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The criminal-contempt convictions were upheld last week by the Supreme Court but only by a 4-ta-4 vate. The majority opinion, written by Jus- tice John Marshall Harlin, cited the over- whelming precedent uphelding criminal. contempl convictions without juries. Jus- tice William J. Brennan reserved his opin- ion on the constitutional poits involved, dissented on the ground of insu'tuient evi- dence. But Huge Black wrote a desenting opinion for himself. Chiet Justice bark Warren and William Douglas. which struck at the foundations of the padicr- ary’s enforcement powers. Wrote hick: “The power of a judge to inflict punish- ment for criminal conterypt by means of a summary proceeding stands as an anem- aly in the law . 0. No offal. regardless of his position or the purity and nubleness of his character. should be granted such autocratic omnipotence.” “Sinew of the Law." What Hugo Blick en. ee and dissenting brethren did not concede was that by attempting te wipe out hy judicial decree the principle and) practice al centuries, they were arrogating to them- selves ao Very reak sort of omnipotence, That fact was pointed out in an) opinion, concurring with the miajertty, by Felix Fronkfurter: “To be sure. th is hever boo laie for this court ta correc! a misconcep- tion, Ip _ap_ucGtetopal decision, ( But] to sav that everybody on the court has been wrong for 150 vears and that that which has been deemed part of the bone and sinew of the law should now he extirpated ir quite another thing. Dectsion-making is not a mechanical process, but neither is this court an originating lawmaker.” Closing the Book The Supreme Court abe closed the book on one of the last of the Truman Administration scandals last week. it) re- fused to review the convictions of Mat- thew J. Connelly, appomiments secretary to President Truman. and Theron Lamar (“Sweet Thing’) Caudle, Assistant At- torney General in charge of the Justice Department's tax division. They were fined $:.500 and sentenced to two years in prison each for conspiring to fix a tax case during their days in power. Although Connelly and Caudle can ask the Supreme Court to reconsider, their chances are indeed remote. CALIFORNIA Death on the Pink Carpet To her, men are Hike new dresses, to be downed and dofied af her pleasure. Seeing a fellow that attracts her, she's Uke a child looking at a new doll, So wrote Hollywood Gossipist’ Hedda Hopper five years ago about the former Julia Jean Mildred Frances ‘Turner. the former Mrs. Artie Shaw. the former Mrs. Stephen Crane (twice), the former Mrs. Bob Topping. the former Mrs. Lex (Tarzan’’) Barker—better known to mil- Hens as Cinemactress Lana Turner. Lana Turner had a daughter, Cheryl, to whom she gave gifts, money, luxurious living, *JUME, APRIL 14, 1958 exclusive schooling—evers(hing. in) fact. Ccxmeet ao narmal upbringae. week Chervl Crane. 1g till brei-haired and obyiousty an ueh.pp child) came hame for Easter from Oya» Happy Viallev School -only te tind ber mother, Actress “Turner. in the nvdst of trying Co discard her latest male doll. Hurt m this cise the doll was not too ease te throw asus. he owas hairily handsome Johnas Sompanate 32. a0 bum-araund: Hothewood whose man chant te fane was aerecard as a paboot sis-hit Crane-ter Mick - ev Cohen. Johnny and Bana had traveled Furope together, spent two menths ain Mexico. But upon their return Lana be- gan as a Beverly Hills cop delicately put it last week. treing ta “discourage his at- . . enching Spring ring came to’ California in’ belting, unding. soaking storms, They <wept out of the tey land mas. of Siherta, gatherce fury and moi-ture aver the Maite, bamed cast and: southeast alomg the jet stream, rowred in around Marin County s Mt. Ta- malpars in reo-ni yd, quest . Sn the tirst ah dave at Apr san Breneiacn gat 3.6 inset can. Noraal carn fadl tor alfat Agere, rgQg wi. Rett cascaded duwia the city’s spectacubir slopes. spilled hier deepe inte downtown streets. On residential Mt. Sue tro at strange seaot miu roo dt. long and 25 ft. deep seeped taward a couple of apartment houses. Ino the tidelinds com- munity of Alviso. almes¢ all of the toe Aas alea Pres Lana Turner. Stoarraxato & Dacaiutre CHERVL® At the foot of a commodious bed. tentions.” fohnny Stompanalo got down- right annoyed, Last week Johnny Stompanate whisked up te Lana's Beverly Hills home ins his Thunderbird. went raging in for a show- down. Cheryl Crane heard ber mother and Stempanato arguing in’ Lana’s bedroom. “Pil get you if it takes a day. a week or a year!” cried Stompanate. “TIL cut vou up. PIE stomp vou. and if To camt do it myself. Vl find someone who can.” Frightened Cheryl went to the kitchen, picked up a io-in. butcher knife. went te the hedream, “You dont have to take that. Mamma.” she said, and plunged the knife into Stompanate, He crumpled. fell dead on Lana’s pink carpet at che foot of Lana’s commadious bed. Lina Turner called Jerry Giesler. Hol- Iyvwood's favorite lawyer. Cheryl Crane called) Restaurateur Stephen Crane. her father, whom Lana divorced shortly: after Cheryl's birth, Then Cheryl went quietly off to the Beverly Hills police station, Lana Turner went with her. [oter returned alone to the big colonial house with the pink bedroom. where her wild sobs could be heard by people on the lawn out front. residents evacuated their homes before g-to-8-ff1, floods. Against four miles of coastlhne near Rockaway Beach. the ocean battered in mighty go-ft. breakers, Spring swept oon across the state. wrenching oat homes. uprooting trees. blocking highways and railroads. swelling rivers and streams and sogging levees to wrap up Nerthern California's wettest winter since 1890. In the majestic High Sierra the storms piled mew snow inte zo-ft. drifts, marooned 1.900 vacationers in ski lodges and Nevada state line gam- bling clubs. bogged transcontinental trucks straining: across Donner Pass, treated az passengers aboard Southern Macihe’s crack strewmliner Cifvo af San Prawcisca tu 30 hours of well-fed isalation ina snewbaund snowshed near the pass, In the irrigated Central Valles. spring satked apricot trees. vinevards, alfala stands, tomate rows and the hopes of thousands of farmers. Sample casualty: the cotton grower, afraid that be would not be able ta work his fields before the normal May ro plinting deadline; to ® On Lana's hameconing from Mexico last month. 2}