New Britain herald., 1926-10-04

to require interstate railroad loco-
 motives operating in them to be
 provided with certain equipment.
 The fourth week has been assign
 ed largely to antitrust and Fed
 eral Trade Commission cases. The
 International Harvester company ] will again be before the court to to have determin-
 ed whether it obeyed the de-
 cree ordering Its dissolution fol- lowing proceedings started in 1912. The courts also will consider charges that certain Pacific coast shipowners associations are violating the antitrust law by methods used in the employment of seamen; three Commission cases involving Swift Company, the Thatcher Manufactur- ing Co.,, and the Western Meat Com pany, and proceedings which ques- l ton the jurisdiction of federal courts under liquor treaties over
 foreign ships at sea outside the ter ritorial boundaries of the United States; the right Of state police, in case from Rhode Island, to turn over to the federal government for forfeiture ships, automobiles and other vehicles alleged to have been used in the illegal transportation of intoxicating liquor and seized by them; and the right of state com missions to regulate the maximum loads of automobile motor trucks, In case from Oregon.
 Colonel William J. Donovan of the Department of Justice in charge of antitrust cases has anonunced that in addition he will push at the new term the case alleging conspiracy among manufacturers of wooden material, contractors and trade union officers at Chicago to prevent the use there of building material made in other states by non-union labor, and the Trenton pottery suit alleging an unlawful combination be- tween twenty-three corporations en- gagged in the sanitary pottery busi- ness.
 Most of the cases filed during the recess were petitions within the dis
 cretion of the court asking reviews Some of these present interesting and important questions, such as whether actors and actresses are en- gagged in interstate commerce mak- ! ing the houses which book them subject to prosecution under the antitrust law; the constitutionality of the foreign language law of Ha- wall; the constitutionality of the Harrison anti-narcotic act: whether i the former prohibition director of Ohio violated the prohibition law; the right of the children of Richard Croker, the former Tammany chief, to collect from his second wife claims against his estate: certain phases in the affair of the R. L. Dollings Co.,, of Ohio arising out of
 charges of using the mails 10 de- fraud in the sale of stock; the validity Of the Montana tax on dis tributors and dealers in gasoline, and whether intoxicating liquor can law fully be shipped in transit through the United States.
 Among the cases filed during the recess are the customary number arising under the prohibition laws.
 The most important of the dis putes between states now before the court for final arbitration involves the diversion of water from Lake
 Michigan at Chicago. in which all the Great Lake States with the cx- ception of Illinois are lined up against the present withdrawals by the Chicago Sanitary District, which is supported by Illinois and several of the Mississippi Valley states. Boundary controvcrsier are present. ed in most of the disputes, the most important at the present time being that between Texas and Oklahoma, involving the eastern line along the Panhandle. the Red River dispute having been decided.