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a et ) fy NY 100-81752 DETAILS: This is a ici i" of SAS I Ic and { All information contained herein appears in the record of Criminal Docket C135-7, United States District Court, Southern District of New York, or 4n the records of the United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. * ' INTRODUCTION / For clarity, this report has two sections: Section One sets forth iegal proceedings in United Statés vs. ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN, ET AL; Section Two sets forth legal proceedings in United States vs. ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG,ET AL. The FLYNN and TRACHTENBERG cases were based on the same indictment which was rettirnéd By.u Federal Grend Jury, Southern District of New York, on June 20, 1951, and charged defendants with violation of Section Three of the Smith Act, _ . Stat. . 671,18 U.S.C, (1946 ed. ) Section 11, and 18 U.S.¢c, (1948 ed. ) Section 371. Twenty-one defendants were indicted at that time. Seventeen were apprehended, SIDNEY STEIN, FRED MORRIS PINE, JAMES EDWARD JACKSON, JR., and WILLIAM NORMAN MARRON being fugitives, Sixteen defendants went to trial on March 31, 1952, in the FLYNN case, the case of ISRAEL AMTER (now deceased) having been severed because of bad health. The case of MARION BACHRACH was severed during trial because she suffered from cancer, Judgments of acquittal were entered on September 23, 1952, as to defenéants SIMON GERSON and ISIDORE BEGUN. The thirteen defendants convicted by a jury in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, on January 21, 1953, in the FLYNN case were, ALEXANDER BITTELMAN, GEORGE BLAKE CHARJEY, ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN, BETTY GANNETT, VICTOR JEREMY JERCIIN, ARNOLD SAMUEL JOHNSON, CLAUDIA JONES, ALBERT FRANCIS LANNON, JACOB MINDEL, PETTIS PERRY, ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG, LOUIS WEINSTOCK, and WILLIAM WOLF WEINSTONE, Two of those convicted, ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG and GEORGE BLAKE CHARNEY, were granted new