21 written charges against Mer M er Mr Thacker's counsel wen w Ws wien en until February 28 to fil file i answers after which a d da hearing will be set f I The district judges are tenly tent ten ly scheduled to meet Wednesday to weigh a grand jury probe Whether the ministerial a 8 tion Mr Murdoch or Mr would issue a statement as asa a of their meeting was not l prior to the meeting 1 Most persons and organ demanding a grand jury pr pre the vice ice situation were av aw aj the outcome of a scheduled dl ing of Third district but one group was proceeding plans for a mass less of the judges' judges conference Alke T. T Diamant and J Josf i Fratto two attorneys who machinery rolling roIling for the me mi said it would be held some som this week probably Thesda Tuesday can get a hall hail big enough tc the crowd J On the underworld side o 0 ovice vice front were nearly a gamblers bookies and resi rese arrested in police raids last lM ast whose names were on Monday Monda lice calendar And still in the air was the mayoralty situation No m mo may v been made to file state supreme court to deci legality of elevating Commis is William Murdoch to the p o Mayor and although rumon rumors that Mr Murdoch fuse to accept the position n thus nullify necessity for s' s sue luc sc c nothing ing-nothing ing nothing had come from Monday J 1 |