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r] IV. PRETRIAL MOTIONS On July 3, 1951 pleas of not guilty to the indictment were entered before Judge SYLVEST J. RYAN by defendants AMTER, BACHRACH, BEGUN, BITTELMAN, CHARNEY, FLYNN, GANNETT, GERSON, JEROME, JOHNSON, JONES, LANNON, MINDEL, PERRY, TRACHTENBERG, WEINSTOCK and WEINSTONE. Judge RYAN set July 18, 1951 as the deadline for filing any motions concerning the indictmente On July 16, 1951 Judge RYAN extended the time for motions to August 2, 1951. on July 18, 1951 JOHN F.X., McGOHEY, District Judge, Southern District of New York, set August 20, 1951 as the finel date for pretrial motions, On August 20, 1951 EDWARD J, DIMOCK, District Judge, set September 17, 1951 as the date for return of motionse On December 21, 1951 EDWARD CONGER, District Judge, denied the defendants! pretrial motions filed September 12, 1951 ond argued on November 8, 1951 to dismiss the indictment because the Grand Jury failed to include Negroes and manual workers, to postpone trial for six months because of public hysteria, to dismiss the indictment because no legal evidence was presented to the Grand Jury and undue influence was exerted upon it, for a bill of particulars, for dismissal of the indict- ment because of the unconstitutionality of the Smith Act, to suppress all evidence received from monitoring telephone con- versations and intercepting mall of the defondants and quashed subpoenas served by the defendants in connection with the last motion on the Attorney General and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on November 1, 1951 and on the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Office on September 12, 1951. Judge CONGER also quashed the defendants! subpoena served on the Director of the Bureau of the Census on September lh, 1951. In connection with the defendants! motion for an order directing pretrial subpocna of all documents presented to the Grand Jury or to be presented at the trial, Judge CONGER directed the Government and defonse counsel to submit proposod orders embodying respectively what materials the Government. - 2h -