Evening star., 1954-11-29
Judge Blocks
Juvenile Shift
.ToReforInatory
Lows Acts Second
Time in Week on
lsuoc White Case

Chief Judge Bolitha j. Laws
today for the second time within
q week blocked efforts by the
Justice Department to transfer
a juvenile offender from Wash.
ington to a Federal reforma.
tory.
The iurist ordered the United
States Marshal for the District
not to send Isaac l.. White, col.
ored, to the Ashland (Ky.) Youth
Correction Center. The transfer
Of White, now being held in the
District Jail. was to have been
made today.
Action followed a petition by
Attorney B. Michael Landesman.
The attorney complained trans
fer to Ashland Is contrary to q
ruling handed down by Judge
Laws of the y. S. District Court
for the District of Columbia on
November %.
Plans to File Writ.
Judge Laws denied a motion
Mr.. Landesman made for clari.
flcation Of Whites status this
morning. However, he told the
attorney he was ordering the
United States marshal not to
remove White in order to give
Mr. Landesman an opportunity
to file a writ of habeas corpus
by Wednesday.
Mr.. Landesman said he win
file the writ Of habeas corpus
and in addition a motion for q
rehearing Of Judge Laws Mo-
vember % order in which the
lawyer unsucessfully challenged
the right of the Attorney Gen.
eral to transfer any juvenile
from the National Training
School to any other Federal
penitentiary or reformatory.
White, at the age of Is, was
originally committed to the Ma
tional Training School in 1852
for auto theft. He served Is
months and was released on
probation.
Sidewalk Staying Witness.
On April % he was rearrested
as the witness to a murder and
was held. He was indicted for
withholding information of the
crime, but the charge was
dropped last month.
The Staying he witnessed was
that Of William j. Lindstedt, 81,
a former Marine corporal, who
was shot down last December on
the sidewalk in the 1900 block
Of Fourteenth street NV.
Whites companion, William D.
HOWE, II, colored, was sentenced
to serve from five to Is years for
nanslaughter.
Meanwhile, the United States
Board of Parole sent a detainer
to the District Jail stating White
had violated his parole and must
serve the balance of the auto
theft sentence which runs until
he becomes 81.
Last week Mr.. Landesman
brought writ of habeas corpus
action when he learned White
was not to be sent back to the
National Training School, but
was to be sent instead to the
Federal Reformatory at Peters,
burg, Va.
Opposes Move.
Judge Laws denied the writ.
However. in his opinion he said
White should not be sent to an
institution where he would come
In contact with criminals con-
victed of felonies. The Judge
said that If the Attorney Gem
eral did not order White re-
turned to the National Training
School, he should be sent to q
rehabilitation institution Of the
same type.
There the matter rested until
Chief Deputy Marshal Charles
Ward asked Judge Laws today
for court permission to send
White to Ashland. Mr.. Landes-
man objected. He told Judge
Laws Ashland also contains juye-
niles convicted Of felonies and
sending White there would be
contrary to his prior ruling.
The lawyer said juveniles sent
to Ashland and Petersburg have
been accorded public jury trials
in open court, whereas his client
would wind up In the same
prison upon a commitment with
out benefit Of a jury trial by q
Juvenile Court.