No. 390. PROPPER, RECEIVER, V. CLARK, ATTORNEY GENERAL, SUCCESSOR TO THE ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN. C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari granted limited to questions 1 and 2 presented by the petition for the writ, i. e.: (1) Did petitioner's appointment as temporary statutory receiver, on June 12, 1941, endow him with title by operation of law to the debt in question which was good as against the Custodian's subsequent Vesting Order? and (2) If not, did the September 29, 1941, judgment appointing petitioner permanent statutory receiver endow him with title to the debt in question as of the date of his appointment as temporary statutory receiver which was good as against the subsequent Vesting Order? THE CHIEF JUSTICE took no part in the consideration or decision of this application. A. Walter Socolow for petitioner. Solicitor General Perlman, Assistant Attorney General Bazelon and James L. Morrisson for respondent. Reported below: 169 F.2d 324.

Certiorari Denied.

No. 365. FISCH ET AL. V. GENERAL MOTORS CORP.; and No. 366. BATEMAN ET AL. v. FORD MOTOR CO. C. A. 6th Cir. Certiorari denied. Ernest Goodman, Jack N. Tucker, Morton A. Eden and George W. Crockett, Jr. for petitioners in Nos. 365 and 366, and Edward Lamb was also for petitioners in No. 366. Henry M. Hogan and Nicholas J. Rosiello for respondent in No. 365. Rockwell T. Gust and William T. Gossett for respondent in No. 366. Reported below: 169 F. 2d 266.

No. 395. CONSUMERS Co. v. CONSUMERS PETROLEUM Co; and

No. 425. CONSUMERS PETROLEUM Co. v. CONSUMERS Co. C. A. 7th Cir. Certiorari denied. Joseph B. Fleming for the Consumers Co. Albert E. Jenner, Jr., Harry

G. Hershenson and James B. McKeon for the Consumers Petroleum Co. Reported below: 169 F. 2d 153.

No. 403. ESTATE OF ZELLERBACH ET AL. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE. C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied. Philip S. Ehrlich for petitioners. Solicitor General Perlman, Assistant Attorney General Caudle, Ellis N. Slack and Helen Goodner for respondent. Reported below: 169 F. 2d 275.

Nos. 419 and 420. BEELER v. CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILWAY Co. C. A. 10th Cir. Certiorari denied. Claude E. Sowers for petitioner. W. F. Peter for respondent. Reported below: 169 F. 2d 557.

No. 421. BRADHAM ET AL. v. UNITED STATES. C. A. 10th Cir. Certiorari denied. W. F. Semple for petitioners. Solicitor General Perlman, Assistant Attorney General Vanech, Roger P. Marquis and S. Billingsley Hill for the United States. Reported below: 168 F. 2d 905.

Nos. 423 and 424. BERNHARDT ET AL. υ. UNITED STATES. C. A. 6th Cir. Certiorari denied. George S. Fitzgerald and Paul B. Mayrand for petitioners. Solicitor General Perlman, Robert S. Erdahl and Joseph M. Howard for the United States. Reported below: 169 F. 2d 983.

No. 179, Misc. JOHNSON v. UNITED STATES. C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied. Petitioner pro se. Solicitor General Perlman, Robert S. Erdahl and Joseph M. Howard for the United States.

No. 180, Misc. CLARK v. WEST VIRGINIA. Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia. Certiorari denied. James S. Redmond for petitioner.

Supreme

No. 193, Misc. HALEY V. PENNSYLVANIA. Court of Pennsylvania. Certiorari denied. Francis Fisher Kane for petitioner.

No. 194, Misc. ELLARD v. NEW HAMPSHIRE. Supreme Court of New Hampshire. Certiorari denied. Jonathan Piper for petitioner. Ernest R. D'Amours, Attorney General of New Hampshire, for respondent. Reported below: 95 N. H. 217, 60 A. 2d 461.

No. 227, Misc. BRITE ET AL. v. HEINZE, WARDEN. Supreme Court of California. Certiorari denied.

No. 251, Misc. FOLEY V. RAGEN, WARDEN. Circuit Court of Sangamon County, Illinois. Certiorari denied.

No. 252, Misc. TIPESCU V. ILLINOIS. Supreme Court of Illinois. Certiorari denied.

No. 253, Misc. BERRY V. FLORIDA. Supreme Court of Florida. Certiorari denied. John R. Parkhill for petitioner. Reported below: 160 Fla. 834, 36 So. 2d 784.

No. 254, Misc. FARMER V. RAGEN, WARDEN. Circuit Court of Will County, Illinois. Certiorari denied.

No. 255, Misc. HATHAWAY V. NIERSTHEIMER, WARDEN. Circuit Court of Alexander County, Illinois. Certiorari denied.

No. 256, Misc. MILBURN v. NIERSTHEIMER, WARDEN. Supreme Court of Illinois. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 401 Ill. 465, 82 N. E. 2d 438.

No. 261, Misc. DZAN v. RAGEN, WARDEN. Supreme Court of Illinois. Certiorari denied.

No. 263, Misc. HALVERSON V. RAGEN, WARDEN. Criminal Court of Cook County, Illinois. Certiorari denied.

No. 266, Misc. preme Court of Missouri.

GREEN

v. STEWART, WARDEN. SuCertiorari denied.

No. 270, Misc. STERBA V. NIERSTHEIMER, WARDEN. Criminal Court of Cook County, Illinois. Certiorari denied.

No. 272, Misc. JACKSON v. GEORGIA. Court of Appeals of Georgia. Certiorari denied. W. A. Bootle for petitioner. Reported below: 77 Ga. App. 635, 49 S. E. 2d 198.

No. 273, Misc. BOUGH v. NIERSTHEIMER, WARDEN. Supreme Court of Illinois. Certiorari denied.

No. 274, Misc. HOUGHTON v. HUDSPETH, WARDEN. Supreme Court of Kansas. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 165 Kan. 619, 197 P. 2d 941.

Rehearing Denied.

No. 69. J. H. ALLISON & Co. v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, ante, p. 814; and

No. 202. ECONOMOS v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, ante, p. 826. Motions for leave to file petitions for rehearing denied.

No. 295. DIGGS v. MICHIGAN, ante, p. 885. Rehearing denied.

No. 362. MASICH V. UNITED STATES SMELTING, REFINING & MINING CO. ET AL., ante, p. 866. Rehearing denied.

No. 393. WISNER v. KAMINSKI, ante, p. 875. Bryan substituted for Wisner as appellant. Rehearing denied.

No. 240, Misc. DOHIHARA v. MACARTHUR ET AL., 338 U. S. 197; and

No. 248, Misc. KIDO ET AL. v. MACARTHUR ET AL., 338 U.S. 197. Rehearing denied. MR. JUSTICE JACKSON took no part in the consideration or decision of this application.

JANUARY 10, 1949.

Per Curiam Decisions.

No. 191. SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ET AL. v. LILLEFLOREN ET AL. Certiorari, ante, p. 811, to the Supreme Court of California. Argued January 5, 1949. Decided January 10, 1949. Per Curiam: It appearing that there is a nonfederal ground, independent of the federal ground, and adequate to support the judgment of the lower court, the case is dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Fox Film Corp. v. Muller, 296 U. S. 207; Lynch v. New York ex rel. Pierson, 293 U. S. 52. Russell E. Parsons argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the brief was Harold W. Kennedy. Herbert S. Thatcher and David Sokol argued the cause for respondents. With Mr. Thatcher on the brief were Henry G. Bodkin, J. Albert Woll and James A. Glenn for Lillefloren et al., respondents; and Mr. Sokol filed a brief for Sylvane et al., respondents. John C. Stevenson and Mathew O. Tobriner filed a brief for the California State Federation of Labor, as amicus curiae, urging that the case be dismissed. Reported below: 31 Cal. 2d 439, 189 P. 2d 265.

No. 455. CORNELIUS v. JACKSON. Appeal from the Supreme Court of Oklahoma. Per Curiam: The appeal is dismissed for want of a substantial federal question. Francis Stewart for appellant.