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...Indiana last week, Marion County Superior Court Judge John Niblack ruled that the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. must pay accidental-death benefits on a policy held by a serviceman killed in Korea, even though the policy specified that its double-indemnity clause would not hold good if the insured died while "a member of the military services in time of war." "What you want," said the judge to the insurance company, "is for the court to rule there is a state of war between the U.S. and some foreign power. To ask this court to assume the functions...
...Judge Niblack's decision had precedent which was still warm. Last fortnight the Pennsylvania supreme court reached the same conclusion on a double indemnity policy of the Pennsylvania Mutual Life Insurance Co. The Korean conflict, said the Pennsylvania court, is not a war, since "there was not, nor ever has been, any declaration of war by Congress, but merely a dispatch to Korea, by presidential order, of military, naval and air forces of the United States...
...investment banker (Mitchell, Hutchins & Co.), a group of socialites dined, among them Mrs. Edward A. Cudahy, Jr., Mr, 6 Mrs, William McCormick Blair, Mrs, Louise de Koven Bowen Phelps, Ralph Mines, About 11 p. m. five gunmen burst in but the guests, playing backgammon, were not perturbed. Austin H. Niblack had just gone home and this, they thought, was some practical joke of his. They changed their minds when the bandits began to collect jewelry. While the robbers were at work Chauffeur William Matheson slipped to a telephone, in a whisper called police. Two officers arrived, were lined up with...
...ground. Then one horse got up and his man mounted him. It was Alligator and Plumb. Bally Yarn was second. Only other finisher among the 17 starters was Austin H. Niblack's Maitland...
Died. Rear-Admiral Albert Parker Niblack, 70, U. S. N. retired, director of the International Hydrographic Bureau at Monaco, Squadron Commander of U. S. battleship forces in European waters during the War; at Monte Carlo...