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Show y . alas- - I If I I 1 I W I Six U. S. Communists May Face Death Sentences ' Prosecutor to Ask I Supreme Penalty -in Trials of 6 Radicals Two Women Among Those in Jail in Atlanta for 'Insurrection' y FOSTER EATON, ilnitsd Pre Staff Correspondent. ATLANTA, May II (tlx coui-nunlru coui-nunlru ara In Kulton. county Jail t- liere facing poeabl death sentence In event of their conviction under fwobably the meat sweeping "anti-i "anti-i Insurrection" statute In. America. Two of th six are women, Mary Xaltnn and Anna Burlack. "Aa fast aa thee, communist i mmu hero and publicly preach their ( doctrine of violent opposition to the Jaws of this state we shall Indict them, and I shall demand tha death pensjty in every case," Aaaletant vUoitor Generat John H. Hudson told the L'nltrd Trees today. Th other defendanta are Ho fair, M. H. Powers, communist organisers, or-ganisers, and Henry Story. Atlanta negro, and Gilmer Grady, New York negro, Indicted in connection with sporadic meetings snd obaervances ! hero during tha past several weeks featured by what Hudson said he considered "open appeal for Insurrection." Insur-rection." "Befor any other communists . Tjndertske to come Into our state t and preach their revolutionsry gos- pel." Hudson said, "they would b wis to tnveatigata our lawa, They have plenty of teeth in them. know of no etronger ftlmllar lawa in the - entire country. W will not toler-- toler-- ate communists In Georgia." I ' Th dilution her I unique a Th law under which tha comraun- i 1st wer Indicted permit th death I gienalty at discretion of th jury, I oven though an actual overt aot has not been committed. Merely "in- : tentlon" to commit violence la all the atata need prove. Carr and Powers have been In Jail riere for week without bond, awaiting await-ing trial. Tblr counselincluding l attorney from th Civil Liberties union requested th delay, Hud-un Hud-un said today, however, that their ! . trial dflnltly would bo set early i In June. The other defendant wer Indicted Friday and ara similarly I held without bond. |