Show Hecate County Ban Upheld By Top Court V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Oct 25 By P-By P By Bya a 4 vote the supreme court Monday Monday Monday Mon Mon- day upheld a New York ban on publication and distribution of the novel no Memoirs of H Hecate e c c cat a t e County The book was was banned by New NewYork NewYork NewYork York state courts on the ground that parts of it are obscene The tie vote in the supreme court let et the decision of the state courts stand Justice Frankfurter took no part In the case making an equally equal divided di court possible In the New York courts Doubleday Doubleday Doubleday Double- Double day Co Inc publishers of the book was fined 1000 for violating violat violat- violating ing a state law Jaw providing that the publication selling lending giving away or showing of any obscene lewd ewd lascivious filthy indecent or disgusting book Is a meanor Doubleday appealed to the supreme court Doubleday denied that the book bookIs Is obscene On the contrary the I company contended it is a bona bonafide bonafide bonafide fide work of literature The novel was written by Edmund Wilson Doubleday also argued It had hada a right to publish and distribute the book under the constitutions constitution's free press guarantee |