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# PROSECUTOR SAYS LEA # MUST PRESENT PLEA Tennessee Indictment Abatement Arguments to Be Heard at Knoxville August 1. By the Associated Press. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., July 23.-William Carter, United States district attorney, announced yesterday that Col. Luke Lea, Tennessee published, indicted in Federal Court here on charges of violating national banking laws, must be present or represented by counsel in event his plea for abatement of the indictment is argued in Knoxville August 1. Rogers Caldwell, president of Caldwell & Co., investment banking house now in receivership, and J. Basil Ramsey, president of the defunct Holston Union National Bank here, are indicted jointly with Lea, and they have joined in making the abatement plea. Carter said their counsel have asked him to continue the abatement plea hearing, since Lea is scheduled to go on trial in the State Court of North Carolina at Asheville July 27 on charges arising from the failure of the Central Bank & Trust Co. there. "When the North Carolina case against Lea was originally set for July 13, I agreed to pass the hearing to August 1 to accommodate them," Carter said. "If they don't show up, I'll call for a bond forfeiture."