Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-18
NEW DEAL REPORT
SPLITS BAR GROUP
Committee Hangs Fire as
Fireworks Over S. U.
Die Down.
BY the Associated Press.


LOS ANGELES, July 18.-The New
Deal replaced Senator Huey p. Long
and the Law School of Louisiana State
University as the potentially contro-
versial problem before the American
Bar Association today.
The committee named by the Atty
seventh annual convention last year
to study the effects of the New Deal
upon the rights and liberties of the
American citizen" was day overdue
with its report. and there was no
definite indication when 1t would be
submitted.
The committeeman, who conferred
in closed session. declined to disclose
what angle of the New Deal was re-
sponsible for the apparent disagree
ment and subsequent delay.
The associations council Of legal
education. which last May placed the
L. S. U. Law School on probationary
basis, indicated the matter might
reach an amicable conclusion next
May. The school will be continued
on a status of probation until then.
Fireworks Are Absent.
Fireworks anticipated at the council
session on the question were absent,
as council members indicated DR..
Frederick K. Beutal. new dean of the
law school, had made good impress
sion" in behalf of L. S. U.
The committee named to draft the
report on the New Deal consists of
Owen D. Young. New York; c. E.
Martin, Martinsburg, w. Va: O. w.
Pepper, Philadelphia; w. D. Mitchell.
former United States Attorney Gen.
eral; George L. BUST. Charleston. S.
c.; c. p. Taft, I'd, son OF the former
President, Cincinnati, and ]. D. Clark,
Laramie, Wyo.
Unofficial reports indicated tomor-
rows election Of officers might not be
as routine as generally anticipated,
although bar leaders insisted William
l.. Ransom, New York. will be the new
president. From other sources. how
ever, came the names of Jefferson P.
Chandler. Los Angeles, and James M.
Beck of Pennsylvania. former solicitor
general, as possible nominees.
William P. eMacCracken, jr., Wash
ington, appeared assured of re-elec-
ton as secretary.
In its war against crime, one of
the most important duties of the as
ISOLATION is to rid the country OF the
lawyer criminal" John j. Parker
United States district judge Of Char
lotte, N. c., told delegates yesterday.
In a session during which the as
sembled lawyers put crime, taxation,
divorce and a whole array Of prob
lens into the limelight. Judge Parker
scored INSCRIPTIONS lawyers.
He denounced attorneys Of the "vul-
ture type. the ambulance chaser and
the Police Court racketeer, who have
presented the lawyer in the role Of a
mere parasite, preying none too hon.
estly upon the miseries and misfor-
tunes of his fellows"
Dean Pound Speaks.
Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard
Law School. who presented the major
address on criminal laws, said law
schools, institutes for research and
ministries of justice. State and Federal
creation Of which he advocated, should
join forces in an intelligent overhaul
ing of criminal law.
George e. Medalie. former district
attorney in New York, blamed growth
of racketeering and the inability of
authorities to cope with it, for the
disrespect for criminal law" He said
efficient personnel should not be ham
strung by archaic and antiquated
criminal procedure"
Most sectional meetings concluded
their business yesterday. The Junior
bar conference named Walter L. Brow,
Huntington, w. Va, chairman. The
section Of international and compare
tive law chose James o. Murdoch.
Washington. Robert C. Patton of
Minneapolis was designated chairman
of the real netnta eartinn