• GOOD MORNING, IOWA CITY! Fair and warmer today and tomorrow. It will prob­ • ably get up a little above freezing today and down to about 28 degrees tonight. • owan r.tab1lahed 1888 VoL?S, No. 77-AP News and Wirephoto Iowa City, Iowa, Sunday, Dec. 22. 1946-Five Cenls net 'tip IDd 600 Die in One of History's Worst Quakes In of ~ta Talmadge's June Supreme Court Decision May Mean ' CRASH VICTIMS AWAIT AMBULANCE Jap Disaster ar- Death (auses "" S6·Biliion Back Pay for Union Laborers . (overs 60,000 By RABOLD W. WARD WASHINGTON (JP)- American lemens workers were entitled industrY and labor unions are under the fail' la bar slandards ¥u Political Clash beginning now to reap the full act to back pay lor the time it Square Miles Jh­ harvest of a routine decision of took them to go from the time • p­ the supreme court last June in- clock io their work benches, don B1 RUSSELL BIUNES ol A1'JIAN'l'A (AP) - Eugene volving 1,200 employees 01 the aprons and prepare for work. The Talmlldgt'. 62. on f Georgia '8 KY , ·lInd ~. ( P)- nr Mt. Clemens, Mich., Pottery com- same was true in reverse at the I rip most eolol'fu l public figure, or tbl' IDOl t "iolpnt l'art!JcllIak . pany. end of the day. That meant the at died yestt'rduy, kearc Iy thre Before Jt has run ils course, company was liable for compen-, in hi. tory, follow d by ~ix tidlll weeks b fore he would have been the bonanza created by that 6 to 2 sation for this time back to 1938, I wav ., J ft a wak oC dl'ath and and inaugurated foJ' II fourth time deciSion, "'ith Justices Burton and when the lair labor standards act rui n y tl'rday ovpr more than Ity, as gov/' l'I1 0l'. Frankfurter dissenting and Jack- was adopted. The act established 60,000 , III r mil . £. ollthl'rn I.A. The red-galussed ad vocate of son not partiCipating, may drop the present 40-hour week and the Japan, with thl' toll climbing by "white supremacy," who made 272 $6,000,000,000 into the lap of sur- 40-cents hourly wage minimum. Japan eount to 5 2 dad. speeches against doctors' orders in prised workers-but it could con- While the decision resulted In With .orne of the hardest-bit ceivably wipe out corporations. no immediate public impact the a bitter D e m 0- areu till iSOlated, death or dam­ ern ti c p ri mary The amouDt Involved throu- protests of business were loud on a,es were reported from poinu last summer, suc­ rhout the nalioD Is.. "wild Capitol Hill and congress came within 80 mHes 01 Tokyo to the mbed at 7 a.m. ,ue88" In the oPlnloD of rov- within an ace of passing a bill western hore of Han hu and as An a tt en d i n g eroment oftlclall, wblle Indus- whic!) would have eased the liab­ far south a Kyu hu, southernmo hysician s n i d try says that any 'Irure 'ls a ility for' most employers. home island. t. adge was a­ blind estimate. Both branches of congress had In the first report direct from ate since Tues­ -The court found that the Mt. agreed to limit this liability io stricken Wakayama prefecture, ate that he was two years-or three at the most Aasocated Pre. Correspondent ing. -but the proposal never came to Frank Wh ite said authorities U­ A physician Ex-Banker Pays a final vote in the co nfused clos­ mated 18,000 were homeless in who asked th a t ing hours of the 79th session. Kalnan alone, a few mil south name b e Suits Belun of WaJuJyama city. An accurate withheld attribu­ Depositor Losses As a result big corpora tions are death toll estimate, he added, stlll led Talmadge's being sued by unions for hund­ was impo sible. eath io cirrhosis reds of millions of dollars in be­ • • • Gene Talmadlle ot the liver and After 31 Years halt at employees who have been walking to work a few hundred J[Jodo news a,eney pu~ the hemolytic jaundice, complications toll at 59! dead, 4.03 Injured Ber ­ Is CHICAGO (JP)- The little pain yards or more daily inside com­ had two broken anklet and a brain coneu Ion. Doctors aid tbe con­ superinduced by stomach hemor­ SIX PERSONS WERE INJURED, one fatally, when two cars col­ lou I, and 14,59% houses and of an unfilled moral obligation pany property. rhages which began last Oct. 3. lided head on near Waterloo on hlrhway 297 early yesterday. In len dition of Clarence Weeple. 1'7, Waterloo. who received a broken back, buildings ' de tro)'ed a the that Frank Rot! carried in his John L. Lewi~ slarted it all. was also ,ood. Le s serloUlily Injured were Jobn Wlnrert, 16, Ra)'­ The death of the governor-elect foreg-round is WIlliam Strauel, 17 , Jessup, Iowa, who later died earth's upheaval yestuday rock. heart far 31 years has gone this He won portal-to-portal pay for mopd, Iowa; Bennie Wlncert, 16, Raymond; Bennie WlliJebour, 24, of skull fracture and Internal injuries. At right is Phyllis Kemp, ed an4 nooded ores of cities drew lines lOr an unprecedented Christmas season. his miners in 1943, and this under­ 17, Waterloo, who was reported In rood co ndition although she and John Prueter. 50, both 01 Waterloo. (AP WIREPHOTO) and town . le,sl and political battle of suc­ ground travel time was upheld by cession. After a struggle of more than three decades, tne widower and the supreme court in the now • • • U.S. army estimates put the Authoritative sources said Gov­ father of six children has raised famous Jewell Ridge Coal com­ minimum death toll at 422, but ernor Ellis Arnall, who oust­ $18,000 to pay depositor losses pany case. Justice Jackson reveal­ French Struggle Kalona Man Killed, 3. Injured Holiday Traffic 0 I' they did not includ th Waka­ ed Talmadge from office f u suffered when the small bank ed that the recent personal flare­ \ ot yomn peninsula-south of Japan's years ago, would refuse to vacate which he was president failed in up in the supreme court datecl a as governor until conflicting views To Put Down Native Slowdowns Follow second City of Osaka - which 1915. back to that case. on constiwtional requirements are caught the full lorc of the earth's To Rati, a lay brother in Sacred The Mt. Clemens pottery case resolved. Arnall was ineligible to brought the issue down to the In Headon Automobile Crash Heavy Snowstorms blow. Heart seminary at suburban Mel­ Revolt ir.lndochina succeed himself, but the constitu­ level of every worker, however. Kyodo said first reports .from rose park for the ,Past eight years, L d tion provides he shall serve until The minets' position was acknow ~ PARIS (JP)-Full s"ale guerrilla the strick nand olaf penin­ hls succes or "is chosen and Qual­ the losses became a personal Lloyd Yoder, -l3, Kalona im­ body would be taken to the Pet­ Snowfall only toialed .8 of an sula put the death toll in that moral "debt"-although he was ledged to be somewhat different warfare raged yesterday in major plement deaier, died yesterday erseim funeral home in Kalona. inch yesterday on the first oWc­ ified." Legal sources said this from surface workers. cities and towns of northern Indo- ar a ot 43. under no legal obligation to shortly aIter 3 p.m. of injuries Funeral arrangements ote not ial day of winter, but It was British army olticlals said field could lTlean a rour-year holdover, How It Goes china as French troops battled the until th~ quadrennial election of a make them good. received in a two-car head-on yet complete. enough to slow trarnc on slippery reports Indical d their occupation This is why the problem exists: in street governor in 1950. Robbery RespOnsible I ~iet-Namese bl~y collision on highwOlY 218 seven streets and hlghwoys before area on Shikoku, one of the south­ The fair lobor standards act that reached I.ts greatest Arnall, himself, said disl:ussion The Western Savings bank ~Ighhng miles south of Iowa City. Slippery Streets Cause milder temperatures in the after­ ern main hom I. lands, was bard­ said that after 194() the work mtenslty 10 th~ flammg native noon melt d some ot the ice. of who would be next governor failed after lour gunmen iook .. quarter of HanoI. Also Injured in the crash we~e 8 local Auto Accidents e t hit by the Quake but they was "highly inappropriate at this $2,200 in a robber)' on lI'eb. 'I, week should be 40 hours m mter- The once quiet tree-shaded ave- his wiIe, Mrs. Lioyd Yoder, 38. Icy roads and poor vlsibllity were unable to confirm earlier re­ time." 1915. The bank was torced to state commerce. and that employ- f H . ·t I f th A and occupants of the other cor, At least eight other auto accid­ caused numerous highway acci­ ports that II Britl. h soldier was Fred Hand, scheduled to become liquidate when business fell off ers were liable for payment of nues. a anol.' capI ~ a e n· William J . Barth, 22, student at ents caused by slippery streets dents with seven deod in Indiana. mi inl. speaker of the next Georgia house drastically.