Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-13
Baseball Antitrust
Case Will Be Heard
By Supreme Court
By Robert K. Welsh

The Supreme Court called up
q contest over the legal range of
baseball today after adding more
than a score of other hard-hit-
ting issues to it's 1854 docket
and also clearing out some $50
cases.
Three hours of argument were
to be heard beginning late this
afternoon on cases contending
that organized professional base
ball is a trade subject to the
Federal antitrust laws. The
high court ruled in 1922 that
such baseball was a sport and
subject essentially to State con-
troll.
The baseball cases brought by
former farm hands of the New
York Yankees and the Brooklyn
Dodgers and by the owner of the
81 Paso. Texas, club are among
about so the court last spring
agreed to hear at the start Of
this term.
Chief Justice Warren and his
eight associates began listening
to arguments on the first of the
30 yesterday
Damage Claim Case Heard.
The first he heard was No. Is,
q comparatively minor issue in
volving a damage claim by a
carpenter injured while working
on ship. The court then
listened to a Justice Department
contention that the manufac-
turers of slot machines must
register their sales even if they
do business within one State.
This question was raised in three
cases involving congressional
power to regulate gambli@s de-
vices. Chief Justice Warren
liSteued silently but intently to
ali arguments throughout the
afternoon.
kadlO GlVe-aWayS on LIST.
The new Chief Justice, how
ever, announced he had not
taken part in preliminary de-
alterations which resulted in Or
Designating or refusing numer-
GUS new petitions for review.
New ones accepted for argu-
ment within the next few months
involve such varied matters as
radio and TV give-away pro-
grams, a tax on natural gas sent
by pipelines to other States. test
OF the McCarran- Walter immi-
grafton act, motion picture CEN
sorShip, and a contempt of
Congress conviction.
The far larger number of I'M
successful cases dealt with the
appeal of former Internal ReVe-
nue. Collector James p Finnegan
of st. Louis, racial segregation
in a Kansas City swimming pool,
whether the Korean conflict was
aSWar, a city tax on newspapers.
aS@State fair trade" law, and
rHiperous other litigation.
Cases 10 Be Heard.
1.-The Supreme Court agreed to
review;
"a Federal Communications
Commission appeal from a New
York Federal Court decision that
radio and Tvs give away pro-
as are not lotteries and
sld not be banned by the
agency.
NAttacks by oil and gas pipeline
cen4panies against a Texas tax
on natural gas sent to consumers
Isl 38+ other States.
IAN Ohio ban on the motion
ptetaJye ''M'' on the ground that
1Was immoral.
~ test case against a McCar-
feit-Walter Act provision that
an alien can be deported if he
was a member of the Communist
Party at any time after entering
this country.
Another immigration case in
which a lower court ruled that
alien-residents who went from
continental United States to
Alaska for the fishing season
must be treated as aliens when
they seek to return
The appeal of julius Emspak.
an official of the United Elec-
trical Workers Union. from his
contempt of Congress conviction
for refusing to answer House
Committee on Un-American Ac-
Invites questions about Commun-
list activities.
Doctors Case Coming Up.
The appeal of DIR. Edward K.
Barsky, former chairman of the
Joint Anti-FaSciSt Refugee Com