Evening star., 1932-11-08
|XP|CKETERS HELD
ASK TRIAL BY JURY
Two Women and Four Men
Deny Guilt in Assault and
Parade Charges.

Arraigned in Police Court on assault
and unlawful parading charges growing
out of the attempt to picket the Su-
preme Court yesterday before the
tribunal announced its decision in the
Scottsboro, Ala, assault case, two wom-
en- and four men pleaded not guilty to-
day and demanded jury trials. Judge
Isaac R. Hit set the trials for November
% and ordered them held on bond of
$500 each.
Seven other persons, including two
women, pleaded not guilty to unlawful
parading and were held on $500 bond
each for trial before Judge Hit at l 80
pm. tomorrow. A l7-year-old girl,
charged with disorderly conduct as we'll
as unlawful parading. also was ordered
to appear before Judge Hit tomorrow
Her bond was set at $500 on each
charge.
Accused of Assault
Those charged with assault are:
Josephine E. Rogers, 18, Baltimore
Kurt Benewitz, "a, Baltimore; Abe
Simon, 25. New York; William Randall.
80, colored. Clarendon, Va: David
Rambert Il. colored Baltimore, and
Cecil " Stone. 81, Washington. Two
assault charges we're placed against
Benewitz
Those charged with unlawful parad-
ing: Mary Beer 40, Baltimore; Mary
Rubov, 36 New York: Oscar Robert, 25,
Baltimore; Edward Richardson, 35, COL
ored Washington: Henry Cole. 81, col
ored, Baltimore; Sam Gales, 90 colored,
Baltimore: Harry Muritis, 48, Balti-
more. and Charles Israel, 80. Pitts
burgh The girl against whom the ad-
ditional disorderly charge was placed
was Alice Fucker.
Four other men arrested as a re-
suit OF the demonstration still were
being held by police for further investi-
cation.
Meanwhile members Of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense. Communist
organization, which sponsored the dem
onstration at the Capitol, expressed Ella
ton over the decision granting new
trials for the seven colored youths under
sentence of death at Scottsboro for as
saulting two white girls.
Justice Sutherland read the decision
shortly after a combined force of
metropolitan and Capitol police, using
tear gas and clubs, had routed a band
of approximately 100 men and women,
both white and colored, who had at
tempted to picket the Supreme Court.
Tear Gas Turns Crowd.
The fight was short but furious Bat
ting every inch of the way, the march
ers were pushed back by the policemen,
who used both nightsticks and fists
Then, when the ranks of the demon
strators suddenly stiffened, there was a
loud explosion and the acrid odor of
tear gas spread over the area. This
quickly dispersed the crowd.
Sporadic fights between policemen
and small groups of demonstrators
broke out here and there during the
melee and before peace had been re-
stored 13 men and four women had
been arrested. Capitol Policeman
George B. Walker at one time during
the fighting was clubbed by several of
the demonstrators before he was
rescued
Seven Of nine Supreme Court justices
having been denied the right of counsel
when tried In Alabama. we're entitled
to a new trial. Justices Butler and Nc
Reynolds dissented.
Trial Due In March.
Under the decision, the men will be
retired in the State in which they
were convicted. Associated Press dis
patches from Fort Payne, Ala, quoted
Judge A. F. Hawkins, who presided at
their trial, as saying the case would
be brought up again at the March
term of the Jackson County Circuit
Court. The jurist, according to the
dispatches, predicted a change of venue
would be sought.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, last night stated
demonstrators, who presumably had
learned of the Supreme Courts de-
cision, threw several bottles of pitch
at the United States embassy there.
The embassy was placed under police
guard, the dispatch said, but there was
no indication Of a large-scale demon
stration.
Another Associated Press dispatch
from Huntsville, Ala, quoted Victoria
Price, one of the girls involved in the
Scottsboro case, as declaring she would
testify again when the young men are
retired. The girl, who is employed in a
cotton mill in Huntsville, said Ruby
Bates, the other assault victim, also
would testify. She exhibited numerous
letters urging her to drop the charges
against the youths, but did not reveal
the identity Of the persons making the
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