THE EVENING STAR A-3 7967 'OLD SHELL GAME' CHARGED Washington, D. C., Saturday, May 13, Garrison Says 'Code' Links Oswald, Shaw, Ruby numbers, Garrison explained, NEW ORLEANS (AP)— ness associate Shaw met in 1965, and the "PO Box 19106" the letters "PO" become the Attorneys for Clay L. Shaw, digit 13. The only exchange of conspiracy in the vt3hFn.4wto referred to Odom's business accused Dallas. The defense which the number 13 converts assassination of President address in O .;2" attorneys viewed the similari- to in Dallas, he said, is WHite- John F. Kennedy, say that hall. Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison is a vy.Y0- ty in numbers as a conci- .34e-9 Aet0.44,4 dence, and not a clue. The post office box number playing "the old shell game" found in the Shaw and Oswald in sifting clues. XS~re20- Awaiting Trial address books, 19106, when The attorneys, F. Irvin But Garrison said that unscrambled, becomes 16901, Dymond and Edward Weg- Ito( number was not an address, Garrison said. By subtracting mann, also complained yester- t • Os .• Xpitiob that there was no such post 1300 from 1-16901, he added, day that Garrison had not office box in Dallas, and that the result is 1-5601. filed a copy of his pleadings e • I it actually was Ruby's tele- Garrison said Ruby's unpub- with them, and "all that we efc--7/4 phone number disguised. lished telephone number at know is what we read in the . • Garrison said that with Dallas in 1963 was WHitehall newspapers." , eu.,,de• 1-5601. Garrison claims Shaw, the Al• fmrgt many five digit numbers found late David W. Ferrie and Lee . in Oswald's notebook, the The district attorney said Harvey Oswald, who was shot 70„, nfivi azocia; order of the letters A B C D E Oswald used two standard is transposed, for the purpose to death by Jack Ruby two / P% ko,vorN4,4 ova numbers in coding numbers in 11 A E B D C. days after Kennedy was of coding, to his address book. These a reverse and 4900, killed, conspired to assassi- —Associated Press Garrison said numbers were 1300 nate the President. process is used in unscram- he said. This is a portion of Lee Harvey Oswald's bling. Shaw, retired New Orleans Called Strong Clue notebook published by the Warren Commis- Telephone Dial businessman, is awaiting trial sion. New Orleans Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison The district attorney yester- Referring to the prefix on the conspiracy indictment. day told Criminal District interprets the notations indicated by the telephone exchange letters, He has pleaded not guilty. His Court his office had decipher- arrow as PO 19106. Garrison said: lawyers said yesterday Garri- ed a code which he said was "Oswald invariably uses the son had told the newspapers used by Oswald and Shaw in tion, said it found no connec- which Garrison interpreted as dial of the telephone as con- about his code theory before advising them. writing memos. He said a tion between Oswald and including a notation "PO version machinery to convert 19106." And, said Garrison, a letters into numbers and back Garrison's statement came coded telephone number— Ruby. Garrison said the code Ruby's unpublished telephone notation in a booklet seized in again. He systematically adds in answer to motions by number in Dallas—was in pos- yielded a strong clue that both Shaw's home read "Lee the number values resulting in Shaw's attorneys asking the session of both Oswald and Shaw and Oswald had set up Odom, PO Box 19106, Dallas, a sum which can be later return of Shaw's address book. Shaw. some communication with Tex." broken down into the real which was seized March 1 exchange listing." along with five cartons of The Warren Commission, Ruby. Shaw's attorneys said there The Warren Commission was nothing significant about By using the telephone dial materials from Shaw's hand- which concluded that Oswald for conversion of letters to some French Quarter home. acted alone in the assassina- published Oswald's notebook, that—Lee Odom was a busi- .