Lawyers oppose Carswell
WASHINGTON (UPI) — A Negro lawyer, Leroy D. Clark, testified Monday that Supreme Court nominee G. Harrold Carswell frequently shouted at him in his courtroom, once turned his back on him and was "the most hostile federal judge I have ever appeared before."
Clark, who argued cases for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Florida when Carswell was a U.S. District Court judge, was one of three lawyers opposing the judge's nomination at Senate Judiciary Committee hearings.
The other two lawyers characterized Carswell as unfriendly toward Northern attorneys who came South to defend civil rights workers.
Clark said he argued cases before Carswell, then a federal judge in Florida, at least nine times and "Judge Carswell was insulting and hostile."
Clark contended that Carswell's civil rights decision as a U.S. judge in Tallahassee were continually reversed on appeal.
Clark also said Carswell frequently delayed issuing an opinion for months, thereby delaying appeals and desegregation orders resulting from them.
Two other lawyers, Norman Knopf of the Justice Department and Ernst Rosenberger, a New York civil rights lawyer, used the term "extremely hostile" to describe Carswell's attitude toward them in a 1964 case.
Other opposition to the nomination came from Thomas E. Harris, associate general counsel of the AFL-CIO, who called President Nixon's choice "a slap in the face" of Negroes.
Knopf, emphasizing that he was a subpoenaed witness, said he was present in Carswell's chambers when Rosenberger received a lecture from the judge.
"He lectured him for a long time in a high voice," Knopf said. "It was a long, strict lecture about northern lawyers coming down and meddling and arousing local people."
Rosenberger said he was seeking the release of seven Negro voter registration volunteers whose lives, he said, were in jeopardy as long as they remained in the Gadsden County Jail.
Knopf said Carswell "made it clear he was going to deny us all the relief we requested" regardless of the argument that the seven had been illegally convicted.
"What kind of a reputation did Carswell have in regard to civil rights cases?" Sen. Hiram Fong, R-Hawaii, asked Rosenberger.
"His reputation was bad," Rosenberger said. "He was considered an obstructionist."
Marvin Waits, clerk in Cars-
well's former District Court in Tallahassee, was asked about the charge that Carswell was hostile to northern lawyers.
"I have never heard Judge Carswell make any derogatory remarks about any counsel, whether he comes from North,
South, East or West," Waits said.
Another witness, Stephen I. Schlossberg, general counsel for the United Auto Workers, called Carswell's appointment "an insult" to the Senate, to blacks and to the South.
Garbage disposal is a messy problem researcher converts waste to alcohol
LONDON (UPI) Garbage, garbage everywhere and the problem facing municipal authorities and governments the world over is what to do with it.
A British researcher says he believes he has the answer. Turn the garbage into alcohol.
Nowhere more than in Britain is the problem of waste disposal viewed with deep concern by authorities. The average British town-dwelling family produces up to two tons of garbage each year.
Some is dumped, but refuse grounds throughout the country are already overflowing. Some is incinerated, but at a cost of about $16 per ton—a heavy burden on
the taxpayer for a non-produc- "ive process.
Dr. Andrew Porteous, a lecturer at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, believes that by turning garbage into alcohol, authorities have a way to recoup at least part of the cost and achieve efficient garbage destruction.
Dr. Porteous' process works by hydrolizing cellulose, a major constituent of domestic wastes, which, with additional processing, will produce ethyl alcohol.
Ethyl alcohol has many uses in manufacturing processes.
Cellulose is found chiefly in paper and vegetable wastes. Boiled with hydrochloric acid it is converted fairly simply into sugar, which again can be processed by fermentation to produce ethyl alcohol.
The process was used in America during the war years, to provide alcohol for war industries. But not as simply as by Porteous process. In peacetime conditions, the conversion was not economically feasible.
However, Porteous said his process promises to double the alcohol output, and reduce the time taken in hydrolizing from three hours to just over one minute.
Already his proposals are being studied in a program sponsored by the United States Public Health Service.
Hoffman rests defense case; later reverses own decision
CHICAGO (UPI)—U.S. District Court Judge Julius J. Hoffman rested the defense's case himself in the riot conspiracy trial Monday when the chief defense attorney accused the judge of presiding at a "legal lynching" and announced "we're never going to rest."
The judge relented later and said the defense can present one last witness—the Rev. Dr. Ralph Abernathy, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference—if it has him in court at 10 a.m. Tuesday.
Chief defense attorney William M. Kunstler and Hoffman traded angry blasts in stormy sessions of the trial of seven antiwar demonstration leaders.
Kunstler told the judge he had "violated every principle of justice" and challenged him to "put me in jail."
"Never as a lawyer or a judge have I heard a lawyer make remarks such as you have in this court," Hoffman told Kunstler, and in a lengthy scolding later, the judge said:
"I have never seen the things before that I have seen in this courtroom."
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"You've never seen us before, your honor," Kunstler replied.
Turmoil erupted when Kunstler announced that, instead of resting as originally agreed upon, the defense planned to have Abernathy testify in defense of seven antiwar protest leaders.
Kunstler's denunciation of the judge raised such wild applause among spectators that Hoffman ordered at least six persons removed from the courtroom.
The seven defendants in the case are charged with conspiring to incite riot among antiwar demonstrators during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. They have been on trial for more than 18 weeks.
Kunstler had said Friday the defense was through presenting "live" witnesses and wanted only to enter some previously rejected television film into evidence. An agreement was reached that the defense would rest after resolution of the film matter Monday.
Monday Kunstler announced he was "going back" on the agreement because Abernathy had just arrived in Chicago and was available as a witness. The prosecution objected and the judge insisted the defense wind up its case.
His voice quivering with anger, Kunstler charged that Hoffman was more concerned with technicalities than with the truth and told the judge: "You have violated every principle of justice in this trial.
"I am outraged to be in this court before you," Kunstler said.
Senate to discuss human relations
R. L. "Puff" Bailey, Lawrence senior and Senate member, will present a resolution to establish a committee to study the enrollment problems of Speech 141, a human relations discussion course. Bailey said the enrollment problem was caused by a lack of the money needed to hire extra instructors.
Another resolution for a black tutorial program will be presented by Peter George, Tuckahoe, N.Y., senior and chairman of the Student Senate Executive Committee.
The Student Senate will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Kansas Union Jayhawk Room to discuss a list of new resolutions.
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