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FAOZ TfTO BLTTHEVILLE (ARK.) COURIER NEWS TUESDAY, JUNE 14, IMt THI NATION TODAY 'Incrjminaiion' Argument Has Saved Many Witnesses from Contempt of Congress Charge By Junes WASHINGTON, June 14. House Un-American Activities hu asked people "Are you or have you been a Communist?" 1. who said flatly "I refuse to tnswer" were cited for contempt of Congress, tried, found guilty, and sentenced. 2. Those who said "I refuse to answer" and added "because it might incriminate me" had no trouble at all.

Those extra ttv words, cause it might Incriminate me," make a bisr difference in deciding whether a man is contemptuous. Two years ago the committee, investigating Communism, called In 10 Hollywood writers and asked them the $64 question. When all of them Ilally refused to answer, they were cited for contempt of Congress. And two of the Howard Lawson and Dalton tried in federal court, found eullty, and sentenced to a year in jail and a' fine of $1,000. They wanted to make a test case of it, so they were freed on bond while they appealed to the U.

S. Court of Appeals. (Trial of the other eight cases has been held up pending the outcome of the appeals.) Yesterday, the appellate court said the lower court decision was right. Cite ComfHuUon Why hadn't the men answered the committee's question? They argued: the constitution protects a man from being compelled to disclose his private beliefs: and. so.

he can't be punshed being silent about them. Not In this kind of case, said the appellate court. Why? It ruled: right of free speech is not absolute. The country's welfare first. And If the country's welfare involved, a man can be compelled to speak under penalty of being Jailed If he doesn't.

The court reasoned that this welfare was involved in this case In the question oi Communism because: 1. The fate of the world, including this country's, Is at stake In the present struggle between Communism and democracy. 2. Since the Un-American Act- iyitiM Committee was Investigating Communism, it had a right to ask the question. 'But tuppose the men, Instead, "I refuse to answer," had added "because It might Incriminate me." impossible to say what then in this par- been taken might have happe ticular case, No action has ever against anyone who appeared before the Un-AmericAn Activities Committee and refused to answer about Communism because It "might Incriminate" him.

May Not Always Be True Under the Constitution a man can't be compelled to say anything about himself if It might Incriminate him. Will this always be true? Maybe nets In some future case Congress and the courts may decide this constitutional protection doesn't apply to Communism. So far, though, the little phrase because It might incriminate me," has been a good escape hatch for anyone not wanting to say he's a Communist. But there are a couple of things to remember about this appellate court decision: It applied to A particular situation: happened with the Un-Amerljan Activities Committee. It was Ir.vfst'^ating Communism.

2. The sarr court might not think a man gui'cv of contempt of Congress at oil refused to answer about Communism before some committee Investigating farming, not Communism 3. The question Is not fully settled anyway. The convicted men will appeal to the Supreme Couft for the final word. Convicted Wife-Slayer Appeals His Sentence WITbE ROCK, case of George Cooper, convicted of murder of his wife, has reached the Arkansas Supreme court.

The 39-year-old Qravette radio shop owner appealed yesterday from a Bcnton Circuit Court'con- viction and life sentence. Supreme Court To Review Stote Low on Picketing WASHINGTON, June The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday agreed to review the validity of an Arkansas lav under which In be a criminal offense if violence occurs. CfO lawyers asked for the review. They said the law, as recently Interpreted by the Arkansas Supreme Court, provides that pickets may be given prison sentences If there Is a disturbance and a trial court decides the picket line was assembled Jor the purpose of using violence.

The CIO attorneys said the law has hindered unlo organization efforts. They contended that "a worker engaging In Arkansas in his constitutional right to picket is under such hazard of committing a felony that his constitutional right Is rendered meaningless." Argument on the appeal will be heard In the supreme court's new term beginning October 3. Ike Murry. attorney general of Arkansas, filed a petition opposing the CTO request for a review. Murry said the law does not ban peaceful assemblages and pocketing.

"Tlie assemblage become unlawful," he stated, "when it adopts force and violence as a means of preventing a workman from pursuing his lawful occupation. When ihe.se methods are employed, the prior lawful and peaceable assemblage become an unlawful one. Any person who encourages the creation of an unlawful assemblage violates the law. Livestock NATIONAL. STOCKYARDS, June 14.

Wi leneial trade So to 7S cents lower than Monday; bulk 180-230 Ibs top 20.75; late sales mostly 24.60 and occasionally below; 240270 Ibs 20.00-50; good and choice 160-170 Ibs 20.00-50; 100-130 17.50-19.00; under 400 Ibs main- ly 16.00-n.OO; heavier 13.5015.50; stags steady, largely 12 5015.00; boars 9.00-12.00. Cattle 3500; calves 2200; one Ioa4 high (ood medium weight 26.75; several loads and lota good and choice heifers and mlttd yearlings 25.50-28.00; common and medium 19.00-24.00; few good cows 18.50-19.00; common and medium beef cowi largely 17.00-18.00; sand cutters 13.00-18.50. AND THE TOP FROM A PACKAGE Of MAXWELL HOUSE TEA You'll love these refrigerator you'll love Maxwell House Tea even more! It's blended exclusively for discriminating Southern Keep pitcher of It always In the Icebox for cool- Ing refreshment. So get Maxwell House Tea and send for these plastic bags today. Pine Bluff Couple Diet In Highway Accident BRINKLEY.

June 14. liP A pine Bluff, optometrist and his wife were killed, and two girls were Injured severely In a collision of two automobiles four miles west of here on Highway 10 late vcster- day. Dr. Preston Castlebcrry. 59.

died instantly; his wife died a few hours later at a Brlnkley hospital. The girls. Elsie Bob Parrls, 14, and Ruth Melcher, 16. both of Gid- dlnss, suffered head and face Injuries were taken to a Brink- Icy hospital. The two were members of a party of six from Texas en route to the convention the Future Homemakers of America at Memphis.

No one else In the party was i njured seriously. The Texas automobile was driven by Mrs. Willie B. Glover. Austin.

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