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20 Fed. Juror 1 (1949)

handle is hein.journals/fjbfgj20 and id is 1 raw text is: THE FEDERAL JUROR Vol XX, No. I Published by The Federal Grand Jury Association For the Southern District of New York April, 1949 Congress Urged Communist Challenge Focuses To Add Judges Attention on Jury Selection Bills already introduced in the 81st Congress would increase the number of Federal judges in the Southern District of New York by four and would grant salary increases to all United States judges. The Association has been ac- tively working for some time for addi- tional judges to relieve the present ,overburdened judges and overcrowded court calendars. Representative Emanuel Celler of New York has introduced a measure to increase the number of district judges here from twelve to sixteen. This pro- posed legislation is based on the recom- mendation of the Judicial Conference of the United States, The Conference, which is headed by Chief Justice Vinson, recently recom- mended in a report that twenty-three new Federal judges be authorized, in- duding the four for the Southern Dis- trict. The Conference includes the senior judges of the ten Federal circuit courts. Five more circuit court judges and eighteen jurists for the district courts, the Conference said, constitute the absolute minimum necessary to ade- quately man the courts and to provide for the continued efficient and orderly processing of the business of the courts. Earlier, in an interview with the press, in support of measures to provide ;tore judges for this district, Senior Judge John C. Knox said he did not (Continued on page 4) Reappoints McGohey John F. X. McGohey, United States Attorney for the Southern District of NewYork, has been reappointed to that post by President Truman. Mr. McGohey learned of the nomina- tion when an assistant passed him a note while he was in court during a session of the trial of the eleven Communist laters on conspiracy charges. Later he said he was grateful for this evi- dence of confidence in me. He had Jt tcompleted a four rear term as U. S. aittorney. Write Washington Members of the Association who wish to help further its aims can do so by writing appropriate members of Congress regarding the following bills: In the Senate one bill (S-49) swould establish uniform qualifica- tions forjurors in the Federal courts sehile the other (S-52) would auth- orize the appointment of addi- tional circuit and district judges. Senator Patrick A. McCarran is Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and one of New York's Senators, Robert F. Wagner, is on the Committee. Members may also wish to write New York's other Senator, Irving M. Ives. In the House Representative Eugene J. Keogh has introduced a bill (H-241) to increase the salaries of Federal judges. Representative Emanuel Celler, one of New York City's Congressmen, is Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Members are also urged to write the Congressmen from their own dis- tricts. Shaw Cites Goals In Annual Report Calling the grand jury a great un- used force for the public good, A. Vere Shaw, President of the Association, took the occasion of his annual report at the 1948 meeting last November, not only to report on what the Association had done, but what it must do to increase the usefulness of the grand jury and to serve the public welfare. After citing what the Association had accomplished and was planning to do, Mr. Shaw summed up by descriIsing the double problem the Association faces of aiding jurors and educating the pub- lic as to grand juries. It is not, he re- minded his listeners. a job for a year or (Cssntsnud an page 2), The attesspt of counsel for eleven leaders of the Communist party now on trial in Federal Court in this district to prove discrimination in the selection of panel lists for both Grand and Petit juries has focused nation-wide attention on this challenge to the jury system. The defendants were indicted by a Grand Jury last July on the charge of conspiracy to organize the Communist party for advocacy of the forcible over- throw of the Government. When the trial opened before Judge Harold R. Medina, counsel for the eleven (William Z. Foster, the twelfth, was excused be- cause of illness), demanded that the indictment be quashed on the basis of illegal selection of the jurors. They asserted that low-income groups, Negroes, Jews, women, manual workers, and members of the Commu- nist and American Labor parties have been excluded from jury lists in this dis- trict. Despite forty-two witnesses called by the defense, including some mem- bers of the jury panel, they failed to satisfy Judge Medina that there has been any discrimination it the selec- tion of jurors on the basis of race, color, creed, politics, or financial standing. Judge Medina, who has been widely commended for his patience in hearing she defendants' arguments, finally stated o court: I find that there has been willful, deliberate and concerted effort so delay the proceedings. At first I (Conssssiedsonpgcest) New Committeemen Five new members of the Executive Committee have been named for 1949: Thayer Csmings, advertising, Bat- ten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc., 383 Madison Avenue; W. H. Eaton, publisher, The American Home, 444 Madison Avenue; John C. Farrar, publisher. Farrar, Straus & Co., Inc., 53 East 34th Street; John Minturn Le Roy, insurance, Chubb & Son, 90 John Sturd; John T. Ogden, pub- lisher, Odgen Publishing Co., 55 West 42nd Street.

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