UNITED STATES REPORTS VOLUME 340 CASES ADJUDGED IN THE SUPREME COURT AT OCTOBER TERM, 1950 FROM OCTOBER 2, 1950, THROUgh March 27, 1951 WALTER WYATT REPORTER UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1951 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office ERRATA. 101 U. S. 273, line 12, "admissible" should be "inadmissible". 309 U. S. 34, line 27, "sustaining" should be "invalidating". 331 U. S. 316, last line of text, there should be a comma after "traffic". 338 U. S. 801, line 3 of caption, the date should be "February 13, 1950." 338 U. S. 874: In No. 15, Misc., the citation is to an earlier decision in the same case. The decision as to which certiorari was denied is not reported. 339 U. S. 951: In No. 294, Misc., the citation to the unofficial report of the decision below should be "179 F. 2d 466." 339 U. S. 977: In No. 766, the citation to the official report of the decision below should be "86 U. S. App. D. C. 248". II JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT DURING THE TIME OF THESE REPORTS. FRED M. VINSON, CHIEF JUSTICE. J. HOWARD MCGRATH, ATTORNEY GENERAL. PHILIP B. PERLMAN, SOLICITOR GENERAL. CHARLES ELMORE CROPLEY, CLERK. 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, pursuant to Title 28, United States Code, section 42, and that such allotment be entered of record, viz: For the District of Columbia Circuit, FRED M. VINSON, Chief Justice. 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, SHERMAN MINTON, Associate Justice. For the Eighth Circuit, Toм C. CLARK, Associate Justice. For the Ninth Circuit, WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS, Associate Justice. For the Tenth Circuit, TOM C. CLARK, Associate Justice. October 14, 1949. (For next previous allotment, see 337 U. S. p. iv.) IV PROCEEDINGS IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES In Memory of Mr. Justice Murphy' TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1951 Present: MR. CHIEF JUSTICE VINSON, MR. JUSTICE BLACK, MR. JUSTICE REED, MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER, MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS, MR. JUSTICE JACKSON, MR. JUSTICE BURTON, MR. JUSTICE CLARK, and MR. JUSTICE MINTON. MR. SOLICITOR GENERAL PERLMAN addressed the Court as follows: May it please the Court: At a meeting of members of the Bar of the Supreme Court, held this morning, resolutions expressing their profound sorrow at the death of Justice Frank Murphy were offered by a committee, of which the Honorable Benjamin V. Cohen was chairman.3 1 Mr. Justice Murphy died at Detroit, Michigan, on July 19, 1949. Funeral services were held in Our Lady of Lake Huron Church, and interment was in Rock Falls Cemetery, Harbor Beach, Michigan, on July 22, 1949. See 338 U. S. pp. 1–ÏV, VII. 2 The Committee on Arrangements for the meeting of the Bar consisted of Solicitor General Philip B. Perlman, Chairman, Honorable Ira W. Jayne, Honorable Frank A. Picard, Dean E. Blythe Stason, and Honorable G. Mennen Williams. 3 The Committee on Resolutions consisted of Mr. Benjamin V. Cohen, Chairman, Mr. John J. Adams, Mr. Thurman Arnold, Mr. Francis Biddle, Mr. James Crawford Biggs, Mr. Prentiss M. Brown, Mr. Wm. Marshall Bullitt, Mr. George J. Burke, Justice George E. Bushnell, Mr. James F. Byrnes, Mr. John T. Cahill, Judge William J. Campbell, Mr. Emanuel Celler, Mr. James A. Cobb, Mr. Archibald Cox, Mr. Myron C. Cramer, Mr. Homer S. Cummings, Mr. Walter J. Cummings, Jr., Mr. Joseph E. Davies, Mr. John W. Davis, Mr. John R. Dykema, Mr. John S. Flannery, Mr. Edward H. Foley, Jr., |