St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 7

Charges U.S. Agents Are Spying on His Attorneys the poor attendance to local union officers. Hoffa received polite applause when he was introduced and when he completed his 35-minute off-the-cuff speech. He was not interrupted by applause. He received a warmer reception three weeks ago when he addressed a Chattanooga business and professional men's club.

Taking note of the small turnout, Hoffa said it was unfortunate that union members had something better to do on a Sunday afternoon and preferred to keep social engagements or watch television. He said that if antilabor bills pending in Congress are passed, "our members would be beating down the doors to get in, but it would be too late." He said he was willing, however, to speak to groups of five, 40 or 500 persons "because you can get the word 1 back." Chattanooga is a Teamsters stronghold. Local 515's territory extends to northern Georgia, northern Alabama and western Tennessee, "I've had experiences in the courts since I was 16 years old," Hoffa said, "but I've never seen anything like Nashville and Chattanooga. Marshals and FBI men are here by the hundreds." The fourth week of the jurytampering trial of Hoffa and five codefendants opened today in United States District Court. The six men are charged with jurytampering in Hoffa's 1962 trial at Nashvilie.

He was charged in the Nashville case with receiving illegal kickbacks from a Detroit trucking company. The case was declared a mistrial when the jury deadlocked, seven to five. United States District Judge Frank Wilson put off today a special hearing to which the defense summoned Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover. The defense sought the hearing in connection with the charges that Government agents are spying on Hoffa.

"These matters relate primarily to grounds that might or might not constitute a basis for a new trial," Judge Wilson said. "It would not be appropriate to interrupt the trial to hold a hearing at this time." The judge said he will permit a hearing on the issue if the defense still wants it after the case goes to jury. Hoffa said the Government had retained a criminal lawyer who was "sent here to get a conviction by hook or crook." His references was to John J. Hooker of Nashville, known in St. Louis for having defended T.

Lamar Caudle in 1957. Caudle, head of the Department of Justice's tax division in the Truman Administration, was sentenced to two years in prison and fined $2500 when a jury found him guilty of a conspiracy to defraud the Government in an income tax case. Hoffa asserted that the United States was rapidly becoming a police state. He said 17,000,000 Americans go, to bed hungry every night and Congress is indifferent to their plight because it is controlled by employers. "It costs $500,000 to be elected to Congress.

and $5000 to $10,000 to be elected to a state legislature," he said. By KENNETH JACOBSON immediately complained about A Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch CHATTANOOGA, Feb. 10 Teamsters Union president James R. Hoffa accused federal agents yesterday of stealing union records, spying on his attorneys and using paid stool pigeons to get a court conviction against him at any price. Hoffa spoke at what had been billed as a mass rally in his honor.

The union rented this city's largest theater for the occasion and notified the 1700 members of Chattanooga Local 515 and their wives that they were "invited and expected to attend." By Hoffa's own estimate, few. er than 200 persons showed up. He admonished his audience for its indifference. The Tivoli Theater, where he spoke, seats 1788 persons. Hoffa received no applause when he entered the theater.

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Martin, representative of the organization, said that the board would be asked to include the plan in its legislative program to be recommended to the Missouri General Assembly, Martin said that the average cost per student in Missouri public schools is $550. He said that his organization's plan would save the state $400 on each student transferred to independent school. He said that it would also ease the load on "parents who want their children to receive a religious education which is impossible today in the public schools." MRS. THOMAS G. RATCLIFFE MEMORIAL SERVICES FEB.

23 Memorial services for Mrs. Thomas G. Ratcliffe, St. Louis civic leader, will be Feb. 23 at 3 p.m.

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