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Sole Jurisdiction. In 1952 Paul S. Russell, a nonunion electrician from Decatur, Ala., filed suit against the United Auto Workers for $50,000 damages. He charged that U.A.W. picket lines prevented him from driving to work at Decatur's Wolverine Tube Division of Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Co. plant, sued for five weeks' wages and punitive damages. The Alabama Supreme Court, reversing the lower court, ordered a trial. A jury awarded Russell...
Died. Maximilian Agassiz, 77, swank grandson of the famed 19th-Century naturalist Louis Agassiz and president of both Newport's Reading Room (stag) and Clambake Club (coed); after a ten-year illness; in Newport, R.I. His father, Harvard Savant Alexander Agassiz, helped develop Calumet & Hecla copper mines, left him a fortune out of which he paid many a newsboy's way through college...
First WPB moderated this anti-bigness policy, allowed Calumet & Hecla to charge 17? for whatever it could take out of an abandoned, high-cost pit. Last week WPB went further, let it be known that henceforth it will allow all the big companies to negotiate prices on a mine-by-mine basis, will give them a fighting chance to get in on a bonus by stepping up the output from individual shafts...
...Circle, is also just 150 miles north of the North Magnetic Pole-so close that ships' compasses are useless. Explorers have known that if it were used it would cut 100 mi. from the Baffin Bay-Barrow Strait passage, save 400 miles if the still untraversed Fury and Hecla Strait were navigable. In 1858, after his fifth attempt, Captain Leopold McClintock claimed that he "steamed through the clear water of Bellot Strait this morning and made fast to the ice across its western outlet." Though many small trade-ships may have used its 30 tortuous miles in the past...
...copper. Not an envelope came in. Again it invited bids, again there was nothing to open. Since copper would not go to the Navy, the Navy last week went to copper, ordering 400,000 lb. at better than 12? per lb. from Kennecott in Manhattan and Calumet & Hecla Consolidated in Boston...