The Ypsilanti Daily Press

RELIEF FOR SEDITION TRIAL ATTORNEYS?
To countless persons Washington's mass sedition trial, which currently features 26 defendants being held on charges of conspiracy to undermine the morale of the armed forces, is one of the war's whacky sideshows.
But to some 14 lawyers, 22 jurors and innumerable court-appointed aides, the trial has became a first class financial headache.
As the mass trial moves to the end of its 15th and 16th weeks-without the end anywhere in sight-these persons can justly call themselves martyrs of the war.
The hardest hit are the 14 defense lawyers appointed by the court. There is no provision in law providing compensation for these attorneys. Unless Congress appropriates funds or fees are forthcoming from some other source, many of the lawyers-and very capable men with respectable practices-will be nearly destitute.
Presiding Justice Edward C. Eicher is reported seeking assistance from bar groups for the formulation of some type of program providing relief for these attorneys.