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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Feb. 27, 1964
Judge In Ruby's Murder Trial Predicts Prompt Jury Seating
DALLAS, —(UPI)— Judge Joe B. Brown said there is good chance that a complete jury will be seated today in the Jack Ruby murder trial.
Eight jurors have been selected in eight days of questioning 94 veniremen. Three were seated yesterday. The sudden speed-up prompted Brown and Ruby's chief lawyer to predict that jury selection would end by tomorrow night, at the latest.
"Maybe we'll even get one today," said the judge. "We're going along pretty well."
IF THE JURY is picked by Friday, the judge plans to recess his
Wilson Plans Visit to US
LONDON, — (UPI)—Labor Party leader Harold Wilson, the 47-year old former professor who may be Prime Minister before the year is out, leaves today for visits to Canada and the United States.
Wilson's advisers expect his talks in Washington to establish solid relations with the Johnson administration, with which he will be dealing if he defeats Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home in general elections to be held this year.
DOUGLAS-HOME conferred with the President earlier this month.
Public opinion polls have shown Labor leading Douglas-Home's conservatives for some months, but the conservatives still maintain a comfortable margin in Parliament. A Labor censure motion against the government, charging inadequate defense policies, was expected to go down in defeat at the close of two days of debate tonight.
Labor called again yesterday for an end to Britain's nuclear deterrent. Defence minister Peter Thorneycroft stressed the government's intention to retain it. He rejected Labor demands for reliance on conventional forces. Any large-scale conventional war, he said, would soon result into a nuclear conflict.
Wilson believes the Johnson administration shares his view that Britain should abandon its costly nuclear force and rely on the United States for deterrent power.
BUT ONE AREA of sharp disagreement will be on British policy toward Cuba. On this policy, Wilson and Douglas-Home are in agreement.
Wilson expressed his support for this view after the Douglas-Home-Johnson meetings.
Aside from the Cuba issue, Labor party sources believe Wilson and Johnson have a good basis for understanding.
No special list of topics has been arranged for the talks, but it is believed they will range over world problems in general and U.S.-British relations in specific.
Wilson also hopes to return with a general "feel" of U.S. policies after the death of President Kennedy. He saw the late President last year after succeeding to the Labor leadership upon the death of Huth Gaitskell.
Wilson will spend two days in Canada, then go by train to Washington on Saturday. He will meet with the President monday, and also has meetings scheduled with Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and Secretary of State Dean Rusk
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Criminal District Court no. 3 over the weekend 'to let everybody get a good rest."
That would apply to everybody evept the sick-looking Ruby, the sunken-eyed little defendant whose condition seems to be deteriorating daily. He doesn't look as though he ever rested, or slept. His physical appearance has worsened markedly since the first hearing in this case, in December.
His mental condition, according to Chief Defense Attorney Melvin Belli, has sunken to where it needs immediate attention. This, of course, is Belli talking. The press has not talked with Ruby, nor heard him talk. He is escorted in and out of court by four guards, and the corridor is cleared when he arrives or leaves on the elevator. The jail is upstairs.
"TM BRINGING one of my psychiatrists down here as fast as I can to look at Jack," Belli said. However, he said the defendant was not incoherent in the formation of his sentences—just fidgety to the point of distraction, unmindful of current events, and worried about a number of things.
The man does look bad, though. Viewed in right profile, he seems to have a large sore rising on his cheekbone. The ballfires near him say there is no sore—the bulge is the cheekbone itself. His eyes are cavernously hollowed.
"Jack's having problems." The defense claims he is the victim of a recurring psycho-motor epilepsy, a disease of the brain that can blank him from time to time.
Yesterday, during another defense attorney's questioning of the next-to-last venireman of the day, Belli spent half an hour sitting beside Ruby and conversing, because
THE JURORS sleep in a 10-by-12 foot bedroom of the jury quarters of the Criminal Courts and Jail Building. They are locked up at night in the quarters and sequestered during court sessions in the deliberations rooms just above the courtroom.
Two of the first eight are women. The second of these, picked just after noon yesterday, told Belli that "Perry Mason is one of my favorites" among television shows but promised she would not bring into the courtroom any notions she had seen advanced on that or any other show.
Juror no. 8, picked late in the afternoon, was J. G. Holton Jr., 31. a mail carrier in suburban Grand Prairie, Tex. He said he was in the Police Reserve of that town but said he had done no duty relating to the assassination of President Kennedy on Friday Nov. 22 or the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald on Nov. 24.
"I SPENT the whole weekend fishing," he said.
Defense attorney Philip Burleson whispered a long conference with Ruby before accepting Holton. The defendant rubbed and kneaded his hands together almost frantically during the talk, pressing thumbs into the backs of his hands. Finally, Burleson asked the venireman a final question, eliciting that he never had talked with the District Attorney's investigators.
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