Evening star., 1951-06-17
Judge 6oIdsborough,
Who Set UNIV Fine,
Dies Unexpectedly
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had recommended only a fine.
sIn this situation" he stated.
"the Government speaks for the
people"
Had Castigated Lewis.
The situation, he told Mr.. Lew
is in pronouncing sentence in
1916. was unusual and unprece-
dented. He added: This is not
the act of a low lawbreaker, but
it is an evil, demoniac, monstrous
thing that means hunger and cold
and unemployment and destitu-
tion and disorganization of the
social fabric: a threat to demo-
cratic government itself"
The strict action in those cases
overshadowed another important
order by Judge Goldsborough a
short time later in 1948. That was
an order forcing the railroad en-
gineers, firemen and switchmen's S
union to call of threatened
strike after the Government seized
the railroads.
While criticized in some quar-
ters as an enemy of labor, he took
occasion during the Lewis trials
to recall his career as a friend of
labor. But, in the case Of the
threatened railroad strike, he
maintained the Norris-LaG Guardia
anti-injunction law did not allow
unions to strike against the Gov
ernment or go to the point where
a strike would "disintegrate
society itself"
Gruelling Schedule.
In the last three weeks Judge
Goldsborough had been wading
through gruelling court sched-
ule. He was to have resumed
trial tomorrow in another ma
tionally- important case involving
a Western natural gas company's
efforts to complete $40 million,
600-mile pipeline across a 16-mile
stretch of Federal land.
This case started Wednesday
afternoon. moments after he had
concluded the bitter two-week
divorce trial of the Rev. and Mrs.
c. Stanley Lowell.
According to attorneys in the
pipeline case. Chief Judge Bolitha
j. Laws had fretted over whether
Judge Goldsborough was too tired
to start right in with it on the
heels of the Lowell trial.
Judge Goldsborough waved
those fears aside. and. moreover,
on recessing the pipeline case at
8 p. m. last Friday, he delved into
yet another court aspect of the
rate refund to Washington gas
consumers.
Sentenced Collazo.
Judge Goldsborough last April
imposed the death penalty on
Oscar COLLAGE, convicted of mur-I
der in connection with the assas-
sination attempt on President
Truman last November /.
After presiding at the trial at
which a jury found the Puerto
Rican guilty of the fatal shooting
OF Blair House Guard Leslie Cof-
felt, Judge Goldsborough told the
defendant that he had no reason
to doubt Collazo's sincerity. q
But he reminded him that he
had taken part in a murderousI
assault in country which grants
more privileges than any other
and which has done more than
any other to aid Puerto Rico.
Less than a month previously
Judge Goldsborough had acquit-
ted Frederick Vanderbilt Field and
Frank Panzino of contempt of
Congress charges. Both men had
refused on grounds of possible
standardization to answer uues-
tions by Congressional commit
tees investigating complaints of
Communist activity.
Aided in Tydings purge"
When appointed to the District
Court bench by President Roose-
veit early in 1889. Judge Colds
borough had represented the First
District in Congress
since 1921. He not only was a !
vigorous New Dealer but he went
out OF his way to help President
Roosevelt try to purge" the then
Senator Tydings. He invited the
President to invade the Free
State of Maryland" in an effort
to defeat Mr.. Tydings in the 1888
Democratic contest. That effort
failed.
When sworn in as a Judge in
April, 1889. he conf1ded to friends
that he had achieved one of his |
greatest ambitions.
against confirmation of the nomi-
although he called atten-
tion to the fact that "it was inI
the home town of Representative
Goldsborough that the principal
attack upon me was made"
Judge Goldsborough was COM
mended by many congressional
colleagues and others for his great
energy and conscientiousness as al
House member. He became high
ranking member of the Banking
Committee. Besides the law, his
main interests were in legislation
involving monetary matters and
economies.
Born on Eastern Shore.
Born September II, 1877, att
Greensboro, Maryland'S Eastern