Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-12


ions. accompanied generally by
has made for almost seven years
to have the Wilmington, Del,
firm judged guilty in a civil
antitrust suit.
The deportation issue was de-
Icided by a 5 to 4 vote in which
the dissenters again were Chief
Justice Warren, and Justices
Black and Douglas. along with
Justice Frankfurter.
the case reached the Supreme
Court in an appeal by Cecil r.
Jay. a 64-year-old alien who
came to the United States in
1914 and admittedly was Com
munist Party member from 1885
to 1910 in California.
He conceded that under the
Internal Security Act he could
be subject to deportation. But
he protested that his request for
suspension of the deportation
hearing was illegally rejected by
Attorney General Brownell main
Ily on the basis Of confidential
IundiscloSed information.
Justice Reed delivered the
opinion unfolding the action Of
the Federal authorities in basing
their refusal on such secret evil
dence. In an unusual move, each
of the dissenting Justices wrote
separate opinions. Chief Justice
Warren declared that ''in con-
science I cannot agree with the
opinion of the majority" He
complained that lit sacrifices too
much the American spirit of fair
play in both our judicial and adj
Iministrative processes"
Income Tax Case Rejected
In still another 5-to-4 opinion,
where the Warren-Black-D Doug
las combination was augmented
by Justice Clark, the court re-
jected the protest of George B.
Parr, South Texas political boss,
for being indicted on income-tax
evasion charges in Federal court
in Austin. after he originally had
been indicted in Corpus Christi
on the same charges. He had
obtained a transfer from Corpus
Christi to Laredo. The Justice
Department obtained a dismissal
of the original indictment in
Federal court in that city, and
then got an identical new one
at Austin.
Chief Justice Warren delivered
the courts opinion in the flair
trade" case. Justices Harlan.
Frankfurter and Burton dis
sented. The decision reversed
a New York Federal Court de-
custom in favor of the company's
price maintenance agreements
for its own wholesalers and in
dependents.
The Chief Justice stated:
Congress has marked the limi-
tations beyond which price fixing
cannot go. We are not only
bound by those limitations but
we are bound to construe them
strictly, since resale price MAIN
tenance is a privilege restrictive
of q free economy"
District Lawyers Plea Denied
The Supreme Courts only i'm
portant action in District case
affected Dorsey K. Offutt, an
attorney here who for several
years has been fighting a con-
tempt of court charge.
The high court refused his
request to dismiss all such
charges against him. He first
was held in contempt by Dis
trict Court Judge Alexander
Holtzof for conduct at a trial
in 1852. The Supreme Court
last year ordered a new hearing
for him before another judge.
Judge Mclaughlin later held
him in contempt but was re-
versed on technical grounds by
the United States Court of APP
peals here. Mr.. Offutt COM
planned that he still faced the
possibility of another hearing
In any event, he asked the high
court to dismiss the whole thing
once and for all because the
proceedings have dragged on
more than three years. This the
high court refused to do.