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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEPFORD. OREGON WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 29. 1962 The Hoffg Story-Ill Hoffa Stumbles Info FBI Trap; Wins Case With Work of Clever Attorney Editor's note: Thit it the i charge of bribing a lawyer to third 01 live dispatches on the life and times of Jimmy Hpffa. By HARRY FERGUSON Washington - (UPli - Jimmy Hpffa is 49 years old and the graph of his career for the last 30 of them looks like the rising and dipping of a roller coaster. It hit bottom on the nifiht of March 13, 1957, when hi walked into the lobby of thfe DuPont Plaza Hotel and found himself surrounded by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. They arrested him on a spy on the Senate rackets committee and steal docum ments from its files. The cloak and dagger story that unfold ed probably would be reject ed by the script writers for the Perry Mason show as be ing too implausible. At the time Hoffa was ninth vice president of the Interna tional Brotherhood of Team sters, Chauffeurs, Warehouse men and Helpers of America, the world's biggest union. Dave Beck, the president, had I been discredited by the Sen ate rackets committee, was on the way out and eventually went to prison for income tax evasion. Hoffa was the crown prince, and the path of his future seemed a rosy one, strewn with the blossoms of prominence and power. Chang Is Sudden In "ne sweep Robert F. Kennedy, the young and eager counsel of the Senate rackets committee, changed all that. One day Kennedy received a caller who identified himself as Jotn Cye Cheasty, a New York lawyer. His story was that Hoffa had offered him I $18,000 if he could get a job on the legal staff of the rack- documents to Hoffa outside ran r 0 is .-- rfTi mfiijTVBn,M, 1 1: I ets committee and act as a spv for the Teamsters' Un ion Kennedy consulted the FBI and it was suggested to Cheasty that he become a double agent. He accepted. When the case came to trial in federal district court, Cheasty told this story: On the night of March 12 he took some documents prepared for him by the FBI and. in a taxi cab driven by an FBI agent, picked Hoffa up at his hotel. He gave Hoffa the documents, but told him he would have to get them back later that night. Hoffa gave him some money, and a few hours later thore was another meeting at which the documents were re turned to Cheasty. The next night Cheasty de livered another envelope of ubthf ittfmpt CHARGED Jimmy Hoffa. Iils career rising and dipping like a roller coaster, was arrested on Miirch 13, 1957, on charges of trying to bribe a lawyer to nn the Senate rackets committee. He was ably defended by attorney Edward Bennett Williams, shown at left with him, and acquitted. (UPI) Recordings of Ant Sounds Presented at Conference Corvallis-Ants make sounds , ants have stridulatory organs which are clearly audible to hdmans, and appear to use them for communication, a Rutgers university zoologist reported yesterday. Helen Forrest, in a research report to the American So ciety of Zoologists meeting at Oregon State university, pro duced recordings of ant sounds, and displayed visual patterns taken from oscil loscope reproduction of the recorded sounds. The report, believed to be one of the first scientific dis cissions of ant communication by, sound, was given at a ses sion devoted to animal be havior and socio biology. Stjidies of animil behavior are basic to understanding of many human patterns of phy sical and mental activity. Sounds Recorded liss Forrest said ant be havior indicating that some type of short-distance com munication operated between artls prompted the study. Sounds made by 25 ant species and varieties have bin recorded since the re search began. Miss Forrest said ant noises are made by snapping leg jojnls, scraping feet, rapping with mandibles, and by stridu latory organs.. It has long been known that but these have been believed incapable of producing sound or serving for communication, with rare exceptions, Miss Forrest said. She found that almost all sound components of the stimulations apparently are within the range of audibility by humans. Miss Forrest found that al though the sound - producing organs are very similar in all species studied, the "songs'' each produced are "quite dif ferent, and may be distinctive for each species." Male and female ants often have louder, deeper "voices" than sexless worker ants, and are especially sensitive to vibrations, Miss Forrest added. Jackie Receives Personal Tribute Ravello, Italy - fUPli - Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, fresh from a personal triumph in which Ravello made her an honorary citizen, left nearby Amalfi by boat today for a brief visit to the fabled Isle of Capri. With her were her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill, French photographer Gilbert Graziani and his wife, and Italian fashion designer Prin cess Irene Galitzine. Caroline Kennedy, 4, stayed behind. The group was expected to stay at Princess Galitzine's Capri villa and to return to Ravello by this evening. Tuesday night, firecrackers replaced a 21-gun salute and the village band played "The Marine Hymn'' instead of "The Star Spangled Banner" as Ravello got its point across in a special fiesta that it thought Mrs. Kennedy was wonderful. the DuPont Plaza Hotel. Hoffa put them in his pocket and strolled into the lobby and in to the arms of the FBI. Bobby Kennedy went to the federal courthouse where Hoffa was formally charged, and Jimmy had this to say to him: "Lis ten, Bobby, you run your bus iness and I'll run mine. You go on home and go to bed. Let's don't have no prob lems." Appears Air-Tight If ever there was an air tight legal case, this one ap peared to be it. The prosecu tion had a photograph, taken by the FBI. of Cheasty hand ling an envelope to Hoffa. It also had about $700 of marked money which Cheay testi fied Hoffa had handed to him. Kennedy and the lcderal prosecutors were confident they had Hoffa on the ropes, and Bobby even said: "if Hof fa isn't convicted, I'll jump off the Capitol dome." Hoffa frequently is at his best when the going is rough est and he knew he was on the spot. He doesn't have a high regard for lawyers, particular ly the kind he calls "book lawyers," but he set out to get the best one available. He found his man in Edward Ben nett Williams, a criminal at torney who has developed into an advocate who takes the im probable in his stride and oc casionally achieves the impos sible. His defense of Hoffa was Williams' finest hour. At the end of it he had ceased to be a local lawyer and had become a national figure. Eight of the 12 members of the jury were Negroes. Early in the trial Joe Louis, former heavyweight champion, strolled in and took a seat. When the court recessed, Lou is was asked what he was do ing here, and replied: "I just came to see how my friend Jimmy Hoffa is getting along." Williams denies that he plant ed Louis in the courtroom, but in any event the prosecution attempted to counter-attack by having a Negro lawyer sit at its table throughout the trial. Williams centered his at tack on Cheasty's credibility as a witness and gave him a rough cross-examination. When it came time to deliver his summation, he returned to the attack in the quiet but intense tone of voice that is his best weapon: "The Ninth Commandment in the Bible is that thou shalt not bear false witness. From this man's lips we learn that he lies. From this man's lips we learn that he deceives. From this man's lips we learn that he falsifies." Two of the women Jurors wept. A prominent attorney who heard Williams' summa tion predicted that law stu dents some day would make special trips to Washington to see the man in action. The jury stayed out for three hours and 45 minutes and came back with a verdict of not guilty. The jurors, who were interviewed later, said the presence of Joe Louis had not been a determining factor in the verdict. All of them agreed that the decisive thing was their doubt about the credibility of Cheasty's testi mony. Hoffa made this brief state ment. "Ed Williams is tops." I and then threw all of his en-; ergy into the next project. The Teamsters were shortly to hold an election for president and Jimmy had some definite ideas about who the man should be. As for Williams, he offered to stand the expense of a par achute for Bobby Kennedy s jump off the Capitol dome. Next: prise. Hoffa grabs th big DENTAL PLATE SERVICE Cracked or broken dentures repaired. Missing teeth re placed. 29 YEARS EXPERIENCE Cleaning and Polishing QUALITY DENTAL LAB 220 S. Central 772-6013 Rabid Bat Bites Three Children Lawrenceburg, Tenn. (UPlt A rabid bat bit three children in the yard of the Ethridge Elementary school but anti rabies serum was administer ed in time to counteract the disease, it was learned Tues day. Officials said the incident ocurred last week after the children found the bat in a tree. W. F. Drake, sanitarian at the Lawrence County Health department, sent the bat to Nashville, Tenn., where tests showed that it was rabid. Washi.iK'on About one third of all Americans over the age of 65 receive some from of social security payments. Veteran Newsman Dies in New York New York - fllPH - Burnett Olcott (Bo) McAnney. 70, vice president of the New York World-Telegram and Sun. died at Beth Israel hospital Tues day night of a heart attack. McAnncy's newspaper ca reer spanned nearly a half century. Born in North Tarry town. N.Y., the son of a minis ter, he graduated from the Columbia School of Journal ism in 1914 and went to work for the New York Tribune. He served as a Marine ser geant in World War I, then returned to the Tribune to AVashinglon - t'PH - Oregon I work as reporter, rewrite Democratic Sens. Wayne i man and assistant city ccmor Morse and Maurine Neubcrger voted Tuesday in favor of striking a seven per cent in vestment lax credit for busi ness and industry out of the Kennedy administration's tax reform bill. 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