COMMUNISTS: Affirmed

Last week the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the cases of 13 second-string Communist Party leaders, including National Committeewoman Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Pettis Perry, secretary of the party's Negro commission, on charges of conspiracy to advocate violent overthrow of the U.S. Twelve started serving sentences ranging from one to three years in prison; the 13th is standing trial in Washington on other charges.

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