Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1936, Page 7

" INSULL PROPERTIES SOLD AT AUGTION Fine Art Objects Bring High Prices in Boom Market. B the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, November 7.—Insuil holdings sold above par today for the first time since the public utility magnate’s empire crashed about him four years ago. The boom took place to the stac- eato accompaniment of an auction- eer'’s hammer. Insull was again the bull of a rising market, but its credi- tors—not the Insull family—reaped the profits. The sale took place miles away from the stock tickers of Wall Street, in the muted atmosphere of an art (Rll- lery. Fine paintings, hangings, antique silver and rare furniture went on the block by order of the Insull estate trustees to pay storage charges which were eating into the estate itself. The art objects were valued at $100,000—$50,000 in belongings of Mrs. Insull, sr, and $50,000 of her late daughter-in-law, wife of Samuel Insull, jr. ‘They sold for $120,162.50. The auctioneer’s hammer rose and fell to spirited bidding. Competition was so keen a few pieces had to be auctioned twice to settle disputes. “They must be making money in Wall Street this year,” one man mut- tered as the sale prices soared. His comment was -echoed elsewhere in the big crowd. A portrait by George Romney, nine- teenth century British artist, brought the highest price, $1,450. A Sheraton inlaid mahogany and satinwood side- board, eighteenth century English, brought $1,400. Two silver wine coolers, rare pieces of the George III period, were knocked down at $600 each. Similar coolers sold by the late Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick’s estate had brought $1,- 000 each. A Persian for §1,200. A coffee pot brought $220, three tea caddies $330, a needlepoint chair $700, a tall clock $480. The success of the sale was a fate- ful contrast to Insull’s recent attempt to come back in the business world. | After setting up as president of a new radio chain in the Midwest, he re- signed a few months ago because the station owners disagreed with him about the way he was running the business. $26,149,246 COLLECTED AS DUTY ON LIQUORS Customs for First Nine Months Bhow Slight Increase Over 1935 Period.” B the Associated Press. The Treasury reported yesterday that duties collected on imports of foreign liquors totaled $2,764,347 in September, compared with $3,482,039 in August and $3,403,516 in Septem- ber, 1935. For the first nine months of this year duty collections were listed at $26,149,246, compared with $25819,- 696 in the same period last year. Total imports of distilled liquors, both free and dutiable, were set at 1,027,487 proof gallons in September, compared with 1,022,045 gallons in August and 560,777 gallons in Sep- tember a year ago. cypress carpet sold Court Suspends Term of Lawyer In Embezzlement Recommends Bar Build | Up Safeguards Fiduciary Cases. BY the Associated Press. | ROANOKE, Va, November 7—A sentence of a year and a day, im-| posed in Hustings Court last week upon Raye O. Lawson, local attorney and member of the House of Dele- gates, upon conviction of a charge of embezzlement was suspended by Judge J. L. Almond yesterday. At the same time the court an- nounced that he was requesting the Roanoke Bar Association to name a committee to work with the judges of the three local courts of record in building up a proper safeguard around the handling of fiduclary funds. In a statement made in connection with his decision to suspend sentence, | upon motion of defense attorneys. Judge Almond pointed out that in- asmuch as Mr. Lawson would be un- able’ to practice law as a result of his conviction and that he would be unable to hold any public office, “no useful purpose could be further served or interest of society safe- guarded or promoted by requiring this defendant to don a uniform of stripes and to suffer incarceration behind bars of steel.” Lawson was convicted of embez- 2ling $98C from the accounts of the children of Goodwin Brown, deceased. Before his trial opened, however, he settled his accounts in the case. Seven other indictments are out-, in Has Given No Indication He Desires to Put Away Robes. BY the Assoctated Press. Louis Dembitz Brandeis, assoclate justice of the Supreme Court and famed as a spokesman of liberal doce trine, celebrates his 80th birthday an- niversary next Friday, the 13th. Eligible for retirement since 1926, Brandels, oldest of the nine justices, remains immersed in work and study and has given no indication he wants to put aside the silk robes of the court. In keeping with his habits of years, the $ustice planned no unusual cele- bration of his birthday anniversary, other than perhaps a small family gathering. * A vigorous defender of many New Deal measures and social experi- mentation, Brandeis has voted to up- hold the Roosevelt administration in 7 of the 13 cases decided up to the present term of the court. His views on ‘“experimentation,” & word often used in campaign speeches since the New Deal began its legis- lative program, may be summed up in his dissenting opinion on the Okla- homa ice. case when the court in- validated a law regulating competition in the ice business. Must Let Minds Be Bold. “To stay experimentation in things social and economic is a grave re- sponsibility,” said the justice in & long exposition of his views. “Denial of the right to experiment may be fraught with serious conse- quences to the Nation. It is one of the happy incidents of the Federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as & laboratory and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country. “This court has the power to pre- vent an experiment. * * * But in the exercise of this high power we must be ever on our guard. * * * If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.” This opinion, in 1932, was often recalled in the days that followed, when many New Deal measures were falling before the power of the court. Justices Brandeis, Cardozo and Stone dissenting, became a well-known ap- pendix to decisions of the court. A notable exception was the N. R. A., which was thrown down by unanimous decision. A native of Louisville, Ky., Brandels | was educated in schools there, in Ger- | many and at Harvard. He entered the Harvard Law School in 1875 while Longfellow, Lowell and Dr. Holmes still were on the college faculty and the aged Ralph Waldo Emerson de- livered an ocasional lecture. Began Career in Boston. After a short period of practice in | St. Louis, Brandeis settled down in Boston and there began to lay the ground work of a philosophy which | later was to bring forth furious con- | demnation on one hand and lavish | praise on the other. In the years before 1916 he made for himsel{ formidable enemies because | of extensive litigation in which m‘ played a major part. Twenty years after he ascended the bench, amid a bitter, long-raging con- troversy over his nomination by Presi- dent Wilson. The enemies came to ‘Washington, but the friends came, too. Wilson was criticized for making the nomination in the first place and powerful influence was brought to bear upon him to withdraw it. He knew a | fight was coming before Brandeis took | the seat left vacant by the death of | Justice Lamar. Brandeis' name went | to the Senate January 28, 1916. In the stormy hearings of the Sen- ate Judiciary Committee Brandeis’ ca= | reer as a lawyer was talked over for | months, Two volumes of some 1,600 | pages of testimony were taken. The hearings began February 9 and not until June 1 did the Senate con- firm the nomination by 47 to 22. Integrity Attacked. Opposition witnesses attacked the nominee’s integrity as a lawyer. From some quarters there was also opposi« tion to Brandeis because he was a Jew, the first to be nominated to the high- est court. The opposition described him variously as “a man of furious partisanship,” a ‘“dangerous radical” and one “lacking judicial tempera- ment.” After the hearings had run for three months, Chairman Culberson of the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote to President Wilson to ask the “rea- sons” for making the nomination. The same day, May 5, the President gave his reasons. “Many charges have been made against Mr. Brandeis; the report of your subcommittee has already made it plain to you and to the country at large how unfounded those charges | were,” Wilson wrote. “I myself looked | into them three years ago when I de- sired to make Mr. Brandels a member of my cabinet and found that they proceeded for the most part from those who hated Mr. Brandeis be- cause he had refused to be serviceable Furnace, Range and Stove Parts for more than 6,000 brands. Fries, Beall & Sharp standing against Lawson, but R. S. Smith, Commonwealth’s attorney, | ‘was unwilling to say that these would | be nolle prossed. { 734 10th St. N.W. NA. 1964 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., NOVEMBER 8, 1936—PART ONE Justice Brandeis to Mark 80th Birthday on Friday the 13th l JUSTICE BRANDEIS. —Harris-Ewing Photo. to them in the promotion of their own selfish interests.” Wilson added that he recommended Brandeis because “it is my deliberate judgment that, of all men noy at the bar whom it has been my privilege to observe, test and know, he is excep- tionally qualified. I cannot speak too highly of his impartial, impersonal, orderly and constructive mind, his rare analytical powers, his deep human sympathy, his profound acquaintance with the historical roots of our institu- tions and insight into their spirit * © o Bar Presidents Opposed. Seven former presidents of the American Bar Association had signed a communication to the committee saying it was their “painful duty” to express the opinion that Brandeis “is not a fit person to be a member of the Supreme Court of the United States.” william Howard Taft, later Chief Justice, was one of the signers. David 1. Walsh, now Senator from Massachusetts, defended Brandeis, saying: “The real crime of which this man is guilty is that he has exposed the iniquities of men in high places in our financial system.” ‘When the long fight finally came to a close, Brandeis came down to ‘Washington from Dedham, Mass., took the oath on June 5, and came in closer contact than ever with his old friend, Justice Holmes, with whom his name was often linked later in dissenting opinions. With the death of Holmes and the ppointment of Cardozo, the new “liberal wing” of Brandeis, Cardozo and Stone came into being. These three dissented from decisions which validated the A. A. A, the Guffey oal act, the railroad retirement law and the municipal bankruptcy statute. They voted with the majority in the T. V. A. and “gold clause” rulings, both New Deal victories. Brandeis joined unanimous decisions five times against legislation such as the N. R. A., the Prazier-Lemke farm mortgage | moratorium, the building and" loan conversion act, the processing tax re- fund and the power of the President to remove a Federal trade commis- sloner. | Brandeis, a thin, wiry man with unruly iroi y hair, high cheek bones and rugged features, does not look his 80 years. He has admonished friends to “live susterely,” and he been a follower of his teaching. Jjustice and Mrs. __(cannnued From First Page. Richmond and Charles H. Smith of Alexandria declared in their petition that “prejudice” against their client “existed at this time throughoyt the county” and that it would be possible for her to receive a trial” at the hands of a Wise County Jury. 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