The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-12-02

| rotary Mellon. The Mellon proposal
under which corporations with net
earnings of $4,000 or less and with
no more than ten stockholders would
have the option Of paying taxes as
partnerships was rejected. In place
of it the committee increased the ex-
emption ON corporations with earnings
of less than $4,000 from $4,000 to
$4,000.
CHICAGO won a big victory in the
~ battle over diversion of water
from Lake Michigan through the Chi
cago sanitary canal. Charles Evans
Hughes, special master for the United
States Supreme court, recommended
to that tribunal that the case brought
by Wisconsin and other states border
ing on the Great Lakes be dismissed.
After holding that the compliments
had presented a justifiable contro-
versy and that the sanitary district
has no authority to divert the water
without the consent of the United
States, Judge Hughes declared that
congress has conferred authority upon
the secretary of war to regulate the
diversion, and that the permit of
March 8, 1925, is valid and effective
according to its terms, the entire con-
troll of the diversion remaining with
congress. Therefore he recommended
that the bill be dismissed.
TAX laws were materially clarified
l. by the Supreme court In its inter-
probation of numerous questions which
had worried both taxpayer and tax
collector. In one case involving taxes
on incomes derived by lessees of In
dian tribal oil lands, the government
established it's right to retain approx
imately $150,O00,0O0 in revenue In
another proceeding the government
lost ia it's contention that under the
revenue act of 1924 it could tax gifts
made prior to enactment of the law.
IN A case brought down from Alaska
the Supreme court held invalid the
dras-'c provisions of the dry law of
the territory prohibiting the posses
sion of liquor in a private home even
for the personal use of the owner, and
declared residents of Alaska are en-
titled to the same protection against
unreasonable searches as are given
residents of other parts of the United
States.
Federal Judge Killits in Toledo,
Ohio. in dismissing Il case against Il
farmer charged with operating still,
declared the law of the sanctity of the
home was a higher and more sacred
law than the Volstead act or any pro-
hibition law.
EARRY SINCLAIR, William ].
Burns, w. Sherman Burns, Shell
don Clark, II. Mason Day and c. l..
Veitsch, manager Of the Burns agency
in Baltimore, were cited by Justice
Supreme court for criminal contempt
in connection with the mstrial of the
Teapot Dome oil case. They are or
dered to appear before the court on
December to show cause why they
should not be sentenced under the
statutes.
D EAR ADMIRAL WILLIAM II.
IN BULLARD, chairman of the fed
eral radio commission, died suddenly
of heart disease at the naval hospital
in Washington, where he had gone
to rest for slight operation. His
death came at the end of a famous
career. 36 years which was spent in
the United States navy.
A BOUT fifteen hundred convicts in
"A the California state prison at
Folsom staged desperate revolt on
Thanksgiving day and fought the
guards, militiamen and other officers
with guns. knives and other weapons
in their effort to escape to the hills.
In the first encounters two guards and
oAA NoiNANho "SAC anu
Der wounded Two United States
army tanks were sent from Salinas to
help the state troops. and at this
writing the convicts are under siege
| in the prison.
COL. NOBLE BRANDON JUDAH,
~ we'll known Chicago banker and
lawyer and distinguished war vet
eran, was appointed ambassador to
Cuba by President Coolidge. This is
his first diplomatic post. and it is con-
sidered an important one. especially
because the Pan-American congress
| is 10 meet in Havana in January.
Colonel Judah was born in Chicago in
! 1884 and went to France with the
Three Hundred and Thirty-second field