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Show Law Enforcement Officers Attend F. B. I. Conference Several of the Iron County police officers attended the P. B. I. Law Enforcement Conference held at the Liberty Hotel In St. George yesterday afternoon for officers of Iron, Kane and Washington coun le.. District Attorney Ellis J. Pickett ui oi. ueorge addressed the openj session of the conference to which ! the public had been invited. Following the public meeting, a! clo.-,ed session was held which featured fea-tured lectures and demonstrations on the mechanics of arrests, dls-s-:nlng methods, and road blockades. block-ades. Special Agent Ira J. Kellogg, j 3 an F. B. I. Firearms Instic j- from j Los Angeles, California, assisted in j the training work. In addition to the two regular' stsflons, Jay C. Newman, Special Asent in charge of FB. I. ac .tvltics in Nevada and Utah, held a special meeting with the heads of the hw enforcement organizations at which i time individual Internal security ' cases were taken up. The F. B. I. has conducted these j police conferences on a quarterly j basis throughout the Unlt?d States) since 1939. They were inaugurated i following Pi evident Pooscvelt's proc !c 'nation designating the F. B. I. as the coordinating agency in the Investigation In-vestigation of espionage, abotase and subversive activities, Iron County officers who attended the conference Included Sheriff S C. Lnmb, deputy sheriffs Ray Adam and Claude Macfarlanc; Cpdar City im'lcemen, Art Nelson and Pete Wood; Parowan Marshall Ancll Adams; and highway patrolmen L J. Adams, and Lowe Barton. j |
