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Show I COURT DECIDES IF I fflUfflJffBEBBER I WIALIST EDlTOn AND ASSOCI. ArE9 IN ESPIONAGE CHARGES to BE GIVEN NEW TRIALS. p,.ch Divided In Decision on Radical S "cases, Majority Deciding Judge M Landls Was Inellglblo to Conduct Trial. HI m Wasliliifiton. Victor L. Bergor, So- clallst ctlltor of Milwaukee, nnd four fo-jcfciulniits wlio wore sentenced to S terms ranging from ten to twenty 'flienn for tlolntlon of tho osplonngo -M j W bo Riven new trlnls under a 9 decision on January 01 by tho supremo !WL court. Vfl Dividing, sjx to three, tho court held :i9 rii.it Judge Laiulls of Chicago was In IS eligible to conduct tho trial and should luno rotired on tho filing of nn nffl-iB nffl-iB davit by the defendants charging him 9wllh "personal bias and prejudice," '9tiocau$e of the nativity of certain of QiB Bergcr nnd his co-defendants nro '"AiMl 0lrmor' national secretary of (.flilie Soclnllst party, a native o'f Pros-"Bj!! Pros-"Bj!! William Kruss, editor of tli iTmloanc Socialist magazine, whoso par-tntsnere par-tntsnere Germans; J. Louis Ihigdabl J,9,nd Irwin St. John Tucker, wrlteis u9iad lecturers, natives of tho United States, and claiming to bo not of Im- I (mediate German descent. n'tl The sol ".uestlon before tho su- wBucraf court was whether Judge L:in- KikB1' crr011 ,n con'lnulnK t" lt In "(hecisonftcr defense counsel hnd filed KfB1 P'0PcrI drawn affidavit of preju-ituKtr, preju-ituKtr, Sir members of the court? Includ-mmzl Includ-mmzl Chlcf Jllstlco White, held thnt ho miw.iL Tlirco other members, Justices (f, l'ltnoy nnd Mclteynolds, held ho ' Wrlnot. m"1 "k1 Pln,tns dissenting ErrB:on ,na' of ,1P mnJr'' iniSNCt to that of Eugene V. Debs, .fc-Brt caso of Victor Bcrgcr. publisher difcStihe Mdwnukeo Lender, a Socialist ' tB,ftr' n',n,c''ci1 uiofo attention than V IU other brought by the government ij' "jBtfcr the wartime espionage act. n-i'lM A movement ' lmr ',cr,'or from tno " A Bit In com:res, to which lie had Just iuB elated from u Milwaukee dls-t dls-t mBjict, was at onco started. Represents Represen-ts teB'IteMiinn, former Itcpubllcan lender, dfchBrtif one of the few Influential mom-' mom-' JjBflotfho nouso WM0 c(lln0 out In be-l-itu"Jilt 'f "1C Socialist editor. A now ' YoV 'wltal nav'nK ucon ordered, Merger s Ko&u ifjln returned nnd again the i'I,!?, wed bar lilm, 323 to 0. s'ut&M-'asn hour after he had presented . . H Rttf If Irt lift ou'nru ttt |