Evening star., 1946-11-04
George N. Fay
IsNanled sNew
District Attorney
George (. Mcneil
To Serve in Interim;
Justice Curron Sworn

George Morris Fay, 81, special
assistant to the Attorney Gen
eral and Navy veteran, was
appointed United States attor-
ney for the District by President
Truman today.
Mr.. Fay will succeed Edward M
Curran, who was sworn in today as
an associate justice of District Court
about the same time the White
House was announcing the Presi-
dents choice for his successor.
Like Justice Curran, Mr.. Fay will
serve in an interim appointment
until he can be confirmed by the
Senate.
Meanwhile, the justices of District
Court appointed Assistant United
States Attorney George E. Mcneil
to serve as district attorney until
Mr.. Fay takes Office.
.~ Commission Yet to Come.
Mr. Fay probably will be sworn In
later in the week, when he receives
his commission from the President.
The commission had not arrived
when Mr.. Fay attended the swear
ing in of Mr.. Curran at the court
house today. 1t was not expected
to be signed until the Presidents s
return Wednesday from his trip to
vote in Missouri.
Mr.. Mcneil was sworn in as tenn
porary district attorney by Chief
Justice Bolitha j. Laws in his
chambers at noon. The temporary
appointment was described as rou-
tine practice where a new official
does not take Office at once.
While Mr.. Curran never named a
first assistant, Mr.. Mcneil has been
in charge whenever the district at
torney was out of town and was de-
scribed by Justice Laws as senior
assistant.
Bar Group Backs Mcneil.
The White House announcement
came as the District Bar Association
was giving its unanimous indorse-
ment to Mr.. Mcneil for the prosecu-
tors post.
The bar associations Committee
on Judicial Selection, headed by
John Lewis Smith, submitted the
Endorsement to Attorney General
Clark Just half an hour before Mr..
Fays appointment was announced
at the White House.
The salary of the district attor-
ney is $4,000 year.
Mr.. Fay, a native of West Pitts
ton, Pa, has lived in the Washing
ton area most of the time since
1927, but still lists West Pittston as
his legal domicile. He now resides
with his wife and three daughters,
aged 9, 6 and 3, at 7124 Gloster
road, Bethesda, Md.
Admitted to Bar Here in 1885.
The. new United States attorney
graduated from Georgetown Uni
versity in 1881 and from George
town Law School in 1885.
He was admitted to the District
bar in 1885 and to practice before
the Supreme Court in 1912 He has
been a member of the District Bar
Association and the Federal Bar As
sociation since 1913. Last July he
was appointed a member of the Dis
trict Bar Associations Committee
for War Veterans. He also is vice
chairman of the District Department
of the American Legion Housing
Committee.
When first appointed as an at
torney in the Justice Department in
May. 1885, Mr.. Fay was assigned to
the Bureau of War Risk Insurance.
He participated in the trial of nu-
merous war risk insurance cases in
Federal courts in several parts of the
country.
In January, 1897, he was assigned
for time in the Chicago Office to
handle a group of war risk insur-
ance cases. He worked on similar
cases in District Court in 1887 and
defended the Governments interest
in many trials before Judge F. Dick
inson Let's.
In 1941, Mr.. Fay was appointed a
special assistant to the Attorney
General and assigned to the Grim
inal Division. He was made execu-