The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-06
ANOTHER MOVE
 IN SCOTTSBc2O { CASE AT HAND
Eight Negroes Scheduled !. to Be Arraigned in < Decatur Today
By THOMAS A. D0LZIER United Press Staff COrrespondent)

United Press Stan COrreSpOndenC
 Decatur, Ala, July 6-(UP)-This Alabama town of fewer than 5000 / population has donned its gayeSt dress and prepared for the reopen lng today of the internationally famous Scottsboro trials, in which eight negroes will stage their fourth legal fight for life and freedom.
 An advance guard of newspaper men, lawyers, sympathizers and cur 1ous spectators who will be present for the trials were filling the city's three hotels two days in advance.
 Restaurant owners stocked their shalves and prepared for rush business. Telegraph companies sent special operators and ran wires to the musty little courtroom where another act of the drama of Scotts- boro will be played.
 Eight of the nine negroes accused of assaulting two white women ho- boes abroad a freight train in Northern Alabama in 1881 will be arraigned July 6, and barring com promise, tried during July and August.
 One Negro Sentenced
 One of the defendants. Haywood Patterson, has been sentenced under new indictment to 75 years in prison. An appeal from his sentence was denied last month by the Ala bama supreme court.
 Judge w. w. Callahan, who will preside at the trials, maintained his close-mounted reticence and offered no comment on persistent reports that the famous cases may be com- promised.
 Sources close to both prosecution and defense have admitted that negotiations have been under way for some time to end the more than six months of litigation over the cases.
 However, there was no indication as the trial neared that further progress had been made toward the proposed compromise.
 Alabama's Atty.-Gen. A. A. Car michael, who is in charge of the prosecution, said the state was pre- pared to go ahead with its side of the trials. Defense attorneys were non-committal.
 In Montgomery, Chief Walter Wal ter K. McAdory, of the Alabama Highway patrol, said special de- tachment of state patrolmen will be sent to Decatur for reopening of the trials as precaution against possible demonstrations or violence.
 State of Alabama is hoping that Tuesday, July 6. will mark the be- ginning of the final chapter of the exciting Scottsboro story.
 State Weary Of Case
 More than $50,000 in state funds ha3 already been spent in the six years the cases have been before the courts. State newspapers have declared editorially that the adverse publicity incident to the trials has done irrparable damage to Alabama.
 Facing an Alabama bar of justice for the fourth time. the negroes again will be accused of attacking Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, white women hoboes, on board of freight train near Paint Rock, Ala, on March 25. 1881.
 I2 and when the trials actually begin, the oft-told charge will be recounted that the refendants, in cluding the already convicted Pat terSon, threw six of the seven white men companions of the two women fro mthe train, and then assaulted the girls.
 The white men telephoned ahead to Paint Rock, where a posse halted the train and seized the negroes.
 Sentences Reversed Thrice
 Three times the nine defendants have been convicted and sentenced to death, and three times their sen- tenceS have been reversed-twice by the U. s. supreme court and once by a Alabama trial judge.
 The trials have been delayed since Patterson's conviction last year due to the illness of a material witt ness and the illness and death of Lieut.. Thomas E. Knight, special prosecutor in the cases.
 Atty Gen. Carmichael will be as- sisted in the prosecution by Assist ant Atty.-Gen. Thomas P. Lawson and other members of the state legal staff.
 Samuel Leibowitz, New York at- torney who has taken the negroes appeals to the U. s. supreme court on two occasions. has said he would return to Alabama to resume the fight for the defendants.
 He will be assisted by Clarence Watts, Huntsville, Ala, attorney who argued Pattersons appeal be- fore the state supreme court in May.