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Three Score and Ten in Retrospect
were allowed to bring their pleas before the Enemy Alien Hearing Board, which met in Salt Lake City for the Utah-Nevada-Idaho District, and at Bismarck, North Dakota, for the Northern Plains District. John was involved with these cases as part of his duties as Assistant US. Attorney. His duties frequently required his presence at the hearings in North Dakota. Cases would also arise periodically concerning deserters and draft evaders. This was World War I1 period. One case involved three brothers of the Uintah Basin area "who hid out fourteen months on wild mountain slopes of a 5,000 square mile area in northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado near notorious Brown's Hole, outlaw lair for nearly a century." To surrender, the trio made contact with Mr. Dillman, attorney, who called John and arranged for them to turn themselves in at his office in Salt Lake City. Orpha recalls: We were all busy during the war years. John as Assistant U.S. Attorney sewed on the enemy alien hearing board; he made numerous trips to Bismarck, North Dakota, where cases involving the German people were heard; hearings for the Japanese were heard in Missoula, Montana and Salt Lake. His assignment from the U.S. Attorney was the enforcement of General DeWitt's orders on the handling of enemy aliens. He said there were so many orders to be learned that he delayed resigning from the U.S. Attorney's office to enter private practice so that some other poor soul wouldn't have to learn them all. Orpha also went to work at the U.S. Engineer's office (Office of the Attorney) and stayed for several months because of the great shortage of help. She recalls another wartime effort as follows: Later in the war years John and I used to spend a night a week at the U S 0 making sandwiches and doing other menial tasks. We always brought home a service man or two each week, and we had some interesting times - Private Sawyer (who never passed the food on); another young man who always sang "Sentimental Journey," and seemed happy in spite
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| Title | John S. Boyden: three score and ten in retrospect |
| Creator | Boyden, Orpha Amanda Sweeten |
| Subject | Boyden, John Sterling, 1906-1980; Democratic Party -- Utah; Coalville (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Life story of John S. Boyden, including his experiences in Coalville, Utah, law practice, participation in the Utah Democratic Party, family life, church involvement, and advocacy for Indians. |
| Source | Boyden |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1986 |
| Type | text |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Publisher | Southern Utah State College Press |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/boyden.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1144.cpd |
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