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JOf Home at Time {Arrest Ts Made ‘Chief Justice Vi the majority in wee tie de t committed in the officers’ reat The high court split, 5-to-4, ? a onal : ie AST on The 4 pact Violations, Harris was arrested e Constitution for any person ar- ; rested at his home. Justice Vinson held that the finding of evidence unrelated to the charge contained in the warrant was immaterial. On the basia of papers found in| Harris’ home he was convicted and/ Pp) : Call Ruling Threat to Home. n, speaking tor folart's sanction of conviction a aman on evidence found in his home without a search warrant after his arrest on other charge, yesterday held that the aearch was justified since evi-!@ Circult Court finding that me dence found showed a crime being; search was carried out in good Laith | and cohvicted on the latter charge. 0£25.000 check onthe Madge C: They said they also were 1 for “any means that m dd. urg ary tools, pens, or enything 7 . |" Gireult Court Ruling Upheld. The high dourt majority upheld for the purposes asserted, that ie “was not general exploratory the bitterly contested decision hands | for merely evidentiary matterials, gd down yesterday afternoon. hei ad that the search and seizure Tr a@ reasonable incident to peti- ners arrest,” Justice Frankfurter contended the ision goes far beyond previous | ei to permit “rummaging through a house without a search warrant on the ostensible ground _ of wooking for the instruments of a crime for which au arrest, but only an arrest, has been authorized.” “By this reasoning,” he said, “every Ulegai search snd seizure may be validated if the police find Dissenting jristices contended that }¢Vidence of = crime.” He declared that if the agenta ‘had had a warrant to lock for the i|checks, they could not have seized | other items they found, and oon-! cluded: ¢ court’s decision achieves the) nye) and startling result of ' the scope of search with t| iw ant hrosder than an suthd - sentenced to five years’ imprison- teed search.” ment on charges of unlawful posses- sion of an altered notice of draft classification and concealment of other selective service cards and —— certificates, : Justices Frankfurter, Murphy, Jackson and Rutledge dissented from ithe Supreme Court majority deci- \slon upholding Harris’ conviction. Recall Revolutionary War Ideals, i Charging the ruling offers “seri ithreats to basic liberties," e jmixiority harked back to the Re : jlutionary War and the rights a -@ .which it was fought. . ei Justice Murphy declared: {or Supreme Court rulings yes- Could Oppress Political Foes. : Justice Murphy in another dis- senting opinion developed a theme on which all the other dissenters touched: © *“The principle established by the court today can be used as easily oy some future government deter- mined to suppress political opposi- tion under the guise of sedition, 5/95 it can be used by a government! termined to undo forgers and de- ders.” rdey included: 1. A finding that Federal reguis- Today has resurrected and ap-/tions supersede any by the State of ved, in effect, the use of the 'Tilincts in such phases of In ous general “Warrant or writ warehouse reguistion as the t assistance presumably outlawed Government has gone into, but tat rever from our society.” : Federal by aig pan aT 4 Justice Vinson, however, made a pre-erapted the field in regula sharp distinction between seizure, Coptract markets,” which are €x- of “merely evidential materials,” ea where commodities are which can be taken only under a! bought and sold for future delivery. search warrant, and such objects 3-Rejection of « pay formuls as the means for committing crime, Which, the court found, started real t rod ro is a crime itself, eof which the men zai en fF aft_board, The .court minority observed othing was found bearing dire fr ine check case, and that th} PoE AP TEA? Nothing Found in Chock tase and The cha Which Haj as quest, of a Government appeal F O33 very, J lower court ier ae which OPA had! : ve ‘ Jeomplained would wreck wugar ras! 1 overtime alter some em- loot, weapons and property of which ployes ue Pay only 7 hours a week others 54, 3. Dismissal, at. Government m- from | netusal for the second time to; ar protests from Morton Fried-/ n, & Government employe fired fileeetions of Communist amunist «7m MAY 6 1947 WASHINGTON STAR Page. 2 4 B30 Tee Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. = Mr. Mr. Mr, Mr. Tracy Carson Egan Hendon Pennington __ Quinn Tamm _ Neage Miss Gandy s Did wake pe ter hot fs : ' fi NOW If : &1 MAY 8 ' “, toe i voy ' wy fF m4 ais heigl ‘ Onpe yp 1947