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O-10 (Fiev. 6-31-61} | biggest array of appeals by!’ Begroes in cases ranging from %q theft of chicken f -*eturning after a vacation -ffint began June 18, the nine Justices will hear three hours # oreument soon in the court’s st-time consideration of state. rosecution of Negroes who re- ‘' to leave “white” lunch ‘Sounters in the South. ’ Gounsel for sixteen Negroes ‘rested in sit-in demonstra- ‘ ns in Baton Rouge, La., will| { gation, when enforced -by State authority, violates the U. 8. Constitution’s guarantee of due process of law. The sixteen were sentenced to four months in jail under a -Loulsiana law that propibits the commission of any act sich a manner as to disturb o arm the public unreasonabl Asks Early Reversal Louisiana counsel say the la plies to everyone equally and ‘was not designed, or applied, to enforce racial discrimination. To uphold the demonstrators, ! the state contends, would be‘ “to trample the rights of all other citigens.” - With numerous other sit-in and Freedom Rider cases likely to be appesled to the Supreme erm, the Justice Department has asked for eariy reversal of the Baton Rouge convictions. “@ departaient brief alta the ‘ eorivictions were utterly unsup- ported by evidenct that the sixteen Negroes diu anything to Unreasonably disturb or alarm ‘ the public. An indication of the difficulty f «? such problems was given the “Pourt in a brief field by Attor- Ea in-d General T. W. Bruton of “rth Carolina. His brief asked ‘he court to deny-« hearing to “Robert Williams, a Negro sen- ‘enced to thirty days tn jail for _® sit-in demonstration at a, _C,, drug ste", gue that lunch counter zeg-| wCourt during its nine-month]: ‘wiftierns’ theory that the state; through its police, may not act |in such s a att-in case. if such a thepry is sound, Mr. Bruton argued, “then a storekeeper who does not wish “eh we qertain patrons will be } Wg, his own devices.” The court has been asked to grent hearings in other sit-in ‘cases from Durham = and Raeigh, N.C. and from Rich- mohd and Artington, Va. ~ Arguments will be oe the all on an a@ tHopa) Associagion for the nam jvancement of § Colored fy ppeal for refersal of « Sth inin Supremé@ Court decision The Virginia court held the as-' jation engages in unlawful solicitation of legal business for its attorneys Also scheduled for fall argu- Penitentiary. - “<= | Major Tacial case expech to be taken to the & Court soon Involves lower court af ‘school in New Rochelle. N.°Y., had «been gerrymandered He was convicted of contempt, sentenced to six month: z in jail, and fined $1,200. tod te sapom She Bi urt it tts few term involves . tes shit down of public Cases Under Study | : hools to ayeid_ integration, Arrests made in two privately operated amusement parks in | Maryland when groups of Ne- groes and some white persons refused to leave; a quit by & Memphis Negro to compel de- segregation. of a restaurant in the Memphis Municipal Airport building; four appeals by (Louisiana in its effort to-put off \02. 298 85-7 NOT RFCORDED integration in schools in various =] 84 ocT & 1961 of the state. An appeal from a Tennessee state court order to clos¢ High- a jander Folk Schoel, a racially integrated adult education cen- ter; an appeal from an Alabama state court which N. A.A. C. P. said halts its activities in that state: appeals by two Negro: ministers against jail sentences for campaigning to desegregate ' Senee-trrB irmingham- orn ie | v1 e@eact oa 10f1 ake the school’s ‘enrollment! almost entirely Negro. The Néwi heelle School Broard onends ment is an appeal by Theodore there has been ae R. Gibson, who refused to pro- of district lines: ind no iserima~ duce a list of members of the lineation against, Negrees. . Miami branch of N. A. A.C. P. Another mafor racial cas an iy Mal ‘llivon 7 avel Trotter Tele Room Vo vat Gandy t ii The Washington Post and Times Herald The Washington Dally News __ The Evening Star = New York Hefald Tribune tk New York Journd-American —__ New York Mirror New York Dally News New York Post The New York Times The Worker ‘The New Leadét The Wail Strest Jourmal _——_—- carr os GCT 1 1961