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gress, “because your light is on,”
Jackson said.
“I’m not saying it was your
fault,” the Justice continued with
a smile. ‘You were led into it by
the Court, which has likewise
found itself spending much of its
time in psychoanalysis of Con
gress.” Sonnett replied with “I’ll
be more than happy to obey, your
Honor.”
Sonnett went on with his argu
ment only a moment. Then the red
light beside the white one flashed
on. His time was up, and the case
was ended.
The point Jackson suggested)
that Sonnett pursue was what
would happen if the courts lacked !
jurisdiction to issue an injunction
in a case like the coal dispute.
The chief point of controversy
in the case had been whether the
Norris-La Guardia anti-injunction
act applies when the government
i> a party to a labor dispute.
Atorney General Tom Clark and
Sonnett insisted it did not.
But Lewis’ lawyers, Welly K.
Hopkins and Joseph A. Padway,
contended the government’s action
against the mine union and its
leader was a violation of that act.
Hopkins and Payway cited Con
gressional debate and committee
reports to support their conten
tion that Congress intended to put
a stop to “government by injunc
tion" when it pased the Norris-La
Guardia law.
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GOP OK’s Excise
Tax Continuance
—
(By Francis M. LeMay)
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Republi
can tax managers gave a green
light today to legislation continu- j
ing indefinitely the high wartime
excise rates on such things as li
quors, furs and jewelry.
The surprise decision to head off
an automatic $1,500,000 roll-back
in levies July 1 brought GOP
lawmakers and President Truman
eye to eye on the first major tax
problem to confront the BOth Con
gress.
But Republicans expressed re
newed determination to cut indi-1
vidual income taxes 20 per cent—
a move strongly opposed by the
President.
Chairman Knutson <K.-Minn.',j
said the House ways and means
committee may approve a bill con
tinuing the high excises at its first
meeting on Friday. Such a quick
step, he said, would erase business
. uncertainty caused by* consumers
delaying purchases in anticipa
tion of the otherwise automatic
reductions six months hence.
Moreover, he told newsmen, the
continued large collection of excise
revenues would make it easy for
the Republicans to slash individ
ual income taxes by a fifth this
year, at a total estimated saving to
income earners of $3,350,000,000.
If Chairman Taber (R.-N.Y.), of
the House appropriations commit
tee is correct in declaring ‘‘that the
budget can be held down, Knut
son said, then: “A 20 per cent tax
reduction will be comparatively
easy, and we should be able to
pay four of five billions on the
public debt.” Taber’s latest estim
ate is that “three to four billions’
can be pared from the President s
$37,528,000,000 spending figure.
The reversal of position came at >
the first meeting of GOP members
Sympathy Strikes
Spread In London
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LONDON, </Pi—More than 2,000!
Thames lightermen and thousands}
of stevedores and dockers quit
work today in sympathy walkouts,
swelling to 40,000 or more the
number of persons idle in Lon
don’s mushrooming 10-day-old
transport strike.
The new work stoppages, pro
testing the use of troops to replace'
striking truck drivers for delivery
of food, came as negotiators hoped
for an early settlement of the
truck dispute, crux of an “unoffi
cial” strike which some lobar par
tisans feared might upset the La
bor government.
i
Union leaders appealed to the I
dock workers at a meeting th's!
morning to return to their jobs,
but their speeches, citing the strik
ing truckers’ advice against fur
ther sympathy walkouts, were
shouted down.
Strike leader J. E. Evaps, in a ,
message to the 30,000 strikers, said
he hoped “some concrete propos-'
als” would develop in union nego
tiations today and the Daily Her
ald, labor organ, said in a bold'
headline: “Strike Call-Off Likelyj
Today.” At least 20.000 other
union members—protesting use of
troops to deliver food supplies to
London shops—prepared to join
the walkout if the new confer-,
ences fail. The truck drivers want;
a 44-hour work week intsead of 48
hours, two-week paid vacations
and overtime pay instead of time i
off.
The public, which already has
missed most of one week’s meat!
ration because of the strike, placed j
its hope for settlement in a new I
government-sponsored joint indus- j
trial council of transport workers;
and employers empowered to re
consider the strikers’ demands.
“A Labor government cannot
last alongside a discredited trade
union movement,” O’Brien, Labor
member of Parliament, declared.
‘‘The workers of Britain cannot
have a Labor government and re
pudiate trade union organizations
and their leaders at the same
time.”
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Truman To Hold
First Mixed Party
Conference
WASHINGTON, I/P)—President
Truman wil lhold his first bi-par
tisan legislative conference with
the new Congressional “Big Six"
tomorrow.
The White House announced to- j
day that four Republican Congres-1
sional leaders will meet with the
President at the White House at;
10 a.m. (EST> tomorrow together
with the Democratic minority lead-,
ers, Senator Barkley <Ky.) and
Rep. Rayburn (Tex.).
Rayburn yesterday told of the
President’s decision to hold peri- J
odic legislative conferences with
the leaders of the Republican Con
gressional majority as well as the
Democratic chieftains.
Senator Vandenberg (Mich.).J
the president pro tempore of the.
Senate; Senate majority leader
White <Me.), Speaker Martin
(Mass.), and House majority lead
er Hallek (Ind.) of the House will
sit in on the conferences.
The “Big Six” replaces the
Democratic “Big Four” who con
ferred every Monday morning
with the President during the last
of the House ways and means com
mittee yesterday.
Introduced Sports
Legislation
WASHINGTON, Rep. Her
bert (D.-La.), introduced legisla
tion today setting out heavy penal
ties for attempts to bribe athlete.^
and sports officials, asserting that
“sports is big business and the
public must be protected from the
fixers, the ehiselers and the graft
ers.”
Herbert said in a statement his
action stemmed from “the recent
professional football scandal in
volving Alvin Paris for allegedly
attempting to bribe Frankie Fil
chock and Merle Hapes of the New
York Giants.”
Paris was convicted in New
York last week on the bribery
charge. National league commis
sioner Bert Bell now is studying
the future status of Filchock and
Hapes in professional football, al
though both have been paid their
full cut from the league champion
ship game.
Herbert introduced a second
measure covering only the district
of Columbia, a bill patterned after
the New York statutee under
which Paris was prosecuted.
But his federal legislation—the
first, he said, of its kind ever pre
sented—is based on the premise
that athletes and athletic teams
come under the jurisdiction of the
federal government “just as do in
terstate carriers, corporations and
trade unions.”
The fedeal statute covering in
terstate athletic contests would
carry a penalty of up to ten years
imprisonment and a $10,000 fine.
The District of Columbia measure
would fix the maximum penalty at
five years imprisonment and a
fine of $1,000.
NEW YORK. (/PI—An eruption
of legislative bills against the at
tempts of professional gamblers to
rig sporting events has taken place
in numerous lawmaking bodies
throughout the nation.
In Albany, a resolution was
brought before the legislature yes
terday calling for a full investiga
tion into gambling, fixing of
games and other unscrupulous
practices in both amateur and
professional sports.
The New Jersey Legislature re
ceived a bill that would impose se
vere penalties on anyone convict
ed of bribing players to throw
athletic games.
Similar legislation has been pre
sented in at least a half dozen
other states, a survey by the l/P)
disclosed. The survey showed that
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Col
orado, Rhode Island, Indiana,
Ohio, Virginia and Florida have
been asked to pass anti-bribe laws
similar to those already in effect
in Illinois, Michigan, California,
Maryland, New Jersey and New
York.
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador,
(/P)—A strong earth tremor was
felt here at 4:16 a.m. The shock
lasted three seconds. No casual
ties nor damage were reported .
WASHINGTON, tfp> — Senator
Ferguson (R.-Mich.> declared today
that “inordinate profits” were
made on sales of small hardware
items to the treasury procurement
for lend-lease during the war.
session when the Democrats con
trolled both Houses.
The decision to invite the Re
publicans to the conferences was
in line with President Truman’s
expresed intention to find ways to
co-operate with his “political op
position on Capitol Hill.”
‘'Round-the-World
Passenger Flights
In The Future
KANSAS CITY, i/P»—Northwest
Airline, Inc., and Transworld Air
line officials conferred here today
on the co-ordination of schedules
for the inauguration, probably in
April, of around-the-world pas
senger flights.
Croli Hunter, president of North
west Airline explained that the
survey flight personnel had vis
ited fields at Edmonton, Canada;
Adak in the Aleutians, and at Se
oul, Korea; and that fields would
be available so that Northwest
planes never would be more than
one hour from the nearest airport.
Hunter arrived from Minneapo
lis with seven other Northwest of
ficial- for the conference said the
conference would take up in addi
t on to schedules terminal facili
ties, tariffs and equipment. Twa
officials tentatively have estimated
the 21,472 mile trip would take
five days and cost $1,900.
The globe-circling service ap
proved by the Civil Aeronautics
Board last August, will be operat
ed by TWA from New York to
Shanghai by way of Paris, Cairo,
Calcutta and Canton, and by
MRS. EDWARD BLACK AND
SON TO FAIRBANKS
Mrs. Edward Black and son,
Jackie, are leaving this week to
enjoy a week’s vacation with their
aunt, Mrs. Ted Ullrickson in Fair
banks.
MRS. PETE READER
IN HOSPITAL
Mrs. Pete Reader entered the
hospital Tuesday and had her ton
sils removed.
ENGAGEMENT OF ELIZABETH
MAE RUDE ANNOUNCED
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Rude of
Portland, and formerly of Nome,
have announced the engagement
of their daughter, Elizabeth Mae
Rude to James Russel Bailey. The
wedding is scheduled to take place
at Portland, Ore., on February 20
WASHINGTON, bP)—President
Truman today called upon every
state and community “to work un
ceasingly throughout 1947 to pro
mote highway safety.” In a state
ment. the President said “It is on
appalling fact that 34,000 Ameri
can citizens were killed in auto
mobile accidents in 1946.”
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