In Re Philip Bart

WRIGHT, Circuit Judge.

These appeals tender several important questions under 18 U.S.C. § 3486, sometimes called the Immunity Act of 1954, but perhaps more appropriately labeled the Compulsory Testimony Act. 1 After refusal to answer certain questions propounded by the grand jury relating to his own status as an officer of the Communist Party and that of others, the cited statute was invoked against appellant and he was ordered to testify by the District Judge. 2 Returned to the grand jury, he still refused to answer the questions. He was then taken before the judge, directed to answer, but…