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Show t ' , Jurists fo Rule On Trial Issue WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 Ths supreme court Monday agreed to decide finally whether people tried and Imprisoned abroad by American authorities have access to courts la this county. At the eame time, however, the tribunal split T to 1 in refusing to Intervene in the unsuccessful efforts ef-forts of Friedrich Flick, a German Industrialist to win freedom from U. 8. army prison ia Germany. Flick wss sentenced by a mllK tary tribunal at Nuernberg to seven years on charges that hs exploited slave labor and looted German occupied countries . In another case, the court refused re-fused to rive priority to ths battle against deportation being waged by Irving Potash. Potash, among 11 Communist party leaders convicted con-victed in New York of conspiring to teach forcible overthrow of the United States government, wanted the high court to take the deportation deporta-tion esse away from the U.S. court of appeal here and thereby speed a final decision. Ths court's decision to look into ths rights of those convicted and held by American authorities stems from a decision by ths U. 8. court of appeals here. That court held thst not only ths Germans Involved In-volved in the case before it but anyone else triad and held by American authorities, hss ths right to apply for writs of habeas corpus In ths United States. Such writs require that the person per-son being held must be brought before a court so the Judge can determine whether he is being unjustly un-justly imprisoned. The Justice department appealed the decision, contending that the eonstiution gives no such right to enemy aliens located la enemy territory. |