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Garrison Moves
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NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) -
Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison moved
on two fronts today to get wit-
nesses he wants in his John F.
Kennedy assassination conspir-
acy probe.
The district attorney's office
issued a warrant Monday for
the arrest of Lilly Mae Mc-
Maines, 22, Omaha, Neb. as a
material witness.
The U.S. attorney's office was
asked by Garrison to issue an
unlawful flight order against
Gordon Novel, 29, former owner
of a French Quarter bar who
disappeared last week before he
was to have appeared before the
Orleans Parish grand jury.
  
IF U.S. ATTY. Louis LaCour
honors Garrison's request, it
would bring the FBI into the
search for Novel. 4
Some federal authorities are
known to look upon Garrison's
investigation with a cold eye.
The Warren Commission,
named by President Johnson to
investigate the assassination of
President Kennedy in Dallas,
Tex., Nov. 22, 1963, concluded
that New Orleans-bom Lee Har-
vey Oswald was the assassin
and acted alone.
Garrison's office issued a
warrant last week' for Novel's
arrest and asked that he be
placed under $50,000 bond.
ment of the late David W. Fer-
rie in mid-September 1963.
After this party, Russo testi-
fied two weeks ago, he heard
Ferrie, Oswald and Clay L.
Shaw conspire to kill. President
Kennedy.
Shaw, 54, a retired New Or-
leans business executive, has
been indicted by th\e grand jury
on a charge of conspiring to
murder Kennedy.
Mrs. McMaines, married to
part-time Omaha minister Har-
old McMaines, 48, told newsmen
last week she did not attend the
party but said she had known
Russo.
Criminal Dist. Judge Edward
A. Haggerty Jr., who will con-
duct Shaw's trial, signed the
warrant for Mrs. McMaines as
a material witness and set bond
at $5,000. • v
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PERRY R. RUSSO, 25, a Ba-
ton Rouge insurance salesman,
said Mrs. McMaines, then known
| as Sandra Moffett, was one of
several persons attending a par-
ty in the New Orleans apart-
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