Judge Delays Berlow Trial

Cambridge Judge M. Edward Viola decided yesterday to postpone until May 14 the trials of John T. Berlow '71 and James T. Kilbreth '69, two members of the Progressive Labor Party (PL) charged with disrupting the March 26 Counter Teach-in.

The defendants, charged by the Administration with disrupting a public assembly and trespassing, had asked for the postponement in order to have time to find their own lawyers.

Archibald Cox '34, University trouble-shooter, filed identical charges Thursday against John Pennington '67-4, former national secretary of SDS and PL member.

Politically Active

Pennington, who is the first student presently enrolled at Harvard to face criminal charges in the aftermath of the Sanders Theatre incident, said he would try to avoid arrest but would still remain "politically active."

Kilbreth-arrested Thursday afternoon-and Berlow both said yesterday that they would definitely build "for a real political trial."

"A few legal points may be raised to show that Harvard doesn't even abide by its own rules," Berlow said, "but we'll direct our main efforts toward showing that Harvard is vindictively singling out members of PL."

Three Boston policemen picked up Kilbreth Thursday afternoon as he was organizing a tenants' demonstration outside the Boston office of landlord Maurice Gordon. They then took him to the Cambridge police station where he was booked and required to post $1000 bail.

Kilbreth finished serving a nine-month sentence last December for assault and battery on former dean Robert Walson, now director of Athletics.

Intelligence Report

The Boston Police Department refused to disclose how it was able to pinpoint Kilbreth's whereabouts, Kilbreth claimed, however, that on his way to the Cambridge police station, one of the arresting officers was reading an intelligence report detailing his recent activities.

Berlow, dismissed from Harvard following the April 1969 occupation of University Hall, was arrested on April 16 when an unidentified member of the Students For a Just Peace (SJP), the group which organized the Counter Teach-In, pointed him out to a Cambridge policeman. Berlow was then released on his own personal recognizance.