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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday. Feb. 4, 1964
Hoffa Case Witness Cites Bribe Attempt
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Feb. 3—(UPI)—a state trooper testified today that he tried to protect one of James Hoffa's co-defendants because he was afraid he "might wind up floating down the river."
Trooper James Paschal said under cross-examination that he lied twice to federal investigators when asked if an illegal jury tampering approach was made by Ewing King, former Nashville Teamsters official.
King, Hoffa and four other persons are on trial charged with attempts to bribe and influence jurors in Hoffa's 1962 Nashville trial on conspiracy charges.
Paschal testified yesterday that King approached him in the fall of 1962 and offered him a promotion if he would "talk to" his wife, a member of the jury in the Hoffa case.
Defense lawyers Harold Brown and James Haggerty, in challenging Paschal's testimony, asked the witness why he did not report the alleged jury tampering attempt.
"I didn't make a report, but I should have—I'm telling the truth (now)."
"I HAD heard they (teamsters) were a rough bunch," Pasal replied. "I was afraid I might wind up floating down the river with a log chain tied around me.
Paschal also said he was warned before meeting with King that a jury tampering attempt was likely. He said W.E. Hopton, head of the Tennessee Bureau of Criminal Identification, told him "I probably might be approached."
Paschal said, however, that it was not until the third time he was questioned by federal investigators that he told them a jury tampering attempt had been made.
BEFORE CROSS- examination gou
underway, the trial judge rejected charges that another government witness had perjured himself while testifying last week.
U. S. Dictrict Court Judge, Frank Wilson, ruled the charge "without merit" and refused to dismiss indictments charging Hoffa and five others with jury tampering.
The motion for dismissal was filed yesterday. It also alleged that the government was illegally tapping phone conversations of defense lawyers and defendants. Wilson also rejected this charge.
Hoffa and his co-defendants are charged with attempts to bribe and influence jurors in Hoffa's 1962 conspiracy trial in Nashville, Tenn. The conspiracy case ended in a mistrial.
In the conspiracy case, Hoffa was charged with sharing an alleged $1 million kickback from a trucking firm. Two jurors and a prospective juror were discharged from the panel before the mistrial was declared.
HOFFA COULD be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison if convicted of the jury tampering charges. He also is scheduled to face trial April 27 in Chicago on charges of misusing teamsters pension funds.
The motion to dismiss the jury tampering indictments was filed by Hoffa's local attorney, Harry Berke. Berke charged prosecution witness James Walker with perjury.
Walker, a Nashville Negro policeman, testified last week that he helped arrange a meeting between Thomas Parks of Nashville and Carl Fields, son of a juror in the 1962 conspiracy case.
Berkie said Walker committed perjury when he also testified that he had not discussed the case with others.
Warning, Women on Man-Path Leap Year Upsets Mating Moves
By Carol Lathrop Knupp
During the year 1964, women will assume the masculine role and propose to men.
Just who declared this marital hunting season? Well, it's difficult to say.
That sounds like a strange, unreal situation, but it won't be. For in the remaining months of this year, all women have open proposing season on all eligible bachelors. Leap year is here again.
IN 46 B.C., astronomers of Julius Caesar set the solar year at 365 days and six hours. Those hours at the end of four years made a day which was added to the fourth year.
There is no satisfactory explanation, at least to men, of the custom for women to woo during a leap year. However, it first became a law as early as 1288 during the reign of Margaret, Maid of Norway, who was Scotland's absentee queen.
It was proclaimed throughout Scotland that—“It is statut and ordaint that during the reen of hir maist blissit Megeste, for ilk yeare knowne as lepe yeare,肌 mayden ladye of bothhe highe and lowe estait shall hae liberte to bespeke ye man she likes, albeit he refuses to taik hir to be his lawful wyfe, he shall be muleted in ye sum an pundis or less, as his estalt may be; except and awis gif he can make it appear that he is betrothit an either woman he then shall be free.”
THE LAW soon spread to France, and in the 15th century the custom was legalized in Genoa and Florence.
Even as late as 1860, proclamations were still being made.
Queen Victoria of England issued a proclamation to the effect that during the 1860 leap year, the maidens of the land "may select their better halves from these her Rifle Corps." Any rifleman still single after a given date was to be considered persona non grata with the queen.
THE REASON given for such a proclamation was Her Majesty's Rifle Corps' poor marksmanship—an obscure basis at best for enforcing marriage.
American men have nothing over the Russian men who call leap year, visokosnyi. Under or communism's equalitarian principles, as one Russian official has dryly commented, "Russian women can propose any year."
Today, if an American man refuses a woman's proposal, he must buy her a box of chocolate. So, either way, womanhood will win in 1964.
Peking Premier Looks to Africa
MOGADISHU, Somalia, — (UPI)—Commist Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai wound up a two-month goodwill tour of Africa today, convinced the continent is ripe for revolution.
"Revolutionary prospects are excellent in the whole African continent."
Chou was flying home to Peking via Pakistan, Ceylon and Burma.
Chou undertook the trip as part of Red China's drive to become a world leader. He sought African support for Peking's brand of communism and increased economic deals.
He added that his trip had "greatly reinforced the comradeship in arms between the Chinese and African peoples."
While Chou has been in Africa, his country received a big boost through its recognition by France. Establishment of Diplomatic relations between the two countries opened the way for ending Peking's isolation and increasing Chinese influence in Southeast Asia.
Referring to his visits to 11 African countries, Chou told an audience in the sports stadium last night:
Tunisia also recognized Red China and Ethiopia hinted broadly it intended to do so. All the African countries visited by Chou said they planned to support Peking's bid for a seat in the United Nations.
'Corn Is Green' Starts Tomorrow
Chou had to cut his trip short by two weeks because of troubles in East Africa. Tanganyika, Kenya and Uganda, former British Colonies, were hit by military mutinies and Zanzibar's government was toppled in a revolt by left-learning elements.
"The Corn is Green," a play by Emlyn Williams, will be presented in the University Theatre tomorrow through Saturday.
Performances will begin at 8:15 p.m. in Murphy Hall.
The play concerns Williams' youth in Wales. As a young Welsh coal miner he is tutored for two years by a schoolteacher who sees great promise in him. He applies for a scholarship at Oxford University. The final scenes are concerned with waiting for the results of the scholarship examinations and "a little stranger."
Members of the cast include:
Sylvia Groth, Mayville, N.D., graduate student; Patrick M. Prosser,
Lawrence graduate student; Jo Anne Smith, Wellington junior; Thomas Behm, Wheeling, Ill., graduate student;
Becky Davis, Prairie Village sophomore; Diane Gray, Kansas City, Mo., senior; Robin Huggins, Olathe freshman; Dennis Dalen, Lawrence, graduate student; Leland Morris, Yates Center freshman; Larry Slefkes, Great Bend senior; Richard Laber, Shawnee Mission freshman; David Jewell, Bird City senior; Berit Bakken, Bergen, Norway, special student; Annora Bryant Piper sophomore; William Gillespie, Paul Feaker, and Hermione Harris, children from Lawrence; John Weidner and Mark Weidner, children from Lawrence, and their mother, Mrs. Frances Weidner.
Tickets are available at the University Theatre box office in Murphy Hall for $2.40, $1.80, $1.20, or the presentation of a KU-ID.
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