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Miller: opponents were saying they had the endorsement of 



these two men and I just laughed and didn't say much 

 about it, and then a bombshell struck. I took a 

 photostatic copy and threw them into the press all 

 over the county and here was the endorsement written 

 the night after the primary election. So it bounced 

 on the incumbent and I was elected by a tremendous 

 vote. 



Baum: This means that all the people who had voted for the 

 other candidates — 



Milleri Voted for me, yes. I later hired those two men — 

 their names were Ralph Harrison, and he stayed with 

 me until he died, and the other man was Joe Longo, 

 and he stayed with me until he became a judge in 

 Hodeo. 



Baum: Getting back to the 1934 trouble then, in the apri- 

 cot district. I read about this corralling of the 

 agitators. 



Miller: Yes. I just never did know how many, but quite a 



large group were temporarily detained. This proba- 

 bly was the easiest way, because they had no fast 

 means of communications, to detain them until such 





