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Show NEWS REVIEW Labor Act Is Effective; Weather Hits Corn Crop Verging on mental and political exhaustion after a bitter, bit-ter, two-day fight, weary senators voted 68 to 25 to override President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley labor bill. The action, sustaining a wallop-'' ing 331 to 83 house vote to pass the bill over the veto, came on the heels of a final presidential plea to Sen. Alben Barklcy (Dem., Ky.) to muster all possible forces in the senate "to prevent this bill from becoming law." Opponents of the measure needed 32 votes to uphold the veto, and they waged a desperate, last-ditch battle to attain their objective. Final result, however, was a smashing smash-ing defeat for Mr. Truman at the hands of the Republican-controlled congress. Highlights of a tooth-and-tongue opposition fight to delay the senate vote as long as possible in order to gain support was an all-night ses- PROTEST STRIKES With the Taft-Hartley act In force only a few hours, scat-I scat-I tered protest strikes suddenly blossomed Into a full-scale walkout walk-out of 180.000 soft coal miners, . At least 41 mines were closed In 10 states. The walkout appeared ap-peared to be a spontaneous reaction re-action on the part of the miners min-ers to the new labor law. slon during which Sen. Glen H. Taylor Tay-lor (Dem.. Idaho) held the floor for eight hours and 20 minutes and Sen. Wayne Morse (Rep., Ore.) talked for 10 hours and two minutes. It was the longest filibuster In modern mod-ern congressional history. The Taft-Hartley act, which constitutes con-stitutes a wholesale revision of the Wagner act of 1931, was termed by President Truman in his veto message mes-sage a "shocking piece of legislation." legisla-tion." He asserted that the measure would "cause more strikes, not fewer," and would put the country a long step on the dangerous road toward "a totally managed economy." econ-omy." "This legislation would encourage distrust, suspicion and arbitrary attitudes." the President told congress. con-gress. FLOODED OUT: No Bumper Crop Experts who recently predicted a three billion bushel corn crop this year were hastily revising their estimates es-timates In the light of continuing torrential rains and widespread floods which have transformed much of the Midwest Into o soggy mass of mud. Damage has been particularly heavy In Iowa, extending from ono end of the state to the other. Flooding Flood-ing of river bottom lands is only part of the loss. Thousands of acres of crops have been washed out, and the loss Is considered Irreparable. It Is too late to replant with anything except fur- i age crops and possibly buckwheat if seed is available. On upland farms, ponds and lakes overflowing their boundaries also will cut seriously into corn yields. All In all, a bumper corn crop is considered extremely unlikely, even with a favorable growing season up to October. Some authorities have begun to believe that the government's grain export program should be re-examined in view of conditions existing on the nation's farms at present. IKE RESIGNS: Goes Academic General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower has resigned as army chief of staff to accept the presidency presi-dency of Columbia university in New York, effective early next year. .His decision to step out as top man in the nation's military hier- 1 archy to take the academic post was announced in a statement by Maj. Gen. Floyd L. Parks, chief of the war department's public relations d I v 1 s I on. The statement s a id th.lt F i Crtnhmvmp Elsenhower accepted the Columbia Co-lumbia presidency presiden-cy with the approval of the President Presi-dent and the secretary of war. His resignation will become effootive "at such titnc as his superiors may release him from active duty In the army." The man who mapped the strategy strat-egy which brought victory to Allied forces In Europe in World War II will retain his rank as a five-star general for life and continue to receive re-ceive a compensation of about $lfi.0n0 a year. Initial speculation on a successor to General Eisenhower as chief of staff centered on Gen. Omar N Bradley, now Vet erans' adminislra tion chief, who commanded the army ground forces In Europe during the war Other high-ranking generals under con- ' 'V 1 siuoraiion lor Hie ... Bradley position were Gen. Jacob L. Devers, army ground forces chief, and Lt. Gen. J. Lawton Collins, chief of army public Information. Infor-mation. As president of Columbia, Elsenhower Elsen-hower will be the successor to Nicholas Murray Butler who retired in 19-15 and Is now Columbia's president emeritus. The general has also been elected a member of the university's board of trustees. |