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:15 - Year - Old Gunman
Uses Another Youth
As Shield
BOSON, June 23—WP)—An un
dersized schoolboy who had been
hiding out from police four days
■ emptied a pistol at two patrolmen
' today, then seized another youth
at gunpoint to serve as a human
shield while for more than ten
minutes he held off a growing
; force of riot squad reserves.
The 15-year-old gunman, his pis
' toi pressed against the right hip
' of his equally young “shield, was
' overpowered finally by a police
man who crept up and clubbed
'him over the head with the butt
of a riot gun as he sought to climb
a fence and escape.
Police Capt. John H. Cloran iden
tified the slight youth—standing
five feet one inch tall and weigh
ing 98 pounds—as Edward Ban
croft, a seventh grade student at
.Patrick Campbell school with a
■ record of several juvenile offen
ses Cloran said Bancroft failed
to appear in Dorchester court last
■ Thursdav in connection w-ith an
-assault case. Detectives said they
believed he had been sleeping in
parks since that time.
Cloran reported Bancroft was
held on two charges of assault
with intent to kill, one naming
Fatrolman James Bray, whose
right forearm was grazed by a
bullet ,and the other naming 15
year-old William Ronan, the “hu
man shield.”
Bray said he and Patrolman
• Charles McCloskey came upon
Bancroft as they cruised along
Washington park looking for a
gabardine-coated holdup man who
an hour before had robbed a How
ard Johnson restaurant of $5,000.
Eray said they thought they saw
the boy roiling up something that
looked like a gabardine coat.
Detectives said Bancroft appar
ently had no connection with t.re
Howard Johnson holdup and fired
at the police simply because he
’had the gun in his hand.
Frank Cushing, Boston Herald
.Traveler photographer for 15
-years, climbed into an exposed
’position on the roof of an eel 20
feet above Bancroft to film a rec
ord of the boy’s stand behind his
human shield for his paper and
Associated Press wirephoto.
Cushing,- uncertain whether
Bancroft still had bullets left in
the pistol, admitted later:
“I was scared—after it was all
ever."
WHITE
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greatly expanded crowd expected
to attend this big amateur event
for boys.
Naming of race officials will fol
low in due course and by the time
the boys, who will vie for the list
of prizes to be awarded are ready
for weighing in and inspection, the
organizations1 set-up will have
been comple.ed.
Helmets Arrive
■ Latest news around Derby head
quarters yesterday was to the ef
fect that the helmets to be used
and given every bey who sarts in
this 1947 Soap Box Derby, had ar
rived from the manufacturer and
bave been stored until Derby Day.
■ The new helmets, of latest de
aign, carry out the 10th Anniver
sary color scheme of blue and
gold. They are a much better hel
met than was provided for the
boys last year and after the Der
by is over, will make a lasting
souvenir for the many entrants.
From National headquarters in
Detroit came word over the week
end that the first Soap Box Derby
for 1947 is now history. Up in
Mission Cit-o’, British Columbia,
10,000 chee.-ng fans watched 13
year-old Lome Nicholson nose out
a victory down a 1.000-foot course.
. Nicholson won the right to com
pel in the International Finals at
Akron, Ohio on August 17 over a
field of 14 entrants. Runner-up
was one of his best friends. Ken
neth Mcllroy, 15. The Class B
winner was David T. Jones, 12,
who also won the Collins-Aikman
award for the best upholstered
ear. A similar award will go to
the Wilmington boy who enters
the best upholstered car in the
big race here July 30.
SHADES
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"Red Eye", then the identification
bureau has a lead.
The name “Red Eye’* is looked
up in the files and the real name
opposite it is found. The officers
then know where and who to look
for as a suspect.
Aliases Long, Many
Tne aliases, many formed at
childhood, run the gamut of comi
cal appellations.
By far the greatest number of
criminals listed in the files give
their aliases as Al, Babe, Buck,
Bubber, Buddy and Red.
Then come such names as Abe
Avenger, Apple Head, Aunt Flo,
Gene Autry, Bad Eye, Big Boy
Floyd, Big Head, Big Meat, Big
ger, Bishop. Black Daddy Hall,
Black Stuff, Blossom, Boll Weavil,
Cactus, Chink China Galloway,
Foolish Head, Forgie, Frisco,
Garbage. Ghost, Round the Bend.
Git the Pig, Grease Bug Stevens,
Iron Man Brooks, King Kong,
King Solomon, Little Bit, Far mer
Brown, Dynamite, Cut Deep Wil
liams Crying Willie, Cream Boy,
Cupid, Czar, Country Walker, Cool
Breeze, Fingers, Flashy, Flour
Boy, Big Time McKoy, Monkey
Jim, Mouse, Mud, Mule, Small.
Mullet, Ninety, Old Folks, Old
Sea, Pensacola Kid, Pepsi-Cola
Kid, Rabbit .Ear, Daddby Rabbit,
Rabbit, Saddle Head, Sledge
Hammer, Sleeping John, Snake
Man, YoYo Brewington, Leaking
Heart, Stompdown, and Marble
Jaw. *
While this list is only a small
part of the file kept by Fales it
will give the reader an idea of the
names gome local criminals give
tor identification.
NAZI COMMANDANT HANGED
WARSAW, Poland, June 23—(AP)
Hans Bibow, war-time Nazi com
mandant of the city of Lodz who
Was convicted of liquidating 250,
000 Jews In the Lodz Ghetto, was
hanged today.
GREEN
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Truman fought the bill, “it is his
responsibility to see that only per
sons with a will to make the law
work be chosen to administeu it.”
“The new law’ must not be sab
otaged.” he continued. “Congress
will we watching, and so will the
people, to see that there is no
ham-stringing of the act through
failures in the executive branch.”
Fears Sabotage
Senator Jenner (R-Ind) also is
sued a statement asserting that
“the greatest danger now is that
new deal administrators will sab
otage the law."
Senator Taft <R-Ohio), co-authnr
of the act. previously had express
ed confidence that Mr. Truman
will do his best with it.
CIO President Phillip Murray
called the CIO executive board to
j meet here Friday to “assess" the
I situation “which now confronts
American labor." Murray also
called a meeting of CIO legal rep
resentatives for Thursday.
Green said the AFL will launch
an ^immediate campa'gn "for the
prompt repeal" of the act.
“Congress has made a tragic
mistake,” Green said in a state
ment.
“The new law will not promote
industrial peace the consequences
are likely to be heavy and costly
in terms of reduced production.
The chaotic conditions produced
by the Taft-Hartley act will^en
danger our national economy.
Green declared that labor “will
never become reconciled to this
law.”
“We believe that the law will
prove such a boomerang that its
sponsors and supporters will be
voted out of office by the Ameri
can peonle next year.” he said.
Banting Comments
Earl Bunting, president of the
turers. hailed the Senate’s action
and called on management to
in smoothing the way for indus
trial peace.
“No law in itseii win guarantee
industrial harmony.” Bunting said
in a statement. “A fair law such
as we now have will provide fer
tile soil, but indusrial peace will
flourih only if it is n oushbriydase
flourish only if it is nourished by
complete sincerity and good - will
on the part of both management
and labor. .
“When its employes desire to
bargain collectively, management
must do so in complete good faith.
It must seek no unintended ad
vantage from technicalities in the
new law.”
Bunting voiced hope that labor
leaders, too, “will recognize that
nothing is to be gained by an ob
structionist attiude.”
Senator Hoey (D-NC) declared
that the Senate’s action had “sav
ed’ President Truman if he seeks
reelection as expected.
“If the bill had not been passed
over the President’s veto.” Hoey
told reporters, “it would have
practically destroyed his chances
of election next year, for all the
strikes and labor disturbances oc
curring would have been charged
by Republicans against Truman
for vetoing the bill.”
Truman Chances
If the veto had been sustained,
he said. Mr. Truman '“wouldn’t
have had a Chinaman’s chance in
’48.”
Earl O. Shreve. president of the
U. S. Chamber of Commerce, is
sued a statement congratulating
Congress for a “courageous and
statesmanlike job, particularly _ in
view of the vociferous opposition
designed to appeal to the popular
emotions by raising misleading
outcries about the potential de
stuction of unions.”
A statement of the Progressive
Citizens of America said that “the
failure of the Democratic party to
defeat the Taft-Hartley bill may
well mark a turning point in the
history of American political
parties.”
“The Taft-Hartley slave labor
bill became law today because
President Truman failed not only
to command the necessary one
third vote to sustain his veto but
also failed to command the votes
of more than half the members of
his party in Congress,” it added.
“President Truman’s veto will
be recorded as the most tragic in
a long list of failures of the Presi
dent to carry forward into the
Democratic party the fighting lib
eral program of his predecessor.”
Emil Rieve, president of the
CIO Textile Workers Union of
America, termed the new law a
step toward Fascism, “only one
of many taken by Congress since
the end of a war which was fought
to end Fascism.”
In San Francisco, the CIO coun
cil in a telegram to CIO President
Murray urgej a nationwide 24
hour work stoppage to protest the
bill.
HaTry Bridges, West coast CIO
Longshore leader, characterized
the labor law as Fascist legisla
tion borrowed from the Fascist
dictators and tailored to fit the
American industrial scene.”
He said labor would fight for its
rights and “if we have to swing
into action, we will show them
action.”
BOY
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Mrs. W. B. Condrey of West Mar
ion, and her brother Freddie, were
playing in the kitchen of their
home with a loaded rifle when it
accidentally discharged.
An older brother had been us
ing the gun to kill rats in the barn
and had returned it to its usual
resting place in the kitchen with
out removing the cartridges, ac
cording to Westmoreland.
The coroner said no inquest
would be necessary. Funeral ar
rangements are incomplete.
CLAYTON
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age, Goldsboro; J. E. Wenberg,
Wilmington; M. C. Anderson,
Greensboro; T. E. McGill of Ashe
boro; and J. M. Samonds, past
president who automatically be
comes one of the directors.
Pat Ormsby of Winston-Salem,
humorist, entertained the cabmen
at the banquet following the elec
tion of officers.
The convention opened Sunday
with more than 200 delegares reg
istered. The convention is slated
to end Tuesday with another ban
quet in the Club Cabana.
SNOW FLATTENS WHEA T_ G. E. Wood, farmer near Sidney in Western Nebraska,
surveys effects on his wheat field of an unseasonable snowfall which struck in mid-June.
THE NEWS
STATE - WORLD
IN BRIEF_
BOUND OVER FOR JULY TRIAL
MT. AIRY, June 23—■(#}—Mrs.
Susan McMillian and her sons,
James, Goins, and Foster Martin,
charged with murder in the death
of Mrs. McMillian’s husband,
Rawley F. McMillian, waived pre
liminary hearing today and were
bound over for trial July 7.
LOW BIDDER
CHARLESTON, June 23 — W—
Dawson Engineering Co. of
Charleston, and Laxton construc
tion company of Charlotte, were
low bidders today for construction
of naval reserve armories at
Greensboro and Winston-Salem
respectively.
RALEIGH IS SITE OF ’«
NCCP & T CONVENTION
GREENSBORO, June 23— (JPh
Raleigh has been selected as the
site for the 1948 state convention
of the North Carolina Congress
of Parents and Teachers, it was
decided this morning at a board
of managers meeting of the or
ganization at Woman's College.
Exact date has not been set but
it wil probably be the third week
in April, according to Mrs. E. B.
Hunter, Charlotte, state president.
DAIRIES PLEAD NO DEFENSE
CHARLOTTE, June 23 — UP)—
Five Mecklenburg county dairies
indicted for the misdemeanor of
allegedly adulterating and mis
branding ■ milk, today pleaded no
defense before Judge Zeb V. Net
tles in superior court.
CM FEAR
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exploded but Robbins wrote that
it had no effect.
CHRONICLER — Robbins wrote
his account of the first assault on
Fort Fisher and sent it to the De- I
cember 9, 1924, News-Diepatch.
He said, in his writings, that it was
in reply to a letter from Lewis
H. Noe, Bayville, Long Island, N.
Y., who was in the second attack
made on the Fort. Robbins wrote
Noe an account of the entire bat
tle of the Fort, saying he was an
eyewitness.
He called himself a Johnny Reb
and at the time was living diago
nally across the river from Fort
Fisher. From liis vantage point
he safely watched the Fort, in
full view, and the Yankee fleet
which was constantly changing
positions to get jn a suitable posi
tion for firing.
MINISTERS
(Continued From Page One)
habilitating Europe’s economy
would be expedited if assistance
“were rendered by the United
States of America, whose produc
tion potentialities, far from declin
ing, increased during the war.”
The office of French Foreign
Minister Georges Bidault declar
er France would be “happy on
this occasion to welcome Messrs.
Bevin and Molotov.”
This was an indication that Rus
sian Foreign Minister V. M. Molo
tov himself would attend the
meeting. Soviet sources in London
also said Molotov “almost certain
ly” would lead the Russian dele
gation.
Official Russian publications at
tacked the Marshall plan last
week as “dollar diplomacy” and
an extension of the Truman policy
of aid to Greece and Turkey.
Await List
Official quarters here waited
with great interest for the Soviet
delegation list, as a possible indi
cation of how deeply the Russian*
will be prepared to examine the
ideas expressed by U. S. Secre
tary of State George C. Marshall
in his recent speech at Harvard
University.
It was assumed that Molotov
would bring several advisers with
him. but r.o one at the Quay D’
Orsay knew for certain whether
they would include experts on fi
nance, agriculture, fuel and
power, transport and industry.
British and French experts on
those subjects attended prelimi
nary discussions here last week
between Bevin and Bidault.
Most Paris newspapers hailed
Moscow’s note as a sign that Rus
sia, faced with a howdown, did
not want Europe and the world
divided into to bloc — at least
not without an effort to bridge
the gap.
Foreign office sources said par
ticipation of Communist
dominated Eastern Europe was
essential to any consolidated Eur
opean recovery program. They
pointed out that Russian assent
would permit Poland, Czechoslo
vakia, Yugoslavia and other coun
tries in the Soviet orbit to coop
erate with the West in reconstruc
tion.
A modern proimitive tribe, the
1 Bushmen, consider term it* eggs
a food delicacy.
EARTHQUAKE ROCKS
SYRACUSE
ROME, Tuesday, June 24—CP)—
The Italian news agency said to
day an earthquake of “several
seconds’’ duration rocked the Si
cilian city of Syracuse last night.
First reports indicated it caused
no damage.
TURKISH REPRESENTATIVE
ARRIVES
NEW YORK, June 23—CP)—H.
F. Selim Sarper, permanent Turk
ish representative to the United
Nations, arrived today aboard the
liner Saturnia, and said Turkey
has been reducing the size of its
army and would continue to do
so “until such time as we feel it
inadvisable.”
SENATE APPROVES RURAL
MAIL CARRIER RAISE
WASHINGTON, June 23 — (£>)—
The senate approved and sent to
the House today legislation to in
crease the expense allowance of
rural mail carriers from six to
seven cents for each mile regular
ly traveled.
SENATE APPROVES
IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION
WASHINGTON, June 23 —(P)—
The Senate Judiciary committee
today approved legislation extend
ing until December 30, the time
in which alien fiancees of Ameri
can soldiers or veterans may enter
this country under three-months
visitors visas. If they marry while
here they may remain in the
United States.
TRUMAN SIGNS FLOOD
CONTROL MEASURE
WASHINGTON, June 23 — (JP)—
A measure authorizing expendi
ture of $15,000,000 for flood con
trol projects was signed into law
today by President Truman.
SWINDLER RECEIVES
PRISON TERM
NEW YORK, June 23-J.P—Ju
lius Lobel. 44, alias Jimmy Col
lins, broadway playboy convicted
on grand larceny charges in the
$750,000 Mergenthaler Linotype
company swindle, stood silent in
Kings county court today and con
sequently eceived a 20-to-40 year
prison term.
CANADIAN RAILWAY
PRESIDENT DIES
MONTREAL, June 23 — (,P) —
William Doig Robb, 89, pioneer
Canadian railroad man and former
vice-president of the Canadian na
tional railways, died tody.
U. S. FOOD SHIPMENTS
BERLIN, June 23—(/P)—The An,
erican military government said
today 365,000 tons of food, va'ued
at $48,000,0*.}. arrived in the com
bined British-American occupa
tion zones of Germany from the
United States during the first three
weeks of June.
OIL IN THE URALS!
Soviet geologists have found
what are described as colossal
reserves of oil in the Ural
Mountains.
We hope the report is true,
and we wish every nation could
find colossal reserves of oil with
in its borders.
It would do perhaps more than
anything else to bring about that
enduring peace we all want. —
Charleston (S. C.) Post.
VOICE OF EXPFRIENCE?
A Massachusetts court has ruled
that a man with two wives is en
titled to a hearing. Shucks, a man
with only one wife seldom gets
a hearing, so what change would
a fellow with two have?—Roanoke
Times.
YOUNG ACTO R — Paul Brinkman, Jr., two-month-old
son of film actress Jeanne Crain, (above) takes his first appear
Wtt before a camera very calmly. Miss Crain’s hu«ban<l» Paul
. iKuikia*D..is a.radio manafacUrtr./ n
PETRILLO
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Justice Reed dissented, joined by
Justices Murphy and Rutledge.
Justice Douglas took no part.
Petriilo contended the law is too
vague in setting up standards for
ihe number of men a station may
be required to hire.
Black wrote that more precise
language might have been used
by Congress but “none occurs to
us nor has anv better language
been suggested effectively to carry
out what appears to have been the
Congressional purpose.’’
Petriilo also contended the act
denies equal protec dor, of the law
to radio broadcasting employes as
a class. On that noint the cour‘
held:
“It is’ not within our province
to say that because Congress has
prohibited some practices wilhin
its i over to prohibit it must pro
hicit all within its power.’’
Petriilo contended further that
the statute abridges freedom of
speech by malting peaceful picket
ing a crime.
“It is important to note,’’ Black
said, “that the stivute does not
mention picketing, peacerul or
violent. The proposed application
of the statute to picketing, there
fore, does not derive from any
specific prohibition x x x. Rather
it comes from the information’s
charge that respondent attempted
to compel the licensee to hire ini
needed employes by placing ‘a
picket in front of 'he place of
business x x x ’
13th Amendment
A fourth Petrillo contention was
that the statute as sought to' be
applied to him violates the 13th
amendment against slavery and
involuntary servitude'.
“We consider the 13th amend
ment question only with reference
to the statute on its face,'’ Black
said. “Thus considered it p’ain
iy does not violate the 13th amend
ment. Whether some possible at
tempted application of it to par
ticular sets of circumstances
would violate the 13th amendment
is a question we snail not pass
upon until it is appropriately
presented.’
Frankfurter in concurrence held
that it would be “a usurpation of
the legislative authority for us to
find that there was no basis in
reason for the judgment of Con
gress that the public interest call
ed for legislation to deal with what
is colloquially called 'feather
bedding’ in connection with the
broadcasting business. Beyond that
it is net our province to go. ’
Justice Reed in the dissent argu
ed' that the law is “ too indefinite
in its description of the prohibited
act to support information or in
dictment for violation of its pro
visions.”
TUERO WINS SINGLES
IN TENNIS PLAYOFFS
LOS ANGELES, June 23— (fP)—
Top-seeded Jack Tuero of Tulane,
breezed through his first round
match with Conway Catton, Uni
versity of San Francisco, 6-3, 6-1,
as singles play opened today in
the National Collegiate Athletic
association tennis championships.
Other seeded players came
through early tiffs unscathed.
Herb Flam of UCLA, ranked
fourth, ousted Jim Collinsf College
of Pacific 6-1, 6-2, fifth-seeded
Likas, San Francisco, defeated
Don Napier, Houston, 6-1, 6-2, Fred
Kovaleskie, William and Mary, No.
8, eliminated Bert Cunningham,
Texas, 6-0, 6-2.
IT’S AN OAT BAG
Tire haversack in which soldiers
carry their food rations while on
the march really means a bag for
carrying oats. The name comes
from the French "havre sac,” ot
oat sack.
SEARCHERS FIND
TWO MORE BODIES
Known Death Toll In
Tanker Disaster Now 4;
9 Still Missing
WILMINGTON,, Calif., June 23
—(JP)—Recovery of two bodies from
the smoldering hulk of the SS
Markay today brought to four the
toll of known dead in Los Angeles
harbor’s $10,000,000 explosion and
fire.
Chief Engineer Jack Sims of the
Markay identified the two men a®
Harold C. Link, 19, oiler, Molalla,
Ore., and William Nelson Walters,
third assistant engineer, McMinn
ville, Ore.
Sims said all of the engineering
force had now been accounted for
except George Hodar, 32, Douglas,
Ariz. He expressed belief nine
others missing were amidships,
where the explosion occurred. That
section of the tanker buckled and
is now below the surface.
An object which searchers
earlier had believed to be a body
was found to be a bundle of cloth
ing.
Meantime Coast Guard officers
predicted a full scale investigation
would be made soon by a “major
disaster” board of the Merchant
marine.
L. L. Lishman, port captam ior
the Union Oil co. and a veteran
tanker man, said “it is readily
evident the explosion was touched
off far inside the slry>, from the
manner in which it split the ship
open.” The vessel was halved
early yesterday by a series of three
blasts and only the bow and the
stern are visible above the water.
The 11,083 ton tanker carried
2,940,000 gallons of fuel. Jack Mal
seed, manager of the Shell Oil
terminal here, said the cargo in
cluded 320,000 gallons of aviation
and automobile gasoline and that
the remainder was diesel and
stove oil.
A large area of the harbor in
the vicinity of the blast today was
a blackened and twisted mass of
wreckage. Five shipping berths
have been destroyed and another
damaged. The heat from the blaze,
which at its height could be seen
12 miles at sea, blistered the huge
oil storage tanks lining the inlet.
Water spouts atop the tanks were
believed to have prevented a sec
ond “Texas City disaster.”
15-MAN
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nal decisions will be reached at
a third session.
Scheduled to meet with the com
mittee whll be J. M. Broughton,
genera! counsel for the Bright
Belt Warehouse association and
the Flue-Cured Stabilization corp
oration and former state gover
nor. He recently was elected gen
eral counsel of Tobacco Asso
ciates, Inr.
Also to meet wuth the group are
James E. Thigpen, assistant di
rector ot the U. S. Department of
agriculture’s tobacco branch, and
J. Con Lanier of Greenville, exec
utive secretary and general coun
sel for the Tobacco Association of
the United States.
Fred S. Royster of Henderson,
president of the Bright Belt Ware
house Association which embraces
all warehouses in the five flue
cured belts, said tonight that the
committee would be as “democra
tic" as possible in determining
opening dates and market regula
tions.
“This is the first time in history
that these problems have been ar
rived at jointly by all the major
segments of the industry. It is
the democratic way. The growers
of flue-cured tobacco certainly
should have a voice in matters
vitally affecting them. At the
same time, the warehouse men
and buying interests are vitally
affected,” Royster said.
While redrying facilities have
been increased by some 20 per
cent during the past year or so,
Royster pointed out that such fa
cilities are not adequate to ac
comodate the crop as fast as the
planters would like to market it.
Representing the farmers are
R. Flake Shaw, executive secre
tary of the State Farm Bureau
and representative of the Old Belt
Farmers; Thomas W. Allen of
Creedmoor, chairman of the N.C.
Grange’s tobacco committee and
representative of the Middle Belt
farmers; Thomas J. Pearsall of
Rocky Mount, representative of
the Eastern Belt farmers; B. A.
Graham of Lake City, S. C., rep
resentative of the North-South
Carolina Border Belt farmers, and
D. F. Bruton of Adele, Ga., rep
resentative of the Georgia-Florida
farmer*.
The Weather
Weather bureau report of , tempera
ture and rainfall for the 24 hours end
ing 8 p. m., «n the principal cotton
growing areas and elsewhere:
Station Hi*h Low Precip.
WILMINGTON -— —
Alpena - 70 ®4
Asheville - ^ 47
Allanta _ 74 57 r"
Atlantic City- 71 GO —
Flrmingham - 77 GO
Boston - 73 57
Buffalo _ 86 o5 —
Burlington - 89 o2
Charlotte -■-- 7^ ^2
Chattanooga-79 60 —
Chisago - 82 62 .01
Cincinnati- 79 **3 —
Cleveland - 83 53 —
Dallas ____——■ 31 68 -
Detroit _ 32 59 —
Duluth _ S3 -10
El Paso _ 95 60 —
Fort Worth _ 32 66 .84
Galveston - 90 81 —
Jacksonville _ 80 .09
Kansas City - 79 64 2.08
Key West _ 89 81 —
Knoxville _ 78 52 —
Little Kock _ 72 69 1.70
Los Angeles - 81 56 —
Louisville _ 80 59 —
Memphis _ '<0 64 —
Meridian - 7? 62 .20
Miami _—— 87 74 .03
Minn.-St. Paul_ 74 62 .87
Mobile _ 77 65 1.35
Montgomery _—— 31 60 —
New Orleans-— 75 —
New York _—— 76 31 —
Norfolk _ 74 60 —
Philadelphia _ 81 57 —
Phoenix _—_100 62 —
Pittsburgh _-_S3 58 —
Portland, Me.___ 77 47 —
Raleigh - 00 51 .03
Richmond -—- 82 49 —
St. Louis -.— — 73 66 —
San Antonio___ 97 79 —
Sar. Frrncisco__ 67 52 —
Savannah - 80 60 .13 !
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6 when the Senate passed the final
compromise version worked out
with the House.
Its first phases seem bound to be
marked by disputes and litigation
— as were those of the Wagner
act — as unions and employers
test out the new act’s terms. The
Supreme court in the end will have
to decide what many of them
mean, as it did with the Wagner
act and even still is doing a decade
afterwards.
Provisions which the courts are
likely to be asked to clarify partic
ularly are those dealing with un
ion security, damage liability of
unions for jurisdictional strikes
and breach of contract, and “un
fair’’ practices by unions.
The new law bans the closed
shop, under w’hich non-unionists
may not be hired, but permits the
union shop with certain restrictions.
In a union shop, non-unionists may
be hired but then must join up.
It also imposes a long string of
restrictions on union activities
w'hich have sprung up under the
Wagner act.
Few', if any, of its sponsors claim
ed it would w’ork without some
controversy. But where the Presi
dent and its other foes called it
entirely unworkable and worse, its
advocates contended it w'ould bring
the power of unions and employers
into better balance and promote
industrial peace.
Truman Duties
The first thing now will be for
the President to appoint two more
members for the three-man Nation
al Labor Relations board, which
will administer some sections of
the Taft-Hartley act along with the
Wagner act. He also must name a
new general counsel for the board
who will take over some of the
functions the board itself now has.
These appointments must be con
firmed by the Senate. They could
bring on a new row between the
President and the Senate if the
executive’s selections should be
displeasing to the Senators. Mr.
Truman has given no indication so
far of his choices.
The Senate and House, too, have
appointments to make — to a 14
member joint committee which is
to study the whole field of in
dustrial relations with an eye to
further legislation if necessary. The
committee also is expected to act
as the “watchdog” of Congress, in
the w’ord of Taft, to study the work
ing of the Taft-Hartley act. Sena
tor Ball (R.-Minn.) is reported the
choice of Senate Republicans to
head it.
Soon, also, might come a big
test of the provision designed to
cope with nationwide strikes af
fecting public health or safety. It
could come with a soft coal walk
out which seems likely to occur
next month because the govern
ment must restore the seized
mines to private hands June 30
and the operators and John L.
Lewis have no contract.
Injunction Power
The new law provides that the
government may seek an injunction
to block a big strike for 80 days.
During that time an inquiry board
would get busy, and the NLRB
would hold a secret ballot election
among the strikers to see whether
they wanted to accept the em
ployers’ last offer despite its re
jection by their leaders.
Mr. Truman contended this
would not work and “the country
would be in for a bitter disappoint
ment.” He held it would only post
pone the coal strike until cold
weather, when its effects would be
worse. Even though the bill new is
law, it would be up to him whether
to try to use this provision or not.
There remained a formality of
Senate officials certifying their ac
tion on the bill to the secretary of
state. But it actually became law
when the Senate rollcall was com
pleted with the “yea” of Senator
Young (R.-N.D.l, last name on the
alphabetical list.
Young was one of a dozen Sena
tors summoned to a White House
luncheon and conference Friday by
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puzzling flow Of f00ri ‘ ‘
from ill-fed Greece * V'.-.'
States has been dammed*
a flat ban on such 'V-S.*1*
Harry M. Durning cus- v"'"'1'
lector for New York no-- " s n'
day. 1 sa;i :c
Seamen also have . fn,,..
to bring such pacKr uVs "u lttP‘!!l
country, he said, xw m0 a*
imposed through a *>s
steamship companie- ’° ai
tation of meet producu *
countries where hoof an- -
disease is prevalent would £**
hibited. Durning sa:d
was prevalent in Greece
between 100.000 and 160.000 l‘M
of food had arrived V*"4
months from the Medm-a'-'™
area, mostly frcm Greece. ''e5a
In Athens. Greek off ..a 5 rrU
not explain how the pacv!,
came to be sent. Prune Mu'u'
Constantin Tsaldaris cabhrTv'r
York Greek consular official-'
ing full details on ire rna~e>U*'
John. Kalergis. Greek com
general here, said • .: T*
ations becomes very serious j **
pose that the Greek governiBM
will take some measures v •
the exporting of such packager
The consul-general remarked
that he thought “many peop,t ,
Greece have been led ;0 S£.
packages to relatives here to bm
them for gifts of money ar.d cloth,
ing, and the people here have been
overcharged by organizations con.
ducting the shipment, who pr0b.
ably are making monev on them"
Durning said he had inform,j
Kalergis’ office of the shipmers
several times, but was told ins
office had no power to ri0 anythirj
about them.
LAW STUDENT TAKES
TENNIS SINGLES
WIMBLEDON, June. 23
Law student Tom Brown, who'wa,
taking a final exam at the Univer
sity of California only four day,
ago. squeaked through his opening
round men’s singles match todav
to keep intact the seeded ranks of
the Wimbledon tennis champion
ships.
Ranked third on the strength o!
his splash in this same all-England
championships in 1946 when he
reached the semi-finals before
bowing to France's Yuon Petri,
the ultimate champion, the slim
San Francisco native subdued Erie
Sturgess, a South African Davis
Cup star, in 5 blistering gar.ei
7-5, 5-7, 6-2, 2-6, 8-6.
Brown’s victory in the showplact
center court placed him in the sec
ond round with the other seeded
stars — fellow Americans Jack
Kramer and Bob Falkenburg cl
Los Angeles. Australians Jaci
Bromwich, Dinnv Pails and Gect
Brown, Czech Jaroslav Drobryad
Petra.
the President in the vain hope tbit
the Senate might stop the overrid
ing action the House even then had
begun. All of them, except Derr.c
Icratic Leader Barkley (Ky.t, were
Senators who then favored the bill.
Barkley Sticks
All of them, except Barkley ard
Senator Sparkman (D.-Ala.i, voted
today to override the veto. Senator
O’Conor (D.-Md.L one of those
called to the White House, announc
ed in advance of the vote that '*
would “stand by my convietioni
and vote to override."
The President's parley with the
Senators drew criticism on tr.e
House- floor today from R=P
Arends (111.), the Republican whip
He raised a question whether .•
constituted lobbying under terms o
the act which require; lobbists to
register.
Arends also demanded to know
vvhether Philip Murray, preside
of the CIO. is “registered as *
lobbyist.” Arends reported »*•
labor organizations spent Sl.OOO.Wi
in their campaign against the bu
A flood of telegrams, letters art
'personal appeals poured in -L
Senators in advance of their to*
as they wound up debate. And -
galleries starting filling up th.ee
hours before the chaplain opeoe..
the climactic session with the «*■
tomary prayer at noon ‘r-DT
The Senate debated for
more hours before taking s vO
eight minutes after 3 p. m. , _
the hour agreed upon by una* -- -
consent Saturday when a
by last-ditch foes of the bi.l br
down.
Punative Bill
Senator O'Mahoney ‘D-Wy
told his colleagues the measu
“is a punative bill.” He dec
■the GOP leadership is so ea?er ■
adjourn July 26 that it v ,
“take the time to write the <incM
a labor bill this country needs
Senator Ives (R--N.1 1 *
the measure “as nearly PcrI„ ^
can be obtained at this tin e
he said the President's veto * -
sage was so “utterly eXy-e- ,
an uncalled for manned - ■
“left no room for Congress .
the President to agree on
ether labor legislation. —