Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-03
HIGHEST TRIBUNAL
CLEANS SCHEDULE
Liquor Ship Captain Loses
Right for Review of
Confiscation.
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Setting record by disposing Of all
cases on hand for decision, none being
carried over to the next term, the su-
preme Court yesterday recessed to meet
again october 8.
1t consented to review number Of
cases, one being the contention Of the
New York Life Insurance Co. that the
Government had used improper methods
in imposing . capital stock tax for 1919,
1920 and 1921.
AS Is usual number Of cases were
also refused reviews.
Of the Go-Bart Importing Co., Philip D.
Gowen and William BartelS that on
ceS of the company on Fifth avenue,
New York, had been illegally raided by
prohibition officers in June, 1929, and
that the papers seized should be re-
turned.
Lower courts held the seizure valid.
Radio Station Loses.
The Agricultural Broadcasting Co. Of
Chicago, operating Station WIS, was re-
fused Q review by the Supreme Court
to test o decision by the Court of APP
peals Of the District of Columbia requir-
ing 1t to surrender q part of its time to
Station WENR Of the Great Lakes
Broadcasting Co.
The court recently held the Court of
Appeals decisions on radio administra-
tive and not subject to review.
Abbott Elliott Kay of Chicago was
refused review by the Supreme Court
of his challenge Of an order by the Fed
eral Trade Commission that he stop
selling q product purporting to contain
radium.
l.. N. FrantE, convicted Of embezzle-
ment from the American Bank 81 Trust
Co. OF Huntington, w. Va, of which he
was president when 1t closed in 1927,
was refused q review.
A shipmaster lost in an attempt to
have the Supreme Court review the
forfeiture OF his ship and cargo because
liquor was found aboard.
The case was that Of the steamship
Cretan, which took aboard q cargo of
waste paper in Boston in July, 1925,
and cleared for Philadelphia. On her
return BoSton'S customs officers found
$4,000 gallons of alcohol aboard.
The ship was forfeited, and August
Alksne, her master, acting for the owner,
claimed that q coaStwiSe vessel had the
same same right to bring liquor into port
that the Leviathan and other ocean
liners had. In support of his conten-
ton, he asserted no attempt had been
made to land the liquor.
Another Liquor Review Denied.
In another prohibition case Frank
Ross was refused q review of his SEN
tence of two years in Atlanta. Ross sold
liquor ct the Viaduct Club, at Elm Grove,
near Wheeling, w. Va.
He insisted that since he was con-
victed under the Jones law, which pre-
ScribeS increased penalties for habitual
violations, harsh punishment was given
him for a minor offenSe.
Chicago, the Illinois Commerce Com
mission and Attorney General Carl
strom Of Illinois were notified by the
court that their appeal seeking to COM
pei the Illinois Bell Telephone Co. to
put into effect in Chicago rates pre-
Scribed by the State Commission In
August, 1919, would be reviewed on its
| merits.
Antitrust proceedings brought by the
Government against 10 motion picture
| distributing corporations and the Film
for hearing on October 81.
One case involves contracts and rules
with exhibitors. The Government at
tackS q uniform contract, enforced by
the Paramount-FamouS Players-LaSky
Corporation and other distributors, by
which exhibitors submit disputes to
arbitration without recourse to the
court. It won this suit in lower court.
The other case, which the Govern
ment lost in q lower court, centers
about the assumption by theater pur-
chaSers Of contracts of the former own
er with the film board.