Show L Aid Sought I f 5 44 Ut Justice or an STONE MAY AY HEAD fAD UI U. Si SlAW LA PROOf PROBE Hoover Seeking Services of Associate Justice of Supreme Court Curt By JAM JAMES ES L. L WEST Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON April 26 AP AP- AP President Hoover is understood to tobe tobe be seeking the services of Associate I Justice Harlan Fiske Stone of the United States supreme court as chairman of his national law en enforcement en en- f ent commission Information in some somo quarters is that the former attorney general is I I reluctant to retire from the time highest court to undertake the task which the chief executive has bias announced will be entrusted to the commission that thal that of exhaustively studying the whole federal Judicial and enforcement enforcement enforcement enforce enforce- ment machinery and submitting recommendations for its tI Some Sopie friends of Justice Stone Slone have been urging him to accept the I appointment They believe the work of the commission will be the most important of its kind in the history of tho the nation and that thal the recommendations made should constitute constitute constitute con con- an enduring monument to its authors President Hoover regards the law enforcement problem as far and away transcending any now before the country In his recent New Continued on page 7 S. S STONE MAY HEAD HEAp U U. S S. LA LAW W PROBE Continued from page 1 dealing wholly bony with this subject ho he said that such u commission can perform the greatest great great- greatest est of s services In our generation DELAYS ANNOUNCEMENT Efforts of the pr president to have ha Justice Stone form torm the arch around which the tho commission personnel will be bo built are re believed to ac account account account ac- ac count In the tiro main for fOI the tho unexpected ed Cd d delay in announcing the mem mem- bers Soon after inauguration it was vas stated slated at the White House that the names of or the members probably probably probably ably would be announced within ten tenda da days s 's or 01 two t weeks No explanation has been forthcoming since as to the cause of ot the delay Justice Stone who is the tho youngest young YOung- est member r of the supreme court court- he Is 57 years old old long long has been a close friend of ot Mr Hoover was his neighbor for years ears In the S street residential section and nd is a no member mem num- bor ber of the Medicine Ball Cabinet Upon his return from front his goodwill tour tou M J South America Mr Hoover Hooter r conferred often orten with the associate Justice and al also o had him as a u. guest gueston on fishing trips In Florida during th the period Unquestionably Unquestionably Unquestionably Un Un- questionably Justice Stone Stono lies lias been one of his most trusted advisers lS l'S Inthe in inthe inthe the study he has been making of ot the law enforcement problem Chief Justice Taft lart also a n neighbor neighbor neigh neigh- i bor in the ye years rs before th the Hoovers moved to 1600 P Pennsylvania avenUe likewise has been frequently consulted consulted consulted con con- on this question as he lie has urged for a number of years rH that there be undertaken the very cry task which the president now would have havea a commission of nationally known men undertake Justice Stone is intensely interest interested interested inter inter- est ested d in this subject and while white at attorney attorney attorney at- at torney general he made macl several addresses addresses ad ad- dresses before bar associations and law taw enforcement committees urging the necessity for the tho observance nC nce of all aU laws and their rigid enforce enforce- ment He also proposed jail sentences sen sea tenc tenets s for violators of the prohibition prohibition prohibition tion I laws WS as the only to bootleggers It was while white serving as dean of ot the Columbia university law school that Justice Stone was selected by President Coolidge e in hl April 1924 I IliS as liS attorney gen general r ll to succeed Barry Hal Bar Harry r ry M. M Daugherty whose administration administration adminis adminis- of or the department nt of Justice then was under investigation by a special senate committee After Arter serving in that office for less than a a. year ear Mr Stone was appointed appointed appointed ap ap- ap- ap pointed to the supreme court b by Mr Coolidge ge on March 2 2 1925 succeeding succeeding succeeding suc suc- the late Justice Justie Jos Joseph ph Mc- Mc Kenna In his four years ears on the bench he has delivered deli opinions for forthe forthe the court in a number of Important cases During Durin his ser services s as teacher of ot law at Columbia Justice St Stone n first began condemning the prodigious number of or laws upon the statute books enacted he contended without without with with- out r regard gard to the principles s of or draftsmanship with their theil meaning menning and effect uncertain t taking king over Into the field of or positive law th the sphere of human action which he would le leave lee e untrammeled d b by Ie legal al restriction Justice Stone as professor and at attorney attorney attorney at- at torney general also strongly advocated advocated in law enforcement that lawful lawful law law- ful ends should be sought h hv by la law lan w- w ful fuI means a precept to which dent Hoover has heartily subscribed in his public addresses and In som some statements as president dealing with enforcement of or th the prohibition laws |