The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-18
SUPREME COURT BUSINESSES SUIT AGAINST ORLEANS City Permitted To Assess
 Property Owners For Paving
 VETERANS CANNOT ::
 APPEAL RATINGS Compensations Review
 able By Court Onlys
 When Capricious
(By Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Nov. H. The supreme court dismissed today for want of jurisdiction a case brought by the Con- sumers Biscuit com pany against the mayor and con- mission council of New Or leans in which it was sought to raise the question if real estate owners in New Orleans could be compelled to pay interest on bonds issued by the city to cover the cost of street inn provements in front of their property.
 The city of New Orleans issued bonds to cover the cost of contemplated pav- ing program for 1925. The Consumers Biscuit company offered to pay the act ual cost of the paving assessable against its property but refused to pay the in- terest on the bonds. The courts tf Louisiana, however, refused to issue writ of mandamus to compel the city authorities to accept the amount ten dered.
 '-sa''s-7 Other Decisions
 Compensation ratings made by the United States Veterans bureau are not reviewable by the courts, the supreme body held, except when it is snow that they are wholly unsupported by the facts and are "capricious," or arbi- trary.
 Judgment can be liquidated out of property in the hands of alien property custodion, the court decided.
 The trading with the enemy act, it was held. makes unliquidated claims for damages "a debt" collectable out of the property of alien enemies in the hands of the property custodian.
 The court held to be valid contract of the German firm of Beer, Sonhei- mer and company for the purchase of crude zinc ore from Frederick Y. Rob- ertson, of New York. In the lower court Robertson obtained a judgment against the German firm for breach of contract. In separate proceeding he was authorized to collect the Judgment awarded him out of the property of the firm held by the alien property custodian.
 Woodmen Win Appeal
 The Sovereign Camp of the Wood men of the World was granted an ap- neal by the court in case brought against Alice Shelton to determine its right to change the terms of its insur- ance after the issuance of policies. Alice Shelton won in tie courts of Texas.
 The court declared. that lands pur- chased by Indians from funds derived from their allotments cannot be alien ated without the consent of the sec. retary of the interior. The court based it's Opinion on the case of Nathaniel N. Perryman, half-blood Creek Indian, living in Oklahoma.
 Upon motion of the government the court directed the receiver in charge of oil properties in the Red river dis trict involved in the recent boundary dispute between Oklahoma and Texas, to internationally release all lands in the bed of the river belonging to the Indians.
 Act Declared Valid
 That section of the transportation act of 1920 under which the interstate com merce commission is authorized to issue emergency transportation orders, was declared constitutional and valid by the court.
 The court dismissed for failure to file within the time allowed by law petition u which Ernest D. Marks company and others sought to rase the question whether Cuban sugar refined in Canada is entitled to admission into the United States at the reduced duty provided in the Cuban reciprocity traty.