Evening star., 1951-07-27
California Communists
Go 10 Court Today 10
Demand Lower Bail
BY the Asseeiatsd Press

Top California Communists, angry
over surprise arrests and a Gov
ernment demand for $4,000 bal
each, go into Federal Court today
with demands for freedom or
smaller bonds.
Twelve California Communists
including the pinch-hit national
party leader, William Schneider
man. 46, were jailed yesterday
All were charged with conspiracy
to publish material advocating
overthrow of the Government.
Schneiderman was arrested In
New York and held in lieu oil
100000 bail. He took over the
top party spot after the conviction
of II Communist leaders in New
York last year.
-Four here and four more in Los
Angeles were told to put up $75,-
600 each. or go to jail. They went
to jail, angrily. protesting mo one
but an underworld kingpin" could
post any such amount.
Two Women Freed.
Two San Francisco women were
freed on $4,000 bond each and a
third on $500.
Today'S court fight will center
about those bonds also. The Gov
ernment wants them raised.
United States Attorney Chauncey
Tramutolo contends:
Without high bail there is a
great danger they will become
fugitives."
1t was that argument that
caused United States commits
sionerS here and in Los Angeles
to demand $4,000 bail each of
the other eight.
Mr.. Tramutolo said a. Federal
grand jury in Los Angeles will be
asked next Wednesday to indict
all 12.
He originally demanded that
those arrested here be denied bail
Demand Called "Unheard Of"
That's unheard Of" snapped
United States Commissioner Fran
CTS st. John Fox. Bail is denied
only for murder and treason"
Defense attorneys called the
$4,000 figure "vindictive, pre-
posterous."
one OF them. Richard Glad
stein. called it "prohibitive and
tantamount to no bail at ALL" He
pointed out that Frank Costello
New York gambler who could
provide $75,000," was released on
$4,000 bond.
Mr.. Gladstein himself is free onI
bond pending outcome of his cita-
UAon for contempt of court when
ne was an attorney for the IL topI
communists convicted in New
York last year.
Asks Full Hearing.
Mr.. Gladstein asked Commits
Sloner Fox for a full hearing on
the circumstances of the FBI ar
rests.
Mr.. Gladstein argued that the
oftenSe charged under the Smith
Act-did not warrant such high
bail.
The attorney said they were
arrested under a law which
makes it crime to believe in
political matters"
The women freed on lesser bail
here are: sa8 .
Bernadette Doyle. local party
organizer. $2,500. She polled more
than 100000 votes for State su-
perintendent of schools last fall,
but was defeated.
Mrs. Loretta Starvus Stack, for
mer California organizational sec
retary, $2,500.
Mrs. Oleta O'Connor Yates,
California State party secretary,
$500. She posted it in Treasury
bonds.
Arrested in San Francisco.
The others arrested in San
Francisco:
Ernest Otto Fox, As, waterfront |
section organizer of the San Fran
cisco County party organization.
Carl Rude Lambert, 81, chair
man of the security review COM
mission for the party's district 13. |
Albert Jason Lima, 43, Rich
mond, Calf, East Bay regional
party chairman.
AL Richmond, 81, executive ed
itor of the Peoples World.
Arrested in Los Angeles:
Philip Marshall slim" Con-
nelly, 47. Los Angeles editor of the
Peoples World.
Dorothy Ray Healy, 36, Con-
nelly'S wife and chairman of the
Los Angeles County Communist
Party.
Henry Steinberg, 3S, Los Angeles
County legislative director.
Miss Rose Chernin, 48, execu-
tive secretary of the Los Angeles
Committee for the Protection of
the Foreign Born.
Claims Illegal Arrest.
Mrs. Doyle, like the others
picked up yesterday, claimed she
had been arrested without war
rant, but Mr.. Tramutolo said war
rants had been issued for each of |
the defendants. This was affirmed
by the district attorney in Los
Angeles.
II was arrested in the offices
Of the Peoples World" Mrs. Doyle
exclaimed. Two men-hoodlum
dragged me out. They showed
me no warrant"
Mrs. Stack told a newsman that
FBI agents broke down the door
to her home.
She said she was in her night
clothes preparing breakfast for
her two children when the FBI
agent knocked on the door.
II called out to ask if they had
q warrant" Mrs. Stack said. "One
LOST.
COCKER SPANIEL, red white and blono. |
scar half-m0ou on right leg: lost Monday /