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) fy A a pOsere i ottey mnt, Mr. Mr. Mr. _ Mr. Carson Mr. Egan Mr. Hendon Mr. Pennington _ Mr. Quinn Tamm Mr. Nease Miss Gandy fackson Black Foud _ a” 0 Rosen Tracy May Bring: Corfgressional Probe ‘of Court _ — Mr. Jackson loosed his blast agains ‘Justice Black from Nurenberg, Ger The unprecedented qnbertacle of open warfare between two many, where he has been serving agi ‘ * Uniled Press nembers of the U. §. Supreme Court ay hurled Congress tnto a feud involving Justices Robert 1 ackson and Hugo L, HACK, iL Taised the possihitity of a congressional investigation alia public linen-washing such as the staid old court never has ex- rerienced since if was founded in 1789. The ramifications conceivably could involve impeachment pro- coedings against one or both of the brawling members of the nation’s highest tribunal. And it could stall the pending nomi- nation of Fred M. Vinson to be Grief justice, The feud belween Justices Jackson —~wongress, despite stunned in- and Blark had been smoudering with wnofficial congressional cognizance for . Butity that a Supreme Court Justice tore than a year. An angry blast by Mr. Jackson. questioning his associate's judicial policy if noi his honor, droughi it forcefully into the open, NO COMMENT Mr. Black veccived ihe news with stony silence. So did members of Presi- Genta Truman's official family. with public charges against a calengue| reacted vorally. There were demands vestigation far an | into the entire factional strife between New Dealers and con- two members, Mr, Black. acting chief justice, heads the New Deal bloc. Mr. Jackson offen votes the conservative line. HERE'S THE LINEUP Charging that the private war among the justices goes as far as im-|! neaching “Lhe reniufation of the court | for nonpartisan aud unbiased decision, Mr. Jackson BS! On Black's side: Associate Justices | Btanley F. Reed. William ©. Dougias, Frank Murphy and Wiley Rutledge, On Jackson's side: Associate Justice " Felix Frankfurter and former Justice , Owen J. Roberts. WON'T DELAY Bome Congressmen expressed fears that uniess Lhe niatler is solved swiftly sed comnictely Ho omay Jeopardize puh- fie Calli de the court setoap te the Can. a ll Ri . —— - a of the Senate Judiciary Committee said be locked into." benny MR JACKSON mee eigreess should have facis t) as acheduled this week on naon nomination. _* o> Pee WASHINGTON NEWS Page | ould shatter the traditional serenity) sen servatives on the high bench slong with the peronal vendetta between the Biack named the feud : Mr. Jackson withheld comment until i atitation aa the model of hnpariial juckaprudence. { Chairman Pat McCarran (D,. New) He saw no resso however, why the committee shout bse e war crimes prosecutor. He cable copies to the Senate and House Judi- eiary committees. PORTAL-TO-PORTAS, PAY | His complaint was based principal! m the fact that Black participated ir court decision in 1945- involving th amed Jewell Ridge. Va.. coal compan “portal to portal’ mine pay case. Mr, Jackson felt that Mr. Black” should have disqualified himself since | the United Mine Workers Union, s1c- cessful litigants in the case. was repre- ted by Black's former law partner,’ Crampton Harris of Alabama. The deep-seated difference between me two associate justices Was evident the time. But a recent column by Doris Fleeson in The Washington Star on President ‘Truman's prob- lem In filling the chlef justiceship was the final straw that evoked Mr. Jack- son's outburst. : PRESIDENT’S DILEMMA It credited a Senate source with quoting Mr. Truman to the effect that “Black says he will resign if I make iJackson chief justice and tell the rea- ’ Solis why, Jackson says the same about Vinson’s nomination because, he said. he didn't want te be put in the position of pleading for the post. He stressed that his statement should in na way be considered an objection to the selection of Mr. Vinson. i But. he said, he wanted to set the’ record straight in regard to his own feud with Mr. Black and particularly | lo denounce the charge that he had | voiced any threata to the President. TIME FOR FACTS “ie war is declared on me T propose lo wage Jl with the weapons of the open warrior, not Urose of Lie stenithy mecsnasdia” Mr. Jackson said he made no charge Mr. Jackson's charges “naturally will] ina, Mr. Black's participation in the case involved “laek of ‘honor.’ ” eee, |