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0-1# (Rew, 3-2-62) Notes ?- 1 | Without Hearing’Arguments ) Cleoe 6 Sentenced at _— ry «t.¢ 3By MIRIAM OTTENBERG = *,, oe Starsiatt Wriee 5 3). : The Supremé Court today: reversed. the convibtiaas of six Negroes convicted‘of a breach of the peace after four of them entered a bus station waiting © room reserved tor white people in Shreveport, La, 640. 2 :. Neither the unsigned opinion nor + the boriet wooking high éourt review specifically referred to those convicted as was no evidence of violence and that the six were quiet, orderly and polite. The opinion re- jected the finding of the triai judge that the mere presence of Negroes in the white waiting room was sufficient evidence of "Rider demonstrations last year. The cout acted without hearing arguments in the case. Referring to a previous deci- jalon in its first and only sit-in|a breach of the peace. ee ee el "§ Justices Criticize Comments by, - > Two Got 3 Months :, Stewart. _ Page AS] rhe would-be travelers all received substantial sentences. hanya out ald ne chorge Two women who entered the of = breach of the peace was [bite walting room were each that those convicted] were vio-pocntenced to nerve 15 Gays om lating = custom thé separated jafi and to Day a tine of 9150) CUBLGIN Else SEROTEC For serve ancther ys. One people in waiting rooms accord: fi the men was given & 30-day ‘ing to race, “a practice mot a ‘allowed in interstate trans- scat 0 8150 fine or an portation facilities by reason ot \ The other in the walt- Federal law.” ing roan was sentenced to three Vote Ip 4-1 months in Jail and fined $206 i In the -alt-in decision, the?° 82 45 days. - high court based {ts reversal on] As for the two men who did the narrow grownd that there gnot enter the station but were “was no evidence to support the onvicted as principals, one was conviction. ntenced to three months in atine ertnn seid “the Mall and fined £200 or an addi- #eUsuUcEe FLGS ia aly wit ‘eourt should have heard argu- ment on the case before acting. Justice Frankfurter, who is 1, took no part. The court’s vote ‘was thus 7-1. . , The court's two-page dect- sion noted that four of the six persons went into the white awaiting room and refused to go fo the Negro waiting room waity ; ac Bhreve- comm ween ikee. he ae ¢wo|in the past bet nearby in the car which ‘had. vep lf brought the six go the bus sta-' 2by ether conclusio ‘ion. Ideatrostion of the relative 4 Te opinion noted bas sere ro. ail and fined $200 or an addl- donal 45 days. * . Justice Douglas sala yout of the boy: tig In sentencing them, | the ‘detention, the failure to Louisiana judge said the sent-° Yor his parents, the ences were motivated by the mediately to bring ham court's desire “to do what # a juvenile cowrt Judge and the: can to maintain the relatively failure to see to it that he had harmonious relationships in this ;the advice of a lawyer or friend have mae combined to lead to the cons reces;cluston that the formal: oon idents injfession on which his sonvicticn | tional rights. ey Justices Harlan and Stewart, said the court upset the can- viction without support from Precious cases January 11. ' 3. Refused to review the con- vietion of the former president of the Newspaper -and Mall De- liverers’ Union on charges of j obstructing commerce by ex-|f tortion. The case was brought to the high court by the for-|f mer union president, Sam Feld- |" man, who waa found guilty with, others of extorting $45,000 from [ & Magazine and newspaper wholesale distributor. Irving Bitz an underworld figyreszhbayent into Pani distribution fieid, ple ¥ an bray "in Sive-rex the testified that Feldman. Mite % a meeting of fone and threatened them with ay sic iierss if they {atled to Bi with you people.” Safir Reverse Marder Oem 4. Reversed, BF a 4-3 vote firét-degree rey = ‘of gp le- youth who had been Hfe inprisonment prt waine ional 45 days and the other (mitted a robbe onasautt as sentenced to 30 days in # man who inter frat faire a before: * rn ba waco that can have hardly] rested violated - is constitu “| Justice Clark, jotned January 8 and concluding on ; T son son — Mohr —_ Caliahan OM aan Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele Room aHalmas £7 4 “i a a < Upkeme Couit The Washington Post and Times Herald The Wo-hington Daily iy News The Evening Star Petite New York Herald Tribune Na <~ ae x. New York Journal-American —_ New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Post The New York Times The Worker The New Leader Thy Wall Street Jaumal —___ The National Observer ——-— ee -1 1S tS = i RECS G62 199 JUN 23 1962 ——— == Us