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rng ix. wa £ fi >. B. 1, ‘Six Justices Rd the ‘United 18” : Court last work ruled thet Joke Theme wae “\". king, an organizer for the United Automobile Workers Union, was not in contempt of Congress when he refused to tell a House subcommittee the names of members of the Communist party she had associated with in the period between 14 and 1947, he Paros His lawyers insisted that . to reveal these. BG: names’ was exposure “for exposure’s sake,” and i i , i t 1 that Congress had no right to do 90, The Su- Mr. BENZ preine Court, by 2 majority of 6 to 1, agreed - Mr. Nease__ with Watkins” lawyers and Chief Justice Warren, Tele. Room__ who Baid: . Mr. Holloman “There is no congressional power to expose Miss Gandy____ for the sake of exposure.” O LI is only fair to point out that other authoft. | Pa fe ——_——— tes have held otherwise, For example, ve ate Justice Frankfurter, when he was e law p i fessor at Harvard, wrote an article for the Ne 0 \ ~ EE Republic called “Hands Off the Tavestigation. a U It said, in part: . “The power of investigation should be left, b q a untrarnmeled, and the methods and forms of | ' each investigation should be left to Congress and its committees, as each situation arises, * °* © It is highly tmportant that even inno- j cent transactions in the generai field of fraud Title: "st. LOUIS GLOBE- and suspicion be explained in order ta * rate the sheep from the goats, ‘The question Vv, DEMOCRAT" _ Is not whether people's feelings here and ye ( Character: there may be hurt, er names i jen it ‘ through the mud’ * * »» ST, LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT ch tit mith Tastee Frankfurter voted agains S ST. LOUIS, MISSOURT ‘, the position that author rankfurter stated “sq “| ’ s. vigorously, _ - - Justice Hugo Black, when he was a Sena / Date: 6 ae . 7 and making a reputation as chairman of seve / ,investigative committees, defended the exercise . V Edition: of the broad powers that the Supreme Court’ - : [iat last week. In an article he wrote for \ : FHarper’s Magazine, he called attention to the ; “enormous pains that investigators must go to to get at the facts.” Those involved won't “come forward with a frank willingness to furnish the 2 truth. * * * It is damning,” he wrote. “Every concelvable obstacte is put in the jor- L ace 7 5 z $- ( way of the investigators,” he pointed out ” accurately. And they must be ermed with NOT NOT RECORDED» the authority to overcome then, he argued. _ 126fJUL 18 957 Last week, Justice Black threw out the wim | pa dow the arguments so ably advanced earlier b author Black. - ee i Justice Clark, in his one-man dissent from the ~ majority opinion, called attention to these earlier tterances of his colleagues, The Frankfurter ticle was written when Congress was digging Soon into the Teapot Dome scandal; the Black article Be , hen the Senate was investigating lobbying. - {. athe Investigations of sovernment scandele and | Author: lobbyists are important. So Is the investiga- | tion of the Communist party, and its infllira- |. tion into government bureaus, labor anlons iH and any organizations, . -- : Thanks to the recent Supreme Court decision, _ a [ it will be impossible to throw on subversion an Same informative spotlight of publicity that e Gov 4 a2.