Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-06-07
STRICKEN PUEBLO RECOVERING
CLEANING UP TO AVOID DISEASE
NUMBER DEAD STILL UNCERTAIN
SUPREME COURT
TO TAKE REST TILL
OCTOBER 3, next


court brought it's regular term to a
close today, adjourning until October
Is. Most of the justices plan to leave
at once for their summer vacations.
Dismissal of the governments ap-
peal, on motion Of Solicitor General
Frierson, from lower court DEGREES
holding that the American Can Cont
pany did not constitute monopoly
under the Sherman antitrust law end
decision against the government In
the estate tax case marked the final
days session.
The solicitor general filed with the
court only a few minutes before it
closed, motion to dismiss the APP
peal in the American Can case but
gave no reason when submitting his
motion. Later he explained that The
action had been taken because of the
evident meaning of the courts dcci-
sion in a similar case dgains+ the
United States Steel Corporation When
it held that an unreasonable re-
straint must be proved before tre law
could be invoked.
Executors of the estate of the late
Alan Fl. Woodward. of Alabama.
were upheld by the court in their
& Intention that the estate tax assessed
under the act of 1916 was an allow
able deduction" in computing the net
income Of the estate for the purpose
of the income tax. A decree CT the
court of claims holding that the in
ternal revenue authorities had erred
in refusing to allow such deduct on
was affirmed.
The Woodward estate paid Il tax Of
S4j0, 900 on transfer and was assessed
$165, 900 as income tax on the amount
sc. PAD out. The income tax law, the
court held, was explicit in allowing
deduL tons of taxes paid or accrue l
within the taxable year imposed by
the authority of the United States cx-
cept income, war profits, and excess
profits taxes" Since the estate tax
was federal tax and was not includ-
ed in the exceptions, the court held
that it was deductible.
Most of the cases of general inter
est remaining undecided today were
ordered restored to the docket FIR
re argument before n full bench"
These Include the Wyoming Colorado
suit over control of waters OF the
Colorado river, the United Shoe Ma
chinery Company case involving al
legged violation Of the Clayton act in
ase-contracts, and the Chill Labor
case involving the validity of special
taxes upon products of the laEu. of
minors.
Cases not to be reargued include
that of the Coronado Coal Co. against
the United Mine Workers of America
to determine liability of a national
labor organization for damages result
ing from a strike. and the suit brought
by the government to restrain the
American Hardwood Manufacturers
Association from continuing the
open competition" practice of swap
ping price and sale data among its
members.
Although no record number of cases
was decided, the term which ended to-
day witnessed the disposition Of an
unusual number OF cases of national
Importance and saw the court go a lit
tie further toward catching up with
it's docket.
On February % the court held the
penalty clauses of the Lever act to be
invalid and at one stroke abated
scores of suits which were in progress
in various parts of the country. In
December the government won it's suit
against the Lehigh Valley Railroad
%. under the Sherman antitrust law,
and since then has been upheld on
three separate occasions in suits
growing out of application of income
tax legislation.
Conviction of Senator Truman H.
Newberry of Michigan on charges of
violating the corrupt practices act
was reversed in May and provisions of
the act, so far as they attempted to
supervise state primaries, were de-
clared invalid.
Union labor's chief interest in de-
cisions of the past term was in the
Duplex Printing Press Co. case, the
decision of which held secondary boy
colts to be illegal.
Original suits over boundaries be-
tween Arkansas and Mississippi and
between Oklahoma and Texas were fl
nally adjudicated and initial stems
taken toward determining the disputed
lines Another interstate quarrel was
settled when New York was denied
the right to interfere with the con-
struction Of a sewer serving New Jer-
sey towns and emptying into New
York bay.