Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 215, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 January 1935 — Page 7

JAN. 17, 1935.

COURT BEGINS SECRET DEBATE ON fiOLDCASES Justices Secluded as Usual During Discussions on Crucial Suits. BY HERBERT I ITTLE Time* Sp.rlil Hrltfr WASHINGTON. Jan. 17.—The secret debates leading up to the Supreme Court vote which will decide the gold cases are now in progress. In a century-old basement room of the Captol the nine Justices sit around a table. Tney do this for several hours every Saturday dur-

*ng week days wher arguments are being heard in court and for five days a week during socalled recesses. No stenographers no secretaries, onlj the nine are present. Each personally keeps his owr record, carefullj locking It up afterward. When the Justice dies or retires, the records

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are burned. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes brings up the various cases. He voices his own opinion first and gives his reasons. Then the senior of the eight associate justices gives his ideas, and so on down the line. Discussion is free and unrestricted. When it is concluded the justice in service, Benjamin N. Cardozo, votes first and the Chief Justice last. Have libraries at Home No one knows in advance who is to write the court’s opinion. So each justice comes to the conference table equipped to discuss it fully from all aspects. After the vote, if the Chief Justice is on the winning side, he assigns one of the majority to write the opinion. Otherwise the senior justice among the majority makes the assignment. The opinion Is prepared at the justice’s office. Most of them now have offices at home, with extensive law libraries. They take out huge quantities of books from the court's own library, and from the Library of Congress. The major job is to search out all the precedents and decide which apply. Then it is the court's job to explain why. and also why the opposing precedents are not applicable. Cases Held Not Applicable Decisions of the high courts of .other nations are often important las precedents. Thus in the gold cases the Supreme Court probably will feel itself called on to explain whether or not the decisions of the World Court and the English House of Lords on gold contracts apply to the pending cases here. Lawyers, foreseeing that congres-

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EVANS WOOLLEN JR. ELECTED BANK CHIEF

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Directors of the Fletcher Trust Cos., yesterday, chose Evans Woollen Jr., city controller under former Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, to succeed his father, Evans Woollen Sr., nationally known flnancer and prominent Democrat, as company president. William B. Schiltges, who has been in the service of the company and its predecessor 27 years, was named first vice-president. Mr. Woollen Sr. was elected chairman of the board, and Hugh McK. Landon, executive committee chairman, was named board vice-chair-man.

sional abrogation of the gold payment clause in some 100 billion dollars worth of bonds will be upheld, find a sharp distinction between those decisions and the present cases. The Government also argued the the decisions are not applicable. The World Court and the House of Lords both ruled that gold contracts were binding, and that the debtor must pay off in gold or its equivalent, but both these decisions were merely interpretations of contracts. The pending cases, on the other hand, involve a collision between the contractual promises and the act of Congress definitely changing the value of money and abrogating the private and public contracts, past as well as future. Congress acted under a clause of the Constitution giving it exclusive right to coin money and to regulate its value. In the British and World Court cases no such constitutional power was involved. Britain has no constitution. The World Court case involved a payment of Brazilian bonds in international commerce. Aware of Public Interest The nine judges are aware of the extraordinary public interest in the cases, but they have maintained here as in all other cases, a complete aloofness from the impact of mass opinion. They listened without comment to Atty. Gen. Homer S. Cummings’ dire warnings as to what would happen if the 100 billions in debts were boosted to 169 billions in the flash of a single word from their high bench. It was only when other lawyers discussed the technical legal questions in-

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; volved that they began firing barbed : questions. The humorist, Mr. Dooley, in a ! historic comment, suggested that the Supreme Court followed the election returns just as the Constitution followed the flag after the Spanish war. But the court doesn’t admit there is any pressure on it.

GIRL WINS PLACE ON S. H. S. DEBATING TEAM First of Sex to be Named Member of Tri-State Squad. For the first time in the history of tri-state debating at Shortridge High School, a girl, Bessie Jane Aldridge, will serve this season on one of the teams which will debate Walnut Hills High School, Cincinnati, and Male High School, Louisville. Miss Aldridge will captain the negative team.

Indianapolis Tomorrow

Exchange Club, luncheon, Washington. Sahara Grotto, luncheon, Grotto Club. Phi Delta Theta, luncheon, Board of Trade. Reserve Officers’ Association, luncheon, Board of Trade. Optimist Club, luncheon, Columbia Club. Purchasing Agents, 6:30 p. m., Washington.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

ETHEL SLAGLE NOTED MISSION WORKER, DEAD Dies After Brief Illness; Last Rites to Be Held Saturday. Services for Mrs. Ethel Slagle, prominent city church and missionary worker, who died yesterday at Methodist Hospital after a short illness, will be held at 2 Saturday afternoon in the Washington Street Methodist Church with the Rev, L. H. Kendall officiating. Burial will follow in Washington Park Cemetery. Mrs. Slagle, who was 45. was active in work of the church and, at the time of her death, was president of the Joint Home and Foreign Missionary Societies, secretary of the Indianapolis district of the Home Missionary Society, secretary of the deaconess board, a member of the Ladies’ Aid Society and the Fidelis Bible class. She was a member of Corinthian Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, 1908 Club the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, and the Municipal Woman’s Club. Survivors are the husband, C. C. Slagle; a son, Harold Slagle, and her mother. Mrs. Albert Ru:>selJ, Schell City, Mo., and two sisters. August Calvelage Rites Requiem mass was ogered this morning in the Holy Trinity Catholic Church for August H, Calvelage, Indianapolis pioneer, who died Tuesday at his home, 770 N. Kingav. Burial was in Holy Cross Cemetery. He was 92 years old. Mr. Calvelage was a retired employe of the National Malleable Casting Company. Born in Ft. Jennings, 0., he came to this city in 1880. A daughter, Miss Nora Calvelage, Indianapolis, and a son, George B. Calvelage, Richmond, Ind., survive in addition to seven grandchildren. Leona Watts Dead Funeral services were being arranged today for Mrs. Leona Watts, for 60 years a resident of this city, who died yesterday at her home, 955 Congress-av. Mrs. Watts had been ill for the last two and one-half years. She was 74 and the widow 6f Jacob W. Watts, past master of the North Park Lodge, F. & A. M., and a member of the Seventh Christian Church and the Order of Eastern Star. Services probably will be held Saturday at the Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary. Surviving are two sons, Harold V. and Emery W. Watts, both of Donna, Tex.; a daughter, Mrs. Charles

Ward. 3510 N. Pennsylvania-st, four sisters and five grandchildren. George Austin Passes Last rites for George Austill, retiren farmer, who died yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. W. McGuire. E. lOth-st and Harrisst. will be held Saturday in Oxford, Ind., with burial in Kankakee, 111. Born Aug. 29, 1851, in Ohio, Mr. Austill came to this city five years ago. He will be buried in Kankakee. Survivors besides the daughter are one sister. Mrs. Couch, Fowler; five grandchildren and five great-grand-children.

Mary McAllen Dies Requiem mass for Mrs. Mary G. McAllen, 440 N. It* Salle-st, who died yesterday z.l St. Vincent's Hospital, will ho offered at 9 Saturday morning at St. Philip Neri Catholic Church. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery. Mrs. McAllen was 40. A native cf Ireland, she came to the United States as a child. Survivors are three children, Anna Marie, John and Mary Catherine McAllen; two brothers and a sister. George Davis Funeral George G. Davis retired Big Four Railway superintendent, who died Monday in his home at Lakeland, Fla., will be buried Saturday in Crown Hill Cemetery. Services will oe held at 2 Saturday afternoon in the Hisey & Titus Funeral Home. Mr. Davis was 79. Mr. Davis haa lived in Lakeland

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