Cotirt Review Set On Military Justice Klansmen Lose Their work on a summer By John P. MacKenzie voting project stirred anger Washinetoo Post Staff Writer in and around Philadelphia, The Supreme Court 'de- Miss. nied a hearing yesterday The three rights workers for seven men convicted in a 1964 Ku Klux Klan plot were shot to death and to kill three civil right work- buried in an earthen dam on ers in Mississippi. June 21, 1964, after they had * Without comm en t, the been arrested on a traffic court let stand the conspira- charge, released and, ac- cy verdicts against the seven. cording to court testimony, Jail terms under the ver- rearrested for turning over dicts range from three years fb a lynch party that had for three of the men to the been assembled. 10-year maximum for Nesho- Mississippi took no action ba County Deputy Sheriff against the law enforcement Cecil Ray Price and Sam officials or private, citizens, Bowers Jr., who was im- but the Justice Department perial wizard of the White obtained initial indictments Knight of the Ku Klux Klan. against 18 men charging a All that remains to nose violation of an 1870 law out the case is for the con- 'against conspiring to violate merciless plot to muraer victed men to file their ex- in d ivid ual constitutional the three men." pected petitions for recon- rights. Responding to the peti- sideration. If the court de- Federal Judge W. Harold tions of the convicted seven, clines, as it usually does, to Cox dismissed the case as the Justice Department said grant the petitions, the men a private, local crime be- the issues were unworthy will begin serving their yond the reach of federal of Supreme Court review. sentences. law, but in 1966 the Su- It said Barnette's confession The victims of the gang preme Court said the al- was clearly voluntary and killing were Mi c h a el leged involvement of the not made While in custody Schwerner, 23, and Andrew sheriff's office brought the and that any trial errors Goodman, 20, two white charges well within federal must be deemed "harmless" CORE volunteers from New jurisdiction. It ordered the to the defendants' rights. York, and James E. Chaney, indictment reinstated. a Negro from Meridian, Convicted along with Miss. Price and Bowers in Octo- ber, 1967, were Alton Wayne Roberts, a former nightclub bouncer; Horace Doyle Bar- nette, a former salesman; Billy Wayne Posey, a Phila- delphia service station oper- ator, and Jimmy Snowden and Jimmy Arledge, truck drivers from Meridian. The all - white jury acquitted County Sheriff Lawrence Rainey and seven other de- fendants. It deadlocked as to three others. In the conspiracy case, Assistant Attorney General John 'Doar, the prosecu- tor who was in charge Of the Justice Department's civil rights division, Intro- duced a confession by Bar- nette to the FBI, as well as the testimony of three for- mer Klansmen turned FBI. informants. On appeal, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it found "ample proof of conspiracy and each ap- pellant's complicity in a calculated. cold-blooded and CECIL PRICE HORACE D. BARNETTE ALTON W. ROBERTS SAM BOWERS JR. Court Bars Appeal in Klan Plot PLOT, From Al BILLY WAYNE POSEY . JIMMY ARLEDGE - JIMMY SNOWDEN Hearing is denied for seven convicted in 1964 klan plot to kill civil rights workers. .