The Washington herald., 1921-03-22
SUPREME COURT
HOLDS VALID 40
:. REDCONVICTIONS
California /. W. w. Guilty
Under Espionage Act,
Is Decision.

Convictions OF forty l. w. w.
who were rounded up IN Northern
California on charges of violating
the espionage and the seIective
service acts. were. Sustained by the
court. when 1t declined to review
the cases.
The court announced no action on
the appeal Of big Bill" Haywood
and seventy eight other 1. w. w.
leaders rounded up at Chicago, who
also were convicted for violation
of the espionage and. selective SER
vice laws.
Arguments on the Federal gov
ernment's legal attempt to enJoin
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany from landing its new cable
at Miami. Fla, without a proper
permit, will be heard April IL, the
Supreme Court. yesterday an
nounced.
The court agreed to advance the
arguments at the request of both
parties to the suit The govern
ment lost in the New York Federal
courts.
Damages awarded by lower courts
under the Federal workmen's COM
pensation law for injuries or deaths
of railroad workers must be paid.
the Supreme Court decided In the
folbwing cases:
Neva. NJ. Mccoy. s2s,5oo from the
Santa Fe, because Of the death Of
her husband in FL Paso County,
Texas
Mrs. virgie Mills. Gregg County,
Texas, $4,000 for the death of her
husband while working for the
Texas and Pacific Railroad.
H n. Smith, Cowley County.
Kansas, s11,70o for personal injur-
les in railroad accident
The Federal government asked
the court to advance arguments on
the case which will determine
whether amounts paid in estate
taxes can be deducted from income
tax returns. The appeal is from the
decision a few days ago of the Court
of Claims, which held these amounts
can be deducted despite the conten-
tions of the government. large
amount of taxes win have to be re-
funded IL the Supreme Court af-
firms the decision. The suit was
brought by Senator Underwood. Alan
II. Woodward and Reginald Barris-
ter. of Alabama, as executors for the
estate of Joseph II. Woodward
chusetts, yesterday won his suit in
the Supreme Court to force the Mis-
souri,. Kansas and Texas Railroad
to pay s224.0oo and interest on prom
issory notes. which he claims he
holds against the road. The rail-
road fought the trial of the case in
Massachusetts, courts, claiming that
the State tribunals had no jurisdic-
tion because IL was a Kansas corpo-
ration and did no business within
the State.
The trial and conviction at Annis-
ton, Ala, by a jury of eleven men,
bers. of seven Alabama men on
charges of using the mails to de-
>. fraud, were upheld by the court.
The defendants sought to overrule
the conviction because the jury was
20 composed of only eleven members
The court today said that such q
size jury was agreed upon at the
time of the trial. and that the de-
-fendants should have objected to the
>,procedure at that time instead OF
agreeing to II. The men convicted
were D. II. Riddle. W. A Savage
T. A st. John, S. E. Graham. W. o.
.Woolten, W. G. Hardy and A. NJ
Savage. They were convicted for
misrepresenting large quantities OF
baled lint cotton.
The court postponed until next
October the arguments in the case
attacking IRE validity of New York
laws establishing a maximum gas
rate OF so per cent per 1000 feet
in certain parts OF New York City
The law was found unconstitutional