The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-14
HIGH COURT TO
KEEP CLEAR OF
CEMETERY WAR
Refuse to Act in Nuisance
Case Against Masonic
Burial Ground.

BIZ United Prcss
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-THE city
of San Francisco's action in con-
demning as public nuisance its
Masonic cemetery, will not be re-
viewed by the supreme court, it was
decided here today.
Other decisions were:
Granting of review in forfeiture
of the distillery, warehouse and de-
maturing plant Of the Waterloo IN.
" Distilling Company on an old
internal revenue statute. The gov
eminent had charged the company
with fraud in withdrawal OF indus
trial alcohol for beverage purposes.
Denial of review TO seven Chi
cagoans convicted of racketeering IN
the city's candy business.
Denial Of review of the Phlhpplne
islands supreme court decision
which awarded the Asia Banking
Corporation $4,000 pesos against
estate of the late Henry w. Elser IN
a stock transaction.
Rule in Water Suit
Grant of permission to Wyoming
to sue to restrain Colorado from
making allegedly Illegal diversion Oh
waters of the Laramie river.
Denial Of review in the appeal OF VIII
liam Brown and Hugh McElvogue, 81.
Joseph. Mo. which questioned constitu-
tionaiity OF the Jones prohibition law.
Setting OF Jan. for arguments on Con-
necticut's exceptions to the findings OF
special master in the states suit to pre-
vent proposed diversion Of the Ware ana
Swift river waters by Massachusetts,. Tor
the Boston water supply.
Philippine Appeal Denied
Denial Of review Of the ruling Of the
Philippine Islands supreme court which
decided interest payments on bcnos Oh
Philippine corporations. purchased ana
held outside the country. are not taxaole.
Refusal 10 review action OF Harrison
county CMssissippi) supervisors in taxing
bank assets at full value while other prop
erty was assessed at only IS per cent oil
its market value.
Decision to rule on the Sherman anti
trust law decree against thirty leading oil
companies IN CIDsh-llCSuoAAR ohASS'Ai~Ai'3'
Jan. 2. was set for arguments.
Grant Of review OF the federal court de-
cree holding the alien property custodian.
and not the original German owners. en-
titled to collect certain royalties from
licensees Of patents seized during the war.
To Review Claim Case
Decision to review the court of claims
ruling that gifts made in contemplation
of death prior to passage of the 1913
estate tax law could be assessed under
that statute when death occurred after
1919
Review of the claims of large num-
Der of Indians along the Pacific coast to
allotments Of land on the Quinailet res
ervation.
Granting of review of a circuit court
decision that money derived from an an
nuity paid out of the income of de-
reased PERSONS estate is not taxable.
sybil whitehouse. beneficiary under the
will Of the late James Gordon Bennett.
New York publisher. had refused to pay
the tax.
Denial of review OF the realty sales
activities of the Sacramento Fruit Lands
Company Of California, which sold ex-
tensive tracts of alleged sterile land to
middle wcsterners who wished to become
fruit growers.
Refuse Tax Ruling
Refusal to pass on the practice OF the
Internal revenue department in taxing as
income. commissions on bank loans
which we're deducted from the money ad-
vanoed.
Refusal to review controversy between
John w Gamble. liauidatlng agent for the
Nebraska department of trade and COM
merce. and II. S. Daniel. bankruptcy re-
ceiver. over control of the assets of the
Peters Trust Company. Omaha.
Denial TO Lila Longson. Brooklyn. of re-
view in her unsuccessful plagiarism suit
against David Belasco. The suit grew out
of the Belasco production in 1915 of THE
Boomerang" which Miss Longson claimed
infrlnged on her play. THE Choice"
Refusal to review award of s14.6o0 by
the Houston federal court to Mrs. Blanche
Coughlin In her suit against the
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company.
The money was given by Mrs. Coughlin to
an employee Of the company for the pur-
chase OF stock which. 1t was alleged. was
not delivered
To Review Deductions
Grant Of review of the circuit court de-
cision. which permitted Samuel F. Hou-
ston to deduct his losses up to 1920. sus-
tanned I'm reorganization of the Philadel-
phia Real Estate Trust Company of which
he was director.
Refusal to review the Ohio court de-