Open Atlanta Bombing Trial
with Squabble over Jury

Sand Storms in Israel Cause Millions in Damage, Crop Losses

Attorney James R. Venable
ATLANTA—A jury was com- asked Levin if the ADL had
a re-
pleted Tuesday to try five men not contributed $500 to
accused of bombing the Jewish ward for the arerst and convic-
temple last Oct. 12, but not tion of the synagogue bombers.
without considerable dispute Levin explained that the ADL
had not, but Bnai Brith had.
over the qualifications of pros-
He sought to clarify the re-
pective jurors.
Attorneys for the defense lationship of ADL and its
parent organization, Bnai Brith,
exhausted all of the 20 chal-
lenges to which they were en- as the defense attorneys sought
titled• The state used all but to equate the two.
The anti-Semitism of the de-
one of its ten challenges before
fense attorneys was such that
the 12 jurors were seated.
The state accepted a bus Judge Pye was prompted to
operator who said he was a declare that it was not the
former member of the Ku Klux Jewish people as a group who
Klan; however observers specu- were on trial, but five non-
lated that the former Klans- Jews accused of terrorism. This
man was less objectionable to observation rebuffing defense
the prosecution than others attorneys was prompted by de-
fense attorney Venable's allega-
coming up on the jury list.
A number of prospective tion that Bnai Brith and the
furors were excused because ADL "are interlocked and
they said they opposed the owned and operated by the
death p e n a l t y against the Jewish race."
An earlier defense motion to
accused.
The first defendant ordered quash indictments of the five
to be tried was George A. accused men was overruled by
Bright, 31, who entered a plea Judge Pye. The judge pointed
of not guilty. The others to be out that defense attorneys con-
tried later are Wallace H. tended, in effect, that state law
Allen, Kenneth Griffin, Robert provides "open season" on
Bowling and Richard Bowling. synagogues for bombers.
They have been held without
Judge Pye held that Georgia
bond since their indictment.
law providing a death penalty
Before the jury was seated, in some bombings applied in
defense attorneys sought by the current case against the
subpoena action to obtain a five accused. He thus made
complete membership list of known that he considered the
Bnai Brith in Georgia on the crimes charged of such gravity
grounds that it would aid them that he could impose death
in challenging prospective sentences.
jurors. The move apparently
Defense attorneys had claimed
was aimed at disqualifying that the indictments were void
Jews from service on the jury. because state statutes do not
Judge Durwood T. Pye ruled specifically mention houses of
against the defense attorneys worship among buildings pro-
on the grounds that their sub- tected by the law against
poena did not name the Bnai
Brith. The attorneys had asked bombing. Judge Pye interpreted
for the Georgia membership of the law as including churches
the Anti-Defamation League. and synagogues.
Arthur J. Levin, ADL south
eastern director, took the stand
to explain that the ADL has
only one member in Georgia,
whom he identified as Abe
Goldstein. Levin agreed to
supply the names of all ADL
officers and employ es in
Georgia.

JERUSALEM. (JTA) — The eral days subsided, giving farm- buildings. It is believed that
cold sand storms which have ers an opportunity to assess crop losses will amount to sev-
whipped Israel for the last sev- damage and begin repairs to eral million pounds.

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