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a a Jone, ne . . : IFE for an august justice of the U.-8. Supreme Court is far from an unruffled bed of ease these days, even ‘though no Federal judge's incon can be reduced durin zhis term of office. _ m the first place there is “the well known and growing ‘feud between Mr. Justice Prank- furter and a whole bloc of others headed by Mr. Justice W. 0. Douglas. . In the see- “ ond place, court obsery- ers may, there is a definite trend on the } high bench toward fol- lowing the re- cent election Teturns to a point some. #2" what Right of ¢ the New Deal. = That means * unheppiness ; again with the President. The third trouble was exposed part, yesterday, by Repre- sentatives Emanuel Ceiler (BD), of New York, ranking member Of the House Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Celler intro duced a bill proposing that only five judges need to attend « ses- sion of the court to make a legal majority capable of hand- ing down a lawful opinion. At Present there must be six judges sitting to make a proceeding legal... This move of Mr. Celler’s is a Necessary preliminary to the dis- posal of the longest, most expen- sive and most embarrassing a suit in world history, ¢) Tt me ustice’s anti-trust suit | ainst the Aluminum Company _ Of America, - eer y or, & wf i —| Ow WA at, Vi 33 By George D. Riley and Page Huidekoper Stymied Justice - Ov the Supreme Court now are former U. &. Attorney Gen- erals Stone, Murphy and Jack- | son and former Solicitor General Reed. Each has declined to sit in judgment on the case because he has at one time or another been drawn into a Government law- Bult with the Aluminum com- That leaves four judges com- DPetent to hear arguments in this critically important anti-trust! suit which, so far, the Govern. | ment has lost all the way. | Before the aluminum case can be settled, the President must | fill the vacancy left by the resig- | nation of Mr. Justice Byrnes, | and the law fixing the number | of Judges who must sit on each : case must be changed. There . must be a change or else a sub- | stitute must be found for one of the judges who has, as fhe ' Jegal Janguage puts it, “recvbed himseye” 1e very idea of calling jhack | | BEC 9 19g . SHENGTON p 1MBS-RERALD . ~Page , tbe Ni Bi Mr. Tracy! ” Mr. Carsea_t ‘Mr. Coffey + --_ Mr. Hendon Mr. Kramer_ __ Mr. MeGuire_ -~:. Mr. Quina Tama .t™ Mr. Nesse__ MissGandy ae ane von