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Show Univ?rit Fait L-k- of 'ut-r- y it y, eC SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH VOLUME 17. NUMBER 114 Indicts 17 Here and Abroad In Fraud Case II S. CUSTODY denial MED Bull -S(UPI) financial brokers, Plaintiff counsel: bankers and attorneys in the United States, Canada, Ireland and Italy were indicted here, May 23, on federal charges of investment fraud. Atty. Gen. Richard Kleindienst said a indictment was returned by a grand jury in US. District Court in Miami. The indictment charged that since April, 1970, the defendants used illegal means to obtain advance fees from firms and individuals in exloan comchange for long-tern mitments drawn against Groups. Ltd., owned and controlled by the 17; The companies and individuals allegedly defrauded were located in Walter G. Mann Defendant counsel: Phil L. Hansen See details page 29-cou- nt m . Anglo-Canadia- Oregon, South Carolina, Maine, Virginia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, New Jersey, Arizona, Ohio, Canada and Ireland. Seventeen counts of the indictment charged mail fraud, nine counts charged wire fraud by using telegrams, two counts charged transporting fraudulently obtained money in interstate and foreign commerce, and die last count charged them with conspiracy. Lawmakers Pass On Abortion New York Bill Held Invalid For 105 Judges -hasThe New York State Assembly given final legislative approval to a bill creating up to 105 new judgeships to deal with an anticipated increased courtload caused by the states tough new drug law. The measure, which had cleared therapeutic abortion. the Senate, was sent to Governor Hie state law had prohibited who had requested the abortion except in cases where the Rockefeller, additional judges to beef up the mothers life was in danger. : Smith said Montanas abortion court system. A total of $66.3 million was set law Is unconstitutional under a U.S. aside to finance the additional ALBANY (UPI) -- U.S. Judge Russell Smith Tuesday declared Montanas abortion laws unconstitutional and void in atheir entirety. Smith ruled in a "Mary Doe" case in which a Missoula woman sought a MISSOULA, MONT. (UPI) . Supreme Court ruling last January. court personnel ana The Legislature turned down judges, and narcotic addiction facilities proposals in March which would treatment programs called for in the have legalized and regulated measure. abortion in accord with the Supreme The bill provides that 25 additional Court ruling. State Supreme Court justices; would Attorney General Robert Woodahl to to advised the lawmakers then that the permit the governor appoint up 68 new judges to the present statutes were unconstitutional until State Court of Claims; and voided by a court of competent adds seven county court judges, and jurisdiction. five Family Court judges. The Bill would add Supreme Court (state trial) justices in nine of the The Mounties states 11 judicial districts, both in Hie Royal Canadian metropolitan New. York City and the (UPI) Mounted Police evolved from 150 upstate region. Three County Court North West Mounted Police (inferior trial) judges would be added in New York suburban organized in 1874. Nassau County, and four more upstate. Four Family Court judges would be created for Suffolk County (also in the metropolitan area) and me upstate! The 68 new Court of Claims judges would be named from throughout the state with no com- Oklahoman Says IRS Audits New Dem. Governors By Harry Culver OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI)-Oklahsecretary of state says he has been told file Nixon Ad- ministration investigating 15 democratic governors including Oklahomas David Hall and other state of--, ficials, Hall's returns for 1968, 19G9 and 1970 are being audited, Hall and Rogers said. - However, Rep. Tom Steed, who heads .the Congressional icpmimttee that approves the IRS .D-Okf- a.f Gulf Oil Gets No Extension On Texas Lease May 30 that Golf Oil Corporations upttjeprogram curtailed production in the Crane Pentagon has begun lobbying in Congress for .legislation to restore the bonuses through the end of the year. Under an appropriations bill ofg passed last year, all ficers with the rank of colonel or above were cut off from the bonuses effective, May 30. The law affects more than 5,000 officers, including 467 generals and admirals, and would save an estimated $14.6 . I a former and present legal services attorneys. The new bill, accepted by the House Committee, provides for a board of 11 members all appointed by (bn President and subject to Senate confirmation. A majority must be lawyers and not more than party. shutdown of production by govern- mental order. Llewellyn Law Chair Created non-flyin- CHICAGO (ACCN) - Hie Karl N. Llewellyn Chair in Jurisprudence has been, established at The University of Chicago Law School, Announcement of the chair, May 22, coincided with the 80th an- nillion annually. niversary of the birth of the fate said legal scholar and philosopher. But Rep. Les Aspin, the Pentagon had circulated a fact Llewellyn joined the University of sheet to Congressmen urging sup- - Chicago faculty in 1951 and was Professor Emeritus of Law at the time of his death in 1962. He earned his B.A., LL.B., and J.D. degrees from Yale University. He taught at Yales faw school and later became s., Aspin said the Pentagon plan was ah irresponsible scheme. Its . thLt ftadhut of of whfch foe ser- vices are actually aehverecL Nixon wanted uiffeUered power to . appoint a board of directors to ran the corporation. Democrats insisted he must pick a majority of the directors from specified groups, including a program recipient and - simply an unnecessary boondoggle to pay flight pay to high ranking officers who dont fly, will never fly pulsory area quota. again and, most importantly, dont need the extra cash g Rated pilots given jobs appropriation, said he has heard to allowed have been traditionally IRS is the reports investigating retain their a flight by flying pay 13 of states. Steed said he governors amount of month certain hours per doubts the investigations are on own their maintain time and thus even motivated if politically they new The their flight proficiency. are true. Rogers, whose income tax is also Pentagon proposal, Aspin said, of- being audited, said, "I have been would cut flight pay for sane to low from month a as as $245 fleers told by people whose official month. positions would indicate they would $165 per be in a position to know that virProlific Farrowing tually all of the newly-electe- d Democratic governors since 1970, CHICAGO (UPI) Civilization is who beat Republican incumbents, in are being investigated this giant good for pigs. In the wild state, according to Encyclopaedia political espionage by arms of the federal government whose business hogs farrow four to six is to put you in jail. pigs. In the domesticated state they He did not name his informants. farrow eight to 12 pigs. -- J i?sh5: Pentagon Moves To Seek Return Of Flight Pay and continue.. to MW TO "Under Gulfs construction, every ordered losses in production time. of every excused delay in a hour Gulf and six other firms had filed suit against Southland Royalty significant degree of its operations fifth year before Company and 87 others in an at- - can be added to the termination is finally reached, the Supreme Court decision said. "That construction would play havoc with the express provision that the lease shall not remain in force longer than 50 years from this date. The court opinion said the termination date included in the lease "says 'nothing about production; it speaks only of time and dates. Under Gulfs interpretation, the lease would not expire until 1987. The majority court opinion ruled An WASHINGTON (UPI) 19W estimated 5,000 military officers the lease would have expiredin non-flyin- omas is conducting a "nationwide political purge by Service Internal Revenue the using to audit income tax returns of newly-- j elected Democratic governors. The secretary, John Rogers, said, May 17, he had been told the IRS is has ruled that it cannot be done without congressional approval. The House Education and Labor Committee has approved a bill creating the corporation to run legal services arid key Republicans on the panel predicted that despite minor changes made in the administration bill, the White House would accept it. There has. been no similar that Congress would be asked to transfer the program to the. Health, Education and Welfare Department for continued administration until reform legislation is enacted. McCarty said that President Nixdn anticipated dealy in creating the corporation concept and provided $71.5 million in HEWs 1974 budget to carry on the legal services program. Nixon has proposed dismantling OEOasofJuly 1, but a federal judge Bernhardt WASHINGTON (UPI) The White House apparently is ready to con- tinue funding of the controversial free legal siervices program for the poor beyond June 30 while Congress decides whether to transfer the program to an independent corporation. J. Lawrence McCarty, acting associate director of the Office of Economic Opportunitys (OEO) Legal Services Program, predicts toseon451.cre.ofoa.WU Montana Law . Poor s Legal Services Seen Continuing By Gene WASHINGTON eventeen THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1973 ' , collaborated with E. A Hoebel; and Jurisprudence: Realism, Theory, and Practice (1962), a collection of essays Llewellyn wrote during his fast 30 years, He viewed all of these scholarly and professional activities as a part of jurisprudence which he saw primarily as a study of law- government institutions and how they should and did operate Edward H. Levi, president of the University, who was then dean of the faw school, summed up UeweUyn in a 1962 article: at Columbia University. He also wasa visiting professor at 8 an?. universities, tect of the Uniform Commercial Code, he was a life- member of the Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and president of the Association of American Law Schools. UeweUyn wrote extensively on The legal matters. His book, Tradition-DecidCommon Law ing Appeals ( 10A i was awarded the ' professor of faw at the University; Nicholas Katzenbach, former U.S. attorney general; Eric Haessler, Portland, Ore.; Lawrence R. Eno. New .York City; Peter P. Lederer, New York City; and Walter D. Malcolm, Boston. A search to fiU the Karl N. in Llewellyn Professorship Jurisprudence is underway, ac- cording to the Universitys current faw dean, PhQ C. Neal. He stressed and that the chair should become Pjnd.zienrecht ln recognized "as a preeminent post in the field. pf jurisprudence at an anthropological study on which he American law school. Recht-Britaimlc- A2fr,1J.33 a, |