Show 7 THE HE SALT LAKE MAN Arru fO FOR MANTLE 0 OF f lANm LANDIS Federal Judge says ays He Will Resign to Give Time Timeto to Baseball BY RICHARD LEE Universal Service Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON April 9 President President Hangings Hanging's ings ing's patronage troubles already more burdensome than all his other cares of state took a turn for the worse today with the news that Federal Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis of Chicago w will resign within a few fow weeks and devote all of his time to the duties of high commissioner of organized baseball Running almost abreast with this news which came to the president through Attorney General Daugherty was was wasa t string of ot applicants for the place long enough to set a new record on oft a federal jUdgeship It is understood understood understood under under- stood that Judge Landis let the attorney at attorney attorney at- at torney general know Informally so that the selection of a successor might get Set sufficient consideration FAMOUS CASE With Judge Landis' Landis retirement the federal bench will lose one of the most picturesque characters ever produced which probably accounts for the tho In Intense intense In- In tense rivalry for the honor of stepping Into his shoes He lie first sprang into fame with his trial of the Standard Oil company rebate cases at Chicago in 1907 He lie took the tho country's breath away at that time by Imposing the maximum maximum maximum maxi maxi- mum penalties a total of ot 29 in fines tines That fine fino was never paid thanks to the appeals courts but the judge c carVed himself a niche in the hall of ot fame tame the day he passed that sentence upon the oil company More recently he ho won additional fame by being chosen to serve at the supreme court in baseball matters It was that appointment which obviously ob obviously obviously ob- ob led to his retirement from the bench The baseball magnates had offered him a salary of a year rear Being a good Republican and hesitatIng hesitating ing to tit t resign during a Democratic ad adI administration administration ad- ad ministration the Judge took the position posItion I tion at a year deducting the 7 OO paid him by the government CRITICISM GROWS Although he has held court regularly regular regular- ly in addition to professional baseball matters he has been the sJ sub of much much criticism I The president this morning received recell d da a delegation of ot representatives of the Independent Order of ot BRith Abraham which was there to invite him to t th their lr it national convention in Atlantic C Ci City P. P nay May 15 15 and to thank him for his s svia- svia J pathy paUly In behalf of ot the oppressed JewIsh Jewish Jew Jew- ish people in Europe lie He promised at least to send seed a representative to toJ J At lantic City Members of the Mexican good Rill committee headed 4 by Manuel by Manuel lanuel Leal president of the the die ration ration ra- ra tion of ot Mexican n Chambers of Com Commerce m- m merce meree were likewise greeted bYI the president Among other visitors lm- lm ere William Leob v who ho served as ass s secre ere ere- tary to President Roosevelt and General General General Gen Gen- eral J J. Warren Keifer Kelter of ot Ohio who 1 served as speaker of the house during the early elg eighties Ues Representative e Mondell of Wyoming majority leader of the house and Representative Representative Rep Rep- Good of ot Iowa chairman of ot the house committee on appropriations held a conference with the president on the program to be initiated Monday with the opening of the special session The president agreed to the program I already announced by the tho legislative leaders I |