OPINIONS FROM MAY 3, 1948, THROUGH JUNE 14, 1948 WALTER WYATT LAW LIBRARY REPORTER AUG 1 0 1983 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1948 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT DURING THE TIME OF THESE REPORTS. FRED M. VINSON, CHIEF JUSTICE. RETIRED CHARLES EVANS HUGHES, CHIEF JUSTICE. TOM C. CLARK, ATTORNEY GENERAL. WALTER WYATT, REPORTER. THOMAS ENNALLS WAGGAMAN, MARSHAL. HELEN NEWMAN, LIBRARIAN. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. ALLOTMENT OF JUSTICES. It is ordered that the following allotment be made of the Chief Justice and Associate Justices of this Court among the circuits, agreeably to the Acts of Congress in such case made and provided, and that such allotment be entered of record, viz: For the First Circuit, FELIX FRANKFURTER, Associate Justice. For the Second Circuit, ROBERT H. JACKSON, Associate Justice. For the Third Circuit, HAROLD H. BURTON, Associate Justice. For the Fourth Circuit, FRED M. VINSON, Chief Justice. For the Fifth Circuit, HUGO L. BLACK, Associate Justice. For the Sixth Circuit, STANLEY REED, Associate Justice. For the Seventh Circuit, FRANK MURPHY, Associate Justice. For the Eighth Circuit, WILEY RUTLEDGE, Associate Justice. For the Ninth Circuit, WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS, Associate Justice. For the Tenth Circuit, WILEY RUTLEDGE, Associate Justice. For the District of Columbia, FRED M. VINSON, Chief Justice. October 14, 1946. (For next previous allotment, see 328 U. S. p. IV.) PROCEEDINGS IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES In Memory of Mr. Justice McReynolds' WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1948. Present: MR. CHIEF JUSTICE VINSON, MR. JUSTICE BLACK, MR. JUSTICE REED, MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER, MR. JUSTICE, DOUGLAS, MR. JUSTICE JACKSON, MR. JusTICE RUTLEDGE, and MR. JUSTICE BURTON. MR. SOLICITOR GENERAL PERLMAN addressed the Court as follows: May it please this Honorable Court: At a meeting of members of the Bar of the Supreme Court, held on November 12th, 1947,2 resolutions expressing their profound sorrow at the death of Associate Justice James Clark McReynolds were offered by a committee, of which the Honorable James F. Byrnes, former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, was chairman.' 1 MR. JUSTICE MCREYNOLDS, who had retired from active service on February 1, 1941 (312 U. S. I, n. 1), died in Washington, D. C., on August 24, 1946 (329 U. S. vII), and was buried at Elkton, Kentucky. 2 The Committee on Arrangements for the meeting of the Bar consisted of Solicitor General Philip B. Perlman, Chairman, Mr. John Lord O'Brian, Mr. Pierce Butler, Mr. John S. Flannery, and Mr. Roger Robb. 3 The other members of the Committee on Resolutions were Mr. Sidney S. Alderman, Judge Florence E. Allen, Mr. T. Ellis Allison, Mr. Henry W. Anderson, Mr. William Douglas Arant, Mr. John E. Benton, Mr. Francis Biddle, Mr. James Crawford Biggs, Mr. William |