Evening star., 1932-10-09
HOOVER T0ADDRESS'
BAR CONVENTION
Other Distinguished Guests
on Association Program
Wednesday.

Wednesday.
With many of the foremost men in
! public life participating, the fifty-f1fth
annual meeting of the American Bar
Association will open here Wednesday
morning.
President Hoover will address the
association, which also will hear three
other distinguished guests-the Marquis
OF Reading, former British Ambassador
to the United States; Paul Reynaud,
French statesman, and Newton w.
Rowell, former premier of Canadian
the course of its sessions.
NJ Reyraud has already arrived in
the Capital, reaching here yesterday
and going to the Mayf1ower. Mr.. Rowell
is expected tomorrow and the Marquis
of Reading, who is in New York, will
be here Tuesday.
To the association also will fall the
fitting distinction of joining in the
ceremonies incident to laying. OF the
| corner stone for the. new home Of the
Supreme Court.
Preliminary to the convention, sec
| ton and affiliated groups will meet,
! these for the most part concluding
their work tomorrow and Tuesday One
o. these. the National Conference OF
Commissioners on Uniform State Laws,
has been here for the past week
The association will hold its opening
Ion of I q
Wednesday. The visitors will be well
coined by Frank j. Hogan, president OF
the Bar Association of the District OF
Columbia, who heads the general COM
mittee which set plans for the gather
ing here.
Response by Missourian.
The response to the greeting will be
by Chief Justice Frank E. Atwood OF
| the Supreme Court of Missouri. He
| will be followed by Guy A. Thompson
of st. Louis. president of the American
Bar Association, who will make his an
| nual address.
Sharing interest with this opening
session will be the night meeting, We'd
nesday, at o'clock, at which President
Hoover will speak. Chief Justice Hughes
will preside at this session, which will
! be marked also by the election of the
General Council. which in turn names
the officers of the association.
| This council, composed of represent
| atives of each State, will be nominated
at the morning session, when officers
will submit their reports.
The afternoon session Of Wednesday
will be at the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States, when the program
| will include an address on The Great
/ Function of the Court by Senior
| United States Circuit Judge Kimbrough
/ Store of the eighth circuit and reports
of various groups.
On Thursday morning the Supreme
Court ceremonies will start at 10
| o'clock. Chief Justice Hughes placing
the stone in the presence of notable
company headed by President and Mrs.
Hoover. and including other members
of the court, of the cabinet, diplomatic
| corps, Congress and Governors, with
other State officers.
| At this event, John w. Davis of
New York, a former Ambassador to
England, and Democratic presidential
nominee in 1924, will give an address
on behalf of the bar of the Supreme
Court. and the Chief Justice will re-
spond for the court. President Thomp-
son will preside.
Attorney General to Speak.
Attorney General Mitchell will speak
at the afternoon meeting Thursday al
| the Chamber of Commerce on Re
form in Federal Criminal Procedure" +"
and there will be another group of re-
ports submitted.
That night, at 9 o'clock. the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Hoover hold the annual
reception to the judiciary at the White
| House, to which the Bar Association
delegates have been invited.
Reports will take up Friday morn
! ing, and that afternoon at the Cham
ber of Commerce there will be ad-
| dresses by M. Reynaud, who has served
| two French cabinets as minister of
| justice. of finance and of colonies. and
! Chairman Hatton w. Summers of the
| House Judiciary Committee on Are
We Observing the Natural Laws Which
Govern Governments"
At this session the annual election
| of officers will take place. and the
American Bar Association medal award
| ed for the most distinguished contribu-
ton to the cause of justice in the last
year. Last year this went to former
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell
| Holmes.
AL o .oU Iildt IllSIlI, III SoliSlllutlOIi
! Hail. the convention will hear the
MARQUIS of Reading, who, in addition
to representing his government iE
Washington, has been Viceroy to India
and secretary of state for foreign af
fairs. Frank B. Kellogg, former Sec
retary of State and one-time AmbaS-
sador to England, will preside at this
meeting.
There will be no sessions Saturday,
which the visitors will pass sightseeing,
and the convention will end with the
annual dinner that night at the May
! flower Hotel. where the association has
its headquarters.
Owen d. Young a Speaker.
There, as president of the association.
Mr.. Thompson will act as POSTMASTER,
and the speakers will be Associate JUS
tice owen j. Roberts Of the United
States Supreme Court; Mr.. Hogan, as
president of the District bar; Owen D.
Young of New York, Mr.. RoWell, as
president of the Canadian Bar Associa-
ton. Washington F. Lilleston OF
Wichita, KanS and the new president
of the association to be chosen Friday.
wide range of subjects will be COW
cred in the group meetings getting un-
der way tomorrow.
The Committee on Communications,
headed by Louis G. Caldwell of Wash
ington: the Conference of Bar Associa-
tion delegates. composed of State bar
representatives, and the National Asso-
citation of Attorneys General will hold
sessions at 10 am. and pm. at the
Mayflower, and at pm. tomorrow the
Bar Association delegates will have din
ner there. in conjunction with the
American Judicature Society.
: Among the speakers at the afternoon
session Of the State bar group will be
Samuel Seabury. president of the New