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...biggest and noisiest sedition trial in U.S. history ended last week. On the evening of the 102nd day, U.S. District Judge Edward Clayton Eicher, 65, went home, died of a heart attack. No one in Washington doubted that a ludicrously undignified trial had hastened the death of a scrupulously dignified judge. An ardent New Dealer, a onetime Iowa Congressman (1933-38) and SEChairman (1941-42), Judge Eicher had done his amiable best with a clumsy Justice Department mass indictment which accused 30 defendants of conspiring to Nazify the U.S. For more than seven .months he had banged a tireless, ineffectual...
...Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 35, Manhattan's first Negro Congressman-elect, who preaches hellfire in a gates-ajar collar to his flock at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church and kisses the womenfolk in the congregation afterward, ran into parsonage trouble. Mrs. Powell, a onetime nightclub performer, sued for separation after eleven years of marriage, charged Pastor Powell with "infatuation" for another nightclub performer. Broadway wiseacres immediately identified the parsonage-wrecker as round-eyed Pianist Hazel Scott, famed in café society for blending boogie-woogie with Bach. Asking the court to grant her $100 a week temporary alimony...
Retiring from his post, Surplus Property Boss Will Clayton last week turned in an accounting, 294 pages long. Its chief news: in four months, the new and still creaking machinery to dispose of surplus war property had got rid of only $85,007,000 worth. This was a fair bite out of the $465,207,000 in surplus property now on hand, including $19,830,000 in motor vehicles (see cut), but hardly a nibble at the mountain of surpluses ahead...
Last week Clayton revealed that the Administration has a new plan: to let the companies themselves dispose of cutting tool surpluses, i.e., make them federal sales agents and pay them a commission on sales. (In a similar test plan, tried with aircraft parts, the commission was 30%.) The plan will be stretched to cover radio equipment, may be broadened again if it pans out. Chief argument in favor of it: disposal would be in the hands of those who knew the market best, could feed in surpluses without disrupting it. Biggest objection: disposable surpluses might be held off the market...
...Defense Plant Corp. (RFC Boss Jesse Jones once said Husbands "knows more about banks than any man in the U.S.") Another job is expected to go to James Sheppard, Los Angeles attorney. Lieut. Colonel Joseph P. Woodlock, onetime executive of the Crucible Steel Co., now executive assistant to Will Clayton, is an outside choice for the third job. But Washington also gossiped that the President may soon ask Congress to junk the board and hand the job back...