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Griffin Daily News
‘Boys downtown’
draw sentences
By JOHN NEEDHAM
NEWARK, N.J. (UPI)-U.S.
District Court Judge Robert
Shaw leaned forward on his
desk, looked down on seven
Jersey City and Hudson County
politicians he was sentencing
for extortion convictions and
said:
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it is a sad state of affairs
when in our system of
government, the average citizen
is struggling to make a living,
is struggling to send his
children to school and money is
going into the pockets of
avaricious politicians.”
Before him were the defen
dants, “The Boys Downtown,”
as he called them, including
former Jersey City Mayor
Thomas J. Whelan, former City
Council President Thomas M.
Flaherty and former City
Purchasing Agent Bernard G.
Murphy.
He sentenced those three
Tuesday to 15 years in prison,
the other four to terms ranging
from six months to 10 years,
for their convictions July 5 of
extorting $168,000 and conspir
ing to extort $3.3 million from
contractors and suppliers doing
business with the city.
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in these times we have the
unrest that exists in the cities,
which I find understandable in
light of the testimony,” Shaw
said. “It's a shameful situation
where a city is up against a
wall for funds and on a S4O
million contract Mr. Murphy
says to add 7 per cent for the
boys downtown.”
Two former “political insi
ders,” who were the govern
ment’s star witnesses during
the trial, testified that corrup
tion was “away of life” in
Jersey City and each contractor
wanting to do business with the
city had to shell out “10 per
cent for the boys downtown.”
“It really taxes the imagina-
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Wednesday, August 11,1971
bon as to how much money
seeped out by corrupt practices
over even 10 years,” Shaw said
as the defendants listened
impassively.
The government has charged
longtime Hudson County politi
cal boss John V. Kenny, 77,
with masterminding the extor
tion scheme. But he has not beer
brought to trial because of ill
health.
U.S. Attorney Herbert J.
Stern, who helped wig the
extortion-conspiracy con
victions against former Newark
Mayor Hugh J. Addonizio 13
months ago, said Kenny will be
tried when a government doctor
gives the okay.
Ex-film
censor
is dead
ATLANTA (UPI) - Mrs.
Christine Smith Gilliam, who
sat through more than 5,000
movies as Atlanta’s official film
censor before her office was a
bolished, died Tuesday in a pri
vate hospital.
A native of Ruskin, Tenn.,
and a former teacher, she
served as the city’s conscience
for movie-goers from 1945 until
her retirement in 1964 with the
statement that court decisions
on obscenity made her office
useless.
Mrs. Gilliam’s 1960 ban on
the film “Never on Sunday” as
“harmful to children” stirred
up a controversy that ultimately
led to the demise of her office.
A superior court judge ruled
a year later the movie was not
obscene, a decision which was
overturned. However, the Geor
gia Supreme Court held in 1962
Atlanta’s censorship ordinance
violated the state constitution.
When Barry
defended LBJ
By GEORGE J. MARDER
WASHINGTON (UPI) -If Barry
Goldwater hasn’t forgotten, he certainly
has forgiven.
Goldwater stood up in the Senate the
other day to defend Lyndon Johnson
against charges of misleading Congress
and the American people in the war in
Vietnam.
It was a moment of drama seldom seen
outside the theater.
There was a man who had hoped to be
president, defending the man who had
snuffed out those hopes —defending him on
the issue which dominated the 1964
election campaign.
There was no trace of bitterness on
Goldwater’s part over Johnson’s
campaign portrayal of himself as the
champion of peace determined not to send
Americans to die in Asian wars, while
picturing Goldwater as an emotional
figure anxious to get an itchy trigger
finger on the nuclear bomb.
The occasion for Goldwater’s speech
was the conclusion of hearings by the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee on a
proposal to limit war powers of presidents
in the future. The committee plans to draft
a bill to define more clearly the
constitutional roles of Congress and the
president in events which involve the
United States in war.
At the heart of the issue is a proposal to
bar the president from sending Americans
to fight in any undeclared war.
Goldwater tore into the proposal in what
he characterized as the “myth” that “the
executive has led this nation blindfolded
and solely on his own authority into an
everwidening expansion of the Vietnam
Poker-faced Marine
in cowardice trial
By THOMAS G. BELDEN
QUANTICO, Va. (UPI)-
Marine Sgt. John M. Sweeney
has been attentive but poker
faced during five days of court
martial testimony regarding his
alleged cowardice in Vietnam.
He was to testify today to
answer the charges.
A slender, palled youth with
dark cropped hair, Sweeney is
accused of violating the Uni
form Code of Military Justice
by “running away in the
presence of the enemy” in
February, 1969, and later
“communicating with the ene
my” by making statements
disloyal to the government. He
could receive life imprisonment
on the latter charge, stemming
from broadcasts he is alleged
to have made urging American
servicemen in Vietnam to resist
the war and to desert if
possible.
A third charge, of desertion,
conflict”
Presidents from Eisenhower to Johnson
have kept the Congress and the nation fully
informed on what was going on, Goldwater
insisted.
“It would be a malicious falsehood,” he
told the Senate, “to use the tragedy of
Vietnam as the fulcrum of a war against
the executive by a Congress which was
wholly involved in the policies it now
questions.”
Goldwater traced the history of U.S.
involvement from the Southeast Asia
Treaty Organization (SEATO) treaty
down through the Tonkin Gulf resolution.
He quoted from the Senate record to
show that senators were made aware that
the SEATO treaty could get the United
States involved in a war against
Communism, with Vietnam mentioned
particularly.
Goldwater also quoted Sen. J. William
Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee and a leading
supporter of the bill to restrict presidential
war powers, to show that members of
Congress understood they were giving the
president shooting war powers in
approving the Gulf of Tonkin resolution.
Goldwater cited 24 laws which
authorized and appropriated money for
the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
Passed over by Goldwater in his
forgiveness speech was 1964 campaign
rhetoric by the Republican party accusing
Johnson of “concealing the extent of the
U.S. involvement” in Vietnam.
Also not mentioned was Goldwater’s
own observation then: “The United States
is in an undeclared war in Vietnam and it
is high time the president tells the people
we are, and what he plans to do about it”
was dismissed Monday by the
trial judge, Navy Capt. B.
Raymond Perkins, who said the
government had failed to prove
Sweeney “quit his organiza
tion.”
Key testimony Tuesday came
from psychiatrists and con
cerned the West Babylon, N.Y.,
Marine’s ability to “adhere to
the right” during the period he
is accused of the violations.
Dr. Felix Shatan of New York
City testified that, in his
opinion, Sweeney was unable to
stand up to threats made by his
captors. Shatan said when the
captors held a gun to Sweeney’s
head and told him to make a
statement, he was “absolutely”
unable to do otherwise.
Shatan was one of three
psychiatrists who testified on
behalf of Sweeney Tuesday. The
others were Dr. Peter Bourne
of Atlanta and Capt. Kenneth
R. Locke of Ft. Belvoir, Va.
AU concurred Sweeney was
unable to “adhere to the right,”
or do the correct thing, just
before and during his captivity
because he was suffering from
severe emotional stress.
Bourne, who has treated
many Vietnam veterans and
who spent a year in the war
zone as an Army psychiatrist,
said he believed Sweeney was
unable to form a plan to
intentionally run away from the
enemy.
Locke said he believed
Sweeney “was convinced he
was right” when he allegedly
made statements urging Ameri
can servicemen to desert.
“It’s my opinion John was
suffering from a severe psycho
sis at the time of his
imprisonment by the North
Black
may run
next year
DETROIT (UPI) -Rep. John
Conyers Jr., D-Mich., says a
black presidential candidate
may be entered in six of next
year’s primary faces —with the
possibility of a white female as
his vice presidential running
mate.
“Whites who recognize the
predicament this country is in,
and want to come out ahead,
will join us,” Conyers, a black,
told UPI in an interview. “Then
possibly a white woman will be
nominated to run for vice
president.”
Vietnamese,” said Locke.
“John’s judgment was close to
zero.”
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St. Simons Island, Ga. - Mrs. Jerry D. Peters of Brunswick, South Georgia Director of the
American Cancer Society, takes aim on the Sea Palms - Waiter Hagen Invitational Pro-Am Golf
Tournament set for Friday, Aug. 13, at the moss-strewn St. Simons Island golf club and resort
community. Holding the target are other members of the tournament committee, (L-R) M. Al
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H.D. “Dusty” Dowdy, Brunswick Pulp & Paper Co. executive and a director of the Glynn County
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corporation contributions going to the American Cancer Society. Graves said the event has golf
pros coming in from all over the state to accustom their game to the water-laden Sea Palms layout
in preparation for the 1971 Georgia Open to be held there later in October. The $20,000 Open
will pit Georgia’s top touring players and club golf professionals for what will be this year the third
highest purse for a PGA sectional open in the nation. (PRN)