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TN IME a ge ait ee eR AR A oR Nl A ae = ie at nc s Mr. Tolson __ <Sipreme Court] 3 ur Gio Mr. Coffey * Voids Conviction Ke tenia Mr. Nichole, Nf 9A D es Mr. Rosen _ | Ul L4 DUNCISTS Mr. Tracy __ | WASHINGTON, June 11 (AP), | Mr. Carson _ vers @ convictions o: op ; officials of the German-American Mr. Hendon | Bund on charges of conspiring to Mr. Penningt the Selective Service Act. - Mr. Quinn Tz The officials, including Gerhard Mr. Nease __ W. Ku nze, former Bund hati the Mias Gandy _ tase, TTL RES aA OR ES Sorrthern New York Federal Dis- trict Court. Each was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. Justice Roberts delivered the 54 opinion. Chief Justice Stone wrote a dissent In which Justices Reed, Douglas and Jackson con- curred. The majority held the evidence produced by the Government was insufficient to sustain the con- victions. . Fas yAll of those convicted ques- - ticned whether they had been! : giren a fair trial “in view of the | great mass of exhibits admit im evidence having no relevani to the issues before'the court, bijt calculated only to inflame prejudice a jury sitting in time of war.” Wilbur V. Keegan, former Bund's general counsel, in a sep- arate appeal to the high tribunal, wart ad te heal on et sald his conviction had denied him the constitutional right to practice his profession. He con- tended that as an attorney he had merely advised the organization as to constitutional questions in- volved in the act. In addition to Kunze and Kee. gan, others involved were: Aug- ust Klapprott, Gustav Elmer, )Hermann Schwinn, Herman Agne, Joseph Bachmaler, Josef | Belohlavek, Carl Berg, Walter! Borchers, Otto Bregier, Ernest Christoph, Otte Fentzke, John C.. Fitting, Bruno Knupfer, William Cc. Kunz Wiliam Ottersbach, Max Rapp, Louis Schatz, Walter Schneller, Jr., Huga Weiss, Karl R. Wendlandt, Otto Willumeit and Fritz Streuer, ‘ee et . Confronted with “a docket which it was unable to clear at [today’s scheduled final session before Summer vacation, the court announced another decision ,day—wout: be held nexf-Maonday advise evasion and resistance to | ‘ gun 12% New York Daily Mirror Page *