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Sg Mm erm oe pr, Clog --.-----00* Mr. Cam ay --.e+- sect? Vic, Glavin ...---+--+* Can’ ‘ Decide a , Me tee 2 Rin wi Meare _ ane wows. ‘ The Supreme Court today post, jponed indefinitely proceedingca in ene inet Ge antitrust case ‘ega. uninum : of America, Company: | Likewlae it postponed considert; tion of a dispute involving orders: ued by the Securities and Ex: change Commission to the. North‘ American Company in connection _ with simplification of that utility . holding company’s set-up. Lacks Legal Quorum The court has been unable to hear the cases because of a lack. y of a legal quorum of six justices, x Four of the court’s nine members * have disqualified themselves fram , the consideration of each case. * The court announced it was un- § able at this time to make “tinal disposition” of the cases. '| The court, in effect, held con- ¢|stitutional orders of President e Roosevelt prohibiting trading in property seized in occupied coun, tries by Germany It took this action by detying™ uthe petition of Werner von Clemm, convicted in Federal court in New York of violating the orders in representing that imported dia- monds, selzed by the German army in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxemboyrg, were of German ori-~ gin. He was sentenced to two years Imprisonment. The Government both contended, that the President's orders were valid in themselves and that Con- gress had ratified them. wen cveramn was indicted with om |. others on charges that they sought ~ to market seized diamonds in this WwW orth ’ | Amrtg \eountry jAwer@if of Germany jafter the Lowlands were invaded ih 1942. _ lo wres =. ee 7