Court's Pay Actions Hit By Jackson
Justice Robert H. Jackson said Supreme Court portal to portal pay decisions render collective bargaining contracts largely unenforceable and threaten endless litigation. He criticized 1943 1945 1946 portal rulings and urged the court to reconsider its approach under the wage hour act for rail trainee cases. He dissented in Jewell Ridge and abstained on Mt. Clemens due to war crimes duties.
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Byrd Flies Over South Pole Again
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd piloted a 13 hour flight from Little America aboard the Mt Olympus to the South Pole and reportedly dropped a United Nations flag or emblem. He returned with a second craft as weather chilled to 40 below at altitude. Byrd spoke of unknown lands beyond the Pole and a wish that others reach new territory beyond the icy center of the world.
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Ray Robinson Fined and Suspended for Weight Deviation
New York boxing world welterweight champion Ray Robinson was suspended 30 days and fined 500 dollars by the New York State Athletic Commission for failing to accept a 25 000 offer not to make weight for his title bout with Marty Bervo last September.
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Mob Lynches Dixie Black man Willie Earle near Greenville
An armed mob of about 35 white men overpowered the jailer at Pickens and removed Willie Earle a 35 year old Black suspect. Earle was fatally harmed and found on the road between Pickens and Greenville after being taken from jail. Police say T W Brown taxi driver was robbed and later died. Brown was attacked on a lonely road Saturday night and robbed of $40.
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Poker widow tells judge of honeymoon card players
In Los Angeles Marguerite Campbell testified that her husband William Marshall 38 owner of a Hollywood sports center carried a deck of cards everywhere even on their honeymoon. She won a divorce from Marshall whom she wed last February 26 describing him as a poker-obsessed spouse despite their marriage only months old.
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Auto Worker Chiefs Swap Hot Charges
CIO United Auto Workers President Walter P. Reuther accused Vice-president R. J. Thomas of irresponsible actions that jeopardized wage and contract negotiations during the Allis-Chalmers strike. Thomas countered that Reuther interfered in settlement talks, aided by management representatives, affecting a plant election. Reuther denied collusion and warned that anti-union stories damaged the union and the Allis-Chalmers strike.
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Allis- Chalmers
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Philip Murray
General Motors
Sunday Tide of U S Accidents Gives 32 Deaths
United Areas reports a nationwide wave of disasters killing 32 people and injuring 80 plus across planes trains cars and fires. The toll includes multiple drownings burnings and a fatal bridge and rail incidents across several states with numerous named locations and individuals.
Davenport Schools Head Resigns for Oregon University Post
Dr. Paul B. Jacobson, Davenport school superintendent since July 1, 1944, resigns to become professor and dean of the school of education at the University of Oregon, the Davenport announcement disclosed Monday.
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Senators Back 2 Term Limit Amendment In Senate Vote
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a constitutional amendment to limit presidents to two full terms. Changes include eligibility for two extra terms if a term was served under one year and ratification by three fourths of state conventions rather than legislatures. Only Sen Kilgore opposed. bipartisan support from Wiley Langer Ferguson Revercomb Moore Cooper Donnell Magnuson McGrath.
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Funds Plea Of Truman Cut in Half
Republican led house appropriations committee slashed President Truman’s 1947 funding request by 56 percent, cutting the current year deficiency bill from 315 million to 139 million. Veterans Affairs received most of the cut, but the panel pledged detailed review later and left a stopgap VA fund of 136.2 million to extend through March while seeking fiscal restraint across agencies.
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Princeton Honors Greene on 91st Birthday at Old Nassau Medallion
Princeton University honored Calvin G. Greene, oldest alumni, on his 91st birthday, Feb 18, with a medallion featuring Old Nassau to mark the university's bicentennial. Greene, class of 1877, helped row with John S. Ely in 1873. Arthur Poe, a football star, accompanied them. Greene, born 1856, father was Cedar Rapids pioneer Judge George Greene. He built Cedar Rapids street railway and electric light, erected Greene's opera house, and aided Coe College, YMCA, Masonic library, St Luke's hospital, and Cedar Rapids Country Club, though he is now in feeble health at St Luke's.
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Arthur Poe
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Cedar Rapids
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St. Luke’s Hospital
Cedar Rapids Country Club
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U S Opens Russian Language Radio Broadcasts From New York
U S authorities launched the first daily Russian language radio segment from New York, aimed at showcasing American life and government. The program, aired noon CST, included world news, federal-state relations, folk music, scientific notes, and a political history overview. It featured a discuss of Constitution formation, civil war, and state powers, with music and a hay fever drug mention.
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Must Ship Russia Goods Asks 25 Million In Return
U S officials told senators that 25 million dollars of goods contracted under lend-lease must be shipped to Russia. Lend-lease administrator Chester Lane denied using subterfuge to bypass a Dec. 31 deadline set by Congress. He cited prior agreements made before Japan's surrender and before Congress curtailed lend-lease.
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Washington
State
Senate approves wartime tax retention bill in Senate
Senate Monday passed a bill to retain excise taxes at wartime rates. The House passed similar legislation last month. Due to amendments the bill goes to a conference committee of Senate and House members. Taxes apply to liquor cosmetics jewelry and furs. The bill was adopted in the Senate on a voice vote with little debate.
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House Ways and Means Delays Tax Cut Hearings
Chairman Knutson of the House Ways and Means Committee postponed consideration of tax cuts until Congress decides the size of the 1948 spending cut. Hearings on Knutson's bill proposing a 20 percent across the board reduction in individual income levies were set to begin Wednesday.
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Congress
Knutson
R-Minn
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Ways and Means Committee
Knut~son
Taber to push six billion dollar budget cut to floor
Rep. Taber announces he will move the six billion dollar budget cut proposal to the house floor with a rule preventing changes during debate after a conference with Speaker Martin Knutson Allen and Wigglesworth.
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Taber
R-N. Y
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Martin
R-Mass
Ways and Means Committee
Knutson
R-Minn
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Allen
R-Iii
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No ruling this month on Lewis case delays court decision
The Supreme Court recessed for two weeks without ruling on the contempt of court case against John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers. A decision is delayed at least until March 3 when the court will issue its next opinions, while Lewis’s mine strike truce expires March 31.
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Washington
LLP
Supreme Court
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Near Cold Wave Conditions Seen Cedar Rapids
The weather bureau forecast colder readings for tonight and Tuesday across the state with lows of 10 above in the north and 20 above in the south. Light snow was expected statewide and Cedar Rapids reported light flakes with temps around 33 through early afternoon, a departure from Sunday highs and lows.
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Cedar Rapids
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Chambers-Inskeep
Confession False Stockdale Claims
Fresno Calif AP Attorneys for Otho C Stockdale 25 railroad fireman and former soldier Sunday said he had repudiated a statement he killed a man for whose slaying a soldier is serving life imprisonment Stockdale's statement to Fresno police that he killed Cpl Peter de Fuscoa Uniontown Pa at an army camp near Salina Kan reopened the case in which Pvt A B Ritchie Hickory N C was convicted of murder by a court martial Ritchie was condemned to death but his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment His application for pardon is pending Attorneys J F Nagel and Gerald W Stutsman said Stockdale told them he had taken the blame for the slaying in the hope it would lead to his death and free him from a life overburdened by alcoholism and confusion Nagel quoted Stockdale as saying I figured this might be a way out I would be arrested my life would be taken and that would be the end.
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Otho C. Stockdale
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Peter de Fuscoa
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