Casner, Scott Clubs Debate Bookie Tax in Ames Tonight

Casner Equity and Scott Law Clubs clash over the constitutionality of the federal "bookie tax" at 8 p., tonight in the Langdell Courtroom, in the second semifinal round of the third year Ames Competition. The winning club will go into the finals this spring against the Casner Law Club, victor in Tuesday night's argument.

The Honorable Harrie Brigham Chase, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, will be chief judge at tonight's trial. The associate judges will be Boston lawyers Bailey Aldrich '28 and Benjamin Levin.

Oliver S. Oldman and Julian H. Singman will deliver the oral argument for the Casner Equity Club, which will contend that the statute is invalid. The other members of the club, who worked on the brief, are David T. Bryant, John A. Curtiss, Robert H. Huntington, Jr., Robert E. Mansfield, Robert C. Prom, and James E. Ryder.

Constitutional, Says Scott Club

Evan G. Galbraith and James S. Gratton will argue for the Scott Club, upholding the law's constitutionality. The other third year members of the Scott Club are Milton C. Boesel, Jr., Donn W. Carlsmith, Thomas R. H. Howarth, Paul C. Lambert, Richard L. Ottinger, and Charles C. Wright.

Presiding judge at Tuesday night's argument was the Honorable John Biggs, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, not Herbert F. Goodrich of the same court, as erroneously reported in yesterday's CRIMSON. Goodrich had originally been scheduled to judge.

Elsewhere on the Ames front John S. Rodgers '51 and N. Clifford LeFebvre '51 sprung a surprise upset on the identically-dressed Lubell twins, in an argument Chief Judge Dean Erwin Griswold called ". . .interesting. . ."