Show Newspaper I Problem zain jn f r v 3 Capitol la Ue ew ev ew Case e Appears Appear Courts Count Protest 5 S By By- RODNEY DUTCHER WASHINGTON NEA Ate EA-A EA can cnn news newspapers apers and c courts been bean cJ clashing In lately ely with m ri ij ordinary ary frequency Th Thero ro fa Ii expert rl testimony available bl 44 I whether this is if duo to a a. fri N. N yearning editors edit among rs freedom r o of th the press pre or an ri Jn r I big Ing b tendency y among j jUdge dS Jf prose prosecutors u ors to adapt t Pt an Jn I paw all w do and l keep eel the hO nc s aj in their place Jj The Tho national c capital has hag b been scene of or ono one of ot th tho tho most conflicts between courts u ar and lJ p p t this year ear Th Three eA young joung eAri r for r tho the Washington Times Time are Ing 45 days In n Jail for become prosecuting wHit It against g bootleggers and proprietors whom they they had met mt min j tog Ing their work on the Uto ap expose of ot the tho wetness 85 of ton Their city editor had brover tur br ov over r evidence to to- the grand Juryj juri l Ins Ing names and and- tho the a s speakeasies S V I There Thero is no law Jaw here bre gran grani ran newspapermen Ino professional but th the tho three rep reporters rt z gued that their information badt baAI gathered confidentially for or t t newspaper In rendering a public i ivice vice vico and that the tho grand Juryj been given Iven enough evidence to f duct an Inquiry of bt its own 7 r eri 5 sentenced by Justice l' l Pe Gordon M Most Mast t of or the tho other W W. Ington newspapermen ar are are- areen r en them thorn because their l- l s ib l i b been en n doubled for the tho p period fj Incarceration er Uon au and their employer promised e each a 1000 bonus a watch and and- anda a a. public reception they got get out 1 l This case cao has attracted at ih atas ii as 18 much national al at ai Incident wherein Paul It R. M It i of or thc the United Press give gave lb tb cret rot roll call caU of or an on executive slon sian of tho the senate and refuse the source of ot his I Info Cor Uon After ACter some somo talk about J MalIon Mallon for contempt the ate vot voted d that in the tb future I IroIl roIl roll calls caIts might bo be- abolished I In lii arato instances by majority In both this case and that that- of f Washington n reporters n papers ov over r the country upholding tho the right of or r reporter JI preserve confidential Int Senator Arthur Capper of oV oti l sas sasa a a Q newspaper publisher J self has bas promised to promote a providing that no newspaper shall shan be compelled In la the X Db 1 of or Columbia to divulge the these so of ot Information which he ho gather l Mils lLIs newspaper This la law t If i acted would r resemble one w has hOos been in effect In Maryland I 1896 The question wn whether thel naWi should bo bG required to to come when witnesses hen they have posed ped vice and gin l been raised before The Tho Jud attitude often otten seems to be ho that newspapers should leave 11 l 14 masses of t citizens In t conditions s unless ss they ar ar arto to to act ct as s prosecuting se Bit Bat probably the mo most t Ji recent victory for tor th the tho pres J the courts l Is to bo be seen een In In l lion of ot George R. R Dale tee tor of ot Iho tho weekly weely Post Post-Dra of or Muncie I hid as all mayor maOr of ell cle ie Somo Some three ears years at a- a ago 1 started t a a. combined attack o o oKu on Ku I Klux lux Klan graft braCt and a al jud Judge c. c T They lC retaliated r tempt c convictions nv a a. sentence e M stilo farm and uC newspapers ms on arm the street ti J kept on fighting lighting and eventual Judge only nl escaped Impeaching S the tho Indiana legislature fact t that a a. two-thirds two vote ote vote COM ecu OU q quite Ho bo ho mustered against D Dale Je is sitting on top of or the thih b hM |