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: 4 t b ‘ +f ptr AME Sade RE shape if ita purpose There is mo question that « this was the legislature's pur- <*\ pose for it was openly conceded when Tuskekee’# once-square ¢ ‘oundaries were redrawn in 1957. The Negroes who carried their appeal to the Supreme Court must now go through the legal fdrmality of proving their #ase In Federal District court, however. ~ we 4 See Difference in Friicipic ; esterday's opinion by Jus- % Frankfurter emphasized ¢he"difference in principle be- tween gerrymandering for po- litical purposes and gérryman- + dering which has the intent of racial discrimination. To some . judicial observers: the line ee ~ tween the two is’ barely < . eerniple, however, and it seems the court at some +, gee decision sz w stepiping- stone for a further advance in- to the gerrymandering thicket. The Frankfurter opinion re- versed & decision of the Fifth Cireuit Court of Appeals, which had relied on previous Supreme Court decisions for ite finding ; ” that Federal courts lacked ju- ‘ pisdiction in gerrymandering : | Nesroes, discriminate. against ly in another pending case en -! SE a ea nen a eee en | RPRETIVE REPORT ”: the opportunity to do a6 short- which white voters in Tennesy see are protesting gerryman dering which permits rur districts to dominate the Ten nessee Legislature, = = Tuskegee had a population of 5,397 Negroes and 1,310 whites before its boundaries were re-drawn. Of aome 400 Negro voters formerly within the city limits, only four or five are left and Tuskegee In- stitute, famed seat of Negro jearning founded by Booker T. Washington, is now outside the city boundaries. : Divide In 2 Decisions ‘The court's unanimity in the Tuskegee decision was notably lacking in two other rulings on the busiest day of its 1960- €1 term yesterday. Decisions in two cases involving the rights Gi witnesses belare legislative cemmittees investigating sub- version brought bitter protests from the liberal bloc. By a 6-3 vote, the court the McPhaul case, by Justice Brennan, objected chiefly to the fact tias there’ had been no proof that Mrs.| McPhaul, who was sentenced nine months in prison and fined $500, had been an official Justice Whittaker, who spoke for the majority, noted that the subcommittee had ’ to believe Mr. bcPhas, hf executive ‘secretary of tie group, which has been nstét: by the Attorney General as al subversive organization. But, denied a second hearing to Dr,|the court's Uberais felt the de- Willard Uphaus, who has al-|fendant should have been pro~ most completed his one-year tected by the legal presumption jail sentence for refusing to|of innocence until proven. Tevea] the names of questa at jzullty his World Fellowship Center| “To day we take a step hack- » eases. Appellate Judge Jobnii new Hampshire. ft divided|ward,” Justice Douglas eald for the: Minor Wisdom said jt that 6-4 in upholding the contempt|the dissenters. “We allow af é ofjman to go t# prison for doing a more, #0 far as this record | “seveals, than challenging the! eel ed La yb LADD ¥ i three-man Liberal bloc, jotned| of the Civil Rights Congress.- ..}! | Telgon Mohr Parsons Belmont ______. Callahan DeLoach Malone ____..__ McGuite Rosen Temm 2 Trotter WC. Sullivan Tele. Room Ingram Gandy The Washington Post and Times Herald The Washington Daily News —— The Evening Stor 47: New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-American __— New York Mirror New York Daily Neaewe Now York Post The New York Times The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Joumal ———-—- Date -{O"-@e _ ent 62-2798> ee NOT RECORDER 149 NOV 23 ivou